Chapter 327 The Gathering of Xiangjiang Real Estate Developers (7K chapter, please subscribe~)

   How crazy is Huaye City's opening?

  Later, Xiangjiang’s financial magazine commented: The opening of Huaye City was a shot in the arm for the sluggish real estate market in Xiangjiang at that time!

  Only 24 hours after the opening, the first phase of Huaye City was sold out. At the same time, there are still many people who have not bought properties, asking when the second phase of Huaye City will open!

   "I thought the opening of Huaye City would be crazy, but I didn't expect it to be this crazy!"

   At 6:00 p.m. on the second day after the opening of Huaye City, all shareholders of Tianhai Real Estate gathered in Jiahu Building again. At the gate of Jiahu Building, countless reporters wanted to interview them.

  Zheng Yutong sat in the meeting room and couldn't help sighing.

  In the past two days, he has done nothing but pay attention to the opening of Huaye City!

   But he never expected that the first phase of Huaye City would be sold out within 24 hours!

  A total of 1,500 properties!

   There are still countless people who want to know when the second phase of Huaye City will start selling.

  Everyone sitting here understands that Huaye City is a popular project. If Huaye City starts selling off-plan properties now, it will definitely make a lot of money.

   "I never thought that this is not buying a house, it's simply buying discounted goods in a supermarket!" Hu Yingxiang couldn't help but sighed.

   "It would be great if our Baiyuan Pavilion had such a sales performance!" Guo Desheng couldn't help but enviously preached.

   During this period of time, Xiangjiang did not have other real estate sales in Adelaide, but the sales of these real estates were as high as Huaye City.

  Take Sun Hung Kai Properties’ Baiyuan Court as an example. It has been two months since its launch, and only 70% of the houses have been sold.

   "A Huan, I still have the same idea. We can sell uncompleted properties now. I believe that with the current popularity of Huaye City, even if we sell uncompleted properties, we will definitely be able to sell them at a high price!"

   Qi Dezun suggested to Chu Huan.

Because the sales of Huaye City are booming, the stock prices of Sun Hung Kai, New World, Hopewell Land, and Hutchison International all rose, but Qi Dezun was not satisfied. Although the stock price rise is good, Hutchison International needs more cash , only cash can lead Hutchison International out of the current predicament.

  What worries Qi Dezun is that because the stock price of Hutchison International has risen slightly, some investors or securities firms who are about to lose their strength want to take advantage of this time to sell some of Hutchison International's stocks to get cash.

If the stock market crash had just started, Qi Dezun would have been very happy about this situation, because at that time he still had enough cash to recover these scattered stocks, but now because of the series of operations of Hutchison International after the stock market crash, Hutchison International There is no cash flow in itself.

  If this outstanding stock is bought by someone with a heart, it will definitely not be a good thing for Qi Dezun.

Only when more good news comes out, such as the sale of uncompleted properties in Huaye City, under such favorable conditions, the stock price of Hehe International will continue to rise, and those stock investors and securities firms will see the advantages of Hutchison International , will choose to continue to hold Hutchison International's stock and wait for it to continue to rise.

"Mr. Taipan, we have discussed this matter before, and we have also passed on this news to the outside world. If the order is changed now, it will cause some bad things to those owners who want to buy our Huaye City. Thinking about it, it is very likely to smash the signboard of our Huaye City, so we can't do it!"

   Faced with Qi Dezun's proposal, Chu Huan naturally rejected it again. Now is the best opportunity to acquire Hutchison International. If you miss this opportunity, you will have to find a way to grab it from HSBC in the future, which is not a good thing.

  Chu Huan at this time is no longer the same as when Qi Dezun first met Chu Huan. Although the two had talked happily before, Qi Dezun understands that Chu Huan's words now carry weight.

  After hearing what Chu Huan said, he just nodded helplessly and didn't make any further comments.

   "Since everyone has no opinions, then according to the original plan, all the sales proceeds of the first phase will be used as funds for the continued development of Huaye City!"

  Chu Huan preached to the crowd.

  Qi Dezun's suggestion was not adopted by Chu Huan, and the rest of the people knew what Chu Huan meant, so naturally they didn't say anything.

