429, The four major foreign banks jointly cooperated with HSBC for the first time
Hong Kong Club!
Several of the most powerful and influential businessmen in Xiangjiang are sitting in a private room here!
Shen Bi, the general manager of HSBC, Niubijian, the chief executive of Jardine, Swire, John Madden, the chief executive of Wheelock, Qi Dezun, the chief executive of Hehe International, and Li Jiacheng, the chairman of Cheung Kong, who broke in.
But now it is Li Jiacheng, the intrusive chairman of Changshi, who is presiding over this meeting.
"Everyone, the funds in Changshi's hands are about to be used up. The next step should be our second step plan. We invite you here this time just to see if you can follow the previously agreed plan.
Has our new company begun to add your chips?"
Li Jiacheng sat there and preached calmly.
But in fact, Li Jiacheng was a little excited at this time. Being able to bring together the four major foreign banks in Hong Kong and HSBC, regardless of the outcome of this acquisition war, this one thing alone would be enough to leave him in the business history of Hong Kong.
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Of course, this kind of surge is fleeting, and Li Jiacheng understands that if he can't get Qingzhou Yingni, then it's useless to say anything!
At the same time, Li Jiacheng still has some worries. Some of them can change their minds at any time in a few days. Although this may not be very big, it cannot be said that it is not possible.
Shen Bi, who supported Li Jiacheng the most, also spoke at this time.
"Everyone should have known about the acquisition process in the past few days. Changchang Real Estate has now acquired the shares of Qingzhou Yingni. If you want to take control of Qingzhou Yingni, you still need the shares of Qingzhou Yingni, and the remaining
We need four people to sell the shares together with HSBC."
Regarding the process of Changshi's acquisition of Qingzhou Yingni, documents are sent to the hands of Shen Bi, the four major foreign banks and HSBC, every day. Everyone present understands the current situation.
Although HSBC has previously provided a loan of HK$100 million to Lijiacheng's Cheung Kong, it must still be prepared to cover the bottom line.
Qi Dezun was the first to speak, "Mr. Shen, Li Sheng, in the acquisition process, there is only the case of Changshi's acquisition of Qingzhou Yingni. Everyone now wants to know what step Chu Huan's Chinese Real Estate has acquired Qingzhou Yingni. If Chinese Real Estate acquires
If Qingzhou Yingni has more shares than we do, I think we will have to change our acquisition strategy next."
Li Jiacheng replied, "Master Qi Dezun, it's not clear how many shares Chu Huan has acquired in Qingzhou Yingni, but one thing I can be sure of is that Chu Huan's shares in Qingzhou Yingni are definitely not as large as ours!"
Qi Dezun leaned on his chair and said calmly, "Li Sheng, it's not that I doubt you. This is an acquisition worth more than one billion. Although we have already agreed on the next acquisition plan, there are still some things that need to be made clear.
Okay, I remember there is an old saying in China, which is to put gentlemen first and then villains, and this should be the case in business."
Shen Bi raised his eyebrows slightly, not very satisfied with Qi Dezun's attitude at this time. After all, everyone had already discussed the next step plan before, and now they just wanted to confirm it, but they didn't expect Qi Dezun to attack at this time.
Just thinking that Hehe International's influence would be needed later, Shen Bi could only look at Li Jiacheng and ask Li Jiacheng to tell Qi Dezun his own analysis!
However, Li Jiacheng's expression did not change. In his opinion, although Hehe International has emerged from the quagmire, its vitality has been severely damaged. If he wants to regain his position as one of the four major British-owned foreign companies, he needs to make a shocking decision. Now
This is it.
"What Mr. Qi Dezun said is not unreasonable. As for this judgment, it is based on the situation of the Xiangjiang stock market in the past few days.
I think even if I don’t tell you, everyone should be watching the stock market in Xiangjiang recently. At this time, Qingzhou Yingni’s stock can be said to be priceless but not marketable. Both the major securities firms and the shareholders are actually waiting and watching.
, except for a few who are in urgent need of money and will sell their Qingzhou Yingni stocks, everyone else wants to see what happens next.
If Chu Huan wants to get more shares of Qingzhou Yingni, he must make a fuss about the existing shareholders of Qingzhou Yingni. According to my investigation in the past few days, Chu Huan met Li Ming, a shareholder of Qingzhou Yingni.
Ze, Zhang Yuliang, Yang Yuanlong, and Chairman Daniel Cook, and Zhang Ke, manager of the Negotiation Department of Jiaku Consulting Company, contacted the shareholders of Qingzhou Yingni on a large scale.
