At this moment, Chu Huan was having breakfast with Diana. Yes, it was breakfast. Dinner had been eaten last night.
"My people will send you back soon!"
Chu Huan smiled and said to Diana.
Diana nodded, her face still a little rosy, and said softly: "Yes."
After breakfast, Diana left Chu Huan's villa under the escort of Han Yang. Except for the people on Chu Huan's side, no one knew that Diana came to Chu Huan's side last night, and no one knew that Diana came to Chu Huan's side last night.
He left this morning.
Chu Huan was also preparing to return to Xiangjiang after Diana left.
"Boss, Henry Keswick is here and wants to meet with you!"
Feng Jing found Chu Huan and reported to Chu Huan.
Chu Huan smiled slightly and said, "Please come to the study!"
"Um!"
Later, Chu Huan met Henry Keswick, his former rival, in the study.
"Is Mr. Chu preparing to return to Xiangjiang?" Henry Keswick asked with a complicated expression while sitting on the sofa in Chu Huan's study.
"Now that the matter in London is over, it's natural to return to Xiangjiang to deal with some matters!" Chu Huan said calmly.
He came to London, firstly, to resolve the non-commercial political factors involved in the acquisition of Jardine Matheson, and secondly, to pay attention to Standard Chartered Bank. However, Chu Huan also knew that he had made such a big splash in London this time. If it was involved again at this time,
Standard Chartered Bank is probably going crazy in London, so after careful consideration, Chu Huan decided to slow down the acquisition of Standard Chartered Bank!
However, Chu Huan will not give up on this matter, so Chu Huan has just ordered Ma Jizu. Although Ma Jizu will go to Brazil in South America to expand territory, at the same time, some people on the British side must stay.
Continue to maintain Chu Huan’s relationship in London!
Therefore, these people will continue to acquire Standard Chartered Bank's stocks on a small scale in the next few years. When the time is right in the future, they can win it in one fell swoop, saving a lot of trouble.
Henry Keswick didn't know Chu Huan's plan, but the look in his eyes at Chu Huan was still a little helpless. Although after one night he had accepted the fact that Chu Huan's acquisition of Jardine Land was successful, acceptance was just
Behavioral, not psychological.
It is impossible to fully recover from this kind of shock without a period of recovery.
However, a successful businessman must put his inner private emotions aside at all times and make plans for his business.
"I know that Director Chu has always liked to delist and privatize the listed companies he acquired. Now Director Chu's Chinese Real Estate has completed the absolute control of Jardine Matheson and Land. I came here this time to ask Director Chu if you have any
Are you interested in acquiring our family’s equity interests in Jardine Matheson and Land Group?”
Henry Keswick decided to sell his shares in Jardine Matheson and Land, but in fact, Henry Keswick himself could only sell 10% of his Keswick family's shares in Jardine Matheson.
At the same time, the equity they held in Land was controlled by Jardine Matheson. In other words, Henry Keswick actually controlled the two groups, Jardine Matheson and Land, at the minimum cost.
But now this operation has also paid a price, leaving them without the slightest ability to fight back when competing with Chinese property owners.
If the Henry Keswick family had not participated in so much competition before, maybe they would still be able to compete with Chu Huan.
"At what price is Mr. Keswick prepared to sell your Keswick family's shares in Jardine Matheson?"
Chu Huan did not reject Henry Keswick's proposal. He indeed had no idea of privatizing Jardine and Land, but he also hoped that his voice would be heard on the board of directors of Jardine.
Nowadays, Chinese Real Estate has become the largest shareholder of Jardine, and the Keswick family has naturally fallen to the position of the second largest shareholder. Therefore, if the other party can sell their shares in Jardine at a reasonable price, Chu Huan will
There is no opinion on this.
Although this will trigger Hong Kong's securities laws, if you own more than 1% of the shares, you must propose a full acquisition.
But Chu Huan can completely acquire the Keswick family's shares in Jardine and sell them to one of his other companies, or attract more Chinese businessmen to join Jardine's board of directors, so that he can add more
If you have a partner, you can even wait two years and sell it to a Chinese enterprise that comes to Hong Kong for development.
You must know that at this time, domestic enterprises in China have no way to compare with groups like Jardine Matheson and Land, although their development speed is not comparable to that of Jardine Matheson and Land.
In other words, now that Chu Huan has exchanged the shares of Jardine and Land for the shares of a certain company in his hometown, in the next thirty years, the gain of this investment may even exceed a hundred times!
