In a blink of an eye, it has reached the end of October, and history always has a strong inertia, and the Hong Kong government is still like a trajectory in another time and space, still introducing a new linked exchange rate system on October 17. The exchange rate of the Hong Kong dollar against the US dollar is fixed at 7.8 to 1.

After communicating with HSBC about the loan, Li Xuan took the time to return to the United States. But he soon flew back to Hong Kong, because there were many important events that required him to attend in person.

For example, Mr. Charlison, the new CEO of RCA, brought a large delegation of more than 20 people to Hong Kong for exchange and investigation. This is a very important matter for the Eastern Group, and it may be directly related to the success or failure of the subsequent acquisition of RCA.

Li Xuan asked Han Peng to accompany the RCA delegation throughout the whole process on behalf of himself to conduct an in-depth and detailed investigation of the entire industrial layout of the Oriental Group in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the mainland. And he himself sat in Hong Kong and had several face-to-face in-depth discussions with Charleson on many issues he cared about.

In addition, Li Xuan, who has been the richest man in the world for two consecutive years, also announced his candidacy for the new chairman of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce amid the expectations of his colleagues in the Hong Kong business community!

"I announce that Mr. Li Xuan has been elected as the new Chairman of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce!"

The current chairman of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Wheelock & Co. Taipan Madden, announced the election results loudly, and the audience immediately burst into thunderous applause. Li Xuan got up with a smile, bowed to everyone reservedly, and then walked to the podium.

"Thank you for your love and support, Dongfang Electronics is a young company, established less than five years ago. It's been less than three years since I joined the Chamber of Commerce. In front of all the seniors who have been in the business world for many years, my milky hairy guy is also sincerely afraid!"

The past two years. Due to various reasons, Hong Kong's economy is at a historical low tide and in a period of turbulence. The Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce is under the leadership of Mr. Madden. Cut through the thorns and fight your way through the extremely difficult situation!

Since everyone voted for me who is a latecomer, in the next two years, as the new chairman of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce, I will still uphold the concept of serving every member and do my best to solve all kinds of difficulties for everyone! We will also strive for the continued prosperity and stability of Hong Kong!"

Li Xuan's speech was very short, and he did not make a long speech, let alone any grand plans. Although the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce is the first of the four major chambers of commerce in Hong Kong, it is actually just a loose organization. Bottom members may want to use this platform to broaden their network.

And to a point like Li Xuan, the Chamber of Commerce's role in promoting his Eastern Group is actually minimal. After he was elected chairman, he was more often required to take on various obligations, such as providing some help to the members of the chamber of commerce.

Of course. Becoming the chairman of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce is not without benefits to Li Xuan, on the contrary, the benefits are very great. Founded in 1861, the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce (HKGCC) is the oldest and largest international business organisation in Hong Kong. Able to exert significant influence on the decision-making of the Hong Kong government.

On many issues involving Hong Kong's business community, the Governor of Hong Kong consults the Chairman of the General Chamber of Commerce in advance. Therefore, after Li Xuan was elected as the new chairman of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce, his political influence in Hong Kong was undoubtedly further enhanced.

After the end of the Election Conference. The Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce (HKGCC) held a grand appreciation dinner at The Peninsula Hotel. As the first Chinese chairman of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce since its establishment more than 120 years ago, Li Xuan is naturally the most shining focus of the whole banquet.

From the beginning of the banquet. The people who came to congratulate Li Xuan with wine glasses never stopped. For example, the one who just greeted him was Mr. Tang Jiqian, the boss of Nanyang Textile. The ancestral home of the Tang family is in Jiang-Su-Wu-Xi. As early as 200 years, the ancestors began to operate the cloth village. In the early years of the Republic of China, the Tang family had developed into one of the top textile families in Shanghai, and the Rong family, another major textile giant in Shanghai at that time, was equally famous.

Li Xuan actually didn't care about the old past of these wealthy families. The reason why he knew so well about the situation of the Tang family was because he received news not long ago that someone hoped that Tang Jiqian would come out to fight Li Xuan.

Tang Jiqian is a well-known pro-British faction in Hong Kong, and he has made no secret of his support for the Hong Kong authorities in many previous public statements. His always clear stance is just the opposite of his other cousin, Tang Xiangqian. Tang Xiangqian is a well-known patriotic businessman in Hong Kong, who was the first to use mainland cotton in Hong Kong's textile industry as early as the early 70s, and made great contributions to domestic cotton exports to earn foreign exchange.

At the end of the 70s, Tang Xiangqian personally went to Xin-Xinjiang in the northwest inland to set up a joint venture wool mill using local cattle wool. Li Xuan knew very little about Tang Xiangqian in the memory of his previous life, but he was like a thunderbolt to his son. Tang Yingnian rose all the way from 97 to chief secretary for administration, and a big reason was that his father had a very close relationship with the two generations of leaders of the central government.

