Zhou Yang is going to rent a house again, and this is the fourth time he has been looking for a house in Hong Kong in a few months. Last time he was looking for an office building for Merrill Lynch Bank with Naoki Naoki, Xu Jing helped a lot, but in the end he did not rent it in his property.

So when Zhou Yang found an office space for Qionglou Real Estate this time, he decided to compensate the other party. Hong Kong Qionglou Real Estate Company is a joint venture between him and the Deep Sea Special Zone Real Estate Development Company, which is preparing to establish in Hong Kong.

The name that Zhou Yang thought of at the beginning was actually "Guangsha Real Estate", taken from Du Fu's "I wish I could have thousands of Guangsha rooms to shelter all the poor people in the world to be happy."

The name is so good, but unfortunately the boss... Forget it, it's not auspicious. So he finally picked the word "Qionglou" from Su Dongpo's "Shuituo Songtou".

"I thought you were here to rent a building, and I was going to give you a discount for your past friendship. In the end, I didn't expect you to poach people!" Xu Jing said to Zhou Yang with amusedness.

The first building he saw with Zhou Yang was the Aiqun Commercial Building in Wan Chai. This was a 19-storey office building. Zhou Yang only took a quick look and decided to rent out all the remaining 1,200-foot-of-area (120 square meters) on the 10th floor.

Xu Jinggan was a little surprised that Zhou Yang was so cheerful. He thought that the other party had not been too concerned about his own face, so he planned to give him the best price when setting the rent.

But Xu Jinggan did not expect that after Zhou Yang and himself returned to Zhou Xing Real Estate's headquarters, they were not in a hurry to sign the contract. Instead, they offered an invitation that seemed a bit ridiculous to him.

That's right, after Zhou Yang came to Xu Jinggan's office, he just sat down on the sofa and invited him to serve as the president of the upcoming Hong Kong Qionglou Real Estate Company.

"Although our Qionglou Real Estate is just a start-up, it is definitely more promising than your Zhouxing Real Estate.

What's the point of being a director tool for voting in a family business? It's better to learn to go out and go out by yourself when you're like your father in his early years!" Zhou Yang said bluntly.

Xu Jinggan's father Xu Shixun is the youngest son of the ship king Xu Aizhou. He is different from his two brothers. After graduating from college, he did not immediately enter the family business, but went to Hang Seng Bank to work as a small employee.

With the death of his father and elder brother one after another, Xu Shixun and his second brother have become the helmsmen of the Xu family's huge foundation. But he still holds important positions in many other companies, such as directors of Hang Seng Bank, directors of HSBC, etc.

"Haha, how will your bag company have a bright future? I want to listen carefully to your opinions." Xu Jinggan was well-educated and sat on another sofa next to Zhou Yang with a smile.

"What do you think of the future prospects of Hong Kong?" Zhou Yang suddenly had another topic.

Xu Jinggan has known him for a while and is not unfamiliar with his jumping questions. He simply answered according to his ideas: "I guess you want to ask if Hong Kong will be taken back by China in the future. I am not a politician, how do you know what those big guys think?"

"Haha, you have inherited the family tradition of your Xu family and are as cautious as ever. I guess your father and your second uncle must have considered this issue.

But I can tell you clearly that it is inevitable that Hong Kong will return to China in 1997." Zhou Yang put away his smile while speaking, and finally nodded seriously.

"Ayang, did you hear some wind? Or was it just your own guess?" Xu Jing's expression on his face became serious.

He is already in his forties this year, and he is more than a round older than Zhou Yang, who is only 25 years old, but he has been with Zhou Yang as a peer since the beginning.

"In August this year, I told my friends around me that Iran and Iraq in the Middle East may start war, and crude oil prices will definitely surge further.

But my friends think I'm talking nonsense, only Merrill Lynch's Komansky believed my judgment, so he made $15 million in a month by relying on bullish international crude oil some time ago.

Many truths have actually been hidden in the details of the devil, it depends on whether you have a pair of keen eyes to discover them." Zhou Yang looked at Xu Jinggan next to him calmly, and his body exuded a powerful momentum of incomparable confidence.

"So that Mr. Komansky, later he simply invited you to join Merrill Lynch?" Xu Jinggan asked with a chuckling.

As the core management of a large company with a total assets of nearly HK$1 billion, he has seen only a lot more big scenes than Zhou Yang, so he will naturally not be shocked by his pretentious tricks.

"Yes, as the reward for helping him make money last time, he gave me a check of $100,000 and a job with a monthly salary of HK$30,000." Zhou Yang nodded helplessly.

He felt that he was not good enough to compare with the protagonists of the rebirth novels he had read before. As soon as the spirit of kings and domineering people was opened, there were generals and good talents who took the lead and worshipped him.

