The birth of the Hong Kong Island family

Lin Ruihuan and Luo Huijun returned to an apartment in New York after a day of shopping. This is the apartment rented by Lin Ruihuan. He has been living in this two-bedroom apartment with only 700 square feet for the past two years.

After Lin Ruihuan graduated from university, not only did he not get the "unrestriction of funds" from his family, but he directly cut off the family's source of funds. Of course, Audrey's annual salary for his first year of investment was US$50,000, which was the salary level for Wall Street 'elites' who had just graduated. The following year, Lin Ruihuan was promoted and his salary increased, and his annual salary reached US$80,000.

In these situations, Audrey Hepburn only dared to make decisions after Lin Zhichao's consent.

Lin Ruihuan did not turn it down because he felt that his abilities could match the salary and he was well-deserved.

When she arrived at her boyfriend's apartment, Luo Huijun was not worried. She understood Lin Ruihuan's personality. On the contrary, she liked exploring Lin Ruihuan's apartment, but it did not involve privacy.

"Wow, you have read another book and taken so many notes. Don't you have friends to socialize with when you are in New York?" Luo Huijun couldn't help but said as she flipped through a business management book in surprise.

Lin Ruihuan looked at Luo Huijun's graceful figure and thought that they were about to be separated for a year. Driven by hormones, Lin Ruihuan hugged Luo Huijun from behind and placed his chin on his girlfriend's shoulder.

He is not like his father, and he does not dare to be like his father!

For women, he felt that one for a lifetime was enough. He was Luo Huijun's first love, and Luo Huijun was also his first love.

Although there were girls who made advances on him in school and in New York, he never had other ideas.

Just pick a suitable one and don't learn from your father's romantic style.

Luo Huijun suddenly became a little nervous, her boyfriend's breath was a little manic, and his hands moved up erratically.

"I'm asking you a question!" She finally interrupted Lin Ruihuan and said softly.

She didn't refuse directly because she was afraid of hurting her boyfriend's face, but she also gave him a warning look.

We can't lose it here because the two of them have to be separated for a year.

Lin Ruihuan reacted, and this time he did not flinch. Instead, he turned Luo Huijun around, hugged her and said, "Of course I have friends, and social activities, but I also have to squeeze in time for study. What's more, reduce some unnecessary things I’ll find time for socializing soon!”

Luo Huijun suddenly felt very stable. This man gave people a particularly reliable feeling. Although there was not much 'insecurity' in her character, this feeling did not conflict with her own feelings.

"By the way, can I ask you what your real ideal is?"

Lin Ruihuan said without hesitation: "Serve the family business and become a helper to my father."

There was no big surprise for Luo Huijun. Her boyfriend admired his father extremely, but it also showed that her boyfriend was a responsible man. At the same time, she was not worried about her boyfriend being too carefree. They had been together for three years. , she still understands Lin Ruihuan's personality.

"Your father has three wives, how do they get along with each other?" Luo Huijun said deliberately.

Lin Ruihuan confessed about his family situation last year. Luo Huijun still can't understand the fact that Lin Zhichao has three wives; but this is a matter for the elders after all, and she only needs to understand that Lin Ruihuan does not have a playboy character.

Lin Ruihuan is not stupid emotionally, on the contrary, he is very delicate and quickly knows Luo Huijun's true thoughts.

"My father is extremely charming and romantic when it comes to women. I don't deny this! Of course, I have never felt anything wrong with what happened to him since I was a child. But Huijun, you should know me well and know this. , my father is not my idol, I am very dedicated to my feelings."

His tone was calm and sincere.

Luo Huijun immediately said: "Of course I believe you!"

She was smart enough not to discuss the topic too much.

But Lin Ruihuan felt that he needed to do one thing, so he said: "Would you like to meet my three mothers and their family this weekend? They are Americans!"

"Ah, wouldn't this be good?"

Luo Huijun is worried about something.

Lin Ruihuan said: "Just treat it like a fan meeting their favorite idol!"

Luo Huijun was confused and said, "What idol?"

Lin Ruihuan said with a smile: "My third mother is not my current boss - Ms. Audrey Hepburn. Didn't you tell me before that you like Audrey Hepburn very much and said that she is one of the most successful women?" .”

