The New Year of 1982 came very early, already in January.
No. 12 Mount Galley Road is also becoming more and more lively every year.
After all, with the passage of time, the number of people in the Chu family has increased.
However, the bustle of No. 12 Mount Galley Road cannot be compared with the bustle of the real estate industry in Xiangjiang. After the rapid development of the real estate industry last year, in 1982 in Xiangjiang, at least at the beginning of the year, the real estate industry in Xiangjiang was not visible.
Any kind of decline will come out.
It was at this time that the Hong Kong government launched a bombshell. Just after the New Year, the Hong Kong government announced that it would launch a 144,000-square-foot land parcel in the Central District to the west of Connaught Building. Now
It is the terminus of minibuses and minibuses in Central. It can be said to be the center of the Central business core area of Hong Kong Island and the king of places among the "kings of places".
As soon as this news came out, it immediately caused a huge sensation in Hong Kong. Central, as the financial center of Hong Kong, rarely has such land here anymore.
Immediately, real estate companies such as Sun Hung Kai, New World, Cheung Kong, Henderson Land Development, Carline, Sun Hup, and Great Eagle announced that they would participate in this bidding.
He Bingguang, Wen Mingzhang, and Qiao John also appeared in Chu Huan's office at the same time.
Although last year, Chu Huan had already said that he would try to reduce the investment of Jiaku real estate companies in real estate projects, this piece of land is really too tempting. If it can be photographed, at this time,
Calculating the building proportions in Central, a large-scale building complex with a rental area of more than 1.5 million square feet can be built here.
Now the rent of Grade A office buildings in Central has reached HK$30 per square foot per month.
If this is the case, the building complex built here can increase the company's rent by HK$540 million per year.
This is still the current price, what if the price increases in the future?
Chu Huan naturally knew the thoughts of the three of them, and even Chu Huan knew better than them. This piece of land was actually Land's trading plaza. At that time, Land bought this land for a record price of 100 million Hong Kong dollars.
A piece of land, plus the funds to build the Exchange Square, the total investment is 8 billion Hong Kong dollars.
And what about the rent at Exchange Square?
After Hong Kong experienced the trough of the real estate industry in the 1980s, the rent at Exchange Square was HK$31-35 per square foot per month in 1987, rising to HK$55-62 per square foot per month in 1989.
At that time, it climbed directly to HK$85 per square foot per month.
In this century, the peak price was HK$110 per square foot in 1994!
In other words, if the Jiaku real estate company can acquire this piece of land, just the four-year rent in 1994 will bring the company back 100 million Hong Kong dollars. Plus the years in the early 1990s, basically
Just get your money back!
But that's not how it worked out. In another time and space, the land in the official Exchange Plaza almost overwhelmed Land. Later, he even sold his shares in Hong Kong Electric, which relieved his financial pressure.
Moreover, the land price in Xiangjiang is obviously too high at this time. If we acquire this land at this time, we don’t have to wait until next year. We will be laughed at by the end of this year.
However, even because of this, Chu Huan still decided to take over the land. The reason was very simple, that is, if it was not taken at this time, the land would fall into the hands of other companies.
This is not the case last year when the subway company launched a bidding process for property development rights on subway stations. Everyone knows the value of this land and no one will give it up.
Otherwise, in another time and space, Land would not have sold its shares in HK Electric and continued with the Exchange Square project!
So now even if Chu Huan knew that the price of this land was a bit high, he still had to get it.
Moreover, Chu Huan has other plans for this matter.
"Hehui, Land Land will not fight for this piece of land. I am going to let Zhulu Real Estate fight for this piece of land!"
Chu Huan sat there and calmly preached to the three of them.
When John Qiao heard what Chu Huan said, although he was still a little reluctant, he didn't say anything. After all, he also knew that the focus of the peace conference's development was actually no longer on real estate.
Wen Mingzhang is different. Land's development focus is in Central, and now this land is next to the Leisure Center. If we can win this land, we can open up the connection between the Leisure Center and this land. In this case, Land will be in Central
Its position will become more solid.
"Chairman, Land."
So Wen Mingzhang told Chu Huan what he was thinking, hoping to get Chu Huan's support.
Chu Huan naturally knew what kind of benefits this land would bring to Land if it fell into the hands of Land. If it weren't for the subsequent development and Chu Huan's own plans, he would definitely hand over the project to his death.
For Land, but at least the current situation is not allowed!
"I understand what you mean, but now I have decided on this matter!"
