While Li Guangyu was holding a cocktail party to celebrate his victory over the British consortium, Du Yuemei's negotiations with the British Telecom Group were also coming to an end.
This time, since there is no trouble from the Swire Group and some families, Du Yuemei does not need to repeatedly raise the price to make acquisitions.
Since the British government took out the telecommunications group for privatization, it proves that the current telecommunications group is just a burden of the British government, and its internal finances must be worrying. It would be good for them to take over with its market value. If it were not for the purpose of winning Hong Kong
Du Yuemei would not offer such a price without the approval of the airline.
Originally, if the British government and the telecommunications group were not greedy, it would be fine if their own group had hundreds of millions more funds. Li Sheng was forced to think about forcibly acquiring the Swire Group. The extra funds used in the Swire Group would naturally have to be made up from here.
Therefore, in this price negotiation, Du Yuemei suppressed the market value of the telecommunications group to a very low level. This made the senior executives of the telecommunications group no longer interested in talking to Du Yuemei. They knew that Du Yuemei would definitely lower the price during this renegotiation, but they did not
I thought Du Yuemei would be so cruel.
The last market value given to the telecommunications group was US$3.2 billion, but this time it was halved, with only a price of US$1.6 billion. It was a joke. If I and others agreed to such a price for the acquisition by the Li Group,
It would be tantamount to treason yourself.
During the negotiations that day, the two sides broke up unhappy. These senior executives contacted Thatcher, reported the details of the negotiations, and requested that they stop negotiating joint ventures with the Lee Group.
Thatcher didn't expect that Du Yuemei would change so much, and that she could pay such a price. This didn't seem like she wanted to invest in a telecommunications group.
Thatcher didn't want the first important project she launched to be difficult to produce, so she had to contact Du Yuemei again and have some discussions with her.
At the same time, I am also very dissatisfied with the Swire Group and those families. If they hadn't interfered, there wouldn't have been so much trouble.
Thatcher is now facing increasing pressure. The British economy is still not improving, the government's fiscal deficit is rising, and domestic inflation is rising sharply. She now urgently needs some consortiums to invest in the country to improve the domestic economy.
If it weren't for this, Du Yuemei offered such a price, Thatcher wouldn't even want to talk about it. Although the telecommunications group has some problems in its development, it has not been sold at such a low price.
After Du Yuemei came to the Prime Minister's Office, she calmly replied to Thatcher's inquiry: Your Excellency, Prime Minister, after understanding the situation of the Telecom Group in detail, we believe that the market value of the Telecom Group is not much different from what we gave. I think
The price we gave is quite reasonable. But we learned that the telecommunications group is operating at a loss every year, and your government has to invest about US$5 million every year to ensure the operations of the telecommunications group.
Thatcher said: Ms. Du Yuemei, I know you are quite dissatisfied with the previous negotiations, but please show some sincerity. It is impossible for our telecommunications group to be transferred to you at such a low price. Please don’t act out of emotion.
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Du Yuemei didn't want to offend the British government too much. After all, many companies in the Li Group still wanted to make money from them. However, she was unwilling to pay too high a price to acquire the telecommunications group. The reason why she called out such a high price this time was because
Bargaining.
Du Yuemei said: Your Excellency Prime Minister, our Li Group invests to make money, not to do charity. The telecommunications group is quite difficult. If we want to recover the cost, it is estimated to take ten years. Even if it is such a long time
Time, this is not certain yet, our Li Group does not want a large amount of funds to be squeezed into this, and the market value of this group, I think your evaluation agency has seriously overestimated it.
Thatcher was a little speechless. If the telecommunications group made money, it would be your Li's consortium's turn to join the joint venture. I'm afraid the local families would have already gathered around.
However, Thatcher felt that the Lee Consortium was quite optimistic about the future development of the telecommunications industry, otherwise the Lee Consortium would not have invested huge sums of money in transforming and upgrading the Heung Kong Telephone Group in Hong Kong.
Thatcher said: Ms. Du, I will not negotiate like a businessman. Our government now needs reform, and your Lee Group has done a very good job in this regard. After the original Jaguar company was transferred to you, it achieved
Very good development. I believe that the telecommunications group can develop rapidly if it is run by you. You and our government each make concessions. We do not need you to purchase at a premium, and you should not think about buying at a low price. What do you think?
Although this price has reached her goal, she still hopes that the British government will grant some permissions to the Lee Group in other aspects so that the Lee Group's expansion in Hong Kong will go more smoothly.
Du Yuemei said: Your Excellency Prime Minister, our Lee Group very much supports the work of local governments in any region, and we also hope that the government will not treat us differently. Especially in Xiangjiang, which is the foundation of our Lee Group. We will not talk about other places.
But in Xiangjiang, we hope that the government can treat our Li Group and the British-funded consortium equally.
Thatcher did not immediately reply to Du Yuemei's question. Just kidding, if the Li Group were to receive the same treatment as the British Group, I'm afraid the British Group would completely disappear in Hong Kong. Now they have some special care from the Hong Kong government.
, have been suppressed like this by the Lee Consortium, and completely losing the preferential treatment from the government will definitely be a disaster for the British-funded consortium.
Thatcher said: Ms. Du, now your Li Group has received the same treatment as the British-funded group in many places. The Hong Kong government has basically no restrictions on your Li Group. Our government has always been very supportive of the development of Chinese enterprises in Hong Kong.
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Du Yuemei said: Your Excellency Prime Minister, our Lee Group believes that the power to issue Hong Kong dollars is controlled by HSBC and Standard Chartered, which is not conducive to the stability of Hong Kong's financial market. This requires our Chinese banks to also have such power in order to maintain the stability of Hong Kong's financial market.
balance.
Thatcher did not expect that the Lee Consortium would be so aggressive. It had just broken the British consortium's monopoly on the Xiangjiang aviation market, and now it was eyeing the right to issue Hong Kong dollars. She would not agree with Du Yuemei's opinion, at least at this time.
impossible.
Thatcher said: Ms. Du, you have too many demands, and your Lee Group controls too many things. Sometimes it is not good for you. It doesn't matter to us in Britain. After all, we are a capitalist country, but over there in Xiangjiang
, you and Mr. Li Guangyu still need to think more about it. We welcome your Li Group to invest here. Our government will definitely protect your assets. Our private property is sacred and inviolable.
Du Yuemei knew that Thatcher wanted to put a thorn in the heart of the Li Group, which would be beneficial to the negotiations between their government and the mainland, but she ignored it. She believed that Li Sheng had already considered it in his heart.
Du Yuemei said: Thank you Prime Minister for your concern for our Lee Group, but our Lee Group has great confidence in Hong Kong. We believe that Hong Kong will develop better and better. As long as your government can treat British-funded consortiums and Chinese families equally,
I believe that Hong Kong's economy will only get better and better. Several large British-owned foreign banks in Hong Kong have been decayed for more than a hundred years. They are no longer capable of carrying the banner of Hong Kong's economic development.
Thatcher didn't find that Du Yuemei really didn't take the British-funded consortium in Hong Kong seriously. At the same time, she was very disappointed with the major British-funded consortiums in Hong Kong. Enterprises with hundreds of years and so many resources from the government were suppressed by the Chinese-funded consortium.
In this state, they are really a bunch of trash.
Thatcher said: Regarding the issue of the right to issue banknotes in Hong Kong, this matter is of great importance. I cannot give you immediate approval. This matter will be discussed after we have discussed it.