Hardy Empire 1945

Hardy receives a telegram from Victor.

Princess Margaret is going to visit Hong Kong in ten days. According to the itinerary, Princess Margaret will visit the Hadi Group and the industrial park.

Hardy smiled slightly.

This was something he had discussed with Margaret a long time ago.

Hardy said to the secretary: Reply to Victor, just say that I will go to Hong Kong and personally receive Princess Margaret to visit the Hardy Group's itinerary.

The secretary answered the telegram.

two days later,

Hardy took Han Yizhen and her son Bourne to Hong Kong by plane. For Penang and Malacca, there is a management team from the Governor's Office. Han Yizhen happened to return to Hong Kong to raise her baby. She prefers the environment in Hong Kong.

At the same time, an ultra-luxury yacht was ordered to go to Hong Kong.

When the plane arrived in Hong Kong, Victor brought people over to greet him. The family boarded the car and returned to the villa in the middle of the mountain. , cook a sumptuous meal today.

Okay, sir. Chef Lao Zhang quickly responded.

in the study,

Victor reported to Hardy the situation in Hong Kong during this period. In fact, every once in a while, Victor would report the situation in Hong Kong to Hardy in the form of a report, but he never said it in detail.

Both HSBC and Wells Fargo are developing very well. Global Shipping has an endless supply of goods every day. All the money earned in the past few years has been used to purchase new freighters. It is now the largest shipping company in Hong Kong.

As for the Global Times, it is already the largest newspaper in Hong Kong, and ABC Radio is also the most listened-to radio station in Hong Kong. Moreover, ABC TV Station also officially started broadcasting at the beginning of this year, becoming the first TV station in Hong Kong.

There is no TV production company in Hong Kong yet, so the TVs sold here are all imported from the United States.

Due to the small number of users, TV programs are only broadcast for eight hours a day. In addition to news and reviews, other TV programs such as cartoons, TV dramas, movies, and variety shows are all imported from the United States.

Recently, HD Films also established a branch in Hong Kong and purchased a large piece of land to build the headquarters and studio.

Hardy Industrial Park is one of the major companies of Hardy Hong Kong Branch. There are more than 100 enterprises in the industrial park, all of which are developing very well. Basically, they have entered a mature and stable output period.

The fastest growing company is Hardy Pharmaceuticals.

Hardy Pharmaceuticals now not only owns Tongyitang, but also acquired several pharmaceutical companies in the past two years. Now it produces more than 60 kinds of medicines, including health care products, external medicines and other categories. It is now the largest pharmaceutical company in Hong Kong. pharmaceutical companies.

These drugs are now sold in the United States, Europe, Japan and other countries, and the medicinal materials are mainly from the mainland, and the medicinal materials are imported from a company in Macau.

Although there is a trade ban now, fortunately herbal medicine is not included in the export restrictions, which is much more convenient and can be purchased legally. Even so, it is still a Macau company. If it is restricted, you can directly close the current company and register another company immediately. continue doing.

Boss, the Hong Kong government has sent a notice to the company. Princess Margaret is going to visit Hardy's Hong Kong headquarters and the industrial park. In the past few days, I have asked people to clean it up, mainly to make it more beautiful and clean. .”

Victor said.

Hardy nodded, and I will greet Princess Margaret in person at that time, and you, together with me, will be responsible for introducing the details.

Good boss. Victor responded quickly.

Victor, some time ago I asked you to pay attention to the Hong Kong property market. How is the investigation going? Hardy asked.

Victor quickly introduced: In the past two years, after Hong Kong has been completely stabilized, the economy has developed rapidly, and during this period of time, the population growth has been very large. According to government statistics, the current population has exceeded 2 million.

And this number is not accurate. Many people concealed and did not report their household registration, so the actual number is about 2.4 million.

The population has exploded by nearly one million in a few years, and naturally many people have no place to live.

There are many shantytowns built by themselves in Kowloon, and there are many people who need houses. The biggest problem is that they can't afford so much money at once, so they have to apply for loans.

Hardy knows,

This period was the first period when Hong Kong’s property market exploded, and it would last for about ten years. Of course, Hong Kong’s property market also crashed several times in the later period, and some people lost their money, but these were not within the scope of Hardy’s consideration.

He is going to enter the real estate market, because the Hardy Group is now storing a large amount of land, some of which are purchased from private individuals or from the Hong Kong government. When Hong Kong was in crisis, the prices of these lands were very cheap, which can be said to be the price of cabbage.

Now even if he releases the land, he can get more than 10 times the profit.

But he will not release the land, because he knows that the land in Hong Kong will continue to rise in the future, even if the property market collapses, the land will not collapse.

According to statistics, how many times will the land price in Hong Kong increase from the 1950s to the 1980s? increased by about 200 times.

