Just after Li Guangyu left Xiangjiang, Niu Bijian, chairman of Jardine Matheson, began to plan to counterattack Li Guangyu's secret acquisition of the two groups of Heung Kong Electric and Heung Kong Telephone.

As early as a few days ago, Niu Bijian received a report from the group personnel that the outstanding shares of the two groups of Heung Kong Electric Light and Heung Kong Telephone were decreasing in the stock market, and when I thought of the fact that the outstanding shares of the Wharf Group were also greatly reduced some time ago, Niu Bijian felt that someone was going to target him Jardine Group.

Niu Bijian originally thought that the main prevention of Jardine Matheson is the king of charter ships, and now it seems that there is a predator ready to attack Jardine, and the reduction of Wharf's outstanding shares some time ago is likely to be done by the people who bought the shares of the two groups of Heung Kong Electric Light and Heung Kong Telephone on the stock market.

After the personnel arranged by Niu Bijian conducted an investigation on the exchange, according to these clues, Niu Bijian had already guessed who was the person who attacked him this time.

Although the people who bought the shares of the two groups under the Jardine Matheson Group on the exchange were very hidden, they still made Niu Bijian discover that they had some connections with Tianyu Investment Company, and now Xiangjiang has the ability to eat the Jardine Group, and the only group with strong financial resources is the Li Group.

After Niu Bijian discovered this problem, he did not immediately launch a counterattack, Li Guangyu was still in Xiangjiang, and his Jardine Matheson Group was not fully prepared. On the one hand, he asked the group to start raising funds, and on the other hand, he began to pay attention to Li Guangyu's movements.

When Li Guangyu left Xiangjiang on April 5, Niu Bijian immediately convened a meeting of the board of directors of Jardine Matheson Group, arranged for Li Guangyu's rush to buy the shares of his group, and asked the group to take control of the three groups of Wharf, Heung Kong Electric and Heung Kong Telephone.

"Chairman, if we snapped up the shares of three of our groups at the same time, our group would be seriously underfunded, and now we have the liquidity to be able to cope with the snapping up of shares in one group at most. ”

Due to the rapid expansion of the Jardine Matheson Group over the years, the group does not have much liquidity, so much so that many of its groups do not have a controlling stake. This time, after these days of fundraising, it is not less than 2 billion Hong Kong dollars.

"I will contact Standard Chartered Bank and ask them to support us in dealing with the Lee Group's rush to buy our group. ”

The reason why Niu Bijian did not contact HSBC this time, but contacted Standard Chartered, was that he was afraid that the news would leak out, and the relationship between HSBC and the Chinese consortium was somewhat better, so Standard Chartered was more at ease.

The senior management of Jardine Matheson Group has no opinion on the help of New Bijian to ask Standard Chartered Bank for help, this time the Li Group is menacing, obviously trying to swallow several major groups under Jardine Matheson, without the help of the bank, their current liquidity is unable to compete with the Li Group.

"This time, Lee Guangyu went to our native Crewe to attend the signing of the Bentley Motors acquisition agreement. I have received information from the mainland that the Lee Group's acquisition of Bentley cost 1.1 billion Hong Kong dollars, which is very beneficial to us. ”

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In the afternoon, Niu Bijian went to visit the Taipan King of Standard Chartered Bank and obtained a loan of 2 billion Hong Kong dollars from Standard Chartered Bank. Flash Dance

While Li Guangyu was discussing the Jaguar issue in Coventry, at 9 a.m. on April 14, Niu Bijian presided over a high-level meeting of the Jardine Matheson Group and arranged the counterattack.

"The acquisition of the shares of several of its groups is under the sole responsibility of the chief financial officer, Wei Jiali, and we must take the controlling stake in several groups, so that these Chinese families in Xiangjiang can see that our companies under Jardine Matheson are not something they can acquire." ”

Niu Bijian also found that the deterrent effect of the Jardine Group in Xiangjiang seems to have been reduced, before Li Ka-shing rushed to buy Wharf, and then the king of the van also wanted to enter the Wharf, this time Li Guangyu even wanted to eat his three groups at one time, and he really thought that Jardine was a sick cat.

After receiving the arrangement from New Bijian, Wei Jiali Deshawn immediately arranged for personnel to snap up the shares of several groups.

