Rebirth of Hong Kong 1981

   Chapter 891 Two years

  Repulse Bay Villas

   Yang Chen was on the phone with Prince Charles who was in London. On the phone, he heard that Prince Charles was going to come to Hong Kong again today, Yang Chen was not surprised.

   It has been two years since the last time Prince Charles came to Hong Kong in 1983. Two years are neither long nor short.

   Over the past two years

  Yang Chen changed his previous big moves and acted in a high-profile manner.

In the following year, that is, in 1984, after he quietly established his own grain and oil group, he had a brief contact with ADM, one of the four major grain merchants, and he was quietly developing and expanding his own company. industry.

   Since the last time he invited Prince Charles to his house, the two had a day-long secret conversation, Yang Chen quickly expanded Hang Seng Bank's business to more than 50 Commonwealth countries through the relationship of the British royal family.

   With the expansion of Hang Seng Bank, Yang Chen secretly acquired and invested in many companies that he valued and needed.

   In the past two years, due to the support of the British royal family, the four major grain merchants did not have violent conflicts with them during the expansion process, but the sudden rise of Yang Chen also allowed the four major grain merchants to speed up their own expansion.

  Especially in the Asia-Pacific region, ADM companies are the most active. Although Yang Chen relied on HSBC to seize the opportunity, ADM still used its advantages to gain a firm foothold in some parts of Asia.

Since the 1920s, after ADM acquired Milan Flaxseed Products Company, ADM has gradually expanded its business scope in the following decades, continuously engaged in edible oil industry, flour industry, food processing industry, feed industry, special Food industry, cocoa industry and nutraceutical industry, etc.

   As long as it can be related to food, ADM operates it.

In 1983, ADM, which is already the largest soybean crushing and processing plant and corn additive manufacturing plant in the United States and the second largest flour mill in the United States, established an Asia-Pacific branch in Hong Kong. The following year, with the establishment of Yang Chen's Grain and Oil Group, ADM officially started the process of entering the Asian market.

   At this stage, Yang Chen's biggest competitor in the grain and oil industry in the Asia-Pacific region is ADM.

   However, with the entry of 1985, the time of the Plaza Agreement is approaching step by step, and Yang Chen has no energy to pay attention to ADM.

   From the expansion of the entire grain and oil industry, as well as the strategic process of the four major grain merchants, Yang Chen discovered a secret.

   That is, no matter how awesome you are in future generations, before the cake is distributed and the market share has the opportunity to adjust, you only need to do one thing to be able to wrestle with these so-called giants.

What's up?

   is simple

   throw money

   No matter which industry it is, the initial market share is basically created with money.

  In later generations, whether it is an Internet company, a courier company, or a takeaway company, those giant companies, in the initial market share competition, all used the method of throwing money to expand their market share.

  In the grain and oil industry, as long as you have capital, as long as you are willing to spend money, you can quickly create a giant company that you want.

   No matter how thick the opponent's background is, as long as you have money, you can use money to throw this thing out.

   The expansion of the four major grain merchants also used a simple and rude way of throwing money to merge and merge local powerful grain and oil companies, and then replaced the yellow vest with the red vest, turning each local company into its own industry.

   It's that simple, it's that direct.

In this regard, Yang Chen is also the same. Through the relationship of the British royal family, Yang Chen used HSBC and Standard Chartered Bank, as well as his own Hang Seng Bank, the three major banks as intermediaries, and constantly acquired shares in local grain and oil companies in the Commonwealth of Nations member countries. .

  Due to the particularity of the grain and oil industry, Yang Chen acted very low-key in this regard. Like the other four major grain merchants, he did not overly publicize it.

   In the past two years, various industries under Yang Chen's business have developed rapidly, among which the development of Northern Australia is the most prominent.

   Originally, Northern Australia had a population of less than 200,000. Now Chinese immigrants have exceeded the one million mark, and among them, the number of Chinese who have obtained Australian citizenship has reached one-third.

   In addition to some elites who immigrated from Xiangjiang and obtained Australian citizenship directly, most of them are helping the development of Northern Australia and the first batch of workers who have worked for two years.

  The first batch of construction workers who obtained Australian citizenship, their families have also obtained immigration permits, so some of the millions of immigrants are also family members of construction workers.

   However, since there are too many things involved in family immigration, there is no way to compare it with construction worker immigration in terms of speed.

   Among them, the main issues are resettlement work and the unwillingness of some construction workers’ families to emigrate, especially the elderly in the construction workers’ homes. The so-called homeland is hard to leave, which is a traditional thought inherent in many Chinese.

   Therefore, this also caused a series of resettlement work problems, which required close coordination between Yang Chen and the inland government at the same time.

However, even if the inland government cooperates, there are still many troublesome things in the middle. If Yang Chen had not set up an immigration company for this purpose earlier to be responsible for solving these troubles, he would have been in trouble just for the immigration matter. Two big.

   In just two or three years, the population of Northern Australia has exceeded one million, which the Australian government did not expect.

  Due to the pace of immigration, which has greatly exceeded Australia's expectations, voices of restrictions on immigration have begun to appear in Australia.

  The immigration of family members has already begun. Once most of the family members of construction workers migrate to Northern Australia, in ten years, the population of Northern Australia will triple or quadruple.

   From less than 200,000 people to millions of people, this has been the limit of the Australian government's tolerance.

   Previously, due to the construction and development of North Australia, coupled with Yang Chen's investment in a large number of factories in North Australia, the lack of a large number of laborers in North Australia has always made the Australian government hesitate to do so.

  If you want economic development, you cannot limit the immigration policy of Northern Australia, but if there is no restriction, then the current immigration rate in Northern Australia may only be a matter of time before it exceeds 10 million.

  It is important to know that Australia's total population can only reach the 20 million mark. If there are more than 10 million Chinese immigrants, the whole of Northern Australia will probably become the world of Chinese.

  Although this is the case in Northern Australia now, Australia is still afraid that if it continues to be laissez-faire, it will seriously affect the whole of Australia.

   For this reason, the Prime Minister of Australia personally called Yang Chen several times, all of which urged him to go to Australia as soon as possible to discuss with him the issues of Chinese immigration and economic development in Northern Australia.

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   (end of this chapter)