You must have heard its story. For those young people who lack compulsory education and are struggling to feed themselves in the urban-rural fringe, it may be the most ideal ending and the best destination; for Google in the United States, it is a "terrifying hacker base" - after all, it once attacked the Google database "more than 700 times" in one day; for a well-known veteran actor, this place is almost tied to his acting career. When you mention him, you will definitely think of it.
Most people have seen it on TV as long as they can remember.
In the film, the "old actor" stood next to a large civil engineering machinery vehicle, raised his thumb and showed his white teeth, and asked the audience in front of the TV with a smile: "Which company is better for learning excavator technology?"
And after you hear this sentence, you will subconsciously follow it with the sentence "Look for Lan Xiang in Shandong, China."
Yes, it is Lanxiang - the crown jewel of vocational and technical education in the world and the vanguard of vocational and technical education in our country. Carrying vocational schools on both shoulders, we have held up the banner of private vocational and technical education in our country...
However, now I have to tell you some heartbreaking news.
Some time ago, "Lanxiang" became "canceled" in the "National Enterprise Credit Information Publicity System". And on public disclosure websites such as "Qichacha" and "Tianyantong", no information about "Lanxiang" can be found.
It seems that "Lanxiang Advanced Technical School" is indeed dead.
National Enterprise Credit Information Disclosure
The debut, entrepreneurship, and fortune history of most entrepreneurs today are very different. In his early years, Rong Lanxiang, the founder of "Lanxiang", was also a poor young man who ate more than he could eat, and his pocket was cleaner than his face.
Although he is passionate and can talk about his ambitions no matter who he meets, the reality is always skinny. He has no car, house, or money. Even if he can talk about flowers, no one is willing to take him seriously.
However, fate always makes its choices when you least expect it. What a coincidence, someone really fell into Rong Lanxiang's trap.
By chance, Kong Suying met Rong Lanxiang and was quickly moved by Rong Lanxiang's impassioned speech. As a result, Kong Suying and Rong Lanxiang fell in love, and Kong Suying also decided at this time that she must do her best to help Rong Lanxiang accomplish a great cause.
And Rong Lanxiang met his noble man at this moment, and his life began to reverse from here.
Although Rong Lanxiang is a poor youngster, fortunately Kong Suying's family conditions are not bad. His father is a retired military officer and has a stable job, and his mother is also a small cadre in a public unit.
Therefore, in the context of the 1970s and 1980s, the father-in-law could spend ten "big unity" cards to help his daughter and son-in-law start their own business. As a result, the "Tianqiao District Technical College" founded by Rong Lanxiang and his wife successfully put up its sign and officially started recruiting students.
However, the path of "vocational and technical education" is not that simple. Rong Lanxiang and his wife were not the first to jump ahead. Before them, there were well-known local technical schools in various cities in Shandong. It was obviously not easy to steal students from these schools.
Moreover, we have to admit that in the context of that era, the homogeneity of every technical school was very serious - I can teach anything you can teach, there is no difference between us, and there is no "technical barrier" between us at all.
But Rong Lanxiang is indeed a "business genius."
He came up with an enrollment method that no one had tried before: There is no charge for a one-month trial, and you can come and take classes. Moreover, not only is there no charge this month, they are even willing to convert an equal amount of the fee into living expenses and pay it to you if you are still there in the second month. Anyway, as long as you are willing to come, the school has more benefits than you can even imagine...
It is precisely because of this enrollment method that a large number of students and parents come to try to register. After all, there is a school that seems to be quite regular, and it claims that "food and accommodation are included, and you can try it out for a month without any fees." This kind of advantage cannot be taken advantage of.
This also made "Tianqiao District Technical College" more and more famous, surpassing all other technical schools in the limelight. Rong Lanxiang and his wife saw money back for the first time.
After accumulating a certain amount of original capital, Rong Lanxiang was not satisfied. He chose to pursue the victory and further expand the reputation of "Tianqiao District Technical College" - so, after his own name, he officially changed the name of the school to "Lanxiang Senior Technical School".
At the same time, in order for the school to have a resounding brand across the country, Rong Lanxiang spent a lot of money to advertise on TV, and invited Tang Guoqiang, a famous veteran actor at the time, as a spokesperson, and said the words that have haunted everyone all their lives: "Which company is better at learning excavator technology?"
It is precisely because of this that we saw the classic "demonic brainwashing" commercial on TV.
However, in addition to the golden sign of "no tuition fees for one month" and the intensive advertising on TV, what made "Lanxiang" famous was the "hacker war" between it and Google in the United States.
In February 2010, the New York Times suddenly published an article stating that the database of the American company Google had been attacked more than 700 times in one day. After a joint investigation by U.S. cybersecurity experts and the U.S. National Security Agency, the target was pointed at China's two "top universities" - Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Lanxiang Advanced Technical School.
Moreover, in subsequent research, the U.S. National Security Agency suspected that this hacking incident should be led by Lanxiang Advanced Technical School and assisted by Shanghai Jiao Tong University. It was an organized, premeditated, and planned hacking operation.
