Chapter 50: I Am a Legend
In August 2018, Forbes released the latest list of the world's richest people, and everyone in the world found that the first place was the name of a Chinese person, Tang Zhidong. What is puzzling is that in the previous list of the world's richest people, the name Tang Zhidong never appeared. Of course, his father Tang Liuhua has appeared in this list, and the highest has been ranked twenty-third.
For the latest richest man in the world, Forbes published a special report, and the title of this special report is: A Generation of Legends.
Starting from Zhongcheng in 97 years, and then there are Internet City, Tongcheng, Wancheng, and Zhicheng, and the most surprising thing is the vision of Tang Zhidong Wancheng Venture Capital, which invested nearly 30 billion yuan in venture capital, but the harvest exceeded 500 billion yuan, equivalent to more than 80 billion US dollars. Tang Zhidong also owns stocks in many Fortune 500 companies, valued at more than $20 billion.
Tang Zhidong started with only one billion funds, and in just 20 years, his net worth has risen to nearly one trillion, a thousandfold increase, and he has achieved an unsurpassable legend.
Many people are very interested in Tang Zhidong, but Tang Zhidong generally rarely appears in public, and there is even less news about him.
The photos of Tang Zhidong published by major media in China are still photos of Tang Zhidong ten years ago, because since eight years ago, Tang Zhidong has rarely appeared in related companies, and he has become the big boss behind it.
One day in mid-August, Tang Zhidong stood in the distance of a viaduct and watched a large truck loaded with steel slowly drive up the viaduct, and under the viaduct, cars drove by one after another.
Tang Zhidong remembered that this day was the day when he was stoned to death by something falling from the viaduct in his previous life, and he still remembered that it was the large coiled steel belt on the big truck that hit him.
It can be seen that when the big truck loaded with steel drives to the top of the viaduct, there is a turning place, the speed of the big truck is a little fast, the angle of turning is a little large, and the steel coil belt that is not tied to the strong will collapse off the belt, roll down from the car, and directly smash into the traffic flow under the viaduct. It's just that this time there is no unlucky ghost named Tang Zhidong in the traffic.
Of course, Tang Zhidong didn't come this time to see who would be unlucky, he wanted to stop the tragedy.
With Tang Zhidong's current energy, to stop this accident, of course, he doesn't need to go out in person, he came to the scene just to see if everything in his previous life is still going on as usual.
At the top of the viaduct, there are two traffic police officers who are directing traffic, and before today's duty, the leaders above have specially explained that they must pay attention to the large trucks carrying steel, and it is forbidden to go too fast on the viaduct, so as not to turn into an accident.
The two traffic policemen didn't understand why the leaders from above had designated them to be on duty here, and they had to pay attention to the big trucks carrying steel, but they didn't think much about it, as long as they carried it out. Finally, they saw the big truck carrying steel, and it could be seen from a visual inspection that the speed of this big truck was a little too fast, and if the steel ring belt on the car was not tied properly, when turning, the things on the car would definitely be thrown out and fall under the bridge, and then there would be a big accident.
So, a traffic policeman stepped forward, stopped in front of the big truck, and signaled the car to slow down.
The driver of the large truck saw the traffic police in front of him and immediately slowed down. Because it was still on the bridge, the traffic police did not signal the truck to pull over, but drove the police car in front of the truck, led it slowly around the corner, took it off the viaduct, and then signaled the other party to stop and check.
The traffic police's inspection was very serious, and the driver saw that one of the steel belts was not tied properly, and his face was also in a cold sweat, and he had realized that if he went to the top of the viaduct at his original speed, the steel belt at the turn might be thrown out, causing a major accident.
The driver accepted the criticism of the traffic police and tied the steel belt again, so that he dared to start again.
After Tang Zhidong watched the traffic policeman's car lead the big truck down the viaduct, he left, from this moment on, the past life and the present life were integrated, this was his new life. Everything behind is new, but he's confident he can do better.
Standing next to Tang Zhidong is Xu Yun, she is now the president of the same city group, except for major meetings, she basically does not have to go to work, she is by Tang Zhidong's side. Regarding Tang Zhidong's actions today, Xu Yun understands that it must be related to Tang Zhidong's dream.
