Siheyuan: Rebirth of a comfortable life starts with Shazhu

In a small southern town, there is a Western-style house.

Time has left its mark on this white villa.

Even if the cleaners do their best to clean, the marks left by rain and dust on the walls will never be removed.

Under a banyan tree with a canopy-like canopy in the garden, two young people sat facing each other at a stone table, chatting animatedly.

"...Aren't you really going to visit Beijing? Your sister Yuanyuan misses you quite a bit." Wearing a polyester shirt, Xiao Song still had her signature short, neat hair. She sat up straight and smiled gently at the handsome young man opposite her.

He Xinghua was already about the same height as Xiao Song, but his face was a bit immature, with a ring of downy hair around his lips, making the child look somewhat comical.

He was dressed in a suit and trousers, with a medium-short haircut parted in a 4/6 ratio.

This creates a striking contrast between Xiao Song and Xiao Song, one representing Chinese style and the other Western style.

He smiled shyly and said, "Let's go again next time."

I've been here for too long, and my mom has been handling everything on Hong Kong Island all by herself.

Now that things are resolved over there, I should go back and see her.

"Then please give our regards to Aunt Lou and Grandma for me and Yuanyuan." Xiao Song was just being polite. Although he liked his brother-in-law who was polite and mature beyond his years, he couldn't really give his father-in-law a free ride and invite trouble.

Lou Xiao'e resolved the Hong Kong Island matter, so she notified He Xinghua to return to Hong Kong Island immediately after finishing his work on the mainland.

She's almost due, and even remotely directing work is becoming a bit difficult for her.

Therefore, Ho Hing-wah must return to Hong Kong Island to oversee the company.

Their main wealth is still concentrated in Hong Kong Island.

The mobile communications company, the kitchen and bathroom fixture company, and some real estate projects that Lou Xiao'e is unwilling to relinquish all need someone who can truly make the decisions.

Lou Xiao'e will never relinquish the power to make decisions to so-called professional managers in these companies.

A family's business will inevitably involve many aspects.

Some things are the main business, while other businesses are just superficial additions to the main business.

The skin and fur can be discarded, but the foundation must not be shaken.

Lou Xiao'e sold off various businesses a while ago, but in reality, she only sold off the surface-level assets.

On the mainland, He Xinghua has also sorted out a lot of work.

The next step is to complete the construction and train the workers to be qualified.

Once the machines are set up, production can begin.

Everything was proceeding in an orderly manner.

There was absolutely no sense of urgency to start production or recoup costs.

This is not considered acceptable in Hong Kong's business context.

Why did the sale of pre-sale apartments first happen in Hong Kong Island in the 1950s?
Isn't it because Hong Kong businessmen need to quickly recoup their construction costs in order to develop other properties?

To put it bluntly, there are just too many other ways to make money, and those businessmen don't have the patience to refine a particular project.

Therefore, the development of many Hong Kong-funded factories and enterprises is simply a matter of having a factory building that provides shelter from the wind and rain and has electricity to work in, and then the boss will arrange for workers to be put to work.

Construction and production proceed simultaneously, aiming for quick and efficient results.

It's rare to see a group as formalized as the Ho Group.

This also resulted in the Ho Group incurring excessive costs.

He Xinghua did not complain about his father in this article.

He had a mysterious trust in He Yuzhu.

Through Lou Xiao'e's upbringing of him and his two previous private encounters with He Yuzhu, this biological father had become somewhat deified in He Xinghua's mind.

He believed his own father wouldn't betray him.

In fact, some signs have already emerged since he did that.

Putting everything else aside, local leaders were always more polite to him than to other foreign businessmen. This was because He Xinghua advocated respecting workers' rights, which made people in the mainland treat him as one of their own.

In later generations, when discussing foreign and domestic investment, people always advocated that foreign investment should respect workers' rights.

Many of our own companies treat their workers like cattle and horses.

That kind of thinking is not wrong either.

But fundamentally, our family hasn't always been like this.

These outdated and harmful habits were brought in from outside.

Their industrial civilization has been developing for over a century.

Sweatshops and the exploitation of people by sheep—weren't these all things that foreign countries generally went through a very long development period?

From reform and opening up to becoming a major manufacturing country, it has only taken us about thirty years.

In just over thirty years, they have to cover the distance that others took a hundred or two hundred years to traverse.

It is conceivable that some problems are impossible to prevent.

But currently, regardless of where the leaders are, they still want workers to have their legitimate rights protected, businesspeople to profit, and the region to develop...

In other words, it's a win-win-win situation.

Therefore, it is quite normal that bosses like He Xinghua, who respect workers' rights, are genuinely welcomed by the local community.

"Sir, a telegram from Beijing." Just as Xiao Song was exchanging pleasantries with He Xinghua, a young clerk walked into the courtyard with a telegram.

Xiao Song took it and looked at it, his expression turning strange.

After he signed the receipt and the clerk left, Xiao Song smiled and said, "Xinghua, you'd better wait here for a few more days."

My father-in-law is coming to Guangcheng.

"Huh?" He Xinghua was a little dizzy.

"The CNC milling machine factory invested and built by Guangcheng Gang businessmen is about to officially start production, and my father-in-law will come to cut the ribbon on behalf of the partners."

"This has nothing to do with me, but my father-in-law sent me a telegram." After saying this, Xiao Song raised his eyebrows at his brother-in-law.

He Xinghua understood what his brother-in-law meant and chuckled sheepishly.

It's quite obvious that He Yuzhu's attendance at the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the CNC milling machine factory had nothing to do with Xiao Song.

But he still sent a telegram to Xiao Song specifically so that Xiao Song could pass it on to He Xinghua.

Although He Xinghua had just politely said that he didn't feel any urgency to see He Yuzhu.

But that wasn't what he truly thought.

He had many questions and was under immense pressure. He also longed for his father to come over, even if it was just to say a few words of encouragement.

He would be overjoyed.

This year has been a year of great change for the Ho Group.

Lou Xiao'e has already had a heart-to-heart talk with him, and once she gives birth, she will let He Xinghua step into the limelight.

One reason is that, in order to facilitate gold investment, the He family still needs to sell off some less important assets so that He Xinghua can take over, which is the most suitable excuse.

Furthermore, Lou Xiao'e currently only has one son, He Xinghua.

Sooner or later, he'll have to take over.

Taking this opportunity to let He Xinghua show his face more will definitely be very beneficial to his future development.

This is also the most difficult aspect of choosing a successor for a large family.

Whether emperors and generals or successful businessmen, they will all encounter this problem.

The family members are still in their prime, while the successors have grown up.

Whether a family member has the courage to gradually transfer power to their son is a test of human nature. (End of Chapter)