Hong Kong's new giants

Moreover, he can also participate in the subsequent financing, because he and Bezos have become friends.

"Mr. Lin, sit down!" Bezos entertained Lin Zuhui in a very ordinary office.He is really grateful to Lin Zuhui, because Lin Zuhui's plan for Amazon has given him full confidence, and every day is like fighting chicken blood, although the current development is not good.

After sitting down, Lin Zuhui said with a smile: "Investing in Amazon requires external financing, and you have to consider me first. Anyway, if Amazon wants to develop the Wal-Mart of the Internet, it still needs a lot of financing. At least before going public, it also needs a lot of financing. , what do you say!"

Bezos' attitude at this time has changed a lot from the beginning, and he said with a smile: "Of course, I will give priority to Jingwei Capital. However, Amazon can handle it at present."

He is a venture capitalist himself, so he won't suffer in this respect.

Lin Zuhui said with a smile: "Actually, Amazon's development is not fast enough. At least I know that there is one thing you haven't done yet. If you don't do it sooner, you will regret it in the future."

Bezos suddenly became more interested, and said, "What is it?"

Lin Zuhui said: "Internet online payment tools, if you do it now, it will not only be convenient for American Internet shopping customers in the future, but also a good financial group, such as online banking..."

Although Mascar is also doing it, if Amazon does it now, it will become the largest online payment in the United States.

Bezos's eyes lit up first, then he fell into deep thought, and finally said happily: "Mr. Lin, you are such a genius. It is really an honor to be your partner."

At this time, he fully accepted Lin Zuhui. Not only did Lin Zuhui offer good conditions, but he also did not need to worry about Lin Zuhui interfering in Amazon, because this is the United States, and Lin Zuhui is from Xiangjiang.

Therefore, he is completely happy to take over such a rich and thoughtful partner, which is safer than some American investors.

After Bezos agreed to enter the online payment tool, Lin Zuhui once again proposed to get another 500% equity for 10 million US dollars, and Bezos readily agreed.

First of all, the price is high enough. Secondly, Lin Zuhui is very familiar with this industry. If he invests in a rival, the consequences will be disastrous.

And Lin Zuhui's investment of 500 million US dollars also hopes to increase the value of Amazon, so that his shares will be more valuable, and there will be fewer investment rounds before listing, and his share dilution will also be reduced.

Therefore, the seemingly high valuation is actually the premeditation of venture capital.

This is the reason why those venture capital companies in the previous life crazily lowered the price in the angel round, and then crazily raised the price later.

Chapter 623 [Monopoly Traffic]

Thursday, November 1.

The second day after Lin Zuhui returned to Xiangjiang, he came to the office of New Times Group.

Now his business is spreading more and more around the world. A business trip to a certain country or region will not take more than a week; of course, it's not that he has to deal with these businesses, but Lin Zuhui also has to work and find something to do.It's like a king inspecting his own territory, which gives him a sense of accomplishment.

"dong dong"

"Come in"

Liang Zhenxun walked in a little anxiously, and said: "Boss, gold reached a high point in recent years yesterday, reaching 400 US dollars per ounce."

1995年的时候，黄金大部分时间在375～390美元窄幅波动，市场气氛较为沉闷；而进入1996年的第一个交易日（1月2日），黄金就升值390.5美元每盎司，较前年涨了4.5美元。

In ten days, gold once again rose to $401 per ounce, which is very abnormal in itself, because there are no unexpected political and economic events, how can the price of gold rise so fast!

Lin Zuhui calmly motioned Liang Zhenxun to sit down, and then said: "Have you analyzed the reason?"

Liang Zhenxun said honestly: "It's not too clear! According to my guess, it should be related to the demand for gold, or investors in the United States are buying one after another, which led to the rise of gold."

Lin Zuhui nodded and said: "It may be that American fund investors started to buy gold in large quantities due to the uncertain market conditions of foreign exchange, bonds, and stocks, pushing up gold. There are many other reasons, but according to the analysis of my consulting team, Gold should still have a bit of room to run, possibly breaking the 1993 high of $409 an ounce."

The specific analysis can only be analyzed after the fact, but Lin Zuhui's advisory team has at least obtained the news that the US fund companies have joined in the action of pushing up gold.

Liang Zhenxun, who had been with Lin Zuhui for a long time, tentatively asked, "Boss wants to sell gold futures short?"

His thinking is that if there is only a $10 or so increase, the boss will never be so serious, or even enter the market.

