In the early morning, in the villa in Repulse Bay, Lin Zuhui opened his eyes and immediately took out his two numb arms.
Get up and walk out of the bedroom.
Guan Jiahui's eyes fluttered and she muttered: "Xiaoxian, why is this man so energetic? Can you insist on getting up so early every morning?"
Wang Zuxian didn't even open her eyes, she squeezed towards a warm place and fell asleep.
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Guan Jiahui looked at Wang Zuxian who was approaching, helplessly closed her eyes and continued to sleep.
On the other side, Lin Zuhui came to the living room, picked up the newspaper and started reading.
The nanny immediately brought boiled water and placed it in front of him.
"Thanks!"
He is accustomed to reading the Economic Daily first. This is a highly professional newspaper owned by Wanhui Media. The current sales volume is more than 60,000, and the highest record is more than 80,000. The decline is not due to the decline in the quality of the Economic Daily, but to Xiangjiang.
People have become so obsessed with talking about stocks recently that the sales of financial daily newspapers and magazines have dropped sharply.
The Hang Seng Index closed at 2,300 points last year (1987), and the panic dissipated a little.
Regarding the trend of the Hang Seng Index, Lin Zuhui has a rough idea: from September 1988 to May 1989, there was a big market trend, and the Hang Seng Index rose from 2500 points to 3200 points. Because there was a zz incident later, there would be another
There was no reason why Lin Zuhui couldn’t remember the stock market crash.
As for the market situation after the '87 stock market crash' until September this year (1988), Lin Zuhui doesn't need to know. He doesn't do much stock trading now, and it is estimated that it has only increased slightly and fallen slightly.
"Economic Daily" not only contains news about the securities market, but also news about real estate. This round of real estate decline is indeed beyond everyone's expectation in Xiangjiang. This is also good news for Xiangjiang's economy.
However, not everyone has the courage of New Era Real Estate to purchase land and old properties on the market and exchange land rights deeds starting in late November.
Even the real estate companies of the four major families have not yet purchased large-scale land. They are still worried about the impact of the "July 3 stock market crash" on the local market, and they are not sure whether real estate will continue to fall.
There is no other big economic news. Everyone seems to be holding their breath and waiting for the arrival of April.
The reason is simple:
First, the current market is unstable;
Second, 'comprehensive acquisition must be at the highest price in the past six months' is a tight curse that everyone is waiting to break; it can be used not only for 'privatization', but also for 'increasing shareholdings', and more
On the 'Takeover War'.
Even Lin Zuhui has many plans that need to be implemented in April.
Forex Market: USD/JPY falls to 120 points.
Lin Zuhui has asked Li Hao to close his investment, invest 500 million, and obtain a net profit of 900 million.
At this time, Lin Zuhui's cash flow is still 4.5 billion (he has also invested 3 billion in Japanese securities, with a market value of 15 billion with five times leverage).
After a while, the ladies of the villa came to the living room one after another, and it suddenly became lively.
"Wen Yi, Wen Hua, are you still sleeping?" Lin Zuhui raised his head and asked.
"Both little guys are sleeping soundly?" Guan Jiahui said immediately, unable to hide the smile on her face.
Lin Zuhui stood up and said to everyone: "I will take you out later and give everyone a surprise!"
Suddenly, the four girls became energetic.
At this time, the villa welcomed back four hostesses. For no other reason than to consider the convenience of nannies and servants to take care of them together. After all, with two children, privacy and safety must also be considered.
Although this villa is small, it can accommodate four live-in nannies, and bodyguards can also work in the business car at the gate as a guard duty all night long.
In short, it is more convenient here!
after an hour.
Lin Zuhui took his four daughters to the ‘Lam Palace’ (Hui Yuan Villa Group) on Nanwan Road.
When the girls got off the car, they all marveled.
Guan Jiahui looked at the two rows of villas and said excitedly: "Wow, the villas here are so beautiful, they all seem to be newly built in European style!"
Wang Zuxian also happily agreed: "That's Repulse Bay over there, directly by the sea!"
Soon, everyone began to ask Lin Zuhui which building he bought, or which buildings he bought.
Lin Zuhui smiled and said nothing, but directly showed them around.
"This is Tower A1 and Tower A2. The swimming pools of these two villas face the sea directly!"
"Building A2, this is the observation deck. Let's see how stylish it is to hold a party on this grassland! You have an unobstructed view of the sea and the sea breeze is gentle."