But the result was not very good. Daniel Cook and Li Mingze had clearly rejected Chu Huan, and Zhang Ke's gains were limited. On the contrary, Zhang Yuliang and Yang Yuanlong had unclear attitudes and could not be sure.
Now we just assume that the two of them have sold their Qingzhou Yingni shares to Chu Huan, and Chu Huan’s Qingzhou Yingni shares will not exceed ours!"
"I know Yang Yuanlong, the chairman of Esquel, is now preparing to make ready-made garments. What does Zhang Yuliang do?"
Yihe Taipan New Bijian asked with some doubts.
Li Jiacheng said, "The Zhang family started in the Western medicine business in the 1950s, and later got involved in the real estate industry. It is unknown when exactly they became shareholders of Qingzhou Yingni!"
Haha, there are still many things you don’t know. Wheelock’s John Madden thought with complicated emotions. At the same time, he also became more aware of Zhang Yuliang’s low profile. Even he didn’t know that Zhang Yuliang turned out to be Qingzhou Yingni.
shareholders, but at the same time, they did not expect that Zhang Yuliang would very likely sell Qingzhou Yingni's shares to Chu Huan.
He decided to wait until today's party was over to find Zhang Yuliang and ask about the matter properly.
"Since these two people can become shareholders of Qingzhou Yingni and their families are quite wealthy, how could they sell their Qingzhou Yingni shares to Chu Huan at this time?"
Shi Huaiya didn't care much about the identities of these two people. There were too many people in Xiangjiang who were good at hiding wealth. It was not surprising that there was such a Zhang Yuliang family. What really puzzled him was that now anyone with a discerning eye in Xiangjiang could see that Qingzhou Yingni's stock price
The price will definitely rise, so why would the other party sell it at this time?
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Do they also owe Chu Huan a favor?"
John Madden asked.
Li Jiacheng was able to obtain Ross & Co.'s stocks in Qingzhou Yingni because Robert owed favors to HSBC and Wheelock. At this time, Li Jiacheng shook his head and said, "I don't know, but according to my guess, Chu Huan must be Hua Huan."
It cost a lot of money, otherwise there is no reason to explain this problem."
"If that's the case, why didn't Chu Huan spend a lot of money to buy Qingzhou Yingni's shares from people like Daniel Cook and Li Mingze?" Qi Dezun asked.
"Everyone, everyone!"
Shen Bi knocked on the table and said seriously, "What we should be more concerned about now is our next plan!
As for whether Chu Huan got the Qingzhou Yingni stocks from Zhang Yuliang and Yang Yuanlong, we can wait until this meeting is over to find out, but now don’t forget the purpose of all of us!"
After Qi Dezun and others fell silent, he said, "I have already said before that we at Hehe International cannot do the exchange of shares for shares. I hope everyone can understand this matter. After all, Chu Huan is also now
We are the major shareholder of Hehe International. At the same time, Hehe International relies on the help of Chu Huan's Jiaku Consulting Company for its current reform, so I must ensure that I own more shares of Hehe International than Chu Huan.
So this time, we, Hehe International, can only provide support of HK$50 million in the next step of the plan!"
Although Qi Dezun's decision was made at the beginning, Shen Bi still couldn't help but preach.
"Qi Dezun, although Chu Huan is now one of the major shareholders of Hehe International, with the support of our HSBC, even if we take out a few shares of Hehe International, there will be no problems!"
Qi Dezun still said calmly, "Mr. Shen, I am more willing to believe myself in this kind of thing, and there is something that Mr. Shen may not know yet."
Shen Bi looked at Qi Dezun and asked, "What's going on?"
Qi Dezun thought for a moment, and finally waved his hand and said, "Forget it, I said it hurt my feelings!"
You have already hurt my feelings. Shen Bi is such a smart person. He immediately understood what Qi Dezun meant. He is only the general manager of HSBC, not the chairman. In other words, his promise cannot give Qi Dezun much trust!
The current situation of John Madden's Wheelock is better than that of Hehe International. When he saw that Qi Dezun was able to withdraw 50 million Hong Kong dollars in cash at one time, he couldn't help but asked curiously.
"Qi Dezun, everyone understands the current situation of Hehe International. Can your company come up with so much cash at once?"
It is ridiculous to say that Hehe International, as one of the four major foreign banks in Hong Kong, was suspicious of John Madden when he took out 50 million at this time. However, at Chu Huan, the Chinese businessmen in Xiangjiang were able to spend tens of millions one after another.
cash out without being weirded out.
