Wednesday, July 18.

On Hong Kong Island, the 'Two International Finance Centre Tower' in the 'IFC' in Central is full of joy and is holding a 'topping out ceremony'.

Up to now, only two hotel towers have not yet been topped out of the fourth phase of the IFC project.

There are a total of five properties in the IFC, which are:

IFC Shopping Mall, which opened in 1998, is home to more than 200 international brand merchants with a property of over 800,000 square feet, making it the most visited place in Hong Kong Central.

The first phase of IFC Tower, with 38 floors high and 4 underground floors, has a property area of more than 800,000 square feet, and is a pure office building. Mainly leased by financial institutions, it has 4 trading floors for large financial institutions to rent, with a total of 18 elevators, divided into 4 service areas, and it is estimated that about 5,000 people work here every day. One IFC, which has major tenants including the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and the Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes Authority, opened in early 2000 and is currently 99% occupied.

The second phase of IFC Tower, with 88 floors high and 6 underground floors, is equipped with a sightseeing tower on top, with a total height of 515 meters and a floor height of 418 meters, with a property area of more than 1.8 million square feet. It is expected that it will be commissioned in 2002.

The remaining two properties, 'Four Seasons Hotel' and 'Four Seasons Place (Hotel Serviced Apartments', will also be topped out this year and are expected to open by the end of 2003.

At the ceremony, it was either a dignitary, or a wealthy businessman or a celebrity.

"Fourth uncle, are you sure you won't move Henderson to the second phase of the IFC and be our neighbors?" Lin Zuhui said to Li Zhaoji with a smile.

At this time, he was not ashamed that the fourth uncle's daughter-in-law was gone, after all, there are so many women, Li Jiacheng can just find it again.

If you still look up to Xu Ziqi, it doesn't matter, Lin Zuhui has played, on the contrary, the noble component should be higher, which of the girlfriends he got rid of in front of him was not robbed by the rich and celebrities.

Who hasn't had a past?

The higher the status, the more they care about the other party itself, only those at the bottom of the society will care too much, because they may also be part of tens of millions of singles, or they will still become pick-up heroes.

Take a closer look at the rich people, they want to find an 18-year-old virgin, I'm afraid they won't win, but others like the same level, such as Luo Kangrui winning to marry Zhu Lingling, who has been secretly in love for decades, and Liu Luanxiong has been a female lawyer, Zheng Jiachun can still see it.

In the same way, Lin Zuhui also has this - Guan Jiahui and Lin Zixia, but Lin Zuhui has never had a pimple in his heart, and he has never even remembered it.

Li Zhaoji shook his head with a smile and said, "The first phase of the IFC Building is very good!" ”

IFC Tower II is a sweet spot, after all, it can be called the world's tallest building (not counting the sightseeing tower), but there is no doubt that it is currently the tallest building in Hong Kong.

Based on this significance, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority has been thinking of buying a total of 14 floors of the property this year, and testing the lease of 88 floors.

Any move is indeed a little inflated, and it is precisely because of his character that I believe he will be in trouble in the future.

Of course, for any of the requests, Lin Zuhui directly refused. The rent-collecting properties of the New Era Group will not be considered for sale, and as for the issue of leasing the 88th floor, there is no need to say this, where must it be his office.

In the end, he had to lease the 71st~79th floors as his office and the offices of the HKMA and related departments.

The 80~88 floors are the headquarters of the New Era Group, which is something that almost everyone thinks of.

Any trick likes luxury, this is his nature, otherwise he would not lease 9 floors of office buildings at one time.

"Lin Sheng, congratulations!" One of the moves stepped forward to say hello.

Lin Zuhui said with a smile: "Mr. Ren is polite, thank you for the support of the HKMA to the IFC, and our two families will be neighbors in the future." ”

Someone laughed and quipped: "Both of you are a trillion club, which adds up, but it's amazing!" ”

This is not wrong, although the market value of New Era Group is now more than 800 billion, its net assets have already exceeded one trillion Hong Kong dollars. The foreign exchange managed by the HKMA is actually more than US$110 billion, but it is equivalent to the 'central bank' of Xiangjiang, and it is not wrong to barely enter the trillion club.

Ren Zhao said modestly: "The money of the HKMA belongs to the citizens of Hong Kong, and we are just managing it on our behalf." The New Era Group is the real trillion club. ”

"Haha, New Era Group is also hundreds of thousands of shareholders!"

Although Lin Zuhui is very modest, the people around him undoubtedly dare not take it seriously.

