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At nine o'clock in the morning, Lin Haoran went out directly.

His destination was not the headquarters of the Jardine Matheson Group, but the headquarters of Jardine Matheson.

Of course, he had a purpose for coming here.

Since the boss Niu Bijian was retained, it was particularly easy to indirectly control Jardine Matheson.

In the morning, a board meeting was held under the chairmanship of Niu Bijian.

Henry Keswick did not attend this board meeting, but only sent a descendant of the Keswick family to attend the meeting.

After all, everyone knows that the fact that Lin Haoran controls Jardine Matheson with absolutely overwhelming controlling rights cannot be changed.

On the contrary, Shen Bi, the boss of Huifeng Bank, had a smile on his face and chatted with Lin Haoran before the meeting, as if the previous vote to expel Lin Haoran from the board of directors of Jardine Matheson had never happened.

All of this was just a show. An old hand like Shen Bi could act. So could Lin Haoran, who had lived two lives and had seen everything, naturally act as well.

He also seemed to have forgotten the previous unpleasantness between the two sides.

However, Lin Haoran guessed that Shen Bi, the old fox, probably regretted his previous decision now.

Speaking of which, Shen Bi had indeed taken great care of him in the past, and sincerely regarded him as a person like Li Jiacheng to be trained, with the intention of adding a powerful ally.

His calculation was that even if the Hong Kong government was really dominated by the Chinese in the future, the Bank would be able to gain a firm foothold and continue to prosper because of such an ally.

Of course, all this is based on the premise that Huifeng Bank can maintain its dominant position.

However, things are unpredictable. This future ally who was once highly expected has now brought a sense of threat to Huifeng Bank and even far exceeds Huifeng Bank in strength.

No one expected such a reversal.

Therefore, Shen Bi is indeed in a rather embarrassing situation at present.

But as a big shot of this level, even though he was embarrassed inside, he still remained highly calm on the surface.

He is completely different from Niu Bijian. No matter how the environment changes, Shen Bihui's position as the head of Feng Bank remains as solid as ever.

On the other hand, Niu Bijian is now facing the risk of losing his status as a big boss at any time.

This was just a formal board meeting, a formality, because everyone knew that Lin Haoran's entry into Jardine Matheson was an unchangeable fact.

However, as a listed company, if this procedure is not followed, although Lin Haoran can make the announcement himself, it will still be somewhat unjustified.

Once the board meeting started, everything was settled.

After the meeting, Lin Haoran came to the human resources department of Jardine Matheson.

The purpose of his coming here was to find Ma Shiming's contact information.

It is definitely inappropriate for Niu Bijian to be in charge of the Hong Kong Land Group. It is already a great respect for him that Jardine Matheson is temporarily managed by him. As for the new successor to the Hong Kong Land Group, the sooner it is found, the better.

Now that Lin Haoran is the real boss of Jardine Matheson, it is natural for him to obtain Ma Shiming's information very easily.

Through Ma Shiming's information, Lin Haoran gained a deeper understanding of this famous Hutchison Whampoa boss and Li Ka-shing's most important strategist, which made him more certain that finding Ma Shiming to be the boss of the Jardine Matheson Group was the right choice.

In 1966, Ma Shiming joined Jardine Matheson and began his career.

After joining Jardine Matheson, Ma Shiming started from the bottom, doing basic work such as selling air-conditioning systems and elevators.

During his time at Jardine Matheson, he gained experience in many fields, including the sales of wallpaper, nuts, steel, machinery, electrical appliances and other commodities.

Ma Shiming performed very well at Jardine Matheson and gradually gained the company's respect.

In the 70s, he was sent to study at the University of London and Stanford University in the United States, specializing in economics and management courses.

While working at Jardine Matheson, he gradually rose to the position of executive director and became one of the company's top managers.

Ma Shiming has worked at Jardine Matheson for more than ten years. Until this year, he realized that his promotion path seemed to have come to an end and the position of executive director was the highest position he could achieve at present.

What worries him even more is that the current boss Niu Bijian is engaged in a fierce internal struggle with the Keswick family, which undoubtedly indicates that the Keswick family is intending to regain the controlling stake in the boss.

This situation clearly shows that the position of the next head of the Jardine Matheson Board of Directors is firmly controlled by a very small number of people, especially the Keswick family.

In this context, Ma Shiming was very clear that it was almost impossible for him to get further promotion opportunities within Jardine Matheson.

Therefore, he made a decisive choice - he began to think about resigning and starting his own business to seek new development in his personal career.

Having worked in Jardine Matheson for more than ten years, Ma Shiming undoubtedly had a deep affection for the company. However, facing the hopelessness of promotion, he naturally knew that if he wanted to make a breakthrough, perhaps starting his own business was the best way out.

