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Chapter 170 The General Manager of Landmark Visits
Time flies and it is already February.

The temperature in Hong Kong has gradually warmed up in February compared to January, but this February has been rainy and the weather is unpleasant.

After the Federal Company emptied all the offices that were to be emptied, the International Building and the Federal Building were successively completely controlled by Wan'an Investment Company, a subsidiary of Wan'an Group.

Despite this, Wan'an Group and Huanyu Investment Company are still unable to move to the new Wan'an Group Building, which is the former Federal Building.

Because all floors above the 28th floor will be renovated.

Although it is just a simple renovation, it will take about a month.

Lin Haoran has already told Wan'an Group about his personal reception room according to his own request.

According to the needs of the boss Lin Haoran, design drawings were also provided. He was very satisfied with the design style. After that, he just needed to wait for the decoration to be completed before he could use it.

Before the renovation was completed, both Wan'an Group and Huanyu Investment Company continued to work in the old Wan'an Group Building.

Over the past week, under the leadership of Su Zhixue, Huanyu Investment Company has been secretly absorbing shares of the China Real Estate Group with its original team of five while expanding its team.

Wan'an Group's original securities business department has been disbanded, and the dozen or so employees who were removed have all been incorporated into Huanyu Investment Company.

After all, Wan'an Group is no longer a listed company, so there is naturally no need to keep this department.

Lin Haoran had already checked the loyalty levels of these dozen people when he was at Wan'an Group. They were all between 75 and 85, so there was no problem with their loyalty.

After being incorporated into Huanyu Investment Company, their loyalty has basically increased by several points.

For example, the former minister Dai Bin’s loyalty level increased from 85 to 89 points.

The reason is simple. Ever since Wanan Group was privatized and delisted, these people have been very worried that they will be fired.

Now, there is no need to worry about this problem anymore. On the contrary, the welfare benefits have increased a little. For these people, this is naturally a better thing. Therefore, it is also very normal that their loyalty has increased under such circumstances.

In addition, Su Zhixue also recruits new elite traders through human resources companies and headhunting companies.

As for Yang Mingyi, Lin Haoran had previously asked him to find a suitable real estate company for acquisition, but in the end he failed to find a suitable one.

The reason is simple. Today, real estate companies in Hong Kong are developing at a rapid pace, and basically no one wants to sell their company.

When it comes to acquisitions from the stock market, Chinese real estate companies are very cautious and do not give any opportunities for acquisitions at all.

As for British real estate companies, many of the strong ones are subsidiaries of large banks and are not suitable for the time being, while the weak ones are small shrimps and there is no point in acquiring them.

But it doesn't matter. The well-funded Wan'an Group can now develop rapidly with 2 million yuan in funds and two buildings to provide it with a steady stream of rent.

After obtaining funds, Wan'an Group, under the leadership of Yang Mingyi, began to expand its staff. It first took over the industrial park construction project of Aigo Company, and then discussed cooperation matters with Hong Kong Electric Group.

On the Hong Kong Electric Group side, although the former site of the Electric Road Power Station in North Point does not yet have the strength to be developed, the land in Jardine's Lookout can be developed.

Jardine's Lookout has a very advantageous geographical location. It is also part of the Hong Kong mountaintop villa area. There is no problem in developing a high-end luxury community consisting of a dozen small houses here.

Therefore, the Hong Kong Electric Group and the Wan'an Group jointly established an International City Company, with both parties injecting HK$2 million, or HK$4 million respectively. The Hong Kong Electric Group then sold the land to International City for HK$3.15 million, and International City then jointly developed the land.

The 2 million Hong Kong dollars of funds were naturally the funds provided by Lin Haoran, and this money came in handy at this time.

With boss Lin Haoran in the middle, the cooperation between both Aigo and HK Electric was naturally very smooth and there were no obstacles at all.

The New Wan'an Group Building and the International Building successfully contributed the first month's funds to the Wan'an Group on the last day of January, a total of more than 1 million Hong Kong dollars, plus a deposit of more than 2 million Hong Kong dollars (tenants paid two deposits and one payment). Even though million Hong Kong dollars were spent, the Wan'an Group still had funds to continue expanding its engineering team.

Wanan Group, a real estate company, is developing in an orderly and rapid manner, and it is not without opportunities to surpass the Five Tigers of Real Estate in the future.

At Yang Mingyi's suggestion, Lin Haoran set his sights on Kinmen Construction Company, which is now controlled by Jardine Matheson. It was originally a listed company and was directly privatized by Jardine Matheson in 1975.

Kinmen Construction Company is considered to be the best construction company in Hong Kong. Its strength is many times stronger than Wan'an Construction Engineering Company under the Wan'an Group. If it is taken over, the strength of the Wan'an Group will definitely increase several times.

