Chapter 333 New Territories Land Hoarding Plan
After bidding farewell to Wu James, Yang Wendong also called Zheng Zhijie and Liu Huayu.
The service industry in Hong Kong must be very dependent on real estate. Therefore, among internal brother companies, Carrefour and Changxing Real Estate have the most cooperation.
"Yang Sheng." The two of them greeted each other after they arrived.
“Sit down.” Yang Wendong waved his hand. After the assistant served the tea, Yang Wendong said: “I have already communicated with Wu Zhande about Maxim’s Food and bought 30% of the shares. Then they entered our Carrefour supermarket to make pastries. Business.
However, issues such as the price of the shareholding and the size of the rental space for entering Carrefour still need to be negotiated by you. "
As the boss, he came forward to quickly resolve the issue of intention, but the specific data will naturally not be discussed, and he is not clear about various cooperation issues.
"Okay. We will negotiate a price with them as soon as possible. "Zheng and Liu replied.
Yang Wendong added: "One more thing, Wu Zhande wants to borrow another sum of money after the joint venture. We can match up with Hang Seng or Bank of East Asia, and then he takes it. A large loan for expansion. "
Zheng Zhijie asked with a smile: "Does Yang Sheng want Maxim's Food to enter into a price war with Yihe? ”
Yang Wendong nodded and said: "This may be one of the reasons. The Wu brothers of Maxim's are powerful, but they lack funds and are suppressed by Yihe. Now with our support, they can grow quickly. < br>
In this way, our own investment will also have huge returns, and Maxim’s is expanding very quickly. Jardine will either give up or invest more money to keep up. For them, it will also be a kind of Consumption of resources. "
"Okay, I understand. I will discuss it with the heads of the two banks," Zheng Zhijie agreed.
"Okay, that's it for Maxim's. It depends on their own abilities." Yang Wendong nodded, and then asked: "In the New Territories, find a suitable place to build a ranch. Are you ready?”
As Carrefour’s scale expands, the requirements for chicken and eggs are getting higher and higher. In this era, the cost of transporting food or live animals overseas is still too high, so investing on your own is the way to go. It’s a good direction, and the most important thing is that there is a reason to hoard land in the New Territories.
Zheng Zhijie replied: "Yang Sheng, I have also been communicating with the Lands Department and Agriculture Bureau of the Hong Kong Government about this matter. They support us in building a large-scale chicken breeding base in Hong Kong, but there are still disputes over the location and land area. "
Yang Wendong asked: "Where do you want to buy land?"
< br>Zheng Zhijie replied: "We want to buy a piece of coastal land in Tseung Kwan O to build a chicken farm, but the Hong Kong government does not agree. They suggested that we go further north."
"There is also a chicken farm in Tseung Kwan O. It doesn’t matter how good the economy is, right? Why doesn’t the Hong Kong government agree?” Yang Wendong thought for a while and asked.
In the early 1960s, Kowloon was actually only a few places close to Hong Kong Island. The economy was developing pretty well, but other places were far behind. They were no different from the countryside.
Zheng Zhijie said: "It is said that in the future planning of the Hong Kong government, Tseung Kwan O will be the next development place. After all, it is not far from Hong Kong Island, and there are already many people living in this place. In the future, as long as Hong Kong's economy should be able to develop here."
"Yes, that's true." Yang Wendong nodded and asked, "How much land do you want?"
Zheng Zhijie replied: "Our first phase of breeding is 50,000. Even if we adopt the requirement of 5 feet of land (0.5 square meters) for one chicken, plus public areas, it will still require about 300,000 square feet (30,000 square meters). meters) of land."
"One chicken needs 5 feet of land?" Yang Wendong asked quickly: "Are chickens raised in cages or free-range?"
< br>Zheng Zhijie replied: "We will raise free-range chickens. Cage farming requires a lot of investment in building infrastructure and installing air conditioners. Otherwise, the chickens will be overheated to death in the summer. Hong Kong does not have this kind of breeding technology.
And the most important thing is that chicken plague is too easy to breed in a caged environment. Once it occurs, the consequences will be disastrous. "
"Well, let's keep them free-range. The emergence of chicken plague is indeed troublesome. Yang Wendong also nodded and said.
Without modern technology, the cost of cage farming may be higher. This breeding method is only suitable for places with expensive land and strong breeding technology.
