As early as the early 80s, Evergreen Group set its sights on the Asia-Pacific region, actively looking for investment opportunities in the Asia-Pacific region, and has made great progress in more than ten years, but its industrial focus is still in Western Europe.

Located in the heart of the City of London, Four Seasons Evergreen is one of the most high-end properties in the UK.

The Four Seasons Evergreen Hotel, which is full of skyscrapers in the financial city and has a net height of more than 240 meters, is not very eye-catching, but in London, where the capital market is fully developed, this skyscraper integrating hotels, apartments, office buildings and shopping malls has a total asset value of nearly one billion pounds.

After introducing Shen Huai to Wu Wenxiong, Sun Qishan would not stay to attend the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner held by the British Chinese Merchants Association in the evening, and he would rush back to Paris.

And the next trip in the UK, Sun Yalin will accompany Shen Huai to complete, and naturally live with Shen Huai in the Four Seasons Evergreen Hotel; they also plan to go to the hotel for a little rectification first, and then go to meet the Wu family.

Sun Qishan came over, and the hotel also prepared a luxury suite on the top floor for Shen Huai, who stood in front of the glass curtain window and looked at the bustling street scene of the City of London in the afternoon at his feet.

Although he devoured the memories of others, and was no stranger to the extravagant and flashy life and the Western society where things were rampant, he was not as impressed as he was to trample the bustling City of London at this time.

If Donghua's real economy can get a billion pounds of investment, it will create more than 100,000 jobs, directly or indirectly, and give half of the nearly 200,000 poor families living below the extreme poverty line in Donghua a chance to get rid of poverty and become rich; while in London, one of the world's three major financial centers, a billion pounds is just such an inconspicuous skyscraper at the foot of its feet.

"You haven't been in London for a long time before, have you?" Sun Qishan saw Shen Huai's eyes staring at the city of London at his feet outside the curtain wall, and walked over to him and asked him with a smile.

"I've passed through London a few times before, but I haven't stayed much," Shen Huai said with a smile, seeing that Sun Qishan had some doubts in his eyes, and said with a smile, "I've lived in China for too long, and this flashy world has made me feel a little alienated." At present, there are not many skyscrapers similar to this building in China. ”

Sun Qishan smiled and looked at Shen Huai.

Before Shen Shan and his wife drove Shen Huai back to China, Sun Qishan had a vague impression of him.

If you want to talk about cynicism and corruption, the Sun family still has children who are more out of line than Shen Huai, so Sun Qishan has no good impression of Shen Huai before, nor does he have too deep disgust.

After Shen Huai left Paris and returned to China, if Yalin hadn't crossed paths with him in China later, Sun Qishan doubted that he would remember that the Sun family had such a child in a few years.

Sun Qishan's ups and downs in the business world for half his life made him look at people and things, and he could restrain his feelings and implement his spirit of pragmatism.

The same is true of his attitude towards Shen Huai.

Shen Huai's impression of him before was vague, although Yalin tried his best to sell him Meigang's project in the later stage, he also ignored it out of risk and cost considerations, and then took 30 million US dollars to Shen Shan and his wife to turnover, which was also done as a transaction.

When the Meigang No. 2 Plant project was completed, he witnessed Shen Huai's extraordinary ability in the construction and operation of the project, and he would not be like Qiyi, because of his emotional color, it was difficult to accept this fact.

Sun Qishan had a period of uninhibited and uninhibited career when he was young, and he seemed so incorrigible in the eyes of his elders. This career did not prevent him from becoming the executive director of the Evergreen Group at this time, so he did not think that it was impossible for Shen Huai to undergo a major change in the five or six years since he left Paris.

However, the last time he visited the construction achievements of the Meigang No. 2 Plant project in China, Sun Qishan did not have the opportunity to contact Shen Huai. He temporarily decided to fly across the English Channel with his daughter today, on the one hand, he wanted to introduce Shen Huai to Wu Wenxiong and several other British Chinese businessmen he was familiar with, and on the other hand, he wanted to invest more chips in Shen Huai, and he also felt the need for further contact and understanding.

"If you want to talk about prosperity and modernization, compared to other emerging metropolises, this side looks a little declining. However, within these two square kilometers, there are hundreds of financial institutions, and there are few cities in the world that can compare with the forces and turbulence behind the capital market. Sun Qishan said.

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"......," Shen Huai said with a smile, "according to me, the conservative forces in Britain are too closely integrated with financial capital. In order to maintain the importance of this square inch of land in international finance, Britain has adopted a strict budget and a tight monetary policy from the post-war period to the present. Although the pound has retained its position, it has cost the British industrial sector a great deal. Otherwise, our plan wouldn't have much chance of success, at least at this point. ”

Sun Qishan smiled, I have to say that Shen Huai is more professional than his peers in many aspects, and his plan can be said to have an accurate grasp of the background of this era, maybe it is not a good idea to test his professional reserves.

Seeing Sun Qishan take the chatterbox, Shen Huai was a little regretful. He would rather share his understanding of the economic development of the Asia-Pacific region with Sun Qishan.

Although the development of Evergreen Group's affairs in the Asia-Pacific region is somewhat slow, as the top figure in the pyramid of Evergreen Group, Shen Huai believes that Sun Qishan's vision is broader than his. Moreover, the long-term ups and downs of the business sea also made Sun Qishan have more direct and keen views on many professional issues, which Shen Huai hopes he can strengthen.

