Hong Kong Island's wealthy era

Chapter 75 Charity Dinner and the Establishment of Orange Technology
On December 12, Lei Liquan received an invitation from the Hong Kong government to attend their charity reception, and it was specifically stated that Hong Kong Governor MacLehose would attend.

Lei Liquan and Li Yanzhen were preparing to attend the dinner together at 2 o'clock in the afternoon.

When the car arrived at the Peninsula Hotel, luxury cars were everywhere, which showed that everyone attending the banquet tonight was either rich or noble.

When the Hong Kong government held a charity dinner, big shots naturally gathered. Most people were not even qualified to be invited, but Lei Liquan was lucky enough to be invited.

However, at this time, Chinese capital had not yet completely emerged, and most of the people who came were British people with a background in British foreign companies, so Lei Liquan believed that this was a charity fund that the Hong Kong government was looking at in his hands.

The Chinese investors who came here were all big-shot figures like the Charter King and the Dong Ship King.After all, everyone involved in shipping nowadays is rich, and in the eyes of Westerners, money means everything.

For example, no matter where the charter boat king goes, he is warmly received by the local government, and sometimes even has to be received by the local leader.

Therefore, the power of money is infinite.

Lei Liquan also saw the heads of the four established families in Xiangjiang, including his father-in-law Li Xiaohe.As well as some Chinese businessmen that Lei Liquan had never met, they had probably been following British compradors in the past.

Li Xiaohe saw his daughter walking slowly over holding Lei Liquan's arm, and said with a smile: "Ah Rong, Ah Zhen, I didn't expect you to be invited tonight."

"Dad, we came here after receiving an invitation from the Hong Kong government. I think they were interested in the charity fund we have, but I didn't expect that dad would come in person."

Lei Liquan has changed his tune since marrying Li Yanzhen.

"The Hong Kong government invited me to participate, so it's hard to refuse." Lizeming paused and said.

"Ali, try to see how much other Chinese businessmen donate, and try to donate less than them. If you donate too much, they will look bad on this occasion."

Lei Liquan understood that this was also Li Xiaohe's kindness, reminding him not to be too ostentatious on such occasions.

"Dad, I understand."

Later, Li Xiaohe introduced several Chinese bigwigs to Lei Liquan, and Lei Liquan gave junior gifts to the elders.

Lei Liquan knew that ordinary people were not qualified to greet so many big bosses. This was an opportunity created by Li Xiaohe for him.

But among these people, the one Lei Liquan wants to get to know most is the chartering king, because after a year, they might even cooperate.

Lei Liquan knew that it would be a bit abrupt to suddenly go up to say hello with so many big shots here.

At tonight's dinner, Lei Liquan is destined to be a passer-by and won't gain much.

Therefore, such a dinner made Lei Liquan feel particularly bored, but at the same time, he also felt that he only needed to grow up slowly, and he would soon become a tycoon in Hong Kong, and then he could let others take the initiative to make friends with him.

But often when you feel bored, unexpected people come to you.

"Hello Lei Sheng." Suddenly Shen Bi, a ghost guy, came to him and greeted him with a smile.

"Hello, Mr. Shen. I was just going to find you for a drink."Lei Liquan lied without his heart beating or blushing.

"Lei Sheng, Lei Tai, congratulations on your happy wedding!"

The last time Lei Liquan got married, Shen Bi happened to be back home to report on his work and missed the wedding. Today is the first time they met.

"Thank you, Mr. Shen, for your blessing." Li Zhenzhen took the initiative to clink glasses with Shen Bi.

"This is what it should be. Lei Sheng, let me introduce you to a friend."

After saying that, he took Lei Liquan and his wife and went directly to the charter king, which made Lei Liquan feel a little bit cold.

"Sheng Bao, let me introduce you to Mr. Lei Liquan, a rising star among Chinese businessmen." Shen Bi said to the Ship King.

"Lei Sheng, this chartered king is a famous figure among your Chinese businessmen." Shen Bi introduced the chartered king to Lei Liquan.

"Bao Sheng, I have long admired your name." Lei Liquan said to the ship king politely.

"Lei Sheng, you are also a famous figure in Xiangjiang. Maybe we will have to cooperate in the future."

The Charter King doesn't feel superior, maybe this is his quality.But what he said was not false at all. The shipping king was preparing to land, and his first choice for landing was Wharf. Lei Liquan should be considered the single major shareholder of Wharf at present.

"Sheng Bao, please give me more advice in the future."

After chatting for a few words, the banquet was about to begin.

