On the morning of 18 April, Li Guangyu's special plane took off from Vienna and officially embarked on the voyage back to Xiangjiang.

The trip to Europe was far from Lee's goal, and he brought with him only $10 billion in Anglo-Asian Investment and $2 billion in Bentley to buy office buildings and expand its industry.

Now he still has more than $14 billion in funds in his hands, and he has not yet figured out where to spend it.

When Li Guangyu was on a long journey on the plane, there was a very sensational news from the British side, Anglo-Asian Investment Company successfully acquired British Gas Company for 5.8 billion pounds, about 9.5 billion US dollars.

In the past few days, the competition between Yingya Investment Company and Yingli Investment Company has entered a white heat, and the British government has made an offer for the main sale of the company.

And this time, with Lee Guangyu coordinating in the middle, and all parties hoping to teach the American consortium a lesson, the company that mainly involves the lives of citizens is very quick to quote.

I don't know if the heads of the British side of the American consortium are involved in such a huge acquisition authority, or if there are differences in cooperation between them, or whether the consortiums themselves are not interested in natural gas companies, and the offer is not positive on this anyway.

The British government also acted very quickly, and Yingli Investment Company actively agreed to transfer the gas company to Yingya Investment Company at a price of 5.8 billion pounds just after the stipulated quotation time limit.

When Yingya Investment Company and the shareholders behind it were celebrating the acquisition of the British Gas Company, in the conference room of Yingli Investment Company, several shareholder representatives were discussing the company's acquisition plan.

Dampier Worthy, head of Merrill Western Europe, said: "Our opponents are now celebrating their victory, and I think we need to come up with some real action to fight back to boost everyone's confidence that if we return home in England this time, it will do a huge damage to our influence in Western Europe." ”

Once Britain and even Western European forces feel that their American consortium is no more powerful than that, then it will be more difficult for the United States to control the economy of Western Europe.

Merrill Lynch very much did not want Anglo-Asian Investment to take over the gas company so easily, but unfortunately Morgan and First Citigroup and Rockefeller were not very interested in these public service enterprises.

They all put their minds on companies such as oil, aerospace, and Rolls-Royce, which caused Yingli to be not active in the quotation of natural gas, water, and electricity.

Today's gas companies are just the beginning, and if they don't change their current strategy, it is estimated that in a few days, the power and water companies will also be eaten by Anglo-Asian Investment Company.

Cross Charles, head of Morgan Western Europe, said: "Our main focus is on companies such as Statoil and British Steel, and we can reduce our competitive pressure by letting Anglo-Asian Investment spend a lot of money to buy British public service enterprises. ”

Even if the Japanese consortium and the Lee consortium are deeply funded, after spending tens of billions of dollars, when they compete with these companies again, they have to consider the financial pressure they have to bear, even if these consortiums have a degree of money, they cannot let this acquisition affect the development of their industries.

Moreover, they are mainly in the financial industry, supplemented by the energy industry, and they are really not very interested in these public service industries.

On the British side, Anthony Bamford and others were a little disappointed, and they cooperated with the American consortium this time in the hope of expanding their influence in the United Kingdom.

Fortunately, the American consortium is directly preparing to cede the few companies that have the greatest impact on the British citizens to its rivals, and it is still unknown whether they will be able to eat the other huge companies.

Anthony Bamford said: "Worthy, Charles, Smith, Dijak, I don't think we can let Anglo-Asian Investments eat all the companies that he is focused on, it will only boost their morale, and it will be more difficult for us to buy oil, steel, Rolls-Royce, aerospace and so on. ”

Richard Branson, chairman of Virgin Group, also said: "This time we are not dealing with a single consortium, they are a collection of many consortiums in Asia, and even the governments of Japan and South Korea are on their side, how can they lack the funds to acquire these companies, and even if they do, their banks and even the government will find ways to help them."

In Japan, the six major conglomerates and many families have shares in it, and the current economy of Japan is in Japan. Charles, do you think they're going to lose tens of billions of dollars?"

Not to mention the powerful consortia in Japan, the market value of the Lee consortium alone has exceeded 200 billion US dollars, which is the valuation given by many institutions, including Morgan's own investment bank.

The combined market value of these major companies they want to sell in the UK this time will not exceed 200 billion US dollars, and it is simply impossible to reduce the financial pressure by hoping to acquire several companies through Anglo-Asian Investment.

The British shareholders know that the main reason for this problem is that the American consortium is not willing to buy companies such as electricity, gas and water, and that their major consortia are not fully prepared to meet the challenges of Asian conglomerates.

At present, although their company is established, it is only that they and the four major American consortia each account for 20% of the shares, and it is difficult for everyone to have a leader, and none of the four major consortia in the United States is convinced of anyone, and many issues have to be discussed repeatedly, and there are often mutual dismantling situations, how can this compete with Anglo-Asian Investment Company.

There is a concerted effort to repel the American consortium, with the Lee consortium and the Japanese consortium as the main axis, and the Anglo-Asian Investment Company will not have such a situation as them at all, and it is difficult to have a result in everything.

Samboson Smith, head of First Citi, said: "Don't get excited, I know you must have some of your own agendas, and it's normal to have different opinions. This time, we are all sitting together, mainly facing the attacks of many Asian consortiums, and I believe that we all have the same intention to repel the Asian consortiums.

Although our company was established these days, due to some selfishness and grievances from everyone, we could not cooperate sincerely, which made Yingya Investment Company easily eat the British Natural Gas Company, of course, there are also some favoritism of the British government.

So I hope that everyone can put aside their previous grievances and ideas, because we are not able to repel Asian conglomerates, and we are still a huge consortium with the favor of the British government. ”

Samberson Smith said so, but it is very difficult for several parties to cooperate with each other, and the grievances between their major consortia are not a matter of one or two days, and in the past, to deal with external strength, their consortium itself was enough, and there was no big strength to compete with them, except for their internal conglomerates in the United States.

But now that Japan is rising strongly, several major consortia have jointly attacked their U.S. market, so that they have begun to suppress Japanese consortia with their allies, but that is also the action of major consortia and their own good consortia.

In addition, the Japanese consortium is very strong in various industries, so the major consortiums are suppressing them, but this is also their own policy, and they will not discuss cooperation and act together.

The same is true of the rise of the Lee consortium, such as the California consortium, the Texas consortium, the Mellon consortium, the Cleveland consortium, the Rockefeller consortium, etc., which have not made a move against the Lee consortium in the US market.

And this time the British market is different, if they don't cooperate, I'm afraid that a company won't want to eat it, and the headquarters of several major consortia have no intention of joining forces with other consortia, so there is such an embarrassing situation.