Chapter 398 Chapter 396, One wants substance, the other wants face (4K)

As the night breeze of Dubai blew against the cabin window, Lin Chu looked at the city below, especially a brightly lit building below, which was the branch of LC Group in Dubai.

Across a wide road is the global logistics port that was just completed and put into operation at the beginning of the year, and is also China’s exclusive economic zone.

Last year, the company received another 10 billion US dollars in financing from a sovereign fund, acquiring 12% of the shares of the low-altitude aircraft company.

I and Guotou also made additional investments.

The economic ties are still very close.

Of course, even in terms of their current wealth, it cannot be compared with sovereign funds. Sovereign funds have trillions of dollars in net assets and have acquired equity in countless high-quality companies around the world over the past few decades.

If he could inherit all the club’s assets, he would be almost halfway to becoming “rich enough to rival a country.”

But now it seems impossible.

Lister’s will has not yet been made public, and in the nearly six months since his disappearance, after the “super virus” plan was announced, these properties scattered around the world have long been subject to strict monitoring and various open and covert struggles. Even the foundation’s financial inflows and outflows have been repeatedly subject to various audits.

Everyone’s interests are the same.

—If he dies, let him die completely.

——If he is not dead, let him die early and die completely.

His forces, former subordinates, and diehard fans were captured one after another in an almost global encirclement and suppression campaign.

Even though he had cultivated various connections, he had fallen into seclusion and dared not show up or speak.

In this situation, there is naturally no way for one to take advantage of the situation. One must ultimately recognize one’s own position.

The biggest lesson Lin Chu learned from this incident is: the training of successors.

The intergenerational inheritance of a wealth empire must be put on the agenda early. If one is attached to the power that money brings and is reluctant to step down from the throne, this will be the outcome.

There are many such examples in the business world. There are many promising star companies whose founders died unexpectedly, and then their business empires collapsed completely.

Of course, once you are dead, the property you leave behind is meaningless to you.

But…it’s just really sad.

Since Lin Chu had witnessed such a thing with his own eyes, he would certainly not let the tragedy happen. He had the idea of ​​dividing the power and the profits in his mind.

This time I came to Dubai, I was actually also considering how to properly handle this matter.

Both the luxury goods business and the media business will be listed, transformed from private companies into public companies, and incorporated into formal operations.

In Dubai, various business systems, including security, low-altitude aircraft, investment business, intelligence center… are all gathered together, and it is time to sort them out.

Lu Ming is naturally someone who can be fully trusted.

However, he has a strong working mentality, and maintaining rapid development is already the limit of his ability. He does not have the ability to coordinate and divide these things.

After all, touching interests is more difficult than touching the soul.

As the LC Group has developed to this point, it is inevitable that various factions and cliques have begun to emerge within it.

One of my goals now is to nip this seed in the bud before it sprouts.

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The plane landed slowly.

airport.

Lu Ming and Rashid were waiting. Looking at Lin Chu, Zhang Peng and Wang Zhefei coming down the gangway, they looked at each other and smiled happily.

Several people shook hands and hugged each other tightly.

Although time has passed, the friendship has not changed and still maintains a certain pure feeling.

Moreover, because of the different territories and distance between them, it is difficult to see each other on a daily basis, which adds a bit of excitement to the reunion after a long separation.

Misha looked around with a guilty conscience, searching for other family members besides her brother. She felt like a child who had made a mistake and returned home, ready to be punished.

Rashid smiled and comforted her, without saying much else, and sent a car to take her back.

Although she was reluctant to leave and still wanted to continue participating in men’s social activities, mainly with Lin Chu, the restrictions in her hometown were greater than those outside. For the sake of the overall situation, Misha chose to go back first.

This incident in Sanya is now being hotly discussed all over the world, and I must first give an explanation to my family.

Once you pass the hurdle of home and family, it won’t be that difficult.

What’s more, there is Lin Chu.

This man, the man I love, can solve all problems.

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On Lin Chu’s side, a group of people got on another commercial vehicle. Lu Ming turned around and asked with a smile: “Brothers, where are we going?”

It would be inappropriate to be as reckless as we were when we were young and attend all kinds of parties.

At that time, it was pure debauchery.

Now, we are all decent people, chatting and drinking is a very pleasant enjoyment. As for the second party, it’s fine with it or not, as it’s not a business reception.

“You arrange.”

“Keep it simple tonight. Haitao will come over later. He’s already on the plane. I need to see him again.”

