Chen Zhao Spanks His Child

Chen Zhao announced that he would return all "ingratiating" donations.

When a person only had one yuan, ten thousand yuan, one million yuan, or one hundred million yuan, money was often still very important.

But for someone like Chen Zhao, who could earn one hundred million in the time it took to drink a cup of tea, money no longer meant much.

There was no difference between having more money than he could ever spend and having even more money than he could ever spend.

Seeing that Chen Zhao would not accept degrading handouts, people around the world did not lose heart.

They began buying up his companies' products in huge quantities.

Cannon Phones sold out within just two days, instantly becoming the phone brand with the largest global market share.

Machine Slaves sold out in a single day, with several million units sold.

Consumers used this method to hand money to Chen Zhao, hoping to curry favor with him.

Most outrageous of all, mayors from many cities personally visited Machine Slave stores for inspections. After taking a look around, they posed a soul-searching question: "Isn't this store too small? Do you need me to step in and have it expanded?"

The staff were utterly bewildered.

Naturally, Chen Zhao did not refuse this way of handing him money. Highly intelligent products like Cannon Phones and Machine Slaves could promote social progress.

Many cities with the highest numbers of Machine Slaves happily published news reports in newspapers, as delighted as if they had won some great campaign. The local residents were also extremely proud—for no apparent reason.

Yet amid the widespread excitement, there were also fragments of anger and sorrow.

Ignoring all attempts to stop him, a man in India carried a shovel and dug up the body of his wife,