Thursday, January 11.

The day after Lin Zuhui returned to Xiangjiang, he came to the office of New Era Group.

His business is now more and more distributed around the world, and he will not travel more than a week in a certain country and region; Of course, it is not that he has to deal with these businesses, but Lin Zuhui also has to work and find something to do. It's like a king inspecting his own territory, and that's how he feels accomplished.

"Knock Knock"

"Come in"

Liang Zhenxun walked in with a little urgency, and then said, "Boss, gold rushed to a recent high in recent years yesterday, reaching $400 per ounce."

In 1995, gold fluctuated in a narrow range of $375~$390 most of the time, and the market atmosphere was relatively dull; On the first trading day of 1996 (January 2), gold appreciated by $390.5 per ounce, up $4.5 from the previous year.

In ten days, gold rose again to $401 per ounce, which is very abnormal in itself, because there are no sudden political and economic events, how can the price of gold rise so fast!

Lin Zuhui calmly motioned for Liang Zhenxun to sit down, and then said, "What is the reason for the analysis?"

Liang Zhenxun said honestly, "It's not clear yet! My guess is that it was the demand for gold, or the fact that investors in the U.S. were buying it, which led to the rally."

Lin Zuhui nodded and said, "It may be that American fund investors have begun to buy a large amount of gold because of the uncertainty of foreign exchange, bonds, and stocks, which has pushed gold higher. There are many other reasons as well, but according to my team of advisors, gold should still have some room to rise and may break through the 1993 high of $409 an ounce."

The specific analysis can only be analyzed after the fact, but Lin Zuhui's advisory team has at least obtained the news that American fund companies have joined the action to push up gold.

Liang Zhenxun is not a person who has been with Lin Zuhui for a long time, and asked tentatively, "The boss wants to short gold futures?"

His idea was that if there was only a $10 or so increase, the boss would never be so serious and would not even enter the market.

Lin Zuhui said with a smile: "Go ahead, the limit of $10 million per trading day for short selling, you must be above $401, a total of $100 million short selling. Assuming that the price rises above $410 per ounce after the completion of the $100 million short sale, another $50 million short sale will be carried out in 5 trading days. Add 20 times leverage, and prepare a follow-up margin of no less than $600 million."

Liang Zhenxun's spirit was shocked, this investment is no longer 500 million Hong Kong dollars, but more than 1 billion Hong Kong dollars, which is a big deal.

"Okay, the company is ready to be shorted."

After Liang Zhenxun left, Lin Zuhui showed a smile.

This time it was a war between Lin Zuhui and American fund companies, and they pushed up, and they wanted to short sell. In addition to the possible investment of 150 million US dollars by the New Era Group, Lin Zuhui's personal investment, Hengjin Investment, also took out 200 million US dollars to play with everyone.

Of course, he is not too high-profile, he should disperse when he should disperse, and he should be offshore, so as not to become a target.

In fact, Lin Zuhui is investing in foreign exchange, gold, and Hong Kong blue chips, and it is estimated that during the financial crisis in July next year, he will have a cash flow of about 40 billion Hong Kong dollars, which is still the cash flow of more than 10 billion yuan he already had last year.

In addition, Hengjin Investment has a 5 billion Hong Kong dollar investment in banking stocks (bought in 1994), and it is expected to cash out about 30 billion yuan in early 1998.

The investment of 10 billion yuan in information technology and biological health care (in the first half of 1994) was cashed out in the second half of 1999, and it is expected to be able to cash out 100 billion Hong Kong dollars.

Coupled with Microsoft, Oracle, Cisco's 2% stocks, Citigroup's 3.2%, if you cash out at the end of the nineties, it is expected to be about 1200~150 billion Hong Kong dollars.

Combined, barely 300 billion cash flow!

Of course, this does not include family investment, nor does it include stocks such as Nike and Starbucks, nor does it include venture capital Internet

Cash out.

If you add the investment of Jingwei Capital and family offices, he can have a personal wealth of more than 600 billion yuan in the 90s.

