Director of Rebirth of Xiangjiang

Chapter 407 Ashamed of my ancestors (22) Subscribe

Chapter 407 Ashamed of my ancestors (22) Subscribe

Many companies are salivating over Dreamworks' bailout funds!

As soon as I heard the news, I almost stepped on the threshold of DreamWorks.

This matter was directly handed over to the elder sister, who went to the Peninsula Hotel after some activities the next morning.

By the way, old Kadoorie saw his son still waiting for him after returning from the banquet yesterday absent-mindedly. He felt a little better when he saw himself as the ideal heir.

I'm almost 90 years old, and I don't have a good life for a few years!

Looking back on his own life, he was born in [-] in a Jewish merchant family in Hong Kong.

When his father, Eli Kadoorie, came to Hong Kong from Shanghai in his early years, he had only 500 yuan on him.He used the money to open a stock brokerage firm and made his first fortune in stock trading.

His father collaborated with friends to establish the China Electric Power Company in [-].

This was the beginning of their family's prosperity. Later, Yili Kadoorie bought a large amount of shares in the Hong Kong and Shanghai Hotel and became a major shareholder.

Lawrence Kadoorie studied in Shanghai and England when he was young, and returned to Xiangjiang at the age of 19 to join the board of directors of China Power Corporation chaired by his father.

Before the Second World War, their family's business developed rapidly, involving industries such as electricity, real estate, trade, finance, hotels, and cable cars. Its business even expanded to major cities such as Guangdong and Shanghai in the Mainland.

However, during the Japanese invasion of China, the business of the Kadoorie family in the mainland also fell into the hands of the Japanese army and was confiscated by the Japanese.

The business in Xiangjiang was also taken away. The Kadoorie family was even detained in a concentration camp, where his father died.

After the war, Kadoorie inherited his father's legacy and devoted himself to restoring his family's glory. He mainly developed electricity and hotels.

In the late 20s, the Kadoorie family invested US$40 to build one of the most luxurious hotels in Asia at that time, the Xiangjiang Peninsula Hotel.

When the Peninsula Hotel was completed, there were many crowns and buildings, and the grand occasion was unprecedented.The Kadoorie family became well-known at home and abroad because of this, and became a well-known prominent family in Xiangjiang.

The hotel was renovated after the war. It can be said that the Peninsula Hotel is the face of their family, and there are many imprints of the family's glory, rise and fall.

Although the Kadoorie family's profit from the hotel accounts for a very small percentage of the total profit of the family business, he feels a dull pain when faced with the loss.

"Father, did you promise to lend us money at the banquet?" Little Kadoorie couldn't help but said when he saw his father.

"They're all a bunch of old foxes. I'm afraid we won't be able to keep the hotel this time." Kadoorie said helplessly. He chatted with a few business partners at the banquet, trying to bring up the topic, but the result was very disappointing. not ideal.

It's not that those people are incapable of helping them, but they really can't handle the giant DreamWorks!

If they were hated for helping the Kadoorie family, it would not be worth the loss. Besides, they were in a hurry, and the financial crisis hurt them a lot.

DreamWorks is now the most well-known company in Hong Kong, with assets of about 2000 billion Hong Kong dollars, which is currently the largest company in Hong Kong.

Many companies want to make friends with it, and it is impossible to destroy it.

"Is there really no chance at all?" Xiao Kadoorie said sadly. He also liked Xiangjiang Hotel very much.

"Hey, Dreamworks has been eyeing our company for a while. A few years ago, I saw them holding shares in the hotel and thought it was a good thing! Now that I see them, they started to stretch out their minions. In fact, it is normal. When DreamWorks wanted to forcefully acquire us, we couldn’t resist.”

"I have also learned about the situation of DreamWorks over the years. Their funds are simply sufficient, and our arms cannot twist our thighs." Old Kadoorie felt that this was not a battle of magnitude, and they fell before it even started. Come on, isn't this bullying?

so sad!

Thinking that Kadoorie has never been so depressed since inheriting his father's behest, DreamWorks was really not in his eyes a few years ago, but after a few years, he looked up to him.

In normal times, he used Zhao Hong as an example to educate his son, but now he wants to scold his mother!

Treacherous little bastard!

He really didn't see that the kid who only knew how to shoot movies and write novels was so scheming, it must be the trick of that old ghost from the Zhao family.

He really didn't realize that the old ghost was such a person, and he was secretly heartbroken by his upright and awe-inspiring appearance at ordinary times. I really believed in your evil!

If the old man knew what he was thinking, he would definitely be wronged. He has been upright all his life, and he has never been short of money in business.

Am I like that?

Hearing his father's words, little Kadoorie was very disappointed, and said a little dejectedly: "It's really bad luck for eight lifetimes. If he doesn't attack other companies, why does he take a fancy to our small temple?"

"Well, I have collected information about DreamWorks in the past two days to get a general idea of ​​this matter. I think there are two main reasons for this. The first is that according to gossip, Zhao Hong, the chairman of DreamWorks, likes the Peninsula Hotel very much. He still stays here and there from time to time, and the Peninsula Hotel is his frequent visitor, so it’s self-evident that he wants to buy it when he has money.”

"The other one is that I learned that they have established two hotels in the mainland. I think they have long wanted to enter the Xiangjiang hotel field, but they just hid in secret because they had no chance." Old Kadoorie said with a sigh.

Little Kadoorie feels very ironic now. He still remembers saying hello to the hotel manager to take good care of Zhao Hong who often comes to the hotel for consumption.

Now he just wants to spit on him, he is just a smiling tiger!

Zhao Hong had met him several times, and in his heart he looked down on Zhao Hong. In his opinion, it was a bit funny that such a big company could not manage movies and novels properly.

Rich people like them just want to hide behind the scenes and watch the flowers bloom and fall in front of the court, and follow the clouds and clouds in the sky. This is what they should have!

But now I have the urge to cry, have you been beaten?

They communicated for a while before going back to their rooms to rest. Old Kadoorie felt very tired, but he just couldn’t fall asleep. While sleeping, he remembered his father’s incident in the concentration camp from time to time, as if he was blaming him for losing the hotel. What a sleepless night.

In the morning, I washed up and headed towards the Peninsula Hotel without even eating breakfast.

When Zhao Hong arrived, old Kadoorie had been waiting for a long time, and he quickly said, "Mr. Kadoorie, I'm really sorry, I'm late."

"Hehe, no, I came early, Mr. Zhao came just in time, and I just arrived too." Old Kadoorie said with a forced smile.

After exchanging pleasantries, the two sat down separately.

Zhao Hong felt a little awkward when he heard Kadoorie calling him Zhao Sheng, so he said, "Old sir, just call me Hongzai."

"Then I will ask you to come and taste this West Lake Longjing, which I got in the mainland two years ago." Old Kadoorie made a cup of freshly brewed tea for Zhao Hong.

The fragrance of tea is overflowing!

"Good tea! This tea is the best in Longjing." Zhao Hong said after taking a sip.

He himself is a tea lover, and he has countless tea leaves at home, even Dahongpao, which is a gift from the mainland leaders, and most people can't even see it.

Zhao Hong has always kept it in the safest place, and only enjoyed it slowly with the old man during important seasons.

As for other good teas, he also has a lot of collections. The old man also bought a lot of old teas. There are hundreds of years old teas, which can be said to be cultural relics.

The beauty salon set up a planting base in Yunan, where he got a lot of Pu'er tea that is thousands of years old. These are rare treasures, and he is usually reluctant to drink them!

(End of this chapter)