Chapter 136: Level 77 Sense of Mission

After getting the support from Mr. Dai in the morning, Li Changhe felt relieved.

I think that in the name of Peking University's Economics Department, Mr. Bao would not refuse to meet him.

However, Li Changhe still had classes in the morning, so he forced himself to stay awake and attended the classes for the whole morning.

Then after class, Li Changhe didn’t even eat lunch and went back to the dormitory and fell asleep.

Because he has classes in the afternoon, he doesn't have to go.

"Long River"

"Long River"

Li Changhe, who was sleeping soundly, was woken up by someone in a daze.

When he opened his eyes, he saw Lao Tao standing by the bed, with a young man he didn't recognize next to him.

"Hmm? What's wrong, Lao Tao?"

Li Changhe sat up slowly and shook his head to sober himself up.

"Changhe, someone is looking for you!"

Old Tao pointed at the young man next to him and spoke to Li Changhe in a serious tone.

Li Changhe turned his head and looked over, and the young man looked at Li Changhe.

"Hello, are you Li Changhe?"

"Yes, it's me!"

Li Changhe nodded and asked thoughtfully: "Excuse me, who are you?"

"Oh, I'm from the Foreign Affairs Office. I'm here to pick you up at the Jingcheng Hotel."

The young man said with a smile.

Hearing this, Li Changhe nodded and then sat up from the bed.

"Well, wait a moment while I wash my face and change my clothes, okay?"

"No problem, I'll wait for you downstairs in the dormitory!"

The young man finished speaking and then turned and walked out.

At this time, Li Changhe also took a basin and prepared to wash his face.

"Changhe, why do the people from the Foreign Affairs Office want to see you?"

Lao Tao asked Li Changhe curiously.

"Go to the Jingcheng Hotel to meet someone."

"Okay, I won't talk to you anymore, I'll clean up first."

Li Changhe did not explain it too clearly to Lao Tao. After all, Lao Tao might not even know who Bao Yugang was.

After washing his face and changing into clean clothes, Li Changhe then went downstairs to the dormitory building.

At this moment, there was a military green jeep parked downstairs. It was a classic BJ212 jeep.

"Changhe, please get in the car."

The young man stood in front of the co-pilot seat and spoke gently to Li Changhe.

Li Changhe nodded and sat in the back seat of the jeep.

The students passing by looked at him curiously.

Nowadays, all cars belong to the government and no one owns them.

The cars used by cadres are also equipped according to their ranks. Those who can have their own cars are not ordinary people.

"Where is Changhe going?"

"I don't know, maybe it's some unit."

"I heard that he stayed up all night in the library last night. I wonder what he wrote."

"It's broken, they won't be taken away, right?"

The students around were discussing in low voices and watching the jeep go away.

Soon, several classmates hurried to Li Changhe’s dormitory.

"Lao Tao, I just saw Chang He being taken away by a car. What happened?"

"Isn't this kid publishing something he shouldn't have?"

Several classmates came in and saw Tao Haisu there, and asked him anxiously.

These days, although there is not as much panic as in previous years, who can guarantee that the wind direction will not change?
It’s no wonder that these students are anxious.

When Lao Tao heard their question, he shook his head and said seriously, "Don't spread rumors. He was taken away. He was picked up."

"Someone wants to see Changhe. I don't know who it is, and you don't need to ask. If there is really something, the school will naturally come forward."

Tao Haisu spoke seriously to several classmates.

"Huh, meeting someone, then there won't be any problem. I said that judging from what happened just now, it's nothing serious."

"Care leads to chaos, care leads to chaos."

Several classmates breathed a sigh of relief and said to Lao Tao with a smile.

Lao Tao shook his head and said nothing more.

On the other side, Li Changhe took a jeep and quickly arrived at the Capital Hotel from Peking University.

There are very few traffic lights on the roads nowadays, and there are none at all outside the city.

Moreover, traffic lights these days are still manual and are basically operated by dedicated controllers.

Of course, there are fewer cars these days, so the speed is fast.

When they arrived at the Capital Hotel, Li Changhe followed the young secretary into the Capital Hotel. Along the way, he was lucky enough to meet Wu Xiaoyu.

Wu Xiaoyu was about to open her mouth to say hello, but she saw Li Changhe waving at her.

The clever Wu Xiaoyu understood Li Changhe's instructions immediately, just nodded, and walked over.

Li Changhe followed him to the door of a suite.

The young officer knocked gently on the door, and then the door opened, revealing a short woman in her sixties.

"It's Li Changhe, right?"

Seeing Li Changhe, the other party asked with a smile.

She spoke with a strong local accent, but it was not Cantonese, but Ningbo dialect.

It sounds somewhat similar to the Shanghai dialect that Gong Xue spoke.

The other party seemed to be using Mandarin as much as possible, and Li Changhe could barely understand it.

At the same time, he also guessed that the plain-looking woman in front of him was probably Mr. Bao Yugang's wife.

