Chapter 985: 980. The World's Richest Man About to Change Hands (Please Subscribe and Vote)

As time went on, Zhang Ran had arranged almost everything; this was also because the preliminary preparations were very thorough, which is why it went so smoothly.

The moment the Asset Management Department was established, Zhang Ran handed over all the scattered shares to Wang Ning to handle.

These scattered shares have now basically all been recovered; with the intervention from above, it went very smoothly.

After another ten days or so, Zhang Ran had finally arranged everything properly.

By this time, the reporters waiting outside were losing patience; anyone would be like this after waiting there for half a month.

The most critical thing was that they had basically not interviewed a single person, and they had no idea what was actually being discussed inside.

Furthermore, they had already released the news, mainly regarding people like Zhao Lifeng.

With so many business titans gathered together, what exactly were they discussing?

As for this Zhang Family Holding Company, as long as people weren't stupid, they all knew it was Zhang Ran's company.

As for Zhang Ran bringing Zhao Lifeng and the others here now, and with many people who seemed on the surface to have no connection to Zhang Ran also arriving.

This sparked everyone's curiosity at the beginning.

But no matter how great the curiosity, it could not withstand the erosion of time; although only ten-plus days had passed, many people had already lost interest.

This also led to these reporters becoming impatient; they couldn't actually block the door, nor could they rush inside.

Finding connections was useless, which made them very uncomfortable.

However, just as they were about to lose patience, they finally saw people walking out, rather than sitting in business sedans.

And upon seeing these people, the crowd swarmed forward, all squeezing over.

"Chairman Zhao, may I ask what you are all discussing right now?"

"President Meng, I heard that you are merging together this time; may I ask if this is true?"

One question after another was thrown out, while simultaneously surrounding Meng He and the others.

"Ahem, everyone quiet down, otherwise we won't be able to answer everyone's questions at all." Zhao Lifeng stood out; this guy was incredibly glib, and everyone let him speak.

"You guessed correctly; starting today, our groups have officially become subsidiary groups under the Zhang Family Holding Company." Zhao Lifeng directly dropped a bombshell.

Although some people had already learned some news, it was only scattered bits and pieces and did not involve anything specific.

After all, in this matter, everyone still had to give Zhang Ran some face.

"Chairman Zhao, is what you said true? Also, I remember that Kangshilan and Zhang Ran don't have any relationship, right? Additionally.........." This reporter listed several company names in a row, all of which previously appeared on the surface to have no major connection to Zhang Ran, or even no connection at all.

"Ahem, this is a trade secret; it was inconvenient to disclose it before. What I can tell you is that they have always been held by our Chairman Zhang Ran."

"As for the Kangshilan Group, the current Chairman of the Kangshilan Group is held by our Chairman Zhang Ran's daughter, Ms. Zhang Siyan," Zhao Lifeng replied.

However, before the reporters could continue asking questions, Zhao Lifeng said: "Alright, Chairman Zhang Ran will hold a press conference tomorrow, and I hope everyone can show their support then." After saying this, Zhao Lifeng left.

Although the reporters were anxious, these people were all accompanied by bodyguards at this time, so they really couldn't stop them for a moment.

But this was already enough; this news was enough to cause a huge uproar.

Very quickly, news articles were churned out one after another.

"Shock! This company turns out to be Zhang Ran's"

"So they were plotting these things all these days"

"On when Zhang Ran will be able to surpass Aili"

Such a series of news reports pushed it to a peak all at once, and instantly almost the entire internet was discussing Zhang Ran and the Zhang Family Holding Company.

At the same time, the Forbes Ranking was updated accordingly, and Zhang Ran's wealth soared to 160 billion US dollars.

It instantly left the original third place far behind.

There was now only a 50 billion US dollar gap from the first place, Aili.

In normal times, this 50 billion US dollars would be enough to propel an ordinary person directly to the forefront of the Forbes Ranking.

But now, it was just the gap between first and second place.

The reason the Forbes Ranking was updated so promptly was, of course, because Zhang Ran had notified them.

Zhang Ran had already made arrangements with them beforehand, letting them be the first to conduct the statistics.

Of course, regarding some matters, Zhang Ran also let them keep it hidden first, and only release it after the press conference.

This was equivalent to earning two waves of hot topics, and Forbes was naturally very willing.

What was kept hidden most importantly were the scattered shares, which were shares worth 100 billion US dollars; it can be said that when these 100 billion US dollars are announced, Zhang Ran will instantly be able to surpass Aili!

And this time will not be long; it should be said that it is tomorrow!

Tomorrow will surprise everyone and let most people in the world know that the person who has occupied the title of the world's richest man is about to be surpassed.

At the same time, the United States.

Inside a luxury villa, a man in his fifties also saw this news; in fact, he had long anticipated it.

Or rather, he had known the news for a long time; after all, after Forbes learned the news, they did him a favor by telling Aili.

Seeing this, there was no nervousness on Aili's face, let alone any other emotions; everything appeared very calm.

In fact, he had long anticipated all of this; when Zhang Ran returned, he knew.

The main reason he did not choose to hide his wealth over these years was also because of Zhang Ran.

Because he knew that Zhang Ran had hidden too much wealth; he didn't know Zhang Ran would return, but Aili had indeed been competing with the Zhang Ran in his heart all along!

In fact, Aili hadn't hidden nothing, it was just that at this point, he didn't need to expose it.

Even if he did expose it, so what?

Had Zhang Ran really exposed all of his trump cards?

Aili didn't know this, but according to his guess, Zhang Ran should still have hidden some things.

On this day, the entire Huaxia internet was filled with discussions, and some economic experts began to earn fans online.

Monetizing fans now is much easier than before, and some experts would not let such an opportunity pass.

However, perhaps because they all knew some inside information, no one was saying anything bad about Zhang Ran at this time.

Of course, it wasn't that there were truly none at all; there were still people who wanted to attract fans this way, but they were banned the moment they did.

After that, no one dared to mess around anymore.