There are many entrepreneurs who want to join the Taurus Club, but the charter of the Taurus Club has been revised last year: it is necessary to absorb up to three new members every year, and it must be recommended by more than three old members and be voted by 90% of the old members.

Facts have proved that 90% of those who actively requested to join the Taurus Club are not very reliable, and most of them are engaged in finance and real estate. Real industrialists are busy with important business. The bigger the company, the more things they have, how can they have the leisure to come and form cliques?

Li Sufu recommended one this year and called Song Weiyang and Song Qizhi, hoping to get a joint recommendation from the Song brothers.

Song Weiyang immediately agreed and called other members again. When everyone heard about this person’s name, they didn’t have to hold a meeting to vote, and they passed by directly on the phone - Cao Dewang!

Cao Dewang didn't want to join, but was forced to be led by Li Sufu. The two had normal business deals. Li Sufu's main business was to build cars, and Cao Dewang's main business was to build cars glass. More than ten years ago, it was Cao Dewang who rewritten the history of China's automobile glass 100% reliance on imports, and drove Japanese benzene car glass out of the Chinese market in a few years.

Mountain City, Yuzhou Hotel.

"Everyone applauds and welcomes you, there are new friends!" Song Weiyang stood up and applauded with everyone.

Since it was a private occasion and did not talk about any work topics, Cao Dewang was dressed as a layman today, with a string of Buddhist beads hanging on his wrist. He smiled like a Maitreya Buddha, and raised his hand and said, "Don't do this, don't do this, everyone should sit down, thank you for your love."

"Boss Cao should not be humble. When it comes to doing business, you are the senior of all of us." Liu Yonghang smiled.

Cao Dewang said: "I am just a few years older than everyone else, and it's no big deal."

Cao Dewang was already in his fifties. In the 1960s, he followed his father to resell tobacco and then wholesale fruits. By 1975, he had accumulated a huge sum of 50,000 yuan. You are not wrong. It was indeed in 1975, when he was still in a state of movement, and he was caught and could be shot directly.

In 1985, Cao Dewang introduced equipment, recruited talents, and successfully developed special glass for automobiles. The cost was less than 200 yuan and the price was 2,000 yuan, which was much cheaper than Japanese benzene products. At that time, people in the circle said that he was "printing money."

Just recently, Cao Dewang bought out all foreign shares of his joint venture and forced the French Saint-Gobain Group not to enter the Chinese market within five years. In a few years, Cao Dewang will become the first Chinese to sue the US Department of Commerce and win, and won two anti-dumping cases in the United States and Canada. Subsequently, the US Secretary of Commerce visited China, called Cao Dewang to negotiate and resolve the problem in person.

Many years later, 70% of the cars produced in China used glass produced by Cao Dewang, and at the same time cooperated with eight major foreign auto manufacturers to become the second largest automotive glass supplier in the world.

This person claimed to never bribe and even "had never given a box of mooncakes". He is also a devout Buddhist and is keen on charity. By 2018, he has donated more than 8 billion yuan in personal donations.

Of course, Cao Dewang was also "criticized" by the Chinese people. Later, he invested $1 billion to build a factory in the United States, and the media exclaimed, "Cao Dewang is about to run away"!

Cao Dewang did not make too much excuse for this and settled the accounts for the reporter very realistically: "In China, the land cost is 9 times that of the United States, the logistics cost is 2 times that of the United States, the bank borrowing cost is 2.4 times that of the United States, the natural gas and electricity cost is 2 times that of the United States, the steam cost is 1.1 times that of the United States, the accessories cost is 3.2 times that of the United States, and the depreciation cost is 1.7 times that of the United States, and the tax cost is inconvenient to calculate in detail, so there is no need to pay import and export customs clearance costs in the United States. China has only two advantages: one is the low labor cost and the other is the low construction cost of factory buildings."

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When Chen Tao saw Cao Dewang dressed in a layman dress and had Buddhist beads on his wrist, he couldn't help asking: "Does Mr. Cao avoid being chewed? Why don't I ask the hotel to change you vegetarian food?"

"No need," Cao Dewang waved his hand, "Although I believe in Buddhism, I do not burn incense or eat vegetarian food. It can be said that there are no taboos."

