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Chapter 134 Coveting Jardine Land

For this purpose, Lin Haoran specially rented a car from a car rental agency in downtown New York. In the next few days, he had a great time in New York and nearby areas.

Times Square, the Statue of Liberty, the Empire State Building, New York's Chinatown, etc., all have the presence of Lin Haoran and others.

The huge American market is very attractive. Sooner or later, he will make large-scale investments here to make a lot of money, but now is not the time.

Although he has a considerable amount of available funds on hand, it would be better for him to keep the money in Hong Kong and operate it so that he can have more say in the business world in Hong Kong. This is what he needs to do now.

After he has harvested enough funds from the gold market, he will be able to invest in the business world without restraint.

As for now, he should develop steadily. Even in Hong Kong, he is not considered top-notch. His position in his own territory is not even stable. Why should he rush to invest everywhere?
During the days in New York, although he stayed there for the purpose of relaxing, he would occasionally pay attention to the international gold price. He could see the rise and fall of the price by buying a newspaper in the morning, so it was not a problem.

After he bought 197.63 million ounces of gold futures, the price continued to rise every day. The lowest price could increase by 1 to 2 dollars per ounce in a day, and the highest price could increase by 3 to 5 dollars per ounce in a day.

If nothing unexpected happens, January 1980 will be the peak of gold prices. As the United States suppresses gold, the price will begin to fall sharply.

Therefore, he has made preparations and will only hold the gold until January, when he will find an opportunity to sell it.

进入1980年的前两个交易日，黄金价格达到634美元，美国财长米勒宣布财政部不再出售黄金，之后不到30分钟黄金价格大涨30美元达715美元，在1月21日创下850美元的历史新高。

Lin Haoran couldn't sell at the highest point because he knew that the peak price would not last long. However, he would be satisfied if the gold in his hands could be sold at a price of more than US$700 per ounce.

As a human being, you should not be too greedy.

Even if he sold it at around $750 per ounce, he would have made a profit of up to 3 times in this gold boom.

Now it is June, and it only takes half a year before it is another harvest season for him. Moreover, this time the harvest will be bigger than ever before, much bigger!

It was not until the morning of June 6 that Lin Haoran and others appeared again at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport.

Two days later, the plane they were on landed safely at Kai Tak International Airport in Hong Kong, and Lin Haoran then went straight back to his villa in Deep Water Bay.

Now, he has not bought his own villa. Although he has a residence that belongs entirely to him in Hengfeng Building, it is obvious that the villa is more comfortable to live in.

Moreover, Deep Water Bay Villa has servants to serve him, and he also needs to go back to see his parents, so going back to Deep Water Bay Villa is naturally the most appropriate place.

Some time after Lin's father retired from Wan'an Group, Lin Haoran found that his complexion had improved a lot. Without so many social engagements and overwork, and by paying attention to his eating habits as advised by the doctor, his body might really recover.

"Hao'er, are you really going to the United States to travel?" Seeing Lin Haoran coming back, Lin Wanan asked with some disbelief.

Although he no longer needs to worry about Wan'an Group's affairs, he is a little bit skeptical that his son would go traveling soon after inheriting the company.

However, the fact that Lin Haoran made hundreds of millions of dollars from crude oil was not exposed. Only a few people knew about it, so Lin Wanan naturally didn't know about it.

Otherwise, he would have guessed that his son was going to the United States to invest in something.

Looking at Lin Haoran's development path, it is basically based on short-term investment to obtain huge profits. For each investment, Lin Haoran's purpose is also very simple, so these are not difficult to guess.

"Yes, Daddy, I went to New York specially this time and took a lot of photos, including Times Square, the Statue of Liberty, the Empire State Building, New York's Chinatown, etc. Daddy, please wait a moment, I will take out the photos to show you." Lin Haoran said with a smile.

After saying that, he took out a stack of photos from his backpack and handed them to Lin Wanan.

Upon hearing this, Lin's mother also came over and looked at the photos.

Sitting on the sofa, Lin Haoran talked about the interesting things that happened during his time in the United States.

Nothing has changed at home, but my father has been recuperating at home, and my mother Lin obviously smiles a lot more often.

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After resting at home for two more days to adjust to the time difference, Lin Haoran went to the company.

He hadn't been to Qingzhou Yingni Company and Wan'an Group for ten days. There had not been much change in the two companies, and there were two talented enough managers to maintain operations. His short-term absence would not cause any impact.

Moreover, when he was in the United States, he would call Burton and Yang Mingyi every one or two days to find out if they had encountered any issues that they could not decide.

Sitting in the office of Qingzhou Yingni Company, Lin Haoran was thinking about his next plan.

He currently has 9000 million US dollars in his hands, which is about 4.77 million Hong Kong dollars when converted into Hong Kong dollars, which is definitely a huge amount of money.

Continue to invest money in the real estate industry, buy land and make a profit while real estate prices have not yet reached their peak?
This is a good idea. It saves time and effort. Now it is June 1979. By 6, it will be no problem to earn at least two or three times as much.

