Unlike Diem, Lee is well aware of the importance of power-sharing.

Since the company was on the right track, he, the chairman, rarely asked about specific affairs, and was only responsible for dealing with senior government officials at home and abroad, so as to create a good environment for the development of the company.

He gave full respect and trust to Vietnamese executives such as Tran Shi Quok, Vu An Dong and Nguyen Chi Nhan, became good friends with officials in the Lower Six Provinces and officers of the Fourth Tactical District, treated opposition leaders such as Phan Quang Dan with courtesy, and used every opportunity to mingle with the people, in stark contrast to Ngo Dinh Diem, who monopolized power and was not close to the people.

When it's time to delegate, you have to delegate power, and there are many things that others may be more professional.

Although he proposed the formation of the Jinou Peninsula Border Guard Command, he has never been there once, let alone interfered in military operations.

In fact, this is true not only of the Jinou Peninsula Frontier Garrison Command, but also of the Fifth Infantry Division, the Chinese resettlement village in the Parrot Cape area, and the Nong resettlement village in the Zhensha area. Therefore, he did not know about the raid in the G-32 area in advance, and did not receive a report marked "top secret" until the afternoon of the second day, when the operation was exposed and Xiong Shangwu's team was withdrawn.

Mr. Qian Xinlin recommended Sun Ningyu, the former vice chairman of the Boliao branch of the Chinese Youth Association, to replace him as secretary, and after nearly half a year of running-in, Sun Ningyu has fully entered the role.

The young man was shrewd and capable, and his vigilance was extremely high, and after several security personnel carefully inspected the room and confirmed that there were no eavesdropping devices, he opened the folder and reported: "Chairman, Captain Chen Runwei and Lieutenant Xiao Xinsheng plan to expand the scale of the special forces within two years. The number of units has been expanded from the current 13 to 30. At the same time, the reserve officer training team of the University of Technology was commissioned to form a research team. Specializing in the study of what more suitable weapons and equipment should be used by special forces. ”

At present, the scale of the special forces is not large, with a total of more than 180 people, including instructors, and all the members are selected from the Fifth Infantry Division, the industrial village security team, and various resettlement villages.

Drawing on the training methods of the US Navy's underwater demolition team, the IDF's special forces, and the French Foreign Legion, and in light of the actual situation in South Vietnam, a set of training syllabuses was developed and "devilish" training was conducted for nearly two years. And not all of them were sent to the front.

Li Weimin put down the action report sent by Wang Jingui, got up and said with a smile: "Although the raid failed, the results were not small, they obviously tasted the sweetness and planned to fight a vigorous special war." ”

If you don't work as a secretary for Mr. Li, how can you know these secrets.

Sun Ningyu said excitedly: "Chairman, a detachment annihilated a reinforced platoon and a field hospital of the local troops of the 'Southern Liberation Army' at the cost of one death and one wound. ”

This is just the beginning. This battle has to be fought.

Li Weimin didn't want to waste the precious lives of Chinese elites in the jungle, while wearing a tie in front of the mirror. While saying thoughtfully: "To expand the scale of the special forces, it is necessary to draw the backbone of the fighting cadres from the Fifth Division, the security team of the industrial village, and the militia self-defense units of the villages where they are settled. The parrot horn and the Zhensha front line are important, and the appeasement in the rear is equally important. ”

"You...... You disagree? ”

"It's not that I disagree, I just want to give them an opinion, and it's up to them to decide what is more appropriate."

Li Weimin straightened his tie and continued: "Compared with the Chinese who have lived in the cities since childhood, the young men of ethnic minorities living in the western mountains and some rural areas are better at fighting against the 'Southern Liberation Army' in the mountains, swamps and jungles. ”

Sun Ningyu reacted and asked with a look of surprise: "Mercenaries? ”

"They are not foreigners, and we will not make a big publicity, what to hire or not."

The boss once said that a problem that can be solved with money is not a problem.

Sun Ningyu finally realized the boss's good intentions, and couldn't help laughing: "Okay, I'll call Mr. Chen and Mr. Xiao back." ”

It is not quite appropriate to go directly to Israel and South Africa, so the first stop of the trip is the United States.

