My 1999

Hongmeng’s new campus in Xiangjiang is actually the international headquarters of Hongmeng Maps.

It will also be the ground command center after the Hongmeng Map satellite is launched in the future.

Therefore, it is located in the sparsely populated Kowloon area of ​​Hong Kong.

Transmission towers are also built on the surrounding hills.

In the future, as the satellites of Hongmeng Map Company gradually increase, the scale here will become larger and larger.

As a high-tech company, the Xiangjiang government was also generous and directly allocated him 20 acres of land to build its headquarters and transmission tower.

Xu Liang walked around, looked at the company's layout, and then left.

Before the satellite is launched, the facilities here will basically not be activated.

The day passed like this.

…

When the morning sun dispels the darkness, Hong Kong, with its many tall buildings, seems to come alive.

Office workers in a hurry crowded into subways and buses. Their expressions were serious, their brows were furrowed, and they couldn't hide their tiredness.

Looking at the numb faces outside the window, Li Zeju was secretly grateful.

If he hadn't been born into the Li family, I'm afraid he would be like these ordinary people.

Busy and busy every day for survival, giving up ideals and future and becoming a slave to work.

Trapped in this cold city forever.

"Sir, we are here."

Li Zegu was shocked by the words of his father's secretary in the passenger seat.

Look forward subconsciously.

A brand new building comes into view.

At the top of the building, the six characters of 'Hanhua International Center' shone golden in the sunlight.

Information about this building subconsciously popped into Li Zegu's mind.

Its predecessor was the famous Furama Hotel in Xiangjiang.

Officially opened in 1973, it was once a prominent hotel. It is worth mentioning that the top floor of the hotel houses the first revolving restaurant in Hong Kong.

Several birthday parties of Li Zeju were held here.

So he has a deep memory of this former five-star hotel in Xiangjiang.

Lai Sun Group purchased the controlling stake in Furama Hotel from the Fu Laorong family in 1998.

In 2000, Lai Sun sold 65% of its shares to Singapore listed company Paton Land, and announced its decision to terminate the operation of Furama Hotel on November 30, 2001. The hotel building will also be demolished and rebuilt into a Grade A commercial building. .

Not waiting for the building to be completed.

In 2003, Hanhua bought the ownership of this Grade A office building with a construction area of ​​54,600 square meters at No. 1 Connaught Road, Central, for a high price of HK$3 billion.

It was the period when the Asian financial crisis caused the real estate industry in Hong Kong to plunge into a low ebb.

Hanhua finally made a mistake.

Now with the recovery of Hong Kong's real estate industry, the value of this Central building has nearly doubled to HK$6 billion.

Hanhua made a lot of money.

Moreover, top-quality office buildings in Central have always been in short supply. It is foreseeable that this building will continue to appreciate in value.

"Xu Liang's investment vision is truly amazing." Li Ze said thoughtfully.

At that time, in addition to buying the building, the other party also bought 20% of the ownership of the Central Center.

These dozen floors have become the offices in Xiangjiang of Xu's companies such as Taihua Group, Fengjiu Group, and Unocal Resources.

"Zeju, get off the car."

His father's words interrupted his thoughts.

After taking a slight breath, he opened the car door and walked out.

As the two got out of the car, a young man in a black suit hurriedly came up to them.

"Hello Li Sheng.

I am Zhou Ziqi, the third secretary of Hongyan President Office. Mr. Xu asked me to welcome you here. "

Li Jiacheng smiled and shook hands with him.

"Good work."

"You're welcome, please come with me."

After the group entered the building, they took the elevator to the top floor.

"Mr. Li, welcome, welcome." Xu Liang greeted him with a smile.

"Xu Sheng, congratulations, congratulations."

"Congratulations?"

"Winning a lot of business from China Guangdong Development Bank and Huarun, shouldn't you congratulate your business for further growth?" Lao Li said with a smile.

"It's just business exchange. For these assets, I also sold many good companies."

After saying this, he looked at Li Zegu.

"Brother Li, I heard that you have a son. Congratulations."

Li Zegu couldn't help but smile on his face.

Not being able to give birth to a boy has always been his worry. After all, the family needs an heir.

Not having a son puts him at a huge disadvantage when competing with his younger brother for the family business.

It's fine now.

He has a son, and he is the eldest son.

Yangtze River and Hutchison Whampoa are our own.

"When the child turns one year old, I will definitely invite Mr. Xu to have a wedding drink."

Xu Liang smiled and agreed, "Mr. Li won't object, right?"

"It's an honor for the Li family that Xu Sheng can come. How can I object?" Li Jiacheng said with a smile.

"Then I'll be waiting. ...Please sit down."

Everyone sat down and the secretary served tea.

Xu Liang said directly.

"Kanghua Charitable Foundation wants to acquire the 20% stake in Hutchison Ports sold by Hutchison Whampoa, but they told me that Mr. Li wants to talk to me in person?"

Li Jiacheng: "Vivendi Telecom, owned by Mr. Xu, is also developing 3G telecom business. I believe it also knows how expensive base station investment is."

Xu Liang smiled.

After acquiring Vivendi, in addition to pan-entertainment business, he also focused on developing telecommunications business.