Of course, this does not cover the shares and property investments of his companies.

While he is growing his wealth, the cash flow of his companies will be well prepared before the Asian financial crisis.

For example, the Bank of Bahrain, after the delivery of the Nikkei futures index at the end of December last year, made another $200 million in profits, and made a total profit of $550 million on the Nikkei index, which is all cash flow.

For example, Octopus Bank's cash flow has exceeded 10 billion Hong Kong dollars, and the 20 billion cash on the account is proper through listing and fundraising, not counting the value of fixed assets.

New Era Group, LEIT Group, ATV Group, Wanhui Media Group, needless to say, the four major companies, the cash will definitely add up to a huge number, hundreds of billions of Hong Kong dollars is proper.

Preparing so much cash flow will not cause a "waste" of funds, for example, New Era Group has 10 billion Hong Kong dollars invested in British telecommunications and bank stocks, and it is estimated that it will be 200~30 billion when it is sold; And that's not counting portfolio investments in the U.S. and Japan, which were cashed out in the late 90s and early millennium.

New Era Group will also sell a large number of properties before the financial crisis, and it is estimated that it can also cash out more than 20 billion. There is still a profit of one and a half years, and it is not possible to have 400~50 billion, of course, Lin Zuhui will not be soft at all.

summed up so much, in fact, even Lin Zuhui didn't know what his wealth was at the beginning of the millennium?

1,000 billion Hong Kong dollars?

Maybe it's more than that!

Don't forget it, I don't understand it.

.......

At the beginning of the year, it can be said that good things have happened one after another, and Sitong Company, a subsidiary of Wanhui Media Group, finally developed the transportation automatic fare collection system, smart card system and solutions designed by Lin Zuhui.

Lin Zuhui came to the R&D room of Sitong Company in the Media Building, where there are dozens of R&D personnel, and R&D teams with Chinese ginseng, engineering and science.

After more than a year of establishment, Sitong Company completed the task, which made Lin Zuhui more happy; Of course, it is also expected that at the beginning of research and development, Lin Zuhui has personally planned the system layout, and the team of Sitong Company only needs to carry out technical research and development.

To put it simply, the whole system is as follows: a chip is placed in the card, and when using the smart card to pay, the user only needs to place the smart card close to the reader, and the payment will be automatically deducted. The average transaction time is only 0.3 seconds. After the transaction is completed, the card reader will sound a "beep" and the display will show the amount deducted and the remaining balance of the card. Usually, when paying concessionary fares (e.g. child and elderly fares on buses), the tone of "beep" will be higher. A higher pitch and longer "beep" sound means that the transaction has not been completed and the reader's red light will turn on, the most common reason is that the card is not aligned with the reader, the balance is less than HK$0, or the balance is more than HK$35 after the transaction. Since it is a contactless smart card, it can be sensed by the reader even if it is a few centimeters away from ordinary materials such as plastic and leather, so you can make a smart card transaction by simply picking up a wallet, handbag, or even placing a bag of clothes close to the reader.

"Boss, I'll show you!" Yao Jixian, president of Sitong Company, confidently took out a smart card, and then put it on the reader, and then heard a "beep", and on the LCD monitor, it immediately showed that there was still 98 yuan.

After a demonstration, Lin Zuhui nodded with satisfaction and said, "It's very efficient, come with me to Lianjunda Company later!"

Luen Chun Tat is a joint venture between MTR and KCRC in 1994 with the invitation of Citybus, KMB and Yau Ma Tei Ferry. The minibus, which is in charge of the Hong Kong Island bus line, refused to join.

Since its opening in 1979, the Hong Kong MTR has been using a reusable magnetic plastic card as a ticket, which can be divided into one-way tickets and stored value tickets. In 1984, the Kowloon-Canton Railway also began to use this card as a ticket, and it was called the Universal Stored-Value Ticket. By 1989, the Hong Kong GPFARE had been extended to KMB, Citybus to MTR and KRTL services, as well as non-transport services, such as fast food restaurants or self-service

Help with ID cameras, payments, etc. Eventually, the metro decided to adopt more advanced technology, announcing in 1993 that it would adopt a smart card that would allow payments to be made without touching the operator.

