I wanted to accomplish two things, but I accidentally saw the news in the "Yangcheng Evening News" that Sijiucheng held a press conference on the "East China flood" and appealed for assistance overseas. Sensing the opportunity, Lin Xiaozhi decisively handed over the matter at hand to his subordinates first and returned to Hong Kong first.

Anyway, whether it is preparing to invest in Shekou Industrial Zone and set up a factory, or preparing to build a cinema in the Shenzhen area, it is not something that can be talked about overnight.

Lin Xiaozhi quickly returned to Hong Kong immediately, although he had determined to respond to the mainland's call to donate, but Lin Xiaozhi did not rush to convene the high-level of Media Asia to discuss the matter, but first returned to the Lin Mansion to meet the old man who is now no longer in business. Media Asia is already a listed group at this time, and it is difficult to ensure that the shareholders will not be accused of spending money indiscriminately by donating in the name of the group, so he plans to pay for the large donation this time out of his own pocket and donate in the name of the Lin family.

“…… That's it, grandpa. I think that this time the mainland appealed for donations overseas in response to the floods, which is also a friendly signal sent by Sijiu City to the outside world. In the past two years or so, they have suffered heavy losses due to their confrontation with the mainland, and many businessmen in Hong Kong have blindly followed the trend of divestment, causing themselves a lot of losses. According to the time set by the Sino-British negotiations, Hong Kong will return to China in 1997. Seeing that the handover is imminent, the negotiations on the rules between Hong Kong and the mainland have been interrupted for a long time because of the confrontation, so I think this will be an opportunity, an opportunity to reverse the relationship between Hong Kong and the mainland......"

The old man Lin Jili is now in his seventies, since the eldest son and eldest grandson encountered a car accident at the same time, he handed over the family bank to the second grandson Lin Xiaozhi to deal with, and he enjoyed the leisurely life after retirement, occasionally gathering with a few old friends, chatting, drinking tea, and the third generation of the proud Xiu Yixiu's family was also chic.

“… Is this what you think? Looking at the grandson sitting firmly in front of him, Lin Xiaozhi was very relieved. He was old and faced prison, and almost lost his eldest son and eldest grandson, so it is not an exaggeration to say that there are many disasters. However, God treats him well, the second grandson, who was originally a prodigal and was given up by everyone, suddenly changed his face and became a new man, and he actually changed his many faults and vices, and created a world in the entertainment industry where everyone is not optimistic. In just a few years, the wealth he earned surpassed the Lin family's decades of accumulation. Even after most of his life's work, the Kowloon Bank, was handed over to him, it has been developing rapidly recently, and I heard that President Song Nianhui has been negotiating with Hang Seng Bank to acquire Bank of Ann Bank for the past few months, and the negotiations are basically coming to an end. If it can really be taken down, then Kowloon Bank will also leap to the forefront of Hong Kong's medium-sized banks, which is something he never dared to think of before.

"Yes, Media Asia is now a listed group, and it is somewhat inconvenient to be restrained by shareholders and the board of directors when it comes to doing things, so this time I am ready to donate in the name of our Lin family. Of course, the donation is paid by me personally, and after deducting various investments or something, I still have some spare money in my hands."

Lin Jili just wanted to nod and agree directly, but suddenly his beard moved, and his cloudy eyes began to become clear, and he asked, "How much are you going to donate?" ”

In the end, he is old and mature, and he hasn't figured out what his grandson wants to discuss with him at the beginning. At this time, I heard him say that it is inconvenient to donate in the name of Media Asia, and at the same time, he also accented on private money, and the combination of the two is a combination, no matter how stupid a person is, I am afraid that his grandson will donate not a few millions, tens of millions, it may be an astronomical amount.

Sure enough, Lin Xiaozhi's firm words soon confirmed his guess: "100 million, Hong Kong dollars"

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Even if the old man has lived for so many years and has experienced all kinds of ups and downs, but this time as soon as he heard about the numbers he exploded, the old man's hands trembled, and his eyes looked at him intently for a while, and when he saw his firm expression, he nodded slowly, "It's up to you, since you have already decided, let go and do it."

100 million Hong Kong dollars, which is really not a small number in 9l years. How many wealthy families in Hong Kong have struggled for decades to earn so much money. As far as he knows, the donation announced by the red-top businessman Huo Yingdong this afternoon is only 100 million. With the strength and heritage of the super wealthy Huo family, he only took out 100 million to donate, which shows how expensive this money is. Lin Jili disagreed a little at first, in his opinion, donating 10 million or 20 million is already a lot. But his grandson obviously has his own ideas, and he has already decided in his heart that it is difficult to be influenced to change, so he gave up persuasion.

However, if this money is donated, their Lin family, who had a mediocre relationship with Beijing before, is estimated to be immediately placed on the copywriting of those bigwigs in Zhongnanhai, and after Hong Kong's return to China in the future, it may not be possible to protect the family for several generations.

Thinking about it like this, Lin Jili also felt that the money couldn't just be paid for by him, so he thought about it before he spoke: "Since it is donated in the name of the Lin family, it is not appropriate for you to pay for it yourself." I still have some spare money here, people are old, your father and son are also filial, and I don't need much money. When I go back, I will ask Fu Bo to go to the bank and transfer more than 30 million yuan in my account to you, don't refuse, just think that I gave it to your father and eldest brother

Seeing that his mouth was obviously ready to refuse, Lin Jili's eyes widened, and Lin Xiaozhi swallowed back the words of refusal when he came to his mouth, and then nodded slowly after a while, which was considered to be a promise.

