Fei Jianzhong smuggled himself to the United States at the age of 18 to make a living. By the time he retired at the age of 80, he had created a business empire worth at least 400 billion U.S. dollars. He was a legendary presence in the entire Chinese community in North America.
However, this person has not left any trace on the Forbes list.
He is the super hidden rich that is often talked about by Western upper class society.
Most of the funds that can be counted in the Forbes rankings are the founders and major shareholders of some listed companies. Only the assets of such people are difficult to hide.
For example, Bill Gates, who has been the world's richest man for a long time, since his Microsoft has chosen to go public, most of Microsoft's financial information must be disclosed to the outside world, and its corporate market value can be checked by the securities market at any time.
Looking at the data, the stock market has publicly disclosed the number of shares Bill Gates holds in Microsoft, so you only need to do a simple multiplication and division to know how much the Microsoft shares he holds are worth.
In addition, the number of listed companies under his name is basically public information. Find these companies, count them one by one, and finally add up the total to get his approximate net worth.
This kind of problem can be solved by anyone who knows middle school mathematics without using Forbes.
However, there are still a large number of invisible rich people in this world. Although they have countless industries, none of their companies will choose to go public.
The reason why they are not listed is because they do not want the outside world to know their identity and wealth.
Because once a company does not choose to go public, it has no obligation to disclose its revenue to the outside world, so the outside world has no way of knowing how much the company is worth.
What's more, most of them disperse their companies in multiple offshore locations around the world. The protection of corporate information in these places is as strong as that of Swiss banks, so no one knows how much wealth they actually have.
Fei Jianzhong met Lai Qinghua when he was young, and this friendship has lasted for more than sixty years.
The reason why Fei Jianzhong was able to have smooth sailing in the business field was not only due to his own efforts and abilities, but also had something to do with Lai Qinghua's guidance.
In the past few decades, the world has undergone many major changes, each of which represents huge opportunities, and Fei Jianzhong has reaped the dividends almost without exception.
This also made his relationship with Lai Qinghua even more irreconcilable.
Fei Jianzhong worked hard until he was eighty years old before retiring. After he turned eighty, he searched all over the world in search of immortality.
His desire for immortality was not superstitious, but the achievements he had made in this life were too brilliant, so he was reluctant to leave, and he did not have the courage to face death.
In fact, many successful entrepreneurs like him are trying every means to pursue longevity.
However, their way of pursuing immortality is very different from the ancient emperors who sought immortality and medicine.
Most of these entrepreneurs pursue longevity based on science.
For example, a certain Chen, the richest man in China, invested billions of dollars in studying the human brain.
Many people say that he invested so much money in brain research in the hope of realizing the immortality of the human brain.
Compared with the richest man named Chen, Fei Jianzhong is definitely better in this regard.
Over the years, he has successively invested at least two billion US dollars in research funds in one of the world's most cutting-edge organ transplant research laboratories, in order to explore whether humans can achieve the goal of doubling their life span through large-scale organ transplantation.
In his life, he also received many organ transplant surgeries due to various diseases.