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Lin Wutong smiled: "Of course I know this, but if you look at the map, you will know that the topography of Blarney Island is really good." Sandwiched between Sentosa Island and the main island of Singapore, it has inherent advantages as both a core business district and a stand-alone hotel. I'm just afraid that the Singapore authorities will go crazy and have to redevelop this place into a port area, which will be a waste of the island. ”

Blarney Island was indeed developed into a port, and from that point on, Lin was rightly wrong. But whether the port or the hotel is more beneficial to the island is a matter of opinion.

In fact, this is also a helpless move by the Singapore authorities, including the opening of gambling licenses, the construction of Genting Entertainment and Sands Entertainment in Sentosa Island and the Bay Area respectively, which is also a helpless move by the Singapore authorities.

Because at the beginning, the Singapore authorities did not have the idea of opening up the gambling license, but Singapore's economy fell into a low ebb after the 97 Asian financial crisis, and the economic development of the mainland brought about the contraction of the entire Southeast Asian manufacturing industry. Singapore has a small geographical location, and although it has maintained its technological advantage by relying on technology output, at the same time, Singapore has also suffered from a serious talent gap.

At the beginning, Singapore ambitiously proposed a technology island plan to develop Singapore into the most important piece of the world puzzle, but Singapore has only 4 million people, which is less than the population of a large city in the mainland.

Between 2004 and 2005, the mainland's economy soared, but Singapore's economy regressed. After a serious internal strife with the ruling authorities, they eventually had to abandon the Techno Island project and start developing Singapore's in-depth tourism in turn.

Singapore receives more than 15 million tourists every year, but these tourists only use Singapore as a transit point, because there is no attraction or tourism in Singapore that can retain tourists.

In other words, with more than 15 million tourists a year, Singapore generates very little tourism revenue.

In such a situation, the authorities had to let go of the gambling license, and approved the plan to expand Universal Studios, build a resort world, and an entertainment world, which did give a good boost to Singapore's economy, but compared with the science and technology island plan that benefited the country and the people, the gambling caused the authorities to suffer a serious crisis of public opinion.

Lu Jinyuan asked, "There is one thing that the son-in-law has never been clear, why does the father-in-law insist on refusing to let Evan join our plan?" In my opinion, he is now favored by the young masters, and if he joins our program, it will also make our investment much less resistant. ”

After all, Lin Wutong was eighty-four years old, and his experience was a little poor, so he motioned to Lin Guotai to help him answer this question.

Lin Guotai leaned over and took the information he had been reading from Lu Wenlong's hand, and said: "From the very beginning of Evan's contact with Adelson, we have been paying close attention, because at the beginning, we learned that he got three gambling cards from Spain, and we were interested in cooperating with him to jointly develop the spinach market in Spain. However, before our side was ready, he had already contacted Adelson in the United States and quickly negotiated the terms of cooperation. It was my mistake, and I wanted to wait and see the situation more clearly, but I didn't expect that Evan would move so quickly. ”

In fact, this incident was not Lin Guotai's mistake, but because of Lin Wutong's mistake. He is old, he has lost his sharpness in doing things, and he seeks stability in everything. But Zhou You is faster than anyone else's movements, and he is still hesitating here, and the dust has settled over there.

"I have here a copy of Evan's wife, Elizabeth, who went to the United States to sign a contract, which I also spent a lot of money to get from a law firm. One of the problems I found was that at the same time as Evan, there was a Singapore company that also owned 30 percent of the shares of Sands, far more than Evan's 9 percent. I also looked into the company and found nothing, but it made me sure that the company's shareholding was absolutely not related to Temasek. ”

Lu Jinyuan and Shi Zhenkang, who heard the news for the first time, were shocked, because they couldn't believe that a state-controlled investment company would be linked to a spinach group.

"Sands wants to give 30 percent of its stake in exchange for their development in Asia, so they are willing to give up 30 percent. But what if it were us? We can't get into the Western market, so we can only stay in Asia, and for this reason, we want to maintain the purity of Genting, so I will never accept such conditions. If we let Evan get involved in our investment in Singapore, at this time, the Singapore authorities already have 49 percent of the shares, and even if Evan only has one or two percent, he has the bargaining chips to decide the situation, so we have to firmly control the 51 percent of the shares from the beginning and leave no chance for them. ”

Shi Zhenkang was a little hesitant at this time, because he suddenly realized that it was not a good choice for him to be caught in the middle. The Lin family was afraid that the Li family, who was in power in Singapore, would invade their career, but they brought him to be a sandwich biscuit in the middle, which was a bit unflattering.

