In the private room on the second floor, Chu Huan was chatting with a white man in his forties!
The white male named Roy Bentley is the manager of the import department of HSBC Bank. He is from the same department as the former HSBC boss Sandus. Roy Bentley joined HSBC at the age of 25. He first worked as a loan officer in England. Then he was promoted step by step, and finally became one of the most powerful senior executives of HSBC Bank.
The most important thing is that Roy Bentley and Shen Bi were competitors at HSBC, but Shen Bi's previous branches in Japan and Singapore were too impressive, covering up Roy Bentley's glory. As Sandus and Saya fell in love with Shen Bi one after another, the competition between Roy Bentley and Shen Bi was over before it even started.
"Mr. Bentley, this is the World Time 2523 watch launched by Patek Philippe in 1955. I hope you like it!"
Chu Huan pushed the gift he had prepared in front of Roy Bentley. After several days of investigation by Ma Jizu, Chu Huan set his sights on Roy Bentley.
He has a very good relationship with HSBC's current head coach Shaya, but this is not enough because Shen Bi's abilities and performance are too dazzling. The retired Sandus and most of HSBC's shareholders are very optimistic about Shen Bi. Even if Roy Bentley wanted to compete, he was powerless.
At the same time, Ma Jizu also investigated that Roy Bentley also had a hobby, which was collecting top-grade watches.
Have background, ability, and greed!
After confirming these three points, Chu Huan made an appointment with Roy Bentley tonight.
In order to conquer this Roy Bentley, Chu Huan took out this Patek Philippe watch, which was worth more than one million in the 1970s. The same series was sold for 21.0267 million yuan at the Christie's auction in 2012. !
Faced with Chu Huan's sudden invitation, Roy Bentley was actually not surprised at all. Regarding the fight between Chu Huan and Chang Shi for the Chinese Bank, although it cannot be said that everyone in HSBC knew about it, some interested people could still know the news. .
And Roy Bentley is one of them.
Seeing the watch presented by Chu Huan, which was worth millions of Hong Kong dollars, Roy Bentley did not accept it immediately, but said with a smile.
"Director Chu, I'm afraid I can't do anything about the Chinese Bank. This matter was led by Shen Bi. You also know that Shen Bi's influence in HSBC is only inferior to that of Sha Ya. Even if I want to do something for Chu Dong’s words are too weak-minded!”
Although he liked this watch very much, Roy Bentley believed that Chu Huan took out such a million-dollar watch and found him in the hope that he could help him get the Chinese Bank.
But Roy Bentley understands Shen Bi and understands that what this person wants to do must be done, so it is impossible to snatch the Chinese Bank from Shen Bi's hands!
Chu Huan smiled and said: "Mr. Bentley, you have misunderstood. I have my own plans for the Chinese Bank, and I don't intend to let Mr. Bentley help!"
Roy Bentley was slightly stunned, not understanding what Chu Huan meant. Since he didn't want him to help him get the Chinese Bank, why would he give him a million-dollar watch for no reason?
"There is an old saying in China that no merit will be rewarded without merit. What does Mr. Chu mean by this?"
Chu Huan sighed and said: "I just bought an insurance for myself, and I have been cooperating with your bank for some time, but General Manager Shen Bi doesn't know why, but he always has some hostility towards me, so he took As for the acquisition of Chinese Bank this time, Hang Lung Properties originally contacted Chinese Real Estate first, but General Manager Shen Bi and Li Jiacheng suddenly appeared and wanted to acquire Chinese Bank.
I am planning to acquire the Chinese Bank as the headquarters of the company under my name. It can be said that it is very important to me, but this Chinese Bank is not that important to HSBC.
I originally thought that based on my relationship with your bank, General Manager Shen Bi would definitely give me this face. Unexpectedly, General Manager Shen Bi directly rejected my request.
This also made me more determined in General Manager Shen Bi's hostility towards me.
Since I can’t be friends with General Manager Shen Bi, I also hope to have my own friends at HSBC, so I came here specifically to make friends with Mr. Bentley today!”
Roy Bentley picked up the watch on the table at this time, looked at it with admiration, and then said with a smile: "Mr. Chu has quite a lot of money to make friends!"
"Haha!" Chu Huan laughed loudly and said, "I have always been like this to my friends."
Roy Bentley put the Patek Philippe down again, the smile on his face disappeared, and he looked at Chu Huan with some dissatisfaction, and said: "It's just Mr. Chu, your behavior makes people feel very uncomfortable. This is not like Making friends is more like bribing friends!"