After everyone took their seats, Governor Morrison soon came to the stage to speak.

"Good evening, gentlemen and ladies! I am honored to stand here and speak at this charity evening. The prosperity and development of Hong Kong cannot be separated from the support of the United Kingdom and the Queen, and it is also inseparable from the joint efforts of everyone. Finally, I wish to I wish this charity dinner a complete success and provide more help to the people in need in Hong Kong, thank you!"

"clap clap"

Thunderous applause broke out, the Queen's influence in Hong Kong is very strong.In her previous life, the Queen came to Hong Kong for a visit after the Sino-British negotiations concluded. Many Hong Kong citizens shed tears in the streets. I really don’t know what they are missing.

In the minds of rich people in the West, I can pity you and give you alms, but you cannot be equal to me, and you cannot live a superior life like me.This is 'charity' in their minds. We should not be deceived by their 'hypocrisy'.

Therefore, for charity, if Lei Liquan wants to do it, he can do it himself. There is no need to cheer for foreigners. This is exactly the purpose of Lei Liquan's establishment of Lei Ruide Charitable Foundation.

Therefore, in the end, Lei Liquan only donated [-] Hong Kong dollars and left in a hurry.

Lei Liquan was a little depressed. How much he hyped himself up was not worth mentioning in front of them.

It was almost 1977, and Lei Liquan thought it was an opportunity for them to see the power of Chinese capital.

I still visited Shen Bi on Christmas Day. Lei Liquan did not deliberately try to please him, but wanted to use the power of HSBC to accomplish some earth-shattering things.

……

Lei Liquan decided what else he wanted to do before the Spring Festival?I thought of the 'Octopus Card' in Xiangjiang in my previous life. It was a universal card in Xiangjiang. It was used for shopping, subway, bus, gas, water and electricity, etc. It was also a first-class livelihood project.

Isn't it just an IC card?It cannot be done under the offensive of money.

Lei Liquan did what he said and had been collecting data since Christmas. However, most of the data showed that it was impossible to become a reality with today's technology, which once made Lei Liquan despair.

It wasn't until one day that Lei Liquan found a useful result. Now he smiled widely and decided to personally assign this research and development task to the orange factory. On January 1, Lei Liquan was holding a management meeting at the Kwun Tong Orange Factory.

At the meeting were Huo Haiqing, He Guoyuan, Liu Changhai, Wang Xingfa, Li Zicai and others.

"Leisheng, the current sales of Orange arcade machines are very good. 4 units of Snake are sold, and hundreds of small orders for Xiangjiang cubes are coming in one after another. In addition to the 8000 million handed over to the head office last time, Orange still has 6000 in cash on its account. Ten thousand Hong Kong dollars, and new orders continue to increase, and it is estimated that the new revenue will be more than [-] million in the next three months."

"Very good. At the end of this year, I will be sitting here with you three salaries." Lei Liquan was very proud of having such a cash cow.

"He Sheng, when will the home game console be launched?" Lei Liquan asked.

He Guoyuan had been prepared for a long time and said: "Leisheng, according to the communication between Riyada and our engineers, it will take another three months to go on the market."

"It's great that home game consoles will continue to provide our Orange Factory with huge profits. But will the first model you promote be a cartridge type?"

"Yes, otherwise it wouldn't take three months to go on the market." He Guoyuan.

"We only have two games, how are you going to solve the cassette games?" Lei Liquan raised a new question.

"Leisheng, I initially plan to launch two games first, and then develop new games or outsource some arcade games." He Guoyuan said.

Lei Liquan thought for a while and said: "It is okay to produce two kinds of game cartridges in the early stage, but there is no need to outsource the games later. Of course, it is not that we will no longer develop new games, but it is too slow and not conducive to family games. Machine promotion.”

Lei Liquan looked at everyone and continued: "Didn't we have a pleasant cooperation with RB Namco when we acquired Yalida last time? We can give them the agency rights of RB, but they must change some of the arcade games in their hands. If you want to become a cassette game, let me be your agent to sell cassettes. Wang Xingfa, you should immediately draft a plan and fly to RB to negotiate with Namco."

"Okay, Lei Sheng." Wang Xingfa replied happily.

Wang Xingfa was very happy today. He did not expect that his boss would give him such an important task. If this task was completed perfectly, his boss would definitely give him a credit.

"If there are any difficulties during the negotiation process, report it to Manager Huo immediately. We will leave this matter here for today."

