Located at the top of Gefu mountain, Jijia mansion Jifeng garden.
Lin Xiao walked leisurely in the garden with Ji Dongpu, who had just had dinner with him, and Ji Yueqiang, a member of the Legislative Council, Ji Xuexian, the eldest daughter of Ji Dongpu, a director of the Bank of East Asia, and Fang Bingfen, his eldest son-in-law. Standing in the Ji family garden, looking away, it was the prosperous night scene of Hong Kong.
Li Shipeng, Fang Pingshan, Huang runtang and Zhou Shoucheng, the nine big men in East Asia who once founded the Bank of East Asia and wanted to take root in Hong Kong to fight against foreign banks, have all died for many years. Now jidongpu, who covers the sky in East Asia, is a 68 year old man with a bright head. At this time, he walks slowly ahead with a walking stick, Listening to his son Ji Yueqiang and Lin Xiao laughing about the fun of the Ji family.
Ji Yueqiang talked about the past when he was a child. At the beginning, the Ji family had not cooperated with the Li family and the Fang family to establish the Bank of East Asia. At that time, Ji Dongpu founded Dexin bank. More than 30 people in the family were very happy, because Ji Dongpu supported his grandmother, aunt and even eight or nine children of his eldest brother''s family in addition to 14 children and concubines, The only source of income for the whole family is Ji Dongpu''s income. As a result, it is clear that the family has a silver shop, but the Ji family is very poor, which is worse than those who work outside.
Jidongpu looks very tired when he comes home every day, and his family sighs when they ask about business, so everyone thinks that the silver may not be open for too long, and most of jidongpu has to help the ghost man as a comprador.
Ji Yueqiang is talking to Lin Xiaoze now. At that time, there was no pocket money in his pocket. The most extravagant expense was to eat a bowl of plain noodles at the noodle stall on the corner. The students around him were surprised and asked him, isn''t your father the boss of the silver shop? Why don''t you go to Western food with everyone?
When his family, outsiders and even everyone believed that jidongpu''s Dexin bank did not make money, jidongpu suddenly took out hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong dollars and established the Bank of East Asia with Li Shipeng, Fang Pingshan, etc. Ji Yueqiang and his brothers and sisters, who had never eaten Western food in Dalian since childhood, didn''t know until then that their father didn''t have money, It''s just that they always thought their father had no money.
"After the Bank of East Asia opened, my father couldn''t pretend to be poor all day and gave us some pocket money. For the first time, I ran to a western restaurant with several brothers and ate a large steak and three pieces of bread. While eating, I thought that I would eat all the meat I hadn''t eaten in those years." Ji Yueqing smiled and sighed.
Fang Bingfen smiled in the back: "I knew you were so miserable at that time. I invited you to eat abalone."
He is the son-in-law of Ji Dongpu and the son of Fang Pingshan, one of the nine big men in East Asia. Although the Bank of East Asia was jointly founded by Fang family, Li family, Ji family, Huang family and Zhou family, all Yin merchants have their own industries. Only Ji Dongpu came from a banking family and is the most skilled in banking business, so he took the post of general manager of the Bank of East Asia to manage banking business, With the Bank of East Asia Building a global business network in the 1920s and even becoming a note issuing bank in Shanghai, it is like the HSBC Bank of Chinese people. Under this hot prospect, more than a dozen directors of the Bank of East Asia naturally have other thoughts. When they took shares in East Asia, they just wanted to receive dividends. When the Bank of East Asia became a financial beast, They all had the idea of trying to control the beast themselves, so there was an undercurrent of gangs among the top management of the Bank of East Asia to prepare to usurp power.
In this case, he became the son-in-law of Ji Dongpu. The two families of Ji Fang married, and then cooperated with other directors of the Ji family and Fang family to drive away other people who wanted to force the palace, so as to stabilize the situation of the Bank of East Asia.
Although Fang Bingfen only held the title of director of the Bank of East Asia and did not take over the banking business at this time, he was not an incompetent rich son. On the contrary, when Fang Pingshan died, he was 19 years old. In the first year of taking over the family business, he made full use of the advantage of relying on the abundant funds of the Bank of East Asia to sweep through the dried and fresh aquatic products industry in Hong Kong. 70% of the business in the dried and fresh aquatic products industry in Hong Kong belongs to him, Fang''s Zhaofeng firm had sales of 230 million Hong Kong dollars that year, ranking first in Hong Kong. At the age of 19, Fang Bingfen was called the king of aquatic products, the king of dried vegetables, the king of mushroom and so on.
Today, Fang''s business is spread all over Hong Kong''s real estate, industry and commerce, trade, transportation, banking, insurance, media, and even catering industries.
