Chapter 1537 The Downtrodden Mr. Taipan

Of course, the best coffee shops in the Mandarin Oriental Hotel are the seven or eight ones by the window.

Looking down from the huge floor-to-ceiling glass windows, you can see the beautiful Victoria Harbor and Yau Tsim Mong opposite.

The essence of Xiangjiang is now in the Central and Sheung Wan areas around the Mandarin Oriental Hotel.

Because the location is so good, reservations are usually required to sit by the window.

Yin Jun is sitting here drinking coffee today, not because of his status, but because the general manager of the coffee shop specially prepared it for Niu Bijian.

Niu Bijian was opposite Yin Jun, looking out the window calmly and a little lonely. The second class of Xiangjiang's second class with astonishing momentum in the past was now like an old man in his twilight years.

But Nu Bijian is only 49 years old this year, which is a little younger than Shen Bi, the first class player.

After announcing his resignation as general manager of Jardine Matheson and Land on September 29 this year, almost all newspapers in Hong Kong affirmed that at most, in the first two months of 1984, that is, before the Spring Festival, Niu Bijian would step down from his last post. A position - director of Jardine Matheson, leaving Hong Kong in despair and entering retirement.

Taking a closer look at Niu Bijian's downfall, it was not that someone framed him, nor that he had great achievements, but it was really that he did too badly in the past two or three years.

Take Land Group as an example. Their stock price this year has fallen below 2.2 yuan per share. Just two years ago, Land's stock price was still in the high 20s and 30s.

The management headed by Niu Bijian misjudged the situation in Xiangjiang. In the past two or three years, they aggressively acquired companies and launched the construction of various projects, spending a lot of money.

As a result, we encountered the strongest economic crisis in history, and the real estate business plummeted. Land and even Jardine Matheson immediately fell into great difficulties.

Their debt in August this year was as high as HK$6 billion.

This is because Niu Bijian sold both Xiangjiang Electric Light and Xiangjiang Telephone to Yin Jun about a year earlier than in his previous life.

Otherwise their debt should be tens of billions.

Good guy!

There are only five companies in Xiangjiang that can reach a market value of 10 billion at most. Jardine Matheson owes 10 billion Hong Kong dollars in one breath. I really don’t know whether to say that they have a strong family background or that they will lose their fortune.

Therefore, as the managing director, Niu Bijian is naturally the most criticized and ridiculed person.

So on September 29 this year, under tremendous pressure, when New Bijian submitted his resignation for the second time, the board of directors approved it, and the former managing director Simon Keswick became the managing director.

Simon Keswick comes from the Keswick family, the founder family of Jardine Matheson. Together they own more than 30% of the shares and are the largest shareholders of Jardine Matheson.

Simon Keswick, who is a few years younger than New Bijian, has not made any movements in the past two months. He is just sorting out internal affairs. He seems to be a moderate and gentle person.

But only Yin Jun in the world knows what shocking decisions Mr. Keswick will make next year.

Of course, that is only a matter of the future. If it were not for Yin Jun's appearance, Niu Bijian would have gone directly to Baodao to serve as the managing director of a certain company after resigning from the Jardine Group next year. In a few years, it would completely disappear and never appear on the world's commercial stage again.

Therefore, Yin Jun specially invited him to drink coffee.

At this time when everyone was mocking him and adding insult to injury, Yin Jun, his former biggest enemy and the one who had repeatedly frustrated Niu Bijian, could actually invite him to drink coffee in a serious manner. This made the despairing Niu Bijian quite a bit. Unexpected.

He thought he had been abandoned by Quan Xiangjiang, but he didn't expect that his biggest enemy would come to comfort him at this time.

For a moment, Niu Bijian couldn't help but feel that "the enemy is the one who knows you best."

Not knowing what he was thinking, Nu Bijian took his head back and looked at the silent young man in front of him.

"Master Jun, I'm very grateful that you can invite me to drink coffee at this time." Niu Bijian smiled and said, "Those people before are now avoiding me like the god of plague. Think about me, What a failure as a human being!"

Compared with a year ago, Niu Bijian's age seems to have suddenly aged ten years, and he does not look like a middle-aged man who is only 49 years old at all.

The most important thing is that his spirit seems to have collapsed, and his eyes no longer have the light.

Yin Jun now understood why Niu Bijian disappeared after a few years - because he had completely lost his fighting spirit, the energy in his heart had suddenly drained away, and he no longer had the motivation to fight.

It's no wonder that anyone who encounters such a major failure and setback, and has suffered for such a long time, will easily become decadent.

Niu Bijian was a little better. He still thought about going to Treasure Island and worked for several years before he finally became discouraged.

"I have to say that in the past few years, you have been too complacent and too arrogant." Yin Jun said lightly, "When people are successful, they are most likely to lose sight of themselves, and they are also most likely to make mistakes. These two things. Land and Jardine have made constant mistakes in the past two years, which is the best explanation for your change in mentality in the past two years."

"yes."

Now Niu Bijian has completely lost his edge and has no rebuttal: "If I were more prudent and careful, instead of trying desperately to expand the scale and suppress the Chinese business group...especially to suppress you, Mr. Jun. The Qilin Group may not have suffered such a disastrous failure today! The Yihe Group reached its peak in my hands, but it also suffered a heavy setback in my hands. It is really because my abilities and cultivation are not enough!"

