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

The Christmas of 1991 was not very friendly to the people of Hong Kong Island.

Around Christmas, the temperature in Hong Kong Island dropped to around 5 degrees Celsius, making it the second coldest winter in a hundred years, second only to 1975.

People in Hong Kong were shivering with cold because they were surrounded by the sea. The cold was different from that in the north and it penetrated deep into their bones.

But there were people who were unhappy. Luo Laosi didn't care about the cold and his body was unusually hot.

This winter, the various clothing brands under the Si Yahui Group have been selling like crazy. Various down jackets and woolen coats have sold tens of millions of pieces in Hong Kong Island, Macau and half of Southeast Asia alone.

In these places, there is no concept of down jackets at all.

It’s not that people don’t know about it, but that they simply can’t use it.

In previous winters, a sweater and a leather jacket were usually enough, but this year that is obviously not the case.

Seizing this opportunity, Si Yahui Group placed a large number of orders with mainland OEM factories, which is said to have caused a sharp increase in the prices of rabbit, duck and goose down.

This is the advantage of a large population and abundant resources. Even though supplies are still relatively scarce now, it is relatively easy to gather tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of down jackets.

Of course, this will definitely cause hardship for other local down jacket companies. Not only will they have to use a lot of cotton due to rising costs, but the price of cotton has also increased significantly.

There is no way, since these OEM factories of the Si Yahui Group earn foreign exchange, support from the national level is more effective than anything else.

In the Luo family mansion, a beautiful and graceful young lady was acting coquettishly with her father.

"Daddy, please ask for a leave for me. What I learned in school is so boring. I learned it all by myself. I feel like I am wasting my life."

Xiaoci is quite arrogant and a waste of life.

"No." Luo Nianzhong didn't indulge in the idea that "life is sometimes meant to be wasted."

"Daddy." The girl walked behind her father and patted his shoulders attentively.

"Massage is not okay either, you must take this course."

"Hehe, Anran, you can't do this. You have to use your trump card or you'll cry."

Hearing Luo Laosi, who was watching the fun and enjoying the trouble, coming up with a bad idea, Luo Nianzhong cast a dangerous look at him. When he stood up, the other party had already run away without a trace.

Since he couldn't catch Luo Laosi, he would catch Luo Laowu to vent his anger. Looking at the other party who was curled up on the sofa and watching the fun happily, Luo Nianzhong pressed her on her legs and beat her up.

After he let go after beating him, Luo Laowu blushed, holding his butt and taking several steps away, making sure he had enough time and space to escape before expressing his dissatisfaction.

"What do you mean? You just know how to bully me, right? What does this have to do with me?"

"You still say that? If it weren't for you two instigating her, would An Ran not want to go to school?"

In fact, the cause of the incident was very simple. Because Luo Anran had been following Luo Laosi and Luo Laowu to Si Yahui Group recently, he had developed a keen interest in fashion design.

But fashion design is not something that can be done with just one or two hours a day. Not only do you need to learn the theoretical knowledge, but it also takes time to make clothes according to your own designs.

Luo Anran was troubled for a long time because he didn't want to reduce the practice time for other subjects, but he also wanted to learn more about fashion design.

So after the two generals in the family knew about this, they gave Luo Anran a bad idea.

"An Ran, you always say that going to school is a waste of time. If you already know all the knowledge taught by the teachers, why don't you just not go and go when you feel you need to go."

As soon as this bad idea came out, Luo Anran's eyes lit up, and she started to do the work of her mother Luo Laoer.

Who is Luo Laoer? He is a traditional Chinese parent who puts learning first.

Not to mention not going to school, even now there are many sports like tennis that no one wants Luo Anran to learn, thinking that it is a waste of study time. They told her very clearly to give up on it.

Even though he hit a wall with his mother, Luo Anran was not discouraged. If there was anyone in this family who could make his mother surrender, it would only be Luo Nianzhong and Luo Wang Yunhua.

However, the old lady spoiled her, but Luo Anran knew that she and her mother were on the same front when it came to education, so the only breakthrough point was her father.

Unexpectedly, Luo Nianzhong, the daughter-slave, did not follow Luo Anran this time and also expressed his opposition.

It’s not that Luo Nianzhong didn’t believe what Luo Anran said about how he already knew it, nor did he insist on asking Luo Anran to learn it again to consolidate and deepen his knowledge, but that environment was what he cared about.

Luo Anran's school is the most aristocratic school in Hong Kong. Its students are all children from major families in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia. Luo Nianzhong feels that this network is much more important than studying fashion design.

In a big family like theirs, it doesn't matter even if you can't do addition and subtraction within 100. What matters most is your connections and sophistication, and both require interacting with people.

"I asked your mother to ask for leave for you today. Go to school obediently tomorrow."

Okay, in terms of feelings, it’s better to act first and ask for permission later, which is similar to Luo Nianzhong when he was young.

Seeing his precious daughter pouting unhappily, Luo Nianzhong walked over and touched her little head soothingly.

"Okay, your little mouth is big enough to hold an oil bottle.

If you want to study fashion design, there will be plenty of opportunities and time in the future. Now you should go to school and make friends.

