On January 7, Hong Kong's stock market calmed down, and Hang Yi Group's shares were officially included as a member of the Hang Seng Index.

On this day, Chen Zhiwen also came to the new headquarters of Hengyi Group, which is also located in Admiralty, a total of 22 floors, Hengyi originally wanted to buy this building, but now the office price is very high, the owner is not willing to sell at all, and he believes that the future will rise, and finally he can only lease it, and then after half a year of decoration, the entire Hengyi Real Estate Group has also moved in.

"The floor here, doesn't it feel too short for you?" Chen Tianfu said with a smile.

"It's okay, more than 20 floors, in fact, it is the norm for Hong Kong buildings, those forty or fifty floors, basically built in recent years." Chen Zhiwen shrugged and said.

"If it weren't for your repeated saying that there would be problems with Hong Kong real estate, I would have bought it a long time ago, but fortunately, you reminded me that there is indeed a problem in the current real estate market." Chen Tianfu said with a sigh.

"The office market is expected to be a little stronger, but I think it's going to be soon, and then there will be a long period of sluggishness." Chen Zhiwen nodded and said.

Although the real estate crisis erupted in September 1982, the pre-crisis symptoms were completely different from the previous one.

In 1973, before the crisis broke out, Hong Kong's land prices were still very strong, and only a few people discovered a possible crisis, but this time, as early as the second half of last year, there were already signs of anomalies.

For example, HSBC began to shrink its real estate business, the residential vacancy rate began to increase, and the transaction and rental prices of industrial real estate are also declining, but commercial prices can still be firm.

"The projects in my hands are basically short-term projects, but in this case, in the second half of the year, the company's business will decrease sharply, and I am afraid that the stock market will not look good." Chen Tianfu said with some worry.

"That can't be helped, even if you continue to develop real estate projects, it won't be as easy as before to sell again, and it's easy to smash in your hands." Chen Zhiwen said that when the price of real estate does not fluctuate much, many people will wait and see, and even those who speculate will stop, because they already have a lot of houses in their hands and cannot sell them.

If it weren't for the fact that some large real estate companies have been speculating in the market, it is estimated that land prices would have collapsed earlier.

"So I'm going to invest in Shenhai City on a large scale, and you know that I have two hotels over there, and the people in Shenhai City have sent me a message saying that they want me to build office buildings on a large scale, and their demand for office buildings is getting higher and higher, what do you think?" Chen Tianfu asked.

"That's no problem, since you have enough money in hand, let's try it, the deep sea is also attracting a lot of foreign investment, and the demand for office buildings is high, which is normal." Chen Zhiwen nodded and said.

In the whole country, real estate development is basically prohibited, only hotel projects, because it is helpful for foreign trade, and the country is really needed, so many Hong Kong real estate giants in the domestic investment project is the hotel, the other is basically gone, want to build an office building or community, that is simply not feasible.

As early as the second half of 1979, Shenhai City began to develop real estate communities with Hong Kong real estate developers, selling these communities to Hong Kong people, or Hong Kong people's relatives in China, for promotion, and even providing hukou, just to help Hong Kong people take their relatives in the mainland.

However, the community is a project that can make quick profits, and Hong Kong real estate developers are happy to do it, but when it comes to office buildings, it is a long-term business project, and they are not willing to invest, after all, the Hong Kong real estate market at that time was also rising rapidly, and Shenhai City itself has not enough funds, and office buildings are relatively short, which is also normal.

"Well, I will mobilize funds to build office buildings in Shenhai City, and then lease them out, if Shenhai City can develop to 1/3 of what is now Hong Kong, then I will make money." Chen Tianfu said with a smile.

"Try to pick a better location in Shenhai City now, and then build an office building, don't pursue building a skyscraper, about 20 floors is enough." Chen Zhiwen smiled and didn't say much, the future of Shenhai City is not lower than that of Hong Kong, but the housing prices may not be as good.

Now, from the initial financing, listing and now real estate cash-out, Hengyi's cash assets are estimated to be two or three billion, these funds, take a small half to go to Shenhai City, I don't know how many office buildings can be built, after all, compared to Hong Kong, where the office building, even in the city center, the land price is basically 0, the only cost is the construction cost.

"Of course, the land there is cheap, and it is a loss to build high-rise buildings." Chen Tianfu asked again: "Do you want to invest together?" Your Hutchison and Wharf also have a lot of spare funds recently, right? ”

"No need, the current Shenhai City doesn't need so much capital, and when the scale of Shenhai City is larger in the future, I will also set the investment direction for their funds." Chen Zhiwen said. It is not a loss to go to Shenhai City now, but Shenhai is currently a slightly larger city, and investing too much money in the real estate field will exceed its capacity, and if there are too many vacancies in the future, it may also cause the bubble to burst like Hong Kong, which is not very good.

"Well, many of your industries are stronger than real estate, so there's no need to spend too much time here." Chen Tianfu said with a smile.

"Just give it to someone to manage, and on my side, just make sure of the big investment." Chen Zhiwen nodded and said that he valued real estate at the beginning, mainly because he needed to rely on the funds in it to develop other real industries, and now, in the 80s, the electronics industry will be the highlight of his future.

However, good opportunities will still be fought for, the real estate market will always be the largest market in the human economy, he will not give up, the building in Central, the future rent of a building is more than one billion Hong Kong dollars, how many large enterprises can not earn so much in a year, with enough real estate, then it is equivalent to a super cash cow behind it, and it is enough to support the expansion of his major industries in the future, as well as the competition with international giants.

For example, 84-97 is the bull market of the Hong Kong real estate market, 82-91 is the bull market of the Japanese market, and 84 years are suitable for large-scale investment in China, etc., the development direction is there, then professional managers will naturally know what to do.

