Rebirth: The Era of Hong Kong Tycoon

Chapter 257 [Hutchison Whampoa]

In July, Evergrande Real Estate and HSBC issued another statement: Evergrande Real Estate purchased 6.5 million ordinary and preferred shares of Hutchison Whampoa from HSBC at a price of HK$9000 per share.

After some operations, Evergrande Real Estate holds a total of 2.5 million shares of Hutchison Whampoa, accounting for 49.8% of Hutchison Whampoa.

Although many people speculated that Evergrande Real Estate might take over Hutchison Whampoa when Evergrande Real Estate exchanged 1 million shares of Hutchison Whampoa with Evergrande Infrastructure, but this news still set off a Hong Kong-Kowloon typhoon.

Hutchison Building.

In the shareholder meeting room of Hutchison Whampoa, a group of foreign executives and directors looked at the young Lin Rongheng, waiting for the fate of Hutchison Whampoa.

At this time, there are seven companies under Hutchison Whampoa: Hutchison Whampoa, Hebao, Watsons, Hutchison Real Estate, Metropolis Real Estate, Junyi Warehouse, and Harbor Engineering; , container transportation, docks, warehouses, transportation, real estate, construction, investment business, etc.

As for the Evergrande infrastructure exchanged by Evergrande Real Estate, it is actually the holding company of Hong Kong Hong Kong Electric, Qingzhou Yingni, and China Gas. The so-called infrastructure refers to infrastructure such as transportation construction, power construction, and water treatment. It doesn't matter.

The difference from history is that Evergrande Real Estate now holds 49.8% of Hutchison Whampoa's shares, and has a very large voice, and can replace Hutchison Whampoa's existing high-level executives.

But Lin Rongheng won't do this, Lin Rongheng still needs foreign executives like Wei Li;

Of course, it's only useful, Lin Rongheng is already looking for a new Hutchison executive, and he will be replaced directly when the time comes.

Why did Lin Rongheng want to replace a talent like Wei Li instead of subduing him?

Because Wei Li has been in charge of Hutchison Whampoa for several years, he has developed a "decision maker" and will not be willing to become an "executor". This is a situation that Lin Rongheng does not allow.

At the meeting of the board of directors of Hutchison Whampoa, Lin Rongheng was first elected as the chairman of the board of directors of Hutchison Whampoa. Wei Li stepped down as the chairman of the board of directors and became the vice chairman and chief executive officer of the board of directors.

Lin Rongheng first reassured everyone, saying that Hutchison Whampoa has achieved very good results with the efforts of these foreigners, which made the high-level foreigners immediately let go of their guard.

Lin Rongheng began to reuse three British guys, namely Richard Wei Li's deputy, Xia Boyin, the business director, and Peter Wei, the political affairs director, and entrusted these three with important tasks.

This arrangement is to make the three British guys and Wei Li form a balanced force, and after Lin Rongheng entrusts these three people with important tasks, the entire British management of Hutchison Whampoa will be appeased.

In the end, Lin Rongheng began to deploy his own staff. He Rui and Mai Po (Wu Hao's deputy) from Evergrande Real Estate became directors of Hutchison Whampoa, participated in executive board meetings, and were responsible for planning the development of the real estate business.

After some personnel arrangements, no matter whether it was the management of Hutchison Whampoa, or the directors, and Shen Bi from HSBC, they could not find any flaws.Although Evergrande Real Estate holds as high as 49.8% of the shares, it has not taken any serious action, but only participated in the real estate work of Hutchison Whampoa, which can be said to be very peaceful.

Of course, this is also Lin Rongheng who has to temporarily pretend to be false, because Evergrande Real Estate is not familiar with Hutchison Whampoa's container terminals, shipyards, pharmaceuticals and other businesses, and neither is Lin Rongheng.

But this is only temporary. After Lin Rongheng finds executives who can replace Wei Li, Richard Richard and others, these people will all quit Hutchison Whampoa.

