Even after many years, Tiangong Bar still firmly holds the No. 1 spot in the Yangtze River Delta region.

Although the exterior has not changed much, the interior has undergone several renovations, the most recent of which was last year, and even the latest holographic projection technology was used.

At 9:1 in the evening, after Chen Jiayi drove the V1912 into the block, he could only drive at a snail’s pace.

Although the road has been widened many times, it still cannot stop the surging flow of people and vehicles.

This is because after years of development, Dongjiang, relying on Chen Pingjiang’s Shanhe Holdings, has already ranked among the top three in the country in terms of comprehensive strength and has become an international metropolis.

It has surpassed Shenzhen in the south and become the new Silicon Valley.

Renren, Renrengou, Orange Technology, ByteDance… These multinational groups have brought in countless high-end talents, driving local consumption and education to progress together.

It also brought in a lot of tax revenue.

After hesitating for nearly twenty minutes, Chen Jiayi finally moved to the door of Tiangong Bar.

Beneath the solemn Chinese aesthetic exterior are retro carved beams and painted buildings, which look majestic under the light.

After parking the car, Chen Jiayi was led into the bar by security personnel under the gaze of passers-by, and dynamic music filled his ears.

Not long after I sat down in a booth, two middle-aged men came over.

“You’ve grown taller again, kid!”

“Uncle Zhao!”

Chen Jiayi quickly stood up and greeted him.

Uncle Zhao is my father’s loyal buddy, devoted subordinate, and one of his closest friends.

“Hey, what uncle or not, you just called me for no reason, call me Brother Zhao.”

Chen Jiayi smiled, “Wouldn’t that mess up the order of generations? No, no, my dad will beat me up.”

Dai Fei at the side couldn’t help but roll his eyes and said to Chen Jiayi: “Ignore him, he’s just a show-off.”

After so many years, Zhao Shaoyang and Dai Fei have already started their own families and careers, but because of their personalities and work, they have not changed much.

Zhao Shaoyang and the car model he poached back then finally got together. They had a daughter after marriage, but he still couldn’t change his playful personality.

In his career, he has not moved forward for many years and still firmly controls Renren Film and Television Company without any complaints.

Zhao Shaoyang knows his own limitations and doesn’t have much ambition. It’s good for him now, as he is working in an industry that he likes and is familiar with.

Dai Fei’s story was similar. He started with Tiangong Bar and gradually entered the bar industry across the country, but he changed to other brands.

In his words, there is only one Tiangong Bar and no other place like it, even in Shanghai.

Although he travels a lot, he still goes back to the old store whenever he has free time.

“What a pity that Erzi is not here, otherwise we would have the Three Musketeers together again.”

The second son Zhao Shaoyang mentioned was naturally Zhou Guanghan. In terms of seniority, he was still Chen Jiayi’s nephew, but Chen Jiayi didn’t dare to really call him nephew.

Zhou Guanghan has been working hard in Zhizhen Catering Group for many years. He has become more and more motivated after his marriage. He is now the regional head in North America. It is rumored that he will be transferred back to the headquarters in two years at most to serve as senior vice president.

Chen Jiayi sometimes smacked his lips in amazement, thinking that his father was really cruel.

Even close friends and relatives have to climb up step by step honestly. They may receive some preferential treatment in the initial stage, but after reaching the middle level, how high they can climb depends entirely on their own abilities.

Over the years, the group companies under Shanhe Holdings have been adhering to a strict employment system and accountability system, promoting the capable and demoting the mediocre, cracking down on small groups and nepotism, and striving to maintain the combat effectiveness and purity of the management, which has enabled the group to develop rapidly for ten years.

Chen Pingjiang himself is taking the lead in setting an example.

In the past two years, they even fired twelve vice presidents of Renrengou Group, and sent three executive vice presidents and senior vice presidents to work as pros, which severely reorganized the group’s culture.

Therefore, compared with other companies, Shanhe Holdings does not suffer from many big corporate diseases.

“He’s living a good life in America, why are you still thinking about him?” Zhao Shaoyang laughed.

