Chapter 608
Wang Junhong and the others attend the conference. Wang Yifei: From now on, please call
In early January 2006, it was time for another year-end conference.
Young children vie for the new calendar, while old men recount the marks of the past.
In Wang Duoyu's eyes, 1978 seems like yesterday, but now 28 years have passed. Time flies too fast.
No wonder that on New Year's Eve, as the year draws to a close and a new beginning begins, the old man counts the marks of time, for as time goes by, what awaits these old men is dust to dust and ashes to ashes.
Wang Duoyu arranged this year's year-end summary meeting in Chengdu, the land of Sichuan.
The development strategy for Southwest China has not yet been finalized, but Chengdu has already embarked on a fast track of development.
Wang Duoyu led the executives of Want Want Group to Chengdu, where they hid in a secluded farm and rested for two days before holding a meeting.
This year, Wang Junhong, Wang Junan, Wang Junkang, and Wang Yifei, the four siblings, will also attend the conference. However, they will only attend the first two days of the conference, and will not participate in the later stages, which involve business related to super dollar factories and arms sales.
Even so, the four siblings, attending the meeting for the first time, were all slightly nervous and excited.
"XiXi, let me introduce you to Ms. Lin Xiaoyi, the head of Yibao Investment."
Inside the farm, the Wang sisters, Meihe and Meihe, pulled Wang Yifei aside and introduced her to the executives of Want Want Group.
Wang Yifei and her siblings have met or known several of the domestic executives, such as Liang Shengzhi, Wei Ruolai, Qu Haiping, Wen Shixuan, Qiao Hanliang, Tong Zhigang, Yu Kexue, and Wang Lichuan.
However, foreign executives only knew people like O'Brien, Fuller Carson, Reinhard Monroe, and Lee Efra.
There are also people like Gabhawi, Caltim, and Martinez, whom I've never even met, let alone known.
"Hello, Miss, we've met before in Hollywood."
Lin Xiaoyi extended her slender hand and said respectfully.
Women make up less than 10% of the senior executives at Want Want Group, and that includes the Wang Meili and Wang Meihe sisters.
Lin Xiaoyi, one of the senior executives, was able to stand out from a group of aspiring executives and become a real senior executive, demonstrating both high emotional intelligence and high IQ.
Although Wang Yifei does not hold a position in Want Want Group and is Wang Duoyu's daughter, the probability of her inheriting Want Want Group in the future is not high.
Even if Wang Yifei is lucky enough to become the heir, Lin Xiaoyi doesn't need to worry too much, and doesn't need to treat her so humbly.
But she did it anyway.
Because Want Want Group has become a behemoth.
Furthermore, Wang Duoyu is in excellent health, and he also secretly controls another large corporation.
Therefore, no matter what, if Lin Xiaoyi wants to advance further, then treating the Wang family with respect is inevitable.
Now that Lin Xiaoyi has already become a senior executive at Want Want Group, how can she possibly advance any further?
In fact, Want Want Group now has dozens of senior executives, and more than fifty people are in reserve for senior management.
Among the senior executives, there is also a small executive committee, and Lin Xiaoyi wants to become a member of it, or even become the rotating chairman of Want Want Group.
Wang Duoyu is the actual person in charge of Want Want Group, but he is very busy and spends most of his time in the hands of the executive committee to control the entire Want Want Group.
Today, the Want Want Group, not to mention anything else, just the Yibao Investment, which Lin Xiaoyi is in charge of, already controls assets exceeding 130 billion US dollars.
Not to mention Want Want Group's cash cow: a super dollar factory with annual profits exceeding 500 billion US dollars.
Lin Xiaoyi is certain that this factory will definitely earn more than 500 billion US dollars in profit this year.
Just look at how crazy it was that "Avengers: Age of Ultron" and "Jason Bourne" became the highest-grossing films of all time.
Avengers: Age of Ultron broke the record set by Kung Fu Panda in August to become the new champion.
In October, shortly after its release in mainland China, "Jason Bourne" surpassed "Avengers: Age of Ultron" to break the record with $7.26 billion.
The world was shocked.
With Hollywood blockbusters drawing attention, agencies like the CIA have absolutely no way to deal with the super-powerful money factory.
As Wang Duoyu's daughter, Wang Yifei has a high probability of joining the Want Want Group even if she cannot directly inherit it in the future.