Lin Zuhui said with a smile: "Go ahead, the amount of 1000 million US dollars for short selling every trading day must be above 401 US dollars, and the total short selling is 1 million US dollars. Assume that after the 1 million US dollars short selling is completed, the price rises to 410 US dollars per Ounces or more, then short sell 0.5 million US dollars, and sell short in 5 trading days. Increase leverage of 20 times, and prepare a follow-up margin of no less than 6 million US dollars."

Liang Zhenxun was shocked. The investment this time was no longer 5 million Hong Kong dollars, but more than one billion Hong Kong dollars. It was a big deal.

"Okay, the company is ready and can be sold short at any time."

After Liang Zhenxun left, Lin Zuhui showed a smile.

This time it was a battle between Lin Zuhui and American fund companies. They pushed up the price and wanted to sell short.In addition to New Era Group's possible investment of 1.5 million US dollars, Lin Zuhui's personal investment, Hengjin Investment, also contributed 2 million US dollars to play with everyone.

Of course, he didn't make too much of a high profile. If he needed to disperse, he would disperse, and if he should go offshore, he would go offshore, so as not to become a target.

In fact, Lin Zuhui invested in foreign exchange, gold, and Hong Kong blue-chip stocks. It is estimated that when the financial crisis occurs in July next year, he will only have a cash flow of about 400 billion Hong Kong dollars. This is still just over 100 billion last year. cash flow.

In addition, Hengjin Investment has a 50 billion Hong Kong dollar investment bank stock (bought in 1994), and it is estimated that in early 1998, it can cash out about 300 billion.

The 100 billion investment in information technology and biological health care (the first half of 1994) will be cashed out in the second half of 1999, and it is expected to be able to cash out over 1000 billion Hong Kong dollars.

再加上微软、甲骨文、思科的2％股票、花旗3.2％，90s末套现的话，预计能有1200～1500亿港币左右。

Add up, barely 3000 billion cash flow!

Of course, this does not include the investment of family offices, nor does it include the stocks of Nike and Starbucks, and it does not include the cash-out of venture capital Internet.

If the investment of Jingwei Capital, Family Office, etc. is added, he can have a personal wealth of more than 90 billion in the 6000s.

Of course, this does not cover the shares and property investments of his companies.

While he is developing his own wealth, the cash flow of his subsidiaries will also be fully prepared before the Asian financial crisis.

For example, Barings Bank, after the delivery of the Nikkei futures index at the end of December last year, made another profit of 12 million U.S. dollars, and a total profit of 2 million U.S. dollars on the Nikkei futures index. These are cash flows.

For example, Octopus Bank, whose cash flow has exceeded tens of billions of Hong Kong dollars, raised funds through the IPO, with 200 billion cash in its account, not counting the value of fixed assets.

Needless to say, New Times Group, LEIT Group, ATV Group, and Wanhui Media Group, these four major companies will definitely add up to a huge amount of cash at that time, hundreds of billions of Hong Kong dollars is appropriate.

Preparing so much cash flow will not cause a "waste" of funds. For example, New Times Group has 100 billion Hong Kong dollars invested in British Telecom and bank stocks. When it is sold, it is estimated to be 200-300 billion; this does not include the United States and China. Japan's securities investment, because that was cashed out in the late 90s and early millennium.

New Times Group will also sell a large number of properties before the financial crisis, and it is estimated that it can cash in more than 200 billion.There is still one and a half years of profit, maybe there will be 400-500 billion. Of course, Lin Zuhui will not relent in the investment.

Summing up so much, in fact, even Lin Zuhui didn't know how much wealth he had at the beginning of the millennium?

10000 billion Hong Kong dollars?

Maybe more!

Forget it, I don’t understand it.

……

At the beginning of the year, good things happened again and again. Stone Company, a subsidiary of Wanhui Media Group, finally developed the transportation automatic fare collection system, smart card system and solutions designed by Lin Zuhui.

Lin Zuhui came to the R & D room of Stone Company in the Media Building. There are dozens of R & D personnel here, including a R & D team with a mix of Chinese and foreign, engineering and science.

After more than one year of establishment, Stone Company has completed the task, which makes Lin Zuhui quite happy; of course, it is also expected, at the beginning of the research and development, Lin Zuhui has personally planned the system layout, and the Stone Company team only needs to carry out technical adjustments. Just research and develop.