Dai Fei shook his head. “Yesterday he was complaining to me on WeChat. He was planning to hire two chefs from China. He said he couldn’t get used to eating white food, but it was not easy to eat at his own restaurant every day.”

Zhao Shaoyang: “The situation over there is quite serious right now. I’ll have to ask him to be more careful later.” Chen Jiayi on the side nodded in agreement. After graduating from high school, he went there for a summer camp and felt it was very ordinary, much worse than in China.

Whether it’s food, clothing, shelter, or safety.

In recent years, the weakening of the old United States is obvious, populism is rampant, and there are a series of other challenges.

The east rises and the west falls, and it becomes more and more obvious.

This is an ongoing process in itself, but it was accelerated by the US stock market crash in 25 years.

The mention of that stock market crash still makes people nervous. It was a series of stock market shocks caused by the open source of Deepseek, which directly burst the bubble of AI computing power.

As a result, U.S. technology stocks continued to plummet, even more severely than in 08.

In addition, the U.S. debt problem has never been resolved and is now approaching the 70 trillion mark.

Everyone knew that they were witnessing a historic moment.

“Jiayi, what would you like to drink?”

Chen Jiayi thought for a moment and said, “Just beer. My dad won’t let me drink anything else.”

“Uh.” Zhao Shaoyang had originally planned to take Chen Jiayi to try something new, but he shuddered when he heard this.

Among Chen Pingjiang’s children, he and Dai Fei like Chen Jiayi’s personality the most. It’s not that the other children are not good, but Chen Jiayi is more to their liking.

Of course, their interactions were also approved by Chen Pingjiang, otherwise Zhao Shaoyang would never dare to get involved.

After all, Chen Jiayi’s identity is somewhat special, and no one knows where his future will go. If he is involved in the feuds among wealthy families and the fight for family property, the two of them may not be able to survive.

Because of this, at such gatherings across generations, Zhao Shaoyang and Dai Fei never dared to chat about trivial matters, and they even rarely mentioned Chen Pingjiang’s other children.

Dai Fei quickly waved his hand: “Just beer, those foreign cat urines are not good to drink.”

Although their table was at the back of the bar, people still kept looking at them.

Not only because there were three burly security guards standing next to him, but also because Dai Fei, a legend in the bar world, was actually laughing and joking with a strange young man without any airs at all.

Who is Dai Fei?

What a great man!
He is so arrogant that he doesn’t even care about the face of some top second-generation officials and rich people. If anyone dares to act wildly in his place, he will really dare to send that person to jail, no matter who your father is.
“Go away, go away, what a mess, don’t you even consider your status? Is this the seat you are entitled to sit in?”

Chen Jiayi, who had just returned from the bathroom, heard Zhao Shaoyang yelling at someone, and immediately asked Dai Fei curiously what happened.

Dai Fei sneered: “Nothing, someone wanted to introduce a girl to you, but your uncle Zhao refused.”

“?”

Chen Jiayi was totally confused. Why would they introduce girls to him?

Seeing this, Dai Fei was too lazy to explain.

Naturally, there is no simple person who can survive in such a place.

Others saw that Chen Jiayi’s identity was a mystery and guessed that he was very noble, so they wanted to introduce the girl to test the waters.

How could Zhao Shaoyang and Dai Fei dare to let in a woman whose background they didn’t know?

Are you kidding? They don’t even dare to do this on a normal day?

They are all experienced people. Young men in their twenties are full of vigor and vitality. What if they can’t control themselves and accidentally discharge their guns, resulting in death? How will they explain themselves?

Therefore, all along, Zhao Shaoyang and his friend only dared to take Chen Jiayi out for a drink and listen to songs, which was very plain.

This was also what Chen Pingjiang instructed.

He knew his son very well. He had a free and easy personality and was like himself in his youth, but he was still young and inexperienced.

Instead of letting him explore the unknown world on his own, it is better to give him permission and take him to see the world, at least to prevent him from learning bad habits.

Chen Pingjiang’s son can love to play, but he must not lose himself or learn bad things. (End of this chapter)