On 21 March 1996, the Tuen Mun River Trade Terminal was unveiled by public tender.

The Hong Kong Government announced the award of a tender for OL Cargo Terminals (Asia Container Plus COSCO Consortium) for the design, development and operation of an inland container terminal in Area 38, Tuen Mun at a land grant of HK$1,466.5 million. The land grant period is until 30 June 2047.

The site is Lot 393 of Tuen Mun City, covering an area of about 65 hectares. The successful bidder will be required to put the cargo handling facilities into operation in two phases. Initially, within 36 months from the date of land grant, the annual cargo handling capacity shall not be less than 2.1 million tons; In the following 18 months, it increased to no less than 8.5 million tonnes per year. The terminal design will include a 3,000-metre-long berth to handle the rapidly growing Chinese river freight.

A spokesman for the Hong Kong Government said that the Hong Kong Government had received tenders from two bidders, Odelon Ltd and River Cargo Terminals Limited.

According to the requirements and provisions of the solicitation documents, the authorities believe that the bids of both parties almost echo the requirements specified in several solicitation documents; However, the consortium led by New Era and New World won the bid at a more competitive price.

For a time, public opinion was overwhelming.

The war finally came to an end, and various media outlets reported it beforehand;

After all, this is a duel between the five major consortiums headed by Cheung Kong and Sun Hung Kai against New Era, New World, and Henderson.

Now it seems that the New Era Group has the last laugh.

Li Chaoren was also very depressed, he had studied the bidding documents in advance, and felt that the consortium led by the new era would definitely pursue high-priced bidding; In this way, it means that they are missing out on the bidding because of cost considerations in terms of environmental protection and transportation. But now it has been proved that he is too careful to peep at Lin Zuhui's thoughts.

"This son showed up and stole too much of my business. And now, it is far better than me, hey, providence! Li Chaoren could only sigh.

Back in the 80s, when he won the management of Hutchison Whampoa, he was the leader of the merchants of Heung Kong. But since the nineties, Lin Zuhui's complete rise has made him lose a lot.

Of course, Li Chaoren also has advantages in many industries, such as ports, retail, electricity, infrastructure, etc.

But Lin Zuhui has now become a real world businessman, and his influence in that place in the United States is too great, and this is where Li Chaoren is far from it.

A few sad and a few happy.

Lin Zuhui, Cheng Yutong, Lee Shau Kee and others came to his yacht to celebrate.

Zheng Yutong said convincingly: "Thanks to Ah Hui personally grabbing the bid, otherwise I would have really missed it!" ”

Lee Shau Kee nodded, to be honest, he was still a little 'afraid' of Lin Zuhui, so as long as he could cooperate with the New Era Group, he would abandon his old friend company, Sun Hung Kai. In short, join if you can't beat it.

Moreover, Lin Zuhui also gave everyone some pressure, after all, he has abundant funds, is talented, intelligent, and knows how to plan; If it weren't for Lin Zuhui's great importance to the overseas market and the mainland market, Xiangjiang would not be enough for others to occupy.

Indeed, in recent years, Lin Zuhui has also controlled the hegemony of funds and invested more funds in Europe, the United States and the mainland. Of course, it's not that he is soft-hearted, but that Europe and the United States have opportunities, and it is beneficial to go ahead of time. Assuming that there are few opportunities in Europe and the United States, he can only be domineering in Xiangjiang.

For example, this time, Lin Zuhui only won one Central Station for the development rights of each station along the subway line, but the equity is a bit too much. The other stations are covered with symbolic bids. Also at the official land auction at the beginning of this year, the New Era Group also shrank and spent more than 2 billion yuan to win a piece of land.

In addition to participating in 25% of the Central Station (the entire project investment is about 45 billion Hong Kong dollars), Henderson also participated in the bidding section of Tung Chung Station with New World, Sun Hung Kai, Swire and Hang Lung. At the beginning of the year, Lee Shau Kee also sent his son to win more than 6 billion Hong Kong dollars of official land at the official land auction.

