After seeing Bao Yugang hang up the phone, Wu Guangzheng asked Bao Yugang nervously.
Bao Yu just sat on the sofa, looking more relaxed, and said: "Ah Huan has agreed to lend us 500 million Hong Kong dollars in advance. If we still need it, he will continue to provide funds.
of!"
Wu Guangzheng and Su Haiwen breathed a sigh of relief when they heard that Chu Huan was willing to lend them money.
HSBC suddenly stopped helping them, which made both Wu Guangzheng and Su Haiwen a little worried. They were worried that HSBC had already made a choice between them and Jardine and decided to fully support Jardine instead of them.
It's better now. With Chu Huan's financial support, even if Jardine has the support of HSBC, they don't have to worry.
"Azheng, I know that Chu Huan's grandmother is from Shenghai. I came back from my hometown and brought back some Shenghai specialties. Tomorrow you will go to No. 12 Mount Galley Road in person and give these gifts to Chu Huan's grandmother.
"
Bao Yugang knew that if he had something here, Chu Huan must also have something there. It would be more appropriate to give something to Chu Huan to express his gratitude, so it would be more appropriate to give it to Chu Huan's grandmother, so he told Wu Guangzheng.
Wu Guangzheng also understood what Bao Yugang meant, nodded and said: "I understand, daddy, don't worry!"
Bao Yugang nodded slightly, and then said to Su Haiwen: "Awen, although we have received financial support from Ahuan, we still have to prepare part of the funds ourselves, so you still have to deal with the sale of the Global Shipping vessel.
Keep an eye on it!”
Abandoning ships and landing is a two-step process. The first step is to find a real estate company that can accommodate Global Shipping. The second step is to reduce the number of ships for Global Shipping.
Nowadays, Bao Yugang, as the world's shipping king, owns the oil tanker with the largest tonnage. Since Bao Yugang has determined that the impact of the oil crisis is by no means a simple change in the shipping cycle, Bao Yugang must complete it in advance.
Global Shipping’s weight-loss campaign.
In this way, we can better avoid the impact of the shipping cold wave on our side in the future, and at the same time, we can provide more funds for global shipping.
"I understand!" Su Haiwen nodded first, and then said with some worry: "It's just that there are still some different voices on the board of directors. Dad, do you want to convene the board of directors again to explain these things to them?"
Bao Yugang waved his hand and said nonchalantly: "No need, as long as HSBC is on our side in this matter, there will be no problem!"
Most of Global Shipping's oil tankers were purchased with loans from HSBC. At the same time, HSBC also has a lot of shares in Global Shipping. It can be said that as long as HSBC and Bao Yugang agree on this matter, then Global Shipping's slimming down operation will be completed.
No more problems!
"Ha!" Wu Guangzheng was in a good mood at this time and suddenly said: "Dad, you said that HSBC suddenly stopped helping us this time. Are you planning to concentrate on helping Jardine to win the Wharf?"
Bao Yugang shook his head and said: "The possibility is not very high. HSBC has always wanted to reap the benefits of this matter. The best policy for them should be to make bets on both sides at the same time. Only in that way can they be able to
Whether we win or Jardine wins, it will have a huge impact on HSBC."
Wu Guangzheng became increasingly incomprehensible, "If this is the case, then there is no reason for HSBC to withdraw. Have they already obtained some information that we don't know yet?"
Su Haiwen also agreed with the sermon: "Yes, Daddy, I think we must investigate this matter seriously!"
Bao Yugang nodded and said: "I know!"
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Jardine headquarters!
Unlike Bao Yugang who was able to find Chu Huan immediately after HSBC decided to withdraw support for them, Yihe did not have such a helper.
It cannot be said that Jardine has no helpers, but in the current Wharf acquisition war, Jardine can no longer find helpers of the same magnitude to help them.
"It seems that now we can only follow our previous plan and sell off part of the shares of Jardine Matheson and Land to obtain cash to continue this acquisition war!"
Bao Fuda helplessly preached to Newbijian.
Fortunately, they are not at the end of their rope yet. Yihe has been able to stand in Xiangjiang for so long and has maintained its leading position among Xiangjiang companies. They can still continue to save themselves.
Moreover, selling the shares of Jardine Matheson and Land to obtain cash to continue acquiring Wharf shares was a strategy they had already thought of before.
