杰克、韋強(qiáng)，還有鐵辛三人，在老外們最喜歡的、貴得很變態(tài)的王府井長(zhǎng)安一號(hào)餐廳開(kāi)會(huì)。韋強(qiáng)和鐵辛初次見(jiàn)面，少不得寒暄一陣家長(zhǎng)里短。之后，杰克和韋強(qiáng)兩人自顧自聊了起來(lái)，鐵辛點(diǎn)了幾千塊的紅酒，有一搭沒(méi)一搭地聽(tīng)著，被問(wèn)到時(shí)隨口說(shuō)兩句，時(shí)不時(shí)叫上服務(wù)員加菜添水。

待得聽(tīng)到杰克和韋強(qiáng)的話題轉(zhuǎn)到自己身上，鐵辛的注意力集中起來(lái)。

"Tim，韋總說(shuō)你一表人才！是杰易有史以來(lái)最出色的CEO。"杰克翹起大拇指，用夾生的中文夸贊他。

"哪里哪里，韋總過(guò)獎(jiǎng)了。"鐵辛習(xí)慣性地謙虛著，剛才一直在猜測(cè)他們叫他來(lái)吃飯的用意，現(xiàn)在總算要轉(zhuǎn)入正題了。

杰克還是從他那半生不熟的中文轉(zhuǎn)回了母語(yǔ)，對(duì)鐵辛說(shuō)，"Wei Zong and I are both interested in the investment of business hotels in China. So we plan to start up a Joint Venture company. As I have mentioned, J&L will focus on new media business in the future, so the fast food restaurants need somewhere else to go. That's why I want to have a new business of my own, in order to to buy out some part of the assets from J&L.(我和韋總都很看好經(jīng)濟(jì)型酒店在中國(guó)的投資。打算在這方面有一些合作。上次董事會(huì)的時(shí)候也明確了，杰易未來(lái)的方向是媒體，所以我想，快餐店遲早要從杰易中剝離出來(lái)。所以打算置辦一些自己的產(chǎn)業(yè)，把一部分資產(chǎn)從杰易買(mǎi)出來(lái)并到里邊。)"

鐵辛聽(tīng)到這里，心里的困惑解決了大半，杰克似乎想另起爐灶。不過(guò)他依然搞不清楚杰克為何把他叫過(guò)來(lái)，又為何對(duì)他說(shuō)這些話。謹(jǐn)慎起見(jiàn)，他說(shuō)了些無(wú)關(guān)痛癢，左右皆可的話："I think that's a very good business，one of the business hotel groups in Shanghai went public 3 years ago. European and north American capital markets welcome China concept stories, especially companies with steady cash inflow. But it is a brand new business area for me, I guess Wei Zong must has done a lot of paper work and prepared well, right （我想這真是非常好的生意。據(jù)我所知，上海有一個(gè)集團(tuán)3年前上市了，資本市場(chǎng)對(duì)中國(guó)概念的公司很歡迎，尤其是這種有穩(wěn)定現(xiàn)金流的公司。但這個(gè)領(lǐng)域?qū)ξ襾?lái)說(shuō)是全新的，我猜韋總一定已經(jīng)做了不少研究，而且準(zhǔn)備很充分，對(duì)嗎？"

"That's why I want you to join in our discussion, we havn't found a qualified executive yet. We need someone who is accountable with true execution experience in this area.（這正是我要你來(lái)和我們一起討論的原因，我們還沒(méi)有找到一個(gè)有資格的執(zhí)行官。我們需要一個(gè)可靠的，而且在這領(lǐng)域有實(shí)際經(jīng)營(yíng)經(jīng)驗(yàn)的人。）"

鐵辛聽(tīng)到這里，總算猜了個(gè)八九不離十，料來(lái)杰克不至于挖自己的墻角，只不過(guò)是想讓他幫忙找人。這樣的人雖然肯定是有的，但是大海撈針，真的找起來(lái)，恐怕也得掉層皮，于是說(shuō)道："To be honest, it is not easy to find such a person. We'd better acquire a business hotel chain-store. Those small targets you can see everywhere.（說(shuō)實(shí)話，找這樣一個(gè)人不容易。但我們可以收購(gòu)某個(gè)連鎖酒店。這樣的小酒店遍地都是。）"

"Exactly. That's what I think. So we need your help.（確實(shí)如此，我也是這樣想的。所以我們需要你。）"杰克滿懷期待地看著鐵辛。