The Goddess Shines on America

"It's a long story, let's start from the field I am familiar with first." Alice knew that this was Li Ka-shing's ability to actually observe himself. After all, what he heard was a rumor after all. The cooperation between people, the understanding between people is the most important.

"In my industry here in Silicon Valley, the brand effect is very obvious." She said: "Which company has what products, you only need to look at the LOGO to be very clear. Microsoft is the Winodws system and various application software in the system, Cisco Even the routers, switches, and firewalls are the three major components, and their icons are printed on every Apple computer, and the red buttons on the IBM keyboard are as famous as their work clothes, all of which are clear at a glance."

"A company produces certain types of products on a fixed basis. This is the most typical feature of my current industry. Even if it is 'Oscar \u0026 Hannah', although non-professionals can't directly tell what it is from the style of the clothes, as long as they see the LOGO , Whether it’s sunglasses or a shirt, whether it’s jeans or leather shoes, of course they all belong to my clothing brand.”

"But when it comes to the industrial sector...that's a whole different story."

Having said that, Alice finally paused. Li Zeju on the side listened silently, while Li Ka-shing nodded thoughtfully and with a smile: "I would like to hear more about it, Alice."

Alice nodded, circled her fingers around, and said, "Pull paper."

As he spoke, he pointed to the paper on the coffee table, and then pointed to the small cabinet in the distance: "Toothpick box."

Afterwards, she pointed out all the household items that were close at hand: "candies, bamboo baskets, flower pots, TV casings, pen caps, shoelaces, glasses frames."

"The raw materials for these commodities are all provided by a certain enterprise, and the factories that produce these commodities are also owned by a certain enterprise. This is a very large-scale enterprise with a lot of property." The sentence is in the form and Praise, but the tone is extremely erratic, Li Ka-shing has already guessed Alice's follow-up.

Sure enough, she heard her say: "But who knows? People will only see that the brand of this tissue paper is the best, and the LOGO of this flower pot... I don't know it either. The box of cotton swabs is called Yusheng, and the shoelaces are more There is no marking at all, just a small name on the frame of the glasses."

"The raw materials of these products are all provided by a certain company, and the manufacture of these products is completed by a certain company, but what people can see are these unknown...preferred paper, flower pots with LOGO, Rain cotton swabs, and some unknown shoelaces."

"Who produced them? Nobody knows."

"Where does the pulp for drawing paper come from, where does the wood in front of this come from, who made the polyester of the shoelaces, and who made the outer straps of the spectacle frames?"

"no one knows."

Alice said very bluntly: "No one knows. When people buy computers, they will intuitively see where Apple computers are placed; when people buy Coca-Cola, well, Coca-Cola Coca-Cola, I buy Coca-Cola; Microsoft III The third generation of Winodws system will be launched in this month. We plan to install Office series of office software and Internet browser IE on it. The product information of the former can be seen directly in the drop-down menu in the upper left corner of the software, and the same is true for the latter. , Cisco’s routers, switches, firewalls, Lucent’s routers, switches, and everyone’s LOGO are also clearly displayed on the casing, and users can see it at a glance when purchasing.”

"The companies under my umbrella, most of the products in Silicon Valley, as long as users buy them, they will know which company's products. But when it comes to the industrial field...these messy shoelaces, glasses frames, ear picking Spoons, scissors, who knows what they are?"

Having said that, of course it is already very clear, Li Ka-shing is smiling wryly, so why not Li Zeju. He drank the full cup of tea in one gulp, and grinned so much that the corners of his mouth spread to both sides: "It makes sense, it does make sense, unless you are a person in the industry, it is difficult to know so much about the industry."

Li Ka-shing couldn't help laughing and said, "It seems that Ms. Alice doesn't plan to make a fortune in silence, but pays special attention to brand value, doesn't she?"

"That's true," Alice nodded and said, "Mr. Li, although you and I are self-made, after all, we have different living backgrounds. If making money is only for making money, even if a whole business empire has been developed, how many people can directly feel it? Its existence? Money, as long as it reaches a certain level, is just a simple number. People like us who are worth more than one billion must of course pursue a sense of self-existence, don’t they?”

These words are indeed reasonable, the two adults couldn't stop nodding, and Li Zeju couldn't help grinning a little while nodding. Worth one billion, and the unit is US dollars. If the speaker is an old businessman who has been around for a long time, it will be fine. A fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl, with a few technical patents and a stock market crash, is...

