Chapter 122: Cocktail Party (Part II)

"Your Excellency Li Xuan, are you interested in joining the Hong Kong Economic Development Policy Advisory Council and making some plans for the next development of Hong Kong's economy?" said MacLehose to Li Xuan beside him after making a brief speech on the impromptu basis.

Li Xuan was stunned for a moment, he didn't know the role of this consultation, but he still smiled and said: "If Sir doesn't think I'm young and inexperienced, I'm very honored to contribute to the development of this city!"

"Ambition is not young!" MacLehose, who has lived in Hong Kong for ten years, is already a China expert, and if you only listen to him and don't look at his skin color, you won't feel that this is a ghost guy at all.

As the Governor-General, MacLehose had a very tight daily schedule, and he only stopped at the banquet hall for a short time before leaving. Li Xuan and Han Peng, the executive president of Dongfang Electronics, personally sent him downstairs. It wasn't until they saw the car drive away from the hotel that they turned around and returned to the hotel.

"What kind of organization is this Hong Kong Economic Development Policy Advisory Committee?" Li Xuan asked Han Peng, who was beside him.

"This consultation is an economic strategy think tank set up by the Governor's Office in '77. At the beginning of the year, all the members of the consultation committee submitted a joint letter to the Hong Kong Governor's Office, saying that China and Britain should hold negotiations on Hong Kong's future this year, otherwise it will not be conducive to Hong Kong's long-term development!" Han Peng said with a smile, "This proposal also aroused a lot of public opinion from all walks of life in Hong Kong at that time, but unfortunately it was rejected by MacLehose!"

Li Xuan nodded, indicating that he had some impressions: "Who are the people in the consultation meeting?"

The chairman of the consultation meeting is Sir Xia Dingji, the Financial Secretary, and other members of the committee include Shen Bi, the senior class of HSBC, and Niu Bijian, the senior class of Jardine Matheson, and so on, and the Chinese include Zhong Shiyuan, An Zijie, Li Guowei, and others! Therefore, the Hong Kong governor has given you a letter of appointment, which shows that he values you very much! Han Peng smiled very happily, and Dongfang Electronics finally began to enter the sight of people with intentions.

Needless to say, HSBC and Jardine Matheson, the two largest British consortia in Hong Kong, Chung Shiyuan is considered to be the second Chinese in Hong Kong politics, second only to Deng Lianru who is relied on by the Hong Kong government. Ahn Zijie, a textile magnate, later became one of the country's leaders.

This all illustrates the threshold and weight of this policy consultation meeting. Li Xuan nodded slightly, it seems that the Hong Kong government has done a detailed investigation of Dongfang Electronics. Although Dongfang Electronics has carried out a series of public relations campaigns in a planned manner over the past year, it is still an emerging company among Hong Kong citizens.

This is also the main products of Dongfang Electronics, such as arcades, handheld computers, and personal computers, which are a bit far away from ordinary citizens. Moreover, the local market of Hong Kong is too narrow, and Dongfang Electronics has been focusing on developing overseas markets such as North America, Japan and Europe.

However, what does not match the initial reputation of Dongfang Electronics is that the actual revenue capacity of Dongfang Electronics can get rid of most Hong Kong companies. In the arcade business alone, Dongfang Electronics has more than $10 million in sales revenue every month, and this is on the premise that most of the profits are kept in the accounts of offshore companies.

After a lot of publicity investment and word-of-mouth fermentation, the sales of the menstrual gameboy began to climb all the way, and the shipments reached an incredible 2 million units last month. Although it began to decline this month, it was able to maintain more than 1.5 million units.

Coupled with the revenue of game cartridges, the monthly sales of Dongfang Electronics' handheld business have already exceeded 20 million US dollars. Although the actual profit margin of handheld machines is far from being comparable to that of arcade machines because of the low-price strategy, it has replaced arcade machines in sales as the company's largest cash flow income.

If Aikang Computer is not split out independently, after the sales of ABC computers begin to explode, the overall revenue of Dongfang Electronics Company next year will be on the list of the Fortune 500. You must know that the list of the top 500 companies in the United States released by Fortune magazine this year showed that the sales of the companies at the bottom of the list last year were only $430 million.

Han Peng returned to the banquet hall first, while Li Xuan stayed in the lobby and waited for his girlfriend to go to the bathroom. It's not that I don't know, but I'm shocked, Dongfang Electronics already has the qualifications to compete with other consortia in Hong Kong. No wonder Dongfang Electronics just sent out an invitation, and MacLehose, the governor, was willing to come to the platform in person. Li Xuan felt that his previous mentality had to be changed, and he was already one of the top giants in Hong Kong.

"This Hong Kong governor speaks Cantonese fluently!" Zhong Chuhong said with a smile while holding her boyfriend's arm.

"This is called following the local customs, haven't you heard him speak on TV before?" Li Xuan said with a smile.

"I used to think that I was so far away when I watched TV, but today I am close to my eyes, I feel different, so close to the people!" Zhong Chuhong thought about it and said.

