Wu Guangzheng now has two titles outside. One is the second son-in-law and successor of the shipping king, and the other is the managing director of Hutchison Whampoa Group.
If he only relied on the latter title, he would have the right to speak in front of the Kadoorie family, but it was not known whether they would be willing to pay attention to him.
Only the first title can make others take him seriously, and they will definitely give him this face.
Because the former title represents the top tycoon and ship charter king in Hong Kong.
Wu Guangzheng stayed here for a while and then said goodbye. Seeing that it was not yet time for lunch, Li Xu and the other two called the bodyguards and Pang Dong and his wife to go for a walk on the road.
The Peninsula Hotel enjoys a prime location as it is the commercial, shopping and entertainment centre of Kowloon, and its surroundings are extremely prosperous.
Seeing such a prosperous scene, the bodyguards were still able to restrain themselves and keep their attention on the three people, but Pang Dong and his wife could not. Their attention was all focused on the various scenery and they didn't even bother to say a word.
Not only the couple is like this, but Li Ping is the same.
It was the first time for all three of them to visit Hong Kong, so it was normal for them to be attracted.
Li Xu did not disturb them and just chatted with Xu Xiangqian.
After one turn, the bodyguard's hands were empty.
It’s not that Li Xu and his friends didn’t buy anything, but it takes time to get the things they bought.
Li Xu ordered several expensive suits for himself, his two brothers, and Xu Xiangqian, and also ordered several cheaper women's suits for Pang Dong as work attire.
Not only that, he also ordered two sets for Lu Dabing.
As for items like leather shoes and belts, buy them when you pick up your clothes.
Pang Dong and his wife have long been numb. Now they can't even say no, they can only say thank you.
There was no way. Li Xu had spent too much money on them, so much that they felt it would be too pretentious to refuse such a "small" expense.
Not to mention anything else, just the accommodation fee, three months' rent is enough for them to work for five or six years.
This is the result of the devaluation of the Hong Kong dollar.
The Hong Kong dollar began to depreciate last month, and now the exchange rate between the Hong Kong dollar and the RMB is 1:0.7.
Of course, this is the official exchange rate. If exchanged privately, it is still almost one to one.
Today, the Peninsula Hotel is only seven stories high, and it does not have the Spring Moon Restaurant, which was later known as one of the top-notch Cantonese restaurants in Hong Kong. So Li Xu led everyone to the Swiss Chef Restaurant, which is known as the ancestor of Swiss restaurants in Hong Kong, to taste the so-called Swiss cuisine.
After tasting it, Li Xu decided never to eat here again.
Don’t ask, the answer is that it’s not to my taste.
Except for Xu Xiangqian, no one else was used to eating with a knife and fork, so it was very awkward for them to eat.
But everyone still tried hard to pretend to be calm.
Seeing this scene, Li Xu suddenly had an idea, which was to open a Western-style restaurant like this in his own hotel, and then reduce the portion of dishes and raise the price a little, specifically for those who have made a fortune and always want to show off.
With nothing to do in the afternoon, everyone sat in the hotel and drank afternoon tea.
Since he didn’t have enough lunch, Li Xu ordered some snacks.
In the evening, the ship charter king and his second son-in-law Wu Guangzheng came over.
The hotel manager personally went out to greet them.
Wu Guangzheng introduced the other party to Li Xu and the other two, and said that Pang Dong could follow him to learn hotel management knowledge tomorrow.
Although the hotel manager had never heard of Li Xu and the other two, he knew that someone who was valued so much by the ship charter king and who went out with so many bodyguards must be no ordinary person, so he greeted them with a very respectful attitude.
The three men responded politely and introduced Pang Dong to him. Then they left the bodyguards and Pang Dong and his wife in the hotel, and the three of them accepted the invitation of the boat charter king and went to his house for dinner.
This is Hong Kong Island. If the charter king wants to do something to Li Xu and the other two, it would be useless even if they brought 150 bodyguards, let alone 150.
So they simply didn't bring any bodyguards, which seemed more generous.
After arriving at Bao's house, they had a sumptuous dinner with the Bao family. Then the three of them went to Bao Chuanwang's study to discuss business.
This time even Wu Guangzheng couldn't get in.
No one knew what they talked about that night. All they knew was that starting from the next day, the charter king began to quietly withdraw funds and also started recruiting security personnel.
Li Xu and the other two were not idle either. They were outside every day asking around for information.
More than twenty days passed in a blink of an eye, and it was September 22nd.
The Iran-Iraq War broke out.
Oil production in both countries came to a complete halt, and crude oil prices rose as soon as the news came out.
Since the war began, Baochuan Wang, Li Xu and the other two have been spending every day in the securities trading room of HSBC.
Seeing the rapid rise in oil prices, when it approached $41, Li Xu ordered traders to sell all the stocks they had.
He also specifically instructed traders to sell in batches so as not to attract other people's attention.
This move puzzled the others, and they all asked the reason.
Li Xu smiled and said, "Now everyone knows that the two countries are no longer producing oil, so the price has risen to this level. To put it bluntly, this is just a temporary momentum. Once the momentum dissipates, the price will definitely fall. We can't be too greedy, otherwise it will be difficult to get out."
I don't want to draw attention to myself, so I can short sell and make a killing."
The stocks held by Li Xu and others are now worth as much as 7.8 billion US dollars. It should take quite some time to handle such a large trading volume without attracting other people's attention.
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