"Okay, how long will it take to demolish the hotel, are you ready for this?" Chen Zhiwen asked.

"At present, the Hilton Hotel itself still has contracts with some travel agencies, and some even have an appointment for half a year, these contracts need to be canceled first, and then the hotel can be officially closed, and if it is demolished, it needs to be reported to the Hong Kong government, according to the previous experience of other building demolition, if it is fast, it can be ended in almost three months." Li Haonan said.

"Half a year is too long, communicate with these travel agencies, spend some money to terminate the contract, or discuss with the big hotel, transfer the contract to them, and dismantle the work, just follow the normal process." Chen Zhiwen thought for a while and said.

The hotel currently belongs to Guo Henian, and it can be regarded as one of the allies of his group, anyway, he doesn't open a hotel, and it doesn't matter if these businesses are given to his allies, and they can also speed up the construction of their own Hong Kong Super Building.

"Okay, I'll contact the big hotel." Li Haonan nodded and said.

After Li Haonan left, Chen Zhiwen arranged for someone to call Lei Shengli, but he could not arrive until the afternoon.

This is also why Chen Zhiwen needs to put all the company's headquarters together, although Midea, Red Bull and other enterprises do not necessarily have to put their headquarters in Central, where every inch of land is valuable, and later generations of Apple, Brother Gu, Alibaba, etc. did not put their headquarters in the best location in the city center, on the contrary, this may also bring some inconvenience.

But for Chen Zhiwen, it is convenient for him to put several core business companies together, otherwise Midea's current headquarters is in Yuen Long, and it may take half a day to call people over, and as for the housing price is too expensive, the headquarters may not be enough, which is not a problem for him.

At present, the housing prices in Hong Kong are the lowest, and the bigger the new headquarters, the better, and even if one building is not enough, as long as Hongkong Land is acquired, there will be no shortage of office buildings in Central, and even through some pedestrian bridges, the buildings that are close together can be connected.

"Chen Sheng." Lei Shengli trotted over with a smile.

"Drink saliva, this is the mineral water recently made by Master Kong under Red Bull, which was produced in Shanghai City, and I sent a little to Hong Kong." Chen Zhiwen handed over a 500ml bottle of mineral water and said.

Drinking water, in fact, is the healthiest, even if it is tea, drinking too much and too strong every day is not necessarily a good thing, after all, in modern society, the human body is basically not short of nutrition, only the problem of overnutrition or energy will occur.

As for Master Kong's various businesses, in fact, Chen Zhiwen basically didn't ask much, they were all decided by his team themselves, when a company is large enough in a single business, it will inevitably try related businesses, the beverage industry, bigger will naturally spread to other beverages or mineral water fields, even Coca-Cola, Pepsi is even more invested in the food industry.

At the beginning of Red Bull's investment in the Shanghai market, Chen Zhiwen also gave an instruction, try to make related products in the areas needed in China, anyway, there is an export of Red Bull drinks, there is enough foreign exchange, according to the foreign exchange balance policy, Red Bull can also sell a large share in China.

Mineral water is a recent business, because an employee found that he could not buy water when he was on a train trip, most of them were in the train station before making hot water, some people even went out with a boiling kettle on the train, which made him find the demand, so after returning to Shanghai, he put forward this opinion, which was also adopted by the senior management of the Red Bull (Shanghai) branch.

In this era, those who can make trains cannot be said to be rich, but the probability is not poor, Master Kong's mineral water is not very expensive, most people on the train can still consume, and even the follow-up cooperation with the Shanghai Railway Station Agency, launched the activity of buying tickets and sending mineral water, etc.

Of course, this income is actually only a small part of the Red Bull (Shanghai) branch, and it is even more of a drop in the bucket for Chen Zhiwen, but this shows that Red Bull is successfully entering the domestic market, as long as it persists for a few more years, the brand image can gain a firm foothold.

