When Lee Ka-shing returned to Hong Kong from Singapore, it was already early November, and he returned to Hong Kong alone.

After returning to Xiangjiang, he immediately went to the factory in Chai Wan.

"Boss"

His generals Sheng Songsheng, Zhou Qianhe and the two stepped forward to greet him.

Sheng Songsheng is from Shanghai, and Zhou Qianhe is from Chaozhou, both of whom followed Li Jiacheng in the early fifties; At the beginning of the business, everyone only had an income of about 100 Hong Kong dollars, and everyone had no complaints, and loyally followed Li Jiacheng to this day.

Today, Changhe Plastic Factory has two industrial plants with a rental area of about 180,000 square feet; In the field of plastics, it is engaged in the production of plastic flowers, plastic toys and daily necessities, with about 300 workers.

"You guys did a great job this time and avoided the company's losses!" Li Jiacheng said with an expression of approval.

It turned out that in this incident, Changhe Plastic Factory could not avoid it, and there was a labor tide. Fortunately, the two powerful generals decisively negotiated and persuaded the workers, and in the case of salary increases, the labor tide was quelled, so that the company's production was not greatly affected.

"This is what we should do! Does the boss want to inspect the production situation first? ”

"Yes, let's go, let's go and see!"

Li Jiacheng returned to Hong Kong this time because he heard that the incident had improved a lot, so he resolutely returned to Hong Kong. His career is in Hong Kong, and he feels out of place living in Singapore, it is difficult to develop a career, everything is very unfamiliar.

So, he decided to venture back to Hong Kong to see what was going on.

When inspecting the production workshop, many workers saw the boss come back, some were very happy, some were ashamed and bowed their heads, and some were unruly; The happy worker is undoubtedly the one who has been favored or knows to be satisfied; Bow their heads in shame, they are the workers who participated in the labor movement; The unruly workers naturally feel that Xiangjiang is now the world of the working class, and these bosses dare not fire people at will.

Looking at the faces of all beings, Li Jiacheng remained silent and greeted everyone in a friendly manner, as if there had never been a labor tide. He also summarized some of the reasons for this incident, the root cause is the influence of Fengbo in the mainland, but the other reason is that the wages of Xiangjiang workers are very low, so many workers have joined the team this time.

"What about plastic flowers?"

"Some orders have been reduced, and the plastic flowers in Hong Kong have also had a bad impact on the international community because of this incident; At the same time, plastic flowers in Southeast Asia have stolen many orders from Xiangjiang. ”

Li Jiacheng nodded quietly, this is expected, Changhe Plastic Factory has increased the production and OEM of reshaped plastic toys. He will never give up the plastic industry, because it is an important source of funds for him and the foundation of his development.

According to the analysis, Li Jiacheng feels that the plastic business may only have a profit of six or seven hundred thousand yuan this year; As for the two factories, due to the falling rents in recent years, it is estimated that they can only collect HK$450,000 in rent.

Barely breaking through the profit of one million Hong Kong dollars!

Back in the office, Li Jiacheng was thinking while dealing with affairs.

As a bourgeoisie, I am most concerned about the 'future of Hong Kong'.

When he was in Singapore, he inquired about the news through various channels, and although Xiangjiang was full of rumors similar to 'to recover Xiangjiang', he did not believe it.

"Impossible, if you want to recover Xiangjiang, it can be achieved as early as 1949, why wait until now? Hong Kong is the only channel for foreign trade in the mainland, and it is actually beneficial to preserve the status quo of Hong Kong. So, Hong Kong is still in its current state."

After careful consideration, Li Jiacheng came to an important conclusion.

After coming to this conclusion, Li Jiacheng was vaguely excited. Because he knows that there are a lot of cheap properties out there, this is one of his most important opportunities.

He has long known that the popularity of plastic flowers is only temporary, coupled with the cruelty of competition, so he predicts that plastic flowers will eventually decline; So, he had some machines start OEM toys.

However, even so, he is not willing to be just a plastic flower boss for the rest of his life. He still remembers his father-in-law's prejudice against him in his early years, so he is eager to do better results.

The two industrial buildings he has invested in over the years are his plans. Although rents plummeted as soon as the second tower was built, he still believes that the real estate industry has a bright future.

Mr Lee most admired the British Land's conservative approach, which focused on collecting rental properties. After more than half a century of development, Hongkong Land has always been the "king of land" in the Central District, with a large number of building properties. As long as the property is there, it is a cornucopia of permanent benefits.

