The birth of the Hong Kong Island family

Lin Zhichao took a private plane to Tokyo for business, but he was accompanied by two maids - Lin Xia and Guan Hui.

He was sitting on the sofa, reading with a book in his hand. The two beautiful maids sometimes brought him wine, sometimes snacks, and sometimes made secret glances.

Lin Zhichao took a sip of red wine, and then said with self-discipline: "Drink less wine, we have to work in the afternoon!"

Lin Xia smiled and said, "Don't you always say that you are ready to retire?"

Lin Zhichao put down the book, glanced at the two women, and said: "People who often talk about retirement basically have a hard time retiring, and the same is true for me. But I am also a commander now. If it weren't for this, I wouldn't even have a sip of wine while working. They don’t even know how to drink.”

Lin Xia said with admiration: "Then the number of people you command must be tens of thousands, right?"

What she means is that Lin Zhichao's companies have tens of thousands of people.

Lin Zhichao said: "I don't need to command so many people. There are about three to four hundred people around me. I will command them directly. And they need to command seven to eight thousand people."

The two women's eyes suddenly shone brightly as they looked at such a young man - 55 years old in age, 35 in appearance and 30 in status.

Lin Zhichao said with great enjoyment: "After you arrive in Tokyo, someone will take you to the hotel. There will be female assistants and drivers arranged. You can choose to shop and rest on your own. Tonight I will have a dinner with my colleagues, and tomorrow I will have a meeting with Nippon Real Estate Tycoon Yoshiaki Tsutsumi plays golf and talks about business. If he can spare time, he will take you to visit the streets of Tokyo for a day."

This trip to Japan actually has a very full schedule. After all, investing in Japanese real estate and stock markets is a big business, and Lin Zhichao also needs to meet many people in person.

As for taking Lin Xia and Guan Hui with him, Lin Zhichao had a purely selfish idea. Of course, the two women didn't think so. They thought it was also a pleasant trip.

"OK, everything you do is important, of course the most important thing!"

"Then my sister and I will go shopping!"

You have money, how can you be boring? The two women don't particularly care. As long as Lin Zhichao spends a day playing with the two of them, he will be very satisfied.

Lin Zhichao hugged the two women's waists with satisfaction, enjoying the life of an emperor. In ancient times, when Emperor Qianlong went to the south of the Yangtze River, he naturally took his concubines with him, and of course he also took in daughters along the way.

He didn't want to take in girls at will, so he took two concubines with him to relieve his fatigue on the road.

As for not taking Zhao Yazhi with her, it was because Lin Xia gave her son to her care, and she took care of her three children at home. Sometimes, being the boss also has to pay, and of course I will take turns doing this kind of thing in the future.

"Husband, I remember the flight takes 3.5 hours!" Guan Hui said charmingly.

It wasn't that she was lustful, but that Lin Zhichao had already held her waist and was playing with it wantonly.

"Don't worry, we can still take a shower before landing!" Lin Zhichao said with enjoyment, shooting from left to right.

It's rare to be on a plane, so naturally you have to have fun. What's more, today is the combination of Lin Xia and Guan Hui, which is also worth looking forward to.

1 pm.

Lin Zhichao came to a building in Ginza 6-chome. This was an eight-story building recently purchased by a joint venture of Cheung Kong Holdings and Victoria Harbor Investment for just over US$300 million.

For this investment in the Japanese real estate industry, Lin Zhichao asked Cheung Kong Group to invest US$200 million and Victoria Harbor Investment to invest US$300 million to form a joint company.

Although the capital amount is only US$500 million, Lin Zhichao plans to continue to develop through loans, individual project financing, etc. In other words, if Victoria Harbor Investment needs to increase Japanese real estate investment, it only needs to enter the financing of each real estate project of the joint venture company.

In this way, Victoria Harbor investment can become low-key, with Cheung Kong Group taking the lead. The main investment model of Victoria Harbor Investment is to invest US$2 billion in the Japanese stock market.

"boss"

The subordinates were already greeting them at the door, including the management of Dongtian Company, a joint real estate company. Among them, Huo Jianning is the president. There is also a vice president who is a senior executive from the Changshi Group called Li Qingshan. There is also a Japanese vice president. The president, named Kazuya Murakami, is a professional real estate development talent.

The entire management team is dominated by Japanese managers, and Cheung Kong Group only sends out a few capable officers. This is called ‘treating ghosts with ghosts’.

"Well, there's no need to come to the door to greet you next time, I can already find you here!"

"Yes, boss!"