"Then why did you suddenly start a real estate company? This industry is like a lack of funds that cannot be used, not to mention that you Merrill Lynch's management of employees is so loose? Can you also let you open a company at will outside?" Xu Jinggan continued to ask.

"I will not officially join Merrill Lynch in the end of December. I am still a free agent now, and the company will not restrict my private investment before joining the company.

And this is why I came to you to become the president of Qionglou Real Estate Company. After I joined Merrill Lynch, I definitely didn’t have much energy to take care of this new company, so I needed to find an insider to take charge of the helm.

By the way, this company is a joint venture between me and the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone Real Estate Development Company. Currently, they are tentatively scheduled to hold 75% of the shares and I hold 25%. After you join in, you can also invest in a part of the shares." Zhou Yang explained in detail.

"It seems that you do think that the Chinese government will definitely take back Hong Kong." Xu Jinggan sighed and said.

"In 1949, the People's Liberation Army reached Luohu, but eventually did not enter Hong Kong. Many people think it was because China did not dare to go to war with Britain at that time.

This logic is actually outrageously wrong. Did China not take back Macau at that time because it was afraid of going to war with Portugal, which did not even have a decent defender?

If the domestic senior officials were so brave, how could they dare to fight a Korean War with the United States in the next year with hundreds of thousands of casualties?

The reason why China did not take back Macau was because Hong Kong was because if it only took back Macau and not Hong Kong would only make itself passive in domestic politics.

The reason why Hong Kong was not taken back for the time being was to seek initiative in international politics. Because Hong Kong was still in the hands of the British, they immediately recognized the legitimacy of the New China in 1950.

In the subsequent Korean War, Mr. Huo Yingdong and others were like entering a no-man's land, crossing the British's "strict" maritime blockade line and transporting a large number of important materials such as medicines and rubber back to China from Hong Kong.

Only after you carefully savor these things can you understand that China's original decision was profound. The New China never recognized the legitimacy of all unequal treaties signed by Britain and the Qing government, so it did not take back Hong Kong in 1949, and there was actually the modifier "temporary" before it.

But now it is approaching 1997, and the situation is completely different. The lease period for Britain to cede the New Territories is approaching. Even in terms of international law, Britain cannot continue to occupy the New Territories after 1997. China has reached a time when it must take back the New Territories.

But for the Chinese government, if it only reclaims the New Territories and not the Kowloon Peninsula and Hong Kong, it means that it has reduced its political status to the same level as the corrupt Qing government.

The Opium War in 1840 has always been regarded as the beginning of China's modern humiliation history. If China cannot return to Hong Kong, it will directly lead to the great shaking of all revolutions after 1911, which pursued national independence and rejuvenation as its noble pursuit in legal rationality.

This price is unacceptable to the Chinese government, so for China, there is a cliff behind it. Even if the price is to go to war with Britain, it cannot take a step back.

But Britain is different. Not to mention the distant past, just in this century, they were the first to allow four white countries, namely Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, to be independent in the early 1930s.

Later, the Indian Peninsula was lost in the 1940s, and then the Middle East, British West Africa, British West Indies and British East Indies in the 1960s and 1970s, which can be said to have completely defeated the colonies of the former Empire of Sun and Never Settling.

Those who believe that the British will risk a land war with a country with millions of standing troops and will certainly stick to Hong Kong are undoubtedly the biggest fools in the world.

You may think that Hong Kong is an island, and the British Royal Navy is currently much stronger than the Chinese Navy. As long as the Victoria Strait is blocked, the UK can protect Hong Kong Island.

But in fact, the straight-line distance from Luohu Port to Central Hong Kong is only 30 kilometers, which is almost the attack distance of the Army's long-range artillery.

For example, the Iraqi Army, which is now attacking Iran, used a large number of M1954 cannons. This 130MM caliber cannon developed by the Soviet Union in the early 1950s has a maximum range of 27.8 kilometers.

According to US media reports, the Chinese version of this long-range cannon was put into use in large quantities in the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam last year.

Therefore, if Britain really makes up its mind to defend Hong Kong without hesitation, it will only use its weak army to fight the continuous bloody battles with the People's Liberation Army in the New Territories.

Do you think the British have the courage?”

Zhou Yang's long speech made him dry and Xu Jing's speech speech speech silenced.

But this is not over yet. Zhou Yang licked his lips and continued to say: "I am a finance person. There is a professional term called 'risk hedging'. This word is more Chinese-based, which means betting on both ends.

A skilled player can play chess and burn cold stoves. Do you still think my invitation is just a casual joke?”
Chapter completed!