Therefore, Lianjunda company came into being.

Of course, such a big reform will also go through the stage of exploration and experimentation during the period. At present, the Australian ERG company (the inventor of the Octopus system in the previous life) has not extended its tentacles to Hong Kong.

"Okay, don't worry, boss, I am very confident in our technology, and I will definitely win this project in Hong Kong."

Lin Zuhui said with satisfaction, "I also have confidence in you! By the way, the team will continue to strengthen or improve the transportation automatic fare collection system, smart card system, and solutions. Technology needs to evolve and never stop. For example, in the future, smart cards can also be extended to supermarkets, parking lots, restaurants, etc. It's a big system, and I hope you can calm down and move on."

"Yes, boss!" The engineers said in an impassioned tone.

Who is Lin Zuhui, that is the new technology boss and the idol of everyone.

Who would dare to say that he doesn't understand technology?

How can you invest in so many tech projects and succeed without knowing technology?

.......

The results of Sitong Company were soon accepted for experimental operation by MTR, Kowloon Railway and Lianjunda Company under their leadership; After all, it is a technology company in Xiangjiang, and with Lin Zuhui's face, it is not a problem to operate as an experiment. If the effect is very good, we will purchase the smart card system of Sitong Company.

Of course, the experimental operation of the entire system may last for a long time, and it will eventually be decided whether to purchase the system or not.

During this period, Sitong Company also invited China and Pakistan to join the experiment, but he did not expect to be directly rejected by China and Pakistan, which made Lin Zuhui annoyed. Sitong Company is a subsidiary of his group, and if he doesn't look at the face of the monk and the face of the Buddha, Zhongba refuses so much, obviously slapping Lin Zuhui in the face.

What's more, it is a good thing for Hong Kong to promote the development of the city.

According to history, China and Pakistan lost its franchise in 1998 and was won by New World. After the turn of the millennium, Xu Zhantang had a financial crisis and sold his Citybus company to New World.

Therefore, in the previous life, New World also controlled the "NWFB", one of the bus groups in Hong Kong.

What did the rich people of Hong Kong rely on to get rich?

The answer is only two words – monopoly.

Real estate, retail, electricity, transportation, energy, media communication, etc., are all monopolized by several major conglomerates.

And these consortia are all old consortia, which began to develop in the fifties and sixties, and generally speaking, there will be no new chaebols.

With the appearance of Lin Zuhui, this spell was broken, and only Lin Zuhui could break it.

Including Liu Luanxiong in his previous life, he was a chaebol in Xiangjiang at all, and there were too many people in Hong Kong who were richer than him at that time, but the wealth separation and hiding had been completed; To put it bluntly, Liu Luanxiong couldn't even rank in the top 20 in his previous life (200 billion Hong Kong dollars).

In the office, Lin Zuhui was thinking about whether to buy the Yan family's Zhongba directly.

In 1933, China Bus obtained the franchise of Hong Kong Island Bus, and the founder was Yan Shikun, a Chaozhou bigwig, but at this time Yan Shikun was over 90 years old, although he still served as the chairman of the board of directors of China and Brazil, but he was actually unable to manage the company; Therefore, China and Pakistan are managed by his two sons and one daughter.

Originally with 100 bus lines and 1,000 buses in its heyday, China Bus can be called a bus kingdom, and it also has a large number of depots and parking lots. Therefore, in the 80s, it was acquired by Paliburg, and the Yan family and Hsin Chong Real Estate finally repelled Paliburg, but they also lost a lot of money, and Paliburg made a lot of profits.

Since the 90s, due to the regression of service levels, the bus has often been criticized by the public for delays and departures, the aging and dilapidated fleet of buses, and the poor hygiene of bus compartments, resulting in the loss of 40 bus lines.

Even so, the Gan family still has no intention of operating the bus business, focusing on the real estate business of China Bus, and building their land into development rights. Central Pakistan

, as if it has become a real estate company.

