After divorce, I can hear the voice of the future

Chapter 829 The Record-Breaking Richest Man

"If you keep showing off your love, believe me, once this project is over, I'll send you straight to South America. It just so happens that I haven't decided who to put in charge of Li Ka-shing's port project yet."

"No, Mr. Lu, I was wrong."

At this moment, the scene of the boss acting like a boss and the subordinate acting like a subordinate filled Sun Zheyuan with envy.

It's a pity that three years ago, he was still an undergraduate student. Although he had heard of Lu Liang's name at that time, he didn't pay any attention to it.

Although he has now achieved his wish of joining Lu Liang's ranks and has a chance to become the fourth generation of the Grand Secretary, even if he becomes the fourth generation, he still has no right to play around with Lu Liang.

Because people subconsciously hold different attitudes towards the people they meet at different times.

Take Lu Liang as an example. He might have heart-to-heart talks with his old friends, but he would never have heart-to-heart talks with his current friends.

The next morning, Wen Chao took office and began accepting interviews from various media outlets, one in the morning and one in the afternoon, and he also had to attend charity galas or birthday banquets in the evening.

Lu Liang had never participated in any activities, or was too lazy to participate, so he contacted all of Wen Chao's media outlets in one go. In just one day, he managed to reach all six media outlets that Lu Liang had mentioned.

Although Wen Chao was exhausted and almost worked himself to the bone, he became a household name and successfully entered the Forbes list of celebrities under 1.

Meanwhile, news that Tongtian's $300 billion valuation had been approved by the NYSE also spread from Hong Kong to the mainland.

As the year draws to a close, it's time to take stock, and the exact amount of Lu Liang's wealth has once again become an annual topic of discussion.

This year's popularity is even greater than in the past.

Because Lu Liang was born in 1985, he will be 34 years old next year. If he can become the richest person in Southeast University next year, he will break Huang Guangyu's record of becoming the richest person in Southeast University at the age of 35, and become the youngest richest person in the history of Southeast University.

When you like a person, an object, or even a movie or a novel, you hope that it gets better and better.

Lu Liang's fans held this belief: reaching the top next year would be a new record, while reaching it the year after would only be comparable. They were eager to know if Lu Liang had any hope at all.

Faced with the enormous benefits of popularity, Hurun was the first to succumb to the market. However, to avoid statistical errors like those of last year, he only started a live broadcast on Douyin to conduct a preliminary online inventory of Lu Liang's total assets.

"This year is about to end again, and Mr. Lu Liang's wealth must have increased, but it's becoming increasingly difficult to count."

"Because he doesn't own any listed companies, even General Tianxing, which is about to start its IPO, is just Mr. Lu Liang holding shares in Tianxing Automobile, and Tianxing Automobile then holds shares in General Tianxing."

Therefore, to obtain a more accurate figure, we can only continuously examine the financial statements…

"Thank you, Principal Wang, for sending me the Douyin account number one. I am very grateful for your support, but your ranking this year has definitely dropped because Panda's market value has been halved compared to last year. You finally gained some popularity because of the team's championship win, but you and Mr. Lu then cashed out a large amount of money."

"The market value that had been painstakingly increased has been pushed back down again."

A blond, blue-eyed foreigner in a suit was talking big in a Douyin live stream. Because he talked about Lu Liang's total wealth, the number of viewers quickly exceeded 100,000.

When Xiao Wang saw this, he also tipped the phone with several thousand yuan, expecting to hear some nice words. However, he was humiliated instead, which made him so angry that he almost smashed his phone.

"What's the difference between this kind of person and those 'I love to tear down' vagrants? Do you have too much money?"

Lu Liang couldn't help but chuckle and handed Xiao Wang a settlement report: "Take a look, and sign it if there are no problems."

Since Wen Chao returned to Hong Kong from the United States, his workload has decreased exponentially, which has given him time to handle the shares that Xiao Wang entrusted to him for sale.

Lu Liang held 8.235% of Panda TV, almost completely liquidating his position with only a few hundred thousand shares remaining. His liquidation price was worth $87.55 billion, and he cashed out $7.122 million.

Xiao Wang's liquidation price was similar, but he sold more shares, earning $7.362 million. After deducting a 4% management fee, he had a balance of $7.068 million.

When Xiao Wang saw that he had been charged over 30 million US dollars, his eye twitched, but he didn't say anything.

Because, in comparison, he was more curious about Lu Liang's total personal wealth: "Mr. Lu, aren't you curious about how much money you have? Or do you already know it perfectly well?"

He has now come to terms with being called Lu Liang's number one lackey by netizens.

After all, being a lackey like him, and being able to thrive in that position, means that even if your family suddenly faces a crisis, you can generously provide financial assistance worth billions of dollars. It couldn't be more comfortable.

As a lackey, he is naturally Lu Liang's number one fan and hopes that Lu Liang can surpass Huang Guangyu and create a new record.

