In the morning of London time, after receiving Gan Qin's notice, Du Yuemei contacted the office of the Prime Minister's Office, hoping to visit Mrs. Thatcher in the afternoon.
After receiving the response, Du Yuemei took a vehicle and rushed from Coventry to London, accompanied by bodyguards. Du Yuemei was also in the car thinking about how to persuade the Thatcher authorities to agree to the Lee Group establishing a new airline in Hong Kong.
At this time, after Mrs. Thatcher learned that Du Yuemei had come to visit her, she immediately asked her team if there was any problem with the development of the Bentley Group.
Thatcher is now in a lot of difficulties. The British economy was already in very bad shape, with the inflation rate exceeding 10. Now it is affected by the world financial crisis. All countries have strengthened trade protection, which has hit the British economy again and caused domestic inflation.
It has also risen again, posing great challenges to her governance.
The Bentley Group, as the experimental field for her governance reforms, has developed quite well over the past year, which makes her more confident in her economic reforms. However, with the implementation of the U.S. trade protection policy, the current development of the Bentley Group has also fallen into a trap.
In the midst of difficulties, Thatcher thought Du Yuemei was here for the Bentley Group.
An official close to Thatcher said: We did not receive a report on the big problems in the Bentley Group. Instead, the Lee Group injected another US$1 billion into the Bentley Group for the expansion of the Bentley Group. Today, the Bentley Group
There should be no problem.
Mrs. Thatcher heard that the Lee Group actually invested one billion U.S. dollars at this time. It seemed that the Lee Group had full confidence in the automobile industry. But if that were the case, why was Du Yuemei rushing to visit her today?
Faced with Mrs. Thatcher's question, the official in charge of Hong Kong intelligence affairs replied: I have just received news that the Lee Group is preparing to acquire Cathay Pacific Airways in Hong Kong, but neither HSBC nor Swire Group are willing to sell. MacLean
Hao also reported to us that Li Guangyu hopes to establish a new airline in Hong Kong. MacLehose asked us to think more about the citizens of Hong Kong and allow the Li Group to enter the aviation business in Hong Kong.
One of the officials said: I can recognize MacLehose's economic ability, but he sometimes forgets his identity. We must never agree to let the Lee Group enter and squeeze our British capital market. Now the Swire Group has taken over Cathay Pacific Airways
The business is running very well, so there is no need to let Chinese consortiums in.
Thatcher ignored these arguing officials. She was now thinking about how to make good use of this matter so that their government could obtain greater profits.
Li Guangyu's profits in the stock market are hidden from ordinary people, but in the face of the British intelligence department, what he has has been clearly known here. This time, the Li Group made a profit of more than 30 billion Hong Kong dollars. If these
Funds can be invested in the British mainland, which will relieve a lot of pressure on their government.
As for the interests of the Swire Group, Mrs. Thatcher did not pay too much attention to it. Although the Swire Group has great influence in Hong Kong, in London, it is just a slightly larger group, and its influence here is greater than that of the Swire family.
There are so many characters.
Moreover, the Swire Group is mainly developing in Asia. There are not many industries in London. Thatcher has long been dissatisfied with this. Haven't you seen that the unemployment rate in the local area is rising sharply? Everyone wants to rely on the government to develop various industries.
The region has made profits, but it has never thought of helping the government solve some problems.
At that time, Li Guangyu's side was just a Bentley Group. It invested two billion US dollars in more than a year, which brought development impetus to Coventry's local economy.
This time Thatcher is planning to once again take action against companies that are not managing their public assets well. Instead of letting them drag down the government's finances, it is better to privatize them. In this way, the government can get a sum of funds to use for improvements in other places, while private companies can use them to improve other places.
When development is good, the government can also obtain tax revenue.
Mrs. Thatcher asked the person in charge of Hong Kong affairs: What actions has the Lee Group taken recently?
The official replied: After the Lee Group made profits from the stock market, it increased the expansion of supermarket groups and real estate groups. Their markets are mainly in Baodao and Japan.
After hearing this, Thatcher was thinking about which industries she was planning to privatize and which the Lee Group was willing to take over.
If he puts forward some conditions that the Li Group does not want to enter the industry at all, it is estimated that the Li Group will not agree to it for the sake of an airline. He knows the young man very well through some information and is very rational, so it will not be good for him.
He will never take over the matter.
Mrs. Thatcher also felt sad about the current situation in Britain. The glory of the past was just a thing of the past. As the Prime Minister of Britain, she would actually think carefully about attracting billions of dollars of investment. Thinking of this, Mrs. Thatcher also sighed at the current situation.
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If the current difficulties in Britain are not solved favorably, it will be almost impossible for her to be re-elected, and reform is also facing huge resistance, so she has to deal with it.
This time she hopes to attract foreign capital again and activate the local capital market so that those legislators can see the benefits of the reform. At the same time, some consortiums will definitely join in, so that their reforms can be smoothly implemented.
Mrs Thatcher stopped the officials from arguing and instead asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer to tell them the data for the first seven months of the British mainland to let them understand the current situation.
After the Chancellor of Finance finished speaking, Mrs. Thatcher said: You have also heard about our current economic development. In such a severe time, if we do not speed up reforms, our economy will only get worse and worse. I know some
People always want to protect the interests of British conglomerates, but when our local community needs their investment to improve the domestic economic environment, where are these groups?
Mrs. Thatcher's words left the ministers here speechless. Which of these financial groups doesn't want to wait for the situation to worsen before coming out to buy the bottom? The reason why they are not taking action now is to wait for the government to give them more money when they can no longer hold on.
Big profit concessions are made by a group of people who want to get benefits for free.
Mrs. Thatcher said: This time we need the Lee Group to invest in our country and set an example for foreign capital to invest here. Their Bentley Group is very good. Many auto parts companies in Coventry have let them
They have revitalized it. If our policy on airlines treats the Lee Group differently, how can the Lee Group feel confident about continuing to invest in our homeland?
An official said: But as a result, the British consortium in Hong Kong will become increasingly uncomfortable. Now they have been suppressed by the Li consortium in many industries. Now we only have the right to issue Hong Kong dollar notes.
The airlines held by the Swire Group have a monopoly, and other industries are being impacted by the Chinese-funded consortium headed by the Li Group, making the influence of our British-funded consortium in Hong Kong smaller and smaller.
Mrs. Thatcher doesn't care much about the problems of British-funded consortiums in Hong Kong now. The government has given them so many policies. As a result, the Chinese-funded consortiums have only developed in such a short period of time and have squeezed several major British-funded foreign banks into this. They are a group of people who cannot afford to support them.
Adou. If it weren't for some support from my own government, I'm afraid these British consortiums would have been squeezed out of the Hong Kong market.
Mrs. Thatcher said: The right to issue money must still be in our hands. As for airlines, Cathay Pacific has had a foundation for so many years. If the Lee Group suppresses it as soon as it enters, we cannot blame our government.
It is only their fault that they are incompetent. Such an advantage cannot sustain the development of the company, so it deserves to be squeezed out of business by the airlines of the Lee Group.
When these officials saw that Mrs. Thatcher was determined to let the Lee Consortium enter the aviation industry, they no longer stopped it. Instead, they discussed which local industry they wanted Li Guangyu to enter and handed over poorly managed companies to the Lee Consortium.