"Thank you." Lei Shengli took the water, but he didn't drink it immediately, but asked, "Chen Sheng, I heard that the Hilton Hotel has won?" ”

"Yes, I took it, and now I am preparing to demolish it, although it is a bit wasteful to demolish a five-star hotel, but its location, it is more cost-effective to do an office building, even if there is no demand for the headquarters of the United States, I will also demolish it." Chen Zhiwen said.

The object of five-star hotel service is some business or tourist people, among these people, except for a few who are really super rich, most of them still care about cost performance, which leads to the fact that even if the Hilton hotel is located in a prime location, its price cannot be doubled.

But the office building in this location can, because the office building in Central is not worried about renting at all, especially after the real estate crisis, it is a scarce resource, and there are many global technology companies that have gone bankrupt, even those giants, are worried about which day a garage entrepreneur will subvert themselves, but the rent collection of buildings in the core location of Central or other big cities does not need to consider these things at all, and the income is so high that it may not be comparable to a few leaders in the technology industry.

This is also one of the fundamental reasons why Chen Zhiwen is obsessed with the Central Building, don't look at the current Midea is very good in the game field, and the annual profit is comparable to half of Land, but what will happen in ten years, no one knows, can it be the top in the computer market? Deeply cultivating the field of computer games, it may not be able to maintain the current advantages, history has changed too much, and then it will be the era of fighting technology, and the traverser is not absolutely sure, at most, relying on a variety of memory golden fingers, investing in Microsoft, Cisco, and other companies in advance.

"I've sent someone to the United States to contact Master Pei Jinming, who is already designing the building according to the basic situation, but he definitely needs to see it on the spot." Lei Shengli said.

"Arrange for my private jet to pick him up." Chen Zhiwen did not hesitate to say that his private jet is not absolutely used by himself, some good friends, business partners or some celebrities, if needed, can also be used, Pei Jinming is not only his partner in the field of "architecture", but also the world's most famous Chinese architect.

"Okay, then I'll inform my colleagues in the United States." Lei Shengli said.

"How's Mario's development?" Chen Zhiwen asked again, this game, can be said to be the next five years of the United States' hit, not even one, because it can produce multiple series, the ability to attract money is strong, may exceed the sum of all the current games, in the original history, Nintendo relied on this game, became one of the global game giants, even in the era of mobile Internet, Mario's mobile game can get hundreds of millions of dollars in profits a year.

"The basic underlying framework has come out, and the image of all the interfaces has also been asked to be composed by the art team, and when the finished product is almost out, I will hold another meeting, and then Chen Sheng, you will take a look." Lei Shengli said.

"Okay, let me know as soon as the plan comes out." Chen Zhiwen nodded and said, he can't interfere in terms of technology, but he is still good at appearance and game rhythm, anyway, as long as it is about the same as in his previous life.

"Okay." Lei Shengli said.

In February 1983, the Hong Kong government once again held a land auction, and also took out some land in a good location, a total of 11 plots, but 7 of them were unsold, and 3 of the 4 plots of land that were auctioned off were won by Hehuang.

The news came out, the real estate market has become more sluggish, and even the bidding of the Hong Kong government has not been visited by a few companies, which shows that most real estate companies are still not optimistic about the future, however, some people have begun to pay attention to Hutchison, you know, in the two or three years before September 82, Hutchison has not participated in any bidding, the only auction of the king of the land, or Chen Zhiwen, the boss behind the boss personally participated, although he participated in the auction of the king of the land, but in the end it was not successful, and now Hutchison began to participate in the auction in a high-profile manner, Did you reveal something?

Hutchison Building.

"This building seems to be a little old." Chen Zhiwen stood on the top floor of the Hutchison Building, and said with a smile, although it is the headquarters of Hutchison, it is also a building in the 60s, the land price at that time, more than 20 floors is already very high, and it is not cost-effective to be high, and now various 40+ storey new buildings near Central are common, which makes the buildings in the past seem very short.

"The Hilton Hotel is ready to be demolished, or else, Chen Sheng, and the Hutchison Building will also be demolished?" Zhou Jiayang said with a smile.

