The birth of the Hong Kong Island family

Castle Peak Road, Tsuen Wan.

Tang Zhongyuan and Song Qiaoling happily stood on a piece of land that had been carpeted and decorated around it. Today was the foundation laying ceremony of Oriental Textile's second factory.

Oriental Textile's first factory covers an area of ​​just over 30,000 square feet, and the factory building is also a one-story factory. Due to orders from Yangtze River Industries, it has developed rapidly and the orders are in a very good state.

When Cheung Kong Industries was preparing to expand its scale, Lin Zhichao wanted to inform Tang Zhongyuan to consider investing in a new factory; so Oriental Textile immediately prepared to build a three-story industrial factory on an 80,000-square-foot piece of land owned by it.

Lin Zhichao had no reason not to support his father-in-law. After all, he would have to be accommodating to his father-in-law and mother-in-law in the future; at the same time, he also needed his own business alliance.

Tang Zhongyuan is a veteran in the textile industry. He has no problems with management and technology. His shortcoming is that his courage and sales ability are slightly lacking.

Of course, with Lin Zhichao as his backer, Tang Zhongyuan's courage and sales level are also improving; just like an average student, having top students to make up lessons will always have a very good promotion effect.

"Brother Zhongyuan, congratulations!" Shanghaitan textile tycoon Wang Tongyuan came to congratulate him.

"Brother Tongyuan, welcome!" Tang Zhongyuan responded happily.

In the past, these Shanghaitan textile tycoons only had eyes for their cousin Tang Bingyuan, and they were labeled as members of the Tang family, shareholders and executives of the Tang textile factory.

Now, everyone seems to regard him as a person of the same business level. This change makes Tang Zhongyuan quite happy.

"The investment is huge!" Wang Tongyuan praised.

Tang Zhongyuan said modestly: "Where to build a three-story factory! Like Brother Tongyuan, he is the leader in our industry and the largest."

Wang Tongyuan ordered a batch of textile machines from the United Kingdom in February 1947. Later, the Republic of China government informed him by telegram that it was extremely short of foreign exchange and warned him not to allow imports. Therefore, Wang Tongyuan asked British manufacturers to ship the textile machines to Hong Kong and invest in factories. . This year (1948), Wang Tongyuan led 80 outstanding workers and technicians from Shanghaitan to Hong Kong, while he ran on both sides.

"Humble! You are not small!"

The two were polite to each other, and soon someone else came.

With the crazy depreciation of gold yuan notes, the rich in Shanghai were unwilling to have their wealth swallowed up by the Jiang Dynasty, so they began to sell off their assets and prepare to move to Hong Kong and overseas. There are already quite a few people who have come to fight in the front line.

Tang Bingyuan also came to congratulate him with his wife Wen Jinmei. After all, they are all from the Tang family, so there is no reason not to give face.

Wen Jinmei said quickly: "Zhong Yuan, you seem to have changed as soon as you arrived in Hong Kong. I really can't believe that you had such courage in the past!"

Naturally, Tang Zhongyuan was not as experienced as a woman, so he smiled and said, "My cousin is kidding me! When I arrived in Hong Kong, I realized that it is not an option to just sit back and have nothing if money is not spent. Once this person is forced, he naturally becomes a little more courageous."

This was said perfectly and seamlessly.

But Wen Jinmei insisted on taking a bite and said with a smile: "You have found a good son-in-law!"

It is no secret in this circle that Tang Zhongyuan relies on Lin Zhichao. Nearly two-thirds of Oriental Textile's orders come from Yangtze River Industries.

As soon as Wen Jinmei finished speaking, people around her started paying attention.

Someone said: "So, Changjiang Industrial is going to expand its scale again?"

Tang Zhongyuan didn't care and said with a smile: "It's not clear yet. Anyway, he expects orders to double next year, so I will expand the factory. Moreover, I am very optimistic about the development of Hong Kong's textile industry. We not only want to export products to Southeast Asia , but also to export products to Europe and the United States.”

"Okay, brother Zhongyuan is ambitious!" someone among the guests echoed.

For a moment, Wen Jinmei felt that she was losing out because her husband only opened the factory this year.

After a while, Lin Zhichao came with Tang Caiyun, accompanied by Jian Dongpu from the Bank of East Asia, which gave Tang Zhongyuan enough face.

Of course, for Jian Dongpu, Oriental Textiles is also a loan target of the Bank of East Asia, so it is not a waste of time for him to attend a groundbreaking ceremony.

When Wang Tongyuan and Lin Zhichao talked, Lin Zhichao's first thought was not that Wang Tongyuan was a Shanghaitan textile tycoon, but that he had a nephew named Wang Guojing; this Wang Guojing was a playboy, but he was Guan Zhilin's ex-husband in his previous life, although he was only married a few years ago. moon.

