Chapter 1585 On the Road

"Because I have never experienced it, there is one thing I want to ask you about your feelings. We all know that you have so much money now. Let's give you a discount. Your personal wealth is at least more than 15 billion US dollars. The current exchange rate between RMB and US dollar is 8.2765, which means your personal wealth is more than 125 billion RMB."

When Bai Zhu calculated this number, his mouth hissed and he looked very uneasy. "Okay, let's give you another 20% discount on this basis, which means there is at least 100 billion RMB, 100 billion..." His voice lowered.

Then he became excited again, "Sometimes, do you feel a little inflated involuntarily?"

"I can answer your question, but can you cut off the previous part and not broadcast it?" Feng Yiping said seriously.

On such a program, after calculating and discounting, his net worth is still more than 100 billion RMB. He is not sure how the audience who heard this set of numbers will react.

This is hundreds of billions of RMB. You should know that the average annual salary of the capital workers is only about 30,000 yuan. If it is tripled to 100,000 yuan, it will take millions of years of work and no money to accumulate such wealth.

In the face of such a big gap, is it possible that someone will turn from a fan to a hater because of despair?

Feng Yiping thinks that this possibility is not ruled out at all.

"Okay, I will definitely cut those few sentences," Bai Zhuzhu obviously understood Feng Yiping's concerns.

"After wealth grows, temporary expansion is really inevitable. Sometimes I feel that I seem to be strong enough to completely ignore the rules of the world."

Quantitative change will produce qualitative change. A pseudo-middle-class person who is always full of anxiety in the original memory, but when your wealth is so much that you really don't know how to spend it, sometimes your mentality will naturally change.

"I think this should also be a common problem. I think many people will have such a time after success, right?" Feng Yiping looked at Bai Zhuzhu.

The other party smiled, "It's really unavoidable to say it,"

"But for me, this is not a problem at all. I just need to think about the fellow villagers in my hometown who are not very well-off in the past few minutes, and I will return from heaven to earth in a few minutes," said Feng Yiping.

Our underdeveloped hometown can effectively prevent us from expanding in many cases.

When we were still in high-end office buildings in big cities, earning relatively generous salaries, responsible for businesses ranging from hundreds of thousands to tens of millions, and called Kevin and Jenny, sometimes it was easy to expand, and sometimes we might do something that would make others sigh, "Why don't you go to heaven?"

However, when we go home for the Spring Festival, take off our gorgeous clothes, put on our old clothes, and are called Tiedan and Erya again, how many people can still expand?

"You will feel ashamed when you see the lives of those who are not yet rich. This fully shows that you are a very responsible person," said Bai.

"Of course, it is easy to draw such a conclusion. We have seen so many investments you have made in your hometown, as well as the larger investments you are making. We have also read the previous reports about you. You have always regarded the development of your hometown as your responsibility, right?"

"Since the beginning of the business, this has indeed been a key issue we have considered,"

Feng Yiping did not want to talk more about this issue. Many previous reports have reported this point, and those who pay attention to him and Wuli'ao know this.

But other people can talk about this, but Feng Yiping himself is not easy to say, otherwise, it would be suspected of taking credit.

"We are very happy to see that your efforts have been very effective. Your hometown has undergone earth-shaking changes. How do you view such results?"

"My hometown has become prosperous, our lives have improved, the environment has improved, the houses have improved, and the education and health conditions have improved. We don't have to worry about the tuition fees for our children or the medical expenses for the elderly. We don't have to work in other places. Instead, it has attracted tens of thousands of migrant workers... I am very happy that my hometown has changed like this, but I also know that there are still many people around Wuli'ao whose lives have improved but are still not rich,"

which means he will not stop.

"Do you feel tired taking on so many responsibilities?" asked Bai Zhui.

He knows that there are actually many people who would think about giving back to their hometown after they have achieved success - no matter what their motives are, but it is the first time he has seen people like Feng Yiping's family who consider this when starting a business.

"Milan Kundera said that the heavier the burden, the closer our life is to the earth, the more real and substantial it is. When the burden is completely gone, people become lighter than air and float up,"

"So, I don't feel tired, so it's hard for me to get swelled,"

"Or rather, I regard these as my mission, so I will definitely stick to it,"

"Milan Kundera also said that when a person abandons everything he has always thought of as his mission, what will be left in his life." Host Bai nodded, "I understand what you mean,"

Feng Yiping didn't expect that Host Bai would also quote Milan Kundera's words in "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" to respond to him, which made him feel like a close friend.

Therefore, it is best to accept interviews from China. The same cultural background will make it easier for us to resonate.

"Of course you are very successful now, so if you put aside all these shackles, what kind of life would you like best?" Host Bai asked another more in-depth question.

"To be honest, I haven't really thought about this question. You know, for many people, there is no choice about what kind of life they should live. Our common choice can only be to live a hard life, because as long as If we work hard, our lives will definitely be better.”