   At this time, Guo Bingxiang suddenly suggested: "Ah Huan, the sales of the first phase of Huaye City are so good, how about holding a celebration dance and inviting some colleagues in the industry to celebrate?"

Chu Huan did not immediately agree to Guo Bingxiang, but looked at Guo Desheng and the others. In terms of work, Chu Huan guaranteed his absolute authority in Tianhai Real Estate, but in these trivial matters, Chu Huan was still very willing. Give Guo Desheng and these seniors a face.

  Guo Desheng and the others saw Chu Huan's eyes asking for their opinions, and immediately said that it should be done.

   On the one hand, it can promote Huaye City, and on the other hand, it can use this dance party to improve the current sluggish real estate market in Xiangjiang.

  Since everyone has no objections, Chu Huan naturally has no objections, and the last few people decided that the dance will be held at the Peninsula Hotel tomorrow night!

  That night, TVB and Li TV reported on the sales of Huaye City. Those who still wanted to wait and see were stunned when they heard the news.

   During 24-hour business hours, 1,500 properties were sold out in two days?

  Li Jiacheng sat in his home, watching the content on TV with a complicated expression.

  It would be great if, if Changshi could join this feast!

In fact, Li Jiacheng was a little puzzled. When he first met Chu Huan, his attitude could be said to be very low, but Li Jiacheng could still feel that Chu Huan always had vague hostility towards him. The project of Yecheng is out of commercial considerations, so what about the Chinese business?

  Even though Chu Huan said that the Huarenhang was used to prepare Chu Huan’s company headquarters in Xiangjiang, Li Jiacheng still thinks that this is not necessary, especially since he has HSBC behind him. Does Chu Huan really need the Huarenhang so much?

   Li Jiacheng, who couldn't figure it out, could only let out a long sigh.

   If there is any benefit to this incident, it is that the relationship between himself and Shen Bi has become more solid.

   Right after Chu Huan bought Huaren Real Estate, Shen Bi called Li Jiacheng himself. The two talked on the phone for a long time, and finally Li Jiacheng hung up the phone in satisfaction.

  Because on the phone, Shen Bi clearly expressed his support for Li Jiacheng.

   And Shen Bi's support represents the support of HSBC!

  With this support, Li Jiacheng believes that his future development can be said to be smooth!

   "Give me that map of Central!"

   Li Jiacheng ordered the servants at home to say.

  A servant immediately went to find the map of Central.

  The Chinatown has become a thing of the past, now we can only think about other commercial buildings.

  The next day, evening!

  A lot of newspaper reporters gathered in front of the Peninsula Hotel at this time, because they got the news that Tianhai Real Estate would hold a celebration dance here.

  Invited many real estate developers in Xiangjiang.

  This kind of business gathering is definitely one of the favorite news for the citizens of Xiangjiang.

   "Look, Guo Desheng from Sun Hung Kai Properties, Kuang Xiaoqing and his wife are here!"

  A reporter saw the CEO of Sun Hung Kai Properties, Guo Desheng and his wife arrived at the scene.

   "What's so curious about this, Tianhai Real Estate has shares in Sun Hung Kai Properties, shouldn't they come here?"

   "Why didn't you see Guo Bingxiang? Shouldn't he come with Guo Desheng and his wife?"

   "I guess I came here by myself!"

   "Look, Zheng Yutong from New World, Zhou Cuiying and his wife are also here."

   "Can you not say that everyone knows this, today is mainly to see who else will come besides these shareholders of Tianhai Real Estate!"

   Sure enough, when Hu Yingxiang and his wife arrived at the scene, the reporters were not so excited.

  However, some people sighed: "Hu Yingxiang is really lucky. If such a big thing happened last year, if he hadn't hugged Chu Huan's thigh in time, Hopewell Real Estate may not be able to stand up by this time!"

   "Who said it wasn't."

  After Hu Yingxiang and his wife arrived at the scene, Qi Dezun also came to the scene alone.

Many reporters looked at Qi Dezun, but they had different thoughts in their hearts. In the past, these people highly praised Qi Dezun. After all, before Qi Dezun, Hutchison International was not one of the four major British foreign firms in Xiangjiang. Under the leadership, it became one of the four major British foreign firms.