"The price is HK$80 per share. As long as you, Director Chu, can accept this price, we can complete the equity transaction immediately."
Henry Keswick quoted a price to Chu Huan.
After hearing this, Chu Huan smiled and shook his head: "The Keswick family holds 10% of the shares in Jardine Matheson. 80 Hong Kong dollars per share means that I need to pay 860 million Hong Kong dollars. This price is not appropriate. 70 Hong Kong dollars
Per share, this is the final price our company can give. There is no negotiation. Mr. Keswick, you should know that when the market opens in Hong Kong today, the stock prices of Jardine Matheson and Land will definitely fall. 70 Hong Kong dollars per share.
The price is already very fair!”
Henry Keswick also had his own insistence: "After the start, Jardine's stock price will fall, that's for sure, but Director Chu, you don't have to underestimate your influence. According to Director Chu, your current status in Xiangjiang and Xiangjiang
The public's admiration for you means that even if Jardine Matheson's stock price will fall, it will never fall much. HK$80 is a very fair price!"
Chu Huan smiled and said: "If that's the case, then we have nothing to say!"
After finishing speaking, Chu Huan made a gesture of seeing off guests and picked up the teacup in front of him.
Serve tea to guests!
Henry Keswick had been in Xiangjiang before, so he naturally understood that this was a Chinese action when seeing off guests.
Seeing Chu Huan's determined look, Henry Keswick felt helpless again. Now that he had 10% of Yihe shares, he really had no choice but to sell it to Chu Huan.
Even if it was as expected, when the market opened in Hong Kong today, Jardine Matheson's stock price did not fall so seriously, and was at a price of more than 80 Hong Kong dollars per share. But in fact, as long as there is a large-scale selling of Jardine Matheson shares,
If something happens, Jardine's stock price will definitely continue to fall.
If it were an ordinary listed company, their boss would definitely not accept such a situation, but it is different now. The boss of Yihe is Chu Huan now. Maybe Chu Huan is waiting for this moment, Yihe
If the share price of He and He shares falls, then he can take advantage of the trend and buy the share price of Jardine Matheson at the bottom. Will he be regarded as an indirect assist then?
After thinking about all this, Henry Keswick also understood that he had no other choice.
"Okay, let's go with what you said, Director Chu, at a price of HK$70 per share! The Keswick family will transfer its shares in Jardine to Director Chu!"
Chu Huan put down the tea cup in his hand and said with a smile: "Happy cooperation!"
Henry Keswick maintained his last grace, shook hands with Chu Huan and said: "Happy cooperation."
Then Chu Huan asked Feng Jing to prepare the contract, and asked Ma Jizu to hire a lawyer. Finally, with both parties signing the contract, the Keswick family finally said goodbye to Xiangjiang.
And Chu Huan has completed all his affairs in London. As for the affairs of the Manchester United team, naturally the team manager followed Chu Huan's instructions and transferred the affairs that Chu Huan had previously promised to Queen Elizabeth and Mrs. Thatcher.
Go to the specific implementation.
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Chu Huan set off to fly back to Xiangjiang at around nine o'clock in the morning. When he arrived in Xiangjiang, the time in Xiangjiang was around five o'clock in the afternoon.
After coming out of the airport, Chu Huan did not return to No. 1 Mount Galley Road, but went directly to the Chinese Bank!
In the Chinese business, Chu Huan met Cao Yunshang, Xu Yi and Jiaku, the senior executives of Chinese Real Estate. These people even welcomed Chu Huan's return with applause.
Looking at the haggard Cao Yunshang, Chu Huan said: "Thank you for your hard work these days!"
Cao Yunshang smiled and shook his head: "It's not hard, but since you are back now, Brother Huan, I'll leave the affairs here to you!"
Chu Huan nodded and said with a smile: "Well, don't worry!"
Although she said this, Cao Yunshang did not go home immediately. After all, she still needed to make a report to Chu Huan about the events of the past few days.
The rest of the people also returned to their jobs first. They had to wait for Chu Huan and Cao Yunshang to discuss the specific matters of the past few days before participating in the work meeting chaired by Chu Huan.
Chu Huan first listened to Cao Yunshang's account of the specific things that happened in Xiangjiang in the past few days. Xu Yi added on the side. After the two of them finished speaking, Chu Huan convened a high-level meeting of Jiaku and Chinese Real Estate.
"Chairman, we are in the process of handing over the situation with Niubijian, Bao Fuda and others, and we expect to complete the handover of the two consortiums within a week."