"Of course, maybe I'm not so sure, and hard work may not necessarily lead to better things,"

"But at least the general trend will be like this, right!" Host Bai added.

"Yes," this is indeed what Feng Yiping wanted to say.

This is also the reason why he likes this host in the first place. He can always quickly find common ground with the interviewee, thus forming an interaction that makes both parties feel comfortable.

"Can you imagine it now?" Host Bai said with a smile.

Feng Yiping glanced at the fairly blue sky and the Mercedes-Benz cars downstairs, "I also like another novel very much, "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac,"

"Do you like to leave a familiar place, go to a strange place, and then go to another strange place?" Host Bai said immediately.

"Wait, I remember you said in an interview before that you hope to just drive and keep going," he added.

"I think I said that," Feng Yiping remembered. He probably said something similar on Oprah's show.

"It's not that I like to leave familiar places and go to unfamiliar places. It should be said that I am very envious of them for being able to leave everything at once and go to an unknown place and appreciate it. New scenery, communicating with new people,"

"It is precisely because we have been pinned to a place we are familiar with that we envy them for being able to leave so freely and casually," Host Bai added what Feng Yiping wanted to say.

"Yes, if possible, I would also imagine that like Dean or Sal, I would settle down for a while, save some money, and then walk casually on the road again. Of course, this journey should not be as difficult as in the novel. I often finish my last meal without finishing my next meal," Feng Yiping said.

"The best thing is to be like Dean and meet so many girls who like him on the road?" Host Bai said with a smile.

"Don't be like Dean. Of course, I think it would be great to have a girl like Mary Lou," Feng Yiping smiled.

When he said this, he couldn't help but think of Kristen Stewart who played Mary Lou in the later movie version of "On the Road".

"Actually, what I envy the most is not that they can be on the road at any time as they please. What I envy the most is that they seem to be able to leave their original lives at any time without any burden," Feng Yiping said.

"If you think about us, before the age of 15, we have to go to primary school. Around the age of 22, we have to look for a job. Once we find a job, we have to work hard to pay off the debts from the previous schooling, improve the life of the family, and prepare for the future. Live and accumulate material foundation,”

"At this time, most of them already have a boyfriend or girlfriend, or are trying to find a boyfriend or girlfriend,"

"Around the age of 30, you will probably get married and start a family. If you are doing well, you will probably have to support your parents and pay the mortgage every month. In another two years, you will usually have a child. After that, you will have to support the child in kindergarten, elementary school, junior high school, etc. high school college,”

"If you worry about his work and his personal problems..., how can we be so lucky to be able to leave just as they say?"

"That's not all. What I envy the most is that when they finally no longer want to run around outside, they can return home at any time, find a job, and live a good life."

"Even after we graduate from college, we don't have the pressure to pay off debts or save money for our future life. Our parents will still be young, we won't need to take care of them, and we won't have the next generation to raise. It seems like we can really work. I walked around before, but who dared to do that?”

"A year or two later, your peers will already have some work experience, and the knowledge base of the fresh graduates at that time may be newer than yours. In the face of a good job, what should you follow? Are they competing?"

"We are always too anxious," Director Bai could only say.

"Yes, we are always too anxious, but what is the reason behind this anxiety? What is the reason behind Sal and others being able to leave at any time? After being in the United States for so long, I have the answer,"

"The answer is the relative independence between Americans, especially adults. The most important thing about this independence is economic independence and their welfare system,"

"Compared with us, one of their major advantages is that they don't have to worry too much about the elder generation, that is, their parents' pension issues,"

"When they have had enough traveling on the road, they can choose to return home. At this time, they don't have to worry too much about work. Even if they work in a fast food restaurant, they can still afford a decent life."

When he spoke eloquently, Director Bai was a little unable to keep up.

"So, this is not the gap between us as individuals, but the gap between the two countries as a whole. Sal and his friends can leave at any time and for a long time. This is based on the developed economy of the United States, the fact that most of the American residents are middle class, and the relatively complete high welfare of the United States..."

"So, I am thinking now that our generation, at least when we are young, still has a big gap with our American peers in terms of average level, but we can work hard to narrow this gap, and strive to have no gap with our American peers by the time our next generation comes, or the gap is very small,"

"In this way, they will have the opportunity to experience the kind of life on the road that you yearn for," said Bai.

"Yes, they can also experience other lives they want to experience calmly," said Feng Yiping.

"Speaking of which, our current life is also based on the hard work of our previous generations," Bai said with a sigh of relief. It was indeed not an easy thing to interview Feng Yiping. He took him for such a long time.

Fortunately, it is not bad to end this interview with such a topic.

Moreover, this interview should be considered as Feng Yiping's most talkative one, and such a result is not bad.

"Finally, I still want to ask, what do you want to say to the young people in China,"

"It's still the same sentence I said before, it doesn't matter if you can't become the kind of person you want to be for the time being, but you must not become the kind of person you don't want to be, that is, even if you can't become a hero for the time being, you must not become a villain,"

On the first day of June, I think asking for votes should be useful.