"The world's richest Chinese man, Chen, is worth more than HK$20 billion!"
"Hong Kong's richest man once again ranks as the richest Chinese!"
“What’s next for the richest man in China? How far is it for the richest man in the world?”
The headline in the newspaper on February 1, 1982 was even more exciting and exciting than the one two days ago. "20 billion Hong Kong dollars. Even if it is divided equally among the 5 million people in Hong Kong, each person can still get 4,000 Hong Kong dollars. This number is a lot of people." Funds that cannot be saved in a year.
For many people who play finance, they naturally know what the concept of money is. With this kind of asset, as long as you are bold and double the leverage of the funds, the funds that can be mobilized will be astronomical, not to mention You can also control more assets through various methods.
In Hong Kong, there are many rich people with a net worth of barely 100 million who control a market value of more than 1 billion through various shareholding methods.
"Chen Zhiwen's net worth is absolutely impossible to be this small." Li Jiacheng, the headquarter of the Yangtze River Industrial Group, said after reading the introduction in the newspaper, he threw it aside.
His wife Zhuang Yueming picked up the newspaper, read it briefly, and asked: "Many of Chen Zhiwen's companies are unlisted. How did you know?"
"Just based on my feeling, if Hutchison Whampoa is listed, its market value will definitely not be less than 5 billion, let alone the stronger Midea and Red Bull." Li Jiacheng shook his head and said.
"The Fortune magazine actually rates Hutchison quite highly, but they are not optimistic about Hutchison's large-scale projects in the mainland, especially the Beijing-Tianjin-Tangshan Expressway, with a total investment of more than 1 billion US dollars. If it really follows what Fortune said, Say the same thing, if the future performance is not good, Hutchison Whampoa's losses may be greater than when Chen Zhiwen first acquired Hutchison." Zhuang Yueming said.
"Those Americans don't know anything about the domestic economy. I don't know if other places in the country can develop, but the area around Yanjing will certainly not be bad. As long as the country sticks to its current economic path, with their labor costs and talent pool, Over there at Yanjing is Hong Kong in the 1950s. In another 20 years, the economic level will definitely increase significantly. Hutchison Whampoa controls the only highway leading to the port, and it will definitely make a lot of money in the future." Li Jiacheng shook his head and said.
"It's right to think this way. Hong Kong was able to rise through industry in the past because of the large number of knowledgeable talents coming from the mainland. Now that the country is opening up its economy to the outside world, a large number of talents will also give priority to gathering in big cities like Yanjing." Zhuang Yueming After thinking about Li Jiacheng's words, he nodded and said.
How did Hong Kong rise? Depend on the UK? No, although there are high-quality water ports here, there are many places like this where the sun never sets on empires, but only Hong Kong has developed into the top city.
The most fundamental reason is that decades ago, a large number of mainland wealthy people entered Hong Kong with their wealth and a large number of intellectuals entered. After all, the poor cannot move, and the real poor cannot move from the mainland to Hong Kong.
The latter played a greater role. This made Hong Kong full of literate talents, and the wages were low enough. It soon became the most famous foundry place in the world. The development of industry promoted everything, and finally formed Hong Kong today. .
Although the talent rate in the mainland is also very low, when gathered in big cities, the number of talents will far exceed that in Hong Kong 30 years ago, and the development potential will naturally be greater.
"People like Chen Zhiwen rose up in Hong Kong and now achieve very high results in the United States. You don't really think that he relies on luck, do you? I dare say that his vision is definitely the top level in the world. Back then, he Hyping up industrial land is a clever move now that I think about it." Li Jiacheng shook his head and said.
"Then you are also a director of CITIC Group now. Since you are also optimistic about the domestic market, why don't you invest?" Zhuang Yueming asked again. Many years ago, she often assisted Li Jiacheng's business, but later after having children, plus Cheung Kong has recruited many professional talents, and she has raised her children at home.
"I have limited funds and cannot compare with Chen Zhiwen, so I'd better invest in Hong Kong." Li Jiacheng said: "Let me tell you one more thing. Starting from the beginning of last year, Chen Zhiwen's real estate company began to slowly clear out its assets. The real estate business has basically disappeared now, while housing prices have begun to decline since the end of last year, and as of this year, only the office buildings in Central are still strong."
