Chapter 168

On New Year's Day in 1970, someone threw several firecrackers at the Hong Kong Governor's Mansion, which frightened the guards into thinking there was an attack. They were in a panic for a while, leading the Hong Kong Governor to hide in Tibet.

The next day, it was reported as a joke by major newspapers.

But we can’t entirely blame them for this, because the Hong Kong Governor’s Office has been attacked at least eight times in more than a month, and a total of 85 people have been imprisoned.

Lin Wei actually did not expect that David's speech would increase people's hatred towards the British Hong Kong government.

To a certain extent, the Governor of Hong Kong represents the attitude of the British side. His remarks pushed the British government into a very embarrassing situation. It caused a very bad impact internationally and was condemned by international public opinion, even from the mainland. He also reprimanded loudly.

It can be said that it triggered a diplomatic crisis to some extent. This is a weapon that can be used to condemn the British side at any time.

The Hong Kong government spent 4 million hard work for more than half a year to organize the Hong Kong Festival, but it was suddenly returned to before liberation.

This was something that didn't happen at all in the previous life.

Lin Wei didn't know where the situation would go in the end, and she was a little timid in her heart. She was not afraid of anything else. She didn't want another turmoil to happen. This thing was completely beyond her expectation. She also didn't expect David's idiot. To actually say such a thing.

People think about things differently when they stand from different angles. Lin Wei is a planner, so David's remarks were more of a surprise. This person originally thought so, but this result was also expected for her. Logically speaking, this person does not like this land, including the people on this land.

But if she were an ordinary person who saw this kind of naked insult, she would definitely feel very angry. From another perspective, she can understand everyone's anger.

Lin Wei was a little panicked, mainly because she was uncertain about the future direction and was afraid that the butterfly's wings would cause any unforeseen consequences. That was not what she wanted to see.

The only sure benefit is that she now doesn't have to worry about the day when the British Hong Kong government cuts off her water and electricity supply at a whim.

As the saying goes, harmony brings wealth, and development can only be achieved with peace of mind.

Her main focus was on shipbuilding.

Lin Wei's goal for the shipyard is to start with the renovation of cargo ships, transition to the refurbishment of old ships, then to reverse research and development, and finally to production line shipbuilding.

But her bottleneck came quickly, and the first step of renovating the old ship was stuck.

To be precise, it is one step at a time, one step at a time.

The hull is easy to disassemble, but not so easy to assemble. Either the parts specifications are wrong, or the motor power is wrong. Problems of all sizes may occur every day. They are crossing the river by feeling the stones.

Lin Wei often went with them, and sometimes asked "foreign aid". There were many people who knew how to repair ships in Xiangjiang. The shipowners had trained many talents, and they could solve some simple faults by themselves, so Lin Wei often asked They mobilize their connections, find other people's big workers, and help them for a fee, which can be regarded as making some extra money.

But this is not a long-term solution. There are hundreds of types of work required for shipbuilding. This is a huge talent gap. Just the most basic training of welders in shipbuilding can keep Lin Wei awake at night.

It is true that Xiangjiang has no soil for shipbuilding. Professional talents alone can make Lin Wei tortured to the point of death, so she is eager to build a Polytechnic University. Fortunately, the government has now passed the proposal.

It’s just that it will take several years for her professional support plan to be implemented to see the effect.

"Sister! No one can win!"

Suddenly a burst of cheers came from outside. Lin Wei's attention was withdrawn from the drawings. She turned her seat and looked out the window.

Sun Muyin's little face was dark, standing on the slipway, accepting everyone's cheers and admiration with their eyes.

The little body stood upright, with the ferry dyed red in the sunset behind him. He was treated like a hero and felt like he was looking at a famous painting.

Fortunately, there is a genius who can give people a little hope.

Sun Muyin completed her mechanical engineering studies at MIT ahead of schedule last year and is now studying for a Ph.D. Her supervisor likes her so much that he refuses to let her back during holidays and has to bargain every time.

