Rebirth of Hong Kong 1981

   Chapter 753 In Progress

   It's September 20th

this day

  The British side officially announced that Margaret Thatcher is about to pay a state visit to China, and the itinerary has been confirmed.

   The inland side also responded to this by formally inviting British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to visit China.

  Compared with the previous government, neither of the two governments has spoken out about the Hong Kong issue. This time, the media of both countries have clearly reported the intention of Margaret Thatcher's visit to China.

   Regarding the issue of the return of Hong Kong, the attitudes of the two governments are clearly the same, and there is no further evasion.

   When various reports from the outside media were flying all over the sky, in the office of the chairman of Hang Seng Bank, after Yang Chen listened to the reports from Zheng Hiquan and Li Guowei, a trace of displeasure flashed on his face.

   He originally wanted Li Guowei to negotiate with some of Jardine's shareholders and let them sell the shares to them, but he didn't expect that few people would give face.

   After the Wharf incident, Chinese capital has been secretly acquiring the shares of Jardine He Group, and the amount of shares held by the Chinese shareholders of Jardine He Group is already the largest shareholder Keswick Family after Jardine.

  The actual controller of the Jardine Group has always been the Keswick family, but since the outbreak of the oil crisis and the Latin American debt crisis, the Keswick family, like many European consortiums, has faced the crisis of capital chain rupture.

The Keswick family was originally a major shareholder of Jardine. As long as there were no problems, basically no one could have an impact on the Jardine. However, with the global economic downturn and the failure of investment in Latin America, the Keswick family’s financial crisis intensified. This resulted in an unstable situation in the control of Jardine.

   Earlier in the Wharf incident, the charter king took advantage of the Keswick family's inability to help Jardine, and robbed the Wharf from Jardine.

   Yang Chen is the same this time, he is also going to give Jardine a thunderous blow while the Keswick family is unable to support Jardine.

  Huo Jianxuan analyzed: "Boss, the debt pressure of Jardine He Group is now unprecedented, and the debt is as much as 10 billion yuan, which has broken through the bottom line of each bank. Now there is no bank in Hong Kong that is willing to continue to lend to Jardine He.

Next, as long as our side is quick enough to pull down the shares of Jardine Land, and then quickly acquire the shares in the market, raise the stock price, and make the Jardine Group have no money to buy back the shares, then they can only do Watch us act.

   At the same time, in order to prevent the Keswick family from supporting Jardine, we can launch a takeover battle against the Keswick family in London to compete for the control of Jardine's parent company in London.

   In the two acquisition battles, no matter one side wins, it can have an impact on the other side. At that time, we will negotiate with those shareholders one by one. As long as we do it properly, we should not have a problem with acquiring Jardine Land at the same time. "

   "As long as we control the two companies of Jardine Land, then the subsidiaries controlled by the two companies will also change their owners, and we don't need to buy them one by one.

   If we attacked the subsidiaries of the Jardine Group, it would not only be troublesome, but also easy to disperse funds.

   We only need to concentrate our strength and attack a little bit, the effect will be more obvious, and it will not be too noisy to cause the intervention of the Governor's Office. "

Yang Chen shook his head and said: "The problem now is that few of those shareholders are willing to sell the Jardine shares in their hands. Even if we drag the Keswick family, we may not be able to acquire more shares than them and control the two Jardine Land. company.”

Huo Jianhuo heard the words, his eyes flashed with ruthlessness, and he didn't worry anymore, he said: "Boss, since there are people who don't cry when they don't see the coffin, then we have nothing to hesitate. I just took a look, those who hold Most of the shareholders of Jardine shares have companies in their hands.

  It's hard to say on the London side, but here in Hong Kong, there is Hang Seng Bank. At that time, the boss, you are using the channels of HSBC and Standard Chartered to launch acquisition wars against the companies owned by those shareholders.

  Mrs. Thatcher is going to visit China soon. If things turn out as your boss expects, and the inland side will not give in, then the Hong Kong economy will inevitably be turbulent.

  Since they are unwilling to sell, then we will buy the shares of their companies and exchange them for the shares…”

  After Huo Jianhan finished speaking, Yuan Tianfan and Zheng Hiquan who were present did not react, because Yang Chen had already told them before, and the two of them had already prepared secretly, just waiting for Boss Yang's order.

   Only Li Guowei's mouth twitched obviously, thinking to himself, 'Is it because I am getting old, or is it because the young people are getting better and better. ’

   Obviously, Huo Jianxuan guessed the idea of ​​Boss Yang from the information in front of him, so he directly stated the words.

  Yang Chen glanced at Huo Jianxuan with admiration, Yang Chen was very satisfied with this subordinate who could see through his own mind and took the initiative to take the blame for himself.

  Although the plan has been arranged, it is very important who will be in charge in the end and who will bear the blame for him.

   After all, among the people he was going to deal with, there were quite a few people he knew, such as the charter king. When he bought the Wharf before, the charter king bought a part of the shares of Landmark.

   Not long ago, Li Guowei intended to buy the Landmark shares from the charter king, but the charter king did not agree, obviously he had an idea for the land.

   If he is the next commander, and the charter king will play emotional cards with him, what should he do?

   He has been preparing for so long, waiting so long, the opportunity is rare, and it is not allowed to miss it.

  Once the financial crisis of the Keswick family is lifted, it will not be so easy to buy the Jardine Group.

   After a while, Yang Chen glanced at the four of them, and said solemnly, "Huo Jianhuo is in charge of the actions on the Xiangjiang side this time, and Yuan Tianfan on the London side. I won't intervene in the middle, and all of you will be in charge.

   I have only one requirement, that is, Jardine and Landmark, at least one of them must be in control. At the same time, the two companies, Hong Kong Telephone and Electric Lighting, need absolute control. "

   Absolute control means that you must have more than half of the shares.

   Xiangjiang phone is not bad. Compared with HK Electric, its market value is not very large.

   But HK Electric is different. At the beginning of the year, Jardine spent nearly 3 billion Hong Kong dollars in order to acquire HK Electric. With this amount, only 30% of the shares of HK Electric were obtained.

  After acquiring the two companies, Jardine was burdened with huge debts.

   Of course, the benefits are also obvious. The two companies have not only increased the market value of Jardine and Landmark, but also made the acquirers sigh and sigh.

   At the same time, it further increased investors' confidence in Jardine.

   After all, spending billions to acquire the shares of two companies, in addition to Jardine, other companies, only HSBC can compete with them.

   However, this move of Jardine may be useful to others. The market value exceeds 10 billion yuan. In addition, Jardine Land has mutual control of 40% of the shares. It is really difficult for others to seek control of the two companies.

   Even if you invest several billions, you may not be able to control the two companies. In the realm of Xiangjiang, other than the Yang Chen family, other people or companies may not be able to come up with such a large sum of money.

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   (end of this chapter)