Chapter 466: A New Visitor

PS: I haven't corrected the typo yet, you can read it later!

Five or six years ago, Li Ke was just a thug watching in an underground movie theater on a street corner, but now he has become a wealthy shopping mall tycoon. The subsidiary of Star Optoelectronics, which is preparing to go public, can be valued at least two or three hundred million. Family Carnival Pictures, which makes an average of more than a dozen movies a year, can be worth at least tens of millions.

There is also Kunpeng Real Estate Company, although Li Xuan said that he was dragged down by him, but Li Ke himself understands that the luxury houses that were bought on dips in the past two years alone have now increased by more than 100 million yuan. Naturally, he could not have so much money to buy a large number of houses, and all of this money was borrowed from Jiahua Bank and Standard Chartered Bank with Li Xuan's guarantee.

Li Ke never felt that his younger brother owed him anything, if he was not Li Xuan's elder brother, it would be impossible to get to the current point with just his own ability. The current Li Ke is no longer Wuxia Ameng, and his experience over the years has made him understand very well that the business sea is ruthless.

Of course, Li Xuan doesn't see it that way, he is willing to bring the family behind his friends such as Xu Jinkui and Lin Yuhao to share a piece of the pie, not to mention his own brother!

With the strength of the Oriental Group, Li Xuan is fully capable of taking Hongkong Land into his own pocket, and no one can doubt this! Hongkong Land, as the largest real estate group in Hong Kong, will be almost invincible in Hong Kong's real estate industry after receiving the financial support of the world's richest man!

But instead of eating alone, Li Xuan did a live Lei Feng and left the fattest part of the land company to the other four. Of course, Li Xuan contributed the most, and he actually got the most rights and interests.

But in the eyes of everyone, it is not like this, such as the China Construction Group of the Xu Shixun family, after getting the five buildings in Central. suddenly became the king of Central. After acquiring Mandarin Oriental Hotel Company, Karrie Group became the largest luxury hotel group in Asia.

Most of the equity Li Xuan received was stock, and it would not threaten the control of the other four companies in the new company. Li Xuan's approach, in the eyes of other bigwigs in Hong Kong, is no different from giving money to others for free!

Could it be that "God of Wealth Li" is a living Lei Feng? Of course not, a smart person can naturally roughly estimate the benefits that Li Xuan will gain from this operation. It can only be said that he is not interested in the real estate industry! Other real estate tycoons in Hong Kong, while breathing a sigh of relief, also secretly sighed that this kind of good thing could not be hit on their heads!

After Li Xuan gave up the low-hanging fruit company, he at least convinced the other real estate tycoons in Hong Kong that Li Xuan was really not ready to enter the real estate industry to compete for food!

In the past, although the boss of Kunpeng Real Estate was Li Ke, as long as there was wind and grass, everyone would always involuntarily think that it was not the God of Wealth Li who was behind the control. But now, no one thinks that way anymore.

"These assets are not all for you, there is also a share of the little sister in them!You are not qualified to refuse on behalf of the little sister!" Li Xuan smiled at his eldest brother again.

Li Xuan from the beginning of the business. I didn't think about developing the Eastern Bloc into a family-owned business. Therefore, after he closed the Ke Kee Electronics Company, which manufactured pirated arcade machines, he did not let his eldest brother Li Ke enter the newly established Dongfang Electronics Company, but always supported him to start his own business.

"Anyway, I won't ask for it, you just transfer my share to the name of the little sister!" Li Ke still didn't agree.

"These assets are larger than the scale of Kunpeng Real Estate, if they are all classified under Xiaomei's name, then Xiaomei's equity in Kunpeng Real Estate must be more than you, the founder! Naturally, there is no problem, but can my sister-in-law figure it out? Probably higher than your other two companies!

And the little sister is now studying in the United States, so naturally it is impossible for her to come back and take over Kunpeng Real Estate now! When the time comes, you have worked hard to develop and grow the company, and in the end, you did not pass it on to your children, but let Ah Ying, the sister-in-law, pick the fruits of victory! I don't want to see my sister-in-law fighting for property in the future because of this little asset!" Li Xuan said undeniably.

Li Xuan listened to his mother talk about the eldest brother when he was talking about business. I fell in love with a female accountant at Pricewater's accounting firm. And Li Ke doesn't seem to be just playing this time, but is really ready to start a family.

