Chapter 903: The Night Banquet of the Wealthy Family (4000+ chapters, please subscribe~)
33 Sassoon Road, Hong Kong Island!
At 6:30 p.m., a Rolls-Royce car with HK1997 license plate slowly drove to the Huo family's mansion.
The housekeeper of the Huo family's mansion stood at the door to greet the guests, and after seeing the car, he hurriedly introduced the car into the yard.
There are obviously a lot of luxury cars parked in the yard, such as Rolls-Royce, Bentley, Porsche, and the Nissan presidential RV that is the favorite of the wealthy in Hong Kong.
In the 92s, according to the statistics of the newspaper owned by Fengge Media, the two favorite models of the wealthy in Xiangjiang were Rolls-Royce and Nissan presidential RV.
Rolls-Royce has more than 1,100 cars in Xiangjiang, which is the most densely populated city in the world with this model.
As for the Nissan presidential RV, because this car is the throne of the RB Emperor, it is also particularly favored by wealthy businessmen in Xiangjiang, and 40 cars are allocated to Xiangjiang every year, which is rare and expensive, and this car was once fried to more than 1.6 million Hong Kong dollars in Xiangjiang.
Li Chaoren is particularly fond of this model, when his eldest son Li Zeju got married, Li Chaoren appeared in this model, but later after Li Zeju's accident, Li Chaoren replaced his model with a customized BMW.
In fact, it is not enough to buy a car in Xiangjiang, you have to be able to afford the car, not to mention the driver's salary, a slightly better license plate will cost hundreds of thousands, and at the same time you have to pay various taxes and fees.
This year, Ming Pao reported that parking spaces in large housing estates (usually under buildings) cost nearly HK$1 million, while parking spaces in Mid-Levels cost as much as HK$1.1 million.
As a wealthy man in Xiangjiang, he is naturally very fond of license plates.
In Xiangjiang, the license plate will be used to be auctioned for profit, and some beautiful numbers have also been auctioned at a high price, such as the No. 2 license plate of McGaulle, the former financial secretary of Xiangjiang, when he retired and settled in the UK, he took it out for auction, and this license plate number was auctioned at a high price of 9.5 million, as well as Shao Liushu's No. 6 license plate, but when Shao Liushu photographed this license plate, it was in 1978, so the price is 330,000 Hong Kong dollars, and if you put it now, this price will definitely exceed 10 million!
This can be seen from the No. 9 license plate auctioned this year.
At the beginning of this year, the Hong Kong government took out the No. 9 license plate for auction, during which the license plate was once called 14 million Hong Kong dollars, and the final transaction price was 16 million Hong Kong dollars, creating a historical record for Xiangjiang license plates.
And it was Yan Wen, the president of Yiwang Group, who took this license plate, and it was Yang Shoucheng of Emperor Group who competed with Yan Wen for this license plate.
Previously, in 1988, Zhou Tao also bid for the No. 8 license plate of Xiangjiang, but because the price was not as high as it is now, Zhou Tao overshadowed the 5 million of the old wealthy Luo Dingbang in Xiangjiang at a high price of 6 million and obtained the No. 8 license plate.
Wu Jianye, Zhu Xuan, and Dai Zhen walked down from the Rolls-Royce car with the license plate number HK1997.
Compared with those license plates that can easily cost millions or even tens of millions, Wu Jianye's HK1997 can be described as a land stall.
After the dust settled on the issue of Xiangjiang, the Xiangjiang Transport Management Department took out the license plate for auction, and its purpose can be imagined.
In fact, in another time and space, the price of this license plate was 25,000 Hong Kong dollars, and it was unsold at the first auction, and the Transport Management Department had no choice but to re-auction it at a price of 1,000 Hong Kong dollars, and was later auctioned by Wu Baoqiang of Dongying Language School at a price of 21,000 Hong Kong dollars.
But this time it was different, when the auction began, Wu Jianye asked Yan Wen to help him auction it, and at the same time, at that auction, almost all of the auspicious numbers taken out by the Transportation Management Department were auctioned by Wu Jianye.
These include '7777' and '9999' without a letter prefix.
When Wu Jianye usually comes to Xiangjiang to travel, he will take a BMW car of '7777', and when he usually participates in activities, he will take this 'HK1997' Rolls-Royce.
In the circle of the top rich people in Xiangjiang, everyone knows that this car is Wu Jianye's.
