Chapter 558

Just when the world was attracted by the moving appearance in the newspaper and geared up one by one, Zhang Zhonghua was once again at the airport, ready to start the next journey!

Zhang Zhonghua took off from the New York airport by plane, crossed the Atlantic, and flew all the way to London, the capital of the British capital, and brought a lot of gifts with him.

He bought a lot of gifts when he was in America, but most of these gifts were sent back to Hong Kong Island, and they were given to Uncle Lou and others who stayed on Hong Kong Island, and some Hong Kong Island bigwigs who had a good relationship!

In addition to the gifts sent back to Hong Kong Island, there are also a small number of remaining gifts, which are also brought with them to Duying!

After Zhang Zhonghua got off the plane, he took the car of this branch to the castle in the suburbs of London, which he had arranged for someone to buy a castle before.

Zhang Zhonghua's car was driving on the streets of London, and he looked at the main urban area of Duying on the side of the street for hundreds of years, and he was very emotional, and the protection of the Duying city was indeed good, and many of the buildings here are hundreds of years old.

Then Zhang Zhonghua thought of the hot summer after the 80s, when the city was changing with each passing day, a large number of ancient buildings were basically demolished, and all of them were covered with high-rise buildings......

Thinking of this, Zhang Zhonghua smiled and shook his head, the national conditions of the two countries are completely different, there is nothing to compare with at all, the country has developed too rapidly since the eighties, and in a few decades, it has completed the development process of Western countries for hundreds of years.

Excessively high-speed economic and urban construction will inevitably lose something! There are gains and losses, Zhang Zhonghua believes that the gains outweigh the losses!

The Duying is completely different, they have been slowly developed over hundreds of years, and these ancient architectural styles are relatively well preserved, which is also normal!

Soon Zhang Zhonghua came to the door of his castle and stepped out of the car!

"Mr. Zhang Zhonghua, welcome home."

Anna, the housekeeper of the castle, said enthusiastically, this is a professional housekeeper found by the company here, in his thirties, plump, medium-looking, graduated from the housekeeper college!

"Hello, Anna, thank you for your hard work, Xiaobao is okay lately, and what about Xiaoli's sister-in-law? Where did she go? ”

Zhang Zhonghua asked Mary.

"Sir, Young Master Xiaobao has been doing very well lately, he has done very well in school, and his grades are also very good, and he will go home for two days every weekend.

And Mrs. Liu Xiaoli is going out to travel, and Master Xiaobao is not at home at usual, so Mrs. often travels, but she should return tomorrow afternoon! ”

"Okay, you can buy more ingredients for Chinese food when the time comes, and I'll cook a good meal when they come home."

Zhang Zhonghua said to Anna with a smile.

"Understood, sir!"

After taking a shower, Zhang Zhonghua lay on the bed and began to think about the itinerary of the past few days in London, and he will go back to America in a few days, and there are still a lot of things waiting for him to deal with, it is really busy.

Early the next morning, after getting up early and having breakfast, Zhang Zhonghua took a car to the Jade Emperor Building in Canary to learn more about the group's development in Europe.

Canary Wharf has changed a lot in recent years, and London is not without changes, but it has changed relatively little in the old city, and many buildings that have been preserved for hundreds of years.

However, some areas that have developed relatively late are still demolished and demolished, and there are many more relatively high-rise buildings! These areas will also be full of high-rise buildings in the future!

For example, there are many buildings built here in Canary Wharf, and various subsidiaries of the Jade Emperor Group, including but not limited to the Jade Emperor Group, Asia Associated Press, Jade Emperor Star Island Newspaper, Jade Emperor Bank, Jade Emperor Electric, Jade Emperor Records, Carrefour Supermarket, CFC Restaurant and other companies, have all purchased their European headquarters buildings in Canary Wharf.

Not only that, the Jade Emperor Group has also purchased several buildings at Canary Wharf to serve as dormitories for employees of the various subsidiaries of the Jade Emperor Group.

The companies of the Jade Emperor Group are also in Canary Wharf, and the various subsidiaries plus the dormitory building and the warehouse cover an area of more than two square kilometers, within these two square kilometers, the people who see it are basically the employees of the Jade Emperor Group, and even the people in charge of regional security are responsible for the security of the Jade Emperor, and the police in London are also happy to be idle, their police force is not very enough, so the police in London do not come to this area very much, even if they come, they are here to bring people!