Luo Huijun said in disbelief: "Third mother, is she Audrey Hepburn? Is she the heroine of "Roman Holiday" and the mother of Barbie?"

Lin Ruihuan nodded affirmatively!

Luo Huijun suddenly felt that this news was much more surprising than her boyfriend's father being the 'World Shipping King'.

Los Angeles, Audrey Corporate Headquarters.

Audrey Hepburn is sitting in the office, next to her assistant Alice, a very beautiful top student; her assistant has already served three times, and the first two have been promoted, and all of them are talented and beautiful. young girl.

However, she followed her man's instructions and found a young and beautiful 'foreign girl', but she never saw her man flirting with her assistant.

Audrey Hepburn understood that her man was not a very romantic man; she had no doubt that as long as her man had the slightest intention of doing so, girls would pounce on him, because she knew it deeply.

Putting the thoughts away from her mind, Audrey listened carefully to President Rich's work report.

She is becoming more and more like Lin Zhichao!

"The comics of "Transformers" have been published by Marvel for eight issues (monthly), and the animation of "Transformers: Beyond Vision" has become children's favorite program this summer. A steady stream of Transformers toys are exported to the United States from Hong Kong. We Already achieved a 'good start'."

President Rich reported seriously.

"Transformers" is more difficult to market than Barbie. They not only produced a monthly comic book and three episodes of cartoons, but also launched a comprehensive offensive in traditional advertising (magazines, TV, trade shows).

On the character introduction on the back of the toy package, not only the toy character's firepower, intelligence, skills and other numerical values ​​are listed, but many different characters also have different mottos or mantras. This setting completely subverted the concept of "human-controlled robots" in early science fiction animation works. "Transformers are inorganic life forms that can think independently." This concept has gradually become popular since then. Robots are no longer cold, but living "human beings".

Audrey Hepburn once again won the admiration of all the company's management with her "Russian Command".

"Since the ratings of "Transformers: Beyond Vision" are so good, are there any follow-up plans?" Audrey Hepburn is already familiar with the marketing of toys.

Rich immediately said: "Yes, there will be thirteen episodes of animation in the follow-up, which is expected to be released before Christmas Eve."

To be honest, Lin Zhichao only gave a story outline, and Audrey Company needed to extend various "Transformers" animations based on this outline. But it is precisely this complete outline of the story, as well as the colorful and domineering Transformers, that have been sold out in the United States this summer.

The Yangtze Toy Factory was well prepared, took out its inventory, and immediately ramped up production.

Audrey Hepburn nodded and said: "Hasbro developed Special Forces toys in the 1960s, positioning them as boys' toys to compete with our Barbie dolls. Now, our "Transformers" is on the market, targeting boys and girls as toys. Catch them all. So the IP of "Transformers" will be as important as the IP of Barbie."

Richie said excitedly: "The boss is right, and the IP of Transformers will make more money than Barbie in a short time."

Audrey Hepburn certainly knew that according to her husband's estimation, Transformers' profits in the past five years might reach hundreds of millions of dollars. Nowadays, Barbie's annual profit is only about 20 million US dollars, mainly because there are many pirated Barbie dolls.

"By the way! I also have new ideas for Atari. I am going to recruit Silicon Valley elites to develop a home game console for us. You and Onich will communicate with each other. I will go to Silicon Valley to inspect Atari Electronics later. game company."

Atari Video Games, has moved to Silicon Valley as a subsidiary of Audrey Corporation.

Richie’s decision to his boss was very shocking!

The development of home game consoles means that there are tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions, of potential customers. But at the same time, the investment in developing such a product is much higher than the initial investment in a toy.

Of course, Audrey Company is fully capable of doing this.

The current market value of Audrey's company has soared to more than 500 million US dollars, and it is still rising. In this month alone, the stock has risen by 15%. In terms of cash flow, there are enough working capital and stocks worth 50 million.

"Okay, I'll leave as soon as possible to discuss with Onich."

"Please keep it secret, this is our company's secret weapon!"

"no problem!"

When Rich left the office, assistant Alice said with admiration: "Boss, you are really a woman who can do anything!"

Audrey Hepburn pretended to be profound and said: "I am just a strong mother, fighting for my son's future! If Ryan can take over this company, I would rather retire."

Alice smiled and said, "Are you staying with Mr. Lin?"

