Chapter 90 Yang Ming’s right-hand man!
There are many white executives in Xiangjiang.
Hutchison Whampoa CEO Wei Li, Vice President Li Caixin, Business Director Xia Boyin, Executive Director Peter Wei, etc.
In addition, the main executives of Jardine Matheson, Swire & Co., Huifeng Bank, Zada Bank, and even the Hong Kong Exchange, the Hong Kong Jockey Club, etc. are all white.
However, white executives like Wei Li and Shen Yi are very well-known in Xiangjiang and often reported to the press. The reporters are also relatively familiar with them.
The two people in front of me.
Whether it is Melis or Ma Shimin, many reporters have no impression of them.
So why did Yang Ming, chairman of the Imperial Group, hire these two people to hold such important positions?
How can they achieve such a position?
"Mr. Yang, why did you hire Mr. Meilis and Mr. Ma Shimin? I don't know which company they worked for before, and do they have such extraordinary management experience?"
As for Ma Shimin, he stayed at Jardine Matheson for twelve years. His position in Jardine Matheson was not high. For an ordinary executive like him, Jardine Land has not only a thousand but also a few hundred people.
As for Mai Lisi, he previously served as the executive president of Haw Par Company in Singapore. This Haw Par Company is still relatively well-known in Nanyang.
Yang Ming guessed it by looking at the reporters' questions and expressions.
"They will be rare management talents in the future, and they will also be my right-hand man. The previous work experience of the two is not important to me and the Imperial Group. What is important is that their current position makes me feel As long as it’s good.”
Mr. Yang's right-hand man?
The reporters were even more surprised when they heard this.
When Ma Shimin and Mellis heard this, they were a little moved indescribably.
"Next, I will hand over the press conference time to Mr. Mellis and Mr. Ma Shimin, but you only have half an hour for the interview."
Yang Ming did not stay any longer.
When Lin Xiuzhi pushed him to leave.
Those reporters also wanted to chase Yang Ming for an interview.
Yang Ming is still relatively low-key and mysterious in Xiangjiang.
Except for the initial acquisition of Wharf and Hutchison Whampoa, it rarely appears in public newspapers.
Yang Ming returned to his chairman's office.
. . .
After half an hour.
Ma Shimin and Mai Lisi accepted the reporters' answers respectively.
He who deserves an answer will answer it.
If they are unwilling to answer, they will never answer.
Now some reporters dispersed and left, immediately reported to the press to rush for the report, and prepared to publish this important news in the afternoon evening newspaper.
For the citizens of Xiangjiang, news related to the Imperial Group is still very popular, and the sales of newspapers and periodicals are naturally very high.
There are some reporters who are still unwilling to leave and want to get more valuable news.
They were all invited out by Lin Xiuzhi of the Imperial Group.
Mai Lisi and Ma Shimin came to Yang Ming's chairman's office.
"Lin Xiuzhi, first take Meris to learn about our major departments in the company."
"Yes, boss."
The Imperial Group is indeed mysterious to Melis.
The most mysterious thing is where the capital of the Imperial Group comes from. It cannot appear out of thin air.
He had secretly investigated before, but he did not find out.
Let Lin Xiuzhi take him to see it, and he should know the truth behind it.
When Lin Xiuzhi looked at Meris, she said, "General manager, I'll take you to have a look."
Mai Lisi and Lin Xiuzhi went out.
Now only Yang Ming and Ma Shimin are left in the chairman's office.
"Ma Shimin, now that you are the general manager of Wharf, I will hand over the full power of Wharf to you. What are your plans?"
"Boss, you speak first."
Wharf is now Yang Ming's holding company, and the holding has reached more than 60%, but some of it is still owned by other shareholders and investors.
Yang Ming knew that after Li Jiacheng acquired Hutchison Whampoa, he obtained the largest income from Hutchison Whampoa.
Part of it is Hutchison Whampoa's share dividends, which are worth several billion a year.
In the 1980s, dividends of several billion a year were very scary, which brought a huge flow of capital to Changchun Industrial Group.
Like Hutchison Whampoa's share dividends, only major shareholders like Li Jiacheng receive dividends, and ordinary investors don't get any dividends at all.
This is also the reason why there was such a big conflict between Li Caixin's white executives and Li Jiacheng.
According to the thinking of white executives such as Li Caixin, Hutchison Whampoa cannot distribute dividends, but use them to expand investment and expand the scale of Hutchison Whampoa.
The purpose of Li Jiacheng's investment in Hutchison Whampoa was to make money to strengthen himself, not to strengthen other Hong Kong investors or stock investors.
In addition, Hutchison Whampoa has a huge land bank.
Li Jiacheng also arranged for Malis and Huo Jianning to take over the real estate business of Hutchison Whampoa, and take over a large amount of Hutchison Whampoa's land storage to develop together with Changchun Industrial Group. Of course, the final profit will be made by Changchun Industrial Group, and there are Profits gradually fell into Li Jiacheng's pocket.
In addition to these, many of Hutchison Whampoa's very valuable subsidiaries have basically been privatized and turned into companies of Lijiacheng or Changchun Industrial Group.
For example, some subsidiaries of Hutchison Whampoa were directly sold to subsidiaries of Li Jiacheng or Changchun Industrial Group at a low price.
It is precisely because of this that Changchun Industrial Group and Li Jiacheng were raised, and Hutchison Whampoa was slowly split up more and more.
After Bao Yugang acquired Wharf, Wheelock and other foreign banks, he basically followed this method.
Yang Ming thinks this is normal.
It is impossible for him to really enrich Wharf or Hutchison Whampoa and share the dividends with other investors.
How is this possible?
"First, privatize Wharf's valuable companies."
"Secondly, the Wharf's reserve land will either not be moved, or if it is moved, it can only be used as rental properties."
. . .
The points mentioned by Yang Ming are all related to Wharf.
The most valuable thing in Wharf is of course Harbor City. Historically, this Harbor City has paid tens of billions or more in rent to the Bao family every year.
In addition, there are also those ports, terminals, etc. These are all very valuable and can be privatized, then they will naturally become Yang Ming's own private industry.
By then, Wharf may be nothing more than a name and an empty shell.
Ma Shimin and Yang Ming had already written it down after discussing it.
"Ma Shimin, then you go to Wharf Building."
Now that Yang Ming has finished explaining to him, he can hand over the power of Wharf to Ma Shimin.
As for the original management of Wharf that were arrogant or dissatisfied with the Empire Group, they would gradually obey Ma Shimin's management after Ma Shimin became the general manager of Wharf.
Yang Ming believes that Ma Shimin has this ability.
At that time, Wharf Bank truly became a foreign bank belonging to Yang Ming and the Imperial Group.