Lin Guotai seemed to see his hesitation, and said with a smile: "Brother Shi don't have to worry, because you are different from Evan, Evan will definitely look down on the investment of the sub-project now, and you shouldn't dislike it." We can divide the investment in Singapore into several small projects, and you only participate in the investment of small projects, which has nothing to do with the headquarters, so you will not get involved in equity disputes. ”

Shi Zhenkang understood at once, and it is true that if it is an overall cooperation, his net worth is not enough compared with the Lin family, but if it only involves the investment of small projects, he can still take a lot of advantage in it.

The Lin family is negotiating with Singapore to build a world-class one-stop amusement park in Sentosataus, which is larger than the largest amusement park in Dinis, with an investment of more than US$5 billion. In the whole project, there are five hotels, dozens of restaurants, and various amusement facilities.

The Singapore government contributed 49 percent of the shares for land, planning, construction and a small amount of cash, while the Lin family's Genting Group and the Lu family cooperated to provide most of the funds, accounting for 51 percent of the shares.

Of course, Shi Zhenkang does not have the ability to mix in this, but whether it is a certain hotel or a certain facility, he still has the ability to participate.

Therefore, he smiled and said, "This is the best, with Brother Lin taking the lead, I can also follow behind to get some shade." ”

The car jolted and turned out to be in the hotel parking lot, and they both smiled slightly and ended the conversation.

At the Hilton, since the entire hotel is chartered around, everyone is serving them. A few days ago, Lin Wei and the people from the etiquette company worked hard for several days, mainly because they were busy at the venue and arranging the seats for all the guests when they were here.

Because the success of a ceremony does not depend on how many flowers are placed on the scene, not on how many gifts the host gives, but mainly on whether the host has created a satisfactory communication environment for all the guests, and whether he knows a few more people who are helpful to his career.

Whether in the East or in the West, whether it is Chinese or foreigners, they pay great attention to the seating arrangement of the venue, and this must not be wrong.

You can't arrange a boss and a worker to sit together, you can't let two people of too different ages and identities sit together, and you can't arrange two people who have a grudge to sit together.

In addition to these basic requirements, you should also be clear about the interests and hobbies of each major guest, and try to arrange some people who want to be close to each other, who want to be close to each other, and have the prospect of cooperation, so that the social platform you organize can be regarded as basically qualified, so that the guests are basically satisfied.

Therefore, just arranging the seats tortured Lin Wei for almost a week. However, the hard work was not in vain, and at least Zhou You's work was recognized.

Although the Hilton Hotel is large, it does not have a hall that can accommodate hundreds of tables, and their main dining room can only accommodate less than 50 tables. There are mainly friends from Europe and the United States, as well as experts and scholars from all over the world, because almost everyone is interested in Chinese food.

Most of the women and children were arranged separately in the western restaurant, and the food and atmosphere here were also to their liking.

Some of the more important guests were arranged into private rooms according to their respective industries and ages.

Since the seating was already arranged, the guests who entered were quickly brought to their seats by the hostess who was in charge of taking care of them, and everything seemed to be in order.

In the largest box of the hotel, there are large tables that can sit around twenty-four people, and in addition to the host of Zhou You, nine VIPs from all over the world are arranged.

The first is the young leader, followed by the chairman of the Balearic Region, Petra, and the two ministers of Singapore, Adelson and Barron Hilton from the United States, Ho Jisheng from Hong Kong, the gambling king Lin Wutong from Malaysia, and the last one is Pan Guangnian, the head of the Pan family in Indonesia.

Although there are only ten of them, there are ten beautiful celebrities and models in the room, all of whom are young and beautiful women, who will sit across the ten of them.

Of course, on an occasion like theirs today, of course, it is not for the sake of drinking flower wine that these celebrities are accompanied. First of all, with these girls, they can adjust the atmosphere, and secondly, these star artists can also take care of the guests around them. They can do the little things of pouring tea, pouring wine, and changing tableware, and they can't let the guests' chopsticks fall on the ground, and they have to replace them themselves. (To be continued.) )