Chapter 1430 The Company Doctor Returns to the World

The economy in Hong Kong is not good, and there are news everywhere that major companies are in crisis.

But it is not a company without glory.

One such bank is HSBC, which will never fail.

The increasingly prosperous Kirin Group is also one of them.

In addition, some companies with foreign investment backgrounds that are ready to bargain hunt in Hong Kong are also relatively prosperous.

Because there are many people begging for them, and if you want to sell assets to reorganize and regenerate the company, you don't need too many.

Among these companies, there is a company called Asia Securities, which is very popular.

In the past two months, it has spent more than 500 million Hong Kong dollars and won three projects in one go. It is a bold move.

The managing director of Asia Securities is none other than Wei Li, the well-known "company doctor" in Hong Kong. He was also the head coach of Hutchison Whampoa a few years ago and the one who was fired by Shen Bi.

At that time, Weili single-handedly merged Hutchison Whampoa, which was in bankruptcy crisis, and then a series of drastic reforms gave Hutchison Whampoa a new lease of life.

Just when he was high-spirited, Shen Bi sold Hutchison Whampoa to Li Chaoren without saying a word. As a senior executive, he didn't even receive the news, and the company changed hands.

This hit Weili deeply.

After being dismissed, he took a break for several years, and only in the past year or so has he gradually reappeared in front of people.

The person who hired him was an Australian investment company. They established an Asian securities company specifically to hunt for the bottom, and planned to keep it in their hands for a few years before selling it to make money.

This kind of investment method is also the most common method used by hot money looking for opportunities in Hong Kong recently.

However, the chief executive of Asia Securities is Wei Li. He is smarter than ordinary people, and he also understands Xiangjiang's economy better and what are Xiangjiang's valuable assets. Therefore, making three consecutive investments is the key.

Yin Jun saw this latest news on the news.

Wei Li, who has emerged from the gloom, looks high-spirited. In an interview with Kylin TV's financial reporter, he talked about his development strategy, which vaguely reminded Yin Jun of his glory days at Hutchison Whampoa.

Then Yin Jun asked his assistant Xiaoqiu to call Wei Li and ask him to have afternoon tea at the Peninsula Hotel.

Five years ago, Yin Jun was just a young man who had just arrived in Xiangjiang and had nothing.

At that time, Wei Li was the chief executive of Hutchison Whampoa, one of the four major foreign banks, and he was full of power and contentment.

But five years later, Wei Li had been ousted and started anew.

But Yin Jun has become the third richest man in Xiangjiang, possessing great power and potential.

The status of the two people has been completely reversed.

So after receiving the call, Wei Li rushed to the Peninsula Hotel Cafe half an hour early and made a reservation.

As a result, he had only been sitting for ten minutes when Yin Jun came over.

"Young Master Jun!" Wei Li quickly stood up.

"Hello, Mr. Weili." Yin Jun smiled and shook hands with him, "Have you been waiting for a long time?"

"No, I just arrived." Wei Li and Yin Jun sat down on the left and right, and also said with a smile, "I didn't expect to have tea with you, Mr. Jun. I am really lucky."

Since Yin Jun became famous, his status has been rising. In addition, he doesn't like socializing in the first place, so he rarely drinks afternoon tea with others, especially people in the business world.

Usually it is Li Chaoren, Zheng Yutong, Shao Liushu and others who come to Yin Jun for tea, but the relationship between these people and Yin Jun is completely different, and their identity cannot be clearly explained by a simple "business partner".

So Wei Li felt a little honored, which was not too exaggerated.

Wei Li is a smart man and knew that Yin Jun was looking for him, so he must have something serious to do.

Anything that can be related to Yin Jun must have something to do with it.

Ever since he stepped down from the top class position at Hutchison Whampoa, Wei Li had thought a lot during the period of silence. After he came out again, Wei Li's temper had changed a lot.

He no longer has an aggressive attitude, but is more modest and restrained.

That's why he was able to negotiate three deals in half a year, and they were very cost-effective and praised deals.

Now that Yin Jun was invited, he knew that there must be important things to discuss, so there was no harm in lowering his attitude.

"Mr. Wei Li is so polite." Yin Jun sat opposite him and took a sip of black tea before saying, "I just saw that you acquired a piece of land in Mong Kok owned by Baishun Real Estate. The price was only HK$200 million. It's really Clean and tidy!”

"This is also our luck. Baishun Real Estate has suffered too many losses, so we can only rely on this to pay off debts." Speaking of his record, Wei Li was a little happy, "And I am very familiar with their general manager, plus We used the most convenient cash, so we could complete all transactions within 5 days, and we secured this treasure land for our shareholders.”

"Mr. Wei Li, do you plan to engage in such a business of buying low and selling high in the future?" Yin Jun took a piece of snack and asked while eating.

"Do the work at hand first. There is no time to think about anything else." Wei Li drank tea and said calmly, "I have already fallen once. Now that I have come back to work, I just hope that I can do it again." To prove myself, I don’t really care about the method, as long as I can use my talents.”