This is a very scary number.

What kind of investment can increase steadily by 200 times in 30 years, so Hardy will not let go of these lands, and will let Hardy Real Estate Company continue to buy them.

He entered the real estate market mainly to build office buildings and low-rent apartments. He only rents them and does not sell them. Now that he has completed the construction and collected rents to make money, he can wait for the land to appreciate in value and sell it all at once when the price is right. This is the best way. good choice.

As for rent,

In fact, it can be cheaper, which can also play a role in stabilizing the property market in Hong Kong.

 …

a few days later,

Princess Margaret took the royal plane and arrived at Hong Kong Airport. Governor Gregory led a group of officials to greet her at the airport.

This is the highest-level member of the royal family visiting Hong Kong since the opening of Hong Kong.

Coupled with the delicate social environment in Hong Kong today, I believe this visit will play a great role in stabilizing Hong Kong society.

Hardy took Victor to the airport to greet him, only behind Ge Lianghong.

The only reason behind Ge Lianghong is that this is Ge Lianghong's territory. In terms of status, Ge Lianghong is not as good as Hardy now.

Princess Margaret is very beautifully dressed today.

After getting off the plane, he politely shook hands with Ge Lianghong. When it was Hardy's turn, the two hugged each other affectionately.

This scene was photographed by reporters.

The next day's newspaper reported that Governor Hardy was closer to Princess Margaret than Gregorian.

Your Royal Highness, next we will take a yacht, pass through Victoria Harbor, and head to Queen's Wharf. A welcome ceremony will be held at the pier. Ge Lianghong respectfully introduced the princess.

Thank you, Mr. Governor.

come to the pier,

It was discovered that the yacht parked here was Hardy's super-large luxury yacht. Margaret was too familiar with this ship, and she and Hardy were left in many places.

She subconsciously glanced at Hardy.

The team arrived at Queen's Wharf, where tens of thousands of people gathered, and even the upper floors in the distance were full of spectators.

Princess Margaret delivered a short speech and won a round of applause, then took a convertible Rolls-Royce to parade the streets and received cheers from the crowd.

At the moment, there were many people standing on both sides of the street to greet them. The government also specially organized elementary school students and junior high school students to come out to greet them. The girls wore white skirts and white shoes, and the boys wore white T-shirts and blue pants, holding the Union Jack and plastic flowers in their hands.

After the ceremony, Princess Margaret ended up in the Presidential Suite at The Peninsula Hotel.

Originally, she could live in Grantham's Governor's Mansion. The Governor's Mansion is not only a place where the Governor lives, but also has a reception task. However, in the previous report, Margaret specifically pointed out that she wanted to live in an outside hotel, in fact, for the sake of action. convenient.

night,

At the Peninsula Hotel, a grand reception was held. Many Hong Kong officials, MPs, entrepreneurs, and celebrities came to welcome Princess Margaret.

the next day,

Margaret started intensive visits, including visiting the government, the parliament, foreign companies, Hardy's Hong Kong headquarters, and industrial parks.

the third day,

Princess Margaret was invited to board Viscount Hardy's yacht to visit the beautiful Hong Kong seascape, and the yacht sailed out of Victoria Harbour.

The yacht did not return to the port until evening, and when Princess Margaret disembarked, many reporters were still stuck in the port.

A reporter asked the princess how she felt visiting the bay of Hong Kong.

Very good. The scenery in Hong Kong is very charming. I like it very much. Margaret replied with a smile.

What did you and the viscount talk about?

This is not easy to answer. To be honest, on this day, she and Hardy did more than talk, mostly physical communication, and verbal communication was very poor.

The three most frequently used words are 'Ou', 'Ye' and 'Maika'.

At this time, Hardy took the topic and said with a smile: I have talked a lot with the princess, and the princess is very concerned about the people's livelihood in Hong Kong. , asking how to solve it.

The princess suggested whether we could build a batch of low-rent housing. We discussed the topic of low-rent housing for a whole day.

Is there any result from the discussion? The reporter hurriedly asked.

The result of the discussion is that the princess is going to propose to the Hong Kong government that the government take part of the support funds to jointly build low-rent housing with enterprises. It is difficult to make money in building such houses, so the princess asked me to hope that the Hardy Group will take over this project. Task.

Then Mr. Hardy, are you willing to take on this task? the reporter asked.

Hardy nodded with a smile, Hardy Group is a responsible company and is willing to solve practical problems for Hong Kong society. In the end, the princess and I negotiated to launch 50,000 low-rent housing units with a service life of 30 years.

I believe that these low-rent housing can solve the housing problems of many families. At the beginning, they can spend too much in low-rent housing. When they have money and improve their living conditions, they can naturally switch to better housing. I believe it can help many families.

