Chapter 460: Hong Kong City Trip (1)
It was already past six in the evening when they landed in Hong Kong City. As soon as Lin Siqiao walked out of the terminal, she saw Li Jiachen who came to pick her up, as well as Yan Weiren, the head of the company's legal department.
Yan Weiren graduated from Yale University with a law degree in the United States. In addition to being responsible for the company's legal affairs, he is also Lin Siqiao's personal lawyer.
Both of them were born and raised in Hong Kong. They were familiar with the situation here and had certain connections, so Lin Siqiao sent them here to take the lead.
They arrived a week ago, and after arriving here, they started to divide the work and cooperate with each other, one went to the dock and the other went to the bank.
However, the two did not talk about work on the way, giving Lin Siqiao enough time to rest.
After flying for fourteen hours, Lin Siqiao was indeed exhausted. After returning to the hotel, he took a shower and fell into a deep sleep.
The next morning, the three met in the buffet restaurant on the second floor of the hotel.
After eating and drinking, the two reported all the information they had found to Lin Siqiao.
Li Jiachen said, "Boss, I have already contacted the persons in charge of the two docks. Their attitude is quite good, but they have not been able to negotiate down the price."
"The lowest price offered by the Hong Kong-Macau Terminal is 100 million, and the price offered by the Kwai Chung Container Terminal is 100 million."
Lin Siqiao was not surprised to hear this. After all, the cost of building the dock was there, and the port city has always been densely populated with little land, so the price was within her expectations.
"What did the bank say?"
Seeing that Yan Weiren's face was not very good, Lin Siqiao roughly guessed in his heart that the progress here was not very smooth.
Sure enough, as soon as she asked, Yan Weiren told her the situation.
During this period, he visited all the banks, big and small, in Hong Kong. Perhaps because too many companies had gone bankrupt in recent years, currently only HSBC, Citibank, Wing Lung Bank and Bank of China still had foreign lending business in the entire city.
It’s not that other banks can’t lend at all, but they now only accept loans below 300,000 Hong Kong dollars and will not approve any amount exceeding this.
But for a boss like him who wanted a loan of 100 million yuan at the beginning, Yan Weiren felt that those four banks would be in a difficult situation.
"Boss, this is the situation. Do you want me to make an appointment with the heads of these banks for you?"
Lin Siqiao shook his head. "Not for now. I plan to go take a look around the pier later."
Yan Weiren didn't react much to this. After all, he had only been in the company for a few months, unlike Li Jiachen.
Ever since Lin Siqiao said he wanted to go over and take a look, his heartbeat began to accelerate uncontrollably.
Li Jiachen discovered a long time ago that the "take a look" in the boss's mouth was different from that in other people's mouth.
Because basically everything she has seen ends up in her pocket.
No matter whether it is a car, a house or land, there is no exception.
While Li Jiachen was distracted, Lin Siqiao had already stood up. She has always been a person of action. Once she thinks of something, she will do it immediately without hesitation for a second.
On that day, Lin Siqiao, accompanied by the two men, went to Tsing Yi Island near the Kwai Chung Container Terminal.
The next day, they went to the nearby Stonecutters Island together.
On the third day, when Lin Siqiao asked about the local housing prices, Li Jiachen had already roughly guessed what she was thinking.
In the next few days, Lin Siqiao followed suit and went to the vicinity of the Hong Kong-Macao Ferry Terminal.
The three of them ran around like this for more than half a month, and time unknowingly came to August. Just when Yan Weiren thought he could contact the bank next, he didn't expect the answer he got was that it was not necessary for the time being.
He originally wanted to find an opportunity to ask the boss, but he didn't expect that they rarely saw Lin Siqiao since then.
Because except for going downstairs at mealtime every day, she stays in her room for the rest of the time, and she hangs a do not disturb sign outside her door.
After this series of operations, Yan Weiren was confused.
That night, he asked Li Jiachen, "Assistant Li, do you think the boss regretted it after seeing the dock?"
In fact, until now, he still doesn't understand why the boss bought these two terminals. After all, it can be seen from the unloading and loading volume of the terminals that these two terminals are now losing money.
But Yan Weiren thought about it and felt that something was strange. If the boss really didn't want to buy it, shouldn't they go home early? Why are you still wasting time here?
You should know that the Peninsula International Hotel they stayed in is one of the most luxurious hotels in Hong Kong.
In this era when the average wage per person is only HK$1,200, the room rate for one night in this hotel is more than HK$300, which is really not cheap.
Li Jiachen thought to himself, you still don’t know your boss well enough.
If the boss really didn't want to buy it, she would turn around and leave that day and wouldn't waste her time here at all.
But he didn't say these words, he just comforted her, "Wait a little longer, the boss must have her reasons for doing this."
As he spoke, he did not forget to give Yan Weiren some advice, asking him to take advantage of this time to have a good rest.
After all, Hong Kong is different from other places. There is no real estate registration agency here, so a lawyer needs to be present for every house sale.
And the most troublesome thing is that the title deed in Hong Kong City is the history of the house.
Every time a transaction occurs, the owner will have an extra stack of documents. If any of these documents is damaged or lost, it will affect the transaction of the house.
You can imagine how heavy the workload is for lawyers.
It was a pity that he was not a lawyer and could not share Yan Weiren’s burden. He could only pat him on the shoulder and encourage him.
"Come on, I believe you can do it!"
"What do you mean?"
At the moment, Yan Weiren was still confused. It was not until half a month later that he understood the hidden meaning behind Assistant Li's words.
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