Facing Roy Bentley's sudden change of expression, Chu Huan didn't care and said with a smile: "Mr. Bentley, why do you say that? Gifts between friends are what everyone wants, as long as they don't ask for anything. , where do you start talking about bribery?”
"You don't want anything?" Roy Bentley said, thinking that he had mastered everything: "I read today's newspaper. Black and White Video under Mr. Chu's name acquired Golden Harvest Pictures, and tomorrow Hang Lung Properties will deliver another Land's final payment for the Golden Gate Tower is HK$230 million, which is more than 300 million in cash. In addition, Mr. Chu also wants to acquire the Chinese Bank, which is another expenditure of more than 100 million. I am afraid that the cash in Mr. Chu's hand is not enough. ?”
Since Chu Huan did not want to help persuade Shen Bi to hand over the Chinese Bank to Chu Huan, Roy Bentley thought that Chu Huan wanted to get a loan from HSBC.
Even Roy Bentley was very sure of his guess. After all, no matter how he looked at it, Chu Huan should have some financial difficulties at this time.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Haha, if I get a loan, Shen Bi won't be so wary of me!
In fact, now Chu Huan has also figured out why Shen Bi is so wary of him. It is because he has developed too fast, and Shen Bi has quickly seen the threat.
Now the total assets of Chu Huan on the surface are not comparable to those old British-funded and Chinese-funded consortiums in terms of horizontal scope, but the overall size is no longer weaker than these consortiums, and even purely based on In terms of influence, the entire Chinese-funded consortium in Hong Kong is comparable to Bao Yugang's Global Shipping.
Even if Bao Yugang grew up with the support of HSBC, in Shen Bi's view, Bao Yugang's status has begun to threaten HSBC's position in Hong Kong, so Shen Bi will turn to develop another Bao Yugang. .
In fact, Shen Bi did the same thing. In another time and space, after Shen Bi served as the chief executive of HSBC, his support for Bao Yugang was obviously not as great as before, and he even deliberately removed Bao Yugang's influence.
So at that time Shen Bi turned to support Li Jiacheng!
This is why Li Jiacheng later became the richest man in China.
So now Shen Bi is not worried about Chu Huan's loan. If Chu Huan had taken the loan, Shen Bi would not think that Chu Huan was such a threat.
On the contrary, Chu Huan actually only borrowed 80 million Hong Kong dollars from HSBC. Although he opened the accounts of Hang Lung Properties and Black and White Imaging with HSBC, it was far from enough.
What Shen Bi hopes is that Chu Huan can adopt the method of cooperation between Bao Yugang and HSBC. It is not just cooperation such as loans and opening accounts, but also to allow HSBC to invest in Chu Huan's company.
Only in this way can HSBC better control Chu Huan.
I mentioned before why Shen Bi felt that Bao Yugang was a threat after he was promoted to HSBC's chief executive. It was because Bao Yugang abandoned ship and landed, which made Bao Yugang himself out of HSBC's control.
Li Jiacheng was a very smart man, and he naturally understood what HSBC thought of him, so later Li Jiacheng actively promoted cooperation with Chinese capital. At that time, HSBC's influence in Hong Kong was already far less than before, and in the end it was I can only watch helplessly as Lijiacheng and HSBC, which I have supported, go further and further away!
Of course, Shen Bi was no longer the head coach of HSBC at that time, and Shen Bi's own honor was enough.
"Mr. Bentley, you misunderstood. I have no intention of getting a loan from HSBC. I even have one thing that I want to cooperate with Mr. Bentley on!"
Roy Bentley became more and more curious. Wasn't it because he wanted to help convince Shen Bi, or because he wanted to get a loan from HSBC?
But cooperation?
"What kind of cooperation?" Roy Bentley asked without changing his expression.
"The first phase of Huaye City will be completed by the end of the year. At that time, I want to leave the subsequent financial situation of Huaye City to HSBC. After all, HSBC is the largest and most reliable bank in Hong Kong!"
After hearing this, Roy Bentley couldn't calm down. Since Chu Huan told him about this matter, he naturally needed to handle this matter himself.
Why did Sha Ya leave the cooperation between HSBC and Chu Huan to Shen Bi before?
Don't you just want Shen Bi to accumulate enough achievements from Chu Huan? In this way, when Shen Bi takes over from Sha Ya and becomes the head coach of HSBC in the future, he will be more able to convince the public!
What Shen Bi saw was that if Chu Huan was allowed to develop like this, it would be a huge threat to HSBC, while what Roy Bentley saw was that if he cooperated with Chu Huan, his position in HSBC would be absolutely It will increase as Chu Huan's influence in Xiangjiang increases.
