Countercurrent 1978 starts with the production team

The Four Seasons Hotel is located on Central Street in Hong Kong City, which is also the commercial center of Hong Kong City.

The two of them arrived at the Four Seasons Hotel, and Chu Jianghe came to the lobby to check in at the front desk.

After completing the check-in procedure, another waiter came to show his attentiveness. Chu Jianghe handed over the luggage in his hand. He still held the large blue and white jar of luggage by himself. It was safe to carry such valuable luggage by himself.

The kid Ma Liang was stunned again. Although he didn't understand much, he quickly imitated the example and handed over the luggage in his hand.

The waiter sent the two people to the door of the room. Chu Jianghe took out a Hong Kong dollar and handed it over. Ma Liang wanted to follow suit, but Chu Jianghe stopped him.

“Just tip once and that’s enough.”

tip?

What is a tip?

How could Ma Liang understand this?

However, it was difficult for Ma Liang to ask questions in front of the waiter, so he could only act as he was told.

After the waiter left, he couldn't suppress the suspicion in his heart: "Brother, is this really your first time in Hong Kong City? Are you a trickster? I think you are more fluent than the locals."

Thinking of him following Chu Jianghe and seeing the price of the hotel at the front desk, he still felt a twitch in his heart. I was relying on a price of thousands of yuan. Isn't this robbery?

Chu Jianghe pointed at his head and taunted him: "Read more books if you have nothing to do. The more books you read, the more you will know."

Ma Liang was still a little confused. Could it be that these things were still taught in the book?

Chu Jianghe didn't say much, put away his luggage, walked to the floor-to-ceiling window of the hotel, and looked at the Victoria Harbor not far away, feeling a little excited.

"The Four Seasons Hotel is also called Wangbei Tower. In fact, it is just a hotel in the final analysis. It is just expensive to distinguish customers. Remember that Hong Kong City is a society with distinct classes and serious gaps between rich and poor. Living here There is one group of people living in Tin Shui Wai and Shek Kip Mei, another group of people living in Kowloon Walled City, another group of people living in Sham Shui Po and Kwun Tong Tenement House, and another group of people living in luxury houses in Repulse Bay and Mid-Levels. People, although they all live in Hong Kong City, they may never have the opportunity to meet each other in their lifetime. As long as you have money here, you are the best among people. "

Hong Kong City is actually an extremely fragmented society. The gap between people is not only in terms of wealth, but also in education and spirituality.

At this time, there are only a few schools in a city in the mainland. Children from any family have a great chance of studying in the same school.

If the schools are different, they will read the same textbooks, and at most the teachers will be different.

It's different in Hong Kong City, from public to private, from church schools, to boys' schools, girls' schools, as well as Chinese middle schools, English middle schools, and international schools.

There is a big gap in the content taught in each school. For example, in church schools, in addition to normal cultural classes, there are also some advertising contents that you are forced to learn.

The tuition fees between these schools are even more different.

Spiritually speaking, each ethnic group is also distinct from each other.

Although those foreigners were born and raised in the Hong Kong city, they speak English as their mother tongue, and they don't even care to speak Cantonese, let alone learn it.

There are also some Japanese who send their children to international schools to artificially isolate themselves from the local people and take pride in speaking English.

English-speaking Hong Kong people and Cantonese-speaking Hong Kong people are completely different worlds. It may be difficult for people who have not experienced it firsthand to imagine.

Ma Liang walked to Chu Jianghe and looked at the scenery in the distance, feeling a little shocked.

Just now I was just looking around in the taxi, but I couldn't see anything clearly. Now I was standing on the heights of the Four Seasons Hotel, looking at the panoramic view of the tall buildings in the distance. My mind was shocked again, and I didn't recover for a long time.

After he came to his senses, he turned around and asked Chu Jianghe next to him: "Brother, we are unfamiliar with the place, what should we do next?"

They came here mainly to look for Zhang Li, but they didn't know anyone in the port city. The port city was so big, how could they start looking for him?

Ma Liang was a little confused. The room rate in this hotel was so expensive, and he didn't know how long the money they brought could last him.

Chu Jianghe had already made up his mind and smiled slightly: "Don't worry, in Hong Kong City, it's not easy to do anything as long as you have money. This room has air conditioning and a shower. Do you want to wash up first?"

Seeing Ma Liang standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, he shook his head and only focused on looking at the scenery outside the window.

Chu Jianghe did not force him, and first called the front desk: "Send me a few newspapers and business magazines. Send me as many as you have."

A good hotel is like this. As long as the customer needs it, it can do it for you, and it is reasonable to charge a higher price.

Putting down the phone, Chu Jianghe went directly to the bathroom and took a shower. In terms of enjoyment, it was still in this capitalist world.

In my previous life, I enjoyed such a convenient life. I had a mobile phone and the Internet. I could use Wi-Fi everywhere. If I wanted to look up any information, a mobile phone was enough. However, I have really not adapted to it in the past two years. But there is no way. Now I want to go to the mainland. It will take a long, long time to live that kind of life.

In other words, you can enjoy a little convenience in the port city, but of course the price is a huge amount of money.

Not long after I came out of the shower, I saw the hotel staff knocking on the door and delivering a thick stack of newspapers and magazines, many of which were in English.

After Chu Jianghe took it, he handed over another tip, sent the hotel staff away, and then started to read.

Unknowingly, Chu Jianghe was immersed in it, completely forgetting that Ma Liang was still beside him.

Time continued to pass, and Ma Liang was too embarrassed to disturb Chu Jianghe when he saw him so engaged. After getting tired of looking at the scenery outside the window, he also took a shower, and then lay down on the comfortable bed in the hotel.

Not to mention, the bed in this hotel is more comfortable than the bed in a guest house in the mainland, so I fell asleep without even realizing it.

Chu Jianghe ignored him and buried himself in newspapers and magazines looking for the clues he needed.

Finally, Chu Jianghe's interest was aroused after he read an article in a business magazine where people from the Keswick family of Jardine Matheson talked about their dissatisfaction with shipping king Bao Yugang joining the board of directors.

At this time, the economic lifeline of Hong Kong City was still in the hands of British capital, represented by the four major British financial groups in Hong Kong City. They were HSBC Group, Jardine Matheson Group, Swire Group, and Kadoorie Group.

However, at this time, Chinese businessmen had risen and were constantly challenging the status of established British capital.

A few years ago, Li Jiacheng grabbed a piece of fat from Jardine Land Group and made a fortune.

In 1978, Li Jiacheng took a fancy to Wharf, a subsidiary of Jardine Matheson, whose market value was seriously undervalued. When Wharf was trading at HK$13-14 per share, he quietly purchased 20% of Wharf's shares.

However, under the lobbying of Shen Bi, the chief executive of HSBC Bank, he transferred part of his Wharf shares to the shipping king Bao Yugang, allowing Bao Yugang, who had the idea of ​​abandoning the ship to go ashore, to successfully join the board of directors of Wharf.

Although the Keswick family of Jardine Matheson was dissatisfied with Bao Yugang's entry into the board of directors, they could only admit it with pinched noses.

However, Chu Jianghe knew that Yihe Matheson would not just give up and something would happen next year.

I already have a plan in mind on how to use this news.

Chu Jianghe thought for a long time. When he raised his head, the sky outside was completely dark.

Chu Jianghe stretched himself, and it was time to get down to business. He woke up Ma Liang, who was sleeping on the bed: "Get up, I will take you to see what the sound of Mi Mi is."

Ma Liang, who was in a daze, didn't react for a moment: "What is the sound of Mi Mi?"