Anna took a shower and walked out of the bathroom, and saw her husband and the two little ones sitting there motionless, so she couldn't help but take a few steps closer curiously, put her hands on Huo Yaowen's back, and asked Xiaobao and Xiaohu, "Xiaobao Xiaohu, what game are you playing with Dad?"

"Mom, we're playing 123 Wooden Man. Xiaohu said.

"Brother, you've lost!

Hearing Xiaohu speak, Xiaobao stood up happily.

"I didn't move!" Xiaohu said unconvinced: "You just moved, you stood up." ”

"Your mouth moves, and Dad says you have to stay still. Xiaobao pointed to his brother's mouth.

Xiaohu said aggrievedly: "I didn't, I just answered my mother's question." ”

"Okay, little tiger, it's just a game. ”

Anna walked over and hugged Xiaohu into her arms, seeing that his eyes were red, as if he was about to cry, and said with some distress: "Xiaohu, can you tell your mother how to play this game?"

"It's my dad who shouted 123, and then my sister and I had to stay motionless, and whoever moved would lose, but my dad didn't say that he couldn't speak. Xiaohu said as he glanced at his father, as if he wanted to throw the fault of his defeat on him.

Seeing that the little guy was about to shake the pot, Huo Yaowen cried and laughed: "Yes, yes, it's Dad who didn't make it clear, Dad lost this round." ”

"Yes, Dad is so bad, it's all Daddy's fault. Seeing her husband's deflated face, Anna covered her mouth and snickered: "Is it okay for your mother to play with you?"

"Okay, okay, Mom, I'll teach you how to be a wooden man. ”

Xiaohu heard that his mother wanted to play with him, and happily explained the rules of this game to Anna.

Xiaobao on the side was not happy, and also ran into Anna's arms, scrambling to teach his mother how to play this game.

The two little guys tossed for a while, and Huo Yaowen and Anna played together for more than half an hour before sending the two reluctant Xiaobao and Xiaohu who wanted to continue playing to the next room to sleep.

"Whew, I'm finally asleep. ”

Seeing his son and daughter asleep, Huo Yaowen couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, he could be regarded as experiencing the pain of bringing a baby during this time.

When I didn't speak much or walk, I cried a lot, but I was comforted for a while.

But now these two little guys are about to be three years old, which is the age of being active and easy to talk, at the end of the day, I don't toss myself tired, and I almost don't want to sleep at all, and I can't wait to have someone to play and talk with me 24 hours a day.

"You're in the company during the day, and you only stay with them when you come back at night. Anna gave her husband a blank look.

Huo Yaowen hugged Anna and apologized: "Yes, yes, haven't you been busy lately? After this time, I can spend more time with you and your children." ”

"Don't make a fuss, the kids are still there. ”

Suddenly feeling that the cafeteria was arrested, Anna glanced at Xiaobao and Xiaohu on the bed with a little weakness, and saw that they were already asleep, so she slapped Huo Yaowen's bad hand.

"They all slept. ”

"You can't sleep even if you sleep. ”

"Then let's go back to our room. ”

Saying that, Huo Yaowen didn't care about Anna, just hugged him, slipped out of the baby room, entered his room, and closed the door.

"Nasty, I just took a shower. An indelible flush appeared on Anna's face.

Huo Yaowen smiled evilly: "Then wash it again." ”

Soon there was a "creaking" sound in the room.

It's been a while.

Inside the futon, Anna gasped for breath and eased for a long time before she said, "My dear, my mother sent a telegram today. ”

"What's wrong?" Huo Yaowen asked as he played with the cafeteria.

Anna said: "I said that I missed Xiaobao and Xiaohu, and wanted me to take the child back to the UK to show her." ”

"Since Mrs. Michelle misses the two of them, take them back to see, do you need me to accompany you?" Huo Yaowen asked.

Upon hearing this, Anna asked curiously: "Haven't you been quite busy lately, and do you have time to accompany me to the UK?"

