If you are interested in economic news, you may have seen the Hurun version and Forbes version of the "China Wealth List" that have been published in recent days. You are a little confused about these two versions of the wealth list. What is controversial is the second place on Hurun’s list. Yan Jiehe, the boss of our Nanjing real estate company Pacific Construction, is not even on the Forbes list. Logically speaking, even if Yan Jiehe, who has assets of over 10 billion on the Hu list, cannot be ranked among the top three in the Fortune list, there is still no problem in getting into the top ten. However, Forbes vaguely rejected him for the reason of unclear assets and debt status. outside. However, another news that appeared in the media almost at the same time as the wealth list seems to provide a strong support for Forbes's statement.

This news is that a death row prisoner in China paid for his life with money. The amount of money he paid for his life was 49.5 billion. Of course, the 49.5 billion was not Japanese yen and certainly not US dollars, but just RMB. However, considering that the two newly released versions of the richest man in China only have assets of about 15 billion yuan, this 49.5 billion seems a bit exaggerated. The name of the news protagonist is Yuan Baojing. The first time I had an impression of this name was last year. At that time, a professional financial newspaper reported that he had been sentenced to death for committing murder. The cause of the incident was that Yuan Baojing had a Sichuan man named Liu Han in futures trading. He lost 90 million. Liu Han believed that Yuan Youhe had committed fraud on the United Exchange, so he hired a killer to kill Yuan Baojing. The matter did not succeed, but Yuan knew the inside story, so Yuan hired another killer to avenge the killing of Liu. Later, The killer used this to blackmail Yuan, so Yuan hired another person to kill the killer. Later, for some reason, the incident came to light, and Yuan was caught and later sentenced to death. Nearly a year later, when Yuan was about to be executed, he suddenly said that his execution had been suspended because of his major meritorious service. Later it was revealed that Yuan's wife was willing to donate all of Yuan's assets inherited by her, one of which was in The shares of an Indonesian oil company are equivalent to RMB 49.5 billion.

In fact, it is estimated that everyone’s interest in this news is definitely not on the serial killings, but on the 49.5 billion. This news report was published by the "Yangtze Evening News". This newspaper should be regarded as the popular version of the Jiangsu Provincial Party Newspaper "Xinhua Daily". The content is basically approved by the national propaganda agency, so the 49.5 billion has been officially announced by our media. The total assets of China's richest man are three times higher, and it is reported that the 49.5 billion is only the amount converted from Yuan's shares in an overseas company. According to the normal investment habits of wealthy people, his actual assets should be far greater than this number. .

Theoretically speaking, there can be no vacuum zone between wealth 15 billion and 49.5 billion. On the contrary, there should be many people with assets in this range that we do not know at all. No wonder that when China’s wealth list was just released, many of the rich people on the list said in the media: I am not a rich man at all, there are many richer than me. At that time, it seemed that these rich people on the list were just showing off, but now it seems that they were telling the truth, and being on such a list only gave them a false reputation, and also attracted gangsters (kidnapping, extortion) and white ( The focus on the two areas (business, taxation) is really not a cost-effective deal. To this day, the vast majority of people on the wealth list have little interest in being on the list. On the contrary, we can think that those who respond highly to this wealth list have little money and need to increase their visibility through the media and the wealth list. Earn some capital from banks or the stock market.

Speaking of high-profile responses to the wealth list, Zhou Zhengyi seems to be the first one. I remember that this man who claimed to be the "richest man in Shanghai" at the time complained about the wealth list's determination that his assets were only 1.2 billion, but he ended up second. He was mentioned in the top 10 in the annual wealth list, but it didn't take long for him to be imprisoned. It's just that China's rich people are more or less inextricably linked to the government. If they mix well, or have a lot of handles, even if something goes wrong, the problem won't be too big. Just like Zhou Zhengyi, who was arrested by the central government The troubled tycoon who was named was finally charged with "falsely reporting registered capital and manipulating the securities market." These two charges were actually to praise his ability to carry out economic activities. He was imprisoned for three years and should not be far away from being released by now. Come on.

The most gossipy thing about Zhou Zhengyi is probably his scandal with Hong Kong movie star Christine Yang. It is said that when Zhou entered Hong Kong with high profile, Christine Yang moved into a mansion with a monthly rent of 120,000. Not long after Zhou's accident, Yang quietly withdrew. . Of course, there is also the theory that Zhou recruited Yang in order to quickly expand his reputation in Hong Kong. Mr. Zhou is very generous when it comes to attracting celebrities, and he is not stingy even with the ladies who sit on the stage. A friend of mine said when chatting in the office a few days ago that once Zhou Zhengyi came to Nanjing to play in heaven and earth, he fell in love with a young lady and gave her to her. I gave her a diamond necklace worth more than 400,000 yuan. First of all, this young lady probably didn't like it very much. Secondly, she didn't believe that there was such a generous customer, so she thought "there is no true love in the world. If you can earn a piece of it, you can get it." The next day, it was sold to a guy from Huatai Securities who went with him that night. It is said that the guy wanted to take it for 20,000 yuan, but the lady didn't want it, so he bargained for 50,000 yuan and "reluctantly" gave it to 50,000 yuan. Afterwards, he couldn't help but sigh: Rich people It's just silly. In fact, they are all the same thing. I spend one thousand to play, but rich people have to spend one hundred or eighty thousand to play. This also corresponds to the line in "Big Shot": What is a rich person? Just don’t buy the best, only the most expensive.