Chapter 586
Two days later, on the evening of August 1, the Lee House of the Samsvng family was located in Itaewon, Yongsan District, Seoul City.
As the first family in Han Kingdom, the Li family naturally has more than one residence in Shouer.
Among them, the two in Seoul Hannam-dong and Yongsan Itaewon are the two largest and most expensive.
Especially the area in Itaewon is 3422.9 square meters, which is already ridiculously large considering the land area of Hanguo and the land price in Seoul.
Apparently, in Quanhan Kingdom, only the Green House is bigger than this one. The problem is that the Qingzhuang, which is called a residence, is actually the office space of the commander. It is normal to have a large area. After all, it is the face of a country. It is too small and ugly.
Strictly speaking, in the core area where every inch of land is at a premium. Even the commander of the Han Kingdom did not have as much living space as the Li family.
Having said that, although Itaewon is gradually becoming one of the busiest business districts in Seoul, the name and past of this place are really not good.
In the earliest times, before the Japanese Rebellion from 1592 to 1598 AD, the Neon people who invaded the peninsula defiled the nuns in the temples here on a large scale.
The appearance and appearance of a child born to a nun who was brutally tortured and conceived will definitely be different from the pure peninsula child, and will also inevitably suffer from the abuse of other people's eyes.
Therefore, nuns gathered near the Fujun Hall at that time to give birth to children and raise them, so this area was also called the "Alien Hospital".
Behind it, this became the base where the US military was stationed.
The U.S. military knows everything about its urine properties. Even Americans know what they are.
As a result, the name "Alien Hospital" became even more worthy of its name.
It was not until a few years ago that the US military base withdrew from the central area of the capital, leaving only the headquarters and headquarters.
The original Alien Won, now Itaewon, has gradually become one of the most prosperous downtown business districts in Seoul.
Although the name and origin are not very good, the location here is indeed good. Otherwise, the U.S. military headquarters would not be here now, and the military camps would just be evacuated.
The properties and mansions here are naturally very expensive, which is evident from the fact that the Li family only has more than 3,400 square meters of financial resources.
On this day, a grand banquet was held at the Li family's residence here.
It is naturally impossible for ordinary Han people to participate, nor to know about it.
But they are also "involved".
The way they participated was to block all roads leading to Itaewon from the evening until twelve o'clock in the evening. Except for people and vehicles with special "passes", no one else could pass.
On the surface, the Seoul authorities announced that it was because of a gas leak near Itaewon. The authorities and the US military were doing their best to rescue the leak, so ordinary people should not join in the fun and cause trouble to everyone.
In fact, you can guess how many luxury cars with "special passes" are driving into Itaewon one after another.
If it was really dangerous, how could these Shanghai's most prestigious luxury car license plates and their owners dare to go in?
Not to "cause trouble" to the Li family and their guests, this is how ordinary Han people "participate".
At this period, those who entered Itaewon were naturally here to attend the Li family banquet.
The traffic blockade near Itaewon was naturally caused by the Li family's banquet.
In Li's house.
Even with an area of more than 3,400 square meters, it is obvious that there is not enough space to park so many vehicles.
So all the luxury cars that came over actually just stopped in front of Li's house, put the people in the cars down and left directly.
These cars will wait until the guests leave before they can come to the door and line up to pick them up.
The country is small, the area is small, the land price is high, and it is cramped. Even the wealthy families here are destined to look shabbier than the wealthy people in those big countries.
Guests who came to the banquet could only get off the car at the door of Li's house, and then walk inside along the laid red carpet.
Among the many guests, Gu Maoben, the chairman of LG Group, changed his past habit of attending various banquets in Hanguo and being the last one to attend.
Today's chairman of LG Group, the sky has not yet completely darkened. He arrived at Li's House in Itaewon early.
Well, in fact, it is also one of the top wealthy families in Han Kingdom. Of course the Gu family has a house here in Itaewon.
It's not as big as the Li family's place, but it's not small even if it's in Shou'er. It actually only takes about ten minutes to walk here.
But tonight we are attending a banquet, so of course it is impossible for Gu Moben to come on foot, as that would seem too cheap.
