Rise up Hong Kong!Build a super wealthy Zhuang family

Chapter 142 Li Chaoren was slapped in the face again
After the Shengshi Group press conference.

Zhuang Rongxu, the boat charter king and others had made an appointment to have dinner together. As soon as they walked out of the door of the building, a voice called out to them.

"Everyone, please wait a moment."

Zhuang Rongxu and others looked back and saw Li Chaoren trotting towards them.

"Sheng Bao, what did Superman Li do?"

Mr. Bao shook his head: "I don't know, but I must be asking for something." Bao Yugang responded with a half-smile.

Zhuang Rongxu felt as if there was something in his words and looked at Li Chaoren with some confusion.

"Everyone, I'd like to take some of your time. It's already dinner time. Why don't we have dinner together? I need to ask you for some things." Li Chaoren lowered his posture very low.

"Li Sheng's treat, of course I have no problem." Li Zhaoji was the first to speak and agreed readily.

After all, in the 80s, the two of them did not have much conflict. In terms of industry, real estate was in conflict, but there were more people running real estate companies in Xiangjiang, so they would not have any grudges.

What's more, they have just cooperated to acquire a large piece of land in the New Territories and work together to build new properties. At the same time, in the Southern District, Li Chaoren is also cooperating with Zheng Yutong to develop the land beside the Heung Kong Tsai River to build properties.

As for why Fourth Uncle Li later had a grudge against Li Chaoren, I believe many people know it.

First, the British capital was almost gone at that time. Without foreign enemies, Xiangjiang was considered a peaceful and prosperous age. Historical experience tells us that in such an environment, civil war is most likely to occur.

Without much British capital, Chinese capital has gradually taken control of Hong Kong. Therefore, several of their tycoons are in power, and everyone wants to become the contemporary king of Hong Kong tycoons.

This is one of the reasons why the relationship between Fourth Uncle Li and Li Chaoren is getting farther and farther.

Another thing is the Furama Hotel incident after the 90s. I believe many people have heard of this incident, and it was also one of their conflicts.

Li Chaoren took a fancy to the land of Furama Hotel in Central and planned to acquire a commercial building. Unfortunately, the wife of the eldest son of the Furama Fu family was very sentimental about the hotel at the time and was unwilling to demolish the commercial building for Li Chaoren. Therefore, the Furama Hotel The hostess found Uncle Li and reached a deal with him.

This certainly made Li Chaoren, who always wanted to have the wind and rain, unhappy, not to mention that the land of the Furama Hotel was very important to his development plan.

As a result, the relationship between him and Fourth Uncle Li has reached a deadlock, and there is a situation where they will never interact with each other until they die.On the surface, they seem to have nothing to do with each other, but in fact, the two of them are secretly playing chess and calculating.

Later, when Li Chaoren found out that Uncle Li was building a building behind his Cheung Kong Group in Central, he deliberately raised the height of his building in order to block the feng shui of Uncle Li's building and take revenge.

Since then, the feud between the two has become widely known and has become a topic of conversation for many people.

It is also a report used by the media to attract attention.

"I don't have a problem. It just so happens that I need to talk to you, Li Sheng, about something." Zheng Yu said from the side.

Zhuang Rongxu probably thought about what Zheng Yutong wanted to talk to Li Chaoren.

Because of this incident, the relationship between Li Chaoren and Zheng Yutong also faded, resulting in the two having no cooperative relationship for decades.

However, Zhuang Rongxu would not participate in these things, and he would not be stupid enough to be a peacemaker. He did not have the leisure time or the ability to do these things.

Maybe one day in the future, he and these people will break up due to business matters.

As a human being, who doesn’t care for himself?
Soon, Master Bao, Chen Zengxi, Guo Desheng and others all agreed to Li Chaoren's invitation.

Zhuang Rongxu himself was looking everywhere. He didn't know if he was included in the invitation. After all, he was only a junior.

To be honest, based on his father's personal relationship with Li Chaoren and their relationship in the village, he really had to call Li Chaoru his uncle.

Therefore, in Xiangjiang, where people are so sophisticated, one of his elders did not invite him, and Zhuang Rongxu was really embarrassed to follow him.

"Um...Uncle Li, I'll go back first. You guys can chat slowly." Zhuang Rongxu was about to say hello and leave, but Li Chaoren also stopped him.

"Xu Zai, come here too."

"Ha, I'm going too?"

"Well, there's something I need to talk to all of you about, let's go."

Soon after, a group of them arrived at the Peninsula Hotel in Tsim Sha Tsui.

This grand hotel is run by the Jewish Kadoorie family and has been in existence for half a century.

Opened in 1928, it was only 7 floors high at that time, but in that era, it was undoubtedly one of the luxury hotels. It and the Victoria Peak Hotel were the two most luxurious hotels in Hong Kong at that time.

At that time, the Mandarin Hotel in Jardine, plus the Regent Hotel left behind by Hutchison & Co., etc., were really inferior to the Peninsula and Peak Hotels.

