Is this a bait?

no!

It's a fatal temptation!

If you are not careful, you may lose your life, or even the wealth accumulated by the Si family over the years!

Split up the Imperial Railways!

When this is said, how many people dare to believe it?

No one dared to believe it at all, because it was a huge enterprise with millions of employees, hundreds of thousands of kilometers of railways.

The Imperial Railway Company is the largest monopoly enterprise in the empire. It owns not only railways, but also a large amount of commercial real estate, and even its own airlines, shipping companies, banks, supermarkets, manufacturing companies, metallurgical and mining companies, and oil companies.

Not only that, the Imperial Railway Company is the actual controlling shareholder of the Mexican Railway Company through overseas investment, and is the second largest shareholder of the Chinese Railway Company. It also has a large number of investments in Rome, Russia and other countries. It can be said that the Imperial Railway Company is the most complex monopoly enterprise in the empire. This enterprise is definitely a giant among the state-owned enterprises in the empire. Even if it is split, it is not its turn to split it.

This is absolutely wishful thinking.

Although Schindler did not speak, the disdain on his face was revealed undisguisedly, because he knew very well how huge the influence of the Imperial Railway Company, which was once a "national policy enterprise", was.

Divide him?

Is it possible?

Looking at his face full of disdain, Xu Zili raised the corners of his lips and said.

"You must think that all this is impossible. After all, the Imperial Railway is too huge. But in fact, the Imperial Railway is just a giant with feet of clay!"

Picking up the teacup on the table, Xu Zili took a sip of tea. The tea was just ordinary oolong tea, produced in his own tea plantation in the Andes Mountains. There weren't many stories about it, but it was well known that its quality was definitely not inferior to that of the old Chinese tea plantation. To some extent, the tea plantations in the empire were not good at telling stories, but were better at improving their quality.

"In this clay-footed giant, there are actually many factions. The largest group is the transportation faction, the most profitable are the banking faction and the oil faction, as well as the management faction and the enterprise faction. The formation and development of each faction is based on their own common interests. Over the years, the various factions within the Imperial Railway Company have been divided into two parts, those who support the privatization of the Imperial Railway and those who support the nationalization of the Imperial Railway. Within these two seemingly distinct factions, there are more detailed factions, and their specific interests have even smaller differences in detail."

Schinder was not unfamiliar with the factions within the Empire Railway mentioned by Xu Zili, because even in California, there were great differences between corporate factions, because the profits of oil companies and banks were very large. As the fundamental transportation faction of the Empire Railway, the profits were very limited, and even the transportation faction was divided into the rail faction, the aviation faction, and the shipping faction. The huge joint venture company originally established by the land, sea and air joint venture also led to conflicts among the parties due to profit distribution, especially the aviation faction, which believed that rail transportation had hindered their development.

“It all comes down to profit.”

Xu Zili said directly.

"Because rail transportation is loss-making, in order to maintain normal business operations, the head office must allocate profits from other branches to make up for the losses of rail transportation, which naturally leads to dissatisfaction among other factions. This dissatisfaction is widespread in the Imperial Railway Company... This has led to the Imperial Railway being influenced by many factional factors in the process of choosing a path, causing the development of the Imperial Railway Company to fall into a dilemma of choice, and ultimately leading to the stagnation and slowness of the national railway development. The stagnation and slowness of the Imperial Railway's development has also led to a decline in its corporate interests and benefits. The company has gone from a behemoth to a flashy ornament."

"A gaudy ornament" and "a giant with feet of clay" were both descriptions of the huge Imperial Railway Company in newspapers. In fact, the outside world had also noticed the predicament of the Imperial Railway Company, a former "national policy enterprise". In Xu Zili's view, this was his opportunity.

"That is why the division of the Imperial Railway Company has reached a stage where it is inevitable. However, there are many options for the division method."

"Do you mean to promote privatization during the division process?"

Si Xinde asked directly.

“Privatization may be the best option.”

Xu Zili's answer made Shi Xingde stunned. He finally understood the other party's idea. This guy is really scheming. Although he has always advocated splitting the Imperial Railway Company to improve its efficiency and profits and get rid of the current stagnant and slow development situation, this guy wants to use the excuse of splitting to promote the privatization of the Imperial Railway.

This is not privatization at all; it is clearly putting a large piece of fat meat on the plate and letting everyone share it. As long as you can join in, it can be said that everyone can have a mouthful of fat.

This is an unprecedented feast!

Faced with this bait, Schind was immediately tempted, but he did not lose his mind, because he knew very well how much risk this banquet would involve.

After all, everything has two sides, the more benefits there are, the greater the risks.

Similarly, the greater the risk, the greater the return. Si Xinde certainly understands this principle. Moreover, his family has gained rich returns in the face of huge risks.

"I have to say that Dean Xu's idea is very good, but have you considered another problem? Is it possible that the Royal Family will agree?"

Looking at Si Xingde, who was excited but a little worried, Xu Zili directly told him his plan.

"The royal family may object, but they will never risk damaging the greater good. After all, it is well known that reputation is very important to the royal family."

Xu Zili was very clear about what he could do and what he would do.

"Reputation? What are you going to do about it?"

"How?"

Xu Zili sneered.

"As we all know, the royal family has an extremely large amount of capital, and it can even be said that it is the richest in the world. Even if the royal family gives the capital to dozens of companies and funds for operation, their wealth is still envied by the outside world. If the outside world thinks that the royal family opposes the privatization of the national railway just to preserve its property, then it is bound to deal a blow to its reputation. Sometimes, in order to maintain its reputation, it is not impossible for the royal family to make appropriate sacrifices..."

What's this!

This is a trap for the royal family!

According to the law... this is extremely disrespectful!

This guy is so bold!

Perhaps in the Ming Dynasty, the crime of disrespect would not be punished by killing nine generations of the family as in history. But if this crime is put on someone, he will definitely be severely punished, and even banned in various ways by the business community. And this ban is active.

After all, no one is willing to risk offending the royal family to help that ungrateful guy. Moreover, in the business world, the influence of the royal family is unimaginable to outsiders. After all, the largest chaebol in the Ming Dynasty is the royal family itself.

Entrap the royal family!

It's amazing that he could think of this.

However, if it succeeds, the benefits are unimaginable.

Staring at Si Xingde who seemed to be in deep thought, Xu Zili asked back.

"The only question is, are you willing to get involved?"