The actions of the Li Group in the past two days have been watched by the Swire Group, especially the reports of the Li Group's media companies deliberately targeting their airlines in the past two days have made them very annoyed, but fortunately, Xiangjiang is currently monopolized by itself, otherwise the company's business will fall off a cliff.

At the same time, Wooden Schwyattle also received a notice from the British family that the president of the Lee Bentley Group had visited Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, with the aim of allowing the Lee Group to establish a new airline in Hong Kong.

Wooden Shihuaia felt the fierceness of the Lee Group, where HSBC had just rejected their acquisition, and this turned around to build its own airline to compete with their Cathay Pacific Airways, and when the work of the Hong Kong government could not be done, it directly approached the British government to get permission to form an airline.

To Wooddon's displeasure, the British government seems to be no longer protecting their interests, and the era of her own Cathay Pacific monopoly on Hong Kong Airlines is coming to an end.

This made Wooden Shihuaia very unwilling, he had just taken over the Swire Group, and now the stock market has plummeted, and the group has lost billions of Hong Kong dollars in the stock market. Without the monopoly privilege of Cathay Pacific, the company's earnings will definitely plummet, which is not a good thing for the current Swire Group.

Wooden Shihuaia contacted the family, hoping that they would find some connections to prevent the government from allowing the Lee Group to establish an airline, hoping to extinguish the Lee Group's thoughts at the source. At the same time, Wooden Schwyattle also contacted several major British-funded consortia here to discuss how to resist the attack of the Lee Group on their British-funded consortia.

In the private rooms of the Mandarin Oriental, Henry Keswick and Paul Madden were already chatting here.

Paul Madden said: "Keswick, the development prospects of our British-funded consortium are worrying now, and the situation on our side is a little bad on the side of Defeng, I wonder if you can pull us along?"

Henry Keswick has been worried about Jardine Matheson for the past few days, where is there any spare energy to support other British-funded consortia, he has now made up his mind to sell the Heung Kong Electric Light Group, but he has not yet found a suitable person to take over, he does not want to sell this group to Li Guangyu.

Henry Keswick said: "Madden, you don't know how much we have lost in the stock market this time, we are also unable to protect ourselves now, you will ask Shen Bi later, see if HSBC can give you some support." ”

Paul Madden was a little disappointed when he heard this, their Madden family suffered heavy losses this time, and the Feng family, the second largest shareholder of Wheelock, was eyeing the controlling stake of Wheelock, and if he was not careful, Wheelock would change hands.

After a while, Shen Bi walked in with Wooden Shihuaiya, George Lavine of Standard Chartered Bank was not present today, the one who is now busy with the takeover of Standard Chartered Bank, he is not too familiar with Xiangjiang here, and many relationships need him to go to it in person.

As for why Woodon Shihuaia invited a few of them, they are very clear that the Lee Group is now eyeing the aviation business of Hong Kong and wants to seize the market of Cathay Pacific in Hong Kong. In the past two days, the media under the Lee Group has been in full swing, just trying to make Cathay Pacific's reputation stink.

Wooden Schwyattle said: "Now our British-funded consortium should work together to overcome the current difficulties, the ambitions of the Lee Group are gradually expanding with the growing strength of the Lee Group, if we do not join forces to boycott, I am afraid that there will be no more days when our British-funded consortium will come out in Hong Kong." ”

Shen Bi is a little better here, and the other three are worried about whether the Li Group will attack their companies again after winning the airline this time. In particular, the Jardine Matheson Group also has a number of companies that are closely related to the people of Hong Kong, and the Lee Group likes to acquire such companies the most.

Once the Li Group succeeds on the Swire side, I am afraid that the Li Group will immediately turn its guns on itself, its own milk company, but the largest supplier of milk products in Hong Kong, the Li Group will definitely not give up such an opportunity, and the stock market is now at a low point.

Henry Keswick said: "Shi Huaiya, this time we want to prevent the Lee Group from building a new airline, mainly on the local side, as long as the side does not agree with the Lee Group to establish an airline in Hong Kong, they will not have the opportunity to develop aviation business in Hong Kong." ”

As everyone here knows, the issue has now shifted to London, where the government's decision will determine whether Cathay Pacific can still monopolize Hong Kong's aviation business. These companies can dominate one side in Xiangjiang, but they don't have much influence in London, they don't even have aristocratic titles now, and the group power is not too strong in London, and their influence on the government is quite small, especially this time it is the prime minister's decision.

Wooden Shihuaiya said: "This time, I invite you to come here in the hope that you can join me in putting pressure on the Hong Kong government so that they can align with our interests. At the same time, there is also the issue of public opinion in Xiangjiang, and I think it is necessary for the government to exert some control, otherwise the Li Group will always like to let its media attack its opponents. ”

After hearing this, Shen Bi said: "We put pressure on the Xiangjiang government and do not agree to the establishment of an airline by the Li Group. But you say that it is impossible to control the media, and you should know why London wants to let the Hong Kong media be free, and these things cannot be changed. ”

After listening to Shen Bi's words, Wooden Shihuaiya also came back to her senses, she was really confused by Li's media group in the past few days, and actually wanted the government to interfere with the freedom of the press in Hong Kong, which is against some policies in London.

Wooden Shihuaiya said: "Forget about the news, you must know that we shouldn't have watched Li's TV station being bought by Qiu Degen, which caused our strength in the media industry on the Xiangjiang side to be almost nothing, and in the competition with the Li Group, we are in a natural weakness in public opinion." ”

At that time, who knew that the Li Group would develop so fast, in just a few years, they were a little unable to resist the combination of several major British-funded consortiums, and any consortium on their side was far stronger than the Li Group at that time.

Henry Keswick said: "It's useless for us to complain about it now, but let's think about what to do next, and this time we can only rely on the British side to get the government to give up supporting the Lee Group to build an airline." Shihuaia, your family can contact our Keswick family and the Jardine family to see what conditions are put forward by the government, and if we can, we will also intervene. ”

Naturally, Wooden Schwyad would not refuse Henry Keswick's proposal, and even if they could not stop the decision of the British government, they would add to the chaos.

Wooden Schwyattle said: "I also ask a few of you to contact the parliamentarians with whom you have good relations to put pressure on the Thatcher government, because her decision is a disservice to our British conglomerate, and it is quite detrimental to the economic development of the United Kingdom." ”

Shen Bi said: "Shi Huaiya, this aspect can also be done, but it is estimated that the effect is not too big, some of Thatcher's policies are very supported by local consortiums, and now those consortiums are waiting for Thatcher's drastic reforms, but the Labor Party has some restraint on them, so Thatcher let Li Guangyu capital go in to do an experiment, and it is said that the queen also supports Thatcher's policies." ”

Although the reality may be as Shen Bi said, Wooden Shihuaia is still unwilling to give up such a plan, even if it does not succeed, he will add chaos to the Li Group, so that their airline is established as late as possible, so that he will have more time to deal with the matter.

Henry Keswick also did not want the Lee Group to get permission to form an airline so easily, so that they could devote more energy to it, so as not to make the Lee Group attack their own ideas, and also supported Wooden Shiwya's opinion.

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