Getting acquainted with each other, Gu Kun had a few drinks with some of the big guys in the venue, and soon they were talking about anything.
As the godfather of the Hong Kong record industry, Boss Yang, who is hosting tonight, drank a glass of champagne with Gu Kun and politely asked Gu Kun about his follow-up arrangements.
"I wonder how long Gu Sheng will stay here when he first comes to Hong Kong? You also have a lot of connections in Hollywood. We must cooperate with each other if we have the opportunity."
Boss Yang didn't expect anything to come out of the question. These words were purely polite.
After that, he also complimented a few words on the beauty and decentness of the girls around Gu Kun, exchanging business compliments.
Lin Ying was a little flattered. She had been boasted to be the rich daughter of a Malaysian real estate tycoon, but in fact her family's assets were capped at tens of millions of ringgit, which was nothing more than one or two small hotels and guesthouses.
Gu Kun was a bit straightforward, and when the other party asked him, he said directly: "Although I came to Xiangjiang this time to observe the official ceremony, I myself have long had the idea of visiting it. Xiangjiang's experience as a free trade port is closely related to
Like Lijiapo, it is also known as one of the two gems in Southeast Asia. There are many places worth learning from our country.
Now that I'm back, I'm very optimistic about the future of Xiangjiang. This time I'm going to make some counterpart investments, which is to bring fresh water to Lanfang's construction. If Boss Yang has any friends in the investment circle who can introduce me to it, that would be the best.
But it’s too late.”
"Gu Sheng still wants to invest in Xiangjiang? Then on behalf of all my colleagues, I would like to thank Gu Sheng for his kindness. I didn't expect that Gu Sheng had such foresight."
Boss Yang's words really showed that he was really surprised. After all, people here in Xiangjiang generally don't understand Gu Kun's status in the industry, and they only regard him as a top international superstar.
A year has passed since the Olympics, and Gu Kun has no daily event news, so his public exposure has dropped to the same level as Ronaldo, and even worse than Jordan.
It's just that Gu Kun also has the status of an important person of Lan Fang, and he often has to represent Lan Fang to the outside world. Therefore, in line with the international principle of "all countries are equal regardless of their size", his treatment in various formal occasions is relatively high. It is not because
Others admire him for being rich.
People in Xiangjiang are not fully aware of Gu Kun's wealth.
"It seems that Uncle Yang has doubts about my strength, and that's okay." Gu Kun responded calmly.
"No, no, no, I definitely don't mean that. Come on, Gu Sheng, I'm going to introduce you to some friends in the investment world, please come here." Boss Yang still has some emotional intelligence, how can he look down on others casually?
"This is Mr. Xu, Hutchison's senior vice president."
"This is Mr. Yuan from Cheung Kong Industries - even if Mr. Yuan is idle, he is Mr. Li's most trusted military advisor. He is known as Yuan Tianshi in Xiangjiang."
Gu Kun shook hands with them one by one and drank.
These people have little use value, because they are just high-level workers from large real estate families. In recent years, Gu Kun has never wanted to go to Xiangjiang to speculate in real estate. He only wants to speculate in foreign exchange and do some stock market business.
Boss Yang was also very observant and quickly realized Gu Kun's absent-mindedness. However, he was more generous and still helped Gu Kun introduce other celebrities in the investment circle.
"This Liang Sheng is the president of the Asia-Pacific region of Oceania Blackstone Group. He focuses on long-term value investment and also engages in foreign exchange and futures."
Gu Kun's expression finally changed: "It turns out to be Uncle Liang from Blackstone Fund. I'm glad to meet you. When I was investing in Silicon Valley, I also got to know Blackstone Group. This is one of the few companies that upholds value investment and has a strong understanding of the Internet and new technologies."
A visionary company in the technology industry.
To put it bluntly, I have always felt that Mr. Peterson and Mr. Schwarzman have more vision than Buffett in these fields. Although Buffett is known as the stock god, he is too conservative towards emerging industries."
