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Chapter 653 It Really Was Those Two Crazies Again
Because they were indeed transferring assets secretly, and the minority shareholders didn't even know about it, but this "Metropolis Morning Post" actually reported it.

Instead of exposing other stocks with more serious problems, these financial experts focused on these Jardine companies.

It shows that there must be someone manipulating behind it, and some people even think that the north is dissatisfied with Jardine.

Although the Hang Seng Index is now rising, Jardine's share price has been falling. In just a few days, it has fallen from more than 8 yuan to more than 6 yuan.

This unusual sign is enough to prove that someone deliberately suppressed the stock price of the Jardine Department, and then secretly raised funds, preparing to launch a fatal blow.

Everyone also sharpened their swords and rushed to the cattle and sheep. For example, Liu Luanxiong, a reckless man who was sniped twice, was naturally unwilling to be robbed again this time.

The specific operation process is actually very complicated, and it is definitely not enough to blindly buy in a scattered manner, which will only quickly raise the stock price.

When Shengshi's stock price rose rapidly, it sold a large sum of money to scare away retail investors who wanted to fish in troubled waters.

And when these retail investors cut their meat and left the market one after another, they calmly took the opportunity to take over all the stocks they sold at low prices.

In the eyes of most ordinary people, Hongkong Land's stock has been caught in the vortex of public opinion recently. Although the fluctuations are relatively violent, it is difficult to detect that someone is secretly buying shares.

Jardine Maison is a very special presence in Hong Kong, and it and HSBC are known as the two banners of British capital in Hong Kong.

Jardine Land Group is not only the largest real estate group in Hong Kong, but also the listed company with the largest single market value in the Hong Kong stock market.

It is also Jardine's main asset in Hong Kong. If Landmark can be snatched from Jardine, it will cause a much bigger shock than Li Cucumber's acquisition of Hutchison Whampoa and the bid for Wharf.

Under the chain ship strategy, Hongkong Land has become the majority shareholder of Jardine Matheson from an associate company of Jardine Matheson, and the development of Jardine Materia Medica gradually lost control.

Regardless of some unfavorable factors that had emerged at that time, Hongkong Land quickly transformed from a conservative and prudent real estate developer into an active, aggressive and impatient real estate developer. In 1982, the stock market fell into an unprecedented predicament.

In the "serial boat" structure, Jardine's mutual control has evolved into a situation of mutual drag, and Jardine Group, which bears [-]% of Landmark's equity, is miserable.

This "serial boat" structure of Jardine and Landmark Mutual Control is not invulnerable.

Yiji Mutual Control involves interests. When the acquisition war breaks out, the consortium proposing the acquisition can apply to the court for an injunction to prohibit Hongkong Land from exercising the voting rights of Jardine shares held by it. This will easily break the chain of defense of Yiji Mutual Control.

Facing Jardine Land's besieged and precarious city, Su Chen laid out the big plan of "burning the chain boats": start with Jardine House, which has a smaller market value.

At that time, the market value of Jardine was only about 30 billion Hong Kong dollars. At a price of about 10 billion Hong Kong dollars, buying [-]% of Jardine's shares, to control Hongkong Land's assets of more than [-] billion Hong Kong dollars, the calculation was quite loud.

But Su Chen didn't have that much money, so he could only quietly absorb 20% of the tradable shares from the secondary market when the land market was not good in the early years.

Because it is by no means an easy task to absorb so many scattered stocks without concealing the sky, and everything must be prepared as soon as possible.

This kind of business war cannot be settled in just two or three days.

Nor is it possible to acquire land in a few words.

Everyone is still waiting for this mysterious person to launch a fatal blow. Even Jardine is ready to fight, but this mysterious person suddenly disappears. If the data from a few days ago is not still there, Simon Keswick thought he saw it. Dazzled.

Because Jardine hadn't come up with any counterattack, the opponent actually stopped.

For the next three or four days, Jardine's shares were not affected in any way.

And that mysterious buyer's funds don't appear to have been affected either.

This is like downloading an indescribable movie from a mysterious website. After closing the door, closing the window, and taking out a tissue, it turns out that the movie is Ultraman.

Li Cucumber couldn't help but said to his subordinates: "Jardines is not that easy to eat, the other party probably has insufficient funds."

"It may also be a stunned young man who wants to swallow Jardine in one go. Now it seems that the other party should just want to hold it for a long time." Huo Jianning agreed with Li Cucuma.

Calm appears to have returned to the stock market.

Jardine seemed to be in peace, but the Kadoorie family of the Hong Kong Hotel was in a panic at this time, always worried that someone would mess with them.

I can't even sleep well at night. After all, it's not a good thing to be missed by others, or everyone will put on a real fight.

At this time, the idea of ​​the Kadoorie family is: If you want to do it, you should do it as soon as possible, and the uncles are ready to pose.

……

This morning, Su Chen was reviewing the report in Shengshi's office building while having breakfast.

In fact, he did not lose this time, and he easily held 5% of Hongkong Land's shares. Together with the previous one, it is now 25%.

At this time, Jardine has lost even the last point of its shareholding advantage, and it is definitely defeated by Hong Kong.

He has thought carefully, and for several years, Wiring has held 25% of the shares of Hongkong Land Company, which is already equal to the bargaining chips in Jardine's hands.

