Reborn as a tycoon in Hong Kong

"You didn't meet Director Song from the Information Bureau today, did you?"

In the evening, Lin Baicheng received a reporting call from Qin Lan on the Bay Island.

Although it is around five o'clock now, the Bay Island News Bureau has not yet met Qin Lan and the others at this time, so the possibility of meeting them in the remaining hours is even lower.

"Mr. Lin, I think the Information Bureau may be putting pressure on us to ask you to come over in person."

Qin Lan said her judgment. Director Song of the Wandao Information Bureau contacted Huang Xizhao the day after the ban and said that he wanted to communicate with Lin Baicheng. Now that Lin Baicheng himself did not go to Wandao, it was obviously that the Information Bureau was dissatisfied, so he did not see Qin Lan. and Huang Xizhao and the others.

"Try to get in touch with the Information Bureau and communicate. If it doesn't work, come back and be prepared to withdraw from the Bay Island market."

Although Lin Baicheng felt it made sense after hearing this, he would not go to the Bay Island at this time. The worst result would be to withdraw from the Bay Island market, which is nothing compared with freedom and personal safety.

Money is very important, but to him now, it is not as important as freedom and life.

"Yes, Mr. Lin!"

Qin Lan responded, if the people on Wandao are not even willing to meet, it is not her and Huang Xizhao's fault. It is not their negligence. This is very important to them.

When receiving Qin Lan's report, Lin Baicheng was in Hutchison Whampoa.

After hanging up the phone, Lin Baicheng said to Chen Huixiang, who had not left the office, "You just said you had something to report to me. What was it?"

"Here's the thing."

Chen Huixiang said: "We have found that the funds shorting Hutchison Whampoa, Hong Kong Electric Group and telephone companies have increased in the past few days, especially today, the increase in funds exceeds the sum of the previous two or three days."

The three companies Chen Huixiang mentioned are the only three listed companies that are controlled by Lin Baicheng. There are dedicated personnel to supervise the stock price operations of listed companies. Once a large amount of funds are short-selling, they can usually be discovered quickly.

In fact, there have always been funds shorting the stocks of three listed companies, but the amount of funds is not large, which is a normal market reaction. After all, some people are bullish and others are bearish.

After the Bay Island News Bureau banned the works of Asia Star Media Group, a lot of funds began to short-sell the listed companies under Lin Baicheng's name. The sudden increase in short-selling funds was hard to avoid attracting attention, especially since the amount of funds today is the same as before. After a few days, when the people below find out, they will naturally report the matter to the superiors.

"Can you tell how much money each of the three companies has in short selling?"

Lin Baicheng was not surprised when he heard that Asia Star Media Group's works were blocked by the Bay Island Market. It was a blessing that the group was not a listed company, otherwise the stock price would have plummeted.

Even so, based on this incident, Lin Baicheng's other industries may be blocked, and stock speculation is speculation. Even if there is no malicious short selling by hostile forces, there will be some funds entering the market to take a chance on Lin Baicheng's other industries. will be implicated.

It's okay even if they are not implicated. Under such unfavorable negative news, the stock price of the relevant company is expected to fall. If it is short-sold, the possibility of falling is even greater.

Chen Huixiang reported: "Hutchison Whampoa has added approximately 7.8 billion Hong Kong dollars in short-selling funds in the past few days. Adding the original short-selling funds, the total amount of short-selling funds now exceeds 1 billion Hong Kong dollars; Hong Kong Electric Group has added approximately 200 million Hong Kong dollars. Around; the new short-selling funds of the telephone company are less than 100 million Hong Kong dollars, and the estimate is 90 million Hong Kong dollars."

"so little?"

The amount of short-selling funds is somewhat unexpected by Lin Baicheng. Based on Hutchison Whampoa's current market value of more than 40 billion Hong Kong dollars, the newly added short-selling funds of 800 million Hong Kong dollars are less than 2% of the company's total market value, which is too small. .

"At present, the amount of short-selling funds is not large, but according to our judgment, once Mr. Lin cannot get the Bay Island News Bureau to lift the ban on Asia Star Media Group, or the Bay Island side expands the scope of the ban, When it comes to your other companies, Mr. Lin, more funds will definitely enter the market to short these three listed companies under your name."

"However, the business of Hong Kong Electric Group and the telephone company is only in Hong Kong, and there is no business expansion in Bay Island, so even if they are blocked and restricted from entering, it will not have any impact on these two companies. Therefore, the blockade can only cause emotional distress. The stimulation caused retail investors to sell stocks out of fear, which will not affect the revenue and profits of the two companies."

