Rebirth of the Tech Madman

Compared to metropolises such as New York, the history of building skyscrapers in Hong Kong is actually very short. Gein Xiangjiang’s early urban positioning was mainly an entrepot, and the demand for skyscrapers and offices was not too high.

In addition, the Hong Kong government issued a restriction on the height of buildings in 1903, that is, the construction of buildings with more than 5 floors must be approved by the Governor of Hong Kong in conjunction with the Executive Bureau.

As a result, there are only a handful of tall buildings in Xiangjiang since then. With a total of 13 floors and a height of 70 meters, HSBC's third-generation head office building became the tallest building in Hong Kong from the 1930s to the 1940s.

It was not until 1955 that the Hong Kong government revised the building regulations and relaxed the regulations on building height. Prior to this, there were only a dozen high-rise buildings over 5 floors in Hong Kong.

But even after entering the 1960s, the new high-rise buildings in Hong Kong still did not cross the 150-meter threshold of skyscrapers.

With the rapid development of Hong Kong’s economy from the 1960s to the 1970s, the first skyscraper finally appeared in Hong Kong, namely the Kangle Building in Central, which was completed in 1973. The building is 178.5 meters high and has 52 floors. It was built in the 1970s. The tallest building in Xiangjiang and even Asia has become a famous landmark in Xiangjiang.

In 1980, this record was replaced by Hopewell Center, located on Queen's Road East in Wanchai. This skyscraper, designed by Hopewell's chairman and architect Hu Yingxiang and set as its headquarters by Hopewell, has a total of 66 floors and a height of 216 meters.

Although it has lost the throne of the highest physical height, Connaught Building will show its extraordinary status in another form. Its owner, Land Company, has announced that Connaught Building will be officially renamed as Qin He Building next year. The headquarters of the largest company in Hong Kong, Qinhe Group.

Currently. The Kangle Building is undergoing renovation, one of which is to re-erect the internal wiring to build the world's first high-tech office building that fully adopts a composite communication network and an intelligent power system.

Shao Yifu, who specifically ordered the driver to slow down. You can see through the car windows that the original exterior wall of the Connaught Building was mainly made of concrete and paper-covered stone. It is being replaced with a more modern aluminum exterior wall that can avoid the risk of injury from flying paper and rocks.

It took only 16 months for this building to be built by Hongkong Land from construction to flat roof, setting a record for the construction speed of that era.

At this rate, it is still not as fast as its owner, Land Company, and even the higher-level Jardine Matheson.

Shao Yifu, a tycoon who has been in Xiangjiang for decades, still finds it incredible in retrospect. The No. 1 British-owned foreign company, which has been in business for more than 100 years, has just changed its owners like this. He even began to believe the rumor that had been circulated in the market that Jardine’s chairman Niu Bijian was a big gangster from the beginning.

If you say that you eat Yihe in front of the gong, it can only show that Tang Huan is a super upstart. Then he will diligently and methodically digest the foundation accumulated by Yihe over the past 100 years and tune thousands of foreign devils. _Teaching is subdued and subdued, the skills shown in the whole process can only be described as wise.

Regardless of whether others think that Tang Huan's status as King of Xiangjiang is too opportunistic, Shao Yifu admits that it is better to be friends than opponents. He went to the meeting this time. They hold the same attitude.

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Seeing that the car with the number 6 license plate in front slowed down, Zou Wenhuai instructed the driver to also slow down. This did not show how much he respected Shao Yifu. It's just because I haven't fully figured out how to negotiate with Tang Huan in a while.

The recovery momentum of the Hong Kong film industry has become more and more obvious.

For example, the two historical films "Burning the Old Summer Palace" and "Changing the Curtain" directed by Li Hanxiang with a production background in mainland China have reached more than 15 million and more than 12 million at the box office of Hong Kong; Xu Ke and Lin Qingxian squeeze time to participate in Thailand. The comedy "I Love Evening Fragrance" filmed by Di Robin, Lin Zixiang and others has a box office of nearly 14 million.

This also shows that the production process of the Xiangjiang film industry has become more and more diversified. As long as you have money, you can get people to set up projects. However, the distribution and screening links still maintain the original resource monopoly nature.

Zou Wenhuai is aware of this. It is adjusting Jiahe's operating mode through a series of measures including relaxing the conditions for cooperation with satellite companies.

But unfortunately. This mystery was also seen by DreamWorks, and from the second half of the year, it launched a series of theaters to compete for the audience.