Although he was a billionaire, Bao Yugang was very loving to his wife throughout his life.

In that era when it was legal to take concubines, he never took one, never cheated on his wife, and never even forced a son to inherit his tens of billions of assets.

The family fortune of tens of billions was finally divided among the four daughters.

This is also one of the reasons why Li Changhe admires Mr. Bao so much and chose to boldly contact Mr. Bao.

"Hello, I'm Li Changhe."

Li Changhe bowed slightly and greeted.

Huang Xiuying smiled and nodded at him: "Come in!"

Then Li Changhe followed in.

Mr. Bao's room is a suite with a reception room outside. At this moment, two men in their sixties are sitting on the sofa.

One of them was wearing a dark blue suit, obviously a Western style outfit. I guess it was Bao Yugang.

The person sitting on the sofa in the middle looked older than Bao Yugang.

"Come on, Li Changhe, come and sit down. Don't be shy."

Seeing Li Changhe come in, Director Lu, who was sitting on the sofa, greeted Li Changhe.

"Let me introduce you. This is Mr. Bao Yugang you want to meet. My last name is Lu. You can call me Lao Lu. I am their cousin and I can also be your translator." "How about it? You won't think that an old man like me is a hindrance, right?"

Director Lu said to Li Changhe with a smile.

Li Changhe shook his head respectfully: "How is that possible, Mr. Lu, I have to thank you for your help, otherwise I might not understand Mr. Bao's Ningbo dialect."

The other party is Director Lu, also a veteran revolutionary, and his rank is no lower than Zhang Guangnian.

It’s just that the other party thought that he didn’t know him, so he said this jokingly to Li Changhe.

Of course, another reason is to comply with foreign affairs systems.

Students like Li Changhe cannot freely interact with foreign guests in private and must be accompanied by foreign affairs personnel.

However, Bao Yugang has a special identity, so it is impossible for the foreign affairs department to really arrange for someone to stay by their side and take notes.

Therefore, as a relative, it is most appropriate for Director Lu to sit here.

"Student Li, please take a seat. I heard that you really want to see me. May I know why?"

Bao Yugang asked Li Changhe in "Mandarin" with a Ningbo accent.

The Mandarin he spoke was the Mandarin chosen during the Republic of China period, which was the northern dialect based on the local dialect of Beijing.

"If I say that I particularly admire Mr. Bao, he will definitely not believe it, but I do know Mr. Bao a little bit."

"In the library of Peking University, there is a copy of the American Newsweek magazine from the past two years. You happened to be on the cover. I was very curious when I saw the Chinese cover. I read the article carefully and then I knew about Mr. Bao's existence."

"Then yesterday, I unexpectedly learned that Mr. Bao had come to Beijing. I thought this was an opportunity, an opportunity to verify what I had learned, so I took the liberty of writing a business plan and applying to meet you."

"Oh? But I'm a sailor. I see that what you wrote is about real estate companies, which is not related to my business."

Bao Yugang said to Li Changhe with a smile at this time.

After listening to this, Li Changhe felt speechless.

Boss, are you teasing the kids here?

You have already set your sights on Wharf Holdings and are planning to abandon ship and land, yet you are still pretending.

But this was just a complaint in his heart. On the surface, Li Changhe still said seriously
"Mr. Bao, Marx discussed this in Capital. He believed that land is the source of all production and all existence, that is, the original source of all wealth."

“For the capitalist world, private ownership of land ensures that land can be passed on in an orderly manner as the most stable family wealth.”

“Real estate is the product of maximizing land value.”

"I know Mr. Bao used to think that ships were movable assets, but ships have a lifespan, and the world's shipping cycle is closely related to integrity."

"If he is in the rising stage of his career, then Mr. Bao may have no problem being loyal to the shipping industry."

"But now the world's shipping cycle has entered a stable period. Pure expansion has brought benefits, but it has also increased risks."

"Under such circumstances, will Mr. Bao still choose to bet all his chips on shipping?"

Li Changhe asked seriously, and Bao Yugang burst into laughter at this moment.

"I now believe that the plan was from you, but Li Changhe, I have to tell you with regret that I have already started to implement your plan. I have now joined the board of directors of Wharf Holdings. Your plan is of no use to me!"

At this time, Bao Yugang spread out his hands and said with a smile.

Director Lu standing by also smiled and said to Li Changhe.

"He's right. He just bought Wharf shares before he came here. Your plan is a step behind him."

Li Changhe shook his head: "He just joined the board of directors. I don't think Mr. Bao has full control. Jardine Matheson will not give up so easily."

"Besides that, what about Hutchison Whampoa? Given Mr. Bao's relationship with HSBC, can't he take over Hutchison Whampoa?"

"Let's not talk about Jardine Matheson for now. Hutchison Whampoa and HSBC have already found someone to sell the company. It's hard for me to get involved!"

Bao Yugang continued to set a trap for Li Changhe.

