The first time I met 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, who even he had to rely on.

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 'speculate on 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.

"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..."
Chapter completed!