MacLehose felt relieved when he saw that the Li Group and the Jardine Group had completed all the transactions. As the governor who wanted to develop Hong Kong, MacLehose did not want to see the confrontation between the Chinese-funded consortium and the British-funded consortium in Hong Kong.
They need to support Hong Kong's economic development and social stability. Once the two major financial groups start fighting, the harm to Hong Kong's economic development will be too great.
MacLehose said, "Sheng Li, Mr. Newbigian, thank you for putting aside your disputes for the sake of Hong Kong's economic and social stability."
Li Guangyu said, "Mr. MacLehose, as a person who grew up in Hong Kong, our Li Group also takes Hong Kong as our foundation. Naturally, we hope that Hong Kong's economy can continue to develop well. This also has
It is conducive to the development of our group.”
Newbigian also said, "We at Jardine Matheson Group have been rooted in Hong Kong for more than a hundred years. We at Jardine Matheson Group have always hoped for the stable development of Hong Kong. We at Jardine Matheson are also willing to contribute to the economic stability of Hong Kong."
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When Li Guangyu and the others walked out of the HSBC Building, it was already dark outside and the outside was already under the light of tube lights.
When the reporters who had been waiting outside for a long time saw Li Guangyu and others coming out, they all looked for the target they wanted to interview and wanted to interview them.
The reporters who came here this time were not only local reporters from Xiangjiang, but also some newspaper reporters from Taiwan, Southeast Asia, Japan and England.
A reporter from MacLehose asked, "Mr. Governor, are you here at the HSBC Tower for so long just to mediate the fight between the Lee Group and the Jardine Group?"
MacLehose said, "The Jardine Group and the Lee Group just have some different views on the controlling rights of the two Hong Kong Electric Lighting and Telephone Groups. They also want to better serve the citizens of Hong Kong, so they both want to control the two groups.
, in order to serve everyone, this is not a fight between the two groups."
A reporter from the Sankei Shimbun asked MacLehose, "Mr. MacLehose, our news agency heard that the competition between Mr. Li's Li Group and the Jardine Group for the electric lighting and telephone groups has involved Hong Kong China."
The confrontation between the two major financial groups and the British-owned financial groups. The reason why Mr. Governor came here in person this time is to quell the confrontation between the two major financial groups."
The reporters from Japan obviously hope that the bigger the better. Nowadays, Xiangjiang is known as the financial center of Asia, compared with Tokyo. If the Chinese-funded consortium and the British-funded consortium fight, it will definitely have some impact on the economy of Xiangjiang.
Maybe Tokyo can take over this position.
MacLehose naturally cannot let these remarks get out, as this will cause shock to all walks of life in Hong Kong and will be detrimental to his ability to maintain stability in Hong Kong.
MacLehose said, "I don't know where you got this information from. This acquisition is just that both the Lee Group and the Jardine Group are optimistic about the development of these two groups, so there are some disputes over business. This
It is a very common thing. As for what you said about them fighting on behalf of two consortiums, it is completely false. Most of the enterprises in Hong Kong today are mainly based on cooperation."
When MacLehose was being interviewed, Li Guangyu also had reporters from many newspapers, including reporters from Xinhua News Agency and some journalists from Baodao.
A reporter from Xiangyu Daily asked, "Li Sheng, has our Li Group obtained the controlling rights of Xiangjiang Electric and Xiangjiang Telephone Group?"
"After some discussions with the Jardine Matheson Group, our Li Group will control the Heung Kong Telephone Group, while the Jardine Group will control the Heung Kong Electric Lighting Group," Li Guangyu said.
A reporter from Baodao Economic News asked, "Li Sheng, is this because the Governor and HSBC don't want your group to control Heung Kong Electric Group?"
Li Guangyu said, "This time after friendly negotiations between us and Jardine Matheson Group, the Li Group voluntarily gave up its controlling stake in the Heung Kong Electric Group, and Jardine Matheson also gave up all their shares in the Heung Kong Telephone Group. We have negotiated with the Jardine Group
In terms of equity exchange, our Lee Group has now acquired 97.4 shares of the Heungkong Telephone Group. Next, we will delist the Heungkong Telephone Group and make it wholly owned by our Lee Group."
A reporter from the Industrial and Commercial Daily asked, "Sheng Li, this time the Li Group mobilized huge sums of money to acquire shares of two groups. Now it has only acquired a controlling stake in the Heung Kong Telephone Group at such a high price. What do you think of this?"
Li Guangyu is also a little depressed now. It cost so much, but they only got a Hong Kong Telephone Group with a market value of less than 6 billion Hong Kong dollars before they snapped up it. They didn't take advantage of it, and they lost a fortune.
Li Guangyu said with a smile, "Although the price of this acquisition of Heungkong Telephone Group is a bit high, I believe that under the leadership of the Li Group, Heungkong Telephone Group will soon exceed the current market value."
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In the private room on the second floor of the Peninsula Hotel, Li Guangyu and others are having dinner here. Today Li Guangyu specially invited Li Xuemei, Zhou Xiaoning and Guo Fengtao as well as the group staff who came to HSBC today to have dinner together. After dealing with the reporters, it was already eight o'clock
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Guo Fengtao said to Li Guangyu, "Li Sheng, I'm sorry. I didn't arrange the work well, so that Jardine suddenly took action when it found out that we were acquiring stocks on the market, catching us off guard and causing us to fail to acquire Xiangjiang Electric Lighting Group."
Li Guangyu said, "Feng Tao, I can't blame you. Even if Yihe didn't find out this time, the final result is probably the same. Besides, at that time, I also demanded that a group must be captured. Now this task can be regarded as completed. As for Xiangjiang Electric
Group, we will still have opportunities in the future, so there is no need to worry."
Li Xuemei said, "Li Sheng, who are we going to send as director to the Electric Light Group now?"
Li Guangyu thought for a while and then said, "Xiaoning, you need to send a financial officer to supervise the financial situation of Xiangjiang Electric Lighting Group for us. As for directors, let Ms. Wang Xinyu, the vice president of Xingyu Group, take up the position of director there.
, just go and attend a meeting."
After Li Guangyu returned home, Cao Weiqing was still watching the TV series. Li Guangyu said, "Weiqing, why haven't you rested yet? It's getting late now. It's not good for the baby in your belly if you stay up late."
Cao Weiqing said, "I know, isn't it because you didn't come back so late today? I'm not reassured, so I couldn't sleep. Did you encounter any problems in the negotiations with HSBC today? Otherwise, why did you come back so late?"
Li Guangyu briefly told Cao Weiqing what happened this afternoon.
Cao Weiqing said, "Guangyu, then we suffered a big loss this time. We spent more than 9 billion to fully control the Xiangjiang Telephone Group with a market value of more than 5 billion Hong Kong dollars, and control the Xiangjiang Telephone Group with a market value of less than one billion Hong Kong dollars.
The shares of Electric Light Group have lost billions."
Li Guangyu comforted him and said, "It's okay, we will make it back soon. Besides, we won the Xiangjiang Telephone Group, which will be very beneficial to my future layout. In the future, this group will also provide services to Xingyu and Xiangyu."
Like the Li Group, it provides a steady stream of cash for our Li Group."
When Cao Weiqing heard that Li Guangyu said that this group could be compared with Li's two best groups today, he immediately became happy.
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