Newbikin raised his head slightly and said: "It seems that this is the only way to go. I will tell Mr. Henry!"
Bao Fuda was not worried about this matter, but asked the same question as Wu Guangzheng, that is, this time HSBC gave up supporting Jardine Matheson. Has it changed their previous strategy and prepared to fully support Bao Yugang?
Niubijian's answer was similar to that of Bao Yugang, thinking that this was unlikely, "I think there must be other things that made HSBC stop this kind of help. I just don't know if this matter is related to the Wharf acquisition war."
It doesn’t matter!”
Bao Fuda said: "I will let people investigate this matter!"
"Um!"
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In fact, there was no need for Bao, Jardine and others to investigate. Just after the New Year, the news that Sakura Bank of Japan was preparing to compete with HSBC for the Royal Bank of Scotland had already appeared in newspapers in Hong Kong.
After seeing this news, people in Xiangjiang who had been paying attention to this matter finally analyzed the same results as Shen Bi.
The mysterious funds that entered the Hong Kong stock market before actually came from Japan's Sakura Bank, and their purpose in doing so was to mobilize HSBC's funds to gain a greater advantage in competing against Royal Bank of Scotland.
!
At this time, the New Year has just passed, and the whole of Hong Kong is still immersed in the joy of the New Year. Now this news has quickly occupied the front pages of major newspapers and media in Hong Kong.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! It is called the most important news in Hong Kong at the beginning of 1979!
"It seems that these people have been confused by the smoke bomb you released!"
Cao Yunshang looked at the newspaper in his hand and preached in a good mood.
Chu Huan also had a smile on his face. This matter was naturally run by Chu Huan. If the Japanese funds appear on the Hong Kong stock market for a long time without any reason, then sooner or later someone will analyze the funds.
It has something to do with myself. If this is the case, I believe that based on the ability of these people, they can quickly understand that they are doing this just to wait for Yihe to sell their shares.
Now that everyone knows it, Niubijian will definitely not do this when the time comes, and Chu Huan's plan will naturally come to nothing.
So Chu Huan specially flew to Tokyo, Japan, and met with Mitsui Takacho. Then the current situation emerged. Sakura Bank asked the Royal Bank of Scotland about the possibility of acquisition.
Chu Huan smiled and said: "As long as we grasp their most fundamental needs, they will definitely follow my arrangements!"
What is most important to HSBC at this time?
The acquisition of Royal Bank of Scotland is the most important thing for HSBC.
The Royal Bank of Scotland is the first clearing bank in Scotland and the fifth largest clearing bank in the UK.
This is the best European bank that HSBC has always wanted.
"Can HSBC really acquire Royal Bank of Scotland this time?" Cao Yunshang asked Chu Huan curiously.
Chu Huan shook his head and said: "HSBC chose the wrong bank. Royal Bank of Scotland is not something they can acquire just because they want to!"
In another time and space, Royal Bank of Scotland was indeed the first bank in Europe that HSBC targeted for acquisition, but HSBC forgot one thing, or it could be said that HSBC's arrogance prevented them from paying attention to this at the beginning.
something.
That is, the Scots have always been very unhappy with the British. Not to mention HSBC, if a British bank wanted to acquire the Royal Bank of Scotland, it would be rejected by the entire Scots, let alone HSBC in Hong Kong.
In another time and space, after HSBC became aware of this incident, it immediately lowered its noble head and emphasized its own Scottish origins... The founding purpose of HSBC is to use the Scottish tradition to build a strong presence in Asia
Running a bank, the management of HSBC has long been in the hands of the British and Scots!
At the same time, HSBC also expressed its willingness to let Scottish institutions control part of the bank's shares!
At that time, it was not Sakura Bank that competed with HSBC, but Standard Chartered Bank.
When HSBC proposed to acquire Royal Bank of Scotland, Standard Chartered Bank immediately made a counter-takeover proposal, exchanging one standard Standard Chartered ordinary share plus one floating-rate bond with a face value of 225 pence plus 220 pence in cash for five ordinary shares of Royal Bank of Scotland.
, that is, raising the purchase price to 213 pence per share.
The day after the proposal was released, the boards of directors of Standard Chartered Bank and Royal Bank of Scotland issued a joint statement stating that the board of directors of Royal Bank of Scotland agreed with Standard Chartered Bank’s new acquisition conditions and recommended that shareholders accept them.
