On April 5, Li Guangyu received the good news from Du Yuemei that he and the British Rolls-Royce Company had finally reached an agreement on the acquisition of its Bentley brand. After nearly two months of negotiations, Li Guangyu would also
On April 8th, I attended the signing ceremony of the Bentley transfer.
Li Guangyu came to Li Xuemei's office of Xingyu Group to make some arrangements for Xiangjiang before going to England.
Li Guangyu said to Li Xuemei: "Xuemei, tomorrow I will go to England to attend the signing ceremony of our acquisition of Bentley Motors. You should worry more about the affairs in Xiangjiang. If there are any urgent matters that cannot be handled, please contact me immediately."
"Don't worry, Li Sheng. I will manage the affairs of Xiangjiang Group well. If there is anything I cannot handle, I will contact Ms. Zhang Ziyu immediately and ask her to report to you in time." Li Xuemei said.
Li Guangyu is very confident about the development of other groups. The only one he is worried about now is Tianyu Investment Company, which is currently acquiring the shares of Xiangjiang Electric and Xiangjiang Telephone Group under the Jardine Group. Once these are acquired by Jardine
After becoming aware of it, Jardine Matheson Group will definitely fight back.
Li Guangyu said: "Xuemei, while I'm away, you should pay special attention to the trends of the Jardine Group. Now Tianyu Investment is absorbing the shares of Jardine Group's companies. Pay attention to whether Newbikin will change the port from chartered ships."
The king's side moves to us."
Li Xuemei also knew Li Guangyu's plan, which could easily lead to a counterattack by the Yihe Group. As the largest group in Hong Kong today, Yihe is extremely powerful. It is just because the group has expanded too fast that many Yihe Group
He did not have absolute controlling rights, so he gave the chartering king and Li Guangyu their chance.
Li Xuemei said: "Li Sheng, I will pay attention to the trends of the Yihe Group. Once Yihe has a tendency to target our Li Group, I will report it to you immediately."
Li Guangyu then asked Li Xuemei: "Xuemei, how is your sister studying at Hutchison Whampoa during this time?"
Regarding the transfer of her sister to Hutchison Whampoa to learn supermarket management, Li Xuemei was very happy. She was really worried that Li Xuelan had been staying at Xiangyu Group as the vice president, so it would be difficult for Li Xuelan to get ahead in the short term. As the Li Group, the two companies attract money.
Machine, it is impossible for Li Guangyu to hand over the management of Xingyu Group and Xiangyu Group to his two sisters at the same time.
This time I can go to Hutchison Whampoa. Although I have temporarily left the Li Group, as long as Li Guangyu officially establishes the supermarket group, my sister will become a real top executive of the Li Group. In the future, she also hopes to become a Li Group like herself.
executive officer.
Li Xuemei said: "Li Sheng, Xuelan is currently studying at Watsons Company and has a clear understanding of the supermarket's operating framework."
Li Guangyu said: "Tell Xuelan, let her learn more experience there, and at the same time find a few useful talents. I expect to establish my own supermarket group by the end of this year, and then these talents can come over to manage it."
Our group.”
"Okay Li Sheng, I will tell Xuelan your instructions." Li Xuemei said.
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After having dinner with Cao Weiqing in the evening, Li Guangyu said to Cao Weiqing: "I will go to England tomorrow. You should take good care of yourself at home during this short period of time. If you feel uncomfortable, ask Ma He to contact the doctor immediately to come and take care of you.
examine."
Cao Weiqing said: "Guangyu, you don't have to worry about me. I have Sister Jin and Mother He taking care of me at home. My mother often comes to see me. Everything is fine. You should pay more attention to rest yourself. You can't make enough money.
The group can develop slowly."
Cao Weiqing feels tired for Li Guangyu now. Outsiders only know that Li Guangyu is very successful and has great vision. How many people know how hard he has put in for this. He goes to the company early every day and thinks about the group's affairs when he comes back at night.
Make plans for the development of the group. People have holidays every week when they work, but Li Guangyu's holidays are really too few.
Cao Weiqing does not blame Li Guangyu for not accompanying her more often. She knows that the reason why Li Guangyu works so hard is to develop and grow the family. Instead of being like the children of some families in Xiangjiang, they go to this party today and attend the cocktail party of that socialite tomorrow.
, I am already very lucky.
Li Guangyu said: "I will pay attention to it myself. In the past few years, my family's business is laying the foundation and expanding rapidly. After a few years, when the group is stable, I will spend more time with you, and then we will
Let’s travel around the world.”
Although Cao Weiqing knew that this was impossible, he still sounded happy. He didn't believe that Li Guangyu would have so much time to spend with him in the future. As the Li Group became larger and larger, Li Guangyu's time would become increasingly tight.
, unless he retires.
My father was like this, and he told his mother the same thing at the time. As a result, he still goes to the company at eight o'clock every day and doesn't come back until seven or eight in the evening. He didn't even take a good rest after watching him grow the group.
Then Li Guangyu called Du Yonghong and said to him: "Yonghong, you don't have to follow me this time. You stay at home and take care of the bodyguards from the comforting youth. You must protect the safety of the comforting youth."
Du Yonghong said: "Don't worry, Li Sheng, I will definitely protect your wife's safety."
The reason why Li Guangyu kept Du Yonghong here was because Du Yonghong had the strongest leadership among Li Guangyu's bodyguards. He made arrangements for Cao Weiqing's protection, and Li Guangyu felt more at ease.
On the morning of April 6, Li Guangyu, Zhang Ziyu and their bodyguards boarded a flight to England. This time Li Guangyu still took a chartered flight. Li Guangyu wanted to buy a plane of his own more and more, so that he could
It will be much more convenient to go wherever you go in the future.
After more than ten hours of flight, it was already past 4 pm local time when Li Guangyu arrived in London. Du Yuemei and senior executives of various group branches came to the airport to greet Li Guangyu.
Li Guangyu said: "Yuemei, you have worked hard during this period. Negotiations with Rolls-Royce are not easy."
Du Yuemei said: "Li Sheng, it's no trouble. Today, the Bentley Group is not important to Rolls-Royce. Bentley's models are basically copied Rolls-Royce models. The current economic situation of Rolls-Royce is not very good."
Well, we also intend to sell Bentley. The reason why we have been negotiating for so long is mainly because we have differences on the price issue."
Li Guangyu said: "You can negotiate a purchase price of US$250 million, which is already very good. Although it is a bit expensive for Bentley's current market value, I believe that this company will develop quickly once it is in our hands."
, we will not suffer any loss.”
"As long as Mr. Li is satisfied, Rolls-Royce just knows that we are the one who wants to acquire Bentley, so it is so open-minded and takes us as a scapegoat," Du Yuemei complained.
Li Guangyu smiled and comforted: "Yuemei, don't worry. In the near future, Rolls-Royce will regret selling Bentley to us at such a price. Maybe we will also give Rolls-Royce to us in the future."
Acquired."
Du Yuemei heard this and said: "Li Sheng, although I am a little angry at Rolls-Royce, I think there is no need to buy Rolls-Royce. This model is highly overlapped with Bentley, so there is no need at all."