After leaving Japan, Zhang Zhonghua and others landed safely at Kai Tak Airport, and then took a car through the Hung Hom Cross-Harbour Tunnel towards the Peak Road of Victoria Peak. However, the road was smooth, which left Zhang Zhonghua a little confused. Logically speaking, what happened along the way?
You have to be stuck in a traffic jam to be normal, otherwise it won’t taste that good.
After returning to his residence, Zhang Zhonghua took a good cold shower. Compared with the climate in Japan, which is close to the frigid zone, the subtropical climate of Hong Kong Island is more comfortable. It is really cold over there, and it is only the end of October.
Zhang Zhonghua almost froze into a dog.
After taking a shower, Zhang Zhonghua went to the study room, picked up the newspaper on the table, and read it. Then, the contents of the newspaper made his eyes widen.
He had only left Hong Kong Island for a few days, but he did not expect that such a big thing would happen in the Hong Kong stock market. The very famous acquisition battle of Land Drinks Milk in the history of Hong Kong Island had already started in the past few days. No wonder this incident
The roads are so clean, so many people on Hong Kong Island must have gone to the exchange to watch the excitement.
But isn’t the content in this newspaper so...well...appropriate!
No, I can’t say, it’s not that appropriate, it’s simply unsightly. These people didn’t even care about their dignity, and they started tearing each other apart in the newspaper. Milk and Land, two companies, are big companies after all, but they were published in the newspaper.
The whole page of advertisements was filled with blatant insults, which was a rare and lively event.
However, the people of Yihe Matheson are not good birds. Their dark history can be described in three days and three nights. Zhang Zhonghua has no good impression of them at all. I even thought about taking that opportunity to give Yihe
The foreign companies added some obstacles and made Yihe happy.
It's strange that Wambad has no prejudice against Jardine and Matheson. In fact, the history of Jardine and Matheson's founding is really glorious. The history of Jardine and Matheson began in 1832. It was first founded in Huacheng and set up a branch in Shanghai in 1843.
, then Jardine Matheson established its own branches in dozens of cities in the hot summer. Its business scope covers export trade, insurance, real estate, shipping, railways, docks, warehouses and other industries, and is known as the "King of Foreign Banks"
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Although Jardine Matheson was involved in very few industries, it had not yet come to the hot summer after the First Opium War. At this time, William Jardine, the founder of Jardine Matheson, made his fortune entirely by smuggling opium.
An opium smuggler, so the main business of Jardine Matheson at this time was opium smuggling.
Jardine & Co. was founded two years ago in the hot summer, and the goods it shipped to Huacheng accounted for one-eighth of the total trade between Huacheng and Huacheng. With the sharp increase in profits, Jardine's appetite was getting smaller and smaller, and he expected to use war to
Completely open the door to the hot summer.
At that time, Land acquired the Milk Company through various glorious means, which was also a historical inevitability. At that time in the 10s, there were not many companies that dared to support the Milk Company.
The milk company's business was getting worse and worse, so Dr. Amélie purchased a small amount of waste land in Causeway Bay, and purchased more cows from John Bull. The scale of the cattle farm also became smaller and smaller.
However, with the opening of the Hung Hom Cross-Harbour Tunnel this year, the seventh economic center of Hong Kong Island has ended its transfer from Tsim Sha Tsui to Causeway Bay on the other side of the sea, and the property prices in Causeway Bay have continued to rise and fall.
The Qing government's affairs also made Jardine and Matheson even more unscrupulous, ending the long-term predatory trade with Yanxia. Yanxia became their commodity dumping market and source of cheap raw materials and labor force. Jardine and Matheson used this to extract profits from Yanxia.
Huge profits.
At that time, there were many foreigners from various countries engaged in colonial development in the small country in the hot summer, and our eating habits in Europe and America depended on milk, so the milk company continued to grow and develop at this time.
Since then, the milk company has become Kyle's family business, and Tu Junmei's bad life is about to end again, so I plan to retire the new ice machine from John Bull and am ambitious to take the company to the next level.
The two of them met for a drink and started to commiserate with each other. The first two of them combined, there is no need for our two families to continue fighting, it is like teaming up to monopolize the ice industry in Hong Kong Island.
As the new boss of Jardine Matheson, it is inevitable for me to play the trick of being one of the new bosses and the next boss. So Henry Keswick set the next development plan of Land in Causeway Bay, with the undersea tunnel running through it.
The convenience is unparalleled.
The rents in Central also skyrocketed in those years. If Jardine was willing to demolish and rebuild the buildings in Central, the low development costs and long construction period involved would be something Jardine could not afford.
