The café at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, of course, has the best location for the seven or eight by the window.

Looking down from the huge floor-to-ceiling glass windows, you can see the beautiful Victoria Harbour and you can see Yau Tsim Mong on the opposite side.

The essence of the Hong Kong River is in the Central and Sheung Wan areas around the Mandarin Oriental Hotel.

Because the location is so good, it usually needs to be booked to sit by the window.

Yin Jun is sitting here drinking coffee today, not because of his identity, but because the general manager of the café specially prepared it for Niu Bijian.

Niu Bijian was opposite Yin Jun, looking out the window quietly and a little lonely, the second class in Xiangjiang with amazing momentum in the past was like an old man in the twilight at the moment.

But Niu Bijian is only 49 years old this year, which is a little younger than Shen Bi in the first class.

After announcing his resignation as general manager of Jardine Matheson Land on September 29 this year, almost all the newspapers in Hong Kong affirmed that at most in the first two months of '84, that is, before the Spring Festival, Niu Bijian would step down from his last position, the director of Jardine Matheson, and leave Hong Kong in a gloomy manner and enter retirement.

Counting the downfall of Niu Bijian, it is not that someone framed him, let alone a master, but really that he has done too badly in the past two or three years.

Take Hongkong Land as an example, their share price has fallen below $2.2 per share this year, and just two years ago, Hongkong Land's share price was still in the high twenties and thirties.

In the past two or three years, the management led by Niu Bijian has misestimated the situation in Heung Kong, and in the past two or three years, it has spent a lot of money on the acquisition of companies and the construction of various projects.

As a result, the strongest economic crisis in history, the real estate business plummeted, and Hongkong Land and even Jardine Matheson immediately fell into great difficulties.

Their debts in August this year were as high as HK$6 billion.

This is also because Niu Bijian sold Xiangjiang Electric Light and Xiangjiang Phone to Yin Jun about a year earlier than in his previous life.

Otherwise, their debt should be in the tens of billions.

Boy!

Xiangjiang can now have a market value of 10 billion companies, at most 5, Jardine Matheson owes 10 billion Hong Kong dollars in one go, I really don't know whether to say that they have a strong family foundation, or that they will lose.

Therefore, as the managing director, Niu Bijian is naturally the person who is criticized and ridiculed the most.

So on September 29 this year, under great pressure, when Nurbijian submitted his resignation for the second time, the board of directors approved it, and Simon Keswick, the former managing director, became the managing director.

Simon Keswick is from the Keswick family, the founding family of Jardine Matheson, who own more than 30% of the shares and are the largest shareholders of the Jardine family.

Simon Keswick, who is a few years younger than Niu Bijian, has not moved much in the past two months, but has been constantly sorting out internal matters, and seems to be a moderate and gentle person.

But only Yin Jun in this world knows what a shocking decision this Mr. Keswick will make next year.

Of course, that's only a matter for the future, and now Niu Bijian in front of him, if there is no Yin Jun, he will leave the Jardine Matheson family next year, and go directly to Baodao to serve as the managing director of a company for a few years, and then completely disappear and never appear on the world business stage again.

Therefore, Yin Jun specially invited him to drink coffee.

At a time when everyone was ridiculing him and falling into the ground, Yin Jun, who had repeatedly made Niu Bijian deflated, could still solemnly invite him to coffee, which made Niu Bijian, who was in despair, a little unexpected.

He thought that he had been abandoned by Quan Xiangjiang, but he didn't expect that his biggest opponent would come to comfort him at this time.

For a while, Niu Bijian couldn't help but feel that "the enemy is the one who knows you best".

I don't know what to think, Niu Bijian put his head back and looked at the young man who didn't speak in front of him.

"Junshao, I'm grateful that you can still invite me to coffee at this time. Niu Bijian smiled and said, "Those people before are now avoiding me like a plague god, think about me as a person, what a failure to be a human being!"

If compared with a year ago, Niu Bijian's age seems to be ten years older all of a sudden, and he doesn't look like a middle-aged person who is only 49 years old at all.

The most important thing is that his spirit seems to have collapsed, and his eyes no longer shine.

Yin Jun now understands why Niu Bijian will disappear after a few years - because he has completely lost his fighting spirit, the spirit in his heart has been discarded all of a sudden, and he no longer has the motivation to struggle.

It is no wonder that anyone who has suffered such a major failure and setback, and has suffered for so long, is also prone to decadence.

Niu Bijian was a little better, and he still thought about going to Treasure Island for several years before he finally became disheartened.

"I have to say that in the past few years, you have indeed been complacent and too arrogant. Yin Jun said lightly, "When people are successful, they are most likely to see themselves clearly, and they are also the most likely to make mistakes." In the past two years, Hongkong Land and Jardine have made continuous mistakes, which is the best interpretation of the change in your mentality in the past two years. ”

"yes. ”

Niu Bijian has no edge at all now, and he has not retorted at all: "If I am more stable and careful, instead of desperately trying to expand the scale and suppress the Chinese business group...... In particular, the Qilin Group, which suppressed Jun Shao, may not have such a heavy failure today! The Jardine family has reached its peak in my hands, but it has also suffered heavy setbacks in my hands, and my ability and cultivation are really not enough!"

