After meeting with the senior officials of the Propaganda Department, Li Jianhui and others planned to take a special plane back to Hong Kong that evening. However, during the dinner, they received a notification from the staff that the director in charge of Lisboa affairs in Hong Kong wanted to have a private meeting with Li Jianhui.
It was not easy to say no to Li Jianhui, so he could only postpone his return to Xiangjiang and came to the meeting place specially.
Unexpectedly, he was still an acquaintance. Just a few months later, this person took up such a position again.
"Mr. Liao, you and I are old acquaintances, so don't talk about empty talk. If you have anything to do, just talk straight to the point."
Mr. Liao has dealt with Li Jianhui a lot over the years, and he also knows a little about Li Jianhui's character, and he doesn't treat Li Jianhui too politely.
"I specially invite Li Sheng tonight. First, I will meet Li Sheng in a new capacity. I will also be working in Hong Kong for a long time in the future. My external identity is the Chinese Ambassador and the leader of the Sino-British Liaison Group. I am mainly responsible for communicating with the British.
Negotiate the matter of Hong Kong’s stable return.
Secondly, I hope that if I need Li Sheng’s help in my future work, I also hope that Li Sheng can provide help so that we can jointly promote the peaceful and stable return of Hong Kong.
The third is that we will draft the Xiangjiang Governance Bill and invite Xiangjiang elites to participate. I also hope that Li Sheng will participate and provide us with advice and suggestions to promote the stable development of Xiangjiang in the future."
This amount of information is really quite large. Li Jianhui did not expect that this old man would actually return to Xiangjiang again. This was not good news for him. Relatively speaking, Li Jianhui still preferred to deal with Li Jueshen.
Fortunately, the impact on the Xin Jian Clan and the Tung Wah Association was not great. Anyway, the Tung Wah Association's attitude towards Greater China has always been to stay out of the political affairs. Mr. Liao's return to Hong Kong will not affect the industrial development of the Tung Wah Association.
As for the two or three points mentioned by Mr. Liao, Li Jianhui did not agree to them. He was not willing to fall into it.
He is just a common man who just wants to live his own small life. He is not willing to do something that is a first-rate person, and he is even less willing to do something that is thankless.
Even if Mr. Liao proposed to take up a consultant position, Li Jianhui did not agree, but said that in this regard, Liu Wenjie, general manager of Xinjian Law Firm, was more suitable.
"Li Sheng, I know that you have lived in Tiu Keng Ling since you were a child. Because you have received different information and perceptions since you were a child, you may have different opinions.
But now with the strength of your industry and the size of your employees, as long as it is not a big problem, no one will come back to trouble you. What are you guarding against in your heart?
I think we can have a heart-to-heart talk, otherwise it will be difficult to have trust between us, and it will also bring a lot of inconvenience to your future development and our cooperation."
"Mr. Liao, our nation has thousands of years of culture. We have been scholars, farmers, industry and merchants since ancient times. We are just businessmen with a humble status. Our life and death depend on other people's thoughts, let alone our family property.
The legendary experiences of Shen Wansan and Hu Xueyan have been warning every Chinese businessman that it is enough to have these two models in national history, and there is no need for a third one.
I am just a layman who is content with a small amount of money. I don’t have much ambition. All I am doing now is to pass on my bloodline.
In fact, what I have been telling the truth over the years is that I have always been optimistic about the development here and believe in the central government and the government.
It's just that you always think that I am ambitious and that what I say is just superficial talk. I still say the same thing. I invest in the northern market and even the Greater China region because of profit.
I will only invest reasonably and legally within local rules and will never touch the legal bottom line.
If one day my business is not suitable for Greater China, then I will naturally choose to leave this market.
Greater China is my roots, due to its nature, but it is not a stage for businessmen like me."
Mr. Liao felt very heavy after listening to Li Jianhui's words. He also understood why Li Jianhui had not arranged for a senior executive to be stationed in the mainland market until now.
Because in Li Jianhui's heart, this place has never been his stage, nor is it the core market of the Xin Jian Department or even the Tung Wah Association. Gathering for profit is enough to show his attitude.
As for what Li Jianhui calls a small fortune, it is just for them. In other areas, it is ambitious, because those areas are the stage for Li Jianhui and others.
Especially in the Southeast Asian market, with the rapid development of the Donghua Association in recent years, the Chinese community has become more and more active in the political arena in several ASEAN countries, and cooperation has become closer and closer. The rapid economic growth has brought about a rapid improvement in national defense strength.
, and also allow ASEAN to play an increasingly important role in the international arena.
As Huo Bao said, Li Jianhui's rise is not necessarily a blessing for the country and nation.
Faced with Li Jianhui like this, no matter how many words Mr. Liao has in his heart, he can't talk about it. The fundamental interests of both parties are completely different, and they cannot tolerate the emergence of Western-style consortiums within themselves.
Li Jianhui has obviously known this for a long time. In order to build the Xinjian Li family into a family like Morgan, Rockefeller, Iwasaki, Mitsui, etc., he avoided this and chose the Southeast Asian market.
They can't accuse Li Jianhui of anything, and they have no right to point fingers. That's all Li Jianhui's freedom.
Because the meeting was not harmonious, it ended much earlier than planned. When Li Jianhui stood up to leave, Mr. Liao said:
"Li Sheng, although we have many differences, I believe there is still a lot for us to cooperate with.
You are not a helpless sheep, and we are not a scourge. As long as your development does not violate the laws, no one or force will target your business with unwarranted charges, and it is even less likely that you will be seized and confiscated.
of enterprises.
The ancients said that if you are poor, you can help yourself; if you are rich, you can help the world. I also hope that Li Sheng can help this nation while having huge wealth."
"Most people in the world hold grudges but not gratitude. I just want peace of mind. I will continue to do charity in the mainland as long as it is needed, especially in remote areas in the southwest.
I don’t expect to receive much gratitude. I just hope that in the future, when you scold me as a bloodthirsty capitalist, you can scold me less and not involve my family.
The matter of industrial development is my decision and has nothing to do with my family, and they should not bear the blame."
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Looking at Li Jianhui's leaving figure, Mr. Liao let out a long sigh. There were insinuations in Li Jianhui's words, but he couldn't catch it.
From the beginning to the end, Li Jianhui had no trust in his heart and believed that they were hostile to him and would even suppress and exclude him, otherwise he would not have left these words.
With such a huge industry, it is obviously impossible for an individual to arouse public opinion against Li Jianhui. Only mainstream guidance can do it.
It's just that he has no way to change Li Jianhui's concept. He can only take it one step at a time to see how the relationship between the two parties will develop in the future.
And he is not young anymore. The next generation will have to consider more of the future matters. Now he is more interested in doing the things in front of him and promoting the peaceful and stable return of Hong Kong.