His car parked at the entrance of Li's house. After Gu Maoben and his wife got out of the car, they laughed and chatted for a few words with Li Rongzai and his wife who were in charge of greeting guests at the door, and then walked inside along the red carpet.
While walking, holding his wife's hand, Gu Mo was observing the guests who came to attend tonight.
Gu Maoben had already recognized that the couple walking in front of him were his old acquaintances, Mr. and Mrs. Xin Bindong, the chairman of Letian Group. As one of the five largest chaebols in the Han Kingdom, they are usually both competitors and collaborators. Their relationship is similar to that of consortiums in the United States, and they are relatively familiar with each other.
Who is called a Hanguo person? Whether it is the system or many other aspects, Hanguo is directly copied from the Americans.
At most, it is just based on the Americans and making some innovations or changes to cater to the local traditions of Han.
The guest at the back, Gu Moben, couldn't turn his head and look around, which would make him appear uneducated, so he couldn't guess who it was.
But he felt that both he and Xin Bindong came so early. The other two major chaebols, Cui Xianzhong's Cui family and Zheng Jiumeng's Zheng family, will probably not be late.
Sure enough, after entering the dinner venue. Gu Maoben glanced around and found no trace of the real owner, nor the two beautiful daughters of the Li family.
But he saw Zheng Jiumeng from Hyundai Group and Cui Xianzhong from SK Group already at the banquet earlier than him and Xin Bindong.
Goo Mo couldn't help but complain: [엿먹어!미국인을핥는것은누구보다적극적이다!]
These guys are more active than me, it's really too much!
As one of the five major chaebols, Gu Maoben naturally belonged to the top group at this banquet that mainly consisted of the upper-class elites of the Han Kingdom.
After he came in, many other core figures of the Hanguo family who were friendly with the Gu family or cooperated with the Lejin Group approached him with a smile, and naturally they formed a small circle dominated by Gu Maoben.
Just like Xin Bindong and the others.
Of course, the current owner has not yet appeared.
In the entire banquet, the largest circle of people was around the host Li Zaixi, with more than a dozen people surrounding him.
Almost every one of these dozen people who stepped out and stamped their feet in the city would cause a small shock in the circle they were in.
For example, Lee Soo-man, the founder of SM Entertainment Co., Ltd., who is already quite famous in Seoul and is considered a big company in Hanguo's entertainment circle, can only be at the outermost edge of Lee Jaeseo's circle.
Still smiling throughout the whole process, he nodded and bowed to everyone with his wine glass in hand, looking like he was flattering.
If Lee Soo Man looked like this to the trainees or artists in his company, they would probably think that he was dreaming.
In fact, this is the current situation of Han State - a super serious class society, with superiors against subordinates, juniors against elders, and bosses against subordinates. There is absolute suppression in almost all aspects, from work to life.
The boss and founder of an entertainment company naturally has supreme authority over artists.
However, even in Hanguoli, where the development of entertainment industry has been set as a national policy, entertainment companies are still at the bottom of the ecological chain of commercial companies.
When facing chaebols, or the bosses and managers of large enterprises.
People like Li Xiuman are at the lowest level in the same food chain.
Even being able to enter this banquet tonight is because his surname is Li and he is somewhat related to the Li family. And SM Entertainment was recently acquired by Li Fuzhen's "Forging Craftsman" Entertainment Company and became its subsidiary.
Otherwise, Li Xiuman, a big boss in the Hanguo entertainment industry, would not even be qualified to participate in a banquet of this level.
Of course, Gu Moben would not care about a small character like Lee Soo Man. He chatted with a few people in the same circle.
Then I found Xin Bindong from Letian Group walking over with his small circle.
Gu Maoben stopped talking and looked at Xin Bindong.
After the two people got closer, their circles merged into one and became more lively.
But in fact, except for Gu Maoben and Xin Bindong, no one else dared to speak at all.
"Hey, Mao Ben, good evening." Xin Bindong is actually much younger than Gu Mao Ben, but he is of the same generation and has the same high status, so naturally he calls him by his first name.
Gu Maoben smiled and said, "Good evening, Bindong."
