Chapter 503 Annual Harvest (7K chapter, please subscribe~)

   the next day.

  The photos of Chu Huan, Sha Ya, Niu Bijian, and Qi Dezun talking and laughing at the ball really became the headlines of the major media newspapers in Xiangjiang.

  The names of the four major financial groups in Xiangjiang are naturally getting louder and louder.

   But this is not important to Chu Huan.

   Now that Wheelock has been obtained, it is time to transform Wheelock.

  Chu Huan did not go to the company today, but met Qi Dezun at home.

  Qi Dezun also brought materials from Wheelock.

  Wheelock's industrial layout covers various industries in Xiangjiang, but in fact Wheelock's main business is actually three, real estate, shipping and retail.

In the real estate industry, the most important asset under the name of Wheelock's parent company is the Jardine House on Pedder Street in Central, which was exchanged with Lane Crawford Building in 1974. Now it has been renamed Wheelock The building, the Marden Building, also located in Pedder Street, Central, and the new Lane Crawford Building, located in Queen's Road Central!

  At the same time, there are three listed real estate companies, Real Estate Trust, Federal Real Estate, and Xialiwen Development.

  Real Estate Trust’s most high-quality land is the headquarters of Xiangjiang Hemp Cable Co., Ltd., and it also owns properties such as May Road, Plantation Road, and Garden Terrace in Mid-Levels that Zhang Yuliang took out when he became a shareholder of Wheelock.

  The highest-quality properties under the umbrella of Federal Real Estate are the Federal Building and International Building of the former Zhang Yuliang family.

  Harliman Development owns more land located in the New Territories, which will be used to develop industrial buildings in another time and space.

  Shipping includes 30 freighters owned by Wheelock Shipping, joint ventures, and Baofu Development, with a load capacity of more than 1.4 million tons!

Of course, in the retail industry, Lane Crawford acquired by Wheelock and Hua Department Store and Daxin Department Store, the second of the four largest department stores in China, were acquired in the name of Lane Crawford. At the same time, Cuiyuan Co., Ltd., which holds 60% of the shares, is a company specializing in Antique Company.

  In addition to these, there is another very important company under the name of Wheelock, which is China Gas!

   It was the China Gas Company that was later acquired by Henderson Land Development Co., Ltd.

China Gas was first established in England and listed in Xiangjiang in 1960. At that time, the chairman of China Coal was John Madden, the chairman of Wheelock, and the four directors were the chairman of Hutchison & Co. Mingze, Li Fushu from the Li family.

  As the only gas supply monopoly company in Xiangjiang, China Gas has a very stable income item, but in the hands of Wheelock, it has never been able to get the attention of John Madden. It can only be said that it is in Baoshan without knowing it!

  Nowadays, Hehe International has acquired Junyi warehouse successively, and Wheelock has become the largest shareholder of Xiangjiang Huagas.

   And touched the 50% key point of the delisting and privatization of the Xiangjiang Securities Regulatory Commission.

   "Don't worry about the equity distribution of China Gas, just hang on to these two companies. As long as Wheelock and Hehe International don't merge, there will be no way for the China Securities Regulatory Commission!" Chu Huan seriously said to Qi Dezun.

  As a public utility, China Gas is not allowed to be privately owned by individuals, so it is impossible to delist and privatize, and can only occupy the largest shareholder.

  If Hehe International and Wheelock merge, the assets of the two companies will naturally be merged, and the shares of China Gas will be concentrated in one company.

   Now it's fine.

  When the real estate market in Xiangjiang will develop by leaps and bounds in the future, the market value of China Gas will also increase by leaps and bounds. In 1995, the market value of China Gas has reached 29.4 billion Hong Kong dollars, ranking 18th among the top 20 blue chips in Hong Kong!

  In which year, Wheelock’s market capitalization was only 33 billion Hong Kong dollars, ranking 16th among the top 20 blue chips in Hong Kong!

