On the plane from New York to London, Lin Zuhui specially took the ordinary class cabin so that he would not feel lonely during the journey.
In this way, he and Monica could sit together and chat, and the nearly 10 hours of journey would not be wasted.
In fact, the two of them were inseparable, with Monica lying comfortably in Lin Zuhui's arms, frequently attracting the attention of other passengers.
She is so beautiful!
However, she was not the first to get into trouble.
"Congratulations, Mr. Lin!" A stewardess came to Lin Zuhui and said with a decent smile.
Undoubtedly, Lin Zuhui liked the stewardess, which instantly made him decide to let Monica cosplay next time.
Monica immediately sat up straight and glanced back and forth at the stewardess and Lin Zuhui, trying to find something. Can this man meet his lover even on a plane?
Lin Zuhui was also a little confused, but he still said politely: "Miss, what are you congratulating me for? I'm sorry, I don't know at all!" After saying that, he looked at Monica innocently, saying that he didn't recognize the flight attendant.
The stewardess is indeed beautiful, and she is also a blonde beauty, but of course she is still much worse than Monica.
She handed a magazine to Lin Zuhui and said: "This is the latest Fortune magazine. Mr. Lin is the richest man in the world!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Lin Zuhui felt shocked looks from everyone around him, and then applause rang out.
Lin Zuhui was stunned. He had never thought that the news that he had become the richest man would come to him in such a scene.
At this time, he clearly saw many foreigners standing up from their seats and casting curious glances this way.
Lin Zuhui's bodyguards and assistants suddenly became a little nervous. When he goes abroad, he usually has four foreigners as peripheral bodyguards, plus a male and a female Chinese personal bodyguard, plus assistant Li Ke, and a secretary. The team is also quite large.
Lin Zuhui reacted quickly, flipped through the magazine twice, and politely said to the stewardess: "Thank you, please tell me this news, I am very surprised!"
The flight attendant said: "I believe many people will be surprised, after all, you are so young!"
Lin Zuhui spread his hands and said, "Maybe! But what surprises me is that they underestimated my wealth. Maybe, I will ask my lawyer to send them a lawyer's letter."
"Wow"
Suddenly, incredible sounds came from the surroundings, and the stewardess was stunned.
Of course.
Lin Zuhui was just joking. Everything has been exposed anyway, so why not pretend to be a b*ss first.
With little stars in her eyes, Monica snuggled into Lin Zuhui's arms again, opened the magazine and started reading seriously.
After simply dealing with the stewardess, Lin Zuhui hugged Monica and continued to be affectionate.
This woman is awesome!
With her, Lin Zuhui felt that he had twice the happiness!
"Dear, you are actually the richest man in the world! All this time, I thought you were just the richest Chinese, but I didn't expect you to be the richest person in the world." Monica still couldn't believe it, clinging to Lin Zuhui,
He leaned closer and said seriously.
Lin Zuhui held her waist, feeling very comfortable, and said calmly: "When wealth reaches a certain level, it is just a cold number. I no longer care about this number, I only care about doing meaningful things, such as me
This time I am going to London to talk about a meaningful project that can reposition the status and geography of European finance."
For a person like Monica who only has skin, Lin Zuhui now gives her the feeling of a majestic figure.
This b is so pretentious! Full marks!
In fact, when Monica is with Lin Zuhui, she always has the mentality of Cinderella turning into a princess. Although she is beautiful, there are so many beautiful girls!
When she followed Lin Zuhui, she always marveled at how "aristocratic" Lin Zuhui's life was. Every time he went to a city, a group of people would serve him (family office). They were like British housekeepers, providing Lin Zuhui with everything he wanted.
Rolls-Royce fleet, providing a variety of services.
As for the great things that Lin Zuhui has done, Monica can also mention a few; for example, he took down eight skyscrapers in Manhattan in one fell swoop and became world-famous.
The next day.
After a night's rest at the London Manor, Lin Zuhui said goodbye to Monica and went to work.
Work without playing with girls, play with girls without working, this is Lin Zuhui's motto.
Lin Zuhui's motorcade drove towards Canary Wharf, this project that has fascinated him. Not because of how much money this project can make (of course it can also make a lot of money), but because it is a landmark project, like a city's
Landmark building'.
For example, when he invested in America, the "Eight Skyscrapers in Manhattan" was his masterpiece, a masterpiece that people talk about.
And his European masterpiece is, of course, the Canary Wharf project.
Of course, for now, it must be Richman's masterpiece, and Lin Zuhui is at most an investor.
But Lin Zuhui knew that Richman was just working for him.
A fleet of Rolls-Royces passes a bridge and enters Canary Wharf.
It is located on a peninsula-shaped plot of land in the Isle of Dogs District. It is surrounded by the Thames on three sides and covers an area of 0.35 square kilometers (3.8 million square feet, equivalent to 1.6 Taikoo Shing, Hong Kong).
Canary Wharf is part of the Docklands district of London, located 5 kilometers east of downtown London. Docklands covers an area of 8.5 square kilometers; in the future, Doug Island within it will contain most of the commercial buildings in the area.
Canary Wharf will become the de facto core area of the Docklands business district.
At present, the Canary Wharf project has built eight high-rise buildings with approximately 6.5 million square feet of office area, and less than half of the area has been developed.
