Reborn as a tycoon in Hong Kong

"Alan!"

"Claude, Abigail, you two are here!"

Lin Baicheng greeted the two people who arrived. Because of the cooperation with Liberty Broadcasting Company, he and Abigail Johnson were familiar friends. They no longer addressed each other as Mr. and Miss, but directly called each other by their first names.

Phil Smith said: "You two are here, I'm just waiting for you."

"There is no way for girls to put on makeup."

Claure Rockefeller glanced at Abigail Johnson while speaking and shrugged helplessly.

Claure Rockefeller and Abigail Johnson were more than ten years apart. The reason why they came together was because Abigail Johnson's father asked Claude Rockefeller to take more care of his daughter Abigail. ·Johnson, Claure Rockefeller naturally did not dare to neglect.

"Abigail is a beauty without makeup."

Lin Baicheng looked at Abigail Johnson and said, he was telling the truth, Abigail Johnson is indeed a beautiful woman, a standard blond white girl, with as much bulge as she should have, and as much curl as she should have.

However, Abigail Johnson is beautiful, and her identity determines that Lin Baicheng will not provoke her. Otherwise, if he does not want to be responsible, business in the United States may be seriously affected.

With Lin Baicheng's wealth, if something really happened to Abigail Johnson, the Johnson family would definitely use this matter to make a fuss about Lin Baicheng's industry.

Lin Baicheng will definitely not be able to accept it. In this case, there will definitely be a struggle between the two sides. This is the United States. With the strength and connections of the Johnson family, Lin Baicheng may not be able to fight against the Johnson family. After all, the other party can sway people.

Of course, if Reagan succeeds in running for president, it will be another matter. As an important supporter of the president's election, Lin Baicheng will definitely be rewarded and protected. At that time, the Johnson family will have to carefully consider whether they can win and whether it is worth it. problem.

"Thanks for the compliment, Allen!"

Facing Lin Baicheng's praise, Abigail Johnson accepted it unceremoniously. Americans do not have the habit of humility.

Logan Rockefeller next to him said: "Let's talk while playing ball."

"Let's chat while we fight." "That's fine."

At that moment, several people started playing golf, and Lin Baicheng's personal secretary Catherine and Barry Diller became caddies.

Barry Diller did not participate in golf, but served Lin Baicheng and others. He is the president of Liberty Broadcasting Company. If he wants to gain the support of other shareholders, he must give something.

Hit a ball.

Lin Baicheng said: "Have you read the documents that Barry sent to you?"

Phil Smith said: "I have seen it. Regarding the TV stations that the company wants to acquire, I think it is necessary for us to make an early decision."

Logan Rockefeller was playing basketball, and Claude Rockefeller said: "I mean the same thing. Although the broadcasting company has been established now, if the company wants to really operate, it still needs a television station."

"If everyone has already made a decision, let's finalize it today." Abigail Johnson said.

"Snapped!"

After swinging the golf ball, Logan Rockefeller looked at the approximate landing point of the golf ball, and then said: "It seems that everyone has the same meaning, and I mean the same thing."

Lin Baicheng said: "We will set the acquisition target first, and let Barry do the specific acquisition work."

"Leave professional matters to professionals."

Everyone has no objection to this. Anyway, everyone sends people to exercise the rights of directors in the company, and even arranges people to become senior executives of the company.

The same is true for Lin Baicheng. He also sent someone to exercise his rights as a director on his behalf. At the same time, he specifically found a headhunting company to recruit several professionals to join the company as senior executives in preparation for reducing his shareholdings and giving up control in the future.

Lin Baicheng wanted to ensure that he had influence over Liberty Broadcasting Company, so he wanted to make sure that he had people among the executives. Otherwise he doesn't have much of a stake in the company, and once Barry Diller stops listening to him, and he doesn't have his people in the executive ranks, he won't be able to influence the broadcaster.

In this way, Lin Baicheng's work was in vain, and the broadcasting company was doing it in vain, just making wedding clothes for others.

Barry Diller looked for several TV stations that the broadcasting company wanted to acquire, and three of them were the best targets, so Lin Baicheng and others chose one of the three.