"Chen Zhiwen saw that there was going to be a problem in the real estate market at the beginning of last year?" Zhuang Yueming was shocked and said, "At that time, housing prices had been rising."
"Yes, I only discovered this anomaly in the middle of last year. At that time, I also thought that there might be a problem with housing prices. Chen Zhiwen was half a year ahead of me, so I did the same later, reducing some new projects and collecting funds. I just didn't know. When will there be a problem with this land price?" Li Jiacheng said with hope in his eyes.
"It's probably going to be soon. It wasn't long after the last Land King auction. The prices in Central rose slightly, but now they've fallen a lot." Zhuang Yueming said with a smile.
"We have lost a lot. Land has already lost 1 billion. If it continues to fall, Land will have to spit out all its profits in the past two years." Li Jiacheng said with a smile.
"Chen Zhiwen has never been optimistic about the real estate market before, but he suddenly participated in the Land King Auction. Do you think it was just to stimulate real estate development?" Zhuang Yueming said again.
Li Jiacheng was stunned for a moment, thought for a while and then said: "When you said this, I remembered something. A former Lands Department official once complained to a friend after drinking that Chen Zhiwen was urging the Hong Kong government to auction the land as soon as possible. But I refused to bid against Land at the auction. Now that I think about it, it is really possible.”
"As expected of Chen Zhiwen, no wonder he will become the richest Chinese in the world. You may not be able to get this position in the future." Zhuang Yueming shook his head and said.
"Forget it, just be ourselves." Li Jiacheng shook his head and said, "I'm going to Canada. There is some real estate business there. Do you want to go with me?"
"Okay, I also want to see my son." Zhuang Yueming nodded and said.
"20 billion Hong Kong dollars is higher than the market value of our entire Jardine Matheson Group." Newbijian sighed after reading the news.
"Yes, it is much higher than HSBC. I heard that HSBC in the United States has not been tricked by Chen Zhiwen. I wonder what Shen Bi will think when he sees this news?" Bao Fuda said with a smile.
"Forget it, it's none of our business. Land prices have been falling again recently. It's really a headache. Although it doesn't affect our cash flow, if this continues, our stock mortgage in the bank will have problems." New York Bi Jian frowned and said.
"Then why don't we do a few more big ones to raise the land price again?" Bao Fuda asked.
"Okay, but I still need to discuss it with the Keswick family. Their family has recently been close to several officials in Prime Minister Thatcher's government and may have a clearer understanding of Hong Kong's future." Newbijian said.
Bao Fuda asked: "What is the attitude of the British government?"
"Persevere and never give up," Newbijian said.
In Hong Kong, almost all adults are watching this content at the moment. Although they don’t have much money, they like to read the introductions of rich people!
Many media directly went to Chen Zhiwen's home or company and wanted to conduct interviews. But now the Chen family's bodyguard team can be said to be a battalion in number. They are all professional bodyguards. How can they get the turn of these Hong Kong reporters? Come be arrogant.
For Chen Zhiwen, "Fortune" magazine naturally made many mistakes. First of all, they did not know their profits in the gold market. In fact, not many people knew about this, because at the beginning, he invested a little bit through more than a dozen European and American investment banks. To be long gold, although each bank has an income of a few hundred million US dollars, it is not a huge amount of money for any super investment bank.
Unless these consortiums tell each other about this in private, this is unlikely. Not to mention Europe and the United States, even within the United States, these investment banks are also competitors. The relationship between the parties cannot be said to be enemies, but they are also They are not good friends. Besides, even if they have a good relationship, the two of them will not discuss Chen Zhiwen when they sit together. Because there is no lead, the profit Chen Zhiwen makes in each company is not as good as the entire big investment bank. , actually it’s nothing.
Midea's valuation is naturally severely underestimated, but if you look at it as a general game company, it is about the same, because under normal circumstances, few game companies can continue to be popular. It is a miracle that it can be popular for 5 years. This is also a problem for many technology companies. When there are no products with sufficient stable long-term income, the valuation will be very low, because companies that need to rely on different products to maintain market share are always very risky. Once the next product fails If you don't, you may be knocked to the bottom immediately.
