The birth of the Hong Kong Island family

In the office of Cheung Kong Holdings, Lin Zhichao looked at the newspaper on the table with a complicated expression on his face.

What happened in late August was truly heartbreaking.

After a long time, he finally couldn't help but start to pick up a pen and wrote a title "A Citizen - Lin Zhichao" in his notebook, and then began to write the content calmly and calmly.

Sometimes I stop writing to think, sometimes I write vigorously.

An hour later, he put down the pen in his hand and looked at an article he had written: There is no time to pick the melons from the yellow platform.

The article has some reference parts, but more of it is written by Lin Zhichao based on his knowledge and level over the years.

Even those who can’t understand it can still see ‘X violence’.

After checking, he made a call.

After a while, several senior executives came to his office.

Lin Zhichao asked them to sit in the conference area, and then handed the manuscript to everyone to read.

"I plan to publish this article. Our building may be at risk by then. You must take the strongest precautions."

Everyone circulated it one after another, their faces a little solemn.

After Huang Changhong read it, he said: "Boss, your article is not too fierce, but it is the Hong Kong government that is biased after all, and it can easily get you burned. Besides, you are a businessman, neither a member of parliament nor a media worker, so why bother to take this trip?" Muddy water.”

Hearing this, Lin Zhichao said: "But I have always been regarded as the leader of the Chinese in Hong Kong. Now that Hong Kong is like this, if I say nothing, wouldn't it be difficult to do in the future? It may not really have any impact. Moreover, I am calling on everyone to cherish peace, boycott"

Huang Changhong immediately realized that his boss was still a recognized leader of the Chinese people in Hong Kong and a "Sir" conferred by London. If he had been standing by and watching, even if the Hong Kong government did not target the boss in the future, at least it would no longer provide convenience and care.

Later, Lin Zhichao said: "Manager Hu, you go to "Sing Tao Newspaper" for me. I want to buy all the advertising space. Let them print more of it. If it is not sold, we will give it away. We can make up the price."

He explained to Hu Zhaoxu one by one how to format the text; the core was to "cherish peace", so he made a big "X to eliminate violence".

After Hu Zhaoxu remembered it, he took people to work on it.

Lin Zhichao doesn't think this will have much impact on the overall situation. He calls on citizens to unite to love Hong Kong, love their families, and love themselves, draw clear boundaries with them, and see clearly that the other party has affected all aspects of Hong Kong.

Of course, he also has speculation intentions. Anyway, the peak period will be over in a month or two, so why not give the British Hong Kong government some face!

And his words are not very sharp. After all, once sharp words offend Zuo Lengchan, the risk factor will increase. After this year, Zuo Lengchan will lose power and will no longer be a concern.

The next day.

"Sing Tao Daily" caused a huge sensation in Hong Kong, and Lin Zhichao also began to avoid the spotlight at home, talking over the phone or having his subordinates come to his home to discuss matters.

Because Lin Zhichao's influence was too great, the Hong Kong government also contacted him to see if they needed to send police officers for protection, but Lin Zhichao refused on the grounds that he had his own bodyguards.

Xue Junshan, a long-time bodyguard, bought two pistols and personally stood guard for Lin Zhichao. In fact, it was a bit of a fuss, but it was still due to the good intentions of his subordinates.

Lin Zhichao's remarks are more useful in winning the hearts and minds of the people of Hong Kong. You must know that Zuo Lengchan's faction only has 20 to 30 thousand people, and many others are just spectators.

Because things have developed to this extent, Zuo Lengchan's faction has begun to become unpopular. Coupled with Lin Zhichao's remarks, it is even more offensive, and the citizens have begun to hate them.

weekend.

On the sea of ​​Tiebo Island, Lin Zhichao entertained Mo Yingji on the yacht, accompanied by Zhou Fuzhao, the financial manager of Cheung Kong Holdings.

The three of them sipped red wine and enjoyed snacks.

Lin Zhichao said with emotion: "These things have to be fought for. If you don't want to fight and just want to enjoy, then the result will be that no one can enjoy it. In this way, they will feel balanced in their hearts. However, those who are capable can go out. , I still have the ability to enjoy it again.”

Mo Yingji knew what Lin Zhichao was talking about and said: "So it is better to work hard on your own, and everyone can enjoy it in the end. No matter what his ideas are, it is the last word to keep people fed. I read Lin Zhichao this week Sir's article is deeply touching, and I believe 99% of Hong Kong people will be deeply touched, and the remaining 1% are hopeless."

