Monday, June 10.

In the office of ACN Center, Lin Zuhui sat in his office, holding a pen in one hand and flipping through the materials in the other. Although it was in a working state, his expression was very relaxed.

Since Yuan Tianfan became the president of Hengchang Holdings, the affairs of the New Era Group have been quite orderly, and there are no longer so many subsidiaries under its umbrella that Lin Zuhui needs to deal with.

The organizational structure of New Era Group is roughly as follows: New Era Real Estate/Construction, Chinese Real Estate, New Era Hotel, Hengchang Holdings, and New Era Group (Huaxia), that is, the five core 'first-class subsidiaries'.

New Era Group also has a weakness, that is, it is not good at infrastructure industries, such as tunnels, railways, landfills (garbage disposal), and it has lost some Heung Kong infrastructure projects.

However, Lam does not plan to strengthen his infrastructure strength, so let Sun Hung Kai Properties do it.

Sun Hung Kai in the previous life was indeed strong, and its market value was higher than that of Cheung Kong for many years, but in this life, he was cut off by Lin Zuhui. In this life, Sun Hung Kai's shopping mall network will be reduced by one-third, Vilson Parking Group will be directly acquired by New Era Group, and the 'Central Plaza' brand will be acquired by New Era Group, not to mention the loss of land bank.

"Knock Knock"

"Come in"

Li Ke walked in with Gao Yi, general manager of Chinese Real Estate.

Gao Yi sat respectfully on the sofa, waiting for the boss's assistant Li Ke to make tea for him, and did not forget to say thank you!

"Boss, the Garland Centre in Causeway Bay has been completed!"

Lin Zuhui immediately asked, "How is the leasing situation?" ”

Gao Yi said: "The current vacancy rate is 10%! ”

It's a bit serious!

The building can generally be leased one year before completion. The vacancy rate of 10% also shows the grievances of Xiangjiang office buildings.

From 1990 to 1991, after reaching its peak in '89, the rent of office buildings in Hong Kong fell due to a sharp increase in supply, and of course, there were reasons for the withdrawal of foreign capital. As a result, some property developers have greatly reduced their interest in building office buildings, and even converted some commercial and residential sites into residential buildings, but of course, not in the commercial center.

The rent of office buildings in the commercial center area is still 30~56 Hong Kong dollars per square foot per month, and the price is still acceptable, ranking fourth in the world. After the reopening next year, foreign capital will return to Hong Kong, and the rent of office buildings will naturally rise quickly. The office buildings of the New Era Group have been put into use, and they can naturally make a lot of money.

Of course, the New Era Group's model (emphasizing rent-collecting properties) is not suitable for any real estate group in Hong Kong; Since Lin Zuhui took over, the New Era Group has made a financial profit of nearly 10 billion, and raised tens of billions of funds through rights issues, and with such a huge fund-raising capacity, the group's net assets are now only more than 90 billion. You must know that the New Era Group is still in the decline of real estate in 87 and 89, and has obtained a sharp rise in assets, so that it has today's strength.

Lin Zuhui still said calmly: "The general environment is like this, and it is normal for the vacancy rate to be so high. In any case, we have passed the 'always heavily indebted' phase, and the slightly worse performance of the rental properties has not affected the overall strength of the Group. ”

Gao Yi nodded, the strategy of strengthening the development of rent-collecting properties was personally finalized by the boss. Although real estate developers in Hong Kong do not have this crazy way of playing - borrowing heavily to invest in rent-collecting properties, because it takes ten years to return on the cost of rent-collecting properties in theory, and it only takes three ~ four years to develop properties; However, their own boss understands finance and the general trend, and other real estate developers just want to learn, and they have to weigh their own strength.

Lin Zuhui continued: "Let's choose the opening ceremony at the end of July, and focus on it!" ”

"Okay!"

Gao Yi knew that Garland Centre was not just a 600,000-square-foot first-class commercial building, but also a trophy that the boss had taught Hysan Land a lesson.

Back then, only its own boss 'sniped' at other companies, but who would have thought that Hysan Land would launch a counter-takeover in the 'Borrelli Construction Acquisition War', causing New Era Group to lose 200 million yuan.

