Just after Li Guangyu left Heung Kong, Jardine Matheson Group Chairman Nuo Beijian began planning to counterattack Li Guangyu's secret acquisition of Heung Kong Electric and Heung Kong Telephone Group.
As early as a few days ago, Nubigian received a report from group personnel that the circulating shares of Heung Kong Electric and Heung Kong Telephone Group were continuously decreasing in the stock market. Recall that the circulating shares of Wharf Group were also large some time ago.
Reduced, Nubigian felt that someone was targeting him, Jardine Matheson Group.
Nubigian originally thought that the main thing Jardine was guarding against now was the charter king. Now it seems that there is another big crocodile ready to attack Jardine. The decrease in Wharf's outstanding shares some time ago is probably due to the acquisition of Xiangjiang Electric Light on the stock market.
and Heung Kong Telephone Group’s stocks.
After Nubigian arranged personnel to conduct an investigation at the exchange, based on these clues, Nubigian had already guessed who was attacking his Jardine Matheson Group this time.
Although the people who purchased the shares of two groups under the Jardine Matheson Group on the exchange were very hidden, Nubigian still discovered that they had some connections with Tianyu Investment Company, and now Xiangjiang has the ability to acquire the shares of the Jardine Matheson Group.
The only one with strong financial resources is the Li Group.
After Nubigian discovered this problem, he did not immediately launch a counterattack. Li Guangyu was still in Xiangjiang, and the Jardine Group was not fully prepared. While he asked the group to start raising funds, he began to pay attention to Li Guangyu's movements.
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When Li Guangyu left Xiangjiang on April 5, Nubigian immediately convened a meeting of the directors of Jardine Matheson Group to arrange the matters concerning Li Guangyu's group stocks, requiring the group to transfer Wharf, Xiangjiang Electric Lighting and Xiangjiang Telephone
All three groups must be in their own hands.
Wei Jiali, Chief Financial Officer of Jardine Matheson Group, said: "Chairman, if we purchase the shares of three of our groups at the same time, our group's financial resources will be seriously insufficient. At most, our liquidity can only cope with the purchase of shares of one group."
gòu.”
Due to the rapid expansion of Jardine Matheson Group over the years, the group does not have much liquidity, so much so that many of its groups do not have controlling rights. After these days of raising money this time, it is less than 2 billion Hong Kong dollars.
Nubigian said: "I will contact Standard Chartered Bank and ask them to provide us with support to deal with the Li Group's attack on our group."
The reason why Nubigian did not contact HSBC this time but contacted Standard Chartered was that it was afraid that the news would be leaked. The relationship between HSBC and the Chinese consortium was somewhat good, and Standard Chartered was more at ease.
The top management of Jardine Matheson Group naturally has no objection to Newbikin asking for help from Standard Chartered Bank. This time, the Lee Group is coming in force. It is obvious that it wants to swallow up several major groups under Jardine Matheson. Without the help of the bank, their current flow
Funds cannot compete with the Li Group.
Nubigian said: "This time Li Guangyu went to our hometown of Crewe to attend the signing of the Bentley Motor Company acquisition agreement. I have received news from my hometown that the Li Group's acquisition of Bentley cost 1.1 billion Hong Kong dollars, which is very important to us.
Very beneficial.”
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In the afternoon, Nubigian went to visit the chief executive of Standard Chartered Bank and obtained a loan of HK$2 billion from Standard Chartered Bank.
While Li Guangyu and others were discussing the Jaguar issue in Coventry, at 9 a.m. on April 14, Nubigian hosted a high-level meeting of the Jardine Matheson Group and arranged the counterattack.
Nubigian said: "This time the acquisition of shares of several of its groups is fully responsible for the financial director Wei Jiali. We must win the controlling rights of several groups and let the Chinese families in Xiangjiang see that our companies under Jardine are not
They can buy it."
Nubigian also found that the deterrent power of Jardine Matheson Group in Xiangjiang seems to have been reduced. In the past, Li Ka-shing qiǎng gòu Wharf, and later the Bakery King also wanted to take over Wharf. This time, Li Guangyu even thought of eating himself in one go.
The three groups under it really treat Jardine as a sick cat.
After receiving the arrangement from Newbigen, Wei Jiali Deshawn immediately arranged for personnel to carry out analysis on the stocks of several groups.
