Chapter 338: Interview
The Li family's mansion on Shixun Road on the top of Taiping Peak, after more than half a month of silence, has become lively again. Li Haichuan is teasing the child, and in the past few days after returning to Hong Kong, he has even canceled his previous hobby of playing mahjong, and stays at home every day to accompany his little grandson and granddaughter.
In the past six months, the second son Li Xuan and his wife went to the United States, and even the youngest daughter Li Ying followed the second brother to study in New York University. And the eldest Li Ke often does not return home, so that in a huge mansion, there are only two people left, Li Haichuan and his wife. During that time, he always felt that his home was empty, and even the food was not fragrant.
Now that there are two more children in the family, it is lively all of a sudden. Li Haichuan and his wife can finally experience the fun of teasing their grandson. In fact, the two children are taken care of by a special caregiver, and they do not require too much energy from the elderly.
And Li Haichuan and his wife are also very open-minded, and they also know that they have the same old routine of raising children in the past, and they definitely do not have the science major that the raisers specially invited by the family now. As long as they can see the two babies at any time, they will feel very happy.
Zhong Chuhong walked into the bedroom and found that Li Xuan was still asleep and had not woken up. She knew that her husband was under a lot of pressure some time ago, and now she can finally sleep peacefully, and she is not in a hurry to wake up the other party.
The difficulty of completing a shocking acquisition with a total amount of nearly 40 billion Hong Kong dollars in a foreign country can be imagined! If the various intrigues behind the acquisition war are described in words, it is enough to write a wonderful business war novel of several hundred thousand words.
Zhong Chuhong quietly walked to the bed, looked at Li Xuan's calm face, and couldn't help but reach out and touch his face with some pity.
But Zhong Chuhong thought about it again in an instant. I worked hard to give him a child, but this flowery radish is raising a lover outside. And there is more than one! She frowned hatefully again, and directly pinched Li Xuan's nose. Prepare to wake him up.
Li Xuanbao-The matter of raising Guan Beauty, Zhong Chuhong actually knew about it for a long time. It's not because Miss Guan sprouted her old way again, causing a storm in the city. On the contrary, Guan Zhilin has been very restrained recently, in addition to spending money lavishly and often being photographed by the media shopping for goods, she has always been like a very obedient canary.
But who is Zhong Chuhong, she is the vice president of ATV, the largest media giant in Hong Kong. As long as she has the heart to understand, how can the turmoil in the Hong Kong entertainment industry be hidden from her eyes! The story that "God of Wealth Li" and Guan Meiren have to tell. It was passed through the mouth of the assistant a long time ago and reached Zhong Chuhong's ears.
Zhong Chuhong just knew that he didn't know, and he was too lazy to bother with this big carrot. But when Li Xuan went home yesterday, Li Xuan smelled perfume on the other party's clothes, so he didn't give this stinky man a good look all night. In fact, Li Xuan usually pays attention to these small details, and rarely embarrasses Zhong Chuhong.
"Lazy pig, get up! How can there be a daddy like you, glutinous rice and glutinous rice balls have already eaten breakfast, but you are still sleeping lazy!" Zhong Chuhong pinched Li Xuan's face. Said dissatisfied.
"What time is it?" After Li Xuan was woken up, he reached out and took his wife into his arms and lay on the bed with her.
"It's half past eight, you didn't mean nine o'clock this morning. Do you want to accept a joint interview with several newspapers? The guests have already come to the door!" Zhong Chuhong pushed the man, urging him to get up quickly.
"What about glutinous rice and glutinous rice balls, were the two little ones obedient last night?" asked Li Xuan.
"Dad is accompanying the two babies to bask in the sun in the garden!" Zhong Chuhong smiled softly. When it comes to children, there is always a little more love.
Other new parents have to get up from time to time in the middle of the night to pee and feed their children. Neurasthenia, usually tormented by children. Li Xuan and Zhong Chuhong are very comfortable, and there is a special nanny who is responsible for taking care of the children's daily life at night.
During the day, there are grandparents rushing to take care of their grandchildren and granddaughters. Even grandmothers and grandfathers will come to tease their little grandchildren and granddaughters from time to time. On the contrary, the couple is not very adept, and it is not good for them to fight for children with the elderly.
Even the right to take a name was entrusted by my grandfather to Mr. Feng Shui. New fathers and mothers only reserve the right to give their children a milk name.
I don't know what Zhong Chuhong thinks, he named his brother who was born first Tangyuan, this little little bit was born in vain at all. Since his brother's nickname is food, when Li Xuan named his sister, he naturally couldn't favor one over the other, and simply called it glutinous rice. He hopes that his daughter will grow up to be gentle and generous.
