Year: I had a good time when I was young

Chapter 1030 Eat Meat in a Big Mouth
Neon welcomes the investment in the four Hong Kong sisters, but at the same time, they are unwilling to see Chu Xiangqian making money on their territory.

However, the investment company of the four Hong Kong students may seem to have a lot of US$4 million, but when it is invested in Tokyo real estate, it cannot actually cause any waves.

If they are not allowed to invest, or if they are restricted from transferring the money they earn in the future, the losses to the Japanese will be even greater.

But if you only focus on the buildings in Ginza, $4 million can really drive up the housing prices in Ginza.

In addition, Chu Xiangqian is ranked among the top five richest people in the world and has the social influence that comes with it. As long as he stands up and says that he is optimistic about the appreciation potential of Tokyo real estate.

It will inevitably attract more people to enter the real estate industry.

Therefore, there are many Japanese people who welcome Hong Kong students to invest.

After four Hong Kong students spent half a month to actually buy an 7-story building worth 18 million US dollars near Ginza from a large bank in Neon.

Due to a lot of coverage and attention, land prices in Tokyo actually rose by 1.7% in just one week.

In particular, housing prices around Ginza rose by 3.2%.

The property owners were ecstatic, while ordinary people cursed Chu Xiangqian's family.

The reason why Chu Xiangqian was able to buy this building was very simple.

Japan's financial group has always wanted to enter the magnesium industry to earn US dollars.

But the people of Magnesium Women are not stupid. They cannot win in industries such as automobiles, textiles, steel and semiconductors, but they are strictly guarding against Japanese capital in industries such as finance, military industry, medical care and insurance.

Basically don't play with each other.

Since Chu Xiangqian was able to acquire shares in the four largest women's banks, the Japanese naturally wanted to use him as a lobbyist to lobby the leaders of the women's association and bankers.

Unfortunately, Chu Xiangqian doesn't want Japan to rise even more than the people of Meiguo.

So forget about the financial industry, and instead start to introduce the bright prospects of the film and television industry to the Japanese.

By the way, it was already 81, and the shipping industry was about to enter a low period.

If he doesn't sell his shares in the shipping company, not only will his assets shrink, but the annual losses will also make him miserable.

Therefore, while shipping is still at its peak, this is the best and last time to sell off your shipping business.

However, it would be impossible to make this deal within a few months.

It is common for the process to be delayed for a year or two.

When the capital in Hong Kong followed suit and invested in Japanese real estate, especially Tokyo real estate, the housing prices rose even more.

The Japanese are happy, but also a little flustered.

For a world-renowned tycoon like Chu Xiangqian to invest so blatantly in Tokyo real estate, he must have seen a generous rate of return.

Being optimistic about the Japanese economy is naturally a good thing for the Japanese people.

But allowing him to invest heavily and drive up land prices would not be a good thing for most ordinary people.

In particular, Chu Xiangqian has been infiltrating all walks of life in Japan over the past decade.

He even acquired a lot of shares in newspapers and TV stations.

He owns 19% of NHK's shares.

Sony even got 13% of the shares.

It can be said that Chu Xiangqian now owns more shares in Sony than anyone else in the company.

It is impossible for those securities traders and capitalists not to have some worries in their hearts.

As for fear, that is out of the question.

Japan is a tiny country, but in 85, its economic size reached half that of China.

The total value of real estate in Tokyo could buy two houses.

So the Japanese are becoming more and more confident at this time.

Not to mention that Chu Xiangqian only took out a few hundred million to buy a house in Tokyo. Even if it was 40 billion or 100 billion, the top management of Neon would only be happier.

It is actually very difficult for Japanese people to drive up real estate prices solely on their own.

Only by attracting a large amount of foreign capital investment can we make the pie bigger together.

But correspondingly, the Japanese do not want foreign capital to make money and grow bigger. This point is not specifically directed at Chu Xiangqian.

After Hong Kong capital began to enter the market, some investment institutions in Southeast Asia, Europe and the United States immediately began to tentatively follow suit.

This is the effect of super-rich and celebrities, which has indeed accelerated Neon's economic growth in the long run.

With more funds in the market, the investment enthusiasm of Japanese locals will naturally increase.

However, soon the Japanese media reported a front-page news in the newspaper about how much money Chu Xiangqian had.

Last year, media reports from Meiguo said that his assets had been shrinking in recent years and were now at most 35 billion.

Even if the family assets are added together, it may only be 60 billion.

But Chu Xiangqian had just invested 2 million in Meiguo and 1 million in Yingguo.