In the past few days, I have visited the new US political leaders such as the newly inaugurated US President John F. Kennedy, Vice President Lyndon Johnson, and Secretary of Defense McNamara.

After consolidating relations, deepening friendship, and reaching a consensus on the relationship between the Vietnam Industrial Estate Investment Company and the South Vietnamese government, he rushed to New York to meet with Li Weiqing, the "richest" and busiest person of the Li family.

My sister is in charge of hundreds of millions of dollars in assets and manages many of the Li family's investments in more than a dozen countries in Europe and the United States.

Forcing a young lady who was supposed to enjoy life and squandering her youth into a busy strong woman, Li Weimin felt very guilty, so he naturally did not let her come to the hotel to pick her up, but took the car sent by the New York branch of the Bank of East Asia and rushed directly to the headquarters of the angel investment company on the 88th floor of the Empire State Building.

Once last year, Li Weimin said hello to the reception reception, and found the president's office with a familiar car, looked at the scenery outside the floor-to-ceiling glass, and turned around and joked: "Mr. Li, the environment is good." ”

Except for my brother, no one dared to break in without knocking.

Qingqing didn't even bother to raise his head, and while signing the documents, he said angrily: "There is a saying, the golden nest and the silver nest are not as good as their own kennels, and no matter how good the environment is, there is no good home." ”

Li Weimin pulled out a chair and sat opposite her: "Now that the traffic is so convenient, I will take the time to go back and have a look when I am homesick." ”

"It will take five or six days to make a convenient round trip, and the schedule is full, can I go away?"

"So busy?"

"What do you think?"

Qingqing picked up the schedule in his hand, held it up in front of him and gritted his teeth and said, "Even if you get up early, if you sleep for two hours, you won't be able to see me." At 11 o'clock the plane went to Stanford. See the 'Rebellion of the Eight Geniuses'. After dinner with them. I have to fly to Australia overnight. Let's see if the iron ore you built can be mined.

When you return, you have a meeting with the fund managers to determine whether to increase or reduce your stake in the U.S.-listed companies. After all this, I will go to Paris, and let my uncle and Giustina say that the French government has loosened its policy on some companies, and if there is a real opportunity, you can take a stake in the long-coveted companies of Matra and Marconi. ”

The "Rebellion of the Eight Geniuses" was the famous young scientists Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, Blank, Claire, Herney, Rust, Roberts, and Grinick.

They are either holders of double doctorates, engineers from large companies, and some are researchers and professors from prestigious universities. They are all under the age of 30 and in their prime. Successful in learning, at the pinnacle of creative ability. Because of his admiration for the name of Dr. Shockley, the "father of transistors", he ran from the eastern United States to Silicon Valley to join Shockley Laboratories, without considering the working environment, conditions and treatment.

However, their idol Shockley is a genius scientist who lacks the ability to run a business.

Although ambitious, he didn't know anything about management, and when he arrived, he found it difficult to work with, and more than a year later, the laboratory did not develop any decent products. So under the leadership of Noyce. Submitting a letter of resignation to Shockley, Shockley angrily scolded them as "eight rebels".

They traveled to New York to find companies that could support their startup.

"Fairchild", "Moore's Law" are too famous. As early as 1958, Li Weimin let his sister get ahead of Fairchild, the president of the New York Photographic Equipment Company, and provided them with a $2 million investment to set up a company to develop and produce commercial semiconductor devices, and enjoy the privilege of purchasing.

As it turned out, they were indeed geniuses.

A few months after the company was founded, IBM gave them their first order for 100 silicon transistors to be used in the memory of the company's computers. Today, the "Eight Rebels" small company has $10 million in sales and more than 900 employees, relying on technological innovation advantages, it has become the fastest growing company in Silicon Valley in one fell swoop.

Li Weimin not only needs money, but also needs the most cutting-edge electronic technology.

The angel investment company, which made his sister the president, very generously ceded part of its shares, and took advantage of the fact that the United States did not have a technological blockade on South Vietnam, especially Vietnam's industrial village investment company, to set up a branch with the "eight rebellious" companies on Phu Quoc Island in a joint venture situation.

