Henry Keswick did not ask Li Guangyu to wait longer, and replied to Li Guangyu the next morning, asking several major investment companies to arrange personnel to go to the Jardine Matheson Group to negotiate the value of Dairy Farm International Company, and agree to Li Guangyu's shareholding plan.

This time, Jardine Matheson really does not want to continue to be hostile with the Li consortium in Xiangjiang, and they know very well that if this continues, they are likely to be completely squeezed out of the Xiangjiang market by the Li consortium.

Jardine Matheson Group has always regarded Xiangjiang as the foundation of the group, and if it loses the Xiangjiang market, it will be a huge blow to Jardine Matheson.

And this time, Li Guangyu showed goodwill to them, whether it was Henry Keswick or his cousin Jardine, they were willing to end the previous hostility and cooperate in some aspects.

Moreover, at present, the capital chain of Jardine Matheson Group is already very scarce, and the funds for the transfer of 40% of the shares can effectively alleviate the current predicament faced by Jardine Matheson Group.

Since taking over the Jardine Group for more than a year, Henry Keswick has been facing the huge pressure from the Li consortium, so that he has never relaxed in his heart, and he is always worried about which company under his umbrella is facing the suppression and targeting of the Li consortium.

Now he can finally relax and develop the industry of Jardine Matheson Group in peace and stability. Henry Keswick still understands some of Li Guangyu's qualities, as long as he is willing to cooperate with you, then he will not stab him in the back.

And at present, Jardine Matheson Group has no industry that worries the Li consortium anymore, and Jardine Land Group, Li Guangyu can't look down on it at all. At present, they also have a stake in Dairy Farm International, and the trading company Lee's consortium and its interest groups are also quite a few, and on the side of the hotel group, the Peninsula Hotel is currently their interest group.

Henry Keswick thought about the lost companies of the Jardine Group in the past few years, and the era when the four major foreign companies dominated the Hong Kong River was completely gone.

Hutchison Whampoa and Wheelock Group were successively acquired by Lee's interest group, and Swire Pacific was half-disabled.

The Jardine Matheson Group is no better than Swire, and the Wharf, Heung Kong Telephone Group, Heung Kong Electric Light Group, and Wellcome Supermarket have been transferred and closed down one after another, making them suffer huge losses.

Fortunately, the Li consortium also seems to feel that Xiangjiang is not very good without their British-funded consortium, and now it seems that it is ready to put on the brakes urgently and is ready to cooperate with them, so that their Jardine Group still has a chance to get up.

But he also knew that it was impossible to return to the glorious times of the past. In the future, Heung Kong will only be the era of the Lee consortium, and the following is the Jardine Matheson Group and Cheung Kong, Zhaokee, Sun Hung Kai and other groups competing for the position of the second group.

However, Henry Keswick let the Lee consortium take a stake in Dairy Farm International, which made Shen Bi, chairman of HSBC, quite unhappy. They HSBC and Standard Chartered support Jardine Matheson Group so much, hoping that Jardine Matheson Group can stand in front and help them withstand the pressure of the Li consortium.

Now that Jardine Matheson has also cooperated with the Li consortium, HSBC and Standard Chartered will be the direct opponents of the Li consortium in Xiangjiang, and the Li consortium will never give up suppressing their two major banks before they get the right to issue Hong Kong dollars.

Shen Bi knows Li Guangyu's personality very well, and he will never give up until his goal is achieved.

Just as he wants to set up an airline in Hong Kong, when it is difficult to apply on the government's side, they will think of buying Swire Pacific Limited, the parent company of Cathay Pacific Airways.

Shen Bi didn't dare to guarantee that Li Guangyu would do this in terms of the right to issue notes in Hong Kong dollars, and the Li consortium had enough funds and strength to acquire Standard Chartered and HSBC, and Li Guangyu dared to do so.

Moreover, at present, whether it is HSBC or Standard Chartered, due to the current situation in Xiangjiang, the market value of the stock market has fallen very sharply. Once the Li consortium buys this bottom, I don't know if the major shareholders behind it can withstand it.