All Xiangjiang people know that Lin Zuhui's wealth is the sum of the top ten on the Xiangjiang Rich List (excluding himself), which is much more, which undoubtedly shows one thing, everyone together is not enough for Lin Zuhui to beat.

For example, although the market value of the company managed by Li Chaoren is nearly 500 billion, neither Hutchison Whampoa nor HK Electric will be included in his wealth, because it belongs to all the shareholders of Cheung Kong. Li Chaoren's shareholding in Changshi is only 38%, and Changshi is currently only more than 150 billion, so Li Chaoren's net worth is more than 60 billion.

The three Sun Hung Kai brothers were robbed of many projects by Lin Zuhui, although the shareholding in Sun Hung Kai is relatively high, but the market value of Sun Hung Kai is only more than 120 billion, and the net worth of the three brothers is only about 60 billion.

In fact, Lin Zuhui's high net worth is mainly due to the huge overseas assets and business of his company, which is incomparable to everyone. Otherwise, the small Xiangjiang will support the world's richest man.

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Back to the company.

Sitting at his desk, Lin Zuhui looked at the stocks on his computer and found that the Hang Seng Index had fallen to the 14,000-point mark.

He decisively boarded Wang Lingyin's stock account, and then emptied all the stocks in it, about tens of millions.

This account was used by Lin Zuhui to play, not to make money, but just a thought in his previous life.

After the financial crisis, the Hong Kong stock market once exceeded 19,000 points, with a maximum of 19,500 points (before the Internet bubble crisis, that is, in March 2000), but unfortunately did not exceed 20,000 points.

Since then, it has been dragged down by the Internet bubble, the economic downturn in Europe and the United States, and the sluggish real estate in Hong Kong, and has now fallen to the 14,000 point mark.

According to this situation, it may fall to about 11,000 points at the end of September (affected by the 911 incident), so Lin Zuhui did not hesitate to sell his shares.

Recently, the Hang Seng Index has fallen every day, because of the drag of Xiangjiang real estate stocks.

Lin Zuhui leaned back in his chair and thought about things, although he has the blessing of the culture and technology industries, as well as the example of the New Era Group, but the economy of Xiangjiang will still remain unchanged in the past few years, and the GDP should be hovering back at 200 billion US dollars (less than 170 billion in the previous life).

However, after all, the cultural industry still has a lot of potential, games, software, the Internet, and technology have just begun to take off, and shipping has not yet exploded...... Therefore, once the SAS passes, the economy of Hong Kong will usher in a big explosion.

Unknowingly, Lin Zuhui brought in the identity of the chief housekeeper.

"Dongdong"

"Come in"

Yuan Tianfan and Morris walked into his office together, Lin Zuhui motioned for the two to sit down, and he also got up.

"I called the two of you this time in the hope that you will form a team to investigate the business and prospects of aircraft leasing, and then report back to me."

As the president of Times Shipping, Morris naturally has an understanding of this industry, so he said: "Is the boss planning to cargo, or passenger aircraft leasing?" ”

"I'm afraid it's a bit difficult to get freight, so let's think about aircraft leasing first, and it's best to start with an acquisition and buy the aircraft at the same time," said Lim. ”

New Era Group has a cash flow of more than 160 billion yuan on its books, and there are almost no new major projects in the past six months, in order to buy the bottom after the 911 incident.

Aircraft leasing, shipping companies, hotels, shopping malls, and office buildings are still the highlight of the bottom picking, and if there are other good projects, they will not be missed.

Yuan Tianfan said: "If you want to hurry, you can't reach it, first plane leasing, if you have the opportunity, maybe you can buy a freight company!" ”

Lin Zuhui nodded and said: "It is not necessarily a sole proprietorship, if this world wants to open up good industries in other countries, joint ventures are undoubtedly the best start." ”

Generally speaking, when acquiring a company, if it is a difficult company to acquire (involving political and other factors), an experienced team can consider investing in cooperation first, and then increase its shareholding when public opinion is not so big, and finally complete the holding.

Mainland companies tend to behave aggressively at first, so there are few examples of successful overseas acquisitions, which often cause some influence on local public opinion.

For example, the previous acquisition of Unocal, the ninth largest oil company in the United States, is a lesson from the past, and of course, as the acquirer, CNOOC's background (national capital) is also a big flaw.

Thinking of this, Lin Zuhui suddenly felt that New Era Group could try to enter the oil field.

At present, oil is only 26 US dollars per barrel, and after the 911 incident, oil will plummet; Importantly, oil will generally run above $60 in the future, and it will be as high as $90 a barrel before Lehman, and it will recover quickly after Lehman.

Yes, it's time to invest in the energy sector!

