Chapter 14 The Four Great Families He Dong
Central (also known as Central)
It is the political, economic, cultural, educational, religious and other development bases of Hong Kong after the opening of the port, and it is also the financial and commercial center of Hong Kong, known as the "heart of Hong Kong". For more than 100 years, Central has witnessed Hong Kong's colonial era, including the Japanese occupation period, as well as Hong Kong's development after its return to the motherland.
In 1841, the British occupied Hong Kong, and in 1842, the Treaty of Nanking ceded Hong Kong Island to the British, and Hong Kong entered the colonial era. Hollywood Road in Central, the first street to be built in Hong Kong, has nothing to do with the Hollywood of the American film industry, but comes from the holly trees in the early days of Hollywood Road.
In the early days, the Central area was mostly a fishing village, rocky and sloping. In 1851, the Taiping Rebellion broke out, and many Cantonese people fled to Hong Kong. The land could not meet the surging population, so the Central area began to be reclaimed.
Formerly known as Guangzhou Market, Central Market is located at the junction of Queen's Road Central and Graham Street, and has always been a meeting point of Chinese culture in the early years of living in the Central area. And leisurely living is the most prosperous combination of Chinese and Western high-end club-style hotel, he has a total of three floors is very large, but his room is not much, there are seventy-two rooms on the first floor, thirty-six rooms on the second floor, and there are only twelve rooms on the top floor and three floors, respectively, there are 12 rooms in the sky, 36 in the ground, and 72 rooms in the herringbone.
But it is also one of the most luxurious and expensive restaurants in Hong Kong, and people who come in and out are not rich or expensive, not ordinary people can go in and out of the place, of course, you can come in and eat if you have money, but here you can eat a meal for tens of hundreds of yuan, which is the annual living expenses of an ordinary family of three, which is not something that ordinary people can afford, but everyone who comes in feels that it is worth the money, because everyone here will give him private and cordial care as if he was a family.
Leisurely living on the third floor, Tianzi No. 2 room, Li Youran is very leisurely and a seventy-year-old person drinks Wuyi Mountain's best red robes, these red robes are not much, it is his master Ye Man called Jinshan to find a belt to bring to him, its shape is tightly knotted, the color is green and brown and fresh, the soup color is orange and bright after brewing, and the leaves are red and green. The most outstanding quality is that the aroma is rich and orchid-like, the fragrance is high and long-lasting, and the "rock rhyme" is obvious. In addition to the general tea has the health care functions of refreshing and thinking, eliminating fatigue, diuretic, antipyretic and heatstroke, sterilization and anti-inflammatory, detoxification and disease prevention, eliminating food and greasy, losing weight and bodybuilding, etc., it also has special effects such as anti-cancer, hypolipidemic, anti-aging, etc. Usually he is reluctant to drink, but today because of Mr. He Dong, a septuagenarian of mixed Eurasian race in front of him, he is willing to take a little out and drink.
This old man is not simple, a famous comprador in Hong Kong, an entrepreneur, and a philanthropist. Formerly known as He Qidong, the word Xiaosheng, born in Hong Kong, born in Bao'an, Guangdong (following the maternal line), is the richest man after the opening of Hong Kong. He Qidong's father is Charles Henry Maurice Bosman (Cantonese transliteration He Shiwen), and his mother is Shi Di, a native of Bao'an, Guangdong, so he is of mixed Eurasian descent. Because of his shrewd mind, Ho Tung soon became a super-rich man in Hong Kong, and the Ho Kai Tung family he founded was the first prominent family in Hong Kong at this time. She is one of the founders of the University of Hong Kong, and co-founded the Tung Lin Jue Garden with his wife Zhang Lianjue, which is an important milestone in Hong Kong's private women's education and Buddhism.
In 1882, he was promoted to the manager of the Hong Kong Fire Insurance Company under Jardine Matheson and the manager of the Guangdong Marine Insurance Company, and in 1894, he was promoted to the general manager of Jardine Matheson & Co., and in 1897, he became a wealthy man with a net worth of more than 2 million, and resigned as the general manager of Jardine Matheson in the same year, and was succeeded by his brother Ho Kai Fook, and in 1906, Mr. Ho Kai Tung applied to the Governor of Hong Kong in Council for permission to live in the Central Mid-Levels. He became the first Chinese to live on the top of Taiping Mountain, took over the Industrial and Commercial Daily in 1926, and ran very successfully, and some time ago he mediated the general strike of seamen.
There is a saying in Hong Kong that describes a person who is not self-conscious, and will say, "You think you are He Dong", which is enough to prove that Mr. He Dong's status as the richest man in Hong Kong can rival the country. Many people may not know and hear of it, but he has a nephew who you should have heard, gambling king Stanley Ho, and Bruce Lee is his brother's grandson.
"Yes, this is good tea" He Dong squinted his eyes and tasted it carefully, and sighed.
"Grandpa Dong, this tea is the best red robe of Wuyi Mountain brought over by the master in Foshan, if it weren't for Grandpa Dong, I wouldn't be willing to drink it!" Li Youran sighed with some pain.
"Oh, I asked the kid to bring it, no wonder there is such a good big red robe, and only this kid can find such a good tea." Li Dong couldn't help but nod when he heard this.
"Grandpa Dong, there are two boxes of tea this time, I'll take this unopened box back for you to taste for Grandpa Fu." Li Youran pointed to a box of unopened top red robes and said.
He Dong didn't speak, just nodded with a smile, and the two began to taste tea again, talking about it for a while, talking about it for a while, these big businessmen don't have the habit of directly entering the theme, and neither of them does not take the initiative to cut into the theme, this is a silent confrontation, whoever takes the initiative to enter the theme, who will be at a disadvantage, this is not the first time Li Youran has discussed things, of course, he will not fall into such a simple mistake, he is in the shopping mall but there are shapeless killing machines everywhere, and he can't do it if he is not careful.
Of course, it wasn't that they didn't do nothing, and the two of them used the tea time to have the same thoughts with each other, and they both wanted to find the information they wanted from each other's mouths for a while.
"You arrested so many people last time, is it serious?" He Dong asked while drinking tea.
"Alas, not only did I steal things, but I also signed a contract with others, bought a lot of bad ingredients back, and colluded with Tsuen Wan Chen Lao Ghost and Sha Tin Zhang Lao Ghost wanted to devour the leisurely house, if I hadn't discovered it early, the consequences would have been unimaginable." After Li Youran finished speaking, he looked at He Dong and secretly scolded the old fox, and then said painfully: "This time, I can solve the two old ghosts surnamed Chen and surnamed Zhang, and I have the help of Grandpa Dong and Grandpa Fu. ”
"Hehe, let it out leisurely, then Grandpa Dong will thank you on behalf of our four families." He Dong saw that Li Youran promised to let Bancheng come out again, and the smile that was originally smiling was even more than three points.
"Grandpa Dong, you're polite.........." Although Li Youran's flesh hurts very much, half of the shares can be divided into tens of thousands of yuan per year, this is not the banknotes made by the Bank of the Republic of China used in Foshan, this is the British dollar! But he still pretended to smile indifferently.
Then we talked about the decoration and position arrangements of China Casino.