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Chapter 1088: 810: Dream Fund Headquarters

Chapter 1088: Chapter 810: Dream Fund Headquarters

Li Xiaoman smiled and said, “But do you know how old Chen was when he retired at the peak of his career?”

“Not even fifty?”

“More accurately, he was just over forty. Chen has said that his peak period was too mythologized. If he didn’t step down, it would be very difficult for those after him to truly rise. Once people have a little dependency, they tend always to look for others to solve their problems, or they always think that with Chen around, the sky won’t fall.

“Until that day, when he announced his long-planned semi-retirement and stopped handling any group affairs, handing over all group powers to us, it gave us three years of rapid growth. Three years later, the group did not experience any major crisis, and we finally held up our own sky. Only then could we understand Chen’s painstaking efforts and his unfathomable vision.

“And now, ten years have passed since that day. During these ten years, all of us have been handling our duties, even becoming numb while dealing with business.”

“So, Mr. Li, are you still supportive of the former chairman’s announcement of a third-generation succession?”

“Of course, I support it!”

Li Xiaoman said, “Staying in one position for too long can easily lead to losing the original passion, just that we ourselves haven’t realized it yet. Now, it’s just Chen stepping forward to remind us, to pass on the opportunity and hope to younger people with more passion, letting them once again awaken the vitality and enthusiasm of our business empire.”

“Mr. Li, you describe your company as a business empire?”

“Of course, if not for Chen’s consistent low profile, who else could be more suitable to be called the God of Business?”

Li Xiaoman remarked astonishingly, “Outsiders don’t know about our business empire. Your financial journalists and peers in the industry, isn’t everyone calling us the uncrowned kings of business.

“Chen has developed to this extent, yet the outside has barely any news of him. The world almost forgets him entirely. Only those of us who experienced his entrepreneurial era know how many poor students he once protected and what he actually did for that era.

“Now, it’s just his plan for the group’s further advancement, yet the internet is filled with baseless speculations, claiming it’s all paving the way for his only son to succeed, which is utterly absurd. How could Chen be someone they could speculate about?

“And I’m not afraid to tell you that Chen’s only son is currently working as a minor market researcher at the Dream Fund’s branch. His path will only rely on his own step-by-step progress, while those of us who have retired have not entirely left the group, but are just switching to a different role to continue contributing to the group.”

Mu Qingqing knew that, by this point, President Li wouldn’t say much more.

The questions left for her were already very few.

The last question, she asked the one everyone wanted to know.

“So, Mr. Li, what is your next move after retirement?”

“All retiring senior executives will this time join the Global Economic Research Institute of the Tengying Group, while I’ll be there as a small enterprise development consultant, responsible for overseeing and helping new enterprises under the Tengying Group avoid detours in the future.”

“Someone like you can only be a small development consultant?”

“What else then?”

Li Xiaoman laughed, “The Director of the Economic Research Institute and the Head of the Consulting Team are both Chen. Who in there isn’t a top-notch global expert or former senior executive from Fortune 500 companies? I’m already very satisfied to be a consultant there. The comprehensive strength of our group, outsiders see only the surface.

“Chen has a saying that all of us agree on: the only ones who can defeat us now are ourselves.”

Mu Qingqing was deeply shocked. It was well-known that the Tengying Group was very powerful.

Not to mention its AI phones, chips, robots, new energy vehicles, batteries, AI intelligence, leading the global tech giant industry.

Even domestic traditional enterprises are found in every corner of the cities.

It’s safe to say no one can completely avoid the influence of Tengying Group.

Yet, all these years, its reputation remains exemplary.

Its industries in so many countries worldwide are largely unknown domestically.

It’s known that just between 2018 and 2023, Chen Pingsheng alone invested over 500 billion overseas.

Adding to the accumulation over these years, it has long surpassed trillions.

This, of course, doesn’t account for the company’s market valuation and asset investments in people’s livelihoods.

This type of investment, though not highly profitable, continually brings in cash income each year.

The group’s cash reserves and cash flow are enough to make them very composed in facing any risk.

Plus, the group has no debt, and while on the surface, it seems to operate independently, in truth, they are all connected.

Can such a powerful strength not call it a business empire?

No problem, naturally, it’s just such words wouldn’t be publicized.

At least, Chen Pingsheng wouldn’t allow it.

No matter what Mu Qingqing discovered in her interview, she wanted to publish, it all had to go through headquarters for approval.

Only when they confirmed it, could the article finally appear before the public.

Thus, what ordinary people see called big news is basically filtered.