The president of Blackstone Asia-Pacific named Liang Jinsong was a little pleased to see that Gu Kun praised him and his boss so much, so he boasted to each other in business: "A ruler is short, and an inch is long. Mr. Buffett is in the traditional industry.
His vision is the best in the world, and we are always impressed."
The executives of several real estate giants who had been treated coldly by Gu Kun before saw Gu Kun acting arrogantly and respectfully, and they all sneered with displeasure.
"Haha, I come to Xiangjiang to invest, but I actually look down on the real estate industry. This person must be mentally retarded. If he didn't give Boss Yang face, who would drink with such a stupid fat sheep?" Hutchison's Vice President Xu said with a cold snort in his nostrils.
Yuan Tianshi next to him complained in a low voice.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s in Hong Kong, the performance of the Hang Seng Index was still outstanding for a few years. However, in recent years, all investment projects in the market in Hong Kong have been sucked away by real estate.
Who knows that the real estate bubble is at its peak right now? Real estate tycoons look at people in other industries through their nostrils.
Here Gu Kun and President Blackstone Liang were chatting happily. Gu Kun quickly expressed his willingness to open accounts in various businesses of Blackstone, and Blackstone would help operate them.
On the other side, Lin Ying, who had been holding Gu Kun's arm, heard her cell phone ring.
Now, because the dinner party has not officially started yet, it is only around five o'clock in the afternoon, and it is not dark yet, so it is normal for the guests to leave temporarily.
After Lin Ying answered the phone, she whispered to Gu Kun: "We bought the house for the registration of the car. I just asked the car dealer to come over to get the copy and help with the registration. I'll go out and we'll be there soon."
return."
"Go." Gu Kun casually ordered without taking it seriously.
This kind of trivial matter is not something that should be taken care of before a banquet in high society. However, Gu Kun has never been involved in this circle, so he is not so particular about it.
President Liang of Blackstone Fund was chatting with Gu Kun before. The volume of Gu Kun's private chat with Lin Ying was relatively low, and he would not pry into their privacy.
However, as the host, Boss Yang was relatively calm. He happened to see Lin Ying leaving in a hurry. He thought that there was some lack of hospitality, so he took the initiative to come over and ask: "Miss Lin, is there something urgent? Come and play, have fun. If
If you can let the servants do it for you, just give the order."
Gu Kun didn't feel ashamed either: "Boss Yang, you're too polite. I just bought a car, but I'm a foreigner and haven't applied for the right of residence. It's hard to get a license plate, so I just bought a house and got the license plate for the car."
As soon as Boss Yang heard this, he knew that Gu Kun must have just bought a not-so-good low-class house and used it purely as a tool shed, so he didn't ask any more questions.
Unfortunately, there were President Xu from Hutchison and Cheung Kong Holdings nearby. Yuan Tianshi also heard it and couldn't help but come over to watch the fun.
President Xu laughed and teased: "Hey, Gu Sheng has bought a house in Xiangjiang. You are too hasty to act. Now that we all know each other, with Gu Sheng's reputation, if we ask Changhe to look at the house, no matter how good the luxury house is, we have to give it to him."
Get some discounts.
Not to mention other top-notch luxury houses with one garden and one apartment, at No. 28 Barker Road, I just demolished seven units. Each unit of 8,000 square feet only costs HK$60 million. If Gu Sheng is interested in it, he will definitely give it HK$50 million.
Already."
Barker Road is a top-notch luxury residential area in Hong Kong, where celebrities all live.
Most of the houses there are individually designed units, but No. 28 Barker Road was originally a land of more than 50,000 square feet. After it was taken away by Hutchison, it was developed into seven identical villa units, which are available for rent and sale all year round.
, keep supply available at all times.
Therefore, when the top wealthy people come to Hong Kong and cannot afford those one-stop luxury homes, they will most likely come here to find a way to get by first, which is also a status symbol.
