Hardy Empire 1945 - Vol 2 Chapter 419: : Princess Margaret visits Hong Kong

Hardy received a telegram from Victor.

Princess Margaret is going to visit Hong Kong. Ten days later, according to the itinerary, Princess Margaret will visit the Hardy Group and the Industrial Park.

Hardy smiled softly.

This is what he had discussed with Margaret a long time ago.

Hardy said to the secretary: “In reply to Victor, I said that I would go to Hong Kong and personally receive Princess Margaret to visit Hardy Group’s itinerary.”

The secretary responded to the telegram.

Two days later,

Hardy took Han Yezhen and her son Byrne to Hong Kong by plane. There was the governor’s office management team in Penang and Malacca. Han Yezhen happened to return to Hong Kong to have a baby. She prefers the environment in Hong Kong.

At the same time, the super-luxury yacht was ordered to go to Hong Kong.

When the plane arrived in Hong Kong, Victor brought people over to greet him. The family boarded the car and returned to the villa. The housekeeper was in charge of the villa. They came out to greet him. Hardy saw the chef Zhang smiled and said, “I haven’t eaten your dishes for a long time. , Make a great meal today.”

“Good lord.” Chef Lao Zhang quickly responded.

In the study,

Victor reported to Hardy on the situation in Hong Kong during this period. In fact, every once in a while, Victor would send a report to Hardy on the situation in Hong Kong, but he didn’t say the details personally.

Both HSBC and Wells Fargo have developed very well. Global Shipping has unfinished cargo every day. All the money made in the past few years has been used to purchase new freighters. It is now the largest shipping company in Hong Kong.

As for the Global Times, it is already the largest newspaper in Hong Kong. ABC Radio is also the most listened to radio station in Hong Kong. In addition, ABC TV officially started broadcasting at the beginning of this year, becoming the first TV station in Hong Kong.

Hong Kong does not yet have a TV production company, so the TVs sold here are imported from the United States.

Due to the small number of users, TV programs are only broadcast for eight hours a day. Except for news and reviews, other TV programs such as cartoons, TV series, movies, and variety shows are all imported from the United States.

Recently, HD Pictures also established a branch in Hong Kong and bought a large area of ​​land to build its headquarters and studio.

Hardy Industrial Park is one of the big heads of Hardy’s Hong Kong branch. There are now more than 100 companies in the industrial park, and they are all developing very well. Basically, they have now entered a mature and stable output period.

The fastest growing is Hardy Pharmaceuticals.

Hardy Pharmaceuticals now has more than Tongyitang. It has successively acquired several pharmaceutical companies in the past two years. Today, it produces more than 60 kinds of medicines, including health care products and topical medicines. It is now the largest in Hong Kong. Pharmaceutical companies.

These drugs are now sold in the United States, Europe, Japan and other countries, and the medicinal materials are mainly from the mainland. A company in Macau where the medicinal materials are imported.

Although there is now a trade ban, fortunately, herbal medicines are not among the export restrictions, which is much more convenient and can be legally purchased. Even so, the Macau company that is still going, so if it is restricted, the current company can be directly closed and another company can be registered immediately. continue doing.

“Boss, the Hong Kong government has sent a notice to the company that Princess Margaret is going to visit Hardy’s Hong Kong headquarters and also to visit the industrial park. In the past few days, I have started to clean up, mainly to make it more beautiful and cleaner. .”

Victor said.

Hardy nodded, and then I will personally greet Princess Margaret. You will be with me and be responsible for introducing the details.

“Good boss,” Victor responded quickly.

“Victor, I asked you to pay attention to the Hong Kong property market some time ago. How is the investigation?” Hardy asked.

Victor hurriedly introduced: “In the last two years, after Hong Kong has completely stabilized, the economy has developed rapidly, and the population has grown very large during this period. According to government statistics, the population has now exceeded 2 million.”

“Moreover, this number is not accurate. Many people have concealed that they have not reported their household registration, so the actual number is about 2.4 million.”

“The population has soared by nearly one million in a few years. Naturally, many people have no place to live. There are many shanty towns in Kowloon. There are a lot of people who need houses. The biggest problem is that they can’t afford that much money at once. You have to apply for a loan.”

Hardy knows,

This period was the first property market outbreak in Hong Kong, and it will last for about ten years. Of course, there have been several property market crashes in the later period in Hong Kong, and some people lost their money, but these are not within Hardy’s consideration.

He is preparing to enter the property market, because the Hardy Group now stores a large amount of land, either from private individuals or from the Hong Kong government. At the beginning of the crisis in Hong Kong, the price of these land was very cheap, which can be said to be the price of cabbage.

Now even if he releases the land, he can still get more than 10 times the profit.

However, he will not release the land because he knows that the land in Hong Kong will continue to rise in the future. Even if the property market collapses, the land will not collapse.

