Many of the items in this auction are from the collections of the wealthy, ranging from antique paintings and calligraphy to rare diamond jewelry.

Most of the people in the auction are Chinese billionaires, although there are many British-funded foreign bank executives, but this group of British people is obviously not interested in helping Chinese orphans or the elderly.

If this time it is a donation to civil servants or government officials, then British capital will be much more active.

"Xu Sheng is not very satisfied with these auction items?" asked Li Jiacheng next to him.

Xu Zhi shook his head and said, "It's not that I'm not interested, but it's unnecessary." ”

Li Jiacheng asked: "How can charity be unnecessary?"

Xu Zhi said with a smile: "Charity is of course important, but it also depends on the situation, the charity that directly gives money is the lowest level of charity, my Midea company, for its own factories and all foundries, encourage the employment of a group of disabled people, so that they can be self-reliant, can make their own money, and do not become a burden on the family, this is the charity in my heart." ”

Li Jiacheng nodded and said: "Yes, but this charity is aimed at orphans and the elderly, who are not able to work to support themselves." ”

Xu Zhi said: "Charity is divided into many kinds: geological disasters, education, medical care, pension, environmental protection, animal and plant protection, climate control, these actually require a lot of charitable funds, not to mention us, even the richest man in the world, Rockefeller, all his assets are not enough, so do your own thing, my charity is to help the disabled to find employment, if the orphanage or some elderly people need help, I will personally pay, do not need to take the route of the Red Cross." ”

Li Jiacheng frowned and said, "Xu Sheng is right, but it sounds like you have some opinions about the Red Cross Society?"

Xu Zhi smiled and said, "Does Li Sheng know that today's banquet actually has other plans?"

Li Jiacheng nodded, indicating that he knew.

Xu Zhi said: "The charity gala may be just a superficial appearance, but I don't know if Li Shengke knows that this is the sixth large-scale charity donation this year!"

"Sixth?" Li Jiacheng didn't pay attention to this, although the Hong Kong government often held gatherings, but in just a few months, the world has already held 6 times, which is a bit too frequent.

Xu Zhi said: "In fact, the reason is very simple, after MacLehose came to power, every year the Hong Kong government will allocate funds to support some people in need, but because of Vietnamese refugees, this fund has long been exhausted, so this kind of evening party is needed."

The first few times I used the theme of donating to refugees, and the response was naturally small, so the Hong Kong government directly used the funds for the refugees first, and then to raise funds for the poor in Hong Kong, so I was not interested in this kind of thing. ”

Since the various crises on the Vietnamese side, there have been a lot of people who have fled from Vietnam to Xiangjiang, but the Xiangjiang government is not stupid, of course it will not allow them to enter the country, but the British Yankees who are thousands of miles away pretend to be generous like idiots, and have to order Xiangjiang to accept refugees.

Although MacLehose was unwilling, he could not prevent the British cabinet from deciding to accept these refugees.

But he is not a fool, it is impossible to give these people ID cards, but to concentrate these people in some places and manage them in a unified manner, but the food, drink and health problems of tens of thousands of refugees are a lot of investment, and the Changxiangjiang government can't afford it for a long time, and even in the later period, it began to allow these people to go out to work and obtain a regular identity, which brought endless trouble to Xiangjiang in the future!

"I see. Li Jiacheng said: "In fact, it doesn't matter what the money ends up in this kind of thing, it is all necessary to do business." ”

"Understood!" Xu Zhi nodded, many businessmen don't care where the money goes, even if it goes to some people's pockets, it is estimated that they will be happier.

"This kind of thing is just a trivial matter, and the government still has to give face. Li Jiacheng said: "Xu Sheng, about the matter of Tianshui Wai, I don't know if you have thought about it?"

The development of Tin Shui Wai is led by the Hong Kong government, and many consortia have joined forces to enter, but basically they have all returned, but the place is too remote at present, and the transportation is underdeveloped, and it takes an hour to take a bus to the prosperous place, not to mention that now, even in the 21st century, Tin Shui Wai is the worst place in the economy of Hong Kong.

Because of the establishment of the refrigerator factory, more than 1,000 workers began to go to work, and a large amount of wages were naturally consumed, which also brought a lot of profits to Weicheng Company (a joint venture company of Changjiang Wheelock).

And now it is rumored that Midea intends to move all arcade machines and supporting suppliers to Tin Shui Wai, coupled with the popularity of Gameboy during this time, many real estate developers have also found business opportunities.

Once Midea moves to the past, it will directly drive nearly tens of thousands of jobs, not to mention the employment in the service industry that can be indirectly driven in the future, so it will inevitably be able to drive the sales of nearby real estate, and Li Jiacheng will certainly not let go of this business opportunity.

Xu Zhidao: "I heard that Weicheng Company has changed its major shareholder, Li Sheng, are you still so active?"

Li Jiacheng said: "Xu Sheng's news is really well-informed. ”

In 1978, Weicheng Company was established, which was shared by Cheung Kong Industrial, Wheelock and the local head snake Zhao family, but in 79 years, with the reform and opening up of the mainland, a strong state-owned enterprise in the mainland entered the Xiangjiang market and intended to develop Tin Shui Wai, and because the development was hopeless for a long time, the Zhao family and Wheelock took the opportunity to get rid of the stocks in their hands.

Mainland companies are still relatively naïve at the moment, believing that this is a period of rapid development of the real estate industry in Hong Kong, and buying land now seems to be a safe and profitable deal.

However, after entering the market, I found out the problem, the funds required to develop such a large project are sky-high, and it is impossible for any real estate developer to come up with so much cash, and even if there is this money, it is impossible to invest stupidly.

To develop a real estate, it is generally a bank loan and the sale of off-plan houses to return funds, but the first step of Weicheng Company is difficult, because no bank is willing to lend.

This is not for political reasons, but the bank is not optimistic about such a big project in Tin Shui Wai at all, and 51% of the state-owned enterprises in charge of Weicheng have no real estate development experience at all, even HSBC does not dare to lend more than a billion Hong Kong dollars, in case this money becomes a bad debt, this money will have to let HSBC take off a few layers of skin.

If it is the original history, even if Li Jiacheng wants to help with this, but Tianshuiwei is indeed too poor, even he has no power to return to the sky, not to mention that he has been busy negotiating with HSBC to acquire Hutchison Whampoa, and he has no time to deal with this matter, and Weicheng Company has stopped all its plans.

However, it is different now, although the community near the Midea refrigerator factory is not popular, it has also attracted many businesses and residents, which is also the idea proposed by Li Jia as Weicheng Company: to attract industrial giants to settle in Tin Shui Wai with part of the land.

However, although the total industrial value of Xiangjiang is a lot, how can there be any decent industrial giants, at a glance, it is all a low-level OEM or assembly, and the only thing that catches the eye is Xu Zhi's Midea Group.

Some time ago, Weicheng Company specially sent people to negotiate, and their idea was very simple, I will give you industrial land, you move here, and then you open your factory, and I will make my residence.

However, Yao Mingcheng, who was in charge of the negotiations, had already been instructed to directly refuse, and put forward the conditions for joining Weicheng.

Weicheng Company naturally refused, so it fell into a predicament, and both parties refused to let it!

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