On the way back to the company.

Huo Yaowen sat in the back row and closed his eyes and pretended to sleep, and Yin Wenyao, who was sitting next to him, saw that the boss had his eyes closed, afraid that he was asleep, and stopped talking for a while.

"Consultant Yin, let's talk about it directly, look at how long you have been holding back from the world. Huo Yaowen opened his eyes and glanced at Yin Wenyao, although he had been closing his eyes and pretending to sleep just now, he still noticed Yin Wenyao's small movements beside him.

"Then I'll go straight to the boss. ”

Yin Wenyao saw that the boss was not asleep, thought about it and said bluntly: "I think even if the charter king agrees to help the boss you settle in HSBC and become a director, I'm afraid it will not be easy to achieve." Rather than this, it is better to sell the shares of Wharf at 100 yuan per share at the price given by the charter king. ”

At the beginning, David was solely responsible for the acquisition of Wharf shares, and later Huo Yaowen sent him to buy an electrical company, and led Davide to the mainland to inspect the market, which was handed over to Yin Wenyao.

Therefore, Yin Wenyao is very clear about how much money the boss spent on acquiring Wharf, and now as long as he sells Wharf shares to the charter king, he can easily make seven or eight billion Hong Kong dollars, and there is no need to give profits in exchange for the help of the charter king.

Although the boss wanted to take a stake in HSBC, Yin Wenyao knew it early on, but he still felt that it was unlikely. On the one hand, HSBC is not short of money, and it is the first of the four major banks in Hong Kong, and it also has the right to print and issue Hong Kong banknotes.

"I know it's hard to be a director of HSBC. Huo Yaowen thought for a while and said, "But it's not absolutely impossible. ”

There is only a little more than a month left before 1980, and if nothing else, the mainland side should have already begun to consider and prepare for the Hong Kong issue.

As long as history does not change significantly, it is only a matter of time before the Sino-British negotiations come, and then the British will certainly adopt certain means for the sake of their interests in Hong Kong, and HSBC, as the largest bank in Hong Kong, will inevitably be affected.

At that point in time, it was the time for Fok Yaowen to buy HSBC shares on a large scale.

Now cooperating with the charter king is just to break into the interior in advance, so that when HSBC is at a low point, it can understand the internal information, so as to overcome it step by step.

Isn't there such a saying? The strong often begin to disintegrate from within, and this is the case with Suville, and the same is true for HSBC.

"Boss, what do you mean?" Huo Yaowen said in a fog, as if he was very confident, but Yin Wenyao pondered for a long time, and was stunned to understand where this sentence and the boss's confidence came from?

Yes, the boss is rich, and Yin Wenyao, as the second-in-command of Huo Yaowen's financial investment company, knows much less about the boss's assets than Davide.

Not to mention the two big companies of Hutchison Whampoa and Huanyu Group, Apple Inc., which Huo Yaowen invested abroad, has earned almost tens of millions of dollars this year. And according to today's trend, Apple's momentum is ferocious, and once it goes public, it may be another behemoth.

But these are fixed assets, and in terms of cash, various groups and companies, plus Huo Yaowen's private account, have reached hundreds of millions of dollars. This is indeed a lot of money, but compared to HSBC, a bank predator that has firmly occupied Hong Kong for more than a century, it can only be said that it is okay.

After all, HSBC accounts for one-third of Hong Kong's banking customers, and even holds shares in many listed companies, and even the boss's Hutchison Whampoa and HSBC still have about 10% of the shares.

Huo Yaowen shook his head and said: "You don't have to worry about this, just pay close attention to the fluctuations of the HSBC stock market and the top management of the board of directors, especially pay attention to the every move of Shen Bi, the senior class of HSBC." ”

Huo Yaowen has been in contact with Shen Bi, the senior class of HSBC, several times, although the other party seems to get along very well, and because of his support for various initiatives of Chinese capital, he is trusted by many Chinese businessmen, but Huo Yaowen has no good impression of him.

Shen Bi is a very successful banker and speculator, and in the past six or seven years he has been in office, it seems that HSBC has introduced a lot of preferential measures for Chinese businessmen.

But in fact, it is because Shen Bi understands better than most British people in Hong Kong that with the progress of the times, the rise of local Chinese business capital is unstoppable.

Not to mention the acquisition of Hutchison Whampoa by Xiao Lizi in another time and space with the help of Shen Bi, and the acquisition of Wharf by the charter ship king that is really happening now, Shen Bi has made a great effort in it. In order to help the charter king successfully acquire the Wharf, he resisted the pressure of Jardine Matheson and the board of directors and gathered more than one billion funds to lend to the charter king.

The purpose is to win over Chinese business capital.

And Shen Bi's move was indeed the right one.

