The Red Era: Starting from a Truck Driver

Chapter 263 Hong Kong Industrial Status
The temperament of a rich person cannot be faked. The mentality of a rich person is completely different from that of a poor person.

The simplest point is that rich people can spend money for a simple pleasure. Poor people just think about how to live a better life and will never treat irrelevant people to dinner.

Jiang Cheng watched the two little girls take the initiative in front of him. Since he promised to treat them, the two little girls naturally ordered whatever they liked.

"Uncle, why are you going home so early? The car on the side of the road is yours, right? Take us for a ride later. How about going with us to buy some cosmetics? We two will keep you company in the evening."

"Not really, I'm a decent man."

"Haha~~, uncle you are so funny."

Jiang Cheng's words "a serious man" made the two little girls laugh. A serious man would treat them to a meal. Why are they pretending?

Those who were eating lollipops just now have thrown away the remaining lollipops. It is very likely that they ate lollipops not to look cute, but because they were hungry and needed to compensate for sugar. With a lollipop in their mouths, they would not feel hungry.

As soon as the first dish was served, the two girls couldn't wait to start eating and even ordered a can of beer each.

Jiang Cheng found it quite interesting to watch the two girls eating, but he didn't like the content of their conversation. They were talking about who they disliked in school and wanted to find someone to teach the other person a lesson.

This is bullying, but those who are in Hong Kong, that is, young people who don't know better, will stand up for such a little gangster. The real gangsters, who are very disciplined, generally won't go to school to beat up students. Not to mention beating up girls, which is very shameful.

"Uncle, you are not really an honest man, you are a stuffy man. Do you want us to sit next to you?"

"No need, I really need to go back after dinner."

"Then why did you invite us to dinner?"

"Didn't you say you would eat with me? So I'll treat you to dinner."

The two little girls had filled their stomachs a little, and felt that they had left the sponsor out in the cold. They thought that they should be grateful to the sponsor, and wanted to let the sponsor take advantage of them.

But it's not their fault. If it were someone else, they would have taken advantage of it a long time ago. It's good enough that I didn't have to coax them for a while and then feed them mouth to mouth.

There is no one like Jiang Cheng, who doesn't talk much and just sits there and eats leisurely.

But now the two little girls really feel that the uncle sitting and eating seems to be really just inviting them to dinner. It seems that they have met a rich idiot.

The taste of this night snack stall is OK, but it can't compare with some chefs in tea restaurants. However, people who come here to eat are mainly for the affordable prices, while Jiang Cheng is for the atmosphere.

Of course, the prices in Hong Kong are not cheap now. Jiang Cheng still remembers that when he first came to Hong Kong, a serving of barbecued pork rice only cost two or three dollars, but now a cheap barbecued pork rice costs twelve dollars.

If the prices are calculated in Hong Kong currency, many things are almost the same as the prices in some small places in later generations. A chicken drumstick rice in Shaxian International Hotel in later generations is also about the same price.

Jiang Cheng had almost finished eating, so he called the uncle owner of the night snack stall to settle the bill.

"Uncle, give us some more beer."

There were still a lot of dishes on the table. Jiang Cheng had originally ordered enough for three people. Later, the two girls ordered a few more dishes they liked, so they naturally couldn't finish them.

Now the two girls realized that Jiang Chengzhen didn't mean that, and they were too embarrassed to bother him. But when they saw that the uncle was about to pay the bill and leave, they immediately asked politely.

"Okay, boss, give them some beer and count it together." Jiang Cheng continued to say to the uncle at the night snack stall.

There were no mobile phones in those days, and not everyone in Hong Kong could afford or be willing to buy a pager. With only this little food, the two girls naturally planned to call someone to eat together. Since the uncle didn't even accompany them to buy cosmetics, it would be a shame to waste the food.

Buying beer at the night snack stalls is not cheap either, it is one or two yuan more expensive than in the store. If you invite people to eat together, you always have to drink, but after the uncle left, they invited people to eat together, and they had no money left to treat their friends to drinks.

