Hong Kong: Rise of the Kings.

Chapter 1099 1085 [Gathering of Heroes]

The Samsung Hotel is luxuriously decorated and fully equipped, and its level in that era is comparable to the Seoul Hotel invested by Americans.

When Du Yongxiao led everyone into the hotel, Li Jianxi, president of Samsung Group Chemical Company, quickly greeted them.
"Mr. Du, you are here!"

Li Jianxi and Du Yongxiao are old friends. They knew each other when they were in Thailand, and this time Du Yongxiao's visit to South Korea was also led by Li Jianxi.

"I was invited to come and have a look. Sorry to bother you!" Du Yongxiao shook hands with Li Jianxi.

"No, no! Your presence here makes the Three Star Hotel shine!" Li Jianxi said as he shook hands and greeted others.

After introducing everyone, Li Jianxi said to Du Yongxiao: "Today is a big day. In addition to our Samsung Group, there are also Hyundai, Lotte, LG, SK, and Hanjin Group, etc. Can I act as a middleman to introduce you to one or two?"

"Of course!" Du Yongxiao said with a smile, "I came here today just to make friends. We Chinese have an old saying that goes, 'A bosom friend afar brings a distant land near.' The more friends the better, the more the better, hahahaha!"

Seeing Du Yongxiao laughing heartily, Li Jianxi couldn't help but praise him in his heart, he was indeed a heroic figure, he clearly came here today to act as a villain and be laughed at by others, yet he could still chat and laugh like this, really amazing.

"In that case, come, let me introduce you to Lotte Chairman Shin Kyuk-ho!" Li Jianxi said, leading Du Yongxiao and others towards a place.

Li Jianxi knew about the grudge between Du Yongxiao and Hyundai Group, so he deliberately avoided him and introduced Du Yongxiao to Lotte first.

Du Yongxiao's understanding of Lotte Group and Shin Kyuk-ho and his son is still based on the "father and son having fun" incident in his previous life where the father and son played with the same female star.

It is said that after the female star named Zhang Ziyan committed suicide, her diary revealed that the father and son were "fellow travelers" who both liked to play sadistic games, which caused an uproar in South Korea. Lotte's stock price also fell, making the Shin father and son embarrassed.

Now that he has the opportunity to see this magical father and son, Du Yongxiao is full of curiosity.

"Hello, this is Mr. Shin Kyuk-ho, the chairman of Lotte!"

"President Xin, this is Mr. Du Yongxiao from Hong Kong!"

Li Jianxi very gentlemanly introduced Du Yongxiao to a skinny old man.

The old man looked thin, wore glasses, and was very gentle. He was not as wretched as Du Yongxiao had imagined. On the contrary, he looked righteous, with his hands behind his back, like a big boss.

After Li Jianxi finished the introduction, Xin Gehao slowly extended his hand to Du Yongxiao and said, "Nice to meet you, Mr. Du!"

Du Yongxiao glanced at him, then shook his hand even more arrogantly: "Nice to meet you too, President Xin."

Shin Kyuk-ho was very annoyed by Du Yong-hyo's arrogant attitude and slightly contemptuous look.

After all, he is one of the top ten chaebols in the Republic of Korea. No one has ever dared to look down on him. Even Samsung Emperor Lee Byung-chul and Blue House President Park Chung-hee have to look up to him, let alone a young Chinese like Du Yongxiao?
"Humph!" Xin Gehao snorted coldly, "Young man, don't be too arrogant. Being too arrogant will easily lead to losses!"

Du Yongxiao smiled, "You must be virtuous to be a good person. Only with virtue can you get a position. Otherwise, you will be scolded if your virtue is not worthy of your position!"

"What did you say? What do you mean?" Shin Geuk-ho was completely enraged by Du Yong-xiao.

Isn't Du Yongxiao calling him a bad person?
Du Yongxiao shrugged: "I'm sorry, I thought President Xin was arguing with me about poetry, so I just said a line. If it angered you, please forgive me!"

Li Jianxi rolled his eyes as he watched from the side.

He didn't understand why Du Yongxiao, such a calm and introverted young man, became so arrogant and rude when he saw President Xin?

As for Shin Kyuk-ho's attitude towards Du Yong-xiao, he could imagine it. After all, Du Yong-xiao was a foreign chaebol, and was not well-liked by the Korean bigwigs.

Seeing Du Yongxiao like this, Xin Gehao didn't know what to say, but he didn't want to say any more to someone like Du Yongxiao, so he made an excuse and left.

Li Jianxi gave a bitter smile and looked at Du Yongxiao, not knowing what to say. He intended to introduce friends to Du Yongxiao, and Du Yongxiao had just said that the more friends the better. But he was obviously deliberately provoking him just now. This was not making friends, but making enemies!
Seeing Li Jianxi's embarrassed expression, Du Yongxiao said indifferently: "Even if you want to make friends, you have to make friends with people. For some people with low moral character, forget it!"