On January 20, Hong Kong also had a rare big cooling, and the cold snap from Siberia rushed directly to the vicinity of eastern Guangdong Province.

Because of the cold weather, winter clothes in Hong Kong were suddenly out of stock, but fortunately, Galaxy Trading has several large warehouses in Hong Kong, including down jackets purchased from the mainland.

Although the weather is a little cold, Chen Zhiwen's heart is very hot, because Midea's first personal computer is ready to go on the market after several optimizations.

Early in the morning, Chen Zhiwen rushed to the Midea Industrial City in Yuen Long, where there is a large laboratory where hundreds of Midea-1 computers are being tested.

"It's so hot in here." Chen Zhiwen walked into the laboratory and immediately felt much hotter than outside, the corridor outside was the normal air conditioning temperature, not cold, it was hot here.

"Some of the computers here are running at high power, so the temperature is a little higher, and it is just right to test the state of the computer in a high temperature environment." Lei Shengli explained with a smile on the side.

"It's a good mouse." Chen Zhiwen came to a computer, touched the arc-shaped mouse, as early as when preparing to develop the computer, Chen Zhiwen asked the team to develop the shape of the mouse separately, must simulate the shape of the human hand, give people the best feel, try it now, it is indeed very good.

"We have registered a large number of mouse shape patents around the world, no matter which one it is, it is much stronger than the existing mice on the market, and after it is listed, there will definitely be many people who like it." Lei Shengli said with a smile.

"Well, that's an advantage, and with our split design, we can also solve the heat dissipation problem very well, although it won't last long." Chen Zhiwen nodded and said.

In this era when personal computers are just beginning to rise, all companies are focusing on the performance of the computer and what it can do, or software, etc., and the form factor of the computer is basically the same type, and the only consideration is heat dissipation.

Starting from Apple, to HP, Deyi, and IBM, all computers are integrated, that is, the computer is on top, and the host is below, and the two are one.

The first generation of computers that Chen Zhiwen asked for research and development is the future split type, the host and the screen are separated, so that the heat dissipation problem can be well solved, you know, the current integrated computer, after a long time, the keyboard is hot, but people are generally used to this, it doesn't matter, if it is hot, turn on the air conditioner a little bigger, and then take an electric fan to blow.

Although the weight of the computer is still the same, because it is not an all-in-one type, it is much easier to move. Speaking of a little, the split type is much stronger.

But just like the mouse, even if the patent is registered, people can bypass it, and there is no absolute patent monopoly on the appearance of this thing, but it can have an advantage of one or two years first. The only thing that can make a long-term profit is the middle button of the mouse, which is a unique patent, and now people may not need the middle button of the mouse, but when the computer is powerful, Midea can lie down and collect some patent fees.

A big-ass computer is above the table, and below the table is the host, if you don't bend over, you can't see it, Chen Zhiwen controls the mouse and controls the computer, there is no image management system at present, and many of them need to enter dos commands to control, which basically excludes a large number of non-professional players.

Chen Zhiwen naturally knows this problem, but the development of a set of operating systems is too complicated, the United States does not have this personnel reserve at present, just the research and development of this new computer has taken more than a year, the current computer market is not allowed to delay any longer, and the operating system will be a very sensitive field, once it succeeds, it will be suppressed, in the 80s, a Japanese company was ready to launch its own system, but it was quickly suppressed, if the United States also played like this, the operating system could not get up and was small, it is likely that other industries were also suppressed, That's more than worth the loss.

However, the operating system does not, but there can be some auxiliary methods, such as a dot in the lower left corner of the screen, as long as the mouse clicks in, several options will pop up, which are games, word text editing, Excel sheet editing, etc., which can be regarded as the most basic version of the shortcut.

The game naturally includes minesweeper, cards, magic cubes, snakes and other games, which is the strength of the United States, and it is natural to use this as a bait to guide consumers, after all, in addition to the company computer, most people buy computers to play. Computer games will also be one of the main battlefields of Midea's game department in the future, and it has not officially started yet, and it is only a benefit for your computer.

Word and Excel,It's a very basic version of mosquito editing and table editing,These two software are what Chen Zhiwen has been paying attention to,The version currently on sale,Basically includes the most basic editing functions in later generations,Ordinary clerks use it,It will be very useful。

Although these functions are not perfect, they have registered global patents, and will be slowly optimized according to user needs in the future.

Lei Shengli continued: "On our computer, we have installed Wubi software, whether it is traditional or simplified, you can enter it, but there may be some imperfections. ”

"It's okay.,It's good to have it.,This input method,When the United States computer is released,Directly open all for free,Anyone can use it.。 Chen Zhiwen nodded and said.

One of the problems that currently plagues China is that when Western characters can be easily input into the computer, Chinese cannot do it, which is equivalent to decoupling from the world, many people have also thought of solutions, and succeeded, but the efficiency is too low, the input speed is very slow, maybe only seven or eight words a minute.

Therefore, Chen Zhiwen also asked for the development of five strokes, however, as a person in the 21st century, he will not be five, so he can only according to the basic rules of five strokes, requiring the development team to start research and development from 0, and now it has been developed, it may be completely different from the original history, but it doesn't matter, this kind of thing is input method, in fact, it is a matter of habit, when you get used to it, even if there is a better one later, it is difficult to change it.

With this solution, you can actually make some money with this, but Chen Zhiwen still decided to be completely free, one is that he doesn't look down on that money, and the second is to have a good reputation, there is no need to make any money.

Before the advent of intelligent pinyin input method, Wubi was the absolute king.

"Okay." Lei Shengli nodded and said.

(End of chapter)