By the time Li Xuan had washed up and had breakfast, the reporters from several newspapers he had made appointments with had already waited in the living room early.
Will the Oriental Group's acquisition of RCA have any impact on Hong Kong? Of course it is, and it is still very huge! Although Li Xuan had already made arrangements in advance, on the day the news broke, the Hang Seng Index of Hong Kong stocks plummeted by 7.6 percent.
The Oriental Group suddenly withdrew a massive amount of HK$40 billion to acquire an American company. Rumors were rife in the Hong Kong market for a while, and there was speculation that the "God of Wealth Lee" may be ready to abandon Hong Kong and prepare to invest overseas.
Although the Oriental Bloc came forward to refute the rumors at the first time, Hong Kong society was still not small by the shock of this incident. Many Hong Kongers, already undecided, began to accelerate their emigration overseas. As a result, the first wave of immigration came ahead of schedule, and Li Xuan and the Eastern Group were even more infamous during this time. Leftist newspapers have slammed the Eastern Bloc's actions as irresponsible and undermined Hong Kong's prosperity and stability!
Li Xuan had previously focused all his energy on the acquisition and did not care about the situation in Hong Kong. Now that RCA has been successfully acquired by him, it is natural that he must hurry back to Hong Kong to deal with the aftermath.
Li Sheng, the Oriental Group invested a huge amount of 40 billion yuan to acquire RCA in the United States. Does this mean that you will shift the focus of your company's development overseas?" asked a beautiful reporter from the South China Morning Post.
Although Li Xuan has reached a tacit agreement with Murdoch to sell the South China Morning Post to News Corp. But the takeover talks between the two sides will be delayed until next year, after all, if there is any news about Li Xuan's sale of assets in Hong Kong. All of these will undoubtedly further deepen the suspicion of the outside world about the capitalization of the Eastern Bloc.
The newspapers that conducted a joint interview with Li Xuan this time were in addition to the South China Morning Post. There are also "Daily Daily", "Hong Kong Economic Daily", and "Ming Pao", all of which are newspapers in which Li Xuan holds or holds shares. Questions from journalists. It was also studied in advance by the PR department of the Eastern Bloc.
"Previously, a Hong Kong newspaper reported that the Oriental bloc had doubts about Hong Kong's future prospects due to the Hong Kong dollar crisis and the delay in Sino-British negotiations, so it began to transfer assets overseas!
As a large company with a total capital of more than 120 billion Hong Kong dollars, our development strategy is a long-term, systematic and complete comprehensive plan made after repeated discussions at the top level!
A heavy decision like the acquisition of RCA in the United States, which costs up to 40 billion Hong Kong dollars, is not something that one or two people can make a decision at once by patting their heads!
In fact, RCA has already begun to enter more than a year ago. We have carried out detailed analysis and research to ensure that RCA is the beneficial nutrient needed for the future development of the Oriental Group!
Oriental Group has always been a multinational company with industries all over the world, with offices and branches all over the world! Throughout the development history of Oriental Electronics, our overseas mergers and acquisitions have never stopped.
From the early acquisition of Aikang Company and Computer Park Company, to the acquisition of many wafer factories in the United States to establish Dongfang Semiconductor Company, and later the acquisition of Fairchild Semiconductor Company!
We, Dongfang Electronics, have been making great strides along the blueprint we have planned. I think there are two main reasons why many previous acquisitions have not caused as much criticism as this acquisition of RCA.
The first reason is that the scale of the acquisition is particularly large. With a cost of more than $5 billion, it is one of the highest in the history of mergers and acquisitions in the United States! And the reason why the Eastern Group is willing to spend such a huge price to acquire RCA is because we think that RCA. It can be of great help to our next development!
In fact, in my opinion, as a business card of Hong Kong, the Oriental Group should be a very honorable thing to go global to achieve overseas mergers and acquisitions. But now it's the target of public criticism!
One of the important reasons for this is that Hong Kong is extremely lacking in self-confidence. This is also an important reason why this merger and acquisition case has caused panic in Hong Kong society. Five million Hong Kong citizens are confused about Hong Kong's future development prospects. Hence the recent Hong Kong dollar crisis, and the increasing tide of immigration!
I have always said that I am confident in Hong Kong's prospects for tomorrow. Some people say that the Eastern Bloc is no longer optimistic about the future of Hong Kong, but I don't know how they came to this conclusion!
