Year: I had a good time when I was young

Chapter 812 Fixed Patrol Posts and Money Sharing
After the Chinese New Year, Chu Xiangqian thought he would have at least two or three more days of peace and quiet, but he didn't expect that someone would come to his house to pay New Year's greetings on the morning of the first day of the new year.

As for queuing up at the Wong Tai Sin Temple on New Year's Eve to light the first incense stick at midnight on the first day of the new year, Chu Xiangqian had no interest in that at all.

So many Hong Kong people are so active, just for the sake of fortune, but Chu Xiangqian really has no shortage of opportunities to make money.

Even if he no longer expands the company or develops other businesses in the future, and just keeps on keeping the existing company and real estate.

From now on, your net worth will not be less than tens of billions of Hong Kong dollars.

No, the Diamond Hill studio alone and part of the studio plus the redeveloped wasteland to build the Universal Studios Hong Kong will be worth more than tens of billions of Hong Kong dollars in forty or fifty years.

If it was developed into real estate after the new millennium and sold in several phases, it would not be a luxury to make 700 to 800 billion, or even hundreds of billions.

If you add the cinema, the vegetable market, the bar street in Tsim Sha Tsui, the land of the Kowloon Racecourse, the shops along an entire street outside the racecourse, and the two buildings.

There are also Chai Wan Pier, Lee Theatre, Imperial Palace Theatre, a woodworking factory, five small buildings in Lan Kwai Fong, a Central building, the land of three furniture malls, and the 5 square meter flour mill.

Decades later, these fixed assets can be easily sold for 500 billion or even hundreds of billions of Hong Kong dollars.

Thinking of this, Chu Xiangqian shook his head helplessly. Rebirth is indeed the biggest cheat.

As long as you earn the first start-up capital and adopt a more conservative business strategy, it will be difficult for you not to become a wealthy person in Hong Kong in the future.

Not to mention that he also invested in Zheng Yutong's Zhou Dafu and Ye Xiaoli's Mingda, and also holds 60% of the shares of the Great Wall Hotel Macau.
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After seeing off He Zanyuan, He Chaosheng and Zheng Yutong who came to the door together, Chu Xiangqian thought to himself that these people were really efficient.

It’s been less than a year and the interior decoration of the Great Wall Hotel has been completed.

Subsequent renovation projects can be completed in a month at most.

If we speed up a bit, we can open for business in ten days or half a month.

But after the Lantern Festival, Chu Xiangqian had to go to London to accompany the pregnant Margaret.

It is common for pregnant women to have endocrine disorders, bad tempers, and suspicious personalities.

If Chu Xiangqian hadn't promised to go back to be with her after the New Year, it would have been difficult for her to spend the New Year peacefully in Hong Kong Island.

In April, Chu Xiangqian had to accompany Linda and Alissa back to Osaribond to celebrate the Indian New Year, which immediately gave him a headache.

But if you calculate carefully, there should still be two or three days left to fly back and attend the opening ceremony.

If it really doesn't work, then let Xue Jinglan go to Macau in my place.

As for attending the reopening ceremony of Chow Tai Fook’s main store in Central before the Lantern Festival, there is no problem.

After lending the huge white diamond to Zheng Yutong, this guy looked for the most professional diamond cutting master to design and cut the diamond.

The main store was also closed.

The purpose is to strengthen security and install the most rigorous light-transmitting display stand of these days to protect and display the diamond.

According to Zheng Yutong, this exhibition stand cannot be broken even by shooting with a submachine gun.

Moreover, once the bulletproof glass is hit by a huge external force, the diamonds inside will automatically descend along with the second small booth in the exhibition stand and be locked in a two-meter-thick concrete pier underground.

Even with the right tools, it would take several hours to break through this layer of concrete.

The main store is only a 20-minute walk from the Hong Kong Island Police Headquarters.

For running and driving, it takes no more than five minutes.

But Zheng Yutong still felt unsafe, so while visiting Chu Xiangqian to wish a happy new year, she also hoped that Chu Xiangqian could help lobby the Commissioner of Police Ge Bai to set up a fixed patrol post opposite Chow Tai Fook's Central headquarters.

The mobile troops patrolling Central during the day and night are led from fixed posts to the patrol routes and then hand over at the fixed posts after the patrol.

In addition to those who go out on patrol, there will also be police officers at fixed posts who are responsible for communication relay and command.

To put it bluntly, it is a patrol post in name, but in reality it can be called a small police station.

To explain in Zheng Yutong's words, as long as the patrol post is established, he will continue to lobby and suggest expanding the functions of the patrol post.

As long as the functions increase, the number of police officers can be increased, and it is not impossible to gradually become a police station.

Chu Xiangqian had no doubt about Zheng Yutong's thoughts. Although this guy was very friendly and approachable in front of him, he might be one of the four richest men in Hong Kong Island and also a tycoon of one of the four real estate companies. None of them was a kind-hearted person.