"You little farts are easy to be bewitched, and if you speak a few words of Cantonese, you will feel close to the people!" Li Xuan smiled and shook his head, these are just shows, people are colonizers, do you know what colonization is.

More than a decade later, Hong Kong's last governor, Chris Patten, is more approachable than MacLehose and more willing to communicate with ordinary Hong Kong citizens. But he was obviously a hawkish-stirring stick sent by the British government before leaving, and as a result, many Hong Kong people still knelt and licked him, and I really don't know if these people had their heads caught in the door.

"How is it, will such a drinking party feel boring?" Li Xuan asked with a smile again.

"It's not boring, it's just that I feel like everyone laughs so formulaic!" Zhong Chuhong was still a little uncomfortable with the reception.

"Do you feel that everyone is wearing masks and smiling hypocritically?" Li Xuan glanced at his girlfriend and smiled, "The so-called upper-class social society likes this, and it has just begun, and there will be more and more such occasions in the future." You have to get used to it slowly. When do you learn to talk to people when you see people, and talk nonsense when you see ghosts, you can be considered truly qualified!"

"How can you say so unbearable!" Zhong Chuhong scolded with a smile.

The two walked into the elevator with a smile, unaware that in the hotel lobby just now, a man in a suit who seemed to be waiting for someone secretly slammed the shutter of the camera hidden in his clothes.

Lin Guitai stood beside his son Lin Yuhao and saw Li Xuan coming over with brandy to greet them. This was the second time he and Li Xuan met, but it made him feel countless emotions.

Last time, Lin Guitai just regarded Li Xuan as a junior who his son made friends with in college, although he knew that he ran his own company, but Lin Guitai actually didn't take it to heart. Until Li Xuan threw out a check for millions in one go, and pulled his son to invest in real estate in the new special zone on the mainland on the other side of the Jiehe River. He began to be a little more curious about this young and golden offspring.

But in less than a year, he has gone from initial curiosity, to appreciation, to shock, and now to speechless. His son Lin Yuhao, with the assistance of a few helpers he sent, has grown very fast for more than half a year, and he already has a bit of the momentum and skill of a superior.

Compared with Li Xuan standing in front of him, Lin Guitai not only felt that his son was not comparable, but even he, an old bone who had been turned into a predator in Xiangjiang by the newspaper, felt a little embarrassed.

It took him half a lifetime to work hard to build this foundation, and it only took a year for others to catch up. Lin Guitai had dinner with Sir Shen Bi, the senior class of HSBC, not long ago, talking about the newly emerging Dongfang Electronics, Shen Bi smiled and said, if Li Xuanken sells the company, even if he spends 5 billion Hong Kong dollars to acquire it, he will make a sure profit!

Not long ago, the ship king Bao Yugang snatched the Wharf from Jardine Matheson, and only used 2.1 billion Hong Kong dollars, and the market value of the entire Wharf was only 10 billion Hong Kong dollars.

"Li Sheng, the future life is terrifying!" Lin Guitai adjusted his mood and said with a smile.

"Uncle Lin, I'm embarrassed to call myself that! I and Ah Hao are brothers, you can just call me Ah Xuan!" Li Xuan hurriedly waved his hand and said.

Since you are willing to call me this old bone Uncle Lin, then I will take advantage of this and let you Xiao Li be born!" Lin Guitai said with satisfaction.

In fact, Li Xuan only sent the invitation card to Lin Yuhao for today's cocktail party, but he didn't expect Lin Guitai to come uninvited. The status of Dongfang Electronics in the eyes of others is different, and the title of Li Xuan, the boss, in the mouths of others is also different.

"It's not okay for you to be busy with company affairs all day long, and you haven't seen how many friends you've made! I'll take you to meet a few friends in a few days, and although we can't talk about supporting each other, Hong Kong is a big place, and it's always good to get to know more people!" Lin Guitai earnestly taught.

Li Xuan hurriedly responded, not that he didn't want to enter a higher-level circle, but that Dongfang Electronics had risen too fast, and he didn't have time to enter that circle at all. Since Lin Guitai, a wealthy man in Xiangjiang, was willing to personally guide him, Li Xuan naturally couldn't ask for it.

"Uncle Lin, I don't have the energy to pay attention to the affairs of Feihong Real Estate, it's all handled by Ah Hao. I also feel very embarrassed, if you are optimistic about the future development of Feihong Real Estate, I am willing to give up another 20% of the equity to Ah Hao!" The so-called sedan chair was carried by everyone, Li Xuan said in return.

The recent development of Fei Hong Real Estate is very good, and the second phase of the property has been sold out in Hong Kong. Li Xuan holds sixty percent of the shares of Feihong Real Estate in his hands, but this investment was just a casual hand-pick for his roommate at that time, and the controlling stake is not important to him, but it is better to use it now as a favor.

And Li Xuan also made it clear that it was transferred to Lin Yuhao's name, not to the Lin Group, which was to fight for the interests of his brother. Lin Guitai looked at the flash of surprise in his son's eyes, and was naturally very happy with Li Xuan's suggestion, and nodded happily. As for the value of 20% of the equity, there was a special person to negotiate it, but compared to Li Xuan's initial investment, it was naturally doubled.