Chapter 258: The Inheritance of Wealth
"Does the child have a name?" Ling Shizhe asked as he sat at the head of the bed with Li Li in his arms.
Dad said that he was a generation of sheng characters, and took the word "Kun", hoping that he would be like Kunpeng and have high aspirations. Li Li said as she fell into his arms.
"Ling Shengkun, that's how my father took his name."
"What's the matter, why don't you speak, what are you thinking?" After half a ring, seeing that Ling Shizhe didn't speak, Li Li asked.
"If I say that I am not ready for our children to inherit all my property in the future, will you agree?" Ling Shizhe asked suddenly.
"That's what you've been thinking about?" Li Li was stunned for a moment, and looked up at him with some puzzlement.
Ling Shizhe nodded and said, "Ambrera is registered in Canada, so in terms of relationship, it is not an exaggeration to be a Canadian company. Unlike Hong Kong, Canada's inheritance tax is as high as 80%, wife. ”
"That's what you're doing with a charity fund, right?"
Ling Shizhe didn't deny it, nodded, thought about it and asked: "Wife, you see, there are currently two foundations, one is the Ambrera Charity Fund, and the other is the Shizhe Charity Fund; The former is responsible for education, the latter for medical care. Do you think we should merge the two funds and keep one fund enough? ”
"Wouldn't it be nice to set up more foundations? Divide your company shares into several shares, donate the shares to these foundations in the name of charity, and then your children are in charge of a charitable foundation, and that's not the solution. Li Li knew that Ling Shizhe could not have only one child, and the other three women would each give birth to one for him, that is, four, and divide the family property into four parts, so that no one should make trouble.
Ling Shizhe glanced at Li Li with deep meaning, shook his head and said, "It's not good, it's better to merge the two funds, since it's charity, it's better to do it seriously." ”
"You ......" Li Li was speechless and got up to leave Ling Shizhe. Walked to the window, looked out and didn't speak.
Ling Shizhe smiled bitterly, shook his head, and came behind Li Li. His hands swept around her waist, hugged her back, pulled her into his arms, and said, "I know what you think, you and Qianqian are taking care of the Foundation's affairs." You want to leave the biggest fund to your children, right, have you ever thought about Qianqian's feelings, I don't want to see you two sisters turn against each other in the future. ”
"I'm her own sister, how could Qianqian ...... Woo ......" As soon as she turned her head, Li Li's mouth was sealed by Ling Shizhe, and the two kissed fiercely.
After a long time, Li Li said to Ling Shizhe: "Go to the bathroom, don't be here, the child is here." ”
Ling Shizhe copied his hand and came to a princess hug. Walk towards the bathroom.
In the bathtub, after a while, Li Li's face was flushed, lying in Ling Shizhe's arms, Ling Shizhe stroked her buttocks and said: "Qianqian has no children now, and she really won't fight with you for anything, but with children, the nature is different, if you take up too much." She'll have other ideas. ”
Seeing that Li Li was a little puzzled, Ling Shizhe explained: "Do you think it's really a good thing to have too much wealth sometimes? For example, our children are destined to be in the spotlight from birth and cannot enjoy a free and easy childhood like other peers! ”
Ling Shizhe remembered Zhang Ziqiang, the "thief of the century" in later generations, in Ling Shizhe's memory. Hong Kong has hardly been peaceful. Kidnapping cases happen almost every year, and Li Jiacheng's eldest son, Guo Bingxiang, one of the Guo brothers, has also been kidnapped. The worst thing is that Wang Dehui, the founder of Huamao Group, and his wife were kidnapped twice, and the second time they simply disappeared from the world, not to mention the ransom paid, and they also suffered a ticket tear.
So. Ling Shizhe took several of his women to Canada one after another a few years ago, and if he has nothing to do in the future, he will not go back to Hong Kong here, and if he has children, he will not return to Hong Kong here, live here, and go to school here.
