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Chapter 1122: Chapter 981 Hurun
Quickly.
Fighter and Tang Qing had finished giving their statements.
There were only a few sentences in total, just explain what happened at the time and Tang Qing had stayed in the car throughout, giving his account in just a few sentences before signing his name at the end of the statement.
After the Sun family expressed their gratitude.
Tang Qing didn’t keep them around.
They weren’t close after all.
Knowing their place, the Sun family left some gifts and went on their way. Building relationships wasn’t about exchanging a few words, especially with someone as young as Tang Qing, where the generation gap was vast.
Leaving the villa.
"Dad, this Tang Qing is no simple character," Sun Cheng remarked.
"Nonsense, for someone so young to live here, how could he be simple? What’s strange is that he’s not one of those two from the Tang family, but the nobility he exudes is not to be underestimated. Is there such a powerful Tang family in Huaxia?" Sun Li frowned.
"Maybe it’s a rising one?"
"It’s possible, we’ll have to go back and look into it properly. Tang Qing, Tang Qing... sounds vaguely familiar," Sun Li muttered.
He turned back to gaze at the massive sea view villa and said enviously, "Dad, how much do you think it would cost to buy a villa like this? I’d like to have one too."
No sooner had he spoken.
Sun Li smacked his son on the head and scolded with a laugh, "You scamp, what are you thinking? Even if your old man had money, I wouldn’t buy it for you. If you want one, earn the money yourself."
"Tang Qing’s family is more enlightened then, just buying it for him," Sun Cheng said with a wry smile, rubbing the back of his head.
"That’s someone else’s business," Sun Li glared at his son.
As the car drove away from the villa.
Sun Li couldn’t contain his curiosity about Tang Qing’s identity, and so he made a call to a friend in Beijing known as ’Mr. Know-it-all’, a fellow who mixed in the capital circles and had very wide-ranging information channels.
"Old Sun, what’s up?"
The voice on the phone was hoarse.
Sun Li asked with a smile, "Old Chen, do you know someone named Tang Qing? He should come from a very wealthy family; if you don’t know him, could you look him up for me?"
"You’re asking about Tang Qing, too? What, you’ve crossed paths with him?" the voice asked in surprise.
Sun Li was taken aback.
"Others are asking about him?"
"Of course, lots of people have been asking about Tang Qing lately. You, I’ve lost count of how many that makes," the hoarse voice laughed, Mr. Know-it-all’s reputation was not for nothing, he was the real deal.
Sun Li was puzzled; Tang Qing was too young to be so well-known. "Wait, are you talking about the same Tang Qing as I am? I’m talking about a villa owner in Sanya, not even twenty years old, owns a yacht."
"That’s right, it’s him," the hoarse voice confirmed. Recently Comet Group’s "Civilization" was really too dazzling, and many were eyeing it jealously. Naturally, many coveted it.
But.
After hearing the information he had, they all gave up the idea. 𝑛𝑜𝑣𝑝𝑢𝘣.𝘤𝑜𝘮
Because Tang Qing’s affairs were too wide-ranging and extremely complex, he was not a simple rural bumpkin. Even those capable of coveting didn’t have the interest to fight with the power circle Tang Qing had constructed.
Sun Li asked curiously, "I haven’t provoked him, in fact, he’s done us a favor, I’m just curious, what’s his background? Can you tell me?"
"As long as he’s not an enemy, that’s good. This guy plays his cards very close to his chest, and I haven’t fully figured him out. You know about Comet Group right?"
"I know," Sun Li nodded.
"He’s the Chairman of Comet Group. You didn’t know that, did you?" the voice on the other end said.
"What, he’s actually..." Sun Li was shocked, he finally remembered where he had heard the name Tang Qing before. At a dinner party once, a friend had mentioned Tang Qing.
"That’s right, he’s the Chairman of Comet Group, owns over sixty percent of the shares, controlling majority stakes, and also the owner of Sheng Tang Group, controlling all its shares."
After a pause.
"Not just that, Tianyan Group is also his, and the latest news is that he holds a security company with over five thousand employees, with operations in various great powers, and holds shares in several large domestic Group Companies."
"Furthermore, he has companies overseas. One photovoltaic equipment company richer than your family’s Group, and another one registered in an offshore center. I had a hard time finding out about it, with a market value of at least over a hundred billion RMB. I couldn’t find out the exact shareholding, but it should be controlling."
"..." Sun Li swallowed hard.
He was gobsmacked.
Damn.
This information was quite a shock.
Wealthy.
But not usually this kind of wealthy, right? Less than twenty years old, by this account, Tang Qing’s assets were unfathomable. Their family’s net worth of ten billion or so seemed pitifully poor by comparison.
No wonder he had an air of innate nobility.
"What does his family do?"
Sun Li was very curious about the family of such a person.
"His parents are ordinary people, but he has a mysterious uncle who went to Thailand for some reason and is now the largest Jade and Jewelry Wholesaler there. Nearly half of all the Myanmar-Thailand jade in Huaxia comes from him."
"Hiss... are you talking about that Asian fruit wine supplier?" Sun Li immediately thought of someone he had heard of before, a fruit wine distributor, who seemed to be the president of a Chinese Chamber of Commerce in Thailand.
Who was also involved in the jewelry business.
"Yes, that’s him. Now, he’s riding high in Myanmar, and also has a close relationship with the current President of Myanmar. So far, all the gems and jewelry in the Myanmar Economic Zone are exclusively distributed by him.
No one can get a piece of the action, he’s very shrewd and a bit opaque."
The voice on the other end came through with bursts of amazement. A Chinese figure who had reached such heights overseas was indeed rare, and the word on the street was that Tang Kai also had close ties with the Thai military.
Unconfirmed.
But likely true.
Such a complex international background.
Many people, upon hearing this, immediately dismissed any ill intentions. After all, considering his financial strength, if pressured, he could cause all sorts of trouble, not to mention his foreign affiliations.
It could even lead to an international incident.
Hence, that consensus had kept Tang Qing free from any calls coveting his shares.
"Now you know, and soon the whole country will too. I even want to meet him; if there’s a chance, please introduce me to him later. His uncle is rarely in the country, Tang Qing is still studying, they’re both hard to come by."
"Why would the whole country know?" Sun Li picked up on the prior remark.
"Because..."
...
The next morning.
A special visitor arrived at Tang Qing’s villa.
---Hurun.
As the founder of the Hurun Wealth Rankings, he had always been dedicated to tracking the changes in the Chinese entrepreneur community. Forbes is a global list. "Hurun" focuses only on Huaxia.
And as an entrepreneur on the list.
Hurun often made house calls to understand some details about the entrepreneurs and also to form good relations with them. Otherwise, if you don’t say hello and just randomly assign rankings, who would be happy?
