I traveled through time and became a cute girl, I just want to be a fun person

Chapter 305: Stronger Interest

Putting aside how Jiang Zhihao responded to the rampant public opinion, without his knowledge, his old father Jiang Wenzhong received a report from Wu Changmao, the director of his secretariat, at the end of last month.

In many TV dramas related to chaebols, in addition to the various chaebol chairmen, it is also a standard configuration that there is always a "head of the office" beside the chairman. If the chairman is the emperor, then the head of the office must be the chief eunuch of the Imperial Household Department.

Director Wu Changmao has followed Jiang Wenzhong for many years and can be said to be loyal to him. He is also very capable and graduated from a top prestigious university. He is Jiang Wenzhong's right-hand man.

If Wu Changmao is Jiang Wenzhong's son, then there is no suspense about who will inherit the Star Chaebol. In any case, none of Jiang Wenzhong's three children can satisfy him, and none of them are as considerate and capable as Director Wu.

However, Wu Changmao would not be ignorant of the importance of Jiang Wenzhong's appreciation. A eunuch who could satisfy the emperor must have a full sense of propriety, and must also be good at paying attention to details in dealing with people and having high emotional intelligence.

Anyway, even Jiang Wenzhong's three children, Jiang Zhiqing, Jiang Qinqin and Jiang Zhihao, would show respect when they saw Director Wu, who was only slightly older than them. He was the old man's confidant and should not be neglected.

However, for a section chief like Wu Changmao, once the new president "ascends the throne", he will basically be marginalized, and the new president will definitely promote his own confidants.

As the chairman of the Star Chaebol and a top domestic business tycoon, Jiang Wenzhong has a very large secretariat, which includes various think tank teams. In ancient times, it basically has the function of a cabinet. It is impossible for him to do everything himself, and the operation of the entire chaebol does not depend entirely on him.

There is no doubt that the Star Group is a listed group. It is also a huge interest group. Its semiconductor pillar industry is even closely linked to the fate of the country. The two are complementary to each other.

In fact, the shares held by the Jiang family in the entire group are not as many as ordinary people imagine. Now it is a modern society and the era of capital. With such a complicated interest group, even the chairman of a chaebol cannot cover the sky with one hand.

It was only during the decades when Jiang Wenzhong was at the helm that the Star Group truly took off. He placed all his bets on semiconductors for the group's development, which was considered a true stroke of genius and laid the foundation for the future glory of the entire group.

Therefore, in the eyes of ordinary people outside, the Star Group is basically equated with the Jiang family, and it achieved its rapid development under the leadership of Jiang Wenzhong.

Jiang Wenzhong's ability is obvious to all, so every time a president comes to power in the country, business tycoons and capital tycoons like him will become guests of honor. After all, in this pure capitalist country, politicians share the world with the chaebols.

This does not actually mean that politicians are dogs of the chaebols. In fact, if politicians really come to power and have bad relations with certain chaebols, they can really rectify the chaebols and even send the chaebol chairmen to jail.

In the process of leading the Star Group to take off, Jiang Wenzhong also offended some politicians, and in that election, the congressman also successfully came to power, so he was framed and almost went to jail. It was Jiang Wenzhong's eldest son Jiang Zhiqing who went to jail in place of his father.

That’s right, the chairman’s son going to jail in place of his father is also a classic operation of the chaebol family. It can be said that you have to try it.

Of course, Jiang Zhiqing was not willing to go to jail for his father, but one cannot always just focus on the present. Since he has sacrificed so much for his father, his purpose is of course to take over in the future. His father will let him take over smoothly because of his filial piety.

Unfortunately, in Jiang Wenzhong's mind, the Star Group is the result of his life's work. He does not want such a brilliant career to be ruined in the hands of Jiang Zhiqing, a mediocre son. He is not a supporter of the ancient "primogeniture system" and would rather let his three children fight it out, and whoever is more capable will take the position.

And it just so happened that Jiang Wenzhong had always been in good health, and all the indicators in his regular physical examinations were great, which meant that he could even wait for his grandchildren to grow up and let the third generation of the Jiang family also compete intensively in raising Gu to see who would stand out.

Such a strong and long-lived body even allowed Jiang Wenzhong to not appoint a "Crown Prince" but to skip the second generation and appoint a "Crown Grandson".

