The birth of the Hong Kong Island family

March begins.

Zhao Yazhi brought her staff member A Jing to the brokerage firm she cooperated with. It was just a matter of phone calls, but she was still worried about the safety of her 15 million assets; her man had said that this would be all her assets in the future. He only plans and invests for her and doesn't give her a penny.

Therefore, she plans to visit three cooperating brokerage houses today to supervise the sale.

"Ms. Zhao, why are you here in person?" A Biao, a clerk at the brokerage firm, said respectfully.

A girl who can have millions of Hong Kong dollars in this era, and be so young, and also have a driver and assistant, is definitely not from a simple background; not to mention, she is so beautiful and temperamental (stewardess + training), which further proves that Zhao The young lady was born into a well-established family. These are the analysis of the brokerage house bosses. As employees, they naturally have to provide warm hospitality.

Zhao Yazhi is indeed not what she used to be. After she joined Lin Zhichao, her vision and knowledge skyrocketed. After hearing the staff's words, she pretended to be a young lady and said: "A Biao, I'm worried that I can't explain it to you on the phone. After all, the stock market is now Zhengwang, do you think this means buying millions of dollars?"

A Biaosan smiled and said: "Don't worry, I have clearly followed your instructions and will start shipping half of the goods for you today. Why don't you go to the VIP room to sit for a while, drink coffee, and wait for the market to open!"

Zhao Yazhi said: "Okay, I'll just sit down for a while and then leave!"

Zhao Yazhi enjoyed this feeling of being respected very much. The important thing is that she makes these investments as the general manager of Delta Investment, so the brokerage firms she cooperates with treat her with great courtesy.

The assistant on the side, A Jing, was even more respectful to Zhao Yazhi, because she already knew that Zhao Yazhi was dating Hong Kong business leader Sir Sir Lam. He was a big shot on the same level as the Hong Kong Governor. In her dreams, she envied her boss's patronage. Strong.

"Boss, you are getting more and more beautiful. No wonder Mr. Lin loves you so much!" A Jing whispered from the side.

Although Zhao Yazhi was happy to talk, she still said calmly: "Don't talk nonsense outside!"

"It's the boss, but you look so much more beautiful today!" Ah Jing saw that her boss was avoiding Mr. Lin, so she quickly emphasized the last sentence to cover up her mistake.

After all, Zhao Yazhi was only 19 years old, and because she liked her appearance the most, she immediately said with a smile: "Okay, I know you have a sweet mouth!"

When Ah Jing saw this, it seemed that Boss Xindao liked her appearance the most and would praise her for this in the future. But she couldn't help but think that the boss was easy to fool, but Sir Lin was not simple, so she couldn't really fool the boss.

She also thought that Sir Lin was actually quite good. Delta Investment currently did not have much work, so Sir Lin encouraged the two employees to learn more so that they could be put to great use in the future.

In other words, Delta Investment has a great future!

After a while, when he got an accurate reply from A Biao and said that it was on sale, Zhao Yazhi left with his assistant A Jing with satisfaction.

A Biao couldn't help but look at Zhao Yazhi's beautiful back, couldn't help swallowing his saliva, and then quickly looked away. Don't mess with people you can't afford to offend.

At noon, Lin Zhichao came to Delta Investment.

"Mr. Lin" the two staff members greeted quickly.

"You haven't gone to eat yet?" Lin Zhichao asked friendly.

"I've already bought it, I'll eat it later!" A Jing said enthusiastically.

The two staff members, one named Ah Jing and the other Ah Fang, have completed high school education in Hong Kong. Many people in Hong Kong only finish secondary school. After all, there are only two universities.

However, these two girls already have several years of work experience, so it is naturally more pleasing to the young girls to choose them.

"Then let's eat together!" Lin Zhichao said when he saw Zhao Yazhi coming out.

Zhao Yazhi immediately said: "Okay, Ah Jing, go take out the food inside!"

"Yes, boss"

After a while, four people gathered around a table, eating packed food.

Lin Zhichao took the opportunity and said: "You two little girls, don't think that because the company is idle, you don't have to work hard. I'm afraid that when the company develops, your skills will not be able to keep up, and your boss will not be able to reuse you!"

