Rebirth of Hong Kong 1981

   Chapter 785 Tough

   With the turn of reports from Asia Satellite TV and major media in Heung Kong, the truth behind the Carrian incident has been continuously uncovered, and more and more companies have been implicated.

   Not only Jardine, but also many banks and investment institutions in Hong Kong, including HSBC, were also implicated.

   Originally, the stocks of Jardine Matheson and Landmark, because of the competition between the two, not only did not fall, but continued to rise.

   This gave many speculators a chance to seize the opportunity, and at the same time made Yihe and Zheng Hiquan stand in unanimous stalemate.

   Now that the Carrian Incident broke out, such a company with a scale of over 10 billion suddenly faced the danger of collapse. This time, everyone lost confidence in the Jardine Group.

   In particular, Asia Satellite TV also disclosed the current debt situation of Hongkong Land, which is like poking a hornet's nest, which directly makes those shareholders and retail investors who hold Jardine Group shares completely uneasy.

   For a time, the stock of Hongkong Land fell madly, and even all the listed companies under the Jardine Group enjoyed the process of plummeting stock prices again, and there was absolutely no previous upward trend.

   This panic effect can no longer be stopped.

   Taking advantage of the opportunity, Zheng Hiquan and others continued to absorb the scattered shares in the market, and at the same time quickly gave the shareholders who had contacted before that they were willing to continue to acquire their shares.

   Like Zheng Hiquan and others, Jardine also responded quickly under the organization of New Bijian, but due to limited funds, Jardine could only selectively keep some listed companies.

Compared with Landmark, the top management of Jardine pays more attention to Jardine Matheson. Jardine Group is now facing high financial problems. If it chooses Landmark with huge debts, once it loses the capital replenishment of Jardine Matheson, the entire Jardine Matheson will face huge financial problems. The Group will inevitably follow in the footsteps of Carrian.

  Learning from the past, as Jardine's Taipan King, Niu Bijian did not hesitate and chose to take the lead in protecting Jardine Matheson.

   On Zheng Haiquan's side, it was the exact opposite of Jardine's choice. They chose to accelerate the acquisition of the shares of Hongkong Land for the first time, striving to achieve the ultimate controlling stake in Hongkong Land.

   Although Landmark has huge debts, these debts are completely negligible compared to the many high-quality assets it controls.

There are too many companies with huge development potential under Landmark, which almost concentrates most of the essence of the Jardine Group. Even if Jardine moved its focus out of Hong Kong and sold a lot of high-quality assets to repay debts, it still ranks among the top The ranks of the world's top 500 companies have never fallen.

   Once he wins the Landmark Company, then the background problem that Yang Chen lacks will no longer exist.

   is like the previous Jardine Group, holding a foreign firm in one hand and a powerful real estate company in the other. The two companies complement each other, creating the Jardine Group's position as the first of the four foreign firms in Xiangjiang.

Now Yang Chen already has Hang Seng Bank, although compared to the influence of Jardine Matheson, Hang Seng Bank still has a big gap, but this gap, after Yang Chen's efforts, its strong cash flow, It has long surpassed the Jardine Matheson under the Jardine Group.

   The only thing Yang Chen lacks today is a company with strength, scale, and heritage.

  Land Land happens to be the most suitable right now.

  Because of the previous expansion strategy of New Bikin, Landmark has completely got rid of the image of a real estate company, and its business covers retail, service, aviation, manufacturing and other fields.

In other words, if he controls Landmark, then Yang Chen can, like Li Chaoren, use the resources of (Hutchison Whampoa) Landmark to lay a solid foundation for himself, so that he can add two soaring talents to his business empire in one fell swoop. wing.

   Hang Seng Building

Li Guowei, who had just hung up the phone, ran to the trading room excitedly, and said excitedly to Zheng Hiquan, who was staring at the operator's operation: "Manager Zheng, Taikoo has already replied, they said, if we are willing to use At the previous price, they were willing to sell their five percent stake in Landmark.”

   Hearing the sound, Zheng Hiquan turned around at the right time and looked at his general manager's happy expression. The expression on his face did not change in any way, and he seemed very calm.

Under Li Guowei's expectation, Zheng Hiquan shook his head and said, "It's too high, they didn't want to sell it before, but now it's too late, the Jardine has given up the land, and at this time Taiko doesn't want to sell, so let them stay. Go ahead.

  Wait until the end of today, they can't sell it even if they want to, Mr. Li, please tell them that the previous price will be reduced by 30% if they don't want to. Just let them go to Jardine's New Bigjian Taipan King. "

   After finishing speaking, Zheng Hiquan paused and continued: "If they go to Jardine, then after today, if they want to sell their Landmark shares, they will have to reduce it by at least 50%."

   "Uh" Li Guowei was stunned when he heard the words, apparently choked by Zheng Hiquan's words.

   After a while, Li Guowei saw that the other party didn't seem to be joking with him, so he hesitated: "Manager Zheng, should we think about it again, after all, it's 5% of the shares, if"

Before Li Guowei could finish speaking, Zheng Hiquan raised his hand and interrupted: "Mr. Li, the current situation of Jardine cannot allow them to free up excess funds to acquire the 5% stake in Swire Group's Landmark. .

Besides, even if Swire Group sold the 5% of the shares to Jardine, Jardine would not hold more shares than us. Give me a little time. Before the market closes this afternoon, I will give Mr. Li a share. satisfying answer. "

   The two sides have been at a stalemate before, and now there is a turning point. How could Zheng Hiquan allow the opportunity to slip through his hands again.

  Although he had already fulfilled Yang Chen's minimum requirements, he had bought the Xiangjiang Electric Lighting and telephone that he was thinking of, but he failed to deal a greater blow to Jardine, which made Zheng Hiquan feel self-blame all the time.

   After all, the opportunity is rare, especially the opportunity that affects the consortium like Jardine, which is simply too rare to find.

  In the beginning, he was full of confidence and believed that with the strong financial support of the big boss Yang behind him, he would definitely be able to win Jardine in one fell swoop.

  Who would have thought that New Bijian became so powerful after the Wharf incident. After a series of blows, he still kept the Jardine Group firmly on guard, so that he could not find any way to break through.

  It's all right now, the black swan was staged, and the Carrian incident broke out, which once again gave the Jardine Group a fatal blow.

   Now is the last game between the two. If he has the advantage and can't win the Landmark for his boss, then he doesn't need to stay in Hang Seng Bank anymore.

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   (end of this chapter)