“Let’s deal with what you mentioned earlier this time.”

Lin Chu glanced at him and said calmly.

Hearing this, Lin Chu said it with a smile.

But Lu Ming still felt a slight chill in his heart, licked his lips, and nodded: “Okay.”

Last month, I talked to Lin Chu about something that seemed normal, but not so normal. It involved several old people from the previous company.

The most core issue is Ma Teng, the former manager in Dubai and current branch manager.

In the past two years, he has had a lot of power and done a lot of things. Objectively speaking, he has made great contributions to the company.

He was responsible for building the intelligence center.

He is also primarily responsible for the base’s hardware upgrades and firepower upgrades.

The previous recruitment and subsequent coordination and training are also within his scope of responsibilities.

However, this is where the problem lies.

A large amount of real money has been invested in the past few years, and with Lin Chu’s mind not here, Gao Haitao also followed Lin Chu, which made Ma Teng become arrogant.

Because of the business connection, the security business is relatively independent and is managed by Gao Haitao. Lu Ming does not have much authority and he has no intention of getting involved in the security.

It’s Mr. Gao’s territory, why should I get involved? I’m too busy with the little land I have.

A power vacuum thus arises.

And the problem occurred naturally.

When Lu Ming was chatting with other businessmen, he accidentally discovered that here, Ma Teng had become a local emperor. He had official connections, people with guns, and his tentacles had begun to extend in another direction.

Someone from the same clan as him opened a company here, doing logistics business.

This is not the point. After all, as the company’s fortune grows, it is normal to share some profits. For such a large company, the annual logistics orders are enough to support the company, tens of millions of dollars a year, easily.

The key point is to develop personal weapons.

Ma Teng used the company’s resources, channels and money to openly train his own people, but withheld some of the financial resources. In terms of people’s hearts, many of his confidants only knew Ma Teng and almost didn’t know Gao Haitao. As for Lin Chu… he was even more distant. A big boss of a company, a mascot-like existence, was only seen once a year, and online. Besides giving money, why would they care about him? Lu Ming secretly investigated and found that from the year before last to now, the absolute confidants of Ma Teng’s subordinates have almost exceeded a thousand.

He continuously sent these people out as tentacles, starting from non-core areas around the world, becoming local tyrants in the local area, and their presence had already become a spark.

Of course, nominally, they are all still employees of LC Group.

But as to how much motivation the group still has, it is hard to say.

The head office fully delegates power. Even if there is a task assigned to Ma Teng, he is the one who makes the arrangements and assessments. As long as the task is completed well, there will be no pursuit from above, and it will naturally be his independent kingdom.

Regarding this matter, to be fair, after hearing the news, Lin Chu was very shocked at first.

Angry even.

They spend their heart and soul, real money, and give out so much money every month, and this is how they do things?

But after thinking about it and calming down, I felt that it was inevitable.

What is big company disease?

This is called.

The Security Group can be said to be his own son. It spends the most money every year, offers the best treatment, has the largest number of people, and he feels most at ease with it. Because no matter in the past or now, no matter whether it is Seoul or Guangzhou, they have all left a very good impression on him, so he is particularly relaxed.

However, without the constraints and protection of the system, problems are bound to arise as the distance in time and space increases.

Such things are not uncommon in history.

It was me who was careless before, thinking that in modern company operations, as long as I had control over the money, everything would be fine.

But I didn’t expect that security companies also have guns, especially overseas branches.

As a result, a small but very tricky angle bug was created in the middle, similar to the existence of a “warlord”.

This is especially true of Ma Teng.

Although nothing has gone wrong yet, it is still a source of worry.

Lin Chu naturally knew that once ambition arises, loyalty is either absolute or absolutely disloyal.

The best way to solve this kind of management problem is to achieve unity of thought.

However, absolute unity of thought is not an easy thing, especially for a company.

A man with a gun who has no sense of social honor is nothing more than a bodyguard or a killer, and a sense of social honor is something that a company absolutely cannot provide.

A gun with money, without sufficiently strong constraints and controls, is more like a cancer cell that will multiply malignantly. Once the bow is drawn, there is no turning back.

On the other side of the ocean, this kind of thing is called the military-industrial complex. When the generals are away from the army, they are not subject to military orders. Even the planes sent to audit the finances can disappear without a trace.

Lin Chu has been thinking about this problem for a while.

It was inevitable that Ma Teng would develop to this level.

