The Goddess Shines on America

Li Ka-shing's mansion is located at No. 79, Deep Water Bay Road, Hong Kong. This address was settled when he started his business in his early years and was still running a plastic factory, but before he stepped into the real estate industry. This businessman from Chaozhou, Guangdong has lived here for the rest of his life. Even when his family’s population boomed and he needed to change his house later, he would renovate the old house on the original site, and renovate the old house in another “bigger” building. In the villa, "wait for seven years" before moving in.

This mansion is located in the southernmost part of Hong Kong Island, nearly ten kilometers across the sea and land from the Hong Kong Lighting Power Station on Lamma Island. The pick-up car departs from Tsim Sha Tsui, crosses the Victoria Bay from the Hung Hom Submarine Tunnel to the south, passes through the bustling urban area along the bay and goes deep all the way, and then reaches the vast and green hilly terrain.

The Repulse Bay Road, which runs through the dense forest, is long and winding, but there are only about ten mansions along the way. Naturally, they are all extremely large and luxurious, but none of these are the destination of this trip. After arriving at the southern tip of Hong Kong Island, the car passed by a top-notch coastal residential area centered on high-end villas in the east, and then drove westward. After a short journey, it finally arrived at Deep Water Bay Road.

First along the coast, then north and deep into the mountains again, at the east-west-north-south corner at the top of the hillside road, and also on the west side of the east golf course, the Li family's mansion is located here.

From time to time, the security measures in the later stage of the university are extremely strict. After all, Li Ka-shing does not have so many children yet, and his first wife Zhuang Yueming has not died yet. So for Alice, being a guest this time was indeed full of novelty. The driveway was not in a zigzag shape avoiding the highway gate, and the main entrance of the mansion was facing the highway instead of facing away from it. It feels familiar.

After getting out of the car, of course she got out of the car first and then Li Zeju. Alice immediately saw the sixty-year-old man walking towards her.

"Welcome to Hong Kong, Ms. Wang." In a familiar black suit, and a face that was much younger than in the impression but very familiar, the old man's hand held the girl's hand: "The whole city will add luster to your arrival."

"You are too polite, Mr. Li." Alice smiled and shook hands with him and said, "Just like everyone else, please call me Alice. Besides, your English accent is very authentic. If you don't look at yourself, you can't understand clearly. speaker's identity."

Wearing a pair of black thick-rimmed glasses, Li Ka-shing accepted Alice's compliment politely, and nodded to his eldest son: "Zeju, hurry up and invite Alice into the house, she is the representative of our global Chinese businessmen."

What a nasty title, Alice smiled and was invited into the house. Naturally, the size of this house is not so amazing, and the decoration is not so gorgeous, after all, it was built many years ago. As for Li Ka-shing, Alice also knew that for this self-made businessman, his own safety was far more important than luxury, especially after the kidnapping of his eldest son Li Zeju.

In the spacious living room, a dignified and elegantly dressed lady appeared. It was Li Ka-shing's wife Zhuang Yueming. When the distinguished guests come to the door, it is natural to welcome them at home, but after the three of them sat down on the sofa, the hostess did not wait in front of them, but immediately went to the kitchen with the excuse of pouring tea.

"Alice," Li Ka-shing said after sitting down for a while, "I can imagine that you will definitely make such a series of big moves when you come to Hong Kong this time. Last year's stock market crash, the global stock market fell sharply, your short selling behavior at least let I made a net profit of one billion, is this number correct?"

"It's just a lot," Alice smiled and nodded, "I'm surprised that Mr. Li already knows so much about me. Is it the Hong Kong newspapers that have been reporting the details of the short-sold Hang Seng?"

Li Zeju chuckled at the side and said: "Hong Kong is okay, mainly the "Times" and "Daily Mail". You know, you are not only studying at Eton, but you are also a rare Chinese girl, but you are shorted from the London stock market." If the amount is tens of millions, no one will talk about it."

"Oh, that's a bit beyond my expectation." Alice's train of thought did not agree with Li Zeju's: "I thought that the Hong Kong media would focus on reporting on me, a Chinese businessman, fishing in troubled waters in the global stock market. It seems like a fig leaf. There is still a layer. Well, let’s not talk about this in advance.”

At the end of the three-sentence chat at the beginning, Alice turned to say: "Mr. Li is right. I came to Hong Kong this trip with the mentality of large-scale investment. After all, here is no less than London, New York and Hong Kong. There are too many nationalized cities in Tokyo, and the mainland behind it has just established a reform and opening up zone in Guangdong, so the future development potential is very strong."

