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Chapter 785 Shadow
Once again, the Chinese capital defeated the British capital that had been entrenched in Hong Kong for many years with a strong posture. Even Cathay Pacific, which was strongly supported by the British Hong Kong government, could not withstand this devastating attack.

They have repeatedly prevented the development of Dragonair, but they did not expect that Shengshi would spend a huge amount of money, even swallowing the entire Swire Group.

No one knows exactly how many billions of Hong Kong dollars Prosperity spent, and HSBC, a fellow of the Shi Yahuai family, also provided a large amount of funds to the Shi Yahuai family in this sniper battle.

It's a pity that these funds are muddled.

This strong acquisition has once again made Shengshi famous and attracted the attention of its peers in the business world.

Such huge acquisitions in Hong Kong are not unheard of.

Before Li Cucumber and Ship King acquired Hutchison and Wheelock, Jardine Matheson, Hong Kong Land, and Hutchison had successively been interested in acquiring Wheelock.

At the same time, there were also rumors in the market that Swire Hong Kong, Yingzhijie Group, the Nanyang Gang Consortium and Chinese-funded companies were all interested in winning the championship, and there was a lot of excitement for a while.

Even from the perspective of commercial transactions, it was a huge and complicated transaction at that time.

Facing several menacing consortia, Wheelock was in a dilemma, so he consulted his financial advisor, Dolly, for advice.

Huodoli stated that the businesses operated by Hutchison International and Jardine Matheson Company are quite similar to that of Wheelock, and if specific and detailed information is provided to them, it will cause damage to Wheelock's business.

Therefore, Wheelock refused to provide information to Hutchison and Jardine.

The mergers and acquisitions were deadlocked.

On December 1976, 12, Jardine Matheson, Hongkong Land and Hui De Ban reached an agreement. If an agreement cannot be reached on the acquisition and merger within ten days, the above-mentioned acquisition plan will fall through.

Ten days later, Hutchison and Landmark announced their withdrawal one after another, and an expected fierce and exciting acquisition battle came to an abrupt end.

However, Jardine Matheson and Hong Kong Land are worried about the failure of this acquisition, and intend to wait for an opportunity to make a comeback.

On September 1980, 9, in order to defend its control over Hongkong Land, Jardine launched a strategic operation to exchange its holdings of properties and stocks for shares of Hongkong Land.

Among them, 330 million Wheelock A shares are included, which is approximately equivalent to 11.8% of Wheelock's total capital, or 7.4% of the voting rights.

At this time, the Board of Directors of Wheelock was surprised, and found that five years later, the Jardines still had not given up on the plan to acquire Wheelock.

In fact, if the board of directors of Wheelock has no intention of giving up, it will be very difficult for outsiders to seize control of the company.

It is a pity that as early as the early 70s, the Board of Directors of Wheelock used rights issues to raise funds or issue new shares to acquire other companies several times since the 60s.

Has gradually lost control of Huideban, and decided to issue B shares to defend it.

This method is also effective. The main reason why no one went to Wheelock's idea was the main reason why the takeover war was raging from the late 70s to the early 80s.

However, the "B-share fortress" is not impenetrable.

As long as any external consortium obtains enough equity, it can propose to hold a special general meeting of shareholders. By canceling the privileges of B shares, the control right will immediately fall into the hands of investors who hold a large number of A shares.

The Shi Yahuai family is like the board of directors of Wheelock in the past. Under the dilemma of continuous cutting, they can't wait for rescue, so they can only give up control of the company.

The Jardine that he ate before has not been digested by Shengshi, and now he ate Taikoo in one bite.

For a period of time in the future, Shengshi will not need to expand externally at all for the time being. Just digesting this century-old enterprise will destroy Shengshi's stomach.

This explosive financial news quickly spread to the world through the Hong Kong media. World-renowned media have quoted relevant reports and interpreted it from their own perspectives.

Some people think that the reform and opening up not only made China's economy move forward, but also awakened this ancient oriental nation.

Some people think that Prosperous World once again eats Taikoo, which undoubtedly casts a huge shadow on the British capital that is still developing in Hong Kong.

The Kadoorie family is suffering especially now, feeling like they are living under the shadow of Huazi, because Liu Luanxiong has been crazily biting flesh from him during this time.

And as the largest conglomerates in Hong Kong, only HSBC and the Kadoorie family are left now.

HSBC is definitely no one wants to eat it, but it is hard to say for the Kadoorie family.

Originally, they were just hiding behind Jardine and Taikoo to make a small fortune secretly, but the two tall men were pinned to the ground and beaten to death in an instant, making the Kadoorie family appear under the spotlight in an instant.

