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The Peninsula Hotel.

"Arwen. Huo Guantai smiled and got up to greet Huo Yaowen.

Huo Yaowen stretched out his hand and said, "Uncle Huo, I haven't seen you for a long time. ”

"I haven't seen you in a while, so sit down and talk. ”

Huo Guantai beckoned him to sit down, and Huo Zhenting, who was on the side, called the waiter and ordered a cup of afternoon tea.

Huo Guantai said: "I heard Zhenting say that Xiaohu and Xiaobao have been learning to walk recently.

"Haha, I haven't fully learned it yet, but I dare to stand up and walk around with some things. At the mention of his children, Huo Yaowen smiled happily, he was a human being for the first time in two lives, not to mention how happy he was.

"It shouldn't be long before you can walk, and the two-year-old baby will be able to walk normally as long as he has passed the hurdle in his heart. ”

Speaking of this, Huo Guantai suddenly sighed and said: "Sometimes I envy your father, who is already a grandfather two years younger than me, and I don't know when I will be a grandfather." ”

After Huo Guantai finished speaking, he glanced at his son Huo Zhenting with complaining eyes.

Hearing this, Huo Zhenting lowered his head and scratched his forehead in embarrassment.

Huo Yaowen still knows a little bit about some of the past events of Huo Zhenting, a merry boy, when he was young, he fought with someone in Lichi because of a beautiful woman, although he has converged a lot in recent years, but he still can't change the problem of having fun.

Perhaps realizing that he had said a little too much, Huo Guantai smiled slightly, changed the topic, and said: "Don't talk about this, Yaowen, I came to you this time to ask if you have any intention of contracting the government's project." ”

"Government projects?"

Huo Yaowen raised his eyebrows, his mind was racing, and he suddenly thought of the article published by Governor MacLehose in the "Gazette" a few days ago, "Uncle Huo, are you talking about the Home Ownership Scheme?"

"Not bad. ”

Fok Guantai nodded and continued: "I asked someone about this project, the Governor's Office and the Lands Department are ready to open the bidding to the partners, this time the Home Ownership Plan will build new public housing estates in Kwun Tong, Chai Wan, Ho Man Tin, Aberdeen, Sha Tin, Kwai Chung These six places, the government will give a certain degree of tax subsidies to the cooperative real estate companies, and the preliminary estimate of the amount of subsidies involved is as high as more than one billion. ”

In addition to shipping, shipyards, and sand industry, Huo Guantai's current assets are mostly in real estate, and he founded Lixin Real Estate Co., Ltd. in the 50s and began to operate the real estate industry.

It is also the first to create a strata pre-sale "off-plan" and installment payment business mode, which not only makes a huge contribution to the development of Hong Kong's real estate, but also greatly facilitates the general public who want to own their own houses.

I don't know how much better this is than Xiao Li's shared area, and the installment payment facilitates real estate developers to sell houses, and it also facilitates the public to buy houses, but the shared area only facilitates real estate developers.

From this point, it can be seen that Xiao Li is an absolute businessman, and everything is aimed at maximizing profits.

It is precisely because Fok Guantai pioneered the "off-the-plan" and installment payment business mode, in the mid-60s, when the Hong Kong real estate industry fell into a low ebb, Fok Guantai and the Hong Kong Chinese Commercial Real Estate Company held the first board meeting of the Hong Kong Real Estate Developers Association, and was elected as the president, and was re-elected for 20 years.

This is also one of the reasons why the British government in Hong Kong has been suppressing Fok Guantai, but it has never been able to break him.

Huo Yaowen thought for a moment and asked, "Uncle Huo means that you want us to be involved in Hutchison Whampoa?"

"I remember that the Whampoa Dockyard was demolished and reclaimed a few years ago in the dry yard of Aberdeen, and that large piece of land, I think we can consider developing it, and the residents have their own plans, although it is mainly a low-cost public housing estate, but we can also develop some mid-to-high-end communities. I've seen the Aberdeen site, which is in an excellent location and close to the sea, which is very suitable for building a mid-to-high-end community. ”

Since Huo Yaowen became the chairman of the board of directors of Hutchison Whampoa last year, Huo Guantai was very shocked in his heart, he didn't expect Huo Yaowen to become the largest shareholder of Hutchison Whampoa so well, and he was even more surprised that the other party's growth was too fast!

