Video Game Empire

() "Brother Yu Gang, you are still young, this shot is on the green, and there is a chance to catch a birdie!" Li Jiacheng praised Bao Yugang next to him, and then took the iron from the caddie. Prepare yourself for the next kickoff.

Li Jiacheng stood on the side and tried a few swings, looking for the feeling of his swing, and then he stood on the tee box, set the ball, and slammed it. His shot had a high arc of parabola, but the distance was not enough, and finally landed in the grass-producing area next to the green, which was much worse than Bao Yugang, who had stopped by the hole before.

Li Jiacheng couldn't help shaking his head, not very satisfied with his shot. He handed the club back to the caddie beside him, then walked along the fairway with Bao Yugang and walked towards the drop point of the green.

Li Jiacheng loves to play golf, which is well known to all Hong Kong people. It is said that one of the biggest reasons why he chose to live in Deep Water Bay is that there is the only golf course on Hong Kong Island. Li Jiacheng wakes up every morning and drives to the Deepwater Bay Golf Course near his home to play golf for an hour.

"Brother Yu Gang, it is reported that the north side seems to be dissatisfied with Ling Ai and his wife!" Li Jiacheng said casually as if chatting. He asked Bao Yugang to play together today, of course not purely to catch up.

Bao Yugang frowned, he understood what Li Jiacheng was talking about. After the political turmoil in the mainland last year, Hong Kong was also in a panic, and many people were worried about the prospects after the handover. So some people started to brew a new idea in private. After the handover in 1997, the people of Hong Kong would pay for themselves and continue to "rent" Hong Kong from the central government.

For this reason, since the second half of last year, many people began to test Beijing, including Bao Yugang's eldest daughter and his wife. Bao Yugang's eldest son-in-law, Su Haiwen, is an Austrian. As a European, he can naturally gain the closeness of the British-funded consortium. Besides Huo Yingdong, Bao Yugang is one of the richest Hong Kong tycoons who has the closest relationship with the top officials of the Beijing-Beijing Central Committee.

Therefore, Su Haiwen and his wife were selected by many consortiums in Hong Kong as candidates to interview the mainland. This is actually a replica of the British "exchanging sovereignty for governance", and naturally it cannot be approved by the mainland.

However, Su Haiwen's private trial was known to the Hong Kong media somehow, and it also made headlines in major newspapers. The mainland naturally had to respond to this, so Su Haiwen was criticized by some **** newspapers as a politically incorrect example of "selling Hong Kong for glory".

In another time and space, when the SAR government elected its first chief executive before its establishment, there were two candidates who were interested in running for the election. One is the eldest son of King Dong Chuan, and the other is the second son-in-law of King Ship Charter. In terms of political influence, the charter king can throw Dong Chuanwang out of the street a few streets. Among his circle of friends are the prime minister of Japan, the prime minister of the United Kingdom, the president of France, and the president of Argentina.

However, in this crucial duel, the second generation of the two boat king families ultimately won the Dong family. To a certain extent, the second son-in-law of the charter king was actually dragged down by his brother-in-law, which made the central executives doubt whether the Bao family could adhere to political correctness.

"Brother Yu Gang, when I attended the wedding banquet of the Xu family with Li, the God of Wealth, Li Sheng revealed some ideas. He is going to promote the construction of cheap public housing in Hong Kong. This is not good news for us!" Li Jiacheng continued. said.

"Oh? Li, the God of Wealth, is thankless!" Bao Yugang said noncommittally.

"Yes, but Li Jiacheng, the God of Wealth, feels that Hong Kong's housing prices are rising too fast, causing inflation in the entire Hong Kong society, which in turn pushes up Hong Kong's labor costs and damages the competitiveness of Hong Kong's industry!" Li Jiacheng also shook his head and smiled bitterly.

"Haha, his idea is quite interesting. While he kept actively raising wages for his employees, he turned his Oriental Group into the most popular company among employees in Hong Kong, but on the other hand, he said that the labor cost in Hong Kong is too high! "Bao Yugang said with some humor.

Oriental Group is a well-known company in Hong Kong that is willing to pay high salaries. The average salary level is nearly half higher than that of other companies in Hong Kong. So much so that other companies have to start raising wages in order to retain talent! Therefore, when Bao Yugang heard that Li, the God of Wealth, thought that the wages in Hong Kong were too high, he had a feeling of irony.

"Who made them the God of Wealth Li!" Li Jiacheng said leisurely.

Not long ago, "Hong Kong Political and Economics Weekly" launched the list of Hong Kong's billionaires, of which Li Jiacheng and Bao Yugang ranked second and fifth with HK$18.5 billion and HK$9 billion respectively. And the richest man in Hong Kong is naturally Li Xuan. According to Hong Kong Political and Economic Weekly, Li Xuan's personal wealth is as high as 130 billion Hong Kong dollars. The total wealth from the second to the 15th place on the list is only 135 billion Hong Kong dollars, which means that the strength of Li Xuan alone is equal to the top 15 giants in Hong Kong except him.

