Chapter 460 Talking Front
Wu Wenxiong invited Sun Qishan to the building to discuss the matter, and asked his second son Wu Kangjie and others to accompany Chen Huai, Sun Yalin, Cheng Yi and others to visit the Wu family's manor-style manor house in North London.
In recent years of reform and opening up in China, a group of people have become rich first, and many rich people have also begun to build luxury houses. However, compared with these wealthy families in old capital society, they still lack some accumulation.
Although the leaves fall clean after winter, the big tree that needs to be embraced by two or three times is strongly rooted among the fragrant grass, and it can't help but ask people to associate the history of this house and the life hidden behind these plants, which are either erotic, bloody or cunning.
There are about less than one million overseas Chinese who settled in Western Europe, mainly British and French; Chinese companies and businessmen in Western Europe are not in the same circle.
Chen Huai lived in Paris for four years, mainly because he was young when he first arrived in Paris and had no foreign language background. He studied in a Chinese school in France. His personality was also eccentric and unsociable. Until he rushed back to China, he actually didn't have much chance to contact the Chinese businessmen in Western Europe.
Sun Yalin is different. Before she worked at the Domestic Bank of China, she worked in the French investment bank for three years. More importantly, she is a native of Western European Chinese and has been in this circle since she was a child and went to school. She and Wu Kangjie from the Wu family have known each other for a long time, but they have not left any good impressions.
In Sun Yalin's eyes, the shameless and vulgar Wu Kangjie was only 30 years old during the Chinese New Year. He was tall, had thin cheeks, and looked a little pale and haggard. His wife Liu Ying was younger and was a petite beauty. She was not a Chinese-born child who grew up in the UK, but an international student who went to study in the UK in the early 1990s.
Wu Kangjie and Liu Ying's marriage should not be said to be very special among overseas Chinese, but it happened in the Wu family, which is somewhat strange.
However, before Chen Huai had time to speculate on the twists and turns of the story behind Wu Kangjie and his wife Liu Ying, Sun Yalin had already had a fight with Wu Kangjie: "This is the Chinese New Year, I regret to tell you something. You thought it would rot. You mocked the Meigang Second Factory, which had been built for more than half a year. By the way, I heard that your Wu family has a construction company in Liverpool and has business dealings with Feiqi Industrial. I guess you already know this?"
Chen Huai smiled and watched the giant trees in the garden.
When Sun Yalin returned to Western Europe for the Meigang Second Plant project, she encountered walls everywhere and suffered a lot of sarcasm. She also felt a deep resentment in her heart.
However, Sun Yalin used words to tease Wu Kangjie at this time, not that the villain succeeded and wanted to avenge a single arrow.
After all, there are many investment opportunities around the world, especially the information and electronics industries in Europe and the United States are emerging. For Wujia, whose main business is concentrated in Western Europe, even if he misses the domestic investment opportunities in Meixi, there is absolutely no regret.
On the contrary, appropriate stimulation and teasing may attract Wu Kangjie and other rising stars of the Wu family to focus on the country.
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Perhaps Wu Kangjie, the rising stars, do not have the ability and sufficient qualifications to replace the older generation and determine the development direction of the entire family, but they also have some say in local or less important matters.
Moreover, the Chinese business enterprise family has distinct characteristics of inheritance. As long as this characteristic is not changed, the Wu family's career will be returned to the younger generation after ten or twenty years.
As for whether Wu Kangjie will be the future successor of the Wu family, it depends on whether Wu Kangjie can compete for the position among the juniors of the Wu family.
Unable to withstand Sun Yalin's firepower, looking at Chen Huai's gentleness and seemed to be bullied. Wu Kangjie ignored Sun Yalin's teasing and turned his head to ask Chen Huai: "It is said that the domestic reform and opening up is booming and the development momentum is very good, but one thing makes me puzzled. Why is Hong Kong's return to the near future, but now more and more Hong Kong people immigrate overseas? Some people around me also invest in China, but when it comes to domestic officials, they can't help but shook their heads and sighed for the domestic ** and bureaucracy. Mr. Chen, you came from China. What do you think of these phenomena?"
"If you just talk about the living environment, the country is much worse than that of Europe and the United States," Chen Huai just smiled indifferently in the face of Wu Kangjie's provocation to divert his firepower. "Just like we cannot choose the motherland, we cannot choose the family we were born in. Unfortunately, Mr. Wu was born in a poor family. Do you hate and hate your own family? Of course, this society is becoming increasingly impetuous, despising the poor and loving the rich, and even looking forward to his father's success. Not only are there in China, but also in Europe and the United States, but Mr. Wu, do you think we really need to discuss this kind of person?"
"..." Wu Kangjie smiled. He knew that he was eager to divert Sun Yalin's firepower and asked a very stupid question.