   It's just the current situation of Hutchison International, which is still embarrassing.

  After these people arrived at the scene, although many reporters wanted to interview them, the situation was still under control.

  But when Chu Huan and Cao Yunshang got out of the car, all the reporters immediately rushed forward. If it weren't for Qin Peng and others to maintain the order on the scene, there would have been chaos.

No way, everyone knows that although Huaye City has shareholders such as Sun Hung Kai, New World, Hopewell Land, and Hutchison International, it is actually Chu Huan who is actually leading this matter. Neither Real Estate nor China Entertainment gave interviews, nor did they even appear in public.

   These reporters finally met Chu Huan this time, so naturally they didn't want to give up this opportunity.

  But they didn't want to give up. It didn't mean that Chu Huan had to accept their interview. With Qin Peng and others maintaining order, Chu Huan and Cao Yunshang walked into the Peninsula Hotel smoothly.

   Zheng Jiachun, who arrived at the scene ahead of time, was waiting for Chu Huan in the lobby of the Peninsula Hotel. Not only Zheng Jiachun, but also a ghost in his twenties beside Zheng Jiachun.

   "A Huan, you are finally here!" Seeing Chu Huan arriving at the scene, Zheng Jiachun happily introduced the person beside him to Chu Huan: "This is Mi Gao, son of Lawrence!"

  Migao, Lawrence, these two names are a bit unfamiliar, but if you talk about their surnames, they are really popular in Xiangjiang, Kadoorie!

  Rolands Kadoorie is known as the king of electric power in Asia, not because he can discharge electricity, but because Huadian in Xiangjiang belongs to the Kadoorie family.

  At the same time, when talking about The Peninsula Hotel, everyone is willing to call it the property of the Kadoorie family.

   But in fact, the Kadoorie family is not the largest shareholder of the Xiangjiang Hotel Group, which the Peninsula Hotel belongs to.

  The full name of Xiangjiang Hotel is Xiangjiang Shenghai Hotel Co., Ltd. It was founded in 1866, and the name at that time was Xiangjiang Hotel Co., Ltd.

  When Xiangjiang Hotel was established, it coincided with the collapse of Diandi Foreign Firm (also known as Baoshun Foreign Firm), which was famous in the Far East at that time, and sold the headquarters in the Central District to repay the debt.

The Grand Hotel then purchased the land and rebuilt it into Xiangjiang Hotel after a few years. It opened on December 1, 1892. The hotel was six stories high and was the only international-level tourist hotel in Xiangjiang. , all borrowed from the first-class London hotels and hired British experts as the general manager. There are restaurants, dance floors and meeting rooms in the hotel, which soon became the main social place for gentlemen and ladies of the upper class in Hong Kong.

  After the Kadoorie family entered the board of directors of the hotel, the company's business has developed considerably.

  In 1910, Xiangjiang Hotel Co., Ltd., after successfully opening hotels in the urban area, planned to open the Repulse Bay Hotel in the suburbs on New Year's Day in 1920.

  At that time, Xiangjiang only used cars for two years, and it was fashionable for the children of rich families to drive for picnics.

  The opening of the Repulse Bay Hotel just happened to become the gathering place for picnics of the generation, and the business is not inferior to the Xiangjiang Hotel in the Central District.

  The board of directors of Xiangjiang Hotel looked at Kowloon, especially the tourist area of ​​Tsim Sha Tsui, where there is a railway station ferry terminal and Wharf overseas ship terminal, and the conditions for building a sightseeing hotel are more favorable.

  In 1921, the board of directors of the company decided to build a new hotel on the waterfront of Tsim Sha Tsui, and the new hotel will be named Peninsula Hotel.

In order to build the Peninsula Hotel, Grand Hotel Co., Ltd. decided to expand its capital. The number of issued shares increased from 250,000 shares to 500,000 shares at HK$10 per share, that is, the capital increased from HK$2.5 million to HK$5 million. Subscription of new shares, shareholding continued to increase.

   During the construction of the Peninsula Hotel, it can be said that there were twists and turns. The whole project lasted for seven years. In 1928, the Peninsula Hotel was finally completed.

