The 10 billionaire Wei Dongsheng

On the first day of Tencent's listing, the stock price finally closed at HK$4.35.

Tencent's performance certainly can't be said to be good.

Still, a listing is a listing, and Tencent's shareholders will now be able to accurately value their total wealth.

Based on the closing price of HK$4.35, Tencent's market capitalization on the day was HK$7.308 billion, equivalent to 7.753 billion yuan. 7.753 billion yuan, which is lower than Wei Dongsheng's valuation of 10 billion yuan with voting rights, and higher than Wei Dongsheng's valuation of 5 billion yuan without voting rights, proves that Wei Dongsheng's valuation in the past is not a matter of words.

Spring and Autumn holds a total of 15% of Tencent's equity, and the book wealth brought by this 15% equity is equivalent to about 1.162 billion yuan. From negotiating with IDG to purchase 5.4% of Tencent's equity held by IDG for US$6 million (7.2% before the share increase), to purchasing 9.6% of the equity at a reserve price of 50 million yuan in the VAM agreement with Tencent, this investment has appreciated more than ten times rapidly in less than half a year.

If 15% of the equity is successfully realized in the stock market, the Spring and Autumn Company will immediately obtain more than one billion gross profits.

This kind of profit speed is by no means weaker than the crazy circle of money in "Spring and Autumn of the Ten Kingdoms".

Tencent, which is cold in the Xiangjiang stock market, can still create a capital miracle, but what about the Spring and Autumn Network? This is the motivation for Wei Dongsheng to sign with "World of Warcraft" to seek to go public in the United States. If the Spring and Autumn Network can be successfully listed, Wei Dongsheng's total wealth will definitely usher in a more exaggerated expansion in an instant.

In fact, there is no need to wait for the Spring and Autumn Network to go public in the United States, Wei Dongsheng has become the focus of public opinion.

Based on the closing price of HK$4.35, Ma Huateng's 13.43% stake (note: there has been a deviation from the real history) is equivalent to about 1.04 billion yuan. In the 2003 Forbes China Rich List, Ma Huateng ranked 99th with assets of 100 million US dollars. With 1.04 billion yuan compared to 100 million US dollars, Ma Huateng's net worth has increased significantly.

Spring and Autumn holds 15% of the shares, of which Spring and Autumn Network holds 3%, Spring and Autumn Software holds 3%, and Wei Dongsheng personally holds 9% of the shares through Dongsheng Holdings. In terms of Tencent's equity distribution, after the largest shareholder MIH, Wei Dongsheng is second only to Ma Huateng.

9% equity is equivalent to about 697 million yuan, and Wei Dongsheng instantly became a billionaire.

Tencent's prospectus must introduce the major shareholders in detail, and MIH and Ma Huateng, Wei Dongsheng, and Zhang Zhidong, who hold more shares, are all eye-catching and cannot hide their shareholding ratios in a low-key manner. Of course, the main reason is that Wei Dongsheng is too lazy to keep a low profile, otherwise through a number of non-listed companies holding shares at various levels, who knows that Wei Dongsheng is standing behind the 9% equity?

From the perspective of public opinion, examine Wei Dongsheng's success.

Considering the crazy circle of money in "Spring and Autumn of the Ten Kingdoms", considering that Spring and Autumn Network was promoted to the No. 1 game operator in China in the first quarter of 2004, and considering the rumors that Wei Dongsheng holds the equity of Spring and Autumn Software and Spring Network, Wei Dongsheng's net worth absolutely exceeded the threshold of 100 million US dollars.

$100 million is the lower limit of the 2003 Forbes list of the richest people in China.

Wei Dongsheng is very hopeful to be on the 2004 Forbes list of the richest people in China.

