A company or group will have its own pillar industry. If the entire industry fails, it will basically face bankruptcy if it does not change its industry.

With the emergence of computers, the price of computers has dropped, and the Internet has developed. When everyone can watch movies online, the era of DVDs has come to an end.

When mobile phones become cheaper and have better signals, the era of pagers will also end. However, there is an industry transition between pagers and mobile phones, and that is the PHS.

When videos allowed comments and pop-ups, some of the popular forums on the website in the early days gradually disappeared.

The only things that can last forever are food, clothing, housing and transportation. Housing is for living and not for speculation. Excessive land prices and added value make housing a commodity. Once there is a housing surplus, this industry will also face a cold winter.

With the changes of the times, Jiang Cheng, the old father who has no business talent in the eyes of his children, may not have seized the industry that is in the limelight, but in the end, one has to admire the industry and projects he chose, which can give the entire Jiang Group a foothold without worrying about the downturn in the pillar industries.

After Jiang Cheng invested a large amount of money, the Jiang Group’s pillar industry added medical care. After 2010, the Jiang Group’s pillar industries were real estate, clothing, large retail supermarkets, bottled water and beverages, soy sauce, and cooking oil.

There are many other scattered industries, but they cannot be considered pillar industries. For example, some things that rely solely on “Jiangdonglai” retail cannot be considered pillar industries. For such a small scale, earning a few million or even tens of millions a year is nothing for the entire group.

The profits of bottled water are soaring every year. Now ordinary people don’t think it’s a big deal to spend one or two yuan to buy a bottle of water. Moreover, rich people buy good mineral water and have a healthy mindset, so they don’t think it’s wrong that water is more expensive than beverages.

In the early days, a bottle of beverage only cost 20 cents, and many people drank well water and tap water directly. Mineral water really had no market. In the 1990s, most people brought their own water when they went out, and children went on spring outings with water prepared by their families.

Nowadays, everything is about convenience. When you are thirsty outside, you can just buy a bottle of water. Not many people will care about a dollar or two for a bottle of water.

Wahaha first entered the market of purified bottled water with beverages, while the Jiangxixi brand started out by operating mineral water and purified water, and then entered the beverage industry, selling some mid- to high-end juices and beverages.

The soy sauce business has also expanded overseas, and it has always followed the traditional production process. The industry also recognizes Jiangniangfang’s soy sauce, and many restaurants and hotels use this brand.

The edible oil business was an unintentional move, as Jiang Cheng felt that gutter oil was about to appear, so he entered the business. But it was also something that thousands of households needed, and the edible oil was directly under the Jiangniangfang brand, and from the beginning it borrowed the sales channels of Jiangdonglai and Jiangniangfang, and it also developed very strongly.

In the Jiang Group, only Jiang Niannian’s main DVD and disc business went bankrupt. But her husband was brought in from the army by Jiang Cheng, and he was initially responsible for the security of the entire group.

But because Jiang’s Group has real estate business, the property business was handed over to him, and now it is also thriving. The property business is very complicated and the profits are huge.

Once the house is built, a group of grandchildren come to buy it, referring to the kind of houses in the community, which the powerful people generally do not live in. Then the property management arranges some people to be the ancestors and collects some filial piety money every month.

If you meet someone who is ignorant, just make sure he can’t live in the community. Don’t think that you have any control over the house just because you bought it and that you are the owner.

In high-end residential areas and villa areas, the owners are called owners. They have money and need to be carefully served. In ordinary residential areas, they are not owners, but wild boars. They are thick-skinned and will be disciplined if they don’t obey.

However, the property management of Jiang’s Group is still people-oriented, which is different from other property companies. Jiang Cheng’s third son-in-law is from the army and has a sense of righteousness.

Bullying of owners generally does not happen, just like the slogan posted in state-owned restaurants before the opening up: customers cannot be beaten without reason. This means that beating is allowed, but the premise is that there must be a reason, that is, the other party is causing trouble.

Jiang Cheng exposed his ability, and it was impossible for his children not to tell their partners and their children. But this became a secret among the top leaders of the Jiang family. Even for the sake of profit, they would not report Jiang Cheng, the mainstay of the Jiang family.

After 2010, Jiang Ping and Jiang An had several children of their own. Especially Jiang Ping, who was not subject to the moral suppression of the upper class, might be because Jiang Cheng was a bit romantic in nature. Rich people are romantic, while poor people are reserved.

Jiang Cheng and Zhou Lingying both have good looks and heights, so Jiang Ping’s inherited appearance is naturally not too bad. Plus he’s rich, just like a second-generation man said, I’m rich like this, I don’t need to be handsome at all, not to mention he’s not bad looking, women are willing to pay for him.

As a normal man, when he is curious about the opposite sex, he does not talk about emotions, but only about primitive impulses. He will not resist a woman who comes to him and study physiological structures together.

So Jiang Ping was a playboy for a while, and some women took advantage of him. Knowing that he was rich and his family was rich, they lied to Jiang Ping and said that he had taken medicine and that men were uncomfortable with that and didn’t need to wear it.