Wen Mingzhang wanted to say something else, but when he saw the displeasure in Chu Huan's eyes, he honestly shut up.
Seeing this, Chu Huan said calmly: "As for the group's board of directors, you can just handle it yourself!"
Wen Mingzhang could only nod seriously at this time.
However, at this time, Wen Mingzhang felt that he seemed to have guessed what Chu Huan meant. Unlike Zhulu Real Estate, Hehe International-Wheelock was a private company fully controlled by Chu Huan, while Land was a listed company.
For ordinary people, such a listed company naturally has many benefits and can raise more funds in the stock market.
But when I think about my boss, he owns two banks, one is a first-class commercial bank in North America, and the other is a top commercial bank group in Hong Kong. Under such circumstances, my boss is not short of money, so the listed company
On the contrary, his position has become a bad situation.
For a fully controlled company, all profits are its own, while for a listed company, its profits are nominally distributed to those shareholders.
As long as this piece of land in Central develops well, it will definitely make money. Since it can make money and your boss is not short of money, it is better to put all the profits in your own hands.
"Okay, you two can leave. I still have some things to talk to He Bingguang."
John Qiao and Wen Mingzhang got up and left Chu Huan's office.
At this time, Chu Huanxiao looked at He Bingguang and asked, "What do you think of this land?"
He Bingguang did not hesitate and said directly: "As long as this land develops well, it will definitely become a cornucopia. But the key to the problem is that we can see this, and other real estate companies can also see it. It is conceivable that this
The price tag for the land is absolutely astronomical!”
After hearing this, Chu Huan also nodded and said: "Do you know why the group transferred 10% of Volkswagen International Investment's shares in Jiani to Zhulu Real Estate in the middle of last year?"
In October last year, two Jiaku group companies, Volkswagen International Investment and Zhulu Real Estate, completed an internal transaction.
The subject of the transaction is Volkswagen International Investment's 10% stake in Carin.
However, at that time, the entire Xiangjiang business community knew about the relationship between Volkswagen International Investment and Zhulu Real Estate, and did not think much about this transaction.
It is simply that Zhulu Real Estate itself is a real estate company and can more easily control the direction of Jianning.
But at this moment, Chu Huan suddenly asked He Bingguang about this matter, and He Bingguang knew that this matter was definitely not that simple.
I asked after thinking for a moment.
"Chairman, do you mean just for this time?"
Chu Huan nodded and asked: "After one year of development, what is the market value of Jianing?"
He Bingguang replied: "According to the opening price of the Hong Kong stock market today, Carin's market value has reached 100 million Hong Kong dollars. Originally, this market value had exceeded 10 billion before, but during the period around the New Year, someone suddenly began to sell off several dollars in a big way.
The second Jianing stock price caused Jianing's share price to fall a part!"
Chu Huan naturally knew about this, because it was Zhao Yazhi and others who sold Jia Ning's shares.
"Yes!" Chu Huan couldn't help but sigh: "In just one year, Jianing's market value has increased by more than three times. Such a speed is also very rare in the business history of Xiangjiang!"
He Bingguang failed to understand what Chu Huan meant, and could only echo: "This is also because Chairman, you have a sharp vision. When Jianing just started to develop, you were already very optimistic about Jianing!"
Chu Huan smiled and waved his hands and said: "In this bid for this land in Central, Zhulu Real Estate will send out a signal that it is bound to win, and the beginning of this signal is to ask the Xiangjiang business community about the sale of Jianing shares!"
He Bingguang was stunned. He didn't expect Chu Huan to sell Jianing's shares?
You must know that the entire Xiangjiang business community now believes that Jiani's future development is likely to reach a higher level and become a giant in Xiangjiang.
But now Chu Huan actually wants to sell Jianing's shares.
Isn’t this just holding a cornucopia and pushing it outward?
More importantly, Zhulu Real Estate currently holds 10% of the shares of Jianning and is one of Jianning's major shareholders. If Zhulu wants to sell off their shares in Jianning, it will inevitably cause turbulence in Jianning's stock price.
This is not worth the loss for them!
"Chairman, can Zhuilu's funds fully support the launch of this project in Central?"
He Bingguang couldn't help but preach.
Chu Huan waved his hand and said: "Of course I know that Zhuilu's funds are sufficient, but this has nothing to do with whether Zhulu's funds are sufficient. If you don't sell Jianing's stock at this time, it will be even more difficult to sell it in the future!