Because they already had ideas before coming here, Lin Baicheng and others decided not long after which TV station they wanted to acquire. There was no need for them to spend several days discussing this kind of thing.

After talking about business, everyone started chatting while playing ball.

Abigail Johnson asked aloud: "Alan, have you paid attention to this year's election?"

"Abigail, you don't know that Allen supports the Elephant Party."

The one who spoke out was Phil Smith, because he was also a member of the Xiang Party, and it was the Smith family who acted as a middleman to recommend Lin Baicheng to be friends with the Xiang Party.

It seems that the Smith family still has some relationship with Reagan. The Smith family also supports Reagan, but the support is not as strong as Lin Baicheng.

Reagan served as governor of California for eight years and had a strong influence in California. After Lin Baicheng established a relationship with the Elephant Party, or should I say, Reagan, his business in California was never affected again. Any trouble.

It is true that Reagan resigned from California, but he had been governor for eight years and had only left office for five years. It is impossible that he had no influence left at all.

"Allen not only supported the Elephant Party, he also supported Reagan's presidential bid. He was one of Reagan's biggest supporters."

Claure also said that when the Rockefeller family reached this point, they no longer simply supported the Elephant Party or the Donkey Party, but had people from both parties. They didn’t care which party they supported, only the other party. Is it worth the support of the Rockefeller family?

Even if it reaches the level of the Rockefeller family, it still has to participate in the political game. It is true that the United States is a capital country, but if capital is not linked to politics, its influence cannot be fully spread, and it will only become fat in the eyes of others, so other Capital families or consortiums also have to participate in political games.

However, compared with Lin Baicheng or other capital that is not strong enough, the Rockefeller family or other financial groups have more choices. They can choose either the Elephant Party or the Donkey Party, and only support politicians they think can succeed. There is no need to go Care about the politician's party affiliation.

Lin Baicheng would not be able to do it now. If he supports both the Elephant Party and the Donkey Party, he is likely to face joint suppression from both parties, and the two parties will only let him choose one of the two.

"Is that so?"

Abigail Johnson said with some surprise: "Alan, do you think Reagan can win?"

"Well, I'm more optimistic about Reagan, otherwise I wouldn't fully support him."

Lin Baicheng does not deny his political leanings. It would be better if he could win over more supporters for Reagan.

"Alan, don't you think President Carter will be reelected?" Abigail Johnson asked.

"I think that's very unlikely."

Lin Baicheng shook his head: "Just look at the current U.S. economy. If the economy is not good, people's income is not high. I don't think people will let a president who can't make them make money be re-elected."

Reagan is a relatively famous president of the United States. The reason for this is very simple. He developed the U.S. economy even when the U.S. economy was in a bad state. Although the U.S. fiscal deficit was very serious during his tenure, people's wallets were bulging, otherwise Reagan would not have been able to be re-elected as president.

Therefore, even if Lin Baicheng does not know that Reagan will be the future president, he can still judge that the current president is unlikely to be re-elected. Even the Democratic Party where the current president belongs will be subconsciously rejected by the people and want to replace him with a president who resembles the party. It’s about being able to bring about change.

In the eyes of the people, the U.S. economy is already like this. If a Xiang Party president takes office, it will not be worse than it is now, so why not give it a try?

Claure Rockefeller agreed: "Allen is right. My father also believes that President Carter's re-election is unlikely."

Logan Rockefeller said aloud: "Any accident can happen in the presidential election. Although President Carter is currently not favored, accidents often happen like this."

"That's true."

Everyone agrees with this, because this kind of thing has happened more than once in history.

Time passed slowly as everyone chatted.

The weekend passed in the blink of an eye, and on Monday afternoon, Lin Baicheng took a private plane to Los Angeles.

After returning to the villa in Beverly Hills, Lin Baicheng learned that his mother Zhao Huilan had come over.

"Mom, when did you come here? Didn't you tell me in advance that I would send a private plane to pick you up?"

