Chapter 204: A small country, a big name
When Lee Hualong and his entourage came to Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew greeted him at the airport in a semi-official and semi-private manner, and did not hold a guard of honor.
Seeing Lee Kuan Yew come to pick up the plane in person, Bao Yugang was a little flattered, although he and Lee Kuan Yew had a personal relationship, but the other party never arrived at the airport to end him, and Li Hualong did not feel flattered at all.
In Lee Wah Lung's eyes, Singapore is just a small country, even if he knows that Lee Kuan Yew, the ruler of this country, will become an international celebrity in the future, have a certain influence on the international stage, and lead Singapore to develop into the Asian Tigers, but he is not afraid at all.
"He's a big guy, a cowman! Let someone else lead Singapore, Singapore wants to achieve achievements in another time and space, it is estimated that it will be difficult! But I'm not a small character either, and my influence in the world will definitely surpass his in the future! ”
Li Hualong muttered to himself, he admired Lee Kuan Yew a little in his heart, but he couldn't talk about admiration.
Li Hualong is now a qualified businessman, and he knows very well in his heart that he came to Singapore to invest in this country because he wants to make more money in this country, and he needs the Singapore government to handle the relationship well.
In order to make Lee Kuan Yew happy, Lee Hua Long put on a flattered expression and praised Lee Kuan Yew for his great contribution to the people of Singapore.
"Aaron is really not simple, he actually knows how to shoot Lee Kuan Yew's sycophants, and he has also shot at a level." Bao Yugang smiled secretly in his heart.
Li Hualong's sycophancy. It's not that he's talking nonsense, he did some homework before he came to Singapore. Knowing what Lee Kuan Yew has done to Singapore, some of them are reported by Singapore's state media.
Lee Hualong's words of praise for Lee Kuan Yew were substantial, and Lee Kuan Yew, who was not overjoyed, was in a happy mood after hearing it.
"Mr. Lee, on behalf of the Singapore government and people, I welcome you to invest in Singapore and in the future. No matter what problems you encounter in the course of running a business in Singapore. You can find me. Lee Kuan Yew said with a smile.
"Thank you, Premier Lee." Li Hualong smiled, "I estimate that I may not trouble Premier Li much in the future, because I know that Singapore is a country governed by the rule of law and has a superior investment environment." As long as I'm legally in business, nothing needs to bother you! ”
"Even if there is nothing to trouble me, I hope to contact Mr. Li more, with you, the God of Wealth in Hong Kong, to provide advice and suggestions for the development of Singapore, Singapore's development road can be less detoured. I hope that in the future, Mr Lee will also be able to become the God of Wealth in Singapore. ”
"I am optimistic about the prospects of Singapore, and in addition to the few investment projects to be discussed this time, I will increase my investment in Singapore in the future."
"Premier Lee, Aaron. You really hit it off at first sight. Bao Yugang smiled, "This is not the place to talk, let's find a place to chat in detail!" ”
"It's that I'm not thoughtful." Lee Kuan Yew smiled slightly. Stretch out your hand and ask, "Please!" ”
On the way to the hotel, Li Hualong, Bao Yugang and Lee Kuan Yew sat in the same car, and along the way, the three talked about many topics. We had a great conversation.
By the time we arrived at the hotel, it was getting dark.
Lee Kuan Yew hosted a relatively grand government reception dinner for Lee Hualong and Pao Yugang.
After the dinner. Accompanied by bodyguards, Li Hualong, Yang Meng, and Bao Yugang went back to their hotel rooms to sleep.
Before entering the guest room, Bao Yugang smiled and said, "Ah Long, go to my room and talk." ”
"Brother Bao, it's not early, I want to rest early, tomorrow, we still have a lot of things to do."
Li Hualong was worried that there was eavesdropping equipment in the guest room, and Li Hualong, who was in another time and space, had watched spy war movies a lot, he was somewhat paranoid, and he didn't want the private words between himself and Bao Yugang to be listened to by Singapore government officials.
"Okay, then you can get busy and rest early." Bao Yugang smiled and said, "Are you tired?" ”
"It's fine. Go to bed early and be more energetic tomorrow. ”
Li Hualong and Yang Meng entered the bedroom, closed the door, and Yang Meng asked with concern, "Are you really tired?" ”
"Sort of. Brother Bao and I have already said what we should say, and there is no need to come to Singapore to talk about investment. ”
"I'll go and put hot water for you to bathe, and you can lie in bed for a while."
"Thank you!"
