The Most Powerful Tycoon Reborn In Xiangjiang

Sino Land is not fighting alone. The auction of the land in Tsim Sha Tsui, Huang Tingfang and his son understand that this is the foundation of whether Sino Land can gain a firm foothold in Xiangjiang.

So after thinking about it for a while, I decided to recruit Guo Henian from Malaysia to form a company to compete with the real estate company in Xiangjiang for the land in Tsim Sha Tsui.

Guo Henian has long taken a fancy to the development of Xiangjiang, especially after Chu Huan got up. Guo Henian has been looking for opportunities to enter Xiangjiang in the past two years, and this time the Hong Kong government has taken the area of ​​Tsim Sha Tsui The auction just gave Guo Henian a chance, so when Huang Tingfang found Guo Henian, the two hit it off!

"This auction, I'm afraid it will be a battle between dragons and tigers!"

Guo Henian was negotiating with Huang Tingfang and his son in the guest room of the Peninsula Hotel at this time. Guo Henian was standing by the window on the top floor of the Peninsula Hotel, looking to the east, across Chatham Road. .

And he put his commercial territory in Xiangjiang there.

But the expression on Guo Henian's face was not very good at this time, because they were the same as Li Jiacheng and Shen Bi, and they learned that Chu Huan would personally participate in the auction of this land!

At this time, in Xiangjiang and even in Southeast Asia, no one dared to underestimate Chu Huan's energy.

"Brother Guo, you have a good relationship with Chu Huan. Can you find out what Chu Huan thinks about the land in Jiandong?"

Sitting on the sofa behind Guo Henian, Huang Tingfang also asked nervously.

At the beginning, Chu Huan proposed to himself that he wanted to acquire a part of Xinhe's land in East Tsim Sha Tsui, but Huang Tingfang did not agree. At first, he thought that Chu Huan just wanted to expand his company's land reserve in Tsim Sha Tsui, but he didn't expect that Chu Huan would also be interested in Hong Kong now. I am interested in the land offered by the government.

Guo Henian shook his head and said, "I haven't seen Chu Huan recently, but I don't think Chu Huan would tell us about this kind of thing even if we did see it!"

Compared with Huang Tingfang, the relationship between Guo Henian and Chu Huan is much closer, but Guo Henian also understands that this time is a normal competition in business, even if it is mixed with the relationship between himself and Chu Huan. Personal relationship, in this matter, it is impossible to make a big breakthrough.

Huang Tingfang also knew about this kind of thing, after hearing what Guo Henian said, Huang Tingfang could only shake his head helplessly.

"As long as his goal is not the land near the sea!"

Sino Real Estate and Guo Henian are interested in the land north of Salisbury Road, east of Tsim Sha Tsui. If Chu Huan does not show up this time, then the company jointly formed by Huang Tingfang and Guo Henian will take over Huang Tingfang's land. Guo Henian built his own Shangri-La Hotel on that piece of land, and Sino Properties built Tsim Sha Tsui Center, Empire Center, Hershey Center, Wing On Plaza, Nanyang Center, and Tsim Sha Tsui, which has been renamed Ming Fai Center. These huge developments not only connect Hung Hom and Tsim Sha Tsui, but also develop East Tsim Sha Tsui into a modern shopping and tourism center, laying the foundation for Sino Group.

This series of beautiful commercial buildings in East Tsim Sha Tsui is the representative work and symbol of Sino in Hong Kong.

If it is said that Hongkong Land dominates Central, Wharf dominates Tsim Sha Tsui, and Hysan dominates Causeway Bay, then Sino is in the lead in East Tsim Sha Tsui.

Because of this, Sino Land later changed its name to Tsim Sha Tsui Properties.

However, compared with established real estate groups such as Hongkong, Wharf, and Hysan, Sino Real Estate has two obvious differences in investment strategy: First, Sino Real Estate focuses on real estate development and supplements real estate investment. Therefore, in addition to retaining the center of Tsim Sha Tsui , Empire Center and Happiness Center, the rest are on sale.

