Chapter 505: Discussion on the Hot Spring

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This is not the end, on February 15, 2016, that is, the penultimate day before the arrival of the Spring Festival in 2015, the official website of Times Group announced the news again. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Acquired the 'Magic Hotel Group Hong Kong' owned by the Kadoorie family for HK$16 billion. This includes the properties and management rights of 11 Peninsula hotels in Hong Kong, Beijing, Magic City, Tokyo, Bangkok, Manila, Billy Blossom Hill, Chicago, New York, Paris, and London, which is currently under renovation.

It also includes 100% equity interest in Hong Kong Tramway, 75% equity interest in Thailand Country Club, 100% equity interest in Goose Park Golf & Country Club in the United States, and property ownership in Hong Kong's Repulse Bay Cinema and The Peak Tower, The Ridge Tower, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and the Peninsula Office Tower, St. John's Building, an office building.

The sale of the 'Grand Hotel Group', as it is commonly known in Hong Kong, by the Kadoorie family is no less sensational than the change of ownership of Wharf.

Almost everyone understands what The Peninsula means to the Kadoorie family. In order to keep this property, the Kadoorie family did not hesitate to anger Liu Luanxiong, even if they suffered heavy losses, they had to get a controlling stake.

As a result, the hotel that the Kadoorie family has held for more than half a century has been sold?

Therefore, many people want to ask the person concerned in person what really happened in the middle. Unfortunately, apart from Song Weiping, the former head of Greentown China, the media could not find the main members of the Zhao family and the Kadoorie family, and Wang Zheng, who they wanted to interview the most, seemed to have disappeared in Hong Kong.

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"Do you feel like the whole world is looking for you right now?"

"Whoa!"

Wang Zheng picked up the warm spring water and sprinkled it on himself, and then smiled, "That's why I came back to the villa!" ”

"You're going to hide, but you're going to keep playing hide-and-seek with the media?"

Ma Yun also asked while soaking in the hot springs.

"I like to be quiet, so I don't bother myself!"

Ma Yun glanced at him, "I've never seen such an unshowy young man like you!" ”

"Are people always different?"

"That's right!"

After nodding, Ma Yun said with a little emotion: "It's really 'three days of Shibei, you should be impressed'!" In less than two years, you have tossed yourself a net worth of nearly 800 billion Hong Kong dollars...! ”

"Stop, stop, Brother Ma, listening to you, how do I feel that this is the rhythm of beating the local tyrants and dividing the fields?"

"Haha, it's your own weak heart, but I didn't say it!"

"Of course I'm weak-hearted! Don't look at my current acquisition of Wharf, Peninsula Hotel, Greentown China, the news reports every day, it seems that the scenery is infinite. In fact, I already owe more than $22 billion in my own bank debt. With such a huge loan, the annual interest is more than 7 billion! After deducting these, how much net worth do I have? ”

"$22 billion is just the market value of a Wharf, in addition to this, you also have Times Group and Taoyuan Holdings, and two new high-quality assets of Greentown China and Grand Hotel Group." After a pause, Ma Chuan glanced at him deeply, and then smiled lightly, "In addition, the Hanhua Fund, which holds 62.6% of the equity of East West Bank, is also yours?" ”

Wang Zheng's sprinkling of water on himself obviously had a brief pause!

"It's so comfortable to soak in the hot springs in winter!"

Ma Yun didn't answer, picked up the mineral water next to him and took a sip, looked at Wang Zheng, and waited quietly for his next step.

After being silent for a while, Wang Zheng smiled again and said, "Brother Ma is so curious about the 'Hanhua Fund', isn't it because he wants to raise money from here?" There are nearly 600 billion funds precipitated in your Alipay! ”

"The money in Alipay is not mine, and it can't be used privately! In addition, the money in Alipay is all in Huaxia currency, and now the country is becoming more and more strict on foreign exchange control, so I hope to be able to borrow a $2 billion fund through your East West Bank for overseas mergers and acquisitions! "Ma Yun directly threw out his purpose.

"I see!" Wang Zheng nodded, "I'll help my brother get in touch, as long as your formalities are complete, there should be no problem." ”

Although he has completely realized the control of East West Bank during this time, if Wang Zheng wants it to continue to grow and develop, he is destined not to use it as his own ATM. Otherwise, it is easy to cause credit loss. Therefore, he did not exclude East West Bank's Ali loan to Ma Yun.

"It shouldn't be easy to be a company by Brother Ma, right?"

Ma Yun smiled and glanced at him, "An e-commerce site in Southeast Asia called 'Lazada'. ”

“‘Lazada’？ This is the largest e-commerce site in Southeast Asia, accounting for a large proportion of online sales in the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand! ”

"I didn't expect you to know so much about 'Lazada'. It seems that you must have been planning for a long time for the launch of 'Times Mall', right? ”

Wang Zheng smiled, "Actually, it's not long, it's only been a little more than half a year now!" ”

"Hehe, you have been planning for more than half a year, and Tmall Mall and Alipay have one more strong competitor."

