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After the greetings, everyone sat down.

Shen Xianqi called the waiter, looked at Su Lizhen's menu, asked Su Lizhen's opinion, and sent back the repeated dishes, leaving only the signature dish "Phoenix Returns to the Nest". His daughter loved this dish and she could have had one portion by herself, and two portions might not be enough.

After finishing the menu, he ordered a jar of Taojia rice wine brewed by Dazhuta Zaofang at the foot of Hengwang Mountain in Ma'anshan. The Anhui wine and Anhui cuisine complement each other.

After the waiter left, Shen Xianqi said to Su Lizhen, "Mrs. Xian, are you coming to Shanghai to visit relatives or friends?"

"I don't have any relatives or friends in Shanghai. I went to Shanghai to discuss business for a new account."

"What business do you run?"

“Entrepot trade.”

"In or out?"

"Collect local products in the interior and export them to the West."

Shen Xianqi stood up in awe and said, "Mr. Xian is so great that you can do export business at this time."

Su Lizhen smiled and said, "Mr. Shen, you misunderstood. The new name is Jin Chao. My sister and I established it to earn some money for cosmetics. She invested more and I invested less, so I had to run errands.

My husband said that if we followed him, we could only have simple meals. If we wanted to eat well, we had to earn our own money. My sisters and I were used to enjoying life, so we had to find a way to make a living.

When these words were spoken, Qiu Dansu, who was listening on the side, couldn't help but be shocked.

Shen Xianqi did not react in this way. He questioned "his own business". The world now and in the past was extremely unfriendly to women doing business. All women who have achieved success on their own have used their sex appeal to rise to the top.

Let’s not talk about the distant past, let’s just talk about Dong Zhujun who worked hard in Shanghai. Along the way, she had the support of various noble people. Were those noble people too idle, or did they owe favors to the Dong family?
Xian Yaowen was able to make a name for himself in Hong Kong at a young age and was chosen as the son-in-law of the Zhou family. He established himself in the Dongguan Gang, established connections with the Chaozhou Gang, and socialized with the British. In the case of the Friendship Shopping Mall, he also established connections with the Shanghai-style Jiang-Zhe Gang. He was able to maneuver between various forces in Hong Kong and was definitely very experienced in human relationships. How could he not know what a woman would face when doing business independently?

Even if Xian Yaowen is obsessed with money, he will not let his woman "rely on herself" to do business, otherwise she will be looked down upon, the Xian family's brand will be unstable, and everyone will take advantage of this paper tiger.

Therefore, "one's own livelihood" is most likely paved by the face established by Xian Yaowen, or Su Lizhen in front of him is just a puppet standing in the front, and Xian Yaowen is controlling it secretly.

Shen Xianqi spread the news of Xian Yaowen's friendship with the British, thinking that Xian Yaowen probably didn't want outsiders to think that he had too close a relationship with the mainland, so he wanted to keep the best of both worlds.

"Su Lizhen is in charge of running errands, and there is a woman behind her who owns a larger share. That woman must be the representative of the Xian family that Xian Yaowen wants to put in the mainland basket. It's strange, isn't it said that Xian Yaowen is a farmer's son, so he is so familiar with diversifying investments?"

The question went around in Shen Xianqi's mind for a long time, but only one or two seconds passed. He concealed his trance with a look of concern for his daughter's movements, and replied, "Madam Xian, Shen has some connections in Shanghai. If there is anything I can help with, please feel free to ask."

"This doesn't sound like a polite remark, but rather like an attempt to make friends with me. Shen Xianqi is also planning to go to Hong Kong?" Su Lizhen thought for a moment and chuckled, "Mr. Shen, I am a woman and have not experienced much of the world. Please don't be polite to me, or I will take it seriously."

Shen Xianqi laughed, "Madam Xian, if you have anything, just come to me."

Su Lizhen picked up the wine glass and said, "I would like to offer a toast to Mr. Shen."

Shen Xianqi raised his glass in response, "Madam Xian, please."

Su Lizhen took a sip and turned the cup to the little girl Maomao, "Maomao, I have a lot of toys at home. Come play with me some other day."

A gleam of light flashed inadvertently in Shen Xianqi's eyes, and he expressed his affirmation of Su Lizhen's insight. This woman was no ordinary woman, as she could take his pulse so quickly.

He watched Su Lizhen and his daughter talking and laughing without interrupting.

At the same time, Cheryl and Sally were sitting in the western restaurant downstairs of the Golden Season Commercial Bank.

The two did not order any dishes, just a bottle of red wine.

Sally took a sip of her wine and said, "Who else are you waiting for?"

Cheryl swirled the glass and watched the liquid cling to the wall. "Rosalind Henwood, and a female pilot."

"Who?"

"The general manager of Jinji Logistics."

"I'm asking about the female pilot."

"Li Xiaqing."

"Ya-Ching Lee?"

"uh-huh."

"I know her, China's first female aviator."

