Long Beach, Los Angeles, is a city where mornings and days and nights are busy, with oil tankers and cargo ships departing from ports around the world. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 As one of the top 10 ports in the world with the highest throughput, countless blue-collar workers can find jobs here.

Berths have an undoubted position in port operations, and for maritime logistics companies, having a berth in the port is definitely the most powerful business card to show their peers. Especially in a high-throughput area like the Port of Long Beach in Los Angeles, the annual rental income brought by each berth to the company is a huge amount of money that can make any small and medium-sized company blush, so you can imagine how huge the potential benefits are.

Thousands of workers worked in shifts day and night at the Port of Long Beach, beginning as early as the beginning of the century. Every day of the month, the tanker sails from the West Coast of the United States to ports across the Pacific Rim, including Alaska, Japan and South Korea. And the cargo ships of Chile, Argentina, Brazil and even Mexico will always send batches of local products to this city of angels. Its massive cargo throughput has greatly promoted the vigorous development of logistics companies, and over time, it has often joined forces with its port shipping companies and become an important part of the California consortium.

However, the situation that has been stubborn for many years has changed dramatically in the last half a year.

"Hutchison Whampoa was originally a shipyard company established by the British in Hong Kong, and it is exactly 110 years old now, and it was recently acquired by Li Ka-shing, a local businessman in Hong Kong. But without Alice Wang's great assistance, he would not have been able to grow his business so quickly. ”

The black stretch car slowly drove on the outer source of the port of Long Beach, from which you can clearly see the complex group of containers in the distance. In the car, a man typical of the image of a secretary is introducing the situation to an old gentleman with white hair.

"So, even though they've only been on the U.S. market for a short time, they have owned 40 percent of Long Beach's berths in a series of recent deals. Moreover, Hutchison Whampoa has accumulated 100 years of experience in this kind of business, so it has a large appetite and greater digestion capacity, and has signed relevant agreements with local logistics companies at the same time, it is also starting to build its own logistics system. ”

"So at the same time, we had to connect Vanda with Vanda, which was also registered in London. Mr. Ryan has been to the South End of London to inspect the field, and the dependence on industrial retail is very large for commercial real estate projects like that. Especially in the heart of the shopping mall, the underground supermarket alone consumes a staggering amount of retail goods every day. ”

The secretary's introduction was over for the time being, and the car was parked in a just right position at the same time. It's the crossroads to a port, with a vast, sparsely populated heavy chemical plant on one side and an extremely large parking lot on the other, straight ahead of the empty space full of containers. From here. Of course, you can't see the ship directly, but the old man didn't come to see the crane in the first place.

"Alice-King really has a lot of plans. The old man stared at the wide environment in front of him, even though it was late at night, but a few scattered lights were enough.

"It's no wonder that Leo Vantaa would find this girl, even if she is only seventeen or eighteen years old compared to ordinary middle-aged people, since she has achieved this, of course she will not be a person who lacks ambition. Then again, Tom, this girl is rumored to be a good friend of the British royal family, and the source is accurate?"

"At least judging from the date of establishment of the umbrella company and the listing date of the instigation, unless she has already applied for the relevant tests in the name of other companies, and has already dealt with the relevant matters. Otherwise, if it is just a normal procedure, it should be far from the time to officially sell it. ”

The old man groaned and nodded silently, the secretary made a gesture at the right time, and the driver in the front row turned off the stereo. The abrupt cessation of Mozart's soft music plunged the interior of the car into an extremely clear silence.

"The stock prices of Microsoft and Cisco have not fallen since they went public, and they are rising day by day, month by month. Bill Gates from Microsoft, Alice-Wang from Cisco, they have all accumulated three or five billion assets with this alone, Gates seems to only plan to sit and watch Microsoft develop day by day, but since it can accumulate so much money so quickly, Alice-Wang will quickly expand to the industry, and it is normal. ”

Tom, the secretary, was silent. The company's focus on the Silicon Valley star is not a day or two, and it is true that unlike many other Silicon Valley talents, Alice Wang is clearly just using the IT industry as a springboard to quickly accumulate wealth. But the problem is that she didn't sell her stocks after she became worthy, and now the situation is that this girl has not let go of her IT career at all while expanding into real estate, medicine and other industrial fields.