After all, they heard that there are many foreign professors in "Lanxiang", and the teaching courses are all "tank, aircraft, cannon repair" and other courses. More importantly, "Lanxiang" also has a Ukrainian professor from the Soviet era who is here to personally teach computer information engineering technology...
Regarding this irresponsible and wild speculation, the management of "Lanxiang" quickly came forward to deny the matter. He also said that there is indeed a foreign teacher in the school, but he is responsible for teaching repairs of old cars, not "repairing aircraft, artillery and tanks", and it is even less likely that the school has a major such as "computer hacking".
However, it doesn't matter what the truth is. After this incident, the names of Rong Lanxiang and "Lan Xiang" completely resounded throughout China and became a smash hit "holy place".
After all, an ordinary "vocational school" is not attractive, but if it is a vocational school with "China's strongest hacker base" and "teaching the repair of tanks, aircraft and cannons" - this is simply like the mysterious brave village in every adventure game, and people can't help but think about it.
And Rong Lanxiang, who was once poked in the spine and said to be a "good-for-nothing man who relies on his wife to earn a living", seems to have really fulfilled the "ambition" he had promised at this time.
As the fame of "Lan Xiang" continues to grow, Rong Lanxiang and his wife's life becomes more and more prosperous, with more and more assets in their name, which also secretly lays the foundation for the "Lan Xiang Family".
Frankly speaking, sometimes the career results of well-known entrepreneurs are always inversely proportional to their personal feelings.
When you are broke, if there is a woman by your side, you will feel that everything you do is solid and you have a head start. But once they become successful and famous, the couple's relationship will inexplicably change. At this time, it happened to be the time when the entrepreneur changed his wife.
At the end of 2013, Kong Suying filed for divorce from Rong Lanxiang.
At the same time, Kong Suying attracted a large number of media, denounced Rong Lanxiang in front of the media, and talked about her hardships over the years.
After marriage, they gave birth to a total of six children at the rate of one child per year. In the early days of starting a business, there were insufficient funds and manpower, so teachers, principals, security guards, and cafeteria ladies all had to do it themselves. Therefore, Kong Suying not only has to take care of her more and more biological children, but also has to be busy with the students in the school.
But instead of caring about herself, Rong Lanxiang repeatedly abused herself and her children. After the school got back on track, Rong Lanxiang even cheated on a female teacher at school and was "caught and raped in the office" by Kong Suying.
In this regard, Rong Lanxiang did not explain much, but he also did not agree to Kong Suying's request for divorce. The biggest contradiction in the entire divorce case is that the couple owns 351 properties in a community called "Tianlun Garden" in Shangqiu, Henan, and no one can convince anyone how to distribute these properties.
However, Rong Lanxiang seemed to have been prepared. When he purchased the real estate, he did not use his and his wife's identities. Instead, he invested in the land purchase in the name of "Lanxiang Group" and then built a commercial community. This also made the more than 300 properties have nothing to do with the two of them and belonged to the company's property.
But Kong Suying didn't care about this. In her opinion, the boss of the company is Rong Lanxiang, so these houses naturally belong to Rong Lanxiang, and as Rong Lanxiang's wife, she should be able to get half of the property.
So, after discussing with her father, she decided to hire dozens of "gangsters" and a large number of old men and women, led by her father himself, to seize these properties first. If court staff come to seize the property, a group of old men and women will "fall to the ground" and refuse to let the law enforcement officers enforce the law.
However, Rong Lanxiang is not a good person. Since his wife is "unkind", he decisively chooses to be "unjust".
So his second brother Rong Lanqiang quickly rented several buses and gathered more than a hundred students and teachers at the school, claiming to go to Shangqiu, Henan to "clean up."
These students were basically students who were about to graduate. Under the threat of the teacher that they would not be issued a diploma if they didn't go, the group embarked on the "Western Expedition" journey.
In the car, Rong Lanqiang, as the commander-in-chief of the "Western Expedition Army", told his students: "Don't be afraid. It's not illegal to be ruthless and beat them to death. You are students and the police can't arrest you."
Later, Rong Lanqiang distributed weapons such as wooden sticks, shovels, brooms, and dustpans to each student, as well as military supplies such as "two steamed buns, a bag of mustard, and a bottle of water."
Moreover, Rong Lanqiang also arranged troops for everyone: the tall students took brooms and shovels to attack, and the short students followed with dustpans for defense. Everyone formed a "Macedonian phalanx" and rushed in...
"Cleaning" site
On the other side, Kong Suying's father, who was well aware that "no one came here with good intentions", had gathered his "old friends" early to block the entrance of the community, refusing to let anyone in or out. If the other party refuses to give up, then he will choose to lead the "old thick rice" to lie on the ground and shout "killer".
But the fermentation of the matter was beyond anyone’s imagination. The conflict between the two sides quickly turned from verbal abuse to physical conflict, and Rong Lanqiang took the lead and led the students into the "senior gangster group" and started the "unparalleled mode".
