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Ma Ling was born in Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, his grandfather was a security chief during the Anti-Japanese War, and after liberation, he was classified as a "black class", and named Ma Ling "Ma Ling", which is to hope that Ma Ling will be well-behaved and sensible in the future, and cause less trouble.

At the age of twelve, Ma Ling bought a pocket radio, and since then he has listened to the English radio every day and became interested in English.

Since the age of thirteen, Ma Ling has had too many demerits because of fights, and he was forced to transfer to Hangzhou No. 8 Middle School.

When Ma took the high school entrance examination, it took two years to get into an extremely ordinary high school - one of which only scored 31 points in mathematics.

In 1982, Ma Ling took the college entrance examination for the first time, and also failed for the first time, scoring only 1 point in mathematics - Ma Ling was full of frustration for this.

After failing in the college entrance examination, Ma Ling's father Ma Laifa saw that Ma Ling was depressed, so he asked Ma Ling to pedal three rounds to deliver books to the magazine.

Later, Ma Ling and his cousin went to a hotel to apply for a waiter, but his cousin was hired, but Ma Ling was rejected miserably - the reason given by the boss was that Ma Ling was thin and short, and his appearance was not good.

Later, Ma Ling worked as a secretary and porter.

In 1983, Ma Ling took the college entrance examination for the second time and failed again - this time, Ma Ling's mathematics improved to 19 points.

Such an achievement made Ma Ling's parents persuade Ma Ling to die of going to college and learn a trade.

After failing the second college entrance examination, Ma Ling began to ride his dilapidated bicycle again, shuttling through the streets and alleys of Hangzhou.

In 1984, despite the strong opposition of his family, Ma Ling took the college entrance examination for the third time - this time Ma Ling's mathematics test scored 89 points, but the total separation of the undergraduate line was still 5 points behind.

Later, due to the fact that the enrollment index of English major was not full, some candidates with excellent English got the opportunity to upgrade their capital, and Ma Ling was fortunate to be promoted to the undergraduate major of foreign language by Hangzhou Normal University.

After entering the university, Ma Ling became a good student with excellent character and learning, and with his excellent English proficiency, he firmly ranked in the top five in the foreign language department.

Moreover, Ma Ling was also elected president of the student union during his time at school.

Later, Ma Ling served as the chairman of the Hangzhou Federation of Students for two terms.

In 1988, Ma Tong graduated from the Department of Foreign Chinese of Hangzhou Normal University with a bachelor of arts degree and was assigned to Hangzhou Institute of Electronic Industry (now Hangzhou Dianzi University) as a lecturer in English and international trade.

Soon, Ma Ling became an outstanding young teacher in Hangzhou, and initiated the first English corner on the edge of the West Lake, and also began to make a name for himself in the translation community in Hangzhou.

In 1992, because many people came to ask Ma Ling to be a translator, Ma Ling established Haibo Translation Agency and invited retired teachers to work together as translators.

In order to let Haibo Translation Agency survive, Ma Ling carried a hemp bag to Yiwu and Guangzhou to buy goods, and Haibo Translation Agency began to sell flowers, gifts, and even medicine that had been sold for a year - the sales target ranged from big hospitals to barefoot doctors.

Last year, Haibo Translation Agency, which had been in a state of loss, had a flat revenue, and Bill, a foreign teacher from Seattle, chatted with Ma Ling about the Internet, and Ma Ling began to think about finding entrepreneurial opportunities on the Internet.

At the beginning of this year, Haibo Translation Agency began to make money, and Ma Cheng came to Los Angeles as a translator to communicate and implement a highway investment after unsuccessfully, he flew from Los Angeles to Seattle to find Bill, and Bill led Ma Ling to visit Seattle's first ISP company, VBN.

After returning from the United States, Ma Ling resigned from the Hangzhou Institute of Electronic Industry, took out 6 or 7,000 yuan, borrowed more than 10,000 yuan from his sister and brother-in-law, and scraped together 20,000 yuan to create the China Yellow Pages with his wife Zhang Ying and friend He Yibing.

Some time ago, Ma Ling and the three of them took over a big business - made a website for the Zhejiang Provincial Foreign Propaganda Office to promote Zhejiang's economy and culture on the Internet, called the "Golden Pigeon Project".

The business of the "Golden Pigeon Project" is good, and it has a lot of profits if it is done well, but the problem is that Ma Ling and the three lack of start-up funds to complete the project.

In order to raise start-up funds, Ma Ling and the three of them used all the methods they could think of, and under the ghost's mission, Ma Ling also wrote an 800-word letter for help to Xu Cun, a well-known "great benevolent man" in the Internet industry.

Later, Ma Ling and the three of them borrowed the start-up funds of the "Golden Pigeon Project" project from relatives and friends.

Therefore, Ma Ling slowly forgot about writing a request for help to Xu Cun - at that time, Ma Ling, who was about to go crazy, was trying his luck, and then he felt a little funny when he thought about it, what is Xu Cun's identity, how can he ignore him, a little person who has nothing?

What Ma Ling never expected was that just when the "Golden Pigeon Project" was about to be completed, Xu Cun actually sent someone to find him, and the person sent by Xu Cun also told him that he would have time to meet and talk to Xu Cun.

After learning that Xu Cun, a big person, wanted to see him, a small person, Ma Ling was a little unconvinced.

How can a person who runs errands for Xu Cun be an ordinary person? The person who ran errands for Xu Cun this time was Wang Dongsheng, president of Baye Bank in China - Wang Dongsheng graduated from Indiana University in the United States with a master's degree in computer, marketing and finance, joined Citibank as deputy chief financial officer in 1980, and served as director of sales, service and sales in North Asia in 1987, and later entered Standard Chartered Bank as the head of personal banking, and then Standard Chartered Bank was acquired by Xu Cun. When Baye Bank entered the mainland, he was one of the main responsible persons, and Baye Bank was able to become the largest bank in the mainland, thanks to his great credit, and later Xu Cun personally promoted him to the president of Baye Bank in China.

How could an elite like Wang Dongsheng, who has worked hard in the business world for more than 20 years, not see that Ma Ling didn't believe what he said?

In this regard, Wang Dongsheng didn't say much, but smiled and left his business card for Ma Ling, and then left - Wang Dongsheng has confidence in Baye Bank and himself, he believes that Ma Ling will take the initiative to call him, and Mr. Xu's secretary Li Jiaxin said when he explained this matter that this matter is not in a hurry, and Mr. Xu is now on vacation in the United States.

Really!

After Wang Dongsheng left, Ma Ling looked at Wang Dongsheng's business card and was blinded!

Subsequently, Ma Ling inquired through his network and soon confirmed that Wang Dongsheng was the president of Baye Bank in China.

With this confirmation, Ma Ling immediately called Wang Dongsheng to apologize according to Wang Dongsheng's business card!

Wang Dongsheng was very polite to Ma Ling, but said again that Xu Cun wanted to see Ma Ling, and said that he was not in a hurry about it, and also said that Xu Cun was now on vacation in the United States.

Xu Cun is not in a hurry to see Ma Ling, but Ma Ling, who is good at seizing opportunities, is anxious to meet Xu Cun, a "great benevolent" in the Internet industry!

So, Ma Ling begged Wang Dongsheng, and Wang Dongsheng asked Xu Cun for instructions.

In the end, Ma Ling came to the Dream Manor and met Xu Cun as he wished......

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