The reason why Sandus was able to firmly occupy the top position of HSBC in the first place was because he discovered and trained Bao Yugang?
Roy Bentley, who had understood all this at this time, looked directly at Chu Huan and couldn't help but ask: "Director Chu, are you serious about this?"
Chu Huan smiled easily: "How could I joke about this kind of thing? As long as Mr. Bentley regards me as your friend, I can ask General Manager Lu Qi of Tianhai Real Estate to contact Bentley the day after tomorrow. Mr. Li, after all, Tianhai Real Estate’s finances have always been handled by Bank of East Asia before, which takes a day!
By then Mr. Bentley will know I’m not joking!”
With a smile that couldn't be concealed on his face, Roy Bentley raised his glass and said to Chu Huan: "Chu, all my friends are willing to call me Roy!"
"Roy!"
Chu Huan clinked wine glasses with Roy Bentley in an obedient manner!
The two looked at each other, smiled, and drank the red wine in each hand!
Afterwards, the two chatted for a while, which was also a way to enhance friendship.
When the two separated at Wuyuehui, Chu Huan did not go home directly, but went to Jian Yueqiang's residence.
If it were in the past, Jian Yueqiang would have fallen asleep at this time, but now Jian Yueqiang has been waiting for Chu Huan in the study.
"Uncle Jian!"
After seeing Jian Yueqiang, Chu Huan smiled and called him.
"Ah Huan, I am already 61 this year!"
Jian Yueqiang took off his glasses, rubbed his eyebrows, and said helplessly.
Chu Huan didn't understand what Jian Yueqiang meant, so he praised him seriously: "Uncle Jian is always strong and healthy!"
Jian Yue waved his hand forcefully and said: "What I mean is that as people get older, sleep quality is very important. I should have gone to bed by this time!"
Chu Huan: "..."
"I thought you weren't going to come to me anymore, but I didn't expect you to come over so late at night!"
When Jian Yueqiang saw Chu Huan's frustrated expression, his mood immediately improved. There were not many people who could give Chu Huan such an expression at this time.
"I will talk to Feng Xunfen about the Chinese Bank tomorrow, but you also know the relationship between our three families. Although we are married, our three families are no longer what they used to be!"
Jian Yueqiang's sister is Feng Xunfen's wife.
Chu Huan made an appointment with Jian Yueqiang this afternoon. He originally wanted to meet in the afternoon, but Jian Yueqiang had a very important meeting to hold, so he had to postpone the meeting to the evening.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Moreover, when Chu Huan came to see Jian Yueqiang, he also called the Jian family to confirm that Jian Yueqiang had not rested yet.
Since Chu Huan didn’t say what was going on on the phone, Jian Yueqiang thought that Chu Huan was buying a Chinese property in Chinatown!
No one in the outside world knew about this matter, but it had already spread among the upper class society in Hong Kong.
Chu Huan smiled and said: "Uncle Jian, you misunderstood. I came here not for the Chinese business, but for the Huaye City business. I came to see you!"
Jian Yueqiang was stunned for a moment, but then he understood what Chu Huan meant.
"Do you want to use this project in Huaye City to get Shen Bi to quit competing with you for the Chinese Walk?"
Chu Huan shook his head and said: "That's what I originally thought, but who knew Shen Bi didn't accept it..."
Later, Chu Huan told Jian Yueqiang about his conversation with Shen Bi and Roy Bentley.
Jian Yueqiang showed a solemn expression. As a veteran in Xiangjiang's business community, although Chu Huan did not tell Jian Yueqiang why he was looking for Roy Bentley, Jian Yueqiang immediately understood what Chu Huan meant.
"Ah Huan, you are playing with fire. If this thing cannot be done, when Shen Bi takes the position of HSBC's top class member in the future, the difficulties you will face will be beyond your imagination!"
Chu Huan said calmly: "There is nothing I can do about it. Shen Bi is so wary of me now. Even if this incident hadn't happened, he would still continue to target me even if he didn't wait for him to take the position of senior manager at HSBC Bank." mine!"
Jian Yueqiang advised: "Don't think about it this way. The reason why Shen Bi targeted you on the matter of Chinese Bank is more to show the strength of HSBC, and at the same time, he also wants you to communicate with HSBC in the way they want. If you cooperate, I won’t be too specific to you in other matters!”
That's because you don't understand what I'm going to do next year. If you did, you wouldn't think so.
But now Chu Huan doesn't want anyone to know about his plan, so he explained: "The way of cooperation that Shen Bi wants is not the way of cooperation that I want. And according to my current development, when Shen Bi gets on the HSBC After taking the position of Taipan, I will still be considered as HSBC’s biggest rival.”