Unfortunately, after talking with Mr. Niu Bijian of Jardine Matheson, the other party was unwilling to sell Kinmen Construction Company.

Helplessly, Lin Haoran could only give up this idea temporarily.

Now he can only look forward to taking over the Jardine Matheson Group as soon as possible. After taking over the Jardine Matheson Group, what will Kinmen Construction Engineering Company be?
In one week, Huanyu Investment Company spent more than 1.95 million Hong Kong dollars and acquired about % of the shares of Hong Kong Land Group.
This speed was beyond Lin Haoran's imagination, it was indeed much faster than he had imagined.

But it is understandable that the Hong Kong stock market in 1980 was definitely the most active year in the history of the Hong Kong stock market. The stock market trading volume skyrocketed that year, and the four major exchanges were crowded with people every day. Everyone knew that the bull market had arrived. If you don’t take the opportunity to enter the market and make a profit at this time, do you have to wait until the bear market to play?

Investors who have made money through the stock market are not even willing to go out for lunch at noon. They just pack a luxurious bowl of shark fin rice and eat it right in front of the exchange, waiting for the market to open in the afternoon.

Because the transaction volume was so huge, Huanyu Investment Company took this opportunity to accelerate the acquisition without being discovered by others.

This is of course very beneficial to Huanyu Investment Company. If the absorption speed can be sustained, sooner or later, Lin Haoran will become a major shareholder of the Jardine Matheson Group.

By then, even if he is still unable to control the Jardine Matheson Group, he will be in a favorable environment and can find opportunities to take over the Jardine Matheson Group at any time.

In early February, Aigo Company distributed dividends again.

From November to January last year, although it was the off-season for fans, the emergence of two new products, electric blankets and electric hot water bottles, coupled with the reputation accumulated by Aimego over the past two years, led to a large number of orders for both products.

Although the final revenue cannot be compared with the profit from fan orders in the summer, the profit in these three months actually exceeded HK$1 million, reaching a terrifying figure of HK$1.22 million.

Among them, 12 million Hong Kong dollars were divided between the two in mid-December, and now there are more than million Hong Kong dollars in Aimiko's account.

At that time, Lin Haoran needed funds to acquire shares in Hong Kong Electric Group.

Finally, after discussions, Lin Haoran and Liu Luanxiong took out another 60 million Hong Kong dollars in dividends, and used another 10 million Hong Kong dollars for capital turnover. For example, the Aimego Industrial Park that was being prepared for construction would also need to pay the construction fee to the Wan'an Group.

Lin Haoran already had a plan for Aigo Company.

When the autumn of this year comes and Aigo is still at its peak of orders, he will persuade Liu Luanxiong to take Aigo public together.

After the listing, the share price of Aigo will be pushed up quickly, and then he will look for opportunities to sell off Aigo's shares.

After all, it is impossible for the profits of Aigo's fan manufacturing industry to remain so high forever. They will probably fall sharply starting next year.

The saturated market makes it impossible for them to maintain such high profits.

As for the two newly added products, electric blankets and hot water bottles, Lin Haoran knew that they could not last too long, and the winter each year was too short. On the contrary, the hot weather lasted much longer than the cold weather.

On the morning of February 2, Lin Haoran woke up from his dream. On the 7-meter-wide Simmons bed, Guan Jiahui was still sleeping soundly. Yesterday afternoon, Guan Jiahui learned that her father Guan Shan had gone on a long trip again, and she couldn't help but call Lin Haoran again.

So, Lin Haoran asked Li Weiguo to drive to pick her up.

Releasing some energy occasionally is naturally a very comfortable thing for an energetic young man like Lin Haoran.

The 18-year-old Guan Jiahui has become more and more attractive, and the temperament of maturity and youth seems to be concentrated in her.

"Get up, it's past seven o'clock." Lin Haoran pulled back the quilt, and Guan Jiahui's perfect figure was immediately revealed to the air.

Guan Jiahui wiped her eyes and then opened them reluctantly.

Lin Haoran, who was already very angry in the morning, had already pounced on him again when he saw this scene.

"Brother Haoran, I'm going to be late soon." Guan Jiahui replied while panting weakly.

"It's okay to be an hour late occasionally, just say you overslept."

It was not until more than an hour later that the smell of hormones gradually dissipated.

"Get up, have breakfast, get ready and I'll take you to school." Lin Haoran said with a smile.

"Brother Haoran, I don't want to get up." Guan Jiahui closed her eyes and lay lazily in Lin Haoran's arms, as if she was still recalling the joy she had just felt.

However, she finally got up. After all, if she skipped classes for a whole day and the news got to her father, it would be terrible.

Lin Haoran had the impression that Guan Jiahui's father, Guan Shan, would be heavily in debt due to his business this year and would eventually have to flee Hong Kong, leaving Guan Jiahui alone to deal with his creditors.