"Midea is in a hurry to need a headquarters, and Hutchison shouldn't have this need for the time being, right?" Chen Zhiwen shook his head and said: "Anyway, it's my own building, I can demolish it whenever I want, and this fund might as well be used in the Hong Kong or Japanese real estate market." ”

Now demolished to build a super building, must be earned, but the current Hong Kong and Japan real estate markets are at a low level, at this time to spend more than a billion to build a super building is a bit inappropriate, after all, if the money is used to buy property land in Hong Kong or Japan, it can easily multiply several times after a few years, and then make money and then build a building in Hong Kong, although Hong Kong's labor costs will also increase, but it is certainly not comparable to the growth of the real estate market itself.

"Okay, I'm just talking." "In the last few auctions, we have won 7 office properties, and according to the bidding requirements of the Hong Kong government, we also need to prepare to build buildings, one of which is located in Tsim Sha Tsui, and I am going to build a new 35-storey building for long-term rent. ”

"After the real estate crisis, the Hong Kong government should have held three auctions, right? We've only won 7 of them? I've heard that there are a lot of unsuccessful auctions, and these plots are not very good? Chen Zhiwen asked.

"In fact, the location is not bad, if there is enough funds, more than half of them I want, but the problem is that the bidding of these plots is conditional, buy the land, then you have to spend a lot of money for development, many projects are not suitable for long-term holding, but the current market is still falling, we develop a year after the sale, may lose, so I just chose some projects with a good location to hold for a long time, and at most two or three residential plots will be auctioned, Give our employees a little benefit within the group in a mode that does not make much money. Zhou Jiayang replied: "The land price in the market is not high now, I am ready to spend a sum of money to trade directly in the market, so that the acquired land, we don't develop it's okay, just a few years ago, our Hehuang's land reserve has also dropped sharply, and it's not bad to make up for it during this time." ”

"That's okay, but the quality of the land is probably not as good as the Hong Kong government's auction, right?" Chen Zhiwen said that in fact, in 84 years, high-quality land may be released more, after all, it is only a few months of real estate crisis, and large companies can still support it for a while.

"No, the quality of the Hong Kong government is naturally much better." Zhou Jiayang said.

"As far as I know, the Hong Kong government's recent fiscal revenue has begun to deteriorate, there is no land auction income, and their life is also sad, it is better to go and talk to the Hong Kong government land or financial secretary, we can take over those unsold land, the original price of the auction is OK, but the condition is that the Hong Kong government must not make other restrictions, we want to hold it, we want to develop it." Chen Zhiwen thought for a while and said.

"Okay, then I'll try." Zhou Jiayang nodded and said, if this can be talked about success, or partial success, then Hutchison can easily follow the opportunity of the real estate crisis and hoard medium or even high-quality land on a large scale.

"The Hong Kong government has the arrogance of the Hong Kong government, and this matter is probably not so easy, but let's bring it up first." Chen Zhiwen said again: "How about the acquisition of the shares of Hongkong Land and Jardine Matheson? ”

"In the past three months, we have secretly acquired 3% of Hongkong Land shares and 4% of Jardine Matheson shares, and now we have 16.4% Hongkong Land shares." Zhou Jiayang said.

"Enough to be a director." Chen Zhiwen smiled and said: "Keep it up, Hongkong Land's current finances have not deteriorated on a large scale, and in a short period of time, we are not suitable to start." ”

As the first consortium in Hong Kong for almost a hundred years, plus a large amount of investment overseas, the background of Jardine Matheson Group is very strong, even if Hong Kong has encountered a debt crisis, but as long as part of the overseas assets are sold, it can still be topped, and the time when it is really unbearable is at the end of 83 and the beginning of 84, Jardine Matheson was dragged down by Land, and had to slowly untie Yizhi Mutual Control, which is just Chen Zhiwen's opportunity, and at that time, he must have more stock shares.

However, history has been very different, because of its own existence, no one knows how Jardine Matheson will operate.

"I've been secretly in contact with some funds in the UK, and they also have shares of Jardine Matheson and Hongkong Land, and if we get them, it will increase our chances of winning." Zhou Jiayang said with a smile.

(End of chapter)