As an assistant, she naturally met Lin Zhichao many times.

Audrey Hepburn lamented: "He likes younger girls, such as girls like you. If I stay with him every day, it will only have bad effects."

Alice said generously: "Then you are wrong! Mr. Lin will not look at me when he is with you!"

Audrey Hepburn looked at Alice and thought, as expected, it is easy for women to fall in love with their men. There was a hint of disappointment in Alice's tone.

She is not angry!

"You can take this weekend off, I need to spend time with my family!"

"OK"

When the prince and princess arrived, she had to pay attention.

Audrey Hepburn followed the locals and had a lot of understanding of Chinese culture. In his man's mind, Lin Ruihuan must be more hopeful than other children, followed by Lin Ruihai and Lin Ruidong, the two eldest sons of the second and third families.

As for other children, it’s not that my man doesn’t pay attention to them, but he doesn’t put too much pressure on them.

Of course, from the current point of view, the nine second-generation members of the Lin family are still very good-smart and not rebellious.

Saturday.

When Luo Huijun saw Audrey Hepburn for the first time, she truly felt how amazing the founder of the Lin family was; that such a Western goddess and female entrepreneur could actually give birth to two children for him.

Audrey Hepburn, Lin Ruidong and Lin Ruinan, welcomed the arrival of Lin Ruihuan and Luo Huijun at the door, which was very formal.

"Third Mom"

"Big Brother"

"This is my girlfriend Luo Huijun, she admires you very much, Third Mom!"

"This child, no matter what kind of worship, they are all members of the family, sitting inside."

Soon, Luo Huijun integrated into this family because she found that everyone really got along well.

Very incredible!

A week later.

On Monday morning, Lin Zhichao took Lin Ruihuan to the Global Building and led him to join the company. There is no need to let Lin Ruihuan pretend to be an ordinary employee to join the job. Not to mention that he is 70% similar to Lin Zhichao, but there are only more than 300 people at the Yangtze River Industrial headquarters. Even if they don't know it today, everyone will know it within a month. Why pretend to be mysterious?

Lin Ruihuan followed his father, feeling very excited that he would finally join the family business and contribute his share. Ever since he was sensible, he has known that his mother has always been his father's "trump card" in the company, and now he also hopes that he can be his "turf".

"Boss, morning!"

"Hu Zhong, please take the new employee to the Human Resources Department!"

When he met the first employee, Lin Zhichao asked him to take his son to report to the Human Resources Department.

Lin Ruihuan joined the office, and will later join the "Listing Preparation Working Group"; after the listing of the Yangtze River Industrial Group, Lin Ruihuan will go to the project department to become a project leader; probably in his mid-twenties, he will become a member of the Yangtze River Group Executive director of an industrial group, entering senior management.

Everything about him was arranged and planned by Lin Zhichao.

Hu Zhong is an employee of the project department. After hearing the boss's arrangement, he looked at Lin Ruihuan and said quickly: "Okay, please come with me!"

Lin Ruihuan said quickly: "Trouble, Senior Hu!"

Hu Zhong was very happy. He was not a fool and could let his boss lead him into the company in person. In all likelihood, it was the prince who had returned to Hong Kong. Although he is just an ordinary employee, he is also a real super white-collar worker in Hong Kong (ordinary employees at the Cheung Kong Holdings headquarters are also high-income earners), and he still has a good vision.

"You're welcome!"

Lin Zhichao didn't care about this. As long as Lin Ruihuan passed the access control of the building and the company, he could find his place. The personnel department has been notified and will naturally take him on board.

a certain department.

A female staff member walked into the office and said in a low voice: "Did you hear that a new staff member came today?"

Everyone was puzzled, and a male employee immediately said nonchalantly: "Ajuan, are you mistaken, this is also called gossip? Our Yangtze River Industrial is in a period of rapid growth, and it is normal and good to add new employees."

"Yes, we still like your gossip about celebrities!"

"Haha, Ajuan hasn't made any shocking news recently, so let's talk about this!"

It turns out that Ajuan is the most well-informed person in the office and a lover of entertainment and gossip, which can be regarded as a fun part of the office.

When Ajuan heard everyone's ridicule, she was not angry. Instead, she said arrogantly: "Today's news may not be so exciting for you in your life!"