  The new hotel is not only large in size, but has also become the tallest building in Xiangjiang for quite a long time.

  All metal products used in the hotel are made of brass or stainless steel. The lobby, halls, rooms and corridors are all covered with rusted carpets. Another feature of the new hotel is the gorgeous lighting. There are 4,000 electric lights in the entire hotel.

  Peninsula Hotel's luxurious style refreshes the citizens of Xiangjiang.

   On the second day of the hotel’s opening, Xiangjiang’s “South China Morning Post” had a special report, which quoted a North American female customer as saying: “Being in it, I seem to be a millionaire, but in fact I don’t have much money in my pocket.”

At 4:30 p.m. on December 11, 1928, the Peninsula Hotel was officially opened. Gentlemen, businessmen and celebrities attended the ceremony. Acting Hong Kong Governor Sir Southese said at the meeting: "Since the opening of the Kowloon-Canton Railway and the Guangdong-Han Railway, tourists They can take a train from London directly to the front of the Peninsula Hotel in Kowloon, and they can find that the facilities of the Peninsula Hotel are not inferior to any hotel in Europe and America.”

It can be seen from this that the Kadoorie family joined the Grand Hotel Group at a later stage, and it became one of the major shareholders of the Grand Hotel Group after increasing its share capital. family.

  However, the Liang family does not operate a large hotel group, but the Kadoorie family operates the large hotel business.

   In the 1980s, the Liang family wanted to withdraw from the hotel group, which gave Liu Luanxiong, a stock sniper at the time, the opportunity to attack the hotel group.

  However, Liu Luanxiong, an upstart in Xiangjiang at that time, was not an opponent of the Kadoorie family, a veteran wealthy family in Xiangjiang, and subsequently failed to acquire the Grand Hotel Group.

  The Kadoorie family is a British Jew, and their career and life are based in Hong Kong. They are not as nostalgic for England as the other two British-owned families—Jardines’ Keswick family and Swire’s Swire family. They are out of tune with the rich Chinese in Hong Kong.

  Migao is the only male descendant of the family, and naturally the only heir to the family business and wealth.

   This person is also very good friends with Zheng Jiachun.

   "Young Master Huan, I have wanted to get to know you for a long time, but Young Master Huan has been busy before, and I didn't expect that we will meet today!" Mi Gao greeted Chu Huan in very fluent Cantonese.

In fact, Michael Kadoorie is not the only son of Roland Kadoorie. Michael Kadoorie also has an older brother named Eli Kadoorie, but during the Japanese Occupation, the Kadoorie family was imprisoned in a concentration camp by the Japanese army, and Eli died in concentration camp.

   "Mr. Mi Gao is too polite. I haven't thanked Mr. Mi Gao for the matter of Huaye City!"

  The electricity used by Huaye City is provided by Huadian Power of the Kadoorie family.

  Migao said modestly: "The Huaye City project has attracted the attention of the whole of Hong Kong. It is our honor to cooperate with Huaye City."

  There are two power companies in Hong Kong. One of them is China Power of the Kadoorie family. China Power is responsible for the electricity consumption in Kowloon and the New Territories.

  After exchanging pleasantries, Chu Huan asked Zheng Jiachun, "Where's Guo Bingxiang? Are you here?"

  Zheng Jiachun shook his head, with doubts on his face, and said: "Not yet, I don't know what the **** is going on!"

  Chu Huan said indifferently: "It doesn't matter, it's late anyway, and if we don't need to take action, someone will take care of him!"

  Hearing what Chu Huan said, Zheng Jiachun also smiled happily.

  After that, Chu Huan went directly to the banquet hall, and Zheng Jiachun, as the representative of Tianhai Real Estate, was responsible for welcoming the guests here.

Not long after Chu Huan entered the banquet hall, Chen Detai, the chairman of Dachang Real Estate, and his wife also arrived at the scene. Chen Detai also wanted to enter the Huaye City project before, but he got the same answer as Li Jiacheng from Chu Huan. Partners are enough.

   But the difference is that after this incident, the two sides did not have other conflicts, it was nothing more than a business failure.

  Last year at the Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce gathering, Chen Detai and Chu Huan chatted happily for a while!

