Back in Xiangjiang, it is already mid-May, and the real estate in Xiangjiang has entered the final stage of madness, and various records have been refreshed wildly:

The 330 residential units in East Point City, Tseung Kwan O, received more than 27,000 registrations within three days, breaking the record for the highest number of registered subscriptions in the history of Hong Kong, with 88 times oversubscribed and frozen funds of HK$9.5 billion.

The Entertainment Building was sold for HK$3.96 billion, with a unit price of HK$22,000 per square foot, setting a new record for office sales.

In early March, Sino Land and the Wong family, the majority shareholder of Sino Land, won a non-industrial site in Siu Sai Wan, Chai Wan at a high price of 11.82 billion, setting a record for the auction of official land in Hong Kong (excluding bidding items).

The British government in Hong Kong, which is facing retreat, sold two plots of land in Stanley, Jute Road Gold and Wan Hoi Street, Kowloon at a price of 5.5 billion and 6.06 billion respectively.

Crazy real estate records have been refreshed, and the real estate market in Xiangjiang seems to have entered the highest peak.

With such a good market, the shipment of New Era Group is naturally a tailwind, and the price is very ideal.

For example, the cost price of the four buildings acquired in the late 80s was only 1 billion Hong Kong dollars, and the total investment was only more than 3 billion Hong Kong dollars. But now, the four buildings have sold a total of 10.8 billion Hong Kong dollars, which can be described as a huge profit.

The same is true for the entertainment building, when the 87 stock market crash, he was only worth 400 million Hong Kong dollars, and then the reconstruction cost 500 million Hong Kong dollars, the total cost was only 900 million Hong Kong dollars, and the sale of 3.96 billion Hong Kong dollars, the increase is so big that people are staggering;

Within five months, New Era Group cashed out 5 buildings, 3 shopping malls (2 more are ready for sale), and 3 mid-levels luxury residential projects (and 1 May Road is in preparation), making a profit of nearly 30 billion;

At the same time, the New Era Group almost did not receive anything at the official land auction;

There are various signs that the New Era Group is 'bearish' on the Xiangjiang property market, and for a while, the media have reacted and began to report on the actions of the New Era Group.

When New Era Group announced that it would acquire a 16.3% stake in Vale in Brazil at a price of HK$10.2 billion and enter the field of mineral investment, the Hong Kong media was in an uproar.

A group of media wanted to inquire about the news, and finally Chen Bin, president of New Era Group, came forward and accepted a simple interview.

It's still a cliché:

"For New Era Group, Heung Kong is too small, so it is inevitable to seek global investment."

"Judging from the previous overseas investment projects of New Era Group, there is no doubt that they have been very successful."

"Heung Kong remains the base camp of the New Era Group and the Group has no intention of reducing its investment. Taking IFC as an example, the entire project investment is as high as 46 billion Hong Kong dollars, and New Era Group accounts for 6% of the shares, which alone is huge. and Cyberport's investment."

Although there are some loopholes, the prefecture and city of Xiangjiang still go their own way, and they have not been reined in because of the abnormal behavior of the New Era Group. What's more, in the eyes of some people, the New Era Group is just 'not chasing high'.

New Era Group.

Chen Xiaofen came to Lin Zuhui's office to report on the work.

"Boss, sell 1 May Road later this month, leaving two of the best units."

Leaving the two largest and best units, of course, Lin Zuhui wants to keep them for later use, including the second block of Diligan De Court, leaving two top-floor duplex units.

The other two mid-levels luxury residential projects did not leave any residential units, and all of them were sold out.

Lin Zuhui nodded and said with satisfaction: "It's progressing well!" What about other residential projects? ”

"The situation is also very good, and by the end of June, I am confident that 5,000 residential units will be sold, which is 80% of the sales target for the whole year," Chen said. ”

In fact, there is such a situation in Hong Kong: In May last year, the Hong Kong government released a message that during the period from January 1994 to May 1996, 62 residential properties were approved by the government for the sale of uncompleted properties, providing more than 40,000 residential units, but as of May 1996, only 40% were launched on the market, and the remaining 60% of the units were either not launched or kept for internal subscription.