Don't look at the area of two square kilometers, it doesn't seem to be very large, and it is not in the core area of London, but this is the CBD of London in the future! It's like if you have two square kilometers of commercial land outside the 5th Ring Road of 49 City, and this land is still in the CBD, the value is absolutely astronomical!

And the entire Canary Wharf Canary Wharf is currently a total of 18 square kilometers, and the Jade Emperor Group directly occupies almost one-ninth of the Canary Wharf, even if it reaches 22 kilometers in the future, the Jade Emperor Group also occupies one-tenth of the area of Canary Wharf, a proper landlord.

Prior to the 80s, the British banned the construction of high-rise concrete buildings on both sides of the River Thames in order to preserve the architectural character of their city of London.

But then Margaret Thatcher, the Iron Lady, came to power and began to privatize the British, and after the privatization reform, skyscrapers were built one after another in the city of London.

Canary Wharf is the future of London's emerging CBD, even comparable to the traditional London financial center, many multinational company headquarters buildings are located in Canary Wharf, compared to the future of the European continent of the various countries in chaos, the lonely overseas although there are some chaos, but compared to the road of those bad things, this side is much better.

The future Canary Wharf has European offices of HSBC, Citibank, Barclays, Bank of England, Standard Chartered, JPMorgan Chase, and Bank of China. Media giants such as The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, Reuters and The Mirror have also set up camp here.

World-renowned hotels such as Four Seasons, Marriott, Fraser Palace, ibis and many more have branches here, and it's one of the most popular shoppers in the future.

Moreover, the land in the UK is privately owned, and in the future, the Jade Emperor Group can also build dozens of skyscrapers in Canary Wharf for rent, and the income that these lands can bring is not much worse than that of Jade Emperor Square.

However, although this bit of land is valuable, it is really nothing compared to some real estate tycoons!

For example, the Grosvenor family, the largest landowner in the Duying, is the family of the Duke of Westminster among the 24 Dukes of the Duying, this family owns 0.22% of the entire Duying's land, totaling 133,000 acres (807347 acres), which is 7 times the land of the Queen of the Duying.

There are hundreds of streets, squares, and buildings throughout London that are owned or named by the Grosvenor family! Legend has it that the Buckingham Palace of the British royal family is theirs, and they still need to pay rent to the Westminster family.

Of course, this should be pure nonsense, and it cannot be confirmed, but it is certain that the British royal family does have some estates, castles and other properties on the land of the Grosvenor family, and they need to pay rent to the Grosvenor family!

The Grosvenor family has a history of nearly 1,000 years, dating back to the Norman dynasty, when the Grosvenor family was ruled by William the Conqueror, and later the family's ancestors became nobles for their meritorious deeds.

Hugh Grosvenor, the future seventh Duke of Westminster, was the only son of the previous Duke of Westminster.

Hugh Grosvenor lived in the 17th-century Eton Manor, which was built in the 17th century, with an area of 4,400 hectares, almost a quarter the size of a city or nine, with about 500 hectares of parks and 20 hectares of gardens, more than a quarter of the area of the Forbidden City, which shows how wealthy the family was.

Zhang Zhonghua thought of this and secretly said, this is simply too rich, the rent collected in a year can blow up the richest man in the world, or the land policy of Duying is more cool, you must buy more private land in Duying.

Now the Jade Emperor Group has also hoarded a small part of the land, but it is not enough, Zhang Zhonghua is ready to take advantage of the current price of cabbage in various countries to hoard some permanent land abroad, as for the increase in the value of the land tax relative to the land, plus the rent of the construction income on the land is completely a drop in the bucket, not worth mentioning!

The super CBD on the Toei side is Marunouchi and Ginza, and various subsidiaries of the Jade Emperor Group in Toei, such as Carrefour Supermarket, Jade Emperor Electric, CFC Restaurant, Jade Emperor Bank, Jade Emperor Media, etc., have also purchased their own buildings in Marunouchi.

