Through the wealth life

Chapter 534 Consultation
After the meeting, Shen Bi immediately contacted Henry Keswick to discuss the acquisition of shares.

Henry Keswick was very happy to receive this news, and he would not give up Wellcome Supermarket and Xiangjiang Market if it was not a last resort.

After he hung up Shen Bi's call, he waited in the office for a call from George Lavin. He hoped that Standard Chartered could also bring him good news.

As long as these two banks take a stake in Jardine Holdings Group, it will not only give him more confidence in the face of Li's consortium, but at the same time, the shares of Jardine Holdings Group in the stock market will definitely skyrocket, and even the shares of Jardine Landing will also rise.

This is great news for Jardine Matheson. HSBC and Standard Chartered are the two gods of wealth in Hong Kong, and their influence in Hong Kong cannot be underestimated. Many people are very optimistic about them.

After waiting for twenty minutes, Henry Keswick finally received a call from George Lavin.

It's a pity that the news from there made him quite disappointed. Standard Chartered Bank did not agree to acquire the shares held by the minority shareholders of Jardine Holdings Group.

Although George Lavin told him that he would report to the London headquarters and ask him to agree to support Jardine, Henry Keswick did not report any hope.These high-level officials on the Xiangjiang side are against it, and the London side will not agree.

Not only was Henry Keswick disappointed, but Shen Bi of HSBC was even more disappointed. He knew very well that if Standard Chartered Bank did not follow up this time, it would be difficult for him to persuade the directors of the bank to agree to acquire some shares of Jardine Holdings Group. .

In the evening, Shen Bi, Henry Keswick, and George Lavin came to the Mandarin Oriental Hotel together to discuss the matter again.

In a box, George Lavin said: "Shen Bi, Keswick, I have made a detailed report to the London headquarters on the current situation. They have not rejected my proposal for the time being, and they will immediately hold a meeting on this matter." The board of directors will discuss it, and I think they will consider it for Xiangjiang's market."

Shen Bi was very dissatisfied with the senior management of Standard Chartered Bank Xiangjiang. Now that they are facing such a severe situation, these people are still only concerned about sweeping the door, without any long-term vision.They also don't think about it, once Jardine and HSBC fall, will Standard Chartered be spared.

Fortunately, George LaVine can still see clearly, otherwise it will be difficult for them this time.Shen Bi could already smell the smoke of gunpowder, and the Li's consortium is currently shrinking their industry with all their strength, without the massive expansion it used to.

The Li family consortium is the most terrifying at this time. They have a lot of cash in their hands. When they make a move, it will definitely be overwhelming, and the target will obviously be them.

Shen Bi believed that Li Guangyu must be preparing some kind of plan, otherwise the current situation would not have happened. The high-level personnel of the major groups had made a lot of supplements, but they did not act immediately. Is waiting for the time.

Henry Keswick said: "This time I negotiated again with the directors of the group and won a week's time. I hope you can make a decision earlier. If there is no result within a week, you can only deal with Wellcome. , I don't want the shares in the hands of these shareholders to fall into the hands of Li's consortium, they are not short of money now, I don't want to end up in the same situation as Taikoo."

After the Lee Consortium took 31% of the shares of Swire Group, the influence of the Lee Consortium in it has greatly increased. Cathay Pacific’s collective job-hopping at the beginning was a masterpiece of the Lee Consortium stationing directors in Swire.

He was worried that if the Li's consortium became the director of his Jardine Holdings Group, one day the management and employees of some of his subsidiaries would also collectively quit, then he would die of depression.

Shen Bi immediately said: "Keswick, don't be in a hurry, don't be busy dealing with Wellcome Supermarket at this time. You also know that the Lee consortium will definitely attack your other industries after the fall of Wellcome. As long as You, Jardine, still have something they like, and they will not give up targeting you. For example, the air cargo terminal management company shares in your hand, Li Guangyu's air transport group has no plan to let you continue to hold have."

Of course, Henry Keswick knew about this situation. The reason why the Swire Group was not targeted by the Li's consortium was that there was nothing on their side that the Li's consortium was interested in.

The Lee Consortium basically owns the business that Swire has now, and in some respects that the Li Consortium wanted, the Shi Huaiya family also sold them to the Li Consortium, so now Swire can develop steadily, Moreover, when Taikoo Co., Ltd. made money, Li Guangyu also made money.

He still owns the Milk International Company in his hands. This company fought with the Chinese family once in the past [-] years, and he snatched it over with his strong financial resources. He believes that the Li Consortium will not Leave this company alone.

Henry Keswick also had to lament the reincarnation of heaven. In the past, several of his foreign firms relied on the support of the government and their strong financial resources to suppress the Chinese-funded families.Now Li's consortium is suppressing its own group in turn.

Henry Keswick said: "I don't want to do this myself, but the current financial situation of our Jardines and the opinions of shareholders make me have to sacrifice my life. If our Keswick family and the Jardine family are not as good as last year We can take back the shares in the hands of these small shareholders. It’s just that our two companies lost tens of billions of Hong Kong dollars last year, which has already cost us two families.”

Shen Bi also felt pain when thinking about the loss last year. Not only did they lose more than 300 billion Hong Kong dollars, but all the money went to the Li's consortium, allowing the Li's consortium to carry out a new round of expansion. This is a typical The capital enemy ah.

For example, Hengyu Supermarket Group, if it weren't for Li Guangyu's profit last year, how could they have the confidence to fight such a long price war in Xiangjiang.

Shen Bi even suspected that Li Guangyu was plotting against them last year, otherwise why would he have only shorted the listed companies of the British consortium at that time.The purpose is to lure myself and others to take the bait, so that several of my own companies have financial problems, so as to hold back the development of the British consortium.

And the effect is obvious, Wheelock was directly eaten by him, Taikoo Co., Ltd. was directly disabled, and many companies were forced to sell off.

Jardine was not much better. Even though the Keswick family and the Jardine family contributed a lot of money, they were still forced to sell the Hongkong Electric Group. In the hands of the Lee consortium.

Shen Bi said: "We still need to stabilize the current situation. Governor Youde will come to take office in a few days. Then we will communicate with him. I believe he is unwilling to see the situation under his rule. Without the existence of the British consortium, the entire Xiangjiang River will be shrouded by the Chinese consortium, which is not what the British mainland and the Governor would like to see."

Henry Keswick did not have much hope for this. Now it is different from the 60s. At that time, the government could clearly favor them, but I am afraid it is not possible now.

If the government dares to do this, it is estimated that it will be drowned by the public opinion in Xiangjiang. The media in Xiangjiang is basically in the hands of Chinese families, and the government has only one radio station.

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(End of this chapter)