Capítulo 1276: Chapter 1275: The Company’s Second-in-Command
Previously, the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur were the tallest buildings in the world. However, they were later surpassed. Nevertheless, they remain one of the tallest buildings in the world, with a total of eighty-eight floors, towering over Kuala Lumpur as if piercing the sky.
Standing atop the towers, one can see the scenery of Kuala Lumpur, and even the Strait of Malacca.
You don’t need to buy a ticket to go up the towers, but there is a limit on the number of people, so now you have to get tickets in advance. At this time, Lin Xiang isn’t sure if they can still get tickets.
When Lin Xiang drove to the nearby parking lot and parked the car, Lin Xiang walked ahead with Ye Qiu following behind. Arriving at the place to get tickets for the top of the tower, they found a very long line, likely not possible for her and Ye Qiu to get them.
“Too many people, there are simply no tickets. However, we can take the elevator to the shopping mall above and have a look; we can shop there.”
One of the Twin Towers serves as the office for the oil company, while the other is a shopping mall and is also leased out to others for office space. Lin Xiang called Ye Qiu to go to the other one for shopping, where there are many large duty-free malls.
Many people enjoy traveling to Southeast Asia, and one of the fun places in Malaysia is here. Moreover, the tourism industry is also one of Malaysia’s pillar industries, so there are still quite a few tourists now.
Perhaps due to the crowd, Lin Xiang couldn’t help but stay close to Ye Qiu, afraid of getting separated from Ye Qiu and unable to contact each other even with cell phones.
Upon reaching a floor with a large mall, there were all kinds of goods inside. As Lin Xiang watched and introduced things to Ye Qiu, Ye Qiu picked them up to look, felt unimpressed; as for those jewelry and jade artifacts, they were everywhere, it’s just that it’s much cheaper here duty-free, but if returning to the country, taxes would still need to be paid.
“Aren’t you going to buy some to take back for your friends?”
Lin Xiang asked.
“Just these jewelry items?”
Ye Qiu asked.
Lin Xiang nodded.
Ye Qiu looked, really didn’t necessarily fancy them. In Paris, there are many trendy and fashionable jewelry and clothing; if Ye Qiu really wanted to buy them, they could directly buy in Paris, where they are also duty-free.
As for many items here, they were transported from Europe, but buying here didn’t really compare to buying back in the East Sea.
“Hard to carry!”
Ye Qiu said.
Lin Xiang felt that Ye Qiu was not a person with romantic flair. Now going shopping with a girl, he actually said it’s hard to carry these things, she didn’t understand which girl would want to go shopping with him?
Standing by the window looking outside, now at dozens of meters high, Ye Qiu could actually already see very far, but compared to the top of the tower, the view was surely not as far-reaching.
Ye Qiu suddenly thought of something and asked, “Lin Xiang, take me to your dad’s company now!”
“What do you want to do there? There’s nothing fun there.” Lin Xiang thought Ye Qiu wanted to have fun at her dad’s company.
“Not for fun, I have serious business.”
“Alright then!”
The two took the elevator down, got into the sports car, and Lin Xiang drove to that company.
The Lin Family’s company is called Lin Mao Group, named after Lin Xiang’s grandfather. It’s also a skyscraper group, but it’s only twenty-something floors high.
Of course, apart from the most famous rubber industry, the Lin Family also has tea, sugar, and shipping industries. However, none are as prominent as the rubber industry.
With the increasing number of rubber-related industries, naturally, there are many synthetic ones, but naturally-produced rubber is not increasing, so the price is still relatively high, much higher than synthetic rubber.
This mainly relates to climate conditions; rubber trees can only be planted in tropical and subtropical areas, not just anywhere.
Especially in tropical rainforest areas, which are extremely suitable, so now Southeast Asia and the Amazon Rainforest probably have the most.
Lin Xiang did not know what Ye Qiu wanted to do at her father’s workplace, but she drove and within forty minutes arrived at the parking lot under Lin Mao Tower.
Lin Xiang and Ye Qiu stopped, and Ye Qiu saw that this building was also twenty to thirty years old.
However, the construction quality must be very good, still usable for decades.
Once the exterior walls are revamped, they still look very good.
The two went directly up the elevator. Along the way, other employees recognized Lin Xiang and greeted her.
“Is your older brother the responsible one in the company now?”
“My dad had to retire early due to a heart condition ten years ago, and let my brother become the chairman. He doesn’t make appearances unless there’s something important, but because you cured my dad’s heart condition a few days ago, he feels like he wasted ten years and wishes to return to the company, planning to resume his chairman role to take charge of the main affairs. Nonetheless, in that case, my brother remains the president of the company.”
If that’s the case, there is a certain conflict of interest between Lin Xiang and Lin Yazhong. However, Ye Qiu thought again, Lin Yazhong only has Lin Xiang as a son, so there’s no need for Lin Xiang to harm his father that way.
After all, everything here will be his sooner or later.
But human nature is very complex, and Ye Qiu knows that thinking this way alone isn’t necessarily valid, only that Lin Xiang also has a certain degree of suspicion.
As Lin Xiang led Ye Qiu to her dad’s office, which was the former chairman’s office, Lin Xiang had already moved out.
Upon arriving there, Ye Qiu found the door closed, and Lin Xiang knocked, saying: “My dad might be resting at home, he hasn’t come.”
“Where’s your brother’s office?”
Lin Xiang took Ye Qiu to her brother’s office, also the president’s office, and upon knocking, as they entered, they saw Lin Xiang and the secretary inside.
Lin Xiang didn’t expect his sister and Dr. Ye to come over, and asked, “Dr. Ye, you came over?”
“I wanted to come over and take a look.”
After Ye Qiu and Lin Xiang sat down and the secretary poured tea, Ye Qiu noticed that offices here in Malaysia weren’t as luxurious as those in domestic president offices; they only had a desk, a computer on the desk, and behind there wasn’t a large bookshelf, so naturally there weren’t numerous books for show.
“Mr. Lin, can I take a look at your company’s personnel structure chart?”
“Of course.”
Lin Xiang thought for a moment and then said directly.
Upon asking the secretary to bring the personnel structure chart over for Ye Qiu to see, this was the original structure chart. Aside from the former chairman being Lin Xiang, his honorary chairman was Lin Yazhong, there was also a vice chairman and the company’s general manager was another person.
This person was Chen Yinghua, and Ye Qiu felt this person was somewhat peculiar.
“Who is this Chen Yinghua?”
“Dr. Ye, you mean Uncle Chen, he had always been with my grandfather during the startup, as my grandfather’s right hand, and later assisted my father, also as his right hand. Now he manages both big and small affairs in the company.”
“How old is he?”
“About the same age as my father.”
“Does he have shares in the company?”
“He owns fifteen percent of the shares.” These shares were originally given by Lin Mao as a reward, acknowledging his contributions to the Lin Family.
Fifteen percent?
According to Lin Mao Group’s situation, controlling twenty percent of Malaysia’s rubber industry, it really is a lot.
“What is his personality usually like?”
“He has a great personality, like an elder to me,” Lin Xiang said.