Remember, wait for the situation to understand, and then formally form the acquisition team.

For such an important acquisition, the team and timing are very important, and it is also necessary to hire a lobbying team from the United States to convince those congressmen, after all, if those congressmen make a big deal in the media, the takeover will be shot soon.

The timing is also very important, in the previous life, when CNOOC acquired it, the oil was already about 60 US dollars, and it was the summer vacation period; However, when Americans travel by car, they are naturally very worried about the safety and price of oil in the United States, so the people do not support it.

And if the American people think that oil is so cheap during the collapse of oil prices, they will naturally not care too much.

......

"Brother Hui, are you lying to me?" Xu Ziqi said pitifully.

At this time, the two came to the Furama Hotel suite, and it was Xu Ziqi who took the initiative to ask Lin Zuhui. Originally, the relationship between the two was good, and he gave this man the last good thing, but he didn't expect to learn from his parents that she was abandoned.

She was unwilling, so she quietly made an appointment with Lin Zuhui to make it clear in person.

Lin Zuhui sat on the sofa, he didn't feel Xu Ziqi's mood swings, he was very disgusted with Xu's mother, and Xu Ziqi listened to her mother too much, so he was also a little unhappy with Xu Ziqi.

Therefore, exposure and door explosion naturally happened.

"What am I lying to you for? The matter between the two of us is not approved by your parents, on the contrary, they are still calculating me, and you listen to them so much, so it's good to break up early. ”

Xu Ziqi wanted to ask a question - the two were suddenly exposed, was it intentional by Lin Zuhui, but he was worried that Lin Zuhui would be angry, so he didn't dare to bring it up. She still likes Lin Zuhui very much in her bones, but first, her parents have been teaching her, and second, Lin Zuhui refuses to give a formal arrangement.

"Didn't you say go with the flow?" Xu Ziqi looked at Lin Zuhui and said reluctantly.

"Your parents have both asked for guilt, how can you go with the flow. Miss Ziqi, since I became a listed company, few people have dared to play intrigue on my head, and your mother is the only one. I didn't bother them, it's already for your sake. Lin Zuhui said.

Actually, it's not that I didn't trouble Xu Dad and Xu Mom, didn't this also use some small tricks!

Xu Ziqi suddenly panicked, then approached Lin Zuhui and threw himself into Lin Zuhui's arms.

"Brother Hui, I'm sorry, I actually like you so much, I definitely didn't want to betray you."

"Silly girl, what is there to betray and not betray, you meet better, I'm happy for you, I'm not such a heartless person."

Lin Zuhui comforted that it is one thing to do, and it is one thing to talk about it.

He overestimated the little girl's IQ, Xu Ziqi was moved at this time, and then came up to ask for a kiss.

Soon, the two rolled together again.

The two warmed up for a while, and after Xu Ziqi recovered his strength, he left the hotel.

Lin Zuhui couldn't help but sigh, this woman is still good, that is, her mother not only calculates her own purse, but also wants to calculate Lin Zuhui's bottom line.

Come on, now he can't do it in vain in the future. Judging from Xu Ziqi's situation just now, she was a little fascinated.

.......

The Xu family.

Mother Xu looked at her daughter who came back and said, "Did you go to find Lin Zuhui?" ”

If it was before, Xu Ziqi, as a good girl, would naturally not lie.

At this time, she already had her own thoughts, so she said disdainfully: "I won't go to her, if it weren't for my mother, I wouldn't have looked down on him as a merry person." ”

Mother Xu was suddenly happy in her heart, and hurriedly said: "Good daughter, don't blame your mother, I didn't know that he was such a romantic rich man, but I didn't expect to spend a few days with you in a year." But don't worry, I won't do that again. The real estate company will not be yours in the future, and you and I have bought a full 400 million Hong Kong dollars of property. ”

Xu Ziqi was not stupid, and asked, "The real estate company is in trouble?" Your leverage is so high, and now you don't have Lin Zuhui's support! ”

Mother Xu said with a smile: "We have a way to do this, it's just a big deal to sell some properties, but the house in Xiangjiang will skyrocket sooner or later, and your net worth will be at least 500 million Hong Kong dollars in the future." Therefore, you can study hard with peace of mind, and if you can get to know the wealthy and noble, then you can try to get in touch. ”

"Got it!"

Mother Xu is very satisfied that her daughter is so obedient!

In fact, Xu Ma didn't know that the 'catastrophe was coming', and she might not be able to withstand the impact of the 911 incident and the SAS incident. In addition, she will also worry that Lin Zuhui deliberately set up, so it is very likely that the property will be greatly damaged.