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Chapter 658 Change of an Era
Why do you say that?

Because Jardine has newly issued B shares, the suspension price and the original price at the time of additional issuance can differ by several dollars. If it is sold to Keswick according to the closing price, it will be a slap in the face.

Su Chen continued: "We will only buy Jardine's shares at the price when Hongkong Land was suspended! And if the additional issuance agreement between Jardine and Hongkong Land is still valid, we will only repurchase that part of the stock at the original price at the time of the additional issuance. If you want to blame, you can only blame you for issuing new shares."

Pu Weiss on the side also looked at Keswick with pity. If this guy hadn't been anxious to take the opportunity to stabilize his shares and teamed up with HSBC, this madman would definitely have failed.

But if it is already just a hypothetical.

There are no ifs.

Keswick shook his head hastily: "No, that price is too low, it's not the real price of Landmark, we can't explain it to Jardine's shareholders!"

Tang Wanru took out a report and said: "Mr. Keswick, this report records that in the past three months, the average share price of Hongkong Land Company was only 6.9 yuan!
This shows that Hongkong Land's response in the market is not good. We bought it at the price of 7.3 yuan when the trading was suspended, which is already an appropriate premium for the value of Hongkong Land! "

Of course, it does not mean that the market of Hongkong Land is not good, because this is the most profitable company in Hong Kong, and the original stock price has been fluctuating around 9 yuan. Suppressed to about 6.5 yuan.

Later, in order to muddy the water, Su Chen launched a second wave of attacks, secretly absorbing the shares of Hongkong Land, and the price began to gradually rise.

Keswick does not think that the market reaction of Hongkong Land is not good. He knows that the recent stock price fluctuations can be said to be the result of malicious manipulation by the other party, but he has no evidence in hand, and he is being manipulated now.

I was so angry that I didn't know who to send it to.

If you want to blame, you can only blame him for wanting to fish in troubled waters, underestimating Shengshi's cash flow and overestimating his own means.

Keswick really wanted to punch the Chinese man hard in the face, but the thought was just a thought.

Since both parties are not satisfied, then continue to talk.

A few hours later, the two parties finally reached an agreement. Shengshi bought 37% of the shares of Hongkong Land Group held by Jardine Holdings in cash at a price of 25 billion Hong Kong dollars.

After the news was announced, the next day, there were more people queuing up to sell stocks. Everyone was afraid that Shengshi would not continue to buy Hongkong shares.

Merging Jardine's shares is not Su Chen's ultimate goal. His goal is to completely acquire Hongkong Land and eventually realize privatization.

Since the acquisition of land a few years ago, no one knew the goal of Shengshi, and Shengshi did not seek financing from HSBC and a few rich men, relying entirely on the money Shengshi earned in these years.

The total cost of this step of privatizing Hongkong Land Group is about 170 billion Hong Kong dollars.

Before Su Chen and Tang Wanru launched the general attack, the market value of Hongkong Land Group was originally around 168 billion Hong Kong dollars.

That is to say, Shengshi took down Hongkong Land at almost the original price. To outsiders, it should be regarded as a textbook-like perfect acquisition battle.

The title of 'Stock Crazy' confirms Su Chen's status in Hong Kong.

Originally, the news that there were two lunatics in Shengshi was only circulated among those stock speculators, but now almost everyone knows about these two people.

Because this is another acquisition of British capital by Chinese capital, and it ended with the victory of Chinese capital. Compared with the acquisitions of Chartered Ship King and Li Cucumber back then, this acquisition is completely unexpected.

It took less than half a month for Shengshi to issue a comprehensive tender offer to all shareholders of Hongkong Land to complete privatization and delisting from the Hong Kong stock market.

Before everyone came to their senses, the largest merger and acquisition case in the history of the Hong Kong capital market has come to an end.

However, for this day, Su Chen planned for almost four years.

The Kadoorie family and HSBC suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.

At first, they thought that Shengshi really wanted to acquire Hong Kong Hotel and Hang Seng Bank, but they didn't expect that Shengshi's ultimate goal was Hongkong Land.