According to statistics, from the 1950s to the 1980s, how many times will the price of land in Hong Kong increase? Increased by about 200 times.

This is a terrifying number.

What kind of investment can steadily increase 200 times in 30 years, so Hardy will not let go of these land, and will let Hardy Real Estate continue to buy it.

He entered the property market, mainly building office buildings and low-rent apartments. He only rents but not sells. Now he builds up the rent to make money, and he can wait for the land to appreciate. When the price is right, he can sell them all at once. This is the most important thing. Best choice.

As for rent,

In fact, it can be cheaper, which can also stabilize the Hong Kong property market.

…….

A few days later,

Princess Margaret took the royal plane and arrived at the Hong Kong airport. Governor Grantham led a group of officials to greet her at the airport.

This is the highest-ranking royal family member who has visited Hong Kong since Kaifu.

Coupled with the delicate social environment of Hong Kong today, I believe this visit will play a great role in stabilizing Hong Kong society.

Hardy brought Victor to the airport to greet him, just behind Grantham.

The only reason behind Ge Lianghong is that this is where Ge Lianghong belongs. In terms of identity, Ge Lianghong is now inferior to Hardy.

Princess Margaret is very beautifully dressed today.

After getting off the plane, they shook hands with Grantham politely. It was Hardy’s turn, but the two embraced each other kindly.

This scene was filmed by reporters.

In the newspaper the next day, it was reported that Governor Hardy was closer than Grantham and Princess Margaret.

“His Royal Highness, next we will take a yacht, pass through Victoria Harbour, to Queen’s Wharf, where a welcome ceremony will be held.” Grant Hong introduced the princess respectfully.

“Thank you, Mr. Governor.”

Came to the dock,

I found that the yacht parked here was Hardy’s super-large luxury yacht. She was too familiar with this ship Margaret, and she and Hardy were left behind in many places.

She glanced at Hardy subconsciously.

The team came to Queen’s Wharf, where tens of thousands of people gathered, and even the upper floor in the distance was full of people watching.

Princess Margaret gave a brief speech, and after winning a round of applause, she took an open-top Rolls Royce to patrol the street to accept the cheers of the people.

At this moment, many people were standing on both sides of the street to greet them. The government also specially organized elementary and junior high school students to greet them. The girl wore a white skirt and white shoes and the boy wore a white t-shirt and blue pants, holding the British flag and plastic flowers in his hands.

After the ceremony, Princess Margaret finally stayed in the Presidential Suite of the Peninsula Hotel.

Originally, she could live in Grantham’s Governor’s Mansion. The Governor’s Mansion is not only the place where the Governor lives, but also has a reception task. However, in the previous notification, Margaret specifically pointed out that she would stay in an outside hotel for action. convenient.

night,

At the Peninsula Hotel, a grand reception was held. Many Hong Kong officials, parliamentarians, entrepreneurs, and celebrities came to welcome Princess Margaret.

the next day,

Margaret started to visit the government, the parliament, the foreign company, the Hong Kong headquarters of Hardy, and the industrial park.

On the third day,

Princess Margaret was invited to board the yacht of Viscount Hardy to see the beautiful seascape of Hong Kong. The yacht sailed out of Victoria Harbour.

The yacht did not return to the port until the evening. When Princess Margaret disembarked, many reporters were still stuck in the port.

A reporter asked the princess how it feels to visit Hong Kong Bay.

“Very good, the scenery of Hong Kong is very charming, I like it very much.” Marguerite replied with a smile.

“What did you talk to the Viscount?”

This is not easy to answer. To be honest, on this day, she and Hardy did more and talk less, mostly physical communication, but language communication was very poor.

The three most frequently used words are ‘ou’, ‘ye’, and ‘maga’.

At this time, Hardy took the topic and smiled: “I talked a lot with the princess. The princess is very concerned about the livelihood of Hong Kong. When she learned that Hong Kong has increased by hundreds of thousands of people in recent years, many people do not have suitable places to live. , Ask how to solve it.”

“The princess proposed whether to build a batch of low-rent housing, we discussed the topic of this low-rent housing for a whole day.”

“Then have any results been negotiated?” the reporter hurriedly asked.

“The result of the discussion is that the princess is going to propose to the Hong Kong government that the government will use some of the support funds to build low-rent housing with companies. It is difficult to make money to build such houses. So the princess asked me to hope that the Hardy Group would take this. Task.”

“Mr. Hardy, would you like to take over this task?” the reporter asked.

Hardy smiled and nodded, “The Hardy Group is a responsible company that is willing to solve practical problems for Hong Kong society. In the end, the princess and I discussed the launch of 50,000 low-rent housing units with a 30-year lifespan. ”

“I believe that these low-rent housing can solve the housing problems of many families. At the beginning, you can over-rent in low-rent housing. When you become rich and improve your living conditions, you can naturally change to a better house to live in. I believe it can help many families. ”

……

The next day.

