Year: I had a good time when I was young

Chapter 832 The Troublemakers Are Coming

However, Ailin only wanted a big house. Unfortunately, Chu Xiangqian did not agree to give him the 190-square-meter duplex, so he chose the 140-square-meter house.

After those who love the country and the people come over, the remaining 130 and 140 will be drawn by themselves.

As for Ai Qiu, since Chu Xiangqian loves this younger sister the most, he can either choose a 190-square-meter duplex or give her two 90-square-meter houses.

As for Gangsheng, Feifei and Aiyuan, they will never have to worry about food and clothing in the future thanks to the rent from these stores.

Moreover, Chu Xiangqian always treats everyone equally. Hongsheng and Feifei got one, and Linda, Alyssa and Zheng Shufen also gave them three 1 million Hong Kong dollars.

But Linda and Alyssa are not short of money.

Although the amount of goods exported to India has been reduced by at least half last year and this year, over the past three years or so, the two sisters have been able to earn millions of Hong Kong dollars every year just from export dividends.

In addition, the ownership of 15 milk tea shops, pancake shops and a Tianzhu restaurant belongs to Chu Xiangqian, but the two sisters take half of the business income.

The Tianzhu restaurant was exactly as Chu Xiangqian had expected.

In the first year or so, quite a few people ate it.

In addition to many Indians in Hong Kong, locals also frequent the place.

As the number of times you can eat there increases, fewer and fewer locals go there.

Naturally, business gradually became dull.

If Linda had not been the uniformed commander of Yau Ma Tei Police Station and concurrently the commander of the mobile unit, she would have been considered a senior and powerful police officer in Yau Tsim Mong.

It can shelter many compatriots from India who come to Hong Kong to make a living.

In addition, in the past two years, some Indians who do business with Hong Kong have basically turned to Linda when they get into trouble.

Even when the goods are unloaded, they basically go through the Yau Ma Tei wharf, and at worst, they go ashore at the Kwai Chung wharf.

In order to avoid problems, Linda had to spend more time and effort to build relationships on the main island.

However, after Chu Xiangqian's Chai Wan Wharf started operation, many Indian cargo ships landed in Chai Wan.

What made Chu Xiangqian unhappy was that some Indians, relying on their connections with Linda, dared to cut in line at Chai Wan Pier and pay less management fees and berthing fees.

After several times, Chu Xiangqian understood the character of Indian merchants and naturally would not indulge them.

Not only arrest people, but also impose heavy penalties.

Linda was highly praised in the beginning, but gradually she found out that she was unreliable, and fewer people helped her.

Even if someone really committed a crime, she would rather side with Hong Kong Island.

However, even if Linda did this, more people would go to that restaurant when Indians had dinner together.

It seems that the Indians are not without a sense of right and wrong.

Otherwise the restaurant's business will definitely be worse.

However, the 15 milk tea and pancake shops located in Central, Wan Chai, Causeway Bay, Tsim Sha Tsui and Yau Ma Tei have always been doing good business.

The profit has also increased from 5 yuan per month in the first year of opening to 9 yuan per month now.

Chu Xiangqian had already promised to divide half of the profits between Linda and Alyssa.

Chu Xiangqian didn't care about anything. After a few years, he had already earned back the money he spent on buying these stores.

Of course, when I bought it a few years ago, the price was really cheap.

Linda and Alyssa didn’t spend much money on a daily basis, so the two sisters did have some money saved.

This time, he simply took out 70 yuan of his own money, plus the 100 million yuan given by Chu Xiangqian, and bought 14 shops in Yau Ma Tei, Tsim Sha Tsui, Prince Edward Road and Mong Kok.

Since it is a popular shop, the price is not cheap even if it is located in Yau Ma Tei or Tsim Sha Tsui.

Moreover, even with falling housing prices, the average price of a room is only tens of thousands.

Linda and Alyssa also took the opportunity to set up a milk tea and pancake shop in West Kowloon.

But now Alyssa has something to do.

Although Linda would help her, she was basically at the police station during the day and could only do so much to help her.

Alyssa, who had been free and easy for several years, complained repeatedly in Chu Xiangqian's arms many times.

Unfortunately, it was basically impossible for Alyssa to ask Chu Xiangqian to help her, or to spend more time with her.

But just accompanying Alyssa to see those new stores in person has made Alyssa in a very good mood for several days.
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Zheng Shufen's approach was the simplest. She pestered Chu Xiangqian for help and advice, and finally used the HK$100 million to buy two poorly performing theaters in Yau Ma Tei and Mong Kok.

After renovation and redecoration, it will be used to show movies in the future.

Moreover, Zheng Shufen listened to Chu Xiangqian and did not just show Chu's films, but also films from several of the largest film companies.

The main point is to show whichever movie is well made and popular.

