Chapter 1384: The more you know, the less confident you are
There is no shortage of idle people anywhere, and Zhang Jindong is looking for these people. It is much cheaper to get information from them than to hire a private detective, and the private detective may not dare to take his order.
Wandering around in the alleys, Zhang Jindong finally met someone who he thought knew some information.
This is an old man in his sixties and a barber. He has little business now and few people come here.
In order to inquire about the news, Zhang Jindong started a topic here and chatted with the old man for more than ten minutes before finally turning the topic to Li Guangyu.
I don’t know if this old man was too boring to have someone chat with him for so long, or he just wanted to show that he knew everything, so he continued the conversation along with Zhang Jindong’s topic.
"Dongzi, people should be down-to-earth. It's useless to just regard Li Sheng as an idol. Think about Hong Kong in the early 1980s. At that time, countless teenagers in Hong Kong regarded Li Sheng as their idol. Li Sheng's
Our company is the first choice for graduates of Hong Kong University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Look at the past ten or twenty years, who has achieved 1% of Li Sheng's achievements. You still don't have to be too ambitious. Now having a formal job and a house that is not crowded are the most important things.
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Zhang Jindong now really wants to meet that Li Sheng. He knows that Li Sheng is the honorific title given to him by these people. However, there are several wealthy families in Xiangjiang with the surname Li, but this one is the only one he hears called Li Sheng.
His name will not be mentioned at all, it seems that Li Sheng is already synonymous with him.
And he also found that whether it was the people in the park or the old barber, they were talking about us Li Sheng. Forget it in the park, they were Li Sheng’s employees, but this one was not, but he mentioned that this
, we still use Li Sheng.
This can explain some problems. That person seems to be the real son of Xiangjiang, and the citizens of Xiangjiang regard him as one of their own. At the same time, Zhang Jindong can clearly hear the spontaneous pride and pride of these people when they mention Li Sheng.
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Zhang Jindong responded: "Li Sheng is the pride of Xiangjiang and the pride of us Chinese. We naturally regard him as an idol. I don't expect to achieve the same results as Li Sheng. I only hope that one day I can achieve results that are recognized by Li Sheng."
, I will be satisfied if I can meet Li Sheng in person and have one less light meal with Li Sheng."
When the old man heard what Zhang Jindong said, he was very happy with this young man, and he continued to tell Li Guangyu's glorious deeds, as if he was showing off his children's achievements.
"Dong Zai, since you mentioned Wheelock and Heung Kong Communications Group, you should know that these two companies were companies of the Heung Kong British Consortium decades ago.
Before 70 years ago, Xiangjiang was dominated by four major foreign companies: Jardine Matheson, Swire Pacific, Wheelock, and Hutchison Whampoa. Our Chinese-funded enterprises struggled to develop under their help.
At the end of 1977, Li Sheng's parents died unexpectedly. He started up the family business at the age of 16 and took over the family business Taiping Garment Factory, which has developed into the current Hongyu Garment Group, Feiyu Group, and Pengyu Group.
This is not the most important thing. What really made Li Sheng famous in Hong Kong was Xingyu Game Group. In Hong Kong, which was originally known as a game creation desert, Li Sheng resolutely devoted himself to this industry. In early 1978, his first game Xiangjiang Cube was a global hit.
, allowing Li Sheng's wealth to rise rapidly, and he was praised by all walks of life in Hong Kong.
In the same year, Xiangyu Culture Group was established, and numerous best-selling novels and comics achieved excellent results, making it and Xingyu Game Group the engine for the rapid expansion of the Li Group.
In September of the same year, it officially acquired Jiayi TV Station and subsequently established Jiayi Group, which is now one of the top media groups in the world.
Also in this year, Li Sheng acquired the Kowloon Bus Company, which later became the Kowloon Group, and Kowloon Bus finally became independent.
Starlight Real Estate Group was established at the end of the year. Tin Shui Wai prospered because of the Lee Group. There was no Lee Industrial Park, Star City, or the current Tin Shui Wai Science and Technology Innovation Center.