In the early 70s and 80s, known as the era of HSBC Shen Bi, Chinese businessmen gradually controlled Hong Kong's economy, and Shen Bi was undoubtedly an important driving force behind the Chinese economy in Hong Kong, and also achieved ordinary people's affection for HSBC.

More than a decade later, many people regard HSBC shares as a feeling, buying shares as a gift, and passing them on to the next generation like a family heirloom.

Unfortunately, this is just wishful thinking on the part of most people, HSBC's original intention has never been to support Chinese businessmen, Shen Bi himself educated his subordinates: "Two boats, one is British-owned and the other is Chinese-owned." Whoever it is, we're definitely going to keep going on that safer boat. ”

From this point, it can be seen that Shen Bi, an Englishman who is familiar with the world of Hong Kong, is a very successful banker and speculator, and never runs a bank with a trace of personal feelings. So for Shen Bi and HSBC, for the sake of money and safety, they can do whatever it takes.

This is not difficult to explain Xiao Li, who can urinate in a pot with Shen Bi, and say the phrase "in business".

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Time is like an arrow, the sun and the moon are like a shuttle.

In the blink of an eye, a week passed quietly, during which Huo Yaowen sent the fifth part of the finished "Game of Thrones" to Litu in the United Kingdom. Let Litu help organize the manuscript and publish it in various countries.

Speaking of "Game of Thrones", after seven or eight years, it has been translated into more than 30 languages and published in more than 100 countries, and the four works have broken the sales record of fantasy works set by "The Lord of the Rings Trilogy" as early as the beginning of this year, and have risen to an astonishing sales of 400 million copies.

Under the operation of Fok Yaowen Huanyu Group and the British Egyptian Book Dealer Manager Company, "Game of Thrones" has gradually derived from comics, broadcasting, stage plays, etc.

As for film and television, the British BBC TV station recently intends to obtain the TV series adaptation rights of this book, and wants to shoot a TV series "Game of Thrones".

It's just that like "The Lord of the Rings", the fantasy and huge war scenes in it are not possible with today's special effects technology. Even if "Game of Thrones" has a lot less fantasy factors than "The Lord of the Rings", and there are a lot more plots of the change of kingship, it is still unattainable by current technology.

So BBC TV just proposed it, and Huo Yaowen directly rejected it after knowing it. Don't look at the BBC, which has always been known for its sophistication and rigor, but when it comes to making films, their strength is documentaries.

There is only one month left before Christmas, and the Huo family has never been able to use this festival in the past, but Anna is an authentic British, and the family has gradually become accustomed to this festival in recent years.

This Christmas is different from previous years, Anna's mother, Lady Michelle, has flown in from England, and since Mary reunited with her first love, Lady Michelle, has often lived alone in the home of Notda.

Anna couldn't bear to see her mother alone in England, so she called Mrs. Michelle to come to Hong Kong for Christmas.

Looking at Mrs. Michelle, who was chatting warmly with Grandma not far away, Anna turned her head to look at Huo Yaowen and asked, "Honey, how about you say I let my mother settle in Hong Kong?"

"Didn't Mrs. Michelle be reluctant before?" Huo Yaowen glanced at his wife, he had discussed this matter with Anna a long time ago, and had also communicated with Mrs. Michelle, but the old British lady was very stubborn at the time and did not agree.

Anna shook her head, "That was before. Ever since Mary and Qi Dezun were together, her mother was often alone at home, and she was getting older, although Mary still lived with her mother, I think it would not be long before she moved in with Qi Dezun. ”

Huo Yaowen nodded and responded: "It's naturally good that Mrs. Michelle can come, and you can tell her about it in private later, it's not very reassuring for her to be alone in the UK." ”

"Well, I'll talk to my mother. Anna nodded earnestly, for in the past two days she had noticed that Mrs. Michelle, whom she had not seen for months, had aged a lot, and although she knew that her mother was reluctant to live with them, she still wanted her to stay.

"Jingle Bell ......"

Suddenly, the phone rang in a hurry.

Huo Chengcai, who was closest to the telephone, got up and walked over to pick it up, and after listening for a while, he shouted to Huo Yaowen: "Yaowen, I am calling for you." ”

Hearing this, Huo Yaowen walked over quickly, picked up the phone and said, "Hey, side." ”

"Boss, it's me. Davide!" On the other end of the phone, Davide's voice rang from far away in the United States.

As soon as he heard that it was Davide, Huo Yaowen's heart twitched, and his brows tightened: "What's wrong?

"Nothing went wrong, that's great news!"

Davide was a little excited, and his speech was a little incoherent, but under Huo Yaowen's patient listening, he also understood that the "Iran-Iraq War" in the Middle East, after small-scale friction in October, finally officially started in early November, that is, yesterday.

Rak was the first to invade the eastern part of Aaron!

The price of international crude oil suddenly soared from about $15 to $20 on the same day, and even international crude oil futures also rose sharply.

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