The organization of the Dark Horse Club, which was short-lived in China for less than three years, is like a deadly and mysterious virus, absorbing the bone marrow of several large enterprises.

And just after Zhao Zejun returned to China, this organization suddenly disappeared.

After that, the Zezi system began to develop at an astonishing rate.

In order to distinguish it from the rapid development of the previous ten years, in the textbooks of several domestic business schools, it is customary to call the first ten years of the Zezi system the 'rising stage', and the next few years, it is called the 'monopoly stage'.

In 2013, Zeye's share price fell to the lowest level, and then began to rise steadily, and in three months, it stabilized at 42 yuan; Zeye Plaza finally completed the layout of the coastal, central and eastern regions, and entered Shuzhong; Zezi's Internet business entered the explosive stage, and so on, and the business grew by leaps and bounds, Weibo was listed on the NASDAQ, and the market value reached 14 billion US dollars on the first day of listing;

In Iraq, the Chinese Enterprise City, which is dominated by the Zezi system, began to enter the formal operation stage, and almost won more than half of the orders for all related projects in Iraq, and the products of Xingxing Textile Factory completely opened the Middle East market;

In 2014, the film and television entertainment business of Zezi was reorganized, and Tianze Media made every effort to develop the cinema line, spending 20 billion yuan to acquire Legendary Pictures in the United States, merging with the existing Zeye Cinema Line in China, and establishing the global Tianze Cinema Line, which has become a world-class entertainment giant;

At the end of the same year, marked by the completion of the 'Shangri-La' Junze, Basra, Iraq's second largest city, began to enter the recovery phase and became the largest free trade zone in Iraq.

In 2015, the investment business of Zezi entered a period of explosive growth, and successively spent nearly 10 billion yuan to blossom in the fields of takeaway, bicycle sharing, VR virtual reality, and online live broadcast business, becoming the largest shareholder behind the scenes of the most high-quality enterprises in the hottest fields in recent years.

At the same time, within three months of the second quarter of this year, Zeye Plaza won seven major cities in the three northeastern provinces and two major cities of the capital and Jinmen, a total of 16 plots of land, and announced that it was ready to spend 100 billion yuan to build a commercial cultural entertainment city centered on Zeye Plaza.

At 7 p.m. on July 1 this year, the American drama of the same name adapted from the online "Profanity" was released on HBO, and the first season accumulated more than 1.5 billion viewers on TV worldwide, hailed as a classic comparable to Game of Thrones;

At the end of the same year, jointly invested by Xinlong Pictures and Tianze Media, the original team of the Lord of the Rings series participated in the filming, and the first part of the bloody magic situation "Beast Blood Boiling", which was also adapted from the Internet, was released simultaneously in theaters around the world on Christmas, and achieved an amazing result of 3.5 billion yuan in mainland China and 7.2 billion yuan in the global box office, ranking first in the box office in mainland film history and the top 30 grossing films in world film history.

These two plays opened the prelude to China's cultural export to the world, and it is not one or two high-end writers or traditional literary and artistic figures who have completed this historic task, but thousands of ordinary young people with a dream.

In the same year, the mainland government officially proposed the Belt and Road Initiative for the first time.

In 2016, the entire Zezi system entered the stage of substantial profit returns, games, entertainment, venture capital, real estate, etc. began to harvest, among them, the total asset value of Zepay, more than 1.6 trillion yuan, monthly profitability of more than 5 billion yuan, Xiaomi mobile phone became the second largest smartphone in the mainland market share, and the first Huawei is on par.

Zhongze Investment Group is ranked among the world's top 500, ranking 382, and Zhao Zejun himself is the richest man on the Hurun Report in mainland China for the first time.

There is a lot of controversy about the ranking of Zhongze Investment Group in the world's top 500 and Zhao Zejun's actual assets, and the mainstream view is that both are too 'conservative'.

"The world's top 500" is actually an incorrect translation, strictly speaking, it is "the world's top 500", big and strong, sometimes can not be equalized, its ranking is calculated by turnover, and does not involve the profitability, development potential, comprehensive value, market value and so on of the enterprise.

For example, in terms of profitability, the annual profit growth of the top 500 companies in the United States is about 4%, while the Chinese companies on the list generally do not exceed 1.5%, but Zhongze Investment has reached 7.2%, which is at the same level as Facebook and Apple in the golden stage.

Some experts believe that if considered comprehensively, Zhongze should be regarded as the first echelon in the world's commercial institutions.

And Zhao Zejun's own assets, because he has not made them public, it is difficult to count them truthfully. If you count the unlisted games, mobile Internet and other businesses that do not actually need to be listed, Zhao Zejun's actual assets may exceed that of the world's richest man back then: because in the vast majority of industries in the Zezi system, Zhao Zejun holds heavy shares.