  In another time and space, after China Gas was acquired by Li Zhaoji's Henderson Land, it has been used as a cash machine, selling shares in China Gas many times, and extorting huge amounts of cash.

   "It's easy, I'll take care of it at the China Securities Regulatory Commission!" Qi Dezun said confidently.

  In addition to China Gas, there are four stock companies held by Wheelock that attract Chu Huan's attention. One is Xiangjiang Tramway Company, Xiangjiang Tunnel Company, Longfeng Trust and Investment Company, and Xiangjiang Spinning Mill.

   Among them, Xiangjiang Tramway and Xiangjiang Tunnel are both public utility companies like China Gas, and Longfeng Trust and Xiangjiang Spinning Mill are jointly held by other companies.

"Yunshang is currently discussing the acquisition of Printemps in France. After she buys Printemps, Wheelock can sell Lane Crawford and Cuiyuan to Yunshang. As for the two companies, Huabushi and Daxin I will help you contact Ms. Zhu Xiaozhao of Yunhai Chain, and Yunhai Chain should be interested in these two companies by then."

After the acquisition of Watsons from Hehe International, and now the two companies of Wheelock's Huashi Department Store and Daxin Department Store, the Yunhai Chain Store under Zhu Xiaozhao's charge basically includes all kinds of retail groups, large, medium and small. It is time to make a good appearance in Xiangjiang.

Qi Dezun nodded and said: "There is no problem with this. Although Lane Crawford is the largest luxury chain store in Xiangjiang, due to Mrs. Chu's management, the two sides are bound to form competition. Selling it to Mrs. Chu now can avoid such a situation from happening. , At the same time, it can also alleviate Wheelock’s debt problem!”

  Although Wheelock bought it, naturally Wheelock’s debts also followed.

   "The most important thing now is, what do you think of Wheelock Shipping, United Enterprises, and Baofu Development?"

What Qi Dezun really cares about is the situation of the shipping industry. Chu Huan has made it clear that he is not optimistic about this industry. However, the shipping industry is now a very important pillar industry for Wheelock, so he is very concerned about Wheelock’s The development of China's shipping industry is what Qi Dezun is most concerned about at this time.

   "Sell!"

  Chu Huan preached without hesitation.

  Now that the cold wave of the shipping industry has not yet come, the value of the freighter is still very high. Selling those 30 freighters can definitely bring a lot of cash to Wheelock.

   "Delist and privatize these three companies first, and then sell the freighters, one by one!" Chu Huan added.

  This is a particularly interesting point about the three companies of Wheelock Shipping, United Enterprises, and Baofu Development. The market value of the three companies cannot be directly proportional to the asset value of these three companies.

  The combined market value of the three companies is less than 800 million Hong Kong dollars, but the total asset value of more than 30 freighters owned by these three companies exceeds 1.5 billion Hong Kong dollars.

  This is why John Madden had the confidence to call such a high price.

  Of course, although these three companies were founded by Wheelock, because of their listed companies, Wheelock only holds about 30% of the shares of these three companies.

  So it is more in line with Chu Huan's interests to buy it in its entirety and then sell the cargo ship under his name.

  Qi Dezun thought for a while and said, "No problem."

  The process of chatting between Chu Huan and Qi Dezun basically went like this. Chu Huan talked about his plans for Wheelock’s future development, while Qi Dezun was responsible for recording and providing some opinions.

  The two chatted for a whole day, and after Chu Huan left Qi Dezun to have dinner together, Qi Dezun left Chu Huan's manor.

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  The next day, at noon, Chu Huan welcomed Zhao Congyan, Zhao Shizeng, father and son in the manor again!

   "Uncle Zhao, why did you come here in person? I should be the one to see you!"

  Chu Huan personally greeted Zhao Congyan in the parking lot.

   Seeing Chu Huan so formal, Zhao Congyan was also very happy.

  Although Zhao Congyan was one of the four kings of the Xiangjiang River at this time, his size and business scale could no longer be compared with Chu Huan, but Chu Huan still welcomed Zhao Congyan so grandly, which naturally made Zhao Congyan feel full respect.