"real?"

"Liar?"

Ajuan said proudly: "If it's exciting enough, how about treating each of you to a meal?"

"Then let's see how exciting it is!"

"That is, the standard of judgment is in our hands."

This is the marketing department, with at least a dozen employees. If there is a dinner party, Ajuan can eat at least a dozen meals for free.

"You're doing well! The prince returned to Hong Kong and joined the company today!"

"What prince?"

"Isn't he the boss's son?"

"It doesn't make sense. How young is the boss? He's only in his thirties. His son can already go to work?"

For a while, everyone was chirping. If this news is true, it would be really exciting.

Ajuan said: "The same thing! This morning, someone saw a young man who looked exactly like the boss entering the company with the boss, and was then taken to the human resources department. Who do you think will be brought in by the boss? What about the company? And although the boss looks young, others already created Yangtze Real Estate in the late 1940s. According to this calculation, it is almost reasonable!"

Everyone was talking about it for a while, and it wasn't until the department manager came in that everyone stopped talking. But there are still those who are brave enough to ask the manager for advice.

"Manager, I heard that the prince joined the company today?"

"How do you know it!"

"I heard from Ajuan that someone saw the boss bringing someone to the company this morning!"

"That should be it. Everyone is working. There is nothing to discuss. It's just a new employee. You all meet the boss all the time. Don't make a fuss."

Having said that, the company's employees will soon discuss it privately.

Of course, the heat won't last long before it subsides.

General Manager's Office.

Lin Zhichao ignored his son's appointment and sorted out the listed assets.

Assets not listed:

Summarized into 'Victoria Real Estate', which is the original Yangtze River Real Estate, the assets include:

[Nine office buildings in Central: Yingzhi Building, Poly Building, Universal Building, Midea Building, International Building, Taiping Building, Far East Financial Center Towers A and B (under construction), Victoria Harbor Center (under construction);

An office building in Kowloon: Star Tower

Reserve land: approximately 3.6 million square feet, including approximately 2.2 million square feet of land exchange rights and New Territories land;

Commercial properties: ground floor and basement of approximately 12-storey building;

Commercial land: Remaining projects at the former Navy Yard site—two shopping malls, six skyscrapers

Residential properties: a high-end residential building in Mid-Levels, Causeway Bay, and some high-end residential units and bungalows

Securities investment: stocks worth approximately HK$160 million]

Listed assets:

Reorganized into 'Cheung Kong Holdings Group', which is the original Cheung Kong Holdings, assets include:

【Commercial projects:

Causeway Bay: Walden Building (Daimaru Department Store), Xintiandi Building (Xintiandi Shopping Center)

Tsim Sha Tsui: Miramar Shopping Center, Miramar Hotel (five-star), Lok Fu Building (purchased last year)

Singapore: Raffles City (shopping mall + office building)

Development projects:

A total of 20 development properties covering an area of ​​approximately 400,000 square feet

Other projects:

Poly Construction, Anderson Daya Quarry, Yangtze Finance, 7~11 Convenience, 50% equity of Café de Coral, Doll Noodles, Red Bull.]

After roughly sorting out the listed assets, Lin Zhichao already had a good idea.

In fact, many unlisted assets are already under the original Changjiang Real Estate, so it is not considered a major asset reorganization; by the end of the year, it should be successfully completed.

After the reorganization is completed, the profits of Cheung Kong Industrial Group will continue to purchase the land in the hands of Victoria Harbor Real Estate.

As for debts: Except for the 46 million Hong Kong dollars for the acquisition of Lok Fu Building, it is under the Cheung Kong Holdings Group; debts such as the investment in the "Victoria Harbor Center" are all under the Victoria Harbor Real Estate Group.

Overall, there is actually no debt.

Far East Financial Center Tower AB, Shangri-La Hotel (Hong Kong), Raffles City Singapore, and Victoria Harbor Center have a total investment of HK$1.1 billion. Among them, the profit of Yangtze River Industry from 1968 to 1971, which was about 450 million, was used for this part of investment; and the 100 million yuan supported by Yangtze River Industry in the early stage, these are already 550 million.

Lin Zhichao plans to repay the remaining 550 million with stock investment, which is more than enough.

These do not include profits since 1972, so there is no rush!