The time soon came in October, and the weather in Hong Kong began to cool, just like Hong Kong's economy.

Although the auction of the land king more than a month ago stimulated the house price and stock price, the fundamental problem can not be solved, that is, a large number of ordinary people can no longer afford to buy residences, although the customers of commercial office buildings are not ordinary people, but there will be a large number of residences in the hands of speculation, and the residential side consumes too much of their funds, so it will definitely affect other investments.

However, there are still several large companies that continue to set up housing prices, and some auctions in the Hong Kong government have sold prices that are not as strong as before.

And the most special is the Hong Kong upstart Chen Songqing's Jianing Group, which keeps buying all kinds of large-scale properties, and the transaction price is much higher than the market price.

There was a knock on the door of the office of "Knock Knock" and Wong Building.

"Come in." Chen Zhiwen looked up and saw that it was Ma Shiming, whom he had recently personally recruited.

As a traverser, Chen Zhiwen is good at guiding the company's development direction, and what is lacking is the company's direct operation.

In the original history, Ma Shiming, who was able to be favored by Li Jiacheng and directly invited him to be the Hutchison Taipan, is exactly the talent that Chen Zhiwen has always wanted to obtain, and in the previous life, Hutchison's achievements in his hands are also obvious to all.

Of course, there are other working emperors, such as Huo Jianning, the next Taiban of Ho Huang in the previous life, who is still very young, but he was also found by Chen Zhiwen, and under the secret arrangement, he also dug him up to Ho Huang and became one of his assistants.

And Ma Shiming can now directly create value for him, so Chen Zhiwen personally interviewed and granted him the status of vice president of Hutchison, specifically responsible for Hutchison's port business.

"Chen Sheng, good morning, this is my preliminary port investment business plan, please take a look." Ma Shiming handed the prepared information to Chen Zhiwen and said: "At present, Hutchison has accepted the berths of Wharf, and we currently own two and a half of the five wharves in Kwai Chung, half of which are joint ventures with Swire, and I have also consulted them, but they are not willing to sell."

On the Hong Kong side, the sixth berth is not ready to be developed for the time being, and on the mainland side, there is only one Shekou wharf, so our port needs to expand overseas, and the investment objects I choose are some of the better developed countries in Asia. ”

"Why not Europe and the United States? These places have more spending power, right? Isn't the terminal just dependent on spending power? Chen Zhiwen asked, basically any wharf in the world, its main commodities are daily necessities, after all, civilian products, is the world's largest market, even if it is chemical, its ultimate purpose, most of it is daily civilian.

Ma Shiming replied: "Europe and the United States do have a large market, the port infrastructure is also very stable, if we buy, then we can operate directly, but in the same way, the risk is low at the same time, the income is also low, even if we acquire this kind of port, we can only maintain the previous operation or slightly better, and, in recent years, the port unions in Europe and the United States have often striked, and we have no benefit from acquiring such companies."

But Southeast Asia is different, although it is also very poor, but the population is large, and now under the globalization model, Europe, the United States and Japan began to transfer their low-end industries and polluting industries to these countries, they want to take over these industries, the most needed is the port, otherwise exports will become a problem, and if they catch these industries, then their own economy will also develop, and the demand for external goods will also increase.

In addition, the labor cost in these places is lower than that of Hong Kong, and the technical requirements are not very high, which is very in line with our interests. ”

"It makes a lot of sense, but there is no guarantee that there will be a situation against foreign investment in these places, how do you plan to deal with it?" Chen Zhiwen nodded and said.

At present, Hutchison has long begun to cash out its various Hong Kong properties on a large scale, plus the huge amount of money that has been earned in the gold futures market, just the investment in the mainland, but not much, although the Beijing-Tianjin-Tang Expressway claims to be an investment of 1 billion US dollars, but in fact, 100 million funds are not needed, or paid in sections.

In this case, so much money can't be put in the bank to eat interest, so after recruiting Ma Shiming, Chen Zhiwen is ready to start investing in overseas port business, after all, this is the most stable business under Li Jiacheng.

The shipping market is prone to a crisis, because there are too many shipyards that can build a lot of ships in a few years, resulting in too much global capacity, but the ports are different, the number of global ports, although not constant, but the variables are very low, once a place has a port, then the nearby 100 kilometers of coastline, it is unlikely that there will be a second, even if the port is not enough, it will only continue to expand here.

Therefore, the port business basically will not have a big problem, unless the investment is not good, the location is not good, but this possibility is very low, after all, the investment in the port, is not a factory, the local government must have its own plan for the port, even if foreign capital wants to invest, it has to cooperate with the government's planning, and under the government's planning, it is basically unlikely that there will be problems, unless the regional economy has not been able to develop, that is, all industries are not good.

But there is still a risk, and that is the ZZ problem.

"We in Hong Kong are members of the British Commonwealth, and ordinary countries don't dare to do anything, but boss, your consideration is reasonable, so I am ready to pull some British-funded groups in Hong Kong to participate, such as Swire Group." Ma Shiming replied.

"It's okay to work with Swire, but are you sure the Commonwealth still has that much influence?" Chen Zhiwen asked with a smile. Whether it is Ma Shiming or many Britons in Hong Kong, they still like to indulge in the prestige of the British Empire for decades. This, even decades later, is still believed by many people.

"Then you can also introduce some American capital, I heard that the boss knows a lot of people in the United States, it is better to introduce a small amount of their capital, so that our risk is much smaller." Ma Shiming naturally understood what Chen Zhiwen meant.

"Okay, I'll do this, you separate the overseas port business, and then split the shares, and I will bring in some American capital." Chen Zhiwen nodded and said that there will be no problems in the future port business between Hong Kong and the mainland, and the benefits are very high, so there is no need to be independent.

(End of chapter)