"But sir. Seizing the moment when the old man temporarily withdrew from his thoughts, Tom said: "Even if Hutchison Whampoa has rich experience in the port logistics industry, it has nothing to do with the field of heavy industry, and this is still the career of Mr. Li Ka-shing." We rushed to find Alice Wang to cooperate, is it really reliable?"

The old man smiled and looked at Tom.

"Tom, how many years have you been with me?"

Tom blinked, and at this moment, he subconsciously wanted to look in the mirror: "A year." ”

"How many years has your father been my secretary?"

“…… Twenty years. ”

"Yes, twenty years, when do you think I've made an unreliable decision?"

Tom felt a little embarrassed, but fortunately, as the old man said, the relationship between him and the old man was almost equivalent to the intimacy between grandparents and grandchildren, and he would not be so anxious and panicked: "This ...... Main Alice - Wang is still too young after all......"

"She is very young, but she clearly knows how to do business, not only is she a research talent with a focus on technology, but she is also an entrepreneur with a strategic vision. ”

Hearing that the old man had such a high opinion of the girl, Tom couldn't help but lick his tongue.

She knew what her inherent shortcomings were when she expanded into the industrial field, so she did not rush to this field directly, but wisely chose to cooperate with mature industry leaders. Li Ka-shing's Cheung Kong Group, registered in Hong Kong, has a unique geographical advantage, and compared with his American or European counterparts, the scale of his business and the attributes of his compatriots are the most suitable for Alice Wang. ”

"So Tom, learn a little, look at a little, that's all that girl's way of thinking. Vanda Company, Vanda Place, and then the UK, she really didn't have the inherent attributes of Lee and Hong Kong in vain. You've also helped me investigate the Lee family, and they are all in Hong Kong at the moment, and they are eager to expand overseas at a time when they can't reach it, and now they can expand in the United Kingdom and California at the same time, and this is really thanks to Alice Wang!"

Tom nodded silently, and just as he was right, FedEx box trucks passed by the side of the road and drove straight towards the depths of the port. This is the port area under Hutchison Whampoa, how many 10,000-ton cargo ships can be parked at least four berths in front of you, and you can calculate how many retail goods have just arrived at the port and are about to be distributed to the whole city and even all parts of the country.

"Sure enough, FedEx!" the old man sighed in the car, "At the end of the stock market crash at the end of the year, seven percent of the shares were swallowed by Alice Wang in one fell swoop, although on weekdays, that girl would definitely disdain to intervene in its board of directors, but see, Tom, she uses it now!"

"Yes, including the newly established Dream TV station. Tom smiled slightly, the driver in the front seat had just turned off the light music, it wasn't played by Black Reef Records, it was the broadcast broadcast from DreamWorks Dream TV in Los Angeles!

"Yes, including that Dream TV station. The old man waved his hand, and the car slowly moved forward again, the terrain of the Long Beach port area is complex, the road is extremely long, and there are scenes for visiting.

"So Tom, do you see? Think about what Alice-King was doing in '87, she was preparing for now, and I would say that she is also preparing for heavy industry in a few years, isn't it?"

A timeline quickly flashed through Tom's mind, and some of the things had been reported in the early days of Fortune and Time. From an ordinary, investment-loving, upper-class middle-class family with more than one million fortunes, to only six years now, her career has formed a series of heavyweight jumps with extreme efficiency. From IT companies to venture capital, and then to the pharmaceutical real estate industry, then go on, is it the turn of heavy industry?

"Figured it out, right?" Seeing the glint in the eyes of the new secretary, the old man nodded with satisfaction: "So, you have to seize the opportunity." Since we all know that the girl is going to develop in the field of heavy industry, how can there be any reason not to take this hitchhike?"

"But sir, according to the model of Alice-Wang and Lockheed's cooperation, ......"

"The research and development of military aircraft and satellites, as well as the navigation chips of some missiles, of course, the girl will pick and play with the trouble, and what Lockheed wants is only her own design ability. But Tom, our Northrop Grumman location is in San Diego, California, not Maryland on the East Coast. The strength of the California consortium has been weakening, how can we let this rising star go?"

The night was long, and the stretch car drove slowly deep into the port area of Long Beach, and the crane in the distance was carrying goods. Looking at Tom's contemplative gaze, the old man's smile was even stronger, and it happened that he was a little hungry, and he picked up the good brother fried chicken he had just bought, and it was still hot.