After completing the cooperation with Bangkok Bank, Zhao Fusheng is undoubtedly quite happy.

He is well aware that any company that wants to be successful in business must have a relationship with the bank.

Those who are familiar with the history of Li Chaoren's fortune on Hong Kong Island know that Li Chaoren used the method of swallowing elephants to acquire Hutchison Whampoa, which was supported by Shen Bi, who was the HSBC senior at the time.

Shen Bi was demobilized to Hong Kong Island in 1948 and joined HSBC, where he became General Manager in 1971. In 1977, at the age of 50, Shen Bi was appointed chairman of HSBC, the largest registered bank on Hong Kong Island.

In addition to Shen Bi's outstanding business talents, he is most talked about for his extraordinary understanding of people.

Although the British Empire has gradually declined, its long-held principles of white supremacy are still prevalent in its colonies, and nowhere is this more evident than in Hong Kong.

Since it was colonized by the British, white people on Hong Kong Island were naturally superior to the Chinese, and even in order to show the difference of white people, the so-called "Peak District" was established, which could only be inhabited by whites and was forbidden for Chinese to live.

Although by the seventies and eighties, the status of the Chinese on Hong Kong Island had improved, and the rule that Chinese were not allowed to live in the "Peak District" had long been broken, there was still a large market for the idea of white superiority in the whole of Hong Kong Island, perhaps because of the long-established habit.

Therefore, in the normal commercial trade on Hong Kong Island, the Chinese will often be subject to a lot of prejudice and are always in a weak position.

But Shen Bi is different from other white people, he treats all those who can bring him benefits, and he also interacts with Chinese people on an equal footing.

In 1979, Li Chaoren quickly won the appreciation of Shen Bi, who was then the head of HSBC, with his shrewdness, ability, honesty and business style, as well as the growing performance of Cheung Kong Industrial.

Therefore, with the full support of Shen Bi, HSBC transferred all the shares of Hutchison Whampoa to Li Chaoren at a low price, allowing Li Chaoren to control 22.4% of the equity of Hutchison Whampoa, which has a market value of up to 6.5 billion Hong Kong dollars, with a capital of HK$620 million, making Li Chaoren the first Chinese on Hong Kong Island to acquire a British-funded consortium and became famous in one fell swoop.

In 1980, when Bao Yugang went to Europe to attend a conference, Jardine Taipan suddenly attacked, officially provoking the Wharf War. Deploy Hong Kong Island Land to adopt the method of share swap, trying to increase its shareholding to 49%, shattering Bao Yugang's "dream of annexation" of Wharf.

At the critical moment, it was Shen Bili who overrode public opinion and loaned 2.2 billion Hong Kong dollars to help Bao Yugang, making Bao Yugang the first Chinese to enter Wharf in one fell swoop.

And Zhao Fusheng, who has read Li Chaoren's biography, knows very well that in fact, Li Chaoren's successful acquisition of Hutchison Whampoa is a great accident, and it also has a very large element of luck.

If there is a problem in one of the links, Li Chaoren will not be able to take Hutchison Whampoa so easily, and may even be sniped out directly.

To this day, the relationship between Li Chaoren and HSBC is still very good.

Others respect this legendary rich man on Hong Kong Island, but in Zhao Fusheng's opinion, this is just a businessman through and through.

Seeing that Li forgets righteousness, these four words are not exaggerated at all when used on him.

No one knows better than Zhao Fusheng, don't look at the current Li Chaoren posture of being close to the mainland, buying real estate in the mainland and investing everywhere, but in fact, in another six years or so, Li Chaoren began to withdraw his funds from the mainland and Hong Kong Island on a large scale, and instead invested in the British market.

If he just did this, he would not be criticized, but this person has declared more than once in his biography: I am a descendant of Yan and Huang, a Chinese person, and the Feldspar Group is an enterprise on Hong Kong Island and a company in China, and I will never forget my roots.

Hehe......

If Zhao Fusheng remembers correctly, it was either 15 or 16 years when Li Chaoren relocated all the registered places of his two companies from Hong Kong Island to the Cayman Islands, claiming that it was to gain greater financial flexibility.

As soon as this news came out, the Hong Kong Island stock market fell sharply.

Since then, Zhao Fusheng has never had a good impression of this legendary businessman.

A successful businessman, this is Zhao Fusheng's only recognition of him.

As for the evaluation of the so-called patriotic entrepreneur before, Zhao Fusheng can only say that everything people do is actually just for him to make money, even if he is close to the mainland around the 97th Century, it is also because of current events.

After all, Li Chaoren is different from the two generations of old family heads of the Haojiang He family and the Hong Kong Island Huo family, and that is the real patriot.

Of course, someone who is smart will eventually lose his head, and after Brexit, he lost 20 billion personal assets in three days, and the entire company lost more than 40 billion.

Although this is a drop in the bucket for others, I have to say that sometimes, the more people who treat everyone as fools, the easier it is to become a joke.

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"Boss, are we really going to cooperate with Pangu Bank in the future?" Jerry asked Zhao Fusheng cautiously on the plane back to the capital.

"Yes. Zhao Fusheng smiled and said to Jerry: "Jerry, you probably don't understand that in the circle of our Chinese merchants, reputation is very important. Bangkok Bank trusted me and was willing to lend me $300 million. In return, I naturally have to give people enough respect. ”

Jerry frowned: "But at your current development speed, I think it won't be long before Pangu Bank begs us to cooperate." ”

"That's different. Zhao Fusheng shook his head: "I still say the same thing, compared with the Chen family's father and son, I don't trust the banks of Citigroup Standard Chartered." ”

Jerry was silent, he had to admit that Zhao Fusheng's words actually made some sense.

At the very least, Jerry knows very well that if it were Standard Chartered or Citibank, it would be absolutely impossible to give Zhao Fusheng a loan of 300 million US dollars.

This is probably the difference between Eastern and Western cultures.

Oriental people are deeply influenced by Confucianism, and when doing business, they care more about human feelings. Westerners, on the other hand, care more about the rules, which is the so-called spirit of contract.

Both of these have their own merits and have their own advantages and disadvantages. But compared to the current Zhao Fusheng, he naturally prefers to choose the Chen family, who is black-haired and yellow-skinned like himself, to cooperate.

Only in this way can the plan in his heart continue to be implemented without hindrance.

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