Who let the family be Li, the God of Wealth, Li Jiacheng's words contain a lot of helplessness. Li Xuan has reached the realm where he can kill other rich people in Hong Kong with money alone. Fortunately, he did not do anything. Otherwise, with the current strength of Dongfang Group, it will march into the Hong Kong real estate industry, and other companies will have no resistance at all.

The most striking example of this is the Landmark Corporation, which Li Xuan snatched from Jardine with a large amount of cash alive. Although other allies of Li Xuan participated in the acquisition together at the beginning, it cannot be said that Li Xuan alone turned over the century-old Hong Kong Jardine.

But what should be seen more is that in the original acquisition of Landmark, Li Xuan did not even need to mobilize the funds of the Oriental Group, and only used the investment fund under his own name to complete the largest merger and acquisition case in Hong Kong's history. If Li Xuan really had to mobilize the power of the entire Oriental Group to start the primary, then in the Hong Kong stock market, apart from those companies whose major shareholders have absolute controlling rights, no other company can have the confidence to escape the clutches of the Oriental Group.

"The God of Wealth, Li, hopes that our real estate industry can come forward and persuade the Hong Kong government to increase the annual land supply index, so as to restrain the growth rate of housing prices by adjusting the supply and demand relationship of commercial housing!" Li Jiacheng explained.

"This matter is not easy to operate, not only to persuade the Hong Kong government, but also to persuade the Beijing-Beijing government!" Bao Yugang glanced at Li Jiacheng calmly and said.

"Yes, so unless we first unify our views within the real estate industry, and then use our collective strength to issue proposals to the Hong Kong government and the Beijing-Beijing central government, we can hope to attract enough attention from both parties!" Li Jiacheng nodded and said.

According to relevant statistics, the total market value of the top ten real estate listed companies in Hong Kong is as high as HK$125 billion, accounting for one-fifth of the total market value of all listed companies on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. And after the land company was acquired by Li Xuan and forced, these ten listed real estate companies have all been Chinese business capital. If this force can be brought together, it will indeed have the power to be taken seriously by the Hong Kong government and the mainland central government.

"Increasing the supply of land means that the market competition will be more intense, which is not worth the loss for all real estate companies!" Bao Yugang wondered why Li Ka-shing, who has always been low-key, was so enthusiastic about things that were detrimental to his own interests.

"The God of Fortune Li's proposal is more than that. In order to persuade the Beijing-Beijing side to agree to the proposal to liberalize the land use quota, he also proposed that the land sales income from this additional quota can be used as a special fund for the construction of cheap public rental housing. , so as to achieve a two-pronged approach!" Li Jiacheng said with a wry smile.

"The God of Wealth, Li, is preparing to fight a combination of punches!" Bao Yugang said in a low voice.

"Brother Yu Gang, I also know that if we do what the God of Wealth Li envisioned, we will definitely have a lot of sadness in the future! But as I said before, he is the God of Wealth Li, if we don't want to, he will It is very likely that you will just lift the table and start a new stove yourself!

Instead of everyone being able to step down by then, we might as well enter the game ahead of time, so that we can at least take more initiative, so that the whole operation will not develop in a direction that is completely unfavorable to us! "Li Jiacheng sighed, as if he said it with good intentions.

"The recent articles in the Hong Kong newspapers seem to be the work of Li, the God of Fortune! If we don't play according to his rules, we will soon be criticized by public opinion and stand in the whole of Hong Kong. Going to the opposite side of the six million citizens! The God of Wealth, Li, has become more and more proficient in his methods of begging for the people!" Bao Yugang quickly discovered some clues that Li Xuan had laid out.

"Brother Yu Gang, to tell you the truth, before I asked you to play golf, the Huo family, the Lin family, the Xu family, as well as Guo Desheng and Li Zhaoji were all persuaded by the God of Fortune Li!" Li Jiacheng broke the news softly.

"I've never heard of the intersection between Guo and Li and the Dongfang Group?" A strange look flashed in Bao Yugang's eyes. He was not surprised by the choice of the first three, but the choice of Guo Desheng and Li Zhaoji made him Can't figure it out.

Guo Desheng and Li Zhaoji are ranked 4th and 8th respectively on the Hong Kong Rich List. They are both first-class chaebols in Hong Kong. More importantly, the two are friends who have been friends for decades, so good that they can wear the same pair of pants. Guo and Li have always watched each other. Even if Li Xuan is better financially, it is not easy to convince both of them at the same time.