In other words, many real estate developers may have a situation where the real estate is not for sale, and they hold it in their hands to collect rent, or choose the opportunity to resell.

Now that the market is so good, New Era Group doesn't care so much, and the completion of 5,000 residential units in the first half of the year is obviously 'dumping' (6,200 residential units are planned for the whole year).

Of course, there is a big gap in the Xiangjiang property market today, even if tens of thousands of residential units are launched, they can also be digested. If it weren't for the financial crisis in Southeast Asia, the bubble in Hong Kong would not have burst so quickly.

Lin Zuhui thought for a while and said: "This progress is okay, but we will strive to sell another 1,200 in July and August, and strive to complete this year's goal ahead of schedule." ”

Chen Xiaofen has already guessed some of the boss's thoughts, probably because the boss thinks that the Xiangjiang property market is rising too fast and is about to enter an adjustment period, so it was sold out in advance. Of course, as for the collapse of the financial crisis, even Lin Zuhui's closest people would not guess it.

"No problem!"

After Chen Xiaofen left, Lin Zuhui showed a smile, and it felt so good to know the trend of history.

New Era Group not only cashed out office buildings, shops, and residences at a high level, but even the rent has been striving to sign long-term contracts in the past year, of course, they are trying to sign long-term contracts, which is not mandatory.

Media Building.

Lin Zuhui sat in the office and listened to the work reports of the presidents of the four subsidiaries of Wanhui Media Group, and he was very satisfied with the results.

At present, Wanhui Media has four major businesses, namely: media, animation, games, and software.

Although the paper media in Xiangjiang collapsed after the 'media war' in 1995, Wanhui Media is still the largest media group in Xiangjiang, with many best-selling print media, such as "Tian Tian Daily", the second best-selling professional newspaper "Economic Daily", "Ming Pao" for intellectuals, and "Men's Wear" for best-selling magazines.

In the animation department, with four big IP Japanese comics and new best-selling comics, Wanhui Comics has become famous in the world, and has also driven the transformation and progress of the entire Xiangjiang comic industry.

The game department has produced a number of classic works, including: "Pokémon" series, "Resident Evil" series, "Legend", "Age of Empires", etc., and the entire game department has as many as 500 employees, becoming a very famous game company in the world.

The software department has grown even more powerfully, with 1,000 employees at present, and in addition to developing software, it has also carried out outsourcing business.

When Luo Bencheng, the president of the comics division, finished reporting his work, Lin Zuhui handed him a piece of paper and said: "Someone gave me an idea and hoped that Wanhui Comics would complete it into a complete work, and you can organize a project team." ”

Luo Bencheng was ecstatic in his heart, you must know that Wanhui Comics can have today's results, and the four big IPs hand-picked by the boss are absolutely important. Although, in recent years, there have also been some good works and some achievements overseas, but the four major IPs are god-like existences, although these four IPs are also divided into big and small gods.

"No problem, now we have a lot of talents, and local talents are enough to complete it!" Luo Bencheng said confidently.

Lin Zuhui nodded, he also knew that Xiangjiang had flocked to many local 'Japanese comic style' chief writers in recent years, especially the three consecutive IP works, all of which had joined the local chief writers and screenwriters. These three major IPs have a characteristic, that is, the place of distribution, that is, it is issued in the name of the studio, and it does not highlight a certain person, and it is also considering that the Japanese chief writer suddenly collapsed, of course, there has been no dispute yet, probably those Japanese main writers also know that Wanhui Media just let them work from the beginning.

Luo Bencheng looked at the information on the paper and suddenly fell into it.

"Death Note, mystery comics"

There is not a lot of information, and Lin Zuhui doesn't want to rack his brains to recall "Death Note", so he just has a general style; Whether it can surpass the original work of the previous life is not so important, the important thing is to take this IP for yourself.

