Immediately after the meeting, Shen Bi contacted Henry Keswick to negotiate the share acquisition.

Henry Keswick was very happy to receive the news, and he would not have given up on Wellcome and Heung Kong Market unless he had to.

After hanging up Shen Bi's phone, he waited in the office for a call from George LaVine, hoping that Standard Chartered would also bring him good news.

As long as these two banks take a stake in Jardine Matheson Holding Group, not only will he be more confident in the face of the Li consortium, but at the same time, the shares of Jardine Matheson Holding Group on the stock market will definitely skyrocket, and even the shares of Jardine Land will also rise.

This is great good news for Jardine Matheson, HSBC and Standard Chartered, as the two gods of wealth in Hong Kong, have a significant impact on Hong Kong, and many people are very optimistic about them.

After waiting for more than twenty minutes, Henry Keswick finally received a call from George LaVine.

It's a pity that the news from there made him quite disappointed, and Standard Chartered Bank did not agree to buy the shares in the hands of the minority shareholders of Jardine Matheson Holding Group.

Although George LaVine told him that he would report back to the headquarters in London and ask for their support for Jardine, Henry Keswick had little hope of this. These high-level officials on the Xiangjiang side are against it, and the London side will not agree to it.

This is not only Henry Keswick is disappointed, but HSBC's Shen Bi is even more disappointed, he knows very well that if Standard Chartered Bank does not follow up this time, it will be difficult for him to persuade the bank's directors to agree to buy some shares of Jardine Matheson Holding Group.

In the evening, Shen Bi, Henry Keswick and George LaVine came to the Mandarin Oriental Hotel to communicate the matter again.

In a private room, George LaVine said: "Shen Bi, Keswick, I have made a detailed report to the London headquarters on the current situation. They have not rejected my proposal for the time being, and they will immediately hold a board meeting to discuss this matter, and I think they will consider it for the sake of the Hong Kong market. ”

Shen Bi is quite dissatisfied with the high-level management of Standard Chartered Bank in Xiangjiang, and now that they are facing such a grim situation, these people are still only concerned about cleaning up the snow in front of their doors, and they have no long-term vision at all. They also don't want to think about whether they will be spared if Standard Chartered will be spared once Jardine and their HSBC fall.

Fortunately, George LaVine can still see it clearly, otherwise it would have been difficult for them this time. Shen Bi can already smell the smell of gunsmoke, and the Li consortium is now shrinking their industry with all its might, and there is no such drastic expansion as before.

At this time, the Li consortium is the most terrifying, they have a large amount of cash in their hands, and when they make a move, it will definitely be Mount Tai's overwhelming momentum, and the target will obviously be them.

Shen Bi believes that Li Guangyu must be preparing some plan, otherwise there would not be such a situation as now, the senior personnel of the major groups have made a lot of supplements, but they have not made immediate moves, and they must be waiting for the opportunity to stabilize the development of the Li consortium.

Henry Keswick said: "This time I discussed with the directors of the group again, and I hope that you can make a decision earlier, if there is no result within a week, you can only deal with Wellcome, I don't want the shares in the hands of these shareholders to fall into the hands of the Lee consortium, they are not short of money now, I don't want to end up in the same situation as Swire." ”

After Swire Pacific was 31% owned by the Lee consortium, the influence of the Lee consortium in the company increased greatly, and Cathay Pacific was the masterpiece of the Lee consortium's directors stationed in the Swire Pacific company.

He was worried that if the Li consortium was stationed as a director of his Jardine Matheson Holding Group, one day the management and employees of some of his subsidiaries would also collectively change jobs, then he would die of depression.

Shen Bi immediately said: "Keswick, don't worry, don't be busy dealing with Wellcome Supermarket at this time. You also know that the Lee Consortium will definitely snipe at your other industries after your Wellcome falls. As long as you have something that they can see, they will not give up on targeting you. For example, the shares of the air cargo terminal management company in your hands, Li Guangyu's air transport group has no intention of letting you continue to hold them. ”

Of course, Henry Keswick knew this situation, and the reason why Swire Co., Ltd. was not targeted by the Lee Consortium now was that they no longer had anything that the Lee Consortium could look at.

Now Swire Pacific has business, the Li consortium basically has it, and in some aspects, the Li consortium wants, the Shi Huaiya family also sold them to the Li consortium, so now Swire Pacific can develop steadily, and Swire makes money, and Li Guangyu makes money.

He still has Milk International Company in his hand, this company has fought with the Chinese family once when it was more than seven years old, and he relied on strong financial resources to grab it, and he believes that the Li consortium will not let go of this company.

Henry Keswick also had to sigh that the reincarnation of heaven used to rely on the support of the government and the strong financial resources of his own foreign banks to suppress the Chinese family. Now the Lee consortium has in turn suppressed its own group.

Henry Keswick said: "I don't want to do this myself, but our current financial situation and the opinions of our shareholders make it impossible for me to survive. If we hadn't lost last year, we would have been able to recoup the shares held by these minority shareholders. It's just that last year, our two lost tens of billions of Hong Kong dollars, which has made our two families empty their families. ”

Shen Bi also felt a pain in his heart when he thought about the loss last year, that time they not only lost more than 30 billion Hong Kong dollars, but all this money went to the Li consortium, allowing the Li consortium to carry out a new round of expansion at one time, which is a typical capital enemy.

For example, Hengyu Supermarket Group, if it weren't for Li Guangyu's profit last year, how could they have the confidence to fight a price war in Xiangjiang for so long.

Shen Bi even suspected that Li Guangyu was calculating them last year, otherwise why would he only short the listed companies of the British-funded consortium at that time. Its purpose is to lure himself and others into the bait, so that several of his own companies have problems with funds, so as to drag down the development of the British-funded consortium.

The effect is obvious, Wheelock was directly eaten by him, Swire Pacific was directly disabled, and many companies were forced to sell.

Jardine Matheson is not much better, even if the Keswick family and the Jardine's family come up with a lot of money, they are still forced to sell the Heung Kong Electric Light Group, if it is not for the Singapore consortium to intervene, it is estimated that this group will fall into the hands of the Lee consortium.

Shen Bi said: "We still need to stabilize the current situation, Governor Youde will come to take office in a few days, and we will communicate with him at that time, I believe that he does not want to see the existence of a British-funded consortium under his rule, and the entire Xiangjiang is shrouded by a Chinese-funded consortium, which is not what the British mainland and the Governor are willing to see." ”

Henry Keswick didn't have much hope for this, unlike in the sixties, when the government was clearly biased in their favor, but now it's just unlikely.

If the government dares to do so, it is estimated that it will be drowned by public opinion in Xiangjiang, and the media in Xiangjiang are basically in the hands of Chinese families, and there is only one radio station on the government's side.

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