Once a "conscience economist" and now a "liar expert", why did Lang Xianping's character collapse?

There are always some people in this world who have the strength to stand on a high place and look down at the world, but in the end they send themselves into the abyss.

They are like those angels who are about to create miracles but fall into the dust in an instant. Lang Xianping is such a man who has stepped down from the altar step by step.

Break the shackles and rush to the high ground of life

When talking about Lang Xianping, people often think of him as a Taiwanese scholar and economist. Even on some websites such as Du Niang, His introduction contains some glorious resumes.

He was born in the family of a captain officer. He graduated from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, a world-renowned university, and completed his master's and doctoral programs with excellent results within two and a half years. , obtained these two degree certificates.

Looking at those brilliant introductions, it is difficult to imagine that Lang Xianping's youth was miserable. Although he was born into a wealthy family, he was frail and sickly since he was a child. His father and elder brother also thought that he was a child who would not live long and never took him seriously.

Although his mother did not dislike him as much as her husband, she neglected to take care of him due to her busy schedule of housework. She did not care about him in life except for his studies.

It is also because of this that Lang Xianping has been lonely and reticent since he was a child. His grades before junior high school have always been among the "lowest" in the class.

It was precisely because of such shackles that Lang Xianping couldn't breathe. After suffering the malicious indifference of the world, he longed to get rid of the prejudice on himself.

In his opinion, if he could not get ahead in life, he would be locked in place. Under the circumstances, he could only silently polish his strength to be impeccable.

When he was 27 years old, Lang Xianping asked his wife to work as a nanny and volunteer in a local black community in order to study for a Ph.D. at Wharton Business School. A lot of the hard work is left to his first wife.

After graduation, Dr. Lang Xianping taught in various universities abroad in order to build his reputation and make others take a high look at him. Of course, his great success in the end was mainly due to his excellent professional qualities.

Later, he also left his wife alone abroad for fame and fortune. He returned to teach at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and now serves as the chief professor at the highest academic level of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

He also served as a corporate governance consultant for the World Bank. He later became famous for a series of successful predictions and had a profound impact because a critical speech led to the client being investigated and jailed.

Here we first talk about how Lang Xianping came into contact with fame and fortune, and then slowly became occupied by fame and fortune.

Lang Xianping’s real appearance in the public eye was a prediction of the break of Delong’s capital chain.

In 2001, Delong, one of China's largest private enterprise groups, was using their own resources and capital to expand aggressively.

At that time, when almost all economists were talking about how the Delong model was successful, Lang Xianping came up with a map that was clearer than Delong himself, and publicly concluded that the capital chain was about to break. .

Two years later, in 2003, the Delong system collapsed, and Lang Xianping became a sensational economist.

A year later, Lang Xianping delivered a special speech to Greencool led by Gu Chujun, reprimanding Gu Chujun for sweeping away national wealth and harming the interests of small and medium-sized investors. This eventually led to Gu Chujun being investigated, arrested and sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment. From then on, Gu Chujun failed to recover, but Lang Xianping rose to prominence as a result.

Such a gesture with a solid foundation, sharp language, unique perspective and a firm united front with the people.

Lang Xianping's image as a people's economist is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Almost every speech he makes will cause huge reactions, and he was once elected as "China's most conscientious economist."

He is in a high position but trapped in the quagmire

But it is precisely because of Lang Xianping's soaring net worth and reputation that he began to become crazy about self-satisfaction. Some of the things he declared to the outside world, It is not based on the actual situation.

But he just said whatever he thought would attract people's attention and shock people. He would never stop saying anything that was not shocking, without considering the facts and possibilities. This is how he began his crazy career of digging holes. Of course, this is also the beginning of the collapse of his personality.

The Pan-Asia incident attracted strong attention across the country. Because the funds involved were huge and investors were extremely rare, Lang Xianping was labeled as a "liar expert". Since then, a super star has fallen. A great man stepped down from the altar.

After the crisis, it was besieged many times by investors. Once when Lang Xianping was giving a lecture in a hotel, those investors gathered outside the venue and shouted slogans.

The slogan was so derogatory to Lang Xianping, the number of people present and the scale of the gathering were so large that the organizers had to call the police to resolve the matter.

A week after the incident, when Lang Xianping was making a criminal report in Xi'an, he happened to talk about a wonderful point. Those investors who insisted on defending their rights began to shout "repay me my hard-earned money" and "get out of Xi'an." "Wait for the slogan.

Lang Xianping was already regarded as a big liar and "bombarded" at the time. It was precisely because of the large number of people that time that Professor Lang was forced to leave the stage in embarrassment. Throughout the ages, I don’t know how many literati and poets thought they were noble because of their talents, but they were ultimately destroyed by their own hands.

A conscientious Chinese economist like Lang Xianping was labeled a "liar expert" even though he was at the top of the world's economics because he failed to balance academics and fame. " label.

After Lang Xianping, who had endured loneliness and boredom since childhood, gained fame and fortune, he became even more intolerable to ordinary loneliness.

Just like a person who is used to living a hard life and suddenly gets the life he dreams of, he is unwilling to lose it. He will use his own means to keep it and even hope to get more. , this can also be a greedy nature of people.

In addition to being labeled as a liar expert, Lang Xianping also has a new nickname of Jiangzuo Meilang. After the Pan-Asia incident, many companies that Lang Xianping guided also began to fall into scandals.

Wangzhou Fortune, which he guided, was also involved in the controversy of its chairman running away; the financial company founded by his son Lang Shiwei and its Internet financial platform, Hepaidai, announced the suspension of operations, and its general manager and his The money absconded.

One wrong step and another wrong step. When he put his pursuit of fame and wealth above his academic research, his "conscience" as an economist was already destined to fail. Polished away by his own vanity and pride.

From a "conscience Chinese economist" to a "liar expert", such a leap may be regrettable and lamentable for Lang Xianping, but it is natural to take a long-term view.