Chapter 310: Lu Qintian's Dinner
"This 'God of Wealth Li' is a little slippery, and it is estimated that the British also have a headache!"
Xu Jiachun, the new director of the Hong Kong branch of Xinhua News Agency, said with a smile to another staff member next to him while raising his hand to press the remote control to turn off the TV. After coming to Hong Kong, ATV's "Qiang Qiang Threesome" has become a must-watch program for Xu Kar-chun every day, so as to understand some of the voices of Hong Kong's elite.
"President Xu, it's almost time, it's time for us to leave!" said another.
"Okay, then let's go! I wonder if this 'God of Wealth Li' will attend tonight?" asked Xu Jiachun.
He recently arrived in Hong Kong to take up his post, succeeding Peng Fei, who had been appointed by another appointee, as the new head of the Hong Kong branch of the Xinhua News Agency. When he first arrived in Hong Kong, Xu Kar-shun visited and exchanged important figures from all walks of life in Hong Kong. Li Xuan, the richest man in the world, is even more in the top of the list of important people who came to his door first.
It's a pity that Xu Jiachun's time to come to the door was very unfortunate, Li Xuan happened to take his pregnant wife to Hawaii for a vacation. When Li Xuan returned from Hong Kong, he was suddenly appointed by the Governor of Hong Kong as a non-official member of the Executive Council, Xu Jiachun felt that this matter was a little sensitive, and decided to communicate with Li Xuan after a while.
But then calls began to emerge in Hong Kong for the Sino-British talks to be joined as an independent third party. Xu Jiachun had no choice but to spend all his energy on secret talks with Deng Lianru, Li Pengfei, Paul and several other parliamentarians who had made the most trouble, and he didn't bother to visit Li's house again for a while.
The reason why Xu Jiachun said that Li Xuan was slippery was because the Hong Kong Xinhua Branch organized a delegation of Hong Kong political and business circles who love Hong Kong and love the country to petition in the north, and Li Xuan himself found an excuse to shirk it. but let his eldest brother Li Ke join the delegation.
Xu Jiachun naturally knows the background of this "Da Li Sheng" very well, although he has the support of his younger brother "God of Wealth Li". He has successively opened a film company, an electronics factory, and a paging company, and it is said that he is also preparing to take advantage of the low tide of real estate. Entering the real estate industry, he is like a new tycoon in Hong Kong's business world.
But on the other side of his efforts to clear his name, Li Ke is inextricably linked to one of Hong Kong's largest social organizations, Wo Le Tang. It is rumored that the current scar of Hele Hall was originally Li Ke's eldest brother.
Such a black-and-white figure has now become a patriotic businessman who loves Hong Kong and goes north to petition Wèn to be received by the central leaders. It can also be seen that the situation in Hong Kong is far more complicated than that in the mainland. Of course, as far as Li Ke's consistent political stance is concerned. He is indeed a patriotic Hong Kong businessman close to the mainland.
Xu Jiachun flipped through the information collected by Xinhua News Agency and found that Li Ke went to the Shenhai Special Economic Zone to invest in real estate as early as 1980 under the arrangement of his younger brother Li Xuan. Later, because of his social background, some right-wing media in Hong Kong seized the opportunity to violently smear the SAR's reform and opening up.
So Li Ke immediately announced that he would sell the company and withdraw from the Shenhai Special Economic Zone, but his friendship with the leaders of the Shenhai Special Economic Zone continued unabated. In recent years, Li Ke's community background has gradually been diluted, and he has long ceased to participate in anything related to Hele Tang on the surface. Hong Kong society also began to recognize his identity as a businessman as the elder brother of the "God of Wealth Lee", and gradually called him "Da Li Sheng".
Last year, he returned to the mainland to invest. In Shekou Industrial Zone, Shenhai City, a wholly-owned electronics factory was established to produce pagers. In addition to supplying the local market, his pager products are also sold throughout Southeast Asia, and recently he is vigorously exploring the European and American markets.
Compared with the "God of Wealth Li", who rarely takes the initiative to speak out on politics. Li Ke is a big mouth, and he can say whatever he wants. But unlike other Hong Kongers, he is biased against the mainland and has never attacked its policies. On the contrary, it has been singing praises. At first, everyone thought that this was "God of Wealth Li" speaking through the mouth of the eldest brother, but after many times, they found that it was not the case at all.
Xu Jiachun also analyzed carefully during this time. Li Xuan's words and deeds from the beginning of his rise. He found that this "God of Wealth Li" did not seem to have any prejudice against the mainland, but he was very cautious in his words and deeds. He is reluctant to express any position that is very close to the mainland.
This is also human nature, after all, China has not yet taken back Hong Kong, and Hong Kong people still have to beg for a living under the British government. The same is true of other big businessmen such as Li Jiacheng, who were very enthusiastic when Xu Jiachun first visited Hong Kong.
Some people even said that the Mercedes-Benz car Xu Jiachun was riding in did not match his identity, and he was willing to send a Rolls-Royce to the Xinhua branch as his new car as the president. Li Jiacheng even said that Cheung Kong Group is willing to purchase a small jet to donate to Xinhua Hong Kong Branch, so that he and other leaders of the company can often travel back and forth between Hong Kong and Beijing to report to work.
