in2ebook Chapter 295 The Third Master of the Le Family
Chapter 295 The Third Master of the Le Family
Lu Yongqiang was just being polite and hadn't thought about leaving his phone number to these two beauties. But after Long Wei said that, Lu Yongqiang couldn't refuse, so he simply took the initiative to leave his personal business card for the two of them.
He didn't stay in the crew for long. He walked around the crew, stayed for lunch, and then left.
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"Uncle San, you're a very busy man. How come you have the leisure to go fishing with me today?"
As he spoke, Lu Yongqiang took out a cigar and handed one to Mr. Le Sanye.
It has been a while since Lu Yongqiang had a relationship with Le Huizhen. He has never met Le Huizhen's parents, but he does deal with the third master of the Le family from time to time. He used to call him Third Master, but after they got to know each other, he began to follow Le Huizhen and call him Third Uncle.
Mr. Le Sanye took the cigar that Lu Yongqiang handed him and said, "You said I was a busy man? I think you are the busy man. I asked you to play golf or go horseback riding several times, but when did you go?"
Lu Yongqiang said, "Uncle San, I don't know how to play golf or ride a horse. Wouldn't it be embarrassing for you if I went there?"
In fact, Lu Yongqiang can play golf and ride horses. Although he is not an expert in these two areas, it is not embarrassing.
Mr. Le Sanye invited him, but Lu Yongqiang didn't go because of other reasons.
Although the Le family is a prominent family in Hong Kong, their real rise began with Grandpa Le Huizhen.
They had always been a family of scholars, but they couldn't really be said to be very rich. They only became truly prosperous from the generation of Le Huizhen's grandfather. The Le family initially engaged in international trade and gradually developed into the current Le International Investment Group, with the company's industries spanning multiple industries.
The Le family is considered a big family in Hong Kong City. In Grandpa Le's generation, there were seven brothers. By the generation of Le Huizhen's father, there were more than 20 brothers and sisters. By Le Huizhen's generation, there were more than 50 brothers and sisters.
Although the Le Group was founded by Le Huizhen’s grandfather, he only holds 40% of the company’s shares, and 60% of the shares are in the hands of his six brothers.
Now the old man has long retired to the second line, and the chairman of the company is Uncle Le Huizhen.
In Le Huizhen's father's generation, all his cousins combined numbered over twenty, but on Le's side, there were only three brothers. Le Huizhen's father was the second oldest, and although he worked at the company, he had little control over the business. The current chairman of Le's Group is Le Huizhen's uncle.
Uncle Le Huizhen has three children. The second child is considered the smartest among the three siblings, but he is not interested in managing a company, but in being a doctor. He went abroad to study in college and then stayed in the United States to work as a doctor. He may not return to Hong Kong City once a year.
The third child is a daughter who works at a TV station. She is now married. Her husband is a police officer and has reached the rank of senior inspector, which is considered a good development for her.
Le Huizhen's eldest cousin works in a company and studied corporate management. He is now the general manager of an investment branch. However, the reason he can hold such a high position is not because of his ability, but because of his family background. Le Huizhen's eldest cousin's ability can only be considered okay.
It seems that Mr. Le Sanye had too much fun when he was young, which caused health problems. He had several women, but none of them ended up bearing fruit, and he still doesn't have a child.
Le Huizhen's father has a son and a daughter, but the son was born in his old age and is only twelve years old now, so he can basically not be relied upon.
Le Huizhen's eldest cousin's ability is acceptable. He is only in charge of a branch company, which is enough. However, he seems a little inadequate to be in charge of Le's Group with assets worth tens of billions, especially when there are many competitors of the same generation, which makes him seem a little mediocre.
In Le Huizhen's generation, the Le family had several people with outstanding abilities.
The most outstanding one among them relied on the resources of the Le family and started his own business. Now this person's company has assets of nearly 1 billion yuan. Compared with this person, Le Huizhen's cousin is far behind.
As this person's development is getting better and better, some of the elders in the Le family have spoken up for him, saying that he is the leader among the younger generation of the Le family and should take over the Le Group.
If the situation is allowed to develop further, the Le Group may really have to change hands and be managed by a branch in the future.
Although everyone has the surname Le, there are differences in closeness. Mr. Le Sanye naturally does not want his father's life's work to fall into the hands of others.
Over the years, Mr. Le Sanye has been planning for his nephew. Many of the projects his nephew has been responsible for over the years have been directed by Mr. Le Sanye behind the scenes.
With this gentleman's secret guidance, these projects were basically profitable, which is why he was appointed as the general manager of the branch.
After Le Huizhen had a relationship with Lu Yongqiang, Mr. Le Sanye took a fancy to Lu Yongqiang's ability to make money and introduced Lu Yongqiang to Le Huizhen's eldest cousin Le Jiajun.
Le Sanye wanted Lu Yongqiang to make money with Le Jiajun. As for the food city project, Le Sanye had already discussed it with Lu Yongqiang from the beginning. Le'an Investment Company, headed by Le Jiajun, would invest 500 million yuan, and the two parties would cooperate in this project.