As the main person in charge of this acquisition, Wen Mingzhang was the first to speak out at the conference.
After completing the acquisition of Jardine Matheson Land, Wen Mingzhang will also serve as the chief executive of Jardine Matheson and Land. However, in order to prevent Wen Mingzhang from dominating the two groups, the deputies assigned to him are all people who have worked in Jiaku.
Chu Huan nodded and said: "After the handover is completed, the biggest task of Jardine and Land in the next year is to reduce debt. Now the debt ratio of these two groups is really too high, and it has far exceeded the debt ratio of listed companies.
This is a very dangerous thing, so I need your management to come up with an effective and feasible plan to reduce debt before the group’s annual meeting next year!”
In another time and space, at the peak of debt in the early 1980s, the debt of Land Group alone exceeded HK$16 billion. This was a very dangerous signal.
Although Land's debt was not that high at this time, it was actually close to 10 billion. Coupled with Jardine's own debt, especially during the previous money-burning war in the retail industry in Xiangjiang, Jardine's debt increased rapidly.
Soaring, the combined debt of the two consortiums now exceeds HK$16 billion.
Chu Huan will not let this number continue to increase.
Wen Mingzhang nodded and said, "Chairman, please rest assured!"
Wen Mingzhang then asked Chu Huan: "Chairman, most of the debts of Jardine and Land come from overseas expansion projects. Can we abandon some of the overseas investment projects of Jardine and Land?"
Prior to this, Jardine Land's development strategy was very tangled. On the one hand, they were not optimistic about the future development of Xiangjiang and were actively expanding their overseas business.
But at the same time, they are unwilling to give up the business in Xiangjiang, just like they introduced 7-11 in Xiangjiang, so both parties want Yihe, and neither party wants to give up. In the end, they end up with themselves in huge debt.
Become the first negative person in Hong Kong.
Now that Chinese Real Estate has acquired Jardine Land, Wen Mingzhang knows Chu Huan and knows that Chu Huan is very optimistic about the future development of Xiangjiang, so Wen Mingzhang has the idea he has now.
Chu Huan did not give a positive answer to this, but just said: "First make your plan, and then we will have a meeting to study it!"
Wen Mingzhang nodded.
The whole meeting lasted until about ten o'clock in the evening, and it was finally considered over. It was only at this time that Chu Huan and Cao Yunshang took the bus back to No. 1 Galley Road!
Originally, the two of them wanted to go to Old Mrs. Wu's place first and pick up Chu Shifeng... Chu Shifeng has been staying at Old Mrs. Wu's house these days.
However, after calling him, he learned that Chu Shifeng had already gone to bed, so the two of them did not go there.
"What do you think of the invitation from the Hong Kong government?"
At this time, Chu Huan and Cao Yunshang were already sitting in the restaurant, eating supper.
Cao Yunshang told Chu Huan that Hong Kong Governor MacLehose invited Chu Huan to go to the Hong Kong Governor's Mansion.
"It's nothing more than to allow us to continue to maintain the listed status of Jardine Matheson and Land. Anyway, we have no idea of delisting and privatizing these two groups in a short time. When the time comes, we can just be a favor to MacLehose!"
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Cao Yunshang nodded and said: "But Keswick sold 10% of their shares in Jardine to you. Are you going to hold 10% of the shares privately, or what should you do?"
In the previous transaction with Keswick, Chu Huan did not acquire their shares in Jardine in the name of Chinese Real Estate, but in his own name.
Chu Huan said with a smile: "Now the stock price of Jardine Matheson has dropped to 77 Hong Kong dollars per share, and Land's stock price has dropped to 1 Hong Kong dollar per share. According to this, the stock prices of these two groups will definitely still fall. Let's wait for now.
, wait until the stock prices of these two companies reach a stable range, and then think about how to deal with these 10% shares!"
With the completion of Chinese Real Estate's acquisition of Jardine Matheson and Land, these two groups were re-listed on the Hong Kong stock market, but naturally, the share prices of these two groups fell accordingly.
But their declines are far lower than that of Wharf. There are two most important reasons for this. One is that after completing the acquisition of these two groups, Wharf is now at its peak. Hong Kong residents in Hong Kong
I believe in Jiaku even more, and the second reason is because of Chinese Real Estate’s previous commitment to pay dividends to shareholders of the two groups.
Cao Yunshang said with a smile: "No matter what, as long as we can guarantee 1% of our shares in these two groups!"
