Two male and female groups under Youyu Records debuted on Christmas Eve in 1980.
That night, TVB Music Station broadcast the Xiangjiang Music Song Contest as scheduled. The boy band F·S·C appeared as the opening performer, and the girl group H·S·D performed during the intermission.
The two groups, which are completely different from the current situation of Hong Kong artists, caused a great response on stage by performing in a way that Hong Kong singers have never done before - full-on singing and dancing.
That night, people who watched the program gave polarizing comments.
The older people were a little uncomfortable with this kind of performance, and some people even called to complain, saying that their performance was not singing at all, but performing.
Especially some junior girls are very dissatisfied with the performance of the girl group H.S.D. What?
All of them are showing off their long legs. Who are you seducing from where?
The men around me almost have their eyes fixed on the TV!
The younger ones are very curious about this kind of performance, and they still like it a little bit.
Their clothes are so fashionable and their dance is so cool!
The man is so handsome! The woman is so beautiful!
Such polarizing comments have never appeared in the Hong Kong music scene, but they were never the protagonists of the night. Those already famous singers were the real aces.
But that's not important.
By the next day, all the newspapers under the Black and White Newspaper Industry began to report on these two groups, and even "True News" gave its front page headlines in the entertainment section to these two groups.
As a newly debuted group, there is naturally no news. This is not important. If there is no news, then create news. The introduction of each member is simply meticulous to the core.
For example, they focused their report on Liu Dehua, who was once a rich man, but now takes on the important task of supporting his family alone. When he was a trainee, he worked so hard and seriously, and how he dealt with people.
And how humble.
Not only that, Youyu Records also booked advertising space in many prime locations in Xiangjiang and posted photos of the two groups!
TVB released clips of their training and interviewed some music industry seniors, who also gave their kind words to the two groups.
Xu Guanjie: "This is a combination model that has never been seen in Hong Kong. I am very optimistic about the future of these young people. In the future, they will lead the music scene in Hong Kong."
Luo Wen: "They have brought fresh blood to the Hong Kong music scene. I believe their future is bright!"
Xu Xiaofeng: "I like their way of performing very much. This is a brand new, similar to Japanese, European and American style music. It's really good!"
Thanks to the praises from seniors in the music industry and the discussion around them, these two groups soon became a brand-new force in the Hong Kong music scene.
Their fan groups can no longer simply be called fans, but real fans. To put it simply, they may not really like the songs sung by these two groups, but these fans just like them!
Even under the guidance of the black and white newspapers, liking them has become a trend in Hong Kong.
Under such a publicity offensive, the two groups became popular, and the speed of their popularity was like a rocket booster. Even though each of the two groups only had one song, their popularity was as popular as some that had achieved platinum status.
He is a senior in the music industry of records!
This situation also attracted the attention of the Xiangjiang media, and more newspapers began to report on these two combinations.
This also leads to the fact that they appear in front of the public more and more often, and the number of fans naturally increases.
In this way, the two groups became the hottest news in the entertainment industry during the New Year period in Hong Kong. Of course, these two groups are popular!
But after all, this is just a matter in the entertainment industry. In fact, not many people in Xiangjiang's business community are paying attention to this matter. At this time, they cannot imagine what kind of difference this combination will bring to Xiangjiang's business community.
It can be said that the business community in Xiangjiang is very happy at this time.
Because the current situation in Xiangjiang is very good.
Especially the real estate industry and the financial industry, these two industries have become the pillar industries in Hong Kong, and their development status has made countless businessmen happy.
"Last year, the price of small and medium-sized properties in Hong Kong has risen to more than HK$850 per square foot. According to expert analysis, house prices this year are likely to exceed HK$1,000 per square foot. The increase in some good locations and communities may be even greater.
, taking Taikoo Shing as an example, their house prices have exceeded the HK$1,000 mark last year!”
Jiaku's annual meeting will be held in Xiangjiang this year. After Chu Huan traveled all over the world last year, he decided to hold Jiaku's annual meeting in Xiangjiang this year.
At the same time, it is also ahead of schedule. In the past, it was after New Year's Day. This time, after New Year's Day, Jiaku's global conference has already begun.
This is also to better and more timely prepare for the development of Jiaku in the next year.
After all, in the next year, South Korea, Australia, Canada, Brazil, and Argentina will all have an extremely important year for the development of Jiaku.
