Chapter 250: Taking over Lingnan Middle School
Not to mention that Huang Tingjun was ordered to join the PC camp in North America with the QDOS system as a "vote". Gates's opportunity, the development history of the IT industry in Silicon Valley in the 80s, will inevitably change.
After Zhang Shaojie returned to Hong Kong, his various careers gradually got on the right track, and the manuscript fees for works such as "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty", "Resident Evil", "The Rise of a Great Power" and so on are still flowing into his bank account.
No bank accounts checked in just a few months.
At first glance, I was shocked - there was more than 14 million Hong Kong dollars in cash in the bank account!
You must know that Zhang Shaojie basically sent all the money in his private account to Xiaobawang Company to support the company's industrial layout. In May, before Zhang Shaojie went to the book, the deposit in the account was only more than 1 million cash.
However, in a short period of time, the cash on the account skyrocketed to 14 million again, which really surprised him!
"Mr. Zhang, between May 20th ~ June 20th, you received a total of 14 remittances. There are Yulang International, Ming Pao Newspaper, Wansheng Publishing and other enterprises to make payments. It can be seen that your manuscript fee during this period of time has been bumper harvest" Manager Liu, the branch of HSBC, is very familiar with Zhang Shaojie, and he is also figuring out the source of his remittance.
Zhang Shaojie said proudly: "This is the big hit of the movie version of "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty", which has stimulated the sales of the version. Therefore, the manuscript fee is several times more than the previous time period, which is also the norm! ”
"Hehe, with your deeds inspiring the young people of Hong Kong, I think Hong Kong's cultural industry will definitely prosper again in the future!" Manager Liu patted his ass.
Zhang Shaojie shook his head and said: "Although I hope that more young writers will appear in Hong Kong, I don't want young people to become writers on a whim. The writer industry seems to have a low threshold, and those who can write stories can become writers. However, to be able to write a good story requires a lot of talent, understanding and luck, which is not just a love of writing! ”
Manager Liu agreed: "Any industry is easy to get started and difficult to master, Mr. Zhang, a successful person like you, only the writing industry is at the highest level, right?" ”
The highest? Zhang Shaojie smiled indifferently, if he hadn't been reborn once, Zhang Shaojie's ability would only be a third-rate writer at most.
After Zhang Shaojie learned about his current family background, he was arrogant in his heart. Soon after, he remembered the goal of helping Lingnan Middle School privatize and renovate the school by accepting sponsorship from Lingnan High School last year.
Thinking of this, Zhang Shaojie contacted Principal Deng of Lingnan Middle School.
Coincidentally, Principal Deng also told Zhang Shaojie the good news that Lingnan Middle School had been unable to make ends meet for many years, and shareholders were interested in withdrawing their shares.
"However, the only problem at present is that the school's debt has reached 7 million Hong Kong dollars, and now the annual interest has to be more than 1.4 million (the interest rate of Hong Kong banks has reached 20% in 81), plus other expenses, at least more than 5 million yuan per year" Principal Deng looked at Zhang Shaojie hesitantly, "Whoever wants to take over the school must take over the debt!" ”
It is precisely because of the skyrocketing bank interest rates that the shareholders of the school are overwhelmed. This is the reason for the intention to transfer the shares of the school and exit.
Zhang Shaojie didn't care at all, and said: "It's not a problem at all, when I take over the school, I will find a way to solve the debt problem!" ”
When President Deng saw Zhang Shaojie's resolute determination, he couldn't help but admire it greatly.
In the next period of time, under the matchmaking of Principal Deng, some shareholders and school directors of Lingnan Middle School who had no intention of continuing to operate began to withdraw their shares.
Zhang Shaojie was bold and generous, and ate all the shares held by these shareholders in the form of cash payment. After spending less than HK$4 million and eating 68% of the shares, Zhang Shaojie became the chairman of the board of directors of Lingnan Middle School.
In fact, Lingnan Middle School is losing millions of Hong Kong dollars a year at this time, and for most directors, holding school shares is simply an ordeal. Someone is willing to take over this hot potato, for most shareholders, it is simply a benefactor!
Some of the other shareholders who refused to withdraw their shares were because of their feelings for the school, and some were originally large sums of money that were not bad for money. The common characteristic of these shareholders who have not withdrawn their shares is that they do not run the school with the concept of running a business, but regard running the school as a philanthropic enterprise.
Because these shareholders have the same idea as Zhang Shaojie, Zhang Shaojie put forward several suggestions at the shareholders' meeting. The first point is that at the beginning of this year, Zhang Shaojie personally sponsored 5 million Hong Kong dollars as the school expenses for the next semester. Second, all fees will be waived for all students, and the tuition fees will be fully borne by the school's shareholders, or social sponsorship, etc. In addition to cultural courses, more courses are offered, such as screenwriting, film and television directing, acting, art, dance, music, physical education, computer and so on
These suggestions, under the joint efforts of Zhang Shaojie and President Deng, were approved at the shareholders' meeting without any suspense. After rectifying Lingnan Middle School, Zhang Shaojie couldn't help but look forward to making some achievements in the field of education.