For the sake of Le Huizhen, Lu Yongqiang did not refuse, but Lu Yongqiang was willing to give up 40% of the shares at most. However, no one knew what Le Jiajun, the young master, was thinking and insisted on 60%.
The two sides negotiated several times, and later Lu Yongqiang made another concession and agreed to give up 45% of the shares. Unexpectedly, Le Jiajun still refused.
It was obvious that the project could make money, but Lu Yongqiang was too lazy to argue with Le Jiajun, so he gave up the cooperation and went it alone.
After deceiving Chen Yao that time, the society finally did not invest in the Food City project because of Jiang Tiansheng.
But afterwards, Lu Yongqiang thought about it and established the Juhaochi catering branch. He then borrowed 500 million yuan from HSBC in the name of the catering branch, and immediately started another round of expansion. Now there are 14 food cities under the name of the catering branch.
As the real estate prices in Hong Kong continue to rise and the business of the fourteen food courts is very good, the valuation of Lu Yongqiang's catering branch is also getting higher and higher.
Young Master Le Jiajun now regrets that he is planning to invest in this catering company at this time.
Lu Yongqiang felt that Le Jiajun, the eldest son, had a stubborn personality. In addition, whenever he met with Lu Yongqiang, he always acted superior, which made Lu Yongqiang particularly unhappy. So he always ignored this young master.
Mr. Le Sanye has been asking Lu Yongqiang to meet him recently, and it is obvious that it is for this matter, which is why Lu Yongqiang has been making excuses to refuse.
After refusing several times, this time, Master Le San asked Lu Yongqiang to go fishing with him and also called Le Huizhen. Lu Yongqiang had no choice but to meet with Master Le San.
After Lu Yongqiang finished speaking, Third Master Le did not expose Lu Yongqiang's words, but instead said, "Aqiang, have you heard that Wang Baiwan of Wang's Real Estate is planning to invest 2 billion to build a high-end food city?"
Lu Yongqiang nodded and said, "That guy was so eager to keep it a secret that he invited dozens of reporters to a press conference. It was so high-profile that it was hard for me not to know."
Wang Baiwan, the wealthy man in the TV series "Fight Back to School 3", Lu Yongqiang has met this man several times and he is indeed a pervert.
When he first met this man, Lu Yongqiang was so bored that he asked someone to check to see if there was an officer Zhou who looked exactly like him on the police side.
Unexpectedly, there really is one. Except that Officer Zhou doesn't have the mole on his face, the two are almost exactly the same.
Lu Yongqiang was also extremely curious, and he actually found a way to get the hair of the two people and did a DNA test on them.
The result made Lu Yongqiang a little disappointed, as the two were not related by blood.
After Lu Yongqiang finished speaking, Third Master Le said, "Aqiang, Wang Baiwan is clearly coming for your Food City this time. Don't you have any ideas?"
Lu Yongqiang said casually: "It's just normal business competition. What can I think about it? Should I send someone to kill him?
Besides, even if I kill him, it's useless. Although this guy is rich, can his company come up with 2 billion? This guy is obviously someone else's person to test my reaction. Why should I bother with him! "
Third Master Le had not expected Lu Yongqiang to say that. After Lu Yongqiang finished speaking, he was obviously stunned. He was stunned for a long time before he said, "Aqiang, although you don't have to send someone to kill him, you can't just do nothing, right?"
"Once Wang Baiwan's food city opens, it will definitely affect the business of your stores. This will affect the valuation of your catering company, which will not be conducive to your company's future listing."
Lu Yongqiang shook his head and said, "Uncle San, even if my catering company wants to go public, it's not the time to do so now.
The reason why my company is valued so highly now is that housing prices have been rising. As for housing prices in Gangcheng, it is impossible for them to continue to rise like this. Maybe in a few years, housing prices will experience a serious drop.
The risk of listing the company now and then when housing prices fall is too great, and I don't need to take that risk. Therefore, I have no plans to list the catering company in the short term.
Since the company won't be going public in the short term, Wang Baiwan's opening of a food court won't have much of an impact on me. It will at most affect the business at my store. As for the company's valuation dropping, that won't affect me either."
After hearing what Lu Yongqiang said, Third Master Le said, "Aqiang, everyone is optimistic about the future of Gangcheng real estate. How can you predict that Gangcheng housing prices will plummet in a few years? What is the basis for this prediction?"
Mr. Le's words really stumped Lu Yongqiang. He had no basis for judgment, relying solely on his memories from his past life. Could he tell Mr. Le that he knew this in his past life...
Lu Yongqiang thought for a while and said, "I don't have any basis for judgment, I just think the housing prices in Gangcheng are unreasonably high.
The average monthly salary in Hong Kong is less than 10,000 yuan per person now, and the average person only earns 4,000 to 5,000 yuan per month. With such a small salary, an ordinary family may not be able to afford a house even if they work for a lifetime.
If prices continue to rise like this, fewer and fewer people will be able to afford houses. One day, house prices will be so high that no one can afford them, and then they will definitely fall sharply.
Anyway, I have made up my mind that after two years, I will sell some of the properties I have and then go to the north to invest."