The richest man

Chapter 194 The Financial Times and the Fortune 500

The mainland was very poor at this time. In order to speed up the construction of the factory, Zhang Jun first paid a part of the project fee, purchased construction equipment, building materials, and solved the three links, one equalization and so on.

This time, the mainland also mobilized the whole country and organized all the large domestic construction groups to go to Shenzhen, striving to complete the project as quickly as possible while maintaining quality and quantity.

And Zhang Jun also put forward a slogan for them at this time: "Time is money, efficiency is life!!!"

Encourage them to have a hard work.

After hearing this sentence, the Shenzhen local government was quite moved, and then mobilized all forces to promote this slogan.

In many places, especially construction sites, almost all banners were raised.

Immediately afterwards, this sentence was quoted in the "People's Daily", and instantly resounded all over the country!
Seeing this, the Hong Kong newspapers couldn't help reporting this sentence and the extent of its spread and influence in the mainland.

After reading the newspaper, the citizens of Hong Kong were amazed.

"Look, look, do you know why you are so poor, and why Zhang Jun is so rich? Time is money, efficiency is life! Tell me about you, when you are working, you are fishing all day long, while others What about Zhang Jun? At this moment, maybe he is taking the time to study and work hard! Edison once said, 'Success is 99% sweat plus 1% genius', as long as you work hard, you won't buy it now I can't afford a house or a car, and I can't find a girlfriend!"

"Team leader, I'm afraid you didn't say everything that Edison said..." a small employee said weakly.

The team leader glared at him and asked, "Where did you not say everything?"

"That...Edison actually said a word, he said 'Usually 1% of genius is more important than 99% of sweat'!"

boom!
The head of this team member was knocked by the team leader.

"Are you here to argue with me? From now on, all members of our team must keep 'time is money, efficiency is life' in mind, improve work efficiency, and strive to get the first place in this year's performance!"

"Yes!!!"

The team leader couldn't help but feel satisfied when he saw everyone's morale was like a rainbow.

The major companies under Zhang Jun's name saw that what their boss said caused such a big response in the Mainland, how dare they not respond?

Major companies have spontaneously organized employees to learn from the boss's thinking, and listed "time is money, efficiency is life" as the company's slogan and corporate culture.

The company under Zhang Jun's name controls Hong Kong's economy to a certain extent. This move will naturally cause a sensation, and then produce a chain reaction, causing major companies in Hong Kong to follow suit.

However, this sentence does have a great motivating effect, and the bosses are willing to publicize it, which has played a certain role in promoting Hong Kong's economic development.

And these, but Zhang Jun never expected.

"Could it be that my mouth has opened a golden light?"

Zhang Jun couldn't help but laugh.

"Boss, the power of action in the Mainland really surprised me."

Ma Shimin, president of China Land, said, "In order to help us build factories and develop the Shekou Industrial Zone, they dispatched more than 20 construction workers at one time!"

Zhang Jun was also dumbfounded when he heard this.

"It's really scary!" Zhang Jun was speechless.

Ma Shimin said, "It's a good thing that you, the boss, handed over part of the funds to the government. Otherwise, they wouldn't be able to organize so many workers so easily. I calculated that with so many workers helping us build the factory, the entire project can be completed more than half a year ahead of schedule." Completed! Chinese Land is currently developing commercial buildings in Hong Kong, including Times Square, Harbor City, Hong Kong International Finance Center, etc., so it can only hand over the mainland projects to the mainland. However, the construction technology level in the mainland is not bad, the key is The workers are very cheap and hard-working, and their work efficiency is much higher than that in Hong Kong.”

Instead of building high-tech factories, construction companies in the mainland are fully capable of doing it.

Zhang Jun is not surprised, he understands the situation in the Mainland better than Ma Shimin.

"For the factory project in the mainland, Chinese Land is mainly responsible for supervising the quality of the project and providing technical solutions."

"Ah."

After the acquisition of the Golden Gate Construction Company under Jardine Matheson, the Chinese Infrastructure Company under the Chinese Landmark has become one of the best international large-scale construction companies in Asia. The types of projects include commercial office buildings, residences, shopping malls, hotels, community centers, factories, streets, Bridges, railways, stations, tunnels, fresh water supply systems, sewage and waste treatment, etc.

There is absolutely no problem in providing technical guidance to construction companies in the mainland.

Zhang Jun also hopes that through this contact, the mainland will recognize the capabilities of Chinese infrastructure, and then invite Chinese infrastructure to enter the mainland to help them build certain technically difficult projects.

