We are all reborn, who wants to be the richest man?

"It's all your fault, it's all your fault. You said everything was fine, but what about now?"

In the living room of the Luo family, Luo Nianzhong, who finally returned after several months away, is now having a severe headache.

In his arms, Luo Laowu and Wang Xiaoxian's relentless slapping and complaining had lasted for an hour. The whole family went from watching the fun at the beginning to being indifferent now.

Chris went straight back to the study upstairs to handle official business. The second and third children were playing with the children nearby. Even the dog Smile who came in was now lying on the carpet yawning, with his head lying on the carpet, looking drowsy.

However, there were two exceptions, one was the cheerful Luo Wang Yunhua, and the other was Guan Jiahui with a gloomy face.

Luo Nianzhong, who had just returned, got a surprise. Looking at the private doctor who had just walked out and the several people in the room with different expressions, he began to make some guesses.

Sure enough, Luo Laowu confirmed that she was pregnant, and the time was exactly the time before Luo Nianzhong left.

The result is, naturally, some are happy and some are sad.

Most members of the Luo family are happy about the addition of a new baby to the family, but this does not include the expectant mother Luo Laowu and the other son of the two generals, Luo Laosi.

In Luo Laowu's words, he is still young and has not had enough fun, and he is not prepared for having children.

"What are you preparing for? You can do whatever you are supposed to do after the baby is born. You don't have to stay at home to take care of your husband and children every day."

"Hmph, that's easy to say. How could you still be as free as you are now after having a child? What's the big deal if you have a child?"

It seems that she is a bit like a mother, but I don’t know how true this statement is.

This is a little girl who is impatient. It remains to be seen how much patience she will have after giving birth to children.

It’s not that Luo Laowu is cold-hearted, but it’s impossible for a family like this to be like a normal family, taking care of the husband and children at home and taking care of the daily necessities of life.

Needless to say, Zhao Yazhi and Matsuzaka Keiko are really devoted to their children in this family. They love children so much that they can apply for a job in a kindergarten.

Chris is so busy, but he still spends time with his children after get off work every day. He is not the kind of person who would neglect his children completely because of work.

"How could you hit the bull's eye at once? Aren't all your arrows defective?"

"What do you mean by defective products?" Luo Nianzhong was not happy to hear this.

"My shots are all honed, okay? If you can't hit the bull's eye, it's because the target is not good. It always goes through the hole, okay?"

"What do you mean by 'passing through the hall'? Does that mean I'm a pretty durable target?"

“It’s possible, or it’s possible that I didn’t put enough force into the arrow and it hit the target by mistake.

Anyway, there is definitely no problem with the arrows, they are all carefully selected, and it was not easy to hit the target before because of the target problem."

"What do you mean? You're blaming the target, right?"

The more the two of them talked, the more they seemed to be showing off, which made Guan Jiahui, who had been frowning, finally explode.

"Come on, you two, stop provoking me, right?"

Luo Laosi is 26 years old this year and has been preparing for pregnancy for a long time.

In order to have a baby, she even began to control her intake of her favorite red wine, limiting it to a maximum of one glass a day.

The whole family knows about her situation and now helps her. Whenever an arrow attacks, they push her out to block it.

But Luo Laosi's target just doesn't live up to expectations. Every time it is shot with holes all over it, not only is it dying, but it also can't hit the bull's eye.

Who would have thought that while she was trying to avoid fighting, Luo Laowu blocked the arrow and hit the bull's eye.

All I can say is that you can’t get what you want, but what you don’t want has to come.

Luo Laosi was not angry about Luo Laowu's pregnancy. She was angry that the other party took advantage of her and still acted like a good boy. Ninety percent of her words were coquettish, and the other ten percent were complaints.

After taking a cautious look at his fourth sister, knowing that she might go berserk at any time, Luo Laowu behaved himself.

"Then will I go back to Taiwan?"

"Forget it, you should just stay at home in your current condition."

Originally Luo Nianzhong wanted to say that it had only been two months and he could go back if he wanted to, but when he saw the look Luo Wang Yunhua gave him, he quickly changed the subject.

For Luo Wang Yunhua, everything else in this family is trivial; the only big issue is the issue of offspring.

If Luo Nianzhong dared to make fun of the Luo family's offspring, she would chase him to the Bauhinia headquarters and beat him with the soles of her shoes.

Forget it. It doesn’t matter whether Luo Laowu returns to Taiwan or not. She goes back just to congratulate her father on his new appointment.

Luo Nianzhong helped him find a job as the executive vice minister of Taiwan’s education department.

This position is a good match and offers room for advancement and influence.

Especially since Luo Laowu's family is the descendant of a hero and a family of scholars, this arrangement is logical and not abrupt.