Although Li Ke has not officially brought this future sister-in-law home to introduce it to everyone, the news can reach the ears of Li Xuan's mother, and his eldest brother has not denied it. Li Xuan could also guess that this future sister-in-law still had some means.

Li Ke listened to his brother's words, and immediately wanted to refute it. But under the forced gaze of Li Xuan's direct eyes, he didn't dare to say anything to death for a while, after all, the drama of wealthy families fighting for property has been staged a lot in Hong Kong.

"You also know that these assets are nothing in my eyes, of course, there will be no chance of this kind of pie in the sky in the future, so your next biggest task is to run Kunpeng Real Estate well, which can be regarded as the biggest explanation to me!" Li Xuan said loudly.

The assets he intends to transfer to his eldest brother and sister include a 45,000-square-foot plot of land in the most prime location in Central, as well as two high-end office buildings, one of which could be demolished separately in the future to be developed into office buildings, with a total value of more than $3 billion.

Of course, some people may ask, this bit of land and property is not much in Hongkong Land's total assets, it is already worth 3 billion Hong Kong dollars, so how can Hongkong Land's total value be more than 16 billion Hong Kong dollars! Hongkong Land's total assets are naturally much higher than this figure, but its liabilities are also high.

In '83, Hongkong Land's debt ratio once reached 60%, making it the largest debt company in Hong Kong, and was nicknamed the "debt king" by public opinion. Although Hongkong Land's debt level has improved in the past two years, it still remains at around 50%.

In other words, Hongkong Land's total assets are actually more than HK$30 billion, but it is also burdened with debts of more than HK$15 billion. The financial cost paid by Hongkong Land for these debts is more than HK$1 billion per year, which is the most important reason for Hongkong Land's valuation to be greatly discounted.

The assets that Li Xuan is going to transfer to Kunpeng Real Estate naturally do not contain any debts. 3 billion Hong Kong dollars is not a small amount for Li Xuan, this kind of pie-in-the-sky opportunity is only once, Li Xuan is unlikely to give such a generous gift to his relatives in the future!

At Li Xuan's insistence. Li Ke finally signed the asset transfer agreement. After merging this asset donated by Li Xuan, Kunpeng Real Estate has actually been promoted to a medium-sized real estate company in Hong Kong all of a sudden.

The assets given by Li Xuan have also been selected, and the two office buildings can provide a stable cash flow for Kunpeng Real Estate. In particular, Gloucester Tower's largest tenant, Oriental Group, is about to move into the newly completed Oriental Tower. After Kunpeng Real Estate takes over, it can reclaim a large number of floors for re-leasing.

Hong Kong's economy has been picking up across the board since last year, especially after the depreciation of the US dollar. The Hong Kong dollar, which is fixed at the dollar, also depreciated in tandem, which greatly boosted Hong Kong's industrial exports. As a result, the vacancy rate of Hong Kong's office buildings has dropped from 20% in 1983 to about 5% now. Grade A office space in Central is in short supply, with rents rising by 30% in the last six months.

The remaining piece of land next to Exchange Square could be used as the next flagship development project for Kunpeng Real Estate. In this top area of Hong Kong, the construction of an iconic skyscraper is enough to make Kunpeng Real Estate famous in one fell swoop.

What's more, the other four shareholders of Li Xiangjiang Holdings followed Li Xuan and received a lot of benefits from Hongkong Land. But he owes Li Xuan a lot of favors. And Li Xuan himself was not ready to set foot in the real estate industry, so this incense was naturally transferred to his brother Li Ke's real estate company.

Kunpeng Real Estate can reach a cooperative relationship with Xu's China Construction Group, Lin's Lin Group, and Guo Henian's Jiali Group, so that they can more calmly participate in the competition in Hong Kong's real estate industry! Li Xuan can be said to have laid a good foundation for Kunpeng Real Estate's next take-off, and it will be up to his eldest brother to operate it in the future!

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On April 1st, April Fool's Day, the Oriental Building, located at 83 Des Voeux Road Central, was inaugurated on this day! The Oriental Building is 128 meters high and has a total of 32 floors. There are 30 floors above ground and 2 floors underground.

The first floor of the Oriental Building is the reception hall of the front desk. The second floor is a Chinese restaurant, the third floor is a Western restaurant, the fourth floor is a gym and entertainment lounge, and then a fireproof layer is removed, and the actual area that can be used for office is 25 floors. However, the Oriental Building is not intended to be rented to the outside world, but will be used entirely for internal use.

