Back to 80: My literary life.

Chapter 576: The Six Gentlemen of Wantong
"Fellow villager, what's your name?" Fang Minghua asked on the phone.

"My name is Feng Lun. I'm the boss of a company called Wantong. I graduated from Northwestern University. People say that I attended your lectures when I was there."

Feng Lun?!
Of course Fang Minghua had heard of this name. Wasn’t he one of the famous “Six Gentlemen of Wantong”?

Feng Lun graduated from Xi'an University, but Fang Minghua had no idea whether he had ever listened to her lectures.

"How do you know Feng Lun?" Fang Minghua asked.

"Hey, I'm planning to get into real estate, so of course I have to get to know some people in the real estate circle. I met him at a dinner party. He is a real Xijing native, our fellow villager, and he had worked in a government unit before. He finally resigned and went into business. This is similar to my experience, so we became friends." Zhao Hongjun replied.

"I ran into him today when I was doing some government work. We chatted for a while. When he heard that I had been accompanying you on a shopping spree in recent days, he immediately became interested and said he wanted to meet you. How about it? Do you want to meet me?"

"Okay, let's meet, where?"

"You stay in the room, I'll call him and come find you."

"Okay, I'll wait for you."

Fang Minghua hung up the phone and continued watching TV.

The more high-profile of the so-called "Six Gentlemen of Wantong" are Feng Lun and Pan Shiyi.

Feng Lun graduated from Northwest University. I heard that he also worked at the Central Party School and the State Commission for Restructuring the Economy. If he had not devoted himself to the business world, he would definitely be a scholar-official. After he became successful, he wrote many books.

Movies like "Wild Growth" and "Ideal Fullness" are basically about economics and real estate.

I heard that a movie was made and broadcasted online, which brought together a large number of business tycoons such as Jack Ma, Tang Jun, Yu Minhong, Wang Shi, Kai-Fu Lee, Pan Shiyi, Zhang Chaoyang, and Robin Li to star in it.

Security guard: Tang Jun

Human Resources Director: Jack Ma

Takeaway boy: Yu Minhong
I saw this on the Internet before Fang Minghua came into this era. It felt very fresh, but I haven't seen the movie he made.

Feng Lun came to Hainan after Hainan was established as a province. He did not come here for the money at first. He used the 300,000 yuan he earned from reselling color TVs to establish the Hainan Institutional Reform Institute.

During that period, Feng Lun drove the broken van lent to him by the provincial government all day long and traveled to every city and county in Hainan, determined to contribute to the development of Hainan.

But the ideal is very full, and the reality is very skinny.

Financial difficulties forced him to start his own company. With his unparalleled eloquence, he convinced the president of a trust company. As Fang Mu mentioned earlier, he earned his first pot of gold, and Wantong began to grow and develop.

Compared with Feng Lun, who is a half-intellectual and half-businessman, Pan Shiqian is a pure businessman. It is said that Pan Shiqian is from Long Province and a child of a poor family. Unlike the other six gentlemen of Wantong, his later development was different. Pan Shiqian devoted himself to real estate and acquired huge wealth.

SOHO Real Estate has become synonymous with high-end luxury homes, but its later donation of 1500 million US dollars to Harvard University caused huge controversy.

The world has changed, but the love for America that is prevalent among these college students born in the 1980s has not changed.

But later on, public opinion online seemed to have changed.

Pan Shiyi withdrew from the real estate industry without leaving behind any unfinished buildings or cheating ordinary home buyers. He is truly a conscientious businessman.

Fang Minghua was lying on the bed, staring at the TV, his mind full of random thoughts. At this moment, there was a knock on the door. He went to open the door and saw three people standing at the door.

Except for Zhao Hongjun, he didn't know the other two people.

They all wore glasses, were around 30 years old, and looked very young.

Fang Minghua asked the three people to enter the house and Zhao Hongjun introduced them with a smile.

"This is Feng Lun, chairman of Wantong Industrial Corporation," he said, pointing at the man with a slightly receding hairline.

"Hello, Chairman Fang."

"Hello, Mr. Feng."

"This is Wang Gongquan, Vice Chairman and General Manager of Wantong Industrial Corporation." Zhao Hongjun pointed to the square-faced man next to him and explained.

He is also one of the “Six Gentlemen of Wantong”, but he is not Pan Shiyi?
They don't look much alike.

"Hello, Chairman Fang"

"Hello, Mr. Wang."

