Chapter 235: Before the Wedding

Another junior who came to greet his cousin was the most outstanding one among all the characters of the third generation of the Long family, Long Zhixin. Long Zhixin still has a lot of connections with Dongfang Electronics Company. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a degree in electrical engineering in his early years, and was one of the earliest pioneers in Hong Kong's computer industry, as early as 1975, he established Rongwen Technology Company to produce computers.

It's a pity that he doesn't have Li Xuan's rebirth golden finger, although the development of Rongwen Technology Company is smooth, but it is far from being comparable to the wild growth of Dongfang Electronics Company. At present, Dragonprint Technology Co., Ltd. is one of the several computer foundries of Aikang Company in Hong Kong, mainly responsible for the production of ABC-P4 laptop computers.

Rongwen Technology has just been successfully listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, and the market value of the shares held by Long Zhixin is more than 200 million Hong Kong dollars. He also became the first of his cousins to rise to billionaire from scratch on his own. Of course, the definition of being born in the Long family from scratch is different from that of ordinary people.

Although his father died when he was five years old, when he returned to Hong Kong from the United States in the early 60s to start his own business, he was still able to receive $500,000 from other elders. Another example is his cousin Long Zhijian, who was also penniless when he came to Hong Kong from the mainland. However, he was able to receive a one-time payment of 6 million Hong Kong dollars from other elders of the Long family in Hong Kong as a dividend compensation for his father Long Yiren's shares.

In addition to Rongwen Technology, Long Zhixin and his cousin Long Zhiqian founded Aika Electronics Company in 1978, which initially mainly produced electronic watches and electronic toys. After arriving in Hong Kong, Long Zhijian also joined the electronics company founded by two of his cousins.

Previously, in order to focus on the development of his own Rongwen Technology Company, Long Zhixin transferred the equity he held to his cousin. And Long Zhijian can be praised as a red tycoon by the Hong Kong media in the future. It's really a good means. The company he runs has been engaged in low-end products such as electronic watches and toys from the beginning. Changed to mainly produce memory chips.

Although Aika only carries out the final packaging and testing of chips, and the products are all 8-bit random access memory with 2K and 4K capacity. However, the technology content of the company is much higher than that of most electronics companies in Hong Kong. It's memory chips. Compared with similar products in Japan, they are more affordable and the quality is not bad at all.

Oriental Games' arcade machines do not need to be equipped with the latest large-capacity memory of 128K or even 256K like ABC series computers. On the contrary, arcade motherboards are used in 1K, 2K, 4K, etc., and a large number of small-capacity and low-cost memory to store the number of games.

Oriental Games' "Tank Wars", "Pac-Man", "Hong Kong Cube" and other game motherboards use 8-bit 6502 processors, so they are also purchased with low-cost 8-bit memory. Now Aika has replaced Japanese chip companies and has become one of the most important suppliers of low-end memory chips purchased by Oriental Games.

It is said that not long ago, an American company made a takeover offer to Aika Electronics, with an offer of up to $12 million. Longzhijian's shareholding in the company has been as high as 6%. His stake is already worth $7.2 million, or HK$47 million at the latest exchange rate. And his total investment in Aika Company is only 1 million Hong Kong dollars paid when he acquired the shares of his cousin Long Zhixin Sancheng.

Long Zhijian has always been very optimistic about the development of the company, the dividends in the past few years have not moved, all the additional investment in the company, so his shares have increased all the way to sixty. Now that he has finally reaped a handsome reward, it can be said that Long Zhijian is indeed a business wizard.

Of course, the Long brothers are in front of the famous "God of Wealth Li". This small achievement is not worth mentioning at all. According to the latest conservative valuation of Li Xuan's assets by the Wall Street Journal, his net worth is at least $6.5 billion. This is the number given by the most stringent financial newspapers in the world, which is far more authoritative than the unreliable newspapers in Hong Kong before.

It gave Li Xuan's net worth of $6.5 billion, and added the modifier "conservative" in front of it. Even so. 6.5 billion US dollars is converted into Hong Kong dollars, which has exceeded 40 billion Hong Kong dollars, and Li Xuan has the strength to become the richest man in Hong Kong. And he went from being a penniless pauper to this point. It only took three years.

In the face of such a demon, the Long brothers really have no capital to be proud of. Just now, the two of them just politely greeted Li Xuan. consciously stood behind his cousin Long Hongqing. The people who could talk to Li Xuan on an equal footing were Sir Youde, the Governor of Hong Kong, and Sir Hart Din-Kei, the new political secretary who took office a month before Youde. The Chief Secretary is the second-in-command after the Governor. Responsible for the day-to-day administration of the entire Hong Kong Government.

And the only person in the Long family who can communicate with Li Xuan on an equal footing is Long Yiren, who has just come from the mainland. Even Long Hongqing, in terms of status and influence, is far inferior to Li Xuan, who is about the same age as his grandson.