But no matter what, the content of "Fortune" has a great impact on Hong Kong, Asia and even China.
The time soon came to February, and Henry Morgan and several businesses of some of the Morgan family finally took action against RCA.
The first is a small beverage factory owned by the Morgan Consortium. When investing in Taoyuan City, it was discovered that some water sources in Taoyuan City contained some heavy metals and organic chemicals. The presence of some heavy metals may be justified, but the organic chemicals are obviously It was polluted, so the environmental protection department of Bayan Province, after learning the news, immediately began a secret investigation.
Coincidentally, an employee from RCA made a real-name report to RCA, which opened several deep-water wells in his factory. He also recorded the video with a camera and sent it to the Wanwan Environmental Protection Department.
At the same time, several large media companies in Hong Kong, Japan, and the United States have also received many substantive photos of pollution emissions and a large amount of data, including emissions, emissions substances, time, etc. This is big news. These media companies have received information Afterwards, as if they had found a treasure, they quickly added fuel to the fire and exposed it directly. Maybe these media would be afraid of the US government, but an American company is different. Media outside the United States are not afraid at all. They do not live in the United States, and the United States The media did not take it seriously. They stood on the moral high ground in this matter.
As a result, within a few days, the news that RCA was discharging chemicals on a large scale into the groundwater in Taoyuan City, Bayan Province, spread across half of the world. The environmental protection department of Bayan City was not polite at all and directly transferred RCA to the groundwater. With the door closed, everyone except ordinary employees was locked inside the factory. Some who were not in the factory also had their exit permits suspended by the customs.
"It's so heart-breaking. RCA is a disgrace to American companies and a disgrace to mankind. They are destroying our home, our earth, and the environment we depend on for survival, putting hundreds of thousands of ordinary people at risk of their lives."
At the headquarters of the NBC television station in the United States, countless "volunteers" from the environmental protection department held loudspeakers and shouted loudly outside. Numerous banners also read various slogans of "protect the environment and severely punish the perpetrators."
On the top floor of the NBC headquarters building, CEO Brad looked at the hundreds of people holding placards and making trouble below, as well as the dozens of almost indifferent security guards around them. He couldn't help but get angry and said: "What's going on with those security guards? Why are they driving these people away?" ?”
The blond secretary next to him paused and replied: "Sir, these environmentalists are not easy to mess with. There may be some journalists among them. If our people intervene and a conflict occurs and it becomes news, we will More passive.”
"Can I be more passive than now? ABC and CBS almost pointed at me and scolded me." Brad got angry, but quickly returned to normal and asked: "What's the situation over there in Wanwan? Have you checked it out?"
"The local government has blocked our factory and more than 300 Americans have been detained, including 60 Chinese Americans. We have sent a protest to the other party through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but the other party has not responded yet." Secretary Jin Jin said.
"So what's going on?" Brad asked.
The blond secretary replied: "The news reported by the major media is all true. I have asked several engineers and managers who have just been transferred from Wanwan. They all know about this matter. Wanwan Factory, During the day, various waste oils and solutions are put into sewage treatment tanks, and others are told that they are disposed of at night when electricity prices are cheaper, but in fact, they are discharged directly into the ground at night.”
"Which idiot came up with this idea? How much does that sewage treatment cost? In the current situation, the company's stock price has dropped by 10%, and our entire company is stink all over the world." Brad almost vomited blood in anger.
"I have asked. It is indeed the idea of the resident staff at Wanwan. But who came up with it is not yet known. Engineers who have been to Wanwan don't know either. I only know that they have been implementing it for a long time. ." The blond secretary changed the topic. In fact, it doesn't matter who came up with the idea. The reason why Wanwan did this must be because the headquarters put too much pressure, because even if RCA moved the factory to Wanwan, the labor cost there would be very high. Even under lower conditions, RCA's manufacturing costs were still not as good as those of the Japanese. As time went on, the headquarters naturally desperately asked the Wanwan factory to reduce costs, and eventually someone took the wrong approach.
(End of chapter)
