The Goddess Shines on America

Long Beach, Los Angeles, is always busy in the morning and day and night, and the entire harbor will receive tankers and cargo ships from ports around the world day and night. As one of the top ten ports with the highest throughput in the world, countless blue-collar workers can find jobs here.

Berths play an undoubted role in port operations. For a shipping logistics company, owning a berth in a port is definitely a business card that can best demonstrate its strength to its peers. Especially in a large throughput area like the Los Angeles Long Beach Port, the rental income that each berth brings to the company every year is a huge amount of money that can make any small and medium-sized company blush. One can imagine how huge the potential benefits are.

Thousands of workers have worked day and night shifts at the Port of Long Beach, as early as the turn of the century. Every month and every day of the year, cargo ships and oil tankers sailing from the west coast of the United States will lock their destinations at ports in the entire Pacific Rim region including Alaska, Japan, and South Korea. And cargo ships from Chile, Argentina, Brazil and even Mexico will always send batches of local products to this city of angels. Its massive cargo throughput has greatly promoted the vigorous development of logistics companies, and as time goes by, it is often combined with its port shipping companies and becomes an important part of the California consortium.

However, the situation that has persisted for so many years has undergone amazing changes in the past half a year.

"Hutchison Whampoa was originally a shipyard company established by the British in Hong Kong. It has a history of exactly 110 years. It was just acquired by Li Ka-shing, a local businessman in Hong Kong not long ago. But without the strong assistance of Alice Wang, It is impossible for him to develop the business so quickly."

The black limousine was driving slowly outside the port of Long Beach. From here, we could clearly see the complex clusters of containers in the distance. In the car, a man with a typical image of a secretary is introducing the situation to a gentleman old man with white hair.

"So, although they have only landed in the US market for a short time, in a series of recent transactions, they have owned 40% of the berths in Long Beach. Moreover, Hutchison Whampoa has accumulated a hundred years of experience in this type of business, so the appetite Larger and more digestible, while initially signing relevant agreements with local logistics companies, it is also starting to build its own logistics system.”

"So at the same time, we also need to connect Vanda, which is also registered in London. Mr. Ryan went to the South End of London for field inspections. Like that type of chain commercial real estate project, it is very dependent on industrial retail. Especially It is the shopping center at the core, and the supporting underground supermarket alone consumes an astonishing amount of retail goods every day."

The secretary's introduction was over for the time being, and the car was parked at an appropriate location at the same time. This is the crossroads leading to a certain port. On one side is a vast and sparsely populated heavy chemical plant, on the other side is an extremely vast parking area, and straight ahead is the open space full of containers. from here. Of course, you can't see the ship directly, but the old man didn't come to visit the crane.

"Alice-Wang really has a big plan." The old man stared at the wide environment in front of him. Even though it was late at night, a few sporadic lights were enough.

"It's no wonder that Leo Vanta will find this girl. Even compared to ordinary middle-aged people, she is a girl who is only seventeen or eighteen years old. Now that she has achieved such achievements, of course she is not lacking in ambition. People. Speaking of which, Tom, it is rumored that this girl is friendly with the British royal family, is the source accurate?"

"At least judging from the establishment date of Umbrella Company and the listing date of Soma, unless she has already applied for the relevant tests under the name of other companies and has dealt with the relevant matters. Otherwise, if it is just a normal procedure, It should be far from being able to officially sell it now.”

The old man pondered and nodded silently. The secretary made a gesture in a timely manner, and the driver in the front row turned off the stereo. The sudden stop of Mozart's light music plunged the interior of the car into an extremely clear silence.

"Microsoft, and Cisco, have not fallen since their listing, and they have risen day by day, month by month. Bill Gates from Microsoft, Alice Wang from Cisco, they all saved thirty or fifty dollars just because of this. Billion-level assets, Gates seems to just sit and watch Microsoft develop day by day, but since so much capital can be accumulated so quickly, Alice-Wang will quickly expand into the industry, which is normal.”

Secretary Tom was silent. The company's attention to that Silicon Valley star has not been a day or two. It is really different from many other Silicon Valley talents. Alice Wang obviously only uses the IT industry as a springboard to quickly accumulate wealth. But the problem is that she definitely didn't sell all the stocks after she became famous. The current situation is that while this girl is expanding into real estate, medicine and other industrial fields, she has not given up her career in the IT field at all.