Since the 80s, many luxury hotels have appeared in Hong Kong, but the Peninsula Hotel is still the oldest existing hotel in Hong Kong and the most distinctive. It is also one of the most luxurious and famous hotels in Hong Kong and even the world. It has hosted many celebrities, foreign stars, etc. People, even people in charge from other districts will choose to stay here when they come.

After Zhuang Rongxu came here, his eyes kept looking around. To be honest, he had been coveting this hotel for a long time, and the time hadn't come yet.

The Jewish Kadoorie family was destined to become his enemy. Whether it was China Electric Power or the Peninsula Hotel, they were properties he wanted very much.

The land around here is his. If the Peninsula Hotel is also taken over, then the area from the Star Ferry, Gateway Road, Harbor City to the Avenue of Stars, New Century Plaza and the Regent Hotel will all be his.

As for the original Regent Hotel, which is now the Grand Hotel, after Li Chaoren acquired Hutchison, due to a shortage of funds, he transferred the Regent Hotel together with the land and hotel to a foreign-funded Intercontinental Hotel Group for cash. of.

But now that Hutchison is owned by Zhuang Rongxu, how can he be willing to sell this hotel with such a good location and a panoramic view of Victoria Harbor?

I even wish I had more buildings.

But currently, he has not invested in renovating the Regent Hotel. Compared with other big hotels in Xiangjiang, his Grand Hotel is indeed inferior.

But this is only a temporary thing. When he gets the funds soon, he will definitely build the hotel at this location into another iconic building in Hong Kong.

In addition, the land at Future Century Plaza, like Harbor City, has a 999-year millennium land lease. There are only 15 pieces of land with millennium land leases left in Hong Kong.

Six of them are in the hands of Jardine.

Two pieces are in the hands of Mr. Bao Wharf.

Two pieces are in the hands of the Swire Group.

Wheelock also has one.

One of the remaining two blocks is requisitioned by the Hong Kong government, and the other is currently a residential building in the old city and has not yet been put up for auction.

The two-dollar thousand-year land lease in Zhuang Rongxu's hands now is for Harbor City, and the other is the future Century Plaza in Tsim Sha Tsui.

In the eyes of Zhuang Rongxu, these two pieces of land are priceless treasures. In the future, he will definitely copy Mr. Bao's approach in Harbor City, and even build two taller commercial buildings to cover the entire Victoria Harbour.

Including Century Square.

The land in Regent is actually the best. It has an unobstructed view of Victoria Harbor from the front. Unfortunately, it is not just a thousand-year land lease, otherwise the value would be much higher.In the near future, New World's Cheng Yutong will also have a piece of land to build real estate in Heung Kong Tsai.

The Avenue of Stars, namely the Future Century Plaza and the Regent Hotel, both belonged to the former Hutchison Company, and are now owned by him personally.

Zhuang Rongxu has also allocated these land from Hutchison Matheson and transferred it to Dingsheng Company at a low price. Hutchison even transferred two pieces of beautiful land in Central. These cannot be cheap for other shareholders.

But he can't transfer them all, otherwise what value will his Shengshi Group have by then? When others see that all the good things in the group are gone, who will pay a high price to invest in Shengshi Group?
Therefore, Zhuang Rongxu cannot move in many places.

Come to the box.

"Everyone please sit down."

Zhuang Rongxu saw that there were other people in the box. He looked carefully and found out that they were Shen Bi, the chief executive of HSBC Bank, and the current general manager of Hang Seng Bank.

This made Zhuang Rongxu feel that the situation at the dinner had changed. Li Chaoren must have some purpose.

Not only Zhuang Rongxu was surprised to see Shen Bi, but Uncle Li, Huo Dongdong, Zheng Yu and others also looked at a loss.

Not to mention Zheng Yutong, he has always been at odds with Shen Bi, or rather with HSBC, because of the problems with Hang Seng Bank.

Zheng Yutong is also one of the shareholders of Hang Seng Bank. Unfortunately, he does not hold as many shares as HSBC, so he is targeted by HSBC everywhere. He wants to use Hang Seng to facilitate his New World Group, which is simply not possible.

No matter what plan he proposes, HSBC will directly veto it as a major shareholder.

Moreover, he cannot compete with HSBC on the board of directors of Hang Seng. More than 7% of the management are from HSBC. How he competes can only be kept in mind.

How can enemies look so good when they meet now?

The same goes for Fourth Uncle Li.

He was very disgusted with HSBC. If HSBC had not intervened in his affairs, their Sun Hung Kai Group would not have disintegrated so quickly.

Although the main reason for Sun Hung Kai's group to separate is themselves, but if it hadn't been because the old Kowloon city renovation project was snatched away by Hong Kong Land due to the intervention of HSBC, their Sun Hung Kai group would not have disbanded so soon, at least there is still some way to go.

Although Shen Bi is the first Taipan in the history of HSBC to support Chinese capital.

But this guy was chosen to take care of him.