"Mr. Xu, you're welcome. I'll settle the car into a house, so you don't need that kind of mansion." Gu Kunpi replied with a smile.
He didn't have a good impression of those real estate developers who would move to London in the future, and since they had no use value, there was no need to compromise.
Those people don't deserve it.
"Oh, what's the matter? I heard that Gu Sheng is a wealthy man in Nanyang, so that's not the case. I don't know where you bought a house. Let us pass by."
Gu Kun didn't mind at all and turned to ask Lin Ying: "Where did you buy it? I haven't asked you yet."
Lin Ying actually didn't care, so she took out the copy of the contract that was just sent and took a look at it before replying: "It's just an ordinary unit in Sham Shui Po, 500 square feet, 1 million."
"Hahahaha, Gu Sheng, you are really a tool shop. You should learn from the middle class and buy a 'thousand-square-foot mansion'. It's 500 square feet. You can't figure it out. I don't know what kind of car is worthy of it."
If you don’t want to buy a house, just tell me if you want to buy a tool house like this, and we won’t step into these pitfalls if you ask for help.” President Xu of Hutchison couldn’t help laughing proudly.
"This house is really not worthy of my car." Gu Kun didn't bother to say what kind of car he drove, because these couldn't prove his strength.
Isn't it just a Ferrari F50? It's not qualified for Gu Kun to show off in person. The parking boy will naturally let other guests know what kind of car Gu Kun drives.
If Gu Kun really wants to drive a luxury vehicle, he can drive an aircraft carrier, a car or a private jet.
"Don't get me wrong, Gu Sheng drove a Ferrari F50 today, costing more than 4 million Hong Kong dollars." Sure enough, a waiter soon explained to Gu Kun.
Gu Kun raised his eyes and felt that the waiter under Boss Yang was quite discerning. He could give him a small red envelope of 10,000 Hong Kong dollars as a reward for his compliments.
When everyone hears that Gu Kun drives a luxury car and buys a shabby house, they will no longer think that he has no spare money, but will only be curious about his investment strategy.
Many celebrities who were not very good at investing came around to ask for advice.
"Does Gu Sheng have any unique insights into real estate investment in this city? Why don't you tell everyone?" The person who asked this question was Liu Dehua, the most popular person in the record company. Although he made a lot of money singing and acting, he had to
I am really a novice when it comes to investing. I have lost 77% of the money I have earned over the years through random investments, but I still like this kind of topic.
Since someone was praising him, Gu Kun didn't hesitate to pretend: "If I wanted to buy it, I can't afford any luxury house in Xiangjiang. But I don't want to insult my IQ. The bubble in the real estate market in this city seems to me to be too big. At this time
Whoever is mentally retarded will enter the market."
"No way? In the past few years, the main factor that hindered the rise of housing prices was the fear of an unstable transition. Even so, it has already risen to such a high level. Now that the transition is smooth and the development prospects are good, shouldn't it be a further strong rise?"
Many celebrities in the entertainment industry said this in unison.
Gu Kun: "Haha, the continuous rise in the past 12 years is not at all due to the digestion of expectations, but because the Bretons are restricted by the treaty and can only sell 50 hectares of public land every year, and they rely on compressed supply to maintain it.
of high price.
Now that it has returned, the country can liberalize land supply for the welfare of citizens. Will house prices still rise? You should go to the suburbs and look at big data, and don't be fooled by the cramped core urban area. The urban area of Xiangjiang has only just reached
to 25% of the total area.
And look at Lijiapo next door. The urbanization rate of Xiangjiang's area is less than half of other people's. Lijiapo is really landless. You just created a man-made shortage. I believe the new authorities will solve this problem. Why rush?
It’s time to enter the market.”
"Gu Kun! Don't talk nonsense about real estate!" President Xu of Hutchison was a little angry.
"Gu Sheng, you didn't get any inside information because you have a good relationship with the senior management, right?" Those celebrities who were hoarding houses were more nervous.