Year: I had a good time when I was young

Chapter 996: Advanced Investment and Generous Returns

Saqier and the people behind her were shocked by Chu Xiangqian's enthusiasm.

But think about it, the purpose of this visit is to seek deeper cooperation.

Chu Xiangqian now took the initiative to show his intention to get close to him, and Saqier's face soon returned to a smile.

Whether it is entering Downing Street or moving into the White Palace, it has always been a game of money.

As long as there is enough money, even if it is a pig, there is a good chance of winning.

Not to mention, Sayer's own abilities are first-rate.

Betting on her means a guaranteed win and a guaranteed profit.

After Sayer and Chu Xiangqian separated, they looked at Margaret and took the initiative to kneel and salute, "Your Highness, good morning."

When Margaret was in the car, she complained about being disturbed by Sayil and his group on their family activities.

But when facing Saqier, he not only smiled brightly, but also held the other person very closely, and was polite with a smile for a while.

Then he introduced Nata and brought Jingxing over.

In Margaret's mind, since her husband has already said that Saqier is the most promising candidate in this class, Jing Xing will definitely benefit a lot in the future if he has more contact with Saqier.

It would be great if I could receive guidance from Sayil, even if it was just for a month or two, or just meet and talk for half an hour.

It will also be of great help to Jingxing in understanding Yingguo's political arena.

If Jingxing wants to go into politics when he grows up, Sayer will definitely be the best mentor and guide.

Chu Xiangqian had the same idea.

My family is not short of money, and it is foreseeable that my wealth will increase in the future.

That requires a trustworthy person to step up to the podium.

Of course, in the next 20 to 30 years, Chu Xiangqian does not need Jingxing to achieve great success in the securities industry.

It will be much easier to get involved and then negotiate transactions with clients.

Even being the financial backer behind the scenes can make things go more smoothly.

Even though he had already transferred part of his wealth to his son and daughter.

But in the future, when calculating wealth rankings, in addition to individual wealth rankings, the total amount of wealth held by the family will also be calculated.

Therefore, if Jingxing is interested in politics, Chu Xiangqian will definitely support him.
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When Sayil left, he had already received a promise from Chu Xiangqian that he would provide 300 million pounds and inject it into more than a dozen election funds.

Chu Xiangqian didn't know how much of the money could be used for the election.

Even most of it might be divided up privately by the few people who visited today, and Chu Xiangqian didn't want to care about it.

The benefit he got was that someone would lobby the British shareholders at Sheung Wan Pier on Hong Kong Island to sell their shares to him at the current market price.

Moreover, during the privatization process of London Water, Chu Xiangqian can acquire less than 30% of the shares.

Although water services may not seem to be profitable, the profits from this business are very stable.

If you are a little more unscrupulous and spend some money to deal with the supervision, the profits will be beyond your imagination.

Chu Xiangqian knew that London's water supply had not been supervised for decades.

But even so, the company continues to suffer losses every year, so much so that it is now almost insolvent.

This shows how chaotic the company's accounts were during the period when it was in the hands of the London Stock Exchange.

After privatization, the company turned from loss to profit in just two years.

The company's market value will continue to increase by 4% to 8% every year.

For those who want to preserve their wealth, London Water is indeed a good deal.

It can be said that the future profits will be dozens or even hundreds of times of the 300 million pounds.

Although the pier in Sheung Wan is not big, the housing prices in Sheung Wan are not much lower than those in Central.

But that is also compared with Zhonghuan.

As long as he controlled this wharf, together with the wharf in Chai Wan, 8% of the wharf business in Hong Kong Island would be monopolized by Chu Xiangqian.

Just by buying and reselling this pier, Chu Xiangqian estimated that he would make a profit of 200 to 300 million Hong Kong dollars.

The market value of docks in this era is generally underestimated.

Wharf Holdings, which owns a large amount of properties and land, had a normal market value of only HK$14 billion last year.

Hutchison Whampoa only issued 1 million shares, equivalent to HK$14 per share.

When Mr. Bao acquired it in his previous life, the price of one share directly rose to more than fifty.

Subsequently, Jardine Matheson began to launch acquisitions in order to save Hutchison Whampoa.

70 Hong Kong dollars, 80 Hong Kong dollars, and finally rose to 105 Hong Kong dollars.

If Chu Xiangqian planned to sell the Sheung Wan Pier, he would only need to hype it up for a year or two and make tens of billions.

However, Chu Xiangqian would definitely not sell it.

Not only will they not sell it, but after buying it, they will also invest in expanding the dock and updating the facilities on the dock.