Now that the two companies are on the same starting line, Su Chen is planning everything, but Jardine knows nothing about his opponent.

Although in January this year, Jardine Group announced a major restructuring, Jardine Holdings, Jardine Securities, and Hongkong Land invested to form Hong Kong Investors Co., Ltd., and Hongkong Land injected all the remaining 1% ​​of Jardine's equity into the new company.

But Yizhi mutual control has not been completely lifted.

Su Chen decided not to wait anymore, because Simon Keswick planned to issue B shares in order to ensure the control of the major shareholder, the Kaiser family.

Because once Wheelock builds a "B-share fortress" following the example of Wheelock back then, the ambition of Chinese capital to covet land acquisition is bound to become a dream forever.

"Let's launch a general attack. We have been planning for so many years." Su Chen looked at Tang Wanru who was already gearing up.

Tang Wanru nodded: "Okay, the land today will definitely be ours."

She said before that it is expected to cost tens of billions, which means the acquisition of 51% of the equity and privatization.

If it is only for Jardine to lose its final shareholding advantage, it does not need to spend so much money.

Many people are also secretly waiting for the opportunity to make a move. They didn't dare to make a move before, because there are mixed fish and dragons, and if they are not careful, they will be eaten to nothing.

Therefore, every day when I go to work, I read newspapers about Jardine.

Find the most suitable time.

At this time, the shares held by Jardine Holdings have dropped to 25%, but if others want to forcefully complete the acquisition, even if there is no premium, they will need to spend a huge amount of 70 billion Hong Kong dollars.

If the acquisition is successful, it will be an unprecedented merger and acquisition case in the Hong Kong stock market!

Originally, Li Cucumber thought that the mysterious guy didn't launch the final blow just because of insufficient funds.

But he suddenly discovered that something was wrong, because someone had already submitted an application for a general tender offer to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, and at the same time applied for a suspension of Hongkong Land's stock!
"Chairman, we may all be paralyzed!" Huo Jianning's face was very ugly, "The other party has already absorbed 25% of Hongkong Land's shares by various means, and now should be the final blow."

Li Cucumber also had to admit: "We all misjudged, this guy has been planning for at least three or four years."

The so-called general attack was not an attack on the stock market, but Tang Wanru arranged for someone to go to Jardine to find Simon Keswick with a takeover offer.

"Mr. Keswick, I am Gao Shicheng, the manager of Shengshi Holdings. Our company already holds 25% of the shares of Hongkong Land. We hope to acquire the 25% shares of Hongkong Land held by Jardine Holdings. This is our offer!"

With a smile on his face, Gao Shicheng handed over a purchase offer to Simon Keswick's desk.

In stark contrast to Gao Shicheng's face full of spring breeze, Ximen's face at this moment was so dark that it was about to drip ink.

Although the British pay attention to gentlemanly demeanor, Ximen couldn't help but swear: "Fack!"

It wasn't until now that he realized who was behind the troubles he encountered during this period of time!

Sure enough, it was those two lunatics in Shengshi again!
Although he felt very uncomfortable, Ximen still browsed through the purchase offer in his hand. The purchase price offered by Shengshi was 10 yuan per share, while the closing price of Landmark per share was only more than 7 yuan yesterday. This is already a premium purchase.

"Mr. Gao, I don't think this price is sincere. The actual value of Hongkong Land is far more than this price!" Keswick shook his head and said.

His ultimate goal is to hold the other party back and buy time for himself.

"Unfortunately, we have already submitted an application for a general tender offer to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, and at the same time applied for a suspension of Hongkong Land's stock. Since Mr. Keswick rejected our acquisition proposal on behalf of Jardine Holdings, we can only pass Open market for acquisitions!"

Gao Shicheng smiled, turned and left.

Seeing Gao Shicheng leave, Simon Keswick couldn't help but burst out saying Fa Ke again.

He didn't expect that the other party would not give him a chance to bargain at all.

It seems that Shengshi was ready to tear his face to be tough from the very beginning.

He was so angry that he tore the acquisition offer into pieces, then grabbed the phone on his desk and asked his secretary to urgently call all the senior management for a meeting to discuss counterattack strategies.

……

The news that Hongkong Land Group was acquired by others also spread outside.

Because Shengshi, as a major shareholder of Hongkong Land, applied to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange for the suspension of stock trading, and at the same time issued a takeover offer notice to all shareholders of Hongkong Land.

The news quickly spread to every corner of Hong Kong.

Everyone suddenly realized: Well, it's these two lunatics again.

He was shocked, but not surprised at all, because besides Li Cucumber and Chartered Ship King, these two lunatics seemed to be the only ones who dared to fight Yingzi like this.

And everyone agreed that only these two lunatics could do such a thing.

At this time, if Jardine Company wants to launch a counterattack, it must raise funds as soon as possible.

The only bank in Hong Kong capable of providing large-scale cash was HSBC, so after Keswick asked the secretary to notify shareholders to come to the meeting, he immediately called Pu Weiss for help.

"What? You said that those two lunatics from Shengshi are going to buy Landmark?" Pu Weishi had just finished the meeting and didn't know the news yet.

At the same time, he was at a loss. Didn't these two lunatics want to buy the Grand Hotel and Hang Seng Bank before?

Why did it take only a few days to stab Zhidi again without making a sound?

(End of this chapter)