Chapter 161: The Class Teacher That Year

As the capital city, Beijing is in a special situation. Although it is not the economic centre of the country, all the famous entrepreneurs who invest in China insist on converging here. It is for this reason that there are several rich man's clubs and private clubs that have been blown up by the media.

Of course, the entry requirements for these rich clubs and private clubs are very strict, and those who can join are all big shots who are either rich or powerful. There is even a club for members of royal families from various countries, and God knows how it was established.

There is no doubt that these clubs are extremely powerful, but it does not mean that they are the whole of the upper class here in Beijing. Apart from these clubs that often appear in the newspapers, there are also some less well-known clubs that are just as powerful. The 90 Club, which is located in the Dongcheng Building on Jianwai Street, is one such club.

At the entrance to Dongcheng Building, a young man wearing Givenchy clothes is talking into a home DV: 'Hi everyone, I'm here to meet you again. Last time I took you to see the Supercar Club, and after I posted the video online, it got a huge response from friends. Many of them left me messages saying they wanted to see more clubs, so today I'll take you to see this 90 Club.'

As he said this, the camera panned to the Dongcheng Building next to him, and the young man said, 'You may not have heard of this 90 Club, but that's what makes it so mysterious. It wouldn't be interesting if everyone was as famous as Chang'an. Let me put it this way: if I'm not here to tell you today, I'm afraid you'll never know. The members of this club control more than half of our country's financial assets.'

'Isn't it an amazing club? Everyone must really want to take a look at this club, right? I'll tell you, a gathering of club members is being held here today, and I was fortunate enough to be invited. Let me take you all to take a look at this mysterious Club 90.'

The young man said this and walked into the Dongcheng Building. He is a well-known online video host who often uploads videos of luxurious clubs that are inaccessible and incredibly mysterious to ordinary people. Therefore, there is a lot of speculation about his identity. background, and some even guessed that he might be the child of a leader. In any case, his videos are extremely popular.

He made his way to the third floor of the Dongcheng Building, where a banquet was being held. After passing through security, he walked in and found a seat.

He excitedly said into the camera, 'I've entered now, and you probably can't imagine what it's like here. I've met a lot of really impressive people here. Look over there.'

The camera moves to the side as he speaks: 'That's Chen Shu, the CEO of Yanjing Development and Investment Company. I don't think that name is unfamiliar to you, because just before, at the World Financial Annual Meeting, Chen Shu was also invited to attend. He is one of the top financial traders in our country. Usually, the stock commentaries and analyses that we see on TV and in the newspapers are actually produced by his students' students.'

'And that one, that's Li Yang, the deputy general manager of An Guo Securities Company. He's also a very capable financial person. If I remember correctly, this An Guo Securities Company has a partnership with that famous Ali Fund. Ali entered the financial sector with e-commerce and can be said to have made a fortune. Even the president has taken the throne of the richest person because of it.'

He suddenly shouted, 'Oh my god, that's my idol!'

A very elegant woman appeared in the camera, and he continued, 'He is the beautiful CEO of our country. It is said that he is now the general manager of the No. 1 private equity company, holding tens of billions of dollars in his hands. He has broken arms with foreign speculators on Wall Street before, and he is very impressive!'

His tone was full of emotion: 'I really didn't expect to meet these people here today, and I didn't expect that they are all members of this club. I am really lucky to be here today!'

The excited voice of this videographer attracted the attention of the others, and someone immediately came over to ask him, 'Who are you, and who invited you?'

The videographer replied, of course, and handed him his invitation. After reading it, the person was relieved. Seeing that the person had an extraordinary temperament, he immediately asked, 'Hello, may I ask if this is some kind of private national financial gathering? I can see that there are all these bigwigs from the finance and securities industries here!'

The man laughed and said, 'What national financial gathering? This is just an ordinary gathering of our class.'

This answer made him pause for a moment. He was dumbfounded and said, "An ordinary gathering of your class? You mean these people, they are all classmates?'

The man looked at him with a look of understanding and said, "Isn't that right? We are all from the same class. Our 90 Club was the year our class officially started.'

'So it was 1990?'

