The Industrial Giant Reborn

"Joint venture?" Li Jiacheng was stunned for a moment and did not answer immediately.

"Don't worry, Li Sheng. I'm just participating. I won't ask for a lot of shares. For now, I'm not planning to enter the energy industry." Chen Zhiwen said with a smile.

Hutchison Whampoa has now begun to get involved in metal mining, but it is only a joint venture with Rio Tinto. The main body is Rio Tinto in development. Hutchison Whampoa can learn and benefit from it. In addition, it is also currently acquiring shares in Rio Tinto through the capital model to ensure that own interests.

Even if one wants to participate in the iron ore industry, it is too difficult to do it independently, let alone the oil and energy industry. Even if ordinary people have money to enter, it is difficult to succeed.

After the 21st century, mainland capital also invested abroad for energy security reasons, but the final result was not very good. This kind of industry will be strictly controlled by the West or any country. Although personal investment and national investment are different, the logic is the same.

Therefore, Chen Zhiwen has no intention to directly intervene in the oil industry. This industry is meaningless if it is small. If it is large, there will be many disputes. Not to mention Hong Kong capital, many American oil giants are often cheated in other countries. It is really oil. The blood of modern social economy is too important.

As for profits, if you have the time to run your own business, it is better to invest. For example, investing in Li Jia has done very well.

To be able to acquire an oil company in the Western world and make it bigger, even though we chose Canada, which has a small population and a large land, this is definitely not something that ordinary people can do.

Regardless of whether Li Jiacheng gave up any benefits, or immigrated his family members, etc., there are too many people who can do this. There are not too many Hong Kong rich people who immigrate to Europe, the United States, Canada and Australia, but only a few of them succeed.

Investing in such a successful person will naturally benefit more. At the same time, even if Li Jiacheng succeeds, he must have solved many zz problems many times by relying on his own ability, and let his people follow him to learn more. Maybe Hutchison Whampoa's mining company will also encounter such problems in the future.

"Well, that can be discussed." Li Jiacheng did not refuse. Everyone wants to eat alone, but this piece of meat is not easy to chew. It will obviously be much better to bring Chen Zhiwen, who has a great influence in Europe and the United States, and in this way, At least you don't have to worry too much about funding.

"Well, I hope we can cooperate happily in the future." Chen Zhiwen said with a smile.

As for his current industry, Chen Zhiwen also feels that it is almost the same, and it is unlikely to enter other new fields. It would be too hard, and few people can make it big in too many industries. Later Li Jiacheng's business is only good at five major industries. Businesses, among others, are either small in scale or benefit from investments.

This is also Chen Zhiwen's plan. Opportunities in various other industries can be carried out in an investment mode, either investing in big companies in the future or investing in people in the future.

After returning home, Zhuang Yueming came over and asked Li Jiacheng, "What's wrong? You didn't get the land, are you not happy?"

"Wrong, I'm very happy instead." Li Jiacheng smiled and then told Zhuang Yueming about his cooperation with Chen Zhiwen.

He did not take the initiative to participate in the bidding this time, which actually had little impact on him. He could not bid for the land king. Chen Zhiwen came to the auction in person, and he must be the future land king of Jinzhong. There was no point in competing with him. As for the others, although the position was not Yes, but the most indispensable thing under Cheung Kong Holdings is land. In Hong Kong today, besides Chen Zhiwen, Li Ka-shing is the second-ranked land king. Through various means, the land properties in his hands have exceeded 10 million square feet. However, the average location is far inferior to Landmark or Hutchison Whampoa.

"This is normal. With Chen Zhiwen's worth, there is a high probability that he will look down on land that is only worth tens of millions or barely over 100 million. But there are so many of these lands that it would be a pity to give them up. So by investing in several top real estate companies in Hong Kong , you can indirectly obtain profits from these real estate markets, not to mention holding no more than 16% of the shares, so that Hisense Bank can participate in the loan. This move is really powerful and maximizes the benefits." Zhuang Yueming nodded and analyzed .

"I understand this truth. Even he was willing to agree and help me expand overseas, which surprised me a little." Li Jiacheng said that if you are optimistic about Hong Kong's real estate market, then investing in yourself is normal, and the same is true for HSBC In terms of operation, Shen Bi actually said in private that if it weren't for the fact that HSBC is Hong Kong's quasi-central bank and is not allowed to actively invest in non-financial industries, otherwise they would have invested in various real estate companies, among which Cheung Kong Holdings was also Shen Bi. More promising.

"Perhaps he is interested in your ability." Zhuang Yueming thought for a moment and said, "I guess he may also make similar demands to several other large companies in Hong Kong. It is said that Hang Lung already cooperated with Chen Zhiwen last year."

"I do know about Hang Lung." Li Jiacheng said: "In this way, Chen Zhiwen not only wants to obtain profits from Hong Kong's real estate market and financial market through capital means, but also wants to use us who have worked hard all his life to get where he is today. A group of people with this achievement came to work for him indirectly."

"That should be the case, but it is also good for you. At least funds are no longer a problem, and the risk can be reduced. With Chen Zhiwen's shrewdness, if you invest in any high-risk projects, or accidentally violate something that you don't know about, He should remind you of the chain of interests." Zhuang Yueming said with a smile.

"Yeah, it's not our turn to refuse this kind of thing. Generally speaking, the conditions proposed by both Chen Zhiwen and Shen Bi are pretty good. If we can achieve a win-win situation, I have no reason to refuse." Li Jiacheng said .

"People like them are extremely shrewd people. They usually don't look so ugly. If they really do it so well, they won't be so successful." Zhuang Yueming said.

