"Directly unwilling? Don't you want to negotiate the price? Chen Zhiwen asked.

"Yes, the team in Hong Kong couldn't make a decision on this matter, they reported it to the Hilton US headquarters, and the headquarters sent a person over and told my people directly that they would not sell out the contract, and said that they were very optimistic about the future of Hong Kong, and asked us not to interfere in the daily affairs of the Hilton Hotel according to the contract." Li Haonan said.

"It's really interesting that the Yankees are more optimistic about the future of Hong Kong than the British ghosts." Chen Zhiwen smiled and said. He remembered that in the original history, Li Ka-shing's contract to buy out the Hilton Hotel was also 85 years later, that is to say, no matter how the economy deteriorates in Hong Kong in the past two years, no matter how rumors spread, it will not affect the Hilton Hotel.

"Many of the British people in Hong Kong are short-sighted, thinking that if Hong Kong does not follow the British, the economy will inevitably collapse, and they don't want to think about the development of Hong Kong because Hong Kong is a platform for the internationalization of the mainland." Li Haonan said with a smile: "On the contrary, now that the relationship between the mainland and the United States is good, and there is a lot of economic cooperation of all kinds, American capital is still very optimistic about Hong Kong, and it only needs to wait until this period of time has passed!" ”

"But after this period of time, it will not be good for us, once the Hong Kong economy improves, Hilton Hotel is estimated to be even more reluctant to sell out its joint venture!" Chen Zhiwen said.

"This kind of thing usually doesn't succeed the first time, so I'd better arrange to talk to them again." Li Haonan also said that it is indeed unlikely that the buyout contract involving hundreds of millions of dollars will be negotiated soon, and perhaps the other party's first strong refusal is also to make bargaining chips for the follow-up price increase.

"Normally, if it is the other way around, if someone wants to ask me to buy this kind of long-term contract, it may also open his mouth, and besides, the purpose of our buyout contract can actually be seen by anyone with a discerning eye." Chen Zhiwen nodded and said.

With the land price of Hong Kong people, even if the land price in Central has fallen a little, its value is many times that of before.

When the land price and housing prices are not high, it is not cost-effective to demolish and build a new building, at that time it is better to go to the side to find a piece of land, but the housing prices are very high, the cost of demolition is not worth mentioning, just say that the king of the land next to it, the price at the peak of the price of 7.3 billion Hong Kong dollars, I don't know how many Hilton hotels can be bought The construction cost of the hotel!

As for why I can guess that Chen Zhiwen will be demolished after the acquisition, the first is because his industry needs a larger headquarters, and the second is that the Hilton Hotel has a history of more than 20 years, and the original decoration is old and outdated.

The people at the Hilton Hotel are not stupid, and after a little investigation, they will naturally know Chen Zhiwen's purpose.

"No matter what, we have to make a quick decision, it has been delayed for too long, if Hong Kong's future is determined, the economy will recover!" Li Haonan said.

"It's not that fast, the economic crisis can't end in a year or two." Chen Zhiwen said: "But it is true that we need to hurry, as long as their asking price is not too outrageous, they can be negotiated, but if it is really asking for money, then I will not be polite to them, in Hong Kong, we are the head snakes, and there are ways to clean them up." ”

Hilton Hotel, if it was a few years ago, it would have been a large company for Chen Zhiwen, and there was no need to take the initiative to provoke it, but now, the status is reversed.

Although this kind of hotel chain group seems to be very large, it often has hundreds or thousands of hotels around the world, but these are light asset management models, that is, local capital builds hotels, and then hands them over to Hilton for management, and other Intercontinental and Marriott are similar, and their market value and scale are actually not large.

This is very different from Asian hotel groups, most of the hotel capital in Asia comes from real estate, and prefers to own their own properties, such as the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, which has developed into the 21st century, and there are dozens of hotels in Asia, but their own assets are not lower than those of Hilton and Intercontinental.

"Understand, if I really want to clean them up, it's not difficult, if it weren't for the fact that it might affect the reputation of our group, I would have done it a long time ago!" Li Haonan said with a smile.

"Okay, try to complete this within a month or two, and then close the business, demolish the building for the record, and build a new building, it is estimated that it may take three or four years to build, and the sooner it is built, the better," Chen Zhiwen said. Just a skyscraper, no matter how fast it is, it will take two or three years to build, and the blasting and demolition in front of it will also take time, which is why Chen Zhiwen asked Lei Shengli to send someone to find Bei Jinming first.