Saying so, of course Alice had another idea in mind. Indeed, Hong Kong's preeminent status can last for a long time. At that time, the domestic cities were almost all the size of fishing villages. But within thirty years, the GDP of Shenzhen and Guangzhou should surpass that of Hong Kong as a whole. Of course, when that time came, her overall career had already developed to some extent, so she didn't care about such things anymore.

Zhuang Yueming brought over the tea and left immediately. Li Ka-shing first took the initiative to fill a glass for Alice, then gently blew on the foam on the surface of his glass, and said: "The act of acquiring the Peninsula Hotel has more symbolic meaning than actual benefits; a loan of 500 million US dollars from HSBC proves that you are Larger-scale investment projects are being prepared. As for your visit to HK Electric, a subsidiary of Cheung Kong Infrastructure, and your proposed cooperation with Cisco, it’s just that your market expansion behavior for your own industry has no direct relationship with the previous two.”

After drinking half a cup of tea, he smiled and said, "So my son, I'm really curious, what kind of purpose did you come to Hong Kong with?"

"In order to enter the industrial field," Alice said, "my current enterprises are basically concentrated in Silicon Valley, that is, pure technology flow, and the only industrial industry that can get on the table is just a clothing brand. And it's just a clothing brand. It’s just a brand, not a real garment processing industry.”

The words were only half spoken, but enough to be understood. Li Ka-shing did not hesitate, and immediately went further: "You have become a billionaire with Microsoft, and Cisco is also a large company in the IT industry that has just been listed, and the future development potential is very strong. Why don't you focus on developing in the existing field? But what about expanding to the industrial field?"

Round after round of conversations passed between the two of them repeatedly, and Alice's answer came out of her mouth: "The take-off of the country's economy depends on the industrial field after all. If there is not enough physical product foundation to support it, the output value of the service industry will be high. It’s just a castle in the air. Maybe I can earn tens of millions just by tapping on the computer, but after all, it’s just a string of numbers, not something that can be seen or touched.”

Li Zeju smiled and interrupted. Li Ka-shing didn't ask any more questions immediately, but when he nodded slightly, Alice observed clearly, and a gratified and satisfied smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"In terms of development in the industrial field, I can be regarded as having rich experience." After a while, he looked at Alice: "My initial entrepreneurial achievement was a plastic products factory, and relying on the technology I learned in Italy in one fell swoop, it became a King of plastic flowers, this is the basic capital to go to real estate. Now it seems that you are much more advanced than me in the same development steps. The news that you developed Winodws1.0 by yourself in a week or two, but there is no news in the industry published in detail in periodicals.”

Alice immediately waved her hand modestly: "Where, where, it's just a little cleverness..."

"Say it, son," Li Ka-shing sat up straight, and poured another cup of tea for Alice: "What can my Changjiang Group do for you?"

Now, Alice laughed out loud.

"Your industry," she said, "is a huge system built with Cheung Kong Industrial Co., Ltd. as the core."

Li Ka-shing nodded slowly, waiting patiently for the next sentence. Even if he admired this little girl who appeared out of nowhere and wanted to help her, it is of course necessary to know how well the other party understands him.

"'Cheung Kong' is the flagship of the Cheung Kong Group. It is a real estate development and strategic investment company. Its members in Hong Kong include three listed companies that are also constituent stocks of the Hang Seng Index: Cheung Kong, Hutchison Whampoa Limited and Cheung Kong Infrastructure. "

"Cheung Kong is currently one of the largest real estate developers in Hong Kong. It develops a series of residential and industrial properties in Hong Kong, and owns nearly half of the shares of Hutchison Whampoa. Hutchison Whampoa is a large multinational conglomerate with operations all over the world. , operating six core businesses in 52 countries around the world, including ports and related services, real estate and hotels, retail, infrastructure, energy, and telecommunications.”

"The last Yangtze River Infrastructure... In the final analysis, Mr. Li, you have really made the company complicated enough. The company's subordinates invested in Hongkong Electric, then marched in the direction of cement, and then Hongkong Electric merged with other related electric energy companies. Listing... Uh, it's really complicated, and it's messy to sort out!"

The first two analyzed it clearly and logically, but the last one was confused. Seeing Alice's disgusted look, the stark difference made both of the Li family laugh.

"Okay, okay, it's rare that you have the heart to investigate." Li Ka-shing nodded with satisfaction, watched Alice take another sip of water, and made a gesture with his eyes, and Li Zeju immediately filled another glass for her: "Then Alice, since you have already treated me My big brother company has done some research, and before I tell you your willingness to cooperate, I have a question."

Alice easily drank a third of the hot tea in one gulp: "Well, may I ask you?"

Quite logically, an old man asked a young and successful American compatriot: "You also said just now that the composition of my Cheung Kong Infrastructure is a bit chaotic, so what is unique about the development status of my entire group? What do you think, little Alice?"