"Zhidong, there's going to be a problem with that big truck, right?" asked Xu Yun.
"Well, the big truck was too fast, and when it turned, there was a coil of steel belt on the car that was not tied properly, and it rolled down and smashed into the car under the bridge. In my dream, I was crushed to death by this steel belt, and the dream ended here. ”
"Ahh ”
Xu Yun didn't know what to say, but grabbed Tang Zhidong's hand tightly, as if if he didn't grasp him, he would leave him.
Three years ago, Tang Zhidong bought a small island in the south of Hainan and became the owner of the island.
The whole small island is not big, only more than 70 square kilometers, and there is only Tang Zhidong and his family on the island. Every Spring Festival, Tang Zhidong's parents, sister's family, and younger brother's family will take a helicopter to this small island named 'Phantom City' by Tang Zhidong to celebrate the New Year together.
The island has two marinas, four helicopter parking airports, seven small villas, and a larger central villa.
Mr. and Mrs. Tang Liuhua, Mr. and Mrs. Tang Zhimei, and Mr. and Mrs. Tang Zhian will go to the "Phantom City" island every winter. When there was heavy snow in northern China, and on the island of 'Phantom City', Tang Zhidong's family was wearing beach pants and having fun on the snow-white beach that belonged to their home.
Zou Limin and Xu Yun gave birth to a son for the first time, and they don't want to have a second child. Deng Juan's first child was a daughter, she was not convinced, and gave birth to a second child after her daughter was four years old, but she didn't expect it to be a daughter, whose nickname is Xinxin, and her name is Tang Zongxin.
Tang Zhidong's family has two sons and two daughters, the island of 'Phantom City' is basically isolated from the world, Tang Zhidong's children have not gone to kindergarten for a day, nor have they gone to elementary school, Tang Zhidong and his wife are the teachers of the four children, of course, they will also ask professional tutors for their children, the tutors are to teach on the island for a year or two, and these tutors will also have holidays.
Tang Zhimei and Tang Zhi'an also have children, and they also agree with Tang Zhidong's education of his children at home, and they both put their children on the island of 'Phantom City'.
Tang Zhidong built playgrounds, stadiums, and several laboratories for his children.
On the island, Tang Zhidong also opened a few acres of vegetable land, green vegetables can be self-sufficient, meat is of course purchased once a month, and fish and seafood, Tang Zhidong goes to sea every two days to catch it by himself, which is enough for three or four days of his own family.
The vegetable field is also an education base, and Tang Zhidong will take his four children to grow vegetables, so that they can understand the meaning of labor and exercise their bodies. In order to let her grandson and granddaughter understand the hard work of the Tang family when they started their business, Su Ying also asked the four children to raise a hundred chickens, and the Tang family started from raising chickens.
Tang Zhidong knows that he can be isolated from the world, but not children. So, every week, he takes his children off the island to participate in a group activity that the children participate in. He spends a third of the year traveling the world with his children, allowing them to combine what they learn from books with practice.
It wasn't until he was in junior high school that Tang Zhidong's four sons and daughters went to a boarding school, and no one in the school knew that they were the sons and daughters of the richest man in the world, and they would not tell others that they were the richest second generation with the highest gold content.
After graduating from junior high school, the four children went on to high school in Europe and the United States for college.
Tang Zhidong's four sons and daughters are all very good, the eldest son Tang Zongcan went to Harvard, and the younger son Tang Zongning went to Stanford. Tang Zongyue went to Cambridge, and his youngest daughter Tang Zongxin went to the University of California.
After completing his studies, except for Tang Zongyue, who stayed in the UK, Tang Zongcan, Tang Zongning, and Tang Zongxin all went home to take over their parents' careers.
Tang Zhidong's position as the richest man has been sitting for 27 years before being replaced by others.
Tang Zhidong did not leave a large inheritance to his children, only left 100 million US dollars to each of his four children, and the rest of the family property set up a fund for global education and health undertakings.
Due to the progress of medical science and technology, Tang Zhidong lived a long life, lived to be one hundred and four years old, on the day of his death, the United Nations lowered the flag at half-mast, and the world's major media changed all the colors to black and white on this day, declaring to the world: A generation of legends has left us!