"This is a long story, so let's start from the areas I am familiar with." Alice knew that this was Li Ka-shing's ability to actually observe her. After all, hearing is a rumor after all. The cooperation between the two businessmen and the enterprise group and understanding between people is the most important thing.

"The brand effect of my Silicon Valley industry is very obvious," she said. "Which company has any product, you can see the logo. Microsoft is the winodws system and various application software in the system, Cisco is the router, switch and firewall, and each of Apple's computers also has their icons printed on it. The red buttons on the ibm keyboard are as famous as their work clothes, and they are all clear at a glance."

"A company produces certain types of products regularly, which is the most typical feature of my current industry. Even if it is the Oscar & Hannah, non-professionals cannot directly see anything from the style of clothes, but as long as they see the logo, whether it is sunglasses, shirts, jeans or leather shoes, of course, they are all from my clothing brand."

"But when it comes to industrial fields... that's completely different."

Having said this, Alice finally paused for a moment. Li Zeju, who was on the side, listened silently, while Li Ka-shing nodded thoughtfully and smiled: "I hope to hear it carefully, Alice."

Alice nodded, her fingers wrapped around her, and opened her mouth and said, "Pick up the paper."

As he said that, his finger pointed at the draw paper on the coffee table, and then pointed to the small cabinet in the distance: "Toothpick Box."

Then, all the close-to-ceiling houses were pointed out by her fingers: "Candy, bamboo basket, flower pot, TV shell, pen cap, shoelace, glasses frame."

"The raw materials for these commodities are provided by a certain company, and the factories that produce these commodities are also from a certain company. This is a very large enterprise with a lot of property." The sentence is in the form of examples and praise, but the tone is extremely erratic. Li Ka-shing has guessed Alice's follow-up.

Sure enough, she heard her say, "But who knows? People will only see that this brand of paper is the preferred one, and the logo of this flower pot... I don't know it either. The box of cotton swabs is called Yusheng, and the shoelaces are not marked at all, that is, there is a small name on the glasses frame."

"The raw materials for these products are provided by a certain company, and the manufacturing of these products is done by a certain company, but what people can see is just these unknown...it is just a piece of paper, a flower pot with a logo, a cotton swab, and a shoelace that you don't know."

"Who produced them? No one knows."

"Where does the pulp from the paper come from, where does the wood in front of it come from, who made the polyester of the shoelace, and who made the outer collar of the glasses frame?"

"No one knows."

Alice said bluntly: "No one knows. When people buy computers, they will intuitively see where the Apple computer is; when people buy Coca-Cola, well, Coca-Cola, I bought Coca-Cola; Microsoft will launch the third generation of winodws system in March, and we plan to install the Office series of office software on it, and Internet browser I. The product information of the former can be seen directly in the drop-down menu in the upper left corner of the software, and the latter is the same. In addition, Cisco's router, switch, firewall, Lucent's router, switch, and everyone's logo are also clearly on the shell, so users can see it at a glance when purchasing."

"For most of my companies, as long as users buy them, they will know which company's products are from. But when it comes to the industrial field... these messy shoelaces, glasses frames, ear-clearing spoons, and small scissors, who knows what the hell are they?"

Of course, I already understood it very well. Li Ka-shing was smiling bitterly, and Li Zeju was the same. He killed a cup of tea in one mouthful, and the corners of his mouth were completely grinning: "It makes sense, it does make sense. It is difficult for the industrial industry to know so much unless it is an industry insider."

Li Ka-shing couldn't help laughing: "It seems that Miss Alice doesn't plan to make a fortune in a quiet business, but rather pays special attention to brand value, right?"

"That's true," Alice nodded and said, "Mr. Li, although you and I both started from scratch, their survival backgrounds are different after all. If you make money just to make money, even if you develop a whole business empire, how many people can directly feel its existence? Money, as long as it reaches a certain level, is it just a simple number. People like us who are worth more than one billion, of course, have to pursue a sense of self-existence, right?"

This is indeed reasonable. Both adults couldn't help but nod. While Li Zeju nodded, he couldn't help but grin. He was worth one billion yuan and was in units of US dollars. It would be fine if the speaker was an old businessman who had been through the world for a long time. A 15 or 16-year-old girl, with some technical patents and a stock market crash, would...