Lin Zhichao nodded and said: "I hope the senior management will order an end soon! By the way, Mo Sheng. Has the Hang Seng Index touched below sixty points?"

Although the Hang Seng Index at this time has been issued, it is not actually public, or it is not recognized, and it is only calculated within a small range.

Mo Yingji nodded and said, "Yes, it hit 58 points this Thursday. How miserable!" Seeing Lin Zhichao's appearance, he immediately asked, "Lin Sheng plans to enter the market?"

If he dares to enter the market at this time, he is afraid that only Lin Zhichao is the only one in Hong Kong.

Lin Zhichao said: "Yes! I plan to take a gamble, so I plan to spend 15 million Hong Kong dollars to enter the market. Please buy Grand Hotel, CMB, KMB, Hong Kong Electric, and CLP for me. There are more than a dozen stocks, each Buy some of the stocks.”

He plans to spend 30 million Hong Kong dollars to buy the bottom and enter the market in two batches, so that the funds will not be idle too much and there will be no need to put all of them on real estate. At the same time, his total fund for bargain hunting this time is 250 million. He has already spent more than 30 million to buy real estate (including the 13 million sold by Li Gaofu), and plans to allocate another 30 million for stock trading.

Starting from September, we have the remaining four months to prepare to buy real estate at the bottom, with more than 180 million left; of course, it depends on the specific situation, and not all of it may be spent.

Mo Yingji said with admiration: "Sir Sir Lin is so brave! Then I won't advise you, because I know you are much better than us. Then I will contact Manager Zhou later to ensure that your funds can be purchased smoothly."

Lin Zhichao nodded and said, "Well, if I buy it in two months, it will be fine."

Buy 15 million in the first two months, and another 15 million in the next two months. Just finish buying the bottom this year.

"No problem, I understand Mr. Lin's worries!"

"Okay, drink!"

The days that followed.

"A Citizen Lin Zhichao" had a great influence, which also angered Zuo Lengchan. Some people threatened to put Lin Zhichao on the "traitor list" and "must kill list"; of course, Lin Zhichao was not included in the end, probably because of his wording. Relatively mild.

But no matter what, Lin Zhichao's personal safety in Hong Kong has been put at a dangerous level, and his overseas family and friends have advised him to seek refuge overseas.

joke!

If he hides, won't his fame be lost forever?

Therefore, Lin Zhichao began to come to the Global Building to work. But his mode of transportation was rather special. He went to the pier in Sheung Wan via yacht, and then drove into the Global Tower in a prepared motorcade. It's only a short drive, and the safety factor is greatly improved.

Near the Universal Building, there is a 24-hour JC on duty, because when the Hong Kong government proposed to protect Lin Zhichao, he asked JC to take more care of the Universal Building. This building is the headquarters of many of his groups, so it is of great significance.

"Boss, there are some very good properties here. I have sorted them out!" Hu Zhaoxu came to his office and handed over a piece of information.

Recently, Changjiang Real Estate has begun to acquire a large number of cheap properties, and transactions occur almost every day.

As a large number of rich people are eager to immigrate, the real estate market has become a panic selling situation. Even so, there is a situation of price but no market. At this time, Changjiang Real Estate secretly acquired sites, properties, land, etc., and it was simply making a fortune.

A site in Central costs only HKD 260 per square foot (it also depends on the location in Central); a site in Wan Chai costs only HKD 60 per square foot (it also varies by location); a single-storey house in Mid-levels, At only HK$600,000 (8,000 square feet), such a bargain is not too much.

Such a property will not be available even in another two months, and the price will rise slightly. After all, if the chaos is a little better, there will still be many people ready to move overseas, but the properties for sale will not be so extremely cheap, and some prices will recover.

"Well, the locations look good! Although the current price is cheap enough, we still have to select the location and consider the development prospects."

"Yes, there are a lot of properties out there for us to choose from, and we only choose the best and cheapest ones!"

Lin Zhichao nodded, and suddenly he thought that since he could think of this problem, I am afraid that Zheng Yutong, Li Shauji, Guo Desheng, Wang Dehui, etc. would also be tempted to buy some extremely cheap properties; but they would not bet all in at the beginning, after all Who dares to bet everything on this kind of chaos!