Huo Yaowen shook his head and said: "It's very busy, but I have found a new general manager, and when the time comes, I will take over the work of Hutchison Whampoa with him, and I still have time to accompany you back to the UK to see Mrs. Michelle." ”

Now Hutchison Whampoa does have a lot of things to deal with, but these are all in charge of a special staff, and he only needs to grasp the general direction.

In terms of experience in managing companies, Huo Yaowen really doesn't have much, he has established so many companies, except for the Hong Kong University Press, which he did personally at the beginning, and almost all of the rest are entrusted to the people below.

In his opinion, it is enough to have a firm grasp of the financial department and the general manager who executes the management.

Don't look at the later generations of the Internet often say that the chairman of so-and-so, the big boss of so-and-so went to work at eight o'clock in the morning, year after year, for decades, in fact, many of these people are not directly leading or running the company.

Like Huo Yaowen, they are just controlling the general direction.

As for insisting on going to work at eight o'clock every day, this still depends on personal habits, Huo Yaowen is not used to staying in the company every day anyway.

……

The next afternoon.

In the conference room of the Hutchison Whampoa Headquarters Building, Huo Yaowen met the legendary Englishman Ma Shimin, who earned tens of billions of dollars for Xiao Li!

As soon as he entered the conference room, Huo Yaowen noticed the middle-aged man next to Davide, with brown hair and leather shoes, looking very energetic.

Davide stood up and said, "Boss, this is Mr. Murray." ”

Huo Yaowen stretched out his hand and smiled in English: "Hello Mr. Mori." ”

Ma Shimin said in Cantonese: "Mr. Huo, you can call me Ma Shimin, I have been in Hong Kong for more than 20 years, and I have long been accustomed to others calling me by my Chinese name." ”

As soon as he heard such a standard Cantonese, Huo Yaowen suddenly sighed inexplicably in his heart, why did all these ghosts he met speak Cantonese so fluently!

Because Ma Shimin has agreed to come to Hutchison Whampoa to work, the next conversation, Huo Yaowen and his conversation, is nothing more than to talk about the recent Hong Kong economy, as well as the future development of the real estate industry, and his personal perspective from the perspective of a bystander.

The previous remarks are very common, they are optimistic about the future development of Hong Kong's economy and real estate industry, but when talking about Hutchison Whampoa, Ma Shimin said: "In fact, I have always been very optimistic about the development of Hutchison Whampoa, especially when you integrate the resources of Hutchison & Co., Whampoa and Whampoa Dockyard and its hundreds of subsidiaries, I believe that Hutchison Whampoa will surpass the three major foreign companies in the future, Jardine Matheson, Swire and Wheelock." ”

"Mr. Ma, can you elaborate?" Although Huo Yaowen doesn't know much about the economy and the real estate industry, he can't compare to Ma Shimin, an old man in real estate, so he can only rely on his memory for decades to plan.

But over the years, he has seen people and things very well, so he heard Ma Shimin's words nothing more than elevating himself and lifting him by the way.

"Hong Kong's four major foreign firms, Hutchison, Jardine Matheson, Swire and Wheelock have been in business for hundreds of years, and it can be said that they are present in all walks of life in Hong Kong, involving countless fields, which has created the four major foreign banks to almost monopolize Hong Kong's business for decades. However, it is precisely because there are too many businesses and the subsidiaries are mixed, and once the stock market fluctuates, it is easy to be affected, just like the previous Hutchison & Co. ......"

Ma Shimin said a lot, and to elaborate briefly, that is, the four major foreign banks have a common problem, and there are too many miscellaneous subsidiaries!

Although it is a good thing to say that there are many subsidiaries and represent their strength, once there are too many businesses, it is easy to appear bloated, resulting in unnecessary expenses and some undesirable investments.

In fact, Ma Shimin is right, whether it is Hutchison Whampoa, or Jardine Matheson, Swire and Wheelock, since entering the 70s, they are all facing a series of various contradictions and problems.

In addition to the problems of the headquarters, there are also the problems of various branches, coupled with the complex competition for power and profit of the board of directors, so that China Commercial Capital found an opportunity for development, so in the early eighties, Hutchison Whampoa was secretly acquired by Xiao Li, and the Wharf business of Jardine Matheson was acquired by the charter king, the company was seriously damaged, and within a few years, Wheelock and Fung were directly annexed by the charter king.

