The first time I saw Ge Lianghong was at the award ceremony of the "Selection Model". Zhou Wenqiang only remembered that this ghost guy was handsome, had a big nose, and had a strong male hormone secretion. He was probably a very 'enable' man.

Because I lived in Yanjing in my early years, this ghost man was very skilled in Chinese and even had a bit of a Beijing-style accent. If you don’t look at his face, you will feel like you are talking to the Eight Banners who grew up under the same imperial city.

"Jay Jay Chou, are you here? Please sit down... I'm afraid you are the one who is angry with the young man, right? You shouldn't have it. These days when you moved to the top of Taiping Mountain, you didn't think about coming to my house to take the initiative to invite you, and you also want me, the governor of Hong Kong, to invite you?"

Ge Lianghong was quite humorous, and he started to joke with Zhou Wenqiang when he met: "I just didn't have any wine today, otherwise I would really be fined three cups."

Ge Lianghong was the only one in the huge VIP room. When he saw Zhou Wenqiang walking in, he immediately stood up to greet him without showing off his qualifying as a governor. This is because the person who met him today was not Zhou Shazhan, but Mr. Zhou, who was famous recently, was a man who even relied on him.

Zhou Wenqiang smiled and sat opposite Ge Lianghong and said, "Sir Ge is really a Chinese master. I didn't expect you to even know the etiquette of Chinese. But the punishment for wine is on the table. Today we are drinking tea, but there is no such rule."

"Haha, I'm not considered Huaxiatong. Compared to Jay Chou, I, the Governor of Hong Kong, are really obstructive..."

Ge Lianghong picked up the coffee cup and took a sip: "I sent someone to investigate you in the ancestral land of Britain, but I blocked it. Jay Chou, you don't have to worry. The British Empire has the rule of law. If there is no evidence, even "certain departments" cannot do anything randomly. What's more, Jay Chou is now a storied figure in Hong Kong Island. He has also built the first TV station for the citizens, achieving a breakthrough from scratch. I must ensure that people like you."

Zhou Wenqiang smiled faintly: "Sir Ge said this, then do I owe you a huge favor? Chinese people have always been most afraid of owing favors. I always have to find a way to repay them, right?"

"Haha, then I'm not polite. Now Jay Chou has a chance to repay me with favors."

Ge Lianghong played with the coffee cup and looked at Zhou Wenqiang with bright eyes.

Zhou Wenqiang smiled when he heard this: "Sir Ge asked me to come today for this reason. If you have any questions, just say it."

Ge Lianghong nodded and said, "Jay Chou, after the news of peace talks between the two sides on the island a year and a half ago, the real estate prices on Hong Kong Island began to gradually recover and stabilize... Now the two sides have set a 'line of peace' and have officially ceased to truce. The land prices on Hong Kong Island have also risen rapidly, reaching about three times that of the beginning of the war."

"According to the news I have received, some real estate developers have made plans in advance and secretly gained a lot of real estate. Now, taking advantage of the opportunity of rising land prices, some people will directly 'specify land' and some people will build a large number of new properties. It can be foreseen that real estate in Hong Kong will usher in the first major development period after World War II. I really want to know, what do you think about this?"

Zhou Wenqiang nodded and said, "If I was not wrong, Sir Ge is a little worried about this?"

"Sir Ge's concern is right. The development of real estate is a double-edged sword. Although it can certainly increase the regional economy in a short period of time, once it loses control, it will cause land prices and property prices to rise rapidly, leading to price surges, and causing false prosperity. Behind this false prosperity, the lives of the lower class will fall into greater difficulties."

"For example, some small vendors will close their doors and close their businesses because of the surge in rents, and have nowhere to live; some tenants will have nowhere to settle down because of the rise in rents, and eventually even retaliate against society! Hong Kong Island will become a mess with soaring prices and rising crime rates. I think these should not be what Sir Ge hoped to see?"

Ge Lianghong frowned slightly: "I just have concerns in this regard. Can Jay Chou already determine that these results will definitely happen?"