But what I can tell you is that the Oriental Company's investment in Hong Kong has been growing at a rapid pace every year! The ATV Group is spending a huge amount of money to build a film and television base in East Kowloon. The Oriental Research Institute's Oriental Solid Yàn Building Phase II in Sha Tin is also about to be completed! Not long ago, the Oriental Group decided to spend 2.5 billion Hong Kong dollars to build a new headquarters building in Central!
How can a company that is constantly increasing its investment in Hong Kong be optimistic about Hong Kong's future! And I have good news to announce in advance to next year's fresh graduates. Our company's human resources department has just made a recruitment plan for next year.
Dongfang Electronics' recruitment positions next year will increase by more than 20% on the basis of this year! I warmly welcome Hong Kong students who are interested in working hard for a better personal life and Hong Kong's prosperity tomorrow to choose Dongfang Electronics, and we are willing to work together with you!
There have been reports before that in order to invest overseas, I specially asked my wife Ah Hong to give birth in the United States, so that my children could directly obtain American citizenship! Here I just want to say that these are groundless malicious speculations!
Pregnancy is the hardest time in a woman's life, and I don't want to be by my wife's side when she needs her husband's love and encouragement the most! Not to mention that New York has better medical technology than Hong Kong, as a husband and father, I have the responsibility to provide my wife and unborn child with the best medical protection I think!
Taking advantage of today's opportunity, I have one more piece of news to announce to you. Xiao Nuomi and Xiao Tangyuan have given up their American citizenship and are applying for Hong Kong household registration! Because my wife and I both believe that Hong Kong is a city worthy of all of us to choose a city for the rest of our lives!"
When Li Xuan said the last sentence, his eyes contained affection, and the photographer captured this scene very appropriately. In fact, these are Li Xuan's beautified statements. He asked Zhong Chuhong to accompany him to New York with a big belly, in order to let the child in her belly obtain American citizenship.
Because Li Xuan was worried at the time that the U.S. government said that NBC could not be controlled by foreigners. He could also use his children as beneficiaries to set up a special investment fund, and then put NBC Broadcaster's assets into the fund.
Li Xuan's children born in the United States can automatically obtain American citizenship, which is a step back from the original vision. But the acquisition of RCA was much smoother than Li Xuan expected, and NBC did not need to be in his child's name at all.
Therefore, it does not matter whether Xiao Nuomi and Xiao Tangyuan continue to retain American citizenship. Li Xuan can now use the renunciation of his children's American citizenship as a huge publicity stunt to show his great confidence in Hong Kong's future!
Alas, the child had just been born, and he was used several times by Li Xuan, an unscrupulous father! He can be regarded as a naked display of the face of a businessman who can do anything for the sake of profit!
"Li Sheng, why did you choose RCA instead of other companies?" another reporter from the Hong Kong Economic Journal asked.
"Last year, the company made a strategic decision to start diversifying gradually!
Dongfang Electronics started from the arcade industry, and after the conference, it covered the entire video game industry, including handheld game consoles, home game consoles, computer games, etc. Subsequently, it entered the personal computer industry through the guòABC series of computers, and built a complete industrial chain in the fields of semiconductor chip manufacturing in the upstream, computer software development in the downstream, and computer sales!
Although the two major industries of games and computers are in a period of rapid growth, after careful consideration, I and other senior executives of the Oriental Group believe that the company has the ability to devote part of its energy to finding new profit points without affecting the rapid development of the existing main business!
In the end, we chose the television industry. Because Dongfang Electronics' two most important products, arcade machines and personal computers, both need to use monitors. And the monitor is also the most critical part of the TV!
If we focus on the TV industry in the next step of diversification, we only need to make some extensions to the company's existing system. RCA has had many good cooperation with Dongfang Electronics before, and we know this company very well, and RCA happens to be one of the most well-known TV manufacturers in the world. Li Xuan explained with a smile.
"More importantly, the acquisition of RCA will allow us to go from being a nobody in the television industry to one of the most important industry leaders. You must know that from the invention of the first black-and-white TV set to the beginning of color TV in the 60s, the TV industry has been very mature after 30 or 40 years of development!
The whole market is completely divided by the industry giants, and it is very difficult for Dongfang Electronics to snatch food from the tiger's mouth! RCA's complete technical reserves in the field of television, as well as its strong marketing channels and market share in the U.S. market, are things that we are very lacking!
The acquisition of RCA will give us the immediate right to compete with the global TV manufacturers. And we also have something that RCA is missing, and in a way we can complement each other perfectly!" (To be continued......)