Chapter 937 The richer you are, the more you can make money
After a long period of preparation.
On April 7, 2004, the construction of King Crab Island officially started.
The team involved in the reclamation and island building has experience in building the Palm Jumeirah in Dubai. Throughout the entire project, the seemingly troublesome part of the reclamation and island building process was actually not too difficult, and all work was done in an orderly manner.
The day construction started.
A long way away, Su Yehao, holding a coffee cup in his hand, stood on the top deck of the superyacht and saw a dredger that was spraying sea sand mixed with mud to the location of the designed tide-proof dam.
There is also a boat that keeps stacking large rocks on the outside of the embankment for shaping, to prevent the sea sand and mud sucked in from a few kilometers away from being quickly eroded by the sea water.
In the early stages of preparation, the design team has done a lot of exploration and research on the conditions in the sea near the casino. It is said that there is a way to keep the turbid seawater outside the dam as much as possible in the form of sedimentation.
By then, near the big crab-shaped main island, although the water clarity cannot be compared with that of Tahiti, Maldives and other places, it will not be so turbid that people can see it.
no way.
The casino is located near the outlet of the Pearl River Basin, and the Pearl River carries large amounts of sediment into the sea all year round.
If we don’t put some effort into the sea water, in the future, when tourists take photos of the seaside, they will all look dirty, making people have no idea of going to the sea to play.
As a result, it is likely that millions of tourists will not be attracted every year, and the losses will be huge in the long run.
Since it is an island, the first thing tourists pay attention to is the beach, sea view and weather. The rest is how the hotel environment is and whether the attractions are interesting.
Therefore, the designer designed a valve on the dam. During the day, it would be closed to slow down the flow of seawater in the dam, and sediment would be deposited. At night, the valve would be opened to allow seawater to flow in, preventing living water from turning into stagnant water, breeding algae and causing odor.
This will also cause trouble.
As the silt accumulates, it may need to be cleaned every two or three years.
Su Yehao feels that the wool comes from the sheep. To make more money from tourists, it is enough to use dredgers to remove the sediment during the off-season. It is not too troublesome.
His father came to join in the fun today. He has some experience in reclamation and land reclamation. At this moment, he introduced:
"This kind of self-propelled cutter suction ship is very powerful. It can directly suck up sediment from other places, send it here and spray it to the designated location. It can go back and forth several times a day, and the speed is very fast. If there are more ships, it will take several months.
I can fill it all in, which is much easier than when I filled in the tidal flats at the beach in Pengcheng Cultural Tourism City. I had to haul soil from other places one truck at a time, and the trucks went back and forth. The labor and fuel costs made my eyes jump.
, I almost feel heartbroken to death.”
beside.
His good friend Uncle Qiu said with a smile:
"What were your family's conditions back then, and what are their conditions now? The asset size has increased dozens of times, and the King Crab Island project with a scale of tens of billions of Hong Kong dollars has been invested at any time. Ah Hao, you must help Uncle Qiu.
, I want to keep a big house with a better location. I originally planned to go to New Zealand for retirement, but now I see that your island is more suitable. If you have nothing to do, you can go gambling at your doorstep and enjoy yourself."
"Haha, it's easy to tell. What style of building does Uncle Qiu want? Just say hello in advance."
Su Yehao doesn't like the pretentious Qiu Yaohe very much, but he has a good impression of his father, Uncle Qiu.
Mainly because when I was still studying at Donghuang Rose Middle School, Uncle Qiu played cards at his house and gave me pocket money in handfuls, sometimes as much as 20,000 to 30,000 Hong Kong dollars.
Nowadays, even two to three hundred million Hong Kong dollars is difficult to attract Su Yehao's eyes. There are many people out there begging to give him money, but the situation at that time was different after all, which impressed him deeply.
Speaking of self-propelled cutter suction dredgers.