Now He Bingguang is reporting to Chu Huan on the situation of the Xiangjiang real estate industry.
"In addition, the rents of commercial buildings in Xiangjiang have also changed. After entering 1981, the rents of commercial buildings in Xiangjiang have risen to HK$21 to HK$24. In addition, the rents of Grade A office buildings in Central have risen to HK$29 per unit.
per square foot per month.
Zhulu Center alone will bring rental income of HK$2.277 billion to the company this year. After deducting all operating costs, the profit will reach HK$1.8216 billion!"
He Bingguang preached with an excited expression.
When the construction of the Zhulu Center started, the total investment was HK$9 billion, which shocked the whole of Hong Kong. Everyone was wondering how many years it would take for such an investment to be repaid.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! But now the Zhulu Center has only just been built halfway, and it has almost completed the income from the investment just relying on rent. By now, the Zhulu Center has already become a
One of the most successful cases in the history of Xiangjiang Real Estate!
Chu Huan smiled and didn't care much about the income. What's wrong with this!
By 1996, the rent of Grade A office buildings in Xiangjiang will reach a terrifying US$105.56 per square foot per year, ranking first among the world's major commercial cities, much higher than the US$78.79 in Moscow and the US$74.32 in Tokyo, which ranked second and third.
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If calculated at this price, the annual rent for just one Zhulu Center would reach US$1.82 billion!
According to the exchange rate between Hong Kong dollars and US dollars at that time, the rent of Zhulu Center would be HK$15.48 billion. This is only the rent of office buildings. If the rent of street shops is added, the rent will reach a terrifying amount of more than HK$25 billion.
Remember, this is only the data for 1996, and it is only the rent of a competition center.
Around 2000, the annual rent of the entire Jiaku department in Xiangjiang commercial buildings, shopping malls, and shops will exceed HK$150 billion!
"In addition to the residential projects that are already in operation this year, major real estate companies in Xiangjiang are informed that Zhulu Real Estate will reduce its residential development projects by at least 50% this year!"
After Chu Huan listened to He Bingguang's report, he preached to He Bingguang.
Zhulu Real Estate has been conscientiously implementing Chu Huan's requirements in the development of residential projects, which is to only provide land for cooperative development with real estate companies in Xiangjiang. Zhulu Real Estate is not involved in any construction, sales, or naming.
, they only invest in the project based on the value of the land. After the construction is completed, Zhulu Real Estate will obtain its own interests according to the equity distribution.
However, Zhulu Real Estate has never given up on bidding and purchasing land. Coupled with the land that Zhulu Real Estate has already reserved, Zhulu Real Estate has long ago owned the largest land reserve in Hong Kong.
Now, when the real estate market in Xiangjiang is at its best, Chu Huan actually asked Zhulu Real Estate to reduce the development of residential projects by 50%. This decision makes He Bingguang, who has always been in a relatively excited state, somewhat unable to understand.
"By the way, tell Lu Qi my decision."
Lu Qi is now in charge of the real estate project investment department. The establishment of this department may be to cooperate with the Jiaku Department to withdraw from the Xiangjiang residential project.
In the past, Lu Qi was only responsible for the investment of the cooperative real estate developers of a group called Zhulu Real Estate, but with the addition of Hehui and Land, Lu Qi's burden became obviously heavier.
Of course, the rights are even greater!
He Bingguang was really surprised this time, but he was no longer a newcomer. After following Chu Huan for so many years, he had already become accustomed to Chu Huan's abilities, and he also had absolute admiration for Chu Huan.
At this time, He Bingguang thought of Chu Huan's analysis results that Xu Yi had given him before.
At that time, Chu Huan had already stated in the report that the real estate industry in Xiangjiang seemed to be prosperous, but in fact it was somewhat falsely prosperous, which can be seen from the vacancy rate of houses.
So based on this report, and now looking at Chu Huan's order, it is obvious that Chu Huan believes that the prosperity of Xiangjiang's real estate industry will only last for this year.
It is very likely that there will be a landslide next year.
Thinking of this, He Bingguang couldn't help but ask Chu Huan.
"Chairman, do you think the real estate industry in Xiangjiang will see a large-scale decline next year?"
Chu Huan nodded and said: "It's like this. The development of Xiangjiang's real estate industry in the past two years has been a bit too smooth. Haven't you noticed that this is very similar to the situation before 1973?
