Chapter 54: The Mountain Rain is Coming
Ye Dengjue took a sip of tea and looked up at me, he was old, although his face was ruddy, his spirit was extremely vigorous, but helpless, his spirit had declined, in my Xuanmen Wuheng Sect's exposition of the foundation of human life, "Shen", "Qi" and "Yuan" are the three fundamentals that maintain human life. God is the outer, Qi is the inner outline, and Yuan is the essence. If you hurt your spirits, you will be sick; If you hurt your energy, your source will fail, and you can't last for a long time, and if you hurt your energy, you will die.
Although Ye Lao's spirit is steady, his demeanor is slightly sluggish, his eyes are slightly unsmooth, white and black. It is the spirit that has been injured. I want him to be famous, proud of the group, pointing out the economy, talking and laughing about the financial situation, but unfortunately, life is a lifetime, and the grass is a spring! It's not just him, but each of us has to face an "old" word.
Ye Dengjue's eyes lit up, and he said: "With Director Liu's great recommendation, and my unfilial three dogs' respect, and now when I look at Mr. Fang's demeanor, I know that you are a master." Masters, you can't talk about age and experience, think Kong Rong made pears at the age of five, Luo Bingwang became a poem at the age of seven, and Ganluo worshiped the prime minister twelve, didn't they all achieve a strange story through the ages? Mr. Fang, I invited you to come because I wanted Mr. Fang to do a good calculation for me, how many more springs and autumns can I enjoy? β
I shuddered slightly, as if Mr. Yixue was most afraid of receiving this business - the customer asked for his life extension.
Those who don't learn and don't know how to cheat can naturally talk nonsense. But for the real master of fate Xuanyi, a person's lifespan can really be measured. It's just that it's extremely difficult to speak. If a customer can live a long life, that's fine. But if a client is sick and has a short life, it is difficult for the masters to complain about this situation. In order to make customers not have to worry about the day, the masters often use the method of "adding half" and "pushing three" to deceive customers "in good faith". The "half-plus method" is the most commonly used method: if a person can only live to be 46 years old, then the masters will say that he can live to be 92 years old; If a person has only ten years to live, the master will say that he has twenty years to live. And when the customer's family comes to provoke, the master has a way to excuse himself.
I only heard Ye Lao continue: "I can't hide it, Mr. Fang, I personally created such a big foundation as the Ye family's Shijue, and my business is all over the world, and among the freighters sailing in the Pacific Ocean, one out of every ten freighters is my 'Shijue Ocean'...... Unfortunately, I am very old, since I suffered from senile rheumatic heart disease five or six years ago, my heart function is becoming more and more failing, I know that at my age, my heart is extremely bad, and I will worry about my life at any time, so I have actually retired from my career now, and let my children and grandchildren take care of my business. What a pity! I also know in my own heart that my children and grandchildren will not be filial piety! At this, the old man let out a long sigh.
Thinking that he had a bad heart, I hurriedly said, "Ye Lao doesn't have to worry, speak slowly, I'm listening carefully." β
"Could it be that it's really 'no more than three generations rich'?" Ye Lao took a sip of tea and continued, "I have three sons, a daughter, and three grandsons who have also served as executives in the company. But most of my three sons and three grandchildren are not right-minded, or they are just gentle and cowardly, and they can't achieve great things. My eldest son, Ye Ziming, is the chairman of the board of directors and the president of the group, and after I semi-retired, he replaced me in charge of all the affairs of the company. However, although the boss is talented and knowledgeable, he is cowardly by nature, and he cannot suppress the shareholders, nor does he have any means and tricks, so he replaces me in charge of the overall situation, but often secretly asks me. With such a character as my boss, how can I transfer the Ye family and my shares to him after a hundred years?
"Second Ye Zihui, I won't talk about this brute! He is a well-known and wealthy playboy in Shanghai and even in East Asia, eating, drinking and merrymaking, especially women...... Although this brute is the vice president of Shijue Group, in charge of Shijue Finance, banking and insurance industry, he is indeed very successful in the economic and financial field, but ah, with his personal style, I am afraid that sooner or later he will ruin the country I have built in the past 40 years!
