Text Chapter 139, Huo Daheng

After meeting with the jewelry king Zheng Yutong, Lei Weidong decided to speed up his progress, there is no way that the price of land in Hong Kong is the same every day, and the dozens of pieces of land controlled by Lei Weidong are just pieces of fat if they are kept there, and those British capital may not look down on them, but those Chinese tycoons will definitely keep coming up to try.

If they all refuse, there will be too many people to offend, so it is better to start construction as soon as possible and build the house, as long as the house is started, there will be an excuse to dispel the thoughts of those real estate predators.

Of course, how to build the house, what kind of construction still needs to be specially evaluated, you must know that the smallest area of the land in Lei Weidong's hands is several thousand square meters, the largest is more than 20,000 square meters, and most of them are located in prosperous areas, in these areas, if you just build a movie theater, even if you build a first-class luxury movie theater, it is still a huge waste.

If you want to make perfect use of this land, you must make comprehensive use. The best way to make use of it is to build commercial buildings, and the best place to go in these areas is to become a commercial and residential building with a solid entertainment carnival and shopping mall, or at least a commercial office building.

For example, the more than 10,000 square meters of land in Causeway Bay can be used as a parking lot on the second and third floors of the basement, a supermarket on the first floor of the basement, a shop on the ground floor, a shopping mall on the second to sixth floors, a cinema and some dim sum shops on the seventh to eighth floors, a luxury KTV on it, and a hotel or office space on the highest.

In a word, a building must be built on this land, as long as it is not a super-tall skyscraper.

The reason why Lei Weidong is reluctant to build super-tall skyscrapers is because the cost of building super-tall skyscrapers is too high, and the construction speed is too slow, and it will take at least three or four years to get it completely right. Moreover, there will be a low tide in Hong Kong real estate in the future, and there will be a chance to build skyscrapers in the future.

After the completion of these buildings in Lei Weidong, they will be built into fashionable entertainment settlements or commercial office buildings according to the surrounding conditions, and then shopping malls or five-star hotels and so on.

Anyway, it is impossible to build an independent cinema, and in the later generations or in the United States now, the popular cinemas in Hong Kong are no longer popular, and the future trend is to modernize multiplex cinemas.

But if you really want to realize this idea, Lei Weidong still has to pay a lot of construction funds, in the past, Lei Weidong because he has not dealt with real estate, he did not know what he needed to build a building, and now he is ready to build a building, and he knows that there are many things involved in building a building.

The design institute, fire protection, electricity, water supply and other departments all need to be dealt with, and the reason why Lei Weidong chose to build buildings with less than 25 floors is because he is afraid of trouble.

Because if it is a super-tall building with more than 25 floors, sometimes it takes several months just to design the drawings, which is mainly because the building above 25 floors is a skyscraper, and the requirements are completely different from ordinary buildings below 25 floors in terms of fire protection and water supply.

Let's put it this way, a skyscraper is in the mainland, and if you don't want to build it in three or four years, don't think about it and put it into use.

If it is a construction company in Hong Kong, the construction period needs to be extended.

If Lei Weidong wants to speed up the pace of construction, it is best to invite a mainland construction company to come and engage in construction, and at this time there are no private construction companies on the mainland at all, all of them are state-owned enterprises, and many of them have been restructured by the construction corps, so there is no need to worry about the quality of the construction, and the construction speed is twice as fast as that of Hong Kong.

Compared with Hong Kong's construction companies, because the various welfare systems and wages are much higher than those in the mainland, it can be said that asking Hong Kong companies to do things, one is more money, and the other is slow.

The construction corps on the mainland is different, they work well, quickly and well, originally they all made a big scene, not to mention just building buildings, even if the houses that were built first are demolished and rebuilt, they are faster than Hong Kong people, and they also save money, after all, labor is too cheap.

And as long as you can get through this relationship, you can basically provide one-stop service over there, and even the materials can be directly obtained from there, which is cheaper.

You must know that Hong Kong has no resources, not to mention steel and cement, and there is no sand necessary for construction, so it needs to be imported from the mainland.

Yes, this is not a joke, sand for construction must be imported from the mainland. Some people may ask why Hong Kong is on the seaside, why can't there be so much sand on the beach?

Asking this question is not understanding the sand, the sand used in the construction must be river sand, although the sand in the sea is clean, but the salt content is high, which has a great impact on the quality of the project.

At the beginning of the establishment of the Special Economic Zone, due to the constraints of the conditions at that time and the lack of understanding of sea sand, sea sand was used in the construction of some old residential areas. Walking into these old residential areas, you can find the dangers of sea sand everywhere: corroded building steel bars, dripping cracks on walls, etc.

If Lei Weidong had built these buildings with sea sand, it would have been necessary to push the buildings to rebuild in just a dozen years.

However, when it comes to river sand, one person must be mentioned, he is the famous red capitalist Huo Daheng in Hong Kong, and those businessmen who had to cooperate with the mainland because of Hong Kong's return to the motherland later, Huo Daheng has been dealing with the mainland since the 50s, and has the exclusive right to operate river sand in the mainland, so it can be said that 90% of the sand in Hong Kong has to be taken from Huo Daheng.

Therefore, all wealthy businessmen involved in the construction field in Hong Kong must give him face, and Huo Daheng is the boss in the real estate industry.

And he also invented the real estate sales policy that is still fresh in the memory of later generations, which is the "speculation of pre-sale properties" that prevailed in Hong Kong later, which is also known as off-plan housing transactions in the mainland, and at this point the people can not overstate how the people scolded Huo Daheng.

Mr. Huo called this sales policy "the industrialization of the real estate industry."

This initiative made Fok Taiheng's real estate business suddenly boom, breaking the record for the highest real estate business in Hong Kong in one fell swoop.

When other builders saw that Huo Daheng's method was good and learned to implement this method, Huo Daheng had already made a huge fortune.

Because of the success of Huo Daheng, people have to admit that he is a creative business owner. In the 60s, he became the president of the Hong Kong Real Estate Builders Association, which has 300 members and owns 70% of the construction business in Hong Kong. That's why some people call Tycoon Fok the "land lord" of Hong Kong!

However, because of the tacit relationship between Huo Daheng and the mainland, it is said that Huo Daheng smuggled a lot of materials to the mainland when he resisted US aggression and aided Korea, which led to the dissatisfaction of the British and American governments.

So in the sixties, Fok was hit by British capital and the British government in Hong Kong.

For example, in the famous Starlight Walk incident, the U.S. representative in Hong Kong announced that tenants of any commercial building were not allowed to buy American goods. The British government in Hong Kong even used its power to cut off water and electricity to the real estate projects in the hands of Huo Daheng, deliberately "blocking" Huo Daheng's development space.

In the face of the pressure of the British and American governments, Fok Daheng, who lived after 1967, had no choice but to change his investment strategy, to retreat into attack, step by step, and gradually fade out of Hong Kong's real estate market. Even withdrew from some projects for the construction of the marina.

After Hong Kong's return to the motherland, people who were familiar with the situation at that time said: If it were not for the suppression by Hong Kong and the British, only the three major projects of the Navy Dockyard, Xingguang Xing, and Container Terminal, Huo Daheng would be a well-deserved "land king", "dock king", and "Hong Kong's richest man" in Hong Kong today.