The market of the Jiaku family is too big. If the real estate industry in Xiangjiang really experiences a decline next year, it will be a very serious matter for the real estate industry of the Jiaku family. We have to prepare in advance.
And even if there is no large-scale landslide in the real estate industry in Xiangjiang next year, we will only make less money, but we will not lose money, do you understand?"
This has nothing to do with Chu Huan’s prediction of the development of the times, but a necessary process for the development of the Jiaku real estate industry.
As Chu Huan said, the Jiaku family's plate is too big. Over the years, the entire Jiaku family, including the two major groups of Yunhai and Jiuzhou, has been able to develop smoothly, which is beyond many people's understanding of business.
All this is due to Chu Huan’s precise analysis of the development of the times.
But this does not mean that these three groups have this ability.
Now Chu Huan has begun to decentralize power, which means that in the future, these enterprises will have a greater proportion of independent operations.
According to the huge size of the Jiaku system, when these companies operate independently, it is no wonder that they want to achieve the development speed that Chu Huan did when he was doing it himself.
So at this time, Chu Huan's goal for the entire Jiaku system is that, unless he is personally involved in projects, in other cases, these companies must move forward at a more steady pace.
With the foundation laid by Chu Huan for them, as long as they make fewer mistakes, their development will be unstoppable!
This is not just Chu Huan's decision alone.
In fact, before meeting He Bingguang, Chu Huan had already received advice from the Jiaku think tank at the internal think tank meeting of Jiaku.
Their suggestions coincided with Chu Huan's ideas.
With everyone working together, this regulation that affects the development of the entire Jiaku will naturally be officially issued this year!
Although He Bingguang still had some doubts in his heart, he also understood at this time that what he had to do was to conscientiously implement Chu Huan's decision.
"I understand, Chairman, please rest assured, I will let the company formulate a detailed development plan according to your instructions, Chairman!"
Chu Huan nodded.
Later, He Bingguang asked Chu Huan about another matter. Although Chu Huan had just analyzed the future development trend of the real estate industry in Xiangjiang, this matter was too big, and He Bingguang had to ask Chu Huan for details.
"Chairman, according to the information we have received, this year the MTR Corporation will launch a bidding project for property development rights above nine subway stations at once. Do we still want to participate in this project?"
Chu Huan knew which project He Bingguang was asking about.
These nine subway stations are all located in Central. As Central is the most expensive land in Xiangjiang, the rent is naturally the highest. Previously, there were successful cases of Zhulu Real Estate in Admiralty and Central. This makes these nine subway stations
The bidding for property development rights on the site attracted real estate companies from all over Hong Kong.
In another time and space, after Hang Lung obtained a committed loan of HK$1.5 billion from a Japanese bank, it brought together New World, Kailian International, Yihua Yixin, Liao Chuangxing and other companies to jointly bid for a new consortium, and finally won the bid.
This project was proceeding relatively smoothly at the beginning. The Hongmian Building on Murray Road in Central District is nearing completion, and plans are underway to build the Fragrant Hill Building in Admiralty Section 2.
The newly built Xiangshan Building in the plan covers an area of 69,000 square feet, with a total floor area of 1.043 million square feet. According to the requirements of the Hong Kong government, a land premium of NT$1.82 billion needs to be paid, and it must be completed within 28 days.
It was already September of 1982. It was also at this time that Thatcher went to Beijing, and Xiangjiang's real estate industry took a sharp turn.
Due to the sharp drop in land prices, Hang Lung had no choice but to propose to the Hong Kong government to reduce the land price to NT$1.4 billion, but it was not accepted.
At such a moment, the Japanese bank that had signed a contract to lend a maximum credit of 1.5 billion yuan to Hang Lung temporarily withdrew its commitment.
By December, after Hang Lung's application to the Hong Kong government for an extension of land premium payment failed again, it had no choice but to announce a "deferment" and withdraw from the Admiralty Section 2 superstructure development. The rest of the subway station superstructure projects also had to be postponed.
In this battle, the consortium led by Hang Lung not only "entered a treasure trove and returned empty-handed", but also lost 400 million yuan in deposits, which was a heavy blow.
