Reborn as a tycoon in Hong Kong

On this day, Lin Baicheng went to Jinxing Electric Company.

Today, Venus Electrical Appliance Company has air conditioner, refrigerator, and washing machine technology, while its subsidiary Venus TV Company owns television technology.

Neither Venus Electric nor Venus TV Company will acquire external home appliance technology. This is not because Lin Baicheng has no money, nor is it because Lin Baicheng is not prepared to continue investing in home appliance companies.

The reason why they don’t continue to acquire technology is very simple. The home appliance company has already acquired several technologies. Now it has just been put into production. The technology is not at the top of the industry. Not even a single product has been sold, so it is even more unnecessary. Talk about market share.

For the current two companies, Venus Electric Appliances and Venus TV, the most important thing is to produce home appliances, sell the products, occupy a certain market, and make profits for the company.

Only if the company can continue to operate, make money, and invest money in technology research and development and upgrading, will it be necessary to expand and acquire more home appliance technologies.

Otherwise, no matter how much home appliance technology is acquired, none of the products can be sold, then it will be useless no matter how many types of home appliance technology the home appliance company has.

The manager of Jinxing Electric Company is Ji Gonglin. Lin Baicheng, who went to the company, did not talk to him much, but took the management, including Ji Gonglin, to the factory area.

Currently, the office and factory of Jinxing Electric Company are together.

Even though the current Venus Electric Company has not yet created much profit for Lin Baicheng, the company has a variety of home appliances. The total factory area is larger than that of Galaxy Games Company and has more employees.

"Mr. Lin, the air-conditioning production area is subdivided into two areas, A and B, which produce medium-sized and small-sized air conditioners respectively. We are now a factory producing medium-sized air conditioners."

As the manager, Ji Gonglin took the initiative to introduce Lin Baicheng.

Lin Baicheng asked: "How many units of medium-sized air conditioners can the company produce per month, and what is the sales volume?"

"Currently, the company only has one medium-sized air conditioner production line, which can produce up to about 200 units per month."

Ji Gonglin replied, and then took the initiative to explain: "In terms of sales, it is quite good. Friendly merchants alone purchased large quantities, especially Watsons supermarkets and Star Cinema cinemas, which purchased more, so the performance is quite good."

"Is one production line enough now?"

Lin Baicheng asked, it is normal for Watsons, a subsidiary of Hutchison Whampoa, to purchase products from Venus Electric Company. As long as it is a company under his name or controlled by him, it will definitely give priority to purchasing its own company's products.

"That's enough."

Ji Gonglin said: "Air conditioners only have greater sales in the summer. After the summer, sales are quite average, so one production line is enough to support it."

"Which home appliances of the company generate profits, then more funds will be invested in the technology research and development of that home appliances."

Lin Baicheng said aloud: "As for air conditioners, you can ask the R\u0026D personnel to conduct in-depth research on hot and cold sharing and develop an air conditioner that can cool in summer and heat in winter. I think with the function of sharing hot and cold, the sales volume of air conditioners will increase." has seen an increase."

Ji Gonglin heard this and said immediately: "Mr. Lin, technology research and development cannot be accomplished overnight, so it may not be possible to have hot and cold air conditioners available so soon."

"I didn't say that we would develop relevant technology soon, I just mentioned a research and development direction."

Lin Baicheng said something and then said: "Not only air conditioners, but our other home appliance technologies are not at the top of the industry at present. There is a gap between technology and other large companies. If there is a gap, naturally we cannot compete with them and cannot go global."

"Therefore, in the past few years, I never thought about how much money Jinxing Electric could make for me. Most of the company's profits can be invested in technology research and development, and a small part can be used to expand the market and make the company bigger and stronger."

"Mr. Lin, I believe that under your leadership, our company will definitely achieve it."

Ji Gonglin's words seemed to be flattering, but they were also what he said from the bottom of his heart. After investing a lot of money, he really didn't believe that the company could not become bigger and stronger. If this still fails to make it bigger and stronger, then there is something wrong with the capabilities of their management.

After looking at the production area for medium-sized air conditioners for a while, Lin Baicheng and others went to the production area for small-sized air conditioners.

"The company can produce up to 1,000 units of small air conditioners per month, with a total of two production lines."

"In terms of sales, because of the cooperation with Hutchison Whampoa, it is also quite good."

"This year, our home appliances were either digested by friendly merchants or purchased by employees of companies under your name, Mr. Lin, which was a disguised form of digestion internally."