To put it simply, the whole system is: a chip is placed in the card. When paying with a smart card, the user only needs to put the smart card close to the reader, and the money will be deducted automatically.The average transaction time is only 0.3 seconds.After the transaction is completed, the card reader will emit a "beep" sound, and the display screen will display the deducted amount and the balance of the card.Usually when paying concessionary fares (such as child and senior bus fares), the pitch of the "beep" will be higher.A higher-pitched, longer-lasting "beep" sound indicates that the transaction has not been completed, and the red light on the reader will be on. The common reasons are that the card is not aligned with the reader, the balance is less than HKD 0, or the transaction After the balance will be owed more than 35 Hong Kong dollars.Because it is a contactless smart card, the reader can sense even a few centimeters of ordinary materials (such as plastic and leather, etc.), so just pick up a wallet, handbag or even a bag of clothes and put it close to the reader. Smart card transactions are possible.

"Boss, let me demonstrate to you!" Yao Jixian, the president of Stone Company, took out a smart card confidently, put it on the reader, and then heard a 'beep', and immediately displayed on the LCD that there are still 98 cards left. Yuan.

After a demonstration, Lin Zuhui nodded in satisfaction and said, "The efficiency is very high, follow me to Lianjunda Company later!"

Lian Junda Company is a joint company that MTR and KCRC invited Citybus, KMB and Yau Ma Tei Ferry to establish in 1994; CMB, which is in charge of the Hong Kong Island bus line, refused to join.

The Hong Kong subway has been using a recycled magnetic plastic card as a ticket since it opened to traffic in 1979. This type of ticket can be divided into one-way tickets and stored-value tickets.The Kowloon-Canton Railway also began to use this card as a ticket in 1984, and it was called a universal stored-value ticket.By 1989, Hong Kong's universal stored-value tickets had been extended to the services of KMB, Citybus connecting the subway and KCR, and also applied to some non-transportation services, such as payment in fast food restaurants or self-service ID cameras.The subway finally decided to adopt more advanced technology. They announced in 1993 that they would adopt a smart card that could pay without touching the operator.

Therefore, Lianjunda Company came into being.

Of course, such a major reform will also go through the stages of exploration and experimentation.At present, the Australian ERG company (the inventor of the Octopus system in the previous life) has not extended its tentacles to Xiangjiang.

"Okay, boss, don't worry, I am very confident in our technology, and I will definitely win the Xiangjiang project."

Lin Zuhui said with satisfaction: "I also have confidence in you! By the way, the team will continue to strengthen or improve the transportation automatic fare collection system, smart card system and solutions. Technology needs to change with each passing day and never stop. For example, smart cards can also be used in the future. It extends to supermarkets, parking lots, restaurants, etc. This is a big system, I hope you can calm down and move on."

"Yes, boss!" The engineers all said with enthusiasm.

Who is Lin Zuhui? He is a new technology leader and everyone's idol.

Who dares to say that he does not understand technology?

Do you not know how to invest in so many technology projects and succeed?

……

The achievements of Stone Company were quickly accepted by the MTR, KCRC and Lian Junda Company under their leadership for experimental operation; after all, it is a technology company in Hong Kong, and with Lin Zuhui's face, it is no problem to operate as an experimental operation.If the effect is very good, the smart card system of Stone Company will be purchased.

Of course, the experimental operation of the entire system may last for a long time, and it is finally decided whether to purchase this system.

During the period, Stone Company also invited China and Pakistan to join the experiment, but they were rejected directly by China and Pakistan, which made Lin Zuhui annoyed.Stone Company is a subsidiary company of his group. If CMB refuses to look at the monk's face and see the Buddha's face, it is obviously slapping Lin Zuhui in the face.

What's more, this is a good thing for Hong Kong and promotes the development of the city.

The service and operation of China-Pakistan have been criticized by the citizens of Xiangjiang. According to history, China-Pakistan directly lost the franchise in 1998, and the franchise was won by New World.After the millennium, Xu Zhantang encountered financial crisis and sold his Citybus company to New World.

Therefore, the new world in the previous life also controlled the 'Xinba', one of Xiangjiang's bus groups.

How do the rich in Xiangjiang get rich?

The answer is only two words - monopoly.

Real estate, retail, electricity, transportation, energy, media communication, etc. are all monopolized by several consortiums.

And these consortiums are old-fashioned consortiums, which started to prosper in the 60s and [-]s. Generally speaking, there will be no new chaebols.

With the appearance of Lin Zuhui, this curse was broken, and only Lin Zuhui could break it.

Including Liu Luanxiong in his previous life, he was not a wealthy chaebol in Hong Kong at all. At that time, there were too many people richer than him in Hong Kong, but their wealth had been separated and hidden. To put it bluntly, Liu Luanxiong was not even ranked in the top 20 in his previous life. Inward (2000 billion Hong Kong dollars).

In the office, Lin Zuhui was thinking about whether to buy the CMB of the Yan family directly.