After the polite opening remarks, the younger Xin Bindong took the initiative to approach Gu Maoben and whispered in his ear:
"That one will really show up? I think they are all from the Han Kingdom. Will he come? Or is the Li family using him as an excuse to call us all here to establish their prestige?"
Although the Li family's Samsvng Group is indeed No. 1 in Hanguo in terms of scale and influence.
But the other four of the five major chaebols are not much worse than the Li family, at most slightly inferior.
On weekdays, their identities are equal, unless there are any major festivals or important events. The five largest chaebols rarely gather together.
Even if they hold a banquet for each other, unless specifically invited with an invitation, they will usually only send their children and nephews to attend on their behalf.
The people of Han learned a lot from the good aspects of the Confucian cultural circle. As for the bad things, I have learned from the past.
In this kind of face-saving matter, unless you are facing foreigners. Otherwise, the Han people are more particular than the Neon people in this area.
"It should come. We all know that person who is very "fraternal"." Gu Maoben said in a low voice, a little uncomfortable with this kind of whispering feeling.
Thinking about the five major chaebols, they have always walked sideways in the Han Kingdom. When did they need to speak so quietly.
The problem is that he really doesn't dare to speak loudly now. If someone hears it and spreads the word, it will be over.
Xin Bindong wouldn't, because this guy had already said something similar just now.
"Li Zaixi's youngest daughter just gave birth to his child. The eldest daughter is already preparing to give birth to her second child. It seems that she is about to give birth. With the character of this person in the rumors, it would be strange if he doesn't come!" Gu Moben said.
Xin Bindong nodded. In fact, if the Li family did not hold this banquet tonight, he, who has both Korean and Japanese nationality, planned to go to Neon.
Just as he was about to speak, Xin Bindong suddenly let out a sigh.
"What's wrong?" Gu Maoben looked at Xin Bindong looking behind him, looking a little surprised.
"Look over there, the messenger from Neon has arrived. Oh, the messenger from China is here too." Xin Bindong pointed lightly at Gu Maoben's back.
Only then did Gu Maoben turn his head, and sure enough he saw many new guests coming out of the door behind him.
This group of guests who came later than the chaebols were almost all envoys from various countries.
Chinese, neon, American, several Southeast Asian countries, and even many European countries.
Within half an hour, more than twenty foreign envoys stationed in South Korea arrived, making the Li family's banquet even more lively, and the standards were almost as high as those of the Han Dynasty state banquet.
Of course, a chaebol is a chaebol after all. He is not as stingy as Qing Fang Fang, but he is not as stingy as the kimchi state banquet that is the favorite of Shanghan people...
Seeing this scene, in the small circle of Zheng Jiumeng and Cui Xianzhong who were gathered together, Cui Xianzhong couldn't help but sigh:
"I really envy Li Zaixi. Even if we are all here, there are still so many envoys coming. On weekdays, so many envoys from foreign countries would have to gather, unless it is the New Year's state banquet in Qingfang House. Otherwise, there won't be so many people here. !"
Among the five major chaebols, why is Zheng Jiumeng not envious of him?
You must know that in the past, before the Zheng family was divided internally.
The number one chaebol in the Han Kingdom is not Li Zaixi's Li family, but their Zheng family!
"Li Zaixi is just lucky. He gave birth to two beautiful daughters, which happened just right... I can only say that this guy has always been very lucky." Zheng Jiumeng said softly.
It was already 7 pm at this time, and it could be seen that most of the guests should have arrived.
There were many people inside and outside the huge banquet hall and the outdoor lawn, with a visual size of at least 300 people.
Even though the Li family's mansion is large enough, it feels almost "packed".
Still wanting to chat a few words, Cui Xianzhong and Zheng Jiumeng were approached by a member of the Li family, saying that the head of the Li family, Li Zaixi, invited them over.
Li Zaixi had just finished his opening remarks for the banquet, and now the banquet had officially begun.
Although the real master has not yet appeared, almost everyone present is an important figure in the Han Kingdom. The foreigners who were not from the Han Kingdom were all business tycoons or envoys, and they were all figures of great status.
Everyone can have a pleasant chat without the right person coming out. This kind of social occasion can be said to be the best in Hanguo.