This is how Jiang Hengyu caught Jiang Wenzhong's eye. The child was smart since he was young, and Jiang Wenzhong also liked his personality. Jiang Wenzhong admired his style of long-term thinking and making plans before taking action.

Jiang Wenzhong also saw that Jiang Hengyu had an ambition to get promoted, which made Jiang Wenzhong admire him even more. People who want to achieve great things must have ambition, which represents an attitude of high spirits and striving for progress.

His daughter Jiang Qinqin's son Jiang Junhui is a counterexample. He chooses to be a Buddhist stay-at-home, so why is there any need to fight for inheritance rights?

In addition, Jiang Hengyu is also the one with the best academic performance among the third generation of the Jiang family since childhood, which brings great honor to Jiang Wenzhong.

In fact, the younger generations of chaebol families basically don't pay too much attention to academic performance, and they don't need to worry about such things. The aristocratic education they need to receive from childhood to adulthood is too diverse and classified into too many categories. In the process of growing up, they can also fully satisfy their own interests and hobbies. Anyway, no matter how bad their academic performance is, it will not affect their admission to prestigious schools, and they can choose any school at home or abroad.

Jiang Wenzhong, however, believed that being able to concentrate on studying well was a very rare quality, so he admired Jiang Hengyu more and more, and also hoped that this "little grandson of a chaebol family" would become a role model for other Jiang family members of the same age.

In short, it was precisely because Jiang Wenzhong was too partial to and treated Jiang Hengyu too well that the people below him felt that the president must be particularly happy to see a "top student" among his juniors...

What Director Wu wanted to report to Jiang Wenzhong was about Jiang Yuan. After all, she was Jiang Wenzhong's granddaughter. She had also shown excellent results in several major examinations of No. 1 Middle School, and had also won the first place in the city in the recent joint examination of four schools. This was already very worthy of reporting to Jiang Wenzhong.

Jiang Wenzhong is not an old-fashioned person who favors boys over girls. You know, he is a pure capitalist. In the cold eyes of capital, there is no difference between men and women, they are all just palus. Whichever palu is more capable will be more favored by capital.

However, the gender of employees in the entire Star Group is mostly male. This is naturally because men are more aggressive than women. The capital gains produced by exploiting male employees are higher. In recent years, there has been a very magical reality. That is, a company fired all female employees, and the company operated more efficiently...

Precisely because Jiang Wenzhong does not favor boys over girls, in his mind, if any of the younger generation can take the helm of the Star Group in the future and continue to make it glorious, he will hand over the group to him/her without hesitation. If none of the younger generation can support the group, then none of them will inherit it!
This idea is actually very unorthodox, but it is also in line with his image of "the most important person in the group". The older people get, the more easily they will be influenced by others. Don't forget that he still has a loving wife, Liu Yueru.

The president's wife Liu Yueru is not an easy person to deal with. She is obviously a woman, but she is more patriarchal than Jiang Wenzhong, and she attaches great importance to bloodline.

In her opinion, this huge star group must be inherited by her descendants no matter what, and it must be the male descendants who inherit it. It is a classic "Edinburgh" idea. She believes that women will always get married. After getting married, wouldn't they be handing over the foundation as well?
Most people may mock others by saying things like “your family values ​​male babies so much, is there an heir to the throne in your family?” However, for the chaebol Jiang family, that is the truth. In the future, the competition for inheritance rights in the Jiang family will be very similar to the fight for the throne in ancient times.

In particular, Jiang Wenzhong allowed everyone to compete, showing an attitude of raising insects, and just seeing who can stand out.

Liu Yueru is very traditional. In her mind, Jiang Zhiqing's succession in the future is a foregone conclusion. As for the most suitable successor among the third generation, it has to be Jiang Zhiqing's eldest son Jiang Yingshao.

This eldest grandson is her treasure. She doted on him since he was a child and still dotes on him when he grows up. Even though he is incapable and has a bad temper, she doesn't think there is anything wrong with it.

As for Jiang Hengyu, whom Jiang Wenzhong admires, she has always only shown her grandmother's kindness on the surface, but she does not agree with it in her heart. In ancient times, if the emperor favored his youngest son or even his grandson and pushed him to the throne of heir, it would be simply courting death and too foolish!