"Brother Ma is exaggerating!" Times Mall' and 'Jubao' are latecomers, not to mention competing with Tmall and Alipay, even Jingdong Mall is far behind Jingdong Baitiao! ”

"If that's the case, you're going to throw tens of billions of dollars into it every year?" After a pause, Ma Yun seemed to say to himself, "The offline Times Department Store, Golden Eagle Shopping Center, and the online Times Mall, coupled with the increasingly perfect logistics and distribution system, as well as the third-party payment 'Jubao'." Obviously, you planned to do O2O from the beginning, which is why you will burn so much money. ”

"I can't hide anything from Brother Ma!" Wang Zheng smiled.

"Not only can't you hide it from me, but you can't even hide it from Liu Qiangdong and Ma Huateng, they have called me more than once to inquire about your news!"

Wang Zheng was slightly stunned, "It's really my honor to be noticed by you Internet bigwigs!" ”

"Honored? Brother! Now, in terms of strength and influence, you are not much worse than them. In the eyes of others, you are also a big man, and you are also a mysterious new super-rich person! Now, the outside world is much more interested in you than you are in other people. ”

"Really?"

"Of course!" Ma Yun, who nodded, was silent for a while, "Brother, does your Times Holdings still accept investment now?" ”

"Times Holdings does not accept capital injection, but if the following subsidiary brother is interested, we can talk about it!" Wang Zheng said bluntly.

To complete the layout of O2O in China, let's not talk about it online. At present, Times Square and Golden Eagle Shopping Center need nearly 1,000 seats! In the next five years, he plans to spend nearly $50 billion on it to build his own retail empire! With so much money, it is obviously very difficult to accomplish it by yourself. That's why he did everything possible to buy East West Bank and devote himself to the financial industry, hoping to use the public's money to develop his career.

But that's not enough. Therefore, if there is a large amount of foreign investment, he will not exclude it. As long as he can ensure his absolute controlling stake and right to speak in the company, Wang Zheng doesn't mind attracting more allies to come in.

"I guessed you would say that! You, everything is good, it's just this arbitrary and domineering style, which is really unbearable. Ma Yun tapped Wang Zheng with his right index finger, sighed and shook his head.

"Brother Ma, everyone has their own ideals for the future, just like you at the beginning, unswervingly devoted yourself to the Internet and founded Alibaba. I also have my own career ideals, and when I know how to achieve my future dreams, I don't want too many people to come in and point fingers at me! ”

Looking at Wang Zheng with a flat expression, Ma Yun suddenly noticed that Wang Zheng, who had always been regarded as a junior, had a ray of grand majesty! This should have been a valuable temperament that could only be accumulated after years of tempering by a person who has been in a high position, giving orders for a long time, and holding huge power, but at this moment, it clearly appeared on Wang Zheng, and it became stronger and stronger.

If he was only amazed by Wang Zheng's rapid rise in net worth before, then now he sees a successful person who can be called an entrepreneur both internally and externally.

From this moment on, he also began to put this little brother, who was more than ten years younger than himself, consciously and unconsciously put him in a position equal to himself.

"Let's talk about investment, which company does Brother Ma fall in love with, won't it still be Baiweiju?"

"Of course! I have a soft spot for it! ”

Regardless of the rest, Ma Yun, who has tasted enough sweetness in investing in the Taoyuan Western food chain, is particularly optimistic about Wang Zheng's catering enterprises.

Wang Zheng nodded, took the mobile phone next to him, wiped the water stains on his hands, opened it a few times, and handed it to Ma Yun, "This is Baiweiju's business report last year, Brother Ma take a look!" ”

Ma Yun was not polite, and after taking it, he looked at it attentively.

"Such a high revenue?"

"More than 1,500 stores of Baiweiju were basically put into operation last year, and the annual revenue of 7.8 billion yuan is just a fraction! In fact, in December last year, Barilla's more than 1,400 stores generated 3.2 billion yuan in revenue in one month. In January this year, counting the 112 newly opened branches, Baiweiju created a total of 3.57 billion Huaxia yuan in revenue! In 16 years, we plan to invest 3 billion Huaxia dollars to open 1,000 new Baiweiju branches. Among them, 500 are in China and 500 are in 11 countries in Southeast Asia! At the end of 16 years, it will achieve 2,500 branches, a monthly revenue of 5.5 billion, an annual turnover of 65 billion, and a net profit of 19.5 billion! ”

After a pause, Wang Zheng turned to smile and said, "Brother Wang, how much do you think such a promising restaurant chain is worth?" ”