1979 was the year when Li Sheng left Hong Kong and established the Xingyue Group in Japan. Although the Xingyue Group is no longer glorious now, the controlling rights have also fallen into the hands of the Fujiwara family.
But before 1989, it was firmly controlled by Li Sheng. At that time, the president of the group was Mr. Gan Qinglin. After 1983, until 1989, the president of the group was Miss Qin Jiao, who is now the president of Tianjiao Group.
In the same year, Li Sheng also went to the United States and established the Star Sports Group. Several of the most famous teams in Los Angeles are owned by the Star Sports Group, as is the Coventry football team.
In the same year, Hutchison Whampoa was acquired by Mr. Li Ka-shing, and Li Sheng also intervened. After Mr. Li Ka-shing took control of Hutchison Whampoa, Li Sheng became the second largest shareholder.
In 1980, Li Sheng went to England, and Jaguar and Bentley were acquired by Li Sheng to form the Bentley Group. Currently, only Volkswagen and Toyota in the world can compete with Bentley.
In this year, Li Sheng and Yi launched a takeover war. Although they were able to take over the Heung Kong Electric Group, Li Sheng still acquired the Heung Kong Telephone Company, which is now the Heung Kong Communications Group.
Based on this, it acquired the British Telecom Group and developed the Phoenix Group. Behind the Fengming Group are the Suzaku Group, Fetion Group, British Network Group, and Qiandu Group.
In 1981, this was an extremely glorious year for the Li Group. Hengyu Supermarket Group was formally established, and later developed into three major groups: Hengyu Supermarket, 7-11, and Xuelan Supermarket. Oriental Semiconductor Group was also established in this year.
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The old man told Zhang Jindong a history of the development of the Li Group. Some things were not comprehensive, and there were also some companies that he did not know clearly.
But these are enough to shock Zhang Jindong. He is now unable to calculate the market value of the Li Group because many companies are not listed, such as Tianyu Financial Group, several major supermarket groups, Xiangjiang Airlines, and Kowloon Group.
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The very popular Chung Hwa Electric Appliances that I sell belongs to the Li Group, the house I live in is Star City, the car I drive, the plane I took to come to Xiangjiang, the clothes I am wearing, the hotel I stay in, and the ride I take in Xiangjiang
The taxi, the mobile phone and computer I use, the Fetion I use, and the office software I use, all of them belong to the Li Group.
What made him feel the most pressure was that the old man told him about the allies of the Li Group. The internal directors of Xiangjiang Bank and the internal directors of Hsinchu Bank were both allies of the Li Group.
To use the old man's words, among the top 100 people in Xiangjiang's rich list, except for a few people, they are either allies of the Li Group or senior executives of the Li Group.
These allies are a community of interests, and both parties hold cross-shareholdings in many companies, and both prosper and lose.
When he didn't know about the Li Group, Zhang Jindong still had the courage to compete with the South China Electrical Appliances Chain Group. The more he knew, the less confident he was in Shu Lin now.
At this time, he also knew why those suppliers did not hesitate to no longer provide products to Shulin. Facing such a behemoth, they could only choose to compromise. They could not afford the pressure from the Li Group.
He also knew why Shi Yuzhu said that the worst thing he did was to introduce American capital. He knew from the old man that since 1984, the Li Group has been competing with major American consortiums, from the retail industry to the electronics and semiconductor industry, and then to
to the current Internet industry.
But now the Lee Consortium obviously treats Shu Lin as a pioneer of the American consortium, and is bound to make Shu Lin disappear from the mainland market.
Now Shulin has only two choices. One is to completely turn to American capital and use the other party's strong financial resources to compete with the South China Electric Chain. The other is to find a way to drive American capital out of the company and integrate into the Li Group or the Li Group.
Join the Xiangjiang Bank Consortium and the Hsinchu Commercial Bank Consortium, so that they will not be suppressed by the South China Electrical Appliances Chain Group.
He now needs to see Li Guangyu in person. Even if he cannot see him, he has to give it a try, otherwise he will be unwilling to do so.