In this way, as long as someone attacks Chow Tai Fook's main store, they will be discovered by the fixed posts at the first time, and then the mobile forces will be summoned via radio.

Chu Xiangqian naturally had no objection to this. Anyway, Zheng Yutong was willing to donate money to build this permanent post.

Because Chu Xiangqian needs to avoid taxes every year, he donated hundreds of thousands of yuan to the Central Mobile Force, which easily allowed the members of the Mobile Force to focus more on the safety of Zhou Dafu's store in Central.

As for whether Ge Bai would agree, this foreigner was eager to help Chu Xiangqian solve his problem.

Chu Xiangqian made a phone call and the matter was settled.

Ge Bai even assured on the phone that this checkpoint would be established before the business opened.

In the future, the equipment, firepower, and vehicle configuration of the Central Ring Mobile Force will be upgraded to a higher level.

Chu Xiangqian also cooperated and said with a smile that in the future, the Chu Foundation would donate 10 Hong Kong dollars to the Central Mobile Unit every year to purchase more cash equipment, vehicles, and injury subsidies.

Ge Bai laughed out loud after hearing this, and then simply asked Chu Xiangqian if he had any suitable person to recommend for the commander of the patrol post.

Now Chu Xiangqian really started to think about it seriously.

According to convention, this commander must be a foreigner, and his starting rank is inspector level.

Trainee Inspectors, Inspectors, and Senior Inspectors are actually team commanders with several or dozens of people under them.

It can be foreseen that the patrol post will have at least four to six patrol teams under its command, with each patrol team consisting of 4 to 5 people, and may even be commanded by a senior inspector.

Therefore, as long as Chu Xiangqian is selected, he can first be an inspector, and it will not be difficult for him to be promoted to senior inspector after one or two years.

But for a moment, Chu Xiangqian really hadn't figured out who to push to the position.

I can only tell Ge Bai that there is no rush to choose a candidate and I will think about it later. But the patrol post must be set up as soon as possible.

Ge Bai naturally had no objection to this.

The security issue of Chow Tai Fook’s main store has been resolved, and we are just waiting for the diamond to be cut.

Chu Xiangqian had previously met with four diamond cutting masters recognized by the industry, who had designed the design, and then let Zheng Yutong make the decision.

Anyway, Chu Xiangqian didn't believe that this guy would be so short-sighted as to mess around with the diamond.

Generally speaking, it takes three to five months, or even one to two years, to cut a diamond and design it into any shape.

After all, a top-grade white diamond the size of a walnut is worth more than tens of millions of dollars, so it is never too careful.

But this diamond was in the lava cave in Guinea, and was rolled around by the giant ape like a stone, and it had long been polished into a semi-finished product. Basically, there is no need to consider how to cut it, and the value can be maximized.

The most troublesome steps are omitted, and cutting and grinding are actually quite fast.

Zheng Yutong repeatedly assured that the store would be reopened before the Lantern Festival and that the diamond would be on display.
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After seeing off He Zanyuan and the others, Chu Xiangqian returned to the living room and saw his beloved son climbing onto the coffee table using his hands and feet.

He grabbed a box of traditional pastries wrapped in paper from the gifts sent by He Zanyuan and others, put it in his mouth, and wanted to tear open the packaging with his four little front teeth.

Fortunately, Xue Jinglan and the others were sitting nearby, and they quickly reached out and held Chu Jingrong's little head.

It’s not that I don’t want to give it to him, but I’m worried about hurting his four front teeth.

When Chu Jingrong saw the food being taken away, his face fell, his mouth opened, and he started to cry loudly.

After seeing his biological father, the little guy cried and reached out to Chu Xiangqian. Chu Xiangqian laughed, walked over, picked up the little guy and sat on the sofa next to Xue Jinglan.

Then he took the box of cakes and opened it. He saw that it contained mung bean cakes, and he felt relieved.

When Chu Jingrong ate the mung bean cake, he stopped crying immediately and put the mung bean cake he had taken a bite of into Chu Xiangqian's mouth.

Then, while grabbing a piece of mung bean cake in one hand, he kept his eyes on his mother, fearing that she would snatch it away.

Xue Jinglan, who was beside him, couldn't help but gently hit Chu Jingrong on the arm, and complained to Chu Xiangqian that he shouldn't spoil this kid like that.

Chu Xiangqian shrugged. It seemed that he didn't need to worry about Xue Jinglan, the biological mother, doting on the little one too much in the future.

As for the nonsense that the child is still young and will become sensible when he grows up, Chu Xiangqian was full of contempt and disbelief.

The younger the child is, the more restraint he should have, otherwise it will take more effort to discipline him after he is three or five years old, and it may even be too late.
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After leisurely spending half the morning at home, the internal communication intercom system next to the front door rang again.

Feifei ran over to answer the call, and Chu Xiangqian soon heard a report from the sentry that it was people from Ge Bai's card-playing club who came to wish him a happy new year.