Tianyu Investment Company arranged personnel to keep an eye on the movements of the Jardine Group, and when the personnel of the Jardine Group snapped up the shares of several groups on the stock market, they immediately reported to Guo Fengtao.

Guo Fengtao didn't dare to slack off, and immediately came to the office of Li Xuemei of Xingyu Group next to him to report the situation to him.

Li Xuemei asked, "Guo Sheng, how many shares has our company acquired in the two groups now?"

Guo Fengtao replied, "Ms. Li, now our company has acquired the shares of Heung Kong Electric Group 173, and the shares of Heung Kong Telephone Group are 165. ”

Li Xuemei said: "How much liquidity do you have in Tianyu Investment Company now?"

"Ms. Li, we still have nearly 3 billion Hong Kong dollars of liquidity, and the current market value of Heung Kong Electric Group has risen to more than 6.8 billion Hong Kong dollars, while Heung Kong Telephone Group has also reached more than 6.3 billion Hong Kong dollars, and Wharf has risen to more than 4.8 billion Hong Kong dollars. Guo Fengtao said.

Li Xuemei is also prepared for this counterattack by Jardine Matheson, since Jardine has known that her group is snapping up the shares of his group, there is no need to hide it now.

Li Xuemei said, "I will mobilize another 2 billion Hong Kong dollars to your company, and from now on, you will go all out to buy these two groups, and don't let Li Sheng's arrangement go to waste." ”

Guo Fengtao heard that Li Xuemei had mobilized 2 billion Hong Kong dollars for the company, he is now full of confidence, the company has nearly 5 billion Hong Kong dollars in cash, he is not afraid of Jardine Group,

Guo Fengtao said, "Ms. Li, don't worry, I will definitely acquire these two groups under the Li Group, and I will not let Li Sheng's arrangement for several months be in vain." ”

Li Xuemei said, "You go back to the company now, I will notify Jiayi Group to publicize, we will raise the price of one layer per share to buy the shares of these two groups, if Jardine Group follows up, we will add one Hong Kong dollar on the basis of the market price per share, to ensure that this time can be successfully snapped up." ”

Guo Fengtao said, "Okay, I'll go back and operate." ”

After Guo Fengtao left, Li Xuemei immediately took out the phone next to her and called Xiangyu Group.

"Hey, hello, I'm Zhou Liang Shuyi. ”

Li Xuemei said, "Ms. Zhou Liang, I am Li Xuemei, you immediately ask the Finance Department to transfer 1.5 billion Hong Kong dollars to Tianyu Investment, and at the same time inform the Xiangyu Daily reporter to publish the news in tomorrow's newspaper that Tianyu Investment has acquired the shares of the two groups of Xiangjiang Electric Light and Xiangjiang Telephone at a high price." ”

As soon as Zhou Liang Shuyi heard Li Xuemei say this, she knew that it must be Jardine Matheson Group that had already made some moves in the market, otherwise Li Xuemei would not let him make public the news and snap up it at a high price in the market.

Zhou Liang Shuyi said, "Ms. Li, I will arrange these things immediately, and the financial department will immediately transfer the funds to Tianyu's investment account." ”

"Okay, you go and arrange it, I'll hang up first. After Li Xuemei finished speaking, she hung up Zhou Liang Shuyi's phone.

Subsequently, Li Xuemei dialed Liu Tianci of Jiayi Group again.

"Hey, I'm Liu Tianci. ”

"Liu Sheng, I'm Li Xuemei, you immediately let Jiayi TV station insert a message that our Tianyu Investment Company will acquire the shares of Xiangjiang Electric Light and Xiangjiang Telephone at a price higher than the market price. Li Xuemei said.

"Okay, Ms. Li, I'll arrange it right away, do you have any other instructions?" Liu Tianci said.

"You go and arrange it, I'm fine. Li Xuemei said.

After Li Xuemei hung up Liu Tianci's phone, she immediately came to the group's financial office.

When Tao Guihong, the financial director, saw Li Xuemei coming in, she immediately got up and said, "Hello, Ms. Li." ”

Li Xuemei said, "Gui Hong, you immediately arrange to transfer 500 million Hong Kong dollars to Tianyu Investment Company." ”

"Okay, I'll arrange it right away. Tao Guihong said.

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