Zheng Zhijie continued: "Yes, even if they are free-range, many chickens can easily get into trouble together, so hygiene is a top priority. ”
“Are there any management talents in this area? "Yang Wendong asked again.
In this era, medicine and immunology are not very developed, and even humans do not have many vaccines and virus-specific drugs, let alone chickens, ducks, cattle, sheep, pigs, etc.
Once a plague occurs, the loss of livestock is a trivial matter, but if it is transmitted to humans, it will be a big deal. Especially influenza, a virus that many people did not care about in later generations, is very deadly in this era.
If you want to control all of this, you urgently need to rely on a professional management team to control hygiene and external pollution, such as bird droppings and so on.
Zheng Zhijie said: "I have arranged for people to contact many chicken farms in Hong Kong. It will not be difficult to recruit their people. In addition, I also specially asked the human resources department to start looking for talents in this field from the mainland. , the neighboring province of Guangdong used to do large-scale breeding and supply to Hong Kong, and there are many people in this field.”
“Well, OK, in the aspect of breeding, we need to refer more to Western modern chicken raising methods, and we must pay attention to it. Control." Yang Wendong nodded.
"Okay." Zheng Zhijie agreed.
Yang Wendong continued: "It is indeed a bit difficult to buy a land of 300,000 square feet and close to the sea in Tseung Kwan O. Then move a little further north and find a new place."
Want to stock up. The land is not fake, but you cannot blindly hoard it. Otherwise, Land Land will not need to forcefully acquire the milk company after 9 years, and you can just raise cattle and hoard the land yourself.
The Hong Kong government is not a fool. There are many things that everyone sees through but does not reveal, and they can probably guess the purpose. Even if a chicken farm is really built, the purpose behind it is something that the Hong Kong government needs to control.
“We also have backup options.” Zheng Zhijie added: “I also went to Shatin to have a look. The land there is quite flat and can be used to build chicken farms, and there is more wasteland. We bought it. More land is not a problem either.
It's just that the place is a bit remote, far away from Hong Kong Island and Kowloon. From the perspective of real estate income, the Hong Kong government may not necessarily develop this place in the next ten years. "
"Sha Tin? "Yang Wendong then took a large map of Hong Kong from the side, which is always available in his office.
"At this location, here in the bay. "Zheng Zhijie stepped forward and pointed to a place in Shatin District and said.
"This location is not bad. After Yang Wendong looked at it, he said: "If there are no problems with the Hong Kong government, then take over this land and don't delay Carrefour's plan too much."
In addition, the area can be appropriately larger, so that it will be easier to expand the scale in the future, and the health risks will be lower during breeding. ”
Shatin Town, of course, has little development in this era, but it will become one of the key development towns of the Hong Kong government in the 1970s, because the Hong Kong government plans to build it into a large residential town. Its most famous project is Shatin City One. This project is the only large-scale project in the history of Hong Kong's four major families to work together. However, Yang Wendong does not know where this land is.
Now I am one step ahead to stock up on land. I will buy a high-quality location first, and it will also fit in with Carrefour's business plan.
"Okay, then I will choose to acquire land in Shatin." Zheng Zhijie said: "I will discuss this matter with the Lands Department and the Agriculture Bureau of the Hong Kong Government immediately."
"Okay." Yang Wendong nodded and asked again: "You just mentioned the first phase of the plan, how big is the expansion plan in the future?"
Zheng Zhijie said: "I have also contacted some breeding experts on this point. They mean that as long as the funds are sufficient, raising 1 million chickens that year is not a problem, because Hong Kong needs such a large number of chickens and eggs.
However, he also suggested that even for the first phase, it should be done step by step. At most, tens of thousands of animals should be raised at first, and they should be raised separately. After all employees are familiar with it, the scale can be gradually expanded. "
"One million?" Yang Wendong thought for a moment and said, "How long is the average cycle of a chicken?"
Zheng Zhijie replied: "About 6 months."
In this era, there are no instant chickens. There may be hormones, but if they are not widely used, the cost may be higher than raising chickens.
Yang Wendong nodded and said: "Two million chickens came out of the cage that year? Hong Kong has a population of 3 million. This number is not a lot, right?"
Zheng Zhijie smiled and said: "Yang Sheng, this doesn't look like a lot. But for the supply of live chickens, it is impossible for us to control the entire market. Whether it is China Resources or Southeast Asia, they will compete with us.
