"Are you down for dinner?" My mother Wu Xiuling's voice came from downstairs.
"Let's go down. I've been hungry for a long time. You, mother and son, don't allow me to drink Coke, otherwise I wouldn't be so hungry." Chen Tianfu put away some things on the table and said complainingly.
"Eat less sugar, that's what the nutritionist said, or drink a bottle of Coke and swim with me for 30 minutes." Chen Zhiwen said with a smile.
As you get older, your metabolism cannot keep up. Eating more sugar may cause physical problems. Chen Zhiwen is very concerned about his family and his own body. Especially in this era, medical technology is far inferior to that of future generations. Fifty years later, a diabetic will They are all terminal illnesses.
When he has nothing to do, Chen Zhiwen likes to swim in the swimming pool downstairs. This is the simplest way to exercise. The only problem is that the 20-meter-long swimming pool is a bit too small. If he changes his house in the future, he will have to get a bigger one.
"Forget it, I can't stand this day. Let's wait until summer." Chen Tianfu shook his head quickly and said.
The food downstairs, as requested by Chen Zhiwen, is basically all vegetables. As for meat dishes, there is only a plate of shrimp tails and a plate of pickled fish. When it is spicy, it is really delicious.
The next day, Chen Zhiwen, who quickly recovered from jet lag, arrived at Hutchison Building, the headquarters of Hutchison Whampoa, at ten o'clock in the morning.
The name of this building has not been changed, because the Whampoa Group also has a Whampoa Building, which is only a dozen floors high and is located in Hung Hom.
After becoming a Chinese star in Hong Kong, many newspapers in Hong Kong always like to put his name in it, and because it involves himself, Chen Zhiwen naturally needs to pay attention. Since he has not been in Hong Kong for such a long time, the newspapers have accumulated a lot. Fortunately, Chen Zhiwen had already established a special board secretariat committee, and six beautiful young women who had returned from studying abroad were assigned to Hutchison Whampoa, Red Bull and Galaxy respectively.
From the perspective of company affairs, Hutchison Whampoa naturally has the most. Naturally, Hutchison Whampoa has three permanent secretaries. There is also one person who is responsible for collecting newspaper information, selecting important, relevant and suitable ones, and then handing it over to Chen Zhiwen. This saves him a lot of time.
The secretaries of the board of directors prepared the information very well and even had a special list. Chen Zhiwen could see at a glance what happened in Hong Kong during this period and which media mentioned him.
After reading it in less than half an hour, Chen Zhiwen handed the newspaper to a secretary of the board of directors standing aside, and then said to Zhou Jiayang and Richard sitting opposite: "During this period, there has been a lot of speculation in Hong Kong. There is a lot of news about our plans to develop the Hung Hom land? Is there any news from HSBC?"
Chen Zhiwen doesn't care about some media at all, but the attitude of big banks is still more important.
"No, there has been no movement from HSBC. We repay the principal and interest of the debt to HSBC every month, and there has been no movement from them either," Richard said.
"It's good news if there's no movement." Chen Zhiwen nodded, then took out a business card from his pocket, handed it to Richard and said, "Richard, this is a person I used my connections in the United States to find who specializes in dealing with bad actors. With large assets, they have the ability to liquidate some of Hutchison Whampoa’s overseas projects in a short period of time.
In addition, I have already negotiated with Hutchison Whampoa's port in Indonesia for a 15 million US dollar transaction. After getting the cash, the Indonesian port will no longer have any relationship with Hutchison Whampoa. You are responsible for negotiating with them and disposing of it. All Hutchison Whampoa’s overseas operations. "
This is the advantage of leaving a bunch of British people inside Hutchison Whampoa. For this kind of negotiation and business with Europeans and Americans, these ghost guys are the most suitable ones. They are all white and are naturally much better. Although they don’t like it, the current global situation This trend does exist in society. Unless you can get involved in a large Japanese conglomerate, or at least the level of Pao Yugang, you can have others treat you as an equal.
"Sell them all? Hutchison Whampoa's debt is much better now, and some overseas investments can be profitable." Richard said with some reluctance. Many of these projects were started when he was working under Qi Dezun. He also knows how it works.
"Withdraw your fist so that you can punch better." Chen Zhiwen said with a smile: "Hutchison Whampoa will go global again sooner or later. One Hong Kong cannot satisfy me, but not now. What we need to do now is to obtain enough funds and then develop on a larger scale and then go overseas.”