It can be seen that at that time, Standard Chartered had an advantage over HSBC when it came to the acquisition of Royal Bank of Scotland.
But in the end, Standard Chartered Bank's takeover proposal was rejected by the Monopolies and Mergers Commission of England, and HSBC's takeover proposal also suffered the same fate.
It is said that the main reason why the British Monopolies and Mergers Commission rejected HSBC's proposal was that the banking supervision in Hong Kong at that time did not meet British standards and the special status that HSBC enjoyed in Hong Kong.
In this battle, HSBC can be said to have failed. However, after the failure of this acquisition, HSBC also understood one thing. Even though they think they are a British bank, their status in Hong Kong and their place of registration are in Hong Kong.
The reason is that the British people don’t really recognize HSBC.
So at a later stage, HSBC shifted its target from the Royal Bank of Scotland to the Bank of Midland, one of the four largest settlement banks in the UK, but during this period it still encountered the same problem.
But this time HSBC had a new approach. At that time, HSBC announced a group reorganization and upgraded a subsidiary of HSBC in London to the group's holding company, namely HSBC Holdings plc.
In this way, HSBC achieved a disguised re-domiciliation in a low-key and clever manner. At least in name, HSBC is already a company with its headquarters and registered place in London.
In the end, it was this decision that allowed HSBC to finally complete its merger with Midland Bank after a long merger and acquisition process.
"So, HSBC is doomed to fail this time," Cao Yunshang said with a smile.
Chu Huan nodded and said with a smile: "It seems so."
Cao Yunshang asked Chu Huan: "When are you going to officially announce the acquisition of Jardine?"
Chu Huan said: "Wait a little longer, Jardine Matheson has not started selling their and Land's stocks yet, it will have to wait until HSBC falls into the quagmire of acquiring Royal Bank of Scotland, and Jardine Matheson falls into the quagmire of competing with Bao for Wharf.
, that’s when we officially start to debut!”
Cao Yunshang nodded and said: "So, this matter will take at least a year!"
In Xiangjiang, there is only one Chu Huan who can do what Chu Huan did after choosing a company and then using a huge amount of cash to acquire the other party. This is a truly normal business acquisition, especially in the circumstances at that time when their business was involved.
Each acquisition at the environmental ceiling level will take two to three years to produce results.
In fact, for Chu Huan at this time, it would take a long time to acquire a company according to his own psychological price, such as Bank of East Asia and Far East Bank!
In fact, Chu Huan has not stopped penetrating and acquiring these two banks, but this process is very long.
"By the way, are you planning to go to Los Angeles to hold Jiaku's annual meeting this time?" Cao Yunshang asked Chu Huan.
Jiaku's annual meeting is held every year, so Cao Yunshang asked this question at this time.
Chu Huan shook his head and said: "It's settled in Denmark, not Los Angeles. Youth Toys just acquired Lego last year. I have to deal with Lego's personnel issues and future development plans."
Cao Yunshang nodded, and then asked softly: "Will you go there for a long time this time?"
Although Jiaku's global meeting last year only lasted more than a week, Chu Huan actually spent two or three months inspecting his global business.
If it were normal, Cao Yunshang would definitely not have such a problem, but she is pregnant now, already seven months old, and her due date will be in three months. Cao Yunshang does not want Chu Huan to leave Xiangjiang for too long
time.
Chu Huan understood Cao Yunshang's thoughts and said with a smile: "Don't worry, it won't take that long this time. It can be solved in basically two weeks!"
Last year, it was because Chu Huan's business in Japan, North America, Europe and other places had major or minor problems that required Chu Huan to deal with personally. This was the reason why Chu Huan was delayed for a long time, but it is different now.
The entire Jiaku business is on track, and there are no problems with Jiuzhou and Yunhai, the two groups hidden in the dark, so Chu Huan does not need to stay outside for too long.
Hearing what Chu Huan said, Cao Yunshang's face immediately showed a smile.
In fact, Chu Huan didn't want to miss the birth of his first child. The previous child of angle had already been born, and Jeffries had finally researched DNA with the support of Jiaku funds in another time and space.
Detection Technology.
After testing, there is no relationship between Chu Huan and the child Angle gave birth to.