In June this year, Tang Jiqian and Tang Xiangqian, two distant cousins, were invited to participate in the northbound petition group. At that time, when meeting with Hong Kong guests, Deng Lao personally promised that the system of "one country, two systems, and Hong Kong people" governing Hong Kong would be "unshakable for 50 years"!

At that time, Tang Xiangqian said that he believed it, but Tang Jiqian did not say that he did not believe it. The situation is very similar to the choice their father faced thirty years ago. At that time, before the founding of the People's Republic of China, Tang Xiangqian's father chose the letter and stayed in Beijing. Tang Jiqian's father didn't believe it, and then fled to Hong Kong.

As for the later results, everyone can surely guess it. Fortunately, Tang Xiangqian studied in the United States in his early years, and did not return to Hong Kong from the United States until 1950. Tang Xiangqian started from scratch and developed Nanlian Industrial into the largest textile group in Hong Kong step by step.

Tang Jiqian, on the other hand, was much smoother than his distant cousin, whose father founded the Nanyang Yarn Factory after coming to Hong Kong. Nanyang Mills was already one of the largest spinning mills in Hong Kong in the 50s. After that, Tang Ji's thousand sons inherited their father's business and took over the family's Nanyang Textile Group.

For the government, your credibility is damaged. The price to be paid to regain fù is enormous. This is also why since last year, the central leaders of the mainland have repeatedly stated this. The Chinese government will adhere to the policy of "one country, two systems, and Hong Kong and people governing Hong Kong". But Hong Kong society is still panicked, and the British only need a little agitation. can cause panic in the whole society.

Li Xuan has God's perspective and can be confident without worry that the central government has indeed fulfilled all its original promises after 97 years. However, like the majority of Hong Kong people represented by Tang Jiqian, no matter how much the mainland government stresses, they are still skeptical. According to the information collected by Li Xuan, Tang Jiqian actually began to transfer many of his family's assets to Los Angeles in the United States as early as the beginning of this year.

So the heads of some local government leaders in later generations. In Li Xuan's opinion, they must have been caught by the door, and they didn't know the preciousness of credibility at all! First, the government of place A promised that it would not restrict license plates, and then the government of place A slapped themselves in the face in the blink of an eye. Later, the government of place B promised not to restrict license plates, and many smart citizens accepted the lesson of place A and no longer believed these nonsense.

But there are always some people who still retain a trust in the government. However, their trust was once again ruthlessly trampled under the feet of the government of B. All those who believe in the government have become fools, is the credibility of the government less than a few license plates?

Li Xuan really didn't know if the leaders of A and B really had their heads caught in the door! If there were any more people in C in the future, the government would say that it would not restrict license plates. It is estimated that only a fool in the whole of China will believe it!

Li Xuan's thoughts are far away, the so-called groundless wind may not be without a reason. Tang Jiqian has indeed been hinted at by some people. Compared with Li Xuan's somewhat vague political orientation, Tang Jiqian's clear attitude is undoubtedly more popular with the British. Election of the Chairman of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce. The voices of the internal Chinese members calling for the election of a Chinese chairman were unusually strong.

Since the end of the 70s, British-funded companies such as Hutchison Whampoa and Wharf have been acquired by Chinese investors. The role of Chinese capital in Hong Kong's economy has changed from its subordinate position in the early years. Gradually rose to be able to compete with the British. In particular, the sudden rise of the Eastern Bloc in the past few years has made all Chinese businessmen find an excuse. If even the richest man in the world is not qualified to become the chairman of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce. So who else can have this qualification!

And some people who don't want Li Xuan to come to power can think of the best way. It is to find a Chinese with enough influence to fight with Li Xuan. Although Li Xuan's wealth is very scary, he is a fledgling after all, and his age of 23 is definitely a hard injury.

There will always be some people who don't want to let Li Xuan, who has not dried up, be too proud. What's more, Li Xuan's cousin in the past two years has also been close to the local upper class circles in Hong Kong, and if it is operated properly, there may really be a chance to cause an upset.

Although he has a lot of worries about the future prospects of Hong Kong, it is just that as a businessman, he instinctively seeks advantages and avoids disadvantages. He didn't want to make himself a knife in the hands of others, and as soon as the grapevine came out, Tang Jiqian immediately publicly stated that he had no intention of participating in the election of the chairman of the General Chamber of Commerce.

So in this election, Li Xuan was actually elected without any suspense in the absence of competition. And Tang Jiqian also took the initiative to come up to say hello just now and expressed his goodwill to Li Xuan.

"Hello Li Sheng! I'm Luo Kangrui from Shui On Group!" a man who looked to be in his thirties stepped forward to greet Li Xuan.

"Mr. Luo, hello!" Li Xuan raised his wine glass and touched him lightly.