Looking at the many textile people on the beach, Lin Zhichao lamented that Hong Kong's textile industry will be dominated by people from Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai in the future. Next year, Chen Tinghua, Tang Xiangqian, Cao Guangbiao, An Zijie, Zhou Wenxuan, etc., these people will gather in Hong Kong.

But what about the ready-made garment industry?

Hong Kong's ready-to-wear tycoons seem to be all from Guangdong Province, such as Lin Baixin, Luo Dingbang, Chen Ruiqiu, etc. This gave Lin Zhichao some ideas.

After all, he will enter the clothing field sooner or later, so early intervention is obviously a must.

However, early intervention does not mean immediate intervention!

If he was asked to just do OEM work for Southeast Asia and Africa, he would obviously look down on it. It's a waste of his time and energy, and he won't learn much experience.

He plans to build a brand!

Lin Zhichao's eyes suddenly lit up and he thought of a good choice.

As far as he knew, the Hong Kong crocodile shirt founded by the Germans in 1911 had been confiscated by the Hong Kong government and the brand had not yet been sold.

If he takes it and develops shirts, shirts, leather shoes, leather goods, etc., and becomes a mid-to-high-end clothing brand in Hong Kong, it will obviously be a good choice.

Thinking of this, Lin Zhichao smiled. He didn't expect to get an inspiration after seeing so many textile tycoons. This trip was indeed not in vain.

After participating in the foundation laying ceremony of Oriental Textile, Jian Dongpu followed Lin Zhichao to Yangtze River Industrial for inspection.

Lin Zhichao is the largest borrower of the Bank of East Asia, with an amount of about 3 million Hong Kong dollars. How can Jian Dongpu not be serious? The Bank of East Asia is almost always watching the development of his industry to avoid causing huge losses to the bank.

"I didn't expect that the small zipper industry would be so promising. Human vision really determines its development." Jian Dongpu had to praise Lin Zhichao.

I saw the factory of Cheung Kong Industries, where workers were producing in an orderly manner, and the machines were spitting out zippers continuously. This scene was like visiting a money printing machine factory.

Lin Zhichao said with a smile: "I am also under great pressure. RB has already mechanized the production of zippers, and competition is about to break out."

Jian Dongpu was very confident in Lin Zhichao and said: "You have not only improved the automatic zipper machine and pioneered the slider stamping machine, but I believe that Cheung Kong Industrial can bring zippers into the world and become an industry giant."

What a joke, he has inspected Yangtze River Industrial many times, so he naturally knows the complexity involved - mechanical improvement.

Lin Zhichao said: "This is the direction we must work hard on!"

Changjiang Industrial has established mechanical cooperation with Bourne Machinery, and will not lose to other competitors in terms of machinery in the future. As for the issue of raw materials, Lin Zhichao has thought about developing investment as much as possible, whether it is aluminum alloy, copper, or nylon in the future. Even building factories in Taiwan and Southeast Asia is a good choice.

"By the way, you bought all the land around here, are you planning to speculate on the land? I see that the textile industry in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai has begun to build factories in Tsuen Wan. Do you think the value here will appreciate quickly?" Jian Dongpu asked again.

He is very optimistic about Lin Zhichao's business talent, so he spares no effort to support him. After all, supporting such a business tycoon, once successful, will benefit the Bank of East Asia self-evidently.

"Appreciation is certain, but I don't necessarily want to speculate on land. These lands may be used to build factories in the future. I believe that Hong Kong's industrialization will follow the arrival of mainland business owners, skilled workers, machines, and capital. A very high ratio. Naturally, I don’t want to fall behind and show my talents in the manufacturing industry.”

Jian Dongpu immediately sighed, Lin Zhichao was young and ambitious, but a large factory of sixty or seventy acres had such a huge output value and scale.

At the same time, he captured a useful message from Lin Zhichao's words, that is, Hong Kong's industrialization prospects are very good. He is quite optimistic about Lin Zhichao, so this information will help the Bank of East Asia refer to increasing loans to the manufacturing industry.

Later, Lin Zhichao took Jian Dongpu to visit the three-story factory building under construction. In this wilderness of Tsuen Wan, Cheung Kong Holdings is like a rising pearl that is gradually lighting up the entire Tsuen Wan.

While visiting, Lin Zhichao was also thinking about a question.

It’s time for Cheung Kong Industries to establish a research institute. With the increase in the number of people coming to Hong Kong from the mainland, there are many talented people among them. If we don’t recruit them now, how can we wait?

He needs mechanical talents, management talents, etc.

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