Now he added ten more cans of beer, and the total bill came to one hundred and fifty-six yuan. The boss rounded off the bill and charged Jiang Cheng one hundred and fifty yuan.

Many people in Hong Kong earn less than NT$150 a day. Just like Jiang Cheng's current table, the two little girls can find four or five more gangsters and girls nearby to come and eat together.

This time they are treating us, so next time I will have a reason to eat and drink with others.

After dinner, Jiang Cheng drove his sports car to his mountaintop villa in Kowloon.

The current housing prices in Hong Kong are very expensive, mainly due to the increase around 1975.

In 1972, you could still buy cheap civilian housing in the New Territories for more than 100 yuan per square foot. But because the stock market was soaring in those years, prices rose several times in a few years.

Even when the stock market crashed, it only fell for a while, and then bottomed out and rebounded. After all, Hong Kong's industrial development was booming at that time, and the shock in the financial industry was only temporary.

Jiang Cheng bought some cheap houses in the second half of 1973, but they were much more expensive than in 1972 when house prices had not risen.

In the second half of 1974, the price of ordinary residential areas was between 500 and 1,000 yuan per square foot. But five years later, Hong Kong's housing prices have only increased by about 70%.

Jiang Cheng's villa in Kowloon was sold at a low price by someone who was stuck in the stock market. Jiang Cheng spent several million at that time. Now the price has increased tenfold and is worth tens of millions.

And this villa, if it is in the future, will at least increase tenfold. Therefore, buying a luxury residential area or an ordinary house in Hong Kong actually has better returns than in the mainland.

The siheyuan houses in mainland China, that is, in old Beijing, can compete with the appreciation of residential areas in Hong Kong, but the living environment of siheyuan houses is not suitable for young people.

Jiang Cheng returned to the villa area. As soon as the car honked, someone came to open the door. It's not that Jiang Cheng has to hire a nanny and a maid because he is rich, but if you don't hire someone, security alone will be a problem. If there is no one to guard, what should we do if the criminals come in?

Jiang Cheng hired someone to take care of his daily life and safety, but he didn't exaggerate to the point where he was surrounded by people when he went out. Because he was low-key, it was still very safe for Jiang Cheng and his family to go out. The villa area hired someone to be responsible for safety, simply because the villa itself was a symbol of wealth.

When I arrived here, except for the lack of computers and mobile phones, the living environment was no different from that of later generations. There was a large color TV, a refrigerator and a washing machine. There was an air conditioner, a water heater, a bathroom, and even a swimming pool outside.

When Jiang Cheng entered the villa, he was still on the first floor. Shen Li, who was upstairs, came down in her pajamas with her two daughters.

"Daddy~." When the eldest daughter Jiang Fei saw Jiang Cheng, she ran down the stairs quickly.

"Fei Fei, Dad~~Are you good when daddy is not around?" Jiang Cheng picked up his daughter who ran to him and said.

Jiang Cheng was still a little uncomfortable with the word "daddy". He was used to hearing it, but it was still a little awkward to call himself that. The main reason was that he only spent a few days in Hong Kong in a year, so it would be the same no matter who was in charge.

Even in the countryside, people still call their children "dad and mom" instead of "father and mother" these days, and this is only possible because of the blessing of the original owner's memory.

After the reform and opening up, when a new generation of children was born and rural people moved to the city, the names of "father and mother" would gradually become the same as "mother and father" in the city.

Now they are both father and mother, and now there is also a daddy and mommy in Hong Kong.

In Hong Kong's wealthy circles, parents and children address each other in this way. But as a concubine, Shen Li wanted to be rich, so she naturally liked to be addressed this way.

In terms of personality, Jiang Cheng is handsome, but for Shen Li, he has a wife. He occasionally comes to her twice a month, and each time he stays for two days. But more often, he comes once a month, and the time he stays with her is not as long as her menstrual period. He basically doesn't come during the New Year and other holidays. How can this man be considered?