As for Cheung Kong Industrial, the largest real estate developer in Hong Kong, Li Jiacheng felt that he could not learn. First of all, Lin Zhichao has sufficient funds, he is also a factory owner, and he knows that the Yangtze River Industrial Group makes great money; Secondly, Lin Zhichao's style is 'innovation', 'big in and out', and 'unique vision', which he also feels he can't learn.

Soon, Li Jiacheng made a bold decision: people abandon me and absorb it while it is low.

And, he intends to continue to invest in factory buildings.

Because he is the owner of the factory, he knows that once the real estate market warms up, the factory building can be greatly rented. He has a capital of 3 million, and if he can buy two industrial buildings or three industrial plots, he will own four industrial buildings, or even five industrial buildings.

In the future, we will continue to invest in real estate by using the rent of the building and the profits of the factory. Because he admires Hongkong Land's style, he doesn't plan to take too many bank loans for the time being, and he doesn't dare, after all, these real estate crashes have had a great impact on him.

Stability is important!

Lin Zhichao returned to Xiangjiang from overseas, and he was in a very good mood!

First of all, judging from the situation in all aspects of Xiangjiang, it has turned very well, and it will probably gradually return to calm soon.

Secondly, this time he went overseas, successively to the United States, Japan, spent more than 20 days, and gained a lot.

In the United States, the IBM shares invested by him and Audrey are gradually being liquidated, totaling about 4.3~450 million US dollars, gaining more than five times the appreciation; As for the stocks of the Changjiang Investment Fund, it has not moved for the time being, and plans to start emptying early next year, and it is expected to have more than 180 million, an increase of more than four times.

In other words, after all these stocks are cashed out, Audrey Hepburn has a cash flow of 220 million US dollars, and Lin Zhichao also has a cash flow of 400 million US dollars.

In Japan, Lin Zhichao ordered '10 226,000-ton tankers', which was actually the plan for next year (1968), but now the Japanese shipbuilding industry is busy, and it is impossible to launch in 12 months, so he simply ordered it in advance, and 16~18 months can be equivalent to two months less. This is still the Japanese shipyard giving Lin Zhichao the green light, so that this efficiency can be achieved.

"Boss" Feng Yongfa came to the boss's office and greeted him respectfully.

"Well, sit!" Lin Zhichao motioned for him to sit down and report to work.

It's not sitting on the sofa, after all, it's a little far, but on a chair not far from Lin Zhichao's desk.

Feng Yongfa sat on the chair and then reported: "Let me report to you on the situation of Asian shipping!" ”

Lin Zhichao nodded, the global group has two listed companies, one Asian shipping and one Longfeng International. Among them, Asian shipping was the object that Lin Zhichao planned to cultivate from the 60s to the early 70s; As for Longfeng International, it was not cultivated with heart, and it was left in his hands for the time being.

The so-called careful cultivation is to try our best to build new ships (new stock financing, bond issuance, and a large amount of debt), and then develop and grow; The so-called careless cultivation is normal development (a small amount of loans).

"Asia Shipping currently has a deadweight of 750,000 tons, with high development potential, and sufficient cash flow in hand early next year, we can consider building two 226,000-ton VLCC holdings, we have increased our holdings to 71%, taking advantage of this stock market crash"

Listening to Feng Yongfa's work report, Lin Zhichao was very satisfied with the development of Asian shipping. In order to control the company, the global group arranged four directors, and Feng Yongfa served as the executive vice chairman, which can be regarded as the actual management of Lin Zhichao.

There are three 100,000-ton ships and two 130,000-ton oil tankers of 750,000 tons in Asia shipping, totaling 570,000 tons; The rest of the ships are second-hand cargo ships that are more than 10 years old. This company will develop oil tankers in the later stage. It is expected to develop to 1972, with a fleet of 250~3 million tons.

"The development is good in all aspects, and this company can be used as one of our listed flagships in the later stage! Longfeng International's side should not develop so aggressively, just have a flagship listed company of oil tankers! Lin Zhichao commented.

