The Industrial Giant Reborn

"Brother." Henry Kadori looked at the pale Mi Gao, and said cautiously: "HSBC has sent news that they will no longer support us, and at the same time hope that we can sort out our family's private debts as soon as possible , and provide a reasonable repayment plan, Standard Chartered Bank also sent a warning, saying that our previous second mortgage loan was suspected of violations, requiring us to repay the loan immediately, otherwise, it will go to court to sue us.”

"It's really windy and windy." After a long while, Mi Gaojia said, "I finally understand why Guo Henian was willing to pay such a high price to buy the stocks of the big hotel and not let go. Their fundamental purpose It is for CLP.

From the beginning to the end, we jumped into the pit dug by others. Standard Chartered is obviously one of them, and even HSBC may be involved. "

"HSBC, it shouldn't be possible, right?" Henry Carrie said in surprise.

"Maybe not, but we have given up on us now." Michael Kadoorie said while touching his aching forehead.

"Shen Bi is a profit-seeking person. It's actually normal to make such a choice at this time." Henry Kadoorie nodded and said, Bao Yugang or Guo Henian, any family, in their main battlefield, the Kadoorie family still has a battle Now that the two have united, the Kadoorie family has already suffered huge losses due to the acquisition of the big hotel, and now they have jumped into the trap of Standard Chartered Bank. Shen Bi may be able to rescue him, but the risk is too great .

"Unexpectedly, my Standard Chartered Bank in the UK would conspire with a Chinese-funded company to cheat my fellow countrymen." Mi Gao said tremblingly: "We can't get together 600 million Hong Kong dollars in a short period of time. Even if it is possible, then what will be used to compete with Bao Yugang for CLP?"

"By doing this, Standard Chartered is cutting itself off from Hong Kong's capital market? Why is Bill Winter so courageous?" Henry Carrie also regretted it very much, you know, but he introduced Standard Chartered Bank.

"It's really ruthless. It is estimated that Guo Henian and Bao Yugang gave him very attractive conditions, so he let him take a gamble." Mi Gaojia said.

"Then what should we do now?" Henry Kadoorie said with a frown. Although CLP still has a lot of funds, it belongs to CLP. Normally, when the Kadoorie family dominates, naturally CLP belongs to their family Yes, but now that another party has come to forcibly acquire it, it is impossible to use the money of the listed company to do its own business.

"If the big hotel can't be kept, then forget it, but CLP has to keep it. You should immediately contact British companies like Jardine and Swire, and tell them that I can let them invest in CLP. We, at least within these two years." Michael Kadoorie said very calmly.

In the face of the attacks of the two Chinese conglomerates, they cannot win on their own. Although some British foreign firms in Hong Kong have been coveting CLP for a long time, in general, they cannot threaten the Kadoorie family in a short time. dominant.

"Okay, I'll release the news right away." Henry Jiali nodded and said, although hungry wolves might be introduced, but tigers are already in front of them, so they can't think so much.

"Wait, contact Ailishen as well to make a backup plan." Michael Kadoku paused and said again.

"Contact them?" Henry Jiali also immediately understood what the elder brother meant, and said, "Introducing them will be very troublesome in the future."

"No matter how troublesome it is, it's better than losing the company." Henry Kadoorie said.

Galaxy Tower, Chen Zhiwen, Bao Yugang, and Guo Henian gathered together again.

"Chen Sheng, Bao Sheng, and the Kadoorie family have sent me news that they intend to give up the big hotel. It seems that Bao Sheng's move of yours has forced them to return to CLP." Guo Henian laughed He said that the acquisition of the big hotel, together with the cooperation with Bao Yugang and Chen Zhiwen this time, basically showed that he has established a firm foothold in Hong Kong, which is the wish of him or many Southeast Asian Chinese.

In places like Hong Kong, although they do not reject foreign capital investment, they can only participate in investment. It is very difficult to enter the market to participate in the development of some high-quality projects and the operation of specific businesses, because the local groups are extremely xenophobic, even if the Hong Kong government Advocating the policy of free investment, foreign capital came in, but in the end most of them ended up with serious losses for many years.

But this time, Guo Henian's investment really entered the market, defeating the Kadoorie family. Yugang successfully acquired CLP, then Chen Zhiwen's capital will also enter the Grand Hotel and CLP. In this way, everyone will know that this is the action of three people. With the relationship between these two, the Guo family Capital will be stable and unimpeded in Hong Kong.

"Congratulations, Guo Sheng." Chen Zhiwen said with a smile. Originally, he was just planning to feint to attack the Grand Hotel, but Guo Henian really wanted to buy it. Now it is a good result. Although it cost a little more money, the location of the Peninsula Hotel will not be available until 85 After the start of the real estate bull market two years later, the value can be easily doubled several times, which is still very cost-effective in general.

