The Industrial Giant Reborn

"The world's richest Chinese man Chen is worth more than 20 billion Hong Kong dollars!"

"Hong Kong's tycoon is once again the richest man in China!"

"The next step of the richest man in China, how far is the richest man in the world?"

The headline of the newspaper on February 1, 1982 was even more exciting than the previous two days. 20 billion Hong Kong dollars, even if it is distributed to 5 million people in Hong Kong, each person can get 4,000 Hong Kong dollars. This figure is a lot of people Funds that cannot be saved for a year.

For many people who play finance, they naturally know what the concept of this money is. With this kind of assets, as long as they are courageous, and then 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, some tycoons who are worth barely 100 million, through various means of holding shares, control the market value of more than one billion, and there are many.

"Chen Zhiwen's worth is absolutely impossible to be just that small." Li Jiacheng, the headquarters of Cheung Kong Industrial Group, said after reading the introduction in the newspaper, he threw it aside.

His wife, Zhuang Yueming, picked up the newspaper, glanced at it, and asked, "Many of Chen Zhiwen's companies are unlisted, how do you know?"

"Based on my feeling, if Hutchison is listed, its market value will definitely not be less than 5 billion, let alone Midea and Red Bull, which are more powerful." Li Jiacheng shook his head and said.

"The evaluation of Hutchison Huang in this Fortune magazine is actually quite high, but they are not optimistic about Hutchison's large-scale projects in the mainland, especially the Beijing-Tianjin-Tangzhou Expressway, with a total investment of more than 1 billion US dollars. In the same way, if the future returns are not good, then Hutchison's losses may be even greater than when Chen Zhiwen just acquired Hutchison." Zhuang Yueming said.

"Those Yankees know nothing about the domestic economy. I don't know if other parts of the country can develop, but the vicinity of Yanjing will definitely not be bad. As long as the country sticks to the current economic line, with their labor costs and the number of talents, Yanjing is Hong Kong in the 1950s, and in another 20 years, the economic level will definitely increase significantly, and Hutchison will control the only expressway 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 it relied on a large number of knowledgeable talents from the mainland. Now that the domestic economy is opening up 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? By the UK? No, although there are high-quality water ports here, there are many such places in the empire on which the sun never sets, but only Hong Kong has developed into the top city.

The most fundamental reason is that decades ago, a large number of wealthy mainlanders brought their wealth to Hong Kong and a large number of intellectuals entered. After all, poverty cannot be moved. The real poor cannot move from the mainland to Hong Kong.

The latter played a greater role, which made Hong Kong full of literate talents, coupled with low wages, and soon became the most famous foundry in the world. The development of industry promoted everything, and finally formed today's Hong Kong. .

Although the talent rate in the mainland is also very low, if they are gathered in big cities, the number of talents will far exceed that of Hong Kong 30 years ago, and the development potential will naturally be greater.

"A person like Chen Zhiwen rose up in Hong Kong, and now he has achieved very high grades in the United States. You don't really think that he is lucky, do you? I dare say that his vision is definitely at the top level in the world. Back then he Hypeing up industrial land is a clever move now that you 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 in business, but after she had a child, plus Cheung Kong has recruited many professionals, and she has raised her children at home.

"My funds are limited, so I can't compare to Chen Zhiwen, so let's invest in Hong Kong." Li Jiacheng said, "I'll tell you one more thing. Since the beginning of last year, the real estate company under Chen Zhiwen has slowly emptied out its assets. The real estate business has basically disappeared, and housing prices have been declining since the end of last year, and this year, 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, "Back then, 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 earlier than me, so I did the same later. I reduced some new projects and collected funds. I just didn't know. When will this land price go wrong?" Li Jiacheng said with hope in his eyes.

"It's probably going to be soon. It wasn't long before the land king auction last time. The price in Central rose a little at that time, but now it has fallen a lot." Zhuang Yueming said with a smile.

"It's a lot of losses. Hong Kong Land has lost 1 billion. If it falls further, Hong Kong Land will have to spit out the profits of the past two years." Li Jiacheng said with a smile.

"Chen Zhiwen was not optimistic about the real estate market before, but he suddenly participated in the Land King Auction. Do you think it was to stimulate Landmark?" Zhuang Yueming said again.

Li Jiacheng was stunned for a moment, thought for a while, and then said: "When you say this, I think of one thing. An official from the Land Administration Department once complained to a friend after drinking, saying that Chen Zhiwen urged the Hong Kong government to auction off the land king as soon as possible. But he refused to bid with Hongkong Land at the auction, thinking about it now, this is really possible.”

"As expected of Chen Zhiwen, it's no wonder that he will become the richest Chinese in the world. You may miss 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 for a trip to Canada. There are some real estate businesses there. Do you want to go together?"

"Okay, I want to see my son too." Zhuang Yueming nodded and said.

"20 billion Hong Kong dollars is higher than the market value of our entire Jardine Department." Niu Bijian sighed after reading the news.

"That's right, it's much higher than HSBC. I heard that HSBC hasn't played a trick on Chen Zhiwen in the United States. I don't know what Shen Bi will think when he sees the news?" Bao Fuda said with a smile.