   "Haha, A Huan is too polite, how can you and I need such politeness!"

   While talking, the three of them walked into the main building together and came to the reception room. Wu Shuhan, who had already been waiting here, had already prepared tea for Zhao Congyan.

   "A Huan, since we are acquaintances, I'll cut to the chase!"

  Zhao Congyan sat there and asked Chu Huan directly: "Ah Huan, can you carefully analyze the future development of the shipping industry with me?"

   "Analyzing the world's shipping industry in front of Uncle Zhao, wouldn't I be playing tricks!" Chu Huan said with a smile: "I'm just expressing my own opinion. If you have any ideas on your side, Uncle Zhao, just say it!"

Zhao Congyan nodded. Zhao Congyan still valued Chu Huan's opinion very much. Although Chu Huan did not set foot in the shipping industry, in just a few years, Chu Huan had grown into one of the most influential businessmen in Xiangjiang. At the same time, Chu Huan's Jiaku is one of the four major financial groups in Xiangjiang.

  In such a situation, no businessman from Xiangjiang would underestimate Chu Huan's words.

"The golden age of the shipping industry should have been in the mid-to-late 1960s, when the Middle East war broke out and Egypt announced a complete blockade of the Suez Canal, the shipping artery that runs through Europe and Asia. The sudden increase in the demand of the shipping industry has also indirectly brought the development of the shipping industry into a golden period, it should be right?"

  Chu Huan first asked Zhao Congyan.

  Zhao Congyan nodded and said, "That's right, that's the truth!"

  The blockade of the Suez Canal led to a skyrocketing freight rate, which naturally increased the development potential of the shipping industry.

  Chu Huan said: "But last year, the Suez Canal was reopened. In addition, I think Uncle Zhao still remembers the oil crisis that happened in 1973."

  Zhao Congyan nodded with lingering fear, and said, "Of course I remember it."

  Although the oil crisis in 1973 did not directly destroy the world shipping industry, the crisis it brought to the shipping industry is obvious.

   "The world's oil prices have been up and down in recent years, and the uncertainty of transportation costs has also led to uncertainty in the development of the shipping industry. This is obvious!"

  Chu Huan continued to preach.

  Zhao Congyan was powerless to refute, because what Chu Huan said was happening now.

   "But I think, no matter what, the world always needs the circulation of goods. As long as there is a circulation of goods, it must be inseparable from the shipping industry!"

  Although Zhao Congyan admitted that what Chu Huan said was reasonable, he was not easily persuaded by Chu Huan!

  Every successful businessman has his own persistence, and Zhao Congyan is no exception. In Zhao Congyan's view, no matter whether the Suez Canal is lifted or the oil crisis exists, as long as the world needs the circulation of goods, it must need the shipping industry.

"The development of any industry depends not only on external factors, but also on the existence of internal factors. The golden age of the shipping industry in the 1950s and 1960s led to a surge in the number of additional cargo ships around the world. By the 1970s, it had already exceeded market demand. I think I don’t need to talk about the current situation of the shipping industry. Uncle Zhao, you should be able to feel it. After 73 years, the shipping industry has actually entered a situation of oversupply, and this situation will inevitably lead to competition in the same industry, leading to This year alone, the freight rate of the world shipping industry has dropped by 80%, which is the most favorable proof.

This industry will become more and more competitive, and profits will become thinner and thinner, while the cost of the company remains unchanged, so in my opinion, even if the world still needs the circulation of goods, it may be difficult to survive in this industry. It will become more and more difficult. "

Zhao Congyan shook his head, apparently not paying attention to Chu Huan's reminder, and said with a smile: "Huaguang Shipping is different from other shipping companies. Our main business is not oil tankers. Even if the price of oil is unstable, The impact on Huaguang Shipping is also limited."

  Chu Huan had no choice but to say everything that should be said. Since Zhao Congyan was still unmoved, there was nothing he could do.