Li Jianxi smiled bitterly again, "There are not so many noble gentlemen in this world. We are all villains. It's just that some of us are good at our studies, so we can't see it on the surface."

Du Yongxiao stared at Li Jianxi, "You are right!"

There were many rumors about Li Jianxi in the previous life. It was said that he was more extravagant than Shin Kyuk-ho and his son.

Li Jianxi was stared at by Du Yongxiao like this, and suddenly felt that the other party's eyes were as sharp as a knife, and he almost saw through his heart.

A moment of palpitations.

Li Jianxi felt what fear was for the first time.

He had experienced this kind of fear before when he faced his father, Lee Byung-chul, but that was only out of fear of his father's authority. Unlike now, Du Yongxiao's eyes were like those of a high judge, and he was a prisoner waiting for trial...

Du Yongxiao retracted his gaze, and Li Jianxi suddenly felt the oppressive feeling just now disappear in an instant.

He shook his head, wondering if it was a dream.
Du Yongxiao didn't give him a chance to think, "Anything else? Since you've made an enemy, you should at least make a friend!"

Li Jianxi regained consciousness and said hurriedly, "There is another one, he is the chairman of Hanjin Group, Zhao Lianghao!"

Du Yongxiao was slightly startled, thinking that this name seemed very familiar, as if the president had a daughter who cheated her father. What was her name?
While Du Yongxiao was thinking, Li Jianxi had already led him to a square-faced man and introduced him, "Come, let's meet! This is Chairman Zhao Lianghao of Hanjin Group, and this is Mr. Du Yongxiao, President of Hong Kong Du Group!"

Du Yongxiao shook hands with the square-faced man, "Hello, President Zhao! By the way, do you have a daughter named Zhao Xian'e?"

Zhao Lianghao was stunned. He looked at Du Yongxiao in surprise and said, "Mr. Du seems to be very familiar with our Zhao family. I do have an eldest daughter named Zhao Xian'e, who just turned ten this year!"

Du Yongxiao smiled: "Treat her well, she will bless you!"

Bullshit blessings!

The last time the great Hanjin Group was brought down was because of the prodigal daughter Cho Hyun-ah, and the incident that occurred was the "Nutgate" incident that was talked about by the Korean people and even the international people.

In its previous life, Hanjin Group was an international logistics and transportation group company headquartered in Seoul.

Hanjin Group was founded in 1945 and was once one of the largest shipping logistics companies in South Korea and one of the Fortune Global 500 companies. Hanjin Group once owned a fleet of container ships throughout major ports around the world. After its shipping business went bankrupt, it still owns air routes and logistics networks.

Hanjin Shipping, a subsidiary of Hanjin Group, was once the world's seventh largest shipping group.

Korean Air, acquired in 1969, is South Korea's largest airline.

On December 2014, 12, Cho Hyun-ah took a Korean Air flight from New York's Kennedy Airport to Incheon. Dissatisfied with the fact that the flight attendant did not put nuts on a plate but gave her a whole bag instead, she was furious and asked the captain to turn the plane back to the boarding gate and kick the crew member off the plane. The flight was delayed for 5 minutes, which became the famous "nut return" incident.

Hanjin Group's stock price plummeted due to the impact of the "nut gate incident".

Three years later, a South Korean court declared Hanjin Shipping, a subsidiary of Hanjin, bankrupt. The remaining assets will be liquidated and auctioned off step by step. Its original position as the largest company in South Korea will also be replaced by Hyundai Shipping.

Suffering a huge blow, Cho Yang-ho, chairman of Hanjin Group, was admitted to the hospital.

At the shareholders' meeting on March 2019, 3, the proposal for Cho Yang-ho's re-election as a director was rejected by the meeting. On April 27, 2019, Cho Yang-ho died of illness in a hospital in Los Angeles, USA, at the age of 4. A spokesperson for the company said he died of worsening lung disease.

But according to insiders, the final cause of death of the chairman of Hanjin Group was anger! His two daughters and one son were all unpromising, and the huge Hanjin Group was almost bankrupted by them. He even lost his position as chairman, and his face was completely lost. It was a joke to live.

At this moment, Zhao Lianghao looked at Du Yongxiao in surprise, not understanding why Du Yongxiao said that.

"Oh, of course I love my daughter. She is an angel God gave me! She is so cute. I hug her every time I come home. Mr. Du, you are still very young. You probably can't experience the happiness of being a parent yet."

Du Yongxiao smiled: "No, I have a child, but I don't spoil him! I hope he will be a good child and contribute to society in the future."

