Rebirth of the Tech Madman

Compared with metropolises such as New York, the history of building skyscrapers in Hong Kong is actually very short. Because Hong Kong's early city positioning was mainly as an entrepot, the demand for skyscrapers and offices was not too high.

Moreover, the regulations promulgated by the Hong Kong government to limit the height of buildings in 1903, that is, the construction of buildings with more than 5 floors must be approved by the Governor of Xiangjiang in conjunction with the Executive Council.

As a result, Xiangjiang has only a handful of high-rise buildings since then. With a total of 13 floors and a height of 70 meters, the third-generation head office building of HSBC Bank became the tallest building in Hong Kong from the 1930s to the 1940s.

It was not until 1955 that the Hong Kong government revised the building regulations and relaxed the regulations on the height of buildings. Before that, there were only a dozen high-rise buildings with more than 5 floors in Xiangjiang.

But even after entering the 1960s, the new high-rise buildings in Xiangjiang still did not cross the 150-meter threshold of skyscrapers.

With the rapid development of Hong Kong's economy from the 1960s to the 1970s, the first skyscraper finally appeared in Hong Kong, namely the Kangle Building in Central, completed in 1973, with a height of 178.5 meters and a total of 52 floors. It was the first skyscraper in the 1970s The tallest building in Xiangjiang and even in Asia has become a famous landmark in Xiangjiang.

In 1980, this record was replaced by the Hopewell Center located in Queen's Road East, Wan Chai. This skyscraper, designed by Hopewell Holdings Chairman and architect Hu Yingxiang and set as the headquarters of Hopewell Holdings, has a total of 66 floors and a height of 216 meters.

Although it has lost the throne of the first physical height, Kangle Building will show its extraordinary status in another form. Its owner, Land Corporation, has announced that Kangle Building will be officially renamed Qinhe Building next year and become The headquarters of Qinhe Group, the largest enterprise in Xiangjiang.

Currently. The Kangle Building is undergoing renovations, one of which is to re-erect internal wiring to create the world's first high-tech office building that fully adopts a composite communication network and an intelligent power system.

Shao Yifu specially told the driver to slow down. It can be seen through the car window that the original exterior wall of Kangle Building was mainly made of concrete and paper stone. It is being replaced with an aluminum exterior wall that is more modern and can avoid the risk of paper stones flying off and hurting people.

It took only 16 months for this building built by Hongkong Land from the start of construction to the flat top, setting a record for the construction speed of that era.

At this speed, it is still not as fast as its owner land company, or even Jardine, which is even higher.

Shao Yifu, a tycoon who has been in Xiangjiang for decades, still finds it incredible in retrospect. Why did the No. 1 British foreign company, which has been in business for more than a hundred years, change its owner in such a quick way? Even he began to believe the saying that was circulating in the market,

That is to say, the chairman of Jardine Niu Bijian was a big traitor from the beginning.

If it is said that eating Jardine face to face can only show that Tang Huan is a super upstart, then the logistics and methodical digestion of Jardine's accumulation of more than a hundred years of accumulation will transfer thousands of foreign devils. _The teaching is submissive, and the skill shown in the whole process can only be described as brilliant.

Regardless of whether others think that Tang Huan's status as the king of Xiangjiang is too opportunistic, anyway, Shao Yifu admits that it is better to be friends with the other party than to be opponents. He is here this time. Also hold the same attitude.

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Seeing that the car with the No. 6 license plate in front slowed down, Zou Wenhuai ordered the driver to slow down as well. This did not show how much he respected Shao Yifu. It's just because I haven't fully figured out how to negotiate with Tang Huan in a while.

The recovery momentum of Xiangjiang film industry has become more and more obvious.

For example, the box office of the two historical films Burning the Old Summer Palace and Listening to the Government directed by Li Hanxiang with a mainland production background reached more than 15 million and 12 million respectively in Xiangjiang; The comedy film I Love Evening Primrose filmed by Di Robin, Lin Zixiang and others has a box office of nearly 14 million.

This also shows that the production process of the Xiangjiang film industry has become more and more diversified. As long as you have money, you can recruit people to set up projects. However, the distribution and screening links still maintain the original resource monopoly nature.

Zou Wenhuai realized this. The operation mode of Golden Harvest is being adjusted through a series of measures including relaxing the cooperation conditions of satellite companies.

But unfortunately. This mystery was also noticed by DreamWorks, and since the second half of the year, it has launched a series of offensives in theaters to compete for moviegoers.

