Through the wealth life

Chapter 536
In the early morning of the next day, major newspapers in Xiangjiang made a lot of reports on HSBC and Standard Chartered's investment in Jardine Holdings Group.

At the same time, some newspapers headed by Xiangyu Daily reported to the outside world that Hengyu Supermarket and Watsons will offer a [-]% off sale starting today in order to repay the support of Hong Kong citizens for the Li Group and several major Chinese groups.

When countless Xiangjiang citizens saw this news, they all felt that the Lee consortium was determined to attack Wellcome this time, and would not stop until Wellcome was squeezed out of the Xiangjiang market.

At the same time, they are very happy in their hearts. In the past few months, their living costs have dropped a lot. This time, they can save a lot of money by reducing the price again.They hope that Wellcome can continue to follow up as it did three months ago, then they can enjoy the discount for a long time.

At Henry Keswick's home, he also saw reports about [-]% off sales at Hengyu Supermarket and Watsons.As the propaganda front of Xiangjiang Li's Consortium, Xiangyu Daily, he naturally subscribed to make it easier for him to understand some trends of the Li's Consortium.

Although Henry Keswick knew that with the entry of HSBC and Standard Chartered, the Lee Consortium would definitely fight back, but it didn't quite come so fast and so ruthlessly. Now the Lee Consortium is typically hurting people with its roots.

He knew very well that it was time for him to make a choice again, he could choose to follow up, and continue to spend like this with Li Guangyu, but he had to be prepared for a huge loss.Or they are going to clear the warehouse of Wellcome Supermarket and prepare to go out of business.

Henry Keswick was obviously unwilling to let Wellcome Supermarket go out of business like this. In order to keep Wellcome Supermarket, he spent a lot of energy to bring in HSBC and Standard Chartered. It has not been two days since Wellcome Supermarket If he just finished his studies, then why would he bother, and his previous efforts would be in vain.

Henry Keswick picked up the phone at home, and immediately contacted Shen Bi and George Lavin. He needed to discuss with these two. Facing such a self-injurious practice of the Li Consortium, he could not make the decision by himself. of.

Shen Bi himself also saw the report about Hengyu Supermarket and Watson's [-]% off sales, and he felt very headache.He knows that there are many groups under the Li's consortium, they can ignore this loss, but the Jardine Group can't.

Originally, the Jardine Group is relatively tight financially. At this time, it has to spend tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars every month to subsidize Wellcome Supermarket. This is really too difficult.

At the same time, Shen Bi also felt a deep chill for Li Guangyu's extreme actions.In order to defeat Wellcome, the Lee consortium doesn't care about the cost at all now.

This rarely occurs in other group competitors, especially those listed companies, they must be responsible to shareholders, such a decision will cause the company's market value to plummet.

He didn't know why Hutchison Whampoa agreed to such a decision, and Shen Bi didn't want to look for the reason at this time.He knew it must be that several big Chinese families were going to play with Li Guangyu, so he didn't care about the loss.

As for the sharp drop in the stock market, Li Guangyu's privatization of listed companies is no longer one or two companies, and he certainly doesn't care about delisting Hutchison Whampoa Group.

Faced with such a consortium that doesn't care about the group, Shen Bi feels very headache.Especially the vast majority of groups like the Li's Consortium are owned by Li Guangyu alone, and Li Guangyu has the final say on all matters.

For example, with regard to the discount this time, if there were more shareholders, how could it be implemented in such a short period of time? HSBC and Standard Chartered only entered the market yesterday, and the discount is already available today.

At the same time, Shen Bi was speechless to Li Ka-shing and Li Zhaoji. They are all top families in Xiangjiang, so why bother to follow Li Guangyu? These top families are united. It is too difficult for them to develop and grow in Xiangjiang. .

Shen Bi now very much hopes that the Huazi family can fight among themselves, so that their pressure will be much less.

It's a pity that he is very disappointed at the moment. Originally on Cathay Pacific Airways, Shen Bi planted a minefield for the Xiangjiang family, hoping that Cao Guangbiao and his Ningbo-born families could fight the Li's consortium.

In the end, Cao Guangbiao did not disappoint him. On the Cathay Pacific side, not only Bao Yugang and Dong Haoyun, both from Ningbo, were brought in, but Huo Yingdong, Hu Yingxiang and others were also brought in.

Shen Bi originally thought that he would wait for others to watch the show, but he didn't expect that the Li's consortium would act very aggressively and directly crippled Cathay Pacific Airways.Moreover, the Li's consortium was quite restrained and did not target other industries of these big families, which made Shen Bi's ideas come to naught.

However, he was gratified that after this incident, Bao Yugang has not joined the interest groups of the Li's consortium, which indirectly reduced the power of the Li's consortium, and at the same time made Li's There is also a gap between the consortium and those big families.

Shen Bi is now considering some bargaining chips in his bank's hands, to see if there is anything that the Li's consortium wants to intervene, and other families are willing to take over.

He wanted to find some people from the Xiangjiang Chinese family to stand on the other side of the Li's consortium to distract the Li's consortium.

With more such families, HSBC can be safer for him, and once there is a gap between these families and the Li's consortium, their business will be transferred to his side.

Shen Bi is scheming the Li Consortium here. What he doesn't know is that the Li Consortium is also scheming HSBC, but it will take a long time. Once the plan of the Li Consortium is completed by then, Shen Bi will probably be very angry. vomiting blood.

Li Guangyu has long planned for Standard Chartered and HSBC, and the focus is on the depreciation of the Hong Kong dollar. The current exchange rate between the Hong Kong dollar and the US dollar is 5.2:1. By September next year, the exchange rate will be in just over two months. Soared to 9.8:1 and then back to a fixed rate of 7.8:1.

Li Guangyu will ruthlessly cheat HSBC and Standard Chartered on this. Although most of the losses here are depositors' money, Li Guangyu will make their two major banks not make much money this time.

Moreover, Li Guangyu's final target was not these two big banks. He knew that it was impossible to squeeze these two big banks out of the Xiangjiang market. In the name of the bank, it is actually HSBC Holdings. This time, Li Guangyu set his target on them.

After Shen Bi received a call from Henry Keswick, he told him that he needed to discuss with the bank directors before deciding on the attitude of HSBC at Wellcome Supermarket.

And George Lavin of Standard Chartered Bank answered quite simply this time, telling Henry Keswick not to worry, Standard Chartered Bank supported all his decisions.

Henry Keswick was very surprised to receive such a reply, but it made him quite happy, and he would save himself a lot of trouble.

In fact, what Henry Keswick didn't know was that something happened at the headquarters of Standard Chartered Bank this time. Qiu Depu of the Singapore consortium had already acquired part of the shares of Standard Chartered Bank and became a shareholder of Standard Chartered Bank. This time he A lot of effort has been made in it, talking about the threat of the Li's consortium.

Tianyu Bank, a subsidiary of the Lee consortium, put a lot of pressure on them in Malaysia. They hoped that the Jardine Group would hold back the Lee consortium's footsteps in Xiangjiang, so that the Li consortium could not fully expand outside.

(End of this chapter)