Then, everyone walked upstairs. The unit price of this eight-storey building is 6 to 7 times that of Central. In the future, if the yen itself doubles in value and the property appreciates more than three times, its value will reach more than 2 billion US dollars in 1990.

One reason why Japan's properties and stocks grew so rapidly in the past life is that overseas funds poured into Japan crazily. Because everyone knew that the yen was appreciating, they would rather deposit their money in yen accounts in Japanese banks. Japanese banks have a large amount of deposits in their hands, so they frantically encourage customers to take out loans to buy land, houses and properties.

Even Lin Zhichao would participate in Japanese yen foreign exchange investment before September 1985. This is equivalent to Lin Zhichao making money from three aspects: real estate, stock market, and foreign exchange.

Although this building only has eight floors, the two underground floors and the five above-ground floors are rented to merchants and are retail businesses, so only the top three floors are office buildings. The total area is less than 150,000 square feet, which is only considered a medium-sized building in Hong Kong.

Victoria Harbor Investment has also moved into the office building of this building. Lin Zhichao will go there alone later.

After visiting the office building, Lin Zhichao and a group of senior executives came to the conference room.

"Introduce the work progress!" Lin Zhichao held the meeting in English.

Several senior Japanese people can speak English, so let’s use a language everyone understands!

As for Dongtian Company, it was actually established last year and has been in Japan for a year.

Murakami Kazuya said: "At present, Kanagawa Prefecture and Chiba Prefecture already have suitable land as the choice for Raffles City. Throughout the 1970s, a total of 500 shopping malls were born in Japan. Of course, the scale was not large. Both sites are considered very large shopping malls, and the land cost alone is estimated to be about US$1.2 billion."

These two counties are both economically strong areas in the Tokyo metropolitan area, and their investment value is very good.

Lin Zhichao nodded and said: "Well, I'll go take a look later! Tomorrow I will have a golf game with Mr. Yoshiaki Tsutsumi from the local real estate company. If we can negotiate, I will invite him to cooperate on these two projects."

If these two projects are good, they can be developed directly and can be developed in 5 to 6 years.

Before 1986, commercial land was taken casually and for a reason. There are two general development models, one is the ‘Raffles City’ model and the other is the integrated commercial building model. Of course, another option is to purchase the building directly.

Several management members showed joy. Yoshiaki Tsutsumi is a Japanese real estate tycoon. If the two real estate tycoons from Hong Kong and Japan cooperate this time, it will only increase the weight of 'Raffles City'.

The next day, under the introduction of a friend in the Japanese banking industry, Lin Zhichao and Yoshiaki Tsutsumi, a big brother in the Japanese real estate industry, met at a golf course in Tokyo.

"Mr. Lin, it's our first time to meet you. It's a great honor!" Tsutsumi Yoshiaki bowed his waist very humbly and said seriously.

If Lin Zhichao was just a 'real estate developer', Yoshiaki Tsutsumi wouldn't need to be so humble, but Lin Zhichao is the world's shipping king, and his international influence is much higher than him.

Of course, Lin Zhichao also said very humbly: "Mr. Yoshiaki Tsutsumi, I am also honored to meet you!"

Tsutsumi Yoshiaki said with a smile: "Mr. Lin bought nine office buildings in Manhattan in the late 1970s. You were my idol at that time. You were the first businessman in Asia to buy a landmark building in Manhattan. And As far as I know, you have made six times the income and become famous in the American real estate industry."

Lin Zhichao replied: "You are too generous. At that time, I was just considering reducing the number of ships and landing them, so I invested in the project very casually."

Yoshiaki Tsutsumi had no doubts. After all, he also knew that Lin Zhichao, the shipping king, had successfully landed ashore, and that one of the two Japanese shipping companies he cooperated with went bankrupt, and the other was on the verge of bankruptcy and reorganized its assets. This was a proper method.

Afterwards, the two sat together to drink tea. Lin Zhichao did not directly discuss cooperation. After all, there would be a golf match later.

Japanese businessmen like to play golf more than Hong Kong businessmen. Of course, Hong Kong's wealthy people also like to play golf. They even organize flights to the United States, Europe, and Southeast Asia to play golf.

"I heard that Mr. Lin plans to invest in Japanese real estate?"

"That's right, we started preparing last year!"

Yoshiaki Tsutsumi said happily: "Welcome, Mr. Lin is the largest real estate developer in Hong Kong and the first real estate developer in Asia to invest in a shopping mall (Miramar). I believe you will be successful when you come to Japan!"