The loss of money is secondary, but at that time, Hysan Land played the slogan of 'doing the right thing for heaven', occupying the 'righteousness', and causing the reputation of its own boss to suffer. Because at that time, New Era Group was in a hostile takeover of Borrelli Construction.

However, then his boss dug up a piece of land in Hysan Land's nest, which can be regarded as recovering the field.

New Era Group has obtained a 600,000-square-foot commercial building, which is currently worth 3 billion, which is definitely worth the money.

Therefore, the boss said that the opening ceremony should be made more grand.

The four floors below Garland Centre are shopping malls, and the building itself is in the base camp of Hysan Land, which will pose a great threat to Hysan Land's shopping malls and office buildings once it opens.

Finally, Lin Zuhui said: "I am going to rebuild Wang Kee Building and Chinese Bank Building into the headquarters building of my bank as soon as possible, and you can start to make preparations to move out the tenants as soon as possible." ”

Gao Yi nodded happily and said, "Well, I'll coordinate everyone as soon as possible!" ”

The Lin family's bank headquarters, there are a variety of options:

The two buildings of the Citiac Centre were originally called the Citishop Building, and the other was called the Asia Pacific Financial Building, and the Asia Pacific Finance Building could be used as the headquarters of its own bank. However, Lin Zuhui didn't like his bank to be too high-profile, so he went to get together with National Treasure Connect, Bank of China, HSBC, and Standard Chartered Bank.

Therefore, Lin Zuhui decided to merge the Chinese Bank Building and Wang Kee Building to build his own bank's headquarters building. Together, the two plots of land have nearly 30,000 square meters, which is enough to build a 400,000-square-foot super first-class commercial building.

As for the Chinese Bank, it can only find another place, anyway, it is a small bank on the left and right.

At the same time, Lin Zuyao also arranged for the merger of Block AB of the Crocodile Shirt Building and the Chenda Group Building to build the LEIT Group Building.

For a time, Lin Zuhui's buildings were rebuilt one after another, if it were not for the strength of his company, it would be unimaginable.

In particular, the New Era Group has nine buildings under reconstruction, including:

Garland Centre has been completed

Wang Kee Building and Chinese Bank Building were merged in preparation for redevelopment

The Citia Centre will be put into use at the end of next year (1992)

The Central Plaza will be put into use in the middle of next year

The original four buildings of Legu Real Estate are under reconstruction and are expected to be completed in the first half of 1993

Nine Queen's Road Central will be completed by the end of this year

The construction cost of a building ranges from 500 million ~ 1 billion, the construction cost of No. 9 Queen's Road Central is 580 million (real data), the construction cost of Garland Center is 600 million, the construction cost of Central Plaza is more than 1.8 billion (78 floors), and the construction cost of Wang Guobaotong Center is 2 billion (two buildings).

After Gao Yi left, Liang Zhenxun came to Lin Zuhui's office.

"Boss"

Lin Zuhui nodded and said: "Let the securities department invest in the December futures contract and invest three or five hundred million, without too much impact!" As soon as possible, within two weeks, the investment will be completed. ”

Why do you say that it can't have too much impact, because since the futures index contract, in April, May, June, September, and December of each year, the Hang Seng Index in these five months is likely to fall, because of the drag of the futures index contract.

For example, it has risen to 3,900 points at the beginning of April this year, but it has fallen to about 3,650 points at the end of April.

For example, in mid-May this year, it rose again to 3,900 points, but at the end of May, the futures index had fallen to about 3,700 points;

In the same way, because June is also the delivery month of the futures index, the overall trend of this month is downward, and it is currently more than 3,600 points.

Lin Zuhui knows that this year will soar by more than 600 points, and the results of Huaying's negotiations on the airport in July will usher in a round of soaring stock markets and real estate in Xiangjiang.

In addition, Hong Kong's economy has reversed its decline in 1991, so the stock market will rise above 4,200 points for the whole year.

Liang Zhenxun immediately said: "Okay, I'll go and prepare immediately!" ”

New Era Group has a securities department and a financial company;

Among them, finance companies can provide installment loans to buyers on their own, which is an area that mainland real estate companies have not been involved in in the previous life.

Of course, the financial company of the real estate company is definitely not as strong as the bank, so the buyer still mainly relies on the bank to provide installment payment.