At that time, the Tsim Sha Tsui East property launched by Sino was very popular in the market, and Wing On Plaza even set a record of being sold out on the first day of launch, causing a sensation.

Second, Sino Real Estate often cooperates with the private company of the major shareholder, the Huang family, in the development of real estate properties. For example, in Tsim Sha Tsui Center, Sino Properties holds 45% of the equity, and the remaining 55% of the equity is held by the Huang family.

Of course, the development is different now and in another time and space. Because of the appearance of Chu Huan, it is not known whether Xinhe can still dominate in Tsim Sha Tsui East.

The last company interested in the reclamation project in East Tsim Sha Tsui is Wharf, one of Jardine's right-hand men!

At this time, Wharf has not yet been taken care of by Li Jiacheng and Bao Yugang. Like Landmark, it is an important constituent company of Jardine, the largest British consortium in Hong Kong.

It owns Tsim Sha Tsui Waterfront, some wharves, warehouses, hotels, buildings, trams, and Star Ferry in the New Territories and Hong Kong Island. It can be said that whoever owns Wharf will control the most important cargo handling and storage in Hong Kong business.

What is especially important is that Wharf owns a large piece of land with great development potential beside the seaside of Tsim Sha Tsui, where the land is so precious. At that time, valuable comprehensive properties such as Ocean Terminal, Ocean Center and Harbor City were successively built, becoming a well-known place in the Tsim Sha Tsui area. king.

In particular, the Wharf Harbor City, which is currently under construction, is known as "the largest and most successful integrated commercial center in Asia". At this time, the Harbor City is still under construction, and it will not be completed until the early 1980s, which lasted more than 10 years. time.

However, it is precisely because of the rapid development of Wharf that in order to raise huge funds for the development of Ocean Center and Harbor City, Wharf has issued new shares and bonus shares several times, resulting in low stock prices and a large number of stocks flowing into the hands of retail investors.

The commercial buildings built by Wharf are mainly for leasing, with slow cash flow and low profit growth. This contrasts sharply with the soaring land prices in Xiangjiang, especially Tsim Sha Tsui, which is located in a prosperous commercial district and where every inch of land is expensive.

It’s just that in another time and space, when Wharf was built, it was still affiliated with Jardine. When Harbor City was fully completed, it already belonged to Bao Yugang.

At this time, the chairman of Jardine is no longer Henry Keswick. Henry Keswick has resigned from the position of Jardine Taipan. Naturally, he is not the chairman of Hongkong Land and Wharf. Now he is the chairman of Landmark and Wharf. The current Jardine Taipan Niu Bijian!

Niu Bijian was born in Tianjin in 1934. His father was an employee of the Tianjin branch of Jardine Matheson. Niu Bijian received education in England and served in the military.

Niu Bijian can speak relatively fluent Mandarin, and can speak Cantonese.

In 1966, 32-year-old Niu Bijian was promoted to the director of the company, and he was only 41 years old when he became the company's top class this year.

He has no background in Jardine and has been promoted through hard work.

The members of the Keswick family are unwilling to stay in Xiangjiang for a long time, so the Taipan is held by people outside the family all the year round.

After entering the 1970s, Jardine, like Hehe International, set its sights overseas. As a result, not only was the mud footed deep, but also hit the rocks everywhere, which caused a serious loss of vitality. This actually laid the groundwork for Bao Yugang's acquisition of Wharf Foreshadowing!

When Henry Keswick was the Taipan of Jardine, Jardine's development strategy was conservative, but after Niubijian was promoted to Taipan of Jardine, Jardine's development strategy took a 180-degree turn, turning to aggressive, impatient with speculation.

Especially when Heung Kong Real Estate entered a new period of reincarnation and housing prices began to soar, during this period of time, Hong Kong Land invested in several large projects of over one billion, leading to the 1980s when Hong Kong Land became Heung Kong No real estate company with the highest debt ratio!

At this time, Newbikin's radical character has begun to show.

Wharf's Harbor City plan has not yet been completed, and Niu Bijian has already set his sights on the land in Tsim Sha Tsui East that the Hong Kong government is planning to launch.

