There is a coffee shop in Beixinqiao, Beijing."Brother Dong, your method is really ordinary. You can't make any money. It's a waste of time."
Sitting by the window, Chen Ce, a little brat, said with disdain.
Chen Ce, who was born in 1979, is twelve years old this year. He has been very smart since he was young, and at his age now, he is curious about everything.
Recently, he wanted to make a lot of money.
How much money he makes is not the goal; he mainly wants to prove his ability.
In addition, he also wants to have his own little world, his own private space and time.
Instead of staying at home in Cuihua Hutong every day and having to ask his grandfather for pocket money, Chen Ce suddenly felt that this was not a good thing.
"What's wrong with my method?" Chen Xiangdong was very depressed. He was already eighteen years old, but he still had to listen to the little kid Chen Ce.
But there was nothing he could do, he was not as smart as Chen Ce, so he could only obey.
His father Chen Yuanchao and Chen Ce's father Chen Wei are cousins, although Chen Yuanchao's family had moved to Fuxue Hutong in 1981.
But this does not mean that the two families no longer interact frequently.
Fuxue Hutong is not far from Cuihua Hutong. Moreover, every Saturday night, Chen Xiangdong and his friends would go to Cuihua Hutong for dinner.
This has been a very fixed project for many years and it never changes!
Therefore, Chen Xiangdong and Chen Ce are still very familiar with each other.
The main reason is that Chen Ce is a very mature kid with high IQ and EQ.
Therefore, apart from appearance and height, Chen Ce looks like a teenager and is very different from Chen Xiangdong. In other aspects, Chen Ce is far superior to Chen Xiangdong.
Twelve-year-old Chen Ce is now over meters tall, but his face looks very young.
And in front of Chen Xiangdong, who is meters tall, Chen Ce's height is a bit embarrassing.
"What else? Brother Dong, if it's your turn, you should just follow my method. I've calculated that we can attract more people to sign up for our training institution by hiring top scorers in the college entrance examination."
In 1991 in Beijing, training classes and training schools were no longer strange things.
Since the opening-up policy in 1978, English has become very important in our domestic education system as an important language for foreign communication.
Faced with the great wave of global economic development and the background of economic construction, everyone is being carried forward by the times.
Therefore, a language like English is an indispensable and important tool in the process of foreign economic and trade.
Many people who want to go to university also have to learn English.
As a result, foreign language training classes became a trend in the big city of Beijing.
Brothers Chen Ce and Chen Xiangdong both knew this, so they took out their pocket money and opened an English training class called Dongce.
Since the establishment of the Donce training class, out of a conservative, first-time business strategy, Chen Xiangdong suppressed Chen Ce on the grounds of his old age.
As a result, July has passed and the performance of the training class has been mediocre.
Just barely make a profit.
This is mainly because training courses are very easy to run nowadays. Although the competition is fierce, the demand is also very high.
However, compared with those professional training courses, Donce training course still has a gap.
"If we invite those top scorers in the college entrance examination, will it work? Besides, it's not that easy to invite top scorers in the college entrance examination, right?"
Chen Xiangdong asked hesitantly, but Chen Ce curled his lips and said:
"Isn't it easy? I can just call my fellow apprentices over to help show off."
"Your junior brothers and sisters?"
"Okay, that's it, Brother Dong. It's settled. I'll call the people over some other day. Let's leave it at that for now."
Seeing that his cousin was still talking nonsense, Chen Ce had already agreed.
The junior brothers and sisters he was referring to were naturally his father’s students.
His father Chen Wei is a professor at Peking University. Every year, many students want to become his father’s doctoral student, but is it that easy?
Chen Ce, who has been very smart since he was a child, has traveled around the country with his father and has been to many places. He has not only broadened his horizons, but also met many people and learned a lot.
This is something that Chen Xiangdong cannot compare to.
Moreover, Chen Xiangdong could not understand why his little cousin Chen Ce could call his father's students at will.
The next day, when Chen Ce brought a dozen people to the training class, Chen Xiangdong was completely stunned.