"Guo Sheng, I owe you a big favor this time. You have severely consumed the funds of the Kadoorie family, making my subsequent acquisitions much easier." Bao Yugang said with a smile. The Li family may also have a headache. The biggest possibility is that they will fall into a long-term tug-of-war, and a large amount of funds will be trapped in the stock market. Unless Chen Zhiwen borrows a large amount of funds for him, but in this case, they will fall into the oppression of huge debts .

At the beginning, planning to acquire CLP was actually a huge risk in itself, but now with the help of a top-tier capital, and Chen Zhiwen tricked the other party through Standard Chartered, the relief was more than half.

"To each other, if you hadn't suddenly announced the acquisition of CLP, the Kadoorie family would not have given up on the hotel so easily. I still need a fierce battle, so no one needs to thank anyone, and everyone helps each other." Guo Henian said with a smile, This time, the cooperation between the two of them has saved each other a lot of money. It is like attacking the same cow. It is too difficult for a lion to go up, and it is easy to get hurt. If the two of them are together, the cow can't care about the tail, so it is easy. Being taken down, there is no way to say who owes whom.

"Okay, then when I take down Zhongdian, I'll throw a big banquet and invite a few of you." Bao Yugang said with a smile.

"In fact, I still want to thank the trader Chen Sheng invited from the United States. He is really professional enough to hold down HSBC and make a lot of money." Guo Henian said.

"A small bank like HSBC is far behind Wall Street." Chen Zhiwen said with a light smile. He entrusted American headhunters to recruit people from Wall Street very early on, especially the Chinese who can get a certain score in Wall Street, and directly recruit them with higher salaries. Come here and be responsible for the investment of a lot of his capital. After all, based on the memory in his mind, it is unlikely that he will use up all of his own funds. Some of the funds still need professional financial talents to take care of them.

As for the previous acquisition, Chen Zhiwen lent this team to Guo Henian and asked them to participate in the fight against the Dolly team. Naturally, the result was a big victory. Although the Kadoorie family also acquired a lot of shares, under repeated manipulations, I spent a lot of wrong money, which eventually led to problems in my own capital chain.

It can be said that this powerful financial team is one of the core reasons for the success of this acquisition.

"A good financial team is indeed powerful, but in the current situation, I don't want to procrastinate any longer. Getting into a tug of war is too troublesome. If the Kadoorie family finds other backup, it will be troublesome." Bao Yugang continued.

"HSBC has promised not to intervene in this matter, are you worried about other British consortia?" Chen Zhiwen asked.

"They can count, but what I am most worried about is the giant company Mobil Oil. As far as I know, Mobil has also been interested in China Power over the years. They also invested in Qingshan Power Station together more than ten years ago. If Jia If the principle is introduced into Mobil, then our plan will fail completely." Bao Yugang said.

"The oil crisis has been serious in the past two years, and Mobil has also been greatly affected. You should not meddle in Hong Kong's affairs, right?" Guo Henian said beside him. As the richest man in Malaysia, he has been operating in Malaysia for decades. It is not a monopoly, but it is also involved. The impact of the oil crisis on the economy is comprehensive, especially for oil refiners like Mobil, which cannot obtain enough raw materials, and their financial resources are useless.

"It is possible, but I don't want to gamble. Now that the Kadoorie family is in a financial crisis, I decided to go all out and directly crush the other party with funds. Otherwise, even if there is even a slight possibility, once Mobil is gone , then we are completely lost." Bao Yugang said.

"That's fine, there's really no need to take this risk." Chen Zhiwen nodded and said, the scale of Mobil, even he is far behind, once Mobil enters the market, there is nothing to play.

But he never thought that there was such a risk. Obviously, in order to acquire CLP, Bao Yugang had investigated many relationships between CLP and the Kadoorie family a long time ago, and finally determined that Mobil would be a big risk.

In the afternoon of the same day, Bao Yugang's Global International Shipping Company officially issued an announcement that it would buy CLP's shares at a price of HK$31.5 per share, with a premium of 35%.

As soon as the news came out, the entire stock exchange went crazy. You know, with the news of Bao Yugang's acquisition, CLP's stock has risen a lot, and now it has risen by 35%. This profit is high enough to It's crazy, and more importantly, CLP's plate is much larger than that of a big hotel. The previous acquisition of a big hotel has already made a lot of money for investors. Now there are obviously more opportunities!

Investors who want to keep their pockets safe have already queued up to exchange money, while some who want to continue to bet that the price will be higher in the future are in a wait-and-see state.

"Bao Sheng is really decisive in doing things, better than me." Seeing countless people queuing up downstairs, Guo Henian had to say with emotion.

"Making a miracle with great strength, in the face of absolute strength, any trick is useless." Chen Zhiwen smiled and said: "For this acquisition, Baosheng has sold a large number of old ships in the past two years, plus the overseas bank loans he obtained, hand There are at least 2 billion Hong Kong dollars in capital here, not to mention the Kadoorie family whose strength has been greatly weakened, even Jardine, facing such an opponent, it will also have a headache."

