Chapter 264: Old Husband, Young Wife
In Lin Shuyi's office, Lu Yiming was sitting leisurely on the sofa drinking coffee.
As if she was annoyed by his careless appearance, Lin Shuyi asked, "Is the matter done?"
Lu Yiming exhaled, his mouth full of the strong smell of coffee: "Everything went well, I have taken all the shares of the Zhou family."
Lin Shuyi recalled what she had talked about with Zheng Youyuan that day, and immediately asked, "What are your plans next? After all, I am now one of the major shareholders of Jingyi Real Estate. I think I should have the right to know some inside information, right?"
At present, Lu Yiming has acquired 42% of Ge Youcai's shares in Jingyi Real Estate. He sold half of them to Lin Shuyi for 80 million yuan and made a small profit. The remaining 21%, together with the 31% held by Zhou Youguang, brought his controlling stake to 52%, which means he has an absolute advantage.
As for the last 27%, Lu Yiming is also confident that he can get it from his father-in-law, Shi Caijiang.
Lu Yi knew that he had done so many things simply to vent Shi Qingxue's anger and punish his willful future father-in-law.
But in Lin Shuyi's eyes, she didn't think so. Instead, she believed from the bottom of her heart that Lu Yiming must have some big plans for taking over a real estate company.
Lu Yiming held the coffee cup, his eyes full of questions: "What's the inside story? How come I don't know it?"
Lin Shuyi frowned: "Don't you want to get land in Nanwan?"
Lu Yiming opened his eyes wide, his expression even more puzzled: "What Nanwan?"
Lin Shuyi looked disdainful and said, "Humph, you're pretending well. Don't tell me you don't know that Nanwan has become a new economic development zone."
Regarding the Nanwan Development Zone, to put it bluntly, this place is actually a pilot project for official economic development. Judging from the results in the future, this move was undoubtedly a great success.
Twenty years later, the developed Nanwan has become a land of great value, with land prices even comparable to those of China Overseas' Pudong. If one could acquire a piece of land here, that would naturally be great.
After Lin Shuyi's repeated reminders, Lu Yiming finally remembered this and immediately realized: "Oh, you're talking about this, I do have some ideas."
Lin Shuyi curled her lips and glared at him with disdain: "Ha! Man!"
Just at this moment, Lu Yiming's cell phone rang.
"Hello, it's me, Li Yiwen. I've bought a ticket back to Hong Kong the day after tomorrow, and I'll be home soon."
When Lu Yiming heard that Li Yiwen was going to return to China, he immediately said, "Cousin, you have accomplished your mission. OK, when you come back, I will definitely prepare a table of celebratory wine for you to welcome you back. Okay, I have something else to do here, I will talk to you when you come back."
Lin Shuyi knew Li Yiwen. When she heard that the call was from Li Yiwen, she couldn't help but be curious: "You have a really good relationship with your cousin. He was the one who took care of the acquisition of the United States. Do you trust him so much?"
Lu Yiming put his phone back into his trouser pocket, his expression was quite emotional: "We are brothers in this life, even if we break bones, we are still connected. If I don't trust him, who else can I trust?"
Lin Shuyi reminded him, "I heard that he manages the finances of your companies? You should be careful with the people around you when doing business, otherwise you might end up being betrayed and lose everything."
Lu Yiming raised his eyebrows and looked at Lin Shuyi with a half-smile: "Why, is Mr. Lin giving me instructions and teaching me how to do things?"
Lin Shuyi's beautiful eyes suddenly filled with anger, and she pinched the pen in her hand in anger: "You guy, I am reminding you kindly. After all, we are now in the same boat. I don't want you to get into trouble one day and affect the interests of Jingwan Group."
Lin Shuyi, who graduated from the Business School of the University of Pennsylvania in the United States, believes in the ideas of Western professional managers. She thinks that professional matters should be left to professionals. Asking relatives to do things is a backward family business system that will sooner or later be eliminated by society in the cruel business competition.
Lu Yiming was very clear about Lin Shuyi's thoughts, and he didn't agree with them in his heart. His tone was even more contemptuous: "Do you think I look like a fool? So don't worry about things that you shouldn't worry about. I have already planned what to do."
Is there any problem in handing over financial power to your relatives?
That is definitely a problem, but in an emergency, Lu Yiming has just started his business and is far from the point where he needs to set up a "Jinyiwei".
