However, the friendship between the Ling family and the Roald family was established with the help of the two. Although the Roald family lost the competition and should have withdrawn from the development of the coal mine here, they were stopped by the Ling family and invited back to the joint development. Because the Ling family believes that in the future development, the Roald family will become its best ally and a powerful help.

As a result, the industries of the two families in country A grew steadily among mutual assistance, and slowly the business philosophy of the two families became closer and closer, and the Roald family also built an information network in country B and its neighboring countries with the help of the Ling family. As a result, both families ate up the dividends brought to them by the information network during the war years and occupied a lot of resources. When the Ling family was unable to move to country A because of the war in country C, Roald once extended a helping hand to the Ling family to help the overall industry transfer smoothly, and also did his best to preserve the Ling family's industry in country C. At this point, the Ling family and the Roald family formed a business alliance between the two families, although now the rule that the first generation of the Roald family head could not intermarry with a foreign family has been slowly abolished, but the two families have not intermarried for several generations. It may be that the relationship between the two families is still indestructible, and even the other eight families can only gain a foothold if they develop outside the scope of the two of them.

After the war, the Roald family believed that information warfare was not their forte, and after sharing more than half of the world's mineral resources with the Ling family, they chose to return to country A to continue to develop the industry they were good at. But in the middle of the last century, the Roald family finally expanded into the field of technology, thus breathing new life into its vast business. Moreover, the Roald family has a strong background, which makes it the first to come, and now it has become a pioneer in science and technology in various fields.

Although the assets of the two families are developing and their strength is growing, the Ling family and the Roald family have chosen the strategy of weakening the family's sense of existence in the era of peace, and they will not show off their wealth in a low-key manner, because all the industries under the two families, including groups, banks and other industries, have not been listed, so as to avoid being known by the world about their annual reports, and can also completely prevent other families or groups or even the state from making hostile takeovers of them.

Perhaps because of the similarity of these business philosophies after the war, the Ling family is often referred to by the Western media as the Roald of the East. However, this did not make the two families very happy, because the friendship between the two families did not want to be known to the outside world, so they used two methods of acquisition and blocking, respectively, so that all the media kept silent about their two families. Since then, the history of these two families has only appeared in legends.

The last time it appeared in the newspaper, it was because a veteran scholar was popular, but when the media reported on the incident of the youngest daughter of the famous hotel tycoon Hill family marrying a young man surnamed Roald, it was said that it was "next marriage", and wrote an article to clarify, using the history of the Roald family to fully prove that this marriage is clearly the high climb of the Hill family. In front of the Roald family, the Hill family is not worth mentioning at all. Although this article was quickly suppressed, it was also a glimpse on the Internet, which made the Roald family leave a mark in the eyes of the world again.

And the young man surnamed Roald in this story is the James Roald in front of him. He is arguably the most prestigious candidate for the heir of the Roald family of this generation. From letting him follow the patriarch of the Roald family to attend the annual gatherings of major families many times, to breaking the shackles of "the family is not allowed to marry with foreign clans" for him, and letting him marry the youngest daughter of the Hill family, who is the last of the ten families, he has become the strongest contender among the heirs.

James is knowledgeable, perceptive, kind and far-sighted, and has long seen the rise of the Ling family's home country C and even broke the trend of country A's dominance, so when he was in school, he not only carefully studied the mother tongue of his ally Ling family according to the family's regulations, but also took courses such as the history and culture of country C. After working in the family business, James still did not forget to go to the cultural academy opened by the non-governmental organization of country C in country A, trying to understand country C in an all-round way, so that he could go to country C in the future to make contributions to the family.

However, because of the good development attempt of the Roald family in the past ten years, its strategy is conservative again, and even its investment in country C is only focused on the assembly line manufacturing industry that employs a large number of cheap labor, although it is still profitable, but the labor cost has risen with the continuous development of the economy of country C, and soon the Roald family has to contain these factories in countries with lower labor costs. However, this is bound to be a waste of the Roald family's previous investment in Country C.

So, there are two voices in the Roald family, one is from the conservative wing, who believe that the investment in country C should be withdrawn as soon as possible, and the assets should be sold so that they can move to developing countries where labor is cheaper. The other comes from the innovators, who believe that local enterprises should be transformed, from extensive to intensive, and more investment in technological innovation.

