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Chapter 79 It’s Hard Not to Get Rich (Subscription Request)

When I stepped out of the Beauty Master's workshop, I saw my uncle who had just finished collecting rent and was in high spirits.

"Haoran, let's go. The sun is so scorching. Wouldn't it be nice to turn on the fan at home?" There was a hint of sarcasm in my uncle's words and his smile was a little mischievous.

Lin Haoran readily agreed, took a few people back to the Mercedes-Benz, started the engine, and slowly drove towards his grandfather's house.

The original intention of this trip was just to take a casual stroll in his spare time, but he unexpectedly met Liu Luanxiong, who had not yet become successful. Even he was surprised.

After arriving at his grandfather's house, Lin Haoran sat together with his grandfather's family, chatting and laughing. Time seemed to slow down at this moment.

It was not until three o'clock in the afternoon, when the sun was no longer so scorching, that he said goodbye to Lin's mother and drove back to their home in Deep Water Bay.

The two families live not far from each other, and Lin's mother goes back to her parents' home frequently. This time, she specially brought Lin Haoran with her so that her son can get closer to her parents' home.

That night, Lin Haoran received a call from Liu Luanxiong.

On the other end of the phone, Liu Luanxiong's voice was full of frankness and expectation. He told Lin Haoran that although his partners were not very interested in the financing project, he personally was very interested in it and hoped to find a suitable time to have an in-depth communication with Lin Haoran.

After some discussion, the two sides finally decided to meet at 19 o'clock next Monday evening, and the location was set on the th floor of Hengfeng Building, a landmark building in Central, which is the office floor of Huanyu Investment Company.

There was a reason for choosing Monday. According to Liu Luanxiong, the company's workload that day happened to be in a relatively loose period. A batch of goods had been shipped smoothly, and the raw materials needed for the next batch had not yet arrived. Therefore, precious time could be freed up to focus on the meeting with Lin Haoran.

In contrast, their team is usually immersed in an intense work rhythm, with daily working hours often reaching more than ten hours, making it almost impossible to spare time to handle additional business negotiations.

After staying at home for two days, Lin Haoran returned to Huanyu Investment Company in Central.

On Monday morning, Lin Haoran came to Qingzhou Yingni Company again.

He had already made a plan. If he couldn't find evidence that Khalil Centurion had misappropriated company funds, he would wait until he had 40% of the shares and then directly convene a board meeting to force him to take power.

At that time, he would directly dismiss the financial director, and then find some clues from it. If he wanted to completely drive away Khalil Centurion, he would have to have evidence of his crime.

Otherwise, with Halil Centurion owning 12.6% of the shares, he wanted to continue to stay on the board of directors of Qingzhou Yingni, and Lin Haoran would have no choice.

As for how to handle the finances here after the financial director is dismissed, Lin Haoran has already made a plan.

During the weekend, he had already confronted his father Lin Wanan, which meant that Lin Wanan already knew about his affairs in Yingni, Qingzhou.

At that time, there will definitely be no problem in calling on the finance department of Wan'an Group to come to Qingzhou Yingni.

After all, although Wan'an Group is a listed company, Lin Wan'an holds more than 50% of Wan'an Group's shares, reaching the level of absolute control.

Given Lin Wanan's cautious character, he would naturally not leave any chance for anyone to secretly acquire the Wanan Group.

After returning to the vice chairman's office of Qingzhou Yingni, Lin Haoran still had no idea about the next investigation. After all, he had just joined Qingzhou Yingni and did not have any confidants here, which made it inconvenient for him to do things.

Unable to get any key information from the Finance Department, he simply went to the Human Resources Department.

From the Human Resources Department, Lin Haoran obtained the information of the middle and senior management of Qingzhou Yingni Company, ostensibly to get to know the company's senior management.

Li Weidong carried a stack of documents and followed Lin Haoran back to the vice chairman's office.

Lin Haoran took a quick look and found that these middle and senior management were basically all foreigners. Except for a few Chinese among the middle-level cadres, there was no one at the senior level.

But he could also understand that this was a British-owned company after all, and the senior management must be mainly foreigners.

Just as he thought, after taking over Qingzhou Yingni, Qingzhou Yingni would change from a British-owned enterprise to a Chinese-owned enterprise. At that time, he still had the idea of ​​gradually replacing the management with Chinese.

Lin Haoran focused on reading all the company's senior executives.

"Deputy General Manager Burton is an Australian who joined Qingzhou Yingni in 1976 and is responsible for the sales and after-sales departments of Qingzhou Yingni."

The deputy general manager cannot even join the board of directors?
Lin Haoran noticed this problem.

He knew that Qingzhou Yingni had four non-shareholder board members. In addition to the general manager Mr. Ziegler, the other three non-shareholder board members were directors of important departments of the company, namely the financial director, marketing director, and public relations director.

Previously, he was not familiar with the company's senior management. When attending the board meeting, he thought the company did not have a deputy general manager. Unexpectedly, the company did not have a deputy general manager, but the deputy general manager did not enter the board of directors.

Could it be that he was being excluded?

Probably.

Because Lin Haoran knew that although the deputy general manager was definitely a senior executive of the company, he could not join the board of directors of Qingzhou Yingni, which meant that he was not a core senior executive in the company.

Perhaps, we can start the investigation with Burton.

Lin Haoran had an idea.

Putting down Burton's information, Lin Haoran picked up the information of several Chinese middle-level managers again and started reading them, then pulled out a resume with the longest qualifications.