"
Hearing what Chu Huan said, He Bingguang's expression suddenly changed. At this time, he thought of the order Chu Huan issued to Zhulu Real Estate last year to slow down Zhulu Real Estate's development of new real estate projects.
Thinking of Chu Huan's decision at this time, I couldn't help but ask Chu Huan: "Chairman, do you mean that Jia Ning will have problems in the future? Or is the trough of the entire real estate market in Xiangjiang coming?"
When Chu Huan asked He Bingguang and others to reduce their investment in the real estate industry, he had already said that the real estate industry in Xiangjiang was about to enter a new cycle. In order to reduce losses, he asked the three major real estate groups under Jiaku to reduce their investment in the real estate industry.
real estate projects.
Now Chu Huan wants to sell Jianing's shares again.
He Bingguang couldn't help but think so.
In this regard, Chu Huandao did not hide anything and said: "My analysis is this. The economic market in Hong Kong is too easily affected by social events. Nowadays, there are discussions between my hometown and England about the future of Hong Kong.
It’s getting stronger and stronger, we have to make preparations!”
He Bingguang said in surprise: "If this is the case, then what about the land we are auctioning now?"
Chu Huan smiled bitterly and said helplessly: "The Hong Kong government is very smart and chose to release this land at this time. Therefore, even if we have analyzed that there will be major changes in the real estate market in Hong Kong in the future, we still have to take advantage of this land."
Get the piece of land."
He Bingguang now knew what Chu Huan meant.
Why was Dazhong International Investment asked to sell its shares in Jiani to Zhulu Real Estate in the first place, and why was Zhulu Real Estate asked to bid for the land in Central on behalf of Jiaku at this time?
In fact, it was all planned.
"Chairman, I understand what you mean. I will try my best to reduce the decline in Jianing's stock price!"
Chu Huan nodded with satisfaction and said with a smile: "Let's deal with this matter!"
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Fanling, Royal Golf Course.
Chu Huan and MacLehose were wearing sweatshirts and baseball caps, walking on the golf course, with the caddy responsible for picking up balls behind them.
"I'm afraid I'll never have the chance to play with you, Director Chu!"
MacLehose preached with some emotion.
Taking office in 1971 and resigning in 1982, MacLehose has ended his term as Governor of Hong Kong and will return to London!
Chu Huan smiled and said: "The Governor of Hong Kong is wrong. You just left Xiangjiang. You also know that I still have a lot of business in London. Can we play golf in London by then?"
"Haha!" MacLehose couldn't help laughing and said, "Yes, what I just said was not rigorous!"
At this point, MacLehose stood still and couldn't help but ask Chu Huan: "Director Chu, how do you think people in Hong Kong will evaluate me as the Governor of Hong Kong in the future?"
Chu Huan also stopped in his tracks, thought for a moment, and said: "I think future generations of Hong Kong people will definitely say that MacLehose was the best British Hong Kong Governor in the history of Hong Kong!"
MacLehose first showed an expression of relief. If someone else had said this, MacLehose might have smiled politely and not taken it seriously.
But now that the person who said this is Chu Huan, the situation is completely different.
He is the nominal number one person in Xiangjiang, but the young man in front of him is actually the number one person in Xiangjiang.
Being able to receive such praise from Chu Huan made MacLehose very happy.
However, MacLehao also heard Chu Huan's other thoughts and asked: "So, Director Chu, you are sure that Xiangjiang will definitely return to the embrace of China in the future?"
Chu Huan did not hide his thoughts at this time, but said with a smile: "Master Governor of Hong Kong, you have been to the capital, shouldn't you know more about this matter than me?"
MacLehose shook his head and said: "China's attitude is China's attitude. I think you, Mr. Chu, know the significance of Xiangjiang to England. England will not allow Xiangjiang to leave!"
Chu Huan chuckled lightly and said: "It is no longer the past, and England is not the same as before. When it comes to Xiangjiang, England just doesn't want to lose it, but it does not mean that it cannot be lost. Xiangjiang must take back its attitude towards China.
The difference actually represents the future direction of Xiangjiang."
MacLehose couldn't help but said: "I know that China is now making every effort to develop its economy. Under such circumstances, if something bad happens, can China accept this loss?"
Chu Huan waved his hand and said: "Mr. Governor of Hong Kong, you have forgotten one thing!"
"What's going on?" MacLehose asked curiously.
Chu Huan said: "That is the current group of old people in China. They are old people who came out of the war years. They have the courage to tear down and rebuild, and they also have the courage. If Britain really thinks that China will be like Argentina, then
That’s totally wrong.”
