The box office of "The Great Warlord" has been rising all the way, and the praise has continued, in just half a month, it has earned 1.5 million Hong Kong dollars, and broke the previous highest box office record of "Hong Kong local films" - 1.4 million Hong Kong dollars for "One-armed Knife King".

The record is still being refreshed, after all, the box office in the previous life was as high as 3.5 million Hong Kong dollars; Although the film was released two years ahead of schedule, in fact, Hong Kong's economy is better than the same period in the previous life, and the spending power of the citizens is also better than the same period in the previous life.

The other side.

Shao Lao Liu couldn't sit still, he didn't expect "The Great Warlord" to be so stakes, according to this situation, the box office is even more likely to be three million; After all, there are still five or six days before the Spring Festival, and there is still half the time before the 30~40-day release date.

He found his nephew Shao Weiying and said: "Weiying, the theater of the Shaw Brothers father and son shows movies from other studios, or plays Western films, I don't interfere with this. But now Golden Harvest Movies, you know very well that Zou Wenhuai and Li Hanxiang are traitors to Shaw Brothers Films, why do you still cooperate with them. ”

Shao Weiying is not worthy of this uncle, strictly speaking, his sixth uncle came to Hong Kong to seize power, and his father lost his production business. Of course, he doesn't blame the sixth uncle for this, but now he shouldn't interfere with the 'Shaw Brothers father and son'.

"Sixth uncle, I also watched the movie "The Great Warlord" very well, so I was willing to give it a try. We opened a theater, to put it bluntly, we are striving for attendance, and now that "The Great Warlord" is released in our theaters, it has driven our theater attendance, which is a win-win situation. I know what you mean, but I can't abide by your rules, of course the Shaw Brothers are still willing to mainly release Shaw Brothers films, but now I can't do it without making money. It's time for us to abandon the stereotypes of family gate valves and work together for a win-win situation. ”

Shao Lao Liu didn't expect that he would come to 'question his nephew', but he was preached by his nephew and his attitude was resolute.

However, for this matter, it is impossible for him to fall out with his nephew, and the cinema chain of the Shaw Brothers father and son is still the most cinema in Hong Kong. The cinema chain of Shaw Brothers movies was established after he arrived in Hong Kong, but it is not as many as the cinemas of Shaw Brothers and his sons, which is much worse.

"So, you're going to continue working with them in the future?"

Shao Weiying said seriously: "Yes! Judging from the situation of "The Great Warlord" this time, Golden Harvest movies are not as unbearable as the outside world says, on the contrary, they have been trying to develop greatly, Li Hanxiang and Bruce Lee are their killer weapons Of course, if there is a good movie in Shaw Brothers movies, we will give priority to it. But Uncle Six, business is business, and I can't put money without making money. Right? ”

Shao Lao Liu could only say: "Okay, it's good if you have your own opinions, it seems that the second brother is looking for you to take over, which is very correct." ”

Shao Weiying immediately said: "Uncle Xie is considerate! ”

He originally planned to try it at first, but after seeing the popularity of Golden Harvest movies, he decided to cooperate for a long time.

In fact, Golden Harvest's cinema chain is almost enough, even if there is no cinema chain of Shaw Brothers and his son, I am afraid it can exceed 2.5 million; But if the Shaw Brothers father and son are willing to release it, then it can exceed 3 million and reach a similar height in the previous life.

Lin Zhichao flipped through the financial statements of Cheung Kong Industrial Group, his face showed joy, the annual commercial real estate contributed 60 million Hong Kong dollars of profits, the development of real estate contributed 46 million Hong Kong dollars of profits, plus comprehensive industries, a total profit of 122 million Hong Kong dollars.

Surprisingly, Anderson Daya Stone Mining Company began to make a profit, and in 1969 it created a profit of 4 million. This is a very good thing, according to this situation, then the profit in this year (1970) will reach more than 10 million Hong Kong dollars.

At the same time, only 200,000 square feet of the original 4.6 million square feet of land reserve of Cheung Kong Industrial has been used, and there is still a full 4.4 million square feet of land reserve. Of course, a large part of this land reserve is the 'Land Exchange Interest' and the 'New Territories Land', and the land in the urban area of Hong Kong and Kowloon is less than 2 million square feet.

But in any case, the strength of Cheung Kong's land reserve is probably the sum of the 'six tigers of real estate', plus the land purchased successively in recent years.

To give a simple example, Sun Hung Kai's land reserve before its listing was less than 500,000 square feet, and these lands were basically reserves to buy land after making money. After the listing, the use of comprehensive means such as listing fundraising, loans, and new stock issuance to raise funds was only enough to raise 400 million Hong Kong dollars, increasing the land by less than 500,000 square feet and bringing the land to 1 million.

In 1968, Cheung Kong owned 4.6 million square feet of land.

