Chapter 391 The Value of Being Exploited

It was already past five in the afternoon when we returned to Hong Kong Island from Wong Ma Cape.

After the three people landed, the driver who had been instructed earlier had already parked the car on the side of the road.

For their last stop today, they headed straight to Lan Kwai Fong on D’Aguilar Street.

The renovation project of Lan Kwai Fong has been completed, and the final service training, emergency response training, etc. are currently underway.

Lan Kwai Fong Culture & Creative Co., Ltd. has recruited more than 400 staff members, including 100 foreign waiters, bartenders, chefs, musicians, DJs, hosts, and more than 300 local waiters and chefs.

The company's management also includes creative and training talents from the United Kingdom, the United States, France and the Netherlands.

Together, they will help transform Lan Kwai Fong into an attractive cultural and creative community integrating nighttime dining, entertainment and activities.

Achao and his friends first filled their stomachs in a western restaurant, and then went to a bar and a nightclub that had not yet officially opened.

These places are now almost exclusively frequented by foreigners. After the three men showed up, the foreign girls "wine promoters" and "dance promoters" who were responsible for livening up the atmosphere pulled them to drink and dance.

After all, Lu Dingbang had not seen enough of the world. He acted lively and bold in front of his own people, but became reserved and awkward when facing foreigners.

It was Mou Qizhong who surprised Achao a little. This plain-looking old man accepted all the invitations to drink and dance from the foreign girl. Even when there was ambiguous physical contact, he seemed to be unaware of it and behaved like a general.

The next day, assistant Ah Chao continued to take the two of them to tour Hong Kong.

Although it was called a tour, in fact most of the time was spent visiting Fang Hexuan's properties.

The first stop today was to see several skyscrapers that Wanda is building.

The Far East Financial Centre (formerly known as the Space-Time Building), which has already been topped out and is currently undergoing interior decoration, has a total of 72 floors and an overall height of over 250 meters. Once completed, it will be ranked first among the tallest buildings in Hong Kong.

The reason why it is temporarily listed is that Wanda has long announced the construction plan of twin towers to be built on the site of the original Space-Time Trading Plaza, which will be much taller than 250 meters.

Achao and his two companions climbed to the top floor accompanied by on-site engineering personnel. As the wall curtain glass had not yet been installed, the air convection was very strong at an altitude of more than 200 meters, so strong wind noise could be heard in the ears.

Mou Qizhong had never climbed such a high building in his life, but now he wanted to get closer to the edge of the outer wall and look down at the whole Hong Kong from above.

The engineer gave a few words of advice and didn't say anything more, just reminding us to be careful.

Mou Qizhong insisted on dragging Lu Dingbang to watch it together, but the latter refused to do so. In the end, he bravely walked to the edge of the building alone.

The further he got to the outside, the stronger the wind became. The sea breeze blew Mou Qizhong's hair, which was already frizzy, all over the place, but this did not stop him from wanting to see the world.

Finally standing at the edge of the stairs, Mou Qizhong held the steel structure next to him with his right hand, took a deep breath, and then stretched his neck to look outside.

In the early 80s, Hong Kong was on the eve of new town development and urban reconstruction, and there were not many buildings over 200 meters high.

So, looking down from above, the feeling is still very shocking.

At this time, Mou Qizhong felt quite heroic and he even had the idea of ​​building a skyscraper in Hong Kong one day to represent his business empire.

From here, they went downstairs to see the twin towers that were under construction. However, this time they were not so excited. After all, they were only six stories high, which was indeed not impressive enough.

However, the busy scene at the construction site also let the few people know that this is definitely a super large project. Wanda has other commercial buildings under construction, but the location is not as eye-catching as these two buildings, so they are not included in their visit plan.

Afterwards, the three of them crossed the sea to the Hung Hom area.

Achao first casually took them to visit the joint technology park under construction. This is the future technology city built by Wanda for all technology companies under the Alphabet Group. It is mainly to lay the foundation for accommodating high-tech projects in the future.

This area is actually the Whampoa Garden in the original time and space. Fang Hexuan felt that it was a waste of resources to build a residential area in such a good location, so he separated this piece of land from Hutchison assets through a transaction with Li Huanggua.

In the future, this science and technology park will gradually develop into a high-tech ecological zone with automobiles, electronics, semiconductors, new energy, etc. as the main body.

Achao didn't understand either, so he read the description in the park development plan to the two of them.

Lu Dingbang was naturally completely in the dark, but Mou Qizhong listened very carefully. He didn't quite understand either, but that didn't stop him from seeing Mr. Fang's ambitions for the future.

After visiting the park, they didn’t walk far before entering the joint R&D center of BYD and BMW.

The "tour guide" Achao was even more excited than Moulu and the others. He had accompanied his boss here once before and always felt that this center was full of mystery. After all, it was the institution that Mr. Fang valued most and kept secret the most.

After passing three levels of security checks, the three were able to successfully enter the center.

Someone took them on a quick tour, and found that they were basically factories and workshops that were not too confidential.

Even so, it was enough to make the three of them reluctant to blink.

The fact that most of the people coming in and out here are foreigners makes them feel that they must be very cool.

Mou Qizhong didn't understand industrial manufacturing, but he knew that Mr. Fang had invested $6 million in his factory in Shenzhen, which is now worth more than billion yuan in RMB.

This means that if you want to get into car manufacturing, you'd better give up the idea as soon as possible without investing hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars in it.

Think about it, how much US dollars of foreign exchange does the country have a year now? To invest 6 million US dollars to build a car, Mou Qizhong finds it incredible just thinking about it.

Finally, they also saw several test models hand-made by the center. Even though they didn't know much about cars, the three of them thought these cars were very good-looking.

It was almost noon when they came out of the R&D center, and they went to the Imperial Hotel for lunch.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, the last stop of the two-day tour was the Blackwater International Bodyguard Training Base in Yuen Long.

Xu Guohua, who had drunk with them the night before, personally led a few people to walk around the base, basically to observe the trainees' on-site training, such as physical fitness, firearms, driving, and transferring employers.

This time, Lu Dingbang was actually quite excited, mainly because he discovered that almost all the instructors had mainland accents.

He chatted with these bodyguard instructors with great interest, but he didn't expect that they were giving face to his nephew.

In order to get rid of a few people, Xu Guohua finally arranged a gun shooting experience for the three of them.

Mou Qizhong held the cold Beretta pistol in his hand, his mind was not on accurate shooting, but on the purpose behind the rich man Fang arranging him to visit this place...

(End of this chapter)