Tao Liangchen
Chapter 539 A Sixty Billion Gimmick
Su Yehao sat in front of his computer and opened the TOT traditional Chinese version of the browser.
Google's business hadn't yet ventured into Asia, and it would likely sell off its Yahoo shares in the future. Therefore, since the end of last year, he had been preparing for the worst. He specifically established a TOT branch in Hong Kong, tasking them with capturing the search engine market share in mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.
As for other regions in Asia, Yahoo had already become dominant.
For example, Yahoo Japan held more than 80% of the market share in Japan. It could be said that everywhere except mainland China had fallen. No wonder Yahoo's total market value continued to reach new highs. Its performance this year was truly remarkable.
Using the TOT browser, he searched for his name.
At that moment,
Su Yehao discovered that there were quite a few news articles about him online today, the vast majority of which were related to Kai Tak Airport.
Zheng Yongwen's side had released news. During a reporter interview, he publicly stated that the redevelopment plan for Kai Tak Airport was already in sight. They were planning to submit it to the Hong Kong government for review, providing a new option for the construction of Cyberport.
He confidently told them that the total investment scale was expected to reach 60 billion Hong Kong dollars, which would drive surrounding development and become a new engine for the full recovery of Hong Kong's real estate.
The so-called 60 billion Hong Kong dollars included the price of acquiring the land.
If Kai Tak Airport was fully developed, the total construction area was expected to exceed 1.7 million square meters. Especially for residential land, it was impossible to package it according to the price per mu like in Pengcheng, so the cost naturally increased.
The Li family's plan only occupied 0.24 square kilometers of land, about one-ninth of Kai Tak Airport. It had already been priced at around 7 billion Hong Kong dollars.
However, according to the Li family's plan, they were trying to put Harbour City on the west side of Hong Kong Island, at the foot of Victoria Peak, which was in a better location than Kai Tak Airport, so the price was inevitably much higher.
Moreover, many of the lands at the airport needed to be used to build roads, parks, and other infrastructure, so it was impossible to use all of them to build houses.
Faced with the number of 60 billion Hong Kong dollars, Su Yehao couldn't help but click his tongue when he saw it. He couldn't help but worry that he would be tricked by Zheng Yongwen, so he quickly made a phone call to communicate.
After asking, he found out that this was the total budget for the second phase.
The first phase only included the runway, which was the artificial land reclamation part, and wouldn't cost that much money.
If everything was rationally planned and developed,
The runway land would be valued at around 20 billion Hong Kong dollars, and completing the development would also require an investment of around 15 billion Hong Kong dollars. The so-called total investment of 60 billion Hong Kong dollars was really not a boast, but he only planned to talk about the airport runway part in the initial stage.
Publicly announcing a development plan of 60 billion Hong Kong dollars was undoubtedly a gimmick, which could directly overwhelm the Li family's plan and attract attention.
For the second phase, they could completely use the excuse that the land was seeping oil and was not suitable for development in the short term, and delay it for a while.
Compared with the Li family's plan, redeveloping the abandoned Kai Tak Airport was undoubtedly easier to obtain support and recognition.
Leaving aside other places, the residents of Kowloon and Kwun Tong would probably support this news with both hands, because once Kai Tak Airport was developed, it would help drive the surrounding housing prices to rebound and make shopping and traveling more convenient.
After chatting with Zheng Yongwen, Su Yehao had a clear understanding.
Compared with Pengcheng, the cost had indeed risen sharply. According to his father's estimate, it would only cost about 5 billion RMB to develop the entire Pengcheng Sihai International Cultural Tourism City, which was slightly larger than the entire Kai Tak Airport.
However, the total cost of developing Kai Tak Airport had increased twelvefold, and the high cost was due to the land acquisition price and construction cost.
However, there was more investment in Hong Kong, and the selling price and rent were much higher than in Pengcheng.
Taking advantage of the rebound in Hong Kong's housing prices, there was still an opportunity to make a quick buck in the short term. At that time, if a new company was established through a joint venture, and an opportunity was found to promote this company to be listed, he might be able to gain something from the stock market again.
At first, Su Yehao was very happy.
Not long after, he suddenly thought that if the higher-ups took a fancy to the 20 billion from selling the land and directly took the money and left, letting them do it alone... wouldn't that mean that even if they found enough friends, they would still have to invest as much as 35 billion Hong Kong dollars?
Even if the development was not carried out in batches and a time difference could be used, an initial investment of about 20 billion Hong Kong dollars would be needed to buy the land.
Thinking of this,
Su Yehao began to have a headache again, hoping that potential allies could pay more money...
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It had been a while since he had seen Yin Liuli.
Using the excuse of looking for funds, Su Yehao borrowed his mother's helicopter and returned to Casino, landing at the airport.
After contacting Yin Liuli first and arranging to meet at her villa later, Su Yehao immediately made a phone call to Zhao Yimeng, asking through his mobile phone, "Miss, what are you busy with? Does your dad have any plans tonight?"
On the other end of the phone, Zhao Yimeng seemed to have a cold, and mumbled:
"I thought you were planning to treat me to a meal, but it turns out you were looking for my dad. Do you think I'm a messenger? You usually don't burn incense, but now you're hugging Buddha's feet at the last minute. Are you planning to ask him to do something for you? Tell me first, and then I'll tell you if he's free tonight."
Su Yehao got into the car and said with a smile:
"I'm preparing to bid for the Cyberport development plan. The specific news is in the newspaper. Isn't it because I think your Zhao family is rich and powerful, so I'm thinking of everyone making money together? Investing 1 billion isn't too little, and 2 billion isn't too much. As long as it's handled well, the returns should be pretty good."
Hearing this, Zhao Yimeng immediately perked up and replied in a slightly more serious tone:
"Really? When did this happen? How come I haven't heard anything about it? Something doesn't seem right. If it's really a good project, would you think of bringing my family along? Are you planning to drag my dad into this to share the risk?"
"...What kind of image do you have of me? Am I that shameless?"
As soon as Su Yehao finished speaking,
Zhao Yimeng immediately replied: "Yes, the specific image is probably cunning and flirtatious, only a little less experienced than those old foxes, and definitely not a good person."
"..."
It was really difficult to have a good chat with Zhao Yimeng.
Su Yehao said speechlessly:
"Whatever makes you happy, I have a thick skin anyway, so it doesn't matter. If you want to ask why I'm bringing your family along, just flip through the newspaper and you'll know. It has nothing to do with whether the project is good or bad. The main reason is that the investment scale is too large. Remember to give me a call after talking to your dad."
"Alright, alright, my dad is in a meeting. I'll call you back after I ask him."
After Zhao Yimeng finished speaking, she immediately hung up the phone.
In the headquarters of Donghuang Group,
After talking to Su Yehao on the phone, Zhao Yimeng immediately asked her secretary to send over today's newspaper. When she saw the headline "Bombshell! 60 Billion Hong Kong Dollars to Rebuild Kai Tak Airport!" on the front page, Zhao Yimeng was shocked, completely stunned by this number.
After flipping through it in a hurry, she realized that he wanted to acquire the land of Kai Tak Airport and redesign it into a super complex project.
On Su Yehao's side,
He took a car to Taipa Island. In order to avoid attracting attention, he got out of the car in advance and walked into the villa he gave to Yin Liuli.
In the small courtyard,
There was a spherical object basking in the sun in the grass.
After carefully identifying it, it turned out to be Yin Liuli's pet cat, a golden chinchilla named Koko, which was becoming more and more round...