Then she became pregnant and gave birth to a child. She did not marry into the Jiang family, but used her son to extort a large sum of money from Jiang Ping.

Because he had an illegitimate child, this matter could be concealed from the outside world, but Jiang Ping was looking for a marriage partner, which was not easy to conceal. He couldn’t just not see his son, so it was difficult for Jiang Ping to find a partner with a family background that matched his. He could only look down on his family.

But Jiang Ping was lucky. Although his wife’s family was forced to marry her daughter to Jiang Ping because of the Jiang family’s family background, they got along well now. Jiang Ping’s wife was fair-skinned and beautiful, and she gave birth to several children for Jiang Ping.

As for Jiang An, it’s not that he is so serious. It’s just that he has lived in the so-called upper class since he was a child, so he is a bit hypocritical and self-disciplined. He doesn’t want to be known in his circle that he has relationships with women from all walks of life. Jiang An will not easily provoke women of low status, even if they are good-looking.

But it doesn’t mean that Jiang An has no girlfriend. When he was young, he traveled abroad for two years and secretly experienced foreign customs. It’s just that he won’t make the same mistake as Jiang Ping and let himself be tainted easily.

If she dated, she was also a socialite in Hong Kong. Although she dated several people, she always broke up and then found new ones. After she got married, there was no rumor that she had an affair with anyone.

Anyway, in Jiang’s Group, the people below think that Jiang An is more suitable to be the president of the group. But who can blame Jiang Ping for being born to his wife? This good reincarnation is much better than his own efforts.

Moreover, Jiang Ping not only took advantage of his birthright, but even if he was mediocre, as long as he didn’t make any major mistakes, he could have secured his position as the group’s president and chairman.

Then his next generation, even when Jiang Ping’s grandchildren were born, the status was really widened. Jiang An and Jiang Ping’s generation were both Jiang Cheng’s sons, so there was definitely no so-called collateral line.

In the second generation, if Jiang An had many sons, he would have at most one so-called head of the family, and the others would have lower status and become a side branch of the Jiang family. And in the next generation, they would become a branch.

It’s different for Jiang Ping. If counted by family, he is the head of the Jiang family.

No matter what, Jiang Cheng’s bloodline is spreading. After all, there are very few rich people who are completely clean.

As the saying goes, descendants have their own blessings. After Jiang Cheng announced his wealth, he repaid a lot of loans to the Jiang Group. Some loans were given to banks to save face. Those who begged the group for loans were doing favors for some people. If the loans were repaid, it would be an insult to the bank, so they did not pay it back.

In addition to the loan, Jiang Cheng was responsible for all medical R&D expenses, while the income from the hospital and medicinal materials was given to the Jiang Group.

Now Jiang Cheng is taking care of himself, with money in hand, and his grandchildren are very filial to him. As for his granddaughters and granddaughters, Jiang Cheng likes dignified and quiet ladies. The kind who look well-behaved and have temperament.

When such granddaughters and granddaughters-in-law are in front of Jiang Cheng to please him, they will give him expensive jewelry and even houses at will.

However, as time went by, Jiang Cheng still had regrets in his heart. He finally understood what Mou Dong said, that when he died, Mou Dong Lai would be disbanded.

Jiang Dong Lai cannot be a one-man show, and cannot follow the ideas of one person. It is really difficult to put the people first.

After Jiang Zhaozhao handed over Jiangdonglai, although it inherited some of Jiang Cheng’s ideas, the standards of many foreign retail supermarkets are already like this. At most, it is just to align with foreign standards. It is already very good to be able to operate Jiangdonglai according to foreign standards.

Jiangdonglai is service-oriented, just like before the reform and opening up, hospitals, barber shops, restaurants, etc., are not profit-oriented. Before the reform and opening up, these industries in China were all service industries. Jiangdonglai has done very well under the leadership of Jiang Zhaozhao, and has also set up its own internal testing agency. However, the Jiang Group cannot pass the distribution of more than 90% of the profits. The salary of employees is higher than that of the same industry, but the grassroots staff cannot get such a high salary.

In terms of profit, Jiangdonglai is already very high now. Although Jiangdonglai will become very popular due to its peers in the future, it will be difficult for it to expand.

Even Jiangdonglai has to bear huge pressure to set up its own testing agency. Sometimes, some things are not slapped in the face by the same industry, but across industries.

Some items that have not been found to have problems by the department cannot be sold at Jiangdonglai. Although the specific reasons are not stated, it is considered as giving face, but they are not put on the shelves directly. If it does not meet the standards of Jiangdonglai, there is no need to say more.

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye it is 2017. Jiang Cheng is nearly seventy years old, and his hair is still in good condition, only half white.

In this year, Jiang Cheng suddenly entered the Jiang Group with great force. His shares in the group were only 5%. However, he still held a huge cash flow of wealth that could support a century-old family, and he strongly demanded that the Jiang Group sell all its real estate businesses.

The Jiang Group was required to stop taking on any real estate business, and to ensure that the current projects were completed within six months regardless of cost, with no unfinished projects.

Then, sell as a whole if possible, even if the price is lower than the market price.