Of course, Sun Qishan put away the chatterbox, and Shen Huai couldn't be in a hurry to behave.

Sun Yalin, Cheng Yi and Yu Wenli walked in at this time, complaining that her father did not let her and Shen Huai live in his house on Ferent Avenue in the North District.

Sun Qishan explained that a new decoration was being done over there, and Shen Huai thought to himself that maybe there were people living in which Sun Qishan didn't want him to see Sun Yalin.

Sun Qishan's secretary came over and told them that the car had been prepared downstairs and that they had already contacted the Wu family; Cheng Yi and Yu Wenli were also going to attend the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner together in the evening, and they also went directly to visit the Wu family with Shen Huai at this time.

In the car, Sun Qishan introduced to Shen Huai in more detail the situation of the Wu family, the leader of overseas Chinese in the United Kingdom and the founder of the British Chinese Entrepreneurs Association.

The Wu family's time of immigrating to Europe is similar to that of the Sun family, but the history of making a fortune is later than that of the Sun family.

In the early years, the Wu family ran a chain restaurant in the Chinese community of London, and later ran a travel agency, and then moved to Spain in the 60s to do tourism real estate. With its growing influence and status in the British Chinese community, Wu Family Capital returned to the United Kingdom, and caught up with the rise of financial real estate in the mid-to-early 70s in the United Kingdom, and gradually penetrated into many fields of finance and real estate, becoming one of the representative families of Chinese businessmen in Western Europe.

In addition to the more traditional family businesses such as restaurants and real estate, the Wu family is also one of the core shareholders of Berkeley Bank.

The Sun family's background in the manufacturing industry and the real economy is not deep, but it is much better than the Wu family. This is also directly related to the development background of Chinese businessmen in overseas regions, Chinese businessmen generally enter the cutting-edge manufacturing industry overseas, while in Europe and the United States, the low-end manufacturing industry is in the stage of being eliminated; after the Chinese businessmen's capital is abundant, finance, real estate, hotels, etc. have become their favorite investment areas.

Sun Qishan wanted to introduce Wu Wenxiong to Shen Huai, who was also the core figure of the second generation of the Wu family, at this time he served as the consultant manager of Berkeley Bank, and at the same time represented the Wu family as the vice president of the British Chinese Entrepreneurs Association, responsible for some specific liaison work, and had a great influence in the British Chinese business community.

The Chinese New Year's Eve dinner tonight of the British Chinese Entrepreneurs Association was organized by Wu Wenxiong.

The Wu family is scattered, and most of the children live in wealthy areas in north London.

Looking at the mansions hidden among the trees on both sides of the road, one worth as little as a million or as much as tens of millions of pounds, Shen Huai wanted to sigh, but felt that there was really no reason to sigh: the mansion where the Sun family lived in Paris was not necessarily worse than here.

Although London has a temperate maritime climate, the temperature in winter is also very cold due to the low latitude, and the branches and leaves of the trees are withered, but Shen Huai is strange, and the lawn he sees along the road is green.

The car pulled into a grassy, wooded manor and stopped in front of a white western-style building.

There were several people standing in front of the building, obviously waiting for Sun Qishan and them to come over, Sun Yalin pointed to the tall fat man who had been in the center for about fifty years, and said to Shen Huai: "That fat man is Wu Wenxiong, the most greedy and cunning thing in the Wu family is that he understands, and he is very self-righteous," and then turned back and warned Cheng Yi and Yu Wenli, who were sitting in the back row, "The little white face standing next to Wu Wenxiong is Wu Wenxiong's second son Wu Kangjie." Over the years, if there is anyone I know who is more obscene and shameless than Shen Huai, it is Wu Kangjie, you remember to stay away from him in the future......"

The old-school Chinese merchant family will inevitably have a few gentlemen, but Sun Yalin reminded Cheng Yi and Yu Wenli that it was just that, but he also stabbed him in the chest with a cold gun, and Shen Huai could only smile bitterly.

Cheng Yi is not a little girl who has never seen the world, and her background is enough to make some people with a heart jealous, so Shen Huai doesn't have to worry about what kind of foolish people she will deceive and play with her feelings. As for Yu Wenli, even people like Liu Fulong can stand it, and Shen Huai is too lazy to care about anything else.

After getting out of the car, Sun Qishan and Wu Wenxiong stood in front of the steps to shake hands and introduce Shen Huai to the Wu family.

Although Sun Qishan was quite formally introduced, Shen Huai could feel Wu Wenxiong's indifference.

The old Chinese businessmen are more traditional, and their rise is hard work step by step, and the importance of seniority also makes them usually ignore and look down on the younger generation.

After a brief greeting, Wu Wenxiong asked his second son Wu Kangjie to accompany Shen Huai, Sun Yalin, and Cheng Yi to visit the Wu family's manor, and even had no intention of letting Shen Huai and them participate in the next conversation between him and Sun Qishan.

Shen Huai knew that Yu speed would not be reached, and his goal this time was not to say that he wanted to win the Wu family, so he would not feel unhappy.

At this time, he began to maintain good contact with the British Chinese businessmen, more to help them in the future - in Shen Huai's view, Sun Qishan's fundamental change in his attitude towards him is the most meaningful gain of this trip, otherwise just relying on Sun Yalin's previous gambling contract, Sun Qishan would not really help them match.