"Mr. Lin, what is the future development of the company? We have been studying securities work recently! Usually, we also read some business books." Ah Jing said quickly.

Lin Zhichao said with a smile: "In the later stage, it will still be investment in securities and real estate. Maybe your bosses don't know it, but I will tell you three together today! The investment in the later stage of Delta Investment is investment in securities and real estate, but with the scale To expand, you need to be familiar with all aspects, such as real estate rent collection, tenants will cause trouble for you, there are problems with water and electricity, rent increases and rent reductions. In the end, we have to choose a real person among you two girls. The assistant to the boss will follow Azhi from now on."

For a time, the competition between the two female employees was aroused. Everyone knew that the one who stayed with the boss must be the most promising.

Zhao Yazhi saw that Lin Zhichao had subdued the two girls in a short time, and she was really worried that her man would eat these two too. You know, when recruiting employees, Brother Chao clearly required girls with good features and good looks.

She didn't dare to object to Brother Chao finding other women. After all, she was one of them, but these two female employees were obviously not good. After all, she was the boss.

"Don't worry, Mr. Lin, we will work hard to meet your requirements!" Ah Jing was the quickest to respond.

"I will work hard too!" A Fang said firmly.

Anyone can see that Delta Investment will definitely develop even bigger, and now that they are just two female employees, their future is limitless.

After giving some instructions to the two female staff, Lin Zhichao ate quickly and said to Zhao Yazhi: "Go out with me later!"

"Well, Brother Chao!"

After finishing lunch resolutely, Lin Zhichao came to Zhao Yazhi's office and then asked her to change into casual clothes for him.

"Brother Chao, you have such a good figure!" Zhao Yazhi felt the strength on Lin Zhichao's chest and said with admiration.

She finally understood that men like to talk coquettishly, and of course what she said was true.

After a while, Lin Zhichao changed into a crocodile shirt and casual pants, wearing a pair of spectacle frames, as if he was a different person, and walked out of the office with Zhao Yazhi.

The two came to the shopping mall of Far East Financial Center and walked into a gold store.

Zhao Yazhi held Lin Zhichao's arm happily, having already forgotten the warning just now.

"Sir, Miss, what do you need to buy?"

Even if Lin Zhichao changes into informal clothes, the clerk can still see that Lin Zhichao is a capable customer.

"Gold, we want to invest in gold. I heard that the price has increased recently?" Lin Zhichao said, pretending to be a young investor.

At this time, he looked like he was only in his twenties, or at most thirty.

On the contrary, Zhao Yazhi, developed by Lin Zhichao, has a slightly mature charm, and coupled with the mature dress, he looks like he is in his early twenties. It’s not that he looks a little older, but his temperament is a little more mature in his twenties.

"Yes, gold surged in February, and international gold surged by HK$120 per ounce."

"Okay, the more it goes up, the more investment is needed, just like stocks. Let's pick out some gold jewelry for my girlfriend!"

"Okay, this way please!"

The clerk was overjoyed, it looked like this was a big spender.

This is also true. After a while, Zhao Yazhi bought a large amount of gold jewelry.

When going back, Zhao Yazhi asked curiously: "Brother Chao, don't you like me wearing gold jewelry? You said it's more tacky. Do you want to wear gemstones and diamonds?"

Lin Zhichao smiled and said: "I plan to let you buy some gold bars as an investment. It doesn't need to be too much, just buy two million Hong Kong dollars. The gold will be placed in the safe at your residence."

Gold at this time was already $85 per ounce. Lin Zhichao asked Zhao Yazhi to buy gold bars for investment, just for fun. Even if the price doubled, he would still earn 2 million.

"I see!"

Friday, March 9th.

Today is a very ordinary day. There is neither particularly sensational good news nor significant influx of funds. However, due to excessive market speculation, the Hang Seng Index soared to 1886.96 points, with a single-day trading volume reaching 698 million Hong Kong dollars. Many stockholders were shocked. Extremely excited.

After the market closes.

Sitting in the office, Lin Zhichao began to worry. There were some deviations in history. The Hang Seng Index seemed to be more than a hundred higher than in the previous life. This is understandable, after all, Hong Kong citizens have a lot more savings. Part of it comes from the wages paid to tens of thousands of workers by Universal Group and Yangtze River Industry Group, almost all of which are foreign exchange earnings that were unprecedented in the previous life; part of it comes from the surrounding industries driven by these two groups, as well as the companies they cooperate with, and even the entire industry chain.

