1RomanceEB Chapter 2: Uncle, I Want to Take Over the Company
Chapter 2: Uncle, I Want to Take Over the Company
In the office.
Li Yongsen looked at his nephew with a face full of regret, and his heart was filled with mixed feelings.
But more than anything, people are utterly disappointed in him.
"Jiagang, have you taken care of your parents' funeral arrangements?" Li Yongsen asked him, suppressing his emotions.
He didn't know what to say to his nephew. He had scolded him, educated him, and even physically punished him, but he remained unchanged.
His family clearly had the means to provide him with the best education, even to send him abroad to study, but instead of taking that golden path, he chose to drop out of school early and spend his days with shady characters, getting into fights, drinking, and causing trouble.
Over the years, Li Yongsen had long since given up hope on his nephew. If it weren't for this incident involving his younger brother's parents, he wouldn't have even gone to see him.
"Uncle, my parents' funeral arrangements have been completed."
"Just handle it."
"Alas! My poor younger brother and sister-in-law, they left us in the prime of their lives, it's such a pity."
"Jiagang, what are your plans for the future?"
After sighing, Li Yongsen finally asked the question he shouldn't have asked.
Given Li Jiagang's personality and spoiled lifestyle, he didn't want to take on this hot potato, otherwise he was afraid it would infuriate him.
But whenever he thought that Lijiagang was his brother's only bloodline and had fallen to this state, he couldn't bear it and felt extremely sad.
"Uncle, I've come here today with only two things to discuss."
"Yes! You said that if your uncle can help you, I will definitely help you in return."
"Thank you, Uncle."
"First: The bank has liquidated and seized all of my father's properties, so I have nowhere to live. I plan to move back to the ancestral home where my father built the house."
Li Yongsen nodded upon hearing this.
"Although the land of the ancestral home belongs to your grandfather and is to be inherited by your uncle, your father, and your aunt, one of the houses was built with money from your father, so it is only right that you live there."
"I promise you, I will explain this to your aunt, so you can move in without worry."
"Thank you, Uncle."
"Secondly: My father and my uncle used to run an electronics company together. Now my family has nothing left. I want to ask my uncle what to do with the company?" Li Jiagang asked bluntly.
Li Yongsen fell silent upon hearing this.
After a long pause, Li Yongsen asked Li Jiagang in a deep voice, "What are your plans for Jiagang?"
In fact, he had already thought about how to deal with this problem on the way from Lijiagang.
In his mind, he naturally wanted to take over the company and run it himself.
He believed that as a professor specializing in electromechanical engineering, it would be very easy for him to develop some electrical products that were both relevant to the times and more advanced.
As long as the products they develop are well-received by the market, they can naturally break free from their current predicament.
Then we can gradually build our own appliance brand.
Now it is 78, a time of true societal evolution, with various electrical appliances and electronic products emerging and being upgraded.
For example, televisions among electrical appliances.
There will be a major reform in the early to mid-80s, and small-screen, semi-automatic, three-color base color TVs will be replaced by full-color, large-screen, long-tail color TVs with full remote control.
This refers to CRT color TVs.
Long-tail large-screen color TVs have made several technological breakthroughs and are very popular in the market, with huge sales. As long as he can seize this opportunity, he will definitely be able to develop the company.
Large-screen color TVs might be a challenge for technicians of this era, but for an old professor like him who was capable of developing even more advanced technologies, it was nothing difficult at all, something he could do with ease.
It's just screen magnification and overlay technology.
Full-color picture tube mapping and overlay technology.
Optimize resolution frequency to reduce image jaggedness and minimize screen artifacts during playback.
Optimizations of speakers, receivers, stereo systems, circuit boards, and so on are not difficult for him at all.
Therefore, he had to take over this electronics company and start a business.
"Uncle, this company may be dispensable to you, but it is very important to me now."
"I plan to take over the management."
As soon as Li Jiagang finished speaking, not only did Li Yongsen stare at him with wide eyes and an incredulous expression, but even Uncle Fu behind him did the same.
Everyone knows that Li Jiagang is an uneducated man who only knows how to eat, drink, and have fun. Now he actually says he wants to take over a company and run it.
This completely shattered their worldview.
The office was unusually quiet at that moment.
"Uncle, stop looking, I'm serious," Li Jiagang said again.
Coming to his senses, Li Yongsen composed himself and looked at Li Jiagang seriously again, saying, "Jiagang, running a company isn't child's play. You've never been involved in business before, how are you going to run it?"
"It's not that your uncle doesn't want you to run this company, nor is it that your uncle cares about his half of the shares. It's just that half of the shares in this company will be your only source of income in the future, and I won't let you do anything reckless."
"I will continue to run this company, and I will transfer the profits to your account every year. You don't need to interfere in anything related to the company."
"If you really want to change yourself, I can find you a job to work hard at. Once you have developed certain management skills, I will hand over the company to you."
"how?"
Li Yongsen patiently persuaded him.
He was truly afraid that his nephew would act recklessly, insisting on splitting up the company and destroying the only business his father had left behind. How could he then face his deceased brother?
He felt immense guilt over his brother's sudden departure, having lost him before he even had a chance to understand what had happened.
How could he allow his only son to squander the only property he left behind?
Li Yongsen didn't care about the company's shares. To him, the company only had one factory, which, although it was a factory that independently researched and produced products, was only worth a few million.
If his nephew is a diligent and reliable person, Li Yongsen would be fine with giving him all the company's shares; he's willing to part with that amount of money.
He also hoped that his brother's only bloodline could make a comeback, reclaim his brother's legacy, and even achieve new heights and reach new heights.
But his nephew just happened to be like that...
In any case, Li Yongsen had absolutely no confidence in him.
Li Jiagang also understood what his uncle meant.
Given the original owner's personality, it's understandable that his uncle wouldn't let him run the company.
Putting himself in Li Yongsen's shoes, he would have been even more ruthless towards someone like Li Jiagang, kicking him out of the house.
but…….
He is no longer the same person he used to be.
He has to take over this company.
"Uncle, I know I was too reckless before. I promise you, I will turn over a new leaf and start anew. I promised my parents at their funeral that I would never associate with those people again."
"I also promised my father that I would take back all his businesses and ensure that the Li Yongheng lineage would have a place in Hong Kong's business world."
Li Jiagang's words were delivered with great force and coherence, which impressed both Li Yongsen and Uncle Fu.
The impression they got was that they had never seen this side of Lijiagang before.
In their memories, Lijiagang was a place that made people feel uncomfortable in every way. They were surprised that he could say such things now, which greatly changed their opinion of him.
"Could it be that my nephew has truly turned over a new leaf, reformed his ways, and become sensible because of the loss of his parents and the changes in his family?"
"If that's really the case, Yongheng, your passing can at least offer some solace."
but…….
Although Li Jiagang's words did indeed change Li Yongsen's opinion of him.
But he's someone who's seen all sorts of monsters and dealt with all kinds of people, so how could he possibly make a decision based on just a few words from someone else?