Rebirth 1980: Marrying my sister’s best friend at the beginning

The political and business circles in Hong Kong are so large that there are indispensable business contacts and even marriage relationships between them.

Especially those big companies and big families, it can be said that they are intertwined, constantly cutting, and chaotic!
In such an environment, it is simply difficult to keep many things absolutely confidential.

Xingchen Company only held a meeting at [-] noon. Before one o'clock, many big companies and families already knew the general content of the meeting.

Of course, it also includes those ghost guys from the British-owned group.

As the absolute overlord of Hong Kong's political and business circles, this kind of news cannot be hidden from them.

When they learned that Li Yi had gathered a huge amount of more than 600 billion Hong Kong dollars and clearly wanted to take action against the members of their British-owned group, everyone was stunned.

However, after the shock, the first reaction of Dolson and others was that it was impossible. First of all, they thought that Star Company could not have so much funds.

600 billion Hong Kong dollars, and it’s still in cash. How is that possible?

You know, out of concern for Li Yi, they have been investigating the financial status of Xingchen Company.

Although it has indeed recruited a large amount of funds in the past few months, the scale is only HK$60 billion, and the fluctuation will not exceed 10%.

This is why he proposed to raise 100 billion Hong Kong dollars yesterday. In his opinion, having 100 billion Hong Kong dollars on hand is enough to deal with any attack by Star Company.

Although they monitored the meetings of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce and learned that those people were preparing to raise funds, after learning that most of the eavesdropping devices had lost their effect today, Dolson and others knew that the other party had noticed an abnormality, and they must also know The contents of their meeting were exposed.

Under normal circumstances, the content of last night's meeting would inevitably be changed, or even completely overturn the entire plan.

Taking a step back, even if the other party is so confident that they won’t change anything and continue to raise funds according to the original plan, how much will it be able to achieve?

After all, the entire Chinese Chamber of Commerce only has more than 30 people in total. If one person pays 30 million, it will be less than 600 billion, which is still far from [-] billion.

Therefore, the first reaction of Dolson and others was that Li Yi was bluffing and trying to scare them.

But for the sake of safety, he ordered his intelligence network to investigate the financial transactions of members of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce.

You wouldn't know if you didn't check, and when you checked, you suddenly broke out in a cold sweat.

According to the results of the investigation, Li Futiao, the spokesperson of the Li family, withdrew HK$20 billion from his personal account today and transferred it to the account of Xingchen Investment Company.

The head of the He family, He Dongying, also withdrew HK$10 billion from Standard Chartered Bank, which he had been cooperating with, in the morning and sent it to the Star Building.

The same is true for the Luo family and the chartering king, each of whom withdrew HK$10 billion.

The same goes for other people in the Chinese Chamber of Commerce. Some took 60 billion, and some took [-] million to [-] million. If all of these people were counted, the amount would be as high as [-] billion.

Coupled with the private funds of Li Yi and Huang Lixing, another major shareholder of Xingchen Company, it is almost 600 billion!
With this inference, the senior management of the British-owned group was dumbfounded.

Especially Dolson, Jazz, Powell and others, they seemed to feel the gaze of death.

It’s not that they are too timid, but that they are self-aware.

They all come from finance backgrounds, and they know very well that in the financial world, whoever has more money is the boss and can do whatever they want.

More importantly, the current situation of various companies in Hong Kong Island's business community is really not good. Affected by the stock market crash and the uncertain political situation, Hong Kong Island's stock and property markets have experienced a double-kill in the past year, and the development trend has been declining.

The market downturn has caused another serious situation, that is, the stock prices of listed companies are sluggish, and many companies' stock prices and assets seriously mismatch.

Let’s put it this way, some companies may have assets of HK$100 billion, but their total stock value may only be HK$70 billion.

This situation is very common in Hong Kong Island, accounting for almost 9% of all listed companies.