A few days ago, he received news that the "Gang of Four" had collapsed, and that it would not be long before Xiaoping would come out of the mountains, and the curtain of reform and opening up would soon be opened, and the Hong Kong issue would soon be raised.
It's up to Andy Grus, and he won't go back easily if it's not something particularly important.
"Believe me Li Li, I've seen too many things like this, in the face of money, even God will be crazy, let alone sisters." Ling Shizhe's hand reached for her valley, "I will set up a personal growth fund for each child, so that they don't have to worry about money for the rest of their lives, and they can plan their lives freely!" ”
Ling Shizhe bit her ** and continued: "I didn't think about preparing for my own child to take over the Ambrera Company!" ”
"Why?" Li Li sat up from Ling Shizhe's arms, revealing her beautiful figure.
"It's easy to fight the country, and it's not easy for our children to take over my class! Don't look at me as having a lot of authority in the company, that's because I'm the founder of the Ambrera Group and have an unrivaled prestige! As long as I make a decision, no one will object! And if our children want to take over, they must put in more effort to win the approval of everyone in the company! This is by no means an easy task!
You must know that in Canada, people don't recognize the status of the prince, as long as you can't, they will not hesitate to kick you down, and they can't even keep a shareholder seat on the group's board of directors, even if it's the founder of the group. Speaking of this, Ling Shizhe remembered Steve Jobs in his previous life, wasn't it because of the failure of the McTagin plan that he was kicked out of Apple.
"Although the scale of the company is huge, it is still in the rising period of enterprise development, even if there are various interests entangled, plus Alison and others are in charge, so the company's rapid development of the release of dividends and quickly resolved. But this period of rapid growth will one day pass, when the Ambrera Group is large to a certain extent, its internal contradictions began to slowly erupt, although I purged the group several times, but where there are people, there will be rivers and lakes, as more and more people in the company, the internal struggle of the company's personnel will become more and more complicated.
The only thing I can do is to try to reduce this unnecessary internal friction, and in a few decades, when we are all old, our children will have to face far more complex problems than we are facing now, and there may even be a struggle between several children over the family property! Do you really want our children to live in this kind of intrigue of interests all day long? It is better to let them choose the life they want, whether it is to be a doctor or a scientist. Or go around the world, as long as our baby can live happily every day, isn't it great! ”
Li Li was silent, as a wife. He knew that his husband gave up the inheritance of the family property because of the family property, and then studied in the university alone for four years of college life. They all spent time on campus, never even went home, and finally left Canada to start a business in a foreign country.
How hard it is to wander in a foreign country, Li Li is deeply aware of it. She has experienced all the ups and downs that Ling Shizhe faced in starting a business. To be honest, Li Li didn't want her child to walk the same path his father had walked back then, that experience was not comfortable at all, and it was full of bitter tears when I thought about it.
Ling Shizhe's idea can be said to be a bit of a maverick among Hong Kong's wealthy people. Because the wealthy and noble lords in Hong Kong all hope that their sons will inherit their father's business and continue the prosperity of the family. However, Ling Shizhe was influenced by his previous life, with a strong view of the wealth of Silicon Valley technology upstarts.
The age of information technology has created a large number of new wealth myths, which do not need to be accumulated over a lifetime or even several generations, as is the case with the traditional rich. Often, all it takes is a good idea to reap great success. It is precisely because wealth comes so easily that the concept of wealth of the new technology aristocracy is much more open than that of the conservative old-fashioned rich people.
Later generations often heard that many wealthy people in the United States opposed the White House's estate tax cuts, and most of these rich people came from Silicon Valley. Even though they are worth billions, they may still eat a hot dog burger for breakfast and wear a pair of ten-dollar jeans to work. It's not because these rich people are stingy, they never be soft when it comes to buying private jets and luxury yachts, it's just a casual life.
