Chapter Forty-Eight: The King of Charters
With the high growth of wealth, the original dwelling is no longer suitable for living. It's not to show off his wealth, it's mainly that almost all of Xiangjiang knows about his fast-growing net worth, and the original radio channel with relatively good security is not safe now. Li Xuechu can remember that the wealthy people in Xiangjiang in later generations were kidnapped and even torn up their tickets, and there are also top ten richest people in terms of assets.
However, Li Xuechu did not buy a top luxury house, and in September this year, as the British Iron Lady fell in the Great Hall of the People, the stock market and real estate in Xiangjiang also collapsed, from luxury houses to residential buildings will fall to a jaw-dropping low. Li Xuechu, who knew about this, would not be stupid to buy at this high position, and the otaku of later generations still retained the previous budget-conscious style. Moving to a moderately wealthy villa in the middle of the mountain, Li Xuechu is still secretly heartbroken for the millions he 'lost', and in less than a year, this house will at least be discounted by 50%.
January 24, 82, the thirtieth year of the lunar Chinese New Year's Eve.
Xiangjiang residents do not seem to have any complex for the Lunar New Year, and they can't see much of the taste of the year in the Chinese New Year's Eve, and they feel that the atmosphere of the city is lighter than that of later generations.
"Boss, the time is almost up." A tall, thin, one-eyed man in his early thirties reminded him.
Li Xuechu turned his head and smiled: "Okay, let's go out." ”
The one-eyed man was introduced by De Ge, and he was also his fellow countryman and comrade-in-arms, but he was just a scout. He was blinded in one eye by shrapnel in the Battle of Kayama Nakano last year and retired in disgrace. Two months ago, Brother De came to the door and explained the situation to Li Xuechu, and Li Xuechu immediately happily offered a job invitation to this field veteran. Originally, with the current system in the mainland, such a thing is still quite troublesome, but unexpectedly, the work visa was completed in less than two months, and the mainland did not make it difficult for this retired veteran, but with Li Xuechu's guarantee, Xiangjiang also let him go.
Today there was a New Year's reception at the Kowloon Hotel, and Li Xuechu was invited to attend. Unlike the original self-conscious supernumerary people, now I can participate without pressure. Originally, Li Xuechu thought that wealth would not change anything about him, but in the past few months, with the extreme growth of wealth, both the outside world and his own state of mind have been subtly changing.
'82 was a crucial year for the negotiations between China and Britain on the issue of the return of Hong Kong, although the two countries now have important things to do. The Chinese side is busy building a framework for reform and opening up, and it is not possible to turn a planned economy into a market economy for several decades to be completed in two or three years. The British side is arguing with the Agentine over the sovereignty of the Falklands, and the Argentine side has even made a military threat, but although the original empire has been in decline for nearly half a century, they still don't think that the Agentine people dare to break ground in front of Tai Sui, and they don't care at all.
However, although the formal confrontation has not yet begun, the early courting of celebrities, politicians, and business people in the upper circles of Xiangjiang has been in full swing, and the banquet of the Hong Kong government has almost become a monthly dinner party for celebrities in Xiangjiang, and Jin Yong, Shao Yifu and other pro-China or neutral people who have great influence in the media have also disappeared from time to time for a month.
However, compared with the British side, which has been the suzerainty for nearly a century and a half, the Chinese side has a clear disadvantage, and the bourgeoisie, which has not yet ended the Cold War era, has a natural fear and hatred of the red regime, and the British side has the upper hand in the overall atmosphere. The upper circles of Hong Kong have fully responded to the overtures of the British government in Hong Kong, openly clamoring for politicians who 'would rather be British (river) dogs than Chinese (crab) people', discussing the feasibility of 'redeeming Hong Kong with 10 billion Hong Kong coins' in newspapers, and making noise about the rumors of 'communist (crab) wives'...... To name a few, and the fact that 'one country, two systems', like reform and opening up, is only proposed but not implemented on specific matters, local public opinion is extremely unfavorable to China.
For Li Xuechu, who quickly broke into the billionaire list in less than a year, the Hong Kong British government and the pro-British rich circle also threw an olive branch. However, Li Xuechu knows his own affairs, and his future actions will only make people more and more unpleasant, so it is more appropriate to keep a distance. I have no interest in forming a group with them to go north to ask for any 'redemption of Xiangjiang' and ask for all kinds of vexatious privileges, which is purely self-inflicted.