If it is a company with relatively concentrated equity, it would be fine. Such a company still has the ability to cope with crises.For example, the family-owned companies of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, although their management models are a bit backward, most of the equity is in the hands of their own family members, making it difficult for outsiders to make a fuss.

If you encounter a company with relatively dispersed equity, once someone prepares to enter the market forcefully, it is easy for others to take advantage of it.

The reason is actually very simple. If something worth ten dollars is now priced at five dollars, you can earn five dollars by buying it.

But now it's zoomed in to companies. If you have enough funds to buy all the stocks of companies whose stock prices are lower than their actual values, the profits will be very considerable.

Of course, provided that there is no fierce resistance, if the other party also has a large amount of funds to increase the stock price, the result may not be as good as imagined.

Obviously many people have realized that Xingchen Investment Company has concentrated so much funds at once, obviously hoping that barbarians will enter the game forcefully and rush to buy these large group companies at the bottom.

They had already used the same method last year and easily snatched Wharf from Jardine.

After receiving the news, Dolson quickly called a meeting with members of the British-owned group and briefly explained the situation to these members.

In order to cope with possible crises, under the leadership of Dolson, 94 key companies belonging to the British-owned group signed an offensive and defensive alliance agreement.

According to the content of the agreement, no matter which company is attacked by Xingchen Company, other companies must do their best to rescue them.

At the same time, in order to ensure the safety of every company, Dolson decided to increase the 100 billion Hong Kong dollars planned to raise yesterday to 200 billion, of which the Sassoon family is responsible for one-third, and all member units are responsible for the rest.

In order to cheer up and boost the morale of the alliance members, Dolson also assured everyone that the empire and the British Hong Kong government would stand with them.

With Dolson's guarantee, and the threat from Xingchen Company indeed exists, more importantly, no one knows which company Xingchen Company will attack first.

Driven by this fear of the unknown, these members of the British-owned group showed a rare momentum of unity and actively raised funds.

As for the entire business community on Hong Kong Island, as the two major groups frantically hoarded "ammunition", the smell of gunpowder became more intense.

And just as the meeting between Dolson and others at the Castle Manor came to a conclusion, Li Yi made a new move.

At two o'clock in the afternoon on March 3, after Pang Feiyan formed the trading team, Li Yi personally took these people to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

The reason why I chose this stock exchange instead of Lao Li's Far East Stock Exchange is mainly because all the companies listed on this stock exchange are major British-owned companies, including Huifeng Bank, Jardine Matheson, Hang Seng Bank, Standard Chartered Bank, Taikoo Li, Kadoorie and more!

Besides, when they came here this time, they mentioned killing people. There was no need to be on Lao Li's territory to avoid accidentally injuring friendly troops!
When Li Yi and others walked into the Hong Kong Stock Exchange under the escort of a large number of security personnel, they quickly attracted the attention of a large number of investors.

Soon someone recognized that they were from Xingchen Investment Company, and the leader was the famous Li Yi.

And Li Yi did not hide his head. After he entered the exchange, he directly asked the hall manager who came to greet him to call the general manager of the exchange. At the same time, he also greeted the ordinary investors who came to watch the excitement, with a cordial and kind face.

While attracting a wave of popularity, news of Li Yi's appearance on the Hong Kong Island Stock Exchange also spread like wildfire.

In a very short period of time, all the major forces in Hong Kong knew about this.

Subsequently, the major forces responded quickly!
After Li Yi met the general manager of the Hong Kong Island Stock Exchange, a large amount of money was transferred from various channels to Xingchen Company's stock account on the exchange.

In less than 10 minutes, a huge amount of HK$30 billion was injected into the account that originally only had tens of millions of funds.

With the injection of these funds, everyone knew that Li Yi was coming for real.

Seeing this, some people were inexplicably excited, some were silent, and some were ready to sharpen their knives!

For a time, the entire Hong Kong stock market was in turmoil, and a storm was about to come.
(End of this chapter)