Luo Laowu, who was forbidden to travel far, pouted his lips slightly and stood up from Luo Nianzhong's thigh at an angle where Luo Wang Yunhua could not see.

She also knew that this was what her mother-in-law wanted, but she didn't feel upset. After all, her mother-in-law was doing it for her own good.

"Little guys, put on your raincoats. Mommy will take you to play in the sand. This time, I'll make you a Great Wall to see."

Luo Anran, who had just returned from school, instantly smiled excitedly and praised again, and asked with a puzzled expression, "Is it really the Great Wall?"

While speaking, his little eyes kept glancing at Guan Jiahui, and his expression was indescribably mischievous.

"Luo Anran, I think you are looking for a fight." How could Luo Laosi not see this? He immediately got furious.

There is a small artificial lake to the north of Luo's house. It is more accurate to call it a larger pond rather than a lake. Its area is only slightly larger than a football field.

In order to keep the water of this small lake clear, the Luo family spends more than 100,000 Hong Kong dollars every year.

This was a place for Luo Anran and others to play with sand, and now it has become a paradise for Luo's children.

The last time Luo Laosi took Luo Anran and Luo Ziyan to play with sand, he said he wanted to build a model of the Great Wall for them. Although the imagination was beautiful, the final result was not very ideal.

To use Luo Anran's own words after seeing the finished product, "Fourth Mother, I've seen the Great Wall in books. Doesn't it have sharp edges and beacon towers?

It doesn't matter if there are no steps, but what about the ditch between your two sand walls?"

At that time, Luo Anran used this incident to criticize Yan Yan to death, and almost made the whole family laugh to death at the dinner table.

"Humph, isn't it just the Great Wall? Fourth Mother made a mistake last time.

Let’s not talk about the Great Wall this time, let’s build you a Forbidden City, so you can see how powerful Fourth Mother is.”

"is it?"

Not to mention Luo Anran, even Luo Ziyan and Luo Xinya, who were a little more sensible, had eyes full of suspicion.

"Stop talking nonsense and catch up."

The two generals Heng and Ha took the little ones in their home away. They were so happy, as if they had found a leader among children.

Especially Luo Junyao, it seems that this kid is not so happy that he is back. In his heart, this father is not as good as a broken ditch?

Originally, Luo Nianzhong was planning to get up and go out to take a look, but as soon as he stood up, he was pulled back by Chris who happened to be coming downstairs.

"What's wrong? Is there anything wrong?".

"Regarding the group's affairs, I guess John Baibo will come to you tomorrow even if I don't tell you, so let me talk to you first."

Hearing that it was about the group, Luo Nianzhong sat down again. Any work that Chris talked about at home was not a trivial matter. Otherwise, she always acted like a good mother and a good wife at home, and now she basically would not bring work back home.

"Tell me, what happened."

"It's about the Light Rail Line 2."

Light Rail Line 2? Isn't that a line that connects the New Territories and Kowloon? What's the problem?

Due to the early development of the New Territories, the Light Rail Line 1986 connecting Tuen Mun Bay and Yuen Long was opened as early as . In the past two years, it has radiated to the surrounding areas relying on this main line.

The second Light Rail Line project is to open a line from Yuen Long to Kowloon, making it more convenient for people traveling between the two places.

Luo Nianzhong remembers that this project was launched as early as when the first line of light rail was completed, and it was expected to be open to traffic between 1990 and 1991. What could go wrong?

"They plan to connect directly to the Kowloon-Canton Railway and interchange there."

"What the hell?"

As early as 1910, a railway from Kowloon to Luohu was built in Hong Kong Island, which could directly connect with Guangdong Province.

It was later bombed and then repaired and used again.

In 1983, the entire section was electrified and opened to traffic. Now the railway that transports materials to and from Rabbit uses this route.

Luo Nianzhong said it was bullshit because the purpose of building the light rail is to facilitate the citizens of both places. If you take the freight railway, will I still wait for you while you unload the goods?

You should know that because it has always been used for freight and has only one terminal, the current Kowloon-Canton Railway does not have any platforms or stations, but just two straight tracks.

Besides, the Kowloon-Canton Railway is operated by the Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation, while the Light Rail is managed by the MTR Corporation. What does it mean to merge them into one? Who will be in charge?

Unlike building subways in luxurious locations such as Hong Kong Island and Kowloon, building buildings above the subways has made the MTR earn a lot of money.

A large area of ​​the New Territories is wasteland. It is understandable that the MTR is unwilling to spend huge amounts of money, but hasn’t the Hong Kong government also provided subsidies?

In an instant, Luo Nianzhong realized that this matter could not have been proposed by MTR because they had something to gain from it.

The New Territories will be developed sooner or later, that is a certainty. By then, every additional station on the Light Rail Line 2 will represent a commercial building.

