Rebirth of England.

Chapter 673 Cruel people
Barron did not stay in Japan for too long. On the third day, he flew to Hong Kong, China again.

In Hong Kong, Barron stayed at the newly opened Devonshire Hotel - Hong Kong itself has the Four Seasons Hotel Group, but according to the plan of the Four Seasons Cavendish Hotel Group, they will open or acquire more than 10 hotels around the world within 80 years, implementing the "10-20-50" strategy, that is, adding 10 Devonshire luxury hotels, 20 Four Seasons high-end hotels and 50 Cavendish luxury hotels.

The main growth will be in Asia, with the focus being on the Chinese region where emerging wealth will gather at an accelerated pace.

One of the luxury hotels, Devonshire, is located in Hong Kong, the financial center of Asia.

This time, Barron came to HK mainly to inspect some of his industries and provide support for some of them. Therefore, his trip was very low-key. Not only would he not have any contact with the authorities, but he also rejected all private banquets from local tycoons.

After all, as a British Duke, his identity is somewhat sensitive when he comes to Hong Kong, China. I believe that there must be many people who will pay attention to his visit.

"We have set up the headquarters of AIA in Hong Kong to express our intention to continue to develop the Asian market with AIA as the main focus, and we will provide our utmost support for this."

As soon as he arrived in Hong Kong, Barron met with Arthur Enriquez, CEO of AIA Group, and expressed his support for him.

After the AIA Insurance Group acquired AIA from the American International Group, it still retained AIA as an independent company. Now the headquarters of AIA has been moved from the United States to Hong Kong. In fact, the headquarters of AIA was in Hong Kong before, but the headquarters of their parent company, American AIA Life Insurance Company, is in the United States...

This also shows that as a wholly-owned subsidiary of AIA Group, AIA's main market is the entire Asian region radiating from Hong Kong.

In the future, they will use the AIA brand to conduct business in emerging markets such as Asia, and continue to use the original AIA brand to conduct business in the European market.

However, in comparison, the market value of AIA Group, a "subsidiary" of AIA Group, is much greater than that of its parent company.

The reason for this arrangement is that after years of development in Asia, AIA has already had a huge customer base and brand effect, which should not be easily abandoned.

"In the next few years or even decades, Asia, especially China, will be the most promising market for the insurance industry. We, AIA, will also invest in this market. Your Highness, especially in China, we have established AIA China Insurance Company as our branch in China. This will also be our largest branch, and we will work with local partners to develop this market."

It can be seen that Arthur Enriquez still attaches great importance to the Chinese market. Before this, he had just returned from mainland China and led a team to inspect China's insurance industry.

In the previous acquisition, Arthur Henriques stood on the side of Cavendish Trust Fund, that is, Barron's, so after completing the acquisition of AIA, he was retained and continued to serve as CEO of AIA.

The reason for making such a choice is that Arthur Enriquez is optimistic about the investment capabilities of DS Group and Barron. Insurance companies collect premiums and then make payments after the conditions are met. During this period, a large amount of deposited funds will be deposited, and an important part of their profits is the investment profit of these deposited funds.

Investing in partnership with DS Group can ensure that AIA’s funds will have more reliable and substantial returns.

After all, AIA's original parent company, American International Group, was forced to sell them due to huge losses in their investment department.

In comparison, DS Group has achieved great success not only during the subprime mortgage crisis, but also in its investments after its establishment.

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After arriving in Hong Kong, Barron, as he had said before, gave his personal assistant Janine Chang two days off - her parents also came to Hong Kong from Taiwan to visit her at this time.

After all, since she became Barron's personal assistant, although she was well paid, Zhang Junning had not had any vacation for quite a long time, let alone going home to visit her parents. Now she has this opportunity to reunite with her family. At this time, he met with a visiting guest in the presidential suite of the hotel.

The visiting guest was the famous Li Chaoren.

In fact, this was not the first time Barron met Li Chaoren. Before, when he was preparing to acquire Standard Chartered Bank, he came to Hong Kong to meet some HK tycoons and bought some shares of Standard Chartered Bank from them. At that time, Barron met with Li Chaoren.

This time after arriving in HK, Barron declined all private invitations, including that from Li Chaoren.

But what he didn't expect was that Li Chaoren failed to invite him to the banquet and came directly to the hotel to meet him.

Speaking of which, Barron has intercepted many of Li Chaoren's projects so far, including Britain's Northern Gas Network and British Power Distribution, which were all projects acquired by Li Chaoren in the original time and space.

Even O2 Telecom's CEO Li Chaoren had thought about acquiring the company, but the acquisition ultimately failed because it did not pass the review of British regulators.

It is obvious that Li Chaoren has not given up his goal of investing in England. Barron can also see what he means from his conversation.

This is no wonder. Although Li Chaoren has connections in Britain and has been awarded a title by the Queen, he understands that Barron, the Duke of England, has a great influence in Britain. If he can establish a good relationship with him and gain his support, it will also be beneficial to his series of acquisitions in Britain.

So making money is not shameful, so it is no surprise that Asia's richest man came to the Devonshire Hotel to meet Barron in person.

And if we talk about his wealth, although Barron is younger than Li Ka-shing's youngest son, he can still rank third on the world's rich list this year.

"I very much welcome you to come to the UK to invest, Sir. Especially at this moment, the economic crisis has not yet passed, and the world is likely to fall into a long-term recession. Any investment is worth welcoming..."

Barron didn't really like talking to an old fox like Li Chaoren. After all, he always spoke in a roundabout way, which was really unpleasant.

More importantly, if he follows the Chinese custom, Barron should always be modest in the face of Li Chaoren's flattery...

But his current wealth and status, compared with his youth, seem to be a roundabout way of showing off no matter how humble he is.

Well, Barron can only congratulate Superman Li on having a grandson...

The thing is, the hottest news in Hong Kong recently is nothing more than the "scandal" between actress Liang Luoshi and Li Chaoren's second son, Little Chaoren. Of course, it is no longer just a scandal now, because the media directly published photos of Little Chaoren's "family of three" - at the end of April, Liang Luoshi gave birth to a son for Little Chaoren in Canada...

Li Chaoren was so delighted that he personally named his grandson "Changzhi"...

However, Barron knew that Liang Luoshi was also a ruthless person. In order to marry into a wealthy family, she gave birth to a son for Xiao Chaoren when she had no official status, and then gave Xiao Chaoren three sons in a row. Even before Barron was reborn, news began to come out that Liang Luoshi was pregnant with her fourth child...

Of course, she did not lose out. Although she did not marry into the Li family in the end, she at least took away more than 5 million yuan in alimony from the Li family, and her sons all had the right of inheritance...

(End of this chapter)