Legend of Xiangjiang Tycoon

Prior to this, Schjock was not aware of the existence of Cathay Pacific at all. It is small in scale and has only one aircraft, providing passenger and cargo charter services between Hong Kong and the Mainland and Southeast Asia.

At that time, several large airlines had already set up offices in Hong Kong, and Cathay Pacific was far from being able to compete with these sky kings for a day.

Cathay Pacific's three bosses, two Americans and one Austrian, are all former soldiers. One of them participated in General Chennault's Flying Tigers during World War II. What he was most proud of was opening up the air route from Yudu to India and flying over the Himalayas.

In June 1947, Ge Lianghong succeeded Yang Muqi as the governor of Hong Kong. Ge Lianghong is the one who has made outstanding contributions and served the longest term among the successive governors of Hong Kong, and has been widely praised by people from all walks of life in China and abroad.

Ge Lianghong's work was very in-depth. Not long after he took office, he began to visit various companies and had extensive contacts with people from all walks of life in Hong Kong.

In the Governor's Mansion, Swire Matheson's boss Shiyock asked bluntly: "Are you satisfied with Cathay Pacific? I believe that you would not dare to take a local charter flight, but would rather take a flight from a foreign airline."

Shiyock said: "I know that Mr. Governor will say such a thing, and I dare to assert that you are not satisfied with Cathay Pacific. Only competition can lead to development. London has Imperial Airlines and overseas airlines; Shanghai has China Civil Aviation and Central Airlines; There were as many as a dozen in New York at the beginning, and the survival of the fittest was left to fend for itself.”

"No, I can't." Ge Lianghong interrupted Shiyock's words: "Hong Kong is a small place and cannot be compared with those world metropolises. You want to urge the government to amend the laws? No, it is impossible! Taikoo has never had it The actual performance in the aviation industry. The government will not favor Swire, let alone being sued by Cathay Pacific.” New

Sir Schyock recalled when receiving a Reuters reporter: "The result of my travels to the Governor's Palace and the Chief Secretary's Office several times was that Swire's hope of establishing an independent airline was completely shattered.

Although the government is dissatisfied with the status quo of Cathay Pacific, it has turned a deaf ear with a positive non-intervention attitude, claiming that Cathay Pacific has been developing steadily, and there is nothing wrong with it.

Many officials are worried that Hong Kong's aviation industry is controlled by the Americans, but that's all.

"You must know the general psychology of the British after the war. The United States has become the hegemony of the world and replaced the status of the United Kingdom. The British feel lost and have a strong sense of recovery. Therefore, some friends of mine in the government suggested to Cathay Pacific in their own name, Allowing Swire Pacific to participate in the joint venture was rejected by the arrogant Americans. This situation did not change until the Miss Macau air crash.”

Miss Macau is a flight between Pan American Airlines and Hong Kong and Macau. It is a twin-engine amphibious aircraft manufactured by the Wright-Martin Company of the United States. The Hong Kong-Macao route was opened in 1935, but was suspended after the fall of Hong Kong, and resumed on April 9, 1948, with a voyage of about 20 minutes and a passenger capacity of 23 people. The flight time is short, and the aircraft can make an emergency landing on the sea; it is very popular with passengers.

At 6:00 pm on July 16, 1948, the Miss Macau flew from Macau to Hong Kong, and lost contact with the ground 8 minutes after takeoff. The plane crashed in the sea of ​​Jiuzhou Ocean. Among the 23 passengers and 4 crew members, only passenger Huang Yuwen survived, and the rest were buried in the seabed.

This is the largest air disaster in the history of Hong Kong aviation, which shocked the province, Hong Kong, Macao and the whole world. At that time, it was generally believed that the amphibious aircraft was the safest means of carrying passengers in the air.

After the incident, people regarded flying as a dangerous journey, Kai Tak Airport was left in the cold, and the airlines suffered heavy losses. The reputation of Cathay Pacific was originally not as good as that of major airlines, and it set a record that there was no passenger on the flight between Yangcheng and Shanghai.