In December 1984, the joint statement was released, and the real estate market in Hong Kong began to bottom out. The Hong Kong government took advantage of the situation and launched the second section of Admiralty for bidding. As a result, it was won by a consortium headed by Sino and developed into the Financial Plaza, later known as Benda Centre.
Earn huge profits.
Since then, Hang Lung has become increasingly wary of the real estate cycle, its investment strategy has become more conservative, and its distance from real estate companies such as Cheung Kong, SHKP, and Henderson Land has also widened.
Now that Hang Lung Real Estate has long ceased to exist, Chu Huan, knowing the future development trend, would naturally...let his company join in!
"We don't want to complete this project alone. I will help you arrange a helper when the time comes, and this helper is the main force participating in the bidding this time, not us!"
If He Bingguang could understand Chu Huan's decision to reduce investment in the real estate industry before, now he cannot understand Chu Huan's decision.
First of all, in the field of commercial buildings, Zhulu Real Estate has always developed and completed it alone. Even judging from the previous development rights of properties above Admiralty Station and Central Station, by the time the property development rights are built above these nine subway stations,
When the rights are over, Zhulu Real Estate will also buy the property.
Secondly, although this project looks very big, the development rights of the properties above the nine subway stations will require an investment of at least tens of billions of Hong Kong dollars.
However, Zhulu Real Estate has this strength!
Chu Huan now actually wants to bring in other partners, and at the same time let them take the lead in this matter. Isn't this completely inconsistent with the development rules of Zhulu?
Chu Huan did not give an explanation for this, and just asked He Bingguang to wait for his arrangements!
Although He Bingguang persisted for a few words, seeing that Chu Huan had already made up his mind, he could only leave with doubts in his mind.
After He Bingguang left, Chu Huan called Xu Yi into his office.
"Check my schedule during this period and arrange a time for me to meet with Chen Songqing from Jianing!"
Xu Yi took out his notebook, read it, and said: "You have two hours at noon the day after tomorrow, and you can meet him at that time!"
Chu Huan nodded and said: "Okay, inform him and let him come to see me at that time!"
After entering 1981, Chen Songqing's Jiani Group will usher in a period of rapid development. In this year, Chen Songqing's Jiani Group will cooperate with major consortiums in Hong Kong and launch a comprehensive attack. In 80 and 81
Within two years, Chen Songqing kept rolling the snowball of Jia Ning.
By 1982, Carinian reached its peak. At that time, Carianin had more than 100 subsidiaries, and its scale was close to that of Jardine. It was so ancient!
But all this is pie in the sky.
What Chu Huan has to do now is actually to build this castle in the air more beautifully, because only in this way can Chu Huan be able to attack his ultimate goal in Xiangjiang.
HSBC!
Of course, it is impossible for Chu Huan to win over HSBC. Neither the Hong Kong government nor the British government will allow such a thing to happen.
But Chu Huan can use this incident to launch an impact on HSBC's industries, such as Hang Seng Bank!
HSBC's own development is so stable that it is not easy to seize their weaknesses, and the Jianing incident is Chu Huan's best opportunity.
In another time and space, HSBC suffered heavy losses due to the situation of Carin, but at that time HSBC was a big business and the losses were still able to be compensated.
The current HSBC is different from the HSBC of another time and space. In terms of paper strength, the scale of HSBC at this time is actually stronger than that of another time and space.
After all, at this time, HSBC had completed the acquisition of the North American Ocean Milan Bank. With an investment department that cooperated with Jiaku, it had also begun studying the acquisition of European banks.
However, everything has pros and cons. The increase in HSBC's paper strength actually means that HSBC's investment has also increased. Although HSBC now no longer has the unrealistic idea of surpassing Jiaku.
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In the current project, if Jia Ning can be used to implicate HSBC, then Chu Huan can take advantage of the general trend and work hard to get what he wants!
Thinking about Chen Songqing's bold and bold character, he will definitely not give up this development opportunity!
What we need to see now is actually how Chen Songqing dragged HSBC into trouble!
Xu Yi didn't say much about this matter, but reported several other things to Chu Huan.
"Boss, Li Jiacheng of Cheung Kong and Li Zhaoji of Henderson have already submitted their plans. Cheung Kong plans to sell new shares in January this year to obtain shares in Lixing Development. Henderson has decided to sell new shares in August this year.
Officially listed in March, most of the board members of these two companies have signed and agreed to these two decisions, and we are the only ones left. They want to ask us if we agree to sign!"