So, by cultivating a good relationship with Wang Yifei beforehand, she might be able to get into the executive committee, or even become its rotating chairperson.
Even if she can't do it, she won't lose anything anyway.
"Sister Lin, it's been a long time," Wang Yifei said with a shy smile.
As a superstar and actress, Wang Yifei's acting talent is average. Her youthful and shy demeanor makes her seem like a child in front of Lin Xiaoyi.
After all, Lin Xiaoyi, having become a senior executive at Want Want Group, has seen it all. What kind of situations hasn't she encountered? What kind of people hasn't she met?
Those actors were just imitating in front of the camera, while all the business tycoons Lin Xiaoyi had met were putting on an act in front of her.
Even the slightest flaw could be a devastating blow to those business tycoons.
After Wang Duoyu brought the children to the farm, Zheng Baoyin, Wang Jianchao, Wang Meili, and Wang Meihe took the initiative to help introduce them, so he didn't need to worry about it at all.
After so many years of experience, Zheng Baoyin and his relatives from the Wang family are no longer what they used to be.
This is hardly a small matter; they handle it with ease.
After a two-day break, the summary meeting officially began on the morning of the third day.
The first day's summary was a compilation of revenue, profit, gains, and losses for manufacturing companies, including Huachen Mobile, McDonald's, Red Star Group, Huaxin Technology, and Daimler-Benz Automotive Group.
After spending a day in the conference room, Wang Junhong and his three siblings were all numb.
Because Paramount, MGM and Marvel Studios, these three Hollywood giants, are actually subsidiaries of Want Want Group, but that's not the most obvious thing.
Walmart and Target, two globally renowned retail giants, are also subsidiaries of the Want Want Group.
Varian Medical Systems, Canon, and other top-ranked companies in their respective fields, are also subsidiaries of the Want Want Group.
Furthermore, Want Want Group also holds shares in super giants such as Airbus, Raytheon, and Citibank.
That's awesome!
While surprised, Wang Yifei and her three siblings chose to believe them, but when they looked at their father's calm face, a strange feeling arose in their hearts.
This is the Want Want Group, but their father doesn't seem to care much.
The next day was a meeting with financial companies and other businesses. Wang Yifei and the others had only one thought on their minds: money! money! money!
It seems that what Lee Efra and the others were reporting wasn't money, but just a string of numbers.
Although its profits are not as high as those of yesterday's manufacturers like Walsin Technology, they are by no means inferior; those are all in the hundreds of billions of US dollars in net profit.
In any case, Wang Junxian and his three siblings were completely numb.
Last year, when their father held a family meeting, he said that Want Want Group's annual profit was no less than 100 billion US dollars, which shocked them to the point of being dumbfounded.
The "no less than" in this $100 billion figure was actually defined in this way. Because yesterday, the total profits of all manufacturing companies reached $169.2 billion.
Today, financial companies have total profits of US$112.7 billion.
Whether it's a manufacturing company or a financial company, the combined profits are staggering.
Given Wang Junhong's and his colleagues' experience, this was naturally the first time they had heard of it.
Zheng Baoyin and the other management team members were all amused by the hilarious expressions on Wang Yifei and her three siblings' faces.
If they weren't in a meeting, Zheng Baoyin and his colleagues would definitely have burst into laughter without a care for appearances.
After the meeting ended, Wang Yifei ran over and hugged her father's arm:
"Big Fish Bro, you've gone too far! You actually lied to us! Humph, I don't care, you have to compensate me!"
At this moment, Lin Xiaoyi and the other executives were still in the conference room, covering their mouths and secretly watching this scene.
Wang Duoyu coughed, and Tong Zhigang and the others chuckled and hurriedly left.
After there were only a few outsiders left in the meeting room, Wang Duoyu finally looked at his daughter with a stern face:
"At home you call me Big Fish, and I don't mind. But in such a formal setting, what should you call me?"
"Mr. Wang? Or a professor?"
Bang!
The next moment, Wang Duoyu flicked her smooth forehead with his finger:
"You can call me Dad or Chairman, or even Professor if you really can't. Who told you to call me Big Fish Brother?"
"Then aren't you my Big Fish Brother?"
Wang Yifei asked, sounding aggrieved, and Wang Duoyu was speechless.
They then took the opportunity to drive them off the farm.
"You should go back now and not come tomorrow, so you won't be an eyesore."
