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On April 4, good news came again from Citibank.

They once again successfully concluded negotiations with an investment company and acquired 1.66% of Toyota Motor shares from the other party.

At this point, Lin Haoran's share of Toyota Motor has exceeded 10%, reaching 10.11%.

At the same time, according to the shareholder information disclosed by Toyota Motor, this share ratio has officially become the third largest shareholder of Toyota Motor Corporation, only 0.38% away from the second largest shareholder.

And Citibank also completed their minimum acquisition ratio.

Since Citigroup negotiates with these fund companies or investment companies in secret, even if some people already know that Citigroup is now increasing its stake in Toyota Motor, it is not clear how many shares it already holds.

Coupled with Citibank's past investment practices, no one would know even if its stake had increased to more than 10%.

Moreover, Citigroup does not sit on Toyota Motor's board of directors, so there is no need to disclose its shareholding information to the public.

Under normal circumstances, shareholders who hold a certain percentage of shares will proactively disclose information in order to maximize their profits.

However, Lin Haoran is now the real shareholder behind this, and he has no intention of announcing it, so naturally no one knows that the share changes in Toyota Motor are so huge.

Time passed quickly and the day of the auction came.

Lin Haoran arrived at the Landmark Building in the afternoon and sat in the company, waiting for news from Huo Jianning.

This involves a transaction of more than 100 billion yen, as well as the important future layout of the Swire Group in Japan. Therefore, even if Lin Haoran is no longer in charge, he still takes this matter very seriously.

Time passed bit by bit, until almost five o'clock in the afternoon, when Huo Jianning finally hurried back.

At this moment, Huo Jianning's face was full of smiles.

Without Huo Jianning saying anything, Lin Haoran had already guessed that there must be good news.

As expected, Cheung Kong Properties was taken over by them.

Sure enough, as soon as Huo Jianning stepped into Lin Haoran's office, he couldn't wait to report to Lin Haoran: "Boss, the bidding process went much smoother than we expected. Although there were 7 companies participating in the bidding, the price they finally offered was not high.

These consortiums or companies participating in the auction all seemed to be looking for a bargain, and there was not a single company that was truly interested in acquiring Cheung Kong Properties.

Therefore, our transaction price was finally locked in at 1298 billion yen, and no other company bid with us afterwards. This price was about 13 percentage points lower than the market price!

From today, the Japanese real estate company Cheung Kong Real Estate will be officially merged into the Hong Kong Land Group. It is only a merger of assets, and its liabilities have nothing to do with us! "

At this moment, Huo Jianning's tone seemed very excited.

After acquiring the assets of Cheung Kong Property Holdings, Swire Properties will no longer be a real estate company with only four plots of land in Japan, but a large Japanese real estate company with multiple real estate projects under construction.

More importantly, most of the employees of Cheung Kong Properties will also become part of the Hong Kong Land Group.

Except for a few employees who chose to change jobs, most employees are currently waiting for proper placement by the government.

The real estate industry is currently not very prosperous, but Cheung Kong Properties has thousands of employees, including traditional construction workers as well as civil engineers, structural engineers, water and electricity engineers, landscaping engineers and other positions, and its human resource structure is very complete.

Even if many people leave their jobs, they find it difficult to find a satisfactory new job quickly.

This undoubtedly brings convenience to the Hong Kong Land Group. For the Hong Kong Land Group, this is a valuable human resource that will be of great benefit to its development.

After all, in Japan, the real estate business of the Hong Kong Land Development Group still lacks a solid foundation.

Human resources are undoubtedly an indispensable element if we are to seek development.

Recruiting from scratch is not only time-consuming and laborious, but also extremely difficult.

Now, having directly inherited most of the human resources of the large real estate company Cheung Kong Properties, the Japanese branch of the Hong Kong Land Group has undoubtedly saved a lot of energy.

Cheung Kong Properties has a well-established staff structure, which means that Hong Kong Land can continue its operations seamlessly after acquiring the company.

"Well done, you didn't let me down!" Lin Haoran was also very happy after hearing this.

This real estate project worth more than 100 billion yen can bring him many times the return when the economic bubble comes.

That evening, after leaving the Landmark Tower, Lin Haoran returned home.

Walking into the study on the fifth floor, Lin Haoran took out a small notebook from a safe.

This little notebook contains his plans for the Jardine Matheson Group for the next ten years!
It was also a plan that he gradually perfected after consulting some professional financial professionals.

Lin Haoran did not reveal this to anyone. This was his secret. Even Yamada Keiko was not aware of it.

As for Huo Jianning, he only knew his initial plan. As for the follow-up plan, Lin Haoran would continue to tell him when the time came. After all, as the head of the Japanese branch of the Hong Kong Land Group, Huo Jianning couldn't possibly keep everything from him. The Hong Kong Land Group still depended on him for development.