"Old Sanye Zicong, you are already familiar with this, this little beast, this is my secret successor, and I also assigned him my Shijue's leading pillar industry - real estate, he is generous and steady, and quite scheming, and can also convince the public, but this little beast has a good gambling nature! Four years ago, he gambled $60 million in Singapore, and was hyped by the media, and my heart disease was completely aggravated by that incident! This little brute is too entrusted by me, until yesterday, I heard that he and my Shijue's sworn enemy, Du Bingchan, the successor of Huaxia, had another big gamble, and it turned out to be one billion billion...... Mr. Fang, you say, how can I entrust the prince to such an unfilial and extravagant son who is extravagant and extravagant?! Ye Dengjue said this, stood up, and stared out the window quietly, "And my three grandsons, one is too young, and the other is also pampered, and the power of the wealthy family gives them too much superiority and disdain...... Alas! It is said that the life of the rich and wealthy is full of glory and wealth, and everyone envies it, but who can know that I am full of bitter water? Sure enough, unhappy families are different, the poor are unhappy, and the rich are unhappy! In fact, my three sons have been secretly competing and forming gangs in order to get my shares - although I have resigned from the group and only acted as an adviser to the group, I am still the largest shareholder of the group, and I personally own 29% of the group's shares. The door of my house is like this, and I am about to die, but how can I look away? If I don't find a successor for the foundation I have worked hard for 40 years, how can I let go? Alas! I am old and decrepit, and death is not enough to fear, but it is precisely for these reasons that I am very afraid of death - I don't dare to write a good will now, if I do it casually and let my children and grandchildren corrupt it, where will this put the foundation of the Ye family? Where are Yip's hundreds of thousands of employees around the world? β
When Ye Dengjue said this, his face instantly seemed to be dozens of years old, and the wrinkles revealed his old age and exhaustion.
I sighed lightly and remembered what Master had said to me: the greater a person's ability, the greater his responsibility. But it was only at this moment that I clearly understood the meaning of this sentence, and I couldn't help but be deeply touched by Ye Dengjue's heart. He struggled to choose a successor for his Ye Group, naturally in order not to let the family foundation collapse; And his last sentence, "If you don't find a good successor, where will Yip's hundreds of thousands of employees around the world go", it made my heart tremble. With such a big business in the world, there are factories in countless countries, and if hundreds of thousands of employees are led by a profligate and profligate manager, then sooner or later, these hundreds of thousands of employees will be laid off and unemployed!
It was only then that I realized why he had asked me to take care of his life so that he could prolong his lifeβthat he wanted to seize the few days he had left to raise his children and grandchildren, so that one of them could fully shoulder the burden of his succession.
I remembered what he said earlier and asked, "Ye Lao, you said that you have three sons and one daughter, what about your daughter?" She didn't hold an important position in the Ye family? β
Ye Dengjue shook his head and said, "No, the field she studied has nothing to do with finance and management, she studied archaeology. Besides, she's still young, she's not even as old as my eldest grandson. β
It turned out that Ye Dengjue married his wife and died of illness twenty-six years ago, and his ex-wife gave birth to the three sons, and the wife he continued to give birth to this daughter for him. Therefore, his youngest daughter is not as old as his eldest grandson, Ye Ziming's son.
Naturally, this youngest daughter can share in Ye Dengjue's legacy, but she will never participate in the management structure of the group.
"So, Mr. Fang, you also understand. My Ye family's wealthy family seems to be rich and stable, and the family is prosperous, but in fact, it is in the autumn of critical survival, and the slightest wind and grass will fall apart, which is unimaginable...... The reason why I'm still thriving is that I'm not dead! Although my three sons were fighting behind my back, they had to restrain themselves in front of me. That's what worries me the most! If I die, I am afraid that before my bones are cold, the three of them will fight for power and profit! What is the difference between this and the struggle for power between the nine sons after the death of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty?! People say that it is safe to go into the earth, and forget the things before and after death, but can I forget it? β
When I saw him describe his sorrow, his body trembled slightly, and he hurriedly said: "Ye Laoshi doesn't have to be so worried and sad!" I have already identified the face for you and made a hexagram, Ye Lao still has a Jiayuan Spring and Autumn Period to cross! β
"Is Mr. Fang's words true?!" Ye Lao suddenly turned around and stared at me tightly, "I really have ten years to live?" β
Sixty years is one Jiazi, Jiazi is divided into six Jiazi, and one Jiayuan is ten years.
I smiled and nodded happily.
In fact, five years is enough time to find a successor. He said that he still had ten years to live, but in fact I added half of it to him. He only had five years to live.