"Teacher Song, Peking and Tsinghua's admissions representatives are in my living room right now. They've already laid out the paperwork, and my dad wants me to sign as soon as possible. I'm hiding in the bathroom to buy time." Xia Wansan said, "I'll tell you about my circumstances and conditions first. If you think they're suitable, I'll become your student. If not, I'll go out to the living room and sign."
Song He was stunned. "All right. Go ahead, Xia."
"My family is in business, and they expect me to become a merchant and make a fortune. They even named me after the wealthy Ming Dynasty merchant Shen Wansan. I'm an extreme money fanatic. The only thing I'm interested in is making money!" Xia Wansan spoke at lightning speed.
"My parents told me that in this day and age, a self-made boss can no longer make it big. Only an intellectual boss can grow large. So my goal has always been to study applied economics at Peking University, then pursue graduate studies at Guanghua School of Management and build up my knowledge of business and management!"
Song He was secretly startled. A top student with such a clear goal would be hard to poach!
"During the period between the end of the college entrance examination and the release of the results, I stayed home reading books on economics and finance. After reading twenty or thirty of them, I realized something was wrong. Economics didn't seem capable of helping me make money. Most economic theories were just hindsight—they summarized a theory after the economy had already collapsed, like writing an elegy! As for predicting profitable directions, there was no such knowledge at all!"
"So I reconsidered. What exactly should I study if I wanted to make money?"
"Then I saw the