A few years ago, he was just the owner of a publishing company, a very talented writer, and in less than two years, he became a tycoon who could spend hundreds of millions of Hong Kong dollars to buy a British-funded foreign bank!

This growth rate makes Huo Guantai glad that he became friends with Huo Yaowen early a few years ago, and coupled with the fact that they are both relatives of the Huo family, this relationship can maintain the long-term cooperation between the two in the future.

For cooperation, Huo Yaowen has no objection, after all, the development of Hong Kong's real estate industry is not ideal, but he can't let the land be left empty, and he knows very well that Hong Kong's economy will gradually recover next year, and now the development will wait until the next year's economic recovery, the price will inevitably rise sharply, so that the income will also increase.

It's just that Hutchison Whampoa has very little liquidity now, even if there are two banks with loan support, but Hutchison Whampoa is involved in a lot of industries, and it is impossible to put all of them on investment real estate.

Thinking of this, he said slowly: "Recently, we at Hutchison Whampoa are indeed interested in developing real estate, but our goal is in Tsim Sha Tsui, where we have a land in an excellent location to develop a high-end community. If you develop Aberdeen, I'm afraid that the funds will be ......."

"I can help a little bit financially. ”

Huo Guantai said straightforwardly: "Yaowen, you should know that my Lixin Real Estate has not received a piece of official land auctioned by the government in the past two years, so I very much hope to cooperate with your Hutchison Whampoa, I will pay you to contribute the land, and then it will be divided according to the proportion of investment." ”

In the early years, it was a little better, but in recent years, with MacLehose's debut, the faction between China and Britain has become more and more obvious, and Huo Guantai's Lixin Real Estate has not bought a suitable official land for more than two years.

According to the original history, in May this year, Huo Guantai will focus on those old houses that have been in disrepair for a long time, implement the old house renovation plan, and buy the old house and demolish it to build a new building, which is more profitable than directly buying official land.

Huo Yaowen thought about it for a long time, Hutchison Whampoa has a lot of land, if it is developed one by one, he doesn't know that he will have to wait until the Year of the Monkey, plus he wants to demolish the Whampoa dock and develop that piece of golden land, it will definitely not work without money.

At this time, Huo Guantai wanted to cooperate in the development of a piece of land, which could also speed up his plan.

"I don't have a problem with it personally, but I'm going to go back to the company and talk to the board of directors. He didn't say anything about it, and when he went back, he would first check the land in Aberdeen and the subsidy under the government's Home Ownership Scheme.

"Yes, there is no hurry in this matter, the Lands Department and the Governor's Palace do not have a detailed plan yet, and it is not too late to make a decision when the plan is out. Huo Guantai smiled slightly, and was not in a hurry to let Huo Yaowen agree on the spot.

After chatting about business, Huo Zhenting had the opportunity to interject and said: "Yaowen, I heard that your new book is selling well abroad, congratulations, Hong Kong has produced such a great writer as you, it is really rare!"

Yesterday, "Oriental Daily" and "Huazi Daily" announced the sales of "Harry Potter 3" abroad for the first time in order to photograph Huo Yaowen's boss's horses, and even played the slogan: "Overseas sales again, Mr. Huo is really the first writer in Hong Kong!

The touting reports of these two newspapers, Huo Yaowen was embarrassed to read them, and he felt ashamed.

"Alright, Shock. Huo Guantai glanced at his son and said, "You go to the side first, I have something to say to Yaowen." ”

"Yes. Huo Zhenting got up and walked towards a nearby seat.

"Uncle Huo, what's the matter?" Huo Yaowen looked at Huo Zhenting who left suspiciously, what did he have to say before his son left?

"Yaowen, do you remember President Liang?"

Huo Yaowen frowned, thought about it carefully, and suddenly said in surprise: "Are you talking about the President Liang of Xinhuashe?"

"Yes, President Liang asked me to ask you to come out to meet before, but I know that you have been busy lately, so I have not been embarrassed to contact you. ”

As he spoke, Huo Guantai pointed in the direction of the north, and the charm was self-evident.

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(End of chapter)