At the beginning, Huo Jianning raised objections.

Such a plan is too risky. As an accountant by training, Ho Kin Ning is well aware of the serious consequences that would occur if the Japanese branch of the Swire Group developed in this way and encountered a break in the capital chain.

However, Lin Haoran finally convinced Huo Jianning, and Huo Jianning chose to believe in this boss who was his benefactor.

To put it simply, this layout is divided into three steps!

Phase One: Build up momentum and lay out your plans.

Phase 2: Bubble carnival.

Stage 3: Victory Escape!

He wanted to learn from the methods of big guys like Li Jiacheng and a certain belt in his previous life, learn their good ideas and discard the bad ones.

During the real estate market's slow or even crisis periods, land and properties are held tightly in hands.

After housing prices have risen sharply, these assets will be sold one by one, thus realizing huge capital appreciation.

Patience and foresight are the keys to real estate investment. Knowing that Japan will experience an economic bubble in the near future and that real estate prices will skyrocket, he naturally will not build the buildings and sell them now.

Therefore, before the economic bubble, Lin Haoran had no plans to sell the property, but to rent it out for sale!

Of course, this also has a very big disadvantage, that is, during this period there is only investment, and the capital recovery rate is too slow. It is impossible to make a big profit just by collecting rent.

Other companies would not dare to do this. After all, no matter how strong their cash flow is, they cannot be sure when housing prices will rise sharply.

But Lin Haoran is different. He knows very well that Japan's economic bubble period started in 1985, reached its peak in 1989, and began to burst in the early 90s.

Now, it is already 1981, and there are only four years left before the beginning of the economic bubble. Many real estate projects will take three or four years to build.

Therefore, this period of time is not long for Lin Haoran.

He just needs to be patient and continue to expand the company's real estate in Japan.

Of course, it would be difficult to develop faster relying solely on his own funds. For this reason, he has made a detailed plan.

From 1981 to 1985, it was in the stage of accumulating strength and laying out plans!

During this period, a large amount of land was hoarded!
Today, the average commercial land price in Tokyo is only 50 yen per square meter, but by 1990, this peak will reach a terrifying 3650 million yen per square meter. Therefore, before the bubble comes, he needs to stockpile a lot of land. As for development? Take your time!
As for capital, if he only relies on his own funds for investment, it will obviously be too slow, so the best way is to cooperate with banks, through the land transfer loan model, borrow money from banks with land as collateral, and then buy new land, and then mortgage it in a cycle, so as to achieve an asset scale that is 3-5 times his own investment within 8 years.

For example, he may have originally invested only 1 trillion yen in the Japanese real estate industry, but after such operations, his funds may reach 5 trillion yen or even more.

All of this requires cooperation with relevant political and business circles in Japan. The political circles, for example, sponsor the Liberal Democratic Party's construction-oriented lawmakers, to be informed in advance of policy trends such as the "Capital Renovation Plan" and the "Comprehensive Maintenance and Regional Development Law."

In this way, he will be able to clearly understand the direction of Tokyo's urban development, and thus buy the most suitable land and obtain the highest profit.

As for the business community, it is natural to build good relationships with banks, such as Citibank. In addition, he also needs to establish main banking relationships with local Sumitomo Trust, Industrial Bank of Japan, etc., and strive for special credit that can increase the land appraisal price by 20% or even more.

In this way, his financial problem will no longer be a problem.

It is definitely impossible to expand rapidly relying solely on your own funds.

We need to learn the methods of the Jianing Group, a certain large group, etc.

Simply put, it means expansion by any means necessary!
Of course, he is different from the Jianing Group. He is not worried about his capital chain being broken. The assets in Hong Kong are his greatest confidence.

As long as you can survive the bubble period, all of this will be fine.

The second stage, from 1985 to 1989, was the carnival of the bubble period!

At this stage, he needs to use capital to operate and allow the Japanese branch to absorb more funds. At the same time, he will begin to use Japan's funds to gradually carry out cross-border capital arbitrage, such as acquiring the Rockefeller Center in New York, USA!
The third stage, the victorious escape!

Finally, before the bubble ended, they began to liquidate their assets, such as gradually transferring their real estate assets in exchange for a large amount of funds, thereby realizing cash out.

For some industries that are difficult to sell, other methods are used, such as bringing assets to invest in Masayoshi Son’s SoftBank Group.

Ultimately, through a series of arrangements, Lin Haoran planned to earn at least dozens of times the return rate in Japan.

As for how much he could cash out from Japan and escape successfully, he naturally couldn't calculate it now. (End of this chapter)