Maybe it's because the Li consortium is too much of a threat to them, or maybe they don't want to lose their most important Xiangjiang market.

After discussion at the board of directors of the headquarters of Standard Chartered Bank, it was decided to let Standard Chartered join forces with HSBC and Jardine Matheson in Hong Kong, and let Jardine Matheson Group drag the Lee consortium in front, so that the Lee consortium would not have more energy to suppress them in the financial industry.

This time, the companies moved quite quickly, and after communicating with the shareholders of Standard Chartered Bank on the HSBC side, they also changed their attitude and asked their representatives on the board to support Shen Bi's decision at the board meeting.

At 9 a.m. on May 19, on the eve of Youde's appointment, Jardine Matheson Holding Group held a press conference, and HSBC and Standard Chartered Bank held 17% and 16% of the group's shares respectively, becoming the third and fourth largest shareholders of the group.

As for the first and second, the Jardine's family and the Keswick family hold 26% and 25% of the shares respectively to ensure control of Jardine Matheson.

Since today is Wednesday, as soon as the news came out, the shares of Jardine Matheson Holdings Group on the stock market immediately began to rise, and even Jardine Land also had a big increase.

At the press conference, Henry Keswick, Shen Bi and George LaVine attended at the same time.

In Li Guangyu's office, Gan Qin made a detailed report to Li Guangyu on the situation of Jardine Matheson's press conference today.

Li Guangyu knew that it would become more difficult to squeeze Jardine out of the Xiangjiang market in the future, and with the addition of HSBC and Standard Chartered, Jardine Matheson would not have too many problems in terms of funds, and he himself did not know whether the upcoming price war would have an effect on Jardine Matheson.

Li Guangyu said: "Gan Qin, you go and inform Liu Tianci, Ms. Zhou Liang and Chen Linwen to come to my office. At the same time, you go and contact Li Ka-shing and several shareholders of Heung Kong China Investment Company and ask them if they have time at noon, and I will invite them to dinner at the Peninsula Hotel. ”

Gan Qin knew that Li Guangyu was preparing to start a price war, and she immediately replied: "Okay Li Sheng, I'll do it." ”

Soon, Zhou Liang Shuyi, Liu Tianci and Chen Linwen came to Li Guangyu's office.

Li Guangyu said after a few people sat down: "I guess you must know the news released by Yihe, right?"

These people naturally know that Chen Linwen makes people pay attention to the movements of the Jardine Group at any time, and Zhou Liang Shuyi and Liu Tianci have their own reporters, so someone naturally reports to them on such an important matter.

Zhou Liang Shuyi said: "Li Sheng, this time Jardine Matheson has the entry of HSBC and Standard Chartered, and it will be more difficult to deal with it in the future, at least in terms of financial resources, they will no longer be as short as before." ”

The most in the bank is cash, as long as the Jardine Group still has collateral, they dare to give Jardine a loan, and they invest in Jardine with the customer's money, there is not too much pressure, only need to give the customer a certain profit every year.

The market value of HSBC and Standard Chartered Bank is not comparable to Lee's Xingyu Group, and when it comes to annual profits, Xingyu Group has thrown off the two major banks a few streets, but when it comes to using funds, the two major banks directly crush Xingyu Group.

This is the advantage of having a bank, they have the money of countless depositors and customers in their hands, and they can freely make their own decisions to invest in some enterprises, as long as they pay depositors interest at the interest rate every year.

Li Guangyu said: "No matter how difficult it is, we have to fight, if our Li Group wants to develop in Xiangjiang steadily, we must suppress the influence of the two major banks of Jardine Matheson, and keeping them is always a threat to us." ”

Zhou Liang Shuyi and the others all understood what Li Guangyu was thinking, where did he just want to develop steadily in Xiangjiang, and now there is anyone in Xiangjiang who will easily come to trouble the Li Group. This is obviously because Li Guangyu wants to make the Li Group the only overlord of Xiangjiang, so he wants to eliminate the previous overlords of Xiangjiang one by one.

Liu Tianci asked: "Li Sheng, I don't know what you have to say about the entry of the two major banks, Standard Chartered and HSBC, this time?"

Liu Tianci knew in his heart that Li Guangyu must have already had a perfect plan to find a few of his own people to come over this time, otherwise he should have convened a meeting of the senior management of Hengyu Supermarket Group at this time, instead of letting a few people come.

Li Guangyu said: "We will start an unlimited price war this time, and your TV station and newspaper will report on the loss of Wellcome supermarket for me, and find trouble for them on this." ”

Chow Leung Shuyi knows that this is a counterattack against HSBC and Standard Chartered, and this is an accusation against HSBC and Standard Chartered, who disregard the interests of their own bank shareholders and invest in companies that they know will lose money.

While this can't be devastating for HSBC and Standard Chartered, it does have some impact on the stock market. Once there are more negative reports like this, it will also affect the customer's choice.

Liu Tianci said: "Li Sheng, I will arrange it after I go back, and I will report a lot on the situation of Wellcome Supermarket in the past few months, with a focus on their profits." Secondly, we will report on some internal situations within the Jardine Matheson Group, and they have a lot of problems right now, and I will ask a third party to contact the former shareholders of Jardine Matheson Holding Group and get some information from them. ”

Li Guangyu didn't say much about this, this thing can be the best, it doesn't matter if it can't, now the key depends on who takes longer between the Li Group and the British-funded consortium.

HSBC and Standard Chartered Bank entered at a high level, but it helped those small shareholders a lot, and in a few months, the market value of Jardine Matheson Group will plummet by half on the current basis, and I don't know what the mood of Standard Chartered and HSBC shareholders will be at that time.

Moreover, Jardine Matheson Holding Group has a lot of debt, and after the depreciation of its group properties with the stock market and property market, their shareholders need to come up with funds to fill the holes, even the two major banks must inject capital.

If they dare to over-limit the loan to Jardine Matheson, then the problem will be much more serious, once the outside world knows that the two major banks will lose a lot, they will not do such a thing.

After Li Guangyu instructed Zhou Liang Shuyi and Liu Tianci, he said to Chen Linwen: "Your supermarket is ready, if there are no accidents, you will implement a six-fold discount starting tomorrow, don't care about these losses at this time, everything is aimed at defeating Wellcome." ”

Chen Linwen has long been mentally prepared for this, and discussed this matter at the last meeting, and they are also actively preparing after the meeting.

Chen Linwen said: "Li Sheng, we have recruited some people in the past few days, and we can barely cope with the skyrocketing customer flow, and we are still recruiting, which will not affect the normal operation of the supermarket." ”

Li Guangyu doesn't have much to worry about this, everything that should be prepared is ready, everything depends on the development of the next few days, Li Guangyu doesn't know whether Jardine has the confidence to continue to follow up this time, after all, if the six-fold sale this time is made, the loss every month is not a small number.

Li Guangyu finally instructed Chen Linwen and said: "You must pay attention to the logistics and our supply situation, and must ensure that the supply is sufficient, so that our supermarket cannot be out of stock." ”

Chen Linwen said: "Li Sheng, please rest assured, Vice President Fang Ruoqiang is in charge of this aspect, and Vice President Liang Bohua will also assist in dealing with this situation and ensuring that there may be a rush to buy this time." ”

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