Xue Jinglan, Gangsheng, Feifei, the master and his wife were busy preparing to receive the guests.

But Chu Xiangqian knew in his heart that New Year's greetings were just an excuse. These guys in the card-playing club must be here for the dividends from the shipping company in the past few months.

Chu Xiangqian paid dividends to Sakura and the Philippine garrison by sending cash to them on time every month.

But the dividends from the Poker Club, Philips and Norton will not be given to them so quickly.

The former was that Chu Xiangqian needed to request the garrison to escort the coal fleet.

As for the latter, Philip and the others needed to beg Chu Xiangqian.

So the attitude is naturally different.

Chu Jingrong was handed over to the master's wife, and the master's wife and the other four old people simply left the living room. It was a hassle to go through all the politeness for free.

As for Xue Jinglan and Hong Kong student Feifei, they could only stay to pack up the gifts and prepare new tea.

Today is the first day of the Lunar New Year, and Chu Xiangqian did not let the three Zhaodi sisters, Tao Jie and Zhang Tianzhi and other bodyguards come back.

So many things have to be done by the three sisters Xue Jinglan themselves.

As for safety, as long as Chu Xiangqian is at home, no one can threaten the safety of his family.

The presence of two hunting dogs, a stingray, a titmouse and a green mamba means that Chu Xiangqian has air early warning, monitoring capabilities of more than 100 meters, scent detection and infrared detection capabilities.
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Ten minutes later, several cars entered the villa and parked in the parking spaces at the entrance of the main building.

Chu Xiangqian then stood up and walked outside the main building to greet Ge Bai and the others.

After some pleasantries, everyone drank tea but no one smoked cigars for fear of smoking Chu Jingrong.

Ge Bai and the others didn't care. After saying some festive words, they held their teacups and drank tea, while their eyes were on Chu Xiangqian who was sitting in the main seat.

Chu Xiangqian rolled his eyes at the group of foreigners, making it clear that he wanted money.

Chu Xiangqian thought about it and decided, forget it. He wasn’t short of money recently anyway, so it didn’t matter if he gave it to them sooner or later. There was no need to make things difficult for these guys.

According to the original agreement, the heads of the four departments, Hader, Nelson, Bridge and Gebai, could each take $100 million per year.

However, the shipping company had only been in formal operation for four months, and had only been on the right track for three months.

Therefore, Hader and his four companions can only get 30 this time.

After Chu Xiangqian finished explaining, Hader and the other three nodded in agreement.

In the first month, the fleet transported coal from Hong Kong Island to Sakura, but the efficiency was far less than what Chu Xiangqian had promised. It could only make three trips a month.

Not only were the foreigners in the card-playing club dissatisfied, but the two lieutenant colonels from Sakura and the Philippine garrison also expressed their dissatisfaction on behalf of the generals behind them.

Chu Xiangqian then took advantage of the situation and began to load ships from Tianjin and transport coal from the northern part of the Celestial Empire to Yinghua.

Not only is 10 days more than enough for a round trip, but it also leaves a few days free for maintenance at the South Korean shipyard every month.

It could have been repaired and maintained at Sakura, but the Victory Wheel was produced more than 20 years ago.

The technical content is not high. Not to mention South Korea, even Taiwan or Hong Kong can inspect and repair this kind of ship.

As for China, you have to drive to the south, and maintenance is no problem, but repair is uncertain.

In order to save time, we can only go to the South Korean shipyard for repairs and maintenance, and the price is cheaper than in Sakura.

Even if there is a serious problem, it can be towed to the Sakura Garrison Shipyard for repairs.

Hader and the other three confirmed that there was no problem with the accounts, and Chu Xiangqian asked them whether they wanted cash or a transfer.

Ge Bai quickly replied, "Stark, if possible, we would like to transfer the money to our account in Switzerland."

But before Chu Xiangqian could respond, Hader, the head of the Political Affairs Department, said, "No, this is not appropriate."

Chu Xiangqian guessed Hader's concerns and nodded with a smile, "It's better not to tell outsiders about the Swiss account."

To put it bluntly, this money is a relationship fee, which is a bit like a power-for-money transaction. So it's right to be cautious.

As for depositing money into Account A, the money can be withdrawn and deposited into other accounts, but if someone really wants to check, they may still be able to find some problems or even clues by following Account A.

There were no computers back then, so there was still a chance that the handwriting left on paper could be discovered by others.

As for the lie that Switzerland is the best in bank confidentiality, Chu Xiangqian used to believe it. After all, the foreigners did a very good job in publicity.

But from the news in the previous life and what I learned in this life, Swiss bankers secretly swallowed up a large amount of money from German accounts during World War II. I realized that the so-called confidentiality was just a propaganda method.

As long as the benefits are high enough, bankers will turn into rogues and robbers.

Besides, if there really is a specific account, England would have sufficient reason to ask Switzerland to provide information on the specific account.

(End of this chapter)