After Li Guangyu returned to Li's Building, he found Liu Tianci and Zhou Liangshuyi and asked them to stop promoting the Hong Kong Monetary Authority and focus on the upcoming men's volleyball world preliminaries.
As for the leaders of major outside newspapers, they are not fools. The media owned by Li Guangyu have all changed the direction of their reporting, so they will not go against the Hong Kong government. As for those who want to attract attention, they cannot afford to make waves.
Li Guangyu then called Yuan Tianfan and Luo Qianwen and asked them to arrange personnel to go to the Monetary Authority to apply for a banking license as soon as possible, and at the same time, they began to prepare for his family's bank.
Li Guangyu returned to Dao Building and happily arranged the next work. After Shen Bi returned to HSBC, he was in a very bad mood and showed a look on his face that he should avoid strangers.
I worked hard to contact the bosses of the British-funded consortium, just to prevent the Li Group from entering the bank, especially not to get the international settlement business. Unexpectedly, this time the Li Group succeeded.
Thinking that all the business of the Xiangjiang Huazi Group would go to the Li Group Bank in the future, Shen Bi was unwilling to accept it. He had been on good terms with various Chinese families for more than ten years, and even helped the Huazi Group acquire the British consortium for this purpose. He didn't want his companies to be destroyed just because of the establishment of Lee Group Bank.
Shen Bi called the manager of the administrative department and told him: "Contact me all the Chinese-owned families except Li Guangyu and the Ho Tung family, the Lode Cheng family and the Cao Wenjin family, and invite them to participate in the event we will hold tomorrow night. For the HSBC charity auction, the invitations need to be more refined."
Shen Bi wants to take advantage of the fact that the Lee Group Bank has not yet been established to negotiate cooperation with the major Chinese families in Hong Kong, so that the major families can continue to cooperate with HSBC in the future.
Among them, Li Ka-shing, Lee Shau Kee, Guo Desheng and others are the key targets he wants to win over. These are all allies of Li Guangyu. If they all choose to cooperate with HSBC, it will be a big blow to the newly established bank of the Li Group. .
Shen Bi found the manager of the business department and asked him about the repayment of the Li Group. Thinking of this, Shen Bi was even more distressed. He originally wanted to win over a long-term partner with HSBC, but he didn't expect that in just a few A hungry wolf was welcomed in the year, and now it poses a great threat to HSBC.
The business department manager replied: "The first phase of the 1 billion Hong Kong dollar loan of the Lee Group will expire in five days. They have stated that as soon as the time comes, they will immediately return the loan to our bank."
Shen Bi originally wanted to spread the news that the Lee Group's loan of more than 3 billion Hong Kong dollars owed to HSBC was about to reach its repayment period, so as to arouse public concerns about the Lee Group. However, considering the terrifying profits of the Lee Group, he gave up the idea. idea.
This news will have little effect on the Li Group. Shen Bi thought it was just a headache. Which large group in Xiangjiang is not tight-lipped. They are afraid that the bank will collect debts from them and always hope to extend their loan period.
And the Li Group currently has tens of billions in assets, so a loan like this is nothing to the Li Group.
At 7:30 in the evening on March 11, many family heads had already arrived at the Peninsula Hotel. As the time approached eight o'clock, some tycoons appeared at the Peninsula Hotel.
Many newspaper reporters were also reporting outside the hotel to record the people who came. They waited until the charity auction started and did not see Li Guangyu appear. They then thought of the fact that the Li Group was going to establish a bank and understood that the Li Group was about to set up a bank. The family and HSBC are completely alien to each other.
Inside the Peninsula Hotel, after the auction of items was completed, Shen Bi began to talk with the tycoons who came to attend the meeting. He talked about the friendly cooperation between HSBC and everyone present over the years, and hoped that everyone would take this affection into consideration. We can continue to cooperate with HSBC in the future.
After Shen Bi finished speaking, none of the tycoons present gave an immediate reply. They were all very aware of what had happened in the past few days. In addition to not getting the right to Hong Kong dollars in this confrontation, the Li Group had no other rights. Its banking business will be the same as that of HSBC and Standard Chartered, becoming one of the banks with the most comprehensive business in Hong Kong.
HSBC's intention in inviting themselves and others to come this time is very obvious, that is, they hope that the group business of themselves and others will be handled as usual by HSBC instead of being transferred to banks under Li's family.
Among them, the more difficult ones are Li Ka-shing and Pao Yugang. Their current success is indispensable without the help of HSBC. If you ask them to leave HSBC and hand over all their business to Li's banks, they still can't succeed.
But it is even more unreasonable to hand it all over to HSBC. Especially Li Ka-shing. Whether his own group, Cheung Kong or Hutchison Whampoa, the Li Group is the second largest shareholder, and both of these groups hand over their business to HSBC. , I’m afraid the Li Group won’t be willing either.
Shen Bi saw that everyone was silent and the situation was rather embarrassing. So he asked Li Ka-shing: "Mr. Li Ka-shing, I wonder what you think? We at HSBC and your subsidiaries, Cheung Kong and Hutchison Whampoa, have always been happy to cooperate. We hope that we can Able to achieve long-term partnership.”
Li Ka-shing saw that Shen Bi had already asked him by name, and it would not be justified if he did not give an answer. He had achieved his current achievements, and Shen Bi had provided a lot of help to him.
Li Ka-shing said: "Mr. Shen Bi, you also know that these two groups, Li Group, are the second largest shareholders, and I have to consider their opinions. Therefore, it may be difficult to hand over all business to HSBC. I will try my best. Let Hutchison Whampoa's business continue to work closely with you, HSBC."
Li Ka-shing can only ask Hutchison Whampoa to cooperate with HSBC. Without HSBC's help, Li Ka-shing cannot win over Hutchison Whampoa.
Shen Bi is not disappointed with what Li Ka-shing did. The Lee Group has considerable influence in these two major groups. It is already very good for Li Ka-shing to bring Hutchison Whampoa to cooperate with his own HSBC bank.
Shen Bi then asked Pao Yugang. Pao Yugang obtained Wharf. It was HSBC that provided him with a loan of HK$2 billion, which gave them the financial resources to take over Li Guangyu's shares. Otherwise, who would own Wharf? For sure.
Bao Yugang really had a hard time making a choice. He also hoped that Wharf would go to Japan to open up the market so that Lee Group could take him there. If Wharf's business did not cooperate with Lee Bank, how could he have the nerve to seek help from Lee Group.
However, the process of acquiring Wharf was inseparable from HSBC. I am also an independent director of HSBC, so it would not be justified if I did not cooperate with HSBC.
The charter king thought for a while and then said: "Mr. Shen Bi, you have really posed a problem for me. The matter is very important at this time, and I need to discuss it with the group's senior management before making a decision. Don't worry, our Global Shipping Group's business will remain the same. In cooperation with HSBC, Wharf Group will give you a reply in two days."
Shen Bi then also asked some other big guys, and many of them chose to cooperate with HSBC. Some of them used part of it to continue cooperation with HSBC and reserved part of the business for the Li Group. , some are because of HSBC's favor, and some are hoping to have both sides.