Wu Lisheng, Qiao Bailu, Du Huanzhen, Qi Zhendong, Tian Wenhui and others are all well-known top scorers in the college entrance examination in Beijing in the past few years, and their names have been reported in newspapers.
After realizing what was happening, Chen Xiangdong quickly pulled his cousin aside and whispered:
"Little Panda, how did you get someone to come here? We can't afford it."
"Why can't I afford it? You don't have to pay much, just follow the market price."
Chen Ce said indifferently.
"But, this..." Chen Xiangdong was anxious, "Aren't you afraid that your father will find out? If he comes to beat you with a stick, I won't be able to protect you."
"Tsk, do I need to be afraid of my father?"
After saying this with disdain, Chen Ce continued:
"Besides, I've already told my fellow apprentices that this matter cannot be told to my father."
People like Wu Lisheng, Qi Zhendong, and Tian Wenhui all listen to Chen Ce, not because of his father, but because of himself.
why?
Because although Chen Ce is young, he is their math teacher.
There were a few times when Chen Wei had to take leave for something and couldn't go to class, so Chen Ce would just substitute for him because it was fun.
As he substituted classes more and more often, people like Qiao Bailu, Du Huanzhen, and Qi Zhendong all admired Chen Ce very much.
Therefore, even though Chen Ce is only twelve years old, his talent in mathematics is beyond the reach of Qi Zhendong and others.
It's normal if you think about it carefully, Chen Ce himself has good talent.
There are several mathematics giants in my family who have won the Fields Medal, so I was guided to study mathematics since I was a child and developed a great interest in this subject.
With the blessing of talent, his mathematical ability became stronger and stronger.
However, if Chen Ce wants to publish a mathematical paper, he can only use a pen name.
There are too many people in the Chen family who are gifted in mathematics, so Chen Ce had to appear in the public eye too early. Therefore, apart from Chen Guohua, Chen Wei and a few others, the outside world had no idea of Chen Ce's talent in mathematics.
Even Chen Xiangdong only knew that Chen Ce was very smart, but many of his achievements were hidden, especially those in mathematics.
With Chen Ce's mathematical talent and ability, he could have entered Peking University earlier, but he still followed the routine and stayed in junior high school.
Anyway, there won’t be much difference in going to university, it may even be worse than being at home.
why?
Because his grandfather Chen Guohua is the number one in the domestic scientific community and is also very strong in mathematics. He is the world's mathematics emperor and can even be said to be the number one mathematician in the world.
Very high status.
There is also his father Chen Wei and his aunt Chen Si, who are both Fields Medal winners. If they want to study mathematics, they can do so every day. Even many of the textbooks that Chen Ce reads and the references for his papers were written by his elders, or by his grandfather's students or his father and aunt's classmates or students.
Under such circumstances, it seemed that there was no difference between Chen Ce entering Peking University ahead of time and following the usual procedures.
In fact, following the steps will better protect Chen Ce.
Therefore, given Chen Ce's mathematical ability, it was not surprising that he could easily recruit more than a dozen top scorers in the college entrance examination.
Chen Xiangdong wanted to ask something else, but Chen Ce didn't give him the chance and told him to hurry up and make arrangements, do a good job of publicity, and wait to get the money.
With the participation of top scorers in the college entrance examination such as Wu Lisheng, the Donce training class immediately ushered in a new turn of events and soon became popular.
In Cuihua Hutong, Chen Guohua walked into the living room holding a flyer.
"Boss, come on, take a look for yourself, do you have any ideas?"
In the study, Chen Wei took the flyer from his father with confusion, glanced at it, and the information on it entered his brain.
"Dad, this is just a flyer for English training. Is there anything special about it?"
Seeing that he didn't realize anything, Chen Guohua immediately shook his head, "Since you don't know, it's okay, just go and do your own thing."
Chen Guohua didn't know what to say when his son didn't care about his grandson.
To be honest, Chen Guohua himself didn’t know about the Donce training class at first. It was not until recently when the Donce training class became increasingly popular that he noticed it.