Cathay Pacific immediately fell into a financial crisis. Under such circumstances, Cathay Pacific absorbed Swire as a shareholder to obtain cash to maintain operations.

The truth about the accident of the Miss Macau was revealed in a few days. Newspaper reports about mechanical failure were overturned, and the accident was human-caused.

The survivor Huang Yuwen was one of the hijackers. He and three other accomplices, Zhao Riming, Zhao Changyao, and Zhao Sancai, boarded the plane with a passenger carrying thousands of taels of gold.

After takeoff, the perpetrator wanted to hijack the plane to Zhongshan Pingsha Airport, but the pilot and passengers resisted, and the perpetrator fired threats. The pilot was shot, and the plane lost control and crashed to the bottom of the sea.

The perpetrator Huang Yuwen was at the tail of the plane. He escaped when the plane crashed into the sea, but broke his thigh. The Macau police set up a confession against Huang, and Huang confessed to the hijacking.

The cause of the accident was publicized by the media, and the reputation of air passenger transportation has been restored, and the number of passengers has slowly recovered, but the airlines are still not in a good mood.

To make matters worse, on December 20 of the same year, the Airmaster of AVIC flew from Shanghai to Hong Kong and crashed near Huobaichou in the East China Sea of ​​Hong Kong. More than 30 people on board died.

After the tragedy, passengers who had already booked tickets were refunded one after another, and the airlines that had not yet recovered were seriously injured. According to investigations, the Skymaster crash was due to a mechanical failure.

The Skymaster was known as one of the most advanced aircraft at that time, and it was conceivable that this hit the airlines too hard. 1948 was the most unlucky year in Hong Kong aviation history.

Whether Swire's acquisition of Cathay Pacific was a blessing or a curse was unknown at the time.

On the boards in London and Hong Kong, many directors accused Schjock of sloppy behavior. Schjöck recalled: "The pressure was really high at that time. Although I firmly believed that the aviation industry would have amazing development, I had no idea how long this burden would last."

The most profitable industry after the war was shipping. Docks, port affairs, and fleets became the cornucopia of Swire Pacific, and aviation was not very optimistic at the time. Big foreign companies such as Jardine Matheson have no attempt to set foot in the aviation industry.

Nevertheless, Hong Kong's aviation industry is very competitive. Cathay Pacific, which belongs to the dwarfs, can only hold a candle to the kings of the air such as Britain, the United States and France.

The reason why Shiyock dared to take Cathay Pacific was because of the advantages of local companies in the route, and the development of routes by non-local companies would be subject to corresponding legal restrictions. Schjock said: "Since I have taken over Cathay Pacific, I must manage it well and not waste this advantage."

On the same route, the flight of different companies, which one is prosperous and which one is not, is completely determined by the passengers.

Schjock firmly grasps security management and service management. He often talked to his employees about his first adventure on a plane, telling them that safety and service are the lifeblood of the company.

The model is obviously a crucial factor in the rise and fall of the company. At that time, Douglas Corporation was the leader in the aviation industry. The DC3 and DC4 military aircraft made a big splash in World War II. After the war, Douglas quickly became civilian.

In 1949, Cathay Pacific purchased 4 Douglas as scheduled flights on important routes.

In 1952, the United Kingdom launched the world's first civilian jet DH106 Comet aircraft. On May 2 of the same year, it completed the long-distance passenger flight between London and Johannesburg. This marked the arrival of the civil jet age, and jet airliners excited the aviation industry with their fast speed and long range.

Shiyock got a loan from HSBC and was going to return to England to order the comet style. He returned empty-handed in the end, not for other reasons, but because he was hesitant. He listened to the advice of experts, who believed that the jet technology was not yet fully mature, and it was best to wait and see for a period of time.

In 1954, two Comet planes crashed and died, purely for technical reasons. The comet died, and Cathay Pacific escaped disaster.

The United Kingdom also launched the Viscount 708 passenger plane in 1953. It uses a traditional propeller turbine engine and four engines. The two models carry 47 and 75 passengers respectively. The comet is short-lived, but the Viscount is outshone.

