Chapter 185: Take action on yourself
After visiting Xu Shubiao's Red Bull factory, Fang Hexuan was not very satisfied with the production line.

"Mr. Xu, I'm not being nosy. Even though we haven't started cooperation yet, I still want to advise you that if you want to sell Red Bull to the whole world, the hygiene quality standards need to be raised several levels."

"There are many manual operations here, and they are not sterilized at high temperatures. Many bottles and cans of beverages are not aseptically processed. These need to be improved."

"Also, having too many workers in a factory is not a good thing. Improving automated production efficiency, reducing costs and enhancing product competitiveness is also one of the directions."

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After Fang Hexuan went through all the procedures, he gave a lot of suggestions to Mr. Xu Shubiao.

If it were anyone else, Xu Shubiao would have been furious long ago, but this man is the richest man in Hong Kong, and he earned tens of billions of Hong Kong dollars at the age of 20.

But what they say are all facts, not nonsense, and you can tell at a glance that they are very experienced.

Of course Fang Hexuan was not talking nonsense. He even told Xu Shubiao in detail all the processes of his intelligent robot production line in the BYD factory in Shenzhen, which stunned the old man.

"Mr. Xu, I recently acquired a robot equipment manufacturing company in Germany called Kuka Robotics. They also manufacture intelligent beverage production equipment. If your factory in Thailand needs to be upgraded, you can't go wrong with them."

".Okay, I'll contact you if I need anything."

The cooperation between Fang Hexuan and Xu Shubiao must have set up a new company, and then build new factories in various places and purchase new equipment.

After staying in Thailand for three days, Fang Hexuan reached a basic cooperation intention with Xu Shubiao and discussed some specific details in detail, and then returned to Hong Kong.

As Xu Shubiao requested, it may take a long time to sign the formal contract.

On November 11, Hong Kong media reported that the first batch of Shanxi Datong coal from the mainland arrived in Hong Kong, and the Lamma Island Power Plant, not far from Fang Hexuan’s island estate, announced that it would use coal to generate electricity.

Mr. Fang called some Hong Kong government officials on this issue and actively expressed his concerns.

But it's no use. He will probably have to smell coal smoke often in the future.

On November 11, a fire broke out in the wooden house area of ​​Lam Tin, leaving nearly 21 people homeless and becoming victims.

This time, Fang Hexuan decided not to endure it.

He published a public article in his two newspapers, calling on the whole society to pay attention to the renovation of all wooden houses in Hong Kong.

Fang Hexuan is Fang Hexuan after all, and there are still many people willing to listen to what he says.

Seeing that the richest man publicly spoke up for the poor in the shantytowns, everyone paid a lot of attention to it.

Fang Hexuan clearly stated in the newspaper that as Hong Kong's economic structure gradually transitions from re-export and export trade to finance, tourism, retail and real estate, a large number of manufacturing industries will leave Hong Kong and move north.

By then, the hollowing out of Hong Kong's manufacturing industry will be inevitable, labor employment pressure will increase, and the gap between the rich and the poor in society will widen.

As housing prices continue to rise, the poor will find it increasingly difficult to afford homes, and social conflicts will become more intense.

In the article, he called on the Hong Kong government to resolve the issue of slum area renovation as soon as possible, and not to proceed as slowly as before.

Moreover, Fang Hexuan is not just talking. At the end of the article, he made a suggestion, hoping that the Hong Kong government would increase taxes on wealthy people like him, that is, increase taxes on the rich.

This excess tax revenue will be used to renovate all wooden housing estates in Hong Kong.

Once this article was published, it caused a lot of discussion throughout Hong Kong.

Mr. Fang not only painted a picture of Hong Kong's future, but also gave practical solutions, and even hoped that the Hong Kong government would start with him. In his Ming Pao, Mr. Jin enthusiastically praised Mr. Fang as the "Hong Kong hero" of the new era.

However, left-wing newspapers such as Wenhui Daily believed that Fang Hexuan had a compassionate heart and was a national entrepreneur with a broad vision.

Although ordinary Hong Kong citizens had no channels to speak out, they called the Hong Kong Radio and expressed their support for Mr. Fang on the radio.

Of course, Fang Hexuan did this for show. In fact, he also learned it from the later stock god Buffett.

Buffett may have been sincere in asking the U.S. government to raise taxes on the rich, but he certainly knew that the U.S. government would never do so.

After all, Buffett is not the only rich person in the United States. It is easy to collect taxes from Buffett alone, but if he wants to reach his hands into the pockets of hundreds of thousands of other rich people, how many people will he offend?

Fang Hexuan was also sincere, but he also knew that the Hong Kong government would never follow his advice.

However, this did not prevent him from taking this opportunity to win the favor of Hong Kong citizens.

After all, he is the first wealthy person in Hong Kong to publicly and proactively suggest that the government should collect more taxes from the rich.

Doing this would definitely offend a large number of wealthy people in Hong Kong, but Fang Hexuan didn't care at all.

Even though he received calls from people like Pao Yue-kong and Liu Juncheng after he posted the article, he did not take it seriously at all.

If he was not the richest man, if he relied on Hong Kong for blood sucking like the four major families later, he certainly would not publicly offend his peers who are all rich people.

But Fang Hexuan's current wealth and status as well as his future development plans allow him to stand up straight and not ignore other people's opinions.

These people are unhappy so they are unhappy, what else can they do?
If someone really wanted to cause trouble for him, he would be happy to do so. He just felt that life was too boring and it would be interesting to have some fun.

Sure enough, just two days later, the Financial Secretary of the Hong Kong government responded that there was currently no plan to raise tax rates for high-income earners.

The official response finally put many people at ease. They were really afraid that if the Hong Kong government adopted Fang’s suggestion, they would have to pay a lot more Hong Kong dollars every year for nothing.

Fang Hexuan was not discouraged. He had done everything he should have done, and he lived up to the saying "the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility."

However, since the Hong Kong government is not taking action, he, as the richest man in the country, has no choice but to do something.

Following his donations to the shantytown fire several times, this time, Fang Hexuan donated another 5000 million Hong Kong dollars to help the victims save themselves and rebuild after the disaster.

However, this time, the number of people who followed this richest man to donate money was much less than that on August 8.

"These bastards really know how to hold a grudge. They're waiting for me right here!"

Forget it, if you don’t want to donate, then don’t donate. What does it have to do with Fang Hexuan? It’s not like you’ll embarrass him.

However, he asked Oriental Daily to publish a list of the top 100 donors for the five most recent fires in Hong Kong's shantytowns, including this one.

These bastards want to make him uncomfortable, but he also has ways to make them unhappy. Who is afraid of who?
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