James falls into the latter category, but in order to become the heir to the family, he has to take into account the risks posed by conservatives. After all, there are too many examples of losing everything by making a mistake, and James doesn't want to lose the support of conservatives because he is too tough.

However, in order to convince conservatives, the first thing to do is to address the risk. Since countries C and A are different from politics to economics, to laws and traditional cultures, these can be the triggers of risk. Although the Roald family has a very good cooperation experience with the Ling family, the Ling family is not a C country. James, who claims to be the master of country C, has done many surveys on the market of country C, but he is still troubled. Fortunately, Ling Tingzhen and James are from the same generation, and because Ling Tingzhen was in the same school as James when he studied in country A, the relationship between the two is good, and private exchanges are more frequent. Therefore, James specially asked the head of the family to represent the Roald family to participate in the "Thanksgiving World" charity auction, the purpose of which was to ask this ally face to face.

"Oh, Brother Zhan, I haven't seen you for a long time, I didn't expect the Roald family to send you to this auction, your presence really makes the whole venue shine." Ling Tingzhen immediately acted as a waiter, picked up the red wine on the wine table behind him, and poured a glass for James.

"Ahem, Brother Ling still likes to joke as always, we haven't seen each other for two months." James took the wine glass in one hand and stretched out two fingers in the other, "Moreover, except for the people in this box, no one in the venue knows that I am coming." ”

Ling Tingzhen listened to James's words and couldn't help but think of the first time he met James when he was studying in country A. The two who had just entered H University for further study were invariably attracted by the new revelation of the "Country C Cultural Interest Group" in front of the open sign of the student union. At first glance, it seems to be a small poem that is the first to recruit new members, but if you look closely, you will find that this is still a hidden poem, aiming to recruit special consultants. Because the revelation was written in Chinese language, James was triumphantly explaining the meaning of the poem to his friends at that time, but Ling Tingzhen next to him pointed out that he did not interpret it comprehensively. At that time, James was in the arrogant grade, how could he allow himself to lose face in front of his friends, even if he knew that the other party was from country C, James, who claimed to be a national of C, still had to argue with him. Ling Tingzhen was not annoyed, because he had already recognized that the person opposite was James of the Roald family who had visited the Ling family's ancestral house when he was a child. Although Ling Tingzhen knew that the Roald family was friendly with the Ling family, so their children must learn C Chinese, but he did not expect that James really liked the culture of Country C, so he made an appointment with him to participate in the "Country C Cultural Interest Group", where he had another high and low.

Later, after different assessments, the two of them finally met again at the activity site of the "Country C Cultural Interest Group", but the difference is that James is a member of the group, and Ling Tingzhen is the consultant of the group. The two of them didn't know each other, and they became mentors and friends, teaching each other about the culture and history of their own countries. Ling Tingzhen also helped James give a Chinese name "Zhan You", so far, the two will be antique when they meet, Ling Tingzhen calls James "Brother Zhan", and James becomes Ling Tingzhen "Brother Ling".

However, although James is now regarded as a C country pass, it may be because he has lived in country A for a long time and has little language environment, so he still can't tell what is polite and what is a compliment. This often makes Ling Tingzhen "can't bear to look directly" and "hold back internal injuries". Because every time I explain these things to James, it is easy to be too divergent, resulting in completely forgetting the main point to talk about, so over time, Ling Tingzhen didn't bother to explain it anymore, so let it become a major feature of James.

Ling Tingzhen raised his red wine glass and motioned to James to toast, but James was not polite and drank all the red wine in the wine glass. And just as James was about to say something to Ling Tingzhen, he saw that Ling Tingzhen was engrossed in watching the performance on the stage in the venue. Although James has to admit that the performances on stage are very exciting, he doesn't even have the heart to watch it now. After all, he came here with a problem, and time was limited, he had to take a private jet back to country A at 10 o'clock tonight in order to attend his wedding anniversary dinner with his beloved wife.

But the more anxious James was, the more he didn't know how to speak, so the two big men were clubbed behind the floor-to-ceiling windows, like statues, the difference was that one was in a hurry to bite the bait, and the other was not in a hurry to lift the hook. Finally, James couldn't wait, he started directly, and turned Ling Tingzhen, who was still watching the play elegantly, to the side, and the action was so big that the red wine in Ling Tingzhen's hand spilled out.