The profits of large-scale projects are actually considerable.

CRI has already gone out of Hong Kong and gained a good reputation in Southeast Asia.

Speaking of the first "infrastructure maniac" to appear in this era, it should probably be Chinese infrastructure.

Zhang Jun chatted with Ma Shimin for a while, then let him leave.

Right now, because of his large-scale investment in the mainland, the UK and Taiwan have become dissatisfied with him for a while.

However, Zhang Jun's influence is too great, and the industries he is involved in are not blocked just because they are blocked.

In Hong Kong, Zhang Jun is already too big to lose his tail, and the Hong Kong government has nothing to do with him.In the end, the British government's attitude towards Zhang Jun was completely opposite to that towards Huo Yingdong.

On the contrary, Britain is more eager to win over Zhang Jun.

Zhang Jun reciprocated, and it was considered a comfort to the United Kingdom, so he increased his investment in the United Kingdom: the acquisition of "The Times" and "Financial Times".

"The Times" is a comprehensive national daily newspaper in the United Kingdom, and it is also a newspaper that exerts a huge influence on politics, economy and culture around the world.But so far, "The Times" has been overwhelmed and suffered serious losses.If Zhang Jun did not buy it, then in 1981, The Times would be bought by Rupert Murdoch of News Corporation for 1200 million pounds.

As for how to make the "Times" turn around, Zhang Jun is still very confident. On the one hand, it comes from his rich experience in the media for so many years, and on the other hand, it comes from what he saw in his previous life. those reforms.

In fact, if a newspaper wants to stand out, the content is the key. The newspaper must strive for novelty, pay attention to finding a balance between seriousness and readability, and use color newspapers and large-scale color photos.And these things are also the magic weapon for the Hong Kong Daily Group to win in the whole of Asia, and it is also feasible to apply it to Europe.

"Financial Times" is the largest and world-renowned international financial media in the UK, and it also owns 50% of "The Economist" magazine.

The main purpose of investing in the British newspaper industry is to control public opinion and prevent the UK from having too much hostility towards Zhang Jun.

As for Treasure Island, they were ruthless and soft-hearted, threatening on the surface, but did not dare to make substantive moves.

Not only because Zhang Jun also has a lot of investment in Baodao, but mainly because once Zhang Jun's business is blocked in Baodao, this matter may become an international issue, which will seriously impress Baodao's investment attraction.

Zhang Jun is famous all over the world, his talent is unparalleled in the world, and he is rich like an enemy. Baodao didn't want to offend, so he sent someone to tell Zhang Jun euphemistically that as long as he doesn't invest in the mainland, Baodao is willing to give more favorable terms.

At this time, Baodao was already known as the "Four Little Dragons" and its economy was developing rapidly. When the mainlanders couldn't even afford tea eggs, they were already able to feast on fish and meat.

The choice of ordinary people will mostly be on the side of Treasure Island.

But Zhang Jun is familiar with the future development trend, so he naturally knows how to choose.

Of course, he didn't want to offend Baodao, after all, Baodao's market was not small.

Zhang Jun has a lot of headaches about these things recently, but these things are actually nothing, and they won't affect his decision.

If Baodao offers better conditions, he will also invest in Baodao.

Zhang Jun knew very well that since the first energy crisis broke out in 1973, Baodao's economy has faced the problem of transformation, and the direction of transformation can only be the development of high technology.After years of exploration, Baodao finally decided to build a scientific industrial park.

The Hsinchu Science and Technology Park started construction in 1976, and it is the first science and technology park in Taiwan, known as "Silicon Valley of Taiwan".However, at the beginning of the development of the park, there were no technology giants who could support the scene!The legendary technology under Zhang Jun's name was originally Baodao's first goal, but they never thought that before they took action, Zhang Jun would start to invest and build factories in the mainland, which made Baodao regret that he made a move Slow, let the mainland take the lead.

"Zhang Jun, if you invest in our Hsinchu Science and Technology Park, you will be exempted from income tax for profit-making enterprises for 5 years. Although our land is only rented and not sold, the price is very cheap, and the purpose of reducing the operating costs of enterprises is to promote the development of the Hsinchu Science and Technology Park. , forming an industrial cluster effect..."

The man who spoke was Zhou Shen, the person in charge of investment promotion of Hsinchu Science and Technology Park.