Li Hualong sat on the bed, thinking about the experience of meeting Lee Kuan Yew just now, and sighed in his heart: "What a character, a big name...... Big names in a small country! ”
In the next room, Bao Yugang smiled and said to his wife: "Premier Li really likes Ah Long." ”
"Can you not value it, Ah Long is the richest man in China, and there are few people in the world who are richer than him. Singapore can attract Aaron to invest, which shows that Singapore's investment environment is good, which is good for Singapore to attract other foreign investment, if Aaron invests in several large projects in Singapore, it can boost Singapore's economic growth. ”
Bao Yugang sighed with a smile: "I have to admire Aaron's investment vision. ”
The next morning, Lee Kuan Yew sent several government officials to accompany Lee on his inspection. In the next few days, Li Hualong felt the sincerity of the Singapore government, and after a few days of inspection, he initially negotiated several investment projects.
Before coming to Singapore, Li Hualong did some preparations, he looked at the map of the current urban area of Singapore, and asked a few people who have worked and lived in Singapore for a long time to inquire about the situation, and selected some land plots worth investing in.
Li Hualong's personal investment company bought two pieces of land on the south bank of the Singapore River, one for the construction of a super five-star hotel - Four Seasons Hotel, with an estimated investment of 300 million Hong Kong dollars, and the other for the construction of a four-star hotel - Holiday Inn, with an investment of nearly 100 million Hong Kong dollars.
In addition to investing in hotels, Li Hualong's investment company has also encircled a large area of land on Orchard Road in Singapore, preparing to build a large-scale shopping and leisure center, and the investment is expected to be no less than 400 million Hong Kong dollars.
Li Hualong's architectural design firm has prepared a large number of architectural design proposals that have never been used before. There are residential buildings, there are office buildings, there are hotels. There are also large shopping malls,
In fact, the architectural design scheme that has been used before can be reused, and many architectural design schemes in the world are reused, and a design scheme is used many times, saving money and effort. For example, in a large residential complex, many buildings are basically the same design. There may even be buildings of the same height and size.
The reason why Li Hualong let his architectural design company reserve a large number of architectural design plans is that in the future, when he needs to use it, he can select suitable design plans from the reserve in a short time. This allows for project development time.
For Li Hualong, time is money, if there is an inflection point in the property market, if before the inflection point, his real estate company develops existing houses, slightly lower than the market price, the house may be sold, which is very beneficial to his implementation of the "sell high and buy low" investment strategy.
Before returning to Hong Kong, Lee had already figured out which architectural design to adopt for the Holiday Inn Singapore. When he returns to Hong Kong, he will submit the architectural design to the Singapore government for approval and filing, if there is no problem. Ground will soon be broken, but construction of the Hang Seng Bank headquarters, the Four Seasons Hotel, and a large shopping and leisure complex may be a little later.
In addition to investing in real estate projects, Lee also expressed to the Singapore government that his holding bank, Hang Seng Bank, intends to develop in Singapore.
Lee Kuan Yew has absolute power in the Singapore government. When he learned that Hang Seng Bank was coming to Singapore for development, he immediately asked the relevant authorities to issue a bank to Hang Seng Bank. Hang Seng Bank is allowed to open a subsidiary in Singapore to carry out banking retail business, and sell a piece of land covering more than 2,000 square meters on the south bank of the Singapore River (Singapore's CBD area) to Hang Seng Bank, where it will build the headquarters of its Singapore subsidiary.
Long before the listing of Hang Seng Bank, Li Hualong hoped that Hang Seng Bank would open overseas subsidiaries to carry out overseas business, and he took the initiative to raise this matter at the company's board of directors and high-level meetings, which was supported by the vast majority of people.
Before coming to Singapore, Li Hualong held a high-level meeting to open a subsidiary in Singapore, and after some negotiations, each senior executive supported the opening of the first overseas subsidiary in Singapore.
When Li Hualong came to Singapore by plane, in addition to being accompanied by bodyguards, there were many elites from his company, each of whom was a professional. After Lee plans to negotiate the investment project, he will keep these people in Singapore to work and be responsible for following up on the investment project he has negotiated.
In order to allow the negotiated investment project to be carried out smoothly, Li Hualong called back to Hong Kong, and the CEO of Hang Seng Bank, Lee Kwok Wai, brought a number of Hang Seng Bank employees to Singapore to do various work for the establishment of a subsidiary in Singapore.
When Lee returns to Hong Kong, Lee Kwok Wai and others will remain in Singapore.
Back in Hong Kong, Li Hualong and others had to take a ship in order to return to their homes on Hong Kong Island.
As he crossed the sea by boat, Pao Yugang said with a smile: "After the opening of the cross-harbour tunnel, it will be much easier to travel between Kowloon and Hong Kong Island." ”
"yes!" Li Hualong nodded with a smile, "In less than a year, the undersea tunnel is expected to start." ”
Bao Yugang asked curiously: "Ah Long, when the Hong Kong government invited bids for the construction of the undersea tunnel, why didn't you invest?" ”
Li Hualong replied with a smile: "The undersea tunnel is a people's livelihood project, and investing in this project will definitely make money, but if you make too much money, you will definitely be criticized." Also, I think there are good returns on investing in other areas. ”
"Huh!" Bao Yugang smiled and nodded, "Your investment vision has always been very accurate. ”
After going ashore, Li Hualong and Bao Yugang's bodyguards drove to the pier to wait.