Like Li Jiacheng and Huang Tingfang, Niu Bijian also regarded Chu Huan as his most important opponent.

"Bao Fuda, which piece of land do you think Chu Huan fell in love with this time?"

Sitting in his Taipan office, Niu Bijian can overlook the scenery of Xiangjiang Central.

At this time, Bao Fuda was serving as the general manager of Hongkong Land and Wharf, and he and Niu Bijian were very compatible business partners.

Bao Fuda shook his head at this moment, and said: "I can't guess, but according to Chu Huan's character, he must want the best piece of land!"

Niu Bijian nodded, agreed with Bao Fuda's analysis, and said: "How about the issue of Wharf's additional new shares?"

As I said before, because Wharf has already been short of cash to develop multiple projects such as Harbor City, and now it wants to compete with many real estate companies in Hong Kong and Chu Huan, the big boss, for the land in Tsim Sha Tsui East, it must be well prepared of cash.

And Niubijian's way to prepare cash is to issue additional shares of Wharf and find HSBC loans at the same time!

Because just last year, Jardine and HSBC completed a share swap, HSBC got a 5% stake in Jardine, and Jardine got a 3% stake in HSBC.

After becoming a shareholder of HSBC, Jardine took advantage of this status to obtain a large amount of loans from HSBC.

In fact, the current Niubijian is like Qianlong in ancient China, and his predecessor Henry Keswick, the Taipan of Jardine, is Yongzheng.

Henry Keswick accumulated a lot of wealth for Jardine during his tenure as Taipan of Jardine, but Newbikin was very happy to start the aggressive strategy. When he stepped down from the position of Taipan of Jardine, he almost made Henry Keswick All the wealth left for Jardine was spent, and a lot of money was borrowed from the bank!

And Jardine, like the Qing Dynasty, seemed to be a big country in the Qianlong period, but in fact it was already eyeing by Europe, America and other countries.

"The allotment has been completed. The stockholders of Xiangjiang are still very optimistic about the shares of Wharf. Once the new shares are released, they will be snapped up quickly!"

Bao Fuda preached with a complacent expression.

Niu Bijian smiled and said, "Since this is the case, let's have a good time with this young talent from Xiangjiang!"

Bao Fuda nodded slightly.

Chu Huan, a young talent in Xiangjiang, naturally didn't know that he had become the focus of everyone's attention. At this time, Chu Huan had already arrived at HSBC, and was about to meet with HSBC Taiban Sha Ya.

"How's the discussion going?"

Roy Bentley was waiting for Chu Huan in the lobby of HSBC in person. When he saw Chu Huan walking in, he immediately stepped forward and asked.

He knew what Chu Huan had discussed with Li Xiaohe and Shao Yifu in advance.

With a confident smile on his face, Chu Huan said, "I don't think Mr. Shen will be satisfied with the result."

Hearing what Chu Huan said, a smile appeared on Roy Bentley's face immediately.

The two walked into Sha Ya's office together, and when Chu Huan saw Shen Bi was already sitting here.

"Haha, Director Chu, you were the first to arrive!" After seeing Chu Huan, Sha Ya laughed loudly: "Li Xiaohe and Shao Yifu haven't arrived yet!"

Chu Huan said indifferently: "The two are seniors in the business world, so I should wait."

Sha Ya smiled and said, "No matter what happens today, I don't want to affect our relationship."

"That's natural." Chu Huan replied: "But I still hope that today will be a good result!"

Seeing Chu Huan and Sha Ya chatting happily here, Shen Bi frowned slightly, wondering what he was thinking.

"By the way, I heard that Mr. Chu is planning to represent Hang Lung in the land auction held by the Hong Kong government at the end of this month?"

Sha Ya changed the topic and chatted with Chu Huan.

Chu Huan nodded and said, "That's right, although the Hong Kong government used to auction land every year, it is rare to see such a large-scale auction this time, and I personally have a lot of confidence in the future development of Tsim Sha Tsui East." Looks good, so I thought about trying my luck."

