Reborn in Hong Kong as a Tycoon

Chapter 632 Each has plans (two in one)

Wednesday, April 2.

Hong Kong's stock market officially started trading today after a few days of rest, with the stock market opening.

At the same time, most of the companies in Xiangjiang officially started to work on this day, and the annual leave is over here.

However, today is the fifth day of the lunar new year, so the enterprises under Lin Baicheng's name are still closed this day. Only some enterprises' factories have started to work, and the management will not officially go to work until tomorrow.

Because of the time difference, Lin Baicheng also learned from New York in the morning that the international gold price broke through the price of 890 US dollars per ounce yesterday, which is only a little more than 900% increase from the price of 1 US dollars per ounce.

Lin Baicheng is sure that the price of gold in the period before his rebirth did not break through the price of 900 US dollars per ounce, and was even far from this price. However, his rebirth changed this result.

Obviously, including Hutchison Whampoa, Lin Baicheng earned nearly 200 billion US dollars from it, which is the main reason for the gold price to break through to a higher price.

Now the capital that is long gold futures is not satisfied with the long profit when the price is 850 US dollars per ounce or even lower, so the price of gold is speculated higher, so that more capital can obtain higher profits, and own More time to run.

In any case, if you only look at the current gold price, Lin Baicheng's long orders were sold early, and he made a lot of less money.

However, Lin Baicheng has no regrets or regrets. Earning less means earning less, but the victory lies in stability, and the profits have already been secured.Besides, the ghost knows if he shipped the goods later, something would happen.

Changes in international gold prices have little to do with Lin Baicheng. Although Hutchison Whampoa has a short position of US$8 million, the amount of funds is not large, and he believes that gold prices cannot continue to rise, and there will definitely be a correction. There is absolutely no loss in shorting and extending the time.

Lin Baicheng doesn't pay attention to the change of gold price. Anyway, when there is a change, the people below will report it. Before going to work, he spends his time with the beauties. After all, he will be busy when the company starts work.

Jardine Matheson.

Jardine Matheson has started work today. In the afternoon, Henry Kessack received a vice president of HSBC, who said that he had a business to discuss with Jardine Matheson.Jardine Matheson and HSBC have a lot of cooperation, and the group owes HSBC a lot of money. Henry Kessack must show face to see the vice president.

"Chairman Henry, let's talk about business."

After a few words of politeness between the two, the vice president of HSBC got down to business.

Henry Kesak signaled, "President Leian, please speak."

"Chairman Henry, Jardine Matheson holds 10% of the shares of the telephone company, is that correct?"

Leian, don't look at this as a Chinese name. In fact, he is not Chinese, but an authentic British. "Lei An" is just the Chinese transliteration of his English name.

"The company holds 10% of the telephone company's shares."

Henry Kessack nodded. The 10% shares were purchased from other large and small shareholders of the telephone company shortly after he came to Xiangjiang the year before last, so he remembered this incident clearly.

Leian immediately said, "HSBC wants to acquire the 10% shares. I wonder if Chairman Henry is willing to transfer them?"

"President Lei An, why would HSBC want to acquire the shares of the telephone company? HSBC itself does not operate a business, and the development of the telephone company is quite satisfactory. I really can't think of HSBC's intention to acquire the shares of the telephone company. I would like to ask, is HSBC in Buying shares in the telephone company for someone else?"

Henry Kessack didn't answer, but asked curiously. He didn't think that HSBC itself wanted to acquire the shares of the telephone company for investment.

"Since Chairman Henry has guessed it, I will no longer hide it. HSBC has indeed accepted the commission to acquire the shares of the telephone company from Jardine Matheson."

Leian knew that if he wanted to acquire the shares of the telephone company from Jardine Matheson, there were some things that he couldn't hide.

"really!"

Henry Kessack was not surprised. After nodding his head, he suddenly asked: "Did Lin Baicheng entrust HSBC to make the acquisition?" He knew that HSBC was dissatisfied with Lin Baicheng, but he also knew that HSBC and Lin Baicheng had business cooperation. As long as the interests were sufficient, HSBC was completely It is possible to help Lin Baicheng do things.

"Chairman Henry, I understand your concerns. I can assure you here that HSBC is definitely not helping Lin Sheng acquire the shares of the telephone company held by Jardine Matheson. I can guarantee this with the credibility of HSBC."

"However, Chairman Henry, HSBC is obliged to guarantee the customer's information, so if you ask about the customer's information again, I will never answer again. Here I want to apologize to you, and I hope you can understand."

