Chapter 13: The Visitor
Shen Chong and Huang Renzhongzheng were talking, the door of the box was gently knocked twice, and then two people came in, one was fat, more than forty years old, one was tall, with a thick beard, very neatly trimmed, unforgettable at first sight. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
"Huang Gongzi is coming, why don't you notify me in advance, let me have to be prepared." The middle-aged man greeted Huang Renzhong warmly, then immediately turned his head to look at Shen Chong, and said with a smile on his face: "Mr. Shen's visit to our store is really brilliant. I am the little boss of the shop, Liu Tianhua, I don't greet you well, and I invite Haihan. ”
"Hello, hello." Shen Chong stood up and shook hands with him, and said politely: "Boss Liu's good business, this place is magnificent, singing and dancing, it is really a good place for leisure and entertainment." ”
"Where, Mr. Shen has won the prize." Boss Liu was obviously an escort, he gave up his position, raised his right hand flat, introduced the bearded man, and said; "Mr. Shen, this is the young owner of Shangri-La Hotel, Mr. Guo Kongcheng Guo."
This rough-looking, bodyguard-like man is actually the eldest son of Malaysia's richest man, Kwok Hok Nian, and the heir of the Kerry Group
"Hello Mr. Guo."
"Mr. Shen, hello, I took the liberty to come here and disturb Yaxing." Although Guo Kongcheng looked mighty, he spoke slowly and gently, he shook hands with Huang Renzhong again, and greeted: "Mr. Huang, I haven't seen you in the United States for four or five years. ”
Shen Chong was on the side, and when he saw two people, one tall and one short, one handsome and one ugly, a strange sense of absurdity filled his heart
Kerry Group is involved in aviation, shipping, real estate, hotels, grain and oil, minerals, media, finance and other industries, and its asset scale and influence are not inferior to Li Ka-shing's Cheung Kong Industrial, but it has always been very low-key, and its popularity and strength are out of touch, especially in the mainland, many people use Kerry Group's products every day, but they do not know the existence of this company, such as Arowana, such as Coca-Cola.
Guo Henian, as the richest man in Malaysia, has no high exposure, and his son is even more low-key, rarely entering the public eye, Guo Kongcheng is known to the public, or because of a relationship between him and Teresa Teng, the two were engaged in the early years of the RU era, but in the end they had no fate, but it was over, which is embarrassing.
The two broke up because Teresa Teng couldn't accept the three harsh requirements put forward by the Guo family's elders to let her completely quit the entertainment industry, but when Shen Chong was wandering around the Internet in his previous life, he once saw a gossip post saying that it was because Teresa Teng was still unclear with Huang Renzhong after she got engaged, and was discovered by Guo Kongcheng, so the marriage fell through.
It is rumored that Guo Kongcheng likes Teresa Teng very much, and after the two ended their marriage without a problem, he married a Japanese woman named Yumiko, who looks like Teresa Teng.
So Shen Chong saw the two shaking hands and talking and laughing, so he naturally felt a little weird.
However, judging from the facts he came into contact with after crossing over, I am afraid that this gossip was made up nonsense and cannot be taken seriously.
Huang Renzhong likes to mess with female stars in the entertainment industry, which is a well-known thing in Hong Kong and Taiwan, but most of the people he chases are second- and third-rate stars, top big stars, like Lin Qingxia, Hu Yinmeng and others, he also has contact, but he has been in contact with him as a serious friend, and has not made scandals.
Besides, Huang Renzhong is just a local snake in Taiwan, in the whole of Southeast Asia, it is not enough to see at all, the assets are not even one-tenth of the Guo family, the appearance is ugly, the person is romantic, and a woman with a little brain will not lose a golden beetle son-in-law like Guo Kongcheng for him, not to mention Teresa Teng, a woman who is so assertive and precautionary.