Chu Huan just smiled at this. It was impossible to keep 1% of the shares. I believe that the Hong Kong government will soon introduce new policies. The current situation is that if a certain shareholder holds shares of a listed company,
If the shares exceed 1%, the regulations for wholly-owned acquisition will be passively activated.
According to historical deductions, in another time and space, after Bao completed the acquisition of Wharf, the Hong Kong government would adjust the plan from 1% to 3%.
This move is nominally to protect the interests of more small and medium-sized shareholders.
But actually?......
However, in another time and space, the Bao family completed the acquisition of Wharf, nearly a year later than now, so Chu Huan did not know when this rule would appear.
"By the way, I brought you a gift from England!"
After Chu Huan finished speaking, he put down the bowls and chopsticks in his hands, got up and went to the place where he kept his luggage. He found a document and handed it to Cao Yunchang.
Cao Yunshang curiously opened the brown paper bag and saw an acquisition contract and a transfer contract inside.
The acquisition contract is Chu Huan’s purchase contract for Chateau Romanée-Conti, and the transfer contract is Chu Huan’s transfer contract for the chateau to Cao Yunshang’s Imperial Fashion Group.
"Romanee-Conti Winery?" After seeing the contract, Cao Yunshang also said with joy: "I have asked Imperial Fashion Group to contact Domaine de la Romanée-Conti many times before, wanting to acquire their winery, but the other party has always said
I disagree, Brother Huan, how did you do it?"
One thing that the Empire Fashion Group has been doing nowadays is actually the acquisition of the world's top luxury goods, which naturally includes red wine brands.
Although the 8-year-old Lafite often appears in Hong Kong movies, in fact Romanée-Conti is the top brand in the red wine industry.
Chu Huan smiled and said: "Of course I gave them a price they couldn't refuse."
Chu Huan left the specific operation of this matter to Ma Jizu. In fact, before Chu Huan went to England, Ma Jizu had already asked Ma Jizu to contact Chateau Romani-Conti.
Cao Yunshang looked at Chu Huan with joy. Imperial Fashion Group successfully acquired Chateau Romanée-Conti. The impact was not only on Imperial Fashion Group increasing its presence in the red wine industry, but more importantly, for a luxury goods group.
Speaking of which, only if their products are all the world's top luxury goods can they better highlight their own luxury attributes.
When everyone subconsciously begins to recognize the luxury attributes of Empire Fashion Group, even if Empire Fashion Group launches a sack, it will be a luxury product that leads the world trend.
The luxury attribute is actually built up by top luxury brands with a long history.
"It just so happens that I plan to go to France after the new year. Then I can also go and see the situation of Chateau Romanée-Conti."
Chu Huan said with a smile: "But you should still send someone to take over the winery first. Ma Jizu's people are still watching over there."
Cao Yunshang nodded.
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The next day!
Chu Huan came to the Hong Kong Governor's House and met the Hong Kong Governor MacLehose!
"Director Chu, you really scared the whole of Xiangjiang this time!" MacLehose said with a smile after seeing Chu Huan.
"Your Majesty, the Governor is too polite. I haven't properly apologized to you, Mr. Governor, for what happened before. I hope you won't be offended!"
Chu Huan spoke politely.
MacLehose knew that what Chu Huan was talking about was the previous protest by stock investors at the Hong Kong Government House. To be honest, when Chu Huan brought this matter up, MacLehose was still a little dissatisfied. After all, it made his face look bad.
There is no light left.
But now and then, Chu Huan in Xiangjiang can no longer be viewed with the eyes of a businessman alone, and MacLehose is also well aware of the higher and lower status of both of them in Xiangjiang.
"Haha, what do I think it's about? It's just a trivial matter like this. It doesn't matter. Isn't the Governor of Hong Kong just asking for help for the people of Hong Kong? They came to me because it must have been caused by something that the Governor's Office did not do properly.
, what does it have to do with Director Chu!"
Chu Huan also smiled at this. After the two parties exchanged some greetings, MacLehao explained the first thing he wanted to do when he invited Chu Huan over.
That is about maintaining the status of Jardine Matheson and Land Group as listed companies in Hong Kong.
In this regard, Chu Huan, who had already been thinking about it, just like what Cao Yunshang said, went along with the flow and said that Chinese Real Estate very much recognized the status of the two listed companies of Jardine Matheson and Land Group and would not delist the company privately.
transformed!
After receiving Chu Huan's assurance, MacLehose finally breathed a sigh of relief secretly.
Next, MacLehose asked Chu Huan some opinions on the economic development of Xiangjiang. In the end, the two sides ended the meeting happily.