Lin Zuhui said with a smile: "Although Li Chaoren is a senior, he is a living target. I know his temperament, and I must want to win by surprise, but unfortunately I am not the Jardine of the year, so I was not so fooled. ”

To be honest, before the bidding, Zheng Yutong and Lee Shau-kee were a little suspicious of him, thinking why they didn't raise the bid price to 3 billion and use the main land transportation. After all, it has always been a tradition in Hong Kong that there are many high bidders, and the Hong Kong government intends to crack down on the monopolistic nature of international container terminals.

It wasn't until yesterday that the Hong Kong government spokesman finished speaking that the two secretly lamented that they were short-sighted.

Fortunately, everyone has always been accustomed to Lin Zuhui as the leader. As far as the Asia Container Terminals Company is concerned, Lin Zuhui is known as the shareholder with the largest contribution because he has won four terminals in the mainland. Including Port Felisdu, which was also bought by Lin Zuhui from the Dong family.

Everyone laughed, Lin Zuhui is really the conqueror of Li Chaoren, which is recognized in Xiangjiang.

Zheng Yutong thought of something, and immediately asked, "What do you think of Container Nine?" ”

Kwai Chung is left with one last container terminal, and there will be results this year. In fact, as early as 1992, Container Terminal 9 was awarded two Asian containers, one international container, and one modern container.

However, with the refutation of the mainland officials and the fact that it was privately granted, it caused a lot of public opinion, so it was not calculated.

Lin Zuhui thought for a moment and said, "Maybe the distribution method last time will be maintained!" ”

There are already two Kwai Chung berths in the mainland, as well as a joint venture equity in Pier 1, and the inland port also has a 30% stake this time, which will hardly be blocked anymore.

The important thing is that China and Britain are almost in trouble, and they have no energy to make trouble. Britain is going to pack its bags and get out, and the mainland has to prepare to take over Xiangjiang, and at this time, the importance of Xiangjiang's chaebol is reflected.

In this election of Xiangjiang Special District, Lin Zuhui must support Dong and follow the mainland officials! Of course, it wasn't Lin Zuhui who came up with his eyes, but Mr. Dong and the Xinshe canvassing had already been pulled to his door, so he had to save face.

Dong Ma, ability, in fact, he is not to blame, who called Xiangjiang to the Asian financial crisis!

The main reason is that Wu Xinshu is a little 'positive' (supporting Fei Li Lao and moving department stores), so Lin Zuhui hopes that Xiangjiang will be peaceful and fully supports Dong. Of course, Li Chaoren also supports Dong, everyone is from Guangdong Province, and they usually play together!

Lin Zuhui has broken away from a wealthy class and has become an existence similar to South Korea's Samsung chaebol, and even he is more NB than the Korean chaebol, mainly because Xiangjiang is a free port, and Lin Zuhui's funds are not subject to the supervision and restrictions of the Hong Kong government, and he can be transferred as he wants. South Korea's chaebols need to collude with the government, but in Xiangjiang, Lin Zuhui does not need to curry favor with government officials (there is a fund, but it is not a curry-eye).

Zheng Yutong said: "In this way, we have five Kwai Chung container berths, which is not much weaker than modern containers!" ”

Assuming this arrangement, Li Chaoren's international containers still account for 6% of Kwai Chung Terminal, and Modern Containers and Asian containers account for about the same proportion, which is the coming and going of 100 million berths.

"It's okay!"

Everyone raised their glasses in celebration.

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The development period for a PC game is about 10 months or more, and the PC game "Legends" (stand-alone version) developed by Ninth City took two years to launch.

In fact, this is not the backward technology of the ninth city, but that "Legend" is an online game, and the stand-alone version is derived from the later stage. In addition, because this game was personally explained by Lin Zuhui, he asked for a full world view and delicate character portrayal, that is, the background story should be paid attention to.

The reason why a stand-alone version was released first was also to consider occupying the copyright first, so as not to collide with the Korean stick.

Lin Zuhui came to the ninth city of the Media Building to personally experience the PC game "Legend" on the computer, which is an ARPG stand-alone game, mainly to experience 'role-playing', to achieve the fun of leveling up, upgrading equipment, and fighting monsters.