Jingxing's 100 million US dollars, in accordance with Chu Xiangqian's instructions, was used to actively participate in the telecommunications company that was about to be separated from the post office.

This move was not only welcomed by the British Post Office, but also strongly supported by Thatcher.

As soon as Thatcher came to power, the most active thing she did was to privatize Britain's state-owned assets.

To a certain extent, this can indeed revitalize the market.

Downing Street can still receive a large amount of funds and the economy will accelerate, but the consequences of complete privatization are also serious.

But for a big capitalist like Chu Xiangqian, he had already set his sights on many of Yingguo's high-quality assets as early as the mid-1960s.

Once Jingxing succeeds in acquiring a stake in Yingguo Telecom, it only needs to obtain 20% or even more than 10% of the shares. This will surely continue for many years to come, and he will be one of the richest people in Yingguo.

However, since this company has just been spun off, its own value is actually not high.

When mobile communications were still in their infancy, many people were not optimistic about this industry.

Therefore, the team that Margaret helped Jingxing to build only spent 24 million US dollars and got % of the shares.

If he was not worried about the future, Jingxing would continue to acquire shares of this telecommunications company little by little. In the future, he might control 33.4% of the shares and have a veto power.

Even if they wanted to take 51% of the shares, Yingguo Post Office strongly opposed it and was only willing to give this amount of shares.

Margaret wanted to buy the company outright.

It's a pity that they don't want to sell, and are willing to take a gamble. There are also many London capitals that follow Chu Xiangqian and Jingxing.

Not to mention others, Philips took 5%.

Norton was even more like an all-in, emptying out his own cash and taking 17%.

With these two people, Chu Xiangqian actually already owns nearly half of the shares, so he is not in a hurry at all.

The remaining nearly 7 million US dollars were again invested in the stocks of North Sea Oilfield, Sun Insurance, and Shanglian Insurance in accordance with Chu Xiangqian's instructions.

However, Margaret did not do exactly what Chu Xiangqian said.

This woman actually had quite a bit of cash in her hands, and she was actually acquiring shares of the North Sea oil fields and two insurance companies at the same time.

Using this as a cover, he quietly began to buy shares of HSBC.

It was only through the cat beside Margaret that Chu Xiangqian finally discovered the woman's little trick.

However, after discovering it, they not only did not stop it.

While still at Meiguo's place, at a private dinner, she told J.P. Morgan and several major shareholders of Citigroup that she was not optimistic about HSBC's future business and profits in Hong Kong Island.

If it were a company outside Hong Kong Island, people like J.P. Morgan would not necessarily believe what Chu Xiangqian said. But when he said that HSBC's business prospects in Hong Kong Island were unclear, basically no one doubted it.

After the banquet, J.P. Morgan and people from Citibank began to study how to short HSBC's stock at its London headquarters.

Once the layout was completed, some Wall Street media immediately began to predict HSBC's future profits.

The focus is on HSBC's future profits in Hong Kong Island, which may continue to shrink.

As soon as the news came out, the investment institutions on Wall Street were the fastest to act.

When the news reached Yingguo, HSBC's share price immediately fell.

Even Margaret herself began to want to run away.

Fortunately, Chu Xiangqian called her and pretended to be surprised, while scolding Margaret for not informing him.

At the same time, he said that he had actually set his sights on HSBC, and that was why he used the media and Wall Street to drive down the company's stock price.

Margaret seemed to be energized by this, and she kept quietly buying and selling large amounts of stocks in the market.

Moreover, this woman was quite smart. She stopped only when the number of shares reached the critical point of 4.99%.

As long as it does not exceed 5%, the acquisition does not need to be announced to the public.

Of course, if you use multiple accounts, as long as none of them exceeds 5%, there is no need for public disclosure.

However, it is not easy to keep this secret.

At least within HSBC, it soon became clear that a large amount of funds were buying up shares of their headquarters.

When I found out it was Margaret, I immediately guessed that Chu Xiangqian must be behind it.

Chu Xiangqian has long been a major shareholder of Standard Chartered, and if he were to become a major shareholder of HSBC.

The people at HSBC felt their scalps tingling at the thought and began to lobby the Hong Kong government and Downing Street to stop Margaret from continuing to acquire the shares.

Chu Xiangqian took the opportunity to buy several high-quality buildings in Hong Kong Island from HSBC at low prices, thus ensuring that he would no longer continue to purchase HSBC shares.

He also let Margaret sell her 4.9% stake, making more than million, and then turned his attention to the shares of London Water and Electricity Company.