In fact, the development of the security company was inherently flawed from the very beginning. Its original development path was like that of a warlord, spending money crazily to buy people.

At that time, it was mainly used for self-protection, and it was indeed very effective and could be called a powerful weapon.

But now, as we enter the next stage, our need for self-protection is not so strong, and this thing has become a double-edged sword.

It would be fine if you were on the front line, had a broad support base, had great physical fitness, great combat records, and were like an unparalleled soldier king.

But now I am ready to retire and lie down, go home to live with my wife and children, so this is of course impossible.

Therefore, if things continue to develop on this path, there will definitely be a lot of people like Ma Teng. Even if we catch this Ma Teng, there will be another Ma Teng popping up… This has become an institutional problem.

Up to now, Lin Chu has some ideas about how to solve the problem, but they are still just signs and seem not very mature.

I can absolutely trust that none of the brothers who have passed the panel certification are made of this material, including Lao Gao.

He previously worked in a security company at the manager level, but he no longer performed frontline tasks and was engaged in business. Moreover, domestic security companies were completely different from what they are now.

As for others… Wu Hao, his fighting power is enough, but he has no management skills and is too lazy to train newcomers. He is a hermit-like warrior.

Of course, the best way is to wait for ten or even twenty years, and then leave it to your son, train him to be a special forces soldier with extraordinary martial arts skills, and then have him take over smoothly after he retires from the army.

However, this timeline is indeed quite long.

“What’s going on? What kind of riddles are you two playing?”

At this moment, in the car, listening to the ambiguous conversation between the two, Wang Zhefei asked in a hurry.

Lu Ming glanced at Lin Chu, and seeing him nod, he explained the matter in detail.

“My grass!”

“Traitor!”

“Traitor! This guy is playing so recklessly now? Shouldn’t he be arrested and executed according to the law?”

“Hey, our current cell phones are not being monitored by him, are they? Isn’t he in charge of the Intelligence Center?”

Wang Zhefei was a little emotional, more like a kind of PTSD.

Lu Ming smiled and said, “That’s not the case. The Intelligence Center is not his sphere of influence. We’ll talk about this later. Our safety will definitely not be a problem. He is nothing. If Brother Chu calls him now and asks him to come over to explain things, he will probably come over and cry and beg for forgiveness.”

“This is an institutional issue. What we are considering now is the subsequent improvement of the system… You have never been a boss, so you don’t understand this topic. Just listen.”

Lu Ming even made a joke to liven up the atmosphere. Given their relationship, Brother Fei always had the best temper.

“Throw you!”

Wang Zhefei fiercely raised his middle finger at him, lit a cigarette, blew out a long puff of smoke, and retreated tactically: “What the hell don’t I understand? Why shouldn’t I understand? Isn’t it just called something…similar to that…An Lushan Rebellion! The feudal lords and the like…”

He stammered, refusing to admit defeat, pondering his memory and trying his best to argue.

As he spoke, a wild idea flashed through his mind.

“If you ask me, this is easy!”

“It’s just a matter of money!”

“You, Lin Chu, spend money to buy land all over the world! Build a training base! Send people there! No matter if it’s an island, a farm, or a shooting range or something like that.”

“And then… and then… listen to my key points. They are absolutely brilliant. Once I tell you what I am saying, every one of you must give me a thumbs up and kneel down to kowtow to me!”

“That is… ahem, donate to the country! Use it as a base! Let the country send people! Your bodyguards will be your younger brothers. In name, it’s still your company, but the backbone, the core instructor, the big brother of the team, is the country’s people. Isn’t this a perfect cooperation… One is in the open, the other is in the dark, one is the face, the other is the inside.”

“In this case, there is no troublemaker under my command? Which troublemaker dares to go against the instructor?”

“As for you, you have so little, are you still worried about being swallowed up? You don’t even have to swallow it up. If the country asks, we can donate it!”

“Really? Everybody stand up and applaud me!”

Wang Zhefei said with great pride.

In a hurry, he really felt that he had done a good job and had taken all aspects into consideration.

Lin Chu looked at him in surprise and was somewhat moved for a moment.

You know what, this idea is really great. Although it’s a bit weird, it may be feasible.

Lu Ming also felt that there was something to this, and it was a very good idea. He couldn’t help but laugh and tease, “Brother Fei is awesome! Brother, please accept my greeting. I will personally serve you in bed tonight! Wash yourself clean!”

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(End of this chapter)