Although the development of Yau Ma Tei and Mong Kok in recent years has not been very good, the housing prices are still moderate compared to the entire Hong Kong Island, and in some places the housing prices are actually quite cheap.

In the future, the rent here will rise instead of fall.

This may have a lot to do with the fact that the population in the two places has actually been increasing in recent years.

It looks old and shabby, but as long as there are a lot of people, it can make a lot of money every month even if it sells cheap goods.

The rent won't be cheap.

So when Zheng Shufen took over the theater, she knew there would be no shortage of audiences as long as the ticket prices were cheaper.

And you don't have to worry about anyone causing trouble. Even the police won't come to your house to ask for fees in the future.

If someone really causes trouble, both military and plainclothes officers will have to rush over as quickly as possible to catch them.

From a business perspective, Zheng Shufen is the one who has made the most profit among all the women by buying at the bottom.

Even Chu Xiangqian himself was just staring at the shops and buildings.

He left the shops to his women to buy, while he himself bought up buildings.

In the 7s and 80s, Hong Kong films were unrivaled in Southeast Asia.

Hong Kong's own film market has entered a period of rapid development since the mid-60s.

If the business is well managed, it would not be difficult for Zheng Shufen to earn back a theater in two or three years.
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Let’s go back to the first month of 64.

Chu Xiangqian entered the law firm and signed a tiered share purchase and sale contract with Nie Wanlong in front of Zheng Yutong, He Chaosheng, He Zanyuan and He Zanxian.

As soon as the contract was signed, the total price was calculated based on the construction cost of the Great Wall Hotel last year, which was HK$1.2 million, and 120% of the shares were sold to Nie Wanlong for HK$1 million.

In the future, 2% of the shares will be sold to Nie Wanlong every two years until Nie Wanlong holds 1% of the shares and the contract expires.

However, how much the 4% stake will be worth in the future will depend on the market value of the Great Wall Hotel at that time.

And if Nie Wanlong wants to get 5%, he has to stay in the Great Wall Hotel for at least 8 years.

During this period, if he loses to the challenger, Chu Xiangqian has the right to buy back his shares at the market value of the hotel at that time.

If we talk about the spinach hotel purely as a hotel, it is actually not worth much. What is really valuable is the license and the profit made every year.

Moreover, the speed and magnitude of the housing price increase in Macau is far less than that in Hong Kong Island. So for a hotel, if it can rise to 5 million or 10 billion in ten or twenty years, it is considered a sky-high price.

But if the hotel is run well, the gambling business alone could bring in hundreds of millions, or even two or three hundred million in profits every year.

As for the license plate, its uniqueness means that it will be priced sky-high in the future and it will be impossible to sell it to others.

The Portuguese only issued one license plate from the beginning to the end.

However, each license has a time limit, but since he only had one license in his previous life, Chu Xiangqian must have the ability and financial resources to maintain the bottom line of having only one license.
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In fact, there were many traps in the contract signed between Chu Xiangqian and Nie Wanlong that Nie Wanlong could not understand at all, and even the lawyer he hired did not notice.

If we always cooperate well, then everything will be fine.

Chu Xiangqian didn't mind that after Nie Wanlong retired, he could sell 5% of his shares and take away hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars to retire.

After all, it will take at least 20 to 30 years, or even 40 years for him to retire.

Since they have been working together for such a long time, their friendship must be deep enough.

It also helped Chu Xiangqian earn ten or even dozens of times more money than hundreds of millions or even billions.

At that time, Chu Xiangqian would instead wish Nie Wanlong to enjoy his retirement life.

In the future, we can occasionally go fishing together and have dinner together.

After all, when people get old and have achieved success, they tend to let go of many things.

If they had not been able to cooperate for so long, and Nie Wanlong had not betrayed him, Chu Xiangqian would not have touched him and would have protected him.

If the cooperation is unpleasant or even if they become rivals, Chu Xiangqian will not show mercy.

As soon as the contract was signed, Nie Wanlong immediately wrote a check for 120 million Hong Kong dollars to Chu Xiangqian, and then everyone didn't rush to hold a banquet.

Instead, he watched Chu Xiangqian transfer 3 million US dollars to a special account of Standard Chartered, and then Standard Chartered issued a certificate and handed it to He Chaosheng.

When he meets the foreigners in Macau, with this certificate, they will believe that Chu Xiangqian is serious about building a racing track.

Three days later, when the Great Wall Hotel opened, no one knew who leaked the news, but Chu Xiangqian, the three men with the surname He, and Zheng Yutong's friends all came to attend the opening ceremony.

The foreigners from Macau came, and five or six British people from Hong Kong also came.

And the person leading the team was Hader from the Civil Service Department.

