On February 4th, the beginning of spring, there are only a few days before the New Year, and at this moment Hong Kong is filled with the atmosphere of the New Year, the streets and alleys, major supermarkets, markets, seafood markets, vegetable markets and other places have long been overcrowded.

Families are shopping for a variety of New Year's goods for the New Year.

The Huo family is no exception, early in the morning, Huo Yaowen accompanied Anna, Huo's mother, and Tingting to go out to buy some New Year's goods.

"Daddy, hug. ”

As soon as he got home, Xiaobao ran all the way to the house.

"Good" Huo Yaowen picked up his daughter with a smile and walked towards the living room, where his uncle and aunt, uncle and Wanjun were chatting.

"Yaowen is here. When my uncle saw Huo Yaowen coming in, he smiled and motioned for him to sit down.

Huo Yaowen handed his daughter to Anna, walked over and sat down, laughed and chatted with his uncle and others.

And Anna and Huo's mother went into the kitchen together, she has been living in a villa in the middle of the mountains for a while, but she often follows her mother to learn a little soup making skills, don't mention whether the taste is good or not, anyway, Huo Yaowen is tired of drinking soup these days.

"At about 9 o'clock this morning, an illegal cargo ship from Vietnam forcibly entered the country, and the two sides were at a stalemate under the obstruction of the marine police. It is reported that there are more than 800 people on this illegal cargo ship, all of whom are refugees from Vietnam......"

Inside the TV, the noon news of Phoenix Channel was broadcasting this morning's current news.

My uncle looked at the picture captured on the TV, there were hundreds of people standing densely on the board, and I didn't know how much I had stayed in the cabin, so he sighed for a while and said, "Alas, why are there so many." ”

"Also, is there still a fleet of ships fleeing?" Huo Yaowen looked at his uncle in astonishment, he had been busy dealing with the year-end summary of Huanyu Group and Hutchison Whampoa in recent days, and he didn't have much time to read the news newspapers when he went back and forth.

My uncle looked at the big cargo ship in the TV picture, nodded and said, "Yes, this is already the third one, but it was a small fishing boat with a relatively small number of people before, most of them were twenty or thirty people, but I didn't expect such a big ship to come this time." ”

Since the end of the US-Vietnam War a few years ago, it has been stable for a while, but I don't know what the hell is going on, and there has been a serious prosperity phenomenon in the recent period, causing many overseas Chinese to flee there.

Huo Yaowen touched his chin, and secretly pondered in his heart, this is about to be 1978, and the day of self-defense is not far away, and I am afraid that there will be more refugees by then.

Forget it, he can't do anything about this kind of thing, although the title of Justice of the Peace is a little useful on Hong Kong Island, but this kind of big event of receiving tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people has nothing to do with him.

At this time, Xiaobao and Xiaohu, the two little guys, suddenly came out of the kitchen, and ran to Huo Yaowen's side excitedly, shouting and shouting, "It's time to eat, it's time to eat......

Grandma looked at her good grandson and granddaughter, happily hugged Xiaohu and said, "Let's go, let's eat." Warwick, today I specially asked Ah Ping to burn the dried mushrooms that Yaowen brought from his hometown, I have tasted them a few times before, and they are delicious!"

"Really, I'm going to have a good taste, I haven't eaten dry food from my hometown for years. My uncle's eyes lit up, he had been away from his hometown for many years, and he was greedy for the delicious food of his hometown.

Grandma smiled: "If you like it, you can bring some back later, and Yaowen also brought a lot of them this time." ”

"Then I'll be disrespectful to my cousin. ”

"Wherever you are, it's all family. ”

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The lunch meal was very rich, the group ate very happily, after eating, Grandma wanted to play mahjong for a while, and pulled her uncle, aunt and Huo's mother to play cards, and my uncle was not interested in playing cards, but he was sitting alone on the sofa in the living room and reading the newspaper.

Huo Yaowen put down the little dinosaur model in his hand, smiled and said to Anna, Tingting, and Wanjun: "Okay, you can play with these two little guys." ”

With that, he walked towards the sofa area in the living room, "Uncle." ”

Uncle looked up, "It's Yaowen." ”

"How is my uncle doing at the newspaper?"

Huo Yaowen has not been to the "Hong Kong Observer" for a long time, and his understanding of the newspaper is basically to hear Yao Wenjie mention it.

"It's good, newspaper sales have increased slightly recently, but Hong Kong Economic Journal has recently opened a new financial column, inviting Hong Kong financial expert Liang Yongsheng, but it has pulled away a lot of readers. ”

"Liang Yongsheng?"