The motorcade came to a building and stopped. Lin Zuhui got off the car. This time, Liang Zhenxun, Gao Yi, and of course Lin Zuhui's personal consultant team and lawyer team accompanied him on the inspection.
Under the guidance of the staff, the group came to a large conference room, where many people were already present.
Richman greeted him warmly and said with a smile: "Mr. Lin, welcome to Canary Wharf!"
Lin Zuhui held his hand and responded enthusiastically: "In the past six months, every time I come to London, I come to see it. It's no longer unfamiliar at all!"
"Ha ha"
Then, Lin Zuhui greeted people from HSBC and Citibank, who are also two investors in this project.
There are three tall buildings in Canary Wharf in later generations, which are also the three tallest buildings in the UK. They are: First Canada Square (also known as "Canary Wharf Tower") with a height of 235.1 meters, and Eighth Canada Square with a height of 199.5 meters.
(also known as the "HSBC Tower"), and the Citigroup Center. A large number of landmark commercial properties represented by three super high-rise buildings provide a strong appeal to the new district.
These two banks themselves were also the largest creditor banks of the collapsed Olympia York Company. It is natural that they now take shares in the Canary Wharf project.
Also present at the meeting was Transport for London chairman Clem, who now chairs the project, while Richman is the de facto manager.
The reason for this is that London does not want this project to be unfinished, which is related to the government's image problem. This close connection also enables the development of Canary Wharf to be consistent with the pace of London's urban transportation development from now on.
After everyone sat down, Richman began his speech, introducing the project in detail. Everyone listened attentively. After all, Richman was the chief planner at the beginning of the project. It can be said that without him, no matter who took over, nothing would happen.
It's hard to convince the public.
After introducing the project, Richman continued: "The London government has decided to complete the extension of the jublieeline before the millennium, open an important station in Canary, and integrate it into the existing Bay Area light rail system. This development plan will
Activate the commercial value of this area."
Clem added: “If Canary Wharf is reorganized, we hope that Canary Wharf Group will invest 500 million pounds in the next 24 years to develop transportation infrastructure in this area, providing guarantee for transportation construction.
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Many investors have discussed that Canary Wharf is only part of this area, with an area of only 0.35 square kilometers.
There is still a large amount of land around this area that has not been developed. In the late 1970s, a new phenomenon appeared in major British cities, including London: large blank or semi-blank areas of land characterized by abandoned industrial or warehouse ruins waiting to be developed.
Most of this land is publicly or semi-publicly owned, and local municipalities planned to use it for housing or road construction, but were unable to do so due to financial cuts or public opposition.
In short, in the inner city of London, there is also a large amount of land that is not developed and is publicly owned. This makes the city in Hong Kong, where land is at a premium, think about what to do. Hong Kong is not short of funds, but it is short of land.
Of course, the premise is private development.
Richman then said loudly: "The current restructuring of the Canary Wharf project requires 1.5 billion pounds of redemption funds. What we are going to discuss today is who is willing to be his investor. First of all, my good friend Mr. Lin Zuhui,
Willing to invest 60% equity."
For a moment, dozens of people in the conference room looked at Lin Zuhui, a little surprised.
Clem immediately asked: "Will Mr. Lin Zuhui participate in the actual implementation of this project in the future?" He did not believe that Lin Zuhui had the ability to plan and undertake this project, thus destroying the overall layout of London.
Lin Zuhui immediately said: "I decided to invest in this project for Mr. Richman's sake, so I only believe in his ability to complete this project. Moreover, I have a proposal. When the time is right, we can use Canary
The terminal will be listed to raise funds to continue investing in this area and contribute more to London's business."
M, what I said is a bit against my will. I should say, continue to engage in real estate in London and make a lot of money.
(ps: In the previous life, this area included 37 high-end office buildings, 4 shopping malls, more than 400 retail stores and more than 300 restaurants, with a population of more than 150,000 people working in various industries. Among them, the office and retail area reached 1.4 million square meters.
Currently, 600,000 square meters of office buildings are under development; internationally renowned brands such as Four Seasons Hotel, Marriott Hotel, Fraser Palace Hotel and Ibis Hotel are also located there.)
When Clem and other government officials heard this, they immediately nodded and felt relieved. First of all, they were eager to restart the project to avoid adverse effects on the government. Although Lin Zuhui held a larger share, he was only an investor after all, and Richie
Mann is still in charge of the project.
They also know that the reason why Richman brought Lin Zuhui in to invest must have been some kind of benefit.
Citibank and HSBC both approved Lin Zuhui's investment and expressed their willingness to invest 15% of the equity each. Citibank supported Lin Zuhui's majority shareholding because Lin Zuhui is Citibank's second largest shareholder and the two parties have deep cooperation; as for HSBC
, is the largest creditor bank of New Era Group, and naturally supports New Era Group and lends money to them.
Of course, the most important thing is that Richman insisted on letting New Era Group invest the majority, which made many people puzzled and speculated that there must be some secret deal between the two parties.
The remaining 10% of the shares were subscribed by three American investment institutions and Richman personally.
After the preliminary consultation, everyone was ready to discuss in detail, starting with the details of the redemption of 'Canary Wharf'. As for subsequent development, that was a matter for the future.