Immediately after Li Guangyu returned to Hong Kong, he convened a high-level meeting of the group to discuss the future development of the Li Group in Hong Kong and the attitude to be adopted towards the British-funded consortium.

The senior management of the group knows Li Guangyu's thoughts, and Li Guangyu must be inclined to agree to Wooden's conditions, otherwise Li Guangyu will directly refuse, where do you need to take it to the high-level meeting to discuss, I am afraid that the Li Group will treat the British-funded consortium differently in the future.

After the meeting, Li Guangyu instructed Zhao Wenhua and Wang Xinyu to communicate with Wu Dengshi Huaiya about the acquisition of the shares in his hands and get the shares in his hands as soon as possible.

On December 12, after Zhao Wenhua got the shares in the hands of Swire Pacific Corporation, he immediately convened a meeting of the company's board of directors, and while he was also the general manager of the company, he adjusted the staff of the company's British-funded consortium, especially the manager of the company's financial department and the manager of the human resources department, who were transferred from the Li Group.

At the same time, Zhao Wenhua proposed to the directors of Jardine Matheson the intention to acquire shares, asking them to report to the senior management of Jardine Matheson, hoping that Jardine Matheson Group could transfer their shares.

After listening to the report of the directors of the Xiangjiang Air Cargo Terminal Management Company, Henry Keswick was very passive, and his part of the shares did not play any role in the company. If he does not agree to the transfer of shares, the Li consortium will definitely inject capital into the company, and he will not follow.

If you don't, your shares will continue to be diluted, and you will inevitably be forced to buy at that time. And if they follow up, they will fall into the financial competition with the Li consortium, and they don't have so much financial resources to fall into it.

Henry Keswick knew that the wisest choice now was to sell the shares to the Lee consortium, but he was very unwilling to watch the Lee consortium continue to eat the next company that once belonged to their British consortium.

After Henry Keswick asked the director to go down, he picked up the phone on his desk and dialed Shen Bi's side.

In the private room of the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in the evening, Henry Keswick, Shen Bi and George Lavine discussed the issue of shares here.

Henry Keswick thought that when Xiangjiang first meeting, there were still the heads of the Madden family and the Shihuaiya family, and now there were only three of them left, and the strength of the British-funded consortium was directly halved.

Henry Keswick said: "Shen Bi, Laven, this time the Swire Group has negotiated peace with the Li Foundation, and in the future, our Jardine Group will be an important target of the Li Foundation's suppression." If you continue to sweep the snow in front of your door as before, after our Jardine Matheson Group falls, it will be your two major banks. ”

After more than half a year of expansion, Tianyu Bank has branches in various regions of Asia, especially in Treasure Island, Japan, Malaysia and Thailand, and has opened a number of branches, while the UK is not lagging behind, which has had a serious impact on their business.

Shen Bi knew very well that the goal of Li Guangyu's financial group was the right to issue money in the hands of the two of them, and last time they wanted to just resolutely oppose it with Standard Chartered, and MacLehose did not agree, so they temporarily dispelled their thoughts, but Li Guangyu would definitely not give up like this.

If the Lee consortium wants to become a world-class consortium, they will have to think about controlling the right to issue money in a region, which is one of the important symbols of the world's top consortium. The Lee consortium is based in Hong Kong, and naturally they want to get the right to issue notes in Hong Kong dollars. Moreover, the Lee consortium also hopes to suppress HSBC and Standard Chartered and make their financial group the hegemon of Hong Kong.

Shen Bi said: "Keswick, our bank is different from your company, and we need to be responsible for any decision we make for our customers, so many times we can't intervene. You should know how powerful the media under the Lee consortium is, as long as our bank makes loss-making investments, they will immediately report on the general trend and damage the reputation of our bank. ”

Not only was Shen Bi very unhappy with Li Guangyu's behavior, but George LaVine was also very unhappy about it.

As more and more companies under the British consortium were acquired by Li Guangyu, their business has been decreasing, especially in the past few months, the business of the Swire Group has been reduced by nearly three layers, and the business of the Wheelock Group has been completely lost, which makes him very unhappy as the chairman.

George LaVine said: "Keswick, we also know that our bank will be the target of the Lee consortium's notes, but we don't have a very good way to do this. If you are short of funds, our bank can lend you this time. Our Standard Chartered will not be involved in the physical enterprise. ”

Henry Keswick also did not expect the two major banks to fight with them in terms of industry, as long as the two major banks supported him financially, he was confident that he would continue to negotiate with the Li consortium.

As long as the British government still manages Xiangjiang, he believes that it is impossible for the Li consortium to eat him Yihe.

Henry Keswick said: "We need your financial support so that we can resist the attack of the Lee Consortium. They don't have the energy to target you, so they need a little more support from you in this regard. ”

Shen Bi said: "Keswick, as long as you have collateral, we will approve your loan." ”

Now Shen Bi can't care so much, he can't let Jardine fall, once Jardine falls, the next target of the Li consortium will be his side. Standard Chartered Bank is headquartered in London, and the Li consortium is not easy to start, but HSBC is on the Xiangjiang side, and it is much easier for the Li consortium to deal with its own side.

In fact, Shen Bi knows that it is very risky to lend to Jardine Matheson Group now, especially if Jardine Matheson takes out a share loan from Jardine Land Group, once the Xiangjiang property market collapses, their bank is prone to bad debts. It's just that in order to deal with the aggressive momentum of the Li consortium, he can only support the Jardine Group.

Henry Keswick, after receiving a promise from the heads of the two major banks, had the directors reject the Lee consortium's proposal to buy shares the next day. At the same time, he said that Jardine Matheson Group is very optimistic about the prospects of Heung Kong Air Cargo Terminal Management Company, and Jardine Matheson will not give up its shareholding in this company.

In the face of Jardine Matheson's refusal, the Li Group had long expected that they had many backup plans that would allow Jardine to give up their shares.

Li Guangyu said to Zhao Wenhua: "You don't pay attention to the issue of Jardine shares for the time being, the most important thing now is to manage the Xiangjiang Air Cargo Terminal Management Company well, so as not to let the company have a major situation, and I don't want to hear the news of the strike." On the management side, kick out all the people in the Jardine family so that they don't make trouble inside. ”

Zhao Wenhua immediately replied: "Li Sheng, don't worry, Wang Junchang is in charge of the airline during this time, and I will keep an eye on the Xiangjiang Air Cargo Terminal Management Company to ensure the normal operation of the company, and I will never let such a situation occur." ”

Zhao Wenhua knew that if such a situation really occurred, he was afraid that his position would not be stable.