After saying goodbye, Li Hualong and Yang Meng took a car home.
"When you get home, do you want to rest for two days?" Yang Meng asked with a smile.
"It depends, there's nothing urgent, I'm definitely going to have a day of rest at home."
That night, after Li Hualong had dinner at home, he chatted with his family for a long time, and only after half past eight did he and Chen Sisi go back to the bedroom.
Entering the bedroom, Li Hualong smiled and hugged Chen Sisi in his arms and kissed her lips.
"Did you miss me?" Li Hualong and Chen Sisi asked in unison.
Chen Sisi chuckled and said angrily, "I want to kill you." ”
"I'm going to feed you tonight."
"Let's go take a shower first."
"No hurry, I took a shower last night." Li Hualong hugged Chen Sisi, "I'm going to eat you now." ”
More than an hour later, Li Hualong staged a good show of scoring two goals.
Chen Sisi didn't get Li Hualong's moisture for more than a week, just now she enjoyed it to the fullest, the clouds dispersed and the rain stopped, and her flushed face snuggled in Li Hualong's arms, full of spring.
"What's wrong with you tonight?"
"What's wrong, the table didn't satisfy you just now?" Li Hualong smiled evilly, Chen Sisi's presumptuous moaning just now made his blood gush, and he also had a lot of fun.
"Satisfied." Chen Sisi smiled, "It's just that I'm so satisfied, I feel strange." ”
"In the past two days, Mengmeng has come to the routine = vacation, and I have rested for two nights."
"No wonder."
"What kind of tone are you?" Li Hualong sneered, "It seems that I usually look very bad." ”
"Even if it's good, you can't accompany me every night." Chen Sisi said angrily.
"Do you regret marrying me?" Li Hualong asked lightly.
"Nope!" Chen Sisi affirmed in his tone, took the initiative to kiss Li Hualong, and after a hot kiss, "I am very happy to marry you." It's a little bit of a flaw, but I'm content. ”
Li Hualong smiled noncommittally and did not answer.
"You don't believe me?"
"Fool." Li Hualong gently kissed Chen Sisi on the cheek, "Don't talk about unhappy things." Recently, is the clothing company doing good business? ”
"Not bad. Last week, I sold a batch of clothes to Japan. ”
Chen Sisi smiled, paused for a moment, and took the initiative to ask: You have been in Singapore for more than a week, and after returning to Hong Kong, you will be busy for a while, right? ”
"The next few days won't be very busy. I have to pay more attention to the matter of stock cashing. ”
"What stocks to sell?"
"In addition to the shares of InterContinental Hotels Group, Gemdale Group and Hang Seng Bank, I am ready to reduce the shares of other companies. Especially the stock of Global Shipping Group, on the way home in the afternoon, I read the newspaper, and the stock price of Global Shipping exceeded 2.3 Hong Kong dollars, which is a bit scary. ”
"I remember that the total share capital of Global Shipping Group is 2.4 billion shares, at HK$2.3 per share...... The market capitalization is over 5.5 billion Hong Kong dollars, right? ”
"That's right." Li Hualong smiled.
"Do you think the company's stock price won't go up again?"
"Now that the stock market is doing well, the international shipping market is also quite good, and the stock price may still rise, but in the long run, now is the best time to sell and cash out. During this trip to Singapore, I personally signed three investment projects, and there are many places where I need to spend money. ”
"I don't understand the matter of investment, you make your own decisions." Chen Sisi smiled, stared at Li Hualong for a moment, and asked, "My mother's family has invested in buying stocks, do you want to persuade them to sell stocks?" ”
"Uh......" Li Hualong pondered for a moment, "If you are not short of money, you can not buy it for the time being, and if you wait a few months, the stock price is likely to rise." ”
"Oh!" Chen Sisi responded.
"Actually, it's good to sell the stock now." Li Hualong said with a smile.
"Is there a better investment project to introduce to my mother's family?" Chen Sisi asked with a smile.
"Personally, I think it's safer to invest in gold."
"Is it bad to invest in a house?"
"Housing prices have skyrocketed in recent years, and you don't think that in the next few years, house prices will soar as they have in the past few years, right?" Li Hualong asked rhetorically.
"Nope." Chen Sisi smiled, "I heard you say that if the stock market is not good, housing prices will also fall." ”
"This is just my personal thoughts, what I told you, you have to sue your mother's family, but you have to say more to them, pay attention to confidentiality, don't tell outsiders."
"Don't worry, they'll keep it a secret." Chen Sisi smiled and dozed off, "Are you sleepy?" ”
"Sleepy!" Li Hualong stretched out his hand to turn off the light, said goodnight, and went to sleep. (To be continued) R466