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Chapter 8

Annabel Club, 44 Berkeley Square, London, UK.

The noisy music flowed freely in the club. In the three dark and quiet salons of the club, an elderly English man and a Chinese woman were sitting opposite each other on a leisure table by the window.

The latte coffee placed on the light-colored plaid tablecloth of Sulangge was already cold, and the small LED head next to the table emitted a small soft light, covering the arms of the two.

Newbijian looked at the employment contract in his hand and had been silent for twenty minutes.

Since being swept out by Jardine's consortium six years ago, Newbijian has returned to the UK and rarely pays attention to news about Hong Kong.

Although he repeatedly claimed that Jardinet acquired Hong Kong telephone and Hong Kong electric lights and borrowed money to build the trading square project because he firmly believed that Hong Kong's future would embark on the road of prosperity and development, unfortunately, British newspapers regarded their thoughts as an excuse to shirk Jardinet's losses, while Chinese newspapers believed that this was the wailing of colonialists after their defeat.

After losing his position as Jardine Mathematics (Note 1), he not only achieved Li Ka-shing's reputation in the Hong Kong shopping mall, but also successively lost multiple positions such as HSBC's director. He had almost no place to stay in the Hong Kong business world, so he had to leave Hong Kong where he had worked for 30 years and return to the UK to seek a job.

Newbijian raised his head and stared at the capable Chinese woman sitting opposite him and asked: "Frankly speaking, I have a bad reputation in the business world in Hong Kong. In Hong Kong, there are many excellent business talents."

After shaking the contract in his hand, Nvbijian continued: "With this contract, I bet. This company can choose from any of the top-notch Hong Kong classes. I am really curious. Why is it me?"

"Sir New..." Li Liwei said.

"No, no, Miss Li, what I received in 1982 was the imperial official medal, and there was no right to be called a jazz." Nübijian corrected.

Li Liwei shrugged and said, "In the eyes of us Americans, you are already a knight, and you can be called a jazz."

Although the woman in front of Newbijian had a black hair and black eyes, she was of authentic Chinese. However, she was thinking no different from a real American. Because the United States had fought with Britain, the United States had legislation prohibiting its citizens from accepting foreign aristocratic titles. Therefore, in the eyes of ignorant Americans, as long as they receive the Knight-level medal of the British Empire, all those who have won the British Empire Knight-level medal were called jazz.

"Sir New, I think this should not be the point, I personally think. You will only get the official certification of the old empire a little late." Li Liwei, like ordinary Americans, did not hide her attitude of thinking that the British official was old.

Nuo Bijian had no choice but to smile helplessly and signaled Li Liwei to continue.

"Since the 1930s, your family has been serving Jardine Whampoa, and it has been more than fifty years when you were forced to leave Jardine Whampoa. It can be said that your understanding of Jardine Whampoa has penetrated into your bloodline."

"Since 1954, Sir New York has worked as the lowest deliveryman in Jardine's branches in Hong Kong, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, Malaysia, Australia, the United States, etc. Due to excellent performance in 1970, if Sir New York had not interfered with the Caesar family, the majority shareholder of Jardine's, it would have become the chairman of Jardine."

In the personnel changes of Jardine Mahjong Group in 1970, Li Liwei mentioned, the Caesar family, the largest shareholder of Jardine Mahjong Group, insisted on supporting Henry Caesar, a member of the family who was then senior managing director of Jardine Mahjong, as the supreme leader of Jardine Mahjong. He also received support from shareholders in London, and eventually put Newbi, who was supported by shareholders in the Far East, and became chairman of Jardine Mahjong, and gained the decision-making power of the entire Jardine Mahjong Group.

"Although the Caesar family's insistence on doing things alone for only three years, Henry Caesar's resignation three years later due to poor performance, Sir New took over as Chairman Jardine's Chairman, but to be honest, Sir New had already laid the root of his resignation in the future while gaining Jardine's decision-making power." Li Liwei's words were extremely straightforward.

Born in Tianjin, China in 1934, the biggest difference between the Caesar family and the largest shareholder of Jardine Mahjong, is that Jardine Mahjong believes that Jardine Mahjong’s future is in Hong Kong and even in China. The Caesar family was resentful because they confiscated Jardine Mahjong’s assets in mainland China when the Republic was founded, and they had an extremely hostile attitude towards the Republic that implemented the socialist system.

The Caesar family insists that Jardine’s future is anywhere except China, even in Antarctica.

It is precisely because of this that Jardine's plan to focus on Hong Kong after taking office was greatly hindered. The Caesar family used their identity as a major shareholder to seriously interfere with Jardine's funding trend.

Jardine's investment in South Africa's mining industry, sugar factories in the Philippines, oil in the Middle East, real estate in the United States, etc. is all the products of the Caesar family and London shareholders' unremitting efforts.