As soon as he saw Chu Xiangqian, Harder ignored the seven or eight Portuguese people around Chu Xiangqian and hugged Chu Xiangqian. He also complained on the spot that Chu Xiangqian was not a good friend.

A project worth four or five hundred million Hong Kong dollars, but they planned to invest in Macau without even asking any questions.

Now the Portuguese were both angry and a little panicked.

He had originally wanted to take advantage of Chu Xiangqian and ask for more kickbacks, while also striving to increase the 5% stake promised by Chu Xiangqian to more than 15%.

When it came to the Great Wall Hotel’s license issue, it was Chu Xiangqian who approached Lisbon’s top management directly through Philips.

This means that the foreigners in Macau did not get much benefit.

5% of the shares of the Great Wall Hotel is a shame for the foreigners who always dare to ask for 30% or even half of it.

If everyone shares this little bit, it won't even be enough to fill the gaps between our teeth.

So this time Chu Xiangqian wanted to open a racing track in Macau again, and he asked for 4 acres of land, which means he wanted to take away an entire wetland.

If I don’t bite off a big piece of fat from him during this good opportunity, I may not have this chance again next time.

But once Hader arrived, the Portuguese knew it was hard to say whether they could keep the project.

The only thing that the Portuguese felt was a trump card was that the Great Wall Hotel was located in Macau after all. No matter what Chu Xiangqian said, he had to consider whether the hotel would be harassed in the future if he changed his mind.

As for who leaked the news, it was of course Chu Xiangqian himself who secretly had someone spread it.

Now that the foreigners from Hong Kong Island have been attracted here, Chu Xiangqian is no longer in a hurry.

Anyway, even if we reach an agreement with Macau or Hong Kong Island on this project, it will take at least several months to start construction.

Once a dispute arises, it is normal to talk about it for a year or two.

If it involves relocation, it will be even more troublesome.

So when Chu Xiangqian heard He Chaosheng talk about the wetland, he immediately felt that the piece of land was suitable.

Not only is it only a dozen minutes' drive from the bustling area, but he also doesn't have to worry about relocation, and no citizens will make trouble for him.

Since Chu Xiangqian had achieved his goal, no matter what Hader said, Chu Xiangqian changed the topic to the opening of the hotel.

After a few times, Hader and Ying Guolao who crossed the sea with him also realized that today was the opening ceremony of the Great Wall Hotel, and it was indeed inappropriate to hold Chu Xiangqian.

Moreover, Hader and other foreigners also knew that even if Chu Xiangqian changed his mind and started negotiations with Hong Kong Island, it would take three to five months to reach a conclusion.

The land for the racetrack is too large, covering 4 acres in Macau, so it is impossible to reach a deal privately.

A few years ago, the Kowloon Racecourse only covered 40 acres of land.

Among them, 30 acres are the horse farm, and the other 10 acres are street shanties.

Chu Xiangqian had the shanties cleared away so that shops and two buildings could be built.

Of course, there are far more than 40 acres of green space around the weather station at the original site of the horse farm, but Chu Xiangqian’s ambition was far less than it is now.

At the same time, there is not that much money.

So Hader and his team came here this time just to interrupt the negotiation process between Chu Xiangqian and the Portuguese.

As for whether he will compete with the Portuguese, Hader is unwilling to let go anyway.

Once the project was completed and construction started on Hong Kong Island, a few years later, Harder would be able to run back to London to run for the House of Commons based on this political achievement.

Moreover, if this project brings enough benefits to Chu Xiangqian, when he becomes a politician in London in the future, he will have enough confidence to pull Chu Xiangqian to become his financial backer.

Then, following Chu Xiangqian's relationship, he attached himself to Mountbatten and Philips.

By then, he will have both money and connections. Hader believes that he is quite capable and may become one of the bigwigs in Downing Street in the future.

Unfortunately, Chu Xiangqian didn't necessarily want him to return to London.

After all, his properties in England are far less than those in Hong Kong Island.

Moreover, thanks to the relationship between Philip and Mountbatten, there was no need for Huddle to go to the House of Commons for help in many matters.

It can even be said that if Chu Xiangqian made the same investment in Harder, he could immediately find help from the current bigwigs in Downing Street.

Why would he need Hadel to be promoted to help him in a few years or even decades?

If you really want to invest in the future, you can invest in advance according to your memory in those London stocks that are still dormant or have not yet developed.

Just like Thatcher, who had been first lady in office for 11 years, was demoted from Parliamentary Secretary of State for Pensions and National Insurance because of the Conservatives' resignation.

He was transferred to become the Conservative Party's spokesperson for 'housing and land affairs', 'finance and economic affairs', 'fuel and power', 'transport affairs' and 'education affairs'.

It seems that he has many titles, but in fact he has very little real power. To put it bluntly, he is just a talker.

(End of this chapter)