As the richest man in Hong Kong, it can even be said that he is the richest man in the world today and has a lot of influence in the world, and he does not want to be squeezed out by the British government in Hong Kong because he is "too pro-China," and he also wants to develop his career in Hong Kong in the next 10 years or so.

Of course, Li Hualong did not think of being a turtle with a shrunken head, or a grass on the wall, he would express a "pro-China" attitude, but he had to pay attention to the way.

"What kind of person do you think you are?" Zha Liangyong asked with a smile.

Li Hualong was stunned when he heard this, and said with a smile: "If you ask me what kind of person I want to become, I will answer better." ”

"You haven't evaluated yourself?"

"Yes!" Li Hualong took a sip of tea, changed the topic and said, "What do you think about the Sino-British negotiations, you can write an article and publish it in Ming Pao." ”

"Haven't you read Ming Pao very often lately?"

"Yes, I have carefully read the few articles you wrote, and they are well written and very thoughtful. Brother Cha, have you ever thought about teaching and doing academic research in a university before? ”

"I thought about it. Although I didn't work as a university teacher, I think it's better to stay and work at the newspaper. ”

"If you are interested in managing schools, then I would recommend you to be the president of Hualong University or Ningbo University."

"Not interested. If you have the opportunity in the future, you can recommend me as Honorary Principal. Zha Liangyong smiled, "By the way, how is the enrollment situation of Ningbo University?" ”

"More than 1,000 new students are enrolled this year. Within 10 years, the number of students at Ningbo University will exceed 10,000. ”

"I take the liberty of asking, how much money have you donated to Ningbo University?"

"It's not easy to calculate."

Zha Liangyong was puzzled and asked, "Does this still have to be calculated?" ”

Li Hualong explained: "For the development of Ningbo University, I donated a lot of money to Tsinghua University and other famous universities in the mainland, so that these schools agreed to let some outstanding teachers transfer to Ningbo University to teach, and this money can be said to be donated to Ningbo University or to other universities. ”

Zha Liangyong smiled and muttered, "Is there such a thing?" ”

"There's no way out of it. I can donate money to build a beautiful teaching building, library and dormitory building for Ningbo University, but the situation in the mainland is special, and I can't directly hire excellent teachers with high salaries. ”

"Or do you have an idea. Ordinary people can't think of such a trick. ”

"Praise!" Li Hualong laughed, the expression on his face did not mean modesty.

"Next year. I take the time to go to Zhejiang, and I may go to Ningbo University. ”

"I have a photo of Ningbo University at home, do you want to see it?"

"No need. The feeling of seeing it in person is not the same as looking at a photo. ”

"It's up to you." Li Hualong smiled slightly, "We haven't eaten together for some days. I'm going to have a treat tonight, so I'll call some more people. ”

"The whole newspaper is going?" Zha Liangyong joked.

"Okay. The current achievements of "Ming Pao" are inseparable from the efforts of all colleagues in the newspaper. That's it, you can help me talk to everyone. I'll give the Mandarin Oriental a call later......"

"Next year will be New Year's Day. A lot of people have an arrangement. Zha Liangyong interrupted, "If you can, let's find another opportunity next time." ”

"That's fine. Then tonight, I won't invite you to dinner. You find a few times, and I will cooperate with you. ”

"Thank you boss!" Zha Liangyong said with a smile, "There are few bosses in the world who are as good at talking as you." ”

At this time, Li Hualong's mobile phone rang.

"Boss, you're busy, I won't bother you." Zha Liangyong stood up and walked out of the office with the manuscript written by Li Hualong.

……

April 1, 1983. On April Fool's Day, Hutchison Whampoa announced that the company's executive president Wei Li resigned, vice president Li Chaxin resigned, and Li Hualong, chairman of the company's board of directors, concurrently served as executive president.

As early as last autumn, Margaret Thatcher went to Beijing to negotiate with the Chinese side on Hong Kong's political future. Willy, Richard Lee, and other senior executives of the Hutchison Group strongly advocated that the Hutchison Group shift its focus to overseas development, and Li Hualong was firmly optimistic about Hong Kong's future, so naturally he did not agree.

Li Hualong and Wei Li and other senior executives of the company are seriously divided on the direction of development. Lee demanded that Willy resign as chief executive officer, after all, he owns 37 percent of Hutchison Whampoa, and as long as a small percentage of shareholders support Lee, Lee can remove Willy as chief executive officer of Hutchison Whampoa.

After the resignation of Wei Li and others. Lee began looking for a new CEO for Hutchison Whampoa, and he did not want to be Hutchison's CEO for long.

From the people he knew, Li Hualong thought about it again, thought about it for a few years, and suddenly thought of an Englishman, who was twelve years younger than him. After coming to Hong Kong, this person gave himself a Chinese name -- Ma Shimin.

Simon Murray was born in 1940 in Leicester, England.

Ma Shimin did not go to university, but he had an extraordinary experience, and at the age of 19 he went to join the French mercenary group and was stationed in Algeria to fight. Later, Ma Shimin wrote his experience into a novel called "Legionaire", which became a sensational bestseller.

In 1966, Ma Shimin came to Hong Kong, the British colony, and worked for the most prestigious Jardine Matheson & Co. He describes himself as a salesman, selling everything from wallpaper, nuts, steel, machines, appliances, etc. For three years, he was posted to Jardine Matheson's branch in Thailand, where he was responsible for the construction contract for Jardine Properties, where he borrowed a Chinese favorite medicine – calling himself a panacea.

It is also because he has been trained in many fields that Li Hualong listed Ma Shimin as his first choice when looking for the chief executive officer of the integrated group Hutchison Whampoa.

During his 14 years at Jardine Matheson, he is an executive director of a number of companies, such as Jardine Matheson Engineering and Gammon Construction.

In the late 70s of the 20th century, he was also sent to the University of London and Stanford University in the United States, specializing in economic management.

One day in the late 70s of the 20th century, Ma Shimin came to Hualong Group on behalf of Jardine Matheson Trading to promote air conditioners, hoping that Hualong Group would adopt the air-conditioning system distributed by Jardine Matheson in the future building construction. He tried his best to meet Li Hualong, but Li Hualong didn't ask about such "trivial matters", but still agreed to meet this stubborn "ghost" manager.

At that meeting, both of them were deeply impressed.

Ma Shimin said in his own assessment: "At present, my ability and experience still need to be learned by doing, but this is the case in Hong Kong, as long as you show real skills to do business, you will learn quickly." ”

Ma Shimin also said: "I belong to the dragon, in the words of you Chinese, the son of the dragon." ”

Li Hualong is also a dragon, 12 years older than Ma Shimin.

At that time, Li Hualong and Ma Shimin exchanged views on a number of topics, and they had a good impression of this "Dragon Brother".

In 1980, at the age of 40, Ma Shimin decided to say goodbye to his part-time job and set up his own business to establish Davenham Engineering Consultants to undertake the Singapore MRT project.

After some inquiry, Li Hualong learned about Ma Shimin's recent situation and sent someone to invite Ma Shimin to meet him.

After the meeting, Li Hualong asked Ma Shimin a lot of questions, and felt that this person was able to serve as the president of Hutchison Whampoa.

In order to recruit Ma Shimin to join, Li Hualong acquired Ma Shimin's Davenham Company through Hutchison Whampoa, and appointed him as Hutchison's second in command, director and chief executive officer. (To be continued.) )