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() "Another one!" Li Xuan watched Zheng Yutong, who was walking away, and said smilingly to Yang Lingjun and Han Peng beside him.

Li Xuan, through the previous hostile merger between Lloyds Bank and Standard Chartered Bank, made a profit. With the large shareholding in his hands, he forced the Standard Chartered Board of Directors to make concessions and agreed to let Standard Chartered Hong Kong be split from the Standard Chartered Group. Independent listing.

Afterwards, Li Xuan conducted a series of complicated share swap operations with Standard Chartered Group, replacing the shares of Standard Chartered Company he held with shares of Standard Chartered Bank in Hong Kong, thus successfully gaining control over Standard Chartered in Hong Kong. The former chairman of the board of directors of Jiahua Bank, Yang Lingyun, became the new chairman of the board of directors of Standard Chartered Bank in Hong Kong, representing Li Xuan in control of the second largest bank in Hong Kong.

In the dinner just now, Yang Lingjun, on behalf of Hong Kong's Standard Chartered Bank, reached a deeper partnership with Zheng Yutong's New World Group. Zheng Yutong will launch a series of debt reduction actions in view of the high debt of New World Group. Standard Chartered Hong Kong will become the financial advisor of New World Group in the new round of strategic adjustment.

For Zheng Yutong, with the support of Standard Chartered Bank, the risk of New World Group sinking in this round of crisis is undoubtedly greatly reduced. After all, the main business of New World Group, commercial real estate, has not deteriorated significantly. The biggest problem the group is facing now is a series of new low-yield assets, which seriously occupy the company's valuable cash flow.

And Standard Chartered can provide the cash flow needed by New World Group and help Zheng Yutong quickly stabilize the situation. What's more, the role of the bank is not limited to the basic business of depositing and borrowing money. For example, if you have a Citi black card, Citi's customer representatives can solve all the problems of clothing, food, housing and transportation for you. New World Group will sell some of its assets to get cash back. If Standard Chartered can lead the way, the whole process will be much smoother.

Of course, the reason why Hong Kong Standard Chartered Bank extended a helping hand to New World Group was definitely not to learn to be a living Lei Feng. You must know that the banking industry has always been "borrowing an umbrella on a sunny day and collecting an umbrella on a rainy day".

This time, Standard Chartered Bank of Hong Kong deliberately offered help in the snow, and Zheng Yutong naturally wanted to repay the favor. The reward he has to pay is naturally to support Li Xuan's next plan on behalf of the New World Group - urging the Hong Kong government to increase the annual residential land quota and increase the construction of low-cost public housing. These two plans by Li Xuan are by no means good news for Hong Kong real estate developers.

According to the statistics of "Hong Kong Political and Economic Weekly", the personal assets of real estate giants such as Li Jiacheng, Guo Desheng, Bao Yugang, Zheng Yutong, Li Zhaoji have exceeded 1 billion US dollars, and their wealth can be ranked even in the world. 's number is up.

And the main reason for the skyrocketing rise of family members is that the Hong Kong real estate industry experienced a violent rise from 1985 to 198-9. The main reasons for this round of rising waves are that Hong Kong has a bright future and gradually established itself as an international financial and trade center in the Asia-Pacific region and as a bridgehead for international capital to enter China. With the influx of a large number of overseas funds, the demand for property investment in Hong Kong has continued to rise.

Second, the rapid rise of Hong Kong's electronics industry represented by the Oriental Group, coupled with the fact that the Hong Kong dollar has entered a depreciation cycle following the US dollar, has led to a sharp rise in Hong Kong's export trade, resulting in strong economic growth in Hong Kong. And every Hong Konger has shared his own dividends from economic growth. For example, everyone's wages have begun to rise steadily. And it coincides with the continuous decline of interest rates in Hong Kong's banking industry, especially after the 1987 stock market disaster, the Hong Kong Banking Association has cut interest rates five times in a row, which has greatly stimulated the enthusiasm of the public to rest and buy houses.

In the face of the surging demand for real estate, the Hong Kong government is limited by the agreement in the Joint Declaration, which can only grant a maximum of 50 hectares of land each year, including industrial sites, commercial land and residential land. The imbalance between supply and demand has naturally led to the rise in housing prices in Hong Kong, which in turn has intensified the speculation and speculation of the property market in Hong Kong society, so housing prices began to skyrocket like a rocket.