From then on, the child became an orphan when he was born and was sent to an orphanage. Every year, a mysterious person would give the orphanage a sum of money until the child was adopted or reached adulthood at the age of 18!
Speaking of this matter, there is actually an interesting thing. Chu Huan funded Jeffries just to do the identification. However, he did not expect that after the advent of this technology, it has been used by countless hospitals in many countries.
of favor.
To this end, Deep Sea Investment came forward, joined forces with European AKB, and Jeffries Research Laboratory to jointly establish a pharmaceutical company called Zhanlan Pharmaceutical!
So now it is certain that the child in Cao Yunshang's belly is Chu Huan's first child!
Due to Cao Yunshang's health, Cao Yunshang did not go with Chu Huan to Europe this time, but Miao Kexiu and Zhao Yazhi accompanied Chu Huan.
Two weeks passed quickly, and by the time Chu Huan came back from Europe, it was already late February.
"Boss, this is about the future development plan of Zhanlan Pharmaceutical. It has been prepared according to your request at the annual meeting. This was just sent from the headquarters of Zhanlan Pharmaceutical!"
Xu Yi came to Chu Huan's office with a stack of documents. Whenever Jiaku's global meeting ended, Xu Yi was busiest.
At the global meeting, Chu Huan will formulate the development requirements of each company, and the management of these companies will formulate detailed development plans in accordance with Chu Huan's requirements. Finally, the Xiangjiang Jiaku headquarters will discuss and check for leaks.
Fill in the vacancies and finally hand them over to Chu Huan.
For the chemical industry in the 1970s, it was a very bad era, with no new developments in chemical technology.
However, the pharmaceutical industry has ushered in a new era.
There are two new waves of innovation, one based on major breakthroughs in biochemistry, enzymology and microbiology, and the other based on a new science, molecular biology, namely DNA recombination and genetic engineering.
major developments.
Chu Huan also determined Zhanlan Pharmaceutical's anti-war plan based on these two new waves, established two laboratories, and is preparing to recruit a 5,000-person R&D team this year to develop new drugs, among which
Chu Huan specifically mentioned two drugs.
One is hepatitis B vaccine, which falls within the scope of normal medicine.
In another time and space, Merck, a well-known pharmaceutical company, collaborated with universities to develop the first genetically engineered vaccine for human use in history, the hepatitis B vaccine, which was approved by the FDA in 1986.
As for the R&D team of 5,000 people, it seems to be a huge team, but in fact it is only 500 more people than the current R&D team of Merck!
Zhanlan Pharmaceutical is a new company. Without a huge research team, it would be impossible to compete with the top pharmaceutical companies in the world.
Zhanlan Pharmaceutical will not only recruit a R&D team of 5,000 people this year, but also recruit a huge marketing team after the successful development of their new drug.
And this is actually the trump card of HR Pharmaceuticals.
In addition to the hepatitis B vaccine, Chu Huan also proposed the research and development of another drug to Zhanlan Pharmaceutical. In fact, to be precise, this cannot be called a drug.
But the introduction of this thing really shocked the whole world. The name of this drug is Viagra, also known as Brother W!
In the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, HR was not the largest pharmaceutical company in the world. According to 1994 Fortune magazine data, HR only ranked sixth in the U.S. pharmaceutical industry with annual sales of US$7.4 billion.
Among them are Bristol-Myers Squibb, Merck, SmithKline Beecham, Abbott Laboratories and AHP.
If ranked globally, it lags behind Germany's Hechester and Bayer, Britain's Glaxo and Switzerland's Roche.
But in the 1990s, after the successful development of Viagra, it brought huge benefits to HR, which also provided a better foundation for them to become the world's largest pharmaceutical company.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! In fact, the introduction of Viagra is somewhat legendary. At that time, HR was not developing this drug, they were developing drugs to treat angina pectoris.
In the 1990s, angina pectoris was still an incurable disease, and many companies around the world were busy developing treatments for it.
HR Company was among them. At that time, the main direction of treating angina pectoris was to use drugs to relax the smooth muscle of the blood vessel wall, dilate the blood vessels, reduce the pressure on the heart, and relieve pain.
Unfortunately, the HR company's drugs are very unsatisfactory in relieving heart pressure.
But HR unexpectedly discovered that the drug they developed had unexpected effects in other places.