"Yeah, that's right." Li Jiacheng nodded and said: "Now that Chen Zhiwen has joined and the Canadian Imperial Bank is dealing with it, the acquisition of Husky Energy should not be a big problem for me. The urgent thing is that someone in our family needs to immigrate to Canada. According to Canadian law, if you want to acquire an energy company, you must be a Canadian."

"I'll find an opportunity to discuss it with Ze Kai or Ze Ju and see who is willing." Zhuang Yueming said.

"Okay, then I'll leave this matter to you." Li Jiacheng said.

The news that the Jinzhong Diwang auction obtained a 50% premium spread like a hurricane throughout Hong Kong. Everyone who was concerned about this auction or Hong Kong housing prices also received the news. For those engaged in the real estate business, Naturally, we know what this means, so everyone has prepared funds and is ready to go big.

Real estate is so magical. Once everyone has confidence and a large amount of money enters the market, housing and land prices will rise on a large scale. The same is true for the stock market. The more people who are confident, everyone can make a profit. This is contrary to the industry. The more people engage in industry, there is a high probability that no one will make money or lose money, because the market is limited, and it will only be stretched to the extreme in the end. This is why the financialization of reality into virtuality has become a problem for many companies and even The final destination of many countries.

In the next half month, Chen Zhiwen made appointments with several other Hong Kong real estate tycoons and expressed his attitude. As long as you want a loan, Hisense Bank will be bold enough to lend you a loan, but I am afraid that you are not bold enough.

This must be a very big temptation for real estate companies that want to develop, and naturally they all agreed. However, both Li Jiacheng and the others made verbal promises, unlike Hang Lung, which was facing bankruptcy. Crisis, in order to get Chen Zhiwen's help, some future cooperation agreements were signed. Of course, this is not bad for Hang Lung. If Chen Zengxi was not strong enough, where would such a golden development opportunity come from.

After negotiating cooperation with several major Chinese-owned families in Hong Kong in the future, Chen Zhiwen's goal for Hong Kong real estate has basically been completed. The other half is naturally represented by Land, and continues to develop in the field of real estate and rent collection. Hong Kong as a In the city with the highest commercial rent in the future, this income will be very considerable and stable. However, with the scale of the land, ordinary small properties are not attractive, and the ones that are attractive to the eye may not necessarily appear in two or three years. , but some of them can be built by oneself. Nowadays, whether it is Land, Hutchison Whampoa or Wharf, they all have a lot of vacant land in prime locations or old properties that can be demolished, but there is no need to rush to build now.

Time soon came to March. One day, Chen Zhiwen came to Landmark.

"Sheng Chen, we have negotiated with the Hong Kong government for the Mandarin Commercial Plaza project in Admiralty. The 9 floors upstairs and 3 floors downstairs are shopping malls and parking lots. The construction area is about 500,000 square feet. There are also two buildings upstairs. Both buildings are mainly office buildings, with a total of 600,000 square feet, but 15 floors will be converted into high-end apartments." Dong Youweihui reported: "The Hong Kong government has restrictions on floor area ratio, and it cannot be built higher or higher. Big.”

"1.1 million square feet? Not bad." Chen Zhiwen thought for a while and said, this land is only 115,000 square feet in total, which has a floor area ratio of almost 10. In the future, the floor area ratio of office buildings in the mainland will not exceed 8, but This is Hong Kong, so it’s naturally different.

"The entire construction cost is almost 1.3 billion Hong Kong dollars. Mr. Chen, if we can sustain it ourselves, Land will need to borrow money from banks again," Dong Youwei said.

"It doesn't matter, just feel free to get a loan." Chen Zhiwen nodded and said. If Hisense hadn't been unable to lend to him, he would have done this long ago. Nowadays, the real estate market has just gained some hope, and house prices have not started to rise much yet. After half a year, real estate speculation became popular, and Land's debt problem was completely solved. Even if today's amount is included, it is nothing.

"Okay." Dong Youwei nodded and said, "Then, should I contact Standard Chartered?"

"Standard Chartered? No need for now. In the future, you don't have to go to Standard Chartered. Go to HSBC or other banks. We'll go to whoever offers the best deal." Chen Zhiwen suddenly said.

"Okay." Dong Youwei was shocked. Originally, asking Standard Chartered was just a routine inquiry. For this kind of thing, it is best for the boss to speak up. It doesn't matter even if you are not sure. Talk to a few major banks first and then see who is the best deal. It's normal, but it would be different if Standard Chartered could be kicked out directly.

"I have my reasons. You don't need to ask yet." Chen Zhiwen did not explain. Although Dong Youwei was also a senior executive of Land Development, he did not know that he was planning to acquire Standard Chartered.

Although the acquisition of Standard Chartered this time is to take advantage of the opportunity of Standard Chartered being acquired by a local British bank, no matter what, the weaker Standard Chartered, the higher its success rate. In the past few years, Standard Chartered has cooperated better with its own companies and has already The Hong Kong Standard Chartered branch has made a lot of profits. Now I am preparing to do something big again in Hong Kong. The Mandarin Plaza in front of me is just an appetizer. There will be many very large properties to be built or acquired in the future. , and even Disney’s investment in Hong Kong will be finalized in these two years.

These projects are all high-quality projects in the eyes of any bank. If you give them to Standard Chartered, even part of them, it may be equivalent to giving them a large amount of cash and available financial lines, which is not good for you.

"Okay." Dong Youwei nodded and said.

"If there are any previous projects here at Land, they should be launched as soon as possible. Even if they don't need to start construction immediately, they can be prepared first." Chen Zhiwen added: "In addition, priority will be given to developing residential properties first. After the development is completed, we will not When it comes to residential properties, just focus on commercial real estate."

"Okay, Chen Sheng, I understand." Dong Youwei agreed. (End of chapter)