I can only say at the end: "Wheelock Shipping is more about oil tankers. Of course, if Uncle Zhao really wants it, I can contact you from the side, but I still want to remind you about this matter. It is very likely that we will usher in the most severe cold wave period in history!"

  Although Zhao Congyan thinks that Chu Huan's reminder is a bit alarmist, but still the same sentence, no one in Xiangjiang at this time will completely underestimate Chu Huan's business reminder. After pondering for a moment, he decided to preach conservatively.

   "I will seriously consider this matter!"

  Chu Huan just smiled at this.

   Afterwards, the two sides chatted casually. Chu Huan left Zhao Congyan and Zhao Shizeng to have lunch together, and then the two left.

  Just after the two left, Zhao Shizeng came back alone.

   "A Huan, is what you said about the development of the shipping industry true?"

Compared with Zhao Congyan, the shipping tycoon who founded Huaguang Shipping, Zhao Shizeng has no affection for the shipping industry, not to mention that Zhao Shizeng and Chu Huan are now making a lot of money in the real estate industry, so naturally they don't want to change industries. up.

  But they are father and son after all, one prospers and one loses. If it is true that as Chu Huan said, there will be a major crisis in the future shipping industry, then Zhuoneng Real Estate he founded must also be implicated.

In another time and space, Zhao Shizeng established his own Zhuoneng Real Estate until 1988, but now it is different, because he wants to cooperate with Chu Huan Huahai Real Estate, so Zhao Shizeng founded Zhuoneng Real Estate now, I don’t know What did he think.

  After such a long time difference, I still chose Zhuoneng Real Estate.

  Chu Huan nodded, and said seriously: "At least I think so."

   This sentence is enough, Zhao Shizeng thought for a while, and said: "I will continue to persuade my father, just"

  Speaking of this, Zhao Shizeng is also a little helpless. Chu Huan speaks with more force than what he said in front of Zhao Congyan. Zhao Shizeng also understands that it is not easy to persuade his father.

   "It's still a few years away from the time I guessed, so please work hard!"

  Chu Huan could only persuade Zhao Shizeng in this way.

  Zhao Shizeng nodded, and finally said helplessly: "It can only be like this, I just hope those few people don't make trouble!"

Chu Huan knew that Zhao Shizeng was referring to his brothers. Everyone knew that Zhao’s family had disagreements, especially now that Zhao Shizeng followed Chu Huan’s side to make money in the real estate industry, and his brothers couldn’t get involved. , it can only be more concerned about its own shipping industry.

   Regarding this, Chu Huan just patted Zhao Shizeng on the shoulder, "Good luck!"

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  After receiving Zhao Congyan, Zhao Shizeng and his son, Chu Huan met with Bao Yugang and Zheng Zhizhi one after another, and then Chu Huan had nothing specific to do.

In fact, Chu Huan is also planning to settle down the company in his hands in the next period of time. After entering 76 years, Chu Huan has made several big moves one after another. Now that the matter is over, it needs to be digested internally. clicked.

When the time came to September, Cao Yunshang and Gu Chengxi came back from Europe. During this trip to Europe, the process of the two of them was a bit tortuous, but the ending was perfect and they got Spring Department Store. At the same time, Cao Yunshang, with the capital support of Chu Huan, Also got two luxury brands, Fendi and Prada!

   It officially sounded the bell for Cao Yunshang to enter the luxury brand industry.

  After returning to Xiangjiang, Cao Yunshang immediately negotiated with Qi Dezun, and successfully bought Lane Crawford from the other party. At the same time, he turned around and sold Hua Department Store and Daxin Department Store under Lane Crawford to Yunhai Chain Store, which Zhu Xiaozhao was in charge of.

   This incident caused quite a stir in Xiangjiang.

   Then brought out one thing.

   That's how Qi Dezun's Hehe International suddenly had such a large sum of money to acquire Wheelock, and began to gradually delist Wheelock and privatize it.

