Lin Yilong hates the so-called "business war".

What exactly does this word mean? Trade tariffs are considered commercial wars, equity protection is commercial wars, mortgage short sales are commercial wars against gambling, and gadolinium short delivery is also commercial wars -- but in the end, these enumerated methods cannot be exhausted, and it seems that as long as two enterprises are in opposition regardless of whether there is a competitive relationship or not, it is considered a "business war." But in essence, it is just a competitive relationship. As for how the means (including hot war), or whether the competition is out of line, after the final winner is selected, it is completely meaningless.

This is a battlefield that is really free of gunpowder, or even a battlefield: even the parties concerned in many cases only see the results of the war, and do not see the tactical flow of any battlefield - while fighting, they have the whole world.

Lin Yilong does not have the ambition of the whole world, and as far as he is concerned, the coexistence of all the powers is the required environment, and many times it is necessary to balance in some places very boringly - even if it is limited to many conditions, it is impossible to balance the essence.

The country's chaebol, of course, is unbalanced to ordinary people, but it is also a problem of this country, and such enterprises are inevitably needed in the international market to balance or cushion the impact of direct capital control. What's more, these chaebol-controlled families themselves are not special: the head of a person with profits of tens of billions of dollars, the total amount of various salaries and stock dividends every year is only "a mere number" of about a few tens of billions of yuan, which is only 60 million or even less when converted into US dollars. This "pitiful number" is a shame compared with the annual income of the head of the fund on Wall Street, which is often one or two hundred million US dollars.

This is by no means a whitewash for these chaebols, because in the most glorious years, the country passed legislation prohibiting the chaebols from exercising absolute control over the chaebols through the usual forms of finance, such as the investment banking model represented by Sumitomo, Mitsubishi, and Fuji, as in the island country next door. On the one hand, this restricts the chaebol from further "winner-takes-all", but on the other hand, it also makes the behemoth for ordinary people, from the perspective of pure income dividends, not too much into the stream.

Even the income in the capital market and the dividends of the law firm do not need to be counted, and the annual cash income of more than two million pounds subsidized by Bracken Forest Farm alone, Lin Yilong's net worth is almost enough to overwhelm almost all the heads of small chaebols and the middle level of big chaebols.

The financial confidence makes Lin Yilong not need to be particularly respectful when facing the customers who bring business to him.

"This is President Kang. On Tuesday night, considering Lim Eui-ryong's tastes, Representative Lee introduced Chairman Kang of the company he represented to Lim Eui-ryong in a private room at an American steakhouse in Itaewon.

Katie received clear instructions from Mr. Lin on Sunday, and she replied to Mr. Lee's email that he would try not to use a language other than English in such business banquets because Mr. Lin would submit an overview. Fortunately, President Kang's English is quite good and he can understand the meaning of the language spoken by Lin Yilong.

"Fortunately!" Lin Yilong and Chairman Kang greeted each other, and then sat down.

Chairman Kang is younger than Father Lin, but much older than Representative Li, with a square face, glasses, and somewhat fluffy hair, and a standard local "beer uncle" look.

"I'm sorry, because I don't know Chairman Kang, so I can only be introduced by Representative Li in a formal setting, so please bear with me. Lin Yilong's tone was humble, but his words were very hard.

"That's fine, because we all speak English, so we can avoid some confusion. Vice President Kang replied, completely unable to see joy and sorrow.

Representative Li then gave a little overview of his employer, which everyone knows about in their hearts.

"So, what can I do for you?" Lin Yilong asked.

"We would like to ask Mr. Lin to use his influence to help us with some convenient information about our acquisitions in Europe. President Kang explained the reason for the meeting with Mr. Lin, "I learned from Representative Li that he was able to suddenly intervene in the acquisition of Merck Industries because of Mr. Lin's recommendation. ”

"It's just a marketing strategy, and I'm sure both gentlemen understand it. Lin Yilong smiled and did not answer directly, "Moreover, Merck is one of the few businesses in our business consulting, and our success is thanks to the success of Representative Li." ”

"We just have some specific goals and would like to ask Mr. Lin for some advice. Chairman Kang then took out a piece of paper with no less than ten patent numbers on it.

"I'm afraid we can't do this business. Lin Yilong shook his head, "We don't do this kind of business related to intellectual property. ”

"I think you can still help us with that. Mr. Kang replied, "We only need to get the authorization of these patents, and how to obtain the authorization is entirely up to your firm's suggestion, just the result, regardless of the process." ”

"This kind of thing, a specialized investment bank will be more professional than us. Lin Yilong didn't choose to take over, "Why did you choose us?"

"Because of the cooperation with your firm last time, we have seen Mr. Lin's personal methods. Mr. Li replied, "There are many such consulting agencies with which we can cooperate, but Mr. Lin is the only one who has the ability and is familiar with our real situation. Therefore, rather than saying that we are willing to hand over this matter to your firm, we are more willing to hand over this matter to Mr. Lin personally. ”

"Thank you for the compliments. Lin Yilong chose to accept this kind of commission, "Since this is the case, I will be disrespectful." But before I formally sign the entrustment agreement, I would like to ask, how much capital does your company want to provide in these businesses?"

"The less the merrier, the total does not exceed 22 million euros. Chairman Kang replied.

"20% of the work is paid. Without thinking about it, Lin Yilong proposed this figure, "Moreover, the total amount of money saved, you will pay me 35 cents more per euro, on the contrary, as long as you pay more than every euro, we will subsidize you 35 cents." ”

"Add it high enough. President Kang and Lin Yilong looked at each other for a while and sighed.

"This is my partner's offer and that if you are willing to accept it, we will take the job, and if you don't, you can choose another consulting agency. Lin Yilong finished what he was going to say, took a sip of Qingyi Coke, and waited for President Kang's decision.

"We need to report to the president of our club before we can give Mr. Lin an answer. President Kang found that this was more than the maximum amount he could handle, "Please give us three days, and we will reply to Mr. Lin by noon on Friday." ”

"Yes. Lin Yilong replied.

The three of them spent a total of 35 minutes waiting for the steak to be served, but it only took 10 minutes to eat the steak, and Chairman Kang didn't have time to drink coffee before getting up and leaving, asking Representative Li to entertain Lin Yilong.