The four oceans went to three at once.

"Bang Bang ......"

Huo Yaowen agreed with Ma Shimin's words, and couldn't help applauding in agreement, and said with a smile: "What Mr. Ma said is so good, I want to ask you to be the new executive general manager of Hutchison Whampoa is my wisest decision." ”

Ma Shimin said: "Mr. Huo is polite, and I am very happy to be able to join Hutchison Whampoa. ”

"In a few days, I will hold a board meeting and introduce Mr. Ma to the board of directors, and then you will officially take office. ”

"Okay. ”

……

A few days later, Huo Yaowen dealt with Ma Shimin's employment, and was going to take Anna, Xiaobao and Xiaohu to the UK by plane to visit his mother-in-law, Mrs. Michelle, but who knew that Xiaobao suddenly had a low-grade fever and could only postpone his trip to the UK.

During Xiaobao's recuperation, Huo Yaowen spent more time writing "Game of Thrones 2" and "Harry Potter 4" at home, focusing on the big movie "Jurassic Park"!

The year before last, Toho Co., Ltd. had the intention of cooperating with Fok Yaowen to shoot this "Jurassic Park", but at that time, Fok Yaowen was busy returning to Hong Kong to acquire Hutchison & Co., and he has been stranded until now.

A few days ago, Toho Co., Ltd. sent a telegram, saying that it was very much hoped to cooperate with Huo Yaowen on this movie, and at the same time was willing to give up a part of the share, hoping to impress Huo Yaowen with sincerity.

I have to say that this temptation is still quite big, which is equivalent to Huo Yaowen's profit of about 8%, he thought about it for a few days, and then asked Wen Yingguang to reply to the Japanese side, saying that he agreed to shoot "Jurassic Park", and the specific cooperation needs to be further negotiated.

When I was still waiting for news from Japan, I didn't know what Fox got from there, so I sent a telegram, saying that I wanted to participate in this dinosaur movie.

Seeing that Fox took the initiative to send it to the door, Huo Yaowen did not refuse.

Nowadays, in the global film market, the largest box office is still North America, followed by Europe and Asia.

Don't worry about Asia, Toho and Universal Films' distribution capabilities are still very good.

But not in North America and Europe.

I previously collaborated with Twentieth Century Fox on the first part of "1999", and I saw their ability to publish, although the speed of the ending was too slow, but there was no cheating and slippery behavior.

So Huo Yaowen thought about it and agreed to join Fox.

As for Fox's proposal to continue to cooperate with the second part of "1999", Huo Yaowen also agreed, but there is a premise, that is, the director must still be George Lucas.

Speaking of which, since "1999" exceeded 800 million at the global box office in 1974, George Lucas has not only become a well-known Hollywood director with this film, but also internationally renowned, and his popularity is no less than that of "The Godfather 2" in 1974, which won the Academy Award for Best Director, American contemporary film master Francis Ford Coppola.

For this request, Fox agreed to it, and said that after the film is filmed, it will invest no less than 10 million US dollars in global publicity expenses.

Fox is willing to pay to promote the movie, and Huo Yaowen naturally has no reason not to agree.

When these two things were over, the time had reached the beginning of April, and Xiaobao, who had a fever, had already recovered, Huo Yaowen was still packing his luggage at home, and was about to accompany Anna to fly back to the UK to visit relatives in a few days, but he received a call from Zhang Chengyi.

Huo Yaowen has always been very respectful to Teacher Zhang, since he retired at home, Huo Yaowen often went to visit, so after a period of greetings on the phone, Zhang Chengyi explained the purpose of the call, "Yaowen, Hong Kong Chinese University is preparing to hold an Asian literature exchange meeting, I don't know if you are free?"

"Asian Literary Exchange?"

"Yes, Chinese University attaches great importance to this literary exchange meeting, and not only invited well-known literati writers from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, but also invited writers and literati from Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and other well-known writers in the field of literature......

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