Let's go, I know you are unhappy, today daddy will accompany you to go shopping in ParknShop supermarket."

"Hehe" When Luo Anran, who had an angry face, heard that they were going to ParknShop, he immediately smiled.

I don’t know if it’s because when I was a kid I thought supermarkets were free and you could take whatever you want, but going to the supermarket has become one of Luo Anran’s ways of pastime, just like women going clothes shopping on the street.

Watching his precious daughter happily running upstairs to change clothes, Luo Nianzhong looked like an old father.

It has been two months since I came back from Ermao, and a lot of big things have happened during this period.

First of all, the situation in the Middle East has finally ended, and Shadamu was finally defeated.

On November 11, the armies of the United States and Judah entered Baghdad. A day later, Shadamir surrendered and withdrew from the oil kingdom.

The old cowboy was soft-hearted and let Shadamu go instead of arresting him.

His idea was very simple, that is, after this war, the domestic economy of Shadamu was in a state of disarray, and the people would not vote for him in the election.

As long as the spokesperson they support can come to power, it doesn’t matter whether Shadamu is released or not. Letting him go can also demonstrate the democracy of the United States.

As for the territory, I don't know how the United States and Judah negotiated, but the occupied land was returned, and Judah's losses were compensated by Shadamir.

At this point, the Middle East began to enter a period of stability, but behind the calm there are undercurrents.

Apart from the problems in the Middle East, the biggest international event was the announcement of the disintegration of the Polar Bear two days ago, the day after Christmas.

A behemoth that has been dominating the world for more than half a century has finally fallen. There is only one superpower in the world now, and no one knows when this superpower will collapse.

Economically, the global focus recently has been on the pharmaceutical industry.

At the end of October, Swedish pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca first acquired Sandoz, a chemical pharmaceutical company in Basel, Switzerland, and then announced a merger with the pharmaceutical department of Imperial Chemical Industries of Britain to form AstraZeneca.

Then on November 11, GlaxoSmithKline was established by combining Glaxo, Wellcome, Beecham, SmithKline Beckman and some small pharmaceutical companies in the UK.

Just before the relevant people had digested these two explosive news, on the 21st, France's Synthebourg integrated Sanofi and Rhone-Poulenc, and Germany's Hoechst Pharmaceuticals to form Sanofi Pharmaceuticals Group.

At this point, the three major pharmaceutical giants in Europe have taken shape.

The Rothschild family owns Sanofi, the Rothschild family owns GlaxoSmithKline, and the Wallenberg family controls AstraZeneca.

The three parties hold shares in each other, but each has absolute control over the companies they control.

Just when everyone thought that the integration of the pharmaceutical industry was over, explosive news came from the United States.

Johnson & Johnson wants to acquire the Dutch pharmaceutical giant Akzo Nobel, and Merck is in merger negotiations with Schering & Bottega Veneta. If the negotiations between the two pharmaceutical companies go smoothly, the world will form a structure of six super pharmaceutical companies.

The Age of the Pharmaceutical Trust

This is the title given by some Western media to the earthquake in the pharmaceutical industry in recent times. Although it is a bit exaggerated, these six major pharmaceutical companies do control more than half of the global pharmaceutical market.

However, these remarks mostly appeared in tabloids. Whether it was the three parties of Luo, Nian and Zhong, or the Luo faction led by the United States, they all hoped that this matter could be completed smoothly because they all had common interests.

Together with Pfizer Bristol-Myers Squibb, there are six major pharmaceutical companies in the world. They have the power to set prices for drugs, and price increases for drugs in the future are inevitable.

Capital also understands this, so the listed stocks of the six major pharmaceutical companies have seen significant increases, with the lowest increase exceeding 20%.

This is international news, but Hong Kong people are most concerned about Hong Kong news.

In the past two months, the most talked about topic among Hong Kong residents after dinner is the occurrence of several murders, which happen every year in Hong Kong Island.

There is also the establishment of the New Territories University of Science and Technology. The transformation of Hong Kong's industries has made the Hong Kong government begin to pay attention to technological development.

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University is more industrial-oriented, so establishing a university focusing on science and technology and the Internet has been put on the agenda.

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology established by the Luo family is very good, but the talents that come out of it are generally divided up by the Far Eastern Group and large enterprises. Hong Kong needs a cradle that can provide such talents for small and medium-sized enterprises.

It was this call from society that led to the official establishment of the New Territories University of Science and Technology in August 1991.

Luo Nianzhong looked at the various preparatory work and materials. Isn’t this what later became the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology?

But now that Luo Nianzhong has snatched this title, the Hong Kong government has changed HKUST into the New University of Science and Technology.

Including the New Territories University of Science and Technology, there are five universities in Hong Kong Island.

Island University of Hong Kong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, New Territories University of Science and Technology and Law's Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

In addition to these five universities, there are eight professional colleges.

The Hong Kong government has announced that it will inspect eight professional colleges within two years and will upgrade two of them to universities.

In business, it is good news for real estate developers.

The Hong Kong government has issued relevant documents to encourage real estate developers to reclaim land in the southern part of Lamma Island.