Leian knew Henry Cassack's concerns, so he explained it to Henry Cassack, and then blocked the possibility of Henry Cassack's further questioning.

"I understand, as long as it's not Lin Baicheng."

Henry Kessack nodded slightly, but then changed the topic: "I'm sorry President Leian, although I don't know who entrusted HSBC to acquire the shares of the telephone company in our company, but Jardine will not sell these shares. , Jardine has a plan for Jardine."

It was natural to say no loudly, but the sudden appearance of the acquirer made Henry Cassack decide to initiate the acquisition of the telephone company in advance to avoid any accidents.

After hearing this, Leian said: "Chairman Henry, don't rush to refuse, why don't you just listen to my offer first?"

Henry Kesak nodded: "For President Leian's sake, I would like to hear it."

"Thank you!"

After thanking Leian, he said: "The entrusting party is willing to calculate the company's market value based on the highest point of the telephone company's stock price in the previous three months, which means that the valuation of the telephone company is 11.32 billion Hong Kong dollars. Based on this evaluation, the entrusting party Fang is willing to pay a 10% premium for Jardine's shares, which is a premium of more than 1100 million Hong Kong dollars, which is not low."

"The shares in Jardine's hands were acquired at the end of the previous year and the beginning of last year. At that time, the market value of the telephone company was less than 10 million Hong Kong dollars, and 8600% of the shares were worth 1.24 million Hong Kong dollars. Now it can be sold for a high price of 3800 million Hong Kong dollars. A profit of [-] million Hong Kong dollars."

"In a year or so, the return rate of nearly 50% is already quite high. I think the whole Jardine will be satisfied, seeing Chairman Henry's ability."

From the perspective of the return on investment alone, the investment of 8600 million Hong Kong dollars will make a profit of 3800 million Hong Kong dollars a year. This rate of return is indeed not low.

"The rate of return is less than 50%. It doesn't seem low, but compared with some people, it is too far behind."

Henry Kessack shook his head when he heard this, and no longer lamented Lin Baicheng's exaggerated return on investment, but said: "I am still very optimistic about the prospects of the telephone company. I believe that after Jardine's acquisition of the telephone company, the telephone company can Bringing more returns to Jardines, so I am sorry for the sale of shares."

Henry Kessack has no intention of selling the shares of the telephone company at present, but wants to speed up the progress of the acquisition of the telephone company. Furthermore, even if he intends to sell the shares of the telephone company, it is impossible to agree immediately, at least it will take a while. a high price.

Leian did not give up and continued to persuade: "Chairman Henry, the business operation of the company is not smooth sailing. It is uncertain whether the acquisition of the telephone company can bring high profits to Jardine Matheson, but selling the shares of the telephone company in hand can immediately obtain High returns. If Jardine Matheson wants to invest, it can choose other companies and take stable profits first. "

Henry Kesak: "President Leian, the acquisition of the telephone company is related to the development of Jardines. Although the profit of tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars is good, for Jardines, what is more important is a new profit growth point."

"Chairman Henry, let me tell you the bottom line. The client is willing to buy Jardine's shares in the telephone company at a premium of 15%, that is, 1.3% of the shares in the telephone company at a price of 10 million Hong Kong dollars. This is the same as the telephone company's current Compared with the stock price, it has a premium of as much as 20%.”

Leian offered a higher price.

Henry Kessack said very simply: "President Leian, you don't need to bid anymore. No matter how high the price is, I will never sell the shares in the telephone company in my hand."

"Chairman Henry, don't think about it anymore?"

Leian knew that just as the price he offered was not the highest price, the shares of the telephone company were not for sale. Henry Cassack's so-called never selling no matter how high the price was was just rhetoric. If someone really offered a sky-high price, the other party would definitely will sell.

Henry Kesak shook his head: "President Leian, I'm going to make your trip for nothing."

"Well, if that's the case, then I'll bother you."

Seeing this, Lei An got up and left, and did not offer a higher price. This was just the first door-to-door visit. His failure does not mean that HSBC failed.

"I'll send it to President Leian."

Henry Cassack sent Leian away.

After Leian left, Henry Kesak immediately called the secretary in.

"You ask someone to investigate who is entrusting HSBC to acquire the shares of the telephone company owned by our group, and give me an answer as soon as possible."

Henry Kessack, who intends to acquire the telephone company, of course has to investigate who this potential opponent is. Only in this way can Jardine respond and not acquire the telephone company at a high price.