Jiahe naturally complained repeatedly, Zou Wenhuai often complained secretly, Tang Huan, you already have so many more profitable businesses, why bother to come to the movie circle to grab food! If it is for the placement of confidantes, how can Hu Yinmeng, a little girl, have so many resources to squander?

In this meeting, things about the theaters must be unavoidable, but no matter how much Tang Huan said, Zou Wenhuai was unwilling to let go of the interests of the theaters in his heart.

Looking at the future of Qinhe Headquarters—Kangle Building, which is being renovated outside the car, the round windows with artistic design characteristics seem to look at one's own eyes, and the question "Do you have the strength to contend?" Zou Wenhuai couldn't help being cowardly.

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Coincidentally, Lei Juekun's car trailed behind Zou Wenhuai.

At this moment, he was annoyed in his heart. In addition to the Golden Princess Cinemas and Jiahe Cinemas, Gein has suffered from the pressure of competition from the DreamWorks Cinemas, and New Art City is obviously a bit disobedient.

Lei Juekun’s film business is mainly operated by the Golden Princess Entertainment Company, while Xinyicheng is just a satellite company that provides film sources for the Golden Princess cinema chain.

The control of the new art city is mainly achieved through the cinema movie Heung Kong Co., Ltd., which is controlled by the Golden Princess Entertainment Company. It holds 72% of the shares in Xinyi City, the remaining 28%, Shi Tianfen to 19%, and Huang Baiming only 9%.

As for the share structure of Cineplex Film Heung Kong Co., Ltd., Golden Princess Entertainment occupies 51%, and the remaining 49% belongs to Maijia.

In other words, Mai Jia owns close to 36% of the shares of New Art City.

This kind of share difference, which is close to the multiplication gap, did not cause any problems at the beginning. After all, no one would have thought that the market for Hong Kong movies would be so good. Once "Best Partner" was launched, it won more than 20 million box office. Coupled with the income of other movies, this imbalance is vividly expressed in one and two places.

Don't suffer from lack and unevenness, and there seems to be someone secretly instigating. The relationship within the new art city tends to be in harmony with each other.

In addition. Lei Juekun instructed New Art City to sever cooperation with DreamWorks personnel, as well as to dig each other's directors and stars, all of which did not proceed smoothly.

You know, Lei Juekun has invested tens of millions in New Art City. It is strange that he is not angry when he sees that this right hand is not so obedient.

Unlike Shao Yifu and Zou Wenhuai who made their fortunes mainly relying on the film industry, Lei Juekun’s industrial focus was previously reflected in Kowloon Jianye and Kowloon Bus.

But on November 11, 1980. Sun Hung Kai Properties announced the acquisition of Kowloon Motor Bus’s shares in the stock market, causing a takeover battle. As a result, on November 17, Sun Hung Kai Properties successfully acquired a total of 39.5% of the shares of Kowloon Motor Bus, and Kowloon Motor Bus changed the owner.

Therefore, Lei Juekun still values ​​the income of the Golden Princess Cinemas line, and is unwilling to exchange it.

"Or, try to find Zou Wenhuai to see if we can join forces to resist DreamWorks?" Lei Juekun thought as he looked at the Christmas lights installed in some buildings.

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The destination of Shao Yifu, Zou Wenhuai, and Lei Juekun is the only five-star hotel in Central-the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Hong Kong.

Tang Huan is in the name of Xiangjiang Club. Invitation issued. However, due to the second-generation Hong Kong Club Building built in 1897, it has been demolished and rebuilt. It will not be completed until next year, so the event venue will be transferred to the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Hong Kong.

The Hong Kong Club is a private club in Hong Kong. It was founded in 1846. It provides business and high-end catering services. If the members are not rich, they must go through an introducer. At the same time, they need to pay expensive entrance fees, annual fees, and purchase debts issued by the club. Voucher.

In the colonial era, Hong Kong Club was a place for British people to entertain and socialize. Even in the early days, Chinese were not allowed to enter, the most famous example of being rejected. It was Sir Ho Tung, a rich Eurasian businessman, and the father of He Zuozhi, the founder of Xiangjiang Commercial Radio. The elder brother of King He Gambler's grandfather.

Tang Huan won Jardine, which includes not only digesting hardware assets, but also software resources. The Xiangjiang Club is one of them.

At this time, Tang Huan was meeting with Li Junxia, ​​a Chinese with great potential in the Hong Kong police circle.

He successfully applied for the exam in 1957 and joined the Hong Kong Police Force. He was promoted to Superintendent in April 1969, to Chief Superintendent in 1978, and to Assistant Commissioner of Police in 1979.