After being intimate with the eldest daughter, Jiang Cheng picked up the younger daughter Jiang Yue who was led downstairs by Shen Li. Her little belly was bulging and Jiang Cheng liked to touch her belly.

Jiang Cheng owed Jiang Fei and Jiang Yue. After all, they only spent a few days together in a year and couldn't even spend the New Year together.

In China, Jiang Cheng doesn't have much contact with his four daughters every month. After all, he spends more time on the road driving. But at least Zhou Lingying can clearly tell the daughters where their father is and when he will be back.

Every time they come back, their father will bring them delicious food and drinks, put them on his neck and ride them, and take them out to play.

Although they spend less time together, they can still have a good sense of expectation for their father. In their childhood, their father has always been their support, and they have no sense of loss.

But I don’t spend much time with my daughters in Hong Kong. I haven’t been able to spend time with them for two days. It’s only in the past few years that I’ve been able to spend more time with them.

In the past few years, every time Jiang Cheng came, he would go to the company for meetings to discuss expansion and development. But Hong Kong is such a small place after all, and when the meatballs of Jiangdonglai occupied most of the market in Hong Kong, they could just stay quiet for a while.

There are management personnel present, and there are many reports and other things that Jiang Cheng can bring back to China and look at when he has time.

In addition to occupying the meatball business market, they also spent a lot of money to rent a site to build the Jiangdonglai large supermarket.

There only needs to be one in every area of ​​Hong Kong. Although it is not very famous, since there is one in every area, many Hong Kong citizens will know the "Jiangdonglai" supermarket.

Now Jiangdonglai's meatballs are no longer low-end, after all, it has been a brand for more than six years. And it focuses on hygienic production technology, making it clean, sanitary and safe.

Under the same price conditions, everyone would choose Jiangdonglai's meatballs. But this also gave small workshops some room to survive. They used fish and shrimp to make meatballs themselves, and if the price was cheap, many people would still buy them.

But most people who buy cheap meatballs buy them from roadside stalls. For slightly upscale tea restaurants, people go directly to the "Jiangdonglai" meatball store to purchase them.

Now Jiangdonglai has many varieties of meatballs. They are also fish balls, but they are divided into many types, such as grass carp, eel, shark, squid, etc. Different types have different prices, flavors and tastes.

In addition to fish balls, there are also beef balls, pork balls, chicken, lamb, curry fish balls, vegetarian balls, tofu balls, lotus root balls, sweet potato balls and so on.

Anyway, it is easy to add categories after the brand is established. After all, there are many direct-operated stores to support, so there must be more categories of meatballs.

Moreover, because many meatballs in the direct-operated store are refrigerated and fresh, not frozen in packaging bags. No preservatives are added. This direct-operated store has a rule that meatballs that exceed a certain number of days will be immediately donated to nearby civilian primary schools for processing.

Therefore, the meatballs you eat in Hong Kong are all very fresh and tasty. For the shrimp meatballs, some picky people can tell whether they are made of live or dead shrimp.

In many high-end restaurants, some customers will even specifically ask for meatballs from Jiangdonglai.

Jiang Cheng has made a name for himself in Hong Kong with his meatball business. But his supermarket is profitable, but it is nothing special. It is simply because of the large space and the variety of products that attract nearby residents to consume.

This is just like a certain era in China, when there was a lack of large shopping malls, so as long as you built a large shopping mall, you would basically make money. But later, there were too many comprehensive shopping malls, and some newly built shopping malls faced the situation of not being able to attract customers.

To be honest, it is not easy for supermarkets to build a good reputation and become extremely popular.

Jiang Cheng has opened many "Jiangdonglai" shopping malls and supermarkets in Hong Kong, but the most popular one is the one in the New Territories. This is because the New Territories has a large population and is a developing area. Jiang Cheng opened a shopping mall and supermarket there because he happened to catch the right time.

