In the afternoon, I played ball with several chaebol leaders, and in the evening, there was a reception for hundreds of people.

He carefully selected the top figures in various fields such as politics, media, entertainment, and technology in South Korea, and a group of chaebol leaders also attended the event again. However, among the guests of more than 600 people, in addition to the chaebol masters who have worked, what Simon cares most was the chess pieces that have been continuously laid in various circles of South Korea's political and business over the past one or two years.

Cui Yanxu, Zheng Shoudong, Zong Zhenghao, Zheng Sang-won, Guan Si-won, Quan Zhengting, Shin Zailun, Lin Kui-heng, etc.

These talents are the fundamental reason why Simon can control South Korea's political and economic levels, because the foundation of Westeros system in South Korea is not absolutely solid. In order to avoid potential targeting of these people after being marked, this time they do not plan to meet one by one, so they just gather together and deliberately make the scene bigger, which is a concealment.

Actually, there is no need to talk too much.

Simon has already finalized the general direction. As long as the chess pieces perform their own duties, South Korea's political and economic lifeline cannot escape the control of the Westeros system. Therefore, such a grand cocktail party, beating, rewards, comfort, etc., is more about Simon showing his potential control over the country.

When Lin Guili held her father, Lin Kuixian, who was the deputy director of the Finance Department, walked through the crowd to find a man, Simon was also listening to people around her discussing the development of shipbuilding and sea operations.

Finally, he explained softly that the father and daughter stepped forward, saying that they had experienced many tests of ability and loyalty in the past year and were finally arranged by Simon to enter the shipbuilding business of Hyundai Heavy Industry. The Westeros system did not participate in Hyundai's core automobile business. However, in the past year, Simon not only took away Hyundai's electronic business, but also locked in the early aspects of heavy industry, construction, sea transportation, etc., the modern chaebol has been penetrated by the Westeros system.

Lin Kui-heon was the president of Hanna Shipbuilding under another consortium in South Korea. After Hanna collapsed, Hanna's shipbuilding business was eventually annexed by Hanjin's consortium, which was also within Lin Kui-heon's attention.

Through his daughter's relationship, Lin Kuixian also knows more.

Not only Hyundai, but also Samsung, the top five giants, including Han Jin and Sanmei, have also been more or less incorporated by the Westeros system in the past year's integration tide.

In short, we can imagine Simon Westeros attaches importance to shipbuilding and maritime transportation.

It just so happened that everyone was discussing related topics at this time, which made Lin Kuixian even more excited. This middle-aged man, who was over 50 years old, was nervous when he thought of the opportunity to meet a young super tycoon tonight, and was worried that he would be taken away from his position as the deputy director of the Finance Department.

Now, since I have been working on shipbuilding for most of my life, at least the topic will not be stuck here.

In addition, remember what my daughter just reminded me.

Talk about China.

Simon Westeros is very optimistic about China. If you talk a few more words, you will definitely not be wrong.

Seeing Lin Guili and his daughter approaching, a girl was also a sensible figure in the circle since this year. Everyone paused the conversation and introduced each other.

Lin's father seemed very bored when shaking hands with Simon. He bent down and his head was almost pressed against the back of his hands. He looked at his daughter a little helpless. Fortunately, there was nothing unusual about the people around him on the surface, and he even sighed secretly that perhaps this was why Lin Kuixian could suddenly climb to the high position of the Finance Department, and even the daughter of the Lin family could have her current status.

In today's Korea, no matter how hard it is to curry favor with Simon Westeros, it will never be done.

Simon smiled politely, waited for Lin Kuixian to let go of himself, and looked at the other party and said, "Mr. Lin, you happened to be responsible for Hanna's shipbuilding affairs. What do you think about the current industrial status?"

Simon spoke English, and Lin Kuixian could only give a simple greeting. Fortunately, he had a daughter around him instantly translated. Thinking about the words he heard when he just approached, he sorted out a little and said: "I am very optimistic about the development prospects of the shipbuilding industry. The United States has been promoting globalization. The global economic division of labor is an inevitable trend, which represents the continued increase in global maritime throughput. However, I am reserved for President Zheng's counter-cyclical investment strategy just now."