As the saying goes, you don’t need a heavy hammer to sound a drum!Lei Liquan knew that there was no need to explain too much to Wang Xingfa. He was an experienced businessman and he knew what to do.

"Although we have achieved excellent results in the early stage, we must prepare for a rainy day. Now I will make arrangements for the future development direction of the orange factory, and everyone must implement it unconditionally."

Lei Liquan took a sip of water and let everyone digest it, because he saw everyone's frightened eyes.

After waiting for a while, he looked at Huo Haiqing and continued: "Huo Sheng, the Orange Factory has been renamed Orange Technology Company, and you will be the general manager."

When Huo Haiqing heard that he would be the general manager of the new company, he happily replied: "Lei Sheng, I promise to complete the name change within a week."

There is no reason to just let the horse run and not give it any grass.Getting a man is all about power and money.

"The company has set up an R&D experimental center below. In the future, we plan to transform this building into a R&D center. This is He Shengni, the company's deputy general manager and the person in charge of the R&D center."

"Leisheng, I'm in charge of research and development, no problem."

He Guoyuan calmed down a bit. They were all engaged in research and development anyway, it was just about the number and size of the projects.

Lei Liquan continued: "Three project teams have been established under the R&D center. The first one is responsible for the current family games."

"The second project team, smart IC card project team."

When Lei Liquan said the word lC card, He Guoyuan was a little unfamiliar and full of expectations.I couldn't help but ask: "Leisheng, what kind of product is this IC card?"

"Listen to me first. An LC card is a microelectronic chip embedded in a standard card base to form a card. That's about it. I don't know the details. You need to study this."

"But for this IC card, the French company Bull has developed the world's first IC card. We must buy the patent, at least buy out the patent rights in the Southeast Asian market, continue to digest their results, and develop and utilize them. , used in every aspect of our lives. He Sheng, a negotiation team was immediately set up to fly to France for this task."

"Okay Lei Sheng, I will definitely go to France to start negotiations before the end of the year."

Lei Liquan plans to use the seven-day shopping card, then the bus card, and then the all-in-one card after getting the IC card.

Lei Liquan didn't give everyone much time to think, and continued: "The third project is a new music player, let's call it 'CD'. This is actually not a machine, but a new music carrier. "

"Carrier?"

He Guoyuan made it clear: "Leisheng, do you want to develop a new medium to replace vinyl and tape?"

"correct."

What Lei Liquan wants to develop is a CD Walkman, which will take at least three years to succeed. During this period, he will first formulate CD standards.Now that we have the cash cow of game consoles, we must focus on the future.

"This project is aimed at the next 20 years. Therefore, Manager Huo must make a good financial budget."

"For these three projects, the R&D center must come up with a plan as soon as possible and start recruiting people to form a R&D team. Huo Sheng must also give full support."

"Ok."

"Ok."

Huo Haiqing and He Guoyuan replied immediately.

Lei Liquan continued: "Other personnel are still in place, but Liu Sheng's production workshop must be moved within half a year to find a new production base. We can also purchase industrial land and build our own industrial park. From now on, this building The building is just a pure research and development center. There will be no problem with Liu Sheng."

"Lei Sheng, no problem." Liu Changhai, who is in charge of production, is so happy today. He has received a three-salary year-end bonus and the company will build a new production base. Will he not be the director of the factory in the future?
After the meeting, Lei Liquan left Huo Haiqing alone to discuss some issues in the management of Orange Technology.Huo Hai is required to position himself correctly. He is now the general manager. He is a purely managerial person. He must focus on the formulation of company rules and regulations, the development of corporate culture, and the future development direction of the company, and strive to create a new world for Orange Technology.

Lei Liquan also asked Huo Haiqing to understand new technologies at a certain time and how to use new technologies to develop the company. It is impossible for Orange Technology to rely solely on Lei Liquan's 'prophet' to point the direction.

Lei Liquan also explained that after the IC card technology is obtained in the next step, he will raise these issues with He Guoyuan in advance to establish his authority.

The two communicated for about another hour before it was over.

Speaking of bus IC cards, Lei Liquan also thought about traveling. Not many citizens in Xiangjiang can afford to buy a car. Basically, the vast majority of citizens rely on public transportation to travel.

In the previous life, the Lei family's KMB was hostilely acquired by Sun Hung Kai, firstly for land, and secondly to have a stable source of profit.Later, Sun Hung Kai also acquired Weixin Parking Management Group because it had stable profits and was a cash cow.

It can be seen that there is a lot to be done in terms of travel in Xiangjiang.

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