He introduced in detail all the preferential policies of Hsinchu Science and Technology Park in front of Zhang Jun.

After Zhang Jun listened, he couldn't help feeling that Baodao's determination to transform and develop high-tech is really strong.

He calmed down and thought about it carefully, his heart was full of entanglements!

If he invests in Baodao, he can be sure that his investment success rate in the semiconductor field will be much higher.

The United States and Europe sanction the mainland, but win over Taiwan. Many technological products do not impose restrictions on Taiwan.

This has led to the birth of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd., a company with extremely high technological content.

As for the mainland, advanced lithography machines are not available, plus various other restrictions.

The development of the mainland semiconductor industry can be described as struggling.

Zhang Jun thought for a while, he was no longer short of money, so he wanted to do something challenging.

But Baodao can't offend either.

After careful consideration, we decided to invest in the establishment of a R&D center and several factories in Hsinchu Science and Technology Park, Baodao.

The R&D center can just absorb the talents of Formosa, so as not to lose them to other enterprises.

As for the factory, we will think about it in the future. After the factory is established, the products will be sold directly to Baodao people.As for the products sold to the outside world, Zhang Jun prefers to let factories in mainland China do the OEM.

The more prosperous and prosperous the mainland, the higher the sense of belonging of the Chinese people in the world!
Although Zhou Shen did not get satisfactory results, Zhang Jun agreed to establish a research and development center in Hsinchu Science and Technology Park, which also satisfied him.

With the signboard of Zhang Jun, it will be easier to attract investment in the future.

……

A period of time passed, and as the investment came in place bit by bit, Zhang Jun's relationship with the United Kingdom and Baodao eased to a certain extent.

The Hong Kong Daily Group successfully acquired The Times for only £1050 million.However, it encountered obstacles when acquiring the "Financial Times". The parent company of the "Financial Times" is the Bacon Group, which belongs to the British education group giant. It is really difficult to win the "Financial Times" from it.

Zhang Jun had to add money.

The final price was 3500 million pounds, almost 1.05 million US dollars.

The Financial Times is a leading global financial newspaper with enormous influence and subscribers in more than 120 countries and regions.

There is also a financial newspaper under Zhang Jun's name, "Hong Kong Economic Times", but the influence of this newspaper is at most in Southeast Asia.

After buying the "Financial Times", Zhang Jun had many ideas in his mind.

First, he thought of the London Financial Times 100 Index, referred to as the FTSE 100 Index, which is the stock index of the [-] largest companies listed on the London Stock Exchange.

The FTSE 100 Index is a barometer of the British economy and one of the most important stock indexes in Europe. It was created by the Financial Times in 1984.The creation of the FTSE 100 Index has established the authority of the Financial Times.

Then, Zhang Jun couldn't help thinking about why he rushed ahead of the US "Fortune" and "Forbes" magazines and launched the "World's Top 500" and "Global Rich List" two ranking lists.

Once such an interesting thing is launched, it will definitely further boost the reputation of the Financial Times and increase the sales and influence of the newspaper.

When Zhang Jun thought of this, he couldn't help but smile.

Immediately picked up the phone and communicated with Martin Burke, the new president of the Financial Times.

This conversation lasted for nearly an hour, and Zhang Jun told Martin Burke his thoughts in detail.

Martin Burke originally had a headache about how to develop the Financial Times, but now he sees the light of day, especially the establishment of the "FTSE 100 Index", "World Top 500" and "Global Rich List". He can't help admiring Zhang Jun's talent , It was simply astonishing.

Zhang Jun hung up the phone with a slight smile on his lips, and he couldn't help expressing his expectation for the "Financial Times" in the future.

……

Zhang Jun's investment is increasing, and he is a bit stretched in terms of funds.

Fortunately, the claw machine is a money-absorbing weapon, and it has already been mass-produced, and the first batch of goods has been sent to the stores of the major companies under the group name.

Central, Hong Kong.

On this day, many people came to shop, and suddenly found that there were many machines in the mall, and there were very cute dolls in the machines, which attracted the attention of countless women...

After looking at these machines, everyone realized that this pink machine is called a claw machine.

After reading the instructions, everyone can understand how to play the claw machine.

The girls bought game coins one after another and began to coin coins to catch dolls.

After a while, the claw machine was surrounded by people.

Either excited, or disappointed.

There were screams one after another!
That night, the claw machine became popular all over Hong Kong at an incredible speed, and was sought after by countless girls...

(End of this chapter)