I Want To Be a Rich Man on Hong Kong Island

  Chapter 46 HSBC Dinner

   Christmas in 1947.

  Christmas is equivalent to the Spring Festival in the West.

  Tonight, the Peninsula Hotel gathers luxury businessmen, but most of them are foreigners, not many Chinese.

  At this time, Hong Kong Island had the largest number of foreign merchants and merchants, and it was also the merchant with the strongest capital.

  They monopolize various industries such as trade, real estate, construction, electricity, hotels, and transportation.

  As for Chinese businessmen, there are not many capable businessmen at all, and they are younger brothers and younger brothers in front of foreign businessmen!

  The real trend of Chinese businessmen's rise began in 1949, when the major capitalists of the mainland fled one after another, bringing a large amount of capital, machinery, and technology to Hong Kong Island.

  These people came to Hong Kong Island and immediately opened various factories such as textile factories and garment factories.

  Not only has it enriched itself, it has also boosted the economy of Hong Kong Island.

  In this period, a large number of famous wealthy people came again. For example, the charter king came to Hong Kong in 1949. The other three ship kings came to Hong Kong Island in 1948. Lee Shau Kee came to Hong Kong Island in 1948 and Fok Ying Tung also came to Hong Kong in 1949.

  Too many famous and wealthy people in later generations will come to Hong Kong starting next year.

  Wu Guangyao is very proud. Lao Tzu came in 1947, and these later generations of wealthy families will be his younger brothers and middle brothers!

  Lin Yueru dressed in a white dress, like a noble princess, holding Wu Guangyao, the two walked into the hall under the leadership of the attendants.

  Although Wu Guangyao has become the first person in the jewelry industry on Hong Kong Island, he basically does not know the upper class merchants on Hong Kong Island. After all, he has only been here for 10 months.

  I was able to receive the invitation this time. I am afraid that it is the credit of John, the manager of HSBC's loan department. After all, he only understands Wu Guangyao.

  There are about two to three hundred people in the lobby, and these are probably businessmen who have cooperation with HSBC or are promising.

  Although Wu Guangyao basically doesn't know the wealthy businessmen inside, he doesn't change his face, nor is he humble or overbearing.

  Compared with the low voice of asking for help in the past life, the environment is much better!

  Fortunately, John did not embarrass Wu Guangyao. He saw the two walk in, and immediately said to the person next to him that he was unaccompanied and greeted Wu Guangyao.

  Unexpectedly, Guan Yi was also inside and greeted the two of them.

  At this time, Wu Guangyao and Lin Yueru obviously attracted the attention of many people, after all, they were too young.

  Besides a handsome man and a beautiful woman, it is possible to not attract attention.

  John is very enthusiastic to Wu Guangyao, and Wu Guangyao is also very enthusiastic to him, because he wants to borrow again.

  Don’t look at Wu Guangyao's ability to collect more than 400,000 Hong Kong dollars before going to the U.S. Emperor. In fact, this is not much.

  The prices on the U.S. side are much more expensive than those on Hong Kong Island. At this time, the U.S.’s per capita salary was 130 US dollars, or 520 Hong Kong dollars.

  The salary of 50 Hong Kong dollars on Hong Kong Island already belongs to the high-income group.

  The three chatted for a while, and John retired again. Obviously, as the host, he was very busy!

   "Guangyao, do you want me to take you to meet some of our senior Chinese businessmen?" Guangyao said.

  Wu Guangyao lowered his voice and said, "Forget it, Brother Guan. I'm really not used to dealing with these seniors, go! I and Yueru and I will rest here for a while."

   Guan Yi said helplessly: "Then I will go! You."

  Wu Guangyao is not showing up, but does not want to contact a circle hastily.

   And I’m too young to go up there, maybe I will be left out, it’s better not to go.

  The most important thing is the rich and famous in the future. I haven't seen him today, so Wu Guangyao is lacking in interest!