At this time, although the sky did not darken, the Huo family's mansion was already brightly lit, and many rich people could be seen taking their female companions in and out.
Through these years of operation, Wu Jianye's influence in Xiangjiang has long been less resounding than in previous years, and now Xiangjiang media is more about Wu Jianye as a director.
It is precisely because of this that Wu Jianye's name has not appeared in the financial sector for many years, and now that society is developing so fast, people's memories are naturally not so good, so when Wu Jianye no longer appears in the financial sector, few ordinary people still remember the news that broke out that Wu Jianye was the boss behind the three major groups in Xiangjiang.
However, this is only in the circle of ordinary people, and in the circle of the top rich in Xiangjiang, it is a different concept!
With the development of the three major groups of Yaoguang, Yiwang, and Fengge Media, Wu Jianye's weight in their hearts has become bigger and bigger.
So when Wu Jianye appeared here, he could see some elderly heads of the consortium, or the helmsmen of the Xiangjiang family, and when they saw Wu Jianye, they would come over to say hello very politely, while some young people who came with their elders would show some puzzled expressions.
Dai Zhen whispered to Wu Jianye: "Brother, I'm going to shop by myself!"
Huo Tsar's banquet has a special place for the driver and bodyguards, although Dai Zhen can also follow Wu Jianye into the main hall, but he doesn't like that kind of environment, it is better to eat and chat happily with some drivers and bodyguards!
Wu Jianye smiled and said, "Well, let's go!"
At this time, Huo Zhenting, the eldest son of Huo Tsar, also walked out, and standing next to him was his dressed wife, Zhu Lingling, who was known as the most beautiful Hong Kong sister, and the two came to Wu Jianye and Zhu Xuan.
"Director Wu, welcome, my father has been waiting inside for a long time!" Huo Zhenting said with a smile on his face.
Since the original Xiangjiang newspaper war, Wu Jianye has rarely participated in such a ball except for a small range of personal gatherings held by Zheng Yutong, this time Wu Jianye was able to take Zhu Xuan to participate in Huo Tsar's ball, obviously giving Huo Tsar enough face, Huo Zhenting naturally felt that his face was bright!
Wu Jianye looked at the couple who looked very affectionate at this time, and said with a smile: "Thank you, let Huo Weng wait for a long time!"
At the beginning, the wedding of Fok Zhenting and Zhu Lingling shook the whole Hong Kong, and it was called the most perfect combination of the Xiangjiang entertainment circle and the rich circle, and Zhu Lingling's situation made many female stars in the Xiangjiang entertainment circle rise to the vision of marrying into a wealthy family.
Although there were many reports in later generations that Zhu Lingling did not receive due respect in the Huo family, and even the use of a string of jewelry had to be registered, in fact, such a rule was already in place when Zhu Lingling did not marry into the Huo family.
Later, even if Zhu Lingling and Huo Zhenting divorced, they still threw themselves into the arms of another rich man, in the final analysis, Zhu Lingling is indeed one of the best endings among Hong Kong sisters!
Under the guidance of Huo Zhenting, Wu Jianye came to the middle of the ball.
At this time, you can see that in this place of Xiangjiang, even the business world has a class division, for example, standing in the middle is the top rich people like Huo Tsar, Zheng Yutong, He Hongshen, and some other rich people can only stand on the periphery and look at them with envy.
Huo Tsar and the others also smiled when they saw Wu Jianye from a distance.
When Wu Jianye walked to the center of the field, Huo Tsar took two steps with a smile on his face, greeted Wu Jianye, and said with a smile: "Director Wu, it's really been a long time, this time your arrival makes me shine here!"
Wu Jianye responded with a smile: "Huo Weng is too polite, coming to visit you is what we juniors should do!"
Zheng Yutong and He Hongshen also greeted Wu Jianye with a smile.
Those people on the periphery looked at Wu Jianye and the three top businessmen in the venue now, talking and laughing, and they didn't feel anything wrong, the businessmen who were able to participate in the ball held by Huo Tsar, even the most marginal ones were first-class business consortia in Xiangjiang!
It is precisely this identity that allows them to know the details of Wu Jianye.
To be honest, at this time, there are already a lot of people who are ready to come over and set up a trick with Wu Jianye, after all, it is not easy to capture a living Wu Jianye alive.
As I said before, Wu Jianye rarely appears in such a circle, so many people are thinking about how to communicate with Wu Jianye for a while!