Diffusion, masking, photography, lithography...... The entire planar processing technology took root in Phu Quoc Electronics Industrial Base, and a month before departure, Phu Quoc Electronics Industry Company's silicon transistors were able to be mass-produced.

This is just the beginning, and the "rebels" have opened a wonderful door to a bottomless abyss: if you can make a transistor in this way, why can't you make it dozens, hundreds, or even thousands?

There is no limit to the development of integrated circuit technology, and they are like a cash cow.

Li Weiqing attaches great importance to this, and goes to Silicon Valley almost every month to deepen the friendship between investors and managers without interfering in the company's operation and management.

As for the iron ore in Australia, it was discovered by accident by an Australian farmer named Hancock.

He was very excited at first, and he persevered in the preliminary work, carefully exploring at least 100 kilometers along the veins. And the ore specimen he extracted, after repeated tests, its purity is even 2% higher than the American smelting standard, which means that the iron ore he found can be directly fed into the smelting furnace to become steel!

But he was soon disappointed, and politicians in Perth and Canberra simply did not believe that a farmer from the bush with only a secondary school education could find high-grade iron ore in the barren Australia, which experts had sentenced to death. Australian government officials and experts generally agree that Australia's iron ore will only continue to be mined for a maximum of 30 years. In another five or six years, Australia will become an importer of iron ore.

This puts Hancock in a dilemma, he must first obtain a government concession for the discoverer in order to make the discovery a tangible benefit.

So until then, his discovery cannot be told to anyone in the mining industry, otherwise it will be difficult for his rights and interests as a discoverer to be protected. The problem is that not only does the government not believe that he has discovered high-quality iron ore, but under Australian law, both the federal and WA governments strictly prohibit the mining of new iron ore in order to achieve tight government control over "depleted" iron ore resources.

Fortunately, Hancock was not only a persistent man, but also a wealthy man.

Not only did they support all the exploration out of their own pockets, but they also made a lot of investments in parliamentary lobbying. Despite the bureaucracy's "hard doors, ugly faces, and hard words", after eight years of struggle and complicated "collusions", last December he finally received the biggest Christmas gift of his life: the federal government officially confirmed his development privileges in the Pilbara region as the discoverer.

However, the state government's ban on development has not been lifted, and even if it does, the amount of money needed to develop an iron ore mine within a radius of hundreds of kilometers is by no means affordable for a single farmer, or even a small Australian economy.

As a reactive person, Li Weimin once again gave full play to the advantage of foresight.

When those profit-seeking mining companies told Hancock's "hillbilly" to get out, they reached out through his sister's angel investment company. In exchange for an upfront payment of $500,000 and a royalty of 2.5% of future annual mineral sales, Hancock and his family and friends were able to get out of the area entirely......

My sister is more capable and better than I imagined.

Li Weimin was very pleased, looked back at the fund management department next door, and said sincerely: "Qingqing, hold on for another two years, and after Jiahui is familiar with the situation, you can go and enjoy life to the fullest." ”

My brother is a person who does great things, and he can't be held back.

Qingqing snorted and said, "Brother, I'm joking with you, it's good to be busy, at least live a full life." ”

"When a man gets married, a woman gets married, no matter how busy she is, she has to fall in love and have a boyfriend."

"You don't care about me, I'm not a child."

"I'm your brother, I don't care who cares? Before I came, my mother said that our family already had an arranged marriage, and there could be no second one. As long as you like it, as long as you are not a foreigner. ”

Qingqing couldn't help but smile and asked, "Brother, listen to what you mean, it's very aggrieved to marry your sister-in-law?" ”

Home and everything is prosperous, this joke can't be messed around.

Li Weimin shook his head again and again and said: "How is it possible, being able to marry your sister-in-law is a blessing that I have cultivated for eight lifetimes, and it is also her grievance to say that I am wronged." Mom means that my arranged marriage with your sister-in-law is very happy, not as happy as someone else's arranged marriage, we respect your opinion, for your lifelong happiness. (To be continued.) )