When she came back from vacation, she followed Lin Wei to the shipyard, got out of the cabin, and designed the drawings. In just half a month, she had everyone in the shipyard impressed by her.

There is still a long way to go in cultivating talents, and it is useless for Lin Wei to be anxious.

But there are more questions ahead.

In addition to the lack of professional talents, there is also a lack of industrial chain.

There are almost no supporting facilities in the supply chain, and all parts and components need to be imported, ranging from screws to spindles, power, steel, gantry cranes...

Of course, this problem will still exist in later generations.

Currently, it is a big progress if they can assemble a ship.

But as a shipyard, it is best to produce ship plates in-house and have its own thin plate production line, so that it can control some variables and meet the requirements of hull design.

Lin Wei asked Yuan Guodong to help her keep an eye on whether any Japanese shipyards wanted to sell ship plate production lines, even if they were obsolete, and their lifting tools also needed to be upgraded.

Without production line support, they are not a shipyard, but an assembly plant.

These can also be done slowly. If the shipyard develops, it will also drive the development of surrounding supporting industries.

However, what troubles Lin Wei most now is the land issue.

The shipyard now has two docks, one large and one small, used to dismantle hulls of different specifications.

The shipyard covers an area of ​​approximately 100,000 square meters.

It may not seem small, but if Lin Wei wants to build giant ships in the future, such as large oil tankers or cruise ships, then she will need a shipyard of two to three million square meters.

The current average price of industrial land per square meter is about 110 yuan, which means that Lin Wei has to spend about 300 million to buy a piece of land on the dock shoreline to build a shipyard. This is a huge expense, and she has no money now.

Of course, she doesn't have to buy it now. She can wait until she has the money later. After all, she won't be able to use it now.

But there is a problem. Land prices have begun to rise. In 10 years, the price of industrial land will increase dozens or even hundreds of times. The land that can be acquired for 300 million yuan now may require 30 billion yuan in 10 years.

So should I buy it or not?

If you don’t buy it, you will abandon large ships in the future and focus on small and medium-sized hulls, such as cargo ships, small and medium-sized cruise ships, and high value-added LNG liquefied gas ships.

It's not that it's impossible, it's because Lin Wei doesn't want to have any regrets and limits the future of the shipyard.

The three pearls of the shipbuilding industry are aircraft carriers, large cruise ships, and liquefied natural gas ships (LNG ships).

Forget about the aircraft carrier, she wanted to try the latter two and live a new life. She didn't want to leave any regrets for herself.

But where does the money come from?

The bank will not lend, and even if it borrows, the shipyard will not be able to make a profit and will not be able to pay it back in a short time.

The threshold for shipbuilding is all-round and outrageously high.

Not to mention Hezibi, who is currently making rapid progress, the threshold of real estate is nothing compared to that of shipbuilding.

Therefore, this is an industry that requires state support. South Korea has developed with the support of the United States.

Lin Wei has now forced herself into a dead end.

However, there are no solutions at all.

"Didn't you say that you won't use the shipyard to suck the blood of other companies?"

After hearing Lin Wei's plan, Wu Ming directly questioned her.

Lin Wei was a little embarrassed. She did say so before. Hezi is Hezi, micro is micro, tea love is tea love, and everyone should not disturb each other.

The reason why she was talking big was because she thought gold would rise. As a result, after more than two years, she only saw a few hairs and earned more than two million U.S. dollars. This was not a small amount of money, but it was a drop in the bucket for shipbuilding.

"I'm not involved in Kowloon Shipping. I own 100% of Hertz and Haoxin Real Estate, so if I give 20% of the shares to the shipyard, it won't have any impact."

Lin Wei's plan is to let the shipyard hold shares. She could make a huge profit by selling some of the shares of Hezi and Haoxin at a high position when the two companies were listed.

A year later, listed companies will spring up like mushrooms after a rain, and Xiangjiang's securities industry will usher in a new era. Stock speculation will be booming for a while, starting the first bull market in Xiangjiang's history.