Li Xuan had already booked a presidential suite for Chairman Long at the Renaissance Hotel, but Long Yiren finally chose to live in his cousin Long Hongqing's mansion in Hong Kong. Li Xuan and Long Yiren exchanged a few words of greeting, and then watched him leave first accompanied by Long's family. Long Yiren did not come to Hong Kong in an official capacity, so he only shook hands politely with Hong Kong Governor Youde, and was not prepared to participate in any reception ceremony of the Hong Kong government.

The central leaders of Beijing-Beijing also took great pains in choosing who to send to Li Xuan's wedding. Originally, the best candidate was naturally Peng Fei, the president of the Xinhua branch, who attended on behalf of the mainland, and the second generation presented a pair of autographed inscriptions, which was enough to show the importance that the central government attached to Li Xuan.

However, Crown Prince Charles's high-profile visit to Hong Kong and US Vice President George W. Bush's extraordinarily one-of-a-kind itinerary made Beijing feel that it could not weaken its momentum. So the central leadership was selected and chosen, and I felt that it was most suitable for Long Yiren. Although the momentum of the Long family in Hong Kong is far from being comparable with the glory of Shanghai before the liberation, it is still a billionaire family.

By allowing him to visit Hong Kong in the name of visiting relatives, he avoids the sensitive issue of political identity with Hong Kong's current jurisdiction. At the same time, Guoxin Company, which Longyi was responsible for establishing before, was an important channel for the State Council to attract foreign investment. Guosen has recently been planning to issue bonds overseas to raise funds for domestic projects. Hong Kong is also an important source of funds, and Long Yiren's arrival in Hong Kong can further send a signal to Hong Kong's business community that the mainland is determined to reform and open up.

As for Long Yiren's status as vice chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, although he can be regarded as a state leader, his status is not as good as that of a state vice chairman and a vice chairman of the National People's Congress. Although these two are also vice-state levels, they correspond to the vice-heads of state and vice-speakers of foreign countries, and the political significance is even more obvious.

Moreover, even among the dozen or so vice-chairmen of the CPPCC, Long Yiren ranked relatively low. His appointment was made to demonstrate the respect of the Party-Central Committee for the national capitalist community. It's more of a status symbol than any real power. Therefore, Long Yiren went to Hong Kong, which not only reached the corresponding level, but also did not bring too much political impact.

The daily life of the political characters is not easy, most of them have intensive schedules, and it is difficult to have personal time. Li Xuan sent Bush to the Mandarin Hotel to rest, and after a short rest, he will also accept the invitation of the University of Hong Kong to give a public lecture to the students of Hong Kong.

After the speech, Bush Sr. will also go to ATV to accept the invitation to record the program "Qiang Qiang Threesome." "Qiang Qiang Threesome" has been fully created by ATV and has become a well-known high-end talk show in Hong Kong. In addition to Bush Sr., Prince Charles and Long Yiren will also be invited to record a show, and it can be said that Li Xuan has spared no effort to create the influence of this show.

Coming out of the Mandarin Hotel, Li Xuan felt a little hungry, and he only picked up a few mouthfuls of food at noon. As soon as Li Xuan got into the car, his new assistant Cheng Yanxing also sat in the passenger seat. He turned his head to his boss and said, "Li Sheng, that box contains egg tarts and walnut cakes, I see that you haven't eaten lunch well, you can use it to pad your stomach!"

Li Xuan opened a snack box on the seat next to him and nodded with satisfaction, this new assistant was still very carefully prepared. As for Li Xuan's original personal assistant Li Zhi, he had already resigned from Dongfang Electronics Company. Li Xuan is getting married, and her lover is naturally very uncomfortable, so she returned to Huhai in the mainland last month to accompany her grandmother.

Li Xuan also didn't want Li Zhi to stay in Hong Kong, in case any newspaper that didn't have a long eye dug her out in order to attract people's attention, Li Xuan's face would be very unsightly. Although he knew that the other party was sad, he would only wait for the future to slowly comfort him.

Li Xuan ate a few egg tarts in the car, and the car was already carrying him to the Regent Hotel. The hotel was closed to the public two days ago, and is now in the process of putting the finishing touches on it.

"Lin Sheng, your task tomorrow is to wait for the groom at any time. If Li Sheng has something to explain to you, you try not to do it yourself, I will take someone to follow you, and you will tell others to do it!"

In a small conference room in the hotel, the chief wedding planner is arranging tasks for tomorrow for several grooms. Among the four grooms, the heaviest responsibility is undoubtedly Lin Yuhao, who has the best relationship with Li Xuan, and is a local Lin family in Hong Kong, and he is also the boss of a real estate company.

"Li Sheng, at the beginning of the wedding ceremony, I will personally hand over the wedding ring to Lin Sheng for safekeeping, and before you exchange rings with the bride, he will transfer the ring to you!" the planner turned to Li Xuan and said.

Li Xuan nodded, and said to his several grooms: "I have already removed two hundred people from Oriental Commercial to be responsible for welcoming guests tomorrow, all of them are Yaonan's colleagues, so you are responsible for liaison and communication! In addition, President Han, President Du, and Jianheng's cousin Jiankui will also be responsible for receiving guests." Ah Ho followed me, Ah Heng was in charge of entertaining local guests, and Marven was in charge of entertaining foreign guests!" (To be continued......