The successful acquisition of Hong Kong Land by Shengshi is definitely an exciting acquisition for the vast majority of Hong Kong people.

Because Jardine can actually be regarded as the initiator of the Opium War.

1802年3月15日，刚满18岁的渣甸与东印度公司签下一张预支双月薪水为5英镑的收据，他已下定决心随中印贸易船前往东方展开他的未知人生。

Through connections, he got a job as a ship's assistant on the 'Brucewick'.

The salaries of the ship's medical assistants are not considered lucrative, but the salary of the staff is not the key point. The real source of income is the private goods carried by the franchise.

It is an open secret and a common practice that the captains, crew members, ship doctors, and ship doctor's assistants on the trading ships of the East India Company can bring private goods of several tonnages according to their grades to profit and enrich themselves.

On March 3, London was filled with fog, and the weather changed from warm to cold.Three galleons of the East India Company embark on a long journey to China.

When Jardine set off for Guangzhou, perhaps even he himself did not expect that many years later he, Matheson and others would be proud of operating the illegal opium trade.

And disturbed Guangzhou, turning the mighty Qing Empire into a weak "sick man of East Asia".

On July 1832, 7, William Jardine and James Matheson formally established Jardine Matheson in Guangzhou, China.

Jardine Matheson participated in the trade with China in the early years, mainly engaged in the trading of opium and tea.

When Lin Zexu banned smoking in 1839, the founder of Chahe, William Jardine, personally lobbied the British government in London to start a war with the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and also advocated the acquisition of Hong Kong from the Qing Dynasty as a trading base.

After the outbreak of the Opium War, Jardine Matheson moved its head office from Guangzhou to Hong Kong in 1842.

In 1843, Shanghai Jardine Matheson was established. In the early years, Jardine's competitors in Hong Kong included Sassoon Matheson and other trading companies.

After 1872, Jardine Matheson gave up the opium trade with China, and its investment business gradually diversified. In addition to trade, it also invested in the construction of railways, docks, various factories, mining, shipping, banking and other industries in mainland China and Hong Kong.

In addition to building China's first railway Wusong Railway in Shanghai in 1876, Chahe also installed China's first elevator and introduced various machinery and industrial equipment. Therefore, these old British capitals have earned countless hard-earned money in China .

Since Mrs. Thatcher had a fall in BJ, these old-fashioned British capitals began to retreat from Hong Kong.

But no one thought that this British capital, which has been developing in China for more than 100 years, would be crushed by an emerging Chinese capital without any power to fight back.

Mr. Jin Yong specially wrote for today's headline news - "The Change of an Era".

This news made Boss Huo, who was forced by the British capital to transfer Starlight to Landmark, very happy.

Starlight House has been suppressed by the Hong Kong government and the Consulate of the Beautiful Country in Hong Kong since its completion.

In the end, he had to transfer the new building at a low price to the Hong Kong Land Company who took advantage of the fire.

In order to protect themselves, the Huo family also faded out of Hong Kong's business operations.

It's just that he also couldn't imagine where Shengshi raised so much cash flow.

Li Cucumber, on the other hand, was extremely depressed. Originally, he also had his eyes on this company, but he chose to wait and see for a while, and as a result, the land changed hands.

Hongkong Land is a large-scale group company with huge businesses including real estate, retail, food and hotels. The most coveted assets are naturally a large number of high-quality commercial buildings of Hongkong Land in Central.

If he chooses to join forces with Shengshi, he might be able to share the spoils, but there are no ifs in this world.

Shengshi did not choose to join forces with anyone this time, so Landmark was reduced to Shengshi's property, which made others envious.

All the media have written a lot about this acquisition, interpreting this acquisition from various tricky angles, and the most acceptable to the public is: Shengshi, an emerging Chinese capital, is already a leading company in Hong Kong.

Carrying the banner of Chinese capital acquiring British capital.

Definitely a heroic existence.

Although the Jardine Department still has two listed companies in Hong Kong, Jardine Holdings and Jardine Securities, and the combined market value of the two can reach almost tens of billions of Hong Kong dollars.