Probably only the New Year's state banquet held every year at the Green House can compare with tonight.
Zheng Jiumeng and Cui Xianzhong looked at each other and looked up to see Li Zaixi smiling and nodding at them.
"Let's go and see what he wants to say. Is he planning to show off to us?" Zheng Jiumeng, who had always been a little dissatisfied with Li Zaixi, couldn't help but go over there with a coo.
Cui Xianzhong smiled and followed. The two passed through the crowd and found that beside Li Zaixi, Gu Maoben and Xin Bindong were already there.
With the arrival of the two of them, the five major chaebols of Han Kingdom gathered together.
"Didn't we talk about it just now? What else is going on in the west?" Zheng Jiumeng was the first to speak as he came over.
When they came in, they all said hello to the owner Li Zaixi, and then dispersed and gathered into their own small circles.
Zheng Jiumeng was talking about what he had just exchanged with Li Zaixi.
Li Zaixi didn't seem to care about Zheng Jiumeng's attitude.
He is now somewhat proud of himself. The powerful help from the United States has not only allowed him to secure his position as the leader of the five largest plutocrats in Han Kingdom.
Now it may bring a better future to the Samsvng Group and the Li family.
Li Zaixi can naturally ignore the sour taste of jealousy and hatred among people like Zheng Jiu and Meng.
"Call everyone together, of course something is going on."
Li Zaixi chuckled and said, "It's rare to get together, so I want to say a few words."
"What's going on?" Xin Bindong asked curiously.
Seeing Li Zaixi's serious look, he felt that it was not a trivial matter.
Li Zaixi continued in a calm tone: "That's it, Mr. Smith and I chatted all night last night."
This opening statement made the heads of the other four major chaebols present suddenly become serious, and the sour taste in their hearts became stronger.
Talk to that person all night? It would be great if I could do the same...
The other four people almost all had similar thoughts in their hearts.
Seeing the performance of the four people, Li Zaixi felt very happy. In fact, Abel did talk to him last night. But we only chatted for half an hour in total. Talking all night was just Li Zaixi trying to make a big deal out of the tiger skin.
"Mr. Smith plans to spend US$5 billion to establish an Asian investment group, and he invited us to join the investment group. As the name suggests, the main direction of this Asian investment group in the future will be to invest in Asia. For example, countries in China and Southeast Asia. "
Li Zaixi introduced to the four of them as concisely as possible what Abel had talked with him last night.
"Mr. Smith also told me that the reason why he chose to cooperate with us is because as a local Asian, cooperation with us is more conducive to investment in Asia. In addition, he also believes in us Han people, otherwise he could have cooperated with Neon People cooperate."
"Let everyone come here. I mainly want to say this. In addition, I want to tell you that the Li family has agreed. The Samsvng Group and the Li family will each spend one billion U.S. dollars and 300 million U.S. dollars, for a total of 1.3 billion U.S. dollars to participate in Asian investments. In the cooperation of the group. Mr. Smith asked me to ask your opinions, and you can participate if you are willing."
"That's it. Now please tell me what you think so I can tell Mr. Smith."
After Li Zaixi finished speaking leisurely, not surprisingly, Xin Bindong and the other four people saw some ugly looks on their faces.
Lao Li didn't care at all, but smiled cheerfully.
Humph, who said you don't have a good daughter?
Li Zaixi knew that they were struggling, but the more these similar people and competitors struggled, the more uncomfortable they became, and the happier Li Zaixi felt. Of course he would not help them solve such a problem!
And this problem is indeed a difficult problem for Xin Bindong and others.
First of all, this is the question of whether the Laoshizi Asian Investment Group is really a project but a scam.
Wall Street has done too much harm to the Han people, and its reputation in the world is also very bad.
The Wall Street tycoon took the lead in organizing the project, which had once severely cut off the people of Han State, and even led them to Abel, who almost uprooted the leeks in Han State's stock market.
Then they will be even more suspicious of Abel's project, whether he wants to trap them along with it.
In addition, Li Zaixi is still so proactive, and Li Zaixi and Abel have that kind of relationship...
They really don't want to doubt it.