After the discussion between MacLehose and Li Guangyu, he called the British media and asked them to stop reporting on news about Li Guangmei.
After MacLehose gave the order, he ignored it and went to prepare the Christmas dinner with his wife An Xin.
Henry Keswick was quite unhappy when he learned the news. As a caring person, he would pay close attention to any issue involving Li Guangyu, and this time was a great opportunity for him to fight back against the Li consortium. Unexpectedly, Mai Li
Hao adopted a calm attitude to deal with the matter.
Without media reports, Xiangjiang would not have any influence on the Li Group, and the pressure on their British consortium would not be relieved. How could he be happy?
I originally thought that the incident that happened in the morning was the best Christmas gift God gave me, but the result was really different from what I imagined. If the government does not investigate the Li Family Group's problems this time, the Li Family Group will not have any pressure.
Especially recently, he received a report from the top management of Wellcome. Li's Huanyu Supermarket Group is looking for stores everywhere in Xiangjiang, and the locations are quite close to Wellcome. The goal of the Li's consortium is self-evident, which is to
They came with Yihe.
Henry Keswick knew that once Hengyu Supermarket was ready, their opening would be the beginning of a war between Jardine Matheson and the Lee Consortium in the retail field.
What worries him most is that their old rival Watsons will definitely join in. Li Guangyu is the second largest shareholder of Hutchison Whampoa. Wellcome will be in a situation of one against two, and the situation will be quite unfavorable to Jardine.
In the evening, Henry Keswick had no intention of spending Christmas. He made an appointment with Shen Bi and George Lavin in a box at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel to discuss how to use this opportunity to give Li
The consortium suffered a heavy blow.
Shen Bi is the person here who wants to knock down Li Guangyu the most. Standard Chartered Bank still has a way out. Their headquarters is in London, and it is not easy for the Li Group to target them. HSBC is headquartered in Hong Kong, and their business is mainly in Hong Kong.
The Lee Group's influence on HSBC has been so great that their business has shrunk by more than half this year.
Shen Bi also hopes that through this incident, the government will cancel the business of some banks under the Li Group and reduce the pressure on HSBC.
George Lavin said, "Shen Bi, Keswick, let's not think about it in Xiangjiang. In order to maintain the stability of Xiangjiang's economy, the government will not let Li Guangyu get involved in such a whirlpool. Once the Li Group gets into trouble,
But it won’t end so simply. You have to know how much turmoil it will cause in Hong Kong once it comes out that Li Guangyu supports the other side.”
Shen Bi fell silent after hearing this. Even the British government was not willing to involve the Li Family Group in this matter. As long as something like this happened, no matter what the British government did in the end, it would be a loser.
How much influence the Li Group has now can be seen by looking at the number of employees under its umbrella. The Li Group now has more than a dozen groups and companies.
The number of employees in Xiangjiang alone exceeds 60,000, and tens of thousands of families are involved behind it. This does not include companies that Li Guangyu does not control. Once those groups join in, the situation in Xiangjiang will be uncontrollable.
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Henry Keswick said, "Shen Bi, Lavin, no matter what happens this time, Li Guangyu is responsible. He must give an explanation to the local government. What we have to do is to use our support in England to
The connections nearby are insisting on this matter, putting pressure on the Li Group, so that they have no intention of suppressing us here."
Henry Keswick hoped that the government could let Li Guangyu withdraw from some industries. Unfortunately, he knew that this was unrealistic, and he and others did not have such great influence in England.
Regarding Henry Keswick's proposal, Shen Bi and George Lavin thought about it for a while, but neither objected. They also hoped to cause more trouble for the Li Group in the mainland, and they knew that some local MPs still clung to the British. The glory of the imperial period simply looked down on people in Asia. As long as they fanned the flames, they believed that some members of Congress would stand up and put pressure on Thatcher.
Shen Bi said, "Keswick, George, this is a very good opportunity for us. The British Thatcher government and the Lee Consortium are in the honeymoon period. They will not think of making things difficult for the Lee Consortium. So we need more Contact some congressmen and ask them to put pressure on the government in parliament and ask them to impose sanctions on the Lee Group, especially in the financial aspect. It is best to impose some restrictions on them."
George Lavin had no objection, but Henry Keswick quit and worked with us at Jardine to make profits for your two major banks. It would not be good for you just to restrict the financial development of the Lee Group. Heke doesn't have much use, it can only be cheaper for HSBC and Standard Chartered.
Henry Keswick immediately objected and said, "Shen Bi, your proposal is inappropriate. We should impose restrictions on the Li Group on public service enterprises. Their control of these enterprises has a great influence on Hong Kong and is not conducive to our government's influence on Hong Kong." The control of Xiangjiang is best to allow them to withdraw from the holding of these enterprises."
Li's current Kowloon Bus, Heung Kong Telephone and Xiangjiang Airlines are all related to the travel and life of Hong Kong citizens. Once these companies cease operations, Hong Kong will immediately fall into chaos. This is where the influence of the Li Group lies.
Shen Bi did not agree with Henry Keswick's proposal. What a joke. Asking the Li Consortium to withdraw from these industries would directly lead to war with the Li Consortium. And the government would never agree to such an opinion. This is to force the Li Group into the opponent's camp.
Shen Bi said, "Keswick, please don't mention these unrealistic conditions. There is no need to discuss these unrealistic things. What we want to do now is to use this incident to get the Li Group to make some concessions." , but you want to ask the Li Group to spit out what you have eaten, this is simply a joke."
George Lavin also said, "You should know how hard Li Guangyu has worked for these companies, such as Xiangjiang Airlines, which did not hesitate to take 50% of the British Telecom Group's shares. You want him to spit out these companies, Li Guangyu I will definitely fight you tooth and nail. I think you, Yihe, cannot bear such a blow if you force the Li Group. Considering that Li Guangyu’s own group doesn’t have a penny of loans, you will know how terrifying it is.”
Even if George LaVine thinks of this, he is unwilling to go against the Li Group. The Li Group is now valued at nearly 100 billion Hong Kong dollars. In addition to Xingyue Real Estate Group, due to its joint venture with the Fujiwara family, it has a loan from Sumitomo Bank. In addition, other groups now do not have a penny of debt, and these groups still have sufficient funds to expand.
It's just that Standard Chartered Bank is in such a position now. It's hard for him not to go against the Li Group. He can't just watch Li Guangyu's financial group step on Standard Chartered's rise to power.
Even if Shen Bi proposed to restrict some businesses of Li Guangyu's financial group, he also expressed doubts about the success of this. Du Yuemei had a lot of relationships in England for one or two years, especially with Coventry. The superior county councilors are very supportive of the Lee Group, and many members of the Thatcher government and their Conservative Party have close ties with Du Yuemei.
Henry Keswick never expected that such a proposal would be passed in England. He just hoped to make the matter bigger so that he could put more pressure on the Lee Group there and reduce their pressure on Yihe here. Side pressure.
Henry Keswick said, "What we need is to drag the energy of the Li Consortium back to the mainland so that they can't take care of the problems in Xiangjiang. This can also reduce the pressure on us. You also know that the Li Consortium is targeting us again." Jardine is going through a new round of layout. Once they complete the plan, Jardine will be hit hard again."