Now, he doesn't care about that small debt anymore, and even plans to train Guan Jiahui to become a business manager, and then give her a small company to let her learn how to be the person in charge of the company, of course, without shares.

In this world, since Guan Jiahui has become his woman, he certainly has no intention of letting Guan Jiahui continue to enter the entertainment industry, a circle where it is easy to learn bad things.

After breakfast, Lin Haoran sent Guan Jiahui to the gate of her school, and then went to the Ching Chau Cement Company in Hung Hom.

Tsing Chau Cement Company has now gradually moved its cement production to Yuen Long. At the same time, it has also purchased a piece of land of more than 50,000 square meters in Sai Kung, preparing to build Tsing Chau Cement Plant No. 2 in Sai Kung.

The car drove into the Qingzhou Yingni Company. It was very quiet inside. The productivity here is now only a quarter of what it used to be. After the preliminary work in Saigon is sorted out, all the production equipment here will be moved to Saigon.

In this way, the two cement production bases, one in the east and one in the west, will be sufficient to cope with the productivity of Hong Kong, Macao and the surrounding areas in the future.

By then, Qingzhou Yingni Company will be able to completely demolish the building and build a commercial building.

When we went to the general manager's office of Qingzhou Building, General Manager Burton was busy making a phone call.

Lin Haoran did not disturb him, but went to the Finance Department office next door.

Speaking of which, Lin Haoran rarely comes to Qingzhou Yingni Company nowadays, but spends a lot of time with Hong Kong Electric Group and Wan'an Group.

After all, compared with the Hong Kong Electric Group, the importance of Ching Chau Cement Company does not seem that high.

Of course, in Lin Haoran's heart, the status of Qingzhou Cement Company is still higher than that of Hong Kong Electric Group. After all, Qingzhou Cement Company is his privatized enterprise, and he only owns nearly half of Hong Kong Electric Group.

"Good morning, boss." Seeing Lin Haoran walk in, the employees of the Finance Department inside greeted Lin Haoran one after another.

After Lin Haoran responded one by one, he came to Huo Jianning's office as the Minister of Finance.

"Boss." After seeing Lin Haoran come in and putting down the work in his hands, Huo Jianning quickly stood up.

When Lin Haoran acquired the famous Hong Kong Electric Group, Huo Jianning finally found out which British bank his boss was talking about.

So he was looking forward to it.

"The accounts of Qingzhou Yingni Company are getting more and more. How is it? Can you adapt to it?" Lin Haoran asked with a smile.

"Boss, of course. Once I get used to the work here, I can handle it even if the workload is several times larger!" Huo Jianning was full of confidence at this time.

"Well, I have something to tell you. Next, you have to train a successor. After a while, I plan to transfer you to the Hong Kong Electric Group. It's more complicated and larger in scale, so you have to be mentally prepared." Lin Haoran said solemnly.

He transferred Ho Kin Ning to the Hong Kong Electric Group. Of course, he would not directly hold a big management position, but he would definitely be given a middle-level management position, such as the accounting director of the Hong Kong Electric Group. He would start with middle-level management and then gradually be promoted after adapting.

But even as an accounting supervisor, the workload is much greater than that of the financial director here.

After all, the asset scale of Hong Kong Electric Group is too large.

Upon hearing this, Huo Jianning immediately showed an excited smile on his face.

After learning that his boss was going to acquire Hong Kong Electric Group, he had been looking forward to it.

After all, Hong Kong Electric Group is one of the giant companies in Hong Kong.

"Okay boss, I will definitely not let you down." Huo Jianning said solemnly.

He already knew how much his boss valued him, so naturally he was deeply moved by such a move.

When Lin Haoran asked him to prepare to be transferred to Hong Kong Electric Group, Huo Jianning's loyalty even broke through 90 and reached 92.

Seeing this, Lin Haoran felt more confident in using Huo Jianning, a young talent.

Lin Haoran chatted with Huo Jianning for a while and was about to go to Burton's office when his pager made a shrill beeping sound.

Without thinking, he called back.

"Boss, I'm Chen Shoulin. Mr. Bao Fuda, the general manager of the Jardine Matheson Holdings Group, is here to visit you. He wants to discuss important matters with you. Please come over." Chen Shoulin said directly on the phone.

The general manager of Hong Kong Land came to visit? Why?
"Okay, wait for me, I'll be there in half an hour." Lin Haoran answered directly.

Although he didn't know what Bao Fuda's purpose was, Lin Haoran took it very seriously.

Moreover, he is now keeping his eyes on Jardine Matheson and is secretly purchasing shares of the Jardine Matheson Group, hoping to one day take over this giant group.

After hanging up the phone, Lin Haoran said something to Ho Kin Ning and decided not to go to Burton’s office. He left Qingzhou Cement Company and went directly to the headquarters of Hong Kong Electric Group.

(End of this chapter)