"Mr. Li, you and your wife are welcome to come to the manor as guests."
Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, the contemporary Duke of Westminster, is also the cousin of Zhou Pengfei's wife Lisa Grosvenor.
Because he is a soldier, and he is only in his thirties, he has a resolute and polite temperament, unlike those old foxes in the shopping mall who are deep and hypocritical.
His wife standing next to him is also a soldier, so he and Grosvenor are a perfect match for each other.
It's just that these two are far inferior to their cousin Lisa Grosvenor in terms of business knowledge. This has nothing to do with IQ and EQ.
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To be honest, Li Jianhui is also a little envious of the British nobles. The manor and castle are not only vast in area, but also rich in history.
The Xinjian Li Family Villa at No. 8 King Wah Road is nothing compared to it. Even though it has acquired many antique calligraphy and paintings from the mainland in recent years, it still has no historical background and often looks more like a nouveau riche.
Although the Li family is right to say that they are nouveau riche. After all, the Li family has only been rising for a short period of time, but Li Jianhui is not willing to truly become a nouveau riche. Instead, he hopes to become a family that has been passed down for hundreds or even thousands of years.
Envy comes from envy. Li Jianhui was not invited here today to visit the Grosvenor family estate. Cooperation between the two parties is the main topic today.
Although during the years when Lisa Grosvenor was in charge of the Grosvenor Group, the Grosvenor Group was developing towards a comprehensive industrial cluster, until now, the Grosvenor Group is still a group with real estate as its core.
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It is rumored that half of the land in London belongs to the Grosvenor Group. Although it is a bit exaggerated, it also shows how powerful Grosvenor is in real estate.
The British-funded company that has built an office building in Xiangjiang, aside from HSBC, Standard Chartered, Swire, Jardine Matheson, etc., which have been rooted in Xiangjiang for hundreds of years, is currently the Grosvenor Group. This can also reflect this group's development and development of the real estate market.
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"Mr. Grosvenor, at the moment I am not very interested in the joint development of the Vancouver and Sydney markets you mentioned.
Currently, the global real estate market is developing rapidly in Japan, ASEAN and Hong Kong. If you are willing to cooperate, we can jointly develop Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Hong Kong, Johor Bahru, Rayong, Cebu, Bandung and other cities.
Especially in Xiangjiang, Johor Bahru and Rayong, our Tung Wah Association is building urban business complexes, and each project costs more than 50 billion.
Grosvenor Group can definitely acquire land around several major projects and coordinate development with several of our major projects.
If you disdain these places, my real estate subsidiary is also willing to establish a joint venture with the Grosvenor Group in the Japanese market to develop the Japanese real estate market."
Grosvenor was a little disappointed with Li Jianhui's refusal to develop the Vancouver and Sydney real estate markets.
Before the death of the previous Duke, the Grosvenor Group purchased a large amount of land in these two places and planned to develop them into commercial centers and high-end residential areas in the two places.
Just because of the limited strength of the Grosvenor Group and the death of the previous Duke, development has been relatively slow.
In the past few years when Lisa Grosvenor was in charge of the group, the main profits were used for the development of other industries, such as the Rose Financial Group jointly established with several nobles, and investment in many companies under the Hong Kong Far East Association, and also purchased
Many Tung Wah Association-owned listed companies have shares, which has also resulted in little development progress in those two places in recent years.
Although he had been in the army for the past few years and did not know much about business, after retiring and returning home to take charge of the company, Grosvenor was still studying seriously.
I still have some understanding of the development of the real estate market in Japan, Hong Kong and even ASEAN in recent years. The development is indeed better than that in Vancouver and Sydney. However, the land prices in these places are also expensive, and the development model is different from the Grosvenor Group.
For hundreds of years, the Grosvenor Group has purchased wasteland adjacent to urban areas at very low costs, and then developed it over decades to build a new urban center integrating commerce, business offices, and residences.
However, this development model is not suitable for cities such as Xiangjiang, Johor Bahru, Rayong, etc. It is also not suitable for the Japanese market.
"I still need to communicate with the senior management of the group regarding Mr. Li's proposal, so I will put this matter aside for the time being.
I invited Mr. Li here today mainly to communicate with me about my cousin Lisa and her husband Zhou Pengfei.
My wife and I are both soldiers and are not very good at business. In order to prevent the family industry from declining in our hands, we plan to let Lisa come back and continue to be in charge of the Grosvenor Group.
Considering that this may separate her and her husband in two places, our Grosvenor family is willing to support Zhou Pengfei to start a business in London, so that their children can have an asset completely under their control when they inherit my cousin's Viscount title in the future.
Rather than being a subsidiary of Earl Donghua."
Li Jianhui didn't expect that Grosvenor would come to poach him, which made him feel a little uncomfortable.
However, this is also related to Zhou Pengfei's wife, and he will not object directly. He just stated that if it depends on Zhou Pengfei's wishes, if Zhou Pengfei wants to leave the Xinjian Department to start a business in London, he will not object.
It seemed that Grosvenor was waiting for Li Jianhui's words. As soon as Li Jianhui finished speaking, he immediately said: "Thank you Mr. Li for your understanding. I believe Mr. Li is also aware of Zhou Pengfei's current embarrassment under your banner.
If he hadn't married my cousin, I'm afraid he would still be your top executive, in charge of the huge Blue Maple Holdings Group. He is also your representative in England.
It's a pity that fate has played a trick on people. Because of the relationship between Donghua Association and us, he had to choose to leave.
And because he is a British citizen and holds a lifelong baronetcy, returning to Hong Kong is equally embarrassing.
Mr. Li may think that the Political and Economic Research Laboratory is extremely important, but unfortunately he has overlooked that Zhou Pengfei is still a young man and is not interested in intelligence, and unlike you, he has no intention of retreating behind the scenes."
Li Jianhui also realized that he did not consider Zhou Pengfei's position too much when adjusting Zhou Pengfei's position, so he felt somewhat self-blame.
But it was quite disappointing that Zhou Pengfei did not want to be the director of the Political and Economic Research Office, but did not explain it to him, but instead went through the Grosvenor family. Could it be that he was so unkind in his heart?
"Mr. Grosvenor, I once thought that the marriage between Zhou Pengfei and Miss Grosvenor was a match made in heaven, and it also served as a bridge for cooperation between the Tung Wah Association and the British aristocracy.
It's a pity that in just a few years, you have regarded our Donghua Association from a partner to a competitor. It makes me feel chilling every time I think about it.
I also know that Pengfei feels uncomfortable being caught in the middle, and I also know that Miss Grosvenor is absolutely unwilling to be a housewife.
Please rest assured that I will respect Zhou Pengfei's choice and will never create difficulties for Zhou Pengfei to start his own business in London.
I also hope that Mr. Grosvenor will not mind Pengfei’s Chinese identity, and I also hope that the Grosvenor family will fully support Pengfei in his subsequent business ventures."
Listening to Li Jianhui's words, Grosvenor was relieved. Zhou Pengfei was not a small figure to the Xin Jian family. He left his job and came to London to start a business. In addition, his wife was a member of the Grosvenor family, which would definitely trigger Xin Jian's relationship.
The top management of the department and even the Donghua Association were shaken. After all, Zhou Pengfei had come into contact with too many core secrets of the Xinjian department and even the Donghua Association.
Without Li Jianhui's commitment, they really couldn't guarantee that Zhou Pengfei would be able to come to London smoothly after resigning.