"Brother Yu Gang, Li Zhaoji's Henderson Land Development and Guo Desheng's Sun Hung Kai Properties are big players in the acquisition of land exchange rights in the New Territories! But now in Hong Kong, who doesn't know, what is the best way to maximize benefits in the development of the New Territories? It is to have a good relationship with the Oriental Group!" Li Jiacheng said sharply.

Bao Yugang, who was half a step behind him, immediately came over and looked up at Li Jiacheng beside him with a smile on his face. Because the R&D center of the Oriental Research Institute is located in Shatin, the property prices in Shatin have skyrocketed in recent years. Also due to the launch of Tin Shui Wai Electronic Industrial Park, housing prices in the surrounding Yuen Long district also began to rise rapidly.

And Li Jiacheng's Cheung Kong Group is the real estate developer that has benefited the most from the Tianshuiwei Electronic Industrial Park. The large amount of land hoarded by Cheung Kong Group in Yuen Long has suddenly skyrocketed in value due to the popularity brought by the Tin Shui Wai Electronic Industrial Park!

At present, the preliminary land planning of Tin Shui Wai Electronic Industrial Park has basically been exhausted, and the location of the new park will be directly determined in the future, where it will become a new hot spot for development in the entire New Territories. Therefore, if Hong Kong real estate developers can know the planning and layout of the Oriental Group in advance, and hoard land around the site selection of the industrial zone, they will naturally be able to reap a lot of dividends like the previous Cheung Kong Group!

According to Li Jiacheng's tips, Bao Yugang immediately sorted out the entanglement of interests behind him. Changshi Group has already tasted the sweetness in Yuen Long, and Li Jiacheng is naturally unwilling to give up the opportunity later, so he takes the responsibility of persuading himself. And Guo Desheng and Li Zhaoji, who have a lot of land in the New Territories, also want to become Li Jiacheng's second, so after the God of Wealth Li throws an olive branch, it can be said that they hit it off.

This is the strength of Li Xuan. With the increasing influence of the Oriental Group on the entire Hong Kong economy, it naturally also radiates to the real estate industry. He has stood at the height of having the right to determine the interests of others. Just thinking of this, Bao Yu couldn't help but admire the young man who had just arrived in his thirties.

And when Li Jiacheng asked Bao Yugang to play at the Deep Water Bay Golf Club, another Hong Kong rich man was not idle. "Shadantong" of the New World Group has not been very comfortable these days.

At the beginning of last year, Zheng Yutong's friend Feng Jingxi passed away suddenly, which made him think a lot at once, and decided to leave the family business to his eldest son to take care of, while he began to enjoy his old age in peace. But his son Zheng Jiachun is obviously still too young. After taking over the New World Group, he immediately started a series of aggressive acquisitions.

In less than a year, New World Group's liabilities soared from HKD 3 billion to 9 billion during Zheng Jiachun's series of large-scale investment and acquisitions. And most of these new assets that Zheng Jiachun advocates to acquire are either at a loss or not as profitable as expected.

This makes the data in the first annual financial report released by New World Group very ugly ~www.readwn.com~ far below market expectations. The resulting chain reaction was that the stock price plummeted first, then the capital market began to look down on the prospects of the New World Group, and finally even the banks began to reassess the financial risks of the New World Group. Seeing that the situation was getting more and more serious, Zheng Yutong had to come out again to preside over the overall situation and appease people.

"Zheng Sheng, Jiahua Bank agreed to provide us with an emergency credit of 200 million Hong Kong dollars. As for the long-term credit in the later period, Jiahua said that it can also be negotiated! By the way, Li Sheng's secretary of Oriental Group called in the morning, Li Sheng Meet for dinner when you are free!" Zheng Yutong's secretary reported.

"Li Sheng asked me to have dinner?" Zheng Yutong glanced at the secretary and nodded after seeing the confirmation of the other party, before continuing: "You can reply to Li Sheng for me, I'll be waiting for you at any time!"

"Forget it, I'll call him myself later! You ask Jiachun to convene the management of the company for a meeting in five minutes!" Zheng Yutong thought for a while, then changed her mind.

Because of previous large acquisitions, New World Group has recently experienced cash flow constraints. As the company's stock price plummeted due to New World Group's poor performance, several banks closely related to New World Group were hesitant to continue extending loans to New World Group.

Therefore, Zheng Yutong simply sent people to start contacting other banks in Hong Kong. After all, with his and New World's brand name, even if he is in a certain predicament, it is not difficult to raise hundreds of millions of funds.

It's just that Zheng Yutong listened to his secretary's report just now, and couldn't help but guess that Jiahua Bank responded so quickly. Could it be related to Li, the God of Fortune? I don't know why the other party suddenly asked him to eat? (To be continued.)