Through the wealth life

Chapter 452 The Actions of the British Consortium

After the talks between MacLehose and Li Guangyu ended, they called the British media and asked them to stop reporting news about Li Guangmei.

After MacLehose gave the order, he ignored it and An Xin went to prepare the Christmas dinner with his wife.

But Henry Keswick, who got to know the news, was quite unhappy. As a caring person, he would pay attention to all issues involving Li Guangyu, and this time was a great opportunity for him to fight back against the Lee consortium. Unexpectedly, McLean Hao took a calm attitude to deal with it.

Without media reports, Xiangjiang has no influence on the Li Group, and the pressure on their British consortium will not be relieved. How can this make him happy.

I thought that the incident that happened in the morning was the best Christmas gift God gave me, but the result was very different from what I imagined.If the government does not pursue the Li's consortium's problems this time, the Li's consortium will not have any pressure.

Especially recently, he received a report from the senior management of Wellcome Company that Huanyu Supermarket Group under Li's is looking for stores everywhere in Xiangjiang, and the location is quite close to Wellcome. The goal of the Li's consortium is self-evident, which is to He came with them.

Henry Keswick knew that once the Hengyu Supermarket was ready, their opening would be the beginning of the war between the Jardines and the Lee Consortium in the retail field.

What worries him the most is that their old rival, Watsons, will definitely join in. Li Guangyu is the second largest shareholder of Hutchison Whampoa, and Wellcome himself will fall into a situation of one against two, and the situation is quite unfavorable for Jardine Matheson.

In the evening, Henry Keswick was not in the mood to go to Christmas. He asked Shen Bi and George Lavin to discuss how to use this opportunity in a box at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel to give Li The consortium was hit hard once.

Shen Bi is the one who most wants to beat Li Guangyu down. Standard Chartered Bank still has a way out. Their headquarters is in London, and the Li consortium is not easy to target them.The headquarters of HSBC is in Xiangjiang, and their business is mainly in Xiangjiang.The Lee consortium has had too much influence on HSBC, and their business this year has directly shrunk by more than half.

Shen Bi also hopes that through this matter, the government can cancel the business of some banks under the Li consortium and reduce the pressure on HSBC.

George Lavin said: "Shen Bi, Keswick, let's not think about Xiangjiang. In order to maintain the stability of Xiangjiang's economy, the government will not let Li Guangyu get involved in such a whirlpool. , but it is not such a simple ending. You have to know how much turmoil will be caused to Xiangjiang once Li Guangyu's support for that side is heard."

After Shen Bi heard this, he also fell silent. Even the British government is not willing to let the Li family consortium get involved in this matter.Only when such a thing happens, no matter what the British government does in the end, it will be a loser.

How influential the Li Family Consortium is now, you can know by looking at the number of employees under their umbrella. There are now more than a dozen groups and companies under the Li Family Consortium.

The number of employees in Xiangjiang alone exceeds 6, and tens of thousands of families are involved behind it. This is not counting the companies that Li Guangyu does not control. Once those groups also join in, the situation in Xiangjiang will be out of control .

Henry Keswick said: "Shen Bi, Lavin, no matter what this time, Li Guangyu is responsible, and he must give an explanation to the local government. What we have to do is to use our The contacts over there insisted on this matter, putting pressure on the Li Family Group, so that he would not be interested in suppressing us here."

Henry Keswick hoped that the government would allow Li Guangyu to withdraw from some industries, but unfortunately he knew that this was unrealistic, and he and others did not have that much influence in England.

Regarding Henry Keswick's proposal, after thinking about it for a while, Shen Bi and George Lavin did not object. They also hoped to cause more troubles for the Lee Consortium at home, and they knew that some members of the local council still cling to the British government. During the glory of the empire, they simply looked down on people from Asia. As long as they fanned the flames, they believed that some congressmen would stand up and put pressure on Thatcher.

Shen Bi said: "Keswick, George, this is a very good opportunity for us. The British Thatcher government and the Lee Consortium are in the honeymoon period, and they will not think about embarrassing the Lee Consortium. So we have to Contact more members of parliament, let them put pressure on the government in parliament, let them impose sanctions on the Lee consortium, especially in terms of finance, it is best to impose some restrictions on them."

George Lavine had no objection after hearing it, but Henry Keswick quit and co-authored with us Jardine to make a profit for your two major banks.Restricting the financial development of the Lee consortium will not be of much use to Jardine. It can only make HSBC and Standard Chartered cheaper.

Henry Keswick immediately objected: "Shen Bi, your proposal is inappropriate. We should restrict the Li's consortium on public service companies. Their control of these companies has too much influence on Xiangjiang and is not good for our government. To control Xiangjiang, it is best to allow them to withdraw from the holdings of these enterprises."

Li's current Kowloon Bus, Xiangjiang Telephone and Xiangjiang Airlines are all related to the travel and life of Xiangjiang citizens. Once these companies stop operating, Xiangjiang will immediately fall into chaos, which is where the influence of the Li consortium lies.

For Henry Keswick's proposal, Shen Bi did not agree. This is just a joke. Letting the Li's consortium withdraw from these industries is directly going to war with the Li's consortium.Moreover, the government will absolutely not agree with such an opinion. This is to force the Li family group into the opposing camp.

Shen Bi said: "Keswick, don't bring up these unrealistic conditions. These unrealistic things don't even need to be discussed. What we want to do now is to use this incident to make the Li Consortium do something. Concession, but you want to let Li's consortium spit out what they ate, it's just a joke."

George Lavin also said: "You should know how much effort Li Guangyu has put in for these companies, such as Xiangjiang Airlines, for which he did not hesitate to take 50% of the shares of British Telecom Group. You want him to spit out these companies, Li Guangyu will definitely fight you desperately. I think you, Jardine, can't bear such a blow when the Li's consortium is in a hurry. Think about how terrifying Li Guangyu's own group doesn't have a penny in loans. .”

Even if George Lavin thought of this, he didn't want to fight against the Li's consortium.Li's consortium is now valued at nearly [-] billion Hong Kong dollars, and except for Xingyue Real Estate Group, which has a loan from Sumitomo Bank due to a joint venture with the Fujiwara family, the other groups currently have no debts of a penny, and these groups still have Sufficient funds for general expansion.

It's just that the Standard Chartered Bank is in such a position now, it's impossible for him not to fight against the Li's consortium, he can't just watch Li Guangyu's financial group stepping on their Standard Chartered position.

Even if Shen Bi proposed to restrict some businesses of Li Guangyu's financial group, he expressed doubts about its success.During Du Yuemei's stay in England for a year or two, she also had a lot of connections, especially the councilors in Coventry and its superior county were very supportive of the Lee Consortium, and the Thatcher government had a lot of them in the Conservative Party. The councilor is even more in close contact with Du Yuemei.

Henry Keswick never had the extravagant hope that such a proposal would be passed in England. He just hoped to make the matter bigger, so that he could put more pressure on the Lee Consortium over there, so as to relieve them of Jardine's troubles here. edge pressure.

Henry Keswick said: "What we need is to drag the energy of the Lee Consortium to the local side, so that they can't take care of the problems on Xiangjiang's side, so as to relieve our pressure. You also know that the Li Consortium is dealing with it again. We, Jardine, have a new round of layout. Once they complete the plan, we, Jardine, will be hit hard again."

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(End of this chapter)