After this kind of thing happened, the consequence was that the real estate industry began to slowly concentrate, and the real estate developers and people who owned land and property without vision lost a lot of money in 1967~1968.

And the discerning Guo Desheng, Li Shauji, Zheng Yutong, Wang Dehui, Chen Zengxi, Hu Yingxiang, etc., can still get the money and copy it to the end.

On the whole, there are still a lot of big real estate developers in Hong Kong, and they are far more than those who Lin Zhichao was familiar with in his previous life. You must know that in the previous life, there were about 50 or 60 real estate companies listed in 1972, which exceeded the fundraising scale of Cheung Kong Industrial, almost 20. The so-called 'Five Tigers of Real Estate' are all arranged in the back, and they have fallen behind a lot. It is conceivable that in his previous life, Li Jiacheng was able to surpass the previous 20 real estate developers, and his skills were indeed very high.

Lin Zhichao would not take residential land in 1969~1973 (the money was spent on commercial projects), so everyone still had a chance, but the price was high.

"Boss, it is said that Swire & Co. intends to sell the blue chimney, and they have already released the news!" Hu Zhaoxu came to Lin Zhichao's office to report a good news.

Lin Zhichao couldn't help but speak: "It's just an industrial land, and if you develop a commercial project, you have to spend money to change the nature of the land. Moreover, due to the regulations of Kai Tak Airport, that area cannot be built into a building, and the 200,000 square feet of land cannot be built into a large-scale building. Forget it, no interest! ”

In fact, I am interested, you must know that Swire & Co. only asked for 137 million yuan in its previous life, totaling less than 600 Hong Kong dollars per square foot (200,000 square feet of land). Of course, this is not to say that industrial land now costs more than 600 Hong Kong dollars per square foot, which is not so expensive at all. Rather, it is the cost of changing the nature of the land, which is generally much lower than the difference between industrial, residential and commercial land. What's more, this piece of land is near the sea and is the most cutting-edge of Tsim Sha Tsui, so the value of it must not be calculated as industrial land.

Later, after Zheng Yutong won this land, he continued to cater to the Hong Kong government officials, asking what kind of building the Hong Kong government wanted to build; The Hong Kong government was quickly fooled and expressed its hope to build a landmark building in Hong Kong to increase the viewing of Victoria Harbour. At this time, Zheng Yutong took the opportunity to put forward his own difficulty - the land is still too small, and I am powerless! The Hong Kong government is also honest, and directly sold the 200,000-square-foot land next to it to Zheng Yutong at a low price.

picked up this kind of cheapness, so Zheng Yutong went to the old capital and said 'such a good thing'!

Hu Zhaoxu nodded and said: "This land is indeed very restricted, and it is very different from our land in Raffles City and Yangtze River Plaza. ”

Lin Zhichao said: "It is our strategy to focus on the development of Central first. According to the habits of the Hong Kong government, there may be a Central 'land king' auction this year, and we must make every effort to prepare for the competition. So, I don't have any money either! ”

Hu Zhaoxu said: "It's really possible! Last year, the auction of Kowloon Land King ended, and Hong Kong real estate rose immediately; And this year, I will take another piece of Central 'land king' land auction, I believe that the real estate is a little hotter. ”

In Hong Kong today, real estate is very hot: high-end residential 110~130 Hong Kong dollars per square foot, and low-end residential 80~100 Hong Kong dollars per square foot.

The reason why high-end residential buildings have risen so sharply is that the rental and sales are relatively strong, and a large number of foreigners come to Hong Kong to work and live, so the rental market of high-end residential buildings is hot, and Cheung Kong Industrial Group also has many luxury houses and high-end residences for sale.

For this year's Central Land King, the headquarters of Jardine Matheson Building in the future, Lin Zhichao is the ambition to win.

He calculated: In 1969~1971, the profit of Changjiang Industrial Group was more than 400 million, and the support of Changjiang Industrial Group in the early stage was 100 million Hong Kong dollars, and the stock market investment of 30 million had the opportunity to become more than 300 million, and these funds were already more than 800 million.

In recent years, the investment in Far East Finance AB, Burj Al Arab, and Raffles City (Sing Tao) is more than 600 million.

Therefore, there is still money left, and it is almost enough to buy the Central Land King.

As for the construction cost, a little bit of a loan, because it doesn't hurt.

These commercial projects are all unlisted assets of Lin Zhichao (except Raffles City in Singapore), so if you can not go into debt, you should try to reduce debt.

On the eve of the Spring Festival, Lin Zhichao came to the media group, and Zou Wenhuai also came to report to him.

"Boss, "The Great Warlord" has been in theaters for 20 days and has already achieved a box office of 2 million, and it seems that there is no problem with a box office of 3 million, after all, the Spring Festival is coming soon."