   It turned out that it was supported financially by Chu Huan.

  According to the analysis of Hong Kong media, the reason why Chu Huan provided financial support to Qi Dezun was to buy Lane Crawford from Wheelock.

  ‘The behind-the-scenes driving force that changed Xiangjiang’s commercial landscape! ’--"Letter"

   As the most authoritative business newspaper in Xiangjiang, "Letter News" reported this incident as the headline of the current newspaper.

  As for "True News", under the leadership of Gu Chengxi, it began to report repeatedly on Cao Yunshang's entry into the world's luxury brands.

  ‘The Queen of Luxury Brands in Xiangjiang! ’--"True Daily"

  This report was not only published in "Zhenbao", but also made headlines in other newspapers in Xiangjiang.

  In the second half of 1976, when the extremely low-key Chu Huan began to withdraw from the world's attention, Cao Yunshang began to grab the headlines of the major media newspapers in Xiangjiang.

After Cao Yunshang acquired Lane Crawford, he immediately held a huge fashion show in Xiangjiang, spending a lot of money to invite world famous models, and then with the help of Vertex Pictures, even invited Hollywood's popular actresses. Lin Qingxia, Zhao Yazhi and others from Xiangjiang.

  This fashion show instantly attracted the attention of the whole of Asia.

   And Cao Yunshang made headlines again with this incident.

   Time flies, and it is the end of 1976 in a blink of an eye!

  As New Year's Day approached, Kelly from North America took a low-key plane and arrived in Xiangjiang.

  After Wu Shuhan took her to No. 12 Mount Kellett Road, he drove away by himself.

   Walking into the main building, Kelly saw Chu Huan sitting alone on the sofa, playing a video game she had never seen before.

This is the red and white machine test model developed by Wolf Smoke Games. Chu Huan specially wanted to come to Wolf Smoke Games. As for the games, in addition to the transplanted arcade games "Donkey Kong", "Space Invaders" and "Pac-Man", There is also the classic "Tetris", which can no longer be classic.

  However, in this time and space, this game cannot be called "Tetris". In another time and space, this game is a casual game invented by Russian Alexei Pajitnov in June 1984.

  That’s why it’s called Tetris

   Now it has become a creative game developed by Chu Huan, so it was naturally named "Xiangjiang Cube" by Chu Huan.

   This game is not only the main competitive game of the red and white machine games, but also will be put into the arcade game in early 1977, as one of the two main arcade games of Wolf Smoke Games in the beginning of 1977.

  The current wolf smoke game, in terms of arcade games, basically produces four games every year, two in the first half of the year and two in the second half of the year!

   At the same time, there is also a traffic jam game that in Chu Huan's opinion is rough and not good enough!

   "They are upstairs. I told you, this is a matter between you women, and I am not allowed to participate, so you can only ask for luck!"

   After seeing Kelly, Chu Huan gave her a helpless look.

  Chu Huan had already told Cao Yunshang and the others about Kelly, and they all knew about Kelly’s coming today, and then Cao Yunshang said, Brother Huan, you don’t need to worry about it!

  Chu Huan can only play games at home by himself!

  Kelly came to Chu Huan's side and said coquettishly, "Let me know!"

  Chu Huan pressed pause, and said helplessly: "I really don't know, so you can only face it yourself!"

  Kelly showed a pitiful expression, but this kind of expression would definitely not work on Chu Huan's side. In the end, it could only be that the wind was rustling, the water was cold, and the strong man went up to the third floor with the attitude of never returning.

   Things will definitely be fine. Since Cao Yunshang and the others are willing to see Kelly, they must have accepted Kelly. The reason why they are doing so many things now is nothing more than a matter of wanting to swear sovereignty.

  Chu Huan naturally wouldn't really participate in it, otherwise it would only cause the opposite effect.

   And Chu Huan himself has a lot of things to do.