  Wu Guangyao was just about to sit down with Lin Yueru. Mike, the person in charge of Omai Trading Company, brought a foreigner to him.

   "Wu, I will introduce you a friend, you will be very happy!" Mike said with a smile on his face holding a red wine glass.

  It turned out that Mike introduced himself to George, an American trader, who has logistics resources for the US military in Asia, so he often needs to purchase zippers.

  At this time, the US military’s military boots and even some military uniforms are all equipped with zippers, because only in this way can we quickly prepare for combat, so we need a lot of zippers every year.

  This time to visit Dongying, George found that Dongying's zippers are basically hand-made workshops, which are easy to break and expensive, so I was very disappointed!

   "Mr. George, why don't you buy zippers directly from the U.S. Emperor, and why bother to purchase zippers in Asia?" Wu Guangyao said his doubts.

  George did not discriminate against Wu Guangyao, but was kind of friendly. Why?

  Because Wu Guangyao is not only fluent in English, but also has extraordinary tolerance. The most important thing is that he will go to the American Emperor to purchase soon!

   "Wu, if there is no better choice in Asia, of course we will import from the United States. We also hope to find zippers with good quality and cheap prices in Asia." George said with a smile

"Mr. George, can you give me a call? If I can produce a good product, I will send samples and quotations!" Although Wu Guangyao is humble, he is actually very confident in himself. When he has a machine, The zipper produced is definitely cheaper than Meidi, and the quality is also good.

   "Of course, if there is a better choice, of course we will choose you!"

After communicating for a while, the two left. After all, Wu Guangyao is not a bigwig.

   "Good start!" Wu Guangyao said to Lin Yueru.

  In fact, what Wu Guangyao didn't know was that George had just visited Dongying YKK zipper factory some time ago. As a result, the quality of YKK zipper factory's zippers was not as good as Meidi’s zippers, and the price was reported to be 9 cents apiece.

  George made fun of YKK Zipper’s owner Yoshida, saying that YKK’s zipper was 7 cents and no one wanted it.

   and took out the Meidi-produced zipper in the bag, saying that this kind of zipper is better than yours, and you can buy you 7 cents, and you can make money.

  At this time, Yoshida realized that his hand-manufacturing was too far away from Meidi’s mechanical manufacturing.

  This is how the so-called enemies of a lifetime are formed!

  Yes, Wu Guangyao originally intended to replace YYK zipper, so he is naturally the enemy of his life.

  Wu Guangyao remembers that the YKK zipper is a Meidi automatic zipper machine that was introduced in 1949. The automatic zipper machine was only produced in Dongying in 1951, so Wu Guangyao is full of confidence in himself.

  Be one step ahead, so naturally you must always be ahead!

  But with just one machine, it can't be a step-by-step lead. Naturally, it is necessary to set up a machine research and development team, and the team leader must be Wu Guangyao.

  The dinner continued. Although Wu Guangyao and Lin Yueru did not go to climb the boss, they still talked enthusiastically, mainly because Wu Guangyao was to relieve Lin Yueru's nervous mood.

  What Wu Guangyao didn't know at this time was that he was labelled as ignorant and arrogant by several Chinese businessmen.

  "Guan Yi, who is that kid?" an old man asked dissatisfiedly

   "Lao Luo, that's Lao Fengxiang's boss Wu Guangyao!" Guan Yi snorted in his heart, fearing that this old man would be remembered.

   "Huh, at a young age, if you have a little grade, you will be arrogant. There are no rules at all, and I will bring a woman to show off!"

   "Lao Luo, you have misunderstood. Guangyao is also afraid of coming rashly. It is inconvenient for seniors!" Guan Yi defended Wu Guangyao.

   "No need to excuse him, Guan Yi, this kind of arrogant, if you have less contact with it, it is not good for you!"

  Guan Yi nodded, actually disapproving in his heart, you old things, more than defensive, insufficient offensive, after two years, others will surpass you, and you are still arranging seniority.

  (End of this chapter)