After all, he only has a few companies under his name, and he can still manage them for the time being.
Most of the employees in Tongxin Internet Cafe are ordinary people such as network administrators and store managers. For financial supervision, there is also a computer system as the last line of defense.
Minghua Entertainment is still in its start-up phase and has only a few employees. The company with the largest number of employees is Lean Real Estate, which it just acquired, but it’s not a big problem.
The only two companies left are Future Capital, an investment company solely owned by Lu Yiming, and Future Fund, a financial company used to raise funds.
Both companies have one characteristic, that is, they have very few employees, and a large amount of funds are also kept in Lu Yiming's overseas accounts. Funds of more than one million US dollars need to be reviewed and confirmed by him personally before they can be transferred. Even if Li Yiwen has evil intentions, he cannot do anything without him.
Although Lu Yiming trusts his cousin Li Yiwen, he never tests human nature, because human nature in reality often cannot stand the test.
Only by establishing a reliable system can we prevent betrayal as much as possible.
But there is no need to say such things out loud. When the need arises, just do it and everything will fall into place naturally.
Although the industries under his name seem numerous, they are actually not difficult to manage. Therefore, there is really no need for Lu Yiming to spend extra money to set up an internal supervision system similar to the Jinyiwei just because of his suspicion.
When the company grows in size, has tens of thousands of employees, and operates as a group, and Lu Yiming is unable to handle it all with his own energy, then it will be the right time to limit the power of Li Yiwen, the "Chancellor of Finance."
Smart people must know how to do the right thing at the right time. Some methods may seem correct, but if they are used at the wrong time, they will often only make things worse.
Because Lin Shuyi had studied abroad, she blindly believed in the professional managers advocated by Europe and the United States, especially Wall Street.
But Lu Yiming knew very well that many profitable companies abroad were family businesses, and many entrepreneurs had been cheated by so-called professional managers. For example, the most famous boss, Qiao, was kicked out of the company he founded.
Therefore, whether a person is reliable or not is not determined by his ancestry, nor by his so-called professional ethics, but by his character and ability.
Otherwise, with so many relatives, why did Lu Yiming only ask his cousin Li Yiwen to manage the finances?
Seeing that her persuasion was fruitless and being scolded by Lu Yiming, Lin Shuyi was so angry that her teeth itched: "Humph, honest advice is unpleasant to the ears, but you don't listen. You will suffer the consequences later."
Lu Yiming joked: "Strictly speaking, Jingwan Group is also a family business. Don't be strict with others and lenient with yourself."
"you!"
Before Lin Shuyi could lose her temper, Lu Yiming continued, "Well, it's not worth getting angry over such a small matter. Just listen to what Western professional managers say. Many private companies that really make money are family businesses. Have you heard of the Koch brothers in the United States? They are known as the Shadow Parliament. Take Asia for example. You must know about Superman Li, right? Who do you think manages Superman Li's money?"
Lin Shuyi was naturally well-known for Li Chaoren, so she was also very curious and couldn't help asking, "Who is it?"
Lu Yiming sighed, "I just asked my cousin to take care of my purse. Li Chaoren is much more playful than me. He slept with the person who took care of the purse. Has Zhou Kaixuan heard of this?"
Although she had never heard of Zhou Kaixuan's name, Lin Shuyi still understood the meaning of "sleeping with the person who manages the purse strings."
"Li Chaoren is such a smart man, but he actually let his bedmate manage his money?"
Lu Yiming sneered and said in a contemptuous tone: "What else? If you can't even trust your own people, how can you trust outsiders? People who say this probably have an underdeveloped cerebellum and a completely undeveloped brain."
After listening to the examples given by Lu Yiming, Lin Shuyi couldn't help but fall into deep thought.
Why is all this different from what I learned at Pennsylvania Business School?
Is it that there is something wrong with the knowledge in books, or is there something wrong with this world?
On the other side, good luck came to the trading company.
The general manager of this large company with a scale of over 100 million is a young woman under 30 years old named Qin Sulan.
She was sitting at her desk reviewing documents. She had a nice figure, a charming face, and was wearing a tight professional outfit. She was obviously the kind of woman who could easily make men fall in love with her and become restless.
“Boom boom boom…”
There was a knock on the office door.
Qin Sulan said coldly without even raising her head: "Come in."