"In the case of Hutchison Whampoa, Watsons in the retail industry will be affected to a certain extent, and the supermarkets in Bay Island will be affected, but the impact will not be too great, and the impact on the overall group will be even smaller."

"So, we believe that even if other industries under your name, Mr. Lin, continue to be blocked or restricted from entry by the Bay Island authorities, it will only have an emotional impact on the three listed companies I just mentioned, and the impact on operations will be limited and can be ignored. Excluding."

"If there are a large amount of funds shorting these three listed companies, we can ignore the small fluctuations in the stock price. This is an emotional sell-off and a normal reaction. But if the short-selling funds are greedy, we only need to support the stock price at a certain price. , and made an analysis to the outside world, believing that retail investors’ sanity can return and the company’s stock price will not fluctuate much.”

"Of course, if you don't want short-selling funds to make profits from listed companies, you can find ways to announce positive news and increase your stock holdings after the stock price drops to a certain price. However, doing so may require a large amount of funds, and Mr. Lin, you are very familiar with each listed company. The company’s shareholding ratio is not low, and it cannot increase its holdings by too many shares, so Hutchison Whampoa can increase its holdings quite a bit.”

Chen Huixiang said that the Secretariat combined the judgments of other professionals. This is their job. When something like this happens, the big boss must be aware of it. At the same time, the team also makes judgments and predictions about what may happen next and provides response plans.

Of course, it must be Lin Baicheng, the big boss, who decides how to make the decision.

"If the amount of short-selling funds on these three listed companies is not too large, don't pay attention to it; but if the amount of short-selling funds continues to increase next week, then you need to respond. If you pay attention to this matter, it will have a greater impact. Remember to report any changes to me."

Lin Baicheng thought for a while and said, if it was just short selling with a small amount of funds, then forget it and let the short selling funds earn. Anyway, he did not lose himself. What he lost was only paper wealth, which would be recovered sooner or later.

Furthermore, if the stocks of these three listed companies fall significantly due to being shorted, Lin Baicheng will not mind continuing to increase his shareholdings and increase his shareholding ratio.

Even if Hutchison Whampoa, which has just completed the reduction of its holdings, dares to drop 20% or the like, Lin Baicheng would not mind increasing its holdings and repurchasing them in advance to increase his shareholding ratio in Hutchison Whampoa.

You should know that Lin Baicheng, who originally held a total of 199.6 million shares of Hutchison Whampoa, now only has 110 million shares left, reducing his holdings to 89.6 million shares. The average price of each share sold for cash out was HK$113.5, and a total of HK$10.1696 billion was cashed out. .

Although the amount in Lin Baicheng's hand was not as much as the total amount, it still amounted to more than 9 billion Hong Kong dollars.

There are some handling fees in the process of cashing out stocks, but they are not very high. The bulk of it is taxes. Even if the accountant does the accounting, he will have to pay nearly one billion Hong Kong dollars. There is nothing you can do about it. High income means high taxes.

Of course, it is true that nearly one billion Hong Kong dollars have to be paid in taxes, but it is now April, and the tax filing will be done at the end of the year, so the tax filing has not been done yet, and the outside world does not know for the time being that Lin Baicheng cashed out a large number of Hutchison Whampoa stocks.

Otherwise, this kind of thing would have been exposed long ago. The Hong Kong government has no secrets for some capital, not to mention that such a large amount of tax involves Lin Baicheng, the richest man in Hong Kong.

If Hutchison Whampoa's stock price drops to about HK$80 due to short selling, and Lin Baicheng buys it back, he will only need to spend more than HK$7 billion for the same number of shares, and because of the reinvestment, the funds that were subject to tax on the previous profits will not be It is more than 10 billion Hong Kong dollars, but the difference between 20 and 30 billion Hong Kong dollars. Then you only need to pay 200 million Hong Kong dollars in taxes.

In this way, Lin Baicheng basically did nothing when he came in and out. In only about three or four months, he could make a profit of 2 to 3 billion Hong Kong dollars. This kind of thing is simply not good.

Lin Baicheng has no reason not to increase his holdings and repurchase them.

Chen Huixiang nodded: "Mr. Lin, don't worry. The Secretariat will definitely keep an eye on this matter. If there are any bigger changes, they will contact me as soon as possible. Either I will report to you or Director Qin will report to you." .”

"good!"

Lin Baicheng stopped talking about this matter and instead asked, "Besides this matter, is there anything else?"

"Furthermore, Mr. Bao and others asked you if you have time to get together." Chen Huixiang said.

Lin Baicheng heard this and said, "Aren't you going to attend the party held by Huo Sheng tonight? I think they will all go there."