Lin Zhichao said with satisfaction: "Okay, Golden Harvest Film has been established for a year, and I finally raised my eyebrows. By the way, when will Bruce Lee's movie start filming? ”

Zou Wenhuai said: "I went to Thailand to shoot "Tangshan Brother" in March, which happened to be released during the summer vacation, and I will have a summer vacation! ”

He drew inferences from one case to another, and felt that the boss's marketing methods this time were really admirable.

Lin Zhichao nodded, he didn't make any suggestions for Bruce Lee's movie, but the result was still the same. Actually, there is nothing complicated about these plots, and what the audience likes is Bruce Lee's fight scenes.

Because of this, I don't know if Bruce Lee will make two more movies in this life, and whether he will continue to be at his peak. After all, Bruce Lee's style will not make people aesthetically tired.

In fact, compared with Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan, even if Bruce Lee does not die, it is estimated that he will not be able to beat Jackie Chan in the later stage, and the drama path is too fixed.

"By the way, it turns out that the directors and actors of Denmao, you should also be kind and don't make any circles."

Zou Wenhuai was stunned for a moment, and then said: "No, the company is more supportive of their filmmaking, and Chu Yuan's first Chinese film made this year will also be released in March. Golden Harvest Film has the financial support of the group, treats everyone equally, and supports good scripts and profitable film shooting."

Lin Zhichao nodded and said: "The people in Golden Harvest movies are thin, compared to Shaw Brothers movies, there is still a way to go, and the actor training class is important. This director Chu Yuan, as well as a very talented "

Where does he know so much, but it sounds familiar, so he immediately expressed it.

"Well, we have at least doubled the production of films this year."

Lin Zhichao thought about it and said: "Even 20 can be invested, you can look at it!" ”

"Okay"

At this time, the output of Golden Harvest Films has more than doubled, and Zou Wenhuai is naturally very happy.

After chatting for a while, Zou Wenhuai went to work on his own affairs.

Li Ziduo, vice president of the group, and Luo Wenhui, president of Oriental Daily, then came to his office together.

"How's that Asia Daily going?" Lin Zhi asked.

For people like the Ma brothers, Lin Zhichao is more disdainful. However, Lin Zhichao naturally has a kind of vigilance against the "Asia Daily" they founded, that is, he must not let this "popular newspaper" have too much influence and threaten the "Oriental Daily".

So, that's what should be strangled in the cradle.

Because the two newspapers may have the same position (the Ma brothers recruited reporters aggressively and deduced the direction of development), Lin Zhichao planned to strike first.

He's right about things, not about people!

Luo Wenhui said: "Last year, we recruited a lot of reporters, but most of them were indiscriminate intern reporters, and the style of the newspaper has tended to imitate us, and it seems that it has been clearly positioned as a 'mass newspaper' and has to do a lot of time-sensitive news reports."

Lin Zhichao nodded and said, "Then start the plan, don't let the "Asia Daily" take off." They imitate it too fast, which will affect the Oriental Daily. Assuming that we at Oriental Daily would not need to be so proactive in a few years, it would be better to deal with it now."

The so-called plan, that is, the means of 'loss-making marketing', of course, has to be operated in concealment. The specific plan is to unite the publishers and newsstands, and the Oriental Daily will give them its share of the profits, and let them mainly promote the Oriental Daily.

That is to say, Oriental Daily is not making money now, and will even lose money, to do this event; Publishers and newsstand owners, after making higher profits than other newspapers, will naturally try their best to promote Oriental Daily.

The price of the Oriental Daily News in the market remained unchanged, and the public did not get a bargain. But they don't need to save that little money, and they don't feel anything. But with the push of publishers and newsstand owners, most of them will not choose to miss it.

Of course, this event is only going to be done for a month, after all, the effect should be great.

"Okay, boss!" Li Ziduo and Luo Wenhui replied at the same time.

During the Spring Festival, Lin Zhichao's family and Tang Zhongyuan's family got together.

In 1963, Mr. Tong was made a Justice of the Peace by the Hong Kong government, and served as a member of the Council of the Hong Kong Polytechnic and a member of the Advisory Committee on Industry and Commerce. In 1968, when Li Fushu resigned as a non-official member of the Legislative Council, Tai Lun-toe intended to replace him, but was politely rejected by Tang Zhongyuan - he was too busy with work, and finally Tang Bingyuan was defeated.

In other words, from the mid-to-mid-sixties, Tang Zhongyuan has surpassed the influence of his cousin Tang Bingyuan.

At this time, Tang Zhongyuan employed nearly 10,000 garment workers in Hong Kong, making it the largest garment factory in Hong Kong; Hong Kong's ready-made garments also surpassed textiles to become Hong Kong's largest industrial output, employing 125,000 workers (registered), accounting for about 18% of the manufacturing industry.