Tianyu Investment Company arranged personnel to keep a close eye on the movements of the Jardine Group. When the personnel of the Jardine Group traded stocks of several groups on the stock market, they immediately reported to Guo Fengtao.
Guo Fengtao did not dare to neglect, and immediately came to Li Xuemei's office of the Xingyu Group nearby to report the situation to him.
Li Xuemei asked: "Guo Sheng, how many shares has our company acquired from the two groups now?"
Guo Fengtao replied: "Ms. Li, now our company has acquired 17.3% of the shares of Heungkong Electric Group, while the shares of Heungkong Telephone Group are 16.5%."
Li Xuemei said: "How much liquidity does your Tianyu Investment Company have now?"
"Ms. Li, we still have nearly 3 billion Hong Kong dollars in liquidity. The current market value of Heung Kong Electric Group has risen to more than 6.8 billion Hong Kong dollars, and the Heung Kong Telephone Group has also reached more than 6.3 billion Hong Kong dollars. As for Wharf, it has risen.
It has reached more than 4.8 billion Hong Kong dollars." Guo Fengtao said.
Li Xuemei was also prepared for the Yihe Group's counterattack. Since Yihe already knew about her group's stake in other groups, there was no need to cover it up anymore.
Li Xuemei said: "I will mobilize another two billion Hong Kong dollars to your company. From now on, you will do your best to build these two groups and don't let Li Sheng's arrangement be in vain."
Guo Fengtao heard that Li Xuemei had mobilized another 2 billion Hong Kong dollars for the company. He is now full of confidence. The company has nearly 5 billion Hong Kong dollars in cash. He is not afraid of the Jardine Group.
Guo Fengtao said: "Ms. Li, don't worry, I will definitely acquire these two groups under the Li Group, and I will not let Li Sheng's arrangements for several months go to waste."
Li Xuemei said: "You should go back to the company to make arrangements now. I will notify Jiayi Group to promote it. We will increase the price of each share by one level. If the Yihe Group follows up, we will raise the price of each share of the two groups' stocks."
Add one Hong Kong dollar to the stock market price to ensure success this time."
Guo Fengtao said: "Okay, I will go back and perform the operation."
After Guo Fengtao left, Li Xuemei immediately took out the phone next to her and called Xiangyu Group.
"Hello, hello, I am Zhou Liang Shuyi."
Li Xuemei said: "Ms. Zhou Liang, I am Li Xuemei, please immediately ask the Finance Department to transfer 1.5 billion Hong Kong dollars to Tianyu Investment. At the same time, notify the Xiangyu Daily reporter to publish in tomorrow's newspaper that our Tianyu Investment purchased Xiangjiang Electric Light at a high price.
and Heungkong Telephone Group’s stock news.”
As soon as Zhou Liang Shuyi heard what Li Xuemei said, she knew that Jardine Group must have made some moves in the market, otherwise Li Xuemei would not have let him disclose the information and sell it at a high price in the market.
Zhou Liangshuyi said: "Ms. Li, I will arrange these things immediately, and the financial department will immediately transfer the funds to Tianyu Investment Account."
"Okay, you go ahead and make arrangements. I'll hang up first." After Li Xuemei finished speaking, she hung up on Zhou Liang Shuyi.
Later, Li Xuemei called Liu Tianci of Jiayi Group.
"Hello, I'm Liu Tianci."
"Liu Sheng, I am Li Xuemei. Please ask Jiayi TV to broadcast a message right now. Our Tianyu Investment Company has purchased the shares of Xiangjiang Electric Lighting and Xiangjiang Telephone Group at a price one level higher than the market price." Li Xuemei said.
"Okay, Ms. Li, I will make arrangements right away. Do you have any other instructions?" Liu Tianci said.
"You go ahead and make arrangements. I'm fine now," Li Xuemei said.
After Li Xuemei hung up the phone from Liu Tianci, she immediately came to the financial office of the group.
When Financial Director Tao Guihong saw Li Xuemei coming in, she immediately stood up and said, "Hello, Ms. Li."
Li Xuemei said: "Guihong, please immediately arrange to transfer 500 million Hong Kong dollars to Tianyu Investment Company."
"Okay, I'll make arrangements right away," Tao Guihong said.