Yin Jun smiled.

The situation in Xiangjiang is not good, and everyone can see it.

Niu Bijian is not unaware, but he is a British, so he is superstitious that the British government will definitely be able to manage Xiangjiang and continue to manage it, so as to resolve all crises.

So he didn't care about the signs of danger at all, and he went all the way violently.

As a result, I didn't expect the Iron Lady to encounter such a big setback in Huajing, which made Xiangjiang almost collapse.

If Xiangjiang's economy is stable all the way, even if the Jardine Matheson family suffers no matter how frustrated, it will slowly rise with the economic improvement and make up for the losses.

But the economic downturn and people's consumption have plummeted, which is a huge negative news for the rapid expansion, especially for Jardine Matheson and Hongkong Land, which borrowed money to expand rapidly.

So Niu Bijian failed, and he failed badly, very badly.

It is not only his family that is miserable, many British-funded conglomerates and foreign banks have suffered great losses.

In contrast, very few of the Chinese consortia have collapsed, because they have more or less heeded Yin Jun's warnings.

Even the Hang Lung Consortium, which was the most wrong with Yin Jun, immediately broke his wrist when he saw that the situation was wrong, and lost about 500 million Hong Kong dollars, but in the following year, it was saved to the greatest extent.

If they had been bold enough to continue to develop, such as the subway superstructure property on the Island Line, then I don't know if there is Hang Lung Group today.

Seeing Yin Jun smiling and silent, Niu Bijian asked with some curiosity, "Jun Shao, I have something I don't understand...... At your age, I believe that there has never been a second person in the history of world business who can do what you have achieved. Why do I never see that you mean to be satisfied, or why are you never proud?"

"Because there's nothing to be proud of. Yin Jun shrugged and said, "What I'm doing now is just a very basic part. If I wait until 30 years from now, maybe that's when I'm proud. ”

"In 30 years?" said Niu Bijian with a wry smile, "Do you know that now, including Americans and British, there is no one who does not believe that you will become the richest man in the world before the age of 30?

"Mr. Newbikin, you can take a look then. Yin Jun said with a smile.

"Me?" Niu Bijian sighed, "Maybe at that time, I was just an ordinary old man who was just eating and waiting to die." But I can still mention to my grandson that this unprecedented super genius used to be the one who was inseparable from your grandfather!"

"So, in contrast, you mention it to your grandson...... After that, wouldn't it be better for you to follow this former opponent and build such a big country together?" Yin Jun said calmly.

"Huh!?"

Niu Bijian was shocked, and stared at Yin Jun suddenly, but he didn't notice that he had the slightest meaning of ridicule.

"What do you mean?" Niu Bijian frowned, "Is this pitying me?"

"Of course not. Yin Jun shook his head and said, "The most important thing in my employment is to look at the character, and the second is to look at the ability." Mr. Niu Bijian, you are an excellent and responsible professional manager, so you left Jardine Matheson, isn't it just right for me to use it?"

"But I've just experienced a major setback and failure, aren't you afraid that I'll do the same in your company?" asked Niu Bijian.

"Of course not. Yin Jun said, "Only those who fail will know their previous mistakes." And once you recognize your mistakes, then those who can get back up will achieve greater achievements than before. ”

Niu Bijian fell silent.

To be honest, he's still a little excited.

As the second class in Xiangjiang that used to be second only to Shen Bi, he has been calling for wind and rain for many years, and he is absolutely unwilling to leave the scene in such a shame.

If he can make a comeback in the Kirin Group and surprise those who sarcastically mock him, it will be extremely enjoyable.

When he got to the point of Niu Bijian, he had already earned enough pension money, he had already enjoyed what he should enjoy, and he had the days of power, and he didn't have much pursuit.

But this temptation to wash away the shame made Niu Bijian a little irresistible.

"If I come to the Kirin Group, what are you going to let me do? Can I still replace Miss Le Yiling?"

"Not in Xiangjiang. Yin Jun shook his head and said, "The center of the world in the next 50 years must be in the United States, so you should go to the United States and become famous there!"

"The United States?"

Niu Bijian nodded slightly, Yin Jun also has a lot of industries in the United States, and it is developing very rapidly.

In the United States alone, its assets have exceeded $5 billion, which can be described as a promising future.

"If I go, what will I be responsible for?" asked Niu Bijian.

Yin Jun smiled.

The more detailed the question, the more important he is.

Sure enough, successful people are not used to walking off the stage of history as losers.

This was the case with Wei Li before, and even more so with Niu Bijian.

"I'm going to put you in charge of Disney's operations and development management. "The most important thing is that in the next five years, we are going to build a Disney in Germany first...... And then if the time is ripe, there will also be one in Xiangjiang. I think it would be interesting if you did a good job with Disney in Germany, and then go back to Xiangjiang as the head of the Disney company to discuss the affairs of Xiangjiang Disney, right?"

Niu Bijian raised his eyebrows, and immediately burst into laughter.

It's kind of interesting!