If one day, the demand in the Hong Kong market increases, or ours. The final cost is lower than imported chickens or eggs. How about expanding the scale? But even if we expand the scale, we can’t put them together, mainly because of the health risks.”
“Well, okay, you can do these things yourself. Let’s decide based on the market,” Yang Wendong nodded.
In fact, the market for live chicken or fresh chicken is limited because the transportation cost is too high. However, if it is processed into fried chicken, snacks, or even sausages, ham, etc. that are easy to transport, the transportation cost will be low. Much more.
In this era, these things are not very common, and there may be business opportunities, but you need to wait until you have a sufficient supply of meat before you can consider it, otherwise no matter how creative you are, it will be useless.
“Okay, I will get this land as soon as possible.” Zheng Zhijie promised.
A week later, Zheng and Liu came again.
Zheng Zhijie reported: "Yang Sheng, Liu Sheng and I have already decided on the investment capital with the Wu brothers. The total is 4.2 million Hong Kong dollars, and we will obtain 30% of the shares. This capital will directly become the payment for the future joint venture. . ”
“That’s a total market value of 14 million?” Yang Wendong immediately did the math and got his answer.
"Yes, our previous total valuation of Maxim's Food was HK$9.8 million. According to the agreement, the Wu brothers were not allowed to take the capital alone, so it was all put into the public account." Zheng Zhijie explained.
"Okay, I will arrange for the headquarters and third-party review to check this price." Yang Wendong nodded and said.
Whether he trusts his subordinates or not, when it comes to large investments, he will find the headquarters and three parties to investigate.
There is basically no simple business dealings between the headquarters and the branches, and no friendship is allowed. This is a rigid rule, so that they can check and balance each other.
As for the three parties, they are even more independent. They are solely responsible to Yang Wendong for large-scale acquisitions, internal audits of group subsidiaries or suppliers, etc.
Don't think of insiders or outsiders colluding in advance, because which company to choose to participate in the review is decided by Yang Wendong on the spot. He himself doesn't know it in advance, and people around him don't know the specific situation either.
"Okay." Zheng Zhijie said again: "In addition, I also contacted the Bank of East Asia. They are willing to provide 6 million Hong Kong dollars in support for Maxim's Food, and the interest rate is lower than the market. If it is needed later, that is also possible. Let's discuss it later."
"Okay. , Maxim’s will decide on its own, as long as there are no major economic risks.” Yang Wendong said: “Let them expand as soon as possible. I would like to see Yihe follow suit.”
“No problem. "The Wu brothers are very ambitious now," Zheng Zhijie said with a smile.
Yang Wendong said: "That's good."
Zheng Zhijie added: "Yang Sheng, we have already taken over the land in Shatin. It totals 350,000 square feet. The Hong Kong government approved it for agricultural and livestock land. In addition, the location is relatively remote, and the price is one yuan per square foot."
< br>"The total is only 350,000?" Yang Wendong smiled: "Okay, then buy it, and then Just do whatever you want to do next. ”
The price of agricultural land is much cheaper than that of industrial land. You will also need to pay the price difference if you change it to commercial land in the future, but this is not important. The important thing is that you can master it yourself. For this piece of land, after that, when the time comes, we can just pay the price difference.
However, Sha Tin will not be developed on a large scale within ten years, so you can just build a small ranch here first.
When you gain experience in the future, you can continue to hoard land for breeding in the New Territories. Even if the farming itself does not make money or loses money, it does not matter, as long as the future value of the hoarded land is high enough.
Besides, if we expand agricultural products vertically, such as raising pigs and then building a sausage or ham processing factory, we won’t lose money.
"Okay." Zheng Zhijie agreed.
"Yes" Yang Wendong nodded and said: "By the way, Lao Zheng, there are two people you can check for you. They are called Li Shauji and Guo Desheng. I want all their information."
< br>He has already met the four major families in Hong Kong in the future, including Li Jiacheng and Zheng Yutong. Both of them have successful careers and it is not easy to invest in them. But for the other two, he has not heard of them in the upper class. However, this means that it has not gained momentum yet.
But after all, he didn’t have Baidu Encyclopedia in his mind, and he only knew the names of these two people. Where were they in the 1960s? I don't know what kind of business he does.
"Li Shauji, Guo Desheng." Zheng Zhijie didn't ask any more questions and agreed: "Okay, I'll go investigate right away."
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