The Hong Kong government puts up land of various sizes for auction every year, and this is also one of the main sources of the Hong Kong government’s fiscal revenue. But as Chu Huan said, taking out 17.4 hectares at one time like this time is nearly 190 It is still rare for ten thousand square feet of land to come up for auction.

Moreover, the land in Tsim Sha Tsui is not the backwaters of the New Territories. Chu Huan built Huaye City before, and the purchase of land only cost 20 million Hong Kong dollars. More than double.

Sha Ya said with a smile: "The future development of East Tsim Sha Tsui is indeed very impressive, but if you really enter the venue, the future cost will be quite high!"

For people at the level of Chu Huan or HSBC, the land price of Tsim Sha Tsui East is actually not important, what matters is how to develop this land in the future.

Chu Huan said with a relaxed smile, "I don't think it's a problem. After all, the relationship between our two families is very good. I thought Shaya Dapan would not help me, right?"

When Sha Ya heard it, the smile on her face became brighter. In fact, everyone in Xiangjiang knew that Chu Huan's move was definitely not a small project, and Sha Ya also hoped that HSBC would play a crucial role in Chu Huan's sustainable development. role.

In fact, what Sha Ya is doing is the same as what Shen Bi is doing, and the most fundamental purpose is to hope to penetrate into Chu Huan's core enterprise.

It's just that Sha Ya chose a more gentle way.

"Actually, there is a way for Director Chu to raise funds better, thus saving more bank interest!"

Sha Ya suddenly preached to Chu Huan.

Chu Huan's heart suddenly became full of energy. The big bad wolf gave up his belly and reminded the little fat sheep to grow up. This was definitely not out of kindness, but because the big bad wolf wanted more.

"I don't know what Taipan's method is?"

Sha Ya smiled and said: "Now Xiangjiang's stock market has seen a recovery, and the land price is also the same. In addition to your influence in Xiangjiang, Mr. Chu, if you choose to re-list Hang Lung Properties, I think Hang Lung will definitely be able to become the stock price of Xiangjiang by then." One of the highest real estate companies, if this is the case, Director Chu will naturally not have to worry about funds!"

Well, at that time, the listing of Hang Lung Properties can also be handed over to HSBC's Vodolly to be responsible for the listing of Hang Lung Properties. At that time, HSBC can not only obtain the shares of Hang Lung Properties, but also make a lot of money with the help of Hang Lung Properties' listing!

Chu Huan instantly understood Sha Ya's true thoughts.

And Shen Bi at the side also showed the original expression.

With the establishment of the Gold and Silver Stock Exchange and the Kowloon Stock Exchange, the Xiangjiang stock market has formed a situation of "four dragons playing with pearls".

Before the stock market crash, the stock market rose like a tide, and listed companies sprung up like mushrooms after rain.

The opening and growth of the stock market has given merchant banks great opportunities for development, and financial institutions engaged in investment banking services such as corporate listing, asset hedging, fund management, merger and acquisition financing, bond issuance and stock reimbursement—merchant banks have become popular.

In 1970, the Merchants Bank of England, Fleming Company and Jardine Matheson established a joint venture, the first merchant bank in the Hong Kong market - Jardine Fu Co., Ltd.

After its founding, Jardine's business has developed rapidly, and it has been extremely active in the field of mergers and acquisitions. In 1972, he assisted Hong Kong Land Company in annexing the Milk Company, and staged a "bull war" in which Hong Kong Land Company acquired the Milk Company, which was a sensational event in the history of Heung Kong Securities.

In 1971, Schroeder, the British merchant bank, Standard Chartered Bank and the Kadoorie family jointly established Baoyuan Investment Co., Ltd.

Its Baoyuan Trust Fund, established in January 1972, became the first fund managed by Heung Kong to invest in all parts of the world.

Just as a group of banks headquartered in other places established a retail bank in Xiangjiang back then, the first joint venture merchant bank established in Xiangjiang always had a British company headquartered outside Hong Kong behind it.

In 1972, the HSBC Bank founded the Dolly Co., Ltd. began to emerge.

