The birth of the Hong Kong Island family

When Lin Zhichao and his wife returned to Hong Kong, they immediately felt the changes in Hong Kong's upper class. Everyone was shocked by Lin Zhichao's energy. He was awarded the CBE at the age of only 28. He is not only the youngest ‘Justice of the Peace’, but also the youngest recipient of the ‘Commander’s Medal’.

If Lin Zhichao is appreciated by the British, people in Hong Kong circles will definitely sneer at it, because Lin Zhichao is not a child of an established family in Hong Kong, nor is he a political figure, so how can he be appreciated by the British?

Everyone understands that Lin Zhichao gains respect by virtue of his strength.

Let me ask you, would the British not win over a big boss who affects the livelihood of tens of thousands of people in Hong Kong, contributes to the economic development of many countries, and solves the problem of Hong Kong people’s living environment?

However, Lin Zhichao also has a sense of crisis, that is, his family is not yet stable, and his eldest son is only over seven years old. Taking his wife to the UK this time is already considered an adventure, because Tang Caiyun is his biggest helper in his career. .

He rarely takes Tang Caiyun abroad with him, because if something happens to him, Tang Caiyun can stabilize the family's real estate business, and the Lin family he built will have no problem becoming a wealthy family.

But this time, he was going to meet the British royal family, so it might not be appropriate to bring Xu Caiying, as he might be accused of being rude; so Tang Caiyun followed him to London and took the opportunity to visit for two days.

this day.

Lin Zhichao brought the management of Cheung Kong Holdings to the Miramar Hotel site.

He pointed to the 88,000-square-foot site and said: "On this site, I want to develop a commercial and hotel complex. A five-story shopping mall, plus a five-star hotel. Develop!"

Everyone was a little confused, and Huang Changhong said: "Boss, what's the difference between a shopping mall and a department store?"

It turns out that shopping malls have not yet appeared in this era, but they should appear in the United States in the next two years.

Looking at the puzzled expressions of everyone, Lin Zhichao said with high spirits: "The difference between a shopping mall and a department store is that the shopping mall rents shops to many brands. The first, second and third floors are for clothing and jewelry, and the fourth and fifth floors are for restaurants, theaters, and entertainment. Facilities, and we, as managers, make profits by collecting rent; as you know in department stores, all brands are owned by the same owner. Moreover, the highlight of the shopping center is the self-pickup, similar to our crocodile shirts; department stores They rely more on store clerks to obtain goods. Generally speaking, the forms are also different. Shopping malls are a regional business model. People from nearby come to our Miramar Shopping Center and can get everything they need for food, clothing, housing and transportation; while department stores are just A shopping place."

Huang Changhong and others were amazed by Lin Zhichao's unbridled ideas. In fact, Lin Zhichao just advanced the development of Miramar Mall in the 1990s by 40 years.

The earliest shopping mall in Hong Kong appeared in the mid-1960s, which was the Ocean Terminal in Wharf.

Although the location of Miramar Hotel is not top-notch, the shopping mall has its own traffic and can gather the popularity of the surrounding area. Once it is built, it will be the development stage of Hong Kong's tourism industry, and its popularity will be even stronger by then, which will also boost the hotel's reputation.

After everyone digested it, Huang Changhong said again: "As for the commercial combination of shopping malls and hotels, the buildings of the two also need to be comprehensively developed. How to connect them will be the best design! It seems that we need to find a good one. Design firms are key.”

Cheung Kong has a construction company, but it does not mean it has first-class architectural design capabilities, so it still has partners in this aspect. The construction company and the Zeshi Building are two different units. Of course, the construction company will also design, but they will not have the "unconstrained" and "creative" design of the designer.

However, the design of shopping malls is certainly not difficult for Lin Zhichao. He has learned real estate knowledge over the years, including design drawings; coupled with the modern shopping malls in his mind, he can easily give a rough idea and design.

These ideas and designs can quickly become a reality if they are thrown to the ‘Ze Shi Building’.

Lin Zhichao said with a smile: "I already have some ideas about the commercial building complex of shopping malls and hotels, and I will tell you today. We need to design a three-story podium to cover the entire building complex, and above the podium is the hotel. The building is like this with a four- to five-story shopping mall that is partially connected to the podium shopping mall. There needs to be a connected square in the middle, surrounded by shops one by one. Our hotel building is huge, but the first to third floors need to be Give up some area to shopping malls, equivalent to more than four floors of a hotel building, located above shopping malls, hotel lobbies, restaurants, etc.”

When talking about the exciting part, Lin Zhichao simply drew a sketch with pen and paper.

The first floor of a hotel building can be 40,000 square feet, but the first to third floors don’t need that much because the shopping mall is larger.

If the hotel building is directly located on the five-story podium (above the shopping mall), it will obviously lack a gate and lobby, which will make others feel bad.

