Chapter five hundred and forty seventh consultation
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After the meeting, Shen Bi immediately contacted Henry Keswick to discuss the issue of share acquisition.
Henry Keswick was very happy when he received the news. He would not give up Wellcome Supermarket and Xiangjiang Market unless he had to.
After he hung up Shen Bi's call, he waited in the office for a call from George LaVine. He hoped that Standard Chartered could also bring him good news.
As long as these two banks take shares in Jardine Matheson Holdings Group, it will not only give him more confidence to face the Li Group, but also the shares of Jardine Matheson Holdings Group will definitely rise sharply on the stock market, and the shares of Jardine Matheson Land will also rise.
This is huge good news for Jardine Matheson. As the two gods of wealth in Hong Kong, HSBC and Standard Chartered have an influence in Hong Kong that cannot be underestimated. Many people are very optimistic about them.
After waiting for twenty minutes, Henry Keswick finally received a call from George Lavin.
It's a pity that the news from there disappointed him. Standard Chartered Bank did not agree to acquire the shares held by the small shareholders of Jardine Matheson Holdings Group.
Although George Lavin told him that he would report to the London headquarters and ask for support for Jardine, Henry Keswick did not have any hope. The senior officials on the Xiangjiang side were opposed, and the London side was even more unwilling. Will agree.
This is not only disappointing for Henry Keswick, but Shen Bi of HSBC is even more disappointed. He knows very well that if Standard Chartered Bank does not follow up this time, it will be difficult for him to convince the directors of the bank to agree to his acquisition of some shares of Jardine Matheson Holdings Group. .
In the evening, Shen Bi, Henry Keswick and George Lavin came to the Mandarin Oriental Hotel to discuss the matter again.
In a box, George Lavin said: "Shen Bi, Keswick, I have made a detailed report to the London headquarters on the current situation. They have not rejected my proposal for the time being, and they will immediately hold a meeting on this matter. The board of directors will discuss it at the meeting, and I think they will consider it for the sake of the market in Xiangjiang."
Shen Bi is quite dissatisfied with the senior management of Standard Chartered Bank in Xiangjiang. Now they are facing such a severe situation. These people are just focusing on cleaning up their own problems without any long-term vision. They also don’t think about what will happen if Yihe and themselves After the collapse of HSBC, will Standard Chartered survive?
Fortunately, George LaVine can still see clearly, otherwise it will be difficult for them this time. Shen Bi can already smell the smoke of gunpowder. The Li Group is currently working hard to shrink their industry, which is not as drastic as before. expansion.
At this time, the Li Group is the most terrifying. They have a large amount of cash in their hands. When they make a move, they will definitely be overwhelming, and the target will obviously be them.
Shen Bi believed that Li Guangyu must be preparing some plan, otherwise the current situation would not have happened. Senior staff of major groups made a lot of additions, but did not take immediate action. They were focused on stabilizing the development of the Li Group. They must It's just waiting for the opportunity.
Henry Keswick said: "This time I discussed with the group directors again and got a week. I hope you can make a decision earlier. If there is no result within a week, we can only deal with Wellcome." , I don’t want the shares in the hands of these shareholders to fall into the hands of the Li Group. They are not short of money now, and I don’t want to end up in the same situation as Taikoo.”
After the Lee Group took over 31% of Swire Holdings' shares, the Lee Group's influence in the company increased significantly. Cathay Pacific's collective job-hopping was the result of the Lee Group's resident directors in Swire Group.
He is worried that if after the Li Group becomes a director of his Jardine Holdings Group, one day some of the management and employees of his subsidiaries will also quit collectively, he will be depressed to death.
Shen Bi immediately said: "Keswick, don't worry, don't be busy dealing with Wellcome Supermarket at this time. You also know that the Li Group will definitely attack your other industries after the fall of Wellcome. As long as If you, Yihe, have something they like, they will not give up targeting you. For example, Li Guangyu’s air transport group has no intention of letting you continue to hold the shares in the air cargo terminal management company. have."
Henry Keswick is certainly aware of this situation. The reason why Taikoo Co., Ltd. is not being targeted by the Li Group now is because they no longer have anything that the Li Group is interested in.
Currently, the Li Group has basically all the businesses that the Swire Group has. In some aspects, what the Li Group wanted, the Sivaiya family also sold them to the Li Group. Therefore, the Swire Group can now develop steadily. Moreover, if Taikoo Co., Ltd. makes money, Li Guangyu will also make money.
He still owns Milk International Company. This company had a fight with a Chinese family in the past seventy years. He relied on his strong financial resources to snatch it over. He believed that the Li Family Group would not Leave this company alone.
Henry Keswick also had to lament the reincarnation of heaven. In the past, his several large foreign banks relied on the support of the government and their strong financial resources to suppress the Chinese-owned families. Now the Li Group has in turn suppressed his own group.
Henry Keswick said: "I don't want to do this myself, but the current financial situation of our Jardines and the opinions of shareholders have made me have to cut off my arms to survive. If our Keswick family and Jardine family were not as good as last year, If there is a loss, we can take back the shares held by these small shareholders. However, our two companies lost tens of billions of Hong Kong dollars last year, which has already drained our wealth."
Shen Bi's heart ached when he thought about the loss last year. Not only did they lose more than 30 billion Hong Kong dollars that time, but all the money went into the Li Group, allowing the Li Group to carry out a new round of expansion. A typical enemy.
For example, Hengyu Supermarket Group, if it weren't for Li Guangyu's profits last year, how could they have the confidence to fight a price war in Hong Kong for so long.
Shen Bi even suspected that Li Guangyu was plotting against them last year, otherwise he would only short-sell the listed companies of the British-funded consortium at that time. His purpose was to lure himself and others to take the bait, so that some of his own companies would have financial problems. To stall the development of the British-funded consortium.
The effect was obvious: Wheelock was directly eaten by him, Swire Holdings was directly crippled, and many companies were forced to sell off.
Jardine was not much better. Even though the Keswick family and the Jardine family spent a lot of money, they were still forced to sell the Heung Kong Electric Group. If the Singaporean consortium hadn't intervened, it is estimated that this group would have fallen into the trap again. In the hands of Li's consortium.
Shen Bi said: "We still need to stabilize the current situation. Governor Youde will come to take office in a few days. We will communicate with him then. I believe he is not willing to see the situation under his rule. Without the existence of the British-funded consortium, the entire Xiangjiang would be enveloped by the Chinese-funded consortium, which is not what the British mainland and the governor want to see."
Henry Keswick doesn't have much hope of doing this. Things are different now than in the 1960s. At that time, the government could clearly favor them, but now I'm afraid it's unlikely.
If the government dares to do this, it will probably be drowned by public opinion in Hong Kong. The current media in Hong Kong are basically in the hands of Chinese families, and the government only has one radio station.
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