Chapter 245: Make the successful group bigger and stronger
Nowadays, Li Jianhui feels like he is surrounded by enemies on all sides, but he has no regrets. After traveling through time, he would be sorry for God's care for him if he were still a vassal of others.
He wants to use his actions to tell these consortiums that they have only developed hundreds or even hundreds of years earlier. In the future, they will no longer set the rules in the business world, and there will also be Chinese voices in this.
After Chris Dupont left, Li Jianhui specially called Li Zaiwei to the office.
"Now is the time to test our relationship. I'm afraid this time we will not only be suppressed by Mitsui and Mitsubishi, but DuPont Morgan of the United States may also take action against us.
Once these large consortiums become serious, we may face difficulties in our two major markets, the United States and Japan.
Therefore, the Southeast Asian market is particularly important to us. You will go to Kuala Lumpur tomorrow. I will give you 200 million Hong Kong dollars for charity in the five countries. I will also give you 100 million Hong Kong dollars in special funds, mainly to win over local senior officials.
At this time, we should not do anything to cast a wide net and see which side is more inclined to the Chinese people and support whichever side. The most important thing is to make sure that they can support us."
Because of the Japan-US consortium, Li Jianhui has to get involved in politics. After all, if he has no influence in this regard, if he says that he wants to restrict Xinjian products, he may restrict Xinjian products, and if he says to increase tariffs on Xinjian products, he will increase Xinjian tariffs.
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This is definitely not what Li Jianhui wants to see. He must take the initiative and try his best to ensure that he has a relatively fair business environment in the Southeast Asian market.
The more I understand these consortiums, the more I can feel the terror of these consortiums. Mitsui Mitsubishi has already made the Xinjian Department breathless. Unexpectedly, Morgan and DuPont came here again.
Li Zaiwei also felt a huge pressure. Once the U.S. market and Japanese market impose targeted restrictions on Xinjian series products, the Southeast Asian market will become extremely important to Xinjian series.
He also marveled at Li Jianhui's far-reaching layout. He wondered if Li Jianhui had already expected that he might face such a situation, so he kept Zhou Pengfei in the dark and continued to build up his vest.
On the surface, the Xinjian Department has been suppressed, but this does not affect the development of the nine major investment companies: Lanfeng, Lipu, Meiya, Quanyuan, Xingsha, Nanlong, Yuntao, Huaying, and Lanxi.
The net assets of each of these investment companies are at least US$3 billion, and the net assets of Blue Maple Holdings are not even less than what Li Jianhui showed.
As long as these companies develop steadily for five to ten years, the entire Xinjian Department will be fully capable of taking on these top consortiums.
At Nanlong Investment, Li Jianhui also gave special instructions to make Berjaya Group bigger and stronger and make Berjaya Group the next Wheelock Holdings.
At present, the main industries of Berjaya Group are retail and real estate, and Li Jianhui plans to let it enter the film and television media, hotels, finance, plantations, aviation and other industries.
Now he has many opponents, including Nanyang Consortium, Xiangjiang United Consortium, Mitsui Mitsubishi, and Dupont Morgan. He has no time to fight with Nanyang Consortium now and strengthen Chenggong Group so that it can contain Nanyang Consortium in Southeast Asia.
Li Zaiwei was very happy to hear Li Jianhui's plan. Although he was not the president of Nanlong Investment and Chenggong Group, the president had to listen to him. The opportunity to independently develop a consortium outside was very attractive to him.
Because of the importance of Xinjian Group, he can only serve as the group's vice president if he stays in Xiangjiang, and has a relatively small say. But it is completely different when he goes to Kuala Lumpur. In addition to asking Li Jianhui's opinions on strategic development, how to develop
It's all the group's own decision-making, and he can decide many things with a single word.
Xiangjiang Xinjian itself is a relatively large consortium, and it has several small consortiums under it, especially the three major groups of Xinjian, Huangpu Holdings and Wheelock Holdings.
Each group spans multiple industries, and each group is stronger than the four major foreign banks. Based on Hong Kong's measurement standards for consortiums two or three years ago, these are out-and-out consortiums. After all, the four major foreign banks were at that time.
The strength of the consortium is not as good as these three.
Especially after Li Jianhui assigned Wei Li the task this time, Wheelock Holdings will also enter the film and television media, residential real estate, games and other industries.
Wheelock Holdings owns a market value of HK$11.3 billion, and it also controls Wheelock Land with a market value of HK$10.6 billion, Lane Crawford with a market value of HK$7.5 billion, Watsons with a market value of HK$5.1 billion, and Tesco Group.
The valuation is HK$7.5 billion.
In addition to Xiangjiang United Consortium, the strength of the other three major consortiums is not necessarily comparable to Wheelock Holdings.
Whampoa Holdings is relatively weaker, but it is definitely not far behind the other major consortiums. In addition to its own market value of HK$7.3 billion, Hutchison Real Estate has a market value of HK$6.7 billion and Whampoa Shipping has a market value of HK$6.2 billion.
There are also unlisted steel companies, Jinhong Jewelry, Taihe Foreign Trade Company, etc., especially Jinhong Jewelry, which has reached a strategic cooperation with Lane Crawford, allowing it to have a counter in Lane Crawford Supermarket, and its expansion is extremely rapid. In addition, Jiayi
The group's publicity currently exceeds Chow Tai Fook Jewelry's strength.
The advertising slogan "A diamond is forever, a diamond is forever", coupled with Brigitte Lin's endorsement, made the public remember Jinhong Jewelry, especially in Baodao, where the sales volume far exceeded that of Xiangjiang.
First, the market there is bigger than that in Xiangjiang. In addition, Brigitte Lin’s influence in Baodao is much greater than that in Xiangjiang, and the competitiveness there is also smaller than here.
As a senior executive of the Xinjian Department and a new executive officer, how could Li Zaiwei be willing to see Clay Johnson, who was not yet an executive officer, leading Huangpu Holdings to develop into a comprehensive consortium, while he had no achievements to speak of.
Among the nine major investment companies, only Nanlong is semi-public. Many forces know that the person behind this investment company is Li Jianhui.
The Xin Jian Department has never concealed anything in this regard. The relationship between the two parties can be seen from the close cooperation between the Xin Jian Department in Malay.
On the contrary, it is the other eight major investment companies. Don't look at the major investment companies such as Blue Maple Investment that invest more in Xinjian Department. They also invest in New World Development, Sun Hung Kai, Henderson, Wharf, etc., but their investment in Xinjian Department is relatively larger.
That's all.
In the eyes of the outside world, these people suddenly came to Hong Kong at such a time and invested in so many companies mainly to pave the way for entering the mainland market, and they would not associate it with Li Jianhui.
After all, Li Jianhui's information is relatively clear. He is already a monster for being able to build the current Xinjian Department from scratch. If anyone really said that these companies are owned by Li Jianhui, they would only think it was a rumor meant to cause trouble for the Xinjian Department.
Perhaps some nobles in England know this, but they will not publicize it to the outside world. As nobles from an empire where the sun never sets, they look down on the descendants of the exiled people, and they still have the dream of being a hegemon in their hearts.
Following Lan Feng's investment can make their wealth grow rapidly. As long as the Xin Jian Department does not fall out with Ying Lun and them, they are unlikely to make the relationship between Lan Feng Holdings and the Xin Jian Department public.
After all, the more fiercely the Xin Jian Department fights with other consortiums, the easier it is for them to profit from being around. If Lan Feng Holdings is also suppressed, they will have no chance to make quick money. These nobles will not do anything that harms others but does not benefit themselves.