On the afternoon of August 10, Li Guangyu received Du Yuemei's discussion with Thatcher about the establishment of an airline by the Li Group, and asked Li Guangyu whether he would agree to Thatcher's conditions.

Li Guangyu didn't expect Thatcher to really put forward conditions, such an industry is neither good nor bad for the Li Group, but Li Guangyu didn't plan to involve it at the moment, and now his funds are not abundant, and investing in it is quite costly.

This time, Margaret Thatcher really dared to make a move, and directly took out the British Telecom company, prepared to sell 50% of the shares, and ran it by a private person, and asked the Lee consortium if it was willing to enter the British telecommunications industry.

Li Guangyu currently has a telephone group on the Xiangjiang side, and it is estimated that this is also a factor for Thatcher to put forward such a condition, as for several other industries, Li Guangyu does not have so much financial resources to spend on it, whether it is the British Petroleum Company, the British Mineral Group, and the British Iron and Steel Group, which is not what he can go to with this amount of money now.

Li Guangyu wants to take control of these companies if he wants to enter, and he has no controlling stake, and he is not very interested in these companies, so he might as well invest his money in those Internet companies that he is familiar with, and he does not know which energy companies will become famous later.

To this end, Li Guangyu specially convened a high-level meeting of the Li Group to discuss whether his side needs to get involved in the British Telecom Company, and whether this is beneficial to the development of the Li Group.

As the president of Heung Kong Telephone Group, Qin Yu said: "Li Sheng, British Telecom Group has only recently become independent from Royal Mail Group, and it still has strong strength in the British Telecom market. If we can control the absolute controlling stake, I think the future profit will be quite good. ”

However, this time, some high-level executives do not approve of this, they also have their own small abacus, the Li Group has earned so much money this time, and now it has allocated so much money, if it buys the telecommunications company in the United Kingdom, then other groups will not be able to share the funds for rapid expansion.

After listening to the opinions of the high-level for a while, Li Guangyu said: "Don't just oppose here, I know what some of you think, but the funds in my hand are not intended to be invested in our existing group, at present, the major groups are financially abundant, you have to consider stabilizing the development of the group, instead of thinking that I will inject funds into you, and you will blindly expand." ”

The vice presidents who had just been clamoring to oppose the acquisition of the telecommunications company stopped talking after listening to it, and Li Guangyu clearly told them that they would not inject capital into the group, and they would not get any benefits from opposing it.

However, the presidents of the major groups are very calm, they know that Li Guangyu still has ideas for the acquisition of the British Telecom Group, otherwise they will directly refuse, where do they need to hold a high-level meeting to discuss.

Li Xuemei said: "Li Sheng, we don't know what the specific situation is on the British side, I don't know what Ms. Du Yuemei's opinion is?"

Li Guangyu said: "Ms. Du Yuemei believes that if we have the right funds, we can consider acquiring this group, as a public service enterprise, there is generally no possibility of loss, but only a question of how much to make." Once we take a stake in the UK telecom, we will have a much greater influence in the UK than we do now. ”

After listening to this, these high-level executives considered that if they did not agree to acquire the shares of British Telecom, then they would not be able to obtain the approval of the government if they wanted to set up an airline, so they proposed that they could negotiate with the British government, and at the same time sent Qin Yu to lead the personnel of the telephone group to inspect the British Telecom Group to understand its actual situation.

They can guess that the British Telecom Group must be in the red, otherwise how could the British government take it out and hope that the Lee Group will take over. If the development is normal, such a company will not be able to turn their Li Group, and the British government will not be a good person. Only if this group is a drag on the British government that they will make it a condition and allow the Lee group to build an airline.

Li Guangyu said: "Mr. Qin Yu, this time you send some professionals from the group to go over there to learn more about the situation of the British Telecom Group, Ms. Du Yuemei will cooperate with your work, and after your investigation is clear, we will decide whether to acquire the shares of the British Telecom Group." ”

Qin Yu immediately replied: "Li Sheng, after we investigate clearly, we will report to you in detail for you to make a decision." ”

Qin Yu himself hopes that the Li Group can successfully acquire the British Telecom Group, and once it succeeds, he himself is the most likely person to take over the telecom group. The assets of the British Telecom Group are as high as more than 20 billion Hong Kong dollars, and the current market value of the Xiangjiang Telephone Group in Xiangjiang is only about 200 billion Hong Kong dollars, and the current stock market is really falling a bit hard.

He naturally wants to be in charge of a company with a market value of tens of billions of Hong Kong dollars, and maybe Li Sheng will merge his telecommunications group after completely controlling the British Telecom Group in the future, and his power and status within the Li Group will be much higher.

Li Guangyu then said to Liu Tianci and Zhou Liang Shuyi: "Don't stop the reports about Cathay Pacific, once our group airlines are successfully formed, we will be direct opponents, and our goal is to squeeze Cathay Pacific out of Hong Kong." ”

Lee's media group is quite strong in combat, and some scandals about some Cathay Pacific airlines have been reported continuously in the past two days, which has a great impact on Cathay Pacific's reputation.

After Li Guangyu informed Du Yuemei of the results of the discussion, Du Yuemei came to the Prime Minister's Office again and discussed with Margaret Thatcher.

Du Yuemei said: "Your Excellency Prime Minister, we Li Sheng discussed some of the opinions you put forward yesterday, and in terms of oil, steel, and minerals, our Li Group is currently lacking in strength. There are no plans to get involved in these industries yet. Mr. Li has arranged for the president of Heung Kong Electric Light Group to visit and inspect the British Telecom Group, and looks forward to reaching cooperation with you in this regard. ”

Thatcher didn't believe that the Li Group's financial resources would be tight, and it was estimated that the Li Group did not want to take out loans, according to the information she received, the Li Group's loans were very small, and the debt ratio was extremely low. With the assets of the Lee Group's major groups today, it is easy to go out and borrow $5 or 6 billion.

However, as long as the Li Group can choose an industry to come in, as long as the reform of this industry has been well developed, it will have enough confidence to reform other industries.

Thatcher said: "We very much welcome the arrival of your group inspection personnel, and I will instruct the telecom group to do a good job of your inspection and reception, so that you can understand a real telecom group." ”

Du Yuemei said: "Your Excellency Prime Minister, I don't know when the Hong Kong government will approve the issue of the formation of our Lee Group on the formation of airlines?"

Thatcher said: "This matter still needs to be demonstrated, I think a month should be about the same, and there will definitely be a result by then." ”

Du Yuemei was a little speechless, what kind of argument, she was not waiting for her side to decide whether to invest in the British Telecom Group.

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