The organizer of this reception was the ship king Bao Jia, who since last year to buy the shares of the British-controlled Wharf from Li Ren, the Bao family has successfully gotten rid of the increasingly depressed shipping industry and switched to real estate. In this acquisition, it was Li Ren who made the biggest profit, and after secretly buying 10 million shares of Wharf at a price of 13 to 30 Hong Kong dollars, he sold them to the Bao family at a price of more than 30 Hong Kong dollars, making a profit of hundreds of millions. Of course, the Bao family did not suffer a loss, and the value of Wharf's shares should be estimated to be 50 Xiangjiang coins based on the current Xiangjiang market conditions. In recent years, the confrontation between British and Chinese investors in Xiangjiang has been quite fierce, and the most sensational incident is that in 79, Li Ren successfully acquired Hutchison with a market value of 6 billion Hong Kong dollars with a net worth of 700 million Hong Kong dollars, and made a net profit of 1 billion US dollars in terms of assets. British-funded enterprises have relied on administrative tilt and solid financial resources to occupy a number of high-quality resources at low prices far below the actual value, but in the past two years, they have been beaten several times by the rising Chinese capital.
As soon as I walked into the hotel, I was greeted by a man in his thirties wearing glasses.
"This is Mr. Li, right? Welcome, welcome, welcome. ”
"It's me, you're Mr. Wu." Li Xuechu said with a smile, "I've admired the name for a long time, you fought a beautiful battle last year, and it greatly boosted the morale of our Chinese." ”
This person, Li Xuechu, really knows that the son-in-law of the Bao family, who will inherit the Bao family's industry in the future. The son-in-law's position in the big family is a little embarrassing, which may be the reason why people have always been relatively low-key, but there is no doubt about the ability of the ** table, otherwise the charter king will not entrust the management of the property to his son and give it to his son-in-law.
"How can it be compared to Mr. Li, it is easy to earn a lot of business by himself, and it is much more comfortable than those of us who are trembling in the stock market." For Li Xuechu, who is only seventeen years old, ** really feels envious. At an age that even young people can't call it, he has a net worth of one billion yuan in less than a year, and Li Xuechu can be said to have amazed the entire Xiangjiang. Moreover, people's wealth is real property, which is not the same as the virtual property that rises and falls in the market value of the stock market.
Although the benefits of his family last year were much greater than those of this junior, it was better to keep a low profile after all. Although the Hong Kong media rejoiced at the repeated victories of the Chinese capital against the British group in recent years, the major families tacitly maintained a low-key and unassuming style of action, and never responded to the praise of the media. Although Britain's political and economic control over the colonies was much looser than before, the psychological weakness in its bones was not eliminated all at once. In this regard, Li Ren, who dares to be the first in the world, is indeed a masterpiece of a generation, and has repeatedly snatched a piece of fat when others are hiding from British capital, laying a solid foundation for his future career.
"Mr. Li, can you come with me, Jiayue is full of praise for Mr. Li, and wants to see you, a young man." ** Smiled out of the invitation.
"Mr. Bao wants to see me?" Li Xuechu was surprised. Li Xuechu, one of the four great ship kings in the sixties and seventies, was like thunder, and the Bao family's maritime kingdom even sat firmly in the top spot of the world's shipping industry in the seventies at its peak, and was regarded as a dominant figure, and now its status in Xiangjiang is still above the Li people. However, the 'ship king' of the year has now begun to dilute the shipping business and enter the real estate industry in a big way.
Li Xuechu also deeply admired this ship king who had made a lot of contributions to the country in later generations. Perhaps the charter king's investment and donations to the country have some utilitarian mentality, but it should be more about the simple consciousness of the traditional Chinese in the township. Last year, he donated 10 million US dollars and tens of millions of yuan to the country, which is not a small amount for future generations, let alone now. You must know that the country's foreign exchange reserves have not exceeded one billion US dollars for a long period of time, which cannot be compared with one or four years.
"I also want to be lucky enough to meet the charter king, I don't know anything about many business things, and I can benefit immensely from the guidance of the ship king."
"Mr. Li is polite, please here."
Li Xuechu was led into a side hall by **, the hall was not big, and the two looked at the fifty or sixty-year-old man talking in a whisper.
"Father-in-law, Mr. Li is here." Walked up and said to one of the older men.
The two of them looked away. Needless to say, the more than sixty people are the charter boat king, and the other Li Xuechu also 'knows', and he is also a thunderous figure, and his influence in later generations has surpassed the charter boat king: Li Ren.
"Hehe, Xiaoyou, you're here, I've heard people mention your name in the past two months, and my ears are almost calloused." The charter king laughed.
It looks like a hearty old man.
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