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the next day.

Many newspapers in Hong Kong reported that Princess Margaret cared about the people's livelihood in Hong Kong, and negotiated with the Hardy Group to build 50,000 low-rent housing units to solve the housing problems of more than 200,000 to 300,000 people.

In fact, the public doesn't care too much about the princess. They just want to live a good life for themselves. What is most lacking in Hong Kong now is of course a house.

Now that people see the princess solving the house problem for everyone, they are naturally grateful to Princess Margaret.

the fourth day,

The princess's itinerary is to visit the Hong Kong Jockey Club, of course, the main venue is Hardy's Kowloon Jockey Club venue.

Everywhere Princess Margaret went today, she found that the people who welcomed her were much more enthusiastic than the day before. He asked Hardy beside him why.

Because you helped them solve 50,000 housing units.

It was only then that Margaret realized that what Hardy said yesterday was not just to perfuse the reporters. When watching the Jockey Club exhibition, Ge Lianghong accompanied him, and Margaret talked to him about the issue of low-rent housing.

Ge Lianghong said that the Hong Kong government has actually realized this problem, but it needs to invest a lot of money to build low-rent housing on a large scale, and the government can't afford that much money at once.

As for real estate companies, they are more inclined to build sales, and no one is willing to engage in low-rent housing.

Hadi agreed to take this job, I hope you two can cooperate well. Princess Margaret said.

Yes, Your Royal Highness, I will ask Hardy to discuss this matter later.

The Hong Kong government acted quickly and contacted Hardy Company the next day. Victor had already received an order from his boss to tell him how to deal with it.

Victor smiled and offered the conditions.

The first is that the land needs to be sold by the government and sold to Hardy Real Estate Company at a low price. In fact, it is holding land in the hands of the government, and the value of land appreciation is the value earned by Hardy Company.

The Hong Kong government accepts this provision.

The second is that the government provides part of the support funds, and the rest is provided by the Hardy Company. The rent for renting out the houses is all owned by the Hardy Group.

The government has some objections to this article, saying why there is no profit for the money he paid. Victor said that low-rent housing takes up a lot of money. From the perspective of capital operation, Hardy Company itself is losing money.

The last sentence, or you do it yourself.

If the Hong Kong government could come by itself, they would have come earlier, and in the end they could only accept it.

The third is that the government is responsible for supporting public facilities, such as kindergartens, primary schools, middle schools, hospitals, bus stations, post offices, police stations, as well as running water, electricity, telecommunications, gas, sewers, and so on.

The government has no objection to this point, which is the responsibility of the government.

The fourth is...

There are many issues involved, but because Ge Lianghong intends to negotiate this matter before Princess Margaret leaves, this matter is considered to be the princess's credit.

Ge Lianghong made a big concession for this.

The result of the final discussion is that the government will provide land, part of the funds, and be responsible for the construction of public facilities.

It is equivalent to giving Hardy several large communities.

yes,

It's free,

Because the rent after completion and the ownership of the demolished land after 30 years all belong to Hardy Real Estate Hong Kong Company.

And even in construction, there are many places to make money, such as raw material cement, Hardy has a cement plant, steel bars, Hardy has a steel plant, water pipes, nails and many other building materials, Hardy is producing.

This invisibly promotes the sales of those factories and makes a fortune from it.

The construction of so many houses can also indirectly stimulate a lot of consumption, which can boost the economy of Hong Kong as a whole. When Hong Kong is well, its industries will naturally appreciate accordingly.

all in all.

Margaret is visiting Hong Kong this time.

Hardy is equivalent to making a lot of money after 30 years. The land occupied by these 50,000 low-rent housing units will never be worth less than 30 to 50 billion in 30 years.

In the middle,

Princess Margaret boarded Hardy's luxury cruise ship and went out to sea again. This time she came back later, but many people imagined that the princess must have discussed with Viscount Hardy how to build 50,000 low-rent houses.

The princess is working for the well-being of the people of Hong Kong.

After three days of negotiation, it was finally finalized.

newspaper,

The Hong Kong government and the Hardy Group issued a joint statement. Under the promotion of Princess Margaret, the Hong Kong government and the Hardy Group cooperated to launch 50,000 low-rent housing units with an area of ​​25 to 60 square meters. 15% of basic monthly income.

After Hong Kong citizens heard the news, many people jumped up excitedly. Now many people live in a shabby thatched cottage, or even a house made of iron boards. They really want to have a place where they can live.

Even low-rent housing is a paradise for them.

Margaret was about to leave Hong Kong and return to the UK. On the day she left, on her way from the hotel to the airport, a large number of people gathered to see her off, which was many times more than when she came to Hong Kong. Moreover, these people were not organized by the government. It was completely spontaneous to say goodbye.