The ranks of the Xiangjiang police system are divided into three categories, namely, the constitutional committee level, the inspector level, and the officer rank. Below this, it is further subdivided into more than 10 ranks.

The so-called "constitutional committee" means that its appointment must be published in the "Hong Kong Government Gazette", and the appointment and dismissal must be approved by the Governor of Hong Kong. To put it bluntly, that is, it is on the list and has been registered, and the number of Xiangjiang in the whole is only three or four hundred.

Commissioner of Police, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Senior Assistant Commissioner of Police, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Chief Superintendent, Senior Superintendent, and Superintendent, these ranks belong to the "constitutional commission" level.

In other words, Li Junxia has been promoted to the fourth highest rank in the Hong Kong police circle. At the current stage, this achievement is commendable for the Chinese, after all, there are only a dozen people in this position.

Moreover, judging from Li Junxia's current qualifications, it is likely that next year he will be upgraded to another level and become one of the four senior assistant commissioners of the police. Above this level, there are only two deputy chiefs of police and a brother chief of police.

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"Tang Sheng, it is a good choice to use Saka Bing as bodyguards. They have received military training, are hard-working, and do not understand Cantonese, so their level of confidentiality is relatively high. As for the drivers, they still use Chinese because of their I am familiar with the roads of Xiangjiang." Li Junxia was eloquently expressing his opinions.

"Saka soldiers?" Tang Huan raised his brows, "Are you talking about mercenaries from Nepal's Gurkhas?"

"Tang Sheng has a wide range of knowledge, it is them." Li Junxia smiled and nodded, "The Gurkha tribe lived in the northwest of Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal. Wealth in lama temples everywhere."

Tang Huan listened carefully and continued to serve Li Junxia with tea. After the other party thanked him with a red face, he continued to speak.

The first invasion. It was withdrawn after the Manchu army general in Tibet, Bazhong, negotiated with the Kalon Tenjin Banjul. The condition was 300 silver ingots weighing 32 taels each year.

However, the second and larger invasion in the following year hardly encountered resistance from the local Tibetan soldiers or the Manchu garrison, and the Gurkhas were able to looting.

Afterwards, Qianlong ordered General Fukang'an and Counselor Hailancha to lead the Qing troops to support the local Tibetan soldiers, driving them back to the southern foothills of the Himalayas, and even counterattack to Yangbu, the capital of Gurkha at that time. Now Kathmandu, a 20-kilometer thermal lock bridge.

The Sri Lanka War forced the Gurkhas to pay tribute to the Qing Dynasty once every five years. After this relationship stabilized, it lasted until 1908 at the beginning of this century. At that time, the Gurkhas had been completely controlled by the British.

It is said that in the early days of the British administration of Gurkhas, they were defeated by the brave Gurkhas. The Gurkhas then turned over the captured British armaments and asked the Qing court for credit. However, due to different languages, the translation of the name "British" was different. As a result, when the Gurkhas reported, the officials of the Qing court thought that the "British" referred to by the Gurkhas was only an unknown in the southwest. It’s a small country that hasn’t been taken seriously.

The Gurkhas still retain the martial habit of the mountain peoples, so they are best at mountain warfare and guerrilla combat. Their special weapon is the Gurkha machete.

Therefore, the Gurkha fighters are deeply loved by the British, and a standing Gurkha army has been specially formed. There is still a Gurkha mercenary brigade with a total of about 3,700 people, which is sent to the colonies including Xiangjiang. ~www.wuxiahere.com~ There were also performances in the Battle of Falklands last year.

"Li's suggestion is in my heart. I would like to ask for the recruitment of Saka soldiers." Tang Huan solemnly thanked him.

"It's my honor to be able to work for Tang Yueng." Li Junxia waved his hand again and again.

While talking, his subordinates came to report, "Boss, Sir Shao is here."

"Tang Sheng still has important guests to meet, so I won't bother." Li Junxia saw the opportunity to stand up and leave.

When Tang Huan sent Li Junxia out, Shao Yifu came to meet him.

"Uncle Six, you have missed far away, and please forgive me." Tang Huan greeted with a smile.

"I don't dare to be." Shao Yifu said intentionally, "It seems that this old man of mine is the first to arrive."

"Uncle Six is ​​his own, of course the most support." Tang Huan complimented, and then heard the assistant whispered to report, "Mr. Zou and Mr. Lei have also arrived, but they did not enter the hotel immediately, but joined together to talk. To be continued.)