Liu Yueru also disliked the youngest son Jiang Zhihao. Look at the wives this kid found, none of them satisfied her. Unlike Jiang Zhiqing's wife Liu Yulan, who was not only a relative of hers, but also treated her with great respect.

In any case, in Liu Yueru's view, it would be in her best interest for her eldest son to take over in the future. That's why she kept whispering in Jiang Wenzhong's ear to do ideological work on him. The core idea was to follow tradition, discard those unrestrained capitalist ideas, and return to the feudal ancestors' "primogeniture system" which was the right way to go.

In this way, capitalism met feudalism. It should be said that capitalism is actually more advanced, after all, it puts absolute interests first.

During this time, Jiang Wenzhong, who had a rare free time, received a report from Director Wu. He saw the results of all the major exams that Jiang Yuan had taken since entering high school, and even the results of the baseline test.

The speed at which her grades soared was just like a rocket. In the most recent major exam, she even surpassed Jiang Hengyu and topped the No. 1 Middle School, which was full of top students, and became the "No. 1 in the city"!
Jiang Wenzhong's dignified face showed a hint of smile, and he said: "My useless little son, although he is not good at anything, he brought me a pair of good grandsons and granddaughters. Not bad, not bad!"

When Wu Changmao saw that Jiang Wenzhong was in a good mood, he knew that his report on Jiang Yuan was absolutely correct. He had followed Jiang Wenzhong for so many years. In fact, compared to the work that was part of his job, to make an old man happy, it was a best angle to start with his children and grandchildren.

Director Wu responded: "Miss Jiang has indeed shown extraordinary potential since she entered high school. If we follow your standards, she will also be included in the assessment of future successors. Do you think it is necessary?"

Jiang Wenzhong nodded without hesitation and said, "Of course it is necessary. Since she is my granddaughter, if she can continue to show extraordinary abilities in the future, then why is she not qualified to be the heir? You know me, I only value pure ability. Now she can surpass Jiang Hengyu in her studies, which has already demonstrated her extraordinary qualities."

Director Wu nodded respectfully, but reminded: "President, your granddaughter has no sense of belonging to the Jiang family. Her relationship with her father is like fire and water, and she is not close to you. You have never invested any resources in her."

Jiang Wenzhong was stunned for a moment. He couldn't help but search for his memory about Jiang Yuan in his mind, only to find that the only memory he had was of the other party's childhood, that is, the memory of "Jiang Yuan taking the blame" that time. Everyone knew that the person who accidentally broke his beloved blue and white porcelain was not her, but in the end she took on everything and no one helped her get justice.

Speaking of his granddaughter, Jiang Wenzhong was more impressed by Jiang Xiyan, a younger generation whom he admired very much. Therefore, Jiang Xiyan also received more resources and was even made into the external business card of the Star Group.

Jiang Wenzhong, who directly invested the group in the semiconductor industry, is no old-fashioned person. He attaches great importance to high-tech and the Internet. He has even invested in several Internet booms, including BAT in the past and ByteDance and the short video track of Douyin.

The reason why chaebols are called chaebols and have such a strong influence is that they have the ability and capital to get involved in any trend and track. We are all capital, and you are in me and I am in you.

This is also why when it shows the "iron fist of capitalism", any news on the Internet can be blocked. They all own shares, so of course they have to give face when the shareholders say hello.

Precisely because Jiang Wenzhong knows that this is the era of big traffic and fan circles, the Star Chaebol must also cultivate its own fan circles and filial sons, and promote Jiang Xiyan, who has a perfect image, as the business card of the Star Chaebol. Naturally, the stupid people will have less resentment towards the chaebol, and may even have a better impression of it. This is a subtle brainwashing.

Once filial sons are cultivated, as long as they don't use their brains, they will truly think that they are on the same front with the chaebols, and they will regard themselves as capitalists, even if it is only spiritually, and they may even willingly provide tribute to the chaebols.

For example, the Star Mobile phone under the Star Group has many fanatical fans. When buying a mobile phone, they only look at this brand and don’t even look at other brands.

"Without investing any resources, she can stand out with her own abilities. If I invest some resources in the future, what kind of surprises will she bring to me?"

Jiang Wenzhong's lips curled up slightly, and his tone was full of anticipation. It was obvious that he had shown a stronger interest in his granddaughter Jiang Yuan.

From this moment on, he will continue to pay attention to Jiang Yuan...

(End of this chapter)