What Lin Zhichao is worried about now is whether fake stocks will appear?

Whose fake stock does it belong to, or does it belong to Hopewell Properties?

If fake stocks of Cheung Kong Group appear at the beginning, it will undoubtedly cause some reputational damage to the company.

Of course, in the previous life, Hopewell Real Estate not only had fake stocks, but more importantly, the participating construction companies illegally traded in stocks and used public funds to cause huge losses and went bankrupt, thus implicating Hopewell Real Estate, which owned 25% of the shares.

Of course, everything was just a spark, which triggered the collapse of the entire stock market. The real reason for the collapse is that all this is a castle in the air, and the nature of the stock market is very fragile.

But no matter what, whoever has fake stocks will incur the anger of investors and may boycott the purchase of properties.

In the previous life, there were not only fake stocks from Hopewell, but later it was discovered that there were also fake stocks from Land, Jardine Matheson, Hutchison, Orient Overseas, etc. As long as it was a popular stock, someone would definitely take the risk. But the first one to be discovered was indeed Hopewell Properties, and it became the target of public criticism.

"Boss, the funds from London have been withdrawn to Hong Kong. Our current cash flow totals HK$320 million." Zhou Fuzhao walked into the office and reported.

Lin Zhichao nodded with satisfaction. He had a cash flow of HK$320 million, plus the profit of about 150 million in 1973, which equals a cash flow of HK$450 million.

It’s not an exaggeration. Some time ago, Sun Hung Kai used the 100 million raised from the listing to issue 9 million new shares (approximately 40 million), and borrowed more than 100 million from banks to purchase 29 sites with 432,000 square feet of land. Zi Ling doubled the land bank.

In fact, these sites are owned by Guo Desheng personally, but they are now sold to Sun Hung Kai Properties. This is the norm in Hong Kong. The heads of listed companies not only run the listed companies, but also invest personally.

One of the biggest benefits is that he can make greater profits: For example, in his previous life, Li Jiacheng sold his 20 million Changshi shares to Duoli and collected 68 million Hong Kong dollars in cash. He used these funds to fight against the oil crisis. The land that buys the bottom will appreciate very quickly; because the stock has been too damaged, it will not reach its peak for ten years - the market value of Sun Hung Kai in 1981 in the previous life only returned to the market value of 1973, which shows how many years it will take to get out of the shadows.

"Don't move these funds for the time being, just deposit them in the bank. This is our subsequent development weapon."

Zhou Fuzhao said: "Once the stock market crash breaks out, will real estate be affected? Should we temporarily reduce real estate investment?"

Lin Zhichao said: "There are some, but as long as there is no political incident, Hong Kong real estate will not fall too much, so when it comes to developing real estate, we will ignore it for the time being and continue to wait and see later."

If during the oil crisis, Cheung Kong Group reduces residential building sales too much, it will have a great impact on performance; therefore, even if it drops by 30%, the properties will still be sold, and at most the sales will be reduced appropriately.

At present, Cheung Kong Group is still an enterprise that relies absolutely on real estate, so real estate income is very important. The annual profits from retail, beverage and food businesses are not high and their proportion is not large.

"Okay, I understand what the boss means."

Cheung Kong Holdings is currently planning Raffles City Plaza (the former site of the Navy Dockyard), but the design plan is not expected to be released until the second half of this year, and construction will officially start early next year. In this way, it is fitting that Raffles City (Hong Kong) would open after 1977.

As for the buildings on both sides of Raffles City, they were also planned this year and were eventually completed one after another in 1978.

After Zhou Fuzhao left, Lin Zhichao put aside the worries in his mind and felt that it was not a big deal. The worst-case scenario is that the fake stocks of Cheung Kong Industrial Group are discovered first, and the Securities Regulatory Office comes to investigate. There will definitely be no problem, just a routine inspection.

Even if some investors later resist Cheung Kong Group, Lin Zhichao only needs to lower the prices of his properties. If everyone doesn't buy them honestly by then, who will have trouble with money?