The videographer muttered, and the man told him yes. In fact, he just asked casually, but he didn't expect it to be true. He couldn't imagine what kind of class could produce so many celebrities. And looking at the dozens of people here attending the party, were they all in the same class? So how many people were in this class, or did the people from this class all come from the financial sector?

The man saw his confusion and explained to him, 'You are right, all of us from this class are leaders in the field of financial capital. If anyone is not, then they owe it to our class.'

'So what kind of class is this?' the videographer asked in shock.

'It doesn't matter what kind of class we are. What's important is that we have a homeroom teacher who deserves the respect of each and every one of us. If it weren't for him, we wouldn't have this class, and if it weren't for him, our class wouldn't have the same cohesion today, and there wouldn't be this 90 Club!' The man said, his face beaming with immense pride.

'What homeroom teacher?'

he asked, stunned. The videographer was so surprised at this point that he was completely speechless. He couldn't imagine what kind of person would be qualified to be the homeroom teacher of these financial capital prodigies and command their respect.

Hearing this question, the man smiled and was lost in deep memories: 'It has to start many, many years ago. At that time, when our homeroom teacher walked into the classroom and shouted that he was our homeroom teacher, we all laughed at him and called him crazy. But who knew that our legend began at that time, and it was his shout that brought out our class...'

The videographer wanted to ask something else, but then someone shouted towards them, 'Huang Ping, the event is about to start, what are you doing over there? Did you get promoted and become arrogant? Watch out, our boss is going to come over and kick your butt!'

The man then stood up, smiled and said something to the other side. He then turned to the videographer and said a few words before leaving. The videographer then realised that the person he had just spoken to was Huang Ping, the newly appointed Vice Chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission.

My goodness! Everyone here is extraordinary, and they're all from the same class? Then who is the class teacher he was talking about?

A flood of questions raced through the videographer's mind, driving him crazy and making him forget his original intention of filming.

...

Let's go back 26 years ago to the lecture theatre of the School of Finance at Renmin University. Zhou Ming, the secretary of the Communist Youth League Committee of the School of Finance, and Du Peng and Su Han are standing on the podium in front of dozens of students from the finance class. However, these students are now frozen like wax figures, dozens of pairs of eyes looking at Zhou Ming on the podium, unable to speak, as if the air in the classroom has suddenly frozen.

However, Zhou Ming was not affected by the frozen air. He continued, 'In fact, when Chairman Yang and Chairman Zhongyuan first asked me to take charge of this finance class as your homeroom teacher, I refused because I felt that you could not let me do it right away. First, I wanted to try it out because I didn't want to make a decision too quickly. The chairman would definitely think that I was being perfunctory. This matter is not as simple as it seems. So...'

Zhou Ming introduced himself using a very popular spoof of the future, and at first the finance students didn't react, they were still stunned, but then they burst out laughing.

It was still 1989, and these finance students of course wouldn't know the popular catchphrases of 26 years later, and they were laughing for another reason.

'Hey, I'm telling you, classmate, have you gone crazy? Or are you really a master of jokes and saying all that so seriously, I almost fell for it!'

Someone below shouted at Zhou Ming, and the college secretary told Zhou Ming that the person was Chen Shu, the monitor of the finance class. Zhou Ming also said to him, 'Hello, classmate Chen Shu, I know you are the monitor of our finance class, so I hope we can cooperate more and do a good job leading this class.'

'This student called Zhou Ming, right? I'll tell you once in jest, but if I say it again, it won't be funny. The class monitor has a good temper, but I don't, so of course I'll kick you out.' The other person said that this person was Li Yang, the vice monitor of the finance class.

In response to his half-threat, Zhou Ming just smiled and said, 'But I'm not joking, I really am your class monitor.'

This time, the college secretary also came forward to help Zhou Ming, saying, 'Mr. Zhou Ming is right. He is your new homeroom teacher. I hope you will all listen to this new homeroom teacher in the future. He will take you to study in the United States to learn advanced financial knowledge. Everyone, give a round of applause to welcome the new homeroom teacher.'

As the college secretary said this, he took the lead in applauding, but none of the students below followed suit. They were once again stunned and remained silent.

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