Many newspapers in Hong Kong reported that Princess Margaret was concerned about the people’s livelihood in Hong Kong and discussed with the Hardy Group to build 50,000 low-rent houses to solve the housing problem of more than 200,000 to 300,000 people.

In fact, the people don’t care too much about the princess. They just want to live their lives. What Hong Kong lacks most now is naturally houses.

Now that people see the princess solve the house problem for everyone, they are naturally grateful to the princess Margaret.

On the fourth day,

The princess’s itinerary is to visit the Hong Kong Jockey Club. Of course, the main location is Hardy’s Kowloon Jockey Club venue.

Everywhere Princess Margaret went today, she found that the people who welcomed her were much more enthusiastic than the day before. He asked Hardy next to him what was the reason.

“Because you helped them solve 50,000 houses.”

Only then did Margaret know that Hardy’s words yesterday were not just for the perfunctory reporters. While watching the Jockey Club exhibition match, Grantham was accompanied by him, and Margaret talked to him about low-rent housing.

Ge Lianghong said that the Hong Kong government is actually aware of this problem, but that it needs to invest a lot of money to build low-rent housing on a large scale, and the government can’t spend so much money at once.

As for real estate companies, they are more inclined to build and sell buildings, and no one wants to buy low-rent housing.

“Hadi agreed to take this job, and I hope that both of you can cooperate well.” Princess Margaret said.

“Yes, your Royal Highness, I will ask Hardy to contact Hardy’s company when I turn around.”

The Hong Kong government moved quickly and contacted Hardy the next day. Victor had long been ordered by his boss to tell him how to respond.

Victor smiled and offered the offer.

The first is that the land needs to be sold by the government and sold to Hardy Real Estate at a low price. In fact, it is the acquisition of land in the hands of the government, and the value of land appreciation is the value earned by Hardy.

It is acceptable to the Hong Kong government.

The second is that the government provides part of the support funds, and the remaining Hardy Company provides the rent. All the rents of the houses are owned by the Hardy Group.

The government has some objections to this article, expressing why it can’t make a profit after paying the money. Victor said that low-rent housing occupies a large amount of money. From the perspective of capital operation, Hardy itself is losing money.

The last sentence, or do you do it yourself.

If the Hong Kong government could come by themselves, they would have come early, and they would have to admit it in the end.

The third is that the government is responsible for supporting public facilities, such as kindergartens, primary schools, middle schools, hospitals, bus stations, post offices, police stations, as well as tap water, electricity, telecommunications, gas, sewers, and so on.

The government has no objection on this point. This is the government’s responsibility.

The fourth is…

There are many issues involved, but because Grantham intends to discuss this matter before Princess Margaret leaves, this matter is the princess’s credit.

For this reason, Grantham made great concessions.

The final result of the negotiation is that the government will provide a portion of the land and be responsible for the construction of public facilities.

It is equivalent to giving Hardy to several large communities.

Yes,

Just give it away,

Because of the rent after completion, the ownership of the land to be demolished after 30 years will all belong to Hardy Real Estate Hong Kong.

And even in the construction ~www.mtlnovel.com~ there are many places to make money, such as raw material cement, Hardy has cement plants, steel bars, Hardy has steel plants, water pipes, iron nails and many other building materials, Hardy is all in Production.

This invisibly promoted the sales of those factories and made a fortune from it.

Building so many houses can also indirectly stimulate a lot of consumption, which can boost the economy of Hong Kong as a whole. When Hong Kong is better, his industry will naturally appreciate accordingly.

all in all.

Margaret is visiting Hong Kong this time.

Hardy is equivalent to making a lot of money after 30 years. Only the land occupied by these 50,000 sets of low-rent housing will never be less than 30 billion yuan after 30 years.

In the middle,

Princess Margaret boarded Hardy’s luxury cruise ship for a lap, and came back later this time. However, many people’s brains made up. The princess must be discussing how to build 50,000 low-rent houses with Viscount Hardy.

The princess is working for the well-being of the people of Hong Kong.

Three days of negotiation were finally finalized.

In the newspaper,

The Hong Kong government and the Hardy Group issued a joint statement. With the promotion of Princess Margaret, the Hong Kong government and Hardy Group have cooperated to launch 50,000 sets of low-rent housing with a floor area of ​​25 to 60 square meters. The rent price is for households. 15% of basic monthly income.

After hearing the news, many people in Hong Kong jumped up in excitement. Nowadays, many people live in a dilapidated thatched house, or even a house built of iron sheets. They want to have a place where they can live.

Even low-rent housing is paradise for them.

Margaret was about to leave Hong Kong and return to the UK. On the day she left, a large number of people gathered on the way from the hotel to the airport to send off. It was many times more than when she came to Hong Kong. And these people were not government-organized. It was completely spontaneous to come over to send off.