In the middle and late 1950s, the Viscount 708 was the main model of Cathay Pacific. Shiyock said: "Cathay Pacific has always been steady, but steady is not complacent. If you want to win passengers, you must catch up with the new trend of the world's aviation industry. The symbol of the trend is the type of aircraft."

In the 1950s, aircraft companies such as Lockheed, Douglas, McDonnell, and Boeing in the United States successively launched jet military and civilian aircraft with reliable performance. Boeing is a latecomer, and it has launched the latest 707-121 aircraft with various good performances.

On October 26, 1958, Pan American Airlines, the world's largest aviation giant, was the first to use Boeing 707 on the North Atlantic route.

Pan Am has always been the leader in the world's aviation industry, and an aircraft recognized by Pan Am is equal to a golden signboard. The Boeing 707 has a reputation far and wide. From the 1960s to the present, the Boeing series has dominated the world's aviation industry.

In 1964, Cathay Pacific Airways split into Cathay Pacific Airways Limited and Hong Kong Aircraft Engineering Company Limited. The largest shareholder is the Swire Group controlled by the Swire family.

After nearly 20 years of dismal operation, Cathay Pacific has steadily developed into a large airline. In the first few years when Swire took over Cathay Pacific, it was often loss-making or unprofitable. Later, it slowly became profitable. By the 1980s, the surplus of the aviation industry such as Cathay Pacific, HAECO, and aviation food accounted for the entire Swire Group’s annual surplus. half of the profit. Cathay Pacific has become a veritable cornucopia.

In 1965, Swire Pacific acquired a US-funded company – Hong Kong Bottlers Federal Inc.

The company holds the Hong Kong bottling franchise for Coca-Cola. At that time, the annual output of Hong Kong Bottlers was 104 million bottles.

In 1974, the company changed its name to Swire Bottlers. At that time, its annual production had reached 180 million bottles, and the company also ranked among the top 50 Coke bottlers in the world. Today, Swire Pacific is one of the largest Coca-Cola bottlers in Asia and the United States.

For Swire, the 1970s was a time of rapid change.

In the early 1970s, the container shipping business developed rapidly, and the growth of Taikoo Dockyard was beyond the capacity of its Hong Kong Island location, so the company decided to close the dockyard.

In 1972, Taikoo Dockyard merged with Whampoa Dockyard, which has the longest history in Hong Kong, China, to form Hong Kong United Dockyard, which is based in Tsing Yi.

At that time, Swire Pacific had already started to participate in the development of the Kwai Chung New International Container Terminal in Hong Kong. In the same year, it also purchased the equity of Modern Terminals, an advanced container handling facility.

Taikoo Dockyard&, which was publicly listed on the Hong Kong stock market as early as 1959, was renamed Swire Pacific Limited at this time.

This is a ready-made holding company that holds all of Swire's businesses in Hong Kong. The emergence of Swire Pacific Corporation symbolized the birth of the modern Swire Group, and also marked the end of Butterfield's long-forgotten rights in the company. The word Butterfield in the English company name was also changed to Swire to highlight the corporate image of the group.

In 1972, Swire Sugar closed down its refinery and concentrated on sugar products and packaging. In the mid-1970s, Taikoo Newly established Swire Properties, which was in charge of real estate development and management, and began to build Taikoo City on a large area of ​​land vacated after the demolition of shipyards and sugar refineries in the eastern district of Hong Kong Island, bringing a new look to this area. urban appearance.

Taikoo Shing is the first private housing estate in Hong Kong. Together with the retail/office complex in Taikoo Shing Center, its basement parking lot is built on the site of Taikoo Dry Dock. It is the first well-known commercial project developed and managed by Taikoo Properties. Similar projects include Pacific Place, Taikoo Place and Festival Walk have brought a new interpretation to the development of commercial buildings in Hong Kong.