Silicon Valley's plutocrats have never been as keen to wear "kicking bunnies" (tuxedos) tailored by private tailors, as the rich people of Manhattan have been in New York. Wander among the elegant upper parties.
They would rather put up with the mediocrity of their children, but they would never allow their children to sit on the inheritance of their parents, just like Steve Jobs in his previous life, he set up a growth fund for each child. When they grow up, the growth fund becomes a charitable fund, and then it is handed over to them to take care of in order to exercise their social viability.
Most of Jobs's own stock was handed over to a charitable fund set up by his wife to make real charity, and he finally left an inheritance of about $20 million to each of his children when he died. as their start-up fund.
Jobs himself was born in hardship, and he understood very well the pain of not having start-up capital in the early days of entrepreneurship. So he left each of his children an inheritance of $20 million.
Ling Shizhe had a very hard life in his previous life, after being reborn, the money came very easily, from the beginning of the business to the present nearly ten years, the total assets of Ambrera Company, conservatively estimated to reach tens of billions of dollars, if all his companies are listed, he will instantly become the so-called "richest man in the world".
If money comes too easily, it won't be cherished too much. Other rich people have spent most of their lives to save this little wealth, so they are naturally unwilling to donate it casually to help strangers who have nothing to do with themselves for charity.
And Ling Shizhe is even more reluctant that after a hundred years, his children will also meet in court because of their tempting wealth. In that case, he might as well donate all the money, at least he can still have a good name! But he hoped that his children would suffer as much as he did, so he adopted a compromise method and decided to learn from Uncle Qiao, his children could not become rich, but they would not be like the low-level citizens in society, worrying about three meals a day, medical care, pension, and children's tuition fees.
He also hopes that his children will not be bound by his aura and can realize their independent life values.
Of course, if some of his children really showed outstanding business talent from an early age and were willing to join Ambrera to work, then Ling Shizhe would definitely vigorously support and train his children to take over. But he will not be like Wang An, let his children have no experience, and hold a high position in the company, he will let his children start from the bottom, accumulate experience step by step, until he can finally completely control Ambrera.
Just like his father Ling Zhigao cultivated his eldest brother Ling Shikai, although the eldest brother has mediocre qualifications, it is more than enough to manage the Ling Group.
Many times, a king of success is more important than the son of heaven, because after the development of the enterprise to a certain extent, it can no longer expand outward, and it takes time to precipitate its own heritage and lay the foundation for the next expansion.
Just look at GE, when Thomas Edison was here, GE developed so violently, in the mid-twenties, GE's shares reached a sky-high price of $6,000 per share, it was the twenties! At that time, the dollar was worth a lot more than it is now, and Edison was the real richest man in the world.
But after Edison left, GE's stock price was only a little bigger, such a big company, such a large scale, and the total assets added up to $10 billion, and it wasn't until Hochwelch became GE's president that GE was pushed back to glory.
His success can be said to be inseparable from the foundation laid for him by his predecessor.
Edison created the miracle of GE, but also left a huge mess for his successors. It was okay when Edison was there, and all kinds of contradictions were suppressed, but what about after he left? The contradictions within GE have all erupted, and the previous presidents of GE in Hochwelch have focused on how to eliminate all kinds of contradictions within the company, and there are still thoughts to expand the territory.
The efforts of several generations have brought Hochwelch's unprecedented unity to GE, and only then did he have enough energy to lead GE to its later glory.
It can be seen how important it is to be a qualified king of the city, his father Ling Zhigao chose Ling Shikai, although he is not enough to open up the territory, but it is more than enough to defend the city, and the eldest brother is also very good at dealing with complex personnel relations within the company, I believe that Ling's Group in his hands will lay a good foundation for the next one, and prepare for the company's future outbreak.
Men who have children are different, and they feel a lot more heavy responsibilities on their shoulders. In the past, Ling Shizhe would not think about issues such as inheritance rights and children's education at all, but now he has to start making various plans to avoid being in a hurry. (To be continued.) )
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