But it's such a waste of time.

For others, earning two or three times the money in just one or two years is simply a huge profit. But Lin Haoran doesn't think so.

It has been less than a year since he traveled to this era, but his assets have already increased dozens of times. He is not satisfied with spending nearly two years to only earn two or three times the amount.

Instead of making two or three times the profit, it is better to do something practical.

Try to acquire Hutchison Whampoa? With the money he has, he can't leverage this British giant.

Most importantly, Lin Haoran knew that the reason why Li Ka-shing gave up on continuing to acquire Hutchison Whampoa was because Bao Yugang had promised Li Ka-shing that he would fully support him in acquiring Hutchison Whampoa. In addition, Shen Bi also promised to sell it to him at the right opportunity.

The time he traveled through was too late. If he had been given two years earlier, Lin Haoran would have found a way to take over Hutchison Whampoa and even Hutchison Whampoa.

But now, it is obvious that they have already decided on the next owner of Hutchison Whampoa.

Therefore, Lin Haoran knew that the probability of him successfully acquiring Hutchison Whampoa was low.

Because the major shareholder of Hutchison Whampoa Group is now Huifeng Bank, Huifeng can sell Hutchison Whampoa to anyone it wants. Why would Shen Bi change his previous promise?

Lin Hao doesn't have such a big face at the moment.

However, just because the Hutchison Whampoa Group is not suitable for acquisition does not mean that other British trading companies cannot acquire it. Hutchison Whampoa is not the only high-quality stock in Hong Kong.

In fact, most British companies own huge amounts of land and properties, such as Wheelock & Co., Hongkong Land, Swire Properties, Hong Kong Electric Group and even Jardine Matheson.

Lin Haoran also knew that in a few years, Hong Kong Holdings would face a major financial crisis. As a result, Hong Kong Holdings would have to sell various properties, and its stock price would plummet. This might be his opportunity.

By 1980, Jardine Matheson Group Chairman John Newbigin was on guard against Chinese financial groups coveting his assets, fearing that the Wharf incident would happen again.

Therefore, the idea was to defend the controlling rights over Hutchison Whampoa Properties through mutual control between Jardine Matheson Group and Hutchison Whampoa. The ultimate goal was for Jardine Matheson and Hutchison Whampoa Group to hold 40% of each other's shares.

However, with the collapse of Hong Kong's real estate industry, the mutual control of Hutchison Whampoa became a burden to the Hutchison Whampoa Group.

At that time, it will be the best time for Lin Haoran to control Hutchison Whampoa and indirectly control Jardine Matheson.

The probability of success is very small, but there is a guarantee. With the wealth he will have in half a year, even if he cannot take over Jardine Matheson, he can at least take over Swire Properties.

As for whether Huifeng Group or even the British Hong Kong government will come out to oppose and prevent his acquisition, this is very likely, but he should be able to deal with it by then.

Currently, his influence in the business world is still too low, and he has too few ways to deal with this special situation.

In fact, to Lin Haoran, the value of Swire Properties is much greater than that of Jardine Matheson Holdings.

Even if he failed, he would be very satisfied as he only acquired the land.

Of course, he doesn't have the strength now. He has too little money and too few connections. It is not very realistic for him to want to swallow an elephant like an ant.

Only after obtaining a huge amount of funds from the gold market will they have the capital to covet the Hong Kong Property Group and even Jardine Matheson.

Picking up the latest newspaper prepared for him by his assistant, Lin Haoran sat in the boss chair and started reading.

"Yesterday, the Hong Kong stock market continued to surge. Some stock market experts predicted that Hong Kong would once again usher in a bull market. The Hong Kong Electric Group saw the highest increase, up 3.72%, with a total market value exceeding HK$15 billion."

This is a newspaper called "Hong Kong Business Daily". The headline news is about the situation of Hong Kong's stock market yesterday.

The performance of global stock markets during this oil crisis was completely different from that during the 1973 oil crisis.

Although the economy also showed signs of "stagflation", the US stock market did not fall sharply, but instead rose.

Between 1979 and 1980, the S&P 500 index of U.S. stocks rose by a cumulative 41%, which was clearly a bull market trend.

The stock markets of other major countries and regions in the world also mostly rose, with the Hong Kong stock market seeing the largest increase. The Hang Seng Index saw a cumulative increase of 197% in two years, which was a complete bull market.

Lin Haoran was extremely lucky to take over Qingzhou Yingni Company before the bull market in Hong Kong stock market came.

Otherwise, if Qingzhou Yingni Company had waited until now to acquire it, the cost of acquiring it would probably have doubled. Moreover, due to the surge in stock trading volume and the increase in small shareholders, it would have been even more difficult for him to acquire Qingzhou Yingni so easily.

At this time, Lin Haoran's attention was attracted by a company reported in the newspaper.

Hong Kong Electric Group?

Isn't this the company that will be acquired by Li Jiacheng in a few years?
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