Chapter 417 Deciding to Buy
"Dear, this is a commercial land. Why don't you change your plan and build a commercial center. The rental rate of the office building is much more cost-effective than building a storage center."
Wang Yuanchao looked at the dock workers not far away, constantly loading and unloading goods.
In this era, the docks were not highly mechanized, and cargo was loaded and unloaded by dock workers carrying goods on their shoulders or using handheld walkie-talkies. Not only was the efficiency low, the docks were also messy and costly.
Although there were already some cranes and other lifting equipment on the dock for loading and unloading of goods.
However, these cranes are only capable of lifting heavier and larger cargoes, which improves the efficiency and safety of loading and unloading.
For example, for some large wooden boxes, metal components and other goods, most of the goods are still transported by manpower.
From ancient times to the present, both river shipping and sea shipping terminals have been breeding grounds for gangs, and Hong Kong is even more so with gangs everywhere. Although the Hong Kong gangs appear lawless on the surface, they actually all abide by certain rules. The top leaders of these gangs are just the white gloves of some white-skinned dignitaries. If you don't have a white background and want to join a gang, you basically die a miserable death.
The Tsim Sha Tsui cargo terminal is owned by Jardine Matheson, the parent company of Wharf Holdings. No gangsters or dwarf mules from Hong Kong dare to cause trouble at this terminal.
At this time, the topic of Hong Kong's return has not yet caused panic among the white people and some banana people in Hong Kong society. It is not yet the era of foreign retreat and Chinese advance.
As one of the four major foreign companies in Hong Kong, Jardine Matheson is a real giant in Hong Kong. However, the return of Hong Kong to Hong Kong has been set under the leadership of the old man, and the date of return has been set.
Now, undercurrents have begun to surge among Hong Kong's white-skinned senior officials.
And in a few years, the Chinese Business White Glove Plan will be launched to systematically transfer some foreign bank assets to some Chinese business white gloves.
It also staged a series of exciting business wars, boasting about the rise of Chinese businessmen, which was dazzling and exciting, and made people feel great about national pride.
The white people were indeed very skilled. After Hong Kong's return to China, due to Hong Kong's "one country, two systems" system, Hong Kong's wealth was monopolized by a small group of wealthy families, leading to Hong Kong's economy stagnating and various social chaos. Only then did everyone come to their senses.
The most famous one is Li Huanggua, who withdrew all funds from Hong Kong and China.
When the economic environment in the Pirate Country was bad, he invested more than 300 billion in the Pirate Country in one go, even disregarding his own country and the Li family's city. This cannot be justified by saying that he is just a businessman.
However, these are still too far away from Wang Yuanchao, and Wang Yuanchao has roughly figured out why Hutchison Whampoa would consider selling such a good piece of land on the Tsim Sha Tsui seaside.
Wang Yuanchao walked on the ground and looked around, saying:
"Hi, Michelle, we don't have enough funds.
Look, this piece of land is 200 mu, and Wharf Holdings is offering 350 yuan per square meter.
With this calculation, I need 46.66 million just to pay for the land, and after buying the house and the car, I only have more than 4.8 million left. How can I have money to build a shopping mall and an office building?
It can’t be built. It can’t be built.”
Michelle said in a tempting tone:
"My dear, you can use the land as collateral and come to HSBC for a loan. With me here, it will be no problem for you to get a loan of 10 or 20 million."
Wang Yuanchao knew that to develop real estate, most real estate companies should use bank funds for development.
But Wang Yuanchao had concerns in his heart. Once he borrowed money from HSBC for his development, his lifeline would be in the hands of HSBC.
If something happened and HSBC asked for the repayment and he could not come up with the money, all his efforts would be in vain.
So Wang Yuanchao thought about it and said:
"Miss Lu, don't worry about the loan. After all, the Chinese people like to use their abilities to do as much as they want, and their appetites to eat as much as they want.
Building a warehouse center requires much less capital than a shopping mall or office building. If I buy this piece of land, I can develop it slowly.”
After saying that, Wang Yuanchao looked around the surrounding docks and high-rise buildings, and sighed: "Mi Xilu, I've taken a fancy to this piece of land. My base price is 300 yuan per square meter. I need to keep some funds to build a storage center. I plan to let you negotiate the price. 300 yuan per square meter is my base price, I can accept it. If you can lower the price even lower, starting from my base price, how much you lower it, I will give you half of the money as a reward, what do you think?"
When Mi Xilu heard what Wang Yuanchao said, she was completely excited. She quickly lowered her head to hide her excitement.
After all, the real offer from Hutchison Whampoa was 300 yuan per square meter, and 350 yuan per square meter was the price added by Michelle.
Moreover, when Michelle talked with the manager of Wharf Holdings, she was very clear that there was still a lot of room for price increase.
Originally, Michelle was planning to cooperate with people from Wharf Holdings to see how to make use of the extra price difference from this business.
As a result, Wang Yuanchao himself proposed such favorable conditions to Mi Xilu, which was much more reliable than Mi Xilu asking for money from the people of Kowloon Warehouse herself.
After all, if you cooperate with people from Hutchison Whampoa in private, not only will your character and reputation be damaged, but you will also run the risk of having your money swindled.
Now Michelle only needs to negotiate the price with Wharf Holdings according to Wang Yuanchao’s conditions, and she will become a millionaire in no time.
After Mi Xilu lowered her head and calmed down, she said calmly:
"My dear, since you trust me so much, I will take this job and will do my best to lower the price with Wharf.
You wait for my good news."
Wang Yuanchao rubbed Michelle's head with satisfaction, not caring about the change in Michelle's expression.
After all, everyone in the world is busy pursuing profit. From the very beginning, Wang Yuanchao didn't believe that Mi Xilu's efforts to do things for him were just assigned by the bank.
Without the motivation of interests, it would be good enough for Michelle to complete her job diligently and conscientiously. What's more, the essence of white society is to only recognize interests, not people.
If there were no benefits involved, Wang Yuanchao would not believe that these white people would work hard.
Wang Yuanchao, who was unfamiliar with Hong Kong and had no connections to rely on,
He began to think about the subsequent operations. After considering for a long time, Wang Yuanchao felt that it would be better to put the interests on the table and let Mi Xilu help him negotiate. In this way, even if Wang Yuanchao suffered a loss in money, it would only be an open loss. Wang Yuanchao could accept such a result. He was just afraid that Wang Yuanchao would make a mess of things and not only would he spend more money on buying the land, but he would also be easily cheated and suffer losses.
(End of this chapter)
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