Chinese Land has always been the second largest shareholder of these two groups, and their decisions do require the signature of Chinese Land.
Lijiacheng's Changshi, although there is no Snake Tun Jing from another time and space to take down Hutchison Whampoa's huge feats, the reputation of Lijiacheng's superman is not in vain.
There are only wrong names, not wrong nicknames!
In the past few years, Cheung Kong has been frantically developing new real estate and commercial building projects through cooperation with Zhulu and other real estate companies in Hong Kong. At the end of last year, its market value had grown to HK$3.11 billion, ranking it among the top Chinese real estate developers in Hong Kong.
The fourth place is only behind Sun Hung Kai's HK$7.02 billion, New World's HK$5.73 billion, and Carin's HK$3.28 billion!
The data here are all the market capitalizations of these companies when they were at their highest last year. By the end of the year, they had fallen somewhat, but not much.
But no matter what, the name of Superman is true, but without the major event of acquiring Hutchison Whampoa, Cheung Kong’s market value is still far away from the 9.03 billion Hong Kong dollars in another time and space!
Henderson Land Development is the latest company to go public among the four major real estate families in Hong Kong.
But in fact, compared with the other three companies, Henderson's road to listing is not much different.
They all chose to go public when the Hong Kong stock market was at its peak, and then used this to withdraw huge amounts of cash. When the real estate industry was in the cold winter, they bought land at low prices and allowed it to develop better.
In fact, Henderson's listing was as successful as they thought. After the listing, Henderson received various good news. At the end of the year, Henderson's market value was as high as 3.52 billion Hong Kong dollars, even more than
It increased the market value of Changshi last year.
Chu Huan naturally had no objection to the ideas of these two groups. He originally invested in their stocks and became their second largest shareholder in order to be optimistic about their future development.
These two people have successfully proven themselves in Chu Huan's eyes. Since they are already successful people, why not support them!
"Tell Wen Mingzhang not to wait for my notification about this kind of thing in the future, just let him be normal and support them!"
Xu Yi nodded and said with a smile: "Mr. Wen is indeed a bit busy during this period. The takeover of Jardine and Land has involved a lot of his energy."
If another person were to tell Chu Huan, Chu Huan would definitely think that this person was actually giving Wen Mingzhang eye drops.
By saying this, he is not telling himself that Wen Mingzhang's personal energy is limited, and being responsible for the acceptance of Jardine and Land has already involved all his energy.
As a result, Wen Mingzhang had no more thoughts to focus on other companies he had invested in.
But Chu Huan would not think so about Xu Yi, because Chu Huan understood Xu Yi. If Xu Yi really wanted to find someone to share Wen Mingzhang's rights and take over the shares of Chinese Real Estate Investment, Xu Yi would tell Chu Huan directly
, instead of reminding Chu Huan in this roundabout way of being green tea.
"In this case, you should talk to Wen Mingzhang and let him understand the group's thoughts. Do you want me to pass the message on your behalf?"
Xu Yi smiled awkwardly and said: "Mr. Wen still has some abilities, otherwise Jiaku wouldn't give a double-S evaluation. But after all, this is the first time he has taken over such a huge asset. It appeared in the early stage
Some problems are inevitable!”
Chu Huan nodded and said: "Isn't there always someone here in Jiaku to help? Let's leave things like this for now!"
Xu Yi nodded and said: "Yes!"
Then Xu Yi told Chu Huan another thing, that is, Li Mingze was planning to form his family business into Hysan Industrial and go public!
"Boss, as a long-established family in Xiangjiang, Lee's family still owns a lot of properties in Xiangjiang. If their company goes public, should we buy some shares?"
Chu Huan thought for a while and said: "Forget it, even if Hysan Industrial is listed, it is still a real estate company that only collects rent. Among the descendants of Ricci, there are only a few capable people, and they cannot lead Hysan."
If you want to make a big business, there is no need to waste funds on this matter!"
Having said that, in fact, after Hysan Industrial was listed, although the stock price did not fluctuate much, because the properties it held were all Grade A office buildings and high-end residential buildings, when it was first listed, Hysan Industrial was still called
For small landowners!
But as Chu Huan said, the company's stock is not very volatile, and buying it is not interesting!
Unless Chu Huan wants to completely acquire Hysan Industrial.