Not only Chen Detai and his wife came here, but also Chen Detai’s son, Chen Bin, who came with them. Chen Bin just graduated from MIT in North America this year and joined Dachang Real Estate. After Chen Detai died of illness in 1981, Chen Bin took over Dachang Real Estate. Real Estate became the youngest chairman of the group company in Xiangjiang at that time!

Dachang Real Estate was also listed in 1972. At that time, it was also known as one of the five tigers of Xiangjiang Real Estate. After Dachang Real Estate went public, it took full advantage of the frenzy in the stock market to issue newly acquired properties or minority shareholders’ interests in other real estate companies and affiliated companies. rights and interests.

In 1973, Dachang issued new shares 15 times successively, and the number of issued shares was as high as 150 million shares, which were used to exchange shares with companies such as Sun Hung Kai Properties, Taisheng Development, Lixing Development, Good Year Properties and Hutchison International, and purchased a large number of Property and real estate investment companies, such as the purchase of 35% equity of Sheraton Hotel, 25% equity of Metropolis Properties and 25% equity of Taikoo Chang, etc.

  Dachang Real Estate had a high status in the minds of investors at the initial stage of its listing, and its chairman, Chen Detai, was even called a "real estate powerhouse". However, Dachang rarely develops real estate independently, and lacks the courage to undertake large-scale development projects on its own.

  Not long after its listing, Dachang attached itself to a British consortium to assist in its real estate development.

In addition, Chen Detai has a close relationship with Qi Dezun of the British Hutchison Co., Ltd. Dachang and Whampoa Dockyard under Hutchison have joined forces with Metropolis Real Estate to develop the Whampoa Dock in Hung Hom and Tai Kok Tsui with Dachang's funds and a system from construction to sales. and land for three docks in Aberdeen.

If there is no Chu Huan, Hutchison International will be acquired by HSBC like another time and space. At that time, HSBC will invite Wei Li, who is known as the "company doctor", to take charge of Hutchison International, and Wei Li will arrange for Hutchison and Whampoa. merge.

  Willie thought that Heung Kong Real Estate had a booming market and there was no need to share it with Dachang, so he overturned many of the previous verbal contracts between the two parties, causing the relationship between the two parties to break down. The two parties went to court and later settled out of court.

  In 1979, Dachang Properties bought back the remaining 55% of the capital from Hutchison Whampoa for 310 million yuan, and at the same time sold 25% of the ownership of Hutchison Building in the Central District back to Hutchison Whampoa for 110 million yuan. The cooperation between the two parties was terminated.

   "Mr. Chu, Huaye City's sales performance this time proved that my vision was correct at the time. It's a pity that I couldn't cooperate with Mr. Chu in the end."

   After seeing Chu Huan, Chen Detai joked directly.

  Chu Huan said with a smile: "I am still young, and Mr. Chen is also in his prime of life. I believe that in the future, you and I will have more cooperation opportunities!"

Chen Detai's eyes suddenly brightened. Before Lei Juehua said that Chu Huan turned stones into gold, Chen Detai also thought so. From the development of Dachang Real Estate, it is not difficult to see that Chen Detai is very good at working with large financial groups. Cooperation, on the contrary, there are very few self-developed projects.

  The current Chu Huan is no worse than those big British consortiums.

   "Then I will write down what Director Chu said. If there are any projects in the future, we must remember our Dachang Real Estate!" Chen Detai said with a smile.

   "Definitely!" Chu Huan said firmly. Naturally, there is a cooperation project. Don't forget that Chen Detai still has shares in Hutchison International, and also cooperates with Huangpu Dockyard!

  If Chu Huan takes over Hutchison International, he will naturally not choose to go to court with Dachang Properties.

   Afterwards, Chen Detai introduced his son to Chu Huan, expressing the hope that Chu Huan and his small group could often bring Chen Bin who had just returned to Hong Kong to play together!

  Chu Huan, Guo Bingxiang, Feng Yongfa, Zheng Jiachun, Tang Yunian, and Zhao Shizeng, although they don’t have any cooperation projects, they are regarded as a small group by some people because they often get together.

