At the end of the board meeting, Wooden Schwyattle explained to Henry Keswick the transfer of shares in Hactl by Swire Pacific.

Henry Keswick immediately asked Wooden Shihuai to give up such an idea, and said to him dissatisfiedly: "Shihuaia, you will only make the influence of our British consortium less and less. In terms of aviation, the air passenger company and the Xiangjiang Aircraft Engineering Company have been lost, and now if this company is also lost, the Li consortium will completely monopolize the Xiangjiang aviation market. And a lot of the goods of our respective groups are also transported by air, aren't you worried that the Li consortium will get stuck with us?"

Wooden Shihuaiya no longer wants to compete with the Li consortium, and their strength is no longer the power of the Four Great Oceans. He just wants to manage the industry in Hong Kong with peace of mind, and he doesn't want his Swire Group to completely lose the Hong Kong market.

Wooden Schwyah said, "Keswick, I'm just informing you of our decision, so that you can prepare. Do you think we can still fight the Lee consortium if we continue like this? Your Jardine family has a big business, but there is no problem? But if you look at us, Hutchison Whampoa was eaten by Li Ka-shing and Lee Guangyu, and Wheelock was completely privatized by Lee Kuangyu. The second largest shareholder of Swire Pacific is Li Guangyu, what can we do to compete with the Li consortium. ”

Henry Keswick was also sad when he heard it, and the four major foreign banks that once dominated the economy of Hong Kong have fallen into this way. He wanted to try his best to maintain the position of the British-funded consortium in Xiangjiang, but the reality was so cruel that even the remaining Taigu was no longer ready to stand on his side. It's just that if Jardine Matheson is spoken, how can he resist the attack of the living Li consortium.

However, Henry Keswick has no idea of surrendering to Li Guangyu, as the leader of the British-funded consortium in Hong Kong, the Jardine Group will not bow to the Chinese-funded family. Moreover, he did not believe that the British government would watch all the British consortia be forced to evacuate Xiangjiang.

And the two big banks will not watch them fall, once Jardine is down, Lee Guangyu will turn his gun on them. Henry Keswick knew that the Lee consortium was obsessed with the right to issue Hong Kong dollars. Only when the Li consortium obtains the right to issue Hong Kong dollar banknotes can the Li consortium completely establish its position in Hong Kong.

Henry Keswick said: "Shi Huaiya, I am not interfering in your decision, do you think that by doing this, the Li Consortium will no longer target our British-funded Consortium? At this time, we should unite and resist the acquisition of our company by the Lee consortium. ”

Wooden Schwyer disagreed with Henry Keswick that the Lee consortium was not worried about the Jardine Matheson Group and the two major banks, they were still the second largest shareholders of their company, and they made as much money as the company developed. As long as they don't deliberately compete with the Li consortium, they won't move themselves.

Moreover, the situation in Xiangjiang is complicated, and the existence of its own Swire Group is also a help for the Li Consortium, especially on some issues, when the Li Consortium is not able to come forward, they Swire Group does not matter.

Wooden Shihuaiya said: "Keswick, you and the senior management of your group should consider how to do the shares in your hands, I think once Li Guangyu buys my shares, there will be a move." When the time comes, they will own 75% of the shares, and your little stake will not make any difference. ”

Henry Keswick said: "Why are you in such a hurry to sell this part of the shares? Now that the situation in Xiangjiang is unknown, you can wait for the future of Xiangjiang to be clear before deciding whether to sell your shares." Our two shares together account for half of the shares, and the Li consortium has nothing to do about it. ”

Henry Keswick still hoped that Wooden Schwyattle would not sell his shares for the time being, so that he would have more time to think about what was going on. Now he is not too worried about his Jardine Matheson, they both own more than half of the shares, and there is no possibility for the Li consortium to buy it on the stock market.

Wooden Shihuaiya said: "Keswick, you still don't think that our British-funded consortium can reproduce the glory of the 70s ago, and now Xiangjiang has become the world of the Chinese-funded family. Why don't we take a step back and give up some space, I believe that for the sake of profit, they will fight themselves. We have secretly and slowly accumulated strength to grow the group. ”

Henry Keswick didn't want to do this, if the market gave in, he was afraid that he would never get it back. Moreover, the Jardine Matheson Group is not like the Swire Group, where several important companies have been acquired by the Chinese-funded group, and now these have little impact on Xiangjiang.

Its own Dairy International and Wellcome supermarkets have a great impact on the citizens of Hong Kong, and the Lee Consortium and the Chinese-funded group will not let them go easily. In particular, Dairy International Company, when the stock market crash in 73, was acquired by its own group with abundant funds, and there were many Chinese families who were dissatisfied at that time, as long as they saw the opportunity, they would definitely pounce.

Henry Keswick said: "Shihuai, can you think about it more, postpone the sale, we will discuss it with Shen Bi and George Lavin, I am not yet able to make a move on the four of us." ”

Wooden Schwyah said: "Keswick, our side has thought very clearly, and at the same time, the Singapore consortium has also agreed to the acquisition of this share, you are not unaware of the difficulties we are facing now, Li Guangyu is a shareholder in these two groups, if we do not reach a settlement with the Lee consortium, many of our plans and plans will not be implemented at all." ”

Speaking of this, Wooden Shihuaiya was depressed for a while, not only did the Li consortium oppose it on the board of directors, but its media would also poke the matter to the outside world, and put pressure on them with the public opinion of Xiangjiang, and they didn't care whether the group could make a profit at all.

The Li consortium doesn't care about the company making money, but he and the Singapore consortium care, what do he still do if he doesn't make money, they don't have the money printing machine-like groups under the Li consortium, and they don't want their group to serve the citizens of Xiangjiang for free.

Henry Keswick saw that Wooden Schwyattle was determined to sell his shares in order to reach a settlement with the Lee consortium, and knew that his persuasion was no longer effective.

So he said to him: "In this case, Keswick, I won't say much, and I hope you won't regret it then." With the aggressive momentum of the Li consortium, he will not tolerate any influence that our British-funded consortium has on the Xiangjiang side. I'm afraid that your concession will only make him unscrupulous to acquire other companies under our British-owned company. ”

After Henry Keswick hung up the phone, he was thinking about what Jardine should do next, Swire's concession would allow the Lee consortium to put all its energy on their Jardine. With the current situation of Jardine Matheson, it is impossible to resist the attack of the Li consortium.

used to have a lot of allies in the face of the Chinese-funded group, but now that the family has lost their family, Jardine is about to become a lonely family, thinking of this, Henry Keswick feels even more sad.

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