After the three shook hands, Feng Lun said in Guanzhong dialect: "I heard from the Red Army that you were coming to Haikou, so I wanted to visit you. You can be considered my teacher."

Fang Minghua naturally understood that Feng Lun was referring to the fact that he had listened to his lectures as a student, and he quickly humbled himself and said he did not want to be recognized. At this time, Wang Gongquan next to him interrupted, speaking in Mandarin with a northeastern accent: "Chairman Fang, I heard from Director Zhao that your ancestral home is in Liaoning Province?"

"Yes, from Shenyang."

"I'm from Gongzhuling, Jilin. We are both from Northeast China, so we are fellow villagers," Wang Gongquan said with a smile.

"Yes, fellow."

Anyway, people from the three provinces of Northeast China are all fellow countrymen.
The previous words were just polite social remarks, but they could bring them closer together. The three were about to sit down and chat when Zhao Hongjun spoke.

"What's the point of a few grown men like us just sitting in the room? How about we go to the dance hall of the hotel and find a private room to drink and chat?"

"The Red Army has a good idea!" Feng Lun was the first to agree: "Chairman Fang, let's go up and have some fun. I'll treat you!"

The three of them invited him warmly, so Fang Minghua had no choice but to follow them up to the tenth floor.

The dance hall in Wanghailou was also very lively. The four of them did not stay in the big dance hall, but asked for a private room, where they mainly sang karaoke.

Of course you can sing karaoke by yourself or ask girls to sing with you. There was no such thing as princesses at that time.

Since the four of us are here mainly to chat, there is no need to look for ladies with revealing clothes, so as to avoid distraction.

Zhao Hongjun ordered some beer and a fruit plate, and the four of them ate and chatted.

Fang Minghua originally thought that Feng Lun and others would talk about real estate, but unexpectedly they talked about literature.

"Chairman Fang, I remember it was in 82, I was a senior in college, and I listened to your stream of consciousness lecture in the West Auditorium. I found it very interesting. However, I majored in economics and management, so I could hardly understand it. But the story of "The Legend of Sun Wukong" you told was really interesting." Feng Lun said with a smile.

"Later, the book 'The Legend of Wukong' was published in China, and I bought a copy to read."

"Feng Lun, I'm different from you. I really like literature." Wang Gongquan interrupted: "Like Chairman Fang, I have a pen name."

"pen name?"

"Gong Quan's pen name is Qi Fang." Feng Lun said, "He likes poetry, especially ancient poetry. Hey, has Gong Quan written any poetry recently?"

"Don't tell me, I really wrote one." Wang Gongquan put down the beer glass in his hand and said, "Chairman Fang, you are a great writer, I am embarrassing myself in front of you."

After that, he cleared his throat and read aloud.

Langtaosha Mid-Autumn Festival Wishes:

The jade sky is filled with breeze, and the moon is like a flower. I miss Jiangdong thousands of miles away during the Mid-Autumn Festival. At this moment, I can’t express my longing for you, so I send it to the sky.

The distant geese send their deep love and pray to the sky! The yellow chrysanthemums are dyed with the red maple leaves. In the silver moon, my heart is with you.

Ah?
It really has the flavor of ancient literati.

Fang Minghua smiled and clapped.

We chatted and sang for a while, and then went our separate ways around ten o'clock.

After Feng Lun and the other man left, Zhao Hongjun asked Fang Minghua: "Minghua, what do you think of Feng Lun?"

"Did he ask you if you were planning to get into real estate?" Fang Minghua asked back.

"Hey, do you even need to ask this? Nine out of ten people who come to Hainan to do business are doing this. Of course, unless you are a partner or have a very close relationship with them, no one will tell you how to do it. In the business world, competitors are your rivals."

Fang Minghua nodded and said, "I think Feng Lun is a good person and worth making friends with, but as you said, friends are friends and business is business."

"Okay, I understand. You should have a rest. I'll take you to the airport tomorrow." Zhao Hongjun was about to leave when Fang Minghua stopped him.

"Hongjun, let me tell you something."

"what's up?"

"Please take some time to go to Xijing recently. Minmin misses you."

Zhao Hongjun sighed softly and said, "Minghua, you know, we have to set up a company and buy land now. There are so many things to do, I probably don't have time - but I will definitely come during the Spring Festival this year and spend some time with her."

"Okay, I get it. You can do your own things tomorrow. You don't have to send me off."

(End of this chapter)