Reaching the age of thirty, my income randomly doubled

The little sister got scolded again.

This time, she dared not plead for Hu Qilin anymore. She could only wait for the half-month period to pass, so Hu Qilin could come out of there.

This could be considered a kind of greatest comfort, I suppose.

But once someone goes in, more or less some records are left behind.

Such things don't have too much impact on them, nor would they affect Hu Qilin's future inheritance of the family business.

The family meetings will not change because of her alone; it's just that the current family focuses all its attention on the second generation.

Chen Pingsheng and his generation are already old, and the matters to be discussed next are nothing more than those old things.

Besides their direct relatives, the collateral relatives of the Old Chen Family can all access the family fund.

The fund is roughly divided into two types: one is the entrepreneurial fund.

This requires relatives to have certain talents to claim it, and the other is similar to the wastrel fund Chen Lu receives.

It's just that the amount they receive each month isn't as high as his.

The collateral relatives can only get about two hundred thousand a month.

The reason it's controlled around two hundred thousand is that this is already the income ceiling for ordinary people.

It can't make people fabulously wealthy, nor can it become a tool for relatives to commit misdeeds.

If used for living expenses, one can live very well in any city.

Among the collateral relatives of the family, currently, as many as eighteen people are receiving this fund.

Truly capable individuals are a minority anywhere, and ordinariness is the fate of most people.

In the future, there will definitely be more Chen branches relying solely on this fund to live.

Chen Pingsheng has invested nearly three billion in this, and the annual interest generated is enough to cover the living expenses of these people.

Someone suggested on video to raise this amount from two hundred thousand per month to six hundred thousand.

They basically think Chen Pingsheng has too much money, and he shouldn't set their monthly allowance so low.

This suggestion was fine, but the person who made this suggestion was immediately removed from the fund.

Doing nothing yet wanting a raise in allowance, who does he think he is?

He's just the eldest grandson of the second uncle's family, after all.

He relies entirely on the family fund for getting married and having children, didn't even make it to college, and has never worked since graduating high school. The main reason he finds the allowance insufficient.

It's mostly because the expenses of his mistress are too high, and upon hearing he's from the Old Chen Family, she subtly influences him daily, urging him to find ways to increase his monthly allowance.

That way, she'd have a chance to carry the latest limited edition LV bag.

This kind of big brain shouldn't receive the family fund; let him fend for himself for a while, and he'll find out whether twenty thousand a month for doing nothing is too much or too little.

Actually, there are quite a few with similar thoughts; he just became the one to put them forward.

With one sentence from Chen Pingsheng, they wouldn't dare speak out again.

Anyone wanting to increase their allowance should go work outside.

They never thought that with twenty thousand a month, they could lead a decent life while being a bit wealthier than average.

If they were given two million, there'd likely be plenty more like Hu Qilin and Song Chaoqun.

Managing money is a skill too.

Besides wanting to increase their allowance, Chen Pingsheng astonishingly found none of them suggested improving family education.

These collateral branches, after all, can't shoulder the big responsibilities.

Chen Pingsheng shut down the video call with them; he only says a few words to them at the annual family meeting.

Normally, these people have no chance to meet him.

You could say that when the gap is wide enough, such outcomes are inevitable.

After ending the video call with the collateral branches, Chen Pingsheng explicitly laid out a few demands and suggestions within the family.

As parents, they shouldn't merely insist on their children studying hard; they themselves must lead by example and continuously learn.

He was almost directly pointing out to his little sister Chen Qi and sister-in-law Song Wu.

The two don't bother to learn anything, and whenever something happens, they come to him—how can that work?

There's not much else to say about others; Xiao Le even invited him in September to visit the county where he works.

Chen Pingsheng agreed; he should pay a visit, perhaps make another trip to Magic City as well.

Besides Xiao Le, Chen Lu said nothing at all, only saying he would follow their lead.

An'an doesn't plan to have a third child in the short term; she doesn't even plan to have a third child in the future.

Having two sons is enough for her.

These things should go with the flow; Erya and Su Xiaoxi are both in childbirth, and their bodies need good care these two months.

Peng Ying also stayed in Xiangjiang to receive the best medical care here; she still wants to live a few more years, at least long enough to see her eldest grandson grow up slowly.

When the family meeting ended, Chen Pingsheng also made a trip to the Xiangjiang Economic Research Institute.

Here, they assess the development trends of global future industries and the impact of policies every year.

It must be said, progressing to this stage, the group is no longer solely dictated by Chen Pingsheng; too many super minds operate within this.

The larger a group's development, the more it requires a healthy system and corporate culture.

In essence, it needs to break free from personal worship or a strongman culture completely.

It can't depend on one person's strength or weakness to determine the group's future development.

Rather, it should rely on a healthy mechanism and culture to jointly propel the group's continuous advancement.

Chen Pingsheng was already working on this ten years ago, and looking at it now, the effects are quite good.

At least in the ten years since his retirement, the group's development has been quite satisfactory.