Year: I had a good time when I was young

Chapter 797 Deepening the chain of interests between partners
Hong Guidong and his son Hong Yingyang are the kind of characters that you would recognize as villains at first glance in a TV drama.

Moreover, their looks do make people feel that this father and son are not good people.

Even when facing Chu Xiangqian, he was smiling and speaking in a flattering manner, but even though the father was dressed in a suit and tie, he looked like a nouveau riche.

The son is a scoundrel.

Zheng Yutong and Ye Xiaoli, who were beside Chu Xiangqian, also quietly introduced to him the identities of each wealthy person who came to him.

According to Zheng Yutong and Ye Xiaoli, the Hong family was the epitome of ungratefulness. Chu Xiangqian was now certain that his evaluation of the father and son was not just wishful thinking.

When he saw Le Yan later, he quickly recalled the image hidden deep in his memory.

After listening to Le Jimin's self-introduction and his introduction to his two sons, Chu Xiangqian was finally sure who Le Yan was.

But this guy is obviously not liked by his father and he behaves very reservedly.

Chu Xiangqian felt it was strange at first, but then he remembered that Le Yan had taken the blame for his older brother Le Wen and had gone to jail on his own initiative, and his impression of him instantly improved by several levels.

Anyone would like to make friends with such a loyal and righteous person, not to mention that Le Yan will become a wealthy man in Hong Kong in the future.

Chu Xiangqian has not used the large amount of cash in his hands to acquire large quantities of properties in Hong Kong Island in recent years. To put it bluntly, he is worried that once he starts a buying spree, it will arouse the fear of the entire wealthy class in Hong Kong Island, and they may even unite to boycott him.

Fortunately, even if we only buy one or two buildings every year, or build one or two ourselves.

After ten or eight years, a lot of properties have been accumulated.

Not to mention that this stable buying pattern has been maintained for twenty or thirty years, the number is even more impressive.

Moreover, every time there is a stock market crash, unless it is a malicious takeover, there will always be people who go bankrupt and have to liquidate their properties.

If you buy this kind of asset, not only will you not be hated by others, but the original owner may even be grateful to you for lending them a helping hand.

By the way, supporting Ye Xiaoli, winning over and investing in Zheng Yutong and He Zanyuan, and cooperating with Lu Guoye and He Chaosheng is a win-win situation.

To put it bluntly, these people will have done very well in the future. I just need to give them a push and then I can follow their path to success and ride on their coattails as an investor.

And these people should be grateful to themselves in return.

As for the local prominent families, seeing that there are few old prominent families in the future rich list, we know that these guys will not be able to keep up with the times and have begun to decline.

Even bankruptcy.

Chu Xiangqian naturally had little interest in these people.
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During the reception, Chu Xiangqian and Xue Jinglan donated a total of over one million Hong Kong dollars to children and single mother families in the name of their own charity foundation.

While gaining fame, it can also offset the taxes that the group needs to pay.

This is also one of the reasons why many wealthy people are so actively involved in charity.

Of course, there are also many wealthy people who simply do good deeds, but if you think about it, you will know that these people are definitely a minority.

A little after 9 o'clock in the evening, Chu Xiangqian took Xue Jinglan, who obviously didn't want to stay any longer, home.

As soon as the couple left, everyone could see that Chu Xiangqian seemed to have a good impression of the second young master of the Le family.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have called Le Yan to his side before leaving. I don't know what he said, but Le Yan was so happy that he kept nodding his head and his mouth was crooked with laughter.

As for Hong Zhiqing who was chattering at the party, outsiders just thought that this girl wanted to take advantage of the fact that Chu Xiangqian was a well-known horse owner and deliberately brought up the matter of horse racing to get close to him.

The Le family and the Hong family have a deep connection. Before Hong Guidong became successful, he was Jimin's subordinate.

The Hong family also married their eldest daughter, Hong Zhixin, to the eldest son of the Le family, Le Wen.

Unfortunately, Le Wen is in love and does not dare to refuse the marriage arranged by his father.

He could only go abroad to get drunk before getting married, and accidentally killed a foreigner.

But he was lucky, because his younger brother Le Yan could see that his elder brother had something in mind.

Not only did he accompany him to relax, but after Le Wen accidentally killed the foreigner, he felt that his eldest brother was the best successor to the family business. Out of brotherhood, he actually took the blame for his eldest brother and spent seven years in prison.

He was released from prison abroad and returned to Hong Kong Island at the beginning of this year.

So when the Le family and the Hong family came together, no one found it offensive that Hong Zhiqing kept nagging.

Even Le Jimin, Le Wen, Hong Guidong and Hong Yingyang were hoping that Chu Xiangqian would fall in love with Hong Zhiqing.

Unfortunately, the Hong father and son were disappointed.

But the father and son of the Le family were both happy and surprised.