This is actually not surprising at all. Although Hehe International encountered operational bottlenecks before, Hehe International's size is still there, and their influence is still there, but there are problems with cash flow.
On the other hand, the Chinese businessmen in Xiangjiang have inherited the tradition of Chinese businessmen and hid their wealth!
For them, only having a certain amount of liquidity in their hands can make them feel at ease.
Just take Li Jiacheng, after becoming famous, it is said that Changshi can mobilize 200 billion in cash flow at any time. It can be imagined how much Chinese businessmen value cash flow.
Faced with John Madden's inquiry, several other people also showed curious expressions. Everyone knew about Hehe International's previous situation. Although it is now getting out of the quagmire, it is still surprising to come up with 50 million in one go.
In fact, the reason for calling Hehe International this time is more to use Hehe International's influence in Hong Kong, rather than how much effort it will make in this matter!
This is a consensus that everyone has privately not made public.
Qi Dezun said with a smile, "Just before, Hehe International has reached a consensus with Yunhai Chain, and will sell its Watsons shares to Yunhai Chain in cash. Don't we already have the funds!"
When everyone heard what Qi Dezun said, they all showed surprised expressions.
First, I was surprised that Qi Dezun actually sold Watsons. You must know that although Watsons is not like real estate, as a retail industry, it can still bring a certain amount of cash flow to Hehe International.
But then this surprise disappeared. One of the previous problems of Hehe International was that the relationship between the head office and its various subsidiary companies was not so tacit, and there were even cases where the subsidiary companies refused to provide cash to support the head office.
Now Hehe International is selling its shares in Watsons, probably in order to continue to lose weight and sell a disobedient subsidiary company in exchange for a considerable amount of cash. It is understandable!
Second, he was surprised that Qi Dezun actually knew the chairman of Yunhai Chain. You must know that the chairman of Yunhai Chain is very mysterious in Xiangjiang. He can be said to be a top-notch existence.
But I didn't expect that Hehe International would be able to do business with the other party now.
Li Jiacheng immediately asked, "Chu Huan helped contact him?"
Everyone knows that Hehe International is currently implementing a weight loss plan with the help of Jiaku Consulting Company, which is why Li Jiacheng asked this question.
"Of course not!" Qi Dezun shook his head and said, "It was the other party who took the initiative to contact us. They probably knew about the weight loss plan our company was implementing, so they asked us about the possibility of acquiring Watsons. After thinking about it, I agreed with them.
acquisition request."
Shen Bi asked, "Why doesn't HSBC know about this?"
As one of the major shareholders of Hehe International, HSBC must go through a board meeting to sell Watsons, but now he doesn’t even know about it?
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Things seem a little strange!
Qi Dezun looked at Shen Bi and said with some regret, "Teacher Sha Ya knows and agrees with this matter."
The eyes of Niubijian and others looking at Shen Bi began to change.
Shen Bi's expression became increasingly ugly, and he naturally did not ask about this matter again.
Everyone also had a tacit understanding and did not mention this matter again, but focused their attention on John Madden of Wheelock.
With a relaxed smile on his face, John Madden said, "As agreed before, Wheelock will use 5 shares to exchange shares with Qingzhou Yingni. At the same time, Wheelock will also spend 100 million."
The Hong Kong dollar comes out to support Changshi’s continued acquisition of Qingzhou Yingni shares!”
Although he looked relaxed, John Madden was actually cursing his mother in his heart.
Currently, the Madden family only holds 246 shares of Wheelock. This was during the previous stock market crash and oil crisis. The Madden family repurchased part of Wheelock's shares. Otherwise, their family would not have even owned 20 shares of Wheelock.
All gone.
But now we must not be embarrassed by this matter.
Wheelock must show its dignity as one of the four major foreign companies!
Wheelock's market value at this time was HK$71.1 billion, and the market value of 5 was HK$35.55 million, plus 100 million in cash, which equaled a total of HK$10,000.
Again, although Wheelock's market value is not as high as Qingzhou Yingni's, its size and real asset value are not comparable to Qingzhou Yingni's.
One more point, Lijiacheng now has the courage to acquire Qingzhou Yingni with the support of the four major foreign banks and HSBC. However, if Qingzhou Yingni is replaced by Wheelock, then Lijiacheng will not be enough.
"Thank you, Chief Madden!" Li Jiacheng knew about Wheelock's situation and thanked John Madden.