"No, Brother Big Fish, I still want to participate. I've decided that from now on I'll just be a lazy bum who does nothing but eat and wait to die. Hehe, I didn't expect you to be so rich, Brother Big Fish. Now I can spend money however I want. I want to spread my songs to every corner of the world. From now on, please call me the Chinese Promotion Ambassador!"
Bang!
The next moment, she was flicked by her father again.
"A Chinese language ambassador? How can you be so shameless? Do you even deserve that title?"
Who can bear such a huge karmic burden?
Being a Chinese-language ambassador seems like a great job, but while you can do it, you can't say it.
Moreover, if we're talking about Chinese language promotion ambassadors, hasn't Wang Duoyu done even more?
Putting everything else aside, let's just talk about the Somali Peninsula. This place has now been taken over by China.
How many years has it been?
Since the port city of Pepera was leased and developed by the Want Want Group more than a decade ago, Chinese signs are now everywhere.
The total Chinese population in the Somali peninsula has reached more than eight million.
Because over the years, they have been immigrating, and they have been immigrating only from mainland China, and almost no Chinese people have immigrated from other places.
The global Chinese community has both good and bad aspects.
The Chinese community in Indonesia, Southeast Asia, is prone to internal strife but very weak in dealing with outsiders, somewhat like the late feudal dynasties.
For example, in the late Qing Dynasty, they were aggressive domestically, but subservient to foreign powers.
While aggressively suppressing the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Boxer Rebellion, and the Six Gentlemen of the Hundred Days' Reform, the government was also frantically signing unequal treaties such as the Treaty of Nanjing, the Treaty of Aigun, the Treaty of Shimonoseki, and the Boxer Protocol.
They are incredibly weak.
The Chinese community on the Malay Peninsula is relatively conservative. They are very fond of upholding traditional Chinese culture, but unfortunately, they lack the strength and are bullied by the Malay natives.
However, the team is generally united, which is better than Indonesia's.
The Chinese community in the United States is very complex, with many gangs and some high-ranking Chinese individuals becoming part of the capitalist class.
In order to integrate into the local community, these people desperately abandon everything they originally had.
Unfortunately, they could exchange their souls, but they couldn't change the color of their skin.
In the end, it turned out to be a complete mess.
Wang Duoyu implemented centralized and unified management of the mainland Chinese immigrants.
The schools set up there are all Chinese schools, and foreign languages are also taught. They are almost no different from those in mainland China, except that the environment is different.
Besides the Somali peninsula, Wang Duoyu's subtle influence in Hollywood is enough to make him a Chinese language ambassador.
For example, the previous box office champion, "Kung Fu Panda," was a global phenomenon, and everyone loved it.
In the 1970s, Bruce Lee's movies included the word "kung fu" in English dictionaries, and the word "kung fu" became popular all over the world.
In the 1980s and 90s, Jackie Chan's kung fu movies and other works popularized kung fu, making traditional Chinese martial arts flourish all over the world.
Many martial arts schools developed rapidly during this period.
After the turn of the millennium, Kung Fu Panda burst onto the scene, pushing Chinese Kung Fu to new heights.
Even so, Wang Duoyu wouldn't dare call himself a Chinese language ambassador.
Anyway, that's what he did, and he'll continue to do it, but he won't say anything about it.
Wang Yifei felt wronged and wanted to say something, but seeing her father's serious face, she could only swallow her words.
"You're a celebrity, every move you make is under the spotlight. In the future, when you attend events or are interviewed by reporters, you must be as discreet as possible."
Seeing her indignant expression, Wang Duoyu sighed:
"Becoming a Chinese language ambassador is indeed a glamorous thing, but you must not think that way, nor should you accept the position. However, you can do the following."
"Others would love to throw mud at you and destroy you because you're blocking their path to wealth."
"Many people are eager for you to make a mistake so they can drag you down, or even crush you, ensuring you can never recover!"
"You're not young anymore, and you've been in the entertainment industry for several years. You should understand these principles."
"So you'd better settle down, otherwise I'd rather you just laze around and wait to die than have you slandered and defamed."
After hearing this, Wang Yifei fell silent.
She could tell that her father was indeed doing it for her own good, but she also believed that she had done the right thing.
Perhaps it's because she hasn't taken the wrong path before that she doesn't take it so seriously. (End of Chapter)