Siheyuan: A warm home with wife and children

Not smart enough.

He used to seem quite shrewd; he was eloquent and could handle any situation with composure and confidence.

But after getting to know him better, I realized that all three of his signature moves were honed by Li Aimin.

After those three blows, the man was dumbfounded.

This is a bit like—

If he were truly intelligent, he would suddenly become shrewd in his thirties or forties, and with the wealth and connections Li Aimin had accumulated over the years, he could still rise to prominence overnight.

Unfortunately, he's just average in terms of intelligence, ability, and character.

It's just too ordinary!

People cannot earn money beyond what they understand.

Similarly, they cannot control wealth beyond their abilities.

What Li Yaohui lacks most is the ability to manage wealth.

Yang Jianguo had a private talk with Li Aimin about this matter.

“You two can’t help him for a lifetime. Since your own abilities are limited, then cultivate him in other areas.”

Even if you lack personal ability, you can still recognize and utilize talent.

Yang Jianguo's idea was to refer to family foundations abroad and recruit a group of smart people to form a family office to advise him on how to manage his vast wealth.

Don't wait until Li Aimin can't hold on any longer and is about to leave us to realize that our son is incapable of taking over the burden he carried.

When establishing foundations and family offices, it is advisable to take inspiration from established European families.

The Americans learned all of that from their European ancestors.

In addition, there are the terms and conditions, and how to ensure a balance between management and family members.

They must not allow family members to act recklessly, but they must also ensure that they are not completely sidelined by the management.

Li Aimin himself has witnessed countless real-life cases of how terrifying uncontrolled power can be, without Yang Jianguo needing to explain it to him.

He's not the only one who has risen to prominence in recent years.

There are so many people around him who ride the wave of opportunity to rise to the top and enjoy immense success; there are many more who are more capable than him.

But now, look at what happened to those people.

Of those who took off with him back then, and even flew higher than him, how many can you still find today?

When it comes to 'inheritance', Li Aimin actually has a terrible headache.

Despite his harsh scolding of his son Li Yaohui, he actually loves him to the core.

Even with all his extraordinary abilities, Li Aimin couldn't give him a smarter brain.

He listened to Yang Jianguo's opinion and was indeed considering it.

However, the cases of foreign fund managers sidelining their family members gave him a lot of concerns.

In addition, how should one choose the place of registration if setting up a foundation and a family office?

If this happened abroad, someone would definitely make a big deal out of it.

It might even implicate her brother-in-law.

After all, he wasn't just a businessman; he also had a political background.

But in China, the relevant legal provisions are simply unbearable to read.

Li Aimin could already imagine how, after he passed away, his son and descendants would be slowly boiled like frogs in water, gradually kicked out of the foundation.

In the end, the foundation may still bear the Li family's name, but everything inside will have nothing to do with the Li family anymore.

"Brother-in-law, where do you think I should register my business?"

Li Aimin, who was at a loss, wanted to find the right answer from him.

Yang Jianguo did indeed consider his needs and had a suitable option.

Hong Kong Island!

The Lou family's succession faces the same problem as his.

However, they were considering a longer-term issue, and Lou Nianguo was the perfect candidate to succeed them in this generation.

There are no issues with his personal abilities, charisma, or way of thinking.

He will take charge of the Lou family in the future, and he also has a special relationship with Yang Jianguo.

The Lou family might even rise to a higher level.

However, if it is to be passed down for thousands of years, it requires the efforts of generations and the improvement of the system.

Relying on others is useless.

You can't expect every generation to produce a Lou Nianguo to lead the family to greater prosperity.

For aristocratic families, encountering a spendthrift son is a good thing.

What I fear most is encountering a successor who is all talk and no action, lacking ability but ambitious, and desperately trying to achieve something great.

In that case, one generation could potentially deplete the savings accumulated by several generations of a family.

This caused the entire family to go from prosperity to decline in an instant.

This is why education in large families tends to be conservative.

For them, defending the city was always more important than advancing.

“Okay, I’ll go to Hong Kong Island on the second day of the Lunar New Year.” Li Aimin glanced at his brother-in-law and said hesitantly, “I’ll ask Director Lou for some advice, okay?”

Yang Jianguo looked at him calmly: "Do you need to ask me that?"

"Hehe~" Li Aimin chuckled without saying a word, but in his heart he thought, 'Who else should I ask but you? That's my second sister-in-law.'

The relationship between Yang Jianguo and Lou Xiao'e was an open secret among the upper echelons and Beijing's elite circles.

