39 Charity Dinner (Part 1)
"Sir, please show your invitation."
Victoria Hotel, the entrance to the top banquet hall.
The waiter smiled and politely stopped the two reporters at the door.
These two reporters are both well-known reporters from the newspaper. They originally wanted to disguise themselves and sneak in, but they were finally stopped outside the cocktail party. These two reporters are very famous in the industry and are not people who are just having fun. One of them once sneaked into a drug manufacturing group and filmed the crime undercover process. They belong to the most bold type of people in the newspaper.
However, at the door of this cocktail party, they were stopped and had no temper at all. They could only blame their bad luck and turned around and left. As for finding other ways to sneak in, or taking out a reporter's certificate and forcing them to break through, they didn't dare to think about such things.
According to rumors, the people attending this cocktail party are either rich or noble. If they offend anyone, their newspapers will not be able to continue.
For example, the Chief of Police of Hong Kong Island, the Minister of Commerce of the Government, the Industrial Tycoon Mr. Lee, the CEO of the Financial Association...
These famous figures will attend this charity dinner with their wives.
The organizer of this evening was Mr. Zhou Xingzu, the first philanthropist in Hong Kong.
If you can take photos of these people gathered together and accompany the title of how many Hong Kong dollars donated by the charity party, you can imagine that tomorrow's newspapers will definitely be sold out. Unfortunately, Zhou Xingzu no longer likes to be featured in newspapers and rejects interviews from all newspaper media.
But the reporter who smelled the wind just came to try his luck. Since he was not lucky, he could only go home.
The waiter watched the reporters leave expressionlessly. This was the tenth wave of people stopped tonight. Some of them wanted to sneak into the evening party to make connections, some reporters from newspapers, and even a few big circles who wanted to do things and make money.
I guess those big circle boys just arrived in Hong Kong Island and thought they could make a fortune by finding a magnificent building. Unexpectedly, the poor big circle boys hit the iron plate when they came to Hong Kong Island. The moment they pulled out their guns, they were subdued by the guards disguised around them. These guards were all genuine bad guys, and they were specially designed to protect the safety of the No. 1 brother.
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The magnificent hall.
A spotlight hit the center, and a smiling figure walked onto the stage.
Zhou Xingzu was wearing a white suit and as the host of the party, standing in front of the microphone: "Education is the foundation of the country, and knowledge is the future."
"Thank you very much for being invited tonight's charity party. I am Zhou Xingzu and I am an endorsement of knowledge charity." Zhou Xingzu bowed and thanked him. His humorous self-introduction made everyone in the audience laugh.
Although people cannot fully understand the adaptation of a short joke, they can also feel an interesting taste.
Many unmarried ladies couldn't help but lit up.
Zhou Xingzu continued: "I believe everyone knows that if I do charity, I only work in schools. Tonight's charity party is also about school projects, but not for the fundraising of Zhizhi Primary School, but for the construction of Zhizhi Middle School, a fundraising activity will be carried out."
"This charity fundraising does not involve charity auctions, nor does it involve pledge fundraising. I don't want anyone to take the opportunity to launder money, but the number one brother is watching from the bottom." Zhou Xingzu joked and burst into laughter.
The charity party fundraising project is to build knowledge for a while, and the guests have known this for a long time.
They are willing to come, so they are naturally preparing to donate money. Moreover, the people here are basically not short of tens of millions, and hundreds of millions of dollars are all small money.
Of course, it is not easy to invite them.
If it weren't for Zhou Xingzu's reputation for being devoted to charity, and the twelve primary schools of knowledge, they would have been there. The people in front of them might not be willing to accept Zhou Xingzu's invitation.
After all, Zhou Xingzu is just a junior. Whether the big guys love to come depends on their mood. However, in Hong Kong in the 1990s, the big guys were busy making money. The hundreds of millions wanted to turn into tens of billions, and the tens of billions wanted to turn into hundreds of billions, and they almost never thought about doing charity.
Zhou Xingzu became a pioneer invisibly and won the affirmation and respect of the big guys with practical actions, which made them willing to attend this party. If Zhou Xingzu had just arrived in Hong Kong Island, even if he had the title of King of Gambling King, it would not be worth mentioning in the eyes of the big guys.
However, the method of donating charity parties is nothing more than a charity auction or a fixed amount of payment subscription. Apart from these two methods, is there any other good way?
The guests' curious eyes were all focused on Zhou Xingzu's face, looking very excited.
As for the sarcastic things Zhou Xingzu said, the guests also laughed secretly. Because there have indeed been some people using charity parties to launder money in the past two years. But those are little people of unknown origin and cannot be compared with today's scenes.
What's more, there was no real good deed for such charity parties. The knowledge elementary school built by Zhou Xingzu was a real achievement.
There is no money laundering in such a charity party, otherwise why would you dare to invite the No. 1 brother to attend? But the eyes of many guests unconsciously swept towards the No. 1 brother nodded to everyone with a very demeanor.
In the expectant eyes of the guests, Zhou Xingzu asked his assistant to bring out a newspaper and uncovered the answer: "The things written on this newspaper are all parts that need to be raised by the Knowledge Middle School. Each person is only allowed to donate one, and the guests who donate will become members of the Knowledge School Charity Foundation."
"Knowledge School Charity Fund, the members of the board have the responsibilities of verifying the whereabouts of funds and supervising the use of funds."
Zhou Xingzu came up with this solution just for the long-term development of the charity fund.
He hopes that the movie world is a real world, and that if he leaves this movie world, the charity fund he has established can continue to be maintained.
With the participation of these big names in front of you and serving as a member of the fund, not only can we avoid the internal decay of the charitable fund to the greatest extent.
Even in the future, the "knowledge school" may become a world-famous charitable fund.
The guests have always believed that charitable donations are naturally hope, and the more you donate, the better. This is the first time I heard that the rule of limited donation is really strange.
However, after watching the fundraising project, they came to see that the fundraising projects were very special.
There are dozens of items including "Knowledge Middle School Textbook", "Knowledge Middle School Desk", "Knowledge Middle School Contracting", "Knowledge Middle School Teacher Salary", etc., covering almost all parts of a school.
As long as all the projects are put together, it will be almost a school.
This is not just money, but similar to donating goods, or a long-term nature.
Because for example, someone donated the "Knowledge Middle School Textbook" project, he would have to donate the textbook fees for all knowledge middle schools in the future.
Although it is a long-term nature, no one of the guests present felt it was bad. Instead, they all gave thumbs up in their hearts and praised Zhou Xingzu. This is the real attitude of doing charity.
After all, how much money can you spend on just donating one project?
In the eyes of the guests present, this amount of money is not considered money at all, at least much lower than they expected.
What's more, if you pay money, you can even put a name in a charity fund. No matter how you look at it, you will make a profit.
Because the guests can see that the "Knowledge School" charity fund after tonight is definitely the No. 1 Charity Foundation of Hong Kong Island.
Some people say that the more schools are built, the longer they will last. Each project is donated, and the more donations they will pay will be paid soon?
But by that time, the fame they brought to them would be something that they could not buy even if they had money. Anyone who donated the project hoped that the knowledge school would be able to open more and more knowledge schools, and the longer they would be able to open.
Chapter completed!