"When will the online version be released?" Lin Zuhui asked with concern.

At the moment, there is no real graphic online game in the world, and if you can grab this sign, it will be a good advertisement for the ninth city.

It's not that there were no online games before, but that previous online games appeared in words, and Legend was going to be the first online game to appear in graphics.

"It is expected to be tested in the second half of the year and officially launched in the first half of next year!"

Lin Zuhui nodded, he didn't rush it, the graphics online game is a large number of people, and it must be technically difficult. Although the ninth city has absorbed overseas talent, this may be the first graphic online game after all.

Of course, "Legend 1" is only an experimental version, and there are better versions to follow. Even, the version of "Legend 1" will only run in Xiangjiang.

The follow-up "Legend of Blood" will open up the market in the mainland and overseas.

"Well, to make a boutique, don't be in a hurry!" Lin Zuhui admonished.

Goklin nodded and said, "No problem, with Activision Blizzard, we have also learned a lot!" ”

Activision Blizzard is also Lin Zuhui's company, so it is normal for the two companies to communicate with each other.

In fact, there are a lot of new games developed in Ninth City recently, such as card games, board games, etc.; Once these games are successfully developed, they can be sold on the mainland through Kingsoft without having to worry about losing money.

The same is true for Netflix software, which is backed by the big market of the mainland, and it is still not worried.

It's just that there is too much piracy in the mainland, and it won't take long to make money, and piracy will be rampant, and there will be no money, but it's better than not having this market.

Of course, if the product is good, it can naturally be sold overseas, and the rate of return will be very high. For example, the development of "Resident Evil" and "Pokémon" have exceeded one million sales, and the net profit is about 200 million Hong Kong dollars.

Lin Zuhui carefully inspected the "Legend" project in the ninth city, and saw the familiar Beechcraft City, Shabak, and multi-hooked cats, which were deeply memorable, as if returning to the time when he was in an Internet café in his previous life.

As time goes by, some things in my past life are about to become memories buried in my heart, and I always have a sense of intimacy when I think about and meet them occasionally.

Walking out of the media building, Lin Zuhui looked back, and a sense of pride arose in his heart. In this building, there are already more than 500 software practitioners, which will lay a solid foundation for the software industry in Hong Kong.

Once Mr. Dong ascends to the throne, Lin Zuhui will persuade him to develop Heungjiang's software industry and carry out an all-round layout.

In fact, in the past few years, through communication with the British government and universities in Hong Kong, Lin Zuhui has increased the number of information technology talents in Hong Kong by about 30%, and about 2,000 people will graduate in this field every year after 1999. In Hong Kong, English is one of the official languages, which is also suitable for the development of the IT industry.

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At the end of March, after the delivery of the Nikkei index, the Bank of Bahrain made another $150 million gain, and since it was acquired by Octopus Financial Group in February last year, the Bank of Bahrain has recouped $700 million in the Nikkei index. It is equivalent to recovering half of the more than $1.4 billion lost in the 'Lisson incident'.

And, of course, there's Octopus Bank, which earned a whopping $1.6 billion on the Nikkei index last year.

In any case, the previous losses of the Bank of Bahrain have nothing to do with the Octopus Financial Group, which is equivalent to Lin Zuhui's financial group making a big profit of 2.3 billion US dollars in the early days of the year, which can be called an NB incident in the financial industry.

At this time, the Nikkei index had risen to 21,300 points, and after thinking about it, Lin Zuhui asked the Bank of Bahrain to stop investing in the Nikkei.

Moreover, I will not invest in the Nikkei index for at least more than a year, until before the Asian financial crisis (around June), and then short-sell the Nikkei index.

The reason is actually very simple, as far as Lin Zuhui knows, throughout the nineties, the Nikkei index could not be too high; In particular, the Singapore index has been falling since February, which has given Lin Zuhui a wake-up call.