Now the Eastern Bloc has swelled into. A large group that includes more than a dozen independent subsidiaries. The headquarters of Oriental Group occupies three or four floors of office space, and like Oriental Commercial and Jiahua Bank, each of these subsidiaries headquartered in Hong Kong occupies two or three floors of office space.

Although the headquarters of Iconon Computer and CG Corporation (Computer Park) are not located in Hong Kong, this is at least their Asian headquarters. or an important production and R&D base, so there are also a large number of office staff.

So in fact, the civilian departments in the Eastern Bloc have already filled the Oriental Building. For R&D-oriented companies such as Oriental Research Institute and Oriental Game Company, a large number of R&D personnel have already moved to the Oriental Experimental Building in Shatin. Now, along the Tai Po Highway, across the road from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Oriental Group has bought land from the Hong Kong government and built four scientific research buildings with more than 10 floors.

The Oriental Mansion was chosen to open on April 1st, in fact, it has nothing to do with April Fool's Day, but a respected feng shui master invited by the company to deliberately select an auspicious day of the zodiac according to the lunar calendar. Hong Kong people believe in feng shui, and even British-owned companies such as HSBC have specially invited feng shui masters to participate in the layout planning when building their headquarters building.

Later, after the completion of the Bank of China Building, a feng shui battle broke out between the two sides. In order to gain a firm foothold, the upper part of the building was designed into a triangle, and the sharp corner of one side of the wall was like a sharp sword, directly slashing at HSBC not far away. In order to cope with the evil atmosphere formed by the Bank of China Building, HSBC Tower deliberately erected two cannons on the roof of the building against the Bank of China, and used cannons against swords.

Although Li Xuan is not superstitious, he also chooses to follow the local customs! The decoration and layout of the reception hall on the ground floor are said to be integrated into the feng shui array of wealth gathering.

The opening ceremony of the Oriental Building was very grand, with the opening ceremony presided over by the Governor Youde himself, and almost all the tycoons of Hong Kong's business community came to cheer. As Li Xuan expected, the thunderous action of the previous purchase of the local company greatly enhanced his status in Hong Kong.

For example, last week, Li Xuan's foundation and the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals organized a charity auction. The foundation only sent a courtesy invitation letter to some wealthy families in Hong Kong, but unexpectedly received a very high-level response.

Including Li Jiacheng, Zheng Yutong and many other Hong Kong city tycoons, not only sent high-value charity auctions, but also attended the charity auction in person. So much so that Li Xuan, who originally didn't plan to attend the auction, had to temporarily come forward with his wife Zhong Chuhong to receive these VIPs in person.

The total amount of funds raised for this charity auction exceeded 10 million Hong Kong dollars in one fell swoop. The reason why Li Jiacheng and others are willing to buy face like this is naturally to release their goodwill to Li Xuan.

Li Xuan used the acquisition of Hongkong Land to show his muscles to the whole of Hong Kong. If he is not ready to enter the real estate industry, he will not have the natural opposite interests of these real estate tycoons, and everyone is naturally willing to be friendly with him!

After the opening ceremony of the Oriental Tower, the Oriental Group held a grand appreciation reception at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel.

"Li Sheng, I have a few friends who want to meet and communicate with you!" Li Xuan was standing next to a white man who was communicating with him.

He is the fourth-generation head of the Shi Huaiya family, and his Chinese name is John Shi. The Swire Group, controlled by the Schwyaw family, is known as one of the four major British conglomerates along with the Jardine Matheson Group. After Li Xuan's acquisition of Hongkong Land in his previous life, including the Schweyer family and the Kadoorie family, two British tycoons who are as famous as the Keswick family in Hong Kong, have begun to increase their stakes in their Swire Group, CLP Power, Greater Shanghai Hotel Company and other family enterprises in order to protect themselves.

Li Xuan looked in the direction of John Shi's gaze, and not far away, there were also two well-dressed white men, raising the wine glasses in their hands, and greeted Li Xuan gentlemanly.

Li Xuan didn't know these two people, it seems that they should not be figures in the local upper-class circle in Hong Kong, and since the other party came to the door through the Shi Huaiya family, who was not familiar with him, Li Xuan couldn't help but be a little curious! (To be continued......)