"There are mostly sites and land. This strategy is right. Reduce investment in rent-collecting properties. Once the real estate recovers, it will be faster to make money by developing real estate." Lin Zhichao commented.

"Okay, I understand what the boss means."

The site has properties on it, it may be a real estate that has been stopped, it may be an old tenement building; it does not have to be a large site. In the later stage, merging of buildings will be considered, and of course, sites that do not need to be annexed will be given priority.

Land refers to private land, or land acquired by some real estate developers from government land.

Put aside 30 million Hong Kong dollars for stock speculation and 13 million to buy Li Gaofu's property; Cheung Kong Holdings still has more than 200 million Hong Kong dollars to buy bargain-hunting sites and land. If calculated based on the average price of 50 square feet, Cheung Kong Holdings may increase its land reserve by 4 million square feet; Coupled with the original land bank of 1.2 million, that is a land bank of more than 5.2 million square feet.

Of course, we will also purchase some rent-collecting properties and reserve some funds. In this way, there is no problem in increasing the land bank by 2.8 to 3 million yuan; expanding the land bank to 4 million square feet in one fell swoop is already quite terrifying.

These land parcels are not opportunities for the real estate giants such as Cheng Yutong, Lee Shau Kee, and Wang Dehui to grab, but the market is already flooded with a large number of properties for sale. There was no Lin Zhichao in the previous life. Many property owners may have avoided losses because of the "price but no market". In the end, they even failed to move because the assets could not be sold.

Cheung Kee was one of the first 69 members of the Hong Kong Real Estate Chamber of Commerce. At his peak, he was also a real estate businessman with assets of tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars.

But with the violent shocks in the real estate market in the past two to three years, his assets have plummeted. More importantly, he and his family can't wait to leave Hong Kong and move to Vancouver.

It is not easy to move abroad. The first thing to consider is 'money'. Money is needed to move and to live abroad. Especially for someone like him who is used to the life of a wealthy person, it is even less likely that he will live a hard life.

But his real estate assets of more than 10 million yuan have now dropped by 70%, which is very painful; but the situation in Hong Kong is so serious that he does not want to stay at all.

Must move to Vancouver!

After returning home, my wife hurriedly said: "Has the property been sold? Our big family is waiting to go to Vancouver. If we don't have money to go there, are we going to live a lower-class life?" Between the words, there was no doubt. Be sympathetic to your husband's troubles.

Zhang Ji said unhappily: "Why are you in a hurry? There are so many people selling properties out there, how many people do you think are buying them? Do you understand that there is no market price?"

The wife didn't care about that. She took the children and said, "I'm not in a hurry! People are dying everywhere now. Have you thought about the safety of such a big family?"

Zhang Ji was speechless. He had six children, so he couldn't stay at home forever. Moreover, he was not optimistic about the prospects of Hong Kong, so moving to Vancouver was already a certainty.

"Master, your company called and said that someone is willing to buy a property and asked you to come over!"

Zhang Ji and his wife are very happy!

"Go to the company quickly and sell the property so that we can go to the Canadian Immigration Bureau to go through the formalities. I heard that the queue is very long now."

"I know, don't run around!"

Zhang Ji rushed towards the company!

At the beginning of 1965, he calculated his assets and found that the combined value of all his properties was HK$20 million. However, with the occurrence of bank runs, his properties immediately devalued to HK$15 to 16 million.

When the bank called for debt, he would advance his family's cash to protect the territory and land in his hands. But he didn't expect that something like this would happen this year, causing his property to depreciate by 70%, and its current total value is only HK$4 to 5 million.

The important thing is that there is no price but no market!

The whole family is waiting to move to Vancouver. Compatriots, friends, and relatives all say that it is very good there. The Canadian government is very welcoming, and more and more Chinese are settling there, so they will not feel unfamiliar.

Zhang Ji listed all his properties for sale in the newspaper. In his opinion, he would sell them if they could be sold. After selling for HK$2 million, he took his family to immigrate. Coupled with the cash and jewelry in hand, you can live a life of small wealth there.

As for the remaining properties, we will keep them and continue to sell them, but we will no longer be in Hong Kong. If it were like the Shanghai Stock Exchange back then, it would be tragic if no one could escape.