There are already shopping malls and supermarkets in other places, and Jiang Cheng can't compete with them. Because many of their shopping malls and supermarkets have many brands settled in, Jiang Cheng can't compete in this aspect.

There are only two ways to solve this problem. One is to slowly negotiate cooperation and reduce the site fee to attract people to move in. The other is to open more shopping malls to cause qualitative changes with quantity.

Just like the domestic market, the country may be very poor now, but the population base is there. High-end products may not have much market now, but selling Coke is always okay, as are selling cheap clothes and toys.

Of course, the domestic auto market is not good now. But many cheap products cannot give up a market with more than 800 million people.

This is the situation with the shopping malls currently opened by Jiang Cheng. Even if there is a supermarket in each district now, there are no more than 20 "Jiangdonglai" stores.

What if we open 50 or 100 stores? Many brands will pay more attention to the Hong Kong market.

But now Jiang Chengdu thinks that 18 stores are too many. His goal is that in the future, even if there is only one "Jiangdonglai" supermarket in Hong Kong, customers from other districts will flock to it.

But Jiang Cheng found that this was not feasible because Hong Kong did not have the environment for it.

Therefore, Jiangdonglai in Hong Kong is more like a land grabbing business. It occupies some good locations and can only operate slowly.

In fact, there is no such environment in China. The fact that Donglai became popular in the future was entirely supported by its peers. Your safety and his insecurity are enough.

But now Jiang Cheng can only run the mall in an ordinary way, and he is even more low-key than Donglai. He will spend the next 20 years in peace. Only when the domestic food problem becomes serious will it be his real highlight moment.

After Jiang Cheng was intimate with his daughter for a while, Shen Li asked the nanny to take the child to another room on the second floor to sleep.

To be honest, Jiang Cheng wanted to let his daughter sleep with him today. But after looking at Shen Li, he thought he should take care of the older one first, since he was not in a hurry to go back this time, and he would let Shen Li bring his daughter to Shenzhen with him.

Over the years, Shen Li and Ali have developed some abilities, but they are not high-end talents. However, the industry he runs is not a high-end industry, so it is no problem for him to build a shopping mall or a large factory in China.

In addition, we need to recruit some interns from China to come to Hong Kong for training, and invite management talents from Hong Kong to come to China. The salary must be very high, and it is enough to recruit some interns from China to learn some management experience.

Jiang Cheng and Shen Li went to the second floor together. As soon as he entered the room, he took the initiative to brush his teeth and take a shower. Now there is a water heater, so there is no need to boil water, which is very convenient.

When he came out of the bathroom, Shen Li had already prepared two glasses of red wine. And Shen Li was lying on the bed, with both shoulders exposed.

There is not even a strap on the shoulders, so there is no need to imagine any scene in this quilt.

Jiang Cheng didn't know how Shen Li developed the habit of drinking red wine. She always did this, which made it difficult for Jiang Cheng to transform into a beast.

Jiang Cheng lay down on the bed, picked up the red wine beside the bed and took a sip, then watched the TV series on TV.

The TV is now showing "Flying Fox of Snow Mountain", which is a very famous TV series. It is not only very popular in Hong Kong, but also spread to China, and it is also the sentiment of a generation. Every time I hear the song "Love in the Snow~~", it is at least a memory of a certain generation.

In later times, Jiang Cheng would not be bored at all to watch such a martial arts film. But in this era, people who find opera interesting in China will naturally find this interesting.

"Brother Cheng, if you want to watch TV series, take your hands away." Shen Li said angrily while lying on Jiang Cheng's chest.

"There has to be some foreplay." Jiang Cheng said somewhat embarrassedly.

"Your foreplay is almost as long as an episode of TV." Shen Li said.

He was watching TV while helping others with his fingers, but it took a little too long. Jiang Cheng had no choice but to get under the quilt, and Shen Li squinted unnaturally.

(End of this chapter)