Lin Baicheng only knew that his mother would come to Los Angeles after Qingming Festival to accompany his younger sister Lin Qin, and then go back with her when her younger sister Lin Qin went on vacation in May. At that time, he told his mother to let her know in advance before she came over, and then sent a private plane to pick her up.

Unexpectedly, Mother Lin came over on her own without saying a word.

"I just got here last night."

Mother Lin patted Lin Baicheng's arm: "You don't need to send a private plane to pick me up. Flying in first class is just as comfortable and not tiring at all." She didn't pretend to fly in economy class. With the Lin family's current family situation, there was no need. Save some money on air tickets.

"You should have told me in advance. It's so relaxing to be able to sleep on a private jet after a flight of more than ten hours."

Lin Baicheng was a little helpless, but everyone had already arrived, and it was too late to say this now.

"Next time for sure, next time for sure!"

Mother Lin knew what her son was thinking and didn't want her to suffer, so she responded happily.

"Then don't forget it in the future."

Lin Baicheng reminded him and then said: "Unfortunately, I will be going back to Xiangjiang in two days. I will go to the mainland in a while."

"When I was about to come over, the newspaper in Xiangjiang happened to publish it, saying that the mainland officials invited you and Huo Sheng, Bao Sheng and others to come over. You are now the richest man in Xiangjiang. Many newspapers criticized your position. The other side of the island has blocked all the works of your media group and will not allow them to be released on the other side of the island."

This time is different from the past. In the past, although Lin Baicheng expressed his preference and position of being close to the mainland, the visits were all done in private. However, this time it was a formal invitation from the mainland officials. This time, it was tantamount to taking the mainland's side. There will be changes again.

As a result, some things that had been suppressed before naturally broke out. If Lin Baicheng hadn't made good friends with many important officials in the Hong Kong government, and even Hutchison Whampoa in England was negotiating with Rolls-Royce, what would happen next? Huge investment has been implemented, otherwise Lin Baicheng will definitely face suppression from the Hong Kong government and the British government.

If that were the case, it would have a major impact on Lin Baicheng's business.

"The positions are different. They can criticize as much as they like. Anyway, I won't change my attitude because of this."

Lin Baicheng waved his hand indifferently, and then asked with some confusion: "Mom, the Wandao side only blocked the works of my media group? Didn't they block the artists?"

Mother Lin shook her head: "Probably not. Anyway, I know that there is not. You have to ask your sister or your personal secretary to see if it is true."

"I'll find out when I get back. Since the Secretariat didn't report it to me, it means it's not serious. Just ignore it for the time being and let me have two days of leisure."

Lin Baicheng smiled. He had told the Secretariat that if it was an unexpected and serious incident, the Secretariat would definitely contact him urgently. Otherwise, there was no need to worry too much and it would be better to just relax for a few days.

"Just make sure you know what's going on."

Mother Lin didn't say anything more. Anyway, her son knew more about business than she did and didn't need any advice from her.

"Mom is quite happy about your stance of being close to the mainland. After all, mom is from there. Even though some things happened in the past, it is my roots after all. Your uncle and the others also live there. Your stance If you get close to her, Mom will have the nerve to go back."

“Mom, that’s not just your root, it’s the root of all of us Chinese!”

Lin Baicheng solemnly said that although the social system in the Mainland is far less friendly to businessmen than in Western capital countries, Western capital countries are other people's territory, but the Mainland is its own base and its future support.

Lin Baicheng knew very well that as long as he was based in Xiangjiang, the mainland's social system would not have a great impact on him as a businessman. After all, even if Xiangjiang returned, its system would be different from that of the mainland. At least there would be no need to worry about system changes for decades. The problem.

In this way, Lin Baicheng, with Xiangjiang as its core base, can use the mainland market as its basic base while leveraging the power of the mainland to expand overseas, without having to worry about industrial security in some countries.

After Lin's mother came to Los Angeles, Lin Baicheng stayed in Los Angeles for another two days. He took a private plane back to Hong Kong on Thursday, April 10.

The United States has come to an end for the time being. As long as nothing major happens, Lin Baicheng will not come over in the short term. Even he himself is not sure when he will come over again.