After the talks between MacLehose and Lee Kwang-woo, he called the British media and asked them to prohibit the reporting of news about Lee Kwang-mei.

After MacLehose instructed, he didn't care, and went to prepare a Christmas dinner with his wife.

And Henry Keswick, who had to know the news, was quite unhappy, as a caring person, he would pay attention to all issues involving Li Guangyu, and this was a great opportunity for him to fight back against the Li consortium, but he didn't expect MacLeho to take a calm attitude to deal with it.

Without the media reports, Xiangjiang has no influence on the Li Group, and the pressure on their British-funded consortium will not be alleviated, so how can he be happy.

I thought that the events of the morning were the best Christmas gift God had given him, but the result was too different from what I imagined. If the government does not pursue the problem of the Lee consortium this time, the Lee consortium will not have any pressure.

In particular, he recently received a report from the senior management of Wellcome that Lee's Huanyu Supermarket Group is looking for stores everywhere in Xiangjiang, and the location is quite close to their Wellcome, and the goal of the Lee's consortium is self-evident, it is to come to them Jardine.

Henry Keswick knew that once Hengyu Supermarket was ready, their opening would be the beginning of the war between Jardine Matheson and the Lee consortium in the retail field.

What worries him the most is that their old rival Watsons will definitely join in, Li Guangyu is the second largest shareholder of Hutchison Whampoa, and his Wellcome will fall into a situation of one against two at that time, and the situation is quite unfavorable to Jardine Matheson.

In the evening, Henry Keswick didn't have the heart to go to Christmas, so he asked Shen Bi and George LaVine to discuss how to use this opportunity to deal a heavy blow to the Lee consortium in a private room at the Mandarin Oriental.

Shen Bi is the one who wants to beat Li Guangyu the most, Standard Chartered Bank still has a way out, they are headquartered in London, and the Li consortium is not good at targeting them. HSBC is headquartered in Heung Kong, and their business is mainly in Hong Kong. The impact of the Lee consortium on HSBC is so great that their business has shrunk by more than half this year.

Shen Bi also hopes that through this incident, the government will cancel the business of some banks under the Li consortium and reduce the pressure on their HSBC.

George LaVine said: "Shen Bi, Keswick, let's not think about it on the Xiangjiang side, in order to maintain the stability of the Xiangjiang economy, the government will not let Li Guangyu be involved in such a whirlpool, once the Li consortium makes trouble, it will not end so simply." You have to know how much turmoil it will cause to Xiangjiang once it is rumored that Li Guangyu supports that side. ”

Shen Bi also fell silent after hearing this, even the British government was reluctant to let the Li consortium be involved in this matter. Only such a thing has happened, and no matter what the British government does in the end, it will be a loser.

How big is the influence of the Lee consortium now, just look at the number of employees under their umbrella to know that there are now more than a dozen groups and companies under the Lee consortium.

The number of employees in Xiangjiang alone exceeds 60,000, and tens of thousands of families are involved behind this, not counting the companies that Li Guangyu does not control, once those groups also join, the situation in Xiangjiang will be uncontrollable.

Henry Keswick said: "Shen Bi, Laven, no matter what you say this time, Li Guangyu's side is responsible, and he must give an explanation to the local government's side. What we have to do is to use our connections in the UK to bite this matter and put pressure on the Li consortium, so that he has no intention of suppressing us here. ”

Henry Keswick prefers that the government can let Lee Guangyu withdraw from some industries, but unfortunately he knows that this is unrealistic, and he and others do not have so much influence in Britain.

Shen Bi and George LaVine did not oppose Henry Keswick's proposal after thinking for a while, they also hoped to create more trouble for the Lee consortium in their homeland, and they knew that some local parliamentarians still held on to the glory of the British Empire, and they simply looked down on people in Asia, as long as they fanned the flames, they believed that there would be parliamentarians who would stand up and put pressure on Thatcher.

Shen Bi said: "Keswick, George, this is a very good opportunity for us, the British Thatcher government and the Lee consortium are in the honeymoon period, and they will not think about embarrassing the Lee consortium." So we're going to contact more MPs to come out and let them put pressure on the government in Parliament, so that they can impose sanctions on the Lee consortium, especially in the financial aspect, and it's better to put some restrictions on them. ”

George LaVine listened and had no opinion, but Henry Keswick quit and worked with us to make profits for your two banks. Just restricting the development of the Li consortium in finance does not have much use for itself, and can only be cheaper than HSBC and Standard Chartered.

Henry Keswick immediately objected: "Shen Bi, your proposal is inappropriate, we should restrict the Li consortium in public service enterprises, their control of these enterprises has too much influence on Xiangjiang, which is not conducive to our government's control of Xiangjiang, and it is best to let them withdraw from the control of these enterprises." ”

Lee's Kowloon Motor Bus, Heung Kong Telephone and Heung Kong Airlines are all related to the travel and life of Hong Kong citizens, and once these companies stop operating, Hong Kong will immediately fall into chaos, which is also where the influence of the Lee consortium lies.

Shen Bi did not agree with Henry Keswick's proposal, this is a joke, let the Li consortium withdraw from these industries, this is directly going to war with the Li consortium. And the government will never agree with such an opinion, which is to force the Li consortium into the camp of the other party.

Shen Bi said: "Keswick, don't mention these unrealistic conditions, these unrealistic things don't even need to be discussed." What we want to think about now is to use this incident to get the Lee consortium to make some concessions, but you want to make the Lee consortium spit out what they ate, which is a joke. ”

George LaVine also said: "You should know how much effort Lee Guangyu has put into these companies, such as Xiangjiang Airlines, for which he did not hesitate to eat 50% of the shares of the British Telecom Group, if you want him to spit out these companies, Lee Guangyu will definitely fight with you." Forced the Li consortium, I think you Jardine can't afford such a blow, think about Li Guangyu's own group without a penny of loans, you know how terrifying it is. ”

Even if George LaVine thought of this, he didn't want to go against the Lee consortium in his heart. The Li consortium is now valued at nearly 100 billion Hong Kong dollars, and except for Xingyue Real Estate Group, which has a loan from Sumitomo Bank due to a joint venture with the Fujiwara family, the other groups now do not have a penny of debt, and these groups still have sufficient funds to expand in a big way.

It's just that Standard Chartered Bank is now in such a position, and it won't work if he doesn't go against the Li consortium, he can't watch Li Guangyu's financial group step on their Standard Chartered position.

Even when Shen Bi proposed to restrict some of the businesses of Mr. Lee's financial group, he was skeptical of its success. Du Yuemei has a lot of connections in the British side for a year or two, especially the councillors in Coventry and its parent counties are very supportive of the Lee consortium, and the Thatcher government and many of their Conservative MPs are even closer to Du Yuemei.

Henry Keswick never had the luxury of expecting such a proposal to pass on the British side, he just wanted to make things bigger, so that he could put more pressure on the Lee consortium there, so as to reduce the pressure on their Jardine side here.

Henry Keswick said: "What we need is to drag the energy of the Lee consortium on the local side, so that they are unable to take care of the problems on the Xiangjiang side, so as to relieve the pressure on us, and you know that the Lee consortium is making a new round of arrangements for our Jardine Matheson." Once they complete their plans, we at Jardine Matheson will be hit hard again. ”

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