Rebirth of Hong Kong - 1978

Chapter 302 Qiu Degen's Phone Call
More and more unexpected things began to happen to Lin Daoqiu.

Qiu Degen's sudden interest in Li may be fake news in the eyes of others, but Lin Daoqiu is very sure that Qiu Degen will definitely make a move.

Compared with the previous life, Qiu Degen acquired Li's two years earlier this time, but it must be a good thing for Li's.

Because after the last Australian consortium took over, Li's was in an extremely chaotic situation, a large number of excellent TV producers were forced to leave, and the ratings continued to decline.

It wasn't until Qiu Degen acquired Li's that the chaotic situation gradually subsided.

And Qiu Degen, a businessman, had to say that he was indeed capable.

Because in the past few years when he was in charge of Li's, the ratings of the TV station once approached TVB's even split, and even turned the weaker ATV into a profit.

If he was allowed to take over Li's at this time, perhaps it would be the best choice for Li's.

At least some of those good TV producers should stay.

Lin Daoqiu remembered that in 1982, Qiu Degen spent 50.00 million Hong Kong dollars to acquire [-]% of Li's shares.

If you do the calculations like this, it's actually a good deal to spend 5000 million to buy [-]% of Li's shares.

At this moment, Fang Jinsheng knocked on the door and entered the room, and then put a stack of documents on Lin Daoqiu's desk.

"These are the things you ordered to investigate before, and now there are results."

When Lin Daoqiu heard the news that the Far East Group intends to acquire Li's, he immediately asked Fang Jinsheng to arrange someone to investigate the matter, and now he has a clue.

"Recently, the Far East Group has mobilized a large amount of funds very rarely. It is said that Qiu Degen personally gave the order. According to the investigation, the funds mobilized by the Far East Group reached hundreds of millions of yuan."

Looking at the materials Fang Jinsheng collected, Lin Daoqiu nodded while reading.

In just a few days, Fang Jinsheng was able to investigate these things, which already made Lin Daoqiu very satisfied.

After all, it is not an era where data can be found just by tapping the keyboard on the Internet. There are many things that need to be visited and investigated in person.

"You did a good job this time."

Lin Daoqiu raised his head and praised Fang Jinsheng with a smile.

"Mr. Lin, you are being polite. This is what I should do. It's nothing."

Fang Jinsheng quickly shook his head. Although he was very happy to be praised by Lin Daoqiu, he knew that he must not be complacent.

After Fang Jinsheng retreated, Lin Daoqiu began to tap the table with his fingers, as if he was thinking about something.

"Far East...beautiful..."

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"Father, the 1 million yuan fund has been fully allocated and will not have any impact on the company."

Although Qiu Changda didn't quite understand his father's acquisition of Li, he still didn't dare to disobey Qiu Degen's words.

But what Qiu Changda couldn't understand was that if he wanted to buy 1% of Li's shares with [-] million yuan, it would probably be impossible.

At that time, if the Australian consortium also bids for 1 million yuan, I believe that Bob Walker will definitely give priority to selling Li's to them instead of his side.

But he didn't say such words, and he was even very happy to see that his father failed to buy Li's in the end, because this was not a profitable business at all.

"I know you are very opposed to my acquisition of Li's, but the matter has come to this, what you should do now is to help me buy Li's."

Qiu Degen knew very well what his eldest son was thinking, and he couldn't say that he was wrong, because this was indeed not a business that could make a lot of money.

At least at this stage, it is impossible for Li's to make money, even Qiu Degen is actually ready to lose money within a year or two.

"I know what to do, please rest assured father."

Qiu Changda would not be so stupid as to contradict his father, after all, it would not benefit him at all.

Anyway, it's a done deal now, it depends on whether Bob Walker is willing to accept the asking price of [-] million.

But speaking of something recently, Qiu Changda felt very strange.

"I heard from the people below that recently, it seems that someone is investigating our mobilization of funds."

Qiu Degen obviously didn't expect that someone would actually investigate them, and his eyes widened in shock when he heard Qiu Changda's words.

Could it be the ghost of one's own competitors?If this is the case, it's nothing. After all, the cash flow of the Far East Group is still very smooth. Even if it mobilizes 1 million yuan in cash, it will not affect the business of the group.

But what worries Qiu Degen the most is that the person investigating him is not a competitor of the Far East Group, but someone who is interested in Li's.

If a guy pops up at this time and wants to buy Li's, Bob Walker will definitely take the opportunity to increase the price.

Even if he doesn't increase the price, as long as he kills the price of 5000 million, I believe that there will inevitably be some fierce competition by then.

This time Qiu Degen bought Li's at a price of 1 million yuan. If he was asked to add tens of millions more, then he might have to seriously consider it.

"Go and find out who is investigating us."

Qiu Degen felt a little uneasy, he didn't like the feeling of being passive, and now he just wanted to know who was doing the trick.

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"bell………"

A few days later, Lin Daoqiu was lowering his head to process documents in the office when the phone on his desk rang suddenly.

Lin Daoqiu answered the phone and said hello, and suddenly a man's voice that made him feel very strange came from the opposite side.

"Your Excellency is Mr. Lin Daoqiu Lin?"

"Yes, I am Lin Daoqiu, who are you?"

"I'm Qiu Degen, the chairman of the Far East Group. I believe Mr. Lin should be familiar with me."

Lin Daoqiu did not expect that Qiu Degen would take the initiative to call him, but they had never met before.

"I have heard Mr. Qiu's name for a long time. I don't know why you called me?"

"I don't know if Mr. Lin is free. I want to invite you to have afternoon tea. You probably won't refuse."

Qiu Degen didn't say what he wanted to do with Lin Daoqiu, but just asked him out for afternoon tea.

Although he didn't know why Qiu Degen wanted to find him, Lin Daoqiu guessed that the other party either knew that he had sent someone to investigate him, or wanted to cooperate with him to acquire Li.

Apart from these two possibilities, Lin Daoqiu couldn't think of a third possibility.

"Mr. Qiu was joking. You even took the initiative to call me. How could I, a junior, refuse?"

"In this case, we will talk when we meet in the afternoon, so we won't disturb Mr. Lin's work."

After agreeing on the time and place to meet with the other party, Qiu Degen hung up the phone.

Lin Daoqiu's guess was indeed good, because Qiu Degen knew from Qiu Changda in the morning that the person who investigated them before was Lin Daoqiu, the boss of New Oriental Cinemas.

If it was someone else, Qiu Degen might not be able to figure out why the other party came to investigate him for a while.

But if this person was replaced by Lin Daoqiu, Qiu Degen immediately guessed his purpose of doing so, that is, Lin Daoqiu also wanted to buy Li.

(End of this chapter)