Li Ka-shing's mansion is located at 79 Deep Water Bay Road in Hong Kong, an address that was settled in his early years when he was still running a plastic factory and did not set foot in the real estate world. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 InfoThis businessman from Chaozhou, Guangdong Province, has lived here all his life, and even when he needs to change houses as his family prospers, he renovates his old house on the same site, and waits "seven years" for another "larger" villa before moving in.

The mansion is located in the southernmost part of Hong Kong Island, nearly 10 kilometres from the Lamma Island Kong Electric Power Station. The shuttle bus departs from Tsim Sha Tsui and travels from the Hung Hom Cross Harbour Tunnel across Victoria Bay to the south, passing through the bustling bayside city and going all the way to the vast green hilly terrain.

The long Repulse Bay Road through the dense forest, with only about 10 mansions along the way, is naturally huge and luxurious, but none of them are the destination of this trip. It wasn't until he arrived at the southern tip of Hong Kong Island that he passed the top coastal residential area with high-end villas as the core in the east, and then drove westward, and finally arrived at Deep Water Bay Road after a short journey.

First along the coast and then back into the mountains north, at the east-west-north-south corner at the top of the hillside road, which is also the west side of the golf course to the east, where the Li family's mansion is located.

From time to time, the security measures in the late period are strict to the extreme, after all, Li Ka-shing does not have so many children now, and his wife Zhuang Yueming has not passed away. So for Alice, this trip is indeed full of freshness, the driveway is not a zigzag shape that avoids the highway gate, and the main entrance of the mansion is also facing the road instead of facing away from it, which is not a familiar feeling.

When she got out of the car, of course, she got out of the car first and then Li Zeju, and Alice immediately saw the sixty-year-old man walking towards her.

"Welcome to Hong Kong, Miss Wong. The familiar black suit, and the face much younger but more familiar than I remembered, the old man's hand holding the girl's hand: "The whole city is shining for your arrival." ”

"You're so kind, Mr. Lee. Alice smiled and shook hands with him, "Like everyone else, call me Alice." In addition, your English accent is very authentic, and if you don't look at yourself, you will generally not be able to understand the identity of the speaker. ”

Li Ka-shing wore the black thick-rimmed glasses, politely accepted Alice's praise, and nodded to his eldest son: "Zeju, don't invite Alice into the house, she is the representative of our global Chinese businessmen." ”

Alice was invited into the homestead. Naturally, the size of this house is not very impressive, and the decoration is not very gorgeous, after all, it is a house built many years ago. And Li Ka-shing, Alice also knows, for this self-made businessman, his own safety is far more important than luxury, especially after the kidnapping of his eldest son Li Zeju.

In the spacious living room, a lady dressed solemnly and elegantly appeared, who was Li Ka-shing's wife Zhuang Yueming. When the guests came to the door, they naturally wanted to welcome them at home, but after the three of them sat down on the sofa, the hostess did not wait in front of them, but immediately went to the kitchen on the grounds of pouring tea.

"Alice," Li Ka-shing said after sitting down for a moment, "I can imagine that you will definitely have this series of big moves when you come to Hong Kong this time." Last year's stock market crash, the global stock market fell sharply, and your short selling behavior made you at least a billion net profits, is this number correct?"

"No more, no less," Alice said with a smile, "I'm surprised that Mr. Li already knows so much about me, is it because the newspapers in Hong Kong have been reporting the details of Hang Seng that has been short-sold?"

Li Zeju chuckled on the side: "Hong Kong is fine, mainly the Times and the Daily Mail." You know, not only are you going to school at Eton, but you're also a rare Chinese girl, but you've shorted tens of millions of dollars from the London stock market, and anyone will talk about it. ”

"Oh, that's a bit of a surprise to me. Alice's train of thought did not communicate with Li Zeju: "I thought that the Hong Kong media could report on me as a Chinese businessman fishing in troubled waters in the global stock market, and it seems that there is still a layer of fig leaf." Well, I won't say that beforehand. ”

At the end of the three small talks at the beginning, Alice turned to say: "Mr. Li is right, I came to Hong Kong with the mentality of large-scale investment. After all, it is no less than London, New York and Tokyo, and the mainland has just set up a reform and opening up zone in Guangdong, so the future development potential is very strong. ”

Saying this, Alice certainly had another idea in mind. It is true that Hong Kong's supremacy will continue for a long time, and at that time almost all the cities in China were the size of fishing villages, but in less than 30 years, the GDP of Shenzhen and Guangzhou should surpass that of Hong Kong. Of course, at that time, her overall career has long since developed to a certain extent, and she doesn't care about this kind of thing.