A large number of employees resigned to speculate in stocks. This craze even spread to students, pushing the Hang Seng Index to its highest point. The most popular among them were the stocks of real estate companies.

However, what goes up must come down. After reaching its highest point in 1973, the stock bull market came to an abrupt end, cutting its peak in half, and then triggered a catastrophic stock market crash.

This naturally affected many real estate companies, and many companies went bankrupt. Even Hutchison Whampoa, one of the four major foreign banks, was not spared.

Xiangjiang ushered in the second opportunity to buy low-priced real estate.

If she remembered correctly, Hutchison Whampoa had several million square meters of shoreline land that could be used as a shipyard.

Lin Wei wants to seize this opportunity to inject blood into the shipbuilding industry. It doesn't matter if she doesn't buy land now. Then three years later, she can use the money she earned in the stock market to buy Hutchison Whampoa at the bottom.

Wu Ming objected to her doing this. On the one hand, he didn't know what would happen in the future or what the bull market was. What he saw was that Lin Wei directly forcibly sold Hezi and Haoxin to the shipyard. On the other hand...

"Have you ever I thought, if you do this, we will have to explain the issue of shipyard holdings to investors in the future. "

Why would a real estate company or a luxury goods company be held by a shipyard?"

"Let it go. In two years or at most three years, I will ask the shipyard to sell off its stocks, so the impact will only be until that time," Lin Wei said, "We are actually not short of investors. If Haoxin doesn't find the right one now, Financing target, then there will be no need for it in the future. As for Hezi, Hezi is not short of money. Investors should pay more attention to the future value of the brand and will not care about the current shareholding target."

Wu Ming stared at her for a while. , making sure that she was determined to do this, he took a deep breath: "Why, why do you have to enter the shipbuilding industry?"

Lin Wei was stunned for a moment.

Wu Ming asked her this question in his previous life, and Wu Ming is still asking her in this life.

Wu Ming's meaning is very clear. Such a money-burning project has no government support and no hope of profit for the time being. Why must it be done?

There are obviously so many good projects, why did you just focus on shipbuilding?

What do you think?

Lin Wei didn't know how to answer questions in her previous life, and she actually wasn't very clear now either.

After a while, she said: "I want to do something useful."

Wu Ming looked at her with confusion.

"Whether it is luxury goods or real estate, apart from paying a little tax to the government, it has little effect on people's livelihood... Of course, I do not deny that these two industries have also created a lot of job opportunities for ordinary people, but compared to shipbuilding "It's still too far behind."

"What does Xiangjiang have now? The only industry that can offer it is import and export processing. Finance has not yet developed. I don't know how far shipping can go. It is an industry that can last forever." "With only large-scale manufacturing, one shipbuilding can support an entire city, just like Japan and South Korea."

"If the shipbuilding industry can develop in Hong Kong, it can drive related industrial chains and provide hundreds of thousands or even millions of goods." Jobs. "

"There is no soil for shipbuilding in Xiangjiang because there is no one to do it. In fact, Xiangjiang has a geographical advantage and is located on the transportation artery of the world's shipping. It is very convenient for the input of raw materials and the output of industrial products... It’s not that Hong Kong is without soil. On the contrary, shipbuilding is needed on both the supply and demand sides. Now the shipowners in Hong Kong are buying ships in Japan. It’s not an exaggeration to say that Japanese shipyards are counting their money while lying down. But why can’t we make this money ourselves? "

There is nothing wrong with the high threshold for the shipbuilding industry, but as long as we cross that threshold, we will see another vast world. You believe me, the future development of Xiangjiang must be that the financial industry and the shipbuilding industry are mutually exclusive. These two cards can make Xiangjiang invincible in the entire East Asia. No matter the oil crisis or the financial tsunami, Xiangjiang will not die in the world storm."

Lin Wei finally said: "Real estate can indeed make money. But I don’t feel comfortable making this money. I think shipbuilding may bring some unexpected changes to this city. This is what I really want to do.”