"This is the north side. The first building is Building A, followed by Buildings C1\C2\C3. This is the south side. The first building is Building A2, followed by Buildings B1\B2\B3."
"These eight villas are surrounded by trees and shrubs. This is an independent kingdom."
"So, walls will be built around it, and there will be a security booth near Nanwan Road. The redesign and planning plan has been finalized. The road where we park will be converted into a tennis court, and the road will be used for mixed purposes.
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Listening to Lin Zuhui's eloquent introduction, the girls finally understood that their man had bought all eight villas and planned to redesign the surroundings and turn this place into an independent kingdom - the Lin Family Palace.
For a moment, the women surrounded Lin Zuhui.
Guan Jiahui, the most favored one, was the first to attack: "Does that mean there is an eighth wife?"
This appetite is too big. This is what everyone thinks. They don't doubt Lin Zuhui's ability.
Lin Zuhui was stunned and immediately said: "Absolutely not!" He added in his heart: "There may only be seven villas to live in!"
"How many are there?" all the girls asked in unison.
"Well...can you live here?" Lin Zuhui suddenly said seriously.
He was not sure either. The one who was now clearly qualified to live there was Qiu Shuzhen;
As for Li Jiaxin, she is still a powder keg and we will wait until the explosion is over.
"Stay, of course you have to!" they said in unison again.
“In order, choose a location! Check in during the Spring Festival next year!”
The basic decoration of the villa has been completed, and there will be no problem if you stay there for more than a year.
After a while, everyone selected their own villas in order of family, and then started to look forward to it.
There is a certain distance between the eight villas, which is a bit like the royal palace in ancient times. If the concubine is not satisfied with living there, build a Qianqing Palace, a Jiaotai Palace...
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The next day, Lin Zuhui led several people to the Furama Hotel, including several white foreigners. These people were Lin Zuhui's new top management of Cathay City Hotel.
The original Lu Donglai was transferred to New Era Real Estate as a director, specifically responsible for the diversified expansion of New Era Real Estate and responsible for the general department; for example: telecommunications, retail, finance and other fields, and even the development strategy of ports (shareholding) and shipping.
This is a strategy re-formulated by Lam Cho-fai based on the organizational structures of Sun Hung Kai, New World, Henderson and other real estate companies.
Arriving at the conference room of Furama Hotel, Furama Hotel Chen Siming, Charlie and other hotel management teams had already arrived first.
After sitting down, Lin Zuhui reached out to a 40-year-old British white man and said: "This is the new president of Cathay City Hotel - Colbert. He has very rich experience in the hotel industry. He once worked at Hilton
Working in hotel management group..."
It is not easy to recruit international talents. Not only do you have to fire them with high salaries, but you also have to provide various benefits. What is most unacceptable to boss Lin Zuhui is that these foreigners require too long annual leave.
But there is no other way. Lin Zuhui plans to spend several billion Hong Kong dollars in the future to lay out a global hotel management network (acquisition) and also purchase a certain number of hotels.
Such a big move naturally requires corresponding management talents with an international perspective. Of course, more than half of the entire Cathay City Hotel management are Chinese senior managers, which can be said to be Chinese and Western managers.
Colbert's deputy is the original executive director Li Mingtao, who is now vice president.
After some introduction, Lin Zuhui said: "Manager Chen, please report on the business situation of Furama Hotel last year!"
Chen Siming was already familiar with the boss Lin Zuhui's style and was well prepared.
"Last year, Hong Kong's tourism industry was booming, and the Furama Hotel's performance also achieved nearly 30% growth, with a net profit of HK$63 million (profit in 1986 was 48 million, revised based on data)..."
Lin Zuhui nodded secretly. At present, the Furama Hotel has been purchased at a "fair price". He originally purchased it for a total market value of 1.58 billion (only purchasing 70% of the equity), and now the land of Furama Hotel is at 8.5 billion.
About 700 million, hotel assets plus construction assets, the absolute value is more than 700 million.
Even the annual profit of Furama Hotel is as high as 63 million. Considering only the profit of the hotel, the cost should be recovered in 10 to 15 years.
This meeting is mainly for everyone to get to know each other, and Cathay Pacific's new management team will also need to get used to it for a period of time, and then Lin Zuhui will arrange expansion tasks.
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Lin Zuhui came to Wanhui Media and summoned the general manager Long Jingchang.