After this effect was known to HR, they immediately changed the direction of research and development. Then Brother W was released and became popular all over the world. It became a little pill that countless men could not talk about to others, but cherished it extremely.
For Chu Huan, he doesn't care whether this thing is considered a drug or not, but if it can bring enough reputation to the company, a large amount of cash is enough.
Drug research, like many heavy industries, is a money-losing business.
In order to develop Zhanlan Pharmaceutical, Chu Huan decided to invest 1 billion US dollars in research and development in the early stage.
As long as a drug can be developed, all these investments will be wasted.
In addition, there is another reason for doing this, which is to indefinitely dilute Jeffries’ shares in Zhanlan Pharmaceutical.
That is to say, Chu Huan's current industry includes many companies that are big in cash. In addition, Chu Huan's gains in the stock market and foreign exchange market are large enough, so Chu Huan can be so generous when he first entered the pharmaceutical industry.
Invest such a large amount of money.
After Chu Huan read the development plan of Zhanlan Pharmaceutical handed over by Xu Yi, he expressed satisfaction and asked them to continue.
In addition, there is another thing that Chu Huan needs to pay attention to this year, that is, the price of oil will soar again this year. In January last year, the price of crude oil was only 13.2 US dollars a barrel, but at this moment this year, the price of crude oil has risen.
The price has reached US$20.8 per barrel. By November this year, the price of crude oil will soar to US$40.8 per barrel!
"Have you contacted all the warehouses you were asked to contact?" Chu Huan asked Xu Yi after putting aside Zhanlan Pharmaceutical's development plan.
Crude oil futures have not yet been listed on the market. If Chu Huan wants to make a difference in this matter, he can only trade in the spot market.
However, this time Chu Huan does not want to cooperate with the five major oil companies in North America, but is preparing to cooperate directly with oil-producing countries.
In fact, this kind of cooperation is more troublesome for Chu Huan, and is far inferior to Chu Huan's cooperation with the five major oil companies.
If it was this time last year, Chu Huan would have no resources in this area to utilize.
But who told Chu Huan that when he was in North America last year, he had already reached a consensus with Armand Hammer, the president of Occidental Petroleum Company in North America, to jointly establish a company. At first, Armand Hammer wanted to use this company to knock on the door of his hometown.
, but now Chu Huan wants to use this company to take the lead in knocking on the door of the oil industry.
Of course, there are still many problems here. For example, during this period, the global oil field was still basically a reserved area of North America, and external funds were not allowed to enter the industry at all.
So what Chu Huan wants to do more is to take advantage of this oil crisis to master more oil refining technology and equipment research and development... It must be done in secret.
At this time, Chu Huan had already set his sights on the Soviet Union and Saudi Arabia. If he wanted to truly develop better in the oil field, these two places were markets that Chu Huan would never let go of.
So when entering the 1980s, Ma Jizu will shift his focus from Europe to these two places. Of course, Europe will not give up, but there will be other people to take Ma Jizu's position.
In fact, not only Chu Huan saw the increase in oil prices, but even Armand Hammer felt it. But the difference between them and Chu Huan was that Chu Huan clearly knew about the soaring price of crude oil, but they did not know and did not know.
Know the specific time.
In order to cope with this oil crisis, Chu Huan also spent 1 billion US dollars to do this. According to the current price of crude oil, it will double by November. Of course, excluding other expenses, it can
With a profit of 500 million US dollars, Chu Huan was already very satisfied.
Now Xu Yi is asked to contact the warehouse, which is actually used to store the crude oil!
Just like Chu Huan did during the first oil crisis!
Xu Yi nodded and said: "We have already contacted you, you can deposit it directly when the time comes!"
Chu Huan said: "In addition, we need Lin Feng to organize his defense forces. I don't want anyone to cause trouble!"
Chu Huan was not careless about the oil matter, and even called Lin Feng back from his hometown to organize the force to protect the crude oil after Chu Huan completed the acquisition.
However, I think that with Armand Hammer at the front, he probably won't be able to attract a blow from the North American officials, but no matter what, he still has to ensure his own strength!
Xu Yi nodded and said: "Mr. Lin has already started to allocate manpower. He also asked me to tell you, boss, that as long as he is here, there will be no problems with any batch of crude oil!"