When it comes to Li Ka-shing and Lee Shau Kee, many people probably think they are good friends because they are all the four richest people in Hong Kong. Interestingly, though, this pair of good friends in the eyes of many people, you can hardly find a group photo of them online.
In fact, Li Ka-shing and Lee Shau Kee were indeed good friends. At that time, they had a lot of cooperation in the business field. In 1976, the two of them worked with Kwok Tak-shing and Cheng Yu Tong to develop the famous Sha Tin First City in Sha Tin, Hong Kong. It was here that the famous Hong Kong entertainer Paul Chung jumped off the building.
Paul Zhong, Zhang Guorong, and Chen Baiqiang were known as the three princes of Central, and all three of them were once very popular, and in the end, both of them died. The Sha Tin First City project is the only time in history that the four richest people have joined forces, and the project has earned 40 billion yuan, because the project was built in 1976 and was not bought until 1996. The whole project was operated by Lee Shau Kee alone, lee Shau Kee deliberately held it down and did not sell, waiting until the real estate rose sharply before selling, so it was a huge success.
In the 1980s, Li Ka-shing, Lee Shau Kee, Hu Yingxiang, Feng Jingxi, Zheng Yutong and others also joined forces to develop the China Hotel in Guangzhou, with an overall investment of 2 billion yuan, and after recovering the cost, they donated the shares to Guangzhou.
At the same time, Li Ka-shing, Lee Shau Kee and Cheng Yu-tong also cooperated together, investing 20 billion yuan in Vancouver, Canada, and developing the Wanbo Luxury Park, the largest real estate project in Canada at that time.
However, after this, Li Ka-shing and Lee Shau Kee have not worked together, and the opportunity for the two people to even come together is very small. At Li Ka-shing's retirement ceremony, Lee Shau Kee did not appear. When Lee Shau Kee retired, Li Ka-shing did not appear.
In 2012, Huo Qigang married Guo Jingjing, when All the rich and famous people in Hong Kong were present, several chief executives were also present to congratulate, and Lee Shau Kee, Wu Guangzheng and other top rich people also attended the event. Lee Shau Kee even attended as half the master, sitting together at the huo family's main table.
The strange thing is that Li Ka-shing only brought a gift at that time, and then left first after giving the gift. Fok Ying-tung and Li Ka-shing are old friends, and although Fok Ying-tung is no longer there, the influence of the Huo family is still there. When Li Ka-shing did this, he was obviously unsympathetic.
Li Ka-shing is a smart man, and he certainly wouldn't do that under normal circumstances. When He Zhuguo and Lin Jianyue's two major families were married, Li Ka-shing also took his son Li Zeju to drink happy wine. When Li Ka-shing's subordinate Huo Jianning's daughter got married, Li Ka-shing took the whole family to drink happy wine. Li Ka-shing is a rich man who understands people very well, so Huo Qigang married Guo Jingjing, and according to the reason, he should not be like this.
Vantone's boss, Feng Lun, once told a story when a group of Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business classmates went to Hong Kong to visit Li Ka-shing, accompanied by Guo Guangchang, Ma Yun and other business leaders today.
Feng Lun said that after the group arrived at the headquarters of the Yangtze River Group, as soon as they got out of the elevator, they saw Li Ka-shing waiting at the elevator door. Then Li Ka-shing personally handed out business cards to each person.
At noon, Li Ka-shing did not arrange the main table, when he himself arranged his chopsticks and position at each table, and then at each table, he deliberately sat for 15 minutes, taking care of everyone's feelings, so that everyone present felt that everyone was equal, there was no distinction between three, six, nine, and so on. From Feng Lun's introduction, we can realize that Li Ka-shing's emotional intelligence is very high, and he is also very wise in doing things.
Obviously, Huo Qi had just married Guo Jingjing, and Li Ka-shing could not say anything so unconscionable. So why did Li Ka-shing do this? In fact, to put it bluntly, it is because of Lee Shau Kee. Because the Huo family regarded Lee Shau Kee as a guest of honor, if Li Ka-shing went, his identity should not be as high as Lee Shau Kee. Because Lee Shau Kee and Fok Ying Tung have a very good relationship. Li Ka-shing's relationship with Fok Ying-tung was not so good.
When Fok Ying-tung died that year, Lee Shau Kee was on the list of fuling. Li Ka-shing did not appear on the list. Li Ka-shing naturally did not want to succumb to Lee Shau Kee, so he simply did not go.
So what exactly is the festival between Li Ka-shing and Lee Shau Kee? This has to talk about the company Miramar Hotel. Miramar Hotel is the asset of Hong Kong's billionaire Yeung Chi Wan. Mr. Yeung is also an old friend of Lee Shau Kee, who together in their early years opened a gold shop near Central, Hong Kong.
Yang Zhiyun later founded the Miramar Hotel, and Lee Shau Kee went to develop real estate students. When Yang Died in the 1980s, their sons were torn apart and had no intention of running the company, so they planned to sell the Miramar Hotel.
Miramar Hotel owns a number of properties, and the location of these properties is very good, so Li Ka-shing immediately provided an offer with the Yang Zhiyun family after knowing it. Li Ka-shing naturally did not want to buy this hotel to operate, because the hotel business is not very profitable.
Li Ka-shing's purpose is to buy the Miramar Hotel and then tear down the property to build a house to make money. This is Li Ka-shing's consistent style, when he once demolished the Tiger and Leopard Villa of the King of Ten Thousand Golden Oils to develop the community.
At this time, Yang Zhiyun's wife was very sad after knowing it, although she knew that the company's sale could not be avoided, but she hoped to keep the signboard founded by her husband, rather than directly demolishing the hotel.
So Yang Zhiyun's son found Lee Shau Kee to negotiate. In fact, Lee Shau Kee is also interested in acquiring, but Lee Shau Kee is very clever, he does not open his mouth first, but waits for the Yang family to open his mouth first. Yang Zhiyun's son told Lee Shau Kee that he hoped that Lee Shau Kee would come forward to buy it, and the price would be concessionary, but he hoped that Lee Shau Kee could keep the sign of the Miramar Hotel.
At that time, everyone in Hong Kong knew that Li Ka-shing was already determined to win the Miramar Hotel. Under such circumstances, Yang Zhiyun's widow suddenly came out and said that she hoped that the fourth brother could buy it, and if the fourth brother bought it, even if it was a discount of half the price, it would be acceptable.
In the end, Lee Shau Kee and the Yang Zhiyun family reached an agreement, Lee Shau Kee bought the Miramar Hotel at half the market price, but the price was that Lee Shau Kee had to keep the sign of the Mira Hotel. Li Ka-shing's final acquisition was a return. So the two people also formed a bond because of this matter. In the years that followed, the two rarely appeared in the same frame.