Su Yehao suddenly thought of the future "island-building artifact" Tiankun. In this era, many Southeast Asian countries were busy developing islands in the South China Sea and building offshore oil drilling platforms. They were obviously bullying the mainland and couldn't care less about it for the time being.
This matter is too tricky, and Su Yehao has no intention of getting involved. Anyway, in the future, when a certain rabbit's magical power is achieved, those people will have to spit it out as soon as they eat it.
Making matters bigger now is obviously not conducive to the need to rise secretly.
So he just thought that it would be great if there was a Tiankun now, and I'm afraid it would save a lot of money. At the same time, he also thought about developing islands in places like Xisha and Nansha for the development of domestic island tourism.
Master Jiang had mentioned to Su Yehao before that the company could not make much money by taking tourists to places like Phuket, Thailand, and Bali, and most of the expenses were spent on air tickets and hotels.
There are some natural islands in the South China Sea, and the scenery is no worse than that of the Maldives. It would be a waste to leave them idle.
If we could think of ways to develop a few islands, the number of mainland tourists would probably flatten all the beaches. Maybe I could ask about it when I have the chance.
Su Yehao was distracted for a moment, only to hear Uncle Qiu continue:
"Sure enough, the richer you are, the more you can make money. You can fill up such a big island in one go, which is equivalent to a quarter of the total area of the casino. Everyone around you seems to have the idea of buying a house in the past. Last time when you were having dinner, you talked to someone
We’ve talked about it before. I guess when this King Crab Island is built, no one will be interested in the villas on Bishop Hill.”
Su Yehao told:
"The cost of living on the island is high, and housing prices are not cheap. It sounds like a lot of real estate can be built, but as it attracts more people in the future, housing prices in other places will still rise."
He has always wanted his son to save money through fixed assets. Father Su has supported the King Crab Island project from the beginning. Now he smiled and said:
"It's just a gimmick. After all, it's still a cultural and tourism city. If I had already had the idea of building an island, I wouldn't have gone to Taipa Island to buy land at a high price when bidding for gambling licenses. Wouldn't this be a scam? Just build the casino directly.
How nice on a crab shell.”
"It doesn't matter. Anyway, the fixed assets in the casino will not depreciate. I can invest more now to make some money, and in the future I can use the mortgage loans and invest the money elsewhere. I am currently thinking about whether to invest in a car company and go to the mainland to seize the market."
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As soon as Su Yehao finished speaking, Uncle Qiu said:
"Hey, the mainland people are rich, and the automobile industry is a good business. I see that in industrial countries such as Japan and South Korea, large companies like to develop in the automobile industry, which means that this thing must be very profitable, and it seems to you
It’s not a particularly difficult thing, just say hello to the top and it will definitely give you the green light all the way.”
Father Su just found out that his son still has the idea of getting involved in the automobile industry. He lamented that his son has indeed grown up, and investment projects are coming one after another, which makes him overwhelmed.
He said to Su Yehao:
"Once a car-making project is started, it will cost at least tens of billions of Hong Kong dollars. This business is not that simple. The market is basically occupied by German, Japanese and American cars. There are also a few British brands in the high-end ones. You want
If you don’t have the technology, if you want a market, but there’s no market, what can you do to compete with them?”
Su Yehao has been thinking about it for three or four days, and of course he knows that this business is not that easy to do. Several major joint venture brands have a tacit understanding and are wary of the development of mainland car companies.
Therefore, attempts to exchange technology through the market in the form of joint ventures have been unsuccessful.
This means that even if he is willing to spend huge sums of money to acquire an existing car company, other forces may not let Su Yehao succeed easily, and there is a high probability that they will interfere with it.
It is very likely that even if the acquisition is completed, the technology, talents and production lines cannot be transferred to the mainland. Wouldn't it mean that the acquisition is lonely?
Just like what Father Su said.
The market has already been divided up, and no one is willing to bring new forces to share the cake.
It seems that we have come back to trying to lay out new tracks and start by trying to develop electric vehicles...