Chapter 458 Graduation, preparing to go to Hong Kong City
Although Lin Siqiao rejected Dilar's proposal, she did say that if she had the chance in the future she would definitely go to Di Country to experience the local customs and culture.
As for the 6 million US dollars, Lin Siqiao invested it in Gangcheng a few months later. This time, she invested in the freight terminal.
At that time, Hong Kong's freight business was mainly concentrated in the Wharf in Tsim Sha Tsui. With the rise of container transportation in the 1960s, the Hong Kong government built a number of container terminals.
But no one expected that the economic crisis would sweep the world just when the container terminal was half built. After that, the wealthy businessmen in the port city sold their properties and chose to immigrate abroad.
Now these docks have all become hot potatoes, causing great headaches for the port city government.
After learning the news, Lin Siqiao immediately contacted Li Jiachen and Mike.
Yes, she also signed Mike when she went abroad in March.
Today, Mike is Lin Siqiao's exclusive stock trader, responsible for helping her manage all the stocks in the country.
After the two finished the statistics, they reported the situation to Lin Siqiao.
The company had only been open for a few months and there was not much money in the account. Li Jiachen only had US$1 million in available funds.
Mike followed Lin Siqiao's instructions and sold all of the short-term stocks that had good returns. He currently has more than 12 million US dollars in his account.
Lin Siqiao calculated that, plus the 6 million US dollars in her hand, the total was 17 million US dollars.
Since 1973, the fixed exchange rate between the Hong Kong dollar and the US dollar has been adjusted to 5, which means that after deducting the handling fee for the 17 million US dollars, Lin Siqiao received about 85 million Hong Kong dollars.
"Boss, this price is far from enough to take over the cargo terminal in the port city."
After Li Jiachen finished speaking, he told everyone what he knew. After receiving Lin Siqiao's call two days ago, he contacted his relatives and friends in Hong Kong City.
There are currently several terminals for sale in Hong Kong, mainly concentrated in the Kowloon Peninsula and Tsing Yi in the New Territories. However, in terms of location and throughput, there are only three best ones.
They are the Hong Kong-Macau Terminal, the Blue Chimney Warehouse Terminal and the Kwai Chung Container Terminal.
However, the Blue Chimney Warehouse Terminal was acquired by Hong Kong's largest jeweler for HK$100 million a few years ago.
Lin Siqiao also knew about this, and she also knew that this person did not continue to operate the business after purchasing it, but instead demolished the entire pier and built a luxury hotel there, plus several apartments and residential buildings.
According to the progress, these projects should not be completed yet.
"Boss, the quotations for the remaining two docks are all over HK$100 million."
The scales of these terminals are similar, and considering the previous transaction price of the Blue Chimney Warehouse Terminal, Li Jiachen estimated that the price would not be able to be lowered.
Mike thought for a moment and answered the phone. "Boss, the Berkshire Hathaway that you previously held has also risen quite a bit. If you sell some of it now, the funds should be enough."
"No, this stock will not be moved for the time being."
Lin Siqiao refused without even thinking about it. She was planning to keep these stocks for her retirement, and she said she would not touch these stocks no matter what.
In fact, in the past few years, Lin Siqiao has collected a lot of good things by using the platform's valuation function, and any one of these things can be sold for a lot of money.
But after what happened at the museum, she knew too well how difficult it was to get cultural relics back to the country after they were lost, so she didn't plan to touch them anymore.
After thinking for a moment, Lin Siqiao asked Li Jiachen to convert the 17 million US dollars into Hong Kong dollars first, and then help him prepare a list of real estate information and a stock earnings report.
As for the money, she would find a way.
While Li Jiachen was preparing all this, Lin Siqiao also had his graduation ceremony.
She received news from the school a week before the ceremony that she would be giving a speech as an outstanding graduate.
There's nothing you can do. Even if you don't accept it, it won't work.
Ever since Lin Siqiao came to St. John's College, the top spot in the three departments has never gone to anyone else in the past few semesters.
Similarly, Lin Siqiao gave an impromptu speech this time. After a year of study and accumulation, she now stood on the podium again, and her mood became more calm and open-minded.
"For the past two years, I would like to thank you for your guidance and help. Today I am only saying thank you, not goodbye. I hope we can meet at the top someday."
"Finally, let me introduce myself again. My name is Lin Siqiao! Thank you everyone."
After the graduation ceremony, Lin Siqiao officially ended his study abroad career.
During the past two years in the country, Lin Siqiao has bought a lot of things. She plans to spend some money to ship these things back to China, but the one she bought is more troublesome to deal with.
You can't take it with you, and there seems to be no need to take back the space.
Because in the past six months, Lin Siqiao has purchased seven or eight top-of-the-line luxury cars, and now they are all stuffed in the space.
After much deliberation, Lin Siqiao decided to give the car to the embassy.
Unexpectedly, after listening to her, Ambassador Liao gave her an unexpected surprise. He asked Lin Siqiao to write a report, pay some customs duties, and then contact the airline to ship it back.
That’s good, but Lin Siqiao is worried whether this is against the rules?
After all, there is no concept of private cars in China yet. She heard from her grandfather that private cars only started to appear in Beijing in the early 1980s.
“It’s not a big problem.”
Ambassador Liao asked her to sit down and talk, and then poured her a cup of tea before speaking.
"With your achievements in the past two years, you will be provided with a car sooner or later when you go to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs."
"If you ship the car back now, it will save the organization a lot of money. They are so happy."
As he said that, he reminded, "But remember to register the procedures after you go back."
"Okay, I got it." Lin Siqiao nodded with a smile.
With a car, it will be more convenient to travel in the future.
"By the way, have you decided when to return to China? I'll see you off then."
Ambassador Liao was actually reluctant to let Lin Siqiao return to China, but there was nothing he could do. Her studies had already ended, and she would have to return to serve her motherland sooner or later.
Lin Siqiao pursed her lips and said, "Maybe we have to wait a little longer."
"Why, is there something going on in the country?"
In recent semesters, Lin Siqiao would fly abroad whenever there was a holiday, and Ambassador Liao knew about this.
"I guess so, but I have to go to Hong Kong first."
"What? You're going to Hong Kong?"
Ambassador Liao quickly put down the cup in his hand with an expression that said, "Talk to me quickly."
"You...what are you going to do in Hong Kong? Are you going to buy land again?"
Lin Siqiao corrected him with a smile, "Ambassador Liao, please don't wrongly accuse me. When I bought land, I also bought yours."
Lin Siqiao was not talking nonsense. She had purchased too many real estates in the past two years, but she was very clear about the accounts.
Of course, it is true that her own capital is not as much as what the country gives her.
So in some projects, Lin Siqiao only held shares, and the bulk of the money was given to the state.
Lin Siqiao submits a copy of the financial statements and vouchers to the embassy every three months. Ambassador Liao naturally knows what she said.
Ambassador Liao was just curious. "Tell me, which piece of land did you choose this time?"
Lin Siqiao smiled and told him about the two docks he had chosen.
"This... this isn't cheap, is it?"
There are many freight terminals in this country. Ambassador Liao has heard that even the smallest terminal costs several million pounds each.
"Well, it's indeed not cheap. The two docks together will cost about 200 million Hong Kong dollars." This is also Lin Siqiao's psychological price.
"How many?"
Although Ambassador Liao was mentally prepared, he was still shocked by the number, but soon he thought of another question.
"No, where do we get so much money?"
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