Many public opinion blamed the governance of China and Pakistan on the family governance of China and Pakistan by Yan Chengkun and his children, believing that they had a conservative style, resisted change, and failed to keep up with the pace of the times. Some officials of the Transport Department have privately criticized that the governance of China and Pakistan is like an old family business, with no future in sight. Lau Qian-shek, an elected member of the Legislative Council, has even criticized the disrepair of the headquarters of China Bus in North Point, which seems to have gone back in time to the 50s, and questioned the lack of modern bus operation concept by Ngan Cheng-kwan and the management of China Bus.

The more Lin Zuhui thought about it, the more unbearable he became, although he didn't want to attract "notoriety" again, but the Yan family lost his face so much, and the Yan family's Zhongba was so discredited in the hearts of the citizens and the Hong Kong government.

The combination of these factors led him to decide to acquire the company.

The market value of China and Pakistan is only about 3 billion, and the Yan family holds only 30~35% of the shares, which is not the same order of magnitude as the New Era Group.

Moreover, if the acquisition of China Pakistan is successful, Lin Zuhui may also be able to monopolize the transportation of Xiangjiang.

Thinking of this, Lin Zuhui called Yao Jixian and asked him to visit China and Pakistan in his own name and invite them to join the Octopus (Octopus) smart card experiment.

Salute first, then soldier!

With Lin Zuhui's current status, he is more or less a bully, although the Yan family is unpopular, but Yan Chengkun is also a veteran of Chaozhou, so let's save some face.

Moreover, the acquisition of China and Brazil also requires "art", so as not to be said that he will only "oppress people with his wealth".

This time, try to play a trick!

........

Yan Chengkun has a daughter and two sons, the eldest daughter Yan Jieling is currently the vice chairman and executive director of China and Pakistan, which is regarded as the actual manager; Her two younger brothers, Yan Jieqiang and Yan Henry, also held senior positions in the company.

Yao Jixian of Sitong Company is just a technical talent, and this time he was driven by Lin Zuhui to the shelves and came to China Pakistan Company. He first introduced the function of Octopus (Octopus) smart card, and put forward the hope that China and Pakistan would join Lianjunda.

Yan Jieling, Yan Jieqiang, and Yan Henry were a little displeased, they had all clearly refused to join this Lianjunda company, and the president of this broken company still came to sell.

You know, this was their father's idea, although the old man was no longer able to work normally, but sometimes he called the company to ask about the situation.

"Manager Yao, we will not join Lianjunda Company, let alone use any Octopus smart card. After all, who knows if the funds are safe!"

Yao Jixian's face was slightly red, he was an engineering man, and he was really not suitable for talking about business; Fortunately, when he remembered what his boss had explained, he was not so embarrassed.

"Actually, my boss hopes that China Bus will join in and promote the modernization of Hong Kong transportation."

The faces of the three Yan brothers and sisters suddenly changed slightly, and Yan Jieling couldn't help but ask, "Lin Sheng is also concerned about this?"

Yao Jixian has the momentum of a fox and a fake tiger, and he is finally not so poor, and said calmly: "This is part of Xiangjiang's science and technology business, and although my boss's business is big, everything about the technology industry is very small, and he personally asks about it."

Yan Jieling's three sisters and brothers glanced at each other, and soon the three of them understood the meaning from each other's eyes.

"I'm still sorry, to be honest, our chairman was firmly opposed to joining Lianjunda Company, and now that he is old, we don't want to annoy him about this."

"Okay, that's a bother!"

Yao Jixian retreated decisively, leaving the three Yan sisters and brothers a little stunned, so easy to dismiss?

The third sister and brother are really afraid of the old man, the Yan family's ancient family style is very strong, and the old man has not died for a day, which is absolute hegemony. As for offending Lin Zuhui, the three of them think it's nothing, after all, it's a trivial matter.

Besides, if China and Bajia don't join, it has nothing to do with Lin Zuhui, so you can't tie them up to join!