Finally, Lin Zuhui said: "The core focus is still on the serialization of "Detective Conan", "Pokemon", and "One Piece", these three big IPs are enough for us to eat for a hundred years, so we have to pay attention to them." ”

The surrounding area of the animation industry is too big, what theatrical versions, movies, figures, toys, T-shirts, etc., Wanhui Comics' annual net profit is as high as about 1.5 billion Hong Kong dollars, which is still the reason for rampant piracy.

Luo Bencheng nodded and said, "Okay!" ”

Next, coming in is the gaming division, Ninth City President Gao Kelin.

In the United States, there are only twenty or thirty people in a game studio, and there are 500 people in the ninth city. Of course, many of them are fresh graduates from Xiangjiang, and the ninth city is just recruiting for training.

There are many people, but they are not idle, there are a lot of tasks in the ninth city, and there are also a lot of projects; In order to better sales, the company divides the game department into two departments: console/handheld game department and PC game department; And under the two departments, there are many working groups.

"Boss, the sales of "Age of Empires" in the United States have exceeded 1.3 million, and the total global sales volume is 3 million units."

Lin Zuhui said in a good mood: "Okay, this result is better than the brother company Blizzard Entertainment's "Warcraft"!" ”

Gao Klin nodded and said: "The growth rate is indeed faster than that of Warcraft, but the pricing is quite different, but I believe that the global sales must be much higher than that of Warcraft." ”

Lin Zuhui nodded, he has four companies that develop games, namely: Kingsoft (auxiliary business) in the mainland, Blizzard Entertainment, Activision, and Ninth City.

Among them, Blizzard Entertainment is still the development trend of the previous life, the "Warcraft" series, the "Diablo" series, and the "StarCraft" series;

Activision, Lin Zuhui added "Counter-Strike", "The Sims", and especially "The Sims", the number one selling PC game in the previous life, to this company, and it is said that all versions have sold hundreds of millions of copies.

Kingsoft Software, under the suggestion of Jingwei Capital, Rebus established a game business department, and successively developed "Zhongguancun Apocalypse" and "Sword and Fairy".

There are so many games being developed in the Ninth City, Age of Empires entered the development stage in 1995, and was officially released in the United States through Activision last Christmas. Since then, it has been released in Japan, Mainland China, South Korea, Xiangjiang and other regions.

This game, which should have belonged to Microsoft, was cut off by Lin Zuhui.

"How's the online version of Legends going?" Lin Zuhui asked again.

As early as last year, "Legend" has been released on PC, aiming to grab the copyright first. The reason for the current network speed limit of the online version has been working hard to advance.

Lin Zuhui remembers that in his previous life, the world's first online game "Network Genesis" appeared this year.

"It was officially released this summer, but this version is a bit rough and very different from the quality of PC Legends. But don't worry, boss, the version of "Legend" will continue to be updated until it reaches the state you said! ”

Lin Zuhui said with satisfaction: "Very good, let's get a rough test of the water first, and then slowly update the version later!" ”

"Yes, many technologies have not yet been implemented, but we already have a plan, so we are very confident in being the world's leading game developer!"

Technologies such as siege, monster killing, PK, and thousands of people online will indeed be difficult to achieve for a while; However, in recent years, network technology has developed rapidly, and the previous life "Legend 1" appeared at the end of 1998. Of course, the really famous is "Legend 2", which was officially opened in 2000.

Lin Zuhui said: "Yes, we have 500 R&D personnel, and we must make full use of it. Online multiplayer online games are a major trend in the game industry in the future, so we need to maintain a world leading position in this regard."

In this life, he must stop the development trend of Korean games, and make Kim Dae-jong's so-called 'cultural country' a 'joke'. At the very least, the mainland will act as an agent for Hong Kong's online games.

"Well, we divide the R&D staff into a 'studio' model and implement an internal incentive model, and I believe that we will definitely create more and more classic games."

In fact, Goklin was curious and hadn't submitted the game to his boss yet, because the idea was so good. For example, in "Legend", although many technologies have not yet been realized, he believes that in two years at most, all technologies should be realized.

