The next morning, Guangzhou Post and Telecommunications Bureau.

Li Wenhui sat in the hall, pondering the words Huo Yaowen said before parting yesterday, while glancing at the staff at the counter in front of him from time to time.

He came here early today, ready to make a phone call back to Hong Kong, but if he wants to call Hong Kong this year, he needs to wait at least one to two hours.

The whole process is manual operation, this end of the call to the headquarters to report the Hong Kong side of the number, and then the headquarters of the people to contact the Hong Kong side of the telephone bureau, and then the Hong Kong telephone bureau dials the number over there, and finally the two sides of the phone docking.

During this period, if it is fast, it will only take more than half an hour, and if it is slow, it may take a long time.

This is much slower than sending a telegram, but although it is a little faster, the telegram is one-way and cannot be communicated between the two sides.

I don't know how long it has been, after a young female worker at the post office counter answered a phone call, she immediately got up and shouted to the people waiting to answer the phone in the hall: "The call from Hong Kong, who made the Hong Kong call, hurry up and answer it." ”

"It's coming, it's coming!"

Li Wenhui heard the counter person shouting to himself, and hurriedly got up and walked over, first said thank you, and then picked up the microphone handed over by the staff.

"Is it Wen Hui?" said Li Yongsen on the other end of the phone.

"It's my father. The voice was very noisy, but Li Wenhui could still hear it clearly.

"What's the matter with me in such a hurry?"

"Father, I met Huo Yaowen in the hotel yesterday!"

"Huo Yaowen?" Li Yongsen frowned and said, "What's the matter?

Li Wenhui shook his head: "Without a father, how could I have a conflict with Huo Yaowen, it's just that when I chatted with him, I felt that he was also ready to invest in the mainland." ”

"That's it?"

Li Yongsen was a little crying and laughing at his son's behavior, but it is easy to understand when he thinks about it, after all, he has just graduated from college and will inevitably have concerns when he returns to the mainland for the first time.

After thinking about it, he said: "Hong Kong can see the future market of the domestic market, but my father and I are not alone, but many people have more scruples. When I joined the delegation to the north the year before last, I chatted with Huo Yaowen a few times, and from his words, I could tell that he was very optimistic about the mainland market.

Moreover, at the beginning, more than 30 people in the delegation went north, and in the end, except for him and Huo Guantai, few people cooperated with the mainland.

"No, not this. Li Wenhui hurriedly shook his head and said: "If you invest in the mainland, I won't call my father anymore, mainly because I feel that Huo Yaowen seems to be preparing to do electrical appliances business in the mainland." ”

"Are you sure?!"

"I'm not sure, but yesterday afternoon I had afternoon tea with Fok Yiu-man, and before parting, he told me that he wanted to set up an electrical company in Hong Kong. ”

Establishment of an electrical appliance company......

Li Yongsen, who was sitting at home in Hong Kong, heard his son's words, his brows suddenly wrinkled, the year before last he went north and found that there was basically no electrical appliance market in the mainland, so in December last year, after the reform and opening up of the mainland, he learned the good news, and immediately asked his son, who had just graduated, to go to the mainland in person to listen to the specific details of the reform and opening up there.

Although Li Yongsen is known as the king of electrical appliances, and his Hutchison electrical industry is also the overlord of the electrical market in Hong Kong, his foundation is mainly in Southeast Asia, where the economic conditions of the people are not as good as Hong Kong, so some cheap electrical appliances of Hutchison electrical agents are sold very well there, and at its peak, it almost monopolized more than 30% of the market in Southeast Asia, thus bringing him the title of the king of electrical appliances and a huge amount of wealth.

It can be said that if Huo Yaowen established an electrical appliance company for the mainland market, he Li Yongsen may not be able to do it to the other party, on the one hand, because Hutchison Electric is mainly based on agents, and the company does not have a lot of cash, and secondly, Huo Yaowen has the foundation of previous cooperation with the mainland, and his congenital conditions are much higher than him.

In addition, Huo Yaowen's Hutchison Whampoa also has several electrical appliance stores, and if the other party really does it, it will be troublesome.

"Father, father......" Li Wenhui saw that he didn't speak for a long time, and thought that the line was broken.