News Building.

Lin Zuhui looked at the comic manuscript of "Detective Conan" in the office, and was quite excited, not to mention that it was nine points similar to his previous life, but it was also seven points similar. As for the plot, Lin Zuhui has supported more than a dozen cases before and after.

And the team of "Detective Conan" consulted a lot of information, and specially consulted Hong Kong JC crime-solving masters and private detective agencies, I believe that even if it is different from the version in the previous life, it will not be bad there.

In addition, Lin Zuhui also contributed the classic line "There is only one truth", and even the classic line of "Pokemon" "It's decided that it's you, Pikachu" was also created by Lin Zuhui.

Putting away the manuscript of "Detective Conan", Lin Zuhui couldn't help but worship in his heart.

In recent months, he and the management of Wanhui Comics have done a lot of work, preparing for comic book serializations, acquiring toy factories, and acquiring animation production companies. It can be said that it is ready to do a big job, and the investment is very large, with a total investment of more than 300 million Hong Kong dollars.

However, Lin Zuhui is also full of confidence, he specially went to Zou Wenhuai to inquire about "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", and the result made him exclaim - the comic industry is really TMD to make money.

Leaving aside the box office of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" of hundreds of millions of dollars, let's talk about a toy factory in Hong Kong, Playmate Group, because it has obtained the exclusive franchise of the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" global exclusive toy master license, and is the exclusive global license, and is allowed to create and promote category toys. The company's profits skyrocketed tenfold in 1990, when the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie became a box office hit, and Playmates Group's net profit in 1990 was as high as 1.2 billion.

Seeing the success of "Enduring the Turtles", Lin Zuhui has more confidence in "Detective Conan" and "Pokemon". Especially Pikachu's toys, he believes they can sell well in the world!

And Pikachu's image can almost reach ninety percent of the similarity in his previous life, because Lin Zuhui has a deep memory.

Calling Luo Bencheng, the general manager of Wanhui Comics Agency, Lin Zuhui said: "On July 1, our comic serial publication "Manke SHOW" can be officially launched, focusing on "Detective Conan", as for "Pokemon", wait a few months. After the serialization of "Detective Conan", he quickly prepared to shoot the anime series. At the same time, we must quickly open up markets in Taiwan and Southeast Asia, and then fight Japan, South Korea, and finally occupy Europe and the United States. ”

The predecessor of Wanhui Comics Society, Yulang Agency, itself has overseas comic distribution channels (cooperation), coupled with the improvement of the past few years, Wanhui Comics Agency's overseas distribution ability has been very strong. After all, "Dragon Tiger Gate" and "Fengyun" are very popular overseas.

With these foundations, no matter how good the works are, 'comics rejuvenate Hong Kong' is by no means empty talk.

The only concern is that the overall quality of the work may not be as good as in the previous life, but in any case, with Lin Zuhui's outline and creativity, there is still a lot of hope for achieving seventy percent success.

Luo Bencheng also nodded excitedly, in the past five months, Wanhui Comics Club has grown rapidly like a snowball. Affiliated companies, management, and chief writers have increased, and his status has also risen. Fortunately, he has been in charge of Wanhui Comics Club for many years, overseas distribution, Japanese cooperation, etc., and he has experience, so now he is also fully competent.

"Okay! The toy factory is also working on the 'Conan' doll toys, and the three 'Manke Show' physical stores in Hong Kong are also ready to open at any time. We have preliminarily completed the layout of the comic industry chain! ”

Lin Zuhui said with satisfaction: "I have confidence in "Detective Conan" and "Pokémon", and I hope you will strengthen other works." The company has invested more than 300 million yuan, which is only a preliminary investment, and will continue to invest in the future, mainly for overseas promotion and surrounding development. ”

"With such a large investment in the company, coupled with the command of the boss, I believe that 'Comic Xinggang' will definitely be realized!"

Lin Zuhui often talked with the management about his ideals and ambitions, Japan's achievements in the comics industry and future prospects, and called on everyone to work together to follow the Japanese industrial chain.

He also deliberately prepared a TV show for the manga, focusing on "Detective Conan" and "Pokémon".

It can be said that they have achieved the layout of the whole industry chain!