More than a year later, Huodoli moved to Kangle Building, the tallest building in Xiangjiang and even Asia at that time, and officially operated independently as a wholly-owned subsidiary of HSBC Bank, mainly engaged in securities underwriting, corporate consulting, corporate management, mergers and acquisitions, and financial investment. , and medium and long-term loans and other businesses.

Unlike Jardine Foe, who shined brightly in the stock market M\u0026A business, Huodoli was not active at the beginning, and did not directly compete with Jardine Fu. However, as a merchant bank with a strong local color, just like HSBC itself, apart from In addition to the close relationship with the British-funded consortium, it has also established a close relationship with some newly emerging Chinese-funded consortiums. Therefore, in the two major events of Bao Yugang's acquisition of Wharf and Li Jiacheng's acquisition of Hutchison Wong, he gained a lot of money. Much.

Obviously, Sha Ya is eyeing Chu Huan at this time. Huodoli is Sha Ya's first project after she became the HSBC executive, but she has not performed well so far. Although Sha Ya is not in a hurry, if she can The completion of the listing of a company under Chu Huan's name will definitely cause a huge sensation in Xiangjiang.

In fact, what Shaya hopes more is that Huhua Real Estate will go public. After all, Huhua Real Estate still has the huge project of Huaye City in its hands.

But it is obvious that the development of Huhua Real Estate is very smooth now, and no external funds are needed to intervene. Now that Chu Huan has participated in the auction of the land in East Tsim Sha Tsui in the identity of Hang Lung Real Estate, it is obvious that Chu Huan is planning to have a big action.

Chu Huan did not immediately reject Sha Ya, but acted in a contemplative manner. However, at this moment, Sha Ya's secretary came in to report that Li Xiaohe and Shao Yifu were about to arrive at HSBC.

"I need to think about this matter carefully before I can give the answer to the class!" Chu Huan said with a smile.

Sha Ya didn't have any opinion on this, as long as Chu Huan didn't refuse immediately, it would have been a good start.

He said with a smile: "This is what it should be."

Shen Bi also got up at this time and said to Sha Ya: "Mr. Taiban, I will go to meet them both personally!"

Sha Ya nodded slightly.

Shen Bi left Sha Ya's office and came to the lobby of HSBC. In less than a minute, he saw Li Xiaohe and Shao Yifu appearing in the lobby of HSBC together.

"You two, welcome!"

Shen Bi maintained his demeanor, and greeted Li Xiaohe and Shao Yifu.

As the top wealthy family of Xiangjiang's older generation, Li's family, coupled with Li Xiaohe's age, naturally wouldn't deliberately curry favor with the general manager of HSBC.

The same is true for Yifu Shao. Both of them are businessmen with absolute status in Xiangjiang. They can maintain a good relationship with HSBC, but they will definitely not let themselves look like they want to bow to the general manager of HSBC.

"President Shen, you're welcome!"

Li Xiaohe smiled calmly.

Shen Bi said: "Both of you, Chu Huan is already waiting inside. I think the two of you are going to have a price war. If the two of you need it, I can introduce some friends to you and provide financial assistance. support!"

Because of the previous conversation between Chu Huan and Sha Ya, HSBC would definitely not be able to help Li Xiaohe and Shao Yifu in the open, but Shen Bi, who had been guarding against Chu Huan for twenty years, would naturally have his own actions.

Li Xiaohe and Shao Yifu looked at each other, then shook their heads at the same time, and then Li Xiaohe said: "We appreciate Mr. Shen's kindness, but let's talk about this matter after we meet Shaya Daban! "

Shen Bi glanced at Li Xiaohe and Shao Yifu in some puzzlement. He always felt that the attitude of the two of them today was a bit wrong. Doesn't this look like the attitude of coming to war?

But thinking that Sha Ya was still waiting there, Shen Bi had no choice but to ask too much, but just took the two of them into the elevator and came to Sha Ya's office.

Then after the two sides exchanged pleasantries, Shen Bi finally knew why Li Xiaohe and Shao Yifu had such an attitude just now.

