Chapter 376: Sore feet

"Who else? Of course it is a close friend of the party, Mr. Huo, the chairman of the Hong Kong Chinese Chamber of Commerce." Cao Guangbiao replied.
As soon as these words were spoken, the other four people in the room immediately "oh", and then nodded one after another: "Yes, as long as this person joins, then this will happen."
What is the background of this Mr. Huo, who can make the several Xiangjiang tycoons present so admired and convinced?
Of course it is because of this person's detached position in Xiangjiang.
As mentioned in the previous article, Xiangjiang has the so-called "four big families", which are called "Li, Zheng, Li, Guo" by the people of the rivers and lakes. If according to the apparent asset status, all the wealthy families in Xiangjiang will be headed by these four. And the number one, of course, is Li Zhekai's father, Li Jiacheng, who was given the nickname "Li Chaoren".
With such net worth as Shao Yifu and Bao Yugang, although they can also be ranked in the top ten of the Hong Kong rich list, they are still quite inferior to these four.
But, do you regard these so-called "Four Big Families" as the most powerful figure in Xiangjiang? It's really not.
In the eyes of all Xiangjiang people, there are only two of the real top giants in Xiangjiang. One of them is naturally the Rong family who has a long heritage and controls all the companies of the "CITIC" family and is praised by China as a "red capitalist"; while the other is the creation of an entrepreneurial legend and is called "the party's eternal friend" Huo's house.
The founder of the Huo family, the contemporary patriarch, Mr. Huo Yingdong, was born in Xiangjiang in 1923. He was originally from Dongguang Province, China. He was from a poor family and died at the age of 7.
However, Mr. Huo Yingdong has a long-sighted, determined and upright mother. Even if she lives in a slum and has no three meals a day, her mother still gritted her teeth for her to study. Huo Yingdong lived up to his mother's high expectations and was admitted to a prestigious Hong Kong school at the age of 12. Huangren English Academy.
Unfortunately, with the invasion of the Japanese pirates, Huo Yingdong was forced to drop out of school. Later, in order to maintain his family's livelihood, Huo Yingdong worked as a transitional coal worker, airport coolie, car repair apprentice, and riveter.
The hard life did not bury Huo Yingdong's ideals. Instead, he sharpened his perseverance. He once worked with others and ventured far to Dongsha Island to salvage the seaman grass, and finally accumulated a small amount of start-up funds.
In 1949, he began to copy his father's old business and gave it all, buying the first small boat and starting the business of sea lightening.
History finally gave this young man a chance, and this young man did not live up to it, although he needs to live up to his life if he wants to seize this opportunity.
In 1950, the U.S. invaded Goryeo, and Huaxia immediately dispatched volunteers to fight in Goryeo, launching the "Koryo War" which is well-known in history.
In this war, the so-called "United Nations" army headed by the United States, which has taken advantage of weapons and supplies, imposed a "comprehensive embargo" on China in order to contain China's war potential. Of course, the Hong Kong authorities controlled by Britain are For the sake of the tiger, they implemented "armed anti-smuggling". Their goal is to prevent a piece of black iron, a liter of fuel, or even a couple of cotton from flowing into the mainland.
It was at this time that Huo Yingdong stepped forward and used his barge as a vehicle to smuggle all kinds of urgently needed materials to the mainland. Later, he simply organized his colleagues to form an unprecedented scale. Fleet.
It was this action that allowed Mr. Huo Yingdong to start his life, a legendary career as a "close friend of the Party".
Beginning in the 1950s, with the rapid increase in the population of Xiangjiang and the rise of industry and commerce, the market demand for land and buildings has become increasingly strong, so he reviewed the situation and began to operate the real estate industry. Aiming at the current situation of insufficient savings of Xiangjiang consumers, it pioneered the operation of layered pre-sale of "off-plans" and installment payments.
The development of the real estate industry drove the construction materials industry, so he entered the submarine sand mining industry and soon became the "king of sea sand." In order to strengthen his strength, he acquired the Taiping Island Shipyard of the U.S., the first Chinese acquisition of a foreign company in Xiangjiang.
He also actively devoted himself to the infrastructure construction of Xiangjiang, contracting municipal construction with a long construction period and slow returns. He earned the hard money that others did not want to earn, so he soon grew into the "king of infrastructure" of Xiangjiang.
After entering the 1960s, the Hong Kong real estate industry fell into a low ebb. At a critical moment, he vigorously advocated common development and co-creation of prosperity. He organized the first board meeting of the "Hong Kong Real Estate Construction Chamber of Commerce" with real estate developers and was elected as the chairman and was re-elected for 20 years. Years.
Because of his important contribution to the economic development of Hong Kong, he was promoted as the chairman when the "Hong Kong Chinese Chamber of Commerce" was established after the 1980s.
And because of his special friendship with the party, at the beginning of the reform, when China Mainland finally opened its door slowly and began to welcome the world, he naturally became the first group of Xiangjiang businessmen to invest in the mainland.
In 1979, he invested in the first project, the hot spring hotel golf project in Zhongshan City, Dongguang Province. After the project was completed and put into use in 1980, it became China’s first high-end hotel jointly operated by China. Received a handwritten nomination by the then Grand Elder.
By the way, this hotel has another Xiangjiang shareholder, He Hongsen, known as the "Omen Gambling King".
Of course, in Omen, the second largest shareholder besides the chairman of the board of directors of the "Ho's Omen Tourism and Entertainment Company", which monopolizes the gaming industry, is named Huo Yingdong.
The
White Swan Hotel
under his banner, which is currently under construction and is expected to officially open in 1983, will be known throughout the country and located in Guangnan City. This is also the first five-star hotel for Sino-foreign cooperation.
Cao Guangbiao mentioned this person, and immediately won the unanimous approval of the other people. There is no doubt that if this person can be joined, then based on the weight of the person's speech in China and the level of communication, I believe this airline A series of problems will be solved.
Shao Liuye sank for a moment, and then said: "This is too big a matter, I am afraid it is hard to say that I am going to find Lao Huo with absolute certainty, but if the old gambler joins in, it will undoubtedly be convincing to the Huo family. It will be much stronger."
The others nodded together.
Everyone in Xiangjiang knows this. Huo Yingdong and He Hongsen have the best personal relationship, so the cooperation between the two is also the closest. They often work together to do big things, such as "Ho's Old Gate Tourism and Entertainment Company", such as "Zhongshan Hot Spring Hotel Golf ".
However, Bao Yugang thought about it for a moment, but asked worriedly: "In Shangyanshang, you have a good relationship with the old gambling ghost, but you should also know the temperament of the old gambling ghost, you He is still willing to ask him to invest in hotels, casinos, KTVs, etc., but he has never heard of him investing in other projects. Do you think he can be interested in opening an airline?"
Shao Yifu smiled slightly and said, "Of course he has to think about it when others ask him to invest, but he can't help it this time."
Everyone was a little confused, and Cao Guangbiao couldn't help asking: "Why?"
"Of course it was because someone pinched a little sore foot."