Since it was a dance party, after a few people chatted for a while, they naturally wanted to enter the dance venue, Wu Jianye also entered the stage with Zhu Yan to dance, but to say that the most eye-catching thing on the dance floor was He Hongshen, who was known as the king of dances at the beginning, and the fourth wife was his dance partner.
In the first two years, Lizhi also worked as He Hongshen's dance partner for two years.......
On this occasion, Wu Jianye was not very enthusiastic, and this time he came here purely to save face for Tsar Huo, so after dancing a song, he stood aside and chatted with Zhu Xuan.
However, it is obvious that it is impossible for Wu Jianye to be idle at this time, many people came to Wu Jianye and introduced themselves, and Wu Jianye had to reply one by one with a smile on his face.
"Director Wu, I'm very happy to see you here, I've seen none of your movies!"
At this time, a middle-aged man came over and handed out his business card to Wu Jianye!
Wu Jianye took it over and saw that it was Chen Qizong of Hang Lung Real Estate.
Hang Lung Properties used to be one of the five tigers of Hong Kong Chinese-funded real estate, but it fell behind in the 80s, but after all, it relied on a strong foundation to survive.
Last year, the Chen Qizong family ranked 10th among the top 10 richest people in Hong Kong, but this year it will drop to 12th, according to the Hong Kong Economic Journal, this year's market value of Hang Lung Properties is as high as 31.2 billion Hong Kong dollars!
It's just that Wu Jianye doesn't have a very good impression of him, this is Pan Yiyi of Xiangjiang!
He is also a wealthy man who likes to donate money to foreign institutions of higher learning that he has not been to.......
In fact, Wu Jianye does not have much disgust with those rich people who donate to foreign universities, after all, many people donate just to let their children enter this school, which is not much different from going through the back door.
It's a pity that some rich people donate extremely high-profile, and more importantly, after donating, they still look like they are for charity, of course, if this is the case, it is understandable, after all, what do you want to set up.
What is unsatisfactory is that it is not interesting for them to belittle domestic education and universities while donating to foreign universities.
"Thank you!" Although I am not satisfied with some of this person's practices, there is no grievance between the two sides after all, and Wu Jianye naturally can't slap his face like a middle two, so at this time, Wu Jianye still greeted the other party with a smile!
"I heard that Director Wu just finished filming a new movie before, I don't know when I will be able to see it!" Chen Qizong said with a smile.
"It's going to be New Year's Day this year!" Wu Jianye replied.
"It's going to take so long, it seems that we fans will still have to suffer for a while!" Chen Qizong made a look of pity.
After the two chatted about the movie for a while, Chen Qizong clarified his thoughts this time.
It turns out that Hang Lung Properties wants to expand its real estate business in Xiangjiang, one is to cooperate with Hongkong Land, and the other is to be able to borrow some money from Standard Chartered Bank!
"This matter, you have to discuss with Zhou Tao and Yan Wen, I don't have any positions in these two groups, there is really nothing to do about this matter!" Wu Jianye replied politely.
Chen Qizong said with a smile: "Director Wu is modest, who in Xiangjiang doesn't know the relationship between you, Yaoguang and Yiwang!"
Wu Jianye's face changed slightly, and then he smiled: "Mr. Chen said that he laughed, I really have nothing to do with Yaoguang and Yiwang!"
"I'm sorry, there are friends over there, so I won't bother me much!" After speaking, Wu Jianye left with Zhu Xuan.
Chen Qizong looked at Wu Jianye's back, his expression was a little complicated.
He Hongshen looked at Wu Jianye with a smile and said, "How is it?
At this time, He Hongshen had already finished his dance, although He Hongshen was in his 70s at this time, he was still immortal.
Wu Jianye smiled bitterly and said, "Forget it, just end it early, by the way, I haven't congratulated He Sheng yet!"
The reason why He Hongshen's treasure knife is not old is because He Hongshen's fourth-room wife is already pregnant.......
He Hongshen laughed, and he was also very proud.
After a while, Zheng Yutong also came over, the three of them are old friends, so naturally there are more topics.
However, as soon as the three of them chatted for a while, Wu Jianye saw the Huo family maid who had just received him, walked up to Huo Zhenting, and whispered that he didn't know what to say, and then Huo Zhenting came to Wu Jianye.
"Director Wu, there are some things that you may need to deal with!"
Wu Jianye was slightly stunned, not understanding what he needed to deal with in the Huo family, and said, "What is it?"