Although the people and things he usually comes into contact with are not related to these training classes, when Chen Guohua saw that his eldest grandson Chen Ce often ran out and went to training classes, he began to take it seriously.
After he asked someone to investigate, he found out that the Donce training class was actually founded by the son of his eldest grandson and nephew.
It is already September, and the original Donce training classes have been upgraded to Donce training schools.
After learning about this, Chen Guohua thought that his eldest son knew about it. Now it seems that his eldest grandson Chen Ce did a good job of keeping it secret, and the family still doesn't know about it.
Since he wants to keep it a secret, then just go along with him and keep it a secret.
However, that evening, when Chen Guohua continued his investigation, he found out that his eldest grandson was not just running a training class. He had actually begun planning to go to Moscow and exchange food, clothes, etc. for steel from the people of Moscow.
In the Lesser Khingan Range area, this kind of business is actually easy to do and has high profits.
However, there are not many people who can successfully run such a business.
After all, such a business requires risk.
What's more, there are many white glove companies in the country that are doing this kind of business. It is not easy for others to get a bite and make money from this business.
"Old Chen, do we need to stop it?"
After Song Xuyan handed the information to Chen Guohua, he waited for the latter to finish reading it and then asked.
When Chen Guohua heard this, he shook his head and said:
"No, if he wants to go ahead, then let him go ahead. As long as he doesn't commit any crime, there's no need to stop him. We will just pretend we don't know about it."
After all, he is his eldest grandson. If Chen Ce has such ideological awareness or entrepreneurial ideas, there is really no need for Chen Guohua to stop him.
The little kid doesn’t know how big the world outside is. He will only truly grow up after he experiences setbacks.
"Okay, I'll keep a closer eye on him. This kid is so smart, he should focus on studying. It would be a waste if he started a business."
Hearing Song Xuyan's muttering, Chen Guohua burst into laughter:
"Don't I have to make money too? My grandson is so young, but he already knows how to start a business. Isn't this the disciple surpassing the master?"
"If he goes to study, wouldn't that be like my eldest son? That's not okay, it's a bit pedantic."
His two sons, the eldest, Chen Wei, won the Fields Medal, but he has also become limited. He is now just a teacher and occasionally does research and development.
Although Chen Wei has brought up many good students, he can barely be considered a good teacher.
But to be honest, it's just average.
The youngest, Chen An, has been in charge of the controlled nuclear fusion project since 1985. Up to now, although we have not yet created a true artificial sun, we have overcome many technical difficulties, making our country a world leader in the field of controlled nuclear fusion.
These are the real scientific and technological talents, and they are also the talents that the country urgently needs.
In Chen Guohua's view, although Chen Ce was very naughty and had already been thinking about starting a business at a young age, this also made Chen Guohua look at him with new eyes.
A twelve-year-old kid, many of whom are still in school, how could he know so much?
Chen Ce is not just thinking about starting a business, he is already executing it.
Song Xuyan smiled and did not argue with Chen Guohua about this matter.
I can only say that Chen Guohua’s family education is indeed very good.
After all, Chen Guohua only has four children, but each of them is well taught by him.
Today's third generation, although the eldest Chen Ce is only twelve years old, he has already shown his potential.
In the northeast, Chen Ce left by train with a team of twelve people and headed straight for the city of Novosibirsk, the bridgehead of the Far East.
They bought rice, Lao Gan Ma, instant noodles, clothes and other products worth more than 10 million RMB. After several days of train travel, they finally arrived in Novosibirsk.
After arriving at the place, Chen Ce contacted people according to the method agreed in advance.
Before coming here today, Chen Ce had already been to Novosibirsk and had contacted the buyer.
So this time, if Chen Ce can successfully exchange steel with others, he will make a lot of money.
However, when he contacted the other party, after the call was connected, he was told that they no longer needed food and asked Chen Ce and others not to contact them again.
This is undoubtedly a bolt from the blue!
This is also the test that Chen Ce needs to go through when he first comes out to do foreign trade. (End of this chapter)
