Just as she came downstairs to the restaurant to have breakfast, Chen Yulian, who was sitting here reading the newspaper, said with a smile: "Jianhui, you have become the richest man in the world. Now you are officially the richest person in the world."
When I took the Hong Kong Economic News from Chen Yulian's hand, he was the one on the front page. The headline about the world's richest man, Li Jianhui, was extremely eye-catching.
After reading the specific reports, Li Jianhui realized that this ranking was not conducted by some tabloid, but by the American Forbes magazine.
This is also the first time that Forbes has done such a ranking list, and only the top 100 in the world are included.
Li Jianhui ranks first with personal assets of about US$5.5 billion. The second place is not an American, but Yoshiaki Tsutsumi, the controller of Japan's Seibu Group, with personal assets of US$5.2 billion.
The Forbes rich list has finally saved some face for my country. The third place is finally ranked by a person from my own country, Robert Galvin. As the controller of Motorola, his personal assets have reached 4.5 billion US dollars.
The fourth place is Japan's Morishiro Yoshiro, the controller of Mori Building Co., Ltd., with personal assets of US$4.45 billion.
In addition to Li Jianhui on the list in Hong Kong, Kadoorie, Sun Hung Kai's Three Musketeers, Li Chaorman, and Chen Zangxi are also on the world's list.
As for charter kings, Li Guobao, Lei Juekun and others, because their shares are mainly in family funds and not considered personal assets, they are not on the list.
Li Jianhui remembers that in his previous life, the Forbes Rich List only appeared in 1982, and at that time it was only the American Rich List, and the Global Rich List only appeared in 1987.
Unexpectedly, this life actually appeared in advance and allowed him to ascend to the throne of the richest man.
The first person to be the world's richest person in the previous life was Yoshiaki Tsutsumi, who is now ranked second. He has been the richest man for several consecutive years until he was surpassed by Yoshiro Morishiro in 1991.
When the United States ranked first on the list of the world's richest people, it was still Bill Gates.
As for Walton, the founder of Wal-Mart, he was the richest man in the United States for several years before the Forbes rich list was released. However, when the global rich list was released, he was not in the top ten. By that time, his shares had been dispersed.
Because the list appeared too early in this life, especially the global ranking, Walton only ranked 53rd this time with a personal asset of US$600 million.
Li Jianhui doesn't care too much about this ranking. After all, he knows very well that the real big guys will not appear on this list.
Although his personal assets are huge, compared with those family consortiums, there is still a big gap in strength.
He smiled at the girls and said: "It seems that I need to speed up the transfer of personal shares, otherwise these people behind me will not have the chance to surpass me."
Chen Xinyi and her daughters knew that Li Jianhui's words were not a joke. Huihong Group and Xinjian Group were shares held in Li Jianhui's personal name and were not investment funds.
As the major industries under the two major groups continue to develop at a rapid pace, Li Jianhui's net worth will continue to rise, and those behind him may not be able to catch up.
Moreover, Li Jianhui also controls Jingyi Electrical Appliances, Jiayi Group, and Hongyu Clothing, which all need to reduce their outstanding assets through share sales.
One good thing about Forbes' rich list statistics is that it only counts personal assets. If it is controlled by a family fund or an offshore fund, Forbes will not count it.
Now Li Jianhui has a lot to show for it. Huihong Group holds 69% of the shares, Xinjian Group holds 51% of the shares, Jingyi Electrical Appliances, Jiayi Group, and Hongyu Clothing are all wholly owned.
This is also Li Jianhui's entire industry on the surface. Even if some people suspect that some investment companies may belong to Li Jianhui, there is no evidence. Calculating Li Jianhui's assets can only be based on these.
Even if individual governments can know the specific situation of Li Jianhui's assets, they will never disclose it to the outside world, because both Bermuda and the Cayman Islands are based on this. Once this information is released to the public, there will be no attraction for these two places.
force.
The development of a force is always very similar. In the early stages, they all think about being famous in the world. After they become famous, they think about how to reduce their fame and hide their strength.
For example, in the early 1900s, for several major American families, their leaders were the representatives of the wealthy. Now, compared with the leaders of these families, the people on the rich list are not worth mentioning at all.
There was a saying in the previous life that the Democratic Party belongs to Morgan and the Republican Party belongs to Rockefeller. Although it is a bit exaggerated, it is enough to prove the influence of these two families in the United States.
Although Li Jianhui has a lot of assets overtly and covertly, compared with these top family consortiums, they still seem a bit insignificant.
The top ten consortiums in the United States currently do not take consortiums such as Xiangjiang seriously. In their minds, they currently only include the six major consortiums in Japan, as well as the German Juncker Consortium, the French BNP Paribas Consortium, the British Rose Consortium, and the Italian Agnelli Family.
These consortiums are not only rich, but also have great influence on the local government. Their industrial coverage is quite wide, and they all have unique advantages in technological R&D and manufacturing.
The major financial groups in Xiangjiang, that is, small local financial groups, have average capital and few technical industries, especially in heavy industry, which is almost zero.
No technology can lead a certain industry in the world. It is difficult to pose any threat to these top consortiums by relying solely on real estate, finance, hotels and other industries.
As for the major Japanese conglomerates in Asia, they did not take the five major consortiums born in Xiangjiang too seriously, so Donghua Consortium only paid a little attention to them.
Li Jianhui is also aware of the weaknesses of his own power. Blue Maple Investment Company has acquired a chip R&D and manufacturing company in England. Although the technology and product quality are far from comparable to Intel, Texas Instruments, etc., this is a good opportunity for Li Jianhui.
Start.
Huihong Group bought out the technology license and officially established its own chip R&D, design and manufacturing company.
Blue Maple Technology Company in England will also increase investment in research and development. At that time, the two technologies will be able to communicate with each other, jointly promote the progress of chip technology, and strive to catch up with Texas Instruments in five years.
At the same time, Li Jianhui has asked Blue Maple Investment and Lipu Investment to enter Australia to look for opportunities to enter the iron ore industry and seize the upstream steel industry chain.
Preparations are also being made for automobiles, and Lipu Investment Company will look for acquisition opportunities in England, focusing on Jaguar.
Li Jianhui did not use those funds directly for his own businesses, but transferred them all to major investment companies. If his own businesses lacked funds, the nine major investment companies would invest.
This also resulted in the nine major investment companies having abundant funds. When Li Jianhui was short of money, he could replenish it at any time.
In this way, he can continuously reduce his open shares, and this transfer will not be too conspicuous. After all, this is expansion financing.
If he directly transfers the shares to an unknown investment company, the outside world will know that he is doing the right thing instead of the left hand.