Chapter 986: 981. Individual Arrangements (Seeking Subscriptions and Monthly Tickets)

The stir Zhang Ran caused this time was immense, and discussions began on a global scale.

Especially since someone, it is unknown who, learned some inside information and then spoke of it.

This inside information was that Zhang Ran was about to ascend to the throne of the world's richest person.

One must know that this position had always belonged to Aili; for so many years, no one had been able to shake it.

Many people had already grown accustomed to it, as the gap was simply too large; the second-place person on the world's rich list had 80 billion, while he had nearly 200 billion.

Such a gap left many people with no interest in knowing when this guy would actually be surpassed.

But now, someone had suddenly told everyone that this world's richest person was about to be surpassed, which would certainly make people feel somewhat incredulous.

And this person was from Huaxia.

This sparked another round of discussion, with some people calculating all of the assets Zhang Ran had currently exposed.

In the end, they found that he was still short by 50 billion!

This 50 billion was no small amount; the world's fifteenth-richest person this year had only just reached that figure.

The gap in between is easy to imagine, so at this time, not only were netizens within Huaxia discussing it in various ways, but some even specifically ran to foreign websites to discuss it.

For a time, it was incredibly lively.

As Zhang Ran arranged one matter after another, things had reached the most critical moment.

On April 20th, the Zhang Family Holding Company, which had not been established for long, released information to the public for the first time and held a press conference.

This made countless reporters and countless business people excited; everyone wanted to see what this newly established company actually looked like.

The time was set for five days later.

And these past few days, Zhang Ran had not truly been idle; he had many things to do, and matters within the company also required him to handle them in a timely manner.

Added to that was the merger of the Group Company, and all sorts of things required him to make the final decision.

This was still with Zhang Ran having done the preliminary work well, and with the Group Company being very cooperative; otherwise, things on Zhang Ran's side would have been even more chaotic.

At this moment, Zhang Ran rubbed his brow, feeling somewhat uncomfortable; these were the busiest days he had experienced since his return.

Matters were too numerous and too trivial, and at this stage, there was truly no one who dared to make decisions for Zhang Ran.

It was clearly a very small matter, but at this very moment, no one dared to take charge, and everything required Zhang Ran to make the final decision himself.

"Tell me, for just such a small matter, is it worth you running back and forth?" Zhang Ran looked at Wang Ning in front of him and said, speechless.

Wang Ning smiled indifferently, "I'm not doing this to avoid making mistakes at this time? If some error were to appear on my end at this moment, there would truly be nowhere to reason it out. Besides, I've just taken office, and if a mistake that is hard to clean up appears, how would others view me?"

Zhang Ran said, "You didn't learn anything else from Aili, but you certainly learned quite a bit of this stuff."

Wang Ning laughed, "Brother Zhang, let me say something, please don't be angry. Not to mention anything else, Aili was actually quite good to me, and he gave me a lot of authority; basically, he didn't concern himself with most matters."

"Then why are you so restrained after coming back to my side? Could it be that my trust in you doesn't compare to Aili's?" Zhang Ran asked curiously.

Wang Ning shook his head and said, "It's different. Over at Aili's, my work was actually just managing these few dozen people, or at most, a hundred or so.

And although the assets I handled were large, in reality, the amount that truly needed to stay in my hands for a long time was only a few tens of billions of dollars."

If others had heard this, they probably would have beaten this guy to death, but Zhang Ran showed no reaction.

Wang Ning, this guy was a true genius; in terms of finance and economics, Zhang Ran had never seen anyone more sharp than him.

And he was not the type of person who only had intelligence but no emotional intelligence; although his emotional intelligence couldn't compare to those masters of EQ, it wasn't bad either.

Therefore, Wang Ning had always done quite well; even after leaving Zhang Ran, he still thrived.

"So that's how it is, I've put too much pressure on you?" Zhang Ran smiled.

Wang Ning said, "That is indeed the case."

He actually didn't like his current position; there was no helping it, he had always been used to hiding behind the scenes and didn't like standing in the spotlight.

And he personally believed that the more one stood in the spotlight and the bigger the things one did, the greater the risks one had to bear.

For him, this was completely not worth it.

But now that Zhang Ran had insisted that he serve as the current President of the Asset Department, he had no way to say anything.

Hearing him bring this up, Zhang Ran put down the document in his hand and said earnestly, "Wang Ning, I know you are somewhat dissatisfied in your heart, but there are some things I still need to make clear to you.

You have already begun to gradually go downhill; your peak period of mental capacity has passed, and you know what this means for you.

So you need to transform; you cannot keep doing such high-intensity mental work; it's no good for you.

Now you only need to convert the knowledge and experience you have accumulated before, and then you can start a new peak, instead of having to rely entirely on your talent to do things.

Such a choice is best for you, and it is also the foundation for you to be able to always stand in the field you like in the future.

Otherwise, when your learning ability begins to decline and your talent is no longer as useful as it was before, you will find it hard to regret it."

Upon hearing this, Wang Ning was silent for a moment; he actually knew Zhang Ran's intentions. This position was said to be helping Zhang Ran, but in reality, it was also for his own sake.

Or rather, for the sake of the partners behind him; after all, they were no longer young, and many things required experience, but there were also many things that required talent and energy.

Their talent and energy were gradually declining, which was not a good thing for people like them.

"Alright, let's not talk about this anymore. Anyway, since you are already the President now, you need to carefully ponder how this position should be handled," Zhang Ran waved his hand and said.

Immediately, he thought of something and asked, "By the way, I almost forgot, what is your choice? Is it cash or industry?"

This was the reward Zhang Ran gave them. Having done so many things for Zhang Ran, although Zhang Ran had given out quite a bit of compensation, it was still far from enough—at least in Zhang Ran's heart, it was not enough.

So Zhang Ran gave them a reward; if they wanted cash, Zhang Ran would deposit cash into their cards, and if they didn't need it, then Zhang Ran would help them set up industries.

And these industries were also carefully selected by Zhang Ran; they were all industries with great prospects, which was also the reason why Zhang Ran had spent this time reorganizing all his assets.