Because Jiang Cheng was willing to compensate the group with hundreds of billions of funds, and the veterans of the Jiang Group are still Jiang Cheng’s children, although many people below opposed it, this decision was still implemented by Jiang Cheng alone.

However, in 2018, Jiang Cheng was burdened with many responsibilities, because housing prices rose again that year. Jiang’s Group suddenly sold off all its properties in large quantities, retaining only the hotel and retail industries, which became a joke in the industry.

Jiang Cheng is old and has a strong desire to have fun. The more people criticize him, the more excited he is. The last secret should be revealed. In a few years, everyone will understand that Jiang Group will withdraw from the real estate industry in 2018, and it will be the biggest winner.

But this year, Jiang Cheng didn’t want to wait any longer. Jiang’s Group had a top Chinese and Western medical team at home and abroad. Zheng Keye didn’t want to wait until Jiang Cheng was 80 years old to get treatment.

Even if they don’t get treatment now, Jiang Cheng, Zhou Lingying, and Shen Li may not live longer than Zheng Ke. At 70 years old, it’s not too old for this era, and it’s possible to live to 80 or 90 years old.

But when you are 70, you really have to live day by day. Zheng doesn’t want to wait another five or ten years. Even if she is cured, there will be no one to accompany her.

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October 2018, 10, a private hospital in Hong Kong.

“Jiang Cheng, it’s okay. Even if the operation is unsuccessful and the cancer spreads, we can switch to subsequent conservative treatment. Even so, we may not be able to live longer than her.”

“Of course I know this, but the treatment was successful, and Zheng Ke will be with us until the end of our lives, so I feel much more relieved than others.”

Jiang Cheng smiled and said, although this was a bit cruel to Zheng Ke, if she was cured, she would definitely live longer than Jiang Cheng and the others. Living longer meant that she was destined to see off the people around her.

“Old Jiang, why don’t you go lie down for a while? My sister and I will wait here. The operation is expected to take another few hours. My sister and I will call you later.” Shen Li said to Jiang Cheng.

Shen Li had long stopped calling Jiang Cheng “Brother Cheng”. When she was in her fifties, she no longer called him “Brother”.

Jiang Cheng nodded. He hadn’t slept well in the past two days. The day before yesterday, his granddaughter-in-law went into premature labor, so he immediately flew to the mainland to visit her. The surgery time scheduled for Zheng Ke couldn’t be postponed, so Jiang Cheng flew back and forth in the past two days.

This is the Jiang family’s private hospital, not open to the public. It’s not that it’s closed, but it’s only open to those with power and status.

Therefore, the hospital has luxurious facilities and luxurious rest room rates. Jiang Cheng went back to the rest room upstairs to rest alone.

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After an unknown amount of time, Jiang Cheng was woken up.

“Master, wake up. I was so scared just now. I thought you were going to hit me. Are you okay? I’ve called 120.”

“This is~~.”

Jiang Cheng felt the seat belt on his chest and then looked at his wrinkle-free skin.

Damn it, any time travel is really a dream. But if that’s the case, then a dream can last for decades, and it’s so real, how can that be tolerated?

Jiang Cheng felt that this was not a dream, because if it was a dream, every time he had a wet dream, he would wake up and couldn’t continue at the critical moment. It was impossible for a dream to last such a long time.

“Could it be that my soul has traveled back to another parallel time and space that I experienced?”

Jiang Cheng was thinking in his heart, and he didn’t care about the accident happening in front of him at all.

“Master, how are you? Can you speak? Can you move?”

A woman’s voice came into Jiang Cheng’s ears again. Jiang Cheng was confused when he just woke up. It was night and his vision was blurry.

When he felt someone calling him again, Jiang Cheng turned his head to the right.

This look, this look, this look.

Jiang Cheng wanted to discuss three right and wrong questions with him, and talk about whether it was her sudden appearance on the road that caused him to hit the guardrail.

It didn’t matter how much the guardrail cost, but she was responsible for it.

Jiang Cheng’s mind moved and he showed an incredible look.

The woman standing in front of the car window was startled by Jiang Cheng’s look. What did he see in the middle of the night? She quickly looked behind her, but there was nothing.

I heard that people can see things that others can’t see when they are in a state of emergency. The woman was a little scared. Could it be that the master in front of her had internal injuries and was about to die? No, it didn’t matter if the master was about to die. What on earth did he see that made him do this? What unclean things were around her?

Just when the woman was a little scared, she saw the driver unbuckled his seat belt, got out of the car steadily, and then she saw a surprising scene that she had never seen in her 18th year.

This is definitely not a magic trick. Who is this plain-looking driver in front of me? Why is he looking at me like this? I am only 18 years old, and this driver must be at least 30 years old, and he looks average. I can’t give in, but his ability to make things out of thin air really makes me a little surprised.

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(Yesterday was Qingming Festival, and I still didn’t choose to finish the book yesterday. Finally, I would like to advise everyone to pay attention when driving, otherwise you will be the protagonist of the next novel.)
(I need to save some manuscripts before publishing the new book, but it will definitely be published this month. I will try to write the next one better. It will still be a period novel, but it will be a historical fiction, so I will relax some restrictions) (End of this chapter)