John Madden maintained his demeanor with his forehead slightly raised and said, "We are also preparing for the development of Wheelock."
Rather than saying that Lijiacheng's Cheung Kong is acquiring Qingzhou Yingni, it is better to say that Lijiacheng's Cheung Kong, HSBC, Jardine, Swire, Wheelock, and Hehe International are jointly acquiring Qingzhou Yingni.
After Cheung Kong acquires the controlling stake in Qingzhou Yingni, it will use the shares to establish a company whose shareholders are Cheung Kong, HSBC, Jardine Matheson, Swire, Wheelock, and Hehe International.
Among them, HSBC holds the smallest share, but what Shen Bi values has never been Qingzhou Yingni's shares, but the result of using this matter to break Chu Huan's business fortress.
What's more, the 100 million Hong Kong dollars taken out previously were lent to Cheung Kong in the form of a loan, and not only did they have to pay back interest, but they also had to pay interest.
Li Jiacheng didn't feel disadvantaged by this, because he also wanted to use this to form a cooperation with Chu Huan.
Fighting is a process, cooperation is the goal!
The ideas of the other four major foreign banks are actually similar to theirs.
Seeing that John Madden also expressed his stance, Newbijian and Shiyok Shihuaiya looked at each other, and then Shiyok made a gesture of invitation.
Newbigan said, "I have had a phone call with Mr. Henry Keswick before, and the other party agreed to our cooperation request. Jardine Matheson will provide shares of Landmark 5 and Wharf 3 in this acquisition. At the same time,
Jardine Matheson will also provide HK$100 million in cash to support this acquisition!"
Although Newbikin is now the boss of Jardine, in fact he is just a senior wage earner. In this situation, he can only ask Henry Keswick, who has become a member of Parliament in London, for instructions.
The current decision has been made after reaching a consensus with Henry Keswick.
Li Jiacheng was immediately pleasantly surprised when he heard the conditions given by Jardine. After acquiring the milk company, Land's market value has reached nearly 5 billion Hong Kong dollars, and Wharf's market value is also between 100 million and 100 million. In other words, these two companies
This acquisition brought a value of about HK$3.3 billion, plus HK$100 million in cash, which equals 4.3 billion.
No one present could have imagined how high the market value of these two companies would rise due to land prices in Xiangjiang in the next few years.
Take Wharf as an example. During the final battle between Y.K. Pao and Jardine Matheson for Wharf, Y.K. Pao spent HK$2.1 billion in cash to obtain shares of Wharf 19. According to this calculation, Wharf Wharf was
Its market value has reached HK$11 billion.
Of course, this price is artificially high. At that time, Pao Yugang purchased Wharf shares at HK$105 per share. In fact, after the battle for Wharf ended, Wharf's share price fell directly to HK$745 per share.
The most important thing is that before this takeover war began, Wharf’s share price was actually only HK$36 per share!
From this we can also see how brutal the Wharf acquisition war was.
As for Land, when it entered the 1980s, its market value exceeded 10 billion.
But that's all for the future. Now these two companies have this value.
After Newbijian finished speaking, everyone turned their attention to Swire Swire.
Schweizer said calmly, "We at Swire will also provide 5 shares and 100 million Hong Kong dollars in cash to support this action!"
When Li Jiacheng heard this figure, he finally breathed a sigh of relief. According to the closing price on Friday, the market value of Swire Pacific was about HK$3.5 billion. 5 shares would be worth HK$17.5 billion, plus HK$100 million in cash.
That’s 27.5 billion Hong Kong dollars.
Li Jiacheng quickly calculated the gains from this meeting in his mind, Hehe International 50 million, Wheelock 100 million, Jardine 4.3 billion, Swire 27.5 billion, a total of 100 million Hong Kong dollars.
If it is really calculated at HK$20 per share of Qingzhou Yingni, with this stock and cash worth HK$100 million, you can get 10,000 shares of Qingzhou Yingni, that is, the shares of Qingzhou Yingni, plus the Qingzhou Yingni that you have already acquired.
The shares are the shares of Qingzhou Yingni.
They are still 363 short of their target of 51, which means they still need HK$09.2 billion.
Everyone knew the difference in cash, so they all looked at Shen Bi.
The remaining funds need to be made up by HSBC. You can't just save our money and ignore the rest.
However, everyone still had some doubts in their hearts at this time, and this doubt was due to what Qi Dezun said before. Is Shen Bi really about to lose power in HSBC?