"Liu Zhenxing, 48 years old, has worked at Qingzhou Yingni for 25 years. He has been working at Qingzhou Yingni since graduating from university, starting as an engineer and is currently a supervisor in the quality department."

It's him.

Lin Haoran had a goal again.

Since there is no clue, just have a good chat with these old hands of Qingzhou Yingni. They must know a lot about the company. Halil Centurion should not bribe these middle-level managers to be his confidants, because there is no need for this.

After writing down the contact numbers of Liu Zhenxing and Burton, Lin Haoran took all the information back to the Human Resources Department.

For him, the goal has been achieved and the information is not needed for the time being.

Let’s take our time with the Qingzhou Yingni project.

In the afternoon, Lin Haoran left Qingzhou Yingni Company.

I will discuss cooperation with Liu Luanxiong tonight. There is no rush for the matter in Qingzhou Yingni.

Back at Huanyu Investment Company, Lin Haoran took a look at today's trading situation.

The speed of absorption today was not as fast as last Friday, but it was not much slower. His Qingzhou Yingni shares increased by another 86.7 shares.

Time soon came to night.

At around 19:, Liu Luanxiong hurriedly appeared on the th floor of Hengfeng Building.

Soon he found today's target, Huanyu Investment Company.

Accustomed to working in a factory, Liu Luanxiong was immediately envious when he suddenly came to such a place with so many talented people.

"I wonder when I can have my own office in these areas?" Liu Luanxiong thought secretly.

This weekend, he took advantage of his free time and found the Friday edition of the Hong Kong Business Daily.

Sure enough, there was an announcement that Lin Haoran would serve as the vice chairman of Qingzhou Yingni.

After confirming this information, Liu Luanxiong was even more looking forward to cooperating with Lin Haoran.

Although his Liu family was also wealthy, his family had never provided him with any financial assistance, not even his father.

Therefore, Liu Luanxiong is really short of money now!
Even most of the capital for starting a business was borrowed.

"Mr. Liu, come and sit down." Seeing Liu Luanxiong coming over, Lin Haoran pointed to the sofa next to the floor-to-ceiling window and said with a smile.

This has become a rest area for the company. Employees can sit here during their breaks and overlook most of Hong Kong city center through the large floor-to-ceiling windows.

Liu Luanxiong observed the environment here, especially the night view of Victoria Harbour outside the window, and became even more envious.

Today, Liu Luanxiong specially changed into a suit before coming here, showing how seriously he takes this matter.

"Hello, Mr. Lin." Liu Luanxiong seemed very calm.

"Mr. Liu, has your friend changed his mind?" Lin Haoran asked, sitting opposite Liu Luanxiong.

"Mr. Lin, last weekend, I have discussed this matter with my friend many times. He believes that if we add another shareholder, the profits will be indirectly divided up. In addition, sufficient capital investment will greatly dilute our equity. That's why he has been opposing it and I can't convince him." Liu Luanxiong said helplessly.

Lin Haoran nodded. What he valued was Liu Luanxiong, not his partner. As long as Liu Luanxiong agreed, it would be enough.

Even though his partner strongly opposed it, he still came to negotiate with him tonight, which shows that he prefers to cooperate with Lin Haoran.

"There's no rush for cooperation. Let's talk about other things first. Mr. Liu, what do you think of the current prospects of the fan market?" Lin Haoran asked with a smile.

"Mr. Lin, to be honest, my Liu family business started out mainly in fan manufacturing. My father currently runs the Youlian Yueji Ceiling Fan Factory, which is one of the best fan manufacturing companies in Hong Kong. In recent years, its turnover has reached hundreds of millions of Hong Kong dollars, so I am very familiar with the fan industry.

After returning from studying in Canada, I worked in the family business for four years. I had a lot of ideas about this industry, but in the family I was just a junior and had no right to speak. Every time I put forward an opinion, it was not recognized by the elders.

This is also the reason why I left the family business and started my own business, establishing AMG.

Everyone knows that the weather in the Middle East is hot and there is a great demand for electric fans, so there is no worry about sales. For this reason, fan factories in Hong Kong and even in Japan almost all sell mainly to countries in the Middle East.

But this also obviously has a disadvantage, that is, the competition is too fierce, resulting in very low profits and very limited development potential. For example, my family business, Youlian Yueji Ceiling Fan Factory, has annual sales of up to hundreds of millions of Hong Kong dollars, but the final profit is only a few tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars.

I studied in Canada for four years and I know that the North American market has great potential, especially the American market. Few fan merchants are pushing that market. It is precisely because places that everyone avoids often contain unexpected gold mines.

My father disagreed with my ideas, so we had a big fight, and finally I left the family business without any help from my father.

I founded Aimego earlier this year, and within just one year, I have proven my idea and I have so many orders that I can hardly keep up with them. If it were not for the lack of funds, I would have already received even more orders.

If Mr. Lin wants to cooperate with me to invest in the fan industry, he must agree with my ideas. Otherwise, even though I am short of money now, our cooperation may not be successful. "

Liu Luanxiong talked about his unique insights into the fan market.

Lin Haoran nodded. He naturally knew how profitable the fan industry in North America had been in the past two or three years, otherwise he would have had no intention of cooperating with Liu Luanxiong.

He himself knew nothing about the fan industry, while Liu Luanxiong could be considered an expert in this area.

He has money, Liu Luanxiong has experience and has keen market insight into the fan industry. It is hard not to make a fortune from the cooperation between the two.

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