After Gao Kelin left, Lin Zuhui wrote "Miracle MU" on paper, but unfortunately, he only played Legend back then, and he didn't play much of this game. However, Lin Zuhui didn't plan to rely on himself in the first place.

His idea is that since 1998, Ninth City has developed at least five online games at the same time, including "Legend of Blood" and "Miracle MU", and the other three have been independently developed by the company.

After the turn of the millennium, games such as "Audition", "Island-of-Adventure", "Go-Kart", "Dungeons & Warriors", and "CrossFire" will be developed in turn.

Of course, Lin Zuhui is not confident in his memory, but in the strength accumulated in the game in the ninth city. For these games, even if they have been played for a period of time, they always have a broken memory and can only be used as a reference for the R&D team.

The advantages of the ninth city are that the graphics are beautiful (inheriting the drawing skills of Wanhui Comics), the technology is strong (accumulated over the years), and the distribution channels are wide (Activision is a large game publisher, and Kingsoft is also an agent in the mainland).

Finally, at the beginning of 1998, Heung Kong listed "cultural port" as a major policy, which will also bring greater development opportunities to Heung Kong's game industry.

The last president to report was Liu Songcheng, president of Netflix Software.

The reason why Netflix has thousands of employees is because Netflix Software has entered the 'software foundry' mode, and at the same time, Netflix Software has also developed a large number of software, such as ICQ, stock trading software, music software, Sitong smart card system, and YAHOO (Xiangjiang), Netflix Software also does enterprise Internet services to help enterprises open Internet services.

In short, Lin Zuhui is not worried that raising so many people will lose money, just one ICQ software is currently worth 800 million US dollars!

In fact, Netflix not only does not lose money, but makes good profits.

It has just signed a large contract of 150 million yuan with the smart card company under the subway company, that is, the 'smart payment system' contract. At the same time, this business can also develop overseas and the mainland, which is a big cake.

After listening to Liu Songcheng's report, Lin Zuhui said with satisfaction: "The development is good!" By the way, I plan to make a portal for the Greater China region, to provide overseas global information on "knowing China", and to provide "Chinese fashion life" and e-commerce services for the global Chinese in Greater China and overseas Chinese-speaking communities, including tourism, culture, science, academics, art, fashion, games, news, sports, entertainment and other projects You prepare the project team first, I hope the product can be launched next year! ”

ALTHOUGH YAHOO'S BUSINESS IN XIANGJIANG IS MANAGED BY NETFLIX SOFTWARE, IT IS SOMEONE ELSE'S WEBSITE AFTER ALL; MOREOVER, YAHOO WILL NOT BE ABLE TO HAND OVER ITS MAINLAND BUSINESS TO NETFLIX AGENTS IN THE FUTURE, SO IT STILL HAS TO HAVE ITS OWN PORTAL IN GREATER CHINA.

Liu Songcheng knows that the boss is the giant of the Internet, and behind many well-known Internet in the United States, there is the investment of the boss. Therefore, he was not surprised at all by the boss's vigorous development of Xiangjiang's information technology industry, but was very happy.

"Okay, I'll start preparing right away!"

Lin Zuhui nodded and said, "Don't be in a hurry, I plan to go public again at the beginning of next year, and I should be well prepared; This website is called Sina, and you first went to the mainland, Taiwan and other Greater China regions to register domain names. ”

Grab a name first!

"Okay"

Lin Zuhui nodded, more than half a year of preparation time is enough, and the strength of Netflix software is far from being comparable to mainland enterprises.

In fact, Lin Zuhui is not interested in the benefits of the portal, but he needs to lead the development of Heungjiang's information technology industry. Of course, if he robbed Li Chaoren of the opportunity of TOM network in his previous life, Lin Zuhui himself would be very happy.

Moreover, Sina.com is oriented to the Greater China region (there is no problem with mainland policies), and if it is listed, it can also harvest a lot of wealth, which can be used as a driving fund to drive the development of Xiangjiang's information technology industry.

Netflix will undoubtedly become a world-class information technology giant, and InstantMessenger ICQ is also one of its signboards.

(End of chapter)