In fact, Zhang Shaojie knows that since the 90s, the development of all walks of life in Hong Kong has encountered bottlenecks, and Hong Kong itself is not angry.
For example, after Hong Kong's return to the motherland, Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa proposed that Hong Kong should invest tens of billions of dollars to establish a technology-intensive semiconductor industry. With the rejection of this decision, the courses related to industry, engineering and manufacturing in Hong Kong's education system have also decayed and become neglected. In the entire Hong Kong education system, the only popular courses are those narrow programs such as finance, lawyers, and real estate.
After the construction of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge in Hong Kong, some people in Hong Kong once again agitated public opinion, causing the project to be postponed for several years and causing economic losses of more than 5 billion yuan.
Another example is that the central government of the mainland is ready to elevate Hong Kong and build Hong Kong into China's financial center, but because Article 23 of the Hong Kong Basic Law has not been passed, Hong Kong's status as the political axe of the Chinese central government has been declining again and again.
With a series of "anti-intellectualism" trends in Hong Kong, ordinary people have been used as guns to oppose the central government's decision-making. The economic and development interests of Hong Kong as a whole have been betrayed by these boilers.
All cities in China are striving for the policy tilt of the central government, because a slight policy tilt may be able to increase a city's GDP by hundreds of billions or trillions. However, some people in Hong Kong have repeatedly pushed away the obvious policy support of the central government's political axe and pushed it out without cherishing it.
After the "de-industrialization" and the depression of the cultural industry, Hong Kong, with real estate, finance and tourism as the core, has deeply entered the abyss of "anti-intellectualism" in the future, and most citizens gradually only care about financial news, fashion trends, eating, drinking and having fun, and celebrity gossip.
This is in stark contrast to Singapore's "elitism". For example, Singapore's immigration policy is obviously more welcoming to elites with high intelligence, high education and high reputation. Singapore's industrial planning is also based on technology-intensive industries such as biopharmaceuticals, electronics and petrochemicals.
It is for the sake of Hong Kong's interests and the spirit of patriotism.
In terms of education, Lingnan secondary schools mainly focus on cultivating cultural professionals, which is always better than the one-sided finance, real estate, and tourism that are left alone.
Zhang Shaojie hopes that Hong Kong will be more powerful, strive for self-improvement, and have a more long-term vision, so as not to become a frog at the bottom of the well because of the loss of manufacturing and high-end industries.
As for certain politicians, lawyers, journalists, and financiers who are inciting public opinion but are actually constantly "causing trouble to Hong Kong", in Zhang Shaojie's view, there needs to be an iron-fisted strong man to suppress them from the economic field in the future.
In July ————————81, Hong Kong's real estate industry had already shown some signs of crisis.
In fact, since 78 years, Hong Kong's real estate industry has deviated from its normal trajectory. In just three years, the average land auction price in Hong Kong has skyrocketed by six or seven times, and the house price has also skyrocketed by three times!
Hong Kong is prevalent speculation, most of the buyers, not to live or rent, to buy property, on the contrary, most buyers, to prepay 5% ~ 10% of the "pre-sale" to buy property, once the house price appreciates, it will quickly sell to the next family.
In 78 years, the prime interest rate of Hong Kong banks was only 6.68%, and the mortgage interest rate was 10.62%, but in 81 years, the prime interest rate of Hong Kong banks has risen to 20%, and the real estate interest rate has reached 21%!
This means that borrowing 10,000 yuan from a bank in Hong Kong at this time will cost 2,000 yuan in a year. Such an interest rate is simply appalling usury for modern society!
With the bank interest rate reaching more than 20%, it has not only formed a huge resistance to the development of major industries in Hong Kong. Many small companies have encountered huge pressure to repay loans.
Mortgage buyers, on the other hand, have stopped buying or speculating because of the high bank interest rate of 21%.
Prices are soaring, inflation is rising, bank interest rates have risen to more than 20%, and Hong Kong's economy has grown by only 2.9% this year! It can be seen from this that Hong Kong's economy has indeed reached a relatively difficult period at this time.
At this time, some industrial land in Hong Kong has begun to see a rare price reduction since the 70s. Although the price of commercial land is still rising, Hong Kong's real estate companies are facing sluggish property market transactions, and many land auctions have also been aborted.
The recession of the real estate industry is inevitable, and Hong Kong's stock market, banking and other systems are also closely related to real estate. Once the real estate market is depressed and the stock market suffers, the probability that smaller banks will face financial difficulties and run on the risk will increase greatly.
Zhang Shaojie did not dare to be sloppy, and consciously asked his major companies to increase their cash reserves. In the future depression market, whoever has money will be the king of heaven!
(To be continued)