Chapter 1281: The role of the consortium becomes apparent

As soon as Xia Yu finished speaking, Li Zhaoji said in high spirits:

"I'll give it a try then!'

'Lao Hu, let me call you,'

said Li Zhaoji, after which he found Hu Yingxiang's number on a piece of paper and started pressing the buttons.

These numbers are easy to remember because they are all special numbers. Xia Yu had specially asked the Hong Kong Telephone Company to come up with them as a small gift to his allies. Special numbers are also considered a symbol of status.

After a while, Hu Yingxiang's mobile phone rang after being dialed.

After pressing to connect, Hu Yingxiang put the phone to his ear and said hello, and the sound immediately came from the receiver to Li Zhaoji's ear.

After a brief exchange of words, Li Zhaoji gave a pertinent comment.

'I can hear you, and the sound is very clear!'

Seeing this, the others also tried it out, and after using it, they all exclaimed in admiration.

'Ah Yu, this mobile phone is so convenient, you can carry it with you everywhere, and if you want to find someone, you just need to make a call. I plan to give it to all the executives below me. When can it be launched on the market? I must be given priority in the supply!'

Bao Yugang finished speaking.

'I want one too, I'll do some calculations later and place an order first!'

'I'll order 500 units!'

Li Zhaoji and the others also spoke up to place their orders.

The members from Southeast Asian countries, on the other hand, looked disappointed.

According to Xia Yu, they could only use the phone in Hong Kong and Macau, and they were not here most of the time, and the company was mostly based locally.

'Unfortunately, Southeast Asia is not yet able to use it for the time being,'

said Qiu Deba regretfully.

Xia Yu smiled and said, 'Don't worry, the Hong Kong Telephone Company is currently negotiating with various countries, and there has been good progress in several countries.'

'I believe we will see results this year.'

He did know that the telecommunications industry in Southeast Asian countries is a mix of state-owned and private enterprises, and it is not monopolised by state-owned enterprises.

The Hong Kong Telephone Company can indeed enter. What's more, it is a mobile signal, which is different from a wired signal network, and it is even more difficult to enter.

'Then I'll wait for good news from the chairman, haha...'

While chatting, the time came to twelve o'clock, and the maid came up to ask if lunch was ready. Xia Yu then took everyone downstairs to eat.

After enjoying a delicious lunch, the group did not disperse immediately, but gathered in groups of two or three to chat and discuss cooperation.

From now on, everyone is in the same trenches, with the same position.

And everyone here is a top-notch boss. If they join forces, it will be beneficial to everyone and accelerate the growth of the entire group.

Xia Yu first negotiated a partnership with Guo Hearnian. Xia Yu's Jiuding Hotel Management Group will merge with Guo Hearnian's Shangri-La Hotel Group to form Jiuding Shangri-La Hotel Group, with the equity ratio divided according to the assets of the two companies.

Judging from the current situation, the assets of the Jiuding Hotel Management Group are much higher than those of the Shangri-La Hotel Group, which was established in 1971, and after the merger, Xia Yu's side will also be in the lead.

For Kuok Hock Nien, although his shareholding has decreased after the merger, there are many benefits in terms of the company's long-term development.

The most obvious one is that unnecessary competition has been reduced. After the merger, the relationship between The Peninsula Hotels, Marco Polo Hotels, Mandarin Oriental and Shangri-La Hotels will change from competition to cooperation.

After banding together, their strength will dominate the entire Southeast Asia, which will accelerate expansion and squeeze the market for other brands.

Then Xia Yu invited Huang Yicong from Indonesia to cooperate on a new project, which was to establish an Asian Paper Company Limited.

The company initially invested 100 million US dollars, with Xia Yu owning 60% of the shares and Huang Yicong owning 40%. The company was managed by Huang Yicong, and contracted to plant fast-growing forests in Southeast Asia, and produce and process pulp and paper.

This future Asian paper tycoon, who would go on to dominate one of the world's top ten paper companies, had not yet set foot in the paper industry at this time, and his strength was far inferior to Xia Yu's. In the face of Xia Yu's invitation, Huang Yicong did not hesitate to agree.

Huang Yicong was from an old plantation family and a large landowner in Indonesia, and Xia Yu was also a wealthy man. The paper products consumed by his own conglomerate were huge, enough to support Asia Paper Limited's start from a very high starting point.

The future of Asia Paper Limited was promising!

...

Finally, Xia Yu called out Xu Huange and Tan Yongzai, who had come from the Philippines, and they came out into the garden.

The gentle sea breeze blew past, giving the three of them a refreshing feeling.

However, Xu Huange and Tan Yongzai were both a little distracted, wondering what Xia Yu had wanted to see them for.

Of the twenty-two people there, they were the only two from the Philippines, and they were not on particularly good terms.

Xu Huange's family was the number one Chinese family in the Philippines.

Chen Yongzai represents the second most powerful Chinese family.

Before coming here, neither of them knew that the other had received an invitation.

But when they arrived today and found out that the other person was also here, they felt a little awkward.

Xu Huange's family is one of the three oldest families in the Philippines, and it is also the only Chinese family among the three families. However, over the years, due to political decline, the Xu family has suffered tremendous pressure, and its development has been difficult.

Xu Huange has a cousin who is the wife of the leader of the Liberal Party of the Philippines, who is the main opponent of the current Philippine dictator Ferdinand.

However, when he returned to the Philippines from the United States last August, he was shot dead in broad daylight at Manila International Airport by soldiers guarded by 5,000 aviation security troops.

This shocked the whole world, and the newspapers under the Nine Ding News Corporation reported on it many times. There were also huge protest marches in the Philippines. Although no evidence has been found so far, there is no doubt that it was the current dictator Ferdinand who did it.

Even now, Xu Huange's cousin's family is still rebelling, but they are relatively low-key. Xia Yu knows that in fact they are secretly plotting to prepare for the next election and try to bring down Ferdinand.

As for Chen Yongzai, he is famous in later generations for his business philosophy of borrowing the wind to sail the boat and borrowing the corpse to return to life.

He is a true self-made man. At the age of 11, he and his uncle went into exile in the Philippines due to a famine, and he worked as an apprentice in a tobacco factory. He then gradually worked his way up to where he is today.

As a self-made man, it is hard to believe that there was nothing behind the scenes that allowed him to grow to this point in the extremely dark Philippines, where terror reigned.

He was able to grow to where he is today largely thanks to Ferdinand, and there were countless deals of power and money involved.

In terms of business, although he is involved in many industries, the one that competes strongly with the Hsu family is the beer industry.

The Hsu family's San Miguel Beer dominates the largest market in the Philippines.

Chen Yongzai's Asia Beer is the second largest beer company in the Philippines.

Therefore, from the political and business standpoints, Hsu and Chen are opposites.

Joining the Southeast Asian consortium is a huge opportunity for both of them.

I just don't know what plans Xia Yu, the leader of the consortium, has for the two of them...