  When it came to the end of 1976, there must have been many commercial receptions in Xiangjiang according to the usual practice. According to Chu Huan's current status in Xiangjiang, these commercial receptions naturally also invited Chu Huan.

  Even though many of them have been rejected, there are still some things that Chu Huan must participate in.

  For example, the Hong Kong government’s charity reception, which must be attended every year.

   There is also a reception of the Xiangjiang General Chamber of Commerce and so on.

  However, in these receptions, apart from Chu Huan taking Cao Yunshang to the charity reception held by the Hong Kong government, Gu Chengxi, Lin Qingxia, and Zhao Yazhi accompanied each of the other receptions.

  This is also an opportunity to publicly recognize their identities.

  Miao Kexiu accompanied Chu Huan to the reception of Hehe International in the middle of her youth, and she no longer needs it. Zhu Xiaozhao and Kai Li, because of status issues, don’t need it now.

   Today Chu Huan and Zhao Yazhi had just attended the banquet held by the Xiangjiang Real Estate Chamber of Commerce, and returned to No. 12 Mount Kellett Road by car.

When Chu Huan and Zhao Yazhi returned, they saw Cao Yunshang, Gu Chengxi, Lin Qingxia, Kaili, Miao Kexiu, Zhu Xiaozhao and others sitting around playing poker, mainly Cao Yunshang, Zhu Xiaozhao, and Kelly The three were playing, and the rest were cheering.

   Seeing Chu Huan come back, Zhu Xiaozhao threw away the cards in his hand, removed the note on his face, and got up happily.

   "Brother Huan, you're back!"

   "Hey, Xiao Zhao, you're cheating, you're about to lose this hand." Although Gu Chengxi didn't play, she was on the periphery, and now seeing Zhu Xiaozhao cheating, she immediately yelled.

  Zhu Xiaozhao said proudly: "Brother Huan is back, what else are we playing!"

   "Playing around!" Gu Chengxi said helplessly.

  Tomorrow is New Year's Day, and Chu Huan has already decided that this year's New Year's Day will see no one, and they will spend this New Year's Day with him here.

  These girls naturally have no objections.

  After New Year's Day, they all have to go about their own affairs.

  For example, Kelly has been in Xiangjiang for almost a week, and there is a backlog of things in North America waiting for her to go back to deal with.

Cao Yunshang is also very busy here. After New Year's Day, she will go to Japan with Xiao Zhao. Although Xiao Zhao has completed the layout in Japan, Yunhai Chain has now set its sights on Taiwan Island and other places. Southeast Asia, but because of the development of Yunhai Chain in Japan, it has already had a great influence, so she will accompany Cao Yunshang to Japan to expand Cao Yunshang's luxury goods empire.

  The rest of the people also have their own jobs.

  Next day!

   January 1, 1977!

  Daqing!

The layout of the manor has been taken care of by the servants and Qin Peng and others. At the same time, in order to let Qin Peng and others have no worries, Chu Huan gave the servants in the manor a holiday, but took Qin Peng and others' family members over .

   At that time, there will be two groups of festivals here, one wave is for girls such as Chu Huan and Cao Yunshang, and the other wave is for Qin Peng and others.

  Today, everyone put down their work and only did one thing, playing games!

Chu Huan and Lin Qingxia were playing video games in the living room, Cao Yunshang, Kelly, and Zhu Xiaozhao went to the spa room for a spa, Miao Kexiu, Gu Chengxi, and Zhao Yazhi went downstairs to play bowling.

  At night, these people gather on the third-floor rooftop to have a barbecue!

   On the 3rd, Kelly left Xiangjiang first, and Cao Yunshang and Zhu Xiaozhao also went to Japan two days later.

  Others are also busy with their work.

  Chu Huan also wanted to put on the agenda one thing that he had been thinking about before.

  So today, Chu Huan brought Lin Qingxia and Wu Shuhan to Huo Tsar's home.

   One is festival congratulations, and the other is discussing about going back to my hometown!

   Also, Huangshan continues to code words~~

  

  

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