The Lin family''s industry may be very rich in the eyes of others, but it is worse than the low-key Fang family.
"Ah Ze, I already know about your family. It''s better to be like this. Now the stock price is scary. It''s difficult for East Asia to lend you HK $100 million. During this period, Hong Kong''s economy is in the doldrums and the efficiency of banks is not as good as in the past. I think it''s better to let Kenny come forward and buy the shares in Jardine''s hands. Kenny''s business is rich in cash recently, in good condition and not short of money Yes, the young man surnamed song won''t sell no matter how much he offers. In this way, he doesn''t need the Lin family to have a headache for borrowing money, and it won''t be too difficult here in East Asia. "Ji Dongpu said to Lin Xiao after walking around his garden.
Kenny is the English name of his son-in-law Fang Bingfen.
Lin Xiao smiled and said to Ji Dongpu, "of course there''s no problem. I can trust Kenny with the stock, but..."
He stopped talking halfway. Ji Dongpu waited for two seconds. When he didn''t hear Lin Xiao, he continued to speak and slowly turned around: "I know this kind of thing needs to be discussed with your brother, but don''t think I just said that I was going to hand over the shares in Jardine''s hand to ah Jie and finally let him compete for the property of the Lin family. I just don''t want to see the Lin family take risks. I''m a bank. I see a lot of businessmen who finally end up bankrupt. The younger son surnamed song takes risks and snowballs I also want to wait for the Lin family to follow his chess path, but he is different from the Lin family. If he loses the risk, he will only lose his reputation. However, the industrial scale of the Lin family is much larger than him. If he is blindly led by the other party, he will be prone to mistakes in the process. The young boy is not worth money, but the Lin family is different. If there is a chance, many people will be interested People will take advantage of it. "
Perhaps he was old and said so much at once. The white haired Chinese banking leader gasped twice, clutching his cane and said:
"I''ve been in banking all my life, so I know that sometimes banks eat people and are more ferocious than beasts. Don''t leave opportunities for them."
"Uncle, thank you for teaching me." Lin Xiao sincerely thanked Ji Dongpu.
What the old man said sounded very straightforward to Lin Xiao, but it was worth thinking about. He frankly told him that it was not feasible to ask the Bank of East Asia to borrow money, but his son-in-law Fang Bingfen could come forward and buy the shares in Jardine''s hands. Of course, there was no risk. The risk was that the shares would probably be handed over to Lin Xiaojie, his seventh son-in-law in jidongpu, perhaps many years later, The new owner of the Lin family will be Lin Xiaojie supported by the Ji family, but it is safer than the Lin family''s property being mortgaged to the bank.
"I''ll go back and discuss with you. There should be no problem." Lin Xiao thought for a moment, looked up at Ji Dongpu and Fang Bingfen behind him: "I''ll trouble Kenny you then."
Fang Bingfen smiled at Lin Xiao and said gently, "how can it be troublesome? I''m optimistic about the development of the Lin family. Besides, I''m just helping to hold it for a while."
I don''t know why, but Lin Xiao always felt that there were other thoughts hidden in Fang Bingfen''s smile.
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It was late at night when he came out after drinking tea from the Ji family. The driver drove down the mountain road, while Lin Xiao sat in the back seat of the car. Thinking about Ji Dongpu, it was safer for Fang Bingfen to hold the stock than Jardine''s. at least Fang Bingfen and Ji Dongpu would not sell the stock to song TIANYAO. After all, there was a marriage relationship to maintain the family relationship of several families. The only thing to consider was, These stocks were really handed over to Lin Xiaojie. What should the Lin brothers do then.
When passing a bend, a brightly lit opposite car came down the mountain at the same time. It seemed that it couldn''t stop the car. The front of the car hit the waist of Lin Xiaoze, whose body just crossed the bend!
Lin Xiaoze''s car was directly knocked out of the mountain road and rolled down the hillside more than ten meters high!
After the car rolled three or four times, it landed on the mountain road below. The driver''s reaction was very rapid. For the first time, he struggled to climb out of the car with blood on his face, staggered to the rear door, pulled open the deformed door with his hand, and dragged Lin Xiaoze out of the back seat, who had been unconscious due to the impact and rolling, to check Lin Xiaoze''s injury.
The car that caused the accident calmly turned its head from the road above and headed down the mountain. It seemed that it was not ready to let them leave alive!
The driver picked up Lin Xiaoze horizontally and ignored the car. He stumbled down the hillside to avoid being chased by the other car on the mountain road. One master and one servant disappeared in the night.
When the car passed Lin Xiaoze''s car, the speed slowed down, the rear window slowly rolled down a gap, the eyes inside looked at the broken and deformed car, and the voice said faintly:
"Sorry."