"Okay, Mr. Chen, I understand what you mean." Richard nodded and said. Although they, a group of British people, don't know how to develop real estate, they are not fools. They naturally know the profits of Hong Kong real estate. Hutchison Whampoa is obviously now Shrink most of the fronts and then focus on development in the real estate field.
As for what the future holds? Whether they will continue to be a large local real estate company in Hong Kong or diversify like Hutchison Whampoa before is beyond their control, but for them, they still hope that Hutchison can diversify, because in terms of real estate, they are a group of The British don't know that, but diversification and other areas are their strengths, and they are also the weaknesses of Hutchison Whampoa's internal Chinese capital.
But the boss has been shrinking funds and selling most of the business, leaving them helpless.
Next, Richard reported on the development of Hutchison Whampoa's various businesses in the past month, as well as the sales of the businesses. Generally speaking, everything was within Chen Zhiwen's expectations. For businesses that he was unfamiliar with and had no money prospects, he would not be interested at all. It is impossible to stay. Even if Hutchison Whampoa has enough funds in the future, it will, like Hutchison Whampoa owned by Lao Li in later generations, specifically select several areas for development and strive to develop into a world-class level.
After Richard left, Zhou Jiayang said: "Sheng Chen, I have had preliminary communication with the Hong Kong Lands Department and the Federation of Commerce about Midea Industrial Park, but they insist on paying normal industrial land prices. When doing the transaction, I calculated that the land purchase alone might cost several hundred million, which is not cost-effective, but Wanwan has offered to waive the land fee."
"This is our request to the Hong Kong government. Of course they are tough." Chen Zhiwen shook his head and said, "So we have to build momentum in turn to suppress the Hong Kong government?"
"What Chen Sheng means is to use employment to pressure the Hong Kong government? But what I'm worried about is that the Hong Kong government won't care about this kind of industry?" Zhou Jiayang said with a frown.
"MacLehose still cares. He has a strong understanding of the economy and manages Hong Kong quite well. As long as we put pressure on the media, it may have some effect." Chen Zhiwen pointed out He pointed to a few newspapers on the table and said.
In many cases, especially a few decades ago, the British Hong Kong government did not care about the life and death of ordinary people in Hong Kong. However, with the decline of the empire on which the sun never sets, the mainland became one of the five permanent members, and Hong Kong's deep water situation after the 1970s The port has become a gathering place of wealth, which can bring considerable benefits to the UK, and the British government has only begun to pay attention to it.
The current Governor MacLehose is indeed a good governor, but the fundamental reason why he was able to successfully launch the Independent Commission Against Corruption in Hong Kong and touched the hearts of so many people is the support from the United Kingdom and the many protests and warnings from the mainland. He is prepared to moderately open to the outside world. The mainland, which needs to introduce a large amount of high-tech equipment and materials from Hong Kong, also urgently needs the situation in Hong Kong to stabilize.
It was not until the 1980s that the British Hong Kong government allowed the real estate market to be in chaos, deliberately increased the income of civil servants on many occasions, and increased investment in various infrastructures, forcing Stimulating Hong Kong's economy in the short term is the fundamental reason why the real estate bubble period from 1985 to 1997 lasted for 12 years. Before that, the real estate market basically cycled every 6 to 8 years.
On the private side, Hong Kong's main export economy before MacLehose was the simplest light industry or assembly industry such as textiles, garments, watches, etc. During the subsequent administration of MacLehose, the Hong Kong government also adopted many policies to encourage With the development of the electronics industry, by the early 1980s, Hong Kong had become the most famous electronics OEM place in the world, and the export of electronic products had become one of Hong Kong's top five export industries.
However, due to limited capabilities, MacLehose was not able to cultivate an electronics giant, not even in the UK. But at least MacLehose had a good attitude toward industry.
"Then we can only give it a try." Zhou Jiayang nodded and said. Although he is not involved in the management of Midea and Red Bull, he knows real estate.
Therefore, Midea and Red Bull naturally entrusted him to find suitable land. However, the demand was too great, and considering the needs of surrounding workers, they could not place it in too remote a place. Zhou Jiayang did find a few suitable places, but the larger area naturally resulted in higher costs.
On the other hand, as Chen Zhiwen's close assistant, he actually understands what his boss means, because many of the plans of Red Bull, Midea, and Anta are to build one or two or three floors on the ground. If it is really just to build a factory, Some workshops can be built on industrial office buildings.
Chen Zhiwen said: "Then let the major newspapers in Hong Kong publish it together. In addition, when the time is right, I will let TVB participate again."
(End of chapter)