This series of hype immediately made countless investors envious.

According to the Japanese media, Chu Xiangqian is a predator with no bottom line or credibility.

Over the past decade or so, the means used to acquire shares of so many Japanese companies were equally dishonorable.

It was also mentioned again that during this period, Chu Xiangqian's sons and himself had put out a total of approximately US$9 million for investment and acquisitions.

No one would believe that Chu Xiangqian’s assets are only 35 billion.

The Japanese media’s intention is simple, which is to push Chu Xiangqian to the throne of the world’s richest man again.

By then, the number of people and forces keeping an eye on him will definitely be much greater than in the past one or two years.

It will not be so easy to quietly acquire a company or to make waves in the stock market.

But this time, after the report came out, Chu Xiangqian didn't even need to say anything.

Feifei immediately asked people to mobilize the media power in Japan to mock the narrow-minded thinking of some people in Japan.

Moreover, many newspapers in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia also began to mock Japan.

And they also stated that they welcome foreign capital to invest in their country.

A series of advantages are also listed.

For a time, the media in East Asia and Southeast Asia were fighting each other with great pleasure.

Chu Xiangqian took the opportunity to have Gangsheng, Feifei, Jinzhi and Jinxiu take a private plane and appear in Singapore with a dozen bodyguards, a team of more than a dozen lawyers and consultants.

Neon, on the other hand, has become much quieter.

As a major shareholder of Standard Chartered, Chu Xiangqian has a lot of contacts with forces in Singapore.

Moreover, it has long been no secret within Standard Chartered that the four Hong Kong students have money.

Even Chu Xiangqian has been purchasing gold with the profits he earned from buying and selling gold at high prices over the years, which has reached 130 tons.

It is no secret to senior executives in Singapore who are also shareholders of Standard Chartered.

Therefore, the big money sponsor has a large amount of cash in his hands, which has not been used up yet.

If we don’t give a good reception to a large inspection team coming to Singapore, we would be a sinner.

However, for foreign investors, or investors who specifically target real estate speculation, real estate in Singapore is not actually the best investment destination.

When the 'rental housing' scheme was introduced in the 70s, foreigners were not eligible to buy rented housing.

In the future, 8% of Singapore's population will live in rental houses.

As for executive apartments, it also takes 5 to 10 years before one is eligible to purchase them.

Only apartments and freehold private properties are the target of foreign investors.

However, there are also land and houses that can be bought and sold at will.

It is Sentosa Island, a tourist island that is being developed with emphasis.

Chu Xiangqian's idea to Hong Kong students was to sell land on Sentosa Island and build a luxury hotel.

If possible, build a main building with a housing price of 500 units at the same time.

Build more tourist villas for rent.

A par 72 golf course.

And a large water amusement park to enclose the land and the beach.

Moreover, the land of this island is privately titled and can be inherited forever.

With strong government support in the tourism industry, the prospects are still very good.

In addition, housing prices are not expensive and many places on the island are still in their original state.

The land is sold and construction is completed based on estimates by Bu Huaquan, a professional architectural designer, and a professional team.

With an investment of only 40 to 50 million US dollars, the hotel, golf course and other ancillary facilities that Chu Xiangqian envisioned could be roughly built.

Even Aiyuan, after hearing about Bu Huaquan's on-site inspection, called back and boarded Chu Xiangqian's private plane to fly over to take a look.

Finally, Aiyuan called Chu Xiangqian, invested 500 million US dollars, and successfully obtained 8% of the shares.

This girl has indeed made a lot of money from the furniture business over the years.

His net worth has long exceeded hundreds of millions of Hong Kong dollars, and he has a lot of cash on hand.

However, she also followed Chu Xiangqian and her sisters-in-law and bought properties in Hong Kong Island when she had money.

Otherwise, she could come up with not only 5 million US dollars, but also 2 million US dollars.

Unfortunately, even if Chu Xiangqian was willing to help Aiyuan get rich together, his sisters-in-law, Gangsheng, Feifei, Jinzhi and Jinxiu, were unwilling to give Aiyuan too many shares.

Now that Ehime can join in, Chu Xiangqian's partners who have worked with him for many years naturally want to get a piece of the pie.

People like He Chaosheng, Zheng Yutong, Ye Xiaoli, He Zanyuan, and Zhao Congyian called him every few days.

Or come directly to your door.

Moreover, the forces in Hong Kong want to make money along the way, and the Celestial Empire is also eager to try.

(End of this chapter)