Under the fiery background of people queuing up to buy off-the-plan properties, various real estate companies naturally make a lot of money. Therefore, the stock price of the real estate sector in the Hong Kong Stock Exchange has also skyrocketed, and the assets of the major real estate giants have ballooned in just a few years. Whoever wants to suppress property prices and the property market is undoubtedly cutting meat from the major real estate bigwigs.

Li Xuan is the only one in Hong Kong who has this confidence, because his assets alone are equivalent to the sum of the wealth of the real estate bigwigs. Li Xuan has the qualification to flip the table without playing with me. With such a strong deterrence, coupled with his active attack, he can convince the Hong Kong real estate industry to act according to his wishes.

"Li Sheng, let's strike while the iron is hot, and finally get the Xinhe Group done! I've already made an appointment with Xiao Huangsheng for lunch tomorrow. Would you like to come and entertain me?" Han Peng asked with a smile.

The little Huang Sheng in Han Peng's mouth is Huang Zhixiang, the chairman of Xinhe Group. The Huang family, like Guo Henian's Guo family whom Li Xuan knew before, are all dragons across the river. Guo Henian is the richest man in Malaysia, while Huang Zhixiang's father, Huang Yanfang, is the richest man in Singapore.

Huang Yanfang began to enter the real estate industry as early as the 1960s. He first established the Far East Organization in Singapore, and then set up Sino Group in the early 1970s, and began to enter the Hong Kong real estate industry. Now Far East Organization has developed into the largest private real estate company in Singapore, and was handed over to his younger son by Huang Yanfang. And Huang Yanfang's property in Hong Kong, Sino Group, was handed over to his eldest son, Huang Zhixiang, to take care of.

Before joining the Oriental Group, Han Peng was in charge of operating an electronics factory in Singapore. And part of the equity structure of this electronics factory comes from the investment of the Huang family. Therefore, Han Peng and the Huang family also have a certain relationship, and with the rapid rise of the Oriental Group, as the second-in-command of the group after Li Xuan, the founder, Han Peng's status in Hong Kong has naturally risen.

He is no longer an ordinary wage earner, but the number one "wage emperor" in Hong Kong. After Huang Zhixiang knew that his family had such a relationship with the chairman of the Oriental Group, he naturally took this advantage and became friends with Han Peng.

"Did you and Xiao Huangsheng have an appointment for lunch or dinner? If it's lunch, I really don't have time! The director of the Hong Kong Xin-Hua branch, Zhou, asked me to have dinner together. When a new official takes office, I can't help but show face!" Li Xuan said with a smile.

"My appointment is for dinner!" Han Peng replied.

"That's all right, it's just a matter of staggering! I also take this opportunity to meet this little Huang Sheng. The Huang family is very influential in Southeast Asian Chinese capital, and our Oriental Group can carry out more in-depth cooperation with them!" Li Xuan nodded and said.

According to Li Xuan's current status, he can be on an equal footing with Huang Zhixiang's father Huang Yanfang. But he is not actually a person who likes to show off, and he has never felt that he is superior to others. Of course, Li Xuan's image in the upper circles of Hong Kong is not a person that is easy to contact. The reason for this isn't because he's arrogant, but because he's lazy and doesn't really want to go to parties where he's wearing a fake smile and talking about unhealthy topics.

"The previous President Xu went to Los Angeles to 'cultivate'. I think the Xinhua branch should be a mess these days! I don't know what the character of this new President Zhou is?" Yang Lingjun answered aside.

Not long ago, a very shocking thing happened to the Hong Kong Xinhua branch. Xu Jiachun, who had just stepped down as the president, did not choose to return to the mainland to spend his later years, but secretly took a seat on the flight to the United States in the name of "going abroad to recuperate". airplane.

This should be the highest-ranking official who has stayed abroad in an abnormal way since the founding of the People's Republic of China. You must know that Xu Jiachun was already the secretary of the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee and a proper minister-level official before he became the president of the Hong Kong branch of the Xin-Hua Society.

"This April this year is really not very peaceful. Beijing has made a mess of Xu Jiachun, and London's Iron Lady Thatcher's life is even more difficult!" Han Peng also shook his head and said.

This past weekend, nearly 200,000 protesters took to the streets of London to boycott the just-introduced poll tax in Downing Street. Margaret Thatcher has reached the point of betrayal and separation, and the most important foundation of her governance, the British middle class, has begun to stand against her. It can be said that the Prime Minister of the Iron Lady has become in jeopardy.

