I became the richest man in the world after losing my life in a vegetative state.

Repulse Bay mid-level villa.

Study room on the third floor.

Malice, Ma Shimin, Wei Li, Wei Peter, Bao Fuda, Kayla, Tang Shilian, and Lin Xiuzhi had dinner together at the Yang family villa.

They knew that the boss had been to Yanjing for inspection for more than half a month, but they didn't know exactly when the boss would come back.

Now, Lin Xiuzhi called them in advance to inform them to come to the Repulse Bay Mid-level Villa.

Now these people are the most important members of the Imperial Group.

"Boss, are you going to the mainland this time?" Ma Shimin asked curiously.

This time, Yang Ming and more than 30 other representatives of Chinese capital in Hong Kong were invited back to Yanjing to attend the National Day ceremony, which was reported by newspapers one after another.

Yang Ming is the most special one, staying in Yanjing for more than half a month.

They only learned from newspapers and periodicals that Mr. Yang sent a large amount of money to China, that is, the news about donating 1 million Hong Kong dollars to China as a student fund every year.

"I came back from my trip to Yanjing with a full harvest. In the future, the benefits will be more and more."

Return with a rewarding experience?

More and more income in the future?

I'm afraid Lin Xiuzhi, who followed Yang Ming to Yanjing for so long, wouldn't be able to tell.

This time Yang Ming asked them to come over not to talk about these things.

The purpose of Yang Ming's call this time.

That is to establish the First Shipping Group.

"The purpose of calling you here this time is to establish the first shipping group under the Imperial Group."

First Shipping Group?

Except for Merliss, Ma Shimin and others were a little surprised.

Who in Hong Kong, or even around the world, doesn’t know that Bao Yugang is the world’s shipping king.

Before the 1950s, Hong Kong's shipping was almost entirely in the hands of foreign businessmen, led by British-owned Swire & Co., Jardine Matheson & Co., etc.

At that time, Chinese merchants only had dozens of small freight ships.

After the fifties.

Bao Yugang started to establish global shipping, and began to lease large shipping ships to Dongyang on a long-term basis, and developed rapidly.

He even persuaded Sundashi, who was the director of the accounting department of Huifeng Bank at the time, to break Huifeng Bank's rule not to lend to shipping companies and obtain a loan.

With the financial support of Huifeng Bank, Global Shipping has developed faster.

In the early 1960s, Sandus began to serve as the chief executive of Huifeng Bank. At that time, Huifeng Bank had decided to support a group of local Chinese businessmen. Sandus selected Bao Yugang because of his cooperation with Bao Yugang in the 1950s. , began to vigorously support Bao Yugang's global shipping.

In the 1960s, Bao Yugang's global shipping developed even more rapidly, and his maritime kingdom began to take shape.

It was also at that time that Huifeng Bank and Global Shipping formed shipping companies such as Global Shipping Bermuda Company and Global Shipping Bahamas Shipping Company through cross-shareholding.

In 1973, Bao Yugang owned 57 large ships, with a total tonnage of 960 million tons. Even at that time, the total tonnage of M-country shipping kings, Greek shipping king Onassis, and Bao Yugang's global shipping tonnage were increasingly different. The bigger.

Since 1957, in addition to Global Shipping becoming the head office of the Bao Yugang Group, it has more than companies registered in seaside cities around the world.

Among them, the most famous ones are Global Bahamas Shipping, Global Shipping Investments, Global Wheelock Lines, Asia Shipping, and Longfeng International.

Among them, Longfeng International was originally a subsidiary of Wheelock & Company. In the 20s, Bao Yugang gained control and held % of the shares in the Asian shipping industry.

Now this company has 16 large ships with a carrying capacity of 166 million tons.

Historically, Bao Yugang successfully acquired Wharf through Longfeng International.

The fastest growing business of Global Shipping is the Asian shipping industry. It was established in 1941 and listed in 1948. Bao Yugang has been focusing on cultivating it.

After taking control in the 38s, it now owns 39 large ships, from 496 tons in the early s to million tons now.

In 1978, Bao Yugang's shipping kingdom was already at its peak, with a total tonnage of more than 2000 million tons, making him the world's well-deserved shipping king.

In Xiangjiang.

Except Bao Yugang.

Another shipping king who has entered the world class is Dong Haoyun.

Dong Haoyun came into contact with the shipping industry in the 1920s and 1930s. In the 1940s, he established the China Shipping Trust Company in Hong Kong.

During the 1940s and 1950s, Dong Haoyun's shipping industry suffered a great blow due to the complex international environment, but he finally managed to survive.

After the 1960s, it began to develop vigorously. At that time, it already owned the largest ship in Asia, exceeding 70,000 tons.

After the 1970s, Dong Haoyun's Orient Overseas Container Group was successfully listed, and began to attribute its other fleets and subsidiaries to Orient Overseas.

Among them, in 1980, Orient Overseas Holdings spent huge sums of money to acquire the largest shipping group in country Y, the Furnassian Shipping Company. The total tonnage soared from hundreds of thousands of tons to 120 million tons. It was the largest subsidiary of the Orient Overseas Group. company.

Except for this one, in 1980, the combined tonnage of ships of all its companies had reached 1100 million tons.

Its shipping industry also spans the world.

Yang Ming knew that Dong Haoyun was very important in Hong Kong and even the global shipping industry.

Historically, Dong Haoyun, like the executive team of Wheelock & Company, made a desperate move and invested a large amount of money to expand his shipping group, but later encountered a great crisis.

Among them, historically, Wheelock & Company was swallowed up by the Bao Yugang family.

As for Dong Haoyun, after handing Orient Overseas to his eldest son, he owed more than 20 billion Hong Kong dollars in foreign debt before his death.

Moreover, Yang Ming knew that Dong Haoyun was most famous not for his shipping company, but for his eldest son.

When Yang Ming attended the National Day ceremony in Yanjing, Dong Haoyun also visited Yang Ming in person.

Yang Ming may have a better feeling about Dong Haoyun than Bao Yugang.

Although Dong Haoyun usually keeps a low profile and only focuses on the shipping industry, he is the second among the four Chinese-owned shipping giants in the Hong Kong shipping industry and is also one of the top ten world shipping kings in the world.

Except these two.

Next is the third largest Chinese-owned shipping group in Hong Kong.

Huaguang Shipping!

The founder of Huaguang Shipping is Zhao Congyan. He established Huaguang Shipping Company in the 1940s. Considering his own lack of ability, he sent his eldest son Zhao Shipeng to study at the Shipbuilding University of Country Y. Later, he also studied at the famous Gotenberg Shipyard in Switzerland. He interned and worked at the Lant Brothers Financial Company and Lloyd's Register of Shipping in China, which laid the foundation for his future return to Hong Kong to manage the Huaguang Shipping Industry.

Returning to Hong Kong in the 1960s, he began to take over the Wah Kwong Shipping Industry from his father.

At that time, Huaguang Shipping only had four ships.

The most successful place for Zhao's shipping industry and Zhao Shipeng was in the early 1960s, when the world's shipping industry was in recession and a large number of old ships in Europe were abandoned in major ports.

There are more than 300 ships in the Port of Aden.

At that time, it only took US$6 to purchase a -ton ship, of which US$ could be borrowed from a bank.