"Next year, our management has decided to expand the market, sell to foreign countries, and expand the market. Once the expansion goes smoothly, the scale of the production lines of various electrical appliances will definitely be expanded and more employees will be recruited for production."

Ji Gonglin took the initiative and said that most of Jinxing Electric's performance this year was supported by affiliated companies.

Take small air conditioners as an example. We cooperate with Hutchison Whampoa. The new homes sold by Hutchison Whampoa will be equipped with air conditioners, TVs, refrigerators and washing machines. It is said that the electrical appliances are given away for free, but the money is actually included in the house price. It is equivalent to Hutchison Whampoa buying it from Venus Electric and then selling it to the home buyer.

Of course, Hutchison Whampoa is not without any discounts. For the same house, after deducting the selling price of appliances, the house price will be slightly lower than that of its peers. This is equivalent to giving a discount to house buyers and giving buyers a feeling of making money.

Lin Baicheng listened carefully and asked some questions, and Ji Gonglin answered them one by one.

Lin Baicheng visited all the electrical appliance production areas. While he was concerned about product production capacity and performance, he also chatted with employees and asked them about salary and other issues.

The reason why Lin Baicheng asked these questions was because he wanted to know if Jinxing Electric was deceiving the superiors and secretly stealing the benefits.

Fortunately, what Lin Baicheng was worried about did not happen. The employees' salaries and benefits were all in accordance with regulations, and there were no problems.

As for the issue of employee feedback that which team leader was a relative of which company leader, Lin Baicheng just smiled and asked Ji Gonglin to pay more attention to the situation and deal with any problems. He himself did not get angry.

In Lin Baicheng's view, this kind of thing is normal. In any company or factory, the management will seek a position in the company for their relatives. This is inevitable.

As long as people who come to work through nepotism do not harm the company's interests and do things like other employees, then Lin Baicheng will turn a blind eye and pretend that such a thing does not exist.

Of course, the premise of all this is that nothing happens. If something happens or the company's interests are harmed, Lin Baicheng will definitely deal with it seriously to scare the monkeys.

After the matter at Jinxing Electric Company was settled, Lin Baicheng did not leave here. Instead, he met Li Yanzhang, the manager of Qingzhou Yingni Company, who was called here by him.

It can be said that Lin Baicheng's visit to Jinxing Electrical Appliances Company today was not specifically for the electrical appliances company's business.

"Mr. Lin!"

"sit!"

Looking at Li Yanzhang in front of him, Lin Baicheng said: "I heard you say that the land acquisition around Tianshuiwei is not going well?"

This is Tin Shui Wai in Yuen Long. The factory of Venus Electric Company is near Tin Shui Wai. Many employees were recruited from Tin Shui Wai.

The reason why Lin Baicheng wanted to acquire the land around Tin Shui Wai was simple. Jinxing Electrical Appliance Company built a factory nearby, and many employees were recruited from Tianshuiwei. The salary of the company's employees is not low, which increases people's income. People will definitely buy houses when they are rich. It is definitely a sure profit to develop real estate here. A losing trade.

If this is the case, then why not develop real estate yourself? Anyway, if Lin Baicheng doesn't do this, other real estate companies will definitely do it.

The reason why Hutchison Whampoa and Hutchison Whampoa were not allowed to acquire the land was also very simple. Lin Baicheng holds all the shares of Qingzhou Yingni Company, while he only holds less than half of the shares of Hutchison Whampoa. This kind of business that can make a lot of money is not necessary for Hutchison Whampoa. Why should he give it to Hutchison Whampoa?

If he can earn 100 yuan, why should Lin Baicheng only earn 50 yuan? He is not a fool!

"Yes."

Li Yanzhang nodded and said: "Tin Shui Wai is a walled village, consisting of multiple walled villages. Except for a large fish pond, most of the area here is occupied by residential buildings and some public housing estates, and there is very little free land."

“If you want to develop real estate here, you must buy the large fish pond, fill it in, and demolish other residential buildings and public housing estates for redevelopment. Although this will require compensation to the residents, the overall The layout and surrounding environment change into new residential areas, which can make the house sell for a good price.”

"And if you do this, you will have to buy the entire Tianshuiwei. It is basically impossible to avoid being widely reported, and it is not easy to buy it all."

"You asked me to buy the land here slowly and covertly. Although I bought a few pieces of land, the area is not large, and many times it is not possible to negotiate with each household, but with the entire village. In this way, It’s even more difficult.”