By the end of the eighties, the value of these buildings alone would have reached the value of hundreds of billions of dollars, otherwise Dongying would have dared to shout the slogan that Dongjin could buy the entire America, and then Dongying would have been killed by America by making excuses to kill the economy.

Zhang Zhonghua also hoarded a lot of land in America's Silicon Valley, with a full 1,000 acres of land, less than one-third of the area of Canary Wharf, but the value is not inferior to Canary Wharf!

Silicon Valley will be home to the headquarters of the world's top Internet companies, and the land income there will be a huge amount of money in the future!

More than a year later, the oil crisis will make the already bad situation of the American stock market worse, and when the time comes, it is also good to start buying a few skyscrapers in Manhattan, New York, not only New York, but also San Francisco, City of Angels and other places can also buy some skyscrapers and land.

Although Zhang Zhonghua does not know much about the details of the world economy, he is still relatively clear about the future trend of the American economy.

Canada, Gaul, New Zealand, and the South Stick Kingdom continue to hoard land, which can not only be used by the Jade Emperor Group itself, but also build some high-rise buildings to rent to other companies!

In fact, Zhang Zhonghua really wanted to invest in the country of kangaroos, but unfortunately the attitude of the country of kangaroos towards other races has always been not very friendly, so Zhang Zhonghua could only give up for the time being.

Since the Opium War at the end of the Qing Dynasty, China's southeast coastal areas once again set off the next wave of the South Seas boom, among which in the many Yanxia people who went to the South Seas, a large part of the Yanxia people crossed Southeast Asia by sea to the kangaroo country in Oceania, and also participated in the gold rush boom.

It's a pity that the situation in the country of kangaroos is similar to that of Amerie at that time, and the Yanxia people have successfully robbed other races of jobs with their hard-working spirit, which has attracted the dissatisfaction of the local people and other immigrants.

In the fifties and sixties of the last century, the people of Kangaroo Nation had begun to behave quite unkindly towards the hot summer immigrants, and later even to the point of using violence.

At that time, the Qing government was corrupt and degenerate, and the pride of the "Heavenly Empire" was rubbed the ground by Duying, and it was a little difficult to protect itself, let alone support the Yanxia people in the world.

A few decades later, the federal government of Kangaroo Country was established and even introduced an immigration policy, the White Australia Policy. This policy was originally to prohibit all non-European races from entering Kangaroo Country, but of course, people from other countries belonging to the Commonwealth were allowed to enter Kangaroo Country, so a large number of hot summer immigrants were forced to leave Kangaroo Country.

Even today, 70 years later, the White Australia Policy is still in place, but the relaxed conditions have been changed to change to anyone who wants to enter Kangaroo Country must pass a test in a European language before they can be allowed to enter Kangaroo Country.

At present, among the many subsidiaries of the Jade Emperor Group, only two of its institutions, the Jade Emperor Bank and the Asian Associated Press, have been allowed to enter the country of kangaroos, and Carrefour supermarkets, CFC restaurants, etc. have been turned away.

Zhang Zhonghua is also extremely depressed and depressed, this Hong Kong Island and your kangaroo country are both the younger brothers of the British Commonwealth, why do your kangaroo countries discriminate against us? Is it to destroy the internal harmony of Duying?

As for Zhang Zhonghua's investment in iron ore in the country of kangaroos, that's something you don't even think about, let alone the door, even the windows will be nailed to you! No matter how secretive the British Intelligence Bureau is, it can be found out, and the Kangaroo Country is still one of the hardcore brothers of the Duying at present, and this kind of information Intelligence Bureau will definitely be synchronized to the Kangaroo Country.

Zhang Zhonghua looked at the Canary Wharf in front of him with great emotion, since the former Qing government was bombarded by the Opium War, the status of our Yanxia people in the international community is really worse day by day.

At present, the Jade Emperor Group is only able to enter the low-end industry, just like Zhang Zhonghua's main catering and retail industry, electrical production is already the limit, many of the most core industries such as the chip industry and the computer industry, Zhang Zhonghua wants to hold shares to make money, there is no problem at all, but if Zhang Zhonghua wants to obtain the company's control, he doesn't even think about it!

Zhang Zhonghua was also quite speechless in this regard.