MacLehose didn't speak for a long time, and finally asked suddenly: "Director Chu, I remember that your business in England is quite big, and your development was also started in Xiangjiang. Isn't the current situation in Xiangjiang bad?"
Chu Huan chuckled lightly and said, "Mr. Hong Kong Governor, have you forgotten what happened when Jiaku acquired Land?"
MacLehose laughed and never talked about it again.
Chu Huan didn't say anything else, the two just played ball and chatted casually, and finally ended the meeting.
When leaving, MacLehose suddenly said to Chu Huan: "Director Chu, your Jiaku's business in Xiangjiang will not be so smooth next!"
Chu Huan chuckled and said: "The Governor of Hong Kong should worry about Sir Youde!"
The British side has confirmed MacLehose's successor, Sir Yode!
He will also take up his post in Xiangjiang this year.
In fact, Chu Huan understood what MacLehose meant. If the problem in Xiangjiang really turned around, the British side would definitely take action.
As the number one representative of Chinese businessmen in Xiangjiang, Chu Huan will definitely suppress Chu Huan's business due to political reasons!
But at this time, Chu Huan was no longer the Chu Huan of a few years ago. Although Jiaku's plan to sink the company has been going on, it seems that there is no news about Jiaku in the market.
But in fact, Jiaku's influence in Xiangjiang at this time has far exceeded that of a few years ago.
After being stunned for a moment, MacLehose suddenly smiled bitterly and said: "I have forgotten that some of the current policies in Hong Kong, without your nod, Mr. Chu, I am afraid that no one will listen to them after leaving the Hong Kong Governor's Office, right?"
Chu Huan said calmly: "Mr. Hong Kong Governor, in the final analysis, I am just a businessman who wants to develop my own business empire in Hong Kong.
But there is a saying that I think you must have heard of, Mr. Governor of Hong Kong, that is, blocking someone’s way of making money is like killing their parents. This is the biggest hatred for us Chinese. If the economy of Hong Kong is good, the development of Jiaku will be good.
, the opposite is also true. If the development of Jiaku is not good, the economy of Xiangjiang will definitely have problems. At such a moment, the British side should pay more attention to the economic development of Xiangjiang, right?"
MacLehose said nothing more. In fact, the meanings of both parties were already clear.
There is no need to say anything more.
"No matter what, it's been a pleasure cooperating with you, Director Chu, over the years. I hope we can still be friends when we meet in the future!"
MacLehao extended his hand to Chu Huan!
Chu Huan also stretched out his hand and said with a smile: "They will definitely be friends!"
The two of them got into their own cars, and the two cars drove in different directions.
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The news that Zhulu Real Estate wanted to sell its shares in Jiani quickly spread in Xiangjiang. Just as He Bingguang was worried, Jiani's stock price fell by 3.78% as soon as the news came out.
Soon, Zhulu Real Estate issued a statement that the sale of Jianing's shares was not because Zhulu Real Estate was not optimistic about Jia Ning's development, but because Zhulu Real Estate wanted to fully compete for the land in Central. For this reason, it could only sell Jianing's shares.
Cash out of stocks.
After this statement came out, it alleviated the decline in Carin's stock price, but it also brought a greater shock to the business community in Xiangjiang.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Will Zhuilu Real Estate be short of money?
You must know that as the first real estate group of the Jiaku Group, from the day Zhulu Real Estate was founded, no one seemed to have heard that Zhulu Real Estate would be short of money.
In this regard, the explanation given by Zhulu Real Estate is that this time the land in Central requires at least 4 billion Hong Kong dollars in cash based on the current land price in Hong Kong.
Such a huge amount of cash dwarfs even Zhulu Real Estate.
As soon as this explanation came out, everyone immediately thought of Zhulu Real Estate's sudden reduction in real estate project development last year, which made them connect the two things together.
But soon, there were other voices on this matter. Even if Zhulu Real Estate may have difficulties with capital turnover due to delays in some projects, Zhulu Real Estate’s parent company Jiaku shouldn’t be short of money?
After all, Jiaku also owns two major banking groups, Alde Commercial Bank and Jiaku Bank.
In response, Zhulu Real Estate once again issued a statement, stating that Zhulu Real Estate is an independently developed group and must be responsible for its own financial situation. It cannot always rely on blood transfusions from the parent company to survive!
To know that a company has a healthy financial situation, this is a red line that must not be crossed!