"She's not." Sally's voice just fell, and a voice took over. Then a woman in a plain cheongsam appeared in their sight, and her eyes swept across their faces, "Which one of you is Ms. Brown?"

"I'm Cheryl, Miss Lee, please take a seat."

"Thank you." Li Xiaqing nodded slightly to Cheryl, sat down in the empty seat, looked at Sally and said, "Madam, China's first female pilot is Ms. Zhu Mufei. My title of first place was spread by Boeing for the purpose of selling aircraft."

"I've read the information. Ms. Zhu Mufei passed away a long time ago, and you are the only female pilot who has participated in actual combat." Cheryl said.

"No." Li Xiaqing shook her head. "I have never flown a plane in actual combat. The only female pilot who has participated in actual combat is Quan Jiyu, who is Korean."

"Okay." Cheryl spread her hands in a way that almost replicated Xian Yaowen's. "Miss Li, I invited you here this time because I hope you can join our company's upcoming subsidiary, ITS, In The Sky."

"Be a pilot?" Li Xiaqing asked.

"General manager and flight instructor, or even spokesperson. Miss Li, are you interested in returning to the film industry to make movies?"

Li Xiaqing's father was Li Yingsheng, who was one of the shareholders of the Minxin Film Company founded by Li Minwei. In the late 1920s, when Li Xiaqing was fifteen or sixteen years old, she participated in many silent films of Minxin Film and was once as famous as Butterfly and Ruan Lingyu.

However, when she was at the peak of her career, Li Xiaqing retired from the film industry and went to England for study for love. During a trip to Paris to meet her lover and ex-husband Zheng Baifeng, she was shocked by the flight show and decided to become a female pilot.

Li Xiaqing keenly understood Cheryl's thoughts, "Ms. Brown wants to use my identity as a gimmick?"

Li Xiaqing's great-grandfather was Li Qingchun, from the Haifeng Li family. He received Chinese and English education in Hong Kong when he was young. Later, he worked as a Teochew translator in the court. He was dismissed for accepting bribes and secretly hiding documents that were unfavorable to the suspect.

Later, he worked as a "capital" in a law firm, but was fired by his employer for embezzlement. He worked odd jobs in a Hong Kong hotel. When life was miserable, he found someone to help the Guangdong Navy Admiral Fang Yao become a spy, responsible for gathering information about the Tongmenghui and Sun Yat-sen in Hong Kong.

At that time, a pair of Sun Yat-sen's fellow villagers, Yang Qiwen and Yang Qihuai, had been engaged in opium smuggling for more than ten years and became very rich. It was not known whether it was because Sun Yat-sen had once begged for favors in the name of revolution, or because the money was simply attractive, but Yang Qihuai, who stayed in his hometown, was ransacked and beheaded by Fang Yao. Yang Qiwen, who had lived in Hong Kong in his early years, luckily escaped.

However, Yang Qiwen was targeted by Li Qingchun, who demanded 5000 silver dollars from him and threatened to extradite him back to the mainland for trial if he did not give the money. However, the blackmail failed and Li Qingchun was sentenced to life imprisonment with hard labor by the Supreme Court of Hong Kong on five charges including extortion.

While in prison, he continued to appeal and with the help of his relatives, he was pardoned by the Governor of Hong Kong and deported after ten years in prison.

After returning to the mainland, he worked as an English secretary for Fang Yao. By chance, his two sons, Li Zishi and Li Jinyi, married Xu Peilan and Xu Peixuan, the two nieces of Xu Run, one of the four major compradors in the late Qing Dynasty.

Li Qingchun's two daughters-in-law were both revolutionary activists. Perhaps influenced by them, from Li Qingchun onwards, all the members of the Li family became members of the Tongmenghui. Li Qingchun even contributed his own house to the Tongmenghui to set up an organization, and faced the hunt for death by Yuan Shikai's lackey Long Jiguang.

Not only that, Li Qingchun also sacrificed his son and grandson. After his son Li Jinyi passed away, his grandsons Li Peiji and Li Yingsheng joined the Eastern Assassination Group led by Huang Xing and participated in the mission of bombing Fengshan. His widowed daughter-in-law Xu Peixuan accompanied Huang Xing, who was injured in the Battle of 329, to Hong Kong for treatment. During this time, she changed her name to Xu Zonghan and took her husband's surname Huang.

Regardless of the Li family's motives for turning to revolution, the Li family members are all old members of the Tongmenghui. In the 1920s and during the Anti-Japanese War, many old comrades went to Hong Kong to settle down. Some lived as private citizens, and some did business. This group of people gathered together and formed a considerable force.

As for Li Yingsheng, he started doing business after the Xinhai Revolution. He made friends with French forces in the International Settlement and worked as Du Yuesheng's French secretary for a period of time, helping Du Yuesheng to connect with French forces. Du Yuesheng reciprocated by providing protection for Li Yingsheng's business without charging any protection fees.