"You know a lot about real estate development."

Lin Baicheng looked at Li Yanzhang with some surprise. He did not forget that the man in front of him was the manager of Qingzhou Yingni Company. The company did not have real estate development business.

"The company makes cement and is related to the real estate industry. Naturally, I need to know something about this industry."

Li Yanzhang immediately said that more importantly, he knew the purpose of Lin Baicheng asking him to acquire the land in Tianshuiwei, so he naturally took the time to conduct some analysis so that he could show his face in front of Lin Baicheng.

"If you put it like that, it's really a bit difficult to handle."

Lin Baicheng nodded slightly and pondered. Some things are very simple when you think about them, but when you actually put them into practice, you will find that they are not that easy and there are still many difficulties and obstacles.

However, although the difficulties are not small, Lin Baicheng will not give up easily.

The reason is very simple. As the factory of Venus Electric Company continues to expand and the number of employees continues to increase, the development value of Tian Shui Wai will also increase. The housing prices here will continue to increase in the future. If the entire Tian Shui Wai can be bought and developed, the entire project will be completed. I'm afraid there will be profits of over 10 billion Hong Kong dollars.

The entire project cannot be completed in two or three years. It will take at least five years to purchase the land, fill in the fish ponds, demolish and rebuild, etc. In total, five years may not be enough.

By the time Tin Shui Wai is fully developed, it may not be until 1990. As time goes by, housing prices in Xiangjiang will only get higher and higher. By then, if the developed houses are sold, the profit will be easily over 10 billion Hong Kong dollars, or even higher.

"Mr. Lin, I think we can find a way to get the Hong Kong government to buy the land, and then we will buy the land, and jointly develop the Tin Shui Wai area with the Hong Kong government, in the name of developing this into a new town. I think the Hong Kong government Would love this slogan.”

For his own future, Li Yanzhang took the initiative to speak out.

"After the Hong Kong government has bought all the land, it will not be so easy for us to buy the land again."

Lin Baicheng couldn't help but shake his head slightly after hearing this. Many people can see the benefits here. It is true that he has a good relationship with MacLehose and even the entire Hong Kong government, but other people's personal connections are not bad either. It is impossible for the Hong Kong government to Easily transfer the land to him.

Li Yanzhang immediately said: "We can jointly buy land, so that the Hong Kong government can spend less money, and we can also buy some land in advance. Even if there are variables in the subsequent cooperation, we will not lose money."

"Your proposal is quite good, but I still need to discuss the details with the Hong Kong government."

Lin Baicheng thought for a while and said that he felt that Li Yanzhang's suggestion of having the Hong Kong government buy the land was a good one. If the land was purchased in the name of the Hong Kong government, I believe it would be much faster and less likely to cause the lion to open his mouth.

Li Yanzhang said: "Mr. Lin, Venus Electric Company is actually a good bargaining chip. If Venus Electric Company does not build a factory here and moves the factory, it will inevitably have a major impact on Tianshuiwei. You can use this as a bargaining chip if necessary. "

"Jinxing Electric Company is indeed a good bargaining chip."

Lin Baicheng thought of one thing, that is, the factories of Galaxy Games Company, Xingyue Electronic Games Company, and Galaxy Semiconductor could be moved together to create an industrial park.

When the industrial park is built, buying nearby land for commercial development will definitely make a lot of money.

The most important thing is that the establishment of an industrial park not only has no disadvantages, but also has many benefits. When Galaxy Games and Xingyue Electronics need chips or other things, everyone is in the industrial park, so it is convenient to deliver them.

However, this matter is not urgent. You can find someone to take charge of it later.

"After the Hong Kong government and I have determined the general direction, you will be responsible for following up on matters in Tin Shui Wai. At present, the land here is no longer available for purchase. You only need to pay attention to whether there are other properties. As long as the company also takes a fancy to the land here."

Lin Baicheng can't guarantee that he is the only one who likes Tianshuiwei, and other real estate developers are blind and not so beautiful. But as long as he negotiates with the Hong Kong government before those real estate developers notice this, there will be no need to worry.

"Okay, Mr. Lin."

Li Yanzhang agreed. It was a good thing for him to be responsible for following up on the Tin Shui Wai project. In his opinion, Qingzhou Yingni Company was too small. Lin Baicheng had so many companies under his name, so of course he wanted to take this opportunity to jump to a better company.