Mainly those old Xiangjiang businessmen, although they all want to cooperate with Chu Huan, but Chu Huan's age is here after all, sometimes, some things, but not so open-handed, so they encourage their own The children and nephews made friends with Chu Huan.

   After chatting with Chen Detai for a while, Li Zhaoji also brought his wife to the scene.

   When Guo Bingxiang saw Li Zhaoji coming, he greeted him in person. The two old partners who had started a business together seemed to have a good understanding.

  After Sun Hung Kai went public, Li Zhaoji also followed Feng Jingxi and left Sun Hung Kai. When he left, he was allocated a site and property worth 50 million Hong Kong dollars.

  At the end of the same year, Li Zhaoji and Hu Baoxing, a celebrity from Xiangjiang, established Shuitai Construction Industry Co., Ltd., Hu Baoxing was the chairman of the board of directors, and Li Zhaoji was the deputy.

   It was the season when the Xiangjiang stock market was "dizzy with heat", and Hu and Li took advantage of the heat to list Yongtai.

  Not long after listing, Li Zhaoji took advantage of the dizziness of stockholders and sold a large number of Wing Tai shares to cash out.

   Soon, the stock market crashed, and Li took advantage of the lows again, and made a lot of money.

  However, since Li Zhaoji didn't want to be Guo Desheng's deputy, he naturally didn't want to be Hu Baoxing's deputy. Now there are rumors in the business circle that Li Zhaoji is planning to leave Yongtai and start his own real estate company.

   After talking with Hu Desheng, Li Zhaoji came to Chu Huan, and asked in a low voice: "The matter of investing in Henderson Land, should Mr. Chu not change?"

Although Li Zhaoji has not formally established his own real estate company, the name of the real estate company has already been decided, and it is called Henderson Land Development. Before that, the operation department of Jiaku Consulting Company analyzed Li Zhaoji's previous fortune , suggested to Chu Huan that Li Zhaoji's company is worth investing in.

  Chu Huan naturally knew about it, so he contacted Li Zhaoji through Jiaku Consulting Company, and proposed to take a stake in Li Zhaoji's new company, and he only took shares and dividends, and did not participate in the operation of the company.

   Li Zhaoji was also very happy when he heard the news. In Xiangjiang Chuhuan, he has a very unique personality in doing business. More people still hope to have more partners.

Especially those like Chu Huan, with Chu Huan joining, Henderson Land can quickly gain popularity in Xiangjiang, and if Henderson Land is listed, having Chu Huan as a shareholder can also make shareholders more willing to believe in the company of Henderson Land. listed companies.

  So after a brief consideration, Li Zhaoji immediately agreed to Chu Huan's investment in his new company.

   "Of course it won't change. I've already prepared the funds, and I'm just waiting for Li Sheng's golden mouth to open!" Chu Huan said with a smile.

  Li Zhaoji also said happily: "Then I will contact President Chu after New Year's Day!"

  Chu Huan said with a smile: "Waiting for you!"

  Then the bosses of other Hua-owned real estate companies in Xiangjiang also rushed to the scene. Wang Dehui and his wife from Chinachem were the one who disappeared after Xiangjiang's continuous bids!

  Chen Tinghua and his wife from Nanfeng, who are also the bosses of Nanfeng Textile, are known as the king of cotton yarn.

Huang Tingfang of Xinhe, Huang Zhixiang and his son, Huang Tingfang is a real estate businessman in Singapore. It is said that a large number of commercial buildings have been built along Orchard Road in Singapore. Zuxinhe Real Estate Investment Co., Ltd. was listed in Xiangjiang in July of the same year.

  Luo Yingshi of Great Eagle, Great Eagle Real Estate was not well-known in Xiangjiang at this time, but by the late 1970s, it should have become famous.

  After talking with these people, both Chu Huan and Guo Desheng were a little curious. Why hasn't Guo Bingxiang come yet?

  Just when the two were curious, Zheng Jiachun and Michael Kadoorie came in first, but the expressions on their faces were very complicated, and Chu Huan became more and more curious when he saw this.

  But soon, Chu Huan knew why, because Guo Bingxiang walked in holding Li Tianying's hand!

  Chu Huan immediately set his sights on Guo Desheng

   Also, the next chapter is at eight in the morning~~

  

  

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