Therefore, it may be enough to only need 20,000 square feet on the first to third floors of the hotel building, leaving the remaining area to the shopping mall.

Although this land is only 88,000 square feet, it faces the street on all sides, allowing for the construction of a large building floor and sufficient access.

After a while of discussion, Lin Zhichao decided to set up the project department of the Miramar Shopping Center and register it together with the Miramar Hotel as a company. The project department will re-recruit elite talents from real estate and hotels. The management of Cheung Kong Holdings will act as a supervisor and guide for the company to develop independently in the future.

As a result, developing this project will cost a lot of money, possibly HKD 30 to 40 million.

After all, not only the construction costs of shopping malls and hotels are high, but decoration also requires a lot of funds. Even for those four buildings in Central, the construction costs are probably huge.

As expected, the development of commercial real estate takes up a lot of funds. In their previous lives, Li Jiacheng and Li Shauji rarely developed rental properties when they first started developing real estate.

However, Lin Zhichao will not worry about insufficient funds. Global Shipping and Yangtze River Industries are cash cows.

On the last day of 1956, a Rolls-Royce and three Ford Bridges stopped at the door of Dowling's house in Gandeh.

Then members of the Lin family came out one after another, preparing to take the bus.

It turns out that today is the day the Lin family moves. They will move to No. 79 Deep Water Bay and live in a luxurious house.

"Everyone is here, get in the car!"

Lin Zhichao gave the order, and members of the Lin family got into the car one after another. Lin Zhichao and his eldest son Lin Ruihuan were sitting in the back row of the Rolls-Royce. The second to fourth cars were occupied by Wu Wenying, Tang Caiyun and Xu Caiying with their children.

There are already eleven members of the Lin family, including the children in the bellies of Lin Xiner and Tang Caiyun. They can be considered a big family. Thinking back to when Lin Zhichao came to Hong Kong alone to make a living, he couldn't help but feel emotional.

"Rui Huan, do you know what it means to live in a big house?" Lin Zhichao suddenly said to his almost eight-year-old son.

His eldest son has been like a 'little adult' since he was a child, and his IQ is very high, so he said this, otherwise he would be talking nonsense.

If Lin Ruihuan were an ordinary child, he would definitely say 'fun', 'so comfortable', and 'big room', but he was not an ordinary child and knew that what his father wanted was not simple answers.

So, after thinking hard, he said: "It's unity. My father often said that we brothers and sisters should be united, so no matter whether the house we live in is big or small, we must be united, respect grandma, and listen to mother. "

Lin Zhichao was stunned. Although this answer was not what he wanted, it was indeed refreshing to him.

Therefore, he happily touched his eldest son's little head and said: "Unity is right, and there is also a sense of responsibility. Such a big family, if there is no sense of family responsibility, will soon fall apart and become a joke."

Regarding the arrangements for his children, Lin Zhichao plans to study abroad in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom after three years of high school, three years of high school and four years of university.

"Well, I remember what my father said!" Lin Ruihuan seemed to understand, but he felt that what his father said must be right.

Lin Zhichao nodded with satisfaction. After Lin Ruihuan entered middle school, he went to the company to attend meetings during the winter and summer vacations, and experienced in advance how difficult it was to make money. He will advance to middle school at the age of ten, which is only two and a half years away. At this rate, he will only be 20 years old after graduating from college.

Of course, for Lin Ruihuan, or for all his children, what Lin Zhichao wants is not that they have all kinds of innovative thinking, but that they have the ability to be conservative and stable.

After all, the land he created was vast enough and rich enough.

In fact, Lin Zhichao understood that with his physical condition, he might be able to directly train his grandchildren, and even his great-grandchildren. Therefore, the future of these children is just that they will stay behind to "supervise the country" when their father is on the battlefield; or, their father will send them to fight to test their skills.

The motorcade passed through Deep Water Bay Road and entered a small private road at 9:15 in the morning. Then the security guard opened a large iron gate.

The iron gate is solid below 1.5 meters, with an iron fence on top. Looking from the outside, you can tell at a glance that the courtyard is high and it belongs to a wealthy family.

The convoy passed through the iron gate and drove more than 20 meters before arriving at a yard. Four cars were parked neatly in a row and did not stop at the garage in the podium.

Next, the family held a ceremony to move into a new house, with firecrackers, brazier crossing, and ancestral worship at the ancestral hall ending at almost half past nine.

At ten o'clock, the invited guests also came one after another, namely Tang Zhongyuan and his wife, Lin Yunchu and his wife, and Li Gaofu and his wife. The three families are all relatives and business allies of Lin Zhichao.

Just being a relative is definitely not enough. At least he must be successful in business. Otherwise, wouldn't it be easy to be attacked and malicious when seeing such a luxurious villa?

Therefore, even Lin Yunchu, who is the second uncle of Lin Zhichao and has the lowest wealth level, his company can currently achieve annual profits of nearly one million Hong Kong dollars.