Rich people with ideas like Zhang Ji are everywhere in Hong Kong at this time. Because of this, the market is flooded with a large number of properties for sale. And some of these people, because their properties have not been sold, may stop moving overseas after the situation subsides; some people no longer trust Hong Kong and continue to choose to move overseas even if the situation subsides; and some people find that after living overseas for a period of time, they simply cannot After adapting to the Western living environment and seeing that Hong Kong was developing very well, I began to return to Hong Kong.

In short, these people have lost a lot of wealth to those who are determined to develop Hong Kong. This is a feast of wealth reshuffling. The old rich people have become silent and disappeared, and the new rich people have begun to shine.

Only ‘God’ is ‘eternal’.

Many years later, everyone discovered that Lin Chichao's family had been the richest man in Hong Kong since 50 years, and was still the richest man in Hong Kong 70 years later. What an incredible existence this is.

When he arrived at the company and saw Hu Zhaoxu, Zhang Ji was a little surprised.

He knows Hu Zhaoxu. Isn't this Sir Lin's general?

"Manager Hu, is Sir Lin planning to buy our property?"

"Boss Zhang, our company is buying your property!"

"same!"

Afterwards, the two groups sat down and talked.

Hu Zhaoxu is responsible for purchasing properties in the market. He is responsible for negotiating multi-million dollar deals. Of course, he is accompanied by people from the marketing department. The finances are also audited and paid by Zhou Fuzhao himself.

"Boss Zhang, we are interested in these five sites, but we hope the price will be more favorable!" Hu Zhaoxu waved the dragon-slaying knife without hesitation.

Zhang Ji naturally argued with reason: "Manager Hu, the price is already low. If I hadn't been in a hurry to move overseas, I wouldn't have sold the business I've worked so hard for. If it's too low, I might as well"

There is no need to hide the reason behind it, because it is a recognized reason.

Hu Zhaoxu said with a smile: "Staying in Hong Kong is too risky. Boss Zhang definitely doesn't want to gamble. In this case, I will add more."

In the end, Zhang Ji quickly agreed to sell, and the bargaining between the two parties was not very serious; one party did not want to complete the matter, and the other party was eager to sell.

Hu Zhaoxu knows that the boss values ​​​​the location most, followed by the price drop; and if the property is to be merged later, points may be reduced.

In September, except for Lin Zhichao being surrounded by a group of bodyguards at all times, everything was as normal as before; he went to Universal Group, Cheung Kong Holdings, and Cheung Kong Industries as usual to stabilize military morale.

During this period, Cheung Kong Industries has never stopped working for a day. Cheung Kong Industries has property transactions every day, and Universal Group has reached a higher level.

Lin Zhichao expected that nothing happened to Yangtze River Industry, but it surprised others. After all, it was a factory with 13,000 people.

Many entrepreneurs in Hong Kong have suffered this time, such as:

Hu Yingxiang's father, Hu Zhong, originally owned two taxi companies with 500 taxis. However, because they fired a worker, some workers sat outside the carports every day and refused to leave. In the end, they had to cut off their arms and sold almost all the taxis to Workers, workers don’t have enough money and can only accept installment payments;

The same is true for He Tian's Yinlong Taxi Company. They planned to sell some taxis and lay off the workers. At most, they would spend money to sever them. But the workers refused and had to resume work. Soon, some people were sitting in front of Hang Seng Bank. At first, there were more than 10 people sitting there. Later, more and more people sat silently, as if the bank was about to run...

The sand dredging workers of Airship Tai also joined the strike. Because they were abroad and had no senior executives to manage them, it caused a catastrophe. You must know that Airship Tai's sand dredging workers signed a contract with the Hong Kong government and were required to pay regular wages every year. No matter how much sand is produced, it is very troublesome to not be able to get it out.

They abound!

In the Yangtze River Industrial Park, a total of 13,000 workers go to work as normal every day, and no one participates in the strike. Even if a few people have ideas, they will soon be isolated by their fellow workers, and ultimately will not be realized.

After two years of sharp wage increases, Cheung Kong Industrial workers' salaries have reached about HK$300 per month, thirteen salaries a year, three holiday benefits, a standard 50 cents per meal, and various on-site activities.

With a large number of benefits, these workers are afraid of losing their current benefits because it is rumored that Sir Lin has a large fleet and can move the factory to Southeast Asia for production at any time.

As a result, workers began to supervise each other and never allowed factory employees to cause trouble.

At the same time, someone from Zuo Lengchan came to hang out near the factory, but was driven away by the workers.