"Sense of self-existence, typical American individual heroism." Li Ka-shing pointed out the core of Alice's thought without comment, and then said: "I understand your fundamental meaning. This is actually a collision of two values. As a traditional As a Chaozhou businessman, and as a traditional Chinese, I still pay more attention to not revealing money and serving the people. Our starting point is different, and the accumulation of starting from scratch is different. It is difficult to compare with each other.”

This statement is extremely reasonable, and of course Alice understands the root cause in her heart. As a pure legendary entrepreneur rather than a reborn person, Li Ka-shing's life is the best portrayal of his era, and she is completely different from her .

Li Ka-shing fled to Hong Kong with his family due to the war in the Mainland in his early years, and worked as a salesman in a plastic factory to make a living. Knowing that he basically met the needs of making a living, and accumulated rich sales experience and production methods of plastic products, he stepped into the field of entrepreneurship step by step.

Furthermore, with the favorable external environment, when Hong Kong in the 1970s fell into the predicament of foreign businessmen evacuating and the real estate industry temporarily sluggish, his "natural" real estate investment behavior "smoothly" led him to the future real estate industry. The domain of the tycoon.

Then, starting out with plastic products, and now earning a huge amount of money from real estate, continuing to work in the field you are familiar with is of course a choice that any normal person would make. Li Ka-shing's ideas undoubtedly belong to the same nature as many ordinary businessmen, especially Chinese businessmen - find the right opportunity and make money when you have it.

That's all.

Different from the idea of ​​personal achievement and personal heroism as the core, the vast number of Chinese businessmen who prefer to make a fortune silently often really hope that outsiders will not know their identity and desperately hide their achievements and fame.

"Very good, really good." After listening to Alice's opinion, Li Ka-shing was already satisfied. He waved his hand, and his wife Zhuang Yueming had been waiting at the door of the living room at some point. Wasn't what he was holding in his hand the summary information about the Changjiang Group?

"Thank you, Auntie." Alice took a copy from his wife, but Alice did not look through it in a hurry, because Li Ka-shing's words followed up: "These things will be full of fine things after they are brought back to the hotel. Tell me, how do you want to develop into the industrial field? Start with the power industry?"

"Renovating the network system for HK Electric is just Cisco's business." Alice did not read the information carefully, and put it next to her after taking it: "But if Mr. Li is willing to let my personal capital invest 50 million U.S. dollars, then Of course it's excellent."

HK Electric has a large scale and is responsible for the power supply of almost the entire Hong Kong. It has a long history and was built as early as 1889, but this does not mean that its total assets will be exaggerated. Fifty million US dollars is not too much, not too little, and it is more than enough to account for nearly 10% of the shares.

You know, the Lee family's Cheung Kong Infrastructure holds nearly 40% of HK Electric's holdings!

"The power industry is related to the electricity consumption of thousands of households. This is a very solid infrastructure field. Your choice is very appropriate." Li Ka-shing first expressed his approval, and then asked: "But you can only get a loan from HSBC?" When it reaches 500 million, Alice, if you didn’t want to spread all of them in this city, you wouldn’t go to it to apply for this loan, would you?”

This sentence could not help but cause a burst of meaningful laughter from the three present. Since even Sissy's pig-headed melon can detect Alice's whole routine since she came to Hong Kong, how could it be impossible for Li Ka-shing to understand? Through today's meeting, face-to-face conversation, and hearing the laughter at this time, he was also very satisfied to see that the girl in front of him was indeed not comparable to ordinary peers.

"Let's make a deal." Alice said, "Listen to me first, I have two things I want now. The first is your controlling stake in Cheung Kong Infrastructure."

It was such a crazy sentence, and it was extremely abrupt, and the style was completely different from her previous attitude. Even Li Ka-shing, who had been in the mall for a long time, couldn't help being taken aback by this. Li Zeju's movement of picking up the teacup was completely stopped, he just looked at Alice helplessly, subconsciously wanting to hear what she wanted to say.

"Then, the Hutchison Whampoa company you acquired has a long history. It is a large multinational company with operations all over the world, and its business fields are diversified. To put it bluntly, I need the thigh of your company to allow me to enter the medical industry .”

These two sentences were quite short, but the speed of speech was not so fast. Alice once again showed her typical speaking style.

Fortunately, the English level of the Li family is not bad. Slowly put down the teacup. Of course Li Ka-shing did not open his mouth to veto, but the scene still fell into silence.

Alice is waiting for a reply, Li Zeju... It's not his turn to intervene here, it's just necessary to feel at a loss.