In his previous life, Li Xuan lived in the Deep Sea Special Zone since he was a child, and he had heard a little about a lot of gossip about Hong Kong across the river. And this Mr. Lo Kangrui had a scandal that caused a sensation in Hong Kong and Kowloon back then. He married Ms. Zhu Lingling, a former Hong Kong sister, in a six-star hotel in Singapore, and the news caused a sensation in Guangdong and Hong Kong at that time. Zhu Lingling was once the eldest daughter-in-law of the Huo family, a top wealthy family in Hong Kong, and the lavish wedding held when she married Huo Zhenting in 1977 was praised by the Hong Kong media as the wedding of the century.

And the Luo family is also a well-known wealthy family in Hong Kong. There is an idiom called Tiger Father and Dog Son, but this idiom is used on the head of Luo's father and son, so it needs to be changed to Tiger Father and Dragon Son. The Luo family has a dream and five masters, and the four sons are all better than the blue, and each person's achievements are not inferior to the Eagle Monarch Real Estate founded by his father Luo Yingshi, which is definitely a good story.

Luo Kangrui is Luo Yingshi's third son and the earliest son to start his own business. As early as 1971, he borrowed HK$100,000 from his father and established Shui On as a sole proprietorship. After more than ten years of development, Shui On Company has become a well-known construction company in Hong Kong.

"Li Sheng, thank you for extending a helping hand to my father!"

Under normal circumstances, after the two of them gently clink glasses, as long as they take a sip of wine, it is not rude. There were too many people who came to greet Li Xuan tonight, and every time he drank, he actually just dipped his tongue lightly. But Li Xuan didn't expect that the third son of the Luo family in front of him would be so upright, and he directly dried up most of the remaining half a glass of wine in one go.

"Luo Sheng, you are too polite, Jiahua Bank is just issuing loans according to the normal rules and procedures. Although the Eagle Group has encountered temporary difficulties, I believe that under the leadership of Lao Luo Sheng, it will soon be able to regroup and get out of the trough!" Li Xuan said with a smile.

Luo Yingshi's Eagle Group also suffered heavy losses in this real estate crash because of the wrong market. The banking industry has always been the icing on the cake, not the icing on the cake. Great Eagle Group has recently suffered a cash flow crisis and has been denied help from many banks.

Li Xuan has a God's perspective. Naturally, it is clear that Luo Yingshi has successfully survived this crisis, otherwise there would be no saying that there are five masters in Hong Kong. He also doesn't mind selling his favor at this time, after all, it is only by sending charcoal in the snow that he can best win people's hearts! If Jiahua Bank wants to become bigger and stronger in the future, it will naturally be inseparable from the support of these wealthy families.

Therefore, Great Eagle Group successfully loaned a sum of HK$400 million to Jiahua Bank with a commercial office building held by itself as collateral. In fact, the market of Hong Kong's real estate industry only needs to survive next year, and it will be fully prosperous from 1985 onwards. Even if Great Eagle Group really can't repay the loan, Jiahua Bank will not have the risk of bad debts at all. Banks only need to confiscate the mortgaged property, and the income from resale should be much higher than that of a loan when the property market is booming.

Moreover, at such a time, the interest rate of the loan issued by Jiahua Bank to the Great Eagle Group is definitely not low. But compared with the direct rejection of other banks, Jiahua Bank is already a living bodhisattva who rescues the suffering.

And the Luo Kangrui in front of Li Xuan obviously accepted his favor, and expressed his gratitude with a toast. This made Li Xuan's impression of him much better all of a sudden.

"Li Sheng, you are busy first, why don't I bother you again!" Luo Jiarui saw that someone was coming this way again, so he was very interested in preparing to leave.

"Well, I'm sorry, there are a lot of guests tonight! There will be a chance for us to get together again in the future, I chatted with you and Luo Sheng today, and I feel very close to each other, and I will make up your friends in the future!" Li Xuan said with a smile.

Luo Kangrui hadn't come back to his senses when he left, and he had only said a word or two to "God of Wealth Li", and after listening to the other party's tone, he was ready to have a deep friendship with him. You must know that Li Xuan's friends in Hong Kong are notoriously few, and the only ones who can really be regarded as bosom friends are Xu Jiankui and Lin Yuhao.

This is also because Li Xuan's wealth is too terrifying, with total assets of nearly 100 billion Hong Kong dollars. Ordinary people who stand with him will immediately feel ashamed of themselves, and they have not thought of putting themselves on an equal footing with him at all. For example, Luo Kangrui, compared with others, he can be regarded as a young and promising rich second generation with hundreds of millions of self-reliance, assets of more than 100 million.

But in front of Li Xuan, Luo Kangrui unconsciously ignored the fact that he was ten years older than the other party, and instead took the initiative to put himself in the position of a junior. Being able to become a friend of "God of Wealth Lee" is definitely a face-saving thing for Luo Kangrui.

From the beginning to the end of the cocktail party, Li Xuan did not have the slightest time to relax, and people from all walks of life who knew or didn't know came forward to greet him. Compared with before, although he still felt impatient with this kind of unnutritious communication in his heart, he always had a smile like a spring breeze on his face, and he enthusiastically made a mistake with everyone! (To be continued......)