What's even more frightening is that Shengshi's two victories against Swire and Jardine gave other Chinese capitals the illusion of "I can do it myself".

Therefore, Liu Luanxiong launched a more violent attack, making the Kadoorie family miserable.

After Shengshi swallowed Taikoo in one gulp, it immediately announced that it would delist and reorganize.

At this time, the time has come to the end of July, and Mr. Su's wish to go to the capital to pick up his wife and children has come to nothing. Now he is so busy that he can hardly take time off.

Busy with the privatization of Swire.

I am also busy dealing with possible counter-attacks by the British, after all, the British will not be honest.

Unexpectedly, someone suddenly sent him an invitation letter.

Su Chen was very surprised when he received this invitation letter, because he found that the invitation letter was actually issued jointly.

There are Li Cucumber, Lee Shau Kee, Boss Dong, Boss Zheng, Boss Xu, the son-in-law of the ship tycoon, Boss Wu, Boss Guo, and other Chinese capitalists.

The location is in Deep Water Bay.

That area is full of wealthy people's residences, not many people like Su Chen live in Repulse Bay.

Now that the invitations have been sent out, I'm sorry if I don't go.

He wasn't the only one who received the invitation, Tang Wanru also received the invitation.

The invitation will be next Sunday night.

When Boss He came over and saw this invitation, he reminded him: "Be careful, those people may dig holes for you. You just defeated Taikoo, maybe someone will instigate you to attack HSBC or the Kadoorie family .”

"This possibility is not ruled out." Su Chen agreed with his father-in-law, "They must be worried that I will attack them again, and they don't know who they will use as a weapon that night."

"That's not certain." Boss He shook his head, "There will definitely be fools."

"Let's take a look at that time." Su Chen said.

Boss He is more and more fond of this son-in-law now. He originally thought that eating Jardine would be the ceiling, but he didn't expect that the sky would be blown up now.

But the big tree attracts the wind, not only the British can't swallow this breath, but other Chinese capitals will also find ways to bite off the fat from Shengshi.

After the two chatted about some irrelevant things, Boss He left.

During this period of time, Su Chen and Tang Wanru stayed in the office until very late before returning home, trying hard to eat Taikoo in one bite.

The hard work pays off, and I can finally go to the morning shift tonight.

After packing up his things, Su Chen went downstairs and took the elevator downstairs with Tang Wanru.

……

After the family had dinner, Zhou Huimin turned on the TV.

Cautiously glanced at Mr. Su: "There will be the semi-finals of Miss Hong Kong on TVB tonight, can I watch it?"

Because Miss Asia was criticized by the newspapers before, she was worried that Su Chen would be unhappy.

"Just watch it if you want." Su Chen said with a smile, "I also admit that this year's Miss Asia is not very good."

"I can tell. Although you have been smiling all night, you look so fake." Zhou Huimin went to turn on the TV.

Miss He talked to Su Chen: "When will you be free to go to the capital?"

"Hurry up, go early next month." Su Chen said.

Ms. He nodded, "Okay, go early and come back early, otherwise the eldest sister will think that we have been occupying you in Hong Kong."

"There is a party on Sunday night, and we can leave on Monday." Tang Wanru said, "I can handle things here, and you can't just go and come back right away, you must spend some time staying. "

"Okay." Su Chen nodded.

He has already talked to Tang Wanru about the possible tricks of the British, and in order to avoid this from happening, he has already split the company after news of the suspected anti-monopoly investigation came from the United States.

Now even if the British want to use this to mess with him, they are not worried.

While talking, a piece of music happened to come from the TV.

Everyone turned their attention to the TV.

Teacher Su feels that watching the current TV programs is like watching Vietnamese TV programs after 2010.

The biggest melon of this year's Miss Hong Kong is that Qiu Shuzhen was exposed to plastic surgery and angrily withdrew from the finals.

Apart from this, there was nothing else that attracted Teacher Su's attention.

After watching TV, take a break.

……

But unexpectedly, at the press conference announcing the company's reorganization a few days later, Mr. Su was actually asked by the reporter what he thought of this year's Miss Hong Kong.

"What do you think?" Su Chen spread his hands, "To be honest, I didn't expect you to ask me this question, I don't have any opinion.

Because I am usually too busy to watch TV, but I heard that a contestant withdrew halfway. "

This answer certainly did not satisfy the reporter.

The reporter asked again: "It seems that Mr. Su was very impressed with this beauty who retired from the competition. I heard that Mr. Zhou Jianren of your company personally invited her to join Shengshi according to your instructions. I wonder if this rumor is true?"

(End of this chapter)