"The domestic rule and bureaucracy are very serious. Officials have a big gap with European and American countries in integrity and dedication. There is even a saying that good systems prevent bad people from doing evil, while bad systems make good people worse," Chen Huai continued, "This sentence sounds reasonable at first glance. It seems like European and American countries are paradise without criminals, but I believe that for the Wu family who started from scratch in the UK, they should know better than ordinary people about the world's continuous operation. It is more clear that rushing to pursue a perfect society is a dangerous behavior. Most of the time we face only a trade-off between pros and cons. In this regard, the domestic senior management has a clear understanding, but it does not mean that the domestic will give up on fighting against bureaucracy. I also believe that with the improvement of the domestic economy, the society and political system will become more and more perfect in the future, and bureaucracy will be curbed. As for whether it can be completely eliminated, I believe that Mr. Wu’s view may be more pragmatic than me…”
"Haha," Wu Kangjie smiled, "I admit that my problem is stupid. I ask you to seize the handle. If you continue talking, I am afraid I will not be able to withstand it. However, if you want to convince me to invest in Meigang, these reasons seem to be a bit insufficient..."
"I'm not trying to convince Mr. Wu that you invest in Meigang. Mr. Wu asked me so many questions, and I also want to ask Mr. Wu how many questions you have?" Chen Huai said.
"Well, you said." Wu Kangjie said.
"I noticed that the information and electronics industry in Europe and the United States is emerging, which will be a considerable development opportunity. It may allow European and American countries to achieve a high level of development in the next ten years, and Chinese business capital can also make profits from it," said Chen Huai. "But I believe that people of Mr. Wu's level will not particularly mind that if they have too many accounts or have 10 to 20 million pounds less, and may pay more attention to the degree of participation of the whole thing. I would like to ask Mr. Wu, the information and electronics industry wave that will be set off in Europe and the United States. How much can Chinese business capital participate? Or is it called to buy stocks of several information technology companies if you have money to participate?"
Sun Yalin tilted her head and looked at a kapok tree on the road; Cheng Yi, Yu Wenli and Liu Ying, who accompanied Wu Kangjie to visit the park, did not think about how the discussion suddenly reached this level.
Wu Kangjie was speechless, and he really made Chen Huai fall into the pain.
"The investment promotion in China now shows a very obvious feature, that is, the investment of Chinese and overseas Chinese in China is mainly concentrated in the short and shallow light industry and foreign trade fields, and rarely involves a more complex industrial system. Some people say that Chinese business capital has short-sightedness, but when looking at the global Chinese business capital, you will see that this feature is still very distinct. Today, the development of Chinese business capital depends on China's unique hard work and wisdom. The scale of development cannot be said to be small, but in its position in the entire Western capital system, Chinese business capital has never been a last resort and has no chance to enter mainstream society. I want to ask Mr. Wu, why is this?"
"I remember Mr. Chen was in politics in China, so why did he have such a strong interest in industry?" Wu Kangjie asked.
"Mr. Wu just complained about the serious bureaucracy in China. Now I am asking this question again, which makes me difficult to adapt to," Chen Huai smiled. "My point of view is very simple. The biggest politics in the future will not be bureaucracy, nor will it perform and promise in front of the people like Western politics. The biggest politics in China in the future will be the construction of a country based on industrialization and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. This is also the last opportunity for Chinese business capital at home and abroad to truly penetrate into the bone marrow of this industrial society. If Mr. Wu has no confidence in domestic development, he can stand by, but it also means that opportunities will pass away and there is no chance to come back."
"Your words seem to be a bit useless to me. The real big shot is talking about things in the building." Wu Kangjie glanced at Xiaobai Building behind him.
Chen Huai thought to himself that with Wu Wenxiong's attitude, he would be like a ghost to listen to what he said.
The older generation of Chinese businessmen have struggled in Western society and accumulated considerable financial resources. They are more pragmatic, more cautious, and more focused on practical actions. They are also sticking to tradition and old experience.
The new generation of Chinese businessmen, a rich second-generation Chinese businessmen like Wu Kangjie who is not short of money, is either unrealistic or ambitious, but they do have a better foundation for developing their careers.
In modern times, where investment opportunities are encountered, if you want to trick them into Meixi simply by making a lot of money, you obviously have a low chance of success.
Chen Huai smiled and said, "I haven't thought about convincing anyone; to be honest, I'm already a little surprised that Mr. Wu can be patient to listen to so many complaints."
"To be honest, I was also surprised," Wu Kangjie smiled. "My parents-in-law said that they met a very gentle young man at the airport. They patiently helped them negotiate with customs personnel and helped them pass the customs. I never thought it would be Mr. Chen. Fortunately, Liu Ying and I had known each other for a long time, otherwise, if I compete with you, the chances of winning are really not high."
"Oh," Chen Huai looked at Wu Kangjie's wife Liu Ying in a strange way. He didn't expect that the middle-aged couple who blushed in the examination mouth with an anxious look because they couldn't speak a few words of English would be Liu Ying's parents. He smiled, "What a coincidence. I came here together. They didn't speak English very much and got stuck in the examination mouth. How could I say I saw him go away? It was just a matter of raising hands. Are Mr. Liu and his wife here too?"
"They have already gone to the Chinese community center first, and there are a few old friends who are in a hurry to meet," Wu Kangjie said with a smile. "Tonight, I think they will receive a surprise."
Chapter completed!