Chapter Eighty-Nine: The Meeting

Gu Liwei followed Li Kaiyuan, walked into the elevator, she helped press the button on the sixth floor, and then said in the tone of a fan meeting an idol: "Mr. Li, I admire you so much, you were so elegant and calm just now"

Li Kaiyuan just laughed at her when she was complimenting. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

"Mr. Li, I really admire" Gu Liwei saw her like this, and explained with a serious face: "When I used to do the Academy Awards, Mr. Shen asked me to be the spokesperson, every time I was trembling, I would only read according to the script, and I often stumbled when answering questions...... I can't tell you how I feel, anyway, Mr. Li, you are my idol, I adore you so much"

"Vivien, actually, you can too." Li Kaiyuan smiled and said: "It doesn't matter if you think about it, it's okay if you say it wrong, anyway, someone will help you finish it, and as soon as you are mentally steady, you will dare to say anything." ”

"Mr. Li." When Gu Liwei heard this, she said with a bitter face: "You and Shen are always a family, of course he will help you, I am his subordinate, messed up, let alone help me, if you are small, you will be scolded, and if you are big, you will deduct money, and you will walk on thin ice every day, how can you get up steadily." ”

Li Kaiyuan walked out of the elevator, and then teased: "The boss is unreliable, so find a good husband." ”

"I would like to, but there are too few men who can look at them now."

"You high-achieving students who have come back from studying abroad have too high vision."

Li Kaiyuan walked very fast, Gu Liwei trotted two steps before keeping up with her pace, and said: "It's not that I have a high vision, my family has also arranged a few blind dates for me, and those men's conditions seem to be very good, but every time I meet, I unconsciously compare those people with Mr. Shen, and then I feel that they are full of shortcomings."

"Do you have fewer shortcomings in Mr. Shen?"

"Mr. Shen may have shortcomings, but he is calm and atmospheric, speaks humorously, often does some unexpected things, and is not only very secure with such a man, but also very romantic, but the men I meet are either tasteless in words, or exaggerated, and very boring."

Li Kaiyuan glanced at her.

"Mr. Li, to be honest, when I first worked as a secretary for Mr. Shen, I really had the intention to hook up with him, but I quickly extinguished that thought, Mr. Shen was just superficial, he was talking nonsense, and his heart was clear, such a man was too difficult to do unless he took the initiative, otherwise he would send it to the door upside down, and he didn't want it."

Li Kaiyuan laughed and said, "Vivian, don't you see, you are very good at men?" ”

"I've been in love since I was fifteen years old, and now that I'm an old girl, can I not understand men?"

While the two were talking and laughing, they walked around the small indoor waterfall garden in the middle of the sixth floor, which caused widespread controversy and was considered one of the symbols of Shen Chong's luxury and waste, and walked to the conference room of the Oriental Charm Investment Department.

As soon as Li Kaiyuan entered, several people in the room stood up and applauded her, and in the applause, she sat next to Shen Chong with a calm expression and said, "Ah Chong, don't mess around." ”

Shen Chong stopped and made a helpless expression by the way.

The applause stopped, and Lin Xingzhi, editor-in-chief of Hong Kong Economic Journal, first said: "I have done financial news reports for more than ten years, and today is the most wonderful press conference I have ever seen, no, it is the most wonderful press conference I have ever heard. ”

"Editor-in-Chief Lin is too awarded." Li Kaiyuan looked at the phone on the conference table and said, "You use the phone to listen to my press conference?" ”

"yes." Shen Chong explained with a smile: "When arranging the press conference, I specially arranged a microphone line to receive it on the telephone on the first floor. ”

"You have a lot of ideas." Li Kaiyuan glanced at him and asked, "Is there any new news?" ”

Yuan Tianfan looked at his watch and said; "A few minutes ago, there was news that Jardine Matheson was calling an extraordinary meeting of all directors."

"Jardine Matheson's 100-year history is certainly worth boasting about, but any organization with a long history cannot avoid two problems, one is that the internal forces are intertwined and the internal friction is serious, and the other is conservative and does not like to toss." Shen Chong smiled and said, "This temporary board of directors, I don't know how long it will be noisy?" ”

"As far as I know, the board of directors of Jardine Matheson is now roughly divided into two factions, one is the moderate faction led by Niu Bijian, and the other is the expansionist faction represented by the Keck family." As the most well-informed media person in Hong Kong's financial circles, Lin Xingzhi understands the internal situation of Jardine Matheson more than ordinary reporters, and said: "Generally speaking, Niu Bijian has been doing Taipan for several years, and he has no merits, and his predecessor Henrik was in power, he expanded vigorously and did business all over the world, but he was greedy and chewed more, although the scale has expanded, the foundation has also been shaken, and the income has fallen sharply in recent years, which is the sequelae of the previous expansion. His business ideas have been recognized by many directors, and if they really quarrel, it is really hard to say. ”

Li Kaiyuan was very concerned about the result and asked, "So which of the two factions will be beneficial to our plan?"

"Niu Bijian probably wants to fight a war of attrition with us, because the high share price of Jardine Matheson is good for him." Yuan Tianfan analyzed: "The Keswick family may push the board of directors to buy back shares, because we are really threatening their position as the largest shareholder. ”

"Not necessarily." Shen Chong knocked his fingers around on the conference table and said, "Niu Bijian may want to get rid of us as soon as possible, and then go all out to deal with Bao Yugang, and the Keswick family, maybe they will propose to continue to push up the stock price, and then get rid of it at a high level and sell Jardine Matheson." ”

"Impossible, right?" Not only Yuan Tianfan, but Lin Xingzhi also didn't believe it, and said: "The Keswick family has been the major shareholder of Jardine Matheson since the fifties, and Jardine Matheson has huge assets, so there is no reason for them to get rid of it?" ”

"When I went to Taiwan last week, someone told me that everything in the world is about politics." Shen Chong stopped knocking on the table, drew a circle on the table with his fingers, and said: "So, whether to continue to push up the stock price or buy back the shares as soon as possible, in the final analysis, is just a question: is Jardine Matheson optimistic about the future of Hong Kong, or is it not optimistic about the future of Hong Kong?" ”

Yuan Tianfan was thoughtful when he heard this, but Lin Xingzhi's eyes lit up and asked, "How does Mr. Shen know that the Keswick family is not optimistic about the future of Hong Kong?" ”

Soon after Simon Keswick became the head of Jardine Matheson, he announced that he would move his registered office to Bermuda during the critical period of Sino-British negotiations......

Of course, he couldn't say this, Shen Chong just said vaguely: "It's just a guess, many Hong Kong natives are now worried about the future, let alone the British." ”