Chapter: 4757

Ye Chen said calmly, "As long as he helps you firmly establish yourself as the head of the Fei family, he doesn't need to participate in bidding for the spring elixir. I, Ye Chen, can guarantee that he will live for another ten years."

She was very clear about the weight of Ye Chen's words.

As long as he helped his grandfather live for another ten years, Ye Chen would definitely fulfill his promise.

In essence, this meant giving his grandfather half of the spring elixir.

More importantly, Ye Chen promised to help his grandfather live for another ten years, with only one condition: that his grandfather help him firmly establish himself as the head of the Fei family!

She couldn't help but mutter to herself: "Mr. Ye is doing all this... for me, it seems..."

Thinking about this, she gazed at Ye Chen with tears in her eyes, feeling deeply grateful and saying: "Mr. Ye... thank you for everything you've done for Xin... I swear that in the future, the Fei family will always stand by Mr. Ye's side as his most reliable ally."

Ye Chen nodded slightly, speaking seriously: "In the world of common people, my assets or the Fei family's assets are already extremely rich. But if we really want to enter a higher realm, our capabilities might only be enough to knock on the door, recognizing the refined, and enjoying one's life of prosperity and honor."

Xin was puzzled and asked: "Mr. Ye, why do you think this way? According to my knowledge, although there are many unknown rich families around the world, with the Fei family's strength, we're definitely not in the top five, but among the top ten; your current asset level is also unlikely to be below that of the Fei family."

Ye Chen lightly shook his head and gazed out at the stars in the distant sky, speaking softly: "Our understanding is limited by our scope. I used to think this way too, that the richest families were like Rothschild's, with a scale of tens of trillions... or maybe even twenty trillion..."

Xin hurriedly asked: "Do you mean there are powers stronger than the Rothschild family in this world?"

Ye Chen smiled faintly, not answering her question, but instead asking her: "What do you think we should use to measure the strength of a family or an organization?"

Fei Canxin thought for a moment and said seriously: "Let's consider human power, material power, financial power, and comprehensive assessment. Financial power should be the most important."

Ye Chen nodded slightly: "I used to think financial power was the most important too, because the ranking of world corporations and wealthy families is all measured by money."

As he spoke, Ye Chen's tone suddenly changed, becoming serious: "But then I thought about something else. If a family has so much money that it's become meaningless beyond just numbers, what will they do?"

Fei Canxin looked puzzled and asked: "What does this mean, Mr. Ye?"

Ye Chen opened his mouth: "You see, the wealthy people or families we normally encounter, their favorite thing to do is to make money breed more money, just like the Jews are born with a talent for making money and using it to make even more. This leads them to only spend their money on things that can increase in value or bring them greater wealth, thereby completely blinding themselves to reality."

As he spoke, Ye Chen continued: "If a family has already transcended the excessive accumulation of gold coins, but just uses money in a purely consumptive direction, or even doesn't have the means to use it to realize its true value, what would happen?"

"Pure consumption...," Fei Canxin furrowed her brow, still puzzled, and embarrassedly said: "Mr. Ye, I'm still not very clear on this. Could you please explain further?"

Ye Chen spoke seriously: "Let me give a simple example. The Rothschild family's assets exceeding ten trillion dollars are all invested in industries that can realize their value, such as investing in stone or mines; investing in the world's top 500 listed companies, or directly establishing banks and lending money to other companies at high interest rates or equity stakes."

"These funds would still be considered my own even if I spent them. It's just a form of asset transformation, like me having one billion dollars in cash, then spending five hundred million dollars on a luxury mansion in New York, and then changing my total assets to five hundred million dollars in cash and five hundred million in fixed assets..."

"Or maybe I could change two million dollars into real estate, or stocks, or a 20% stake in an oil well, or even buy a famous artist's painting. Then I'd leave two million dollars as liquid assets. In this way, although I spent eight million dollars, it would be just a form of asset transformation that can potentially increase in value over time."

Ye Chen changed his tone and said, "But what if I were to use the entire one billion dollars to cultivate a group of unknown warriors? The eight million dollars would have transformed into battle strength. Who would know about it? When others assess my assets, they would think I only have two million dollars left, but if I wanted to, these eight million dollars spent on cultivating warriors could effortlessly take down ten billionaires who possess one billion dollars."

Fei Canxin listened to this and suddenly realized something, looking astonished and said, "Mr. Ye, I understand your point now... You're saying that some top-tier families may have already transcended the stage of accumulating wealth and instead turned their vast amounts of capital into unexpected powerful battle strength?"

"Yes," Ye Chen nodded, "this is a profound concept, just like me. In the past few months, I've directly or indirectly invested in Dragon Hall's affairs, with funds exceeding one hundred billion;" JrNovels.com