A middle-aged woman came in holding a folder.
"Boss Qin, this is the company's financial statement for last month."
Until then, Qin Sulan raised her head slightly and looked at the other person, with a rare smile on her face: "Oh, it's Sister Yu, you put it there first, I'll take a look later."
"OK."
Sister Yu put down the documents and returned to the finance department office, where she found several colleagues gossiping about Qin Sulan.
"Boss Qin is so young. I heard that he is not even 30 years old yet? He is running a trading company with a scale of hundreds of millions. He is really young and promising."
Another young-looking woman said with envy, "It would be great if I could become a general manager before I turn 30. I would drive an Audi to and from get off work by then. How impressive it would be."
Sister Yu closed the door, smiled, and immediately scolded: "We ordinary people should not think about these things. There is no hope."
Everyone looked up at her.
"Why is there no hope? Sister Yu, how come Mr. Qin is so rich?"
Someone nearby immediately said, "Either he has a good father, or he found a good godfather. Why else?"
They were chatting in the office, but they didn't notice that Qin Sulan was walking past the glass door.
Although the door is closed, this kind of glass door has nothing to do with sound insulation.
If it were ten years ago, she would have been furious, but people's edges are always easily worn away by the years, and in the end, they don't even recognize themselves anymore.
Qin Sulan thought back to herself ten years ago, and a sneer appeared on the corner of her mouth, which seemed to be self-mockery, but more like a mockery of this corrupt era.
After getting off work, Qin Sulan returned home and was still changing her shoes at the entrance when she heard her son Meng Yang cheering and the laughter of a middle-aged man.
She frowned immediately.
She knew that the man came again today.
Disgust flashed across her eyes, but when she walked into the living room, she had already put on the expression of a good wife and mother, her eyes deliberately revealing three parts of resentment and three parts of joy: "You still remember to come and see us, mother and son?"
When Shi Caijiang saw Qin Sulan, he smiled awkwardly and said, "I just can't get away."
Qin Sulan knew that Shi Caijiang was a married man, but she still snorted, then her expression softened and she asked softly, "What would you like to eat tonight? I'll ask the nanny to make it."
Before Shi Caijiang could say anything, Shi Mengyang in his arms spoke first, waving his white and tender little arms: "Mom, I want to eat barbecued pork and honey-glazed roast goose."
Qin Sulan pinched Meng Yang's chubby face and said, "Of course you can, but you have to drink herbal tea obediently afterwards, okay?"
Shi Mengyang quickly protested to Shi Caijiang, "Dad, the herbal tea is so bitter, I don't like it."
Shi Caijiang quickly picked up Shi Mengyang and said lovingly, "Okay, okay, I won't drink it. If you don't like it, then don't drink it."
Qin Sulan, the mother, immediately scolded him with a stern face after hearing this: "You have to drink it. It's easy to get angry in the summer. How can you not drink herbal tea when you eat barbecued pork and roast goose? And you, Lao Shi, don't always spoil Yangyang."
Shi Caijiang said with a smile: "He is still young."
Qin Sulan snorted and retorted: "He is already ten years old!"
When it comes to disciplining her son, she never gives in.
Although she hated Shi Caijiang in her heart, her son was her own child after ten months of pregnancy and was the apple of her eye. That was why Qin Sulan would not allow anyone to destroy the only spiritual sustenance in her life.
After a while, the food was served, and Qin Sulan picked up a small piece of barbecued pork for Shi Mengyang: "Okay, you can only eat this much."
Meng Yang pouted immediately.
Shi Caijiang quickly put a large piece of barbecued pork into Shi Mengyang's bowl, with a doting look on his face: "Yangyang is in the growth stage, how can you eat so little? Son, come, eat whatever you want, you have to grow tall and handsome."
Qin Sulan looked at the chubby Shi Mengyang with a helpless look on her face.
"Were you good in school today? Did you bully your classmates?"
Shi Mengyang quickly took credit and said, "I was praised by the teacher for reading Chinese aloud today!"
Shi Caijiang gave him a thumbs up and praised him happily: "Well done, you are worthy of being my son, Shi Caijiang. Dad, I am proud of you!"
After dinner, around eight o'clock in the evening, Shicai got up and was about to leave.
Qin Sulan hugged his waist from behind, looking resentful: "When are you going to divorce that woman?"
