I Want To Be a Rich Man on Hong Kong Island

Christmas 1947.

Christmas is equivalent to the Spring Festival in the West.

Tonight, luxury merchants gathered at the Peninsula Hotel, but most of them are foreigners, not many Chinese.

At this time, Hong Kong Island had the most foreign merchants and foreign firms, and they were also the merchants with the strongest capital.

They monopolize trade, real estate, construction, electricity, hotels, transportation and other industries.

As for Chinese businessmen, there are not many powerful businessmen at all, and they are younger brothers in front of foreign businessmen!

The real rise of Chinese businessmen began in 1949, when big capitalists from the mainland fled one after another and brought a large amount of capital, machinery, and technology to Hong Kong Island.

These people came to Hong Kong Island and immediately opened various factories such as textile factories and garment factories.

Not only enriched himself, but also drove the economy of Hong Kong Island.

During this period, a large number of rich and well-known later generations came. For example, the charter ship king came to Hong Kong in 1949, and the other three ship kings came to Hong Kong Island in 1948. Lee Shau Kee came to Hong Kong Island in 1948, Fok Ying Tung also came to Hong Kong in 1949... ..

There are too many well-known and rich people who will come to Hong Kong from next year.

Wu Guangyao is very proud, Lao Tzu came here in 1947, and these future wealthy families will be his younger brothers!

Lin Yueru was dressed in a white dress, like a noble princess, holding Wu Guangyao's arm, and the two walked into the hall under the leadership of the attendants.

Although Wu Guangyao has become the number one person in the jewelry industry in Hong Kong Island, he basically doesn't know the upper-class businessmen in Hong Kong Island. After all, he has only been here for 10 months.

I am able to receive the invitation this time, I am afraid that it is the credit of John, the manager of the loan department of HSBC. After all, he is the only one who knows Wu Guangyao.

There are about two to three hundred people in the lobby, and these are probably businessmen who have cooperated with or are optimistic about HSBC.

Although Wu Guangyao basically didn't know the wealthy merchants inside, he didn't change his face, neither humble nor overbearing.

Compared with the low-key and low-key way of asking for help in the previous life, the environment is much better!

Fortunately, John didn't embarrass Wu Guangyao. Seeing the two walking in, he immediately said excuse me to the person next to him, and greeted Wu Guangyao.

Unexpectedly, Guan Yi was also inside and greeted the two of them.

At this time, Wu Guangyao and Lin Yueru obviously attracted the attention of many people, because they were too young after all.

Moreover, they belong to handsome men and beautiful women, so it is possible not to attract attention.

John is very enthusiastic about Wu Guangyao, and Wu Guangyao is also very enthusiastic about him, because he wants to take out a loan again.

Regardless of Wu Guangyao's ability to collect more than 400,000 Hong Kong dollars before he went to the US emperor, this is actually not much.

Prices in the U.S. are much more expensive than those on Hong Kong Island. At this time, the per capita salary in the U.S. is actually 130 US dollars, which is 520 Hong Kong dollars.

A salary of 50 Hong Kong dollars on Hong Kong Island already belongs to the high-income group.

The three chatted for a while, and John left again. Obviously, as the host, he was very busy!

"Guangyao, would you like me to take you to meet some senior Chinese businessmen?" Guangyao said.

Wu Guangyao lowered his voice and said, "Forget it, Brother Guan. I'm really not used to dealing with these seniors, you go! Yueru and I will rest here for a while."

Guan Yi said helplessly: "Then I'll go! You..."

Wu Guangyao wasn't showing off, but he didn't want to contact a circle rashly.

And I'm too young, I might be left out if I go up, so I might as well not go.

The most important thing is the future famous rich man, I haven't seen it today, so Wu Guangyao is out of interest!

Just as Wu Guangyao was about to sit down with Lin Yueru, Mike, the person in charge of the Omer Trading Company, came to him with a foreigner.

"Wu, I will introduce a friend to you, you will be very happy!" Mike said with a smile on his face while holding a red wine glass.

It turned out that Mike introduced himself to George, an American trader who had logistics resources for the US military stationed in Asia.

So it is often necessary to purchase zippers.

At this time, the military boots and even some military uniforms of the U.S. military are all zippered, because only in this way can quick combat preparations be made, so a lot of zippers are needed every year.

This time he visited Dongying, and George found that the zippers in Dongying are basically handmade workshops, which are easy to break and expensive, so he was very disappointed!

"Mr. George, why don't you buy zippers directly from the United States, and why bother to buy them in Asia?" Wu Guangyao expressed his doubts.

George did not discriminate against Wu Guangyao, but was kind of friendly. Why?

Because Wu Guangyao is not only fluent in English, but also has an extraordinary bearing, and the most important thing is that he is going to go shopping in the United States soon!

"Wu, if there is no better choice in Asia, of course we will import from the United States. We also hope to find good quality and cheap zippers in Asia." George said with a smile

"Mr. George, can you give me a call? If I can produce a good product, I will send you a sample and a quotation!" Although Wu Guangyao said modestly, he was actually very confident in himself. The zipper produced is definitely cheaper than that of Meidi, and the quality is also good.

"Of course, if there is a better choice, of course we will choose you!"

After communicating for a while, the two left. After all, Wu Guangyao is not a boss.

"A good start!" Wu Guangyao said to Lin Yueru.

In fact, what Wu Guangyao didn't know was that George had just visited Dongying's YKK zipper factory some time ago. As a result, the zippers produced by the YKK zipper factory were not only not as good in quality as American zippers, but also cost 9 cents each.

George directly made fun of Yoshida, the owner of YKK zipper, saying that Yoshida's zipper was 7 cents and no one wanted it.

And took out the zipper produced by Meidi in the bag, saying that this kind of zipper is of better quality than yours, even if I buy it for 7 cents, I can still make money.

At this time, Yoshida realized that his own handmade manufacturing was too far from the US emperor's mechanical manufacturing.

The so-called lifelong enemy is thus forged!

Yes, Wu Guangyao originally intended to replace YYK Zipper, so naturally he was an enemy for life.

Wu Guangyao remembered that the YKK zipper was an automatic zipper machine introduced from the United States in 1950, and an automatic zipper machine was produced in Dongying in 1951, so Wu Guangyao was full of confidence in himself.

If you are one step ahead, you must always be ahead!

However, relying on only one machine cannot lead every step of the way. Naturally, a machine research and development team needs to be established, and the team leader must be Wu Guangyao.

The dinner continued, although Wu Guangyao and Lin Yueru still had a heated chat, although they didn't go to the boss, mainly because Wu Guangyao wanted to ease Lin Yueru's nervousness.

What Wu Guangyao didn't know at this time was that he was labeled ignorant and arrogant by several Chinese businessmen.

"Guan Yi, who is that kid?" An old man asked dissatisfied

"Old Luo, that's Lao Fengxiang's boss, Wu Guangyao!" Guan Yi thumped in his heart, this brother might be remembered.

"Hmph, at a young age, you are so arrogant and arrogant, you have no rules at all, and you even brought a woman to show off!"

"Old Luo, you misunderstood. Guangyao was also afraid of coming here rashly. It's inconvenient for you seniors!" Guan Yi defended Wu Guangyao.

"You don't need to defend him, Guan Yi, if you don't get in touch with this kind of arrogant person, it won't do you any good!"

Guan Yi nodded, actually disapproving in his heart, you old bastards, you have more than enough defense and not enough offense, after two years others will surpass you, and you are still ranking seniority.