When Chu Huan returned to the Chinese Bank, she saw Gu Chengxi already waiting here.
"Why are you here?" After Chu Huan saw Gu Chengxi, he asked, "Is there anything we can't talk about until we get home?"
Gu Chengxi brought Chu Huan a bottle of Coke from the refrigerator, and then said with a smile: "Of course you have to come to the company to discuss business matters!"
In fact, Gu Chengxi has not seen Chu Huan for a while. In addition, Gu Chengxi also knows that Chu Huan will be very busy during the period after returning to Xiangjiang. He may not wait until when he can see Chu Huan at home.
It's better to meet Chu Huan directly in the name of the company now.
"What business?" Chu Huanxiao asked.
Gu Chengxi said: "Although Chinese Real Estate and Jardine and Land are still in the process of handover, this acquisition has indeed ended, so the newspaper wants to do an exclusive interview with Brother Huan... I
I knew you wouldn't agree, so I was thinking if I could do an exclusive interview with Wen Mingzhang, or with He Bingguang of Zhulu Real Estate?"
After completing the acquisition of Land, there was actually one very important thing for Chu Huan.
That means Chu Huan has become the undisputed King of Xiangjiang!
In the past, although Zhulu Real Estate had already surpassed Hongkong Land in terms of site size, and even more so in terms of assets, no one had ever compared Hongkong Real Estate to Hongkong Real Estate, the crown jewel, for its properties in Central.
Zhulu Real Estate, this reputation still belongs to Land.
Who made Central the economic center of Hong Kong?
But it’s different now. Chinese Real Estate acquired Land, and Land was integrated into Jiaku’s business system. Think about Zhulu Real Estate’s investment in East Tsim Sha Tsui, Zhulu Commercial Center, Huangpu Center, and Hehe International-Wheelock in
Investments in Kowloon and Hong Kong Island, as well as Cheung's Properties in Causeway Bay acquired by Zhulu Real Estate, and now Land.
It can be said that at this time, the commercial land of the Jiaku system had covered the entire Xiangjiang.
This kind of coverage area has already exceeded that of any company in the history of Xiangjiang.
At this time, the real estate industry in Xiangjiang was at its most prosperous, so "True News" naturally wanted to do a report on this aspect.
However, Gu Chengxi himself also knew that Chu Huan had now handed over all appearance matters to the heads of various companies, and Chu Huan continued to reduce the number of times his name appeared in public.
Even regarding the acquisition of Jardine and Land by Chinese Real Estate, all major media in Xiangjiang received a notice from Jiaku and reported the matter in the name of Jiaku or Chinese Real Estate. Do not bring Chu Huan with you.
name.
So even though Gu Chengxi was Chu Huan's woman and "True News" was Jiaku's property, Gu Chengxi had never imagined that Chu Huan would accept this exclusive interview.
Not to mention, Gu Chengxi himself was very much in favor of Chu Huan's approach of staying calm and behind the scenes.
After a brief consideration, Chu Huan agreed to Gu Chengxi's proposal. Although Chu Huan himself did not care much about the decline in the stock prices of Jardine and Land during this period, in order to ensure the commercial status of these two groups, Chu Huan still needed to
This allows the stock prices of these two groups to remain within a reasonable range.
Therefore, it is appropriate for Wen Mingzhang to appear in the newspaper at this time.
"No problem, I will let Wen Mingzhang and He Bingguang cooperate with you on this matter. However, the interview time must be decided based on the time of Wen Mingzhang and He Bingguang. Especially Wen Mingzhang, he is busy taking over Yiyi during this time.
And, the land business will definitely be very busy!”
After receiving Chu Huan's affirmative reply, Gu Chengxi immediately smiled and said, "That's no problem!"
After talking about the business, Chu Huan came to Gu Chengxi's side, put his hands on Gu Chengxi's shoulders, then slowly slid down, and said with a smile: "We seem to have something that we haven't done for a long time!"
Gu Chengxi's face turned red, and he instantly understood what Chu Huan meant.
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When Gu Chengxi left Chu Huan's office, her hair was already a little messy, and Chu Huan called Xu Yi in.
When I was in London before, my friends here in Xiangjiang were very helpful, and even without this incident, now that they have completed the acquisition of Jardine and Land, as usual, Chu Huan will also hold a dance party.
, thank you all!
Naturally, this matter has to be left to Xu Yi!
As for who is responsible for the specific work, it is Xu Yi’s arrangement!