"Mr. Weili, how many years have you not been back to Australia?" the young man asked again.

"I came out of Australia at the age of 29, and have gone back several times since then, but work is the most important thing." We Li said calmly, "We Westerners are different from you Easterners. We have our own careers and our own lives. That’s the most important thing. The so-called hometown and hometown are not our ties.”

Yin Jun smiled slightly and did not refute him.

To be precise, it should be the British and British Westerners who have such a cosmopolitan character.

Others, such as Italians and French, are notoriously home-loving.

There was news this year about a factory in a small town near Marseille, France. Because it was acquired, the boss wanted to move the factory to a place more suitable for development. As a result, more than 200 workers in the factory resigned collectively because they were "unwilling to leave home." Too far".

In the end, he had no choice but to give up the move and continue to open a factory here.

The British did not have this habit, otherwise they would not have dominated the great voyages and dominated the world for more than 200 years.

Australians, Canadians and Americans are mostly descendants of British people, so they are also used to working and wandering outside.

Yin Jun changed the topic, "If there is an opportunity, please ask Mr. Wei Li to go back to Australia to work. I wonder if you are interested?"

"Wankang Company?" Weili blurted out.

"Haha, it turns out that Mr. Wei Li also cares about these things!" Yin Jun nodded, "Yes, it's Wankang Company!"

"Because Wankang Company is so famous in Western Australia, I have heard about it," Weili said. "I also heard that the general manager of Wankang Company has recently become a member of the Western Australian state assembly. He is also the first Chinese member of parliament.”

"Well, he needs more time to devote to his work as a parliamentarian, so he is no longer suitable to be responsible for such heavy Wankang Company affairs." Yin Jun said, "Mr. Wei Li, you are Australian, if you If you can accept my invitation to take over Wankang Company, you can eliminate their vigilance and alertness to the greatest extent.

Another more important point is that you have worked in Xiangjiang for so many years, and you are more accustomed to our style of doing things in Xiangjiang. After arriving there, we will not mess around and make some reforms that are not in line with the actual situation. What Wankang Company wants is not drastic reform. As long as it continues like this, that will be fine. "

Wei Li didn't speak at first. He thought carefully for a while and then said: "Since Wankang Company doesn't need to change, wouldn't it be enough to promote a hard-working and hard-working person from within and continue according to the established plan? Why do we have to do this? I go?"

Wei Li definitely doesn't have the "big brother and I are second best" attitude like he did at Hutchison Whampoa, but he is still vaguely unhappy about Yin Jun's invitation, especially the reason for the invitation.

Do you think everyone looks down on me so much now?

Am I just going to play the role of a conservative butler?

Yin Jun shook his hand, "The current business of Wankang Company is only one aspect, and it can also be said to be the most inconspicuous one. I asked Mr. Wei Li to come over because he has a heavy responsibility."

"Oh? If you don't mind, Master Jun, please tell the truth!" Wei Li's eyes lit up, "Don't worry, I am definitely not a lax person."

"There is nothing to hide." Yin Jun said harmoniously, "What is the most abundant resource in Western Australia, does Mr. Weili know?"

"Minerals! Especially iron ore." Wei Lili replied without thinking, "Our iron ore resources account for a little more than one-third of the world's. The only one that can compare with us is Brazil."

"The economic model of Xiangjiang is very single and does not conform to my group development concept, so I plan to increase my industrial chain abroad and expand the types of group business." Yin Jun said, "So I acquired Disney and Disney in the United States. United Artists Film Company has reached a cooperation agreement with Japan's 7-11 to open a 24-hour convenience store.

But a group company without its own resource category project is incomplete in my opinion. After several years of exploration and research, I chose Western Australia, where I wanted to mine iron ore and start a mining business. After all, many countries are developing now. As long as they are doing economic construction, they will definitely need more steel resources. "

"But most of the mineral mining rights in Western Australia, and even the exploration rights, are monopolized by a few mining giants, right?" Weili had indeed done some research and immediately raised his question.

"The total area of ​​Western Australia is two to three million square kilometers. Do they have the financial resources and energy to monopolize all local exploration rights?" Yin Jun shook his head, "They only occupy a small area. , they haven’t even finished exploring the northwest, how can they say they have a monopoly?”

Wei Li slightly chinned his head, which was quite a good point.

The iron ore monopoly in Western Australia is only in name only.

But no matter how you put it, most of the Pilbara region that has been explored is the territory of a few major iron ore giants. They have exploration rights covering hundreds of thousands of square kilometers.

The so-called detection right refers to this area. I paid for a qualification that only allows me to detect the resources inside. Your other companies do not allow it.

After I detect the resources, I will then apply for mining rights in accordance with the law.

If no resources are found, the fees paid for the exploration rights will be in vain.

In the past decade or so, there were not many mining companies that wanted to enter Western Australia to explore iron ore resources, but they all failed.

Hundreds of thousands or millions of funds were lost, but nothing was gained.

There are too many such examples.