In the morning of the next day, Li Guangyu, Cao Weiqing and several children started touring Paris.
In the past few years, since Cao Weiqinghe married him, he has not gone out for travel. Li Guangyu also wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to visit several countries in Western Europe and let the whole family travel around and see the different scenery.
Li Guangyu was in a good mood traveling in Paris with his family, but the British government was a little worried.
The senior British officials were very concerned about the movements of Li Guangyu and his party in Paris, especially Li Guangyu's meeting with Chirac, which put them under tremendous pressure.
They are very worried that the focus of the Li Group's investment in Western Europe will shift from England to France, which will cause great losses to them. Especially during this period, when Britain needs a large amount of capital, the Li Group suddenly invests a large amount of money.
France is unwilling to choose England, which will be a huge blow to them in attracting foreign capital.
On the morning of the 1st, the British Prime Minister personally invited Du Yuemei to the Prime Minister's Office to discuss some issues.
In the past few years since the acquisition of Jaguar, Du Yuemei and the British Prime Minister have maintained a very good personal relationship. However, when their respective interests are involved, the two people do not care how good their relationship is.
In the reception area of the Prime Minister's Office, the Prime Minister said to Du Yuemei, "Ms. Du, we have known each other for many years, and our government has always been very supportive of the development of the industries under your Li Group. In Western Europe, no country can have a better relationship than ours in England."
Suitable for your development.”
Du Yuemei is not anxious at all now. She knows very well that the series of actions taken by Li Guangyu and the top management of the consortium in Paris will make the British government uneasy.
Du Yuemei was not very happy about the negotiation for more than half a year. In fact, it had been delayed for so long that she did not have time for her honeymoon trip.
Although she didn't care much about it, it was never something that made her happy.
As for the government supporting the development of the groups under the Lee Consortium, this is even more nonsense. The British government's greatest support for the Lee Consortium is that it does not deliberately cause trouble for the Lee Consortium.
In many industries that the Li Group wants to enter, they have to negotiate conditions with them and meet some requirements of the British government. Only then can the Li Group enter this industry.
For example, the airlines a few years ago, the Tianyu Bank established a few years ago, and the current Hong Kong dollar note issuance rights.
Du Yuemei said, "Madam, our Li Group has always attached great importance to the British market, and also intends to make London our key investment focus. Just some time ago, our senior management was still thinking about building a Bentley Building in London to serve as our Li Group."
The company’s Western European headquarters.”
At present, many groups under the Li Group have their own group headquarters buildings. As the president of Bentley Group, Du Yuemei naturally hopes to build a headquarters building named after the group.
The construction of this building has been approved by Li Guangyu, which will also become a bargaining chip for them to obtain the right to issue Hong Kong currency notes.
The Prime Minister is very clear about some situations of the Lee Consortium. There are currently many headquarters buildings owned by the Lee Consortium. The Oriental Building in Taipei is under construction and belongs to the Oriental Semiconductor Group. The mainland side is currently using Pengyu Group.
Headquarters building, the Xingyue Building in Tokyo will also be completed, and the Xinghong Building in Los Angeles also has drawings.
There are similar plans in Singapore, but there is no Lee Group headquarters there, so the name of the building has not yet been decided.
As the Bentley Group is a very important group of the Lee Consortium, the Lee Consortium naturally planned to establish the group headquarters.
However, no matter whether the headquarters of many groups in Hong Kong or other regional headquarters are either ready for use or under rapid construction, only the Bentley Group headquarters building is still on the design drawings, with no sign of starting construction.
The Prime Minister knows the reason behind this. The reason why the Bentley Building has been delayed in construction is mainly because of the issue of the right to issue Hong Kong currency notes. If this aspect is not negotiated, the Bentley Building will not be put into construction.
The Prime Minister is very clear that time is running out in this regard. If it continues to be delayed like this, it will be very detrimental to the government. She needs to cut the knot quickly and get rid of some companies that are seriously dragging down the government's finances to change the current situation.
Once the economic situation continues like this, her domestic support rate will continue to decline, which will be very detrimental to her.
In the following hours, the Prime Minister and Du Yuemei carefully discussed some conditions. This time the British government made very big concessions, and its sincerity in cooperation was much stronger than before.
Du Yuemei also patiently discussed with the Prime Minister, hoping to find out the British government's bottom line.
At around six o'clock in the evening, Li Guangyu received a call from Du Yuemei, reporting to him in detail the results of today's discussion with the Prime Minister.
Li Guangyu was very happy to hear this. He was very satisfied with the outcome of this discussion. It can be said that the British government was quite sincere.
Even if all shares of British Telecom Group were transferred to Li Guangyu, there would be no problem with the right to issue Hong Kong dollar notes.
Li Guangyu will invest one billion US dollars to build the Bentley Building. Bentley Group will invest one billion US dollars for acquisition, and Hengyu Supermarket Group will enter on a large scale.
The key point is to ask the Li Group to acquire Xingyuan Mining Company. This company is currently not performing well, with an estimated market value of US$100 million and several mineral properties in Australia.
Such a valuation is reasonable based on the amount of storage being explored. If the British government had not prepared a large number of state-owned enterprise privatization reforms, this company would not have been released.
Although it is a bit expensive to acquire this mining company, there is still no problem with Li Guangyu's strength.
Besides, Li Guangyu knows that the price of iron ore will rise in a few years, so he won't suffer any loss if he wins this mining company now.
Li Guangyu said to Du Yuemei, "You continue to communicate with the Prime Minister to ensure that after we acquire this company, the company's employees will not cause trouble and strike. At the same time, we have no obligation to ensure that no employee is fired."
Li Guangyu is now worried that the employees of the mining company will imitate those in the coal industry, which will cause great trouble for him to acquire the company, and he does not want to cause trouble for himself.
In fact, if necessary, he would rather build a new energy and mining group by himself. He knows that there are several large mines in Western Australia. Then he will bring together the Xiangjiang Consortium, the Fujiwara Family, the Sumitomo Family, the California Consortium, and the Takarashima Family to join forces.
Entering there, with these forces present, he wouldn't worry about anything happening there.
However, there are advantages to acquiring this company now. Xingyuan Mining Company is registered in England, and Australia and England both belong to the Commonwealth. This company will have more convenience in developing in Australia, which can reduce a lot of trouble for him in this regard.
Du Yuemei immediately replied, "Li Sheng, I have communicated with the Prime Minister in this regard. They will arrange personnel to do a good job in this area, and they will not force us to retain all employees. However, the Prime Minister expects us to do so if the employees' demands are reasonable.
Try to keep them working in the company."
Li Guangyu has no objection to this. After all, the company also needs these people to keep running. If I can work with peace of mind, Li Guangyu will naturally not fire employees.