"Forget it, it's none of our business. Recently, land prices have been falling again. 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 come back a few more times to raise the land price?" Bao Fuda asked.

"Okay, but I still need to discuss with the Keswick family. Their family has been relatively close to several officials in Prime Minister Thatcher's government recently, and they may have a clearer understanding of Hong Kong's future." Niu Bijian said.

Bao Fuda asked: "What is the attitude of the British government?"

"Persist to the end and never give up." Niu Bijian said.

In Hong Kong, almost all adults are watching this content. Although everyone has no money, they like to read introductions from rich people!

Many media directly found Chen Zhiwen's home or company, wanting to conduct interviews, but now the Chen family's bodyguard team can be said to have a battalion of professional bodyguards. How can they get these Hong Kong reporters? Come arrogant.

For Chen Zhiwen, "Fortune" magazine naturally has many mistakes. First of all, they don't know their own income in the gold market. To be long gold, although each of them has an income of hundreds of millions of dollars, it is not a huge amount of money for any super investment bank.

Unless these consortiums tell each other about this in private, but this is unlikely, not to mention Europe and the United States, even within the United States, these investment banks are also competitors, and 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, and Chen Zhiwen's profits in each company are not as good as the entire big investment bank. , is actually nothing.

And Midea’s valuation is naturally seriously underestimated, but if you look at it as a general game company, it’s about the same, because under normal circumstances, there are very few game companies that can continue to be popular, and it’s a miracle to be popular for 5 years. This is also a problem for many technology companies. When there is no product with 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 at great risk. Once the next product fails If so, it may be knocked down to the bottom immediately.

But no matter what, the content of "Fortune" has a great influence on Hong Kong, Asia and even China.

The time soon came to February, and Henry Morgan and several companies of the Morgan family finally made their move on RCA.

The first is a small beverage factory under the Morgan consortium. When investing in Taoyuan City, it was found that some water sources in Taoyuan City contained some heavy metals and organic chemicals. Some heavy metals appeared. Maybe it can be said in the past, but the organic chemicals are obviously pollution, so the environmental protection department of Wanwan Province, who got the news, immediately started a secret investigation.

Coincidentally, an employee from RCA reported to RCA with his real name that he had opened several deep water wells in his factory, and took a video with a camera and sent it to the Wanwan Environmental Protection Department.

At the same time, several large media companies located in Hong Kong, Japan, and the United States have also received many substantial photos of pollution discharges and a large amount of data, including emissions, substances, time, etc. This is big news. These media companies have received information Afterwards, as if he had found a treasure, he quickly added oil and vinegar and directly exposed it. Maybe these media will be afraid of the US government, but an American company is different. Media outside the United States are not afraid at all, and they do not live in the United States. The media in China don't take it seriously. I stand on the moral high ground for this kind of thing.

As a result, within a few days, the news of RCA's large-scale discharge of chemical substances into the groundwater layer in Taoyuan City, Wanwan Province, spread across half the world, and the environmental protection department of Wanwan City was not polite at all, and directly sent the RCA company The door was closed, except for ordinary employees, everyone else was locked inside the factory, and some who were not in the factory also had their exit permits suspended by the customs.

"Crazy, RCA is a disgrace to American companies and to human beings. They are destroying our homes, our planet, and the environment we live in, putting hundreds of thousands of ordinary people at risk of their lives."

At the headquarters of NBC Television in the United States, countless "volunteers" from the environmental protection department held up their loudspeakers outside and shouted loudly. Numerous banners also wrote various slogans of "Protect the environment and severely punish the perpetrators".

On the highest floor of the NBC headquarters building, CEO Brad looked at the hundreds of people raising placards and the dozens of security guards around them who were almost indifferent. He couldn't help saying angrily, "What's the matter with those security guards? Why did you drive these people away?" ?”

The blond secretary beside him paused, and replied: "Sir, these environmentalists are not easy to mess with. There may be some reporters here. If our people intervene and there is a conflict, and it gets on the news, we will It's more passive."

"Can I be more passive than I am 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? Did you check 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 yet responded." The blonde secretary said.

"So what's going on here?" Brad asked.

Secretary Blonde replied: "The news reported by the major media is true. I have asked several engineers and managers who have just been transferred from Wanwan, and they all know about it. The Wanwan factory, During the day, various waste oils and solutions are put into the sewage treatment pool, and others claim that they are treated at night when the electricity price is cheap, but in fact, they are directly discharged underground at night.”

"Which idiot came up with the idea? How much is the cost of sewage treatment? In this situation, the company's stock price has fallen by 10%, and our entire company stinks all over the world." Brad almost vomited blood in anger.

"I've asked, and it's indeed the idea of ​​the resident personnel at Wanwan, but who came up with it, I don't know yet, and the 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. Wanwan's doing this must be because of too much pressure from the headquarters, because even if RCA moved the factory to Wanwan, the labor cost there would be higher. Under the lower circumstances, the manufacturing cost of RCA is still inferior to that of Japanese ones. After a long time, the headquarters naturally desperately asked the Wanwan factory to reduce costs, and finally someone took the lead.