If you study it carefully, you will find that many of the bigwigs of these British financial groups are basically only in their forties or fifties.

In other words, this age is already their peak period.

People like Shen Bi, Niu Bijian, Wei Li, Bao Fuda and even Henry Keswick are all in this age range.

Ma Shiming is now 40 years old. It can be said that the experience he has accumulated in Jardine Matheson for more than ten years is enough to make his business management experience no worse than any big boss in Hong Kong. Unfortunately, he just lacks a good opportunity.

Although they are both executive directors of Jardine Matheson, there are significant differences between Ma Shiming and Bao Fuda in their status and influence in the company.

Bao Fuda has considerable decision-making power in the Hong Kong Land Group and is able to lead many important matters.

However, in the Jardine Matheson environment where Ma Shiming worked, he did not have much say.

This is mainly because the power of the company is mainly in the hands of the head honcho Niu Bijian. Almost all important decisions are made by Niu Bijian, while Ma Shiming plays more of an executor role.

Therefore, from the perspective of power, although both are executive directors, there is indeed a big gap between Ma Sai Ming's position in Jardine Matheson and that of Bowdoin in the Hong Kong Land Group.

This gap is not only reflected in decision-making power, but may also affect their influence within their respective companies and their career development space.

Lin Haoran successfully obtained Ma Shiming's contact information from the Human Resources Department.

"Mr. Lin, as far as I know, Mr. Ma Shiming has already gone to Singapore. I have his contact information in Singapore. This is his current landline number in Singapore." The head of human resources provided the information to Lin Haoran.

After all, Ma Shiming was once a senior executive of Jardine Matheson. Such an important figure had worked in Jardine Matheson for many years. Even though he had left, the company would still keep an eye on him.

In fact, as a former member of the board of directors of Jardine Matheson, Jardine Matheson must have needed to contact him sometimes to connect with some matters left over from Ma Shiming's tenure.

Therefore, it is not surprising that the HR department of Jardine Matheson knows his latest contact information.

In order to get Ma Shiming's contact number, Lin Haoran took a tour around the headquarters of Jardine Matheson and then returned to the office of the former general manager of the Jardine Matheson Group.

After sitting down, Lin Haoran tried to call Ma Shiming.

However, no one answered the phone, and it was obvious that Ma Shiming was not at home at this time.

At this moment, the time is around eleven o'clock in the morning. At this time, Ma Shiming is probably already out doing some errands.

Although he couldn't get through now, Lin Haoran was already prepared in his heart, so he was not disappointed. Anyway, if he couldn't get through now, he could get through tonight.

There was a knock on the door.

"Please come in." Lin Haoran said to the door.

The one who opened the door was Nie Bijian.

"Boss, Mr. Chen Songqing from the Jianing Group called me and wanted to visit me to discuss the joint development project between the Jianing Group and the Hong Kong Land Development in Tsim Sha Tsui. The project involves a capital of nearly HK$30 billion.

But you said that all new projects were suspended, so I couldn't make a decision and rejected him directly. He wants to see you now and hopes to negotiate with you. "As soon as Niu Bijian entered the door, he reported directly to Lin Haoran.

Chen Songqing?
When Lin Haoran heard the name, he couldn't help but feel a little surprised. How come this disaster came to him again?

In another dimension of time and space, Bao Fuda, the general manager of the Jardine Matheson Group, ultimately could not escape the fate of resigning, and Niu Bijian, the boss, was directly driven out of office by the Keswick family. Behind all this, the Carrian Group undoubtedly played a vital role.

If it is said that the Hong Kong Land Group fell into trouble due to its blind expansion, it still has a solid foundation as Hong Kong's number one real estate company. Its properties are spread across Hong Kong's prime locations, so it has great confidence.

However, the blind expansion of the Jianing Group seems even more absurd and unruly.

Starting out as an inconspicuous insecticide company with only a few million Hong Kong dollars in initial capital, in just two or three years, it has transformed itself into a dazzling new star in the Hong Kong real estate industry.

But all this glory was built on fraud and deception. In other words, the Jianing Group actually has no foundation at all.

Each of its projects is like a time bomb, with huge debt risks hidden behind it.

As a result, unexpectedly, the two were mixed up, and in just one or two years, the Carrian Group became almost the most important partner of the Jardine Matheson Group.

The numerous large and small projects they have collaborated on have involved a total amount of up to tens of billions of Hong Kong dollars.

In fact, even if faced with turbulence in the real estate market, relying on the profound foundation of the Swire Properties Group, it would have been able to barely cope with and overcome the difficulties.

Unfortunately, they encountered the scourge of Jianing Group. (End of this chapter)