Golden Harvest naturally complained endlessly, and Zou Wenhuai often complained secretly, Tang Huan, you already have so many businesses that are easier to make money, why bother to come to the movie industry to grab food! If it is said that it is for the placement of a confidante, but how can this little girl, Hu Yinmeng, squander so many resources?

In this meeting, the matter of the theater chain must not be avoided, but no matter how gaudy Tang Huan said, Zou Wenhuai was unwilling to let go of the interests of the theater chain in his heart.

Looking at the future headquarters of Qinhe, Kangle Building, which is being renovated outside the car, the round windows with artistic design features seem to be staring at you in pairs, and there is a question of do you have the strength to fight? Zou Wenhuai couldn't help feeling timid.

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Coincidentally, Lei Juekun's car followed behind Zou Wenhuai again.

At this moment, he was annoyed in his heart. Gein, apart from Golden Princess Cinemas and Golden Harvest Cinemas, was suffering from the pressure of competition from DreamWorks Cinemas, and New Art City was obviously disobedient.

The operating entity of Lei Juekun's film business is mainly Golden Princess Entertainment Company, while New Art City is just a satellite company that provides film sources for Golden Princess Cinemas.

The control of New Art City is mainly achieved through Studio City Film Xiangjiang Co., Ltd., which is controlled by Golden Princess Entertainment Company. It holds 72% of the shares in New Art City, the remaining 28%, Shi Tian gets 19%, Huang Baiming only 9%.

As for the shareholding structure of Cineplex Film Xiangjiang Co., Ltd., Golden Princess Entertainment holds 51%, and the remaining 49% belongs to Maijia.

In other words, Mai Jia owns close to 36% of the shares of New Art City.

This kind of share price difference close to the doubling gap did not cause any problems at the beginning. After all, no one would have thought that Xiangjiang's film market would be so good. Once Best Partner was released, it won more than 20 million at the box office. Coupled with the benefits of other movies, this imbalance is vividly shown.

Don't worry about scarcity but unevenness, and it seems that someone is secretly instigating. The relationship within New Art City tends to be in harmony.

in addition. Lei Juekun instructed New Art City to cut off the cooperation with DreamWorks personnel, and to dig out the other party's directors and stars, but everything did not go smoothly.

You know, Lei Juekun has already invested tens of millions in New Art City, and it is no wonder that he is not angry when he sees that this right-hand man is not so obedient.

Unlike Shao Yifu and Zou Wenhuai who mainly made their fortunes in the film industry, Lei Juekun's industrial focus was previously reflected in Kowloon Jianye and Kowloon Bus.

But on November 11, 1980. Sun Hung Kai Properties announced the acquisition of Kowloon Motor Bus's shares in the stock market, triggering a takeover battle. As a result, on November 17, Sun Hung Kai Properties successfully acquired a total of 39.5% of Kowloon Bus, and Kowloon Bus changed owners.

Therefore, Lei Juekun still valued the income from the Golden Princess Cinema Line, and was unwilling to exchange it.

Why don't we try to find Zou Wenhuai and see if we can join forces to resist DreamWorks? Lei Juekun thought as he looked at the Christmas lights placed in some buildings.

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The destination of Shao Yifu, Zou Wenhuai, and Lei Juekun was the only five-star hotel in Central——Hong Kong Mandarin Oriental Hotel.

Tang Huan is in the name of Xiangjiang Club. Invitations sent. However, due to the second-generation Xiangjiang Club Building built in 1897, it has been demolished and rebuilt. It will not be completed until next year, so the event venue has been transferred to the Hong Kong Mandarin Oriental Hotel.

Hong Kong Club is a private club in Hong Kong. Founded in 1846, it provides business and high-end catering services. Members are either rich or expensive. Members must go through an introducer. At the same time, they need to pay expensive membership fees, annual fees, and buy bonds issued by the club. voucher.

In colonial times, Xiangjiang would have been a place for entertainment and socializing for the British. Even in the early days, Chinese were not allowed to enter, and the most famous example of being refused membership. It is Sir Ho Tung, a rich Eurasian businessman, and the father of He Zuozhi, the founder of Xiangjiang Commercial Radio. He is the elder brother of Wang's grandfather.

Tang Huan won Jardine, which included not only digesting hardware assets, but also human resources in software. This Hong Kong club is one of them.

At this time, Tang Huan was meeting Li Junxia, ​​a Chinese with great career potential in the Xiangjiang police circle.

He successfully passed the examination in 1957 and joined the Hong Kong Police Force. He was promoted to Superintendent in April 1969, Chief Superintendent in 1978, and Assistant Commissioner of Police in 1979.