With the increasing number of high-income talents in Hong Kong Island, the demand for luxury homes and villas is growing.

Compared with the large inland environment of the New Territories, the scenery of Lamma Island is undoubtedly more attractive to home buyers.

Moreover, with the advancement of the super reclamation project between Lamma Island and Ap Lei Chau, land transportation between Lamma Island and Hong Kong will be fully opened up in the future. The Hong Kong government also plans to build a fast channel connecting the two places and build a light rail, so transportation will no longer be a problem.

It is this situation that has led to a flood of land reclamation applications from real estate developers to the Hong Kong government, with both large and medium-sized developers wanting to get a piece of the pie.

The large amount of capital investment has also enabled Hong Kong Island's economy to maintain rapid growth.

Economic growth represents an increase in personal income, and the increase in personal income is best reflected in consumption.

When Luo Nianzhong brought his two generals Heng Ha and Luo Anran to the ParknShop supermarket on Lantau Island, they were shocked by the long queues at the shops nearby.

"What is this place? Is it so hot?"

It looks like a supermarket. Is there any supermarket in Hong Kong Island that is more popular than ParknShop? A new rising star in retail?

But he was overthinking it, this is also an industry of ParknShop Group.

"The new supermarket opened by ParknShop Group is called HolyFoods, a luxury brand in the supermarket industry.

I have been there and found that the products are mainly healthy and affordable luxury, most of which are not available in general supermarkets.

But to be honest, it’s just that, the price is several times or even dozens of times more expensive, it doesn’t feel worth it, but it is very popular among the middle class.”

I see. So they are those high-priced supermarkets that came later.

Glancing at Luo Laosi who looked disapproving, Luo Nianzhong wanted to say, "Of course you think it's not worth it. What do you enjoy every day? Do you spend money on it?"

Luo Nianzhong, who was originally not interested in such new things, had to use a privilege that he would not normally use when he saw Luo Anran's excited and hopeful look on his face.

After one phone call, a middle-aged man in a suit and tie walked out of Holy Foods within three minutes and immediately found Luo Nianzhong and others not far from the entrance of ParknShop supermarket.

"Mr. Luo, I am the manager of this holygoods, you can just call me Xiao Xie."

Seeing that the man was in his forties and was almost balding, and yet he asked Luo Nianzhong to call him Xiao Xie, Luo Laosi on the side couldn't help but burst out laughing.

Luo Nianzhong glared at her unhappily, then said to her calmly, "Old Xie, thank you for your help."

“No trouble, no trouble.” Old Xie waved his hand quickly.

"Mr. Luo, ladies and gentlemen, follow me. Let's go in through the cargo passage. There are too many people at the main entrance and it is not convenient to go in like this."

It was a very thoughtful consideration. Luo Nianzhong smiled and followed it to a remote open space at the back, where the freight passage and freight elevator were located.

After entering the door, Lao Xie found two carts for the few people.

"Then Mr. Luo, you guys go around first. You can call me if you need anything."

"Okay, thank you, Lao Xie."

"It should be."

Old Xie left, and the two generals Heng and Ha were pushing a cart ready to go, while Luo Anran was pushing another one impatiently.

"Let's go." Luo Nianzhong reached out and took Luo Anran's bike, and the four of them started shopping.

When they arrived at the fruit section, Luo Anran pointed at the price of the black-skinned watermelon and said, "Dad, isn't this black jade bead what we eat at home?"

Luo Nianzhong took a look and found it was true. He knew that this kind of watermelon was the latest research result of Xiannong in the past two years. He didn't expect it to be sold so expensive.

He didn't know how much an ordinary watermelon in Hong Kong Island sold for now, but it was definitely not as expensive as the Black Jade Pearl, which sold for 16 Hong Kong dollars per pound. It was not an exaggeration to say that it was a sky-high price.

Later, when talking about black-skinned watermelons, many people would think of the sky-high priced black-skinned watermelons from the island country, but this kind of black-skinned watermelon has been popular among rabbits as early as the 80s.

This type of watermelon has brighter color, more moisture, and is sweeter, but it also has many flaws.

First of all, it is too big, and it takes a family several days to eat one watermelon.

Another thing is that the rind is too thick, sometimes even one-quarter of it is rind.

The most fatal thing is its yield. The low yield per mu is the fatal reason why it is not liked by rabbit melon farmers.

However, Xiannong saw the difference. After continuous research and cultivation, although its yield was not solved, its size and skin thickness were under control.

Nowadays, black-skinned watermelons are over ten pounds in size after careful care. They are round and very attractive, and the skin is no different from that of ordinary watermelons.

At this time, its characteristics of being juicy and sweet became apparent, and it was regarded by Xiannong as a high-end fruit and exported to developed areas.

Because of its round luster, it looks like a piece of black jade, so it is named black jade beads.

Except for watermelon, almost all fruits in holyfoods are of the best varieties. Not only are they priced high, but the descriptions on the packaging are also very detailed.

For example, this black jade bead not only has information such as its origin and variety indicated, but even its sweetness is also indicated.

But for Luo Nianzhong, these were just for fun. Luo Anran, on the other hand, enjoyed shopping and bought a lot of things.