I really can't figure out why my second son could win Chu Xiangqian's favor.
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A few days later, Chu Xiangqian appeared at the Kowloon Racecourse with his wife, baby son, Ailin, and four bodyguards including Tao Jie, Zhaodi, and Zhang Tianzhi.

As soon as we got off the car, Uncle Hai, the person in charge of the horse farm, came to greet us with a dozen managers.

"Boss, Mr. He, Mr. Zheng, Mr. Ye, and Mr. Le have arrived."

Chu Xiangqian nodded and handed his beloved son in his arms to Xue Jinglan who had already gotten off the car.

Then he gave them a few instructions and let them play by themselves.

He asked Uncle Hai to bring people to accompany Xue Jinglan and the others, and then he took Zhang Tianzhi to the main reception room of the horse farm.

Before entering the door, I heard He Chaosheng, Zheng Yutong and Ye Xiaoli talking to Le Yan.

Although Le Yan is seen as a good-for-nothing who has done nothing and even been to jail in the eyes of his father and outsiders, Le Yan actually has a very calm personality.

Having been in jail abroad for seven years and not becoming a useless person, he is naturally more stable.

As for whether he has a brain or not, looking at his flawless answers, you can tell that the seven years in jail were not in vain.

It’s easy to imagine that if a Chinese person is imprisoned abroad and doesn’t have brains, he may not survive until he is released.

When He Chaosheng, Zheng Yutong and Ye Xiaoli saw Le Yan also appeared at the racecourse, they immediately guessed that Chu Xiangqian was probably really interested in Le Yan.

Ye Xiaoli felt the most deeply about this. He was just a contractor at first, but was favored by Chu Xiangqian for some unknown reason.

In just two or three years, he went from being a small boss with assets of only a million to a wealthy man with more than a thousand employees relying on him for a living and assets exceeding tens of millions.

If you compare Li Gongtan with Ye Xiaoli, Li Gongtan is not as rich as Ye Xiaoli now.

The development prospects of the companies owned by the two are incomparable.

Mr. Li’s main business now is still plastic flowers. As for real estate, Mr. Li entered the real estate industry in 59, bought a piece of land and built an industrial building.

But Lao Li's career in real estate developed very slowly at the beginning.

I heard that he only started construction of the second industrial building this year, in the middle of 63.

It’s still a long way to go before you can become a real estate tycoon.

It was not until the 1970s that the company really started to make a fortune.

But now Ye Xiaoli is not only building a building, but also building several buildings at a time.

Although I was working for Chu Xiangqian and the profit was lower than outside projects, the workload was huge.

Seeing that his net worth has exceeded 10 million, you can tell how much money he has made in the past two years. Even He Chaosheng and Zheng Yutong, who were already worth over 10 million in previous years, are envious.

So when the three of them saw Le Yan, the first person to arrive at the racecourse, they guessed in their hearts that this guy would most likely become a rich man like themselves in a few years.

When Chu Xiangqian came in, the four people who were trying to test him immediately stood up and greeted him. Ye Xiaoli even called him "boss" directly. Chu Xiangqian and the other three knew at a glance that this guy was worried that he would be replaced by someone else.

After Chu Xiangqian shook hands with Ye Xiaoli, he quickly thought of Ailin.

He immediately thought of a way to appease them and said, "My fourth brother has just arrived in Hong Kong Island. If you are free, please invite your three boys to visit the Peak.

If the four kids get along well, they can spend more time with each other and take care of my fourth child."

Ye Xiaoli's eyes lit up after hearing this. It was obvious that he could come directly to the door in the future.

After all, it is impossible for children to visit without their parents accompanying them.

It is not convenient for a man like me to visit every time, but my wife can go with her three sons.

If you go around more often, you will definitely be able to make friends with the ladies of the Chu family.

And since he doesn't even like his own hag, he doesn't have to worry about being poached by Chu Xiangqian.

He nodded hurriedly and his smile became much brighter.

He Chaosheng and Zheng Yutong on the side looked at each other, congratulated them, and tentatively mentioned that they also had teenage brothers and sisters.

Even He Chaosheng and Zheng Yutong immediately came to their mind and pushed their cousins ​​out to have contact with the fourth son of the Chu family.

There is a chance that they will hit it off and become in-laws.

The reason why Chinese people are so enthusiastic about marriage is simply because of equal status and interests.

Chu Xiangqian had no objection to this. Since Ailin came to Hong Kong Island to study, she would definitely have to stay in Hong Kong Island for a long time.

When I return to Beijing in the future, I might be in my twenties already.

Although most girls from wealthy families are domineering, there are also good girls.

Besides, the little girl's domineering behavior depends on who she is facing.

In front of their elders, most of them are very well-behaved.

As for free love, Chu Xiangqian certainly had no objection. After all, Ailin was only a teenager, and it was too early for her to talk about marriage.

No matter whether she is the daughter of a wealthy family or a girl from an ordinary family, if you get in touch with a few more of them, you will be lucky and your childhood sweethearts will get married successfully.

