Chapter 1032: Confrontation or Complicity?
Lin Cheng pointed out that Li Chaoren and several other Xiangjiang bigwigs hoarded land and limited the supply of real estate, which was the main culprit of the high land price in Xiangjiang.
These words were rendered by the media and spread to the ears of Li Chaoren and other real estate tycoons, which naturally attracted enough hatred for Lin Cheng, if it weren't for Lin Cheng's forces to cover the sky, the bigwigs would have sent double-flower red sticks to cut down Lin Cheng's whole family.
In fact, the hoarding of land by the Hongjiang real estate tycoons, the limited supply of real estate, and the obstruction of the Hong Kong government's development of land in the New Territories are all tacit rules of the bigwigs.
However, Lin Cheng, who has always focused on the development of the mainland, wants to be a Jiang Menglong, and he actually wants to get involved in the land in the New Territories, which makes the money-making channels jointly created by the real estate tycoons face the possibility of collapse, and many real estate tycoons say they can't bear it.
Repulse Bay, Li House.
"What does Lin Cheng want to do? We Sun Hung Kai asked ourselves that we had never offended him, he had something to call out, and our three brothers had always supported us in the first place, why did they take revenge on us?" Guo Binglian, the third brother of the three Guo brothers, was on fire and scolded with a big grin.
"In other words, who doesn't know that developing the New Territories is the most fundamental way to solve the problem of the lack of people in Xiangjiang?
"Li Sheng, our real estate industry in Xiangjiang has always looked forward to you, Lin Cheng's behavior of breaking the rules and developing the New Territories, what do you think?" Guo Bingxiang, the boss of the Guo family, looked at Li Chaoren and asked.
To be honest, Li Chaoren does not object much to Lin Cheng's development of the New Territories, after all, although Cheung Kong and Whampoa make a lot of money by doing real estate, Cheung Kong and Whampoa do not just make money by doing real estate.
Li Chaoren's family does business in Xiangjiang, and there are two main sources of money, one is to hoard land, and the value-added income brought by land promotion.
Building a house on the land, the construction cost is not very high, if you just make a little profit from planning, design, construction and maintenance, then Li Chaoren is at best the income level of a building materials factory owner.
The sky-high price of houses in Xiangjiang is not the building but the value of the land, and the value of this land is not created by Li Chaoren or any rich businessman.
It is created by the geographical location and historical status of Xiangjiang and the efforts of all Xiangjiang people.
It's like Xiangjiang's most classic business war TV series "Genesis", the protagonist Ye Rongtian did the electronic chicken business at the beginning, how to say it, it has something to do with high-tech, but the business went around and around, and finally returned to real estate, the three protagonists in "Genesis", the biggest ideal is to build a smoke-free city.
In a word, the land complex of the Xiangjiang people is too heavy, and it is the result of their choice to keep housing prices high, not just a handful of rich people such as Li Chaoren.
The second largest source of Li Chaoren's income is his monopoly on telecommunications, natural gas, hydropower, ports, retail and other industries, which are all necessities of life, and can even be said to be survival resources.
If prices rise generally, in order to survive, citizens must first cut off expenses on clothing, shoes, and entertainment, while expenditures on communications, water, electricity, and natural gas are rigid and difficult to cut.
And this is also the most fundamental reason for the longevity of the Li Chaoren family, because no matter whether the economic environment is good or bad, as a person, you always have to survive, so every time there is an economic crisis, the Li Chaoren family not only has no loss, but can take the opportunity to become bigger and form a greater monopoly on social resources.
For Lin Cheng's development of land in the New Territories, Li Chaoren was not as anxious as the three Guo brothers to jump off the building, Lin Cheng became the richest man in the world, with unlimited funds, and Lin Cheng is undoubtedly the most stupid, and the wise man does not do it.
After all, once the five new cities in the New Territories are completed, you will always be inseparable from the basic supporting facilities such as natural gas and hydropower.
The monopoly of land, telecommunications, hydropower, and natural gas is enough to limit the income of ordinary people to a range that can only sustain basic survival.
Once the overall income level of the society rises, as long as the price of these basic materials rises with it, then it is easy to turn everyone's new income into their own wealth.
Therefore, the "Hong Kong and Macao Free Travel" and a large number of state-owned enterprises are concentrated in Xiangjiang to be listed, and the people's incomes have risen sharply, but in a blink of an eye, these rising incomes have been consumed from the rising prices of rent, water, electricity, natural gas and other necessary resources for life, and the people still have not received anything.
Regarding Lin Cheng's action to develop the New Territories, Li Chaoren is not worried.
Since the development of the Li Chaoren family, from land and housing to daily necessities, from electricity and energy to road traffic, from shopping malls to telecommunications networks, from weddings and funerals to three meals a day, the "clothing, food, housing and transportation" of Xiangjiang people are inseparable from the Li Chaoren family, and Li Chaoren naturally does not need to hang himself on the tree of the land.
However, although Li Chaoren did not plan to confront Lin Cheng, he was still happy to add some blockage to Lin Cheng, so he said to the three Guo brothers: "To prevent Lin Cheng from developing the New Territories, we can start from two major aspects at the same time, the first is to incite the villagers of the New Territories to regret and tear up the land sale contract, causing a land dispute between the villagers of the New Territories and the Lin Holding Group, and the development of the New Territories will be delayed indefinitely."
The second is to contact environmental groups across Hong Kong to protest against the development of the New Territories by the Lam Holding Group, which has damaged the natural environment of Hong Kong and reduced the land area of the people of Hong Kong, and the environmental protection organizations have initiated a motion with the government to annul the contract of the Lam Holding Group for the development of the New Territories, defining it as illegal. ”
Li Chaoren's ability to become the richest man in China is by no means in vain, and the two strategies he thinks of are the two main reasons why the Hong Kong government has never been able to develop the New Territories in the original time and space.
When the three Guo brothers heard this, they all praised Li Chaoren as worthy of being an old fox, and his idea was clever.
However, when the three Guo brothers left, Li Chaoren said to his son Li Dachao: "The two strategies I think may be effective for the weak Hong Kong government, but they should have no effect on Lin Cheng, who is tough to the end."
Instead of confronting each other and losing both, it is better to divide the interests of the New Territories with Lin Cheng.
After a while, I will meet Lin Cheng and plan to get a piece of the pie and join hands with him to develop the New Territories, and the enterprises under our group, such as hydropower, natural gas, supermarkets and other essential industries for daily life, will also be killed in the New Territories as soon as possible to expand our industry. ”
Li Dachao nodded again and again when he heard this, his old bean is really closed, and the three Guo brothers who have the ability to play with two sides and three knives are reunited, but they are not offended by Lin Cheng and the three Guo brothers, they sell well on both sides, and they also get huge economic benefits, this method is enough for them to learn for a lifetime.