However, few people dare to mention it easily.

After all, both of them were very restrained in this relationship, and their identities were not simple, with the elders' endorsement.

Given their current status, position, and influence, this relationship between a man and a woman is no longer of any importance.

Not to mention the complicated inside story.

Lou Xiao'e has solved countless problems for the organization over the years, and she remains the organization's economic bridgehead for going global, safeguarding state-owned assets overseas.

It is no exaggeration to say that the valuable experience that Lou has provided to the organization in the financial field over the years has protected it from being besieged and hunted by foreign capital, and the losses saved by clearing mines and filling pits are at least in the hundreds of billions.

This achievement will not earn me a banner of commendation, nor will it bring me any public gratitude.

Privately, however, the elders had already made a fuss about the Lou family.

As long as it stands firm in its stance and doesn't court disaster.

Even if Lou Xiao'e passes away, and all subsequent successors of the Lou family are weak and incompetent, the organization will still preserve the Lou family's last shred of dignity.

The Lou family will never lack wealth and honor.

Compared to the Lou family, Li Aimin, the first-generation entrepreneur, is in a much more awkward position, as no one is giving him any guarantees.

Most of the credit for his work was attributed to his brother-in-law.

He can understand that.

After all, I was just a middleman, a bit like an international broker.

He was the one who did the work, but his brother-in-law arranged all the resources, funding, channels, connections, and even protection for him.

Li Aimin was actually a little worried that all the credit should be given to him.

A half-grown butt wearing size 2+ underwear, isn't the bottom completely showing?

For a businessman like him, revealing his true colors is tantamount to telling everyone that he has been abandoned, that no one is protecting him or guaranteeing his safety.

That outcome—

Learn from history.

Chapter 863 What I can't live without is not her, but the foundation for making money.

On the second day of the Lunar New Year, Li Aiguo, along with his wife and son, boarded a plane bound for Hong Kong Island.

Zhiyi and her daughter also boarded the train to Handong.

"Remember to call when you get there. Tongwei said he'll pick you up at the station. Don't wander off if you don't see him."

A mother worries when her son travels far away, let alone her daughter who has stayed by her side ever since she returned home.

Yingzi had forgotten that her daughter had been living abroad with her older brother since she was a teenager.

"Grandma, I will miss you."

The little girl, Meng Jie, had a mournful face, and large tears fell down her cheeks.

Yingzi's heart ached as she watched, wishing she could rush to the car and bring her granddaughter back. Why did they have to go to another place when they had such a good home?

This capital city isn't big enough for them to cause trouble.

"Grandma misses you too, remember to call Grandma."

As the train started moving, Yingzi could no longer hold back her tears.

Yang Jianguo was both amused and exasperated. He went over, put his arm around his wife's shoulder, and gently comforted her.

"After a while, she and her daughter will come back. The child still has to go to school!"

"Tongwei has made all the arrangements over there. If you really want to, I can send you there to stay for a few days, and then you can come back with the mother and daughter."

Yingzi wiped her eyes, shook her head without saying a word, and simply turned and left.

Yang Jianguo followed behind, scratching his head in frustration.

No, this little temper of hers, she didn't have it when she was young, why is she suddenly getting hungry now that she's old.

Yang Jianguo was about to persuade her again when he saw Yingzi wipe away her tears, turn around and smile gently: "If I leave, what will you do alone?"

Yang Jianguo froze on the spot as his nimble steps suddenly faltered.

Yes!

All along, it was I who left.

Yingzi never left on her own initiative.

If, upon returning to the compound, she is no longer there.

Yang Jianguo couldn't imagine what it would look like.

It was a strange feeling, for a moment—

Yang Jianguo panicked.

It turns out that the person I couldn't live without was not her, but myself.

*

Upon arriving in Hong Kong, Li Aimin immediately witnessed the influence of the Lou family.

Three Rolls-Royces drove directly into the airport and parked beside the runway.

The plane was parked directly in the designated location so that the Lou family could pick up the people.

No wonder the passengers on the plane were curious about where the plane was going and why it kept going around to the back.

Li Aimin, after all, was a man of the world.

Li Aimin had never seen a pure businessman achieve this level of success before.

'Today, I've truly broadened my horizons.'

He used to travel to Russia and work as a middleman there, so he's seen much bigger scenes than this.

Tanks and planes came to pick him up.

He's done things like driving transport planes on the road, recklessly crashing into things just to have his fun.