Throughout the 1990s, global maritime throughput was increasing rapidly. Correspondingly, various types of cargo ships from major maritime giants continued to be launched like dumplings.

This growth momentum was not abruptly until the outbreak of the economic crisis last year, but it also shrank sharply.

Under such a background, Zheng Xiangyuan, who was arranged by Simon to be responsible for modern shipbuilding business, proposed a counter-cyclical investment plan, which is actually exactly the same as Samsung's famous semiconductor counter-cyclical investment. Taking advantage of the current downturn in the shipbuilding and sea operations industry, it invested heavily to wait for the industry to recover.

This is actually a plan with considerable basis.

When it comes to shipbuilding, when investing now, not only is the lowest price, but the construction period of a large cargo ship is two to three years. When it is launched, the industry is likely to fall into a downturn. This not only allows the shipbuilding field that is deployed in the Westeros system to continue to grow through orders, but also the marine operation industry, which can also gain a first-mover advantage while saving a lot of costs.

You should know that it is currently a critical period for the renewal of large freight ships.

For example, container cargo ships, after the first 8,000-box load sixth-generation container cargo ship developed by Japanese manufacturers in 1996, Hyundai successfully launched a container cargo ship with a load of 10,000-box load.

Not to mention the small container cargo ships that are still in large quantities are still in use, but the fifth-generation 3,000 to 5,000 container cargo ships. In comparison, the average cost per box is 40% to 50% savings for the sixth-generation container. Even if the sixth-generation cargo ship at the 10,000-box level involves the construction of supporting deep-water harbors, it is not difficult to think about how advantages related companies will gain if they are truly implemented.

Everyone just agreed with Zheng Xiangyuan's counter-cyclical investment planning, including Simon, who has already known it and has approved the implementation. The three giants of Hyundai, Samsung and Hanjin, controlled by Westeros system, just received orders for 15 sixth-generation container cargo ships with a total investment of nearly US$700 million some time ago.

In addition, in the next few years, the Westeros system will invest huge amounts of money to build supporting deep-water berths in major seaports in Asia, North America and Europe.

Hearing Lin Kuixian have different opinions, Zheng Xiangyuan and the people in charge of relevant fields present changed slightly, but Simon remained calm and asked with a smile: "Mr. Lin, tell me your reasons."

Because of his professional background, even if he entered the government department, Lin Kuixian has always paid attention to the dynamics in the industry. He also expressed his words and noticed the attitudes of others. He could even imagine the mentality of everyone. Seeing that Simon Westeros did not show his unpleasant views on his own opinions, he breathed a sigh of relief and quickly said: "Mainly, I do not agree with President Zheng's view on the cyclical nature of the sea operation industry. The industry downturn since last year was only affected by the overall environment, and it mainly involved in the shipbuilding field. Everyone is worried about the excess tonnage and has cut their shipbuilding plans one after another. However, the global sea transportation throughput has not decreased. Not only that, I only talk about Asia, because of the general depreciation of currencies in various countries, according to the data in the first three quarters, the sea transportation throughput for the whole year has increased by about 15%, and last year's figure was only 9%.

Everyone is in this circle, and everyone knows the relevant data. Lin Kuixian said this, and everyone nodded. Zheng Xiangyuan said: "Class Lin, what you are talking about is only part of the market area and the global shipping field. Compared with last year, the growth this year is still weak. The shrinkage of the shipbuilding industry is even more obvious. Isn't this a cycle?"

"I just said that this is just a brief slump," Lin Kuixian was not afraid of Zheng Xiangyuan, and said with a smile: "President Zheng, maybe you misunderstood what I mean. I have no intention of not being optimistic about the fields of shipbuilding and shipping. On the contrary, I am very optimistic. I cannot judge in the longer term. However, in my opinion, at least in the next twenty years, the shipbuilding and shipping industries will grow rapidly, and there is no sluggish cycle."

Lin Kuixian explained this, and the expressions of the people around him relaxed. However, Zheng Xiangyuan still asked: "Chief Lin, I didn't expect you to be so optimistic. Is there any basis?"

