Rebirth of Hong Kong 1981

   Chapter 464 The first child of the second generation of Xiangjiang

   "Zhen Ting, what are you talking about? So happy?"

   Just when Yang Chen and Huo Zhenting were about to end their chat, a person appeared in front of them.

  Huo Zhenting stood up with a look of surprise, looked at the person who came and asked, "Brother Dong, why are you free to come here?"

   Hearing Huo Zhenting's name for the person who came, Yang Chen also stood up, the person who came was not someone else, it was Mr. Dong, who is now in the limelight, the number one person in Xiangjiang in the future, and the big brother who spanned two political and business circles.

   At this time, the old ship king Dong had already handed over all the family business to Mr. Dong last year due to physical reasons. Normally, Mr. Dong cannot work for such activities.

  After all, the old ship king suddenly retired, and Dong Gongzi took over this period of time, and he couldn't find the energy to deal with these things.

   Huo Zhenting didn't see Dong Gongzi very much at many receptions before. Now, when he first saw Dong Gongzi here, he was naturally surprised.

   Young Master Dong smiled and didn't explain anything to Huo Zhenting, but turned his head to look at Yang Chen who had stood up and was watching him.

"Mr. Dong, hello." Seeing Young Master Dong looking at him, Yang Chen greeted him first. For a middle-aged man who is already two rounds older than him, and about ten years older than Huo Zhenting, he can't call him brother. or something.

   Young Master Dong stretched out his hand and said with a smile, "Hello, Yang Sheng, I haven't heard your name a lot during this time, and I haven't had a chance to meet each other. I finally see you today..."

  Yang Chen: "Mr. Dong passed the prize, it's just luck."

   "Haha" Seeing Yang Chen's modesty, Dong Gongzi smiled and didn't say much. He had already received the news that the Zhao family split up Huaguang Group, and Yang Chen would take over most of the Zhao family's ships and Asian business.

   As the Zhao family retires, Yang Chen, the newcomer who took over the Zhao family's fleet, is afraid that it will not be long before he will take over the position of the Zhao family and become another new ship king of Xiangjiang.

  Although Yang Chen, the ship king, is at the end, but thinking about the age of the other party, if the other party has the intention to enter the shipping industry in a big way at this time, then the impact on the Dong family will definitely not be small.

   In particular, the other party also made good friends with the Dong family's mortal enemy, the charter king. The Bao family and the Dong family have always been the eldest and second brothers. The charter king was magnificent before, with the support of HSBC, the largest banknote issuer in Hong Kong.

   So that no matter how hard the Dong family tried, they could only eat ashes behind the charter king, with no end in sight.

   It was not until the shipping crisis came, that the charter king changed his style, abandoned his ships and docked, and sold his ships aggressively, and finally let the Dong family see a glimmer of hope.

  With the Dong family buying ships all over the world, now the Dong family has become another family that has boarded the world's ship king after the charter king.

   As the saying goes, one mountain cannot tolerate two tigers.

   At this time, although the world shipping crisis is getting heavier and more obvious, the Dong family did not realize this, or in other words, the Dong family deliberately ignored it.

  The temptation of the world ship king is too great, so big that the Dong family will not hesitate to borrow money to ascend to that throne.

   And because of everyone's confidence in Dong Chuanwang, the crisis of the Dong family did not show up under the depression of shipping.

  As the charter king abandoned the ship and docked, the focus has been constantly shifted from the shipping industry to the real estate and other industries. The Dong family has expanded its fleet wildly in the past two years, and now the ship king Dong has become a veritable world ship king.

   As the saying goes, it is easy to conquer the country, but difficult to defend.

   For Yang Chen, the new ship king who may rise at any time, Dong Gongzi has no reason to not seriously understand it, let's get in touch.

   At the invitation of Huo Zhenting, Dong Gongzi immediately joined Yang Chen and the others to a table.

   After chatting for a while, Dong Gongzi suddenly smiled and said: "It's a coincidence, I'm here today because of you, Yang Sheng. Uncle Bao's attention to Yang Sheng makes me even envious."

   "Uh..." Hearing what Young Master Dong said, Yang Chen could only smile bitterly, not knowing how to answer.