It’s still a loss to suffer from a bitter love, but it’s actually a good thing in the long run.

He Chaosheng and Zheng Yutong were overjoyed to get Chu Xiangqian's approval, but Ye Xiaoli was a little depressed, wondering why he couldn't have a daughter?
As for Le Yan, he does have a biological sister, but he has just come into contact with Chu Xiangqian, so it is not a good idea for him to get close to her now.

Besides, I have never met the fourth son of the Chu family, so who knows who that guy is.

It’s better to take your time and watch it.

Then change clothes and ride horses.

However, although it was called horse riding, it was actually a horse riding walk. Of course, Chu Xiangqian started by talking about the Great Wall Hotel.

Although Chu Xiangqian was not in charge of the specific construction progress of the hotel, Ye Xiaoli also received part of the hotel's project. With him around, Chu Xiangqian basically knew every move of the hotel.

The destination of the funds is his main concern.

Seeing that the store would be open after the Chinese New Year, Chu Xiangqian agreed to attend the opening ceremony and told Zheng Yutong that he had received a batch of diamonds from London to offset his debts.

But the quantity is a bit large, and the estimated value exceeds 30 million US dollars.

This is of course nonsense. These diamonds are all raw diamonds mined in Guinea.

He then deliberately mentioned that the amount of new South Sea pearls produced this year is expected to increase by 2%.

The so-called South Sea pearls are all ordinary people's sea pearls. If you take them to the jewelry store in the Novice Village for repair, you can turn ordinary people's pearls into South Sea pearls with higher prices and better quality.

The profit here is at least dozens of times.

Once the colored beads are revealed, one can be sold for hundreds of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of pounds, or two to three million Hong Kong dollars.

Zheng Yutong was ecstatic after hearing this. After more than two years of sales, the South Sea pearls purchased from Chu Xiangqian had already made a name for themselves in the circles of wealthy wives in Hong Kong Island and Southeast Asia.

Zheng Yutong had long felt that he was too timid in signing the agreement in 61 to supply 1 million Nanyang pearls per year.

Not to mention increasing the supply by only 2%, even if it doubled to 2 million Hong Kong dollars, Zheng Yutong was fully confident that he could not only maintain the price of South Sea Pearls, but also ship them smoothly.

After all, a normal 12mm pure white pearl costs 1 Hong Kong dollars.

If it is changed to 14 mm, the price will soar to 5 Hong Kong dollars per piece.

In other words, Chu Xiangqian only supplies a few thousand pieces to Zheng Yutong's jewelry company every year.

Even if they were made into necklaces, they would only amount to a few hundred pieces.

Not to mention Southeast Asia, even Hong Kong Island can swallow it all, not to mention that Hong Kong Island’s economy has been pretty good in the past two years.

With more wealthy people, in addition to buying gold jewelry, the sales of diamonds, pearls and other gemstones have also been increasing year by year.

Therefore, Zheng Yutong not only took the supply of 1200 million Hong Kong dollars in one go, but was also very interested in the 3 million US dollars diamond that Chu Xiangqian mentioned.

Chu Xiangqian said this just to try to see if he could acquire a stake in Zheng Yutong's jewelry company by becoming an exclusive supplier.

First of all, I have plenty of jewels in my hands.

I definitely wouldn’t want to sell those top quality ones.

But instead of letting the mid-range ones gather dust in the Novice Village warehouse, it would be better to sell a small portion of them every year.

Even the small portion that Chu Xiangqian mentioned, which is only a few thousandths of the total inventory, is enough to reduce the purchase volume of Zheng Yutong's jewelry company by several percent.

Not to mention other things, just gold, rubies, sapphires, diamonds and pearls can either be obtained in the novice village, or can be exchanged with dwarves and elves in Middle-earth.

And the exchange price can definitely reach 1 to 10 or even 1 to several dozen.

Just by selling wine to dwarves and elves, a large amount of gold and jewelry can be earned every year.

There are many top-quality ones, but there are even more mid- and low-end ones.

Last time in the rain forest of Guinea, after sorting the small diamonds collected from the river valley, there were two full backpacks of diamonds of several carats, weighing at least ten or twenty kilograms.

Converted into carats, it would be around 70,000 or 100,000 carats.

The smaller the diamond ore, the more abundant it is.

In Chu Xiangqian's eyes, this thing has really become useless and there is no need to collect it.

Then he lied and said that someone in London owed him 30 million US dollars, which was finally repaid with diamonds.

After saying that, Chu Xiangqian reached into his pocket, took out a small velvet bag that he had prepared earlier, and threw it directly into the hands of Zheng Yutong who was riding on the horse.

As soon as Zheng Yutong saw the velvet bag, she guessed that it was a bag for diamonds.

He took it in a panic and jumped off the horse without thinking.

Then he opened the bag and his breathing became heavy.

(End of this chapter)