Cathay Pacific added the first Boeing 707 long-haul aircraft to its fleet in 1973. In the following ten years, the company developed rapidly, introducing a series of L1011 Samsung wide-body aircraft, and purchased the first Boeing 747-200 in 1979. Jet jumbo airliner quickly strengthened the company's strength. The following year, Cathay Pacific Airways launched its first direct flight to London, becoming a truly international airline.

The revolutionary changes that occurred in the 1970s included other new Swire developments, most notably the establishment of the offshore oil support company Swire Offshore in 1975 and the purchase of Hong Kong Air Cargo in 1976. Shareholding in Station Co., Ltd.

During this period, the parent company Swire Group of the United Kingdom also tried to invest in the offshore oil business, acquiring SwireEPD, a supplier specializing in North Sea transportation equipment, in 1979.

The British Swire Group also got involved in Australia's land transportation and material handling business, acquired in 1971, and purchased the equity of Papua New Guinea trading company Steamships Tradings and Glasgow tea traders.

In the late 1970s, Swire made its first investment in the United States. Swire Properties acquired some real estate rights in Miami, and Swire acquired the Coca-Cola bottling franchise for the first time in Salt Lake City.

In 1982, the British Swire Group incorporated the Refrigerated Goods Warehousing Company as its wholly-owned subsidiary.

Swire is a major commercial landlord in New South Wales and South Queensland.

Swire also started investing in Australia's livestock industry in the 1980s. In 1983, the British Swire Group and its associated companies jointly acquired half of the shares of Clyde Agriculture.

Since then Clyde's operations have expanded from cotton farming to include wool and beef, while its land holdings have increased twenty-fold to cover over two million acres in New South Wales and Queensland, including the most famous part of Australia's history livestock industry.

During this period, Swire Pacific in Hong Kong, China continued to develop its trading business and acquired a chain of marathon sporting goods stores in 1983.

In the same year, Swire began to get involved in environmental services and waste disposal business, which later became an important business area of ​​Swire.

Swire has successively formed partnerships with Browning Ferris Industries and has become the main contractor of waste treatment projects in Hong Kong, operating multiple landfills and providing waste transfer services, including the use of several small container ships designed and operated by Swire's associate company HUD Marine for Shipping waste to the outlying islands of Hong Kong.

"Brother Shen!"

"Um!"

Shen Changqing was walking on the road, and whenever he met someone he knew well, he would say hello or nod to each other.

But no matter who.

There is no unnecessary expression on everyone's face, as if they are indifferent to everything.

To this.

Shen Changqing is already used to it.

Because this is the Zhenmagic Division, an organization that maintains the stability of Daqin. Its main duty is to kill monsters and ghosts, and of course there are other side jobs.

It can be said.

In Town Magic Division, everyone has a lot of blood on their hands~www.readwn.com~ When a person is used to seeing life and death, he will become indifferent to many things.

When he first came to this world, Shen Changqing was a little uncomfortable, but he got used to it as time went by.

Zhenmus is huge.

Those who can stay in Zhenmusi are all powerful masters, or those who have the potential to become masters.

Shen Changqing belongs to the latter.

Among them, the Zhenmagic Division is divided into two professions, one is the Guardian Envoy, and the other is the Exorcist.

Anyone who enters the Town of Demons starts from the lowest level of Demon Slayers,

Then he was promoted step by step, and eventually he was expected to become a guardian envoy.

Shen Changqing's predecessor was a trainee demon slayer in the town of magic division, and he was also the lowest-ranked demon slayer.

Possess the memory of the predecessor.

He is also very familiar with Zhenmusi's environment.

It didn't take long for Shen Changqing to stop in front of an attic.

Different from other places full of chills in Zhenmagus, the attic here seems to stand out from the crowd. In the **** Zhenmagus, it presents a different tranquility.

At this time, the attic door was open, and occasionally people came in and out.

Shen Changqing just hesitated for a moment, then stepped in.

Enter the attic.

The environment has changed in vain.

A scent of ink mixed with a faint smell of blood hit his face, making his brows furrowed instinctively, but then relaxed quickly.

There is almost no way to clean off the **** smell on everyone in Zhenmusi.

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