Speaking of the position of the director of the Jockey Club, even when Mr. Dong was still alive, he was not qualified to enter the Jockey Club. Now, Yang Chen, a young man who is less than 20 years old, has the opportunity to enter the Jockey Club. Board of Directors.

   To be honest, this is unacceptable to any second-generation disciple in Xiangjiang.

   Of course, someone like Dong Gongzi, who has already taken over the family business, can't take what he says from the other side's mouth.

   A Jockey Club director, compared to the Dong family's fleet, is not worth mentioning at all, and it is not worth the attention of Dong Gongzi at all.

  Because he wasn't too familiar with him, Yang Chen didn't show much enthusiasm for the future Young Master Dong in front of him. Although the other party would be awesome in the future, it would be more than ten years later.

   For more than ten years, Yang Chen didn't even know how huge he had grown into a giant.

   Maybe at that time he was tired of sitting on the position of the richest man in China, and the richest man in the world was also happy & finished.

   Looking at Mr. Dong who was talking very much in front of him, Yang Chen suddenly remembered that the old ship king Dong passed away next year, and the crisis that the Dong family was hiding under the scenery of the world ship king began to break out.

  With the slowdown of the global economy, Japan and South Korea are blowing up the revitalization of the shipbuilding industry. With supply exceeding demand, the world shipping crisis has begun to increase. The good days of the Dong family will come to an end with the death of the old ship king Dong.

   Dong Gongzi, the heir to the new world ship king, has not yet secured his position, and is facing the collapse of the family business.

   Since the initial charter king came ashore, the shipping crisis has been highlighted.

   However, because everyone was busy taking over the position of the world's No. 1 ship king after the contracting ship king left, and then merging and expanding their own fleet.

  Because the Dong family is supported by the old ship king Dong, the banks believe in the ability of the old ship king, so they have been lending money to the Dong family and continue to promote the big ship of the Dong family to enter the throne of the world ship king.

  Unfortunately, the manpower is not as good as the number of days.

  As the old man's health is getting worse and worse, although Dong Gongzi is capable and not young, but in terms of prestige, there is still no way to compare it with the prestige of the old Dong Chuanwang for decades.

   I remember that the Dong family in later generations owed a huge debt of more than 20 billion Hong Kong dollars. The amount of this debt has almost caught up with half of the property disclosed by the Bao family when the king of the boat passed away.

   The next few years will be the saddest day for the Dong family, and also the saddest day for his son Dong.

  In those days, it was not until 1986, when the Dong family fleet was facing bankruptcy and liquidation, that with the efforts of Dong Gongzi, Huo Daheng received capital injection, and it was completely out of the predicament.

   To say that Huo Daheng's name is famous, after Dong Gongzi received Huo Daheng's support, he immediately announced the reorganization of the company, and then took advantage of the situation to loan 250 million US dollars to several banks.

   A capital injection and a loan have raised a total of more than 2 billion Hong Kong dollars of liquidity for the Dong family. (The exchange rate between Hong Kong dollars and US dollars in 1986 has been fixed at one to seven.)

  After obtaining more than 2 billion Hong Kong dollars of liquidity, Dong Gongzi finally breathed a sigh of relief and reorganized the company. Although the Dong family lost control in the new reorganized company, Dong Gongzi changed from boss to employee.

   But with the reorganization of the company, the Dong family also got rid of the bankruptcy situation in one fell swoop, and kept the shipping company left by the old ship king Dong.

   Until the early 1990s, the world shipping crisis eased, and the Dongjia fleet began to make profits.

   Maybe it was God’s blessing. Behind the Hong Kong, the inland spent ten years to finally build the infrastructure and officially entered the second stage of reform and opening up.

  With the further opening of the inland, the world shipping industry has ushered in a new wedge, shipping has recovered, and with the development of the inland economy, it has begun to return to the historical track.

   Until the beginning of the 21st century, the Dong family went from a debt of HK$20 billion to a net worth of US$800 million.

  Dong Gongzi spent nearly ten years to bring the debt-ridden family business back to life and revive it. This kind of experience is rare in the history of Heung Kong.

