Chapter 254: The Texas Consortium
Of course, Li Guangyu can't only develop California, but all the U.S. headquarters of the Lee Group are located in California.
Li Guangyu said: "Mr. Bu Shen, many of my group's businesses are expanding markets across the United States, for example, your Dallas side also has direct stores and franchise stores of our Hongyu Group's brands. You say we're only going to develop California, but where do you start?"
Smith Hill said: "Mr. Lee, Mr. Bu Shen means that all of your corporate headquarters are located in California, and most of the investments are also in California. We don't think this is the best for the development of your Lee Group, do you have any plans to set up a headquarters in our Texas?"
Li Guangyu suddenly fell silent, thinking carefully about what these two meant. Lee is now unsure if this is their own intention or if the people behind them think so.
Behind these two must be the Bu Shen family and the Texas Foundation, they are now focused on business development, and the Bu Shen family, as a political family, should not target themselves, so what does the Texas Consortium think about themselves.
This time, Xiao Bu Shen and Smith Hill also had someone behind them, who instructed them to test whether Lee Guangyu could join their Texas consortium. The current position of the Texas consortium is very embarrassing, and if you are not careful, you will fall out of the top ten ranks, and after investigating the development of Li Guangyu in recent years, they hope to use Li Guangyu to stabilize the status of the consortium. Flash Dance
Smith Hill looked at Li Guangyu and said to Li Guangyu: "Mr. Li, we don't have any malicious intentions, and many of our Texas families want to cooperate with you. ”
Li Guangyu has no intention of cooperating with the Texas consortium at present, they are mainly engaged in the oil and arms industry, Li Guangyu is not interested in arms, as for the oil aspect, Li Guangyu prefers to cooperate with the British, Li Guangyu is worried that his group will cooperate with the Texas consortium, and then it will be swallowed up.
Besides, if I had cooperated with the consortium earlier, I would have looked for the California consortium, which is now the third largest consortium in the United States, with strong strength, and the southern consortium is fighting against the eastern consortium.
Li Guangyu said: "Mr. Hill, the major groups of our Li Group have just started, and it is still the time to build a foundation, and there is no plan to expand in a general trend for the time being. ”
While Li Guangyu was talking, an old man who was nearly seventy years old walked over, and after Smith Hill's introduction, Li Guangyu knew the origin of this person. One of the main flagships of the Texas consortium, K.W. McKitson, the head of the McKiton family, the head of the First National Bank of Dallas.
The McKitson family is also the largest individual shareholder in Tennical Corporation, the largest oil and gas pipeline transportation company in the United States.
Li Guangyu still said to him very politely: "Mr. McKitson, it is a pleasure to meet you. ”
K.W. McKison said, "Mr. Lee, I've been following you for a long time, and I'm finally meeting with you this time. Your development path, we all feel that this is writing a legend, God seems to have been by your side, so that your development in just a few years has exceeded the efforts of many families for decades or even hundreds of years. ”
K.W. McKison's family has a lot of information about Li Guangyu, and the more he looks at it, the more frightened he becomes, he can't imagine that a person has never failed in entrepreneurship, and he can quickly make profits in any industry.
Not to mention the companies on the Xiangjiang side, the same is true for companies in the United States. Not long after the establishment of Xinghong Sports Group, the Lakers won the championship and the Kings also reached the playoffs. The market value of the companies invested by Tianyu Investment Company in Silicon Valley is also skyrocketing.
He sometimes looked at Li Guangyu's relevant reports, and would sigh why his own children did not have such ability, how could God favor this young man in the East so much.
This time, the Texas consortium hopes to absorb Li Guangyu, which he also single-handedly promoted, and he hopes that Li Guangyu can help the Texas consortium to attack the previous consortium and avoid the current consortium from being in such an embarrassing position as the tenth.
Li Guangyu said: "Mr. McKison, I am deeply honored to be valued by you, and my luck is indeed a little better, perhaps it is the help of God that I can achieve such good results. ”
K.W. McKison said: "Mr. Li, we know that you have cooperated with the Sumitomo Foundation in Japan to facilitate the development of your group in Japan, and you have established a joint venture with the Fujiwara family to establish a real estate group, have you ever thought about finding a partner in the United States to assist in the development of your group?"
Li Guangyu's cooperation with the Sumitomo family is only to obtain funds from Sumitomo Bank for the development of his own group, and then the accounts of his Japanese company are all from Sumitomo Bank, which is mutually beneficial, and the Sumitomo family will not affect Li Guangyu's control of his group.
Li Guangyu does not want his group to let these people hold shares, and when the group is controlled by others, what else can he do?
"Mr. McKison, thank you for your kindness, our group has not carried out a major expansion for the time being, so we have no funding gap for the time being, and as you know, our cooperation with the Sumitomo family is mainly due to Sumitomo Bank to fund our expansion. ”
K.W. McKison heard what Lee Kwang Woo meant, he didn't want outsiders to enter his group, and it seemed unlikely that the Texas consortium would want to absorb him. The stability of the consortium cannot be guaranteed if it is not possible to cross-hold shares within the group. Except for the Morgan, DuPont, Mellon, and Rockefeller families, they themselves are conglomerates, and their main business is controlled by their own families.
Thinking of this, K.W. McKison looked at Li Guangyu, this young man who is not yet twenty years old this year will not have such great ambitions, does he also want to become a consortium like these big families, so he is unwilling to let outsiders get involved in the major groups in his hands.
K.W. McKitson was not talking to Lee about bringing Lee to Texas, but chatted with Lee about the current state of the U.S. economy and asked Lee if he had any views.
What can Li Guangyu think, this problem is because of the oil crisis, and now the US economy is facing the economic rise of Japan and West Germany, and many products are not dominated by the United States, and most of the reasons have led to the decline of the US economy.
Li Guangyu said: "I don't know much about the specific situation of the US economy, and I believe that under the leadership of President Reagan, the US economy will definitely be able to get out of the haze and develop for the better." ”
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When Li Guangyu left the city government banquet hall, it was already past eleven o'clock in the evening. When Li Guangyu talked about the issue of the Texas consortium, he knew that if he did not come this time, it was estimated that the transaction with Texas Instruments would not be reached.
Li Guangyu said to Du Yonghong beside him: "You have worked hard these days, and you must pay attention to vigilance." ”
"Li Sheng, has something happened?" asked Du Yonghong.
Li Guangyu briefly talked about Du Yonghong, who was at the reception.