By collecting rent from the dock, it is easy to make tens of millions every year.

By the 1990s, it was normal to have a net profit of several hundred million per year.

When China increases its investment in mainland ports, we can sell them and make tens or hundreds of billions of dollars.

When the news reached Hong Kong Island, Zheng Shufen, who had been the general manager of Chai Wan Terminal and Global Shipping for many years, felt her heart pounding with excitement.

Chu Xiangqian also asked her to quietly acquire shares of Hutchison Whampoa.

Once it really takes over Wharf Holdings, the company will own the dock warehouses and land in Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong Island and the New Territories.

It also owns two container terminals at Kwai Chung Terminal.

Then Chu Xiangqian would really become the largest wharf owner in Hong Kong Island.

Moreover, there are many controlled lands and warehouses at the docks.

Use it for real estate and you can earn more.

Otherwise, there wouldn’t have been so many real estate developers in Hong Kong Island who started eyeing the various docks starting in the 80s.

To put it bluntly, not only can buildings be built, but the business and profits of the terminal itself are also very stable.

It's like having two meals with one cake.

In May, Thatcher moved into Downing Street as he wished.

As the first female winner, it caused quite a stir.

Although Chu Xiangqian did not attend the press conference that day, he waited for Sayil to go on vacation to Balmoral according to tradition.

There was news that Chu Xiangqian was among the accompanying personnel.

As a gift, Chu Xiangqian privately gave Saqier a pair of earrings made of 18mm South Sea pearls.

As a pearl enthusiast, Sayer was extremely fond of this pair of sea pearls.

During the exclusive period, she always wore this pair of earrings.

After returning from Balmoral, Thacher was about to meet Eliza the next day.

Chu Xiangqian, Margaret and Jingxing were invited to Buckingham Palace.

Eliza actually didn't know how to face this strong woman.

Even before they met, Eliza was worried and asked Chu Xiangqian about Saqier's personality and preferences from time to time.

And Sayil was indeed very powerful. As soon as he came to power, he kicked out most of the ministers.

Eliza felt that Thatcher was too radical and impatient.

As a king who had experienced eight first events, Eliza knew that governance was a very dangerous and cruel game.

A person like Thatcher, who started to attack indiscriminately right from the start, really made Eliza a little overwhelmed.

Not only did he invite Chu Xiangqian to his home in advance, he also chatted with him for a long time.

The next day, he accompanied Eliza outside the meeting room where the two met. To put it bluntly, he wanted to use the relationship between Chu Xiangqian and Saqier to hint Saqier not to be so aggressive.

Relying on his super hearing, Chu Xiangqian was able to hear that the two people did not say much during their conversation.

Chat about home matters first, then talk about family members.

Then Eliza probably wanted to tell Thatcher how rich her experience was.

Not only did he predict the candidates for cabinet members in front of Sayil, he also said with certainty that there would definitely be a female minister.

But who is Saqir? She immediately said that not only would there be no female ministers, she also felt that women were not suitable for sitting in high positions.

As for the reason, it’s simply because I haven’t found the right one and I think women are emotional.

After listening to this, Eliza didn't say anything for a long time, and the meeting ended in nothing.

Afterwards, Chu Xiangqian learned from Philip that the time the two women met was the shortest among all the times in all these years.

When Saqier came out, he glared at Chu Xiangqian fiercely.

Chu Xiangqian shrugged, knowing that Saqier was angry with him, and handed her an 18mm white pearl.

At the same time, she gave Eliza a 15mm red pearl brooch.

This made Sayil feel like he was trying to please both sides.

Chu Xiangqian had to explain, “Madam, as your supporter, I am completely on your side.

But you may have overlooked that my dear and Your Majesty are both women and sisters.

I only found out this morning that she gave the 40th birthday present I gave her to her sister instead.”

As soon as Thacher heard it, he understood that Margaret and her sister both felt that he had stolen their limelight.

Only then did the two sisters come together and want to suppress me during the meeting.

As a witness, after thinking it through, he felt that Margaret was really childish.

He suddenly smiled and hugged Chu Xiangqian in front of the guards.

While giving him the kiss, she kissed him twice on the face.

However, Chu Xiangqian's action of rolling his eyes made the strong woman laugh.

The next day, the media photographed Chu Xiangqian walking into Sayil's home with a bottle of Scottish red wine.

Greeting him at the door were Sayil's husband and son.

Afterwards, a photo appeared in the media of Sayil holding a plate of food and personally picking up a piece of apple pie for Chu Xiangqian.

The dignitaries in the upper class just laughed at this, as they all knew Chu Xiangqian's identity long ago.

