Rebirth 1980: Marrying my sister’s best friend at the beginning

A speechless night!
Li Yi got up early the next morning.

He first exercised in the villa with Zhang Ziqiang and Yang Zhiwen for more than an hour before starting his day's work.

Since the management of Xingchen Investment Company had been notified that there would be a meeting in the morning, after breakfast, Li Yi left Genting One under the protection of Zhang Ziqiang and others and went straight to the company.

When Li Yi and others arrived at the Xingchen Building on the racecourse, it was already half past eight.

This time was the peak working hours for the company, and all the people I met along the way were employees of Xingchen Company.

Seeing Li Yi, the "missing person", suddenly appear in the company, both new and old employees were surprised and excited, and they all greeted him.

The employees reacted in this way not only because Li Yi was their boss, but more importantly, Li Yi was a legend in the Hong Kong investment community.

As some of his investment cases in the first two years were disclosed, everyone in the industry was stunned by his magical operations. Many people looked back at Li Yi's investment actions and were surprised to find that every step he took was stuck at a critical point. One wrong step would lead to an abyss.

But he made the right choices every step of the way, turning the impossible into possible and becoming a legend in the industry.

Furthermore, every time the big boss Li Yi appears, it means that the company may start a new round of investment activities, which is good news for the employees of Xingchen Company.

After all, every time the company makes significant profits in the market, it will reward its employees.

For example, last year, within just one year, the company awarded employees four times, and each time the company paid at least one or two months' extra salary.

This is just an ordinary employee. As for the elites in the investment department and the marketing department, not only are their bonuses incredibly high, some people even received a one-time bonus of 100 million Hong Kong dollars, and they even got a share of houses.

According to the information released by the company at a recent staff meeting, the total bonus paid out by the entire Star Investment Company last year was as high as HK$1.25 million, plus 224 houses, including some thousand-square-foot luxury homes.

So, when the employees saw Li Yi again, they not only saw their idol, but also saw the God of Wealth. How could they not be happy and excited?

As employees spread the word, the news that the boss was coming to the company headquarters spread quickly throughout the entire Star Investment Company.

Seeing the employees' reactions, Li Yi was in a good mood.

He walked upstairs with light steps. He planned to sort out some things in the office first, then talk with several executives of the company to understand some of the situation, and then go to the meeting.

As soon as I arrived at the office door, I saw that it was ajar, and I could faintly hear the sounds of talking and laughing coming from inside.

In addition, Tieying was standing outside the door with two of Lao Huang's confidants.

Seeing Li Yi coming, Tieying and others immediately stepped forward to say hello, but were stopped by Li Yi.

Then, Li Yi pushed open the office door.

In the room, Lan Xinming was wiping the table with a rag, while Huang Lixing was mopping the floor with a mop. Judging from their actions, they were clearly cleaning the office.

"What are you doing? How come a vice president and a general manager are doing cleaning work?" Li Yi asked with a smile.

Huang Lixing immediately said with a smile: "No one has come to your office for several months. How can we work without cleaning it? And not just anyone can come in here, so Mingzi and I discussed it and came together to help you clean it up!"

Li Yi smiled and said, "Okay, stop working on it, this job is not suitable for you, let's give it to someone else!"

Huang Lixing smiled and said, "We just cleaned up briefly, but it turned out to be so tiring!"

Li Yi smiled, then asked Lan Xinming: "Have you informed everyone about the meeting?"

Lan Xinming immediately said: "I have already notified them, the time is set at 10 o'clock."

"Okay, but I haven't been in the company for a while, so I don't know much about some things. Call Pang Feiyan and Zhao Xinlan over first. I need to talk to them about something!" Li Yi said.

After saying that, Lan Xinming turned and walked out of the office.

A few minutes later, Pang Feiyan, head of the investment department, and Zhao Xinlan, head of finance, came over with Lan Xinming.

After a brief greeting, Li Yi asked several people to sit down on the sofa in the office.

Then, he looked at Lan Xinming and said, "Old Huang briefly told me about the company's situation yesterday, but he only talked about some important things, so I'm still not very clear about the company's overall situation. Take this opportunity to tell me about the company's current situation, including profits, assets, number of employees, etc!"

Lan Xinming was obviously well prepared. When he heard Li Yi's question, he answered directly: "Mr. Li, as of March this year, our Xingchen Investment Company has 11 wholly-owned or holding companies, including the mainland branch, Hang Seng Bank, Shield Security Company, and real estate company. It also owns shares of 276 listed companies on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and a large number of real estate properties. The total number of employees is 7.4, the company's total assets are HK$3386 billion, and the annual profit is HK$1657 billion."

After listening to Lan Xinming's report, Li Yi nodded with satisfaction.

With an asset size of over 300 billion Hong Kong dollars, not only in Hong Kong Island, but even in the world, there are not many companies that can surpass Star Investment Company.

Take the New York stock market as an example. Before the 81 stock market crash, the company with the highest market value in the New York Stock Exchange was IBM. At its peak, the company's market value reached 396 billion US dollars. The second was AT&T, with a market value of 356.8 billion US dollars.

Next are the oil companies that are in their heyday. They occupy many of the top ten positions in the S&P market capitalization, but their market capitalizations are all around US$300 billion.

It can be said that the assets of Star Investment Company currently rank at least among the top ten in the world.

Of course, this only refers to the book assets of Xingchen Investment Company, and does not include the personal assets of Li Yi and Huang Lixing.

If you really count all these, Li Yi's personal assets alone are more than this.

After all, the market value of Sheffield Steel alone is more than 120 billion pounds, equivalent to nearly 170 billion US dollars, not to mention that Li Yi also has a New Territory Warehouse that belongs entirely to him. He also owns 30% of the shares of Green Brothers and a large number of stocks in various major companies of Thief Eagle.

Thinking of this, Li Yi immediately turned to look at Zhao Xinlan and said, "Yesterday I heard from Mr. Huang that the rumors that have been circulating recently have had a significant impact on the company. Many people have chosen to terminate their cooperation with our company. What is the company's current financial situation?"

Zhao Xinlan immediately said: "It is true that many customers chose to cancel their contracts, resulting in a large outflow of funds from the company, but the company's overall financial situation is running well."

"The company currently has HK$1366 billion in funds on its books, of which HK$468 billion is its own funds, and the rest all belongs to Dahai Private Equity."

Before he finished speaking, Li Yi frowned and said, "That's not much!"

1366 billion Hong Kong dollars may sound like a lot, but when converted into US dollars it is only about 140 billion US dollars. Obviously this does not meet Li Yi's psychological expectations.

You have to know that the next investment action will require a lot of funds, and this little money cannot harvest many high-quality assets of the British Empire.

"Mr. Li, the company just settled the principal and interest for investors two months ago, and also calculated dividends for you and Mr. Huang, which led to a sharp drop in the company's book funds." Zhao Xinlan explained.

Li Yi nodded and said, "I know the reason, but the scale of Dahai Private Equity has shrunk quite a bit. Forget it, let's not talk about this. Is my personal dividend actually in the company's account or transferred to my personal account?"

"It has been transferred to your personal account!" said Zhao Xinlan.

"Then how much money is currently in my personal account?" Li Yi asked again.

"There are HK$1262 billion, US$84 billion, and 6.3 million pounds, of which HK$825 billion is last year's shareholder dividends!"

After hearing Zhao Xinlan's report, everyone in the office was stunned.

Huang Lixing was even more shocked and said: "With so much money, does that mean Brother Li Yi is already the richest man in the world?"

As soon as these words came out, everyone's attention was focused on Li Yi again.
(End of this chapter)