Yin Jun smiled.

The situation in Xiangjiang is not good, and everyone can see it.

It's not that New Bijian didn't know, but he was a British, so he was superstitious that the British government would be able to take care of Hong Kong and continue to manage Hong Kong, thereby resolving all crises.

So he didn't care about those dangerous signs and continued to develop vigorously.

As a result, I didn't expect that the Iron Lady would encounter such a big setback in Huajing, which almost caused Xiangjiang to collapse.

If Xiangjiang's economy is stable, no matter how much the Jardine family suffers, it will slowly rise as the economy improves and make up for the losses.

But with the economic downturn, people's consumption dropped sharply, which was huge negative news for Jardine and Land, which were expanding rapidly, especially by borrowing money to expand rapidly.

Therefore, Niu Bijian failed miserably.

It was not just his family that was miserable, many British-funded consortiums and foreign firms suffered heavy losses.

In contrast, very few Chinese consortiums went bankrupt because they more or less listened to Yin Jun's warning.

Even the Hang Lung Consortium, which was most at odds with Yin Jun, immediately cut off its arm when it saw the situation was not right, and lost about 500 million Hong Kong dollars, but in the following year, it achieved the greatest degree of preservation.

If they had gone ahead and developed, for example, the properties above the Hong Kong Island Line subway, then I don’t know if Hang Lung Group would still exist today.

Seeing Yin Jun smile and say nothing, Niu Bijian asked curiously, "Young Master Jun, there is something I don't understand very much... At your age, you can achieve what you have achieved. I believe that in the history of world business, , there has never been a second person. Why have I never seen that you are satisfied? In other words, why are you never proud? "

"Because there is nothing to be proud of." Yin Jun shrugged. "What I am doing now is only a very basic part. If I wait until 30 years later, maybe that will be the time to be proud of."

"In 30 years?" New Bijian said with a wry smile, "Do you know that no one, including the Americans and the British, doesn't believe that you will become the richest man in the world before the age of 30? After 30 years? What high position do you have to stand in?"

"Mr. Niu Bijian, you can take a look then." Yin Jun said with a smile.

"Me?" New Bijian sighed, "Maybe at that time, I was just an ordinary old man waiting to die. But I can still mention to my grandson that this unprecedented super genius once also Your grandfather was the one who fought so hard!”

"So, in comparison, wouldn't it be better if you mentioned it to your grandson... that after this, you would join this former rival and conquer such a huge empire together?" Yin Jun said calmly.

"Well!?"

Nu Bijian was startled, and suddenly stared at Yin Jun, but did not find that he had any intention of teasing him.

"What do you mean?" Nu Bijian frowned, "Are you pitying me?"

"Of course not." Yin Jun shook his head and said, "The most important thing when I hire people is their character, and the second is their ability. Mr. Niu Bijian, you are an excellent and responsible professional manager, so you left Isn’t Jardine Matheson just right for me to use?”

"But I have just experienced a major setback and failure. Are you not afraid that I will experience the same in your company?" Niu Bijian asked.

"Of course I'm not afraid," Yin Jun said, "Only those who have failed will know their past mistakes. And once they recognize their mistakes, those who can get up again will achieve greater achievements than before. "

Niu Bijian fell silent.

To be honest, he was still a little excited.

As the second-largest team member in Xiangjiang after Shen Bi, he had been making all the changes for many years. He was absolutely unwilling to leave the field in such disgrace.

It would be extremely satisfying if he could make a comeback in the Kirin Group and surprise those who ridiculed him.

People who have reached the stage of Niu Bijian have already earned enough pension money, have enjoyed what they should enjoy, and have days when they have great power. He doesn't have much pursuit in the first place.

But the temptation to wash away the shame was a bit irresistible to Niu Bijian.

"If I come to Qilin Group, what are you going to do for me? Can I replace Miss Le Yiling?" After silence, Niu Bijian suddenly asked.

"Not in Xiangjiang." Yin Jun shook his head and said, "The center of the world in the next 50 years must be in the United States, so you should go to the United States and become famous there!"

"USA?"

New Bijian nodded slightly, Yin Jun also has many industries in the United States, and they are developing very rapidly.

The assets in the United States alone have exceeded 5 billion US dollars, which can be said to be a promising future.

"If I go, what kind of work will I be responsible for?" Niu Bijian continued to ask.

Yin Jun smiled brightly.

The more detailed Nu Bijian asked, the more he paid attention to it.

As expected, successful people are not used to walking off the stage of history as losers.

This was the case with Wei Li before, and even more so with Niu Bijian.

"I'm going to let you take charge of the operation, development and management of Disney." Yin Jun said, "The most important thing is that within the next five years, we are going to build a Disney in Germany first... and then if the time is right, there will also be a Disney in Xiangjiang. . I think if you make Disney in Germany outstanding, it would be very interesting to return to Hong Kong as the head of the Disney Company to discuss matters about Hong Kong Disney, right?"

Nu Bijian raised his eyebrows and immediately burst into laughter.

It’s interesting!