"Thatcher's forcible promotion of the poll tax is definitely the biggest stain on her political career, and it is likely to directly destroy all the political prestige she has accumulated before! The contradiction between him and the right-wing faction within the Conservative Party has become irreconcilable. If the Conservative Party If you want to avoid division, then Thatcher's resignation is the best choice!" Li Xuan also joined the topic.

A very important part of British taxation, property tax, has always been a progressive system. The higher the property price, the longer the tax payment. These property taxes will be used for public expenditures such as education and public security. And this has also created the difference between the rich and the poor, like heaven and hell.

The value of real estate in the wealthy area is high, and the tax and fee income is also rising. So the community can build better schools, hire more police, etc. This in turn attracted other wealthy classes to settle down, making the real estate value continue to rise, forming a virtuous circle. The opposite is the slum, a vicious circle going on day after day.

The poll tax introduced by Thatcher changed the previous progressive tax system and became an equal share for everyone. Her original purpose of formulating this policy was to narrow the gap between the rich and the poor in British society. But in fact the poll tax has aroused the resentment of all classes in the UK.

Low-income earners are dissatisfied with how little they earn, yet they have to pay the same amount of tax as the rich. The high-income earners are even more dissatisfied with the taxes they pay, which are not spent on themselves, but are used to subsidize those backward communities. It can be said that since the introduction of the head tax, Thatcher seems to have become a mouse that has been put into the bellows, and both ends are angry.

Li Xuan naturally doesn't care about Thatcher's psychological feelings. What he really cares about is what kind of chain reaction the sudden change in London's politics will bring to Hong Kong. The Conservative Party is the majority party in the British Parliament. Even if Thatcher resigns, the new Prime Minister will still be elected from within the Conservative Party.

And now the influence of the right-wing forces within the Conservative Party is rising, and they are dissatisfied with Thatcher's comprehensive compromise with China on the Hong Kong issue. Once Thatcher steps down, the right-wing faction within the Conservative Party is bound to gain more power! In another time and space, Patten, the next governor of Hong Kong, is a supporter of the right-wing hawks in the British Conservative Party.

Immediately after he took office as the Governor-General of Hong Kong, he became tougher on the Chinese side and became a powerful shitposter in the last few years before Hong Kong's handover. Li Xuan can almost foresee that even if the last governor of Hong Kong is not Patten, London will send another hawk.

The new prime minister must use this to appease the right-wing forces in the party. Of course, Thatcher has not resigned yet, and even if she resigns, it will take time to elect a new prime minister. The Hong Kong issue has never been at the heart of London politics, and the new Prime Minister will definitely give priority to addressing those important issues when he takes office.

Li Xuan expects that it will be a year later when the new prime minister is busy with other important matters and frees up his hands to replace a new governor for Hong Kong. Therefore, the window period of the next year may be the last quiet period before Hong Kong's return~www.readwn.com~ The wrestling between China and the UK will only become more and more intense.

"Actually, the current Hong Kong Governor, His Excellency David Wilson, is quite good. Apart from the Rose Garden project, his communication with Beijing is relatively smooth! But it is this Rose Garden project that is likely to become the waterloo of his political career. The current situation is developing in a direction that is more and more unfavorable to the Hong Kong government, and the final result is that the British side will make a compromise!

And before there were critics in London saying that Wilson was too weak! So once the Rose Garden project brings shame on Downing Street, Wilson should be the scapegoat, and the next Governor of Hong Kong is likely to be a tough hawk! So while Wilson is still in power, we should hurry up and push our plans! "Li Xuan continued to analyze it seriously.

In the past few years, Li Xuan has been a centrist who rides the wall, and rarely speaks out about the struggle between China and the UK. But from time to time, the strength of the Oriental Group was not strong enough before, and Hong Kong was still a long time away from the return. If Li Xuan chose to stand on the side of Beijing-Beijing with a clear-cut stand, he would likely be worn by the Hong Kong government.

But with the passage of time, the scale of the Oriental Group has become incomparable! What's more important is that the date of Hong Kong's return is approaching. Everyone knows that the British are already grasshoppers after the autumn, and they won't be able to jump for a long time!

At this time, Li Xuan naturally no longer needs to cover up. In fact, after the landmine last year, Dongfang Group is also adjusting its development strategy for the mainland, changing its previous cautious and conservative style, and preparing to enter this broad market with the most growth potential with a more positive attitude! (To be continued.)