At the end of December, Wanhui Media spent 300 million to purchase a small building in Causeway Bay, bringing the company's property assets to 600 million. It is expected that the net rental profit this year (1988) will be nearly 50 million, accounting for one-third of the group's profit.
one.
Wanhui Media will become the most profitable media group in Hong Kong, and the company has almost no debt and 80 million in cash on its books.
"Boss, a Japanese publishing house came to negotiate the licensing of "Feng Yun", but I haven't agreed to it yet, mainly because the price is not very satisfactory. "Feng Yun" has surpassed "Heroes of China" and has become the most popular comic publication in Hong Kong, but
You can’t sell external rights cheaply!”
Lin Zuhui said with a smile: ""The Storm" has really become our cash cow. I am afraid it will bring 30 million yuan in profit to the group company this year!"
"Heroes of China" accounts for one-third of Yulang Group's profits, with an annual profit of more than 20 million.
"It should be almost the same!"
Lin Zuhui nodded and said, "How is the situation of Yulang Group?"
Long Jingchang suddenly got excited and said: "It's very pessimistic! It is said that Huang Yulang lost hundreds of millions of yuan in this stock market crash, and Yulang Group is in the publishing industry, not the securities industry, but it used funds raised from the stock market
A huge sum of 470 million was invested in securities, which exceeded the group's market value by more than 400 million (before the stock market crash), and shareholders complained."
Lin Zuhui suddenly became deep in thought. After a long time, he said to Long Jingchang: "Find someone to check the situation of Yulang Group, and then find someone to guide the shareholders of Yulang Group to complain to the Securities Regulatory Office. I guess Huang Yulang also concealed it from the shareholders."
Transactions of important shares and investments... let the Securities Regulatory Office find trouble with Yulang Group."
Long Jingchang nodded without hesitation and said: "Don't worry, boss, I guarantee that no one is aware of it. Anyway, the shareholders of Yulang Group are also complaining."
Lin Zuhui nodded, and Long Jingchang excused himself to go and do some work.
He was thinking: Once Yulang Group is publicly condemned by the Securities Regulatory Commission and warned (investing in securities itself is not illegal), the image of Yulang Group will be greatly damaged and the stock price will plummet.
This is not the point. The point is that Huang Yulang himself borrowed a large amount of debt from the bank.
Once the bank knows that the Yulang Group is in bad shape, it will definitely force Huang Yulang to pay back the money, and it will be done immediately without any room for negotiation.
This is the bank. If Lin Zuhui had not succeeded in "reducing the weight" before the stock market crash, the bank would still have made the entire New Era Real Estate Group pay back the money.
Once Huang Yulang is pressed for debt by the bank, he can only reduce his holdings of Yulang Group's stocks, and the holding will definitely not be strong.
At that time, Lin Zuhui's opportunity will come!
This year, Lin Zuhui has two development directions in the media field: first, to acquire Yulang Group; second, to acquire ATV.
At the end of last year, a fire broke out at the ATV headquarters. At this time, Qiu Degen may have lost interest.
It's time to join forces with the Zheng family to test it out.
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ATV was formerly known as Li's TV Station.
In 1957, "Lei's Voice", who was engaged in the broadcasting industry, switched careers and founded "Lei's Yingsheng". In March of the same year, Lei's TV officially launched. After 10 years, Lei's TV dominated the screen and had no competitors.
In November 1967, Lai's monopoly on Hong Kong was broken - Hong Kong Television Broadcasting Co., Ltd. was established. The founders were the Li Xiaohe family of Hong Kong's prominent family. Lai's TV uses cable transmission signals, while Hong Kong TV uses transmitting stations to broadcast, so it is referred to as wireless
TV and wireless overwhelm Lite with advantages such as free, colorful, and rich programs. The media said that "Lite is not as beautiful, but wireless is unlimited", vividly summarizing the advantages and disadvantages of the two.
Li's had no choice but to reform and change its business to wireless and color in December 1973. But it was too late. Wireless had firmly occupied the market and was becoming more and more prosperous.
In the summer of 1980, TVB chairman Li Xiaohe died suddenly. TVB director Shao Laoliu was elected as chairman of the board of directors. Shao Laoliu was the king of Asian movies. Due to the impact of television, the films shot by his studios were distributed in Hong Kong and overseas.
It was not ideal. So Uncle Six focused on the television industry, using the studio equipment and cast and crew he controlled to produce programs for Wireless.
Wireless is gaining momentum like no other.