In the chaos, many students, teachers and elderly people were injured, and Kong Suying's father suffered a bloody head injury. A large number of innocent buildings on the roadside were also damaged, leaving the scene in a mess.
This farce also became another turning point in "Lan Xiang's" "fame".
After the incident, Rong Lanxiang did not come forward to make any response. However, he still divorced Kong Suying. However, because the impact of this "cross-province gang fight" was too exaggerated, "Lan Xiang" became a "beater Xiang" and "group fight Xiang", and even faced the embarrassing situation of "not being able to recruit students."
Interestingly, Rong Lanxiang escaped unscathed in this incident. His second brother Rong Lanqiang took the initiative to take over all responsibilities and was eventually imprisoned.
On the other side, Kong Suying's plan failed, so she thought of another plan to "draw the fire under the cauldron".
On the surface, she said that both parties should calm down. After all, a couple's love lasts for a hundred days. Even if the relationship has faded now, there was love in the past, so the two parties should not be so tense. In secret, Kong Suying secretly printed a large number of blank contracts, forced her daughters to sign as "Rong Lanxiang's heirs", and sold these properties at prices well below the market price - buyers could have zero down payment, installments, credit cards, and they could move in by paying 10,000 yuan, and get a full set of furniture and appliances for 50,000 yuan. But there's just one thing: all contracts must be signed before the court reopens.
However, the paper could not contain the fire after all. Kong Suying's "drawing out the fire under the cauldron" was only half completed before she was discovered by Rong Lanxiang. Subsequently, he prosecuted Kong Suying and others for "illegal disposal of property."
"Waiting for others" means that Kong Suying's daughters, as Party A's signatories, are naturally involved. Therefore, the mother and daughter were sentenced to prison together.
At this point, Kong Suying probably didn't expect that the man she had spent time with decades ago and talked about her ambitions to the man would now personally send herself and her daughter to prison.
And this dispute seems to have ended here. Obviously, Rong Lanxiang became the man who had the last laugh.
However, what people did not expect was that just after Kong Suying was released from prison in 2020, she was re-indicted by Rong Lanxiang on the same charges, and crimes such as "forging contracts" and "forcing relatives to give perjury" were added.
Kong Suying, who was unable to argue, thus experienced a "second entry into the palace."
However, Kong Suying was not idle this time in prison. She reported that Rong Lanxiang used multiple fake IDs to open a handbag company to evade taxes. She hoped that the law could severely punish her ex-husband and send him to experience prison life.
While Rong Lanxiang denied Kong Suying's accusation, he secretly made up the tax and successfully avoided legal punishment. At this point, Kong Suying's hope that the couple would "share joys and sorrows" together was dashed again.
By 2022, Kong Suying was released again after serving her sentence.
But she obviously doesn't intend to let Rong Lanxiang go yet. The first thing she did after she was released from prison was to speak out publicly to all media and continue to report Rong Lanxiang's more explosive illegal behaviors with her real name, such as "hiding guns and raping female teachers".
But what she didn't know was that during her time in prison, the outside environment had already changed.
Now, Rong Lanxiang has lost his right to speak on the board of directors and withdrew from the management of "Lanxiang Group", leaving a lot of mess to his son and left sadly. The sons of both parties chose to sever ties with the two because they had never benefited from their parents, but had to wipe their butts. The Tianlun Garden was originally the property of the company, but was later sold to other companies, filling the gap between the company and the school. The hole in the school had nothing to do with Rong Lanxiang and Kong Suying from now on; her daughter, who had once obeyed her, was no longer willing to believe her mother. After her mother reported her father in real name, she quickly used her identity as "Rong Lanxiang and Kong Suying's daughter" to publicly deny all her mother's "reports" in the media, and once again reported that her mother still committed crimes such as "illegal transfer of large amounts of assets and illegal sale of real estate."
This time, Kong Suying chose to remain silent.
And this matter seems to have finally settled down.
However, the "Lan Xiang" we are familiar with has also fallen into disrepair due to a series of farces, and it was recently discovered that it had chosen to cancel its trademark.
Although "Lanxiang" officially stated that this will not affect the school's continued enrollment, it is just a normal change of personnel. But will this affect the brand name of "Lanxiang"? Does it mean that the "Rong family" who founded "Lanxiang" has officially withdrawn from "Lanxiang" and that "Lanxiang" will no longer have a surname?
neither knows.
However, what is certain is that now the eight parents and children of the Rong family have turned against each other, and no one wants to see anyone else. The "Lan Xiang" who once "talked and laughed happily" with Google and the National Security Agency of the United States is gone forever.
Speaking of which, I am reminded of what the Colombian writer García Márquez wrote in One Hundred Years of Solitude: "All the brilliance that has ever existed in life must eventually be repaid with loneliness."
And now, the eight people of "Lan Xiang" and "Lan Xiang Family" seem to have perfectly confirmed this sentence.
"Lanxiang family, one hundred years of solitude."