In the past two years, Li Yingsheng came to Hong Kong and focused his main energy on managing the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals board of directors circle. If nothing unexpected happens, next year's chairman will be chosen between him and the current chairman Ma Kam-chan.

Xian Yaowen had previously planned to set up Jin Haoyun under Jinwu Real Estate to operate short-distance transportation between Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, and to provide berthing for the ships and aircraft of the Rainy Night Piano Commando.

But after the commando team was formed, he found that it was too expensive. The commando team was obviously working for Jinji Trading Company, and there was no reason for him to support it alone. So he changed his mind and established ITS under the Sky Traveler of Jinji Logistics to operate flight sightseeing services and flying clubs.

These two businesses obviously won't make a lot of money, but they are necessary to operate. One is to settle accounts for the Rainy Night Piano Commando, and the other is to build connections and make preparations in advance for the future transformation of Jinji Commercial Bank.

After the smuggling craze was over, the business he planned for Jinji Trading Company mainly included tourism, freight, precious metal trading, finance, industrial raw materials and production equipment agency, foreign trade and pharmaceutical sales, in addition to the tobacco business that Cheryl was interested in.

The development of most of these businesses relies heavily on personal connections, especially tourism, and he plans to work hard to make as much profit as possible from it.

Developing Hong Kong's tourism industry is a slogan shouted to the outside world, a gimmick to get something for free. The benefits can be swallowed by themselves and will never be shared with others.

Hong Kong's attractions are simply not worth mentioning when put into the world's tourism market. When it comes to creating Hong Kong's unique tourism, the suitable selling points to explore are finance and shopping. Putting the former into the tourism sector is like buying the casket and returning the pearl, while the latter is the soul mate of tourism.

Firstly, it is possible to initiate a trip just to buy a certain product. According to Xian Yaowen’s observations in his previous life, many people went to Switzerland to buy a watch, and there were even more people who went to the Champs-Elysées and Fifth Avenue to shop for luxury goods. Therefore, he had the idea of ​​creating a luxury goods street in Hong Kong.

The location is to be determined, and if more than half of the properties on this street do not belong to the Xian family, he would rather the plan be aborted.

In the past, the reason why Causeway Bay and Tsim Sha Tsui became luxury shopping centers was not because of their obvious location advantages, but because someone was pushing these two places to become luxury shopping centers.

At this time, Hong Kong can be said to be a blank sheet of paper in the field of luxury shopping. As long as it wants and does it, Beihe Street, Tokyo Street or other streets close to the current central bustling area have the potential to be developed into a luxury street.

As for the location of this street, he did not want to be in Hong Kong Island where the territory had been divided up. Only pieces of land were left. If one wanted to get a strip of land, there were already bloody mouths waiting to feast on it.

I can't afford it, I really can't afford it.

Instead of letting those damned capitalists and Grandet get the benefit, it would be better to launch a demolition and wealth-creating campaign in Kowloon. The poor people who suddenly become rich will become the first and second generation of demolition. They are not mentally capable of grasping wealth, and with a little guidance, they will seek excitement in the banker and player, and have fun on the broad road of slaying the dragon.

As a result, a revolution in the secondary distribution of wealth broke out as fast as lightning, and wealth flowed to organizations that were good at equal distribution and to those who, even after becoming leaders of a consortium, did not forget their original aspirations as a proletariat.

Convenient cost recovery is one of the reasons why he prefers Kowloon. The second reason is that Kowloon is more suitable for creating a one-stop consumption belt of "eating, drinking, leisure and shopping".

For eating, you can create a food center, or you can build a night snack food stall corridor along the Sham Shui Po Pier; for drinking, you can create a bar gathering place. Bars do not need convenient transportation. As long as there are wine and girls, and there are ferries available to cross the sea at any time, guests from Hong Kong Island will not think the journey is too far.

Needless to say, as for leisure, except for Sai Wan which caters to sailors, most of the chicken stalls are concentrated in Kowloon. Moreover, he had already laid the foundation for Fenglou's "Phoenix Dances in the Nine Heavens" in the Shanghai Building project. He will not touch this area, but he can guide others to participate through the commercial agglomeration effect.

ITS used flying as its entry point, then established a car club, and then went on the water to establish a yacht club, integrating its own interests and hobbies into the expansion of its social circle, and laying the foundation for a high-end leisure model.

When Xian Yaowen was formulating the development direction of Friendship Pictures, he had already taken it into consideration in his overall tourism plan. In a sense, films, theme parks and celebrities were all considered tourism products by him.

"Miss. Li, the word 'gimmick' may not be appropriate. I think 'hype' is more appropriate." Cheryl said calmly.

"Hype? That's a very fresh word. By the way, Ms. Brown, your Chinese is very good."

Cheryl smiled and said, "The person who hyped up this word told me that this word came from Dream of the Red Chamber and it's not a new word."

"Really?" (End of Chapter)