"Sir Ge, this is determined by the special nature of Hong Kong Island. After the Mainland War, more than one million people poured into Hong Kong Island. For some historical reasons, they happened to be the rich and poorest people among the mainland immigrants."

"According to the data I have, 80% of the rich people did not buy property in Hong Kong Island. They chose to temporarily rent high-end apartments and single-family tenement buildings. This is because they still don't see clearly the prospects of Hong Kong Island and are worried about it. The poor people are allocated by the Hong Kong government to live in major shantytowns, such as the Dongtou Village in Kowloon where I came from..."

"Now that the economy of Hong Kong Island is stable and the war has stopped, these wealthy people from the mainland and the middle class in Hong Kong Island will have a very urgent need for property purchases. They can buy one or even several buildings for investment! In addition, the land prices in Hong Kong Island have risen three times a day, and their investment intentions will become stronger!"

"If the Hong Kong government does not control the development speed of real estate at this critical node, it will cause a large amount of hot money to pour into real estate projects; it is not necessary to say that speculation in land is harmful but not beneficial! Even normal real estate investment and development behavior will cause great damage to the existing real estate development of the Hong Kong government!"

Speaking of this, Zhou Wenqiang glanced at Ge Lianghong who was listening carefully, and felt a little comforted. The Hong Kong Governor was still considering the people's livelihood, so he had a place to use his skills.

With this premise, he can tell the truth and get Ge Lianghong's full support.

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"Sir Ge should also know that those real estate developers only have 'land', and most of them are shantytowns and dangerous buildings, old buildings... Those who live in these places are all poor people! Once a large-scale construction of new properties begins, Hong Kong Island will inevitably enter the era of large-scale 'relocation'; and during the relocation, all major characters will also come forward and use half-buy and half-force to move these lower-level people out!"

"These lower-level people will only receive extremely meager relocation payments, and when their 'home' is demolished, they will find that they can't afford the entire building and can only rent the wealthy's building. From then on, they can only live in a place without a fixed place, and look at the landlord's face."

"But real estate developers and the 'big buyers' of real estate have joined forces to build a very perfect chain of interests. Real estate developers push up housing prices and sell houses to those 'big buyers', while big buyers push up rents and rent houses to these lower-level people who don't have real estate, but these lower-level people have to take out most of their monthly income to pay rent..."

"This is like a blood-sucking pyramid. Real estate developers stand at the top of the tower, and the 'big buyers' stand at the middle level. They unite and suck the bottom of the "flesh and flesh" for years! These bottom-level people can only struggle... They live the hardest, but it is precisely because of their existence that they can continuously push up housing prices in Hong Kong. Of course, what I am talking about is this unhealthy 'high housing prices', not a normal growth that conforms to economic laws!"

"Sir Ge has always paid attention to people's livelihood. I believe you must know that if this continues, social conflicts will become increasingly fierce and the crime rate will increase. I'm afraid this is not what you want to see?"

"Jay Jay Chou saw it very thoroughly, he was indeed a clear idea..."

Ge Lianghong nodded, Zhou Wenqiang's opinion was indeed consistent with him.

As Zhou Wenqiang said, the particularity of Hong Kong Island has caused this result. If it is not controlled, once it fully enters the era of great real estate development, he can't imagine how big a mess it will be.

Although those real estate developers and big buyers can make a lot of money, the side effects brought by the entire Hong Kong Island have to be borne by him, the governor of Hong Kong, how can this be the reason in the world?

After glanced at Ge Lianghong, Zhou Wenqiang gently picked up the coffee cup and took a sip. He actually didn't say anything.

The reason why Hong Kong Island became a materialistic "money empire" from the late 1950s to the late 1960s and early 1970s, with short mules everywhere and many white flour stalls like fish and egg stalls, was largely due to the great development of real estate in the mid-to-late 1950s.

Life for the lower class is getting more and more difficult and lacks an upward channel. If they do not linger in the world or sell white flour, how can they change their destiny?

If it were a wealthy family like He Hongsen and Zhong Qishen, they either worked as successful businessmen or lawyers or doctors, so how could they go about making a name for themselves and setting up white flour stalls?
Chapter completed!