   After all, 20 billion Hong Kong dollars, not 200 yuan, how many people were scared to death when they heard this number, how could they still have the heart to save the family business.

  When Xiangjiang returned in 1997, when everyone thought that Dong Gongzi, who saved the family business, would continue to inherit the glory of his ancestors and continue to march toward the world's ship king, Dong Gongzi's decision again surprised everyone.

   A business tycoon who gave up the title of ship king and stepped into the political arena was unexpected for many people.

   What is even more unexpected to countless people is that after this Dong Gongzi stepped into the political arena, there were almost no obstacles, and he reached the peak directly.

   It is no exaggeration to say that the Dong Gongzi who is sitting in front of Yang Chen at the moment is a legend, a living legend, and his experience is more interesting than that of his parents.

  Dong Gongzi alone, almost covered up the light of all the second-generation children of Xiangjiang, even the two sons of Li Chaoren.

   When people mentioned the second generation of Xiangjiang’s children in later generations, most would mention that Li Chaoren would train his son Yunyun, and he kept it by his side since he was a child.

  Compared to Li Chaoren's two sons, Dong Gongzi is not so high-profile. Lao Dong Chuanwang has a total of five children. As the eldest son, Dong Gongzi is most valued by the old Dong Chuanwang.

   Several younger brothers and sisters of Dong Gongzi have studied in privately run aristocratic schools, while Dong Gongzi was sent to the public school by the old Dong Chuanwang.

  The studious Mr. Dong was admitted to the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Liverpool at the age of thirteen. During his time at the University of Liverpool, when the Second Middle East War broke out, the fleet of the old ship king Dong has been rapidly expanded.

  The Dong family is the second largest ship king family in Xiangjiang after the charter king. The family capital is hundreds of millions. Among the second generation, Dong Gongzi definitely belongs to the top group.

  The family has billions of dollars, but the old Dong Chuanwang still asks his son to live a simple life. Like ordinary international students, he travels between the campus and the place by bus or bicycle, and concentrates on his studies.

  According to the normal thinking of Chinese parents, this kind of tempering is almost the same. When Dong Gongzi finishes his studies, he should come back and train him by his side.

   However, the old Dong Chuanwang once again subverted everyone's cognition. After Dong Gongzi graduated from University, the old Dong Chuanwang asked his son to go to General Motors in the United States to be a low-level mechanic worker.

   In the face of this kind of training mode, if you change the general second-generation son, I am afraid that he will quit his job a long time ago. The family has hundreds of millions of properties, but he does not give his son the enjoyment.

   Even ordinary college students have the opportunity to blow air conditioners in the office after graduation, and Dong Gongzi has to work as an ordinary mechanic.

   Let me ask, is this the treatment a son of a ship king should have?

   However, Dong Gongzi is also very good. Not only did he honestly go to work in the General Motors company according to his father's requirements, but the most terrible thing was that Dong Gongzi seemed to be addicted to being a worker, and he worked for several years.

   Good guy, Dong Gongzi's behavior has directly refreshed the worldview of the second generation of children of Xiangjiang.

   Thinking of Dong Gongzi's experiences, Yang Chen couldn't help admiring it. Perhaps only those who have endured hardship since childhood can face difficulties without being overwhelmed by pressure from all sides.

   People often say that wealth is only three generations, and this sentence is true.

  Especially in the new century, the world is changing rapidly. Today you may be the first in the industry, but tomorrow you may be overtaken by others, and even in the blink of an eye, the industry is facing a situation of elimination.

  A hundred years of business, one hundred years is enough to verify that a family has three generations. If you want to be rich for three generations, then you must let your family business live for a hundred years.

   However, looking at the world, how many companies can survive a hundred years? Looking at all the companies in the world, what percentage of these companies are companies that have been in existence for hundreds of years?

  If Dong Gongzi was not trained by the old ship king Dong since he was a child, with the crisis that the Dong family faces next, no one except Dong Gongzi could bear the mountain-like pressure.

  Xiangjiang has been a port for over a hundred years, and many great families have disappeared in the torrent of history.

   And like the Dong family, most of the families that did not rely on real estate were wiped out.

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   (end of this chapter)