As for the retail business of Hutchison Whampoa and the merger with Yonghui Company, Lin Rongheng did not mention it for the time being;

After a while, Yonghui, Watsons and ParknShop will merge;

And Zhang Jie of Yonghui Company will become the retail head of Hutchison Whampoa.

Gradually control Hutchison Whampoa in his own hands, this is Lin Rongheng's strategy.

This Hutchison Whampoa board meeting can be said to have allowed Evergrande Real Estate to take over Hutchison Whampoa smoothly.

In a villa in Repulse Bay, Lin Rongheng took Zhao Yazhi's hand and comforted her.

"You don't need to worry about anything when you go to Los Angeles. The nanny, bodyguard, assistant, and driver are all your acquaintances in Xiangjiang. After I buy Hutchison Whampoa here, come and see you as soon as possible!"

Zhao Yazhi is 6 months pregnant, so she plans to go to the United States to give birth. After all, if she gives birth in Xiangjiang, there will be big news; of course, this is not the point. Go to Europe and America.

Lin Qingxia also came to bid farewell to Zhao Yazhi. The relationship between the two women has been very friendly recently. After all, they have competed in the same bed many times, and the two women even publicly announced their alliance.

"Sister Zhi, don't worry, my drama will end in one month, and then I will come to the United States to accompany you for a while!"

The comfort from the two made Zhao Yazhi feel better!
Lin Rongheng had actually met Zhao Yazhi's parents, but it was not settled; this time, he planned to meet again in the United States, when the children were born, so it would be easier to deal with it.

After packing up the things, everyone got in the car and drove towards Kai Tak Airport.

"After you go there, someone will take you to open a house. Before your belly is too big, buy the house first! Of course, you will live in Qingxia's house first, and then move in after the house you bought is tidied up!"

"You have spent so much money recently, you can buy the house later!"

Lin Rongheng said with a smile: "I spend in hundreds of millions. Is there a shortage of tens of millions? However, I promised you that if you give birth to a boy, you will be rewarded with [-] million Hong Kong dollars in assets. I am afraid it will take a few years. I invested a sum of gold, which has been appreciating in value over the past few years, so I won’t be able to get it out for a while.”

Zhao Yazhi said indifferently: "I didn't take it to heart, you can arrange it whenever you want!"

Lin Rongheng asked curiously: "Don't you worry that I'm deceiving you!"

The two women laughed at the same time, and Zhao Yazhi said: "Usually when you talk about those things in front of us, you don't care about hundreds of millions of Hong Kong dollars, and you always act confidently. To be honest, we are not worried at all. You coax us. Besides, you have given us tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars back and forth, which is enough for the children to live a good life in the future. So, we don’t worry about that at all!”

Lin Rongheng was greatly moved. Being able to build such trust, it seems that these women have deep feelings for Lin Rongheng.

"Don't worry! My business has just started, and I will help you acquire considerable assets in the United States in the future, making you the noble ladies of the United States."

Brigitte Lin pointed out: "You are driving us to the United States. Could it be that you are worried about your wife!"

Lin Rongheng first pointed out: "To be honest, I haven't tried four people yet?"

"I'm going to die!"

"Don't think about it!"

Lin Rongheng spread his hands, expressing his innocence.

Finally, he said seriously: "I'm just putting my eggs in multiple baskets. The children of me and you will definitely immigrate to the United States, Canada, and Europe. Only in this way can we be considered a world-class family!"

The two women behaved differently upon hearing the words, Zhao Yazhi's eyes lit up, Brigitte Lin's expression turned bitter.

Brigitte Lin murmured, "So, I'm going to have a lot of kids?"

Lin Rongheng smiled and said, "At least one son, three children!"

As far as Lin Rongheng knew, this woman gave birth to two daughters in her previous life, but no son. Zhao Yazhi was expected to give birth to a son, but this thing should be due to the importance of male genes, Lin Rongheng was not worried at all.

During the chat, I came to Kai Tak Airport unknowingly.

This time when Zhao Yazhi went to the United States, Lin Rongheng arranged a total of 6 Hong Kong people to accompany him, two nannies, one female bodyguard, one male bodyguard, and two assistants.

(End of this chapter)