"It's still what I just said, globalization," Lin Kui-hen said: "The continuous advancement of economic globalization means that, like the domestic highways, railways, and airports of various countries, the maritime transportation industry will be included in important infrastructure fields by major economic countries. Even if there is no clear plan, countries will do this subconsciously. The result is that in order to ensure that under the background of globalization, the smooth completion of goods of hundreds of trillions of trillions of Korean won in various countries will inevitably be over-investment, because compared with the import and export volume of 100 trillion won, even if the maritime transportation industry loses tens of billions of won."

After Lin Kuixian said this, everyone was silent.

After a little consideration, Lin Kuixian's argument is indeed consistent with the facts. The most powerful evidence is the explosive growth of global marine capacity in the past few years. Even though the crisis last year has caused countless shipping companies to reduce the expansion scale, there are still a large number of completed shipping ships that have been continuously launched.

And, Lin Kuixian’s view on the inclusion of maritime transportation industry in important infrastructure.

Compared with the huge throughput of import and export goods, it is indeed better to have nothing than to be too bad. Even if you lose some losses in this regard, it will be enough to easily make up for the massive import and export output value.

After listening to Lin Kuixian's explanation, Simon recognized it very much in his memory, although he was a little confused about Lin Kuixian's currency units that often cost hundreds of trillions of Korean won.

South Korea is really too big.

He complained a little in his heart, and saw that everyone was quite enthusiastic about Lin Kuixian's words, Simon said: "Mr. Lin is very reasonable. You can digest it carefully in private. However, what I want to say is that I am a businessman. Whether it is shipbuilding or shipping, I need to see profits, not sacrifices for the overall situation, and you must understand this."

The middle-aged people around who were generally older than Simon were one or two times older than Simon's tone and heard Simon's tone of seriousness, they quickly restrained their expressions and nodded.

Everyone talked a few more times. When Lin Kuixian remembered her daughter's reminder to turn the topic slightly to China that Simon Westeros loved, a young tycoon had already walked towards the head of the SK Choi family, Cui Tae-won, and his wife.

I can only give up.

However, although there was a little regret, Lin Kuixian was quite satisfied with his performance just now.

After all, it was also considered to have shown his face in front of Simon Westeros.

What's more, compared to others, Lin Kuixian knew that he had other advantages. His daughter could still blow the pillow style beside that man. Perhaps it is not impossible for the next government to go to the next level and to rush to the minister of the Finance and Economics Department.

Of course, Lin Kuixian did not expect to go further.

That location is too conspicuous.

The cocktail party started at 7 o'clock in the evening and lasted at twelve o'clock in the morning. It was five hours. It seemed long, but the number of guests of more than 600 people was that everyone socialized with each other, made connections, and built connections. Before they knew it, time passed quickly.

Five hours are not enough.

As a result, many people stayed until 12 o'clock, and the service team started to clean up the scene, and then left reluctantly.

Simon also had a patient social engagement for five hours.

As for the same sentence, if you don’t want to be undermined, you must do it yourself in terms of network connections. Otherwise, the result is that there are many vassal states in the system and do their own things. Simon seems to have everything, but in fact he has become a statue of a wooden god who is highly offered.

Including the service team of 200 people, more than 800 people have been hustle and bustle in the mountain manor. Many endgames have to be cleaned up, and it is impossible to guarantee whether anyone will secretly hide and not leave, causing unnecessary safety problems. Therefore, Simon also left after 12 o'clock and headed to another property in the mountains in the southern part of Jiangnan District.

The mansion covering an area of ​​less than 1 acre is much smaller than the manor in the mountains of Gyeonggi outside Seoul, and of course it is just relative.

After taking a shower, I walked out of the bathroom with a bathrobe and came to a small living room sofa on the second floor of the villa to sit down. The view here was not good, and I could only see the lights overflowing from Seoul City under the shadow of the shadows of trees.

It was already one o'clock in the morning.

Kim So-min, who had just served Simon in a bath with Lin Guili, also walked in wearing a bathrobe, but it was a thin silk bathrobe that showed off her figure. The girl was holding a tablet in her hand and came close to her. Yingying knelt down on the carpet at the man's feet and placed the opened tablet on the man's lap: "Boss, do you want to pick a girl and send it here?"

The tablet in front of you is naturally not Tinkobaier's black and white iPad series.
Chapter completed!