Facing everyone's gaze, Shen Bi knew what they were thinking. There must be no hesitation at this time, so Shen Bi said directly, "HSBC will join this company as a shareholding of the remaining money!"
After receiving Shen Bi's answer, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and the matter was finally settled.
But this is just the first thing today, there will be a second thing later.
Because everyone understands that if there is no intervention from the Financial Secretary to temporarily suspend the trading of Qingzhou Yingni, then the stock price of Qingzhou Yingni will definitely rise in the coming days, and their situation will be very unfavorable by then!
Although it is said that with the intervention of the four major foreign banks and HSBC, their stock prices will increase, no one dares to determine the specific increase now.
So now everyone's purpose is the same. The stocks of Qingzhou Yingni are suspended. The stocks of the four major foreign banks, Changshi, and HSBC continue to be listed on the exchange. Then the value brought by the increase in their company's stock price can be used to deal with the situation.
subsequent emergencies.
"Xia Dingji must be thinking about taking advantage of this incident to improve the Hang Seng Index. What everyone has to do now is to put pressure on Xia Dingji and ask him to suspend the trading of Qingzhou Yingni's stock on Monday, otherwise he will stop trading later.
Bad for us!"
Shen Bi preached to everyone seriously.
Shi Huaiya said, "I have made an appointment with Xia Dingji to play golf together tomorrow morning. If you have nothing to do, I think everyone can go there together!"
When everyone heard what Shi Huaiya said, they immediately showed expressions of admiration. While they were still thinking about how to put pressure on Xia Dingji, Shi Huaiya had already taken action.
Then several people naturally said that there was no problem.
Li Jiacheng said, "I will also make an appointment with Daniel Cook in Yingni, Qingzhou tomorrow afternoon, but I hope that the New Orleans Taipan can call Mr. Henry again today. Now Mr. Henry is a member of the British Parliament, and most of Daniel's business is in
In England, I think the other party’s attitude will definitely loosen after receiving a call from Mr. Henry!”
Newbijian said calmly, "There is such a problem. Mr. Henry has been waiting for the outcome of our meeting!"
Now that the matter is being discussed, this matter has basically come to an end. Shen Bi raised his glass again and said with a smile.
"Everyone, in order for our first cooperation to be successful, I suggest you all try it out!"
The other five people raised their glasses together, with a smile on everyone's face, and clinked glasses with Shen Bi!
After they finished the meeting, Shen Bi originally wanted to call Qi Dezun to discuss something, but seeing that John Madden had already found Qi Dezun at the first opportunity, he decided to contact Qi Dezun later.
Li Jiacheng was sitting there thinking about how to use the stocks and cash in his hands until Monday to complete his plan to compete with Chu Huan for Qingzhou Yingni.
As a result, when Li Jiacheng looked up, Shen Bi and others had already left.
Li Jiacheng stood up and prepared to leave.
The waiter from Hong Kong Club came over with a smile, holding the bill in his hand, "Li Sheng, this time you spent a total of Hong Kong dollars, plus the consumption is Hong Kong dollars, would you like to pay by cash or check?"
Lijiacheng ""
"Can the boss of Yunhai Chain make an appointment to meet?"
At this time, John Madden and Qi Dezun were sitting in the same car, and John Madden asked Qi Dezun.
Qi Dezun was stunned for a moment. He originally wanted to see Chu Huan at this time and tell Chu Huan what they had just discussed, but he did not expect that John Madden found him at the first time and now asked him
The matter of Yunhai chain.
So he curiously asked John Madden, "What's wrong?"
John Madden said calmly, "I am preparing to sell Lane Crawford recently. I want to see if Yunhai Chain has any ideas in this regard."
Qi Dezun said seriously, "We at Hehe International have no objection to Wheelock selling Lane Crawford, but Wheelock's real estate company cannot sell it."
Hehe International is actually the second largest shareholder of Wheelock. The first largest shareholder is the Zhang Yuliang family, the second largest shareholder is Hehe International, and the third largest shareholder is John Madden.
This is another reason why John Madden has been able to suppress Zhang Yuliang to control Wheelock. The combined shares of Wheelock held by him and Hehe International exceed Zhang Yuliang's.
Qi Dezun is his closest partner.
John Madden was stunned for a moment. Qi Dezun had never cared about Wheelock's development plan before.
But I didn't expect that Qi Dezun would now value the real estate industry as much as Zhang Yuliang.
"Do you really believe in the future of Xiangjiang?"
Qi Dezun laughed and said, "At least Xiangjiang's real estate industry seems to have great development potential!"