Shen Bi was also at a loss for a while about the rapid change of the situation in Xiangjiang, and after he became the chairman of HSBC, he still felt that the British-funded consortium was strong, so he also befriended some Chinese families and specially gave them some support.

Even in the acquisition of Hutchison Whampoa, he deliberately favored the Chinese-funded family, but he did not expect the situation to reverse so quickly, and the British-funded four major foreign banks completely lost the ability to compete with the Chinese-funded consortium in just a few years.

As HSBC and Standard Chartered, which are outside the major groups, they have to worry about whether they will follow in the footsteps of these major foreign banks at this time.

After there is no Jardine Matheson Group as an enemy, the Li consortium can deal with its two major banks wholeheartedly in Xiangjiang, and in the face of today's Li consortium, even if they are called the shadow central bank of Xiangjiang, Standard Chartered and HSBC, are a little unbearable.

Shen Bi contacted George LaVine of Standard Chartered Bank by phone, asked him to have morning tea, and discussed the future situation with him.

In the box of a teahouse in Central, Shen Bi and George Laven sat opposite each other. Shen Bi said with emotion: "More than a year ago, when we faced the Li Consortium, there were still Shi Huaiya family, Keswick family and Madden family to discuss together, and now there are only two of us, I don't know if there will be no one to discuss in the future." ”

In the more than a year since George LaVine came to Hong Kong to take over Standard Chartered Bank, he only felt that he had jumped into a big hole, and nothing was satisfactory to him.

The main business of Standard Chartered Bank is the enterprise of the British-funded consortium, and in the past year or so, the British-funded consortium has been continuously acquired by the Chinese family, so that their business has been continuously reduced, and the operating rate of Standard Chartered Bank in Xiangjiang has fallen off a cliff.

Today's decision made him very annoyed, he, like Shen Bi, is very aware of the current situation in Xiangjiang, and the next thing is that they Standard Chartered and HSBC will face the Li consortium, and I don't know if Standard Chartered can resist the blow of the Li consortium this time.

Fortunately, what reassures him is that the largest individual shareholder of Standard Chartered is Qiu Teck Put, one of the core members of the Singapore consortium, and the Singapore consortium and the Lee consortium are already in a cooperative relationship, and the Lee consortium should not attack them first.

George Laven said: "Shen Bi, this is also a helpless thing, the Li consortium is no longer able to resist the British-funded consortium of Xiangjiang, I don't think our two banks can resist the financial expansion of the Li consortium." In particular, there are a lot of shareholders behind our two banks, and they are also very miscellaneous, the Li consortium is not short of money, and our bank still has such a large amount of money in its hands, just us, the Li consortium can make billions of Hong Kong dollars. ”

How can Shen Bi not know this, HSBC was a fifteen shareholder members at the beginning of its establishment, and although foreign shareholders withdrew one after another, HSBC is now controlled by the British people.

But now the number of shareholders has not decreased, and with the acquisition practices of the Li consortium in recent years, as well as their strong financial resources, HSBC does not dare to make a conclusion whether it can keep Shen Bi at that time.

Shen Bi said: "Laven, in the future, I hope that the two of us will strengthen communication and cooperation in finance, and at present, our biggest enemy is the Li consortium, and we can't fight each other like before." ”

In the past, when Xiangjiang had no other rivals, HSBC and Standard Chartered were simply two people on the same line, and it was simply impossible for the two companies to cooperate, and in order to compete for Xiangjiang's customers, the two would compete fiercely.

Both HSBC and Standard Chartered are based in Hong Kong and Asia as an important market, which has led them to accumulate countless grievances over the past few decades.

If it weren't for the rapid rise of the Li consortium, which made the two families feel a huge threat, it would be impossible for them to communicate and cooperate.

George LaVine also knows that Standard Chartered and HSBC will not continue to fight like this, and they must cooperate fully to deal with the pressure brought to them by the Lee consortium.

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