It is still the small restaurant at the back entrance of the school, which has changed hands several times, and there are more than a dozen black-clad people wearing sunglasses and headphones standing outside the door, blocking the circle of young people watching the excitement, reporters carrying cameras, and many uniformed policemen in the crowd to maintain order.

The pie is a little too big, and you don't need to eat like this for a meal among classmates.

Li Jiaming, who didn't like this, didn't object, because Gui Ming and they needed this pomp and circumstance, and they needed to make the people in the circle remember that he was their boss at all times. Even if their respective companies are competitors, they are still their bosses in private, and when they encounter obstacles, the world's richest man will help.

Different from other people's class reunions, Li Jiaming and his group of classmates get together, perhaps utilitarian but very light. It's not that their classmates are high, but because Li Jiaming, the class leader, spares no effort to promote everyone, there is a convincing class leader in school who leads by example, and other students also unite and help each other. Fifteen years after graduation, a group of classmates have done a good job, either this or that Dong, even Feng Gang, who stayed in school, has become a well-known economist in China.

Cang Liao knows etiquette, food and clothing are enough and knows honor and disgrace, everyone gets ahead, and there is no snobbery. Everyone should catch up with the old days, drink when they should drink, they are all old classmates and brothers of the year, and they would rather get drunk than retreat!

It's a pity that the wholesale business on the wine table has just reached a small half and has not yet started retailing, and Li Jiaming, who has the reputation of 'three cups poured', has a darker face, and everyone designated his personal wine to start working for Gui Ming.

At the wine table, I have always been afraid that others will drink less, but I can be prevented from drinking less, which also proves that I am deeply loved by everyone. Li Jiaming, who was as good as a stream, happily took the glass of mineral water and emphasized: "Let's talk about it first, I have to do it myself for the last cup!"

"Of course, Guizi, drink!"

"Afraid of you?"

The wine game continued, the excitement continued, and Li Jiaming, who enjoyed special treatment, also frequently raised his glass and frequently asked everyone to be casual, but it was all boring: 'The head of the team gives face, I have to carry it'. Being worshiped by a group of successful people in the business world is also a kind of success in life, a bit like Comrade Song Jiang in time.

When the wine was drinking, Li Jiaming decisively stopped. Wine is a good thing, but everyone is no longer young, and drinking too much will become a poison that pierces the intestines.

After eating in a round cup and having a full meal, Li Jiaming, who had a black face and a bright face, left surrounded by his classmates, accompanied by a long Rolls-Royce, Bentley, and Lincoln with license plates from all over the world. In the pen of reporters, this scene of luxury cars is not a nouveau riche showing off his wealth, but a legend of Yanyuan, and it is also a legend widely circulated in the university circle, and the protagonist of the legend is Professor Li Jiaming.

Yes, it was Professor Li and not Chairman Li, because Li Jiaming has repeatedly said that he is most proud of being hired as a Stanford professor and dean of the business school of Chiba University, rather than founding Hanhua to become the richest man in the world. Three days later, at the World Internet Conference held in that white-walled thousand-year-old town, Governor Li of Zhejiang Province, as the host, called him so.

In fact, the name of this atmospheric summit does not live up to the truth, as his father-in-law expected, in addition to his absolute big name, the rest are domestic Internet entrepreneurs and some European and American puppies and kittens, even Yang Zhiyuan's bastard and another bastard Daniel Zhang did not come, let alone Amazon, eBay, Oracle, The Priceline and other giants. To his father-in-law's surprise, the legendary proponent of the convention did not attend, and the highest rank was only Governor Li, a high-ranking minister.

It's hard to guess.

At the opening group photo, the biggest name Li Jiaming still regarded Lao Zhang as the boss, and Lao Zhang also reciprocated Uncle Wu, whose influence was far inferior to theirs, to the middle position between the two, and said: "Everyone, the outside world calls us Sohu and Hanhua, and says that we Sohu is the Whampoa Military Academy of the domestic Internet industry. If it weren't for the great help of his old man, Sohu might not have survived that cold winter, and there would have been no later Lifang, Hanhua, Sogo, Sohu Tesco, and Ali. ”

As soon as Lao Zhang's voice fell, everyone who was more or less related to Sohu applauded warmly, and they all paid tribute to this old man who had provided great help to the development of the domestic Internet industry.

The first Internet company in China was Yinghaiwei, but the people of the year have long been silent, and it is Sohu that really brings spring to the Internet industry. Sohu, whose market value was not as good as that of giants such as Hanhua, Lifang, and Sogo, was able to succeed at that time, and a very important reason was the huge advertising investment in the business community in Guangdong Province, and it was this old man who brought the first wave of intensive advertising investment to Sohu.

Today's Huarong Group is no longer Wuxia Ameng, the success of MP3 has made them a multinational enterprise, following in the footsteps of Hanhua to make smart phones and become a consumer electronics giant, Huarong Group has also become a behemoth with a market value of trillions; as the founder of Huarong Group, Uncle Wu has become famous all over the world, and the limelight has even overtaken the old man Liu of Lenovo Group that he once looked up to.

In the thunderous applause, Uncle Wu, who repeatedly excused himself to no avail, bowed his hand to everyone, and secretly sighed: 'I would rather bully the white bearded man than the poor young man, and there must be a day when the dragon wears the phoenix, and I don't believe in the pants and the hole'. Huarong can have today, in fact, it is only because of a fate 20 years ago.

Yes, a lot of things are due to unpredictable fate.

Although he still regards Lao Zhang as the boss, Li Jiaming, who was surrounded by everyone after the group photo, also thinks that he can be so successful because of fate. If he hadn't met Uncle Wu back then, or had he not become friends with Lao Zhang and his young talents by chance, he would definitely have succeeded with memories of his previous life, but he would not have been as successful as he is today, let alone so successful for more than ten years.

After the opening of the conference, Li Jiaming, who had an economist's hat on his head, did not talk about the economy or look forward to the future of the Internet of Things, but gave a speech on the theme of traditional business ethics.

"In an agrarian society, emphasizing agriculture and suppressing business does not mean the cessation of commercial activities, but as an important part of social activities, business ethics are inevitably influenced by Confucianism. The core of the five constants of Confucianism, benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom, and faith is righteousness, and the most closely related to it is profit, so Cheng Haoyun: 'The things of the world are only righteousness and benefit', and Zhu Xi also said: 'The theory of righteousness and benefit, the first righteousness of Confucianism'. ”

"In an agrarian society, profit and righteousness are idealistically separated in the vast majority of cases, so there are prejudices such as 'the gentleman is said to be righteous, and the villain is said to be profitable', 'the righteous first and then the righteous are honored, and the righteous are ashamed', 'righteousness is victorious for the world, and profit is for the troubled times' and so on. ”

"The times are developing, the society is also progressing, and when we begin to learn from the West, which values profit over justice, our country and society have made great progress. During the Republic of China, we called the Western countries the great powers, but now there are also underdeveloped countries that call us the great powers? Don't laugh, let's go to Vietnam and India and take a look, in fact, our image is not much different from that of Britain and France a hundred years ago. ”

"There are some things that we don't have to pay attention to, and we don't have to dwell on the hatred of history, but we have to think about a question. For a hundred years, we have been learning from the West, and the late-mover advantage allows us to avoid historical detours, but when we ourselves become the second largest economy in the world, who else can we learn from?"

"The stones of other mountains can attack jade, but the stones of other mountains cannot become our cornerstone, Japan is the most completely Westernized country, and it has not become a white race, so what about us?"

(End of chapter)