"Okay, if there is further news, I will report it as soon as possible." Li Haonan said.

"Okay, so be it!" Chen Zhiwen nodded and said.

Before the 80s, although Hong Kong's land prices were high and low, in general, it was still far from other developed cities around the world, after all, the average salary in Hong Kong was too low.

However, after the development of the last decade, Hong Kong's per capita income has increased rapidly, and Hong Kong's housing prices have increased nearly tenfold from 85 to 97, which has significantly changed the most basic model of real estate.

When the price of real estate is not high, the construction cost has a greater impact on the housing price, and the construction cost of the building is that the higher the floor, the higher the cost per area.

Therefore, before the 80s, buildings in Hong Kong were generally about 20 floors, and even if it was a prime location Diwang Building, the floors were only forty or fifty floors, which was actually because of the location of these floors, the price was higher, and it was cost-effective to build high-rise buildings.

After 85 years, Hong Kong's land price will increase exponentially, which will lead to the future of Hong Kong's new properties, all of which are super buildings, and Hong Kong's top record will be broken in a year or two.

However, if the area itself is too small, there is no way, and the land area of the Hilton Hotel is large enough, so he naturally wants to build a super building that is the tallest in the current and future years.

……

Half a month later, the time soon came to the New Year.

Henry Morgan also returned from the mainland.

"How's it going in the mainland?" Chen Zhiwen said with a smile.

"It's not bad, but the hotel in the mainland is a little worse, and I don't live very comfortably!" Henry Morgan said.

"There are several five-star hotels under construction in Yanjing in the past two years, and it is estimated that you will be much better next year!" Chen Zhiwen said.

"I know this, and we have also obtained some data on the entry of mainland business people, not to mention every year, that is, every month, the number of people is constantly increasing, and the mainland's export trade is also developing very well, so it seems that the future economy of the mainland may not be bad, and it should not be difficult to reach the economic level of some medium-sized Asian countries!" Henry Morgan said with a smile.

"So Morgan's bank is ready to invest domestically?" Chen Zhiwen asked curiously.

"What do you want?" Henry Morgan smiled and said: "We do financial investment, the most taboo is to end up in person, this time I came here, just for some large trade between China and the United States, to do an advance investigation, our Morgan bank, in which is to participate in financing!" ”

"That's right, your investment method is very safe, but you may not be able to get the highest profit!" Chen Zhiwen nodded and said that many investment banks and hedge funds on Wall Street are in this way, even if they are not bad at money and are very confident in a certain investment project, they basically use other people's money to invest, and then share the profits.

"This is the lesson of hundreds of years of blood and tears." Henry said with a smile: "Those who do not abide by this rule, when they see that a certain project has big benefits, they immediately smash their own value into it, maybe most of them can make money, but as long as they lose once, they will go bankrupt directly!" ”

"Profit and risk coexist!" Chen Zhiwen smiled and said.

"We are not sure of you, so naturally we will not take risks, even if it is the junk bonds you mentioned last time, or the South American sovereign bonds, we will not personally end the market, but introduce them to all kinds of customers, if they make a profit, we can enjoy the dividends." Henry Morgan said.

"It's up to you, I'll just need the land anyway." Chen Zhiwen shrugged and said.

"When I was in the mainland, I also kept in touch with the United States every day, so I came here today and had two good news to tell you." Henry Morgan said.

"What's the good news?" Chen Zhiwen asked.

"This first is naturally the large amount of farm land you want, the United States, the people I entrusted found more than a dozen farms in Texas, these farmers have suffered serious losses in the past two years, and they are also thinking of getting out, in terms of price, the preferential margin should be very large, and in South America, the Argentine government has the most serious debt, and they also promised to transfer a batch of state-owned farms, and you can also take the opportunity to buy a part!" Henry Morgan said with a smile.

"It's easy to say in the United States, but in Argentina, it's still the old rule, you have to hold 1% of the shares, and with the American background, I can feel more at ease." Chen Zhiwen thought for a while and said.

"That's no problem, I'll just get involved, but Eric, if you really succeed in the acquisition this time, it may cost more than $500 million!" Henry said.

"No problem, anyway, I only need to pay one or two percent, and the rest will take out loans, Morgan's bank should be very happy that I will do this." Chen Zhiwen said with a smile.

"That's right, as long as farm prices don't plummet, there's no risk." Henry nodded, and then said: "Another thing, is that the NBA team you want to buy has a goal. ”

(End of chapter)