She also knew that he was Margaret's man.

But ordinary people don’t know much about it. Chu Xiangqian suddenly became a hot news topic in the eyes of Yingguo and even the media around the world.

However, a few years ago, when Chu Xiangqian's wealth once ranked first in the world, he was already deeply exposed by the media.

This time, the media wanted to make some big news, but they found that Chu Xiangqian's wealth seemed to have shrunk a lot.

The total wealth of the companies on the surface and the shares of the holding companies is only more than 30 billion US dollars.

Compared with previous years, his wealth, which once exceeded US$65 billion, has shrunk by half.

Now it can't even make the top five.

But even so, he is worth billions when he is less than 40 years old, and from the photos, we can see that Chu Xiangqian is very handsome.

He immediately became the super rich man that women all over the world most wanted to marry.

It was several days later when the media started to report news about Chu Xiangqian.

Another Japanese newspaper suddenly reported that Chu Xiangqian's wife Xue Jinglan had personal assets of at least $5 million.

At the same time, their daughter, Jingyu, owns 11 high-rise buildings in Central, Tsim Sha Tsui and Causeway Bay on Hong Kong Island.

There are also two buildings in Tokyo Ginza that were acquired throughout the year, also under Jingyu's name.

Based on current housing prices, the 11 buildings on Hong Kong Island are worth at least HK$17 billion.

Converted into US dollars, based on the mid-rate exchange rate of 1 US dollar to 5 Hong Kong dollars, Jing Yu's net worth is 11 million US dollars thanks to these 3.4 buildings.

The two buildings in Ginza are also worth $1.4 million.

There is also a super cruise ship on the sea, which pays out millions of dollars in dividends every year.

The newspaper estimated that Jingyu's net worth was no less than $5 million.

She is richer than her mother and has become the richest woman in Hong Kong Island.

However, Xue Jinglan's wealth is actually far more than US$5 million.

The family fund established by Chu Xiangqian was nominally owned by Xue Jinglan, but the actual controlling shareholder has always been Chu Xiangqian himself.

Many years ago, this fund has been included in the shareholder list of many large companies.

If you want to check, it’s not difficult.

This is because Chu Xiangqian has dispersed part of his shares to many offshore companies.

Otherwise, just 5.3% of IBM's shares would be worth $396 billion based on IBM's market value of $19.8 billion this year.

But the family fund in Hong Kong only owns 2.1% of IBM's shares.

But even so, the value of this part of the shares exceeds 8 million US dollars.

Including shares of General Motors, Texas Instruments, Coca-Cola, Gulf Oil and other companies, the wealth controlled by the fund has reached more than 2 billion US dollars.

Now everyone knows that Chu Xiangqian has been constantly transferring assets under his name in recent years.

No one even knows how much wealth he has hidden.

If Margaret is included, the fund that she nominally controlled also bought shares in many large companies.

The market value of this part will not be less than several billion US dollars.

If you really calculate it, Chu Xiangqian's family wealth has exceeded 85 billion.

25 billion more than this year's richest man.

Fortunately, Chu Xiangqian and Margaret have no legal relationship at all.

But for the upper class of Ying and Mei women, not only do they have a son, but even the assets under Jingxing's name have skyrocketed in recent years.

With the revelations from Japan, Meiguo and Yingguo no longer had anything to worry about.

There are constant media reports on news related to Chu Xiangqian.

It even spread to desert areas.

It is said that Chu Xiangqian bought a fairly large oil field fifteen years ago.

At the current price of $30 per barrel, this oil field, which produces 5 barrels per month, has an annual turnover of $1800 million.

Over the years, it has also successively purchased shares in several large oil fields.

It is said that he is a super tycoon with businesses spanning real estate, finance, oil, horse racing, shipping, agriculture, animal husbandry and jewelry.

Chu Xiangqian actually doesn’t care much about these reports. After all, his property had been exposed by the media a few years ago.

It doesn't matter if I report on myself, Xue Jinglan, or even Margaret.

But what he couldn't accept was that Jingyu was not yet an adult, and if Xiao Guizi reported Jingyu, that would cross Chu Xiangqian's bottom line.

But before I could call Kumiko, this girl called me on her own initiative.

"Master, Ichiro Matsuno just called me, and Ozunu heard that the news in Japan this time was someone deliberately targeting you.

The purpose is to buy out the 9% of Sony shares that you hold.

At the same time, I am very dissatisfied with your continuous acquisition of shares in Neon's television, radio and newspaper companies."

Chu Xiangqian sneered and said, "I understand."

(End of this chapter)