Chapter 246: Encountering Li Zhaoji
Foshui is the third largest city in eastern Guangdong Province, one of the four famous towns in China in history, and has developed into an advanced manufacturing base in China and an important manufacturing center in eastern Guangdong, and has created its unique Foshui model, making Foshui manufacturing well-known at home and abroad.
Foshui and Huacheng are geographically connected, with historical inheritance and cultural homology, and are an important part of the Huafo metropolitan area, the Pearl River Delta economic circle, and the Guangdong-Guizhou-Guizhou high-speed rail economic belt, and are in a leading position in the economic development of eastern Guangdong Province.
Foshui is also a national-level historical and cultural city, the birthplace of Cantonese opera, a famous cultural city of dragon boats and dragons and lions in China, and Foshui martial arts are famous all over the world.
When Lin Cheng led the Lin Group to Foshui to negotiate investment, it coincided with Li Zhaoji leading the children of the family to return to their hometowns to worship their ancestors.
Lin Cheng and the deputy mayor of Foshui had just discussed investment matters, and when they walked out of the deputy mayor's office, they happened to meet the leader of the municipal party committee to receive Li Zhaoji's family.
Li Zhaoji saw Lin Cheng's figure, so he said sorry to the first brother of the municipal party committee who was warmly received beside him, and stretched out his hands to Lin Cheng from a distance, Lin Cheng also took the initiative to stand up and clasped Li Zhaoji's hands tightly.
"Fourth uncle, hello!" Lin Cheng said respectfully.
Li Zhaoji is the fourth oldest among his brothers and sisters, and when he was young, the general public always called him the fourth brother, and when he got older, he was promoted to the fourth uncle.
"Hello Lin Sheng, Lin Sheng is lucky and young and promising, he has always been known as the God of Wealth in Hong Kong, I didn't expect to meet you in Buddha Water, I Li Si has met the God of Wealth, and I have come to touch your fairy spirit. Li Zhaoji laughed.
The first brother of the Foshui Municipal Party Committee saw that Li Zhaoji, a wealthy Chinese, attached so much importance to Lin Cheng, and hurriedly asked others who Lin Cheng was.
In fact, Lin Cheng has met Li Zhaoji several times in Xiangjiang, but they were all in public places such as charity banquets, and the two have never communicated together in private.
Unexpectedly, in Foshui, the two met unexpectedly, which made both of them have a sense of knowing each other in a foreign country, and both of their businesses are involved in the real estate industry, and they unconsciously talked about the real estate scriptures during the conversation.
"I heard that Lin Sheng's family's main business is real estate, could it be that Lin Sheng came to Foshui to get land?" Li Zhaoji asked seemingly casually.
Lin Cheng said with a smile: "Our Lin's Dafu Real Estate is just a small fight, and it is far worse than the fourth uncle's Henderson Land, but it is true that the real estate industry in the mainland is promising." ”
Henderson Land can be said to be a bull's ear in the real estate industry in Hong Kong, on a par with Li Chaoren's Cheung Kong Group, and most of the real estate played by Henderson Zhao is luxury villas, and the mansions on Baijia Road on the top of Taiping Peak are basically developed by Henderson Land, and No. 22 Baijia Road bought by Lin Cheng is no exception.
In people's impressions, Li Zhaoji should be the second oldest in the Xiangjiang rich list, and he is crushed to death by Li Chaoren, the richest man in China, every year.
However, in the mid-to-late nineties, Shuang Li was on the Forbes rich list, and Li Zhaoji's position was actually higher than Li Chaoren.
In 1996, Li Zhaoji was named the richest man in Asia by Forbes magazine with a personal asset of 12.7 billion US dollars, and was also the fourth richest person in the world at that time.
In 1997, he was once again ranked fourth on the Forbes list of the world's richest people, with assets of up to $15 billion. At this time, Li Zhaoji can be described as proud, and Li Chaoren has been pressed under him for many years.
However, it is a pity that after Li Zhaoji arrived in the new century, Henderson's main business was still located in Xiangjiang, a small place, and compared with Li Chaoji's vigorous entry into the inland real estate industry and his vigorous investment in highways, Li Zhaoji's investment in the mainland was far inferior to that of Li Chaoren, who frequently made large sums of money.
From 1998 to 2007, it was a golden decade of rapid economic development in the mainland, and Li Chaoren shared the economic achievements of the golden decade in the mainland.
On the other hand, Li Zhaoji, although in the real estate industry of Hong Kong, Henderson has overtaken Cheung Kong Group and become the leader of Heung Kong Real Estate Company, but its investment in the mainland is far behind Li Chaoren, which makes Li Chaoren's personal assets always overpower Li Zhaoji, and Li Zhaoji has since become the second oldest in 10,000 years.
Lin Cheng's words had to make Li Zhaoji pay attention to it.
In Xiangjiang, Lin Cheng's vision is notoriously accurate, since Lin Cheng is optimistic about the mainland real estate industry, then his own Henderson will also follow up?
"Lin Sheng is so optimistic about the real estate industry in the mainland? But the mainland has just solved the problem of food and clothing, and most of the buildings are allocated by enterprises and institutions, will the common people have the money to buy commercial houses?" Li Zhaoji asked.
Lin Cheng actually has a problem of being a good teacher, and when he saw Li Zhaoji's sincere inquiry, he patiently explained: "Although the mainland is far more backward than Xiangjiang, it can't bear the large population and large base of the mainland!"
Only one rich man out of 100 people in Xiangjiang will produce one rich man, and only one rich man will come out of 10,000 people in the mainland; however, the population of Xiangjiang is only more than 5 million, and the number of rich people in the interior is about 50,000; the population of the mainland is 120 million, and the total number of rich people is definitely even greater than that of Xiangjiang.
And you also have to see the economic development speed of the mainland, since the reform of the mainland, the economic growth rate of the mainland has maintained a super high speed of 10 percent almost every year, and if you look at the mainland ten years later, the number of rich people will definitely frighten people to death.
Besides, we are all Chinese, all Chinese have a strong land plot, when there are more and more rich people in the mainland, do you say he will deposit the money in the bank or take it out to buy a house?
The answer is self-evident, of course, it is to buy a house!"
Li Zhaoji was silent when he heard this, thinking that he had really met the God of Wealth, if he hadn't met Lin Cheng, he Li Zhaoji would really not see Mount Tai.
When I came to the mainland, I only saw the backward side of the mainland's economy, but I did not see the vigorous and rapid development of the mainland's economy.
As a result, every time he returned to his hometown, he regarded the government officials as monks who had a relationship, and each time he only donated a little money to send them away, but he did not see the local officials' eagerness to attract their own investment.
It seems that in the future, I will have to invest more money in the mainland and try the water more.
Thinking of this, Li Zhaoji sincerely grateful: "Lin Cheng is worthy of being the God of Wealth, this luggage is thanks to Lin Sheng and Lin Sheng's guidance, otherwise my Henderson will take many detours!"
People respect me a foot, I respect people, Lin Cheng saw that Li Zhaoji respected himself so much in front of the first brother of the Foshui Municipal Party Committee, and the vanity in his heart was greatly satisfied.
The sedan chair carried people, so Lin Cheng said modestly: "Fourth Uncle is too much to lift me, I, Lin Cheng, am your junior, don't call me Lin Sheng, don't call me God of Wealth, just call me Xiaolin!"