Through the wealth life

Chapter 443 Jardine's Confidence

After Li Guangyu returned to Xiangjiang, he immediately held a group high-level meeting to discuss the future development of Li's group and the attitude towards the British consortium.

The senior executives of the group knew what Li Guangyu was thinking. Li Guangyu was definitely inclined to agree to Wooden Shihuaiya's conditions, otherwise Li Guangyu would have refused directly. Why would he need to discuss it at a high-level meeting? The British consortium should be treated differently.

After the meeting, Li Guangyu ordered Zhao Wenhua and Wang Xinyu to communicate with Wooden Shihuaiya about the acquisition of the shares in his hands, and get the shares in his hands as soon as possible.

On December 12th, after Zhao Wenhua got the shares in Swire Holdings, he immediately convened the company's board meeting. While serving as the general manager of the company, he adjusted the staff of the company belonging to the British consortium. In particular, the manager of the company's financial department and the manager of the human resources department were replaced by personnel transferred from the Li Group.

At the same time, Zhao Wenhua proposed to the director of Jardine Mathematics the intention to acquire shares, and asked him to report to the senior management of Jardine Matheson, hoping that the Jardine Mathematics Group can transfer their shares.

After Henry Keswick listened to the report of the director of Xiangjiang Air Cargo Terminal Management Co., Ltd., he seemed very passive, and his shares did not play any role in the company.If he does not agree to transfer the shares, the Li's consortium will definitely inject capital into the company, so he will follow or not.

If you don't follow, your shares will continue to be diluted, and you will inevitably be forced to buy it.And if they follow up, they will fall into the financial competition with the Li's consortium, and they don't have so much financial resources to fall into it.

Henry Keswick knew that the most sensible choice now was to sell the shares to the Li Consortium, but he was very unwilling to watch the Li Consortium continue to eat up companies that once belonged to their British consortium.

After Henry Keswick let the director go down, he picked up the phone on his desk and called Shen Bi.

At night, in the box of the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, Henry Keswick, Shen Bi and George Lavin discussed the shareholding issue.

Henry Keswick thought that there were still the heads of the Marden family and the Szehuaia family at the first meeting of Xiangjiang, and now there are only three of them left, and the strength of the British consortium is directly halved.

Henry Keswick said: "Shen Bi, Lavin, this time the Swire Group has negotiated peace with the Li's consortium, and our Jardine Group will be an important target of the Li's consortium in the future. If you continue to sweep the door like before If Qianxue, after the collapse of our Jardine Group, it will be your two major banks."

HSBC and Standard Chartered also felt the pressure brought by the Lee consortium. After more than half a year of expansion, Tianyu Bank has branches in various regions in Asia, especially in Taiwan, Japan, Malaysia and Thailand. Branches, while the British side is not far behind, had a serious impact on their business.

Shen Bi is very clear that the goal of Li Guangyu Financial Group is the money-issuing power in the hands of their two families. Last time, they thought that only they and Standard Chartered firmly opposed it, and MacLehose also disagreed, so they temporarily dismissed their thoughts. But Li Guangyu definitely wouldn't just let it go.

If Li's consortium wants to become a world-class consortium, they must think about controlling the right to issue money in a region, which is one of the important symbols of the world's top consortia.The Lee consortium is based in Xiangjiang, so they naturally hope to obtain the right to issue banknotes in Hong Kong dollars.Moreover, the Lee consortium also hopes to suppress HSBC and Standard Chartered and make their financial group the overlord of Xiangjiang.

Shen Bi said: "Keswick, our bank is different from your company. We need to be responsible for our customers for any decision, so we can't intervene in many cases. You should know how powerful the media under the Li's consortium is. As long as our bank makes A loss-making investment, and they immediately make headlines and damage the reputation of our bank."

Not only Shen Bi was very unhappy with Li Guangyu's behavior, but George Lavin was also very unhappy about it.

As more and more companies under the British-funded consortium were acquired by Li Guangyu, their business continued to decrease, especially in the past few months. It was all lost, which made him very unhappy as the chairman.

George Lavin said: "Keswick, we also know that our bank will be the target of the Li's consortium, but we don't have a good way in this regard. If your Jardine Group lacks funds, this time Our bank can make loans to you. We, Standard Chartered, will not be involved in real enterprises."

Henry Keswick didn't expect the two major banks to join them in fighting the Li's consortium in terms of industry. As long as the two major banks supported him financially, he was confident that he would continue to deal with the Li's consortium.

As long as the British government still manages Xiangjiang, he believes that it will be impossible for the Lee consortium to eat him.

Henry Keswick said: "We, Jardine, need your financial support, so that we, Jardine, can withstand the attack of the Lee consortium. They don't have the extra energy to target you, so in this regard, we still need you." Give me some support."

Shen Bi said: "Keswick, as long as you Jardine have collateral, we at HSBC will approve your loan."

Now Shen Bi can't take care of so much anymore, he can't let Jardine fall, once Jardine falls, the next target of Li's consortium will be himself.The headquarters of Standard Chartered Bank is in London, and the Li's consortium is not easy to deal with. HSBC is on Xiangjiang's side, and it is much easier for the Li's consortium to deal with itself.

In fact, Shen Bi knew that it was very risky to lend money to Jardine Matheson Group now, especially if Jardine Mathematica took out the shares of Jardine Mathematics Land Group as a loan, once the property market in Xiangjiang collapsed, their bank would be prone to bad debts.Just to deal with the aggressive momentum of Li's consortium, he can only support Jardine Group.

After Henry Keswick got the promise of the heads of the two major banks, he asked the directors to reject the Lee consortium's proposal to acquire shares the next day.At the same time, it said that Jardine Group is very optimistic about the prospects of Xiangjiang Air Cargo Terminal Management Company, and Jardine will not give up its shareholding in this company.

Facing Jardine Group's refusal, the Li's Group has long expected that they have many backup plans, and they will let Jardine give up their shares.

Li Guangyu said to Zhao Wenhua: "Don't bother with Jardine for the time being. The most important thing now is to manage the Xiangjiang Air Cargo Terminal Management Company well, and don't let the company have a major situation. I don't want to hear the news of the strike. Come out. In terms of management, kick out all the people from the Jardine Department, lest they make trouble inside."

Zhao Wenhua immediately replied: "Li Sheng, don't worry, Wang Junchang is in charge of the airline during this time, and I will always be on the side of Xiangjiang Air Cargo Terminal Management Company to ensure the normal operation of the company. situation arises.”

Zhao Wenhua knew that if such a situation really happened, he might not be able to secure his position.

(End of this chapter)