Li Changhe smiled and nodded: "This is not a problem. As far as I know, HSBC holds about 33% of Hutchison Whampoa's shares. With Hutchison Whampoa's current market value, there are not many companies in Hong Kong that want to swallow it up in one go."

"Even if Mr. Bao cannot get Hutchison Whampoa's shares, it is always possible to acquire them on the market."

"Hong Kong's corporate merger and acquisition law limits the shareholding line of a company to be acquired. Once it exceeds 49%, the acquirer of the company must launch a general offer to acquire the shares of all small shareholders. Therefore, many company acquisitions will control the controlling line at ."

"For the vast majority of companies, 49 percent of the shares are enough to guarantee their controlling stake."

"And the line of forty-nine means that a company can accommodate two major shareholders."

"If it were me, I would arrange for a company to buy Hutchison Whampoa's shares on the market in advance. As long as the other party wants to control Hutchison Whampoa, they will definitely need the shares I hold."

"At this time, I have the initiative. I can form a joint venture with the other party to form Hutchison Whampoa, or I can take this opportunity to split up Hutchison Whampoa's assets to maximize my interests."

"As far as I know, although the land plots held by Hutchison Whampoa in Hong Kong Island are not as high-quality as those of Wharf Holdings, the quantity is very large. The Whampoa Dockyard alone occupies a large area of ​​land."

"Even if we give up Hutchison Whampoa in the end, it will not be a loss if we acquire a piece of land from Hutchison Whampoa or jointly develop it."

“And I remember I had one last step. Even without Hutchison Whampoa, Mr. Bao could still absorb the land rights.”

The so-called land rights, in simple terms, mean that male adults in the New Territories of Hong Kong Island can receive a piece of "housing land" to build a house after they reach the age of 18, but a transfer fee must be paid to the British Hong Kong government for this piece of housing land.

Some people have no money to buy it, so the British Hong Kong government stipulates that individuals can retain this right, which is called Ding right.

For Hong Kong Island, each ding right actually represents a piece of land the size of a "residential site", and ding rights allow for sale, lease and transfer.

"This is what I don't quite understand, Changhe-san. Your operation on this point doesn't make much sense."

"You probably don't know that the approval of ding rights in Hong Kong Island has not been passed for a long time. Many ding rights are just pieces of waste paper because the Hong Kong government does not have enough land to allocate to them."

Bao Yugang shook his head and said this, this was what he was confused about.

The previous plans were all good, but he felt that Ding Quan's was a bit exaggerated.

Li Changhe sighed inwardly. It was true that these days, only Chinese real estate companies were interested in Ding Quan.

However, in the future, the so-called four major real estate companies in Hong Kong Island will rely on taking up a huge amount of Ding rights to exchange for a large amount of land in Hong Kong Island.

However, these cannot be stated explicitly now, because they involve the Sino-British negotiations of the past. The Chinese side demanded that the British Hong Kong government must resolve the Ding rights issue, and only then did the method of exchanging Ding rights for land come into being.

Li Changhe brought this up because he felt that if the Dingquan land was in the hands of Mr. Bao, it would definitely be better than in the hands of real estate companies such as Cheung Kong Holdings and Sun Hung Kai Properties.

"Yes, I have seen some articles written about it, but I think Ding Quan is very worth targeting."

"Oh why?"

Bao Yugang asked in surprise.

Li Changhe glanced at Director Lu, then said seriously, "Because we will not allow Ding Quan to continue to exist as a loophole in Hong Kong Island."

"In my opinion, we will definitely recover Hong Kong Island, and by then, Ding Quan will also be resolved."

"For Mr. Bao, no matter which side solves it, Ding Quan will not let you suffer any loss, right?"

As soon as Li Changhe said this, both Bao Yugang and Director Lu changed their expressions.

This is no longer a purely business decision; it is a gamble on the national trend.

"Li Changhe, you may be young, but you care about a lot of things."

Director Lu said meaningfully at this time.

"The sound of wind, rain and reading are all pleasant to the ear"

"I care about everything, family affairs, national affairs and world affairs"

"If Mr. Lu went to Peking University, he would know that the strongest quality of us, the Class of 77, is our sense of mission!"

Li Changhe looked at Director Lu at this moment and spoke word by word.

"Okay, well said."

At this time, Bao Yu, who had just finished listening, suddenly cheered for Li Changhe, then stood up and extended his hand to Li Changhe.

"Now I finally understand why Li Changhe insisted on seeing me."

"Let me introduce myself again. My name is Bao Yugang, and I'm a businessman from Ningbo, Zhejiang."

Yes, he claimed to be from Ningbo, not Hong Kong Island.

Bao Yugang reintroduced himself with a hint of humor.

Li Changhe also stood up at this moment, stretched out a hand and shook hands with Bao Yugang.

"Hello, Mr. Bao, my name is Li Changhe, and I'm a student from the Department of Political Science and Economics at Peking University!"

　Thanks to Garuda, I have something on my mind, just follow the wind, the dew will wither away, it may be a joke. I bow to thank the big guys for the rewards!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)