If Chu Huan said this to others, even though Chu Huan is now at the peak of his development in Xiangjiang, those people who heard it would still think that Chu Huan was talking about fantasy things.
After all, HSBC is the most powerful company in Hong Kong, bar none!
But Jian Yueqiang won't, because he knows Chu Huan's situation better than others. Just the fact that a quarter of Youth Toy's financial transactions are through the Bank of East Asia is enough for Jian Yueqiang to understand how strong Chu Huan is at this time. Got it!
Hearing what Chu Huan said and the fact that Chu Huan had already taken action before, Jian Yueqiang knew that there was no need to think about persuading Chu Huan at this time.
"So, you came here tonight specifically to tell me that you want to transfer the funds for the Huaye City project from the Bank of East Asia to HSBC?"
Chu Huan nodded and said seriously: "This is indeed the case."
Jian Yueqiang smiled and felt quite relieved. This was actually Chu Huan's own project. He could use whichever bank he wanted. But now Chu Huan came over to tell him personally about this matter late at night.
This is enough for Jian Yueqiang!
"There is no problem with me, so don't worry!" Jian Yue said to Chu Huan with a strong smile.
Chu Huan smiled and nodded, saying: "Thank you, Uncle Jian!"
"Why are you being so polite to me?" Jian Yue said with a strong smile.
After the matter was discussed, Chu Huan was about to stand up and leave. However, when Chu Huan was about to leave, Jian Yueqiang suddenly said to Chu Huan in an incoherent manner, "Ah Huan, tell me what Chongzhi has to say.
He is not going to return to Xiangjiang!"
Chongzhi, Jian Yueqiang's son.
Chu Huan looked back at Jian Yueqiang who was sitting there, and suddenly smiled and said: "Thank you, Uncle Jian!"
Jian Yueqiang also smiled, then waved his hand and said: "Okay, go back quickly, I want to rest early!"
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The next day!
Feng Xifen met with Li Fushu at Chinese Real Estate!
“I decided to sell Chinese Bank to Cheung Kong!”
After Li Fushu came to his office, Feng Xunfen directly spoke to Li Fushu.
But then he still told Li Fushu: "It's not that I want to give HSBC a favor, but yesterday morning Li Jiacheng raised the price of acquiring Chinese Bank to HK$145 million. I think this price is enough. In addition, I want Chu Huan
You should already know about your situation. The other party first acquired Jiahe, and today he has to pay the final payment for the Golden Gate Tower. We don’t know how much cash he still has in hand."
Li Fushu glanced at Feng Xunfen suspiciously. He was responsible for this matter before. Now that Lijiacheng has increased the price again, it is Feng Xunfen who he is looking for?
Do you think you have no say in China Real Estate?
"What Chu Huan acquires has nothing to do with us. I still think we should communicate with Chu Huan about this matter first. Whether he has the money or not is also his business. What if he can still come up with it!?"
From Li Fushu's point of view, his only idea was to let HSBC and Chu Huan fight for it. The one with the highest price would win anyway!
But now that Feng Xunfen has directly decided to sell the Chinese Bank to Changshi, he naturally feels uncomfortable.
Since Feng Xunfen had reached some secret deals with Li Jiacheng, he would naturally not give Chu Huan another chance.
Shen Shen said: "There is no need to inform Chu Huan about this matter, I have already decided!"
When Li Fushu heard what Feng Xunfen said, he immediately looked at him with dissatisfaction, "Have you decided? Why?"
Feng Xunfen said calmly: "Just because I am now the chairman of the board of directors of Huazhi!"
Li Fushu also preached without giving in: "Don't forget, I have the right to convene a board meeting!"
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Feng Xifen chuckled lightly and said: "Of course, but do you really think you can get the support of everyone in the Li family?"
Li Fushu's expression froze.
Later, one of the most important reasons why the Li family was kicked out of the board of directors of Chinese Real Estate by the Feng family was that the Li family was not as united as the Feng family.
Feng Xunfen is the well-deserved first person of the second generation of the Feng family, and the children of the Feng family are also willing to obey Feng Xunfen's orders.
But not the Li family!
Although Li Fushu is the second generation head of the Li family, the Li family also has a powerful Li Fuzhao. When he was young, Li Fuzhao was called the little bully of the Li family.
Now serving as the chairman of the Hong Kong Far East Association, he is even more powerful, which has also led to the lack of unity within the Li family and the Feng family.