"Replace them all and get new ones." Liu Tianhua waved his hand again and again, motioned to the waiter to change the food on the table in the box, and ordered: "Go and bring the bottle of red wine in my office, and also, go to the kitchen and tell Datuis, let him cheer up and make the best Nyonya dishes, Mr. Shen is a food expert, he said good, and he is more majestic than a hundred trophies." ”
"Boss Liu is too polite, I'm just greedy, not a gourmet."
"Datois is one of the most famous chefs in Singapore, and even Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew is full of praise for his cooking." Guo Kongcheng said with a smile: "Mr. Shen can try it, Peranakan cuisine and Cantonese cuisine have different flavors and unique characteristics." ”
"I've also heard of Nyonya cuisine for a long time, so I'll borrow Boss Liu's light tonight and have a good taste."
With the addition of Guo Kongcheng and Liu Tianhua, it is not good for Shen Chong to continue to talk about Taiwan affairs with Huang Renzhong, and the four of them talk about the world, the past and the present, and some marginal topics.
Shen Chong observed Guo Kongcheng while chatting, and felt that this person was very steady, speaking without hurry, rational in speech, with depth, not extreme, not exaggerated, and with some immovable momentum, not at all like a young man in his early thirties, Huang Renzhong, who was forty years old, looked a little frivolous in front of him.
The tiger father has no dogs
No wonder Li Ka-shing is still paving the way for his son to take over after he is many years old, but Guo Henian retired early to enjoy life, can you not feel at ease with such a son?
In Shen Chong's view, in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia, the real international Chinese entrepreneurs are Bao Yugang, Li Ka-shing and Guo Henian, Bao Yugang and Li Ka-shing have a cooperative relationship, and the Guo family naturally needs to contact - if you want to envelop the media empire in the whole of Southeast Asia, the Guo family is the best partner.
In fact, most of the top Chinese tycoons will meddle in the media industry, because in modern society, except for nuclear weapons, there is nothing more lethal than the media, and controlling an influential media will have the right to speak independently, and have the magic weapon to wrestle with the bureaucracy.
For example, Zheng Yutong became a shareholder of ATV, such as Wu Guangzheng's cable TV, such as Li Ka-shing's satellite TV, such as Cai Yanming's acquisition of China Times Group, and Wang Xuehong's stake in h... ̈
Kwok Henian was no exception, he bought about 30% of H shares at a price of 100 million Hong Kong dollars in 19rr, becoming the second largest shareholder of H after Run Run Shaw, and in 1993 he bought a controlling stake in the South China Morning Post group from News Corp., including the English South China Morning Post, the Sunday South China Morning Post and the Chinese Overseas Chinese Daily, creating a precedent for a consortium to own both a television station and a newspaper in Hong Kong. Bought the PR rights of TVH's affiliate company from Run Run Shaw, P is a complex of all businesses except TV stations, including records, publishing houses, magazines, TV program agents, TV advertising production, entertainment performances, tourism and other twelve subsidiaries, Guo Henian's title has also changed from "Asian sugar king" to "media tycoon".
Among a group of wealthy people who entered the media, except for Guo Henian, several others did not make any reputation, Zheng Yutong vomited blood at ATV's loss, and finally resold it to others, Wu Guangzheng's cable TV could only live in Hong Kong, with limited influence, Li Ka-shing's satellite TV was blocked by the mainland and resold to Murdoch, and after the rise of the Internet, he relied on the telecommunications business to kill it again.
Only Guo Henian has been steadily moving forward step by step, and has managed the South China Morning Post into Asia's leading authoritative newspaper, with influence as far as Europe and the United States, and PR business has also spread throughout Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia and the Chinese community in the Americas.
Moreover, the Guo family's connections in the mainland seem to be deeper than Li Ka-shing, who is known for being good at handling interpersonal relationships, and there is a saying in China that "the people take food as the sky", and the government attaches great importance to food, but Kerry Group, a foreign-funded enterprise, can invest heavily in the mainland grain and oil market, and the edible oil represented by Arowana occupies about 40% of the market share in the mainland, so that COFCO cannot compete with it.