Global Tycoon: You Call This A Small Achievement?

It didn't cost much to buy Oceanwide Hotel and Monopoly Hotel. They were all at a bargain price, only 9 million Hong Kong dollars.

But this is not the end, because the cash on the books of the two hotel groups has dried up. If He Zhou does not inject itself, then it is very likely that within a week, the two companies will have to face bankruptcy liquidation.

However, fortunately, Monopoly Hotel and Oceanwide Hotel still have a lot of assets. It is just that they are operating with debt and their cash flow has dried up, so they are facing serious problems.

Generally speaking, the market value of a hotel is lower than its net assets. Even the Peninsula Hotel, which stands at the top of the hotel food chain in Hong Kong, has a market value far less than its net assets, only 1/3 of its net assets.

This is not because the stock market fails, or that there is serious undervaluation, but because the assets on the hotel group's financial statements, usually many tables, chairs, tableware, etc., are included in the balance sheet.

But as far as the market is concerned, these things are actually junk. You can’t say that tables, chairs, benches, pots and pans that have been used for several years are as valuable as new, right?

If these assets are packaged and sold, they may not even be sold at 1/10 of the original price.

He Zhou used the assets of the two hotel groups, as well as the assets of the Tim Ho Wan restaurant chain itself, to apply for a loan of HK$15 million from HSBC to use subsequent operating funds.

This loan was quickly approved with Liang Wendao's intervention.

At this time, He Zhou was going with A Ping, Mai Yusheng, Hua Gu and others to inspect the two companies, the focus of which was of course the high-end Oceanwide Hotel.

Looking at the grand decoration of the hotel, He Zhou couldn't help but said excitedly: "The location of the Hong Kong Island Royal Hotel is good. If you have nothing to do, you can come and stay in the so-called "Presidential Suite"

"Yes, the transportation here is in all directions, and there are several large shopping malls nearby. All the professional elites come and go. You can also overlook the river view of Victoria Harbor at night. During major festivals, there are also large-scale light shows~" "A Ping couldn't help but said.

"What a light show," Huagu couldn't help but sigh, "This wastes so much electricity!"

As soon as this statement came out, everyone couldn't help laughing.

Hua Gu is used to living a hard life. Even if her life is better now, she still practices frugality and is keen on saving money.

The fish seller laughed and said, "Hua Gu, people think you just came from the mainland."

Ma Yusheng does not mean any harm. When mainlanders come to Hong Kong in this era, what they are most surprised about is not the skyscrapers that stand next to each other. They have such psychological expectations before coming to Hong Kong.

What really amazed them was the bright lights of Xiangjiang. Even in the dark, the whole city was as bright as day, with thousands of lights!

The power supply in the mainland is very tight. Not to mention that most rural areas have not yet achieved access to running water and electricity. Even coastal cities are very restrained in using electricity. In many cases, they even prefer to light kerosene lamps in order to save electricity.

In his previous life, He Zhou encountered the experience of going to the countryside to alleviate poverty. Even at the beginning of the century, some elderly people in impoverished mountainous areas were still doing everything possible to save electricity.

A dark little room, an incandescent lamp covered with cobwebs, dim both day and night. The old man's electricity bill totaled less than three yuan all year round.

When the charging staff of the power supply station go to the countryside every month to collect electricity bills, they deliberately avoid these extremely frugal elderly people.

Hong Kong Island Royal Hotel is worthy of being an established hotel company. Even if there is a gap between it and first-tier hotels such as Peninsula Hotel and Shangri-La Hotel in terms of decoration, it also has its own advantages, that is, a superior geographical location, which is something that latecomers will never have. Advantage.

The Island Royal Hotel Hong Kong is located in the Wan Chai commercial center, adjacent to the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center, the Hong Kong Arts Center and the Admiralty Shopping Center and Cinema. It has a unique geographical advantage.

In addition, as a high-end hotel, the Royal Hotel also has various fitness and recreational facilities, including outdoor swimming pools, fitness centers, steam baths, massage services, etc.

He Zhou learned about it and found that the dishes at the Royal Hotel are mainly Cantonese and Huaiyang cuisine, such as Sichuan cuisine and Shandong cuisine, but they are rarely involved.

He intended to build the Royal Hotel into a high-end well-known hotel brand for mainland wealthy people. He told the fish salesman: "We can contact the mainland in the future to see if we can recruit some master chefs of other cuisines. I only have one request. Then It’s authentic, but you can’t fool people with the European and American Chinese food.”

Chinese food in Europe and the United States is definitely insulated from the word "authentic". It has long been transformed beyond recognition. Even the so-called authentic Chinese food in Chinatown has long since changed its flavor.

Although there are not yet a few top-notch rich people in the mainland, within a few years there will be a group of coal bosses and rich people who started their business in trading.

In later generations, there were four waves of wealth creation in the Mainland.

The first wave is the group of coal bosses, who made a fortune by obtaining the contract management rights of coal mines; the second wave is the group engaged in manufacturing, with the typical representative being the beverage boss; the third group is the Internet and real estate; the fourth group is It is an emerging hard technology, one of which represents the new energy industry.

But no matter which wave it is, as long as Xiangjiang's status as a financial metropolis is not lost, Xiangjiang's attraction to the top wealthy will still exist.

Moreover, there is a high probability that the mainland will continue to support Xiangjiang's financial industry, because if it loses its financial industry again, then Xiangjiang will be completely bleak and will find no way out.

You can’t expect a small place with a population of several million to become a manufacturing center, right?

Since the beginning of history, all the wealth created by mankind has been based on land.

The area of ​​Xiangjiang determines that the upper limit for the development of manufacturing industry will not be too high. It is possible to seize the opportunity to establish a few industries that do not rely so much on land. If you want to develop in an all-round way, how complete the industrial chain must be [ That's just pure fantasy.

How high Xiangjiang's future achievements will be depends on whether it can be perfectly integrated into the mainland and whether it can make full use of its advantages in the vast South Asia.

Of course, the premise of all this is that Xiangjiang cannot just become a financial city, but also be hollowed out by real estate for decades.

Once this situation occurs, no matter how hard you struggle, it will be useless.

The advantages of the Financial Port can certainly help the people of Hong Kong live a good life, but it is absolutely impossible to continue to enjoy the current scenery.

People are all realistic, and the arrogance that Xiangjiang reveals inadvertently today will inevitably be ridiculed by Dong Nanya and ridiculed by the mainland when it declines. .