Tong Chung-yuen's textile factory has completely shifted its focus to West Africa – Nigeria and Ghana, both of which are Commonwealth countries, and Hong Kong's textile industry has less than 2,000 people left.

Tang Zhongyuan's real estate business has about two industrial buildings, a commercial building in Tsim Sha Tsui, and more than a dozen sites that have not yet started, and some land exchange rights and interests. In terms of scale, it is almost the level of Wang Dehui's Chinachem Real Estate; However, because Tang Zhongyuan has just entered the real estate industry, the development is relatively conservative and slow, so he will fall behind.

Tang Zhongyuan also has a lot of properties in the United States and Canada, and his net worth is also very expensive.

"The 'Far Eastern Society' was established recently, what do you think of Zhichao?" During the conversation, Tang Zhongyuan said.

Lin Zhi said generously: "It is a very good thing, and it is very beneficial to the Chinese." In the future, our Chinese enterprises can easily go public, and the funds raised can be invested in industry, shipping, real estate and other industries, and quickly catch up with British-funded foreign companies. ”

Tang Zhongyuan instantly understood the key to this, in fact, the remarks outside were all disapproving public opinion at the beginning.

But by the end of this year, the direction of all public opinion will change.

"In this way, the actual maturity is mature, and I am also considering going public!" Tang Zhongyuan said.

His cousin, Tang Bingyuan, went public as early as 1964 to raise funds to develop the textile industry. In fact, textiles and garments are both industries that require a lot of 'reinvestment' – quick renewals of equipment, the establishment of new factories and branches, the expansion of scale, and so on.

Lin Zhichao said: "Father-in-law, don't worry, the stock market is the hottest time, it is a good time to go public, because you can raise more funds." ”

Tang Zhongyuan nodded and said, "Well, I understand this. It's just that I'm thinking about it now, how to lay out the assets is more reasonable. Most of the assets of Oriental Textile are overseas, so there is definitely no need to list in Hong Kong, and I hope to list some companies in Africa in the future. ”

Lin Zhichao said: "It should be like this, and it is still more important to integrate into the local economy. ”

Although coups often occur in Nigeria and Ghana, no matter who is in the country, they are members of the British Commonwealth, and they are still relatively friendly to Chinese investors, because they also need to develop their economies; More importantly, Tang Zhongyuan has built deep connections in these countries over the years.

At present, with the help of Lin Zhichao's eldest brother-in-law Tang Xianqian, Tang Zhongyuan's business is already very easy.

Tang Zhongyuan said: "If the textile industry is divided, then the assets of the garment industry and real estate can be listed in a centralized manner. ”

Lin Zhichao said with a smile: "That's already very powerful!" ”

The valuation of the garment industry is not high, don't look at Tang Zhongyuan has nearly 10,000 garment workers, but if only Oriental Garment is listed independently, by 1972 the scale of fundraising was only 10 million or 20 million, it is a medium-sized enterprise.

On the contrary, as long as you have 10 sites and rental properties, you can raise almost 30 million Hong Kong dollars.

"At the beginning of this spring, Oriental Real Estate plans to start construction of the first site, and after the sale of this land, I will consider doing the second real estate. After all, I am a halfway monk, and it is best to work steadily. ”

Lin Zhichao said: "My father-in-law has always been like this, and my son-in-law admires it. ”

Tang Zhongyuan sighed: "Looking at you all the way, I think real estate is really risky, and how many real estate developers have fallen behind, so it will not be wrong to be stable." ”

Lin Zhichao said: "My father-in-law is stable and brave! ”

Tang Zhongyuan suddenly smiled and said, "You, don't pat me on the back, I'm not as good as you, it's far behind." As soon as the conversation changed, he finally said one thing: "What do you think of Xianqian and Youqian?" ”

"Very good, you can help your father-in-law!"

Tang Zhongyuan continued: "I want to say, the two brothers will be better apart in the future, or will they be together? I see that you have been in this area and seems to have a good layout. ”

It turns out that Tang Zhongyuan is 66 years old this year, and he is already thinking about the future, although he is still struggling for his career.

Lin Zhichao said: "Father-in-law, the situation of your family, of course, is good!" A group of things, brothers are united, Xianqian is responsible for textile and garment, and you learn real estate-related. ”

He can only manage when his father-in-law is alive, and who can say for sure in the future!

Tang Zhongyuan nodded and said, "What you said is too much to my liking!" ”

Lin Zhichao said in his heart, of course this arrangement is reasonable now, the eldest is responsible for the textile garments with the largest assets, which is the right of the eldest son, and the second is responsible for emerging real estate. But later, it became clear that the real estate assets were getting heavier and heavier, and then the brothers reversed.

Of course, his two wives and brothers are quite united, maybe they will be like Lee Shau-kee's two sons in his previous life, and they will not make trouble in a low-key manner. (End of chapter)