However, in public, these people rarely show their close relationship with the Xinhua branch staff, but try to keep a distance from each other. This also made Xu Kar-chun, who had just arrived in Hong Kong, deeply feel the complex and arduous nature of the united front work.
Xu Jiachun's silver-gray Mercedes-Benz sedan arrived at the door of the hotel. When he first took office, he was going to choose a crown as his car. However, the head of the logistics department of the company argued with reason and refused his request. Because Hong Kong people attach great importance to pomp, the crown can only be regarded as an ordinary brand, and on many occasions it may be stopped directly by the doorman. As the head of the Xinhua branch in Hong Kong, Xu Jiachun went out to participate in activities on behalf of the country, and if such an embarrassing thing happens, it will damage the national body after being manipulated by the right-wing media in Hong Kong.
As for the vitriolism of the Hong Kong media, Xu Kar-chun has been taught as early as the beginning of his tenure. He used to wear a pair of sunglasses when he went out, but he retained this habit when he first arrived in Hong Kong. Several Hong Kong media have used this to ridicule him for being like a triad, and it turns out that only many community members in Hong Kong like to wear sunglasses and pretend to be cool. Moreover, some newspapers criticized him for being old-fashioned and tasteless, and that he was a typical conservative cadre of the Communist Party of China.
For this reason, Xu Jiachun specially went to the domestic shopping mall to spend 400 Hong Kong dollars to buy the black suit he is wearing now. He opened the car door and stepped out of the car, and the host of the dinner party was already standing at the door to greet him.
But tonight's protagonist, Lu Qintian, the boss of Lu's Electronics Company, was not at the scene, but his wife greeted him with a smile on his son's face. Mrs. Lu was very embarrassed to apologize to him again and again, saying that her husband had something to do and couldn't greet him at the door in person.
Xu Jiachun had also met Mr. Lu Qintian before, and the other party gave him a delicate figure. And today is Lu Qintian's fiftieth birthday, and it stands to reason that he, the birthday star, will definitely stand at the door of the hotel lobby to greet the guests.
Although Xu Jiachun was a little surprised, he didn't take it to heart, and quickly walked into the banquet hall accompanied by Lu Qintian's son. The dinner was scheduled to start at a quarter past eight, and now it was eight o'clock, and almost all the guests who had come to the birthday banquet had arrived, and the banquet hall was already bustling.
In fact, the reason why Lu Qintian was a little rude and did not greet the guests in person in the lobby later was because the most important guest of honor tonight came earlier than he expected. So he had to accompany him personally and hand over the work of greeting to his wife.
That's right, the most important guest tonight in Lu Qintian's eyes is Li Xuan. Li Xuan is notoriously lazy to participate in social meetings in Hong Kong's upper-class banquets, and most of the banquets that can't be taken away are attended by his wife Zhong Chuhong. Although Lu Qintian sent an invitation to Li Xuan, even he himself couldn't say whether the "God of Wealth Li" would come.
Lu Qintian didn't expect that Li Xuan not only came, but also came early to cheer. The invitation card indicated that the dinner party would start at a quarter past eight, and Lu Qintian originally guessed that Li Xuan should arrive after eight o'clock. Generally speaking, heavyweights like him are usually the last to arrive.
But Li Xuan obviously completely ignored this customary rule, and he arrived at the banquet hotel at half past seven, forty-five minutes before the dinner began. According to Li Xuan's idea, since he decided to go to someone else's dinner, he shouldn't count the time so accurately, and he seems to be a big name.
His wife, Zhong Chuhong, had a very strict pregnancy reaction during this time, and she had to vomit several times a day, and she couldn't smell a little oily smoke. So Li Xuan accompanied her to drink a bowl of red bean porridge as a simple dinner, and then set off early when she was fine.
But Li Xuan obviously didn't think that the most heavyweight guests often arrived the latest, and there was a reason for this.
For example, because Li Xuan came too early tonight, Lu Qintian naturally could only accompany him in person and send him to the VIP room to rest first. And except for Lu Qintian himself, whether it is his wife or his son, they are not qualified to accompany Li Xuan to pass the time. So he had no choice but to throw away the greeting work in the lobby and take care of Li Xuan, the most important guest of honor, first.
"Lu Sheng, the business of the picture tube factory is good, the second phase of the factory should be completed soon, right?" Li Xuan chatted with Lu Qintian without saying a word.
Previously, the Oriental Group, Lu's Electronics, and RCA Corporation of the United States jointly built a picture tube factory in Shekou Industrial Zone, Shenhai Special Economic Zone. The factory was just completed and put into operation in early May last year, and it has only been a year now. However, the factory was already operating at full capacity, and the third company also started the second phase of the expansion project as early as the middle of last year.
"The main thing is that Li Sheng's vision is good, to be honest, I still had a lot of worries about the production capacity of 1.2 million color tubes built in the first phase, for fear that I would not be able to digest it! But I didn't expect that just the internal order of Dongfang Company was enough to eat all the production capacity of the factory!" Lu Qintian said with a smile on Li Xuan.
Li Xuan shook his head slightly, in fact, his plan is still a little conservative, he should directly set the annual production capacity of the first phase at 2 million color picture tubes. He didn't expect the sales of the ABC series of computers to grow so quickly. (To be continued......)
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