Excelsior Hotel, located on Gloucester Road in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong, was once the warehouse of Jardine Matheson Group, and was built in 1973.

In a presidential suite, 67-year-old Bao Yugang looked full of energy, and when he saw Xu Zhi, he said with a smile: "Xu Sheng, I haven't seen you for two months, and you have set off a big fireworks in Xiangjiang again!"

Xu Zhi said with a smile: "It's not a big deal, in fact, the Madden family has long wanted to evacuate Xiangjiang, Wheelock has been desperately expanding the scale of the shipping company in the past few years, in fact, it is a kind of asset transfer, converting the fixed assets on land into marine assets that can be moved, but he doesn't have the vision of Bao Sheng, this shipping crisis, but almost demolished the entire Wheelock!"

"I just get old and want to quit the shipping industry and invest in a stable business. Bao Yugang laughed and said: "But the acquisition of Wheelock is such a big thing, and only you Xu Sheng said it so lightly." ”

"Wheelock did have some scale in the past, don't you dare now, it's really nothing. Xu Zhi shook his head and smiled.

"The emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, but Xu Sheng can even buy Disney and Land, and this will indeed not be comparable. Bao Yugang smiled and said.

Xu Zhi put down the teacup in his hand and asked, "Bao Sheng should have come here today for Wheelock, right? Could it be that Bao Sheng also wants to buy Wheelock?"

"I did think that way before. Bao Yugang generously admitted: "Before Xu Sheng's public acquisition of Wheelock, I had secretly acquired 10% of Wheelock's shares. ”

"Wheelock's benefits in the past two years have not been good, and the market value is only about 4 billion Hong Kong dollars, if Bao Sheng really wants to buy Wheelock, how can he only acquire 10% until now?" asked Xu Zhi.

Bao Yugang sighed and said: "This matter is a long story, George Madden, the Taipan of Wheelock for more than 20 years, has been kind to the outside world, so he ......"

"I've heard about it. Xu Zhi nodded, Bao Yugang is a very kind person, Wheelock's former senior class only gave great help to Bao Yugang's business, and in order to thank George Madden, on his 60th birthday, Bao Yugang personally sent a valuable Zhongtang Shou Shaft, which many people in Xiangjiang know.

Bao Yugang continued: "Yesterday, Zhang Yuliang found me and sold his shares to me at a high price. ”

"Why is this Zhang Yuliang unwilling to sell the stock to me? Are you still afraid that I will not be able to sell it at a high price?" Xu Zhi asked with some puzzlement, this incident also puzzled many people who studied the economy of Xiangjiang in the original history.

When the Nanyang billionaire Qiu Debai proposed a comprehensive acquisition of Wheelock, why didn't Zhang Yuliang sell the shares directly to Qiu Depu, but chose Bao Yugang, although Bao Yugang's worth should be higher, but Qiu Debai came from afar, and there are many relationships behind the Nanyang background, in the face of the Zhang family's stock that has the decisive success of the acquisition, Qiu Depuat will inevitably obtain it at all costs.

But it turned out that Bao Yugang got the shares, so he entered the market with nearly 35% of the voting rights, and finally won the victory.

Bao Yugang said with a smile: "I also asked Zhang Yuliang this question, and his answer was that he just didn't want John Madden to arrange this merger as he wished." ”

"John Madden has already taken my money and is ready to fly away, he doesn't care about Wheelock's subsequent fate, Zhang Yuliang is really a freak. Xu Zhi smiled helplessly: "Bao Sheng, since you have obtained about 34% of the voting rights of Wheelock, are you going to play with me in the stock market?"

"You and I are both Chinese, and the targets we want to acquire this time are Wheelock, there is no need to fight to the death in the stock market, and in the end it will be cheaper for outsiders, so it is better for us to meet face-to-face and discuss how to deal with Wheelock. Bao Yugang said with a smile.

Xu Zhi nodded and said, "Okay, if Bao Sheng has any ideas, just say it." ”

From beginning to end, neither of them proposed to buy each other's shares at a high price, for ordinary people, money is the most important, but for the real rich, career is the most important, and the healthy development of the company is far more important than making a quick buck.

Bao Yugang said: "Over the years, Wheelock has expanded rapidly in the hands of John Madden, and there are hundreds of companies in a mess, but the real scale is Wheelock Shipping, Consortium, Lane Crawford, Real Estate Trust, Federal Real Estate, and Harriman Real Estate Development Company, and we only need to allocate these companies." ”

John Madden, like Decon Tsuna, who used to be with Wong, liked to increase the size of his company, and in the 70s, he bought various companies on a large scale, causing business chaos and operating losses.

If Xu Zhi is able to buy the whole of Wheelock, the first thing he will do is to clean up these companies and leave only some core businesses.

Xu Zhidao: "Then how do we allocate these businesses under Wheelock?"

Bao Yugang said with a smile: "Xu Sheng, you acquired Hongkong Land, and Federal Land's Wheelock Building is one of the core buildings in Central, I won't rob you of this Federal Real Estate, as long as there is Wheelock Building, Hongkong Land's footbridge plan can be realized." ”

"Thank you so much. "Wheelock Building, Xu Zhi can't give up, not only because this is a Central building, but more importantly, its location.

Back in the 70s, Jardine Matheson had a large redevelopment plan in Central, one of which was to link the shopping malls in more than a dozen buildings in Central in the form of footbridges.

However, even with Hongkong Land's scale, it is impossible to own all the buildings in the core of Central, and Wheelock Building is stuck in an important position, Jardine Matheson once wanted to buy this building, or replace the buildings, but Wheelock also knew the importance of the Central redevelopment plan to Hongkong Land, and the entire footbridge project was forced to run aground under the lion's mouth.

Now that the situation in Xiangjiang is stable, and business is about to enter a period of rapid growth for 13 years, if the pedestrian bridge can open up more than a dozen buildings in Central, the rent can increase by a few percent under the flow of people.

This is a business feat that has not occurred in history before, and it must be achieved in this life.

"Then I don't know which branch Bao Sheng has taken a fancy to?" Xu Zhi smiled and asked, Bao Yugang took the initiative to cede the federal real estate to himself, obviously to prepare for the follow-up.