The two even gave up competing for the wireless shares in HSBC's hands.

"TVB was founded by the two of you through untold hardships!" Shen Bi couldn't hold back the surprise in his heart for a moment, and got up directly to preach to Li Xiaohe and Shao Yifu.

"President Shen!" Seeing Shen Bi's untimely speech, Sha Ya showed displeasure, and said in a deep voice.

At this time, Shen Bi also realized that he had lost his composure, and sat back in his seat, but the deep doubt in his eyes was still clearly visible.

As the largest TV station in Hong Kong, TVB has a huge influence although its market value is not high. It is impossible for Li Xiaohe and Shao Yifu not to see it, but now they want to make Chu Huan the largest shareholder of TVB and split their rights ?

What the hell is going on in this world?

Shen Bi couldn't understand.

Not only Shen Bi couldn't understand, even Sha Ya didn't understand. So when Li Xiaohe and Shao Yifu heard that Chu Huan wanted to buy TVB's shares from HSBC, they were very resistant. Why did it take only one day? The attitude of the two of them has taken a 180-degree turn?

But when Sha Ya looked at Chu Huan who was sitting there without speaking, Sha Ya understood that the three must have met in private and reached a consensus.

And Chu Huan must have come up with a condition or threat that the two of them could not refuse!

For this, Sha Ya inevitably recalled what Shen Bi said to herself before, Chu Huan's influence is growing step by step, if it is really big enough for HSBC in the future.

Although she has such thoughts in her heart, it is impossible for Sha Ya to backtrack at this time. Since she has already agreed to sell HSBC's TVB shares, if she refuses now, HSBC's reputation will suffer.

After thinking about all this, Sha Ya smiled and said to Chu Huan: "Since Li Weng and Shao Weng are no longer interested in TVB shares, then we at HSBC will naturally sell TVB shares to Chu Huan." Already!"

After a pause, Sha Ya smiled and said to Chu Huan: "Director Chu, congratulations on becoming the boss of TVB!"

Li Xiaohe and Shao Yifu frowned slightly when they heard this address, and looked at Chu Huan at the same time.

There was a flash of light in Chu Huan's eyes, and then he said with a smile: "Mr. Daban is wrong, I am not the only boss of TVB, Leon and Uncle Six are also the bosses of TVB, we are just complementing each other in business, Let’s all grow together!”

Hearing what Chu Huan said, the expressions of Li Xiaohe and Shao Yifu recovered.

Sha Ya laughed and said: "Hearing what Chairman Chu said, I have already begun to regret selling the shares of TVB to Chairman Chu. In the future, under the joint management of Chairman Chu, Leon and Shao Weng, TVB will definitely become the largest and most popular in Asia. The best TV company ever!"

Chu Huan said with a smile: "I hope to borrow the auspicious words from Shaya Taipan, but I believe that as long as the foundation of TVB is still in Xiangjiang, then there will be no shortage of cooperation between us in the future!"

Sha Ya nodded and said, "That's natural!"

After the verbal confrontation and mutual probing, Sha Ya stopped entangled in this matter, and soon asked her secretary to prepare all the legal documents.

In the end, after Chu Huan and Sha Ya signed the two documents, HSBC officially sold the TVB shares to Chu Huan.

After the three parties congratulated each other, Chu Huan, Li Xiaohe, and Shao Yifu left HSBC together.

At the gate of HSBC, Li Xiaohe squeezed out a smile and said to Chu Huan: "A Huan, I will wait for you at the company tomorrow!"

"Trouble Leon!" Chu Huan said with a smile.

The two parties separated, Chu Huan returned to Jiahu Building, and then called Fang Jianhui and Gu Chengxi respectively, telling them that the matter was over.

Fang Jianhui can organize people to join the management of TVB, and Gu Chengxi can also publish Chu Huan's plan to establish a media group as the front page of "True Pao" tomorrow.

I believe that after this matter has been announced, it will definitely cause a sensation in the whole Xiangjiang!

Also, the next chapter is at eight in the morning, so I won’t be late this time~~