"I can't even figure it out myself, how could he possibly figure it out?"

Lu Liang smiled as he spoke, but out of the corner of his eye, he glanced at Xiao Wang's phone screen, which was still open.

Reason told him that if he became the richest man in Dongda, he would be the number one pig on the pig slaughter list, the most conspicuous target, such as Wang Jianlin of Wanda who is now in prison, or Xu Jianlin of Hengtai who would have been left without his help.

But humans are emotional creatures after all. At some point, Lu Liang was also captivated by Huang Guangyu's lowered smile and felt that a true man should live like this.

Now that he has the opportunity to become him and even surpass him, how could Lu Liang not be moved or indifferent?

"What a hypocrite." Seeing Lu Liang reading, Xiao Wang boldly turned his phone volume up to the maximum. Lu Liang glared at him, walked to the coffee table, and brewed tea. At the same time, Hu Run's fluent Chinese voice rang out in the office: "To analyze Mr. Lu Liang's wealth, we need to start from four aspects."

"First is Tianxing Investment, second is Tianxing Auto, third is Tianxing Finance, and fourth is Tianxing Private Equity."

According to the announcement, Tianxing Financial, which is wholly owned by Mr. Lu Liang, still holds a 10.334% stake in Ningde Times.

"According to the analysis of the new energy vehicle sales rankings last quarter, the total sales volume of new energy vehicles this year should exceed 220 million units. With this positive news, Ningde Times' market value has exceeded 4000 billion yuan and it enjoys the title of 'King Ning'."

"This portion of equity is worth $60 billion, plus NIO, which has a market value of $88 billion, in which Mr. Lu Liang holds approximately 12.25% equity, plus $10.78 billion, and the $7 million stake in Panda that he recently sold."

"There's also Didi's 2%, worth $12 billion, and many projects that are currently incubating, such as Li Auto, fast-charging newcomer Kunpeng, and Douyin, which hasn't gone public yet. The value of these cannot be determined at present, so we won't include unlisted companies in our statistics."

"Tianxing Investment has provided Mr. Lu Liang with approximately $82 billion in wealth."

"The second is Tianxing Motors. Although the market valuation in the Series E funding round was $480 billion, at that time, GM Tianxing was only valued at $200 billion and had no plans to go public. With subsequent appreciation, let's say it was $550 billion."

"Despite multiple rounds of financing, Mr. Lu Liang still holds 58.32% of Tianxing Auto's shares, which is worth $320 billion."

"Finally, there's Tianxing Financial, which everyone knows. To be honest, this part of their wealth is the most difficult to count."

"Although it has launched $300 billion in ABS and profited more than $3000 billion in the battle to short Japan, Tianxing Financial is essentially a multinational investment bank and a financial group that manages assets, so it is difficult to give an accurate valuation."

"Moreover, according to the registration information, Mr. Lu Liang directly or indirectly holds more than 80% of the shares in this group."

"I've already stated the figure: $300 billion. What do you think?"

Rupert Hoogewerf suddenly felt a little guilty and didn't dare to reveal too much about Lu Liang's wealth details.

Years ago, when he came to Dongda University, he suffered because he didn't understand social etiquette.

Some people, some families, their names, their wealth cannot appear in the public eye.

Lu Liang now wields power that is highly likely to become an unspeakable force.

$640 billion?

"I'm talking to you. Get lost."

"This bastard is just here to scam money."

Immediately, public discontent arose in the live stream.

Some people are dissatisfied with Hurun, giving only half the story, while others speculate that they are also dissatisfied with Hurun.

Because if his estimate is correct, Lu Liang's personal wealth is $640 billion.

Although he has $140 billion more than the previous richest man, Xu Jiayin is exceptionally aggressive this year.

Evergrande's market value has reached 6100 billion yuan, and it is public knowledge that the Xu Jiayin family holds 75% of the shares.

That's equivalent to US$663 billion.
It's $23 billion more than Lu Liang.

This is unacceptable to fans who have already decided that Lu Liang will be the next richest man and break the record.

Just then, Forbes joined in the fun: "Don't take on a job you're not qualified for. I apologize for making a fool of myself. Reading Hurun's articles is just for fun. For real authority, please look forward to our Forbes 2019 Fortune magazine."

At the same time, Xiao Wang looked at Lu Liang curiously: "640 billion US dollars, are you really that rich?"

"Isn't it obvious?"

Lu Liang smiled and did not deny the number.

Because in reality, there are more, if not more.

Although he was unaware of this before, he combined Hurun's analysis with his own assessment.

There's already a rough figure, it's definitely over $700 billion.

If he doesn't intervene, or if Forbes' statistics are more detailed than Hurun's.

So he will be the richest person at Dongda University and the richest Chinese person next year.

Lu Liang will also break Huang Guangyu's record and become the richest man in Southeast University at the age of 34.

(End of this chapter)