It is precisely this extremely fierce power struggle within Jardine Map that led to Jardine Map's long front and dispersed funds, which seriously dragged down the development plan that Newbie Jian focused on Hong Kong.

Hong Kong Telephone, Hong Kong Electric Lights, China Gas, Hutchison Whampoa, and Hong Kong Container Terminal, these assets that were acquired by Chinese consortiums in the early 1980s and grew stronger in the future were all part of the Jardines Group back then, and it was also Newbijian's layout for Jardine's future.

It can be said that if the Caesar family had not caused trouble and acted according to the development plan formulated by Newbiejian for Yi, there would have been no chance or room for Li Chaoren to rise in Hong Kong.

Li Liwei first explained the inside story of Newbi Jian leaving Jardine in a breath, and then said: "Sir Newbi once told the media that he loved Hong Kong deeply. Although because Sir Newbi chose to return to the UK, the Hong Kong media has been skeptical about Sir Newbi's words, I personally believe it."

"Our company fully understands that Jardinet's defeat in Hong Kong is not the fault of Sir New York, and it has nothing to do with Sir New York's business capabilities."

Nuo Bijian gently patted the maple table in front of him, with an extremely relaxed look on his face. It was obvious that Li Liwei's words had reached Nuo Bijian's heart.

"If I remember correctly our company, Ms. Li should be serving the Hong Kong branch of Guanghui International?" New Bijian keenly noticed the inconsistency in Li Liwei's words.

Guanghui International is the most well-known and largest headhunting company in Europe and the United States. The company adheres to the concept of "those who don't know us will never need to know; we only look for jobs for those who never have to worry about work", and only serves the best talents, and seeks suitable managers and technical talents for large and medium-sized enterprises around the world to find multinational enterprises.

When Liang Yuan was able to find Zhou Yuanhang, he contacted Guanghui International through Guanghui International. However, Guanghui International charges extremely high. Generally, companies that need talents have to charge 20% to 30% of the annual salary of the hired executives as intermediary service fees. When Liang Yuan dug Zhou Yuanhang, he paid millions of US dollars to Guanghui International.

"Before coming to the UK, I was promoted to a senior partner of Glory International's Hong Kong branch, and United Trust, which hired Sir Neubijian, owned 40% of Hong Kong Glory International's shares, and I was the one who owned the decision-making and management rights of this 40% of the shares." Li Liwei explained the origin of our name in a concise manner.

In Yuanjia's future plan, COMAC will poach hundreds of senior aviation industry personnel from the United States and build the group's technology and management framework. In the future, Hong Kong-based Power Co., Ltd. will not stop introducing talents.

The establishment of COMAC alone will cost more than 40 million US dollars in middle and senior management and technical personnel headhunting. Faced with this situation, Liang Yuan simply invested in the best headhunting company on the planet, saving costs while also serving the long-term interests of the group.

Of course, it is impossible to share equity with other partners with Guanghui International's strong position in the headhunting industry. However, Liang Yuan's background in the Republic played a decisive factor. As the region with the richest human resources on this planet, Guanghui International had planned to enter the mainland as early as 1978. Unfortunately, it was blocked by the central policy in Hong Kong and was not allowed to enter the country for more than ten years.

When Qilian Mountain came to the door of Guanghui International Hong Kong Branch, she clearly showed her identity and made a request to invest in Guanghui International Hong Kong Branch in real price. It took only 30 minutes for Guanghui International to figure out who Qilian Mountain was.

Although I don’t know the real background of Qilian Mountain in the Republic, through the Grumman Company of the United States, Guanghui International still knew that this Hong Kong man who proposed to invest, operated the F14 fighter jets to enter China a year ago. Faced with those who dared to rush into arms, as long as the IQ is normal, it can be judged that Qilian Mountain has an extremely deep foundation in the top leaders of the Republic.

After Guanghui International found out the truth, it was completely knocked out by the pie that fell from the sky. It immediately sent a senior director to Hong Kong on a special plane to discuss the entry into the mainland with Qilian Mountains.

With Liang Yuan's cunning, how could he not see the profound meaning of the central government blocking the Glorious International outside the country? At present, the Republic is incredibly poor. Once the country is opened, it will easily become an intellectual vassal of the West and become the origin of basic talents. After all, it is human nature to go to a higher level.

For the promotion of the 625th Five-Year Plan in Qilianshan, there is no definite promise except to look forward to a bright future. Since you have to ask for investment, Qilianshan has refineed the extremely huge personnel plan of COMAC, changes in hundreds of senior technical managers, and headhunting costs worth tens of millions of dollars. This kind of big order is definitely unprecedented in the headhunting industry.

Finally, after arduous negotiations, Qilianshan got his wish. After signing a three-year cooperation agreement on senior human resources management with Guanghui International on behalf of COMAC, it invested US$4.9 million to acquire 40% of the equity of Guanghui International Hong Kong Branch.
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