In the new four major inventions: online shopping, payment, bicycle sharing, and high-speed rail, in addition to high-speed rail, Zhao Zejun is involved in everything, among which Zhao Zejun, the second-ranked Jingdong in China, is the major shareholder, Zepay is the largest online payment and financial tool, and the two-dimensional code almost occupies more than 70% of the online payment market.

If nothing else, it's just the return on Zelianke's current venture capital business - if Zezi is willing to transfer equity, it will be enough to create another top five in the Hurun ranking in mainland China.

How much money Zhao Zejun has, this is a secret that will never be solved.

With the rapid development of the Belt and Road Initiative, Basra Chinatown began to expand its business, announcing that its Internet online payment, mobile phone manufacturing, daily chemicals and beverage products, express delivery, online shopping and other 12 major businesses, will cooperate with the Belt and Road, with Basra Chinatown as the center, towards the Middle East radiation, and has reached a preliminary cooperation intention with Qatar, Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, Pakistan and other 7 countries.

On January 1, 2017, the first day of the new year, Zhao Zejun publicly made a statement that surprised everyone.

Ten billion US dollars will be used to establish the Zhao Zejun Fund, and new funds will be injected into this fund every year in the future.

And he himself will devote most of his energy to this foundation.

Twenty percent of the Zhao Zejun Fund will be used for the education of poor children in China, 20 percent for academic research in universities, and 60 percent for scientific research in cutting-edge fields, including medical care, virtual reality, and space-time technology.

This statement means that Zhao Zejun, who is only 32 years old, has begun to retreat behind the scenes and start a new life journey after 14 years of hard work in the business world.

Unexpected, but reasonable, after 14 years of ups and downs in the business world, at this time, Zhao Zejun no longer has any pursuit of money, whether it is to take out 10 billion or 20 billion US dollars, and no matter how Zezi develops in the future, his personal money has long been spent, as for the life of business competition, he has already tasted it, and there is no longer too much challenge.

Starting a new life is not an exploration of another life.

As soon as this foundation was established, it immediately attracted a number of business tycoons such as Bill Gates, Li Jiacheng, Zuckerberg, and Ma Yun to join.

It's just a little hard to understand that Zhao Zejun will use 60% of this fund for high-end technology.

Medical research is normal, after all, rich people want to live two more years, virtual technology is barely understandable, and it may be able to change the mode of human life in the future, but space-time technology, time, space......? It's a bit too mysterious.

Zhao Zejun said to his friends in private: In my life, there are only two big wishes left, either to go to another planet and establish my own empire, or to travel through time and space.

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From Time Magazine's interview with reporter Miss Grace and her party, this trip to Dubai, specifically interviewed Zhao Zejun.

If nothing else, Zhao Zejun will become the 23rd Chinese to appear on the cover of Time Magazine, and the first Chinese entrepreneur to appear on the cover of Time Magazine.

As soon as she left the airport, Grace was greeted by the motorcade.

"Hello Miss Grace, I am Mr. Zhao Zejun's personal bodyguard, you can call me Xiao Wu. Mr. Zhao is waiting for you by the sea. ”

"Okay, thank you very much. Is Mr. Du Jun okay?" Grace seemed to have some understanding of Zhao Zejun's situation, and asked politely.

"Very good, he is currently in Australia, as you probably know, Mr. Zhao's personal advisory group, discovered an offshore oil and gas field in Australia, he is on behalf of Mr. Zhao on the local investigation, just left yesterday. ”

"Oh, that's a shame, I rubbed shoulders with him. Before coming to Dubai, I met Mr. Niu Shengli in Australia, and the old man was recovering very well. Grace said.

Xiao Wu nodded slightly.

Along the way, Grace and Xiao Wu chatted a lot about Zhao Zejun and the people around him, and it was obvious that this new popular reporter of Time magazine had done detailed 'homework' before coming.

As a personal bodyguard, Xiao Wu didn't hide anything from Grace, almost answering questions, maybe under Zhao Zejun's orders, and sometimes even took the initiative to talk about some details that were not for outsiders.

Niu Shengli woke up in the second year of the coma, and in the third year, immigrated to Australia, Niu Shi would go over to accompany the old man during the winter and summer vacations, and by the way, he teased Amy, who has become a little hot girl, but was often beaten by Amy, who was a black belt in karate, and Niu Shi also deliberately learned a few tricks from Xiao Wu for this purpose, in a vain attempt to save face.

Niu Shishi is getting older, although he is still a student, but he is quite a father and a godfather, and has begun to gradually learn to manage the company.

Jiang Xuan and Gianna are currently basically replacing Zhao Zejun and managing the daily business of the Zezi department. Zhao Zejun's main focus is on the foundation, and he spends at most one or two days a week to communicate with these two, not completely retired as rumored by the outside world, but he has indeed retreated into the background.