"Self-existence, typical American personal heroism." Li Ka-shing pointed out Alice's core thought without comment, and then said: "I understand your fundamental meaning. This is actually a collision of two values. As a traditional Chaozhou businessman, and as a traditional Chinese, I still pay more attention to wealth and serving the people. Our starting points are different, and the accumulation when starting from scratch is different. It is more difficult to speak the same thing."

This statement is even more reasonable, and Alice certainly understands the fundamental reason better. As a simple legendary entrepreneur rather than a reborn person, Li Ka-shing's life is the best portrayal of his era, and it is completely different from her.

In his early years, Li Ka-shing fled to Hong Kong with his family and worked as a salesman in a plastic factory to make a living. After knowing that he had basically met his living needs, accumulated rich sales experience and plastic product production methods, he gradually moved into the field of entrepreneurship.

Furthermore, with the external environment of the right time, place and people, when Hong Kong fell into the dilemma of foreign business withdrawal in the 1970s and the real estate industry was temporarily down, his "natural" real estate investment behavior "took along the way" to lead him to the field of future real estate tycoons.

Then, he started out as a plastic product, but now he has made huge amounts of money from real estate. He continues to engage in areas he is familiar with, which is of course a choice that any normal person will make. Li Ka-shing's idea is undoubtedly the same as many ordinary businessmen, especially Chinese businessmen, who are all of the same nature - find the right opportunity and make money if you have money.

That's all.

Unlike the Chinese businessmen who emphasize personal accomplishment and have personal heroism as the core, who prefer to make money in silence, they often hope that outsiders do not know their identity and try their best to hide their merits and fame.

"It's very good, really good." After hearing Alice's opinion, Li Ka-shing was already satisfied. He waved his hand, Zhuang Yueming, who had been waiting at the door of the living room at some point. Isn't the summary information about the Yangtze River Group in his hand?

"Thank you, aunt." He took one from his wife, but Alice was not in a hurry to read it, because Li Ka-shing's words followed again: "You can take these things back to the hotel and then savor them. Now tell me, how do you want to develop into the industrial field? Start with the power industry?"

"Renovating the network system for Hong Kong Lamp is just Cisco's business." Alice did not look at the information carefully, and after taking it, she put it next to her: "But if Mr. Li is willing to invest $50 million in personal capital, that would of course be excellent."

Hong Kong Lighting is very large and is responsible for power supply in almost the entire Hong Kong. It has a long history and was built as early as 1889, but this does not mean that its total assets will be exaggerated. The funds of 50 million US dollars are not much, and it is still more than enough to account for nearly 10% of the shares.

You should know that the Li family’s Yangtze Infrastructure’s holdings in Hong Kong Lamps is only nearly 40%!

"The power industry is related to the power consumption of thousands of households. This is a very solid infrastructure field, and your choice is very appropriate." Li Ka-shing first expressed his approval, and then asked: "But you have borrowed 500 million yuan from HSBC alone. Alice, if you didn't want to spill them all in this city, you wouldn't have come to it to apply for this loan specifically, right?"

This sentence caused a meaningful laughter from the three people present. Since even Xixi could detect the pig head, how could Li Ka-shing understand this whole routine? Through today's meeting and face-to-face conversation, when he heard the laughter at this moment, he also realized with great satisfaction that the girl in front of him was indeed not comparable to ordinary peers.

"Let's make a deal." Alice said: "Let me first, I have two things I want now. The first is the controlling stake in your Yangtze Infrastructure Company."

A very crazy sentence, and it was extremely abrupt, and her style was completely different from her previous attitude. Even Li Ka-shing, who had been in the mall for a long time, could not help but be stunned by this. Li Zeju's action of holding up the teacup was completely stopped, just staring at Alice, subconsciously trying to hear what she wanted to say.

"Then, Hutchison Whampoa, which you acquired, has a long history, is a large multinational enterprise with a global business, and has a diversified business field. To put it bluntly, I need the thighs of your company to enable me to enter the medical industry."

Two short sentences, but the speed of speaking was not ordinary, Alice once again put on her typical speaking style.

Fortunately, the English level of the Li family was not bad. He slowly put down the teacup. Of course, Li Ka-shing did not veto it, but the scene still couldn't help but fall into silence.
Chapter completed!