Feng Yongfa nodded and said, "Well, I understand. ”

Subsequently, Lin Zhichao said: "Next year, we will develop container container transportation, and the shipyard in Japan has already renovated the Victory ship and completed the technical feasibility report, so the six Victory ships in our hands must be changed." ”

Feng Yongfa immediately said: "It's just that the port government hasn't planned a place yet, bidding for container terminals? ”

Lin Zhichao said: "It is expected to be next year, and I plan to invest in the first container terminal with sea and land intermodal transport." Moreover, after the container transportation is transformed, it can also be temporarily leased to others, or open up its own routes. ”

Feng Yongfa knows that the boss has always been optimistic about container transportation. In 1965, the Hong Kong government also organized a survey prospect report, but there was no tender plan yet.

"The boss is going to use Huaxing Shipping as a container transportation enterprise?"

Lin Zhichao said: "Yes, Huaxing Shipping will specialize in the development of container transportation in the future, and more importantly, when the time is right, I plan to list it for financing and development!" ”

First use six second-hand container ships to build a platform, and then in 1970~1971 it will be listed, raising hundreds of millions of Hong Kong dollars to order container ships. In this way, it was possible to develop shipping companies with a small amount of money and wait until the eighties to privatize them.

The real development of container containers was in the eighties and nineties, just like oil tankers, and the proportion of merchant ships was gradually increasing.

"Okay, I understand, and I will come up with the Huaxing asset reorganization plan as soon as possible."

"Hmm"

In this way, the global group has three listed companies, including Huaxing Shipping, which is preparing to go public. Asia Shipping is an oil tanker, Huaxing Shipping is a container ship, and Longfeng International is a chess piece of Lin Zhichao, which will be used in the acquisition of Wharf in the future.

The wholly-owned unlisted enterprise is Global Shipping, and the joint venture unlisted enterprise is Universal Shipping

The organizational structure is clear and clear, of course, there are too many Sun companies, after all, each ship is a company, but in fact, it is just a separate financial statement, and the others are managed by a company.

Weekend, November 19th.

At breakfast, Xu Caiying said happily: "Today, TVB TV is launched, and Xiangjiang finally has a color program!" ”

When she was overseas, she had no problem watching English programs, and she was still enthusiastic about color TV; Xiangjiang's Li's TV stations have been running black and white programs for ten years, and they are really tired of it.

In fact, when TVB invited him to bid in 1965, Li Xiaohe also invited him to join the bid, but Lin Zhichao refused and did not bid alone. The major shareholders of TVB are three foreign banks - HSBC, Hutchison, and Times Life International, all of which probably own more than 2 million shares; As for the private shareholders Li Xiaohe, Li Rongsen, Li Rongda, Shao Liushu, etc., they only have hundreds of thousands of shares, only a fraction of others.

If Lin Zhichao joins, he will only have hundreds of thousands of shares, and Li Xiaohe just takes a fancy to his 'knight' identity and influence. There is no need at all, Lin Zhichao plans to buy Li's TV station in the early eighties, why bother to get involved!

For Lin Zhichao, if the media can only develop in Xiangjiang, he would rather not do it. Therefore, when Lin Zhichao entered the TV industry in the 80s, he naturally focused on the global market, mainly program copyrights, satellite TV, etc., and even to improve the influence of Hong Kong.

So it's completely unnecessary to do it too early!

Lin Zhichao said: "At 9 o'clock in the morning, TVB used microwave technology to broadcast the Omen Grand Prix (racing) live for the whole Hong Kong audience, which is the first live TV program in Hong Kong. ”

Recently, he also heard the publicity that 9 a.m. was a live broadcast of the car race at Omen. But in fact, at 8 o'clock in the evening, TVB's first color program - the European and American drama "Rat Column" was broadcast, and after the show, it was produced by Heung Kong Radio and reflected the life of the citizens of the sitcom "Under the Taiping Mountain"; The next day, there was a variety show "Happy Tonight" hosted by Shen Dianxia and Liang Jinbo.

That's probably it, the TV station at this time is not 24 hours a day. Even Lin Zhichao in his previous life knew that when he was a child, the TV station passed twelve o'clock, and it was a round mosaic.

"yes, there's a car to see!" The children said happily.

"Eat Eat"

The family is very warm!

At this time, Lin Zhichao suddenly felt that it was very rewarding to enter the media industry and enrich the lives of citizens.

After eating, Lin Zhichao hid in the study, thinking about things in his mind.

His career has suddenly increased a lot, which makes him feel a little 'uneasy', but he can't stop doing it, or wait for his son to do it later;

Global Group, Cheung Kong Industrial Group, Cheung Kong Industrial Group, Shangri-La Hotel Group, Oriental Media, Uniqlo Garment Company, which is equivalent to Lin Zhichao has six group companies.

