The Wealth Empire Crossing the Hong Kong

Chapter 173 The Still Unwilling MacLehose
Although today is the severe cold in the twenty-four solar terms, Xiangjiang does not feel the biting cold wind from the north at all.

On this day, there was a storm in the business community of Xiangjiang. The vice chairman of the board of directors of Huangpu Holdings and the chairman of the board of directors of Hutchison Land Group Al Merris held a press conference together with Li Guobao, Zhang Guangwen and Lei Juekun, announcing several Group cross-shareholding plan.

Among them, Whampoa Holdings transferred 32% of the shares in its hands to Jiulong Jianye, Huaren Real Estate, and Guanghua Jianye respectively.

At the same time, Whampoa Holdings acquired 15% of the shares of Jiulong Jianye, 20% of the shares of Chinese Land, and 15% of the shares of Guanghua Jianye.

Through this operation, Huangpu Holdings Group only holds 35% of the shares of Hutchison Real Estate, and initially completed the group's task of reducing the shares of Hutchison Real Estate Group.

The cross-holding of several groups' shares is not a simple cooperation in the eyes of all parties in Xiangjiang, but marks the birth of a huge force.

The first and third Chinese-owned families in Hong Kong, plus two families whose assets exceeded one billion Hong Kong dollars, not to mention other Chinese-owned families in Hong Kong, even Jardine + Swire are hard to match.

After MacLehose in the Governor's Office received this report, he was full of worries about England's future in Xiangjiang. He felt that the London government's connivance with the Xinjian Department would only hurt him in the end.

If Li Jianhui continues to develop like this, they will no longer have the final say on the future of Xiangjiang, and the entire policy and economy of Xiangjiang will be kidnapped by the Xinjian faction and its allies.

MacLehose, who knew that he would not have a long term in Xiangjiang, specially recruited Xosos, the new chief executive officer who had just arrived in Xiangjiang.

"If we want Xiangjiang to be under our long-term and stable control in the future, we absolutely cannot tolerate the emergence of a consortium like the Xinjian Department.

I believe you are also aware of how much influence the emergence of a consortium in a place will have on the local government. I am afraid that the will of the consortium will dominate here.

I don't know how the mainland decided to let Li Jianhui and Xin Jian's expansion in Xiangjiang ignore it.

I hope that after I leave, you can focus on the activities of the Xinjian Department, and limit the expansion of the Xinjian Department and its allies as much as possible within a reasonable framework.

Promoting policies try to bypass the Tseung Kwan O and Tin Shui Wai areas where the Xinjian faction and its allies are focusing on, and support Jardine, Swire, Hang Lung, Cheung Kong, Shun Tak and other groups, so that their strength can grow rapidly, so as to contain Xin The establishment is extremely ally. "

Xoss once served as the British envoy to Japan, and spent several years in Xiangjiang when he was young, so he is quite familiar with the situation in Xiangjiang and Asia.

This time he also knew the reason for the transfer of MacLehose and Xia Dingji. One of the two advocated suppressing and restricting the Xin Jian Department and Li Jianhui, and the other advocated supporting the Xin Jian Department.

There are also huge differences in London, so they choose not to suppress or support the Xinjian Department, and put him and Brian, who will soon be the governor, in Xiangjiang, so that they can maintain the stability of Xiangjiang.

No matter whether he or Brian, they all tend to be neutral, otherwise they would not be able to come to Xiangjiang to take up positions.

So he didn't take what MacLehose said to him. He never thought that Li Jianhui or the Xinjian department could pose much threat to Yinglun.

You must know that the upper-level officials here are directly accepted by Yinglun, and many policies are also directly formulated by them. Li Jianhui and Xin Jian's department can't intervene at all.

No matter how big the Xinjian department is, it's only about business, and it's not Li Jianhui's turn to dictate other aspects.

If the Xin Jian Department is really dishonest and wants to jump out and confront them, they have plenty of ways to deal with the Xin Jian Department.

Xoss said with a smile: "MacLehose, it's no wonder that Xiangjiang has developed so well these years. It seems that you treat Xiangjiang as a normal local governance and bring it into consideration with normal thinking.

You seem to have forgotten what the nature of Xiangjiang is to us in England. Do you think the Xinjian family can become the Rockefeller, Morgan, or Mitsui, Iwasaki and other families here?

We must know that our positions are local and we are firmly in control of the administrative and legislative bureaus of Xiangjiang. Do you think that Li Jianhui in Xiangjiang can control or even manipulate our House of Commons and the government? "

Seeing this, MacLehose could only sigh. In his opinion, the best way to really make the citizens of Xiangjiang agree with them is to implement normalized management here, let go of the Executive Council and even the Legislative Council, and give the citizens of Xiangjiang the right to vote.

He used to have the intention to promote this aspect, but the rise of the Xinjian Department disrupted his plan, and he was unwilling to come up with this plan because of the Xinjian Department.

Because he knows very well that if this plan appears now, it will only become a sharp weapon for the Xinjian Department to intervene in politics and interfere with government policies.

MacLehose understands that it may be difficult to implement the local system in Xiangjiang. For the sake of their rule here, this plan cannot be implemented.

Australia and Canada are both lessons from the past. In those two regions, the Governor is just a rubber stamp and has no rights at all.

"Forget it, we won't mention the Xinjian Department, I just hope that it's what you think, and we won't be breeding tigers for trouble.

I will return to London at the end of this month. If there are any adjustments on the Administration Department, I can bring them up in the next few days and resolve them for you before I leave. "

Xoss did not make any demands on personnel matters. He asked MacLehose for information on the relationship between the major families in Xiangjiang, as well as information on the bias of these families.

These are very useful for him to deal with the major families in Xiangjiang in the future. Which ones are biased towards them, which ones are biased towards the north, which ones are biased towards Baodao, and which ones are neutral.

MacLehose was not stingy about this. Although these materials were mainly managed by the Governor's Office, Xoss, as a senior British official in Xiangjiang, was still qualified to read these materials.

Among them, MacLehose focused on the big families of Li Jianhui, Huo Yingdong, Li Guobao, He Shili, and Chen Zengxi, so that Xoss could learn more about them.

"MacLehose, you don't need to worry so much, Xiangjiang will not change today, and the Xinjian department is like that rootless duckweed, it's not worth making a fuss about it.

Your governance ability has been fully demonstrated in Xiangjiang, and I also believe that you will be given important tasks after returning to the mainland this time. "

After Xoss left, MacLehose still didn't let go of his heart. He took a pen and wrote a report of nearly [-] words to Thatcher.

It focuses on the influence of the Xinjian faction and its allies in Xiangjiang, and at the same time points out that neither the Xinjian faction nor its allies will stand on the side of London on the issue of Xiangjiang.

Now that the strength of the Xinjian Clan is getting stronger and the relationship with several major families is getting closer, I hope the London government can carefully evaluate the situation in Xiangjiang and refrain from feeding tigers into trouble, otherwise it will be too late to regret it.

At the same time, it is also suggested that, considering that the strength and influence of British-funded enterprises in Hong Kong are getting weaker and weaker, it is hoped that London will increase support for these enterprises. The influence of Hong Kong's business community.

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