This explanation was reluctantly accepted by the outside world.
But soon, there were rumors about the market in Xiangjiang.
The reason why Jiaku did not support Zhulu Real Estate’s cash in this matter was not because Zhulu Real Estate itself wanted to maintain a healthy financial situation. In fact, the main problem was that Jiaku’s overseas investment in the past two years was too large.
Jiaku's investment in Brazil, Australia, and Canada alone has exceeded 10 billion U.S. dollars. With such a huge investment, even if Jiaku is rich, it will still have difficulty in capital turnover.
Not to mention the money that Xiangjiang Jiaku spent on acquiring Jardine in Xiangjiang!
Once this explanation came out, the business community in Xiangjiang basically agreed that Jiaku did not have much cash flow at this time.
As for Jiaku's investment in his hometown, although Hu Yingxiang already knew about it, Hu Yingxiang did not disclose it to the outside world. In addition, the two investments of Jiaku were still in the confidentiality stage at this time, and Xiangjiang did not know about it.
Of course, the fact that Jiaku has invested in Brazil, Australia, and Canada is still only known to people in the Xiangjiang business community. As for the Xiangjiang media, it has not reported this matter.
It was Jiaku's public relations department who said hello specifically.
It is precisely because of this greeting that more people believe in this matter.
Those who wanted to compete for this land in Central began to scratch their heads. In order to obtain this land, Zhulu Real Estate rarely sold its shares in a listed company. This shows how seriously Zhulu Real Estate takes this matter. This makes many people
Start recalculating your bid.
But some people are very worried!
This person is Chen Songqing.
"Last year, we were worried that Chu Huan's purchase of our group's shares was intended to acquire our company's shares in the future, but we did not expect that Chu Huan would now sell off our company's shares!"
At this time, Chen Songqing was sitting in his office with an angry look on his face.
He has reason to be angry, because Chen Songqing knows the situation of Jianing better than anyone else. If Jianing's stock price drops seriously due to this incident, his entire Jianing business empire may collapse.
It can be said that the stock price is the lifeline of Jianing.
Although Zhulu Real Estate has issued multiple statements in succession and stated that it is optimistic about the development of Jiali, the sale of Jiali's shares is an indisputable fact.
One of the important reasons why Jia Ning's development was so smooth last year and its stock price soared was that Jia Ku was endorsing Jia Ning.
Even Jiaku is optimistic about our development. What reason do you have for not being optimistic about the development of Jia Ning?
This is something Jianing’s staff often say to the outside world!
But now that his endorser is gone, this is obviously not a good thing for Jia Ning's future development.
If someone follows Zhulu Real Estate and sells Jianing's shares at this time, the consequences will be unimaginable.
But at the same time, Chen Songqing also wanted to ensure that someone would take over the Jianning shares held by Zhulu Real Estate in the shortest possible time!
It is said that your company, Jianing, is developing the fastest in Hong Kong and is also the company with the best development prospects. Now a group is selling Jianing's shares in a big way. If no one takes over, doesn't it mean that everyone is not optimistic about Jianing?
development?
Thinking of this, Chen Songqing immediately ordered Zhuang Yongcheng: "Contact Chu Huan for me, Luo Yingshi from Eagle Lord, and Roy Bentley from HSBC. I want to see them in the shortest possible time!"
Zhuang Yongcheng couldn't understand what Chen Songqing meant. He contacted Chu Huan, and Roy Bentley understood that the purpose of contacting Chu Huan was to discuss the purchase of Jia Ning stocks, and to contact HSBC to obtain a loan to purchase Jia Ning stocks.
But what to do when contacting Great Eagle Real Estate’s Luo Yingshi?
When Chen Songqing saw that Zhuang Yongcheng did not carry out his order immediately, he was dissatisfied and said: "What are you still waiting for?"
Only then did Zhuang Yongcheng react and hurriedly contacted the offices of these three people to seek a time to meet!
Soon, Zhuang Yongcheng ended the three phone calls and said: "Chu Huan will have time to see you this afternoon. Luo Gingshi has an appointment tonight, and he can go see Roy Bentley tomorrow morning!"
If nothing unexpected happens, the book will be finished this month, probably around the middle of the month. Recently, Huangshan has been reviewing the entire book, not only to fill in the gaps, but also to have a happy ending, and to be able to write the final ending well.
Huangshan will change the updated chapters again. In the last half month, there will be one chapter every day. I hope everyone can understand!