"Haha!" Lei Liquan felt a little awkward, but since Jia Yapeng raised this question, Lei Liquan expressed his affirmation honestly. He did have the intention to sell Kowloon Jianye.
Lei Liquan was actually the chairman of two companies. One was Kowloon Jianye, and the other was Hong Kong Bus.
Although Kowloon Jianye was a real estate company, it did not have much real estate. It only owned a piece of land in Hong Kong and a hotel. Its market value was about 300 million Hong Kong dollars.
On the other hand, Hong Kong Bus was the largest public transport group in Hong Kong, with a total market value of more than 18 billion Hong Kong dollars. It was about 60 times more than Kowloon Jianye.
However, Hong Kong Bus was a company jointly controlled by four families. Although Lei Liquan's Lei family was the founder of Hong Kong Bus, their shares were only about 13% after various investments and investments.
Originally, Lei Liquan could still control Hong Kong Bus by relying on the alliance between the families. However, because of the death of another family's Old Master Shen and the fact that his only grandson was a prodigal, he was addicted to gambling and owed hundreds of millions in gambling debts in Macau.
Therefore, this prodigal planned to sell the Shen family's shares. It was about 8% in total, and the asking price was only 1.2 billion Hong Kong dollars. Compared to the market value, it was quite cheap.
According to Lei Liquan's knowledge, another family of the four big families was also interested in this share and was preparing a large amount of funds to buy it. Because the other party already had 10% of the shares, if this 8% was added, the total controlling shares would be able to surpass the Lei family. Lei Liquan would definitely not accept the removal of Lei Liquan from the chairman's position.
Now, Lei Liquan was trying his best to get funds to buy this 8% of the shares first. However, he was still short of 300 million. The only way he could think of to get money immediately was to sell Kowloon Jianye.
Kowloon Jianye was the second market that Lei Liquan spent a lot of effort to open up. He spent a lot of money to build the company. However, Lei Liquan could not compete with those old foxes in the real estate market. Kowloon Jianye was declining year by year. In addition, Lei Liquan was old and did not have the unyielding spirit of a young man. Therefore, he planned to completely give up the real estate industry and focus on developing Hong Kong Bus.
When Lei Liquan released the news of the sale of Nine Dragons Construction, he thought that many big shots would be tempted, but in the end, no one was willing to pay attention. Even though Lei Liquan had already lowered the price very low, no one was willing to buy it.
This was also the reason why Lei Liquan had been upset recently. When he learned that Jia Yapeng was here to talk about an acquisition, Lei Liquan instinctively thought that Jia Yapeng wanted to buy his company. He was very happy.
Now that they knew that Jia Yapeng was only here to buy the golden princess, they immediately felt discouraged.
Of course, no matter how small a mosquito was, it was still meat. It was not a small income. Lei Liquan did not give Boss Jia any face.
"Real estate!" Boss Jia muttered. In fact, Boss Jia had long wanted to enter Hong Kong's real estate market. But now was not the best time, because the best time was in 1997.
After the return of Hong Kong, the financial crisis came, and then the Chief Executive took office. Hong Kong would experience an unprecedented drop in housing prices, which would fall by more than 70%. That was the best time to enter Hong Kong's real estate market. At that time, buying a house was basically robbing money.
But now, Hong Kong's real estate market was bullish. Now was not the best time to enter.
But then again, until 1997, Hong Kong's real estate market had been rising. At this time, it was not a loss to buy Nine Dragons Construction. More importantly, Nine Dragons Construction had a real estate development license that was very difficult to get in Hong Kong.
After 90 years, the Daying Empire would set a lot of traps for the mainland because they were determined to return Hong Kong's sovereignty. For example, in 1995, they would implement a strict real estate license review system to rope in the local capitalists of Hong Kong.
Because after the new real estate license review system was announced, it was basically impossible for newcomers to get a new real estate license. All the real estate development qualifications were left in the hands of the existing big capitalists and big families. This was the benefit that the Daying Empire gave to these people. The purpose was to sell a bomb to the mainland, to let the mainland be bound by Hong Kong's real estate market, and to let these capitalists disgust the mainland.
So five years later, if Boss Jia wanted to enter Hong Kong's real estate market, it would be very difficult. And if he could not get a license, he would not be able to buy Hong Kong's real estate market on a large scale. Then, the big profit from the real estate market crash in 1997 would have nothing to do with our Boss Jia.
That was really a pity!
So Boss Jia thought about it and felt that it was more cost-effective to buy Nine Dragons Construction now. Not to mention other things, just this license could be sold for more than 3 billion HKD in the future. So, buying Nine Dragons Construction would not be a loss. It was a matter of steady profit.
Moreover, it was only 300 million HKD. For the current Boss Jia, it was really not a big sum of money.
"Okay, I can buy it!" Boss Jia finally nodded. Lei Liquan immediately showed an extremely happy expression. Then, he said that if Boss Jia bought Nine Dragons Construction, then his subordinate, Golden Princess, would be given to Boss Jia for free. He did not want a single cent.
Boss Jia cursed in his heart. Your Golden Princess was originally Nine Dragons Construction's property. What do you mean by giving it to me for free? Isn't this nonsense!
But no matter what, this deal was quickly reached under the condition that both parties were willing. Because at this time, Nine Dragons Construction was Lei Liquan's sole proprietorship and had not yet been listed, so there was no need for any special procedures. Only an equity transfer agreement was needed, and Nine Dragons Construction would smoothly become Boss Jia's property.
Of course, during this period, there was still a certain amount of time to prepare various legal documents, so the deal was agreed to be carried out one week later.
The next day, Boss Jia appeared in the chairman's office again.
Because Jia Yapeng and Jia Yapeng had worked together in a movie before, Jia Yapeng was very familiar with Jia Yapeng's capabilities. Without any melodramatic plot, Jia Yapeng quickly became Jia Yapeng's VIP and sat opposite the chairman.
At this time, Zou Wenhuai was already a 62-year-old old man. He curiously sized up the young man in front of him.
Zou Wenhuai knew much more about Jia Yapeng than Lei Liquan. Because after Farewell My Concubine scored nearly 30 million at the box office, Zou Wenhuai started paying attention to this person behind the scenes.
However, once he found out, he was shocked. Zou Wenhuai originally thought that Jia Yapeng was just a young man with a net worth of hundreds of millions who was involved in the cultural industry.
But after careful investigation, he was shocked to find that Jia Yapeng's business had already exceeded two billion. As for how much money he had now, Zou Wenhuai knew very well that Jia Yapeng was definitely richer than an old man like him.
Although Jia Yapeng had always been the king of Hong Kong movies and had made top celebrities like Bruce Lee famous, Jia Yapeng's market value was actually not high.
Later, Zou Wenhuai passed away and sold himself to Cheng Tian Entertainment for one billion. Therefore, Jia Yapeng's current valuation was less than one billion, which was around five to six billion Hong Kong dollars.
After all, copyright was not worth much these days.
So when Jia Yapeng mentioned his intention of coming, which was to buy all of Jia Yapeng's copyrights, Zou Wenhuai couldn't help but be curious.
Why does this young man want the copyrights of these useless movies?
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