After arriving, the four men sat together in the living room and chatted, while the women gathered together to visit and chat.

Li Gaofu said: "Since the Double Ten event, the Hong Kong government has arrested more than 6,000 people, released another 3,000 people, and 1,500 more people have been found guilty. This time the Hong Kong government is really angry!"

Although the club was not considered popular in front of a few people, especially in the eyes of Lin Zhichao, this incident was considered a topic.

Lin Zhichao said with a smile: "If this continues, the Hong Kong government will launch a surprise attack every year before Double Ten and arrest a large number of people to deter it from happening again."

Tang Zhongyuan nodded and said: "It makes sense! As long as the Hong Kong government is not stupid, it will know that this method is the best. In fact, many people participating this time are full of resentment. They are poorly paid at work and bullied by their bosses. Seeing that When it comes to this kind of thing, you will agree.”

Lin Zhichao agrees with this view. Although the association is the organizer, most of the participants are paid, and it is a way to vent the long-term oppression.

Therefore, he said: "Both of these forces are good at trending workers, so we factory owners must be careful not to oppress workers too much and try to give them good benefits. There are still many people on the market whose salary is only four or five. 10. Others work for a month and don’t even have enough to eat. Obviously they shouldn’t.”

It can be said that Lin Zhichao's factory was the first to popularize "meal allowances", "year-end bonuses" and "holiday benefits". Although he has many workers, his benefits are one of the best. Once these benefits are issued, workers' wages can not only maintain food and clothing, but also save a lot.

In fact, the profits of Hong Kong factories are actually very high. Otherwise, why would there be so many rich people?

Large factories are a little bit more demanding and may provide slightly better benefits, but some small factories rely entirely on exploiting the value of workers to obtain maximum benefits.

For them, they have nothing to fear. Anyway, cheap labor from the mainland often comes to Hong Kong. This year, 50,000 to 60,000 people have been brought in, so 30 to 60 Hong Kong dollars a month is a lot. This situation existed until 1967. At that time, there were many people working for more than 100 yuan.

This is seriously inconsistent with the economic development of Hong Kong. Because of this, the powder keg was ignited at once. After the incident, the salary after eight years was already 1,300 to 1,500 yuan.

In the final analysis, it is the Hong Kong government that is protecting entrepreneurs and turning a blind eye to the welfare of ordinary people. Even the Hong Kong government’s income is not spent much on people’s livelihood.

Tang Zhongyuan, Li Gaofu, and Lin Yunchu all echoed Lin Zhichao's words and spoke about their factory treatment.

Obviously, under the influence of Lin Zhichao, the treatment of workers in our factory is relatively good in the industry. Even Tang Zhongyuan's Dongfang Group employs nearly 3,000 people, and its wages are relatively good in the industry.

After chatting for a while, everyone had lunch together, drank and talked, and finally said goodbye one by one.

The next day.

Members of the Lin family got up early, not only to welcome the new year, but also to be excited about moving to a new home.

Walking into the study and opening the window, you can see the Deep Water Bay Golf Course at a glance. You can also see part of Deep Water Bay, and there is a mountain in the distance opposite.

“The scenery is amazing!”

"The feng shui is really good!"

Lin Zhichao sighed twice in a row!

However, although it is very close to the golf course, Lin Zhichao is not used to playing golf early in the morning. He is a young man, so he naturally has the morning luck of a young man.

So he went out to the yard to do some exercise and stretch his muscles. There is no need to practice martial arts, that thing is useless, especially under the 'truth'.

In the yard, Lin Zhichao was stretching his muscles and thinking about what major business activities he would have in the new year.

Undoubtedly, it is still shipping, real estate, and industry.

As for other industries, don’t rush into it yet.

Take the media industry as an example. If Lin Zhichao runs a newspaper, he will easily get involved in politics. Of course, it is not that he will not run it, but he will run it until 1968 to avoid being involved in that matter. Moreover, it was a good time to run a newspaper at that time, because the customer base was much larger. To put it bluntly, there were many more literate people.

It started with newspapers and magazines, then established a movie theater chain. In the 1980s, it acquired Lai TV and developed step by step. As for TVB, let's give it to Shao Liushu. After all, it's all gone. He doesn't even have a competitor. Isn't it boring?

What's more, the reason why TVB can be managed by Chinese people is because its major shareholders are British banks such as Hutchison Whampoa and HSBC. To put it bluntly, in the 1960s, the British did not feel comfortable leaving their tongues entirely to the Chinese.

As for developing overseas business, Lin Zhichao also has his own ideas, that is, it will only be carried out on a small scale starting from the late 1950s or early 1960s. It won't work if the foundation is not strong.

In short, Lin Zhichao is in good health and will probably live to be a hundred years old easily, so he is not in a hurry for anything. (End of chapter)