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After Apple Inc. released its new product, Su Cheng, although in Hong Kong, paid close attention to how well-received the new product was in the market.

Through the information he collected, as well as the feedback actively provided by Jobs, he was very satisfied with Apple's ability to gain such a response so quickly.

In this era, due to weight factors, the sales of laptops certainly could not compare with those of desktop computers.

In other words, being a niche product meant that the target customer base wasn't as large as that for desktops.

However, niche markets also have their advantages, which is that users with needs are all wealthy individuals, and they will definitely have a strong desire to purchase computers that are convenient to carry.

Although Oracle Computer had only been released for a year, that year saw a significant increase in the popularity of computers.

Many large companies, in order to improve work efficiency, also made computers an indispensable product in their offices.

After people used computers, they discovered the convenience it brought to their work, and the greatly improved work efficiency made some companies, even those not so financially flush, grit their teeth and purchase computers as office supplies.

At the same time, computer giants such as Oracle, IBM, and HP cooperated with many schools to boost sales of their products, which also greatly contributed to the popularization of computers.

Therefore, in just a short year, the global computer penetration rate had far surpassed Su Cheng's previous life during the same period.

In the blink of an eye, it was mid-November.

Since its opening, Harbour City Plaza had achieved excellent results. Although it couldn't maintain the foot traffic of its opening day, it still exceeded expectations.

For example, on weekdays, the foot traffic was generally higher than 50,000, and occasionally it could even reach 100,000.

And on weekends, the foot traffic was consistently above 100,000.

In just one and a half months since its official opening, Harbour City Plaza had become one of the most popular places in the Kowloon Peninsula.

On the Da Sha Ling Village side, with the assistance of Brother Wu, Hongkong Land also successfully persuaded all the villagers of Da Sha Ling Village with a demolition price 10% higher than the market price.

Moreover, with Brother Wu's assistance and supervision, Hongkong Land also readily settled the demolition fees directly after signing the demolition contract with the villagers, thereby entering the demolition phase.

Su Cheng himself had no intention of hindering the development of Hongkong Land Group, and even looked forward to its continued growth.

After all, Su Cheng had already secretly become a major shareholder of Hongkong Land Group.

In the future, when the time was right, he would directly control Hongkong Land, thereby indirectly controlling Jardine Matheson.

This opportunity wouldn't be rushed, because he also needed to wait for the mutual control between Hongkong Land and Jardine Matheson to succeed before announcing it.

Otherwise, doing it too early would only alert the enemy, thereby losing control of Jardine Matheson.

Currently, Hongkong Land's stock price was somewhat high due to the influence of the Hong Kong property market.

But it didn't matter, because Su Cheng knew that Hong Kong would usher in a brief real estate downturn in 1982.

At that time, all listed real estate companies would be greatly affected in their stock prices.

Of course, he certainly couldn't wait until that time to collect so many stocks at once, as doing so would only let people know that someone was making a move on Hongkong Land.

Therefore, even if Hongkong Land's stock price was somewhat high now, he would still acquire them.

After all, no matter how high the stock price was, what did it matter compared to Hongkong Land's value more than a decade later!

The thriving state of his various enterprises naturally meant that Su Cheng didn't need to worry too much.

Therefore, he had been living very freely during this period.

On the afternoon of November 18th, Su Cheng took Ah Jiao to the Fanling Golf Course in the New Territories.

Playing golf with him were Sir Sze-yuen Chung and Shipping King Bao.

Two days ago, Shipping King Bao had invited Su Cheng to play golf at the Fanling Golf Course in the New Territories if he was free today.

He happened to have nothing to do, so he readily agreed.

Although Su Cheng was the richest man in Hong Kong, he rarely played this sport.

However, he wouldn't refuse to play this sport of the wealthy. Wealthy people often have many social activities, and playing golf can be a good opportunity to connect and build relationships with people of their status.

Most importantly, while playing golf, one can discuss top-secret business collaborations.

This has an advantage that cannot be compared in a box or office, which is confidentiality.

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In the open golf course, there is no need to worry about someone eavesdropping on their conversation, nor is there any need to worry about eavesdropping devices.

At this time, the three were discussing matters after Harbour City was completed.

The major shareholder of Wharf was Global Shipping Group, and the second largest shareholder was Su Cheng's Tianyuan Investment Company.

And HSBC Group was a shareholder of Global Shipping Group, and also the largest creditor of Global Shipping Group.

Therefore, it could be said that Harbour City was related to Su Cheng, Shipping King Bao, and Sir Sze-yuen Chung.

Now, Shipping King Bao directly handed over the shipping sector to his son-in-law to be responsible for, and he devoted almost all his energy to Wharf, the most important project of which was the Harbour City project.

This shows how much Shipping King Bao valued Harbour City.

The success of Harbour City Plaza also filled Shipping King Bao with confidence in Harbour City.

With the scale and geographical location of Harbour City, the benefits it would bring after it was officially put into use were not comparable to those of Harbour City Plaza in Kowloon Tong.

The two were not even on the same track.

Just as the three were playing golf and chatting, a bodyguard in the distance, holding a mobile phone, shouted to Su Cheng: "Boss, there's a phone call."

"Sorry, I'll go answer the phone first."

Su Cheng said to Shipping King Bao and Sir Sze-yuen Chung before walking towards the bodyguard.

The bodyguard took the golf club from Su Cheng's hand, while Su Cheng had already taken the phone to the side to answer the call.

"Hello, this is Su Cheng."

"Boss, this is Li Yihui. I have something important to report to you."

Hearing the boss's voice, Li Yihui breathed a sigh of relief.

The incident happened too suddenly, and even Li Yihui, the president of Tianwen Oil Company, couldn't handle it.

"Yes, speak, I'm listening."

Hearing Li Yihui's tone, Su Cheng felt a little strange. Could it be that something unexpected had happened?

"Boss, at around 12:00 noon today, one of our 100,000-ton oil tankers, while exiting the Gulf of Aden and sailing in the Arabian Sea, more than 200 nautical miles south of Oman, was hijacked by pirates.

Currently, we have lost contact with this oil tanker for four hours. Based on previous cases, the other party should demand an exorbitant ransom from us.

As of now, we still don't know the situation on board."