"Yes, Chairman."

The secretary responded, and after seeing that Henry Keswick had no other orders, he left the office.

HSBC, Taipan Office.

After Lei An left Jardine Matheson, he returned to HSBC and reported to Shen Porridge about his contact with Henry Keswick.

"Henry didn't ask a high price, but directly refused. It seems that he wants to buy the telephone company."

Shen Porridge made a judgment after hearing this. If Henry Cassack just wanted to sell his shares at a high price, his choice would be to open his mouth and ask for a high price, and then HSBC bargained, and finally settled on a price that everyone could accept. The price was a transaction, rather than a direct rejection, so Shen Congee's attitude in judging that Henry Keswick did not want to sell the shares was relatively firm.

Leian asked: "Dapan, shall we continue to contact Chairman Henry, or contact the other directors of Jardine?"

Shen Congee immediately said: "Since we know that Henry's goal is to acquire the telephone company, then let's directly contact the other directors and ask them to support us."

"Dapan, if this happens, Chairman Henry will definitely be dissatisfied. Isn't it worthwhile for us to do this for Li Jiacheng's commission fee? After all, Jardine is our important partner, and the Caesarker family has always controlled Jardine. foreign firm."

Lei An said hesitantly, he didn't know that Li Jiacheng and Shen Congee had a secret agreement, so he naturally felt that it was not worth HSBC to offend Henry Cassack for a little commission fee for Li Jiacheng.

"It's worth it, as long as you know it's worth it."

Shen Congee did not explain, because only a few people in HSBC knew about the agreement with Li Jiacheng.

"You have to know that we are HSBC, and Jardine Matheson is our important partner. Yes, but Jardine Matheson needs us HSBC more. Without Jardine Matheson, HSBC is still HSBC. Jardine Matheson is without our support from HSBC. But it may not be able to maintain the current scale.”

"I see!"

Leian nodded to express his understanding.

Since Li Jiacheng signed the agreement with HSBC, Shen Porridge tried to help Li Jiacheng, not only lent a sum of money to Li Jiacheng at a low interest rate to let him secretly increase the shares of Cangjiang Industrial, to ensure that Li Jiacheng would not be attacked and lose his right to Cangjiang. Jiang Industrial's controlling stake.

After that, HSBC tried its best to help Cangjiang Industrial to grow, but Cangjiang Industrial is engaged in real estate business. Real estate development requires a lot of land acquisition and a lot of funds. With the market value of Cangjiang Industrial, HSBC cannot give Cangjiang Industrial a loan exceeding the assessment amount.

The agreement between Li Jiacheng and HSBC is a secret agreement and cannot be announced to the public. Therefore, HSBC’s help to Li Jiacheng cannot be made public. Shen Congee is responsible for other small and medium shareholders of HSBC. The premise of helping Li Jiacheng is not to damage HSBC. interests, otherwise his position in HSBC will be shaken.

Therefore, after discussions between Li Jiacheng and Shen Congee, they decided to let Li Jiacheng jump out of Cangjiang Industrial and control another listed company through Cangjiang Industrial.Li Jiacheng himself and Cangjiang Industrial each hold a part of the shares of the telephone company to achieve the purpose of controlling the telephone company.

After controlling the telephone company, HSBC can give more loans to the telephone company and Li Jiacheng, and Li Jiacheng can do more things with more money.

Only after Li Jiacheng has more businesses can he develop and his assets continue to rise, which in turn will bring benefits to HSBC.

Therefore, Shen Porridge's determination to help Li Jiacheng is still great. Although it is not to the point of reckless, but as long as the price paid is within the acceptable range, HSBC can accept a small short-term loss.

Of course, if the price is too high, Shen Porridge will definitely make HSBC give up.Anyway, there is more than one listed company in Xiangjiang, the telephone company. If it is not feasible to buy the telephone company, then just change to another company.

Lin Baicheng doesn't know about these things yet, Lin Baicheng only knows that Li Jiacheng is going to buy the shares of the telephone company from Jardine Matheson, so he arranged for a team to intervene, but the person who arranged has not yet arrived in Xiangjiang.

After the arranged person arrives in Xiangjiang, he will contact Jardine Matheson to acquire the shares of the telephone company from Jardine Matheson.It is best to be able to acquire the shares. If the acquisition is not available, the acquisition price should be raised, so that Li Jiacheng can buy the shares at a greater price.

(End of this chapter)