"But sir." Grasping the moment when the old man pulled away from his thoughts, Tom said: "Even if Hutchison Whampoa has rich experience in the port logistics industry, it has nothing to do with the heavy industry field, and this is still the career of that Mr. Li Ka-shing. We Is it really reliable to find Alice Wang to cooperate rashly?"

The old man smiled and looked at Tom.

"Tom, how many years have you been with me?"

Tom blinked. At this moment, he subconsciously wanted to look in the mirror: "One year."

"One year, how many years has your father been my secretary?"

"...Twenty years."

"Yes, twenty years, when do you think I made an unreliable decision?"

Tom felt a little ashamed, but fortunately, as the old man said, the relationship between him and the old man was almost equivalent to the intimacy between grandparents, and he would not be so anxious: "This...mainly Alice-Wang is still too young after all. ..."

"She is very young, but she obviously knows how to do business. Not only is she a research talent who focuses on technology, but she is also an entrepreneur with a strategic vision."

Hearing that the old man gave such a high opinion of the girl, Tom couldn't help licking his tongue.

"She knew what inherent shortcomings she had when expanding into the industrial field, so she did not rush into this field directly, but wisely chose to cooperate with mature industry leaders. Li Ka-shing's Cheung Kong Group is registered in Hong Kong and has Given his unique geographical advantages, and compared to his counterparts in the United States or Europe, the scale of his business and the attributes of his compatriots are the most suitable for Alice Wang to come to him."

"So Tom, learn and watch, this is the girl's idea. Vanda Company, Vanda Plaza, and the UK, she is really not in vain of the inherent attributes of Lee and Hong Kong. You can also help me I have investigated Li's. They are doing well in Hong Kong at the moment. It is the time when they are eager to expand overseas but are still unable to do so. Now they are able to expand in the United Kingdom and California at the same time. This is really a trust Alice-Wang's hand!"

Tom nodded silently. Just at this moment, FedEx box trucks passed by the road and headed straight for the depths of the port. This is the port area under Hutchison Whampoa. There are at least four berths in front of it that can hold cargo ships of tens of thousands of tons. Looking at the extremely long line of box trucks, you can calculate how many retail goods have just arrived at the port and will be distributed soon. To the city and even all over the country.

"Sure enough, FedEx!" The old man sighed in the car: "During the stock market crash at the end of last year, 7% of the shares were swallowed by Alice Wang in one fell swoop. Cut in, but see, Tom, it's time for it now!"

"Yes, including the newly established Dream TV station." Tom smiled slightly. The driver in the front seat just turned off the light music. That was not played by Black Lagoon Records, but the broadcast broadcast by Dreamworks Dream TV station in Los Angeles. !

"Yes, including that dream TV station." The old man waved his hand, and the car moved forward slowly again. The Long Beach port area has complex terrain and extremely long roads, and there are many scenes for viewing.

"So Tom, did you see? Think about what Alice Wang was doing in 1987, she was preparing for now, and I would say that she is also preparing for a few years later Prepare for the field, isn't it right?"

A timeline flashed through Tom's mind, some of which had been reported by Fortune and Time earlier. From an ordinary upper-middle-class family that likes to invest and has saved more than one million yuan in property, it has only been six years now, and her career has formed a series of heavyweight jumps extremely efficiently. From IT companies to venture capital, and then to the pharmaceutical real estate industry, then it will be the turn of the heavy industry if we continue on?

"Have you figured it out?" Seeing the flash of light in the new secretary's eyes, the old man nodded in satisfaction and said, "So, we must seize the opportunity. Since we all know that the girl is going to develop in the heavy industry, how can we not take this opportunity?" The reason for the ride with the wind?"

"However, sir, according to the cooperation model between Alice Wang and Lockheed..."

"Military aircraft and satellite research and development, as well as navigation chips for some missiles, of course that girl will pick the easy ones to play, and what Lockheed wants is her own design ability. But Tom, our Northrop - Grumman's base is in San Diego, California, not Maryland on the east coast. The strength of the California consortium has been weakening, how can we let this rising star go?"

The night is long, the extended car is driving slowly deep into the port area of ​​Long Beach, and the crane in the distance is carrying goods. Looking at Tom's pensive eyes, the old man's smile became more intense. He happened to be a little hungry, so he picked up the good brother fried chicken he just bought, and it was still hot.