He is not stupid, especially the last sentence of the old man exposes his true meaning.

The wealthy family is the most ruthless family, and the younger generations are fighting for the money left by the older generation, how can there be any father-son and brotherhood. The last sentence of the old man's last sentence is actually a subtle reminder to him, although his father Lin Jiannian and eldest brother Lin Xiaoyi have left the management of the Lin family's industry because of a car accident, so the Lin family's family bank will be taken over by him. But the two of them are recovering well now, especially his eldest brother Lin Xiaoyi, under the care of the Lin family who spent a lot of money and the world-level famous doctors, it is still very likely that he will leave the wheelchair and stand up in the next three or five years, and he will come back sooner or later.

The old man's words also told him not to forget that they were also part of the Lin family, and tactfully reminded him not to do something that would ruin the friendship of the Lin family in the future because of a little benefit.

decided to donate, although Lin Xiaozhi believed that once his money was exposed, it would definitely shake the whole Hong Kong and even the entire Chinese society. But this is not enough, at least he himself thinks it is not enough, there are more people who donate money, although looking at the whole of Hong Kong, only Huo Yingdong and Li Jiacheng have the same donations as him, but there is still something missing.

"......, you asked us to contact the Rice Chamber of Commerce, and I have already contacted Chen Jiannian, the chairman of the Chamber of Commerce, and Zhu Nanchen, the general manager of Fengtai Rice Bank, and they agreed to sell us 90,000 tons of rice, 60,000 tons of flour and 2 tons of cooking oil, totaling 37 million Hong Kong dollars. The rice is all new rice from Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam, some of the flour is the heavy flour polished by the grain of the previous year, and the edible oil is soybean oil, which is relatively cheap. However, although Hong Kong is one of the largest grain markets in the Far East, such a large shortage will also drain the inventory, so Chen Jiannian let me tell you that half of these materials can be delivered directly, and the other side needs to wait for half a month to wait for them to transfer goods from other ports in Southeast Asia......"

"Good, enough is enough. How are the major supermarkets in Hong Kong connected? ”

"We have too many goods, so several major supermarkets are very face-saving, 100,000 boxes of instant noodles, 50,000 boxes of mineral water, as well as canned fruit and large and small quilts, clothes, shoes are easy to buy, but the compressed cakes mentioned on your manifest, we have contacted many supermarket stores, but they are not enough to make up a tenth. This stuff is too hard and unpalatable, and because there is no market, it is rarely bought in major hypermarkets. ”

"Then forget it, what about other purchases?"

"We have encountered some troubles in drug procurement, our purchase volume of aspirin and other drugs is too large, which alarmed the Department of Health, they suspect that we are suspected of disrupting drug prices in Hong Kong, so I was also invited by the Business Intelligence Department to have an afternoon tea, all in all, if you want large-scale drug procurement, you must first apply to the Department of Health, I have sent someone to apply, it is estimated that it will be approved in two days."

"Okay, good job, you've worked hard these days"

With a sudden press conference in Beijing calling for overseas donations for the East China floods, the whole of Hong Kong took the lead in responding, and almost all sectors of society were talking about it in the early days of late July and August.

The Governor of Hong Kong personally called for donations, and after contacting the mainland, he set up a disaster relief fundraising office to appeal to all sectors of Hong Kong to make donations. Since the establishment of the Disaster Relief Fundraising Office, the total amount of disaster relief fundraising in Hong Kong has reached more than HK$400 million in just one week. Among them, the Hong Kong business community has become a major donor, and more than half of the donations raised by the Disaster Relief Fundraising Office come from the business sector. Among the remaining general donations, surprisingly, a small half came from the Hong Kong entertainment industry.

"The East China Flood touched the hearts of the Chinese people, Golden Harvest Group donated 10 million Hong Kong dollars to the flood, and Mr. Zou Wenhuai personally donated another 5 million"

"Sir Shaw Yifu donated 10 million and called on all employees of Wireless to donate for the flood"

"ATV donated 5 million, Lin Baixin personally donated 5 million to support compatriots in the disaster area"

"Cheng Long said in an interview that it was difficult for compatriots to sleep and eat because of the flood, and donated 2 million to compatriots in the disaster area"

"Zhou Yunfa donated 1 million to the disaster area, Zhou Xingchi donated 500,000 yuan, Liu Dehua donated 1 million, Xu Jinjiang donated 700,000 yuan, and the flood in East China affected the hearts of Hong Kong people."

Since the press conference in Beijing was held, the news that the flood in East China had caused heavy losses to several provinces in Jiangsu and Anhui came out, and the Hong Kong entertainment industry quickly set off a wave of donations, and the amount of donations was only after the business community, accounting for nearly a quarter of the total donations.

A week has passed in a blink of an eye, and the most talked about topic in Hong Kong at this moment is the East China flood. However, some media have noticed that in the past week, although the Hong Kong entertainment industry has been very active, Media Asia, which has the most topics, has not moved at all this time, which inevitably arouses the suspicion of some people. You must know that a few months ago, Lin Xiaozhi once led a team to visit Beijing in the name of the Hong Kong entertainment industry, and he has long been regarded as the flag of the pro-mainland faction in Hong Kong, especially in the entertainment industry.

But this time, a full week has passed since Beijing called for donations from the outside world, and he has not even made any movement, a strange scene that quickly aroused doubts in the Hong Kong media.