Day after day, year after year.
Ye Beiping also fulfilled his promise. Starting in 1982, he was rarely active in Hangzhou. With the support of the cadres in Pingba Village and his connection with Jin Shengli, he completed the first round of financing for the collective enterprise.
Most of it was money he had lent to the villagers, which he then reinvested.
In 1982, a major news story broke: the "Eight Kings of Wenzhou" incident, which caused great anxiety among Ye Beiping's family.
Someone had initially pointed the finger at Ye Beiping, but because of his prior arrangements with the collective enterprise, everything Ye Beiping did was legal. Furthermore, with Jin Shengli's endorsement, law enforcement naturally turned a blind eye to minor details regarding the timing.
In 1983, Ye Beiping's collective enterprise made its first profit, amounting to 300,000 yuan.
Because they made money, the villagers wanted a share. Hou Yongping and Wu Guangfa couldn't dissuade them, so Ye Beiping finally stepped in, making promises and guarantees, saying that the money should be used to expand production and that they could earn even more money in the future.
In 1984, due to expansion, profits reached as much as one million.
When Ye Beiping met with the villagers of Pingba Village, he said that he would not distribute dividends within five years, but also guaranteed that the annual profit would reach 10 million yuan after five years, otherwise he would give his shares to the villagers.
This prevented the villagers from pressuring for the distribution of money.
They know when there's plenty of money and when there's little, and if they fail to meet their targets, they can get more shares.
In 1989, the annual profit of Pingba Village's collective enterprises reached an astonishing 50 million yuan.
But during those five years, Ye Beiping used some methods to buy back the shares of some troublemakers and distribute them to others.
Through repeated manipulations, Ye Beiping became the largest shareholder, while the villagers combined held less than 15% of the shares.
As for Su Xinyi, she also holds 15% of the shares because she is registered under Ye Beiping's household registration. Ye Xiaoxin also holds 15% of the shares, and the Hou Baolin and Wu Di families also hold 15% of the shares.
In other words, the Ye Beiping family held the largest share in the entire collective enterprise, followed by the Hou Baolin and Wu Di families.
When it came time to distribute dividends, Ye Beiping directly took out ten million yuan to distribute.
In 1989, Ye Beiping's family received a dividend of 5.5 million yuan, while Hou Baolin and Wu Di's families each received 1.5 million yuan.
The remaining 1.5 million was distributed to other shareholders in the village. Although it didn't seem like much, it truly made the entire Pingba Village a household with tens of thousands of yuan.
In 1990, Ye Beiping led his company into the real estate industry.
In 1995, Pingba Village began constructing small Western-style houses to a unified standard. Apart from each family contributing 100,000 yuan, the rest of the money was covered by the company.
In 1997, I entered the internet industry.
In 2000, the collective enterprises' annual profits exceeded one billion yuan, ranking among the top fifty enterprises in the country.
In 2010, the company went public, and Ye Beiping's shareholding shrank to 25%. At the same time, he also created ten investment companies both domestically and internationally, like nested dolls, one after another, achieving a situation where, on the surface, he could only be identified as the chairman of a listed company.
In 2023, Ye Beiping led the company to the top 100 globally and officially announced his retirement, with his only daughter, Ye Xinyi, taking over.
Meanwhile, Ye Beiping ranked 100th on the list of America's richest people.
Ye Beiping didn't even glance at any of these. Over the past ten years, his ten investment companies had invested in all sorts of video-related websites and apps, sometimes making a profit and sometimes a loss, but the profits had increased by millions or even tens of millions of times.
While he may not be the world's richest man, calling him the hidden richest man would certainly be fair.
Ye Beiping and Su Xinyi, both in their sixties, embarked on a round-the-world trip.
At the end of 2023, Ye Beiping realized that his health was deteriorating, just like in his previous life, except that there was a difference in wealth between the two lives.
Private beach in Hawaii.
Ye Beiping, dressed in a light shirt, lay on Su Xinyi's lap, watching the sunset.
"Old woman, may I tell you a story?"
"Hmm." Su Xinyi also knew that Ye Beiping's body was getting weaker and weaker, and the cause of his illness could not even be found. All she knew was that his organs were failing.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have retired at sixty and gone on a round-the-world trip. He just wanted to see the world and relax, hoping it would be good for Ye Beiping's health.
Ye Beiping knew this, but he wanted to confess now because he was afraid his time was running out.
"A long, long time ago, a boy living in the countryside met a girl and they had sex without either of them knowing. The girl became pregnant, but unfortunately, fate was cruel. The girl had a strong sense of pride and eventually jumped into a lake to end her life. The boy regretted it for more than forty years and could not forgive himself until his death."
"Suddenly, the boy passed away, but fate gave him a chance to return to his youth, where he met that girl..."
As he spoke, Ye Beiping's eyelids grew heavier and heavier.
As Su Xinyi listened, tears streamed down her face like broken beads, dripping onto the face of the sleeping Ye Beiping.
The End!
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