Needless to say, Mr. Bao became Shen Bi's most optimistic person in the 70s. He also successfully bought a stake in HSBC and became one of the small shareholders.

Then there is the current Li Chaoren.

Like other Chinese investors, in Shen Bi's eyes, apart from suppression, they showed no support at all.

Many people believe that Shen Bi has made great contributions to the change in the situation between British and Chinese capital in Hong Kong.

In fact, on the contrary, Shen Bi was not the one to turn the situation around. He was just trying to please the other side while trying to control the well-established Chinese leaders in Xiangjiang.

In this way, even if something happens in the future, what he does now will not be punished, because everyone outside knows that Xiangjiang Huazi was founded with his support.

Then there would be no reason to attack HSBC, right? This is Shen Bi's ultimate goal.

In addition, he secretly suppressed other Chinese investors because HSBC did not want anyone to surpass the Chinese investors he supported, fearing that the situation would lose his control and HSBC would lose the initiative.

So this guy has a very dark heart.

People in later generations also know that HSBC is the most unreliable and the most adaptable person, and has done many shameful things secretly.

As for the big boss Huo Dongdong, it goes without saying that since the 50s, he has not dealt with HSBC, it should be said that he has not dealt with the entire British capital and even the Hong Kong government, and never looked at their faces.

In the old society, many of Huo Da Lao's industries were taken care of by HSBC, but only to the detriment of the company. No matter what valuable project was tendered, Huo Da Lao's company would be eliminated immediately.

But despite this, Mr. Huo still found a new way to operate the sand and gravel supply. Since the 60s, many new buildings were being built in Hong Kong, so no matter how the British and Hong Kong governments and HSBC stopped it.

Still unable to prevent Mr. Huo from rising to the throne, he also became the tsar, and even received the support of all Chinese capital, making him a very important person for Chinese capital.

But for the sake of face, none of them said anything. They just sat down with a straight face. It seemed that they were all thinking about what tricks they were playing.

"Everyone, I have a request for inviting you here this time. I want Shengshi Group. No matter who buys shares in Shengshi, I will buy it at a high price. I believe you all know my obsession with the original Hutchison Company. I beg you all It can be accomplished.”

Zhuang Rongxu frowned when he heard this. Is this the Hongmen Banquet hosted by Li Chaoren?
Then Zhuang Rongxu raised the corner of his mouth slightly and sneered. No matter how powerful Li Chaoren was, it was impossible to snatch Shengshi Group away from him.

But he also planned to see what other people meant. When he scanned the others with his eyes, he found that many people had ugly faces. This made Zhuang Rongxu snicker even more in his heart. Li Chaoren was shooting himself in the foot. Look. It turns out that no one buys his account.

"Everyone, let's talk." After seeing no response after a long silence, Li Chaoren spoke again.

Just as Zhuang Rongxu was about to speak, Huo Dongdong, who was sitting next to him, spoke faster.

"Li Sheng, let me express my opinion first. I don't know about the others here, but I also want to invest in Shengshi. For no other reason than the fact that there is bad land in Shengshi, this is in line with my investment requirements."

"Yes, Huo Sheng is right. Everyone here has their own real estate company, and they all want to better develop their careers. It's not that we didn't have ideas at Hutchison Matheson, but we just couldn't compare with Li Sheng's relationship. Now that we have the opportunity , I can only say sorry." Guo Desheng next to him also simply refused.

"I'm sorry Li Sheng, investing in Shengshi is another development path for our company. I can only say sorry." Then Uncle Li also expressed his position.

Later, Zheng Yutong, Chen Zengxi, Qiu Degen and others said different things one after another, but they were all rejections, which made Li Chaoren look very ugly.

"Li, I said, there is no need to discuss anything with this group of people, we can just do it ourselves."

At this time, a discordant voice sounded, and the person who spoke was Shen Bi, the senior manager of HSBC.

This made almost all the Chinese bosses who were already very unhappy become furious, especially those who had issues with him, and they immediately stood up and slapped the stage.

"Sorry Li Sheng, I, Mr. Huo, don't bother to sit at the same table with foreign devils. Goodbye."

"Li Sheng is sorry. Brother Huo is right. Sitting at the same table with this foreign devil will only affect my appetite. Let's go ahead." Guo Desheng then stood up, turned and left.

"Brother Guo, wait..."

"I'm sorry Li Sheng, you know my relationship with HSBC, it's not appropriate to continue to stay." Li Zhaoji then stood up and left.

"I originally wanted to talk to you about the development cooperation in Xiangjiang Tsai, but it seems there is no need now." Zheng Yutong stood up and left without saying any nonsense.

Then Qiu Degen, Chen Zangxi, Lin Baixin and others left respectively, leaving only a few people, such as Mr. Bao, as well as Luo Yingshi and Chinachem Wang Dehui from the Great Eagle Group.

Of course Zhuang Rongxu is among them.

The reason why he didn't leave was because he wanted to see what Li Chaoren wanted to do. He wanted to watch a show.

(End of this chapter)