Looking back at the 2003 Forbes China Rich List, the youngest are Ding Lei, the head of NetEase, and Ma Huateng, the head of Tencent, both 32 years old. At this moment, Wei Dongsheng is only 15 years and 177 days old. At the age of less than 16, Wei Dongsheng has saved a net worth of at least 697 million yuan, which not only greatly refreshes the Forbes record of the richest people in China, but also seriously challenges the cognition of the 1.3 billion Chinese people.

In other words, the post-80s generation in the Forbes Huaguo rich list is not new. At the beginning of 2003, Li Haicang was assassinated, and his son, 22-year-old Li Zhaohui, returned to China to inherit Haixin Iron and Steel Group, and will definitely appear in the 2004 Forbes Huaguo Rich List next year. However, inheriting billions of family fortunes is not new, and the top billionaires can make newborn babies hold tens of billions of dollars in assets as long as they want to operate.

A self-made man like Wei Dongsheng is truly rare in the world.

He started from scratch at the age of less than 16 and made at least 697 million net assets in just one year.

This kind of success is brilliant and unbelievable.

The real 697 million is more impactful than Time Magazine's 2004 list of the world's 100 most influential people. After all, the influence cannot be quantified and compared, and the assets can clearly tell everyone how powerful Wei Dongsheng is.

In fact, Wei Dongsheng's wealth is concentrated in the Spring and Autumn series of companies and Zhiyu series companies. However, none of the Spring and Autumn series companies and Zhiyu series companies are listed, and the equity distribution is a fog in the eyes of the public, and public opinion does not know how much equity Wei Dongsheng holds in the Spring and Autumn series of companies, nor how much these shares can be valued. These vague inferences are hard to convince the public, and are far less convincing than Tencent's 9% stake.

All this, after Tencent's listing, Wei Dongsheng, the third largest shareholder, became the focus of public opinion.

When I woke up the next day, Wei Dongsheng's portrait photos appeared on the front pages of major newspapers and magazines.

Last year and before the hype, Wei Dongsheng tried to avoid showing up as much as possible, and on the other hand, he constrained the cooperative media under the pretext of being a minor, and neither the online media nor newspapers and magazines published positive photos of Wei Dongsheng. Unfortunately, the media also pursues profits, and when the cost of leaking secrets is higher than the cost of confidentiality, the media collectively ignores Wei Dongsheng's privacy interests and releases the photos they have accumulated one after another. A certain newspaper and periodical even used resources, and the paparazzi dug up Wei Dongsheng's detailed information and followed it up, including important information such as Wei Dongsheng's hometown and school status.

In this way, Wei Dongsheng passively became a public figure in just a few days.

Fame is fame, profit is profit; A record is a record, and a talent is a talent. At the close of trading on June 18, Tencent's share price fell from HK$4.35 on June 16 to HK$4.2, a decrease of 3.44%.

The stock price is the basis of market capitalization, and Tencent's share price slipped to HK$4.2, and the market value shrank from HK$7.308 billion to HK$7.056 billion. Wei Dongsheng's 9% equity valuation has also been reduced from 697 million yuan to 673 million yuan, and in just two days, 24 million yuan of assets have evaporated without a trace.

The media doesn't care whether Wei Dongsheng loses money or not, whether it appreciates by 24 million yuan or evaporates by 24 million yuan, all of them are eye-catching topics. Hedong Province is located inland, and its sensitivity to Xiangjiang news is poor, and when he saw his peers hyping up Wei Dongsheng's hometown in Panyang City, Hedong Province, he urgently produced a special feature to track and report Wei Dongsheng, a genius boy who came out of Panyang City.

The camera shifted to a high school in Wuping County.

As mentioned earlier, students at Wuping No. 1 High School are generally in financial difficulty, and students from county homes are only equipped with cheap feature phones. Wu Ping No. 1 High School is also semi-militarized and closed management, and self-study in the morning and evening every day squeezes out all the spare time, and the students seem to be imprisoned in a big prison for learning and reform. High school student, fifteen, sixteen or seventeen years old, has a lively and jumpy personality, and is subconsciously tired of being bored day after day. Students who are poorer and cannot afford to buy communication tools such as laptops, so they buy cheap newspapers to keep track of entertainment and sports news.