However, almost all of the core and highest-quality assets of the entire Jardine Department in Hong Kong are in Hong Kong Land.

After losing Landmark, Jardine Matheson has been reduced to a mediocre company.

Likewise, the Keswick family's hold on Jardine Holdings is faltering.

Just when everyone thought that Shengshi would stop at this point, Jardine suddenly announced a new news:

[Great Age has fully acquired Jardine Holdings for 20 billion Hong Kong dollars]

This news was also responded by Shengshi, and at the same time, it also announced that this old company with a history of 150 years was completely wiped out in the clouds.

Generally speaking, for large-scale mergers and acquisitions between enterprises, the acquirer usually first communicates with the management of the acquired enterprise.

If the management of the acquired company can be persuaded to accept the merger plan, then if they come forward to help persuade the board of directors of the acquired company, the chances of success will be greatly improved.

And Shengshi's acquisition of Hongkong Land Group.But it is very simple and rude, and it directly forcibly acquires from the secondary market as soon as it comes up.

This is because Hongkong Land's board of directors and senior management positions have been firmly controlled by the major shareholder Jardine Matheson Group for many years, and there is no possibility of being persuaded.

Countless Hong Kong people exclaimed: Shengshi is rising rapidly from an incredible angle!
It also terrified the real estate developers in Hong Kong, because if they want to make money in Hong Kong, they should invest in real estate.

Facing the prosperous world with a lot of money and real estate in their hands, these real estate developers are trembling.

Because those two lunatics shot viciously and from a tricky angle, you may have been hit without even realizing it.

Originally, Hongkong Land Company had the reputation of "Land King in Central", but its management style has always been relatively conservative, and it usually only leases and does not sell its commercial real estate.

As the leader of Hong Kong's real estate industry, Hongkong Land has many properties and land in various parts of Hong Kong.

Only in Central, which is the most expensive place in Hong Kong, Hongkong Land has nine high-end office buildings.

Now let these two lunatics dominate, Hongkong Land may definitely develop with a brand new attitude, most likely in a crushing way!

It can be said that the sky in Hong Kong has changed.

Originally, it was just a prosperous age of developing land in corners that everyone didn't want, but suddenly it changed into an existence that people look up to.

Now everyone must form a group and be vigilant against Shengshi, a giant that kills the real estate industry with blood.

Li Cucumber was very disturbed. At the beginning Shengshi opened a large supermarket, and he didn't pay attention to it, but now the milk company under Landmark also has retail and food companies.

For example, Mannings Pharmacy, Wellcome Supermarket, 7-Eleven Convenience Store, etc. Whether it is a large supermarket or a small store, Shengshi has overwhelmed him!
Huo Jianning sighed: "The prosperous age is no longer Wuxia Amon."

"Yeah, we all missed it." Li Cucumber also sighed, "This is a strong enemy."

……

Compared with these people who worry about gains and losses, Boss He has been walking with wind recently.

Because Su Chen's abilities once again exceeded his imagination, compared with the children of those big families in Hong Kong, this young man can definitely be regarded as a dragon and phoenix among men.

He began to thank the people from the Information Bureau again. If it wasn't for those guys, Su Chen probably wouldn't have become his son-in-law.

There is a saying that it is a blessing in disguise, but one knows that it is not a blessing, and the result of a erroneous marriage is so satisfying.

Although this guy has a lot of women, at least his daughter is already called Mrs. Su in Hong Kong.

He specially invited Su Chen out for tea, and even called Tang Wanru.

"Is Shengshi going to deal with the Hong Kong Hotel next?" Mr. He is gearing up, his eyes bright, "Can I participate?"

Su Chen shook his head: "We didn't plan to deal with the big hotel, we just wanted to put a smoke bomb."

"What about Hang Seng Bank?" Mr. He asked again.

Tang Wanru smiled and said: "Mr. He, we have already acquired many banks, and we have no plans to acquire Hang Seng for the time being, but..."

(End of this chapter)