“What does the Hong Kong government want to do with so much money?”

In recent years, the Hong Kong government’s finances have not been well managed.

The New Territories alone can collect HK$36 billion from Far East Investment every year, not including interest and taxes.

There are also a lot of land sales. Although Far East has been suppressing land and housing prices in recent years, it still has an income of tens of billions of Hong Kong dollars every year. Every piece of reclaimed land in Central is a transaction worth tens of billions or even hundreds of billions of Hong Kong dollars.

Looking at the foreign exchange reserves and fiscal reserves, these are now all managed by Far Eastern Bank. It makes a profit of HK$217 to billion every year. Last year, it took advantage of the stock market crash to make a huge profit of HK$ billion.

These are not the big ones. The real big ones are capital gains tax (corporate income tax), stamp duty (transaction tax, such as buying a house or a car), and salary tax (personal income tax).

Due to the rapid development of Hong Kong Island and the increase in per capita income, these three major taxes have accounted for about half of the Hong Kong government's revenue.

You have to know that in the past, selling land was the foundation of the Hong Kong government, which basically accounted for more than half of its income.

So the Hong Kong government is very rich now, with an annual revenue of at least HK$100 billion, if not hundreds of billions.

Otherwise, how can we just build roads from Kowloon to Tuen Mun and Yuen Long?

The subsequent construction of Lantau Island did not cost the Hong Kong government much money at all. The dividends were used to build the roads. The subway that opened in the new year was also an investment from the MTR.

Luo Nianzhong really couldn't understand what the Hong Kong government was doing with so much money.

He couldn't figure it out, and Chris gave him the answer.

"Region of land reclamation: The Hong Kong government plans to launch a super reclamation project to connect Ap Lei Chau and Lamma Island, and will invest HK$350 billion in the next ten years."

This time, Luo Nianzhong did not curse anymore, but fell into deep thought.

The beneficiaries of this plan are undoubtedly British capital. In addition to the reclamation projects that have been carried out in cooperation between individuals and enterprises and the Hong Kong government in recent years, the Hong Kong government’s own reclamation projects are all backed by British capital.

It is obvious that they are finding various ways to make money for Britain and to transfer huge amounts of Hong Kong government funds back to the mainland.

This matter was probably not decided by MacLehose, but was interfered by the British side, and he could do nothing about it.

If there were any other way to make money, Luo Nianzhong would definitely not do it, but this project is different for the Luo family.

The Hong Kong government is the base camp of the Luo family. The larger the area of ​​the Hong Kong government and the larger the population, the deeper the roots of the Luo family.

If this project can be completed, Hong Kong Island will have at least 40 square kilometers or even more land area, which is almost half the size of Hong Kong Island.

"It seems that these British people have figured out my situation."

Luo Nianzhong is definitely influential now. If you really do something that disgusts him, it will be very painful for Luo Nianzhong to retaliate against Yinglun.

Apart from anything else, they can't stand if there is a large-scale layoff in the Far East or some fuss in the stock market. The opposition party will definitely not miss this opportunity to attack.

So Yinglun came up with a best of both worlds solution, an asset transfer plan that Luo Nianzhong could not refuse.

"Well, if London wants money, we'll give them more.

With the current income of the Hong Kong government, there will be no impact if both projects are launched at the same time.

Don’t forget that we have a lot of fiscal reserves now, so let’s go a little crazy with the land reclamation project.”

"But the north..."

Luo Nianzhong knew that Chris was worried that the North would not agree. The Light Rail Line 2 was a MTR project and would have nothing to do with England after the return.

If we invest all the money at once, not only the North, but even the Hong Kong government will not agree.

Because the Hong Kong government no longer has the final say on Hong Kong Island’s spending, which is why the government did not launch two projects at the same time. London has to keep a sum of money to shut the rabbit’s mouth, otherwise the other party will definitely not do it.

Now Luo Nianzhong is even crazier. In order to get the Hong Kong government to agree to the construction of the second light rail line, he directly plans to use fiscal reserves to increase land reclamation projects, which means giving Britain greater benefits.

"I will be in charge of the communication with the North. Such a good opportunity cannot be missed."

If Hong Kong Island in this life is managed well, the land area can be expanded to more than 1200 square kilometers by the end of the 1300th century, and it is not impossible to reach square kilometers.

The Hong Kong government has always had land reclamation projects with the Far East Group. This was also the gentleman's agreement between Luo Nianzhong and Murray MacLehose. Isn't Lantau Island much larger than the one we are familiar with?

If this wave of super reclamation projects can add another 50 square kilometers of area, the area of ​​2000 square kilometers before 1200 will not be a dream.

"It seems that I have to go to the Hong Kong government to pay a visit to our Governor."