That is, the entire Asian financial crisis has begun to warm up, except for Xiangjiang, which suddenly plummeted because everyone officially broke out. In other words, there are already many signs in Southeast Asia, such as the tightening of real estate loans by the Bank of Thailand, the intervention of the Singapore government, and so on.

The principle of not earning the last copper plate made Lin Zuhui decide to stop speculating on the Nikkei.

Even in the second half of last year, his woman and company sold a large number of property assets in Southeast Asia to cash out.

Octopus Bank Building.

In the conference room, the senior management of Octopus Financial Group gathered together, and more than a dozen core executives were waiting for Lin Zuhui to preside over the meeting.

Today's Octopus Financial Group is huge, with four major business segments: commercial banking, investment banking, securities and insurance.

Now the deposits have reached more than 200 billion yuan, about 50% of the Bank of China and about 30% of HSBC, and it has become the fourth largest bank in Hong Kong after Hang Seng Bank, that is to say, it has surpassed the Bank of East Asia.

The investment banking business is based on the acquisition of the Bank of Bahrain in the past year, which was originally mainly engaged in Europe, America and Africa; After joining Octopus Financial Group, he immediately developed in Asia and grew his business rapidly.

In the securities business, Octopus itself is a securities company established by Octopus, which spent 700 million yuan this year to acquire Sun Hung Kai Securities and Finance Company of the Feng Jingxi family; Feng Yongxiang intended to go to Australia for development, so he took the initiative to sell the Heung Kong business to Lin Zuhui.

The insurance business is not developing much at present, and there is only one small insurance company with assets worth hundreds of millions.

Overall, a solid foundation has been laid.

Lim said: "Bank of Bahrain is now officially invested in Octopus Financial Group, becoming one of the four major businesses. Octopus Bank, on the other hand, will become a pure commercial bank and will be ready to go public at the end of the year or early next year......."

He talked about the group's general policy, and everyone listened attentively. Although this boss doesn't care much about the affairs of the financial group, it doesn't mean that he is a good lake. On the contrary, the various systems of the financial group are very perfect, and Lin Zuhui is good at 'finding faults', so everyone is also 'Alexander'.

After Lin Zuhui finished speaking, the major high-level leaders joined the discussion, and he listened carefully to his opinions on the side, but rarely expressed his opinions. After a meeting, Octopus Financial Group has made a lot of progress.

He also knew that the development of Octopus Financial Group was limited, after all, without the backing of the state, Octopus Bank could only be a regional bank. Of course, this does not mean that Octopus Bank will not go overseas, in fact, Octopus Bank has already carried out business in the mainland, the United States, and Southeast Asia, and has acquired a US commercial bank and obtained a commercial bank license.

Still, who's going to put their money in you compared to the big American banks; And in the United States, you don't dare to use high interest rates to absorb deposits, which is easy to trigger the law. Therefore, we can only play the 'Chinese card' and absorb some deposits and loans.

The best way for a commercial bank to develop is to take a stake in a foreign-funded bank. For example, South Korea after the financial crisis, and mainland bank IPOs.

Of course, Octopus Bank has a great advantage, that is, the proportion of 'bad debts' will be much lower than that of other businesses.

After the meeting, Lam Cho Fai left the president of Octopus Bank, Ho Cheong Hung.

"From now on, there will be more scrutiny of loans, especially to increase the value of collateral."

He Changhong was stunned for a moment, thinking that the boss would not bring it up for no reason, so he asked tentatively: "The boss is worried about the economic ..... of Jiuqi Xiangjiang."

Lin Zuhui waved his hand and said, "Don't talk nonsense! Just do it without leaving a trace, especially for real estate loans, and increase the proportion of mortgages. ”

He Changhong nodded, thinking about it, the boss is a representative of Xiangjiang, but it can't make people feel that they are looking at the economy of Xiangjiang.

"No problem, I'll pay attention to the scale!"

Lin Zuhui nodded, he is saying this now, and in the second half of the year, he will intervene again, directly stop the kind of personal mortgage loans of more than 70%, and then tighten the real estate developers.

He doesn't have to worry about what others will see, because firstly it is difficult to be discovered, and secondly, when he is crazy, others will not believe him.