Chen Huixiang said: "Besides that, there is one more thing, but the time is not very urgent. According to the contract requirements, Mr. Lin needs to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in Malaya. The first 100 million dollars must be If you invest within the year, Malaya hopes that you can take the time to come over as soon as possible to talk about investment."

"I know about this. Please remind me again after I come back from the mainland."

Lin Baicheng nodded, and then said: "I asked the Secretariat to carry out the investment plan. Before I come back from the mainland, it's time to give me an investment report. Remember to give instructions to the Secretariat. I don't want to hear it then. They said they haven’t planned it yet.”

"Okay Mr. Lin, I will notify you."

Chen Huixiang nodded to express her understanding.

Since you want to invest money in Malaya, you need to plan carefully how to maximize your benefits. Lin Baicheng asked the secretariat to arrange for people to go to Malaya to conduct investigations, and then make a high-quality investment plan, and then Invest according to the plan.

Lin Baicheng waved his hand: "If you have nothing else, go and do your work."

"Then I'll go out first."

After hearing this, Chen Huixiang stood up and left.

After Chen Huixiang left, Lin Baicheng continued to work. He left Hong Kong for about a month. Hutchison Whampoa was operating normally during his absence, and he needed to have a more detailed understanding of what happened in the company during this period. Only in this way could he not be taken advantage of by the people below. People are blinded.

Human nature cannot stand the test, so it is best not to test human nature. The more Lin Baicheng understands the company, the less likely his subordinates will dare to do evil.

"Boom! Boom!"

"Brother Lin!"

There was a knock on the door, and before Lin Baicheng could respond, Guan Zhilin walked in.

"Jiahui is here."

Lin Baicheng looked at the watch on his wrist and found that it was almost six o'clock.

The reason why Guan Zhilin came here at this time was because Lin Baicheng was going to take her to a party hosted by Huo Yingdong. Anyway, the meeting place is the Huo family. With Zhu Linlin, the Huo family's daughter-in-law, there is no need to worry about Guan Zhilin being uncomfortable then.

"Brother Lin, I miss you so much!"

Guan Zhilin ran directly to the desk, sat on Lin Baicheng's lap, and put his hands around Lin Baicheng's neck.

"I miss you too, Jiahui."

Facing the beauty so close at hand, Lin Baicheng used actions instead of words and kissed the beauty on her lips.

"Brother Lin Lin, your clothes will be wrinkled."

After a deep kiss, Guan Zhilin's face turned red.

"It's okay. It's a party at seven o'clock anyway. If you get wrinkled, you can just change into a dress then."

Lin Baicheng did not take away his right hand. If the time was not right now, he would have executed the beauty on the spot. Although he didn't eat meat during this period in the United States, he hadn't touched a beauty in more than a month and missed it.

Guan Zhilin asked: "Brother Lin, will you go to the United States again in the future?"

"Maybe I will go there in June, but I won't stay there for too long. Why do you ask?" Lin Baicheng was a little confused.

"My mother decided to take my brother to Los Angeles. Just over a week later, she asked me to go and stay with her for a while. My father and I both agreed."

Guan Zhilin looked sad. If possible, she wished her parents could not separate, but she couldn't change this kind of thing.

"So that's it."

Lin Baicheng understood that this was the family matter of Guan Zhilin's parents. He couldn't get involved in this kind of thing, and it was not appropriate for him to get involved, so he could only comfort him and said: "You can stay with your mother for a while. If you miss her any time, You can take my private plane there and just treat it as a trip."

"Well, thank you Brother Lin!"

Guan Zhilin did not refuse Lin Baicheng's kindness. If she could often go to Los Angeles to visit her mother and brother, she would certainly not refuse.

"Say something happy."

Lin Baicheng changed the topic and said, "Although I've been very busy recently, I can still spare time to go shopping with you tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. Before you leave Xiangjiang for Los Angeles, go ahead and do some shopping."

"Brother Lin, you are the best."

Guan Zhilin was overjoyed and kissed Lin Baicheng heavily on the face.

"as long as you are happy."

Lin Baicheng suddenly remembered: "By the way, after you go to Los Angeles, you can go and hang out with Xiaoqin. Although she is studying, she still has time on weekends. Also, my mother is in Los Angeles now. You can spend more time with her. say something."

"I will definitely spend more time with Auntie."

Guan Zhilin immediately agreed. Of course she knew the importance of pleasing her future mother-in-law. Thinking about the past in Los Angeles, it was not a bad thing.

Time passed slowly as the two chatted.

At around six o'clock, Lin Baicheng and Guan Zhilin left Hutchison Whampoa. They first went to the villa where Guan Zhilin lived. Lin Baicheng and Guan Zhilin each changed their clothes, and then took a car to Huo's house.