Yang Zhao was having a great day.
His youth was back!
He might lose his wealth, hell, his freedom seemed to be already gone at this point, but it was all okay.
None of this was as valuable as his life.
It is not that he is selfish… he is, but that is just a small part of it. It's just that he is a first-generation wealth and he knows the pain and suffering he had to go through to accumulate it, but he was the only one.
His children were either incompetent but overly ambitious, or uninterested in his business.
His first son was still alright, but he was too… humble. He was born at the early stages of the company and experienced some of the struggles. This should have shaped him into a strong individual, but it instead made him afraid of poverty.
He had been going around working for others accumulating his own wealth, which is a good thing, but the method through which he did it truly disgusted Yang Zhao.
How could the son of a wealthy man such as him go around being a grandson to everybody who could pay him? This son of his had no pride or bottom line at all. It is to the point that he has worked for several competitors who are clearly trying to use him to attack the company.
It's a good thing that the government owns 25% of Dragon Commercial Construction Company or it might be troublesome.
The only good thing about this first son is that he gave birth to a very capable daughter. She was only 26 this year, but most of the normal issues could be left to her.
The only troublesome thing is that she listened too much to that bad woman. *Sigh*
The second son… this one made Yang Zhao too angry.
Spend the whole day drinking and gambling while waiting for him to die and receive an inheritance.
If asked, he'd say that he was waiting to use said inheritance as startup capital for a business, but who'd trust that?
Want to spend several millions or even billions of yuan on bitcoins and other unreliable investments… such a business idea was already doomed.
If he were serious and showed results from early on, Yang Zhao was willing to invest in him even if he lost the money.
A billion yuan was a small amount if it could help raise a capable son.
Better yet, if this son invested all that money he wasted drinking and gambling into a compounding firm, he could have made a substantial amount in the past 36 years.
What made Yang Zhao even more angry, was that this son did not give him any grandchildren. His incompetence was too broad. He could not even create progeny.
Yang Zhao quickly stopped his train of thought.
At least he now had ten more years to his life, and it was enough to do many things.
For example, he had to work hard to please Jiang Hao. If he did a good job, 10, 20, 30 years were still achievable.
Speaking of, he had to select a bunch of beauties to serve Mr. Jiang well. He is young and vigorous after all.
Thinking up here, Yang Zhao immediately looked up a contact he had not used for many years.
Airport and cruise staff managers are the best at this, especially this special person who is a naturally talented pimp.
"hehehe…"
…
While Yang Zhao was busy enjoying his prospects, a group of people were following his every move.
Just because Ouroboros dominated the internet, does not mean that every system was under their mercy.
The Dragon Country had always been very cautious about the internet and was always guarding against attacks like the economic attack a couple of years back.
That was a profound lesson that they would never forget.
At that time, the economic systems around Dragon Country were heavily reliant on online systems. They seemed to have forgotten who ran the internet.
When they got out of line, all systems were attacked at the same time. People did not know what to save and what not to.
They discovered their folly. The software, the systems, and the internet were all from foreign powers, and Dragon Country could only watch as wealth was taken away from the country and they could do nothing about it.
They would never repeat such a mistake.
This is also the reason Dragon Country was least affected by the digital revolution. Secrets that could be found online were not secrets.
Those that were on connected computers were somewhat important, but nothing too outrageous. Those on closed-off computers were valuable, but not a security risk.
Anything that was secret was either on pen and paper, on memory or on dead people.
Well, this group of people that were monitoring Yang Zhao were secret agents, the kind that are everywhere but nowhere.
They had been following these 'representatives' ever since they appeared.
Dragon Country has the most representatives, after all, they had to be extra careful. Even then, these representatives seemed to have little connection to the company and no behavioral changes could be seen.
Maybe they were more popular, but that was it.
But today, Yang Zhao scrapped his entire schedule and booked a whole hotel to meet someone. This move was too big.
It was still fine if it was a small hotel, but this was the Imperial Hotel. Booking it for an hour was already millions of yuan, let alone for a whole day.
They thought that the guest would be a big shot like no other, but the guest turned out to be a seemingly harmless graduate.
The thing that shocked them however was Yang Zhao's behavior toward this young man. He was very honest and respectful, looking like a subordinate.
This shocked them.
Who was Yang Zhao? The most powerful man in the real estate and infrastructure industry still had to show such a lowly attitude. Who was the young man?
A mediocre graduate who could not land a single job after applying for hundreds. The background was very straightforward.
But the more it was like this, the more apprehensive they became.
They had to investigate further.
But before that, why do I feel like Lao Yang became younger?!