There happened to be a brave man who dared to challenge the film and television tycoon Liu Shu. This man was Qiu Degen, chairman of the Far East Group. Qiu Degen came to Hong Kong from Shanghai in 1950 and initially opened theaters (movie theaters) in the New Territories, and later established theaters and banks.
, the Far East Group in the real estate and entertainment industries. Both Qiu and Shaw belong to the Shanghai Gang, but their relationship is not good because he is close friends with Run Run Shaw's "mortal enemy" - Lu Yuantao, the boss of the D&M Film Company. Qiu Degen and others
Like all theater operators, they are interested in making films. Now that the film industry is declining and television is booming, Qiu has moved on to the television industry. It happened that Lili was difficult to maintain under the ban on wireless. In September 1982, Qiu Degen purchased it from the Voice Group
After acquiring 50% of the shares of Lai, he took over the company and served as chairman. "Li's Yingsheng" was officially renamed "Asia Television". Later, Qiu Degen purchased all the shares of ATV.
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No. 12, Repulse Bay, Zheng’s ‘Imperial Palace’.
Lin Zuhui's arrival was warmly welcomed by the Zheng family.
Zheng Yutong has two sons. The eldest son Zheng Jiachun is a close acquaintance of Lin Zuhui. The younger son Zheng Jiacheng is a person with a weird personality. He likes to see a psychiatrist and has been divorced several times. Zheng Jiacheng can take a bath in the New World Hotel all morning and often holds it in his hand.
Yan holds the food in one hand and doesn't pay much attention to image.
After a few people sat down, a servant brought tea and snacks.
After taking a sip of tea, Lin Zuhui explained his purpose: "Uncle Tong, Brother Chun wants to buy ATV, what do you think?"
Zheng Jiachun almost spit the tea into his father's face. He coughed twice before looking at him and said to Lin Zuhui: "Didn't you bring up this matter?"
When Zheng Yutong saw his son's expression, he knew that Zheng Jiachun was definitely moved!
"You own a newspaper group. If you acquire ATV, the Hong Kong government will probably cause trouble for you, right?"
Lin Zuhui said with a smile: "So I ask you to come out and serve as the chairman of the board of directors of ATV. I will just be a director. Moreover, Wanhui Media is not here to acquire it. I plan to participate in the acquisition in the name of my family."
He also knew that the Hong Kong government would soon introduce new regulations, and television licenses could not be under the names of subsidiaries of group companies, forcing Shaw Brothers to reorganize TVB.
Lin Zuhui plans to buy ATV shares in his own name first, and then sell them to New Era Group. Otherwise, his career will be too complicated, and even the equity of the film company will have to be sold to New Era Group if he finds an opportunity.
Zheng Yutong asked again: "Qiu Degen intends to sell?"
Lin Zuhui smiled and said: "Probably, I think he is in trouble, so there should be no problem!"
Zheng Yutong nodded, looked at Zheng Jiachun again, and found that his son was listening carefully, so he was determined to fulfill his son's wish.
"How are the shares of the new consortium calculated? Are we the only ones?"
Lin Zuhui thought for a while and said: "Qiu Degen may not be willing to sell all the shares, but in any case, there is no problem in purchasing 70% of the shares! At that time, you will take 35%, I will take 30%, and how about inviting D God to join us for the remaining 5%?"
The Zheng family does not have any media management, so it must be Lin Zuhui who is actually running the business, but Lin Zuhui needs Zheng Yutong as a brand, so he first makes him the chairman of the board of directors, and he gets more shares than himself.
As for Qiu Degen's remaining shares, Lin Zuhui can win them all this year with a little trick;
By then, Lam Cho-fai will increase his shareholding to exceed that of the Cheng family, and he will test the Hong Kong government's reaction step by step.
After all, it has become a foregone conclusion that the Lin family will run ATV, so the pressure will be much less.
Zheng Yutong smiled and said: "Okay, I know what you are thinking. It just so happens that we have no experience in operating ATV, so we can rest assured if you leave it to you!"
The chairman of the board of directors and major shareholder of others were ceded to him, so of course he had to make concessions, not to mention that he believed in Lin Zuhui's media management and that he was a "media tycoon" in Hong Kong, and he would definitely be able to give ATV a new look.
The two parties discussed the details, and then planned to invite God D to join first, and then talk to Qiu Degen. The reason why Lin Zuhui invited God D was not to follow the laws of his previous life, but because he and God God became good friends.