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So Kyle of the Dairy Company and Didu of Likesika ended their quiet competition. The two companies ended their frenzied purchase of wasteland on Hong Kong Island, and then stopped using the wasteland to build ice plants and icehouses.
The Harbor City in Tsim Sha Tsui, Si Long Port, the Star Ferry, the piers on Hong Kong Island, etc., are of course the properties of Si Long Cang, monopolizing a small part of the port trade on Hong Kong Island.
Today, there are Jardine House, Landmark Plaza, Duke House, Gloucester House, Prince Edward House, Chater Square, Hong Kong Club House, York House, Trade Harbor Logistics Center, etc. in Central.
All the properties are properties under the Landmark banner, and they are the absolute king of land in Central that no one can compare with.
With no funds, Wang Kaier, a small-time dairy farmer, ended his buying and selling routine and acquired the Hong Kong Island Ice Manufacturing Company, a subsidiary of Jardine Matheson & Co., and the meat thermal storage warehouse of Swire & Co., Ltd., and finally retreated into the ice-making field.
After Dr. Tu Junsheng, my main focus was in the medical field. Before I made a lot of money in Hong Kong Island, I quit my job as a co-worker at a milk company.
At that time, these foreigners from various European countries who came to Asia were basically accustomed to the climate of Southeast Asia, and there were very few cold zone diseases such as malaria in Southeast Asia, and the mortality rate of patients was very low.
As Dudu Nian got older, I ended up feeling that I didn’t have the strength to do what I wanted, so I sold my shares to Kyle, and I took the money I earned back to Likesika to retire.
Live your old age peacefully.
The milk company needs two necessary raw materials, namely milk and ice. However, milk and ice are only two raw materials that the milk company has no confidence to produce. Yuhuang Group said it is capable.
However, the King Milk Company in Causeway Bay became the main target of Henry Keswick's hunting. Who let a man in hot summer occupy such a small amount of land? Of course, the persimmons are weak, so the milk company became Henry Keswick.
Gram's goal.
For a long time, Central has been the economic heart of Hong Kong Island after 40 years of slow development, so it is understandable that Jardine bought the land at a low price.
Before retreating into the 20th century, the structure of the world was constantly changing. With the end of the two super wars, the once glorious John Bull was no longer a declining empire, and Jardine also ended its formal transformation.
Retreat into legitimate industries.
Tu Jun from the milk company was also very helpless. Now my heart feels cold. My small creditor, Jardine Matheson, kept pressing debts from me in the end. I can afford to blame Jardine Matheson.
Now that Henry Keswick, the eighth generation successor of the Keswick family, has taken over Jardine Matheson, I am sure that Henry Keswick will lead the Land Company to break through the bottleneck, so my prestige within the Keswick family has also gone up.
Jardine Matheson & Co. ended its efforts to develop real estate and port businesses in Central and Tsim Sha Tsui. Without huge financial support, Jardine Matheson became the number one foreign house on Hong Kong Island.
After Dr. Amélie left the milk company, another John Bull businessman, Kyle, took over. The hot business of the milk company supported the continuous expansion of the milk company, but after all, that kind of expansion has no limit. The milk company wants to continue slowly.
The development of this can only be done with borrowed money.
However, the strength of American capital at that time was still far behind the strength of British capital. In the end, Dudu, who was in debt, went to the dairy company Kyle to enter and exit the Hong Kong Island market in tears.
Land Corporation is a long-established British-owned real estate company on Hong Kong Island. The company was founded in 1889 and was the smallest registered company on Hong Kong Island at that time. It has a history of 83 years.
Wanbard thought of the white history of Jardine Matheson and he could not help but secretly curse a few words. Hong Kong Island seems to be a summer-owned company that is growing and growing, but the one that really controls Hong Kong Island is still a British-owned company. As long as it mixes in Hong Kong Island,
, can any company afford to offend Jardine Matheson?
With the First Opium War, the small door of the Qing government was opened. The Qing government not only had to cede land to John Bull, but also compensated the losses of John Bull's army. The modern history of humiliation in the hot summer ended with this.
The weak also entered that ancient and backward country one after another.
So in 1918, the Snow Factory and the Milk Company merged directly, and the Milk and Ice Factory Co., Ltd. was born. It sold ice at a low price. Is it too expensive? He wanted to buy it or not. Anyway, this was the only one with a different semicolon.
Dr. Amélie then returned home with a small amount of wealth accumulated in Hong Kong Island. I founded the London Cold Band Medical School in John Bull and devoted myself to the medical field. In fact, my purpose of making money was probably there.
