Chapter 107 The Richest Man Inspects the Territory
Don’t think that the Tseung Kwan O land that Fang Hexuan bought is cheap.
The price is 420 Hong Kong dollars per square meter, which is more than 4000 Hong Kong dollars per square meter.

All we can say is that the Hong Kong government did not make much money from the land.

After the media learned that Fang Hexuan had purchased land in Tseung Kwan O,
Run Run Shaw even proudly showed off in front of him:

"Ah Xuan, I only spent 6500 Hong Kong dollars to buy the 32 square meters of land in Clearwater Bay!"

What can Fang Hexuan do? He can't even refute it.

Although the incident happened in 1957, the land price per square foot was only HK$5, which was incredibly cheap.

In 23 years, it has increased 80 times, which shows how crazy the Hong Kong market is.

In 2011, Li Ka-shing's friend Chen Guoqiang took action.
They spent HK$62 billion to successfully acquire the former Shaw Brothers Studio in Clearwater Bay.

Bought for 32 and sold for 62 billion, in 54 years, Run Run Shaw made nearly 2 times the profit.

However, one has to give a thumbs up to the fact that after Shaw sold the land,
He did not leave the money to his children, but left it all to his own charitable foundation.

The area of ​​this piece of land in Tseung Kwan O is only 285 million square meters.

It includes the land occupied by TVB Studios, Wireless Broadcasting Company, Television Broadcasts Company, Hong Kong Aviation Engine Maintenance Company, Hong Kong Trade Development Council, Wellcome Fresh Food Centre, Hong Kong Film Network Limited, and Fruitless Daily.

It looks big, but it is divided into two areas.

It is conceivable that the cinema and park will be very compact and cramped after completion.

There is no way around it. Hong Kong is so small.
Any industry involving land is like building a temple in a snail shell.

Compared to the Universal Studios in Beijing in later times, the area alone is 4 square kilometers, or 3600 million square meters.

It is 12 times larger than Fang Hexuan's land.

So, in his plan, this was just a test run for DreamWorks.

In the future, he will go to the mainland to build a larger film and television city.
Multiple DreamWorks theme parks will also be built around the world.

The film and television city is currently under construction in Tseung Kwan O.

Once completed, it will become the main filming location for Hong Kong film companies, TVB and ATV to shoot costume dramas.

However, its lifespan will not be too long, and sooner or later it will be replaced by various film and television bases in the mainland.

Therefore, once Fang Hexuan fully controls TVB, this film and television city will probably face demolition to make room for TVB to build its headquarters and studios.

As for the theme park, it is not the right time yet. Fang Hexuan plans to build a temporary amusement park on it.

The most important thing is that he will move the models of various Transformers' mechanical life forms here.

It is a check-in destination for Transformers fans around the world.

After a tour here, Fang Hexuan returned to Hong Kong Island.

In the afternoon, he came to Lan Kwai Fong to check on the progress of the project.

Since starting operations in March this year, Wanda's real estate agents have already acquired all the stores and second-floor homes available in the area.

As for those who don’t want to move or want to ask for their own price, the Sun Yee On thugs will deal with them well.

The price Fang Hexuan offered was 50% higher than the current market price.

Although it was not very generous, it definitely did not let them suffer any loss.

He didn't have the patience to wait for those people to slowly grind, even if he had to use some despicable means, he would not hesitate.

The purchased stores and houses will be renovated.

Some houses need reinforcement, and some need to remove non-load-bearing walls.

Then, different styles will be used for decoration according to the specific location to match different business places.

He took Wanda's engineers and designers around the site for several rounds, thinking about where to build a separate exhibition hall and where to hang LED lights.

Which walls can be designated as graffiti and spray-painted areas, and which intersections must be replaced with new signs.

These tasks are normally arranged by the operation team of Lan Kwai Fong Creative Culture Co., Ltd.
But Fang Hexuan had been here in his previous life, and always wanted to replicate what he saw in his own Lan Kwai Fong.

Around four o'clock in the afternoon, he boarded a yacht from the ferry terminal at the Shun Tak Center to his island estate.

For more than half a year, the waters of Huangma Cape on the Stanley Peninsula have been under busy construction.
There are almost 2-3 thousand-ton cargo ships stopping here every day.

They are either unloading stones or serving as transport ships for the pouring machinery.

The other ships coming and going have gradually gotten used to it from their initial surprise and confusion.

The Hong Kong newspapers have clearly told everyone,
This is Mr. Fang, the richest man, building his own island estate.

Some good-natured newspapers even sent reporters to take the latest construction photos every day.

Then update the latest progress of the construction of the richest man’s manor in a corner of his own newspaper.

This naturally caused all kinds of speculation and imagination among some "rich" people.

The construction of this private estate seems to have become an important government project in the minds of Hong Kong people.

Everyone is looking forward to the day when it is completed.

When some wealthy people were interviewed by reporters, they were suddenly asked what they thought of Fang Hexuan's manor building.
These wealthy men were almost all stunned for a moment, then shook their heads with a wry smile: "There's no comparison, he's the richest man!"

Of course, there were also some so-called celebrities who openly criticized him.
Saying that he is showing off his wealth will cause ordinary Hong Kong citizens to panic about the gap between the rich and the poor.

But Fang Hexuan did not explain much. He just mocked it bluntly in his own "Oriental Daily":

"I think it's you, not the Hong Kong citizens, who should be worried about the huge wealth gap with me."

As soon as this was published, ordinary Hong Kong people happily watched the show from the sidelines.

They really don't feel anything. After all, comparing wealth with the richest man is simply asking for trouble.

Moreover, Fang Hexuan's wealth came clearly and cleanly.

There is no trick, and there is no blood sucked from ordinary people.

Most people still have a peaceful mentality, and there is really no need to hate a God of Wealth who started from scratch and made a fortune through his own abilities.

After being slapped in the face, the celebrities dared not continue to argue and could only play deaf and dumb.

When Fang Hexuan came over, the clear outline of the underwater foundation could already be seen in this sea area that originally had no obstacles.

If the 4 square meter sea area is a square, the side length is 200 meters.

As a private estate, it is not small.

Therefore, in such a sea area, where the depth of the seabed ranges from 1 to 18 meters, construction is definitely difficult.

But it is not that difficult. After all, the city of Hong Kong has rich experience in land reclamation.

It took half a year to pour hundreds of thousands of cubic meters of stone and a large amount of concrete into the sea.

Finally, Fang Hexuan got the engineering results he sees now.

After he climbed onto the concrete foundation from the yacht, he felt extremely solid as his leather shoes stepped on the water splashed up by the waves hitting the foundation.

This 4-square-meter foundation will carry his dream island manor in the future and embody his poetic life facing the sea and blooming spring flowers.

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