Huo Yaowen frowned, he didn't know much about the celebrities in Hong Kong's financial industry today, only knew a well-known stock market monster Jie Xiangzhiqiu, this person has been famous in recent years, with his natural sensitivity to the stock market, many times with a small broad, a small Taisheng development to today's market value of hundreds of millions, enough to show this person's ability.

The uncle lifted the frame on the bridge of his nose: "Yes, Liang Yongsheng, he is the honorary vice president of the Hong Kong Investors Association, and he is also an investment adviser to the Kowloon Stock Exchange, and he has also made many outstanding achievements in recent years. ”

"Sounds pretty impressive. Huo Yaowen rubbed his nose, although he relied on the experience and broad vision of later generations, he would know a little bit of stock trading skills, but these are just small skills to know the inside story, and they are really not as good as those professionals, after all, people rely on this to develop.

"It's very powerful, yesterday this Liang Yongsheng said in the Hong Kong Economic Journal that there may be a big earthquake in the Hong Kong stock market in the near future, but I don't know if it's true or not. ”

Although his uncle is the deputy editor-in-chief of the Hong Kong Observer, he does not know much about the stock market in essence, and is mainly responsible for the internal management of the newspaper.

"Big earthquake?" Huo Yaowen raised his eyebrows, what kind of stock market earthquake could there be in 1978, if it was about the same in 82, the property price and stock price at that time would not fall much less than in 73.

Suddenly, Huo Yaowen thought of an acquisition battle that was no less than his acquisition of Hutchison Whampoa two years ago!

That's the battle for Wharf!

The Wharf acquisition war initiated by the charter king was inspired in September 1978, when the charter king had acquired 20% of the shares of the wharf, which was enough to threaten the Wharf's own Jardine Matheson, and then in December, the charter king wanted to enter the board of directors as a shareholder, and Jardine Matheson was naturally unwilling, and the two sides opened a total amount of more than "tens of billions" of acquisition wars.

This battle not only opened the clarion call for the rise of Chinese capital, but also started the name of the charter king, from a large shipping company that ordinary people don't know much about, and suddenly became the object of worship of Hong Kong citizens!

That's right, it's worship!

In the 70s, Chinese businessmen were basically still in the incubation period, until the charter king acquired Wharf, which made many people understand that the once invincible British-funded foreign firm had come to an end, and then opened the phenomenon of Chinese businessmen competing for the British capital industry.

It's just that this feat was taken down by Huo Yaowen a few years in advance, when he bought 35% of the shares of Hutchison & Co. with only hundreds of millions of Hong Kong dollars, I don't know how many media advocated that "he is not only a genius, but also a business wizard." ”

It's a pity that his family knows his own affairs, and the acquisition of the charter ship king is wholly owned, with an investment of up to 2.5 billion Hong Kong dollars, and although Huo Yaowen seems to spend little money, Hutchison & Co. was on the verge of bankruptcy at the beginning, and it is not a big skill to be able to take it down.

Thinking of this, Huo Yaowen became interested in this financial expert named Liang Yongsheng, and he didn't know whether it was a blind guess or a little bit of inside information. However, according to the development of another time and space, the charter king should have had the idea of acquiring the Wharf a long time ago, considering that this person should be mostly guessed, otherwise if he knew the inside story, wouldn't the charter king fall short?

Wharf ......

Huo Yaowen touched his chin, he was also very greedy for Wharf, although Hutchison Whampoa has made a lot of money in the real estate industry in recent years, most of the profits come from a few port trades.

In recent years, Hong Kong has become increasingly developed, with its natural deep-water port and superior geographical location, it has become a leader in the shipping trade in the Far East, and tens of thousands of ships are replenished and discharged every year, which naturally brings a lot of profits.

Although Wharf has a warehouse and looks like a warehouse, it is actually the largest cargo port in Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, with a port throughput of 1.8 million TEUs last year alone, accounting for almost a quarter of Hong Kong's annual port.

It's about to be compared with Huo Yaowen's three major ports!

Such a cash cow is still getting more and more profitable with the passage of time, Huo Yaowen is naturally tempted, but the charter boat king is going to have a showdown in September this year, I think he has already planned it, and he will definitely collect some loose shares in the near future.

But......

If he secretly buys a little loose shares, and then sells them to the charter king when they are in a decisive battle, he will not only make money, but also sell them well in front of the charter king, so that he will invest in the inland trade in the future, and it should be a lot more convenient to have the help of the charter king's fleet.

This is the same as Huo Yaowen's speculation when he bought the shares of the dairy company and sold them to Sir Zhou, not only making money, but also gaining the favor of the other party, after all, when it is really time for a decisive battle, no matter how much money is paid, he must get enough shares to win.

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