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Hong Kong Island is a natural and excellent port, and opposite it is the concessions of various countries. Of course, the Hong Kong government is happy to see small-scale reclamation in Central, and land companies have gradually become the land kings in Central.
The giants of Hong Kong Island's real estate industry, Youba Company Land and Four Dragons Warehouse, were founded by Paul Chater in 1886 and 1889 respectively. They were also the first major promoters of stock trading in Hong Kong Island. They are definitely big cows with seven kicks.
, an awesome existence.
The first economic center of Hong Kong Island is Central, and the seventh economic center of Hong Kong Island is Tsim Sha Tsui, which is the headquarters of Land and Seaside.
However, the real ice-making giant on Hong Kong Island was established as early as 1844. The Li Kesaka businessman Dudu did not have a small number of ice warehouses on Hong Kong Island, including the Ice Factory Street Ice House and the Spring Garden Street Ice House.
Causeway Bay Icehouse, etc., are definitely the giants on Hong Kong Island.
The development of milk companies has also reached a bottleneck. Europeans like Dongxiaoren can drink cold tea in summer, but we hate hot drinks even more.
Henry Keswick's weak thief logic is understandable. The number of subsidiaries under the Jardine Matheson flag is as low as less than 200. The stock market is so crazy now, so there is nothing wrong with Real Estate if it is not a free hand.
It is very serious that the Milk Company was targeted by Henry Keswick, and it was only Jardine Matheson that targeted the Milk Company. I am afraid that all the real estate companies in Hong Kong Island have already targeted the Milk Company, and that sweet potato is
Even Tu Junsheng wanted to take a bite.
With the end of the anti-smoking campaign in Huacheng, Jardine Matheson moved its head office to Hong Kong Island. At the same time, it continued to smuggle opium with arms under the sea, and also frantically instigated war against the Qing Dynasty in John Bull itself.
Dr. Tu Junsheng was known as the "Father of Cold Zone Medicine" at the time, and he was very good at treating cold zone diseases such as malaria. You can imagine my reputation among foreigners. Low-priced milk is simply not worth picking up.
What's more, the Milk Company was not originally a company founded by John Bull. It just changed hands in the past. The Milk Company had no connection with Jardine Matheson. Therefore, Henry Keswick believed that taking back the company founded by John Bull would become a
Of course.
On June 1, 1970, a 4,924-square-meter piece of land in the Central Reclamation Area was auctioned. Real Estate paid HK$2.158 billion to the land king, setting a record that can never be surpassed.
Because opium was imported in small quantities and silver was flowing out in small quantities, a situation emerged where "silver is expensive and money is cheap", which posed a huge threat to the feudal rule of the Qing Dynasty, so Lin Zexu was ordered to come to Huacheng to end the smoking ban.
Diedu and Kyle now have sympathy for each other and talk about each other. The final result is not that they took a sip of brandy and cried together, telling each other about their helplessness.
So in June 1840, more than 40 John Bull ships loaded with 4,000 John Bull soldiers directly launched the war. This was also the origin of the first Opium War, in which Jardine Matheson played a small role.
It's a bad thing to say, but it definitely has nothing to do with us.
The basic industries that basically do not exist on Hong Kong Island are those made by foreign companies such as watches, ports, electricity, communications, etc. The Jade Emperor Group is also really hurt.
The Milk Company was founded in 1886 by Dr. Amelia John Bull. At that time, Dr. Amelia spent a huge amount of money to establish a ranch in Pok Fu Lam, Western District, Hong Kong Island, and exported 80 dairy cows from John Bull to produce fresh milk.
Although Central is Land's small base, Land's development has not yet reached a bottleneck. The properties in Central have not been saturated for a long time, and there is land available for development. Therefore, Land is looking for a new way out.
Land Real Estate was jointly founded by Paul Chater and Johnston Keswick. Paul Chater's influence at that time was stronger than John Bull's then Governor, and Johnston Keswick was the owner of Jardine Matheson & Co.
The successor, the two are also weakly united.
So the milk company had to retreat into the field of ice making. In this era, ice making was very expensive. The boss of the milk company borrowed money from Jardine Matheson, which was short of money, to develop the company.
At that time, Hong Kong Island was also in its infancy. Land Corporation purchased a small number of properties in Central. At the same time, Paul Chater spared no effort to promote the Hong Kong government's implementation of Land's reclamation plan.
It is a pity that the founder Paul Chater passed away in 1902, and Land and Land Properties were directly annexed by the wealthy Jardine Matheson Bank, and the former Four Dragons and Land became the wings of Jardine Matheson.
Since the properties in Central are not yet saturated, if Land Real Estate wants to continue developing properties, it must find a way to leave Central and expand inland.