"You're right, haha! I don't spoil her either! My daughter is also very well-behaved. She said she wants to be an artist in the future! Hahaha, look, her ambitions are so great!" Zhao Lianghao didn't realize that Du Yongxiao had hidden meaning in his words, and Du Yongxiao would not tell him directly that you will be cheated by your daughter in the future, and that she will directly cheat you to death and make you lose even the position of president.

"That's good. I really hope that Zhao Xian'e can be an artist happily in the future, and never ask for nuts on the plane—"

"Uh, what do you mean?"

"It's nothing. Children's teeth are still developing. It's not good for them to eat too many nuts."

"Thank you for your concern, Mr. Du. I will remind her, hehe!"

Looking at this silly father, Du Yongxiao didn't want to say anything more.

In general, apart from the fact that he gave birth to unreliable children, Cho Yang-ho has a good reputation among all chaebols. Even if he is investigated for embezzling public funds in the future, the reason is "to make life better for his family."

To be honest, Zhao Lianghao also had a very good impression of Du Yongxiao.

Although Samsung convened the chaebol meeting this time with the purpose of uniting to deal with the external hungry wolf Du Yongxiao.

Du Yongxiao's personal style made Zhao Lianghao's eyes light up. In addition, Du Yongxiao's huge financial resources and amazing interpersonal relationships, if it were not for the fact that his daughter Zhao Xian'e was only ten years old, he would really be willing to marry Du Yongxiao and marry his daughter to Du Yongxiao.

Maybe it would be okay to wait another seven or eight years. By then Xian'e would be eighteen years old, and Mr. Du would only be in his thirties. As long as he was not married, they would be a good match.

As for why Du Yongxiao had a son and who gave birth to him, he didn't care at all. As a chaebol, why would he care about those things? As long as the two families were of equal status, that was enough.

Du Yongxiao had no idea that President Zhao in front of him would like him. He just felt his nose itchy and couldn't help sneezing.

Jiang Ling'er held Du Yongxiao's arm and teased, "You seem to care a lot about her daughter, but I don't see you care much about your son?"

Du Yongxiao smiled and said, "I definitely will in the future."

Thinking of the little glutinous rice balls, Du Yongxiao felt guilty.

Jiang Ling'er took him to Thailand after he was born. Now he is two years old, and he has never fulfilled his obligations as a father.

Thinking back to what he had just said to Zhao Lianghao, Du Yongxiao felt even more guilty.

Li Jianxi saw it clearly from the side, and finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that Du Yongxiao and Zhao Lianghao hit it off this time.

If Du Yongxiao and Zhao Lianghao started fighting again, he really wouldn't know what to say.

Next, Li Jianxi introduced Du Yongxiao to the chairman of SK, the chairman of LG and others.

Du Yongxiao was most impressed by the LG Group.

In its previous life, LG was very powerful in telephone communications and was once on par with Samsung Electronics. Unfortunately, LG made a wrong decision in the end and fell behind in the mobile phone sector, allowing Samsung to dominate the world and become the global sales champion.

Du Yongxiao also used an LG mobile phone in his previous life. He felt that it was exquisite, but it was still a little lacking in content manipulation. This was also the main reason why LG eventually lost to Samsung.

The chairman of LG Group is Gu Bon-moo, a 34-year-old strong man. Compared with the big guys mentioned above, Gu Bon-moo in front of him is tall, has a loud voice, and a pair of squinting eyes that reveal the shrewdness of an entrepreneur.

Du Yongxiao admired this man very much. The reason was very simple: he was far-sighted, not confined to the family business, and dared to hand over the power of the business to outsiders.

Even before his death, he held a meeting to discuss handing over the management of the company to professional managers rather than family members, but the plan was ultimately abandoned because other directors did not approve.

The Korean people also have a very good opinion of him. When many chaebols were trying to transfer the high inheritance tax, he ordered his family to pay the full amount of inheritance tax of more than 4 billion without losing a penny.

In addition, Gu Bonmoo is also one of the most friendly Korean entrepreneurs towards China. Not only does he invest and build factories in the mainland, he also provides donations at the first opportunity during many disasters. Therefore, he is known as a good friend of the Chinese.

"Hello Mr. Du, I didn't expect you to be so young!"

Gu Bonmoo took over power from his father in 1969, and it has been exactly ten years now. He was as young as Du Yongxiao back then. When he saw Du Yongxiao, he couldn't help but think of his past self and actually developed a kind of good impression of him.

"Hello, Chairman Gu! It's not easy to manage such a large group, especially for someone as young and promising as you..." Du Yongxiao shook hands with Gu Benmao, and they expressed their mutual admiration for each other in their words.

Li Jianxi was surprised by this scene. Why did it feel like Du Yongxiao and Gu Benmoo seemed to have known each other for a long time?
even--
Seeing Do Young-hyo and Gu Bon-moo happily meeting each other,
Li Jianxi even vaguely felt a little...
Jealous!

(End of this chapter)