As for rumors from the outside world, Zhao Zejun's funds secretly supported the election of political parties in some countries, and Xiao Wu did not deny that in many countries, it is reasonable and legal for entrepreneurs to directly contribute money to support political party elections.

Only asked about the immigration green card that many people are most concerned about, Xiao Wu smiled and did not answer positively, only said that Mr. Zhao said that these things cannot change racial affiliation, and what flows in his veins will always be Chinese blood.

Of course, gossip is also indispensable. The 32-year-old Zhao Zejun is still unmarried, which has made many people speculate.

However, Grace seemed to know Zhao Zejun very well, and said, "Mr. Zhao is a man who will not be bound by marriage, and the essence of marriage is mutual assistance, so I think marriage and love should be separated in him." Of course, this should also be directly related to his heart, which has never been able to settle down. If I'm not mistaken, Mr. Zhao may not enter the palace of marriage in his life. ’

Although Zhao Zejun is not married, there is a woman who is often with him by his side.

Ding Lan's illness is still not cured, but precisely because of this, she has become a woman next to Zhao Zejun, Shanghe Club was changed into an open resort in 2014, facing the masses, Ding Lan sold it to Kong Hui at a very low price, and she herself gave up everything she had worked hard in the first half of her life to accompany Zhao Zejun.

It is said that Qiao Xinyun, the general manager of Zelianke Investment and Development Business Group, once drank too much wine and said to her brother Qiao Xinlong, Ding Lan is not as good as me in terms of background, style, youth and beauty, and even intelligence, but she is more pure than all the women around Zhao Zejun, and I am far inferior to her.

This simplicity does not mean that the mind is simple and naïve. In fact, Zhao Zejun is also a very simple person.

Sometimes, simplicity and purity are the most precious qualities of a person, and perhaps only the countless scars of life can refine this simplicity and purity.

Su Yun is getting older, at the age of forty-five, she no longer thinks about marriage, and with the support of Zhao Zejun, she dedicates her life to those children whose eyes are shining with pure light; Kong Hui is maturing, she may never be able to keep up with Zhao Zejun's pace, but she will never forget the man in her life who appeared like a meteor, although it was short, but he had the light that illuminated her entire sky;

As for Zhou Na, Zhao Zejun still has a headache for this cousin, she began to take Qiao Xinyun's route, and it is estimated that she is ready to be a pair of older leftover girls with Qiao Xinyun.

Although Xiao Wu received Zhao Zejun's instructions and said everything to this reporter, it was also a little strange, and the other party seemed to be too concerned about Zhao Zejun's personal life.

Is it because of the other party's female identity?

The convoy soon came to the seaside, and on the white sand, there stood a building like an ancient temple, which was Zhao Zejun's holiday villa here.

A handsome Arab man, with several bodyguards, led a tiger out of the temple, and the tiger tamedly jumped on the roof of a large SUV outside the door.

"This is Prince Maktoum, the third in line to the throne in Dubai. Xiao Wu turned his head and smiled and said to Grace: "He also owns the largest circus in the entire Middle East, and Mr. Zhao has recently fallen in love with raising fierce beasts, and is discussing with him the possibility of taming whales to swim in the sea." ”

"Mr. Zhao always has some jaw-dropping thoughts. Grace laughed.

Under the leadership of Xiao Wu, he walked through the heavily secured front yard and the hall of the villa to a promenade facing the sea.

On one side of the promenade, there is a white veil, the sea breeze blows, lifting the white veil, and the blue water is close at hand, and under the breeze, it rolls softly like jelly, bringing a cool sea breeze.

At the end of the corridor, Zhao Zejun was wearing a casual linen shorts top, like an old man, sitting on a chair and looking at the sea.

At his feet, there was a big black dog, a bit of wolfdog blood, but it looked very old, was lazily basking in the sun, heard the sound, looked up at the visitor, yawned again, and lay down again.

"Mr. Zhao, Miss Grace has arrived. ”

"Okay, you go first. ”

"Okay. ”

Zhao Zejun turned his head, looked at this familiar face, stared at it for a few seconds, and the corners of his mouth were slightly raised, revealing a smile that only a teenager would have.

The chief reporter of Time Magazine has a good-looking Chinese face, although ten years have passed, it has become much more mature than back then, but those big eyes that can talk are still as bright as ever.

It reminds people that in the sophomore year of high school, in the lazy after-school time, the sun shone obliquely through the window and fell on the pretty side face.

That is the face that Zhao Zejun has been excited about for two lifetimes, and it is also the original love.

Miss Grace, or Xia Yubing, smiled at Zhao Zejun, just like a girl.

"Long time no see. ”

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