On this day, taking advantage of the 30-minute break between the second and third classes in the morning, the students of class 0201 named Qiao Yihui took turns to go to the commissary to buy snacks, drinks and newspapers. Since entering June, the temperature in Panyang City has gradually become hotter, Qiao Yihui walked to the commissary, grabbed a bottle of cold Sprite first, and poured it to drive away the stuffiness in his heart. Walking slowly to the newspaper stall and seeing the color page printed photos on the front page, Qiao Yihui was startled, and the drink in his mouth almost squirted out. Choking and coughing and swallowing the drink, Qiao Yihui picked up the newspaper and brought it to his eyes: "I'll go, it's really Wei Dongsheng." ”

The shopkeeper looked at Qiao Yihui in surprise: "Ah, do you know him?" ”

Qiao Yihui didn't want the shopkeeper to talk to him, and looked at the shopkeeper blankly: "Are you asking me?" ”

Shopkeeper: "Do you know Wei Dongsheng?" ”

Qiao Yihui proudly replied to the shopkeeper: "Wei Dongsheng is from our 0201 class, of course I know him." ”

The shopkeeper approached Qiao Yihui and asked curiously: "Wei Dongsheng really made six or seven billion?" ”

Qiao Yihui was stunned: "What six or seven billion?" ”

The shopkeeper pointed to the newspaper and said, "The newspaper said that Wei Dongsheng invested in QQ and made six or seven billion yuan." ”

Qiao Yihui was even more confused: "Wei Dongsheng earned six or seven billion? ”

Qiao Yihui was shocked just now and said, "It's really Wei Dongsheng", it was shocking that Wei Dongsheng's photo was published in "Xinhe Daily".

In the 90s, "Hedong Daily" split some columns to form "New Hedong Daily". Because "Xinhedong" is prone to ambiguity, new readers often misunderstand it as the "East Newspaper" of "Xinhe", and "Xinhedong Daily" was immediately renamed "Xinhe Daily". With a daily circulation of more than 1 million copies, Xinhe Daily is the most famous comprehensive daily newspaper in Ha Dong Province. Qiao Yihui really can't figure out, Wei Dongsheng, a high school student, how can He De be honored with the headlines of Xinhe News?

Qiao Yihui lowered his head and flipped through the text, and immediately understood the reason.

However, Qiao Yihui was so shocked that he had nothing to say.

Torrenting artifacts, Qiao Yihui doesn't understand. Qiao Yihui's home is on the outskirts of the county, and there is no computer at home, let alone a broadband network cable. Qiao Yihui is ignorant of the concept of download tools and cannot judge its value and significance.

In the "Spring and Autumn of the Ten Kingdoms" operated by the Spring and Autumn Network, Qiao Yihui has some concepts. Qiao Yihui doesn't play online games, every time he goes to the Internet café to relax online, he can see the bright picture of "Spring and Autumn of the Ten Kingdoms", and occasionally hear the players of "Spring and Autumn of the Ten Kingdoms" brag to each other about how many yuan their president has recharged. Qiao Yihui was shocked that some people were willing to spend thousands of dollars to play games, so he kept "Spring and Autumn of the Ten Kingdoms" firmly in his heart.

In addition, Wei Dongsheng took the initiative to confess his name during the hype last year, so the players of "Spring and Autumn of the Ten Kingdoms" knew that Wei Dongsheng was the producer of "Spring and Autumn of the Ten Kingdoms". Whenever the game is frustrated and depressed, with a five-cent speaker, the world scolds Wei Dongsheng on the screen, which has become the characteristic culture of "Spring and Autumn of the Ten Kingdoms". Wei Dongsheng's three words are more well-known than Wei Dongsheng imagined.