Lin Zhichao said: "I don't dare to take it seriously. In the Japanese real estate industry, you are the leader, so I come to visit you this time and hope to learn from you. If we can cooperate, it will be better!"

Yoshiaki Tsutsumi said cheerfully: "Learn from each other. I also have a lot of real estate-related things to ask you for advice!"

In this way, the two exchanged real estate experience.

Yoshiaki Tsutsumi is good at developing suburban land into "comprehensive development" such as golf courses, ski resorts, and Prince Hotels. Currently, shopping malls in Japan attach great importance to development near train stations.

Later, while playing golf, Lin Zhichao said: "After having communicated with Mr. Tsutsumi Yoshiaki for so long, I feel that our concepts on real estate are quite similar. We are both more willing to develop comprehensive commercial centers in the suburbs. Exactly, we Two pieces of land have been discovered in Kanagawa Prefecture and Chiba Prefecture, and we plan to develop 'Raffles City'. The concept of this type of comprehensive shopping mall is to use it as a commercial center to drive the gathering of surrounding businesses."

Raffles City, the commercial heart of the city – that’s the slogan!

Yoshiaki Tsutsumi listened attentively and did not forget to swing. The two of them unknowingly exchanged a lot about Raffles City.

Later, before Lin Zhichao took the initiative to talk about cooperation, Tsutsumi Yoshiaki said: "Mr. Lin, I am very interested in these two projects of yours. I wonder if we can cooperate with each other and learn from them?"

Lin Zhichao smiled and said: "Of course, having you, a Japanese real estate tycoon, join me makes me more confident. Later, I will leave you a rough project plan. If Mr. Tsutsumi Yoshiaki is interested, we can further cooperate!"

It's just a rough plan, so it doesn't hurt to give it to Yoshiaki Tsutsumi.

The specific plan for Raffles City has extended to many details. This is a new shopping mall that Lin Zhichao has built over the years based on years of experience and some references from previous lives.

Miramar Shopping Center is only version 1.0; Raffles City in Singapore is considered version 2.0.

The two Raffles City malls invested in Japan will be version 3.0.

There must be something new with each version of advancement.

At this time, Japanese shopping malls were still American-style shopping malls, but Raffles City version 3.0 already had new things.

"no problem!"

Afterwards, the two continued to chat happily and had lunch together, laying a happy foundation for their cooperation.

Lin Zhichao attaches great importance to the first two Raffles City malls, which are like two signboards that provide a name for subsequent investments in Japan.

Of course, land acquisition must have been done before 1987, and land acquisition will stop after that.

As for the number of developments, it will be determined based on time. It is expected that three or four will be developed, and the land can be sold later.

In addition to Raffles City, there is also investment in commercial complex buildings. You can buy land to build, or you can buy the building directly.

In the following days, Lin Zhichao had such a full schedule. He went to Chiba County and Kanagawa County for field inspections and was quite satisfied with both plots of land. One of these two pieces of land was originally a factory, and the other was intentionally put up for auction by the government.

Of course, there must be some troubles in these lands, but they are not big!

What's more, if you take a step back, if you can't get it done, you can still make a lot of money by selling the land. What's more, if Yoshiaki Tsutsumi, a local snake, joins in, a lot of trouble can be saved.

After inspecting the land, Lin Zhichao made appointments with several friends from the banking industry, all of whom he had made during his shipping days. When they heard that Lin Zhichao was going to invest heavily in the Japanese real estate industry, these banking friends were very happy and agreed to provide convenience.

In this way, Lin Zhichao has created good external conditions for Dongtian Company, and the rest is the management headed by Huo Jianning.

At the same time, Victoria Harbor Investment invested US$2 billion to purchase Japanese stocks and began to proceed simultaneously. Mainly buying real estate stocks, because at its peak, five of the world's top ten largest companies by market capitalization were Japanese companies. There are seven real estate companies in the top ten in Japan by market capitalization.

The Japanese stock market will rise 3 to 4 times in this wave, which is simply one of the best investment methods for Victoria Harbor investment.

In this wave, Lin Zhichao plans to let Victoria Harbor invest 5 billion US dollars in Japan, which will flow into the stock market, real estate, and Japanese yen and foreign exchange, making a huge profit of 10 to 20 billion US dollars.

This is not just the investment from Victoria Harbor, but also the Yangtze River Industrial Group. Even the three women are preparing to come to Japan to enjoy the autumn wind.

The Japanese market is large enough, so there is no need to worry about causing a sensation. At its peak, the Japanese stock market was worth 4 trillion U.S. dollars, 1.5 times that of the United States. You can imagine how big the cake was.