The ranks of the Xiangjiang police system are divided into three categories, namely, the constitutional committee level, the inspector level, and the rank and file level, which are further subdivided into more than 10 ranks.

The so-called constitutional committee means that its appointment must be published in the Xiangjiang Government Gazette, and its appointment and dismissal must be approved by the Governor of Hong Kong. To put it bluntly, it means that they are on the list and registered, and the number of the entire Xiangjiang is only three or four hundred.

The ranks of Commissioner of Police, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Senior Assistant Commissioner of Police, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Chief Superintendent, Senior Superintendent, and Superintendent of Police all belong to the Constitutional Committee rank.

In other words, Li Junxia has been promoted to the fourth highest rank in the Xiangjiang police circle. At the current stage, this achievement is commendable for the Chinese, after all, there are only a dozen people in this position.

And judging from Li Junxia's current qualifications, he is likely to be promoted to another level next year and become one of the four senior assistant directors of the police force. Above this level, there are only two deputy commissioners of the police force and the chief of the first brother police department.

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Tang Sheng, it is a good choice to use Guka soldiers as bodyguards. They have received military training, are hard-working, and do not understand Cantonese, so they will have a higher degree of secrecy. As for the drivers, Chinese are still used, because other I am more familiar with the road of Xiangjiang. Li Junxia expressed his views eloquently.

Gurkha soldiers? Tang Huan frowned, Are you talking about mercenaries from the Gurkhas in Nepal?

Tang Sheng has a lot of knowledge, and they are them. Li Junxia nodded with a smile, The Gurkha tribe lived in the northwest of Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, and spoke the Kasi language. As early as the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, they invaded Tibet twice with the intention of looting all over the country. wealth in Lama Temples everywhere.

Tang Huan listened carefully, while serving tea for Li Junxia. After the other party thanked him with a flushed face, he continued to talk.

First invasion. It was withdrawn after peace talks between Bazhong, the general of the Manchu and Qing troops stationed in Tibet, and Galon Tenzin Banjul. The condition was 300 silver ingots weighing 32 taels per year.

However, in the second larger-scale invasion the following year, there was almost no resistance from local Tibetan soldiers or Manchu garrisons, and the Gurkhas were able to plunder.

Afterwards, Qianlong ordered General Fukang'an and Counselor Hai Lancha to lead the Qing soldiers to support the local Tibetan soldiers, drive them back to the southern foot of the Himalayas, and even counterattacked as far as Yangbu, the capital of Gurkha at that time. Now in Kathmandu, there is a 20-kilometer thermal lock bridge.

The Sri Lanka War forced the Gurkhas to pay tribute to the Qing Dynasty once every five years. After the relationship was stabilized, it lasted until 1908 at the beginning of this century. At that time, the Gurkhas were completely controlled by the British.

It is said that in the early days of the British strategy of Gurkha, it was defeated by the brave Gurkha people. The Gurkhas then handed over the captured British armaments to the Qing court for credit. However, due to different languages, the translation of the name Britain is different. As a result, when the Gurkhas reported it, the Qing court officials thought that the Britain referred to by the Gurkhas was just an unknown country in the southwest. small country, so it was not taken seriously.

The Gurkhas still retain the martial arts habits of the mountain people, so they are best at mountain warfare and guerrilla warfare. The unique weapon they are proud of is the Gurkha machete.

Therefore, the Gurkha fighters are deeply loved by the British, and a standing Gurkha army has been specially formed. Up to now, there is still a Gurkha mercenary brigade with a total of about 3,700 people, which was sent to colonies including Xiangjiang. , It was also shown in the Falklands battle last year.

Li's suggestion won my heart, and I will ask you to recruit Guka soldiers. Tang Huan thanked him solemnly.

It's my honor to be able to work for Tang Sheng. Li Junxia waved his hands again and again.

While talking, his subordinates came to report, Boss, Sir Shao is here.

Tang Sheng still has important guests to meet, so I won't bother you. Li Junxia saw the opportunity and got up to leave.

When Tang Huan sent Li Junxia out, Shao Yifu happened to be walking towards him.

Sixth Uncle, please forgive me for being far away. Tang Huan greeted with a smile.

Don't dare to take it. Shao Yifu said pointedly, It seems that I, the old man, will be the first to arrive.

Uncle Six is ​​one of our own, so of course he is the most supportive. Tang Huan complimented, and then heard the assistant report in a low voice, Mr. Zou and Mr. Lei are also here, but they didn't go into the hotel right away, but got together to talk. (To be continued.)