If the board of directors is really convened, Feng Xunfen will definitely get the support of everyone in the Feng family, but this is not necessarily the case for Li Fushu.
The most important thing is that the acquirer is still HSBC!
Li Fushu may not care about HSBC's power in Xiangjiang, but others dare not say so. Besides, they are not the only two shareholders of Huazhi.
Huazhi was listed on the market in 1968. After the listing, in addition to Feng and Li's family, about 30% of the shares were outstanding. These people must be more optimistic about HSBC than Chu Huan.
"A Shu, just think of this as a favor to me. Even if Chu Huan can come up with cash, according to the market value of China Bank, it won't be much higher than 145 million, only two to three million at most.
, how much money can be distributed to each person?
Since this is the case, it’s better to sell it to Changshi!”
After seeing that Li Fushu was silent, Feng Xifen did not force Li Fushu too much, but began to persuade him with good words.
At this time, Li Fushu could only use the slope to get off the donkey, saying: "Since you have decided, I will give you a face, but it only happens once, and it cannot happen again in the future. And don't forget, it will happen soon."
It’s my turn to be the chairman of Huazhi!”
After Huazhi sold the Chinese Bank, it had no high-quality properties in its hands. Apart from a commercial building in North Point, it only had some high-quality stocks, the largest of which were actually HSBC stocks.
Feng Xifen smiled and said: "This is natural!"
Li Fushu left Feng Chenfen's office sulking.
Feng Xifen thought for a moment, picked up the phone on the table, and called Li Jiacheng.
Soon Li Jiacheng answered the phone: "Who is it?"
Feng Xifen smiled and said: "Li Sheng, I didn't expect us to talk on the phone again so soon!"
Hearing Feng Xunfen's laughter, Li Jiacheng felt happy and asked directly: "Feng Sheng called to tell me the good news, right?"
Feng Xifen smiled and said: "Yes, after I came to the company this morning, I discussed it with Li Fushu, and we both agreed that selling Chinese Bank to Changshi is the most appropriate deal!"
Li Jiacheng immediately smiled and said: "I have to say, Feng Sheng, you guys are really discerning!"
Feng Xunfen said: "Since this is the case, Li Sheng should prepare cash, and we will conduct a formal transaction tomorrow morning!"
Li Jiacheng smiled and said: "No problem!"
After the two hung up the phone, Li Jiacheng immediately called Shen Bi. 145 million in cash was not a small amount for Li Jiacheng at this time. After all, the market value of the entire Changshi was only HKD 5.6 billion.
, coupled with this period of time, Li Jiacheng has been quietly taking advantage of the current slump in the Hong Kong stock market to acquire shares in Cheung Kong.
Therefore, Lijiacheng must get Shen Bi's support, not to mention that this matter is the first cooperation between Changshi and HSBC.
After receiving the call from Li Jiacheng, Shen Bi smiled and said: "Very good, the extra 15 million is nothing. The important thing is that you, Li Sheng, will become the first person in the Xiangjiang business community to take advantage of Chu Huan." merchant!"
Chu Huan still has a record in the Xiangjiang business community that no one has broken yet, that is, there is no business that Chu Huan wants to do that cannot be done.
Now that the Chinese Bank has fallen into the hands of Cheung Kong and HSBC, it is basically confirmed, so this matter will naturally become Chu Huan's first failure in the business history of Hong Kong!
Li Jiacheng said modestly: "It all depends on the support of General Manager Shen. Without General Manager Shen, it would be impossible for us at Changshi to obtain the Chinese Bank!"
Is this the person HSBC should support? Understand who the big and small kings are.
Shen Bi was very satisfied with Li Jiacheng's attitude and said with a smile: "Li Sheng is so polite. We at HSBC have always been based on the principle of discovering and cultivating outstanding businessmen, and Li Sheng, you are a very outstanding businessman in Xiangjiang."
Li Jiacheng thanked him again: "Thank you, Manager Shen, for your appreciation. I will definitely not forget HSBC's support."
The two complimented each other and hung up the phone. Li Jiacheng sat in his chair and finally breathed a sigh of relief. The matter was finally settled.
On the other side, although Li Fushu did not take advantage of Feng Xunfen, after all, Li Fushu was still thinking about the Bank of East Asia and did not want to fall out with Chu Huan.
So after returning to his office, Li Fushu directly told He Bingguang of Hang Lung Real Estate about Feng Xifen's decision!
After hearing this, He Bingguang immediately told Chu Huan the matter without any hesitation.
Chu Huan, who was sitting in the office of Jiahu Building, pondered for a while and said: "Make an appointment with Li Fushu for me!"