Wu Ming listened to Lin Wei during the whole process. Her voice is not loud, every word is calm, low, and firm...like a clear spring dripping from a stone, with a long-lasting power.

He saw Lin Wei being covered by the incoming sunset, and her body was covered with a shallow layer of light.

After she finished speaking, Wu Ming fell silent, thinking carefully about Lin Wei's words.

He didn't quite understand some words. Why are the financial industry and shipbuilding so incompatible with each other? Where does her confidence in the financial industry come from? Is South Korea's shipbuilding industry very developed? So poor.

But the future described by Lin Wei really moved his heart. If the shipbuilding industry could establish a firm foothold in Hong Kong, there would not be so many people struggling on the poverty line in Hong Kong.

Wu Ming didn't know. This was the reason Lin Wei came up with after thinking for several days. If he wanted to convince Wu Ming, it was best to start with people's livelihood. This man was not an ordinary kind person. If you talk to him about people's livelihood, he would be soft-hearted. .

In fact, Lin Wei felt a little guilty. In her previous life, she had dragged Wu Ming into trouble because of some unexplainable obsessions. The shipyard eventually went bankrupt, and the two of them went bankrupt. If not for their luck, their team got the Regarding the patent for new energy batteries, the two of them were over fifty years old and had to start over.

In this life, she will not be so paranoid, but she still needs to rely on Hezi and real estate in the early stage, otherwise it will be difficult for her to stand up.

After a while, Wu Ming raised his head: "Chu Aidong's reply depends on our time. Your schedule this week is full, and you only have time on Friday afternoon."

If he no longer dwells on the issue of shipbuilding, it means that he has no objection. , Lin Wei breathed a sigh of relief, she needed Wu Ming's support.

"Then let's do it on Friday." Lin Wei said.

The land of the old General Post Office is a piece of fat that many real estate developers want to take.

Among them, Dongfang Industrial is the most eager, because they have a Chinese bank, and through overall planning and addition, they can achieve 1+1 greater than 2. It is more important for them to get the old post office.

However, they are not very wealthy in terms of funds, and they do not have a backer like Hang Seng Bank like Lin Wei.

"Haoxin can contribute 70%, and Dongfang Industrial only needs to contribute the remaining 30%."

Lin Wei chose to meet them in the office building of Chinatown because Chu Aidong had inconvenient legs and feet.

Chen Hengxi played with the tea cup in his hand. Hearing what Lin Wei said, his face didn't show much expression.

Chu Aidong sighed: "There is no free lunch in this world. Miss Lin, why don't you talk about the conditions? If Dongfang Industrial cannot get control, then this proposal is meaningless."

Lin Wei put her hand on the folder, He smiled and said: "Haoxin can give up control of the project to Dongfang Industrial. You will hold 51% of the shares, and Haoxin will take a step back and hold 49% of the shares. This is not a problem. After all, Chinese Bank is in your hands, but we have a condition."

Chen Hengxi's hand After a pause, he raised his head and looked towards Lin Wei.

Lin Wei said: "You need to add Chinese Bank to this project."

There is no doubt about the importance of control. How a company develops or how small it pays dividends is decided by the person who controls the company. Shareholders They can only be regarded as investors, receive dividends on time, or sell stocks.

In later generations, a person may own the most shares in a company, but he may not be the actual controller of the company. If you have 80% of the shares, the control may be in the hands of someone with 20% or even 1%. This situation will be in the hands of future generations. There are many, there is no control, only shares, you are just an investor.

It is generally agreed through contracts and agreements, such as AB shares, the same shares have different rights, such as founder protection agreements, and certain clouds and certain things control their business empires through this method.

However, the current company has not developed so many fancy activities, everything is still very primitive, and it is based on shareholding ratio.

If they cooperate on the Post Office project, and Lin Wei gives up control, she will give up the initiative of the project.

Chu Aidong fell into deep thought, wondering why Lin Wei did this.

Lin Wei's purpose is very much like wanting to be an investor with peace of mind and not participate in the development and management of the project.

But is it really so?

If not, what is her purpose?