Tao Liangchen
Chapter 1066 Returning to Simplicity
Su Yehao saw many products from his own companies.
For example, the electric supercar jointly created by the Infinite brand and Pagani, the first watch from Apple Intelligence, and the cloud data from the Qide Research Center, among others. There was also a new generation of household photovoltaic solutions, which attracted widespread attention as soon as they were launched.
With the Expo's branding, Black Diamond Group launched two smartphone models and, through the Youxuan platform, released products such as humidifiers, air purifiers, televisions, and refrigerators.
Due to being too wealthy, his company expanded wildly, gradually covering every aspect of people's lives.
As projects from earlier years successively bore fruit, bringing a continuous stream of massive profits, this expansion trend continued, the scale already astonishing.
These conventional exhibits were no longer able to attract Su Yehao's interest.
He also understood that for a long time to come, technology might stagnate, making it easier to improve on the current basis, but to achieve qualitative change again might require a long wait.
When he saw a tokamak nuclear fusion model in the corner of the China Pavilion, Su Yehao instantly found another goal worth striving for his entire life.
Many entrepreneurs actively approached him, and some projects were indeed interesting.
For example, a domestic yacht manufacturer wanted to lower market prices, and Su Yehao was willing to provide some funding and orders.
There was also an American company developing autonomous driving technology, which had advantages in lidar sensors.
The good World Expo eventually turned into a project promotion fair.
He spent two days personally contacting representatives from dozens of companies, finding another batch of promising projects...
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The Beijing-Shanghai High-Speed Railway officially began commercial operation, and tickets were hard to come by.
On the high-speed train rushing past, every seat brought profit to Su Yehao.
After finishing his work in Shanghai, he once again boarded his newly purchased Airbus A380 and returned to his new house on Crab Island in Casino.
A few days later,
Yin Liuli suddenly called, telling him that Fat Cat Koko had passed away silently in her sleep.
This thirteen-year-old cat, with a lifespan roughly equivalent to seventy years for humans, was something Yin Liuli had anticipated, but she still couldn't help but feel sad, crying her eyes out when she met Su Yehao.
Su Yehao didn't know what to say to comfort her, still remembering the round-faced kitten from more than a decade ago, and also remembering taking Yin Liuli for walks, walking the cat to help it lose weight.
Fat Cat Koko's life, although without epic adventures, was still quite comfortable, living in the best house, eating top-grade cat food, and spending every day either sleeping or eating, also serving as a stud, leaving behind many offspring.
Ending its life in its sleep was undoubtedly a feline success story.
His eldest daughter, Su Leyao, was equally saddened,
regretting that she hadn't noticed Koko's abnormality, and hadn't properly said goodbye when she returned home yesterday.
Even more saddened was Yin Liuli, because when she found it today, the old cat was curled up outside her door, presumably wanting to take one last look at its owner at the end of its life, which inevitably made her feel heartbroken.
Not being able to say goodbye in the end was indeed a great regret.
Su Yehao could only wish it well in the cat constellation, continuing to eat well and stay round and plump.
Since the 2008 Olympics, he occasionally found opportunities for Su Leyao and Tang Tianrui to get together.
Counting the number of siblings, there were already eight in total.
Expecting them to get along like a normal family was almost impossible, and it would be a great achievement if there were no conflicts in the future.
Managing a large family was not easy, and Su Yehao was very detached about it.
He only hoped to raise his children successfully, and as for what happened after they grew up, children and grandchildren have their own fortunes, and he never thought of interfering.
Considering that the top professional managers were all elites selected through fierce competition, and the probability of another business genius emerging from his own family was too low,
rather than letting his descendants squander and mismanage, Su Yehao advocated hiring professional managers to help manage the assets, under strict supervision.
At his urging,
Nangong Tian, Jiang Yu, Nong Qingying, and Zhao Yimeng all found lawyers to sign wills, adopting a family charitable trust fund model in the future, placing most of the assets under their personal names separately into family trusts.
These youngsters did not have the ability to manage huge amounts of wealth, and if they were just waiting to inherit the family fortune at a young age, it would be more of a curse than a blessing for their future lives.
Therefore, during his time with his children, Su Yehao never mentioned topics such as letting someone study hard and manage the family business in the future, only allowing them to do what they were interested in and live the lives they liked.
However, children don't understand anything and need their parents to guide them.
Take Su Leyao for example, she was very interested in the charitable environmental protection work that Yin Liuli was responsible for, while Jiang Yu's eldest daughter was learning to paint, wanting to design beautiful clothes in the future.
As for the eldest son, Tang Tianrui,
due to Grandpa Tang's frequent interference, the possibility of him studying medicine and inheriting the Tang family's business was relatively high. This was expected, and Su Yehao turned a blind eye, thinking that things would eventually work themselves out. It was too early to talk about these things since he hadn't even graduated from elementary school yet.
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Three months after the opening of Emperor · Crab Island,
the number of visitors finally began to decline, slowly leveling off.
With fewer people on the island, it was much more comfortable to live there, and tourists often encountered Su Yehao and his "aunties" in restaurants or on the beach.
Contrary to what people imagined, Su Yehao's business grew bigger and bigger, but his life became simpler and simpler.
He woke up naturally every morning, and besides drinking tea and watching dramas, he would play mahjong or spend time with his family, quite like returning to simplicity, not much different from a retired old man.
Under Nangong Tian's planning, the first fashion week opened smoothly, and countless celebrity models, as well as some strangely dressed people, appeared on Crab Island.
During the exhibition, several supermodels handed Su Yehao small notes with their contact information.
If he had the idea of causing trouble, Su Yehao would have let himself go long ago, why wait until now?
Therefore, their little thoughts were destined to sink without a trace, and they never received a response.
It was also during Fashion Week that
ASML and other research centers jointly launched a prototype extreme ultraviolet lithography machine, and Hong Kong Microelectronics Group took the opportunity to launch a 28-nanometer chip process.
Relying on his deep foundation, Su Yehao won against the alliance formed by Intel, Nikon, Canon, and other companies.
With the current situation, the two sides were in a state of waxing and waning, and if there were real conflicts, it was not certain who would be holding whose neck. He further advanced in the semiconductor industry, laying the foundation for a dominant position.
Stimulated by this wave of positive news, technology stocks went crazy, and in just a few days, Su Yehao's total wealth increased by more than two hundred billion US dollars again...