CMB obtained the Hong Kong Island bus franchise in 1933. The founder was Yan Shikun, a Chaozhou tycoon. However, Yan Shikun was already in his 90s at this time. Although he was still the chairman of the board of directors of CMB, he was actually unable to manage the company; therefore, CMB is managed by his two sons and one daughter.

CMB originally had 100 bus lines. In its heyday, it had 1000 buses. It was called the bus kingdom. Hsin Cheong Properties managed to repel Paliburg with great difficulty, but it also lost a lot of money because of it. On the other hand, Paliburg made a lot of money.

Beginning in the 90s, CMB was often criticized by the public for delays and missed shifts, aging and dilapidated fleets, and poor sanitation in bus compartments due to its service level regressing. As a result, 40 bus routes were lost.

Even so, the Yan family still has no intention of running the bus business, and focuses on the real estate business of CMB, building up their lands into development rights; CMB has already become a real estate company.

Many public opinion blames the governance problems of China-Pakistan on the family-style governance of China-Pakistan by Yan Chengkun and his children.An official from the Transport Department once criticized in private that the governance of China-Pakistan is like an old family business, with no future in sight; and the elected member of the Legislative Council, Liu Chin-shek, even criticized the headquarters of China-Pakistan in North Point, which has been in disrepair for a long time, and the interior seems to have gone back in time to 50 In the [-]s, Yan Chengkun and the management of CMB were questioned about the lack of concept of modern bus operation.

The more Lin Zuhui thought about it, the more he couldn't bear it. Although he didn't want to incur "notoriety" again, the Yan family's self-sacrifice, and the Yan family's CMB were so notorious in the hearts of the citizens and the Hong Kong government.

The combination of these factors made him decide to acquire CMB.

The market value of China-Brazil is only about 30 billion, and the Yan family holds only 30-35% of the shares, which is not at the same level as New Times Group.

Moreover, if the acquisition of CMB is successful, Lin Zuhui may be able to monopolize Xiangjiang's traffic.

Thinking of this, Lin Zuhui called Yao Jixian and asked him to visit CMB in his own name and invite them to join the Octopus smart card experiment.

Respect first and then soldiers!

With Lin Zuhui's current status, he is more or less a bully. Although the Yan family's popularity is unpopular, Yan Chengkun is also a veteran of Chaozhou after all, so just save face.

Moreover, the acquisition of CMB also requires 'art', so as not to be said that he can only 'overpower people with wealth'.

This time, try to play tricks!

……

Yan Chengkun has one daughter and two sons. The eldest daughter, Yan Jieling, is currently the vice chairman and executive director of China-Pakistan.

Yao Jixian of Stone Company is just a technical talent. This time, Lin Zuhui drove the duck to the shelves and came to China Pakistan Company.He first introduced the functions of the Octopus (Octopus) smart card, and expressed the hope that China-Pakistan would join Lian Junda.

Yan Jieling, Yan Jieqiang, and Yan Henry were a little displeased. They had already clearly refused to join this Lian Junda company, and the president of this broken company came to sell them.

You know, this was their father's idea. Although the old man can no longer work normally, he sometimes calls the company to inquire about the situation.

"Manager Yao, our CMB will not join Lianjunda, let alone use Octopus (octopus) smart cards. After all, who knows if the funds are safe or not!"

Yao Jixian blushed a little. He is an engineering man, so he is really not suitable for business talks. Fortunately, he was not so embarrassed when he remembered the boss's explanation.

"Actually, my boss hopes that China and Pakistan will join in and promote the modernization of Xiangjiang's transportation."

The faces of the three Yan brothers and sisters suddenly changed slightly, and Yan Jieling couldn't help asking: "Lin Sheng also pays attention to this?"

Yao Jixian has the aura of a fox pretending to be a tiger, and finally he is not so tight. He said frankly: "This is a part of Xiangjiang's science and technology business. Although my boss has a big business, everything about the science and technology industry is small and detailed, and I personally ask about it."

Yan Jieling's three siblings looked at each other, and soon the three of them understood the meaning from each other's eyes.

"I'm still sorry. To be honest, our chairman was firmly opposed to joining Lian Junda at the beginning. Now that he is old, we don't want to annoy him with this matter."

"Okay, that bothers me!"

Yao Jixian retreated resolutely, leaving the three Yan brothers in a daze, so easy to dismiss?

The three siblings are indeed afraid of the old man, the Yan family's ancient family style is very strong, if the old man doesn't die for a day, it is absolute hegemony.As for offending Lin Zuhui, the three of them thought it was nothing, after all, it was a trivial matter.

Besides, it has nothing to do with Lin Zuhui whether CMB joins or not, so they can't be bound to join!

Chapter 584 [Egg hits stone]