In the previous history, in order to decisively obtain Wharf, Bao Yugang directly bought shares of Wharf in cash at several times the price, and cut off Jardine's hand. The current routine is still the same, except that the Hong Kong government bought It is very troublesome to change the offer in advance.

"It's just that the loss is too big." Guo Henian nodded and said, the reason why they used various schemes in the acquisition was that the ultimate goal was to spend less money while the acquisition was successful.

"It's nothing to look at. With this speed, the Kadoorie family probably lost the first round before they could react." Chen Zhiwen said with a smile.

"I heard that Kadoorie has sent people to Jardine and Taikoo. I guess they want to ask them for help." Guo Henian said with a frown.

"Swire probably won't be involved in this kind of thing. The principle of their family has always been to maintain a neutral position. It is possible for Yihe, but it should not be negotiated so quickly. New Bijian should still need to ask Kaiser for instructions on this kind of matter. For the Ke family, as long as Bao Yugang acquires 34.9% of the shares and has a veto, it will be more than half successful." Chen Zhiwen said with a light smile.

As expected, under the absolute strength, no strategy is useless. The Kadoorie family has just started contacting several foreign companies. Global Shipping announced that it holds 34.9% of the shares of CLP Group. At the same time, it used a vote to veto The right to veto the board of directors' request to increase other shareholders through targeted financing.

Including Mobil, even if you want to invest, there is no way.

It's August 20th.

In a mysterious meeting room of the Hilton Hotel, Michael Kadoorie came here with his younger brother Henry.

Michael Kadoorie saw the three people inside, but a young man in the middle made him understand everything. It turned out that Chen Zhiwen was behind all of this.

"Mr. Kadoorie, please sit down." Chen Zhiwen said with a smile.

"Chen Sheng, I've admired you for a long time." Mi Gao Jiali calmed down his heart, and then said: "Looking at the posture of the three today, Chen Sheng is the one who can talk?"

"No, it was Bao Sheng who bought CLP, and I'm just sitting here in the name of a friend." Chen Zhiwen said with a smile.

Bao Yugang also said: "Mi Gao, it doesn't matter who speaks on our side now, what matters is what you want to say?"

"Okay, I understand. My Kadoorie family is not wronged to lose." Michael Kadoorie nodded and said. He thought he lost to Bao Yugang and Guo Henian, but now it seems that Chen Zhiwen is behind it. The biggest opponent, it's no wonder that Standard Chartered Bank has sacrificed itself to cheat their family, and only Chen Zhiwen can give Standard Chartered enough benefits.

"They are all the richest Chinese in Hong Kong. Even if they target my Kadoorie family, there is no need to destroy all of our family business, right?" Henry Kadoorie asked suddenly.

"Family business?" Chen Zhiwen said with a light smile: "The Kadoorie family has been able to obtain the status of Hong Kong's top ten families today. How many other people's family businesses have been destroyed in the past few decades? You have acquired quite a few small Chinese companies, right?" ?And a few decades ago, the legal environment was not as good as it is now.”

Different from the normal manufacturing industry, the development process of local consortiums in Hong Kong is a history of acquisitions. During this process, some are willing to sell and some are not. However, in the era of British capital, many small Chinese capitals have no choice at all. .

None of the major British conglomerates in Hong Kong has a good history, and the acquisition today is nothing more than the law of the jungle in the shopping malls.

After hearing the truth, Henry Jia also fell silent.

"About the two of you here today because I want to end it in a peaceful way. Otherwise, the big hotel is a lesson learned from the past. Of course, we will suffer heavy losses, but you may suffer even greater losses, and even the entire family may decline. , why not accept our agreement now, as long as you give up the management right now, then in the next six months, we will buy the big hotel and CLP stock in your hands at a suitable price." Bao Yugang said with a smile.

Although they bought part of the stock at a high price before, the Kadoorie family had to come to the negotiating table after obtaining a veto. If this negotiation is successful, you can take over CLP peacefully. In this way, The total cost may be less, otherwise, the two sides will continue to fight fiercely, and even if they are sure to win, they will lose more.

"What if we don't want to sell, but continue to hold for a long time?" Michael Kadoorie said.

"It's up to you, but we will definitely dilute the shares in your hands. It is hard to say how much you have in the future, and you have lost the right to manage the company. If so many banks still accept the loans you use these stocks as collateral, it is another Something happened." Chen Zhiwen said with a smile.

CLP itself also holds debts, but these are corporate debts, which do not belong to Kadoorie, nor does it belong to Bao Yugang, who will take over in the future. Yes, even if the stock ratio remains unchanged and the company’s market value remains unchanged, a large part of what banks value is whether they have management rights, because there are many tricks in it, and everyone in the industry understands that once the management rights are lost, the mortgage value of the stocks will be reduced. It will be greatly discounted.

"Okay, how much price are you going to offer?" Michael Kadoorie asked.