"I hear you. Li Yongsen pondered for a moment before he said: "In this way, you will first contact Huo Yaowen in the past few days to find out if he wants to set up an electrical company, if you really have this plan, call me when the time comes, and I will come over in person." ”

Originally, Li Yongsen wanted his son to talk about cooperation with Huo Yaowen, but after thinking about it, his son had just graduated and had no experience, so he decided to come in person, on the one hand, to reflect his attitude towards cooperation, and on the other hand, to inquire about Huo Yaowen's specific plans.

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When Li Yongsen's father and son were worried about Huo Yaowen's involvement in the mainland electrical appliance market, Huo Yaowen at this moment did not think about how to open an electrical appliance company at all, but was chatting with Huo Guantai, who had just flown back from the capital.

Hearing Huo Yaowen say that he took his family back to his hometown to visit relatives a few days ago, Huo Guantai laughed, "This is a good thing, originally before going to the capital this time, I also wanted to take Zhenting and Lingling back to their hometown in Panyu, but the work was urgent, so I didn't lead them back." ”

Huo Yaowen grinned and said: "I said that before I went back to the mainland, I called Uncle Huo, but it was Brother Zhenting who answered the phone, and he also said that you went back to the mainland a few days ago." ”

"Well, I wasn't in Hong Kong at the time. Huo Guantai glanced at the bodyguards and several employees brought by Huo Yaowen, who were sitting not far away, and asked curiously: "Yaowen, did you come to Guangzhou to inspect the market here?"

"Yes, I asked President Wang before I came, and I knew what reform and opening up is, so I naturally wanted to invest here, and by the way, I would develop my hometown in Zhongshan. It's just that I asked Director Ma yesterday, and he said that there is no relevant policy for the time being, and I don't know how long it will take. ”

Speaking of this, Huo Yaowen looked at Huo Guantai and said with a smile: "Uncle Huo, you know a lot of people, I don't know when you can do it?"

"Well......" Huo Guantai pondered for a while, thought for a while, shook his head and said: "I don't know what kind of form the specific reform and opening up is, but I can clearly tell you that there may be a big change in the previous economic system in China, and you should wait for Director Ma's reply." ”

Seeing that Huo Guantai had reservations, Huo Yaowen didn't ask any more, and changed the topic with a smile: "Then I'll wait for Director Ma to reply." By the way, Uncle Huo, Director Ma told me yesterday that an international hotel is going to be built in Guangzhou, and you always seem to be one of the investors. ”

"Yes, this time I went to the capital to build a hotel. When we came here the year before last, didn't we hear what Director Ma said? The Canton Fair is the most important foreign export trading market in China at present, and the scale has become larger and larger in recent years, and more and more foreign businessmen have come, and it is obviously not enough to have a Baiyun hotel. ”

Huo Guantai has no intention of hiding this, after all, the planning is about to begin, and the design drawings are also being prepared, and sooner or later they will be announced.

After listening, it was determined that this hotel was the White Swan Hotel in later generations, Huo Yaowen's heart became active, he vaguely remembered that in the 8-90s, this hotel was basically used to entertain foreign guests, and the Queen of England had stayed there, so such a good project would naturally not give up.

Immediately, he asked in a half-joking tone: "I don't know if this hotel is short of funds? I don't know when Director Ma will be able to reply, and I am about to go back to Hong Kong, so I can't go to Guangzhou in vain." ”

"This ......"

Huo Guantai is not reluctant in his heart, he has known Huo Yaowen for many years, and he has an uncle-nephew relationship, and there are also a lot of cooperative businesses in Hong Kong, and the other party wants to buy shares in a hotel business. It's just that even the big people in the capital attach great importance to this hotel, and the planning has already been done, so they boldly let Huo Yaowen in, and I don't know if the above agrees.

"It's okay, I'll just say it in passing. ”

Huo Yaowen immediately smiled and brushed the matter aside. Seeing Huo Guantai hesitate, he knew that this project was half a government project, and it would be difficult to participate in it halfway, so he simply gave up the plan to invest in the White Swan Hotel, anyway, it was just a hotel, and it was naturally good to participate, and if it didn't work, there would be no big loss.

It's just that what Huo Yaowen never expected was that half a month later, the mainland person in charge of the hotel project not only took the initiative to contact him, but also hoped that Huo Yaowen could participate in the cooperation.

Huo Yaowen, who had just returned to Hong Kong, was still a little confused at the time, but after reading the newspaper, he realized that it was the designer who said something during his visit to the United States, "Children are disobedient, it's time to spank." ”

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