We're building a super chaebol in Hong Kong

After a rough calculation, the combined profits of all the companies approached 20 billion Hong Kong dollars.

This doesn't even include the funds from crude oil sales; if those were included, it would reach 30 billion Hong Kong dollars.

Naturally, it's impossible to leave all this money in the companies' accounts.

Therefore, Su Cheng made arrangements for the funds of each of these enterprises.

The Su's Group would retain 1 billion Hong Kong dollars, with the remainder transferred to Su Cheng's private investment company account at Kerry Bank.

Hutchison Whampoa would similarly retain 1 billion Hong Kong dollars, with the remainder also transferred to Su Cheng's private investment company account.

As for the other companies, Su Cheng didn't touch those with smaller amounts of funds.

However, he did extract 3 billion Hong Kong dollars from various companies to inject into Tianyuan Investment Company.

Tianyuan Investment Company continuously needs to invest and absorb shares from various enterprises, so it requires a significant amount of capital.

Not only are there promising companies in Europe and America, but even Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) in Hong Kong requires a substantial amount of money, as Su Cheng's goal is to become a major shareholder, or even the controlling shareholder, of HSBC.

And HSBC's market value is extremely high; acquiring a large stake would require at least tens of billions of Hong Kong dollars.

To hold 30% of HSBC's shares and become its controlling shareholder, it would be impossible without at least 20 billion Hong Kong dollars!

HSBC's stock price can be said to be very stable.

However, compared to its future trillion-dollar market capitalization, the current few hundred billion market capitalization of HSBC makes any acquisition a highly profitable venture in the future.

Even so, completing this arduous task can be said to be a long and challenging road!

Even though he only looked at a summary of each ledger, it still took Su Cheng nearly an hour to finish reviewing them.

"I'm sorry for taking up your lunch time. Uncle Zhang, Director He, let me treat you to a grand meal as an apology," Su Cheng said to the two after putting down the financial reports.

"Then we'll have to thank the boss. Anyway, you're rich, boss, so I'm going to eat my fill today," He Li said happily.

"Eat as much as you can, as long as you can eat it all. This is a rare opportunity!" Su Cheng laughed.

Looking at the time, it was already 1:30 PM.

So, Su Cheng took the two of them to Joyful Restaurant.

He placed the two menus in front of He Li and Zhang Qizheng, letting them order whatever they wanted.

The meal lasted a full hour.

Su Cheng was also in a very good mood today, after all, knowing that he had made so much money last year, how could he not be in a good mood!

After the meal, Su Cheng had the driver send them back to the company before returning home.

Once home, Su Cheng called the heads of each group and company one by one, telling them how the funds from last year would be allocated.

With such a vast amount of capital in hand, Su Cheng once again had the idea of acquiring a large company.

However, just as Su Cheng was considering which company to acquire, something happened that annoyed him.

Although the finance team hadn't leaked his company's annual financial report data, the renowned "Wall Street Journal" in the United States published an article that once again thrust Su Cheng into the global spotlight.

It turned out that a reporter for "The Wall Street Journal," after noticing that Oracle Computer's sales had exceeded one million units, becoming the best-selling computer of the past year, made a point of studying the situation of Oracle Computer.

Then, through calculation, he was surprised to find that in the short two months of last year plus January of this year, just the announced million units in sales amounted to a terrifying 3 billion US dollars. In the article, he also specifically tried to roughly calculate the profit, although he certainly couldn't calculate it accurately, the estimated profit in the article was enough to be astonishing.

As a result, Su Cheng was once again unable to have peace.

Many reporters from all over the world were stationed outside Su's family villa, or at Hutchison Whampoa Building, Tianyuan Building, Su's Group Building, and other places, hoping to meet Su Cheng and interview him.

There were also many who used connections to call Zhang Qizheng, Wei Li, Yang Chaoye, and others, asking them to help contact Su Cheng.

Tired of the constant attention, Su Cheng once again took Ah Jiao and Ah Mei to Nan丫 Island to escape this sudden trouble.

However, it was clear that this time the commotion was too great, and Su Cheng's level of attention couldn't be reduced in the short term.

Lying on the second-floor balcony of the island villa, he looked out at the cloudy sea.

In this February weather, going to the island wasn't very interesting. Although the temperature had risen a lot, it wasn't yet the season for swimming in the sea.

Things couldn't continue like this. He wanted to keep a low profile, but he didn't want to be the focus of attention all day long.

He had to think of a solution!

The simplest solution was to do something to shift everyone's attention away from him.

So, what kind of thing would be appropriate to do?

Su Cheng thought for a moment and quickly had an idea.

That was to create a rich list to spread the attention.

Su Cheng had previously intended to create something similar to the Forbes Rich List in advance.

Now, wasn't this the most suitable time?

Create a Hong Kong Rich List, then create an American Rich List, one step at a time.

Once he had enough information, he could directly create a Global Rich List.

According to the historical trajectory of the other world, Forbes didn't launch its first global rich list until 1982.

But now, it was only 1979, and there were still two or three years before the launch of the Forbes Rich List.

Therefore, if Su Cheng created a World Rich List this year, it would definitely become an industry benchmark.

If nothing unexpected happened, the influence of this list would become greater and greater throughout the world as it continued to be built.

In this way, Su Cheng would be in control of the rich list, which was a good tool for public opinion.

Launching a rich list in the United States might not be possible in the short term, after all, in 1979 there was no actual meaningful reference data.

However, if Su Cheng wanted to create a rich list in Hong Kong, it would be much simpler.

His intelligence network in Hong Kong was definitely very strong.

If he created a Hong Kong Rich List at this time, although he would definitely be at the top of the list, he could lower his assets a lot.

Su Cheng being at the top of the list was a very normal thing in itself, and everyone would definitely not find it strange.

And after creating the rich list, other Hong Kong tycoons would also receive attention, so Su Cheng's attention in Hong Kong would be greatly reduced.

(End of chapter)