Speaking of Hong Kong, I have to talk about a movie, that is, the "Infernal Affairs" trilogy, the most classic of which should be the second one, which can be said to have become a god work because of Wu Zhenyu. "Infernal Affairs" is a police film on the surface, but in fact, there is almost no shot of a flying car and a gunfight in the whole film, in fact, it is more like a literary film.
In "Infernal Affairs 2", there is a very classic scene, that is, Ni Yongxiao prepares to immigrate, and he has a meeting with four big guys in his family villa. This meeting was very classic, the 4 big guys were each pregnant with a ghost fetus, but Ni Yongxiao suddenly talked about his villa.
Ni Yongxiao said that yesterday a real estate agent called him to ask him to sell the house, and the price was 160 million. Ni Yongxiao turned his head and said: His father only spent 9.28 million yuan when he bought this place. He also asked what is the current world in Hong Kong?
So why did the director suddenly arrange to shoot this scene? Some people say that this is to illustrate that Ni Yongxiao wants to sell his house and lead to the fact that he wants to immigrate, thus promoting the development of the whole movie. Because the overall story outline of this movie is that Ni Yongxiao took the opportunity of immigration to take the opportunity to eliminate the 4 big guys under him and swallow all the business alone. In the movie, the Ni Yongxiao family is doing the business of white powder.
But in fact, I think that in addition to this role, this paragraph also has an extra-string sound, which can be said to make the whole movie get a sublimation. The story told in the movie probably takes place around 1995, on the eve of Hong Kong's return to the motherland. At that time, the British were ready to evacuate, so the control was very loose, so there were bandits like Zhang Ziqiang and Ye Jihuan in society. In addition, before the British withdrew, they also invested heavily in infrastructure in Hong Kong, squeezing out hong Kong's last interests, resulting in soaring housing prices in Hong Kong.
Ni Yongxiao said in the movie what is the world of Hong Kong now? In fact, this sentence is very interesting. Then Ni Yongxiao said that he was 97, so he wanted to immigrate, which also represented an attitude of many rich people in Hong Kong at that time. In addition, the 4 big guys under Ni Yongxiao's hands are actually alluding to the four real estate tycoons in Hong Kong.
Ni Yongxiao said that the villa his father bought rose from 9.28 million to 160 million, which is almost 20 times the profit. What is the director's voice? Hong Kong real estate is better and more profitable than the white powder business. It can be said that this is the essence of this movie. In addition, Ni Yongxiao is a former big man, he wants to leave on the surface, but in fact he still wants to control the business in Hong Kong, is this also very similar to some people?
A good movie, he certainly doesn't just tell what we see. If you see Infernal Affairs, you see the real Hong Kong. In the movie, a group of big guys fight and kill, and finally pay the price of business, it is not as fast as the money earned by buying a villa to appreciate, so why fight and kill again? It also shows that Hong Kong real estate tycoons are really killing people without blood.
Hong Kong's real estate began to develop in the 1950s, when a large number of mainlanders poured into Hong Kong, and the population of Hong Kong soared from 500,000 to 1.5 million. However, because a large number of houses were destroyed during the war in the 1940s, there was a serious shortage of houses in Hong Kong. In addition, at this time, the house in Hong Kong is sold in its entirety, and it must be purchased in full, which also makes it very difficult for the people to buy.
At this time, Fok Yingdong seized the opportunity and invented the system of hierarchical purchase and floor flowers, so that Hong Kong real estate has made the first leap. In the 1960s, several famous events occurred in Hong Kong, which triggered a sharp decline in Hong Kong property prices, and Li Ka-shing and other four major real estate developers took advantage of the rise, they bought a lot of land at the low tide, and jumped to the top of Hong Kong's richest people in just a decade.
In the 1970s, Hong Kong entered the era of shark fin fishing, and the companies of Li Ka-shing, Zheng Yutong, Lee Shau Kee, Kwok Tak-sheng and others went public to raise funds, and their strength went to a higher level, and the people frantically speculated in real estate and stocks. In the early 1980s, affected by the Sino-British negotiations, the Hong Kong property market was once again depressed, and the four major real estate tycoons once again bottomed out, this time making them successfully rank among the world's richest people.
In 1984, the situation in Hong Kong was stable, and property prices rose steadily until they reached their peak before 1997. During this period, hong Kong house prices rose at least dozens of times. If you count from the 1960s, the increase has reached a staggering thousand times. The four major real estate developers are also frantically grabbing land, hoarding a large amount of land, on the one hand, blocking the development path of small developers, on the other hand, leaving Hong Kong landless for development.
There is also a group of people with ulterior motives who continue to use environmental protection as an excuse to prevent Hong Kong from developing green spaces in the New Territories. Many people say that Hong Kong has fewer people and more land supply, and in fact, 70% of Hong Kong's land is still undeveloped. The farmland held by the four major real estate developers has reached tens of thousands of mu.
Hu Yingxiang once called for Hong Kong to reclaim land as soon as possible, but it was attacked as unenvironmental. In fact, if Hu Yingxiang's plan had been followed earlier, the housing price problem in Hong Kong would have been solved long ago. In addition, Uncle Dong also proposed the 80,000 5 plan that year, and also found Liang Jinsong to help plan the plan, and as a result, the two patriots with a pure heart were forced to step down.
Then someone came to power, and within 7 years, Hong Kong did not add an inch of land for building houses, and none of the 5 reclaimed land that had been planned that year did not move. Now, 23 years later, the four richest people in Hong Kong are still the four major families.
But now the four major families have also made different changes, Li Ka-shing's two sons have long immigrated to Canada, and they have also invested a lot of assets in britain, leaving a sentence that I am a businessman, don't use morality to bind me. Kwok Tak-sheng died a long time ago, and his three sons died one by one and went to prison, but they still insisted on developing in Hong Kong and continued to invest in the mainland, and did not learn from Li Ka-shing.
Lee Shau Kee stuck to Hong Kong, but his investment in the mainland is very conservative, he did not invest in Beijing for more than 20 years before he retired, but after he retired, his son Li Jiajie immediately increased his investment in Beijing, and apparently also wanted to make changes.
In addition, before Zheng Yutong's death, Li Ka-shing had sold a large number of real estate projects in the mainland. But now that his grandson, Zheng Zhigang, has taken over, his strategy has been completely adjusted, and he has increased his investment in the mainland, while also moving the headquarters of New World China to the mainland.
It can be seen that in addition to Li Ka-shing, the other three major real estate developers are compromising, and since last year they also announced that they will donate a large amount of their farmland for the future solution of Hong Kong's housing problems.
When Hong Kong's Kowloon Walled City was demolished in 1993, the city-within-town city that once represented Hong Kong's sinful paradise was eventually turned into a park. Kowloon Walled City existed in Hong Kong for decades, and even 3,000 police could not penetrate it, but it was finally razed to the ground. Nowadays, Li Ka-shing and other places have high property rights, and they still want to continue to make a lot of money, squeeze the people at the bottom through high housing prices, invest a lot of money in foreign countries, become a knight of foreign royalty, and enter foreign nationality.