Duan Yongping smiled and said, "You Buddha, you are a bit careless. Just as Jigong said in the TV series: wine and meat pass through the intestines, and the Buddha stays in his heart."

Cao Dewang said happily: "How can I compare with Jigong? He is a living Buddha on earth. I am just a living being. But believing in Buddhism is because of being pious in your heart, and doing more good deeds. You say that you believe in Buddhism, you will enter the temple when you see the Buddha, and you will worship when you see the Buddha, and as a result, you will be full of thieves and prostitutes. Then you will believe in Buddhism in vain and deceive yourself."

"Well said," Song Weiyang smiled and raised his glass, "You don't have to worry about wine, right?"

Cao Dewang said: "No, but I don't drink too much."

Song Weiyang said: "Then I will respect Boss Cao for a cup and officially welcome you to join the small group of Taurus Club."

"It's easy to talk about, it's easy to talk about." Cao Dewang drank it all in one go.

"When it comes to charity, there is a foundation for AIDS..." Song Weiyang briefly explained the current situation of AIDS in rural China, "If Boss Cao is willing, he can donate some in."

Cao Dewang said in surprise: "There is an AIDS village in China?"

Song Weiyang said: "Yes, the whole village is infected with AIDS, and it is caused by blood-selling. The local people are too poor. Especially those AIDS orphans, who are healthy, but are lonely and helpless because of their parents' illness, and are rejected by local schools. I donated some money last year and set up a school with the Youth Fund in the group. Schools will officially start in September this year. In addition, I also adopted some AIDS orphans in the name to be responsible for their future tuition fees. Boss Cao can also adopt some. The money is not much, and there is no need to spend energy. The charity fund is responsible for helping you deal with it."

"You have to donate some money, Amitabha," Cao Dewang sighed.

Others from the Taurus Society have known about this for a long time, and they have a part in the charity school, and they have nothing to say now.

Zhang Xuanlong lives in Hong Kong City all year round and knows charity well. He said: "It's better for us to set up a charity fund and donate a little bit every year, and the name is the 'Taurus Charity Association'."

Liu Yonghao agreed: "This is a good idea."

"Yes, I express my support." Cao Dewang said.

Cao Dewang was keen on charity, not only because he believed in Buddhism, but also because of family factors. His father was once a shareholder of the "Yong'an Department Store" in Laosheng Beach. Due to the war, his family moved to the ground and became penniless since then.

Didn’t Guo Meimei make the Red Cross bad? Look at what Cao Dewang said to reporters at that time: “When my father taught me how to do business, he thought that you have done this generation and wanted to continue to be the second generation and the third generation, you have to learn to do charity. Because when the conflict between the rich and the poor is deep, you will have no business to do it when you get in chaos. Therefore, while you do your business well, you should pay attention to the social development around you. This is a strategic issue for entrepreneurs… It’s not just the Chinese Red Cross, but the American people a hundred years ago when those entrepreneurs were doing charity in the United States were also questioned by the American people and the government. This shows that we are still in the early stage of economic development, which is inevitable. No matter how good you do, there will be doubts. Of course, the government should first review, keep up with legislation, and enforce the law very rigorously, bringing those bad sheep to justice. Kill them two, and then stabilize them later.”

Cai Zhiping asked: "Can Chinese private individuals provide charitable funds?"

Cao Dewang said: "It should be possible, but the procedures are very complicated and must be controlled by relevant departments, so funds cannot be controlled at will."

Zhang Xuanlong said: "We can set up the charity foundation in Port City, and only offices are set up in mainland China."

Song Weiyang said: "Even so, we must cooperate with the Red Cross and Hope Project. Why not do this? I have a good relationship with the Youth Development Foundation. Hope Project is the one they do. The Central Committee of the Communist Youth League is directly under the supervision of the Youth League. Our charity association is directly affiliated with the Youth League. The charity funds can be handed over to the Youth League to manage and give them a management fee, but the dominance of the charity funds lies with us. When doing charity, we can also cooperate with the Youth League. They have energy all over the country."

Cao Dewang nodded and said, "This is a good idea."

"Then let's just say that, cheers!"

Everyone raised their glasses and drank.
Chapter completed!