The first three are still the most important, but Shangri-La Hotel and Oriental Media have begun to develop, and they also need some of his energy; As for the Uniqlo clothing company, it has developed over the years and has been in a stable development, but it also needs to start to break through.

"Knock knock. Husband, what are you thinking? Tang Caiyun walked in and asked with concern.

This man rarely brings his work home, sometimes preferring to work overtime and going home to work. This weekend, I actually hid in the study, which was a little abnormal.

Lin Zhichao motioned for Tang Caiyun to sit down, and then he said: "What do you think of letting Ruihuan return to Hong Kong after graduating from University and join Cheung Kong Group?" ”

In the past, he disliked that his eldest son was only twenty years old when he graduated, but now he can't wait for his close relatives to join the company, although Lin Ruihuan joined the company from low-level management, and may even be an ordinary employee.

When Tang Caiyun saw Lin Zhichao's appearance, she immediately understood something, and said, "Very good!" Ruihuan was precocious, and he told me that he did not plan to study for a master's degree, but planned to work abroad for two years. She felt that her husband was a little tired, and her heart was very painful.

Lin Zhichao nodded and said, "After graduating the year after graduation, I will go to Singapore to join the shopping mall project on Orchard Road." ”

Tang Caiyun asked, "When will this project start?" ”

Lin Zhichao said: "Lawyer Li has already approached me and said that he hopes to start building a shopping mall. I plan to open in the first half of next year, and I expect to open in 1971. ”

In fact, the project can be established in the middle of this year, but it has been dragged by Lin Zhichao.

Tang Caiyun said: "Husband, why don't you arrange a real job for me, anyway, I have been exercising for so many years, and the children are also older." ”

She saw Lin Zhichao's state, after all, after the three group companies, there were Shangri-La Hotel and Uniqlo.

Especially at the Shangri-La Hotel, my husband attaches great importance to it and spends a lot of energy.

Lin Zhichao said: "I don't need a real job, I am already very relieved that you are in the company!" I don't feel comfortable taking on a specific job position. ”

It is a treasure of the town division, and it is only useful at critical moments, and there may be no critical moments in a lifetime, but it can't be without.

Tang Caiyun nodded!

"Let's go watch TV with the kids!"

Lin Zhichao got up, and his mood returned to his previous ease and domineering.

No matter how much he has a career, first of all, his brain is abnormally developed, and he works eight or nine hours a day, which is twice as efficient as other bosses; Secondly, the development of the cause can not only rely on oneself, but more to use talents for my use; In the end, it is still the primary stage, and it will be easier to worry about it for a few more years, and after it will stabilize in the future.

To borrow the words of Konosuke Matsushita, the founder of Matsushita Electric - "When there are 100 employees, I must stand in front of the employees, take the lead, and give orders; When the number of employees increased to 1,000, I had to stand in the middle of the staff and beg them for help. When the number of employees reaches 10,000, I can only stand behind them and be grateful; If the number of employees increases to 50,000 to 100,000, it is not enough to be grateful, but to put your hands together and lead them with the devotion of worshipping the Buddha. ”

Konosuke Matsushita vividly depicts the role that business owners should play in different stages of the business, and the business is small in scale and can be done by himself; The scale of the business is medium, and more rely on assistants; The scale of the business is huge, and it must also be ruled by a spiritual force.

Konosuke Matsushita attributes the success of his career to the success of his talent concept, and he has a saying that is deeply respected by the world's business circles: "Create talents before creating things." ”

Lin Zhichao is such a person, and his approach to talent has two characteristics - first, he likes to learn people, or people with high academic qualifications; Second, he likes to use old ministers and train right-hand men from the beginning.

The first point is that he is not a person who only looks at academic qualifications, but he must be a person who loves to learn, so there are almost hundreds of people who have been sent overseas by him for further study over the years. Many people have been gone for three or four years, Lin Zhichao is willing to pay, and he is also willing to wait for him to return, and then he will be reused.

The second point is that the proportion of his subordinates who leave their jobs is extremely small, and many of them are veterans who have been with him for almost 20 years, and they have won his trust; But this does not mean that there is no channel for new talent to rise, because his career is rising, so the promotion channel is very spacious.

Lin Zhichao does not rule out poaching executives from the outside, but the proportion of veterans must be large, and the executives who come in from outside are more of a 'supplement', so as not to make the management too single.

(End of chapter)