Zhuang Yueming brought the tea and immediately retired. Li Ka-shing first took the initiative to pour a full glass for Alice, then gently blew on the foam on the surface of his glass, and said: "The purchase of the Peninsula Hotel is more symbolic than the actual benefits, and the loan of $500 million from HSBC proves that you are preparing a larger investment project." As for your visit to HK Electric, a subsidiary of Cheung Kong Infrastructure, and your proposal to cooperate with Cisco, it is just that your market expansion behavior of your own industries is not directly related to the previous two. ”

After drinking half a cup of tea, he smiled and said, "So kid, I'm really curious, what kind of purpose did you come to my Hong Kong for?"

"In order to go into the industrial field," Alice said, "my current business is basically focused on Silicon Valley, that is, the pure technology stream, and the only industrial industry that can be on the table is just a clothing brand." And it's just a clothing brand, not a real clothing processing industry. ”

It's only half the story, but it's enough to be understood. Li Ka-shing did not groan, and immediately went further: "You have become a billionaire with Microsoft, and Cisco is also a large company in the IT industry that has just been listed, and its future development potential is very strong. Why don't you focus on what you already have, but expand into the industrial sector?"

Rounds of conversations went back and forth between the two, and Alice's answer came immediately: "The take-off of the national economy ultimately depends on the industrial field, and if there is not enough physical product base to support it, the output value of the service industry is only a castle in the air." Maybe I can make tens of millions of dollars just by tapping on the computer, but after all, it's just a string of numbers, not something that can be seen and touched. ”

Li Zeju smiled on the side and interjected. Li Ka-shing didn't immediately ask anything, but when he bowed slightly, Alice observed clearly, and the corners of his mouth hooked up with a smile of relief and satisfaction.

"If you want to talk about the development in the industrial field, I can be regarded as experienced," after a while, he looked at Alice: "My initial entrepreneurial achievement was a plastic products factory, and in one fell swoop, I became the king of plastic flowers by relying on the technology I learned in Italy, which gave me the basic capital to go to real estate." Now it seems that you are much more advanced than me in the same development step, and the news that you developed on your own in a week or two has been published in detail in industry journals and magazines. ”

Alice immediately waved her hand modestly: "Where, where, it's just a little clever ......"

"Say, kid," Li Ka-shing sat up straight and poured another cup of tea for Alice, "what can my Cheung Kong Group do to help you?"

At this point, Alice laughed completely.

"Your industry," she said, "is a huge system built with Cheung Kong Asset Co., Ltd. as the core. ”

Li Ka-shing nodded slowly, patiently waiting for the next sentence. Even if he admires this little girl who suddenly appeared and has the heart to support her, it is of course necessary for the other party to understand how well he knows.

"Cheung Kong, the flagship of Cheung Kong Group, is a property development and strategic investment company with members in Hong Kong comprising three listed companies that are also constituents of the Hang Seng Index: Cheung Kong, Hutchison Whampoa Limited and Cheung Kong Infrastructure Corporation"

"Cheung Kong is currently one of the largest property developers in Hong Kong, developing a range of residential, industrial and commercial properties in Hong Kong and owning nearly half of the shares of Hutchison Whampoa. Hutchison Whampoa is a large-scale multinational conglomerate with global operations, operating six core businesses in 52 countries around the world, including ports and related services, real estate and hospitality, retail, infrastructure, energy, and telecommunications. ”

"The Last Cheung Kong Infrastructure...... After all, Mr. Li, you've really complicated your company. The company's subordinates invested in HK Electric, and then marched into cement, and then HK Electric merged with other related power companies to go public...... Uh, it's complicated enough, it's messy enough!"

The first two analyzed the first one, but the last one was confused, looking at Alice with a disgusted look, this stark gap made both of the Li family laugh.

"Okay, okay, it's rare that you have the heart to investigate. Li Ka-shing nodded with satisfaction, saw Alice take another sip of water, and his eyes signaled, Li Zeju immediately filled another glass for her: "Then Alice, since you have done some research on my big brother company, I have a question before you say your willingness to cooperate." ”

Alice easily drank a third of the hot tea in one gulp: "Well, you may ask." ”

It is very logical that an old man asked a young and successful American compatriot: "You also said just now that the composition of my Yangtze River infrastructure here is a bit chaotic, so what is your unique view on the development status of my entire group? )