Through the wealth life

Chapter 391 The Swire Group's Counterattack

The actions of the Li Group in the past two days have been seen by the Swire Group, especially the reports of the media companies of the Li Group deliberately targeting their airlines in the past two days have made them very annoyed. The company's business will experience a cliff-like decline.

At the same time, Wooden Shihuaiya also received a notice from the British family that the president of Li's Bentley Group went to visit Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, with the purpose of letting Li's group establish a new airline in Xiangjiang.

Wooden Shihuaiya feels that the Li Group is fierce. Here, HSBC has just rejected their acquisition. Now they will turn around and build their own airline to compete with their Cathay Pacific Airways, and it is impossible to work with the Xiangjiang government. At that time, he went directly to the British government and wanted to get permission to form an airline.

What makes Wooden Szehuaiya unhappy is that the British government seems to no longer protect their interests this time, and the era of Cathay Pacific monopolizing Hong Kong Airlines' business is coming to an end.

This made Wooden Shihuaiya very unwilling. He just took over the Swire Group, and now the stock market has plummeted, and the group has lost billions of Hong Kong dollars in the stock market.Without the monopoly privileges of Cathay Pacific, the company's profits will definitely drop rapidly, which is not a good thing for the current Swire Group.

Wooden Shi Huaiya contacted the family, hoping that they would find some relationship to prevent the government from allowing the Li Group to establish an airline company, hoping to kill the Li Group's thoughts at the source.At the same time, Wooden Shi Huaiya also contacted several British-funded consortia here to discuss how to resist the attack of the Li Group on their British-funded consortium.

In the private room of the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, Henry Keswick and Paul Madden are already chatting here.

Paul Madden said: "Keswick, the development prospects of our British-funded consortium are worrying now. We are in a bad situation here at Wheelock. I wonder if you, Jardine, can give us a hand?"

Henry Keswick himself has been so worried about Jardine these days that he has no energy to support other British consortiums. He has made up his mind to sell Xiangjiang Electric Group, but he has not yet found a suitable person to take over. That's all, he didn't want to sell this group to Li Guangyu.

Henry Keswick said: "Madden, it's not that you don't know how much we have lost in the stock market this time, and we are also in danger now. You can ask Shen Bi later to see if HSBC can give you some support. "

Paul Madden was a little disappointed when he heard this. The Marden family suffered heavy losses this time, and the Feng family, the second largest shareholder of Wheelock, was eyeing the controlling stake in Wheelock. Lord.

After a while, Shen Bi walked in together with Wooden Shuaiya. George Lavin from Standard Chartered Bank was not present today. He is currently busy with the takeover of Standard Chartered Bank. He is not very familiar yet, and many relationships require him to walk around in person.

As for why Wooden Shihuaiya invited several of them, they are very clear that the Li Group is now eyeing Xiangjiang's aviation business and wants to seize Cathay Pacific's market in Xiangjiang.In the past two days, the media under the Li Group have been on full fire, trying to tarnish Cathay Pacific's reputation.

Wooden Shi Huaiya said: "Nowadays, our British-funded consortium should work together to overcome the current difficulties. The ambitions of the Li Group are gradually expanding as the Li Group becomes stronger. If we don't jointly boycott, I'm afraid Xiangjiang will never have the bright future of our British consortium."

Among them, Shen Bi was a little better, and the other three were worried that after the Li Group took down the airline this time, would they attack their companies again.Especially the Jardine Group, they have many companies that are closely related to the citizens of Xiangjiang, and the Li Group likes to acquire such companies the most.

Once the Li's Group succeeds in Swire, I'm afraid that the Li's Group will immediately point their guns at Jardine, their own milk company, which is the largest milk product supplier in Xiangjiang, and the Li's Group will definitely not give up. Opportunity, the current stock market is at a low point.

Henry Keswick said: "Shi Huaiya, this time we want to prevent the Li Group from establishing an airline company, mainly on the local side. As long as the other side does not agree to the Li Group's establishment of an airline company in Xiangjiang, they will have no chance. Develop aviation business in Xiangjiang."

Everyone here knows that the problem has now shifted to London, where the government's decision determines whether Cathay Pacific can still monopolize Xiangjiang's aviation business.These few companies can monopolize one side in Xiangjiang, but they don’t have much influence in London. They don’t even have the title of nobility. Especially this time it is the Prime Minister's decision.

Wooden Shi Huaiya said: "This time, I invite you to come here, hoping that you can join me in putting pressure on the Xiangjiang government so that they can align with our interests. At the same time, there is also the issue of public opinion in Xiangjiang. I think It is necessary for the government to exercise some control, otherwise the Li Group always likes to let its media attack its opponents."

After hearing this, Shen Bi said: "We put pressure on the Xiangjiang government. It is okay to disagree with the Li Group to establish an airline. But you said that it is impossible to control the media. You should know why London wants to let the Hong Kong media be free. These things It cannot be changed."

After listening to Shen Bi's words, Wooden Shi Huaiya came back to his senses. He was really confused by the media group under Li's group these days, and he actually wanted the government to interfere with the freedom of the press in Xiangjiang. Violating some policies of London.

Wooden Shi Huaiya said: "Forget about the news. You should know that we shouldn't have watched Li's TV station be acquired by Qiu Degen. As a result, our strength in the media industry on the Xiangjiang side is almost non-existent. With Li's In the contest between groups, they are naturally at a disadvantage in terms of public opinion."

At that time, who knew that Li's Group would develop so fast. In just a few years, the alliance of several British-funded consortia couldn't resist it. At that time, any consortium on my side was far stronger than Li's Group.

Henry Keswick said: "It's useless for us to complain about these things now. We should think about what to do next. This time we can only rely on the relationship with England to make the government give up supporting the Lee Group to establish an airline. Shi Huaiya, Your family can contact our Keswick family and the Jardine family to see what conditions the government has proposed, and if possible, we will also intervene."

Naturally, Wooden Swire would not refuse Henry Keswick's proposal, and even if they couldn't stop the British government's decision, they would still make a mess.

Wooden Shihuaiya said: "I would also like to ask you several members of parliament who have a good relationship with you to put pressure on the Thatcher government. Her decision is a kind of harm to our British consortium and to the British government. The economy is pretty bad."

Shen Bi said: "Shi Huaiya, you can also do this, but the effect is probably not too great. Some of Thatcher's policies are very supported by the local financial groups. Now those financial groups are waiting for Thatcher's drastic reforms. , It’s just that the Labor Party has some restrictions on them, so Thatcher let Li Guangyu Capital go in to do an experiment, and it is said that the Queen also supports Thatcher’s policies.”

Although the reality may be as Shen Bi said, Wooden Shihuaiya is still unwilling to give up such a plan. Even if it fails to succeed, he still wants to add chaos to the Li Group and let their airline be established as late as possible. In this way, I have more time to deal with this matter.

Henry Keswick also didn't want the Lee Group to get the permission to form an airline company so easily, so that they could spend more energy on it, lest the Lee Group come to make their own ideas, and also supported Wooden Shihuaiya Views.

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(End of this chapter)