In previous lives, citizens were angry at partnership real estate, and Hopewell Properties also participated in investments in listed construction companies, resulting in losses.

No need to worry!

The fake stocks were not printed by Cheung Kong Holdings.

What's more, Lin Zhichao himself has repeatedly called on everyone to invest rationally in the past two months, and everyone will be grateful to him if they think about it afterwards.

A new week has arrived.

A large number of investors poured into stock exchanges and securities brokerage firms, with fanatical expressions on their faces, like generals who had won a battle on the battlefield.

Qiao Degui is one of them. He was originally a teacher in a middle school. After making 50,000 Hong Kong dollars in the stock market last year, he no longer had the intention to teach and educate people. So this year, he quit his job, took out all his savings, and I got 80,000 Hong Kong dollars from mortgaging my house, and I devoted a full 180,000 Hong Kong dollars to stock trading.

Things did not disappoint him. This year he has earned another 150,000 Hong Kong dollars, and his stock market value has reached 330,000 Hong Kong dollars. This is wealth he has never seen in his life. His wife praised him for his enlightenment in middle age, and his children have become more filial with their high living expenses every day. Even the relatives and friends around him know that he has made a lot of money in the stock market, and they have become respectful to him, and they have followed suit and entered the market. .

"Teacher Qiao, did you eat shark's fin with rice and rinse your mouth with brandy last night?" a stock friend joked.

Qiao Degui is somewhat famous among this group of stock traders, because he was originally a respected middle school teacher with a very considerable income. Later, he showed his talents in the stock market and was deeply admired by people around him.

"Not only that, I also used Daniel to light cigarettes! Haha!" Qiao Degui was already obsessed with winning money, and after dealing with these people in the market for a long time, he started to become tacky.

Of course, he didn't actually use HK$500 to light up the cigarette, it was just a joke.

The current social trends are "fishing for rice with shark's fin", "gargling with brandy", "making fish eggs with rat spots", and "lighting cigarettes with big bull (Hong Kong dollar 500 banknote)".

"Haha, Teacher Qiao still knows how to enjoy, and you know how to make money best. They say you have more than doubled your profit!"

"It's just so so, you just entered the market early. Everyone is not too late. The Hang Seng Index will hit 2,000 points this week, so everyone can eat abalone and shark's fin on the weekend."

"Haha, that makes sense!"

"Let's go to the goldfish bowl (trading floor) and have a look!"

For a moment, everyone crowded into the glass outside the trading hall. The place was so crowded that even a needle could not be inserted. Many people came to the glass and looked towards the goldfish bowl. The brokers inside were already wearing red vests and were ready.

"The market is open! It's begun!"

"It's gone up, it's gone up! Haha"

"Ah, don't fall!"

"It doesn't matter, it's so normal, it will be reversed soon!"

after an hour.

"Something is abnormal. Why is it still falling? It should rise quickly, God of Wealth!"

"That's right, it's going to rise quickly, my ancestors!"

"Damn, the market is closed! You're doing something crazy, I don't know how long the extended trading time is. How can the stock rise in such a short period of time!"

Noisy noises and loud curses filled the entire trading floor.

In fact, some veterans in the stock market have already discovered that the stock market is already in crisis since March. Some veterans who had made profits saw that the momentum was not right and had already retreated. Only the newcomers who did not know the heights of the world were still happily chasing the highs and entering the market.

This morning is considered a normal adjustment. After the market closes, the exchange will still be busy with statistics on transaction transfers and other work. In this era of stocks, transactions are determined through statistics. Therefore, after the market closes, everyone still has to be busy, so the daily trading time is shorter.

"Is there something wrong with these three Hehe stocks?" a staff member said immediately.

As soon as he finished speaking, he immediately attracted attention, and people from the brokerage firm immediately gathered around him.

"There's something wrong, I'm sure it's fake!"

"Oops, fake stocks appear!"

Soon the matter spread, and by the time Far East Exchange Chairman Li Fuzhao wanted to stop it, it was already too late, and it quickly spread throughout the exchange hall.

The stock market crash is coming!

That afternoon, the Hang Seng Index fell again, and the news continued to spread. Tomorrow will be the real test of the market. (End of chapter)