Especially, Vivendi made a fortune with him in the Tenglong plan, and after the debt repayment pressure was greatly reduced, it also bought a Dutch 3G license and began to promote the 3G business under Vivendi Telecom.

From last year to now, in just one year, nearly 15 billion Hong Kong dollars have been burned.

To truly complete the 3G telecommunications layout in France and the Netherlands, it is necessary to burn tens of billions of US dollars.

Fortunately, Vivendi had already been promoting 3G business before Xu Liang acquired it, and had a certain foundation, otherwise it would have spent more.

"So in addition to the 20% stake in Hutchison Ports Group, it also plans to sell Hutchison International Telecommunications' 67% stake in Hutchison Essar Telecom.

I wonder if Mr. Xu is interested."

"Hutchison Essar? Telecom India?"

Li Jiacheng nodded.

Hutchison Essar is a wireless communications joint venture between Hutchison Telecom and the Indian giant Essar Group, with Hutchison Telecom holding 67%.

Mainly engaged in 2G telecommunications business, it is the fourth largest telecommunications company in India.

"Not interested."

Xu Liang decisively refused.

What kind of joke is this? Is it so easy to make money from Hei San?

People follow the principle of spitting out what you eat and pouring out what you drink.

So many heroes have drowned in the Ganges, he doesn't want to join in the fun.

"Not interested?"

Li Jiacheng was a little surprised.

The Indian communications market is now a hot commodity, and almost all telecom operators and telecom equipment suppliers want to squeeze in.

Moreover, the Indian wireless communications market is currently the fastest growing market for new mobile phone users in the world.

So far, Hutchison has received offers from British wireless communications giant Vodafone, India's local Sind Group, Egypt's Olascon Telecom Holdings and Essar Group.

If Xu Liang had not seen that he had a lot of cash reserves, and that he could deepen cooperation and continue to get more investment shares from Hanhua, killing two birds with one stone, he would not have considered selling Hutchison Essar to Vivendi Telecom.

As a result, now it's good. His good intentions (although also for the benefit) ended up being all wishful thinking?

"Mr. Xu, although 3G business has gradually developed in developed countries, it is still a long way from maturity. Therefore, in underdeveloped countries such as India, Southeast Asia and Africa.

The profit of 2G business is still lucrative.

Last year, Hutchison Essar's net profit exceeded 1.7 billion US dollars. If Hutchison's European telecommunications business was not too expensive and needed more capital investment, I would not be willing to sell Hutchison Essar."

What he said was essentially correct.

The investment scale of 3G telecommunications is huge, and it is often several billion or even tens of billions of US dollars. Underdeveloped countries simply cannot afford so much money.

So 2G still has a market in underdeveloped countries.

But he didn't know that Xu Liang didn't care about 2G or 3G at all, he cared about Hei San.

In the previous life, after Hutchison sold its Indian telecommunications business to Vodafone, Vodafone was badly cheated by Hei San.

Hutchison Essar, which was obtained from Hutchison, was still warm when Hei San threw a tax bill of 4 billion US dollars.

You know, Vodafone spent only 11.1 billion US dollars to acquire 67% of Hutchison Essar's shares.

Four billion, I'll kill you one-third of it.

Hutchison Whampoa was a little luckier, but it didn't escape.

Ten years after Hutchison Whampoa sold Hutchison Essar, it received a tax bill of $1.2 billion from Hei San.

That's right.

Ten years later, whenever I think of it, I'll still ask you for money.

With this precedent, Xu Liang had a brain ache before he touched it.

"Mr. Li, you're right. There is indeed room for the development of 2G telecommunications business in underdeveloped markets, but I'm not interested in 2G telecommunications business.

If you are willing to sell Hutchison Telecom's 3G telecommunications business in Europe, I'd be happy to hear a quote now."

"Since Mr. Xu doesn't want it, forget it."

He didn't even pick up Xu Liang's words about acquiring the 3G telecommunications business.

As for Hutchison Essar, there is no shortage of buyers now.

Without Xu Liang, there are Essar Group and Vodafone.

Xu Liang asked casually, but he wasn't disappointed when he saw that he didn't sell.

After taking a sip of the tea on the table.

"Mr. Li doesn't want to sell Hutchison Telecom, but I wonder if Husky Energy will sell it?"

Li Jiacheng frowned.

Why does this kid always think about his own treasure?

He suddenly became alert.

"I wonder if Mr. Xu has heard of the 'Peak Oil Theory'?"

The 'Peak Oil Theory' originated from the 'bell curve' law of mineral resources discovered by Hubbert, a famous American petroleum geologist in 1949.

Hubbert believes that as a non-renewable resource, oil production in any region will reach its peak.

After reaching the peak, the oil production in the region will inevitably begin to decline.

This is the core of the Peak Oil Theory.

But the Peak Oil Theory itself is a 'wolf in sheep's clothing'.

On the surface, it is to be prepared for danger in times of peace and protect the environment, but secretly it is harbouring evil intentions.

Advocating the 'Peak Oil Theory' will naturally lead to rising oil prices.

And the oil price is tied to the US dollar.

The higher the oil price, the more US dollars are needed.

The Americans can easily harvest the global market, and quickly and in large quantities.