At nine o'clock in the morning, at the table in the restaurant, Huo Yaowen was eating the eggs that Anna peeled for him, while reading today's newspaper. Not surprisingly, the front-page news of major newspapers is still dominated by the acquisition of Wharf by the charter ship king. However, this time the price is much higher than the previous two days, and Jardine Matheson has raised the price to 95 yuan.

Although it was not a cash payment, the exchange of Wharf shares for $95 worth of Hongkong shares still attracted a lot of attention. Seeing the volume of transactions in the newspaper, Huo Yaowen was very helpless, how could there be such a person who suffered losses and did not have a long memory.

In 73, Jardine Matheson also exchanged Hongkong Land shares for shares of the Dairy Farm Company, which led to Sir Zhou's loss of ancestral property, which led to the accelerated outbreak of the stock market crash, which caused countless shareholders to suffer heavy losses. Jumping off the building, suicide, and even the Kowloon Stock Exchange was bombed, how come such a big incident, only seven years have passed, and these people have forgotten it?

Shaking his head, Huo Yaowen really couldn't figure out the idea of these people who agreed to change shares, maybe they all made this decision with the idea of giving it a go.

It's a pity that in less than two years, after the Sino-British negotiations, Hongkong Real Estate will almost go bankrupt due to the plummeting property prices. Sooner or later, these people who agree to exchange land shares at this time will cry.

Huo Chengcai, who was sitting opposite at the moment, suddenly said, "Yaowen." ”

Huo Yaowen looked up, saw his father's thoughtful expression, and asked curiously, "What's the matter, Dad?"

Huo Chengcai looked at his son, and then glanced at Anna, who was sitting next to him and feeding Xiaobao Xiaohu, who wanted to speak and stopped, which made people tangled when they looked at it.

After a while, Huo Chengcai shook his head and said, "It's nothing, it's just that I received a letter from the mainland in the morning, and your third grandfather said that he wanted to send the two daughters of your fourth aunt's family to work in a food factory." ”

"Shuyi and Shufen?" Huo Yaowen raised his eyebrows, pondered for a moment, shook his head and said: "Shuyi and Shufen are still young, I feel that I should study for a few more years, even if I can't get into the university and get a junior college, it's not bad." ”

Grandma took over and said, "Your third grandfather also knows this, and the letter is very clear, he also wants these two girls to study for a few more years before considering work." It's just that Shuyi and Shufen can't study well, and your fourth aunt just saw that these two girls couldn't learn, so she asked the third grandfather to write a letter. ”

Can't learn it, this is a problem of personal qualifications, Huo Yaowen can't solve it, thinking that since the third grandfather wrote a letter, he must have considered it, thinking of this, he asked: "Have Shuyi and Shufen graduated from middle school?"

"No, I graduated from junior high school. ”

After Grandma finished speaking, she was afraid that Huo Yaowen would not understand what junior primary school was, so she explained: "Junior primary school is the graduation of primary school. ”

Don't look at just graduating from primary school, in fact, there are not many people who can complete the graduation of primary school in this era, if it weren't for the Huo family's early years, it can be regarded as a scholarly place, there are many elders in the family who have read books, and understand the importance of reading, I'm afraid these two girls haven't had the opportunity to study.

"Then let Shuyi and Shufen follow Yaoguang and Huiying to see the world. ”

Huo Yaowen thought about it, but still didn't agree to arrange jobs in the factory for his two cousins.

Don't look at Huo Yaowen's treatment of Zhongshan Food Factory is very good, the monthly expenses of 7788 can add up to 20 yuan, which is higher than the current salary of most people in China, but after all, there is no future.

It's better to let these two girls follow Huo Yaoguang and Huo Huiying to do chores, run errands, and see the world, and it's not too late to arrange any better work for them in the future.

"This is good, let Shuyi and Shufen run errands behind Yaoguang and do some light work. After listening to her grandson's words, Grandma was also very satisfied with Huo Yaowen's arrangement. My family is rich and rich, and I don't want to be able to make a fat difference for a few nephews and grandchildren, at least I should give a better errand.

"Well, Yaowen has arranged this, and I'll write back to my hometown later. Huo Chengcai didn't really want his niece to work in a food factory as an ordinary worker.

If this matter spreads, outsiders will not think about the reason, they will only think that Huo Chengcai's family is too harsh, and even their immediate family members are only arranged to be factory sisters in the factory, and I am afraid that this family will be more mean to others.

……

The days passed, and it was New Year's Day immediately after Christmas, and when Huo Yaowen's family was happily celebrating New Year's Day, the charter boat king finally couldn't resist the pressure, and asked Huo Yaowen out for tea again.

This time he made an appointment to drink tea, and the charter boat king did not want to grind Huo Yaowen's patience as before, and directly agreed to Huo Yaowen's previous cooperation method, and on the premise that the charter boat king helped Huo Yaowen become a director of HSBC, 12 million Wharf shares were included in the bag at the current price of 85.3 yuan.

Although this price is about 5 yuan higher than the price when Huo Yaowen proposed cooperation last month, but at this time, on the one hand, it is the urgency of the charter king, and on the other hand, the price of Wharf is rising too fast.

Jardine Matheson currently gives a 95 yuan share exchange plan, and the charter king has to buy Wharf shares at a cash price of 100 yuan.

In just one month, the purchase price given by the charter ship king soared from 90 yuan to 100 yuan, which seemed to be only an insignificant ten yuan, but this was not one share or two shares, but millions of shares.

With such a huge base, even if the purchase price is a dime more, it will cost millions of extra cash, not to mention ten more yuan at once, which will cost hundreds of millions of Hong Kong dollars, and the charter king really doesn't dare to continue to drag it out.

The eagerness of the charter king also caused the cooperation to be reached very quickly, and he communicated with Huo Yaowen on the same day, and arranged for a lawyer to draft the contract in the afternoon.

After the two parties read the contract and signed their respective names, the charter king directly called HSBC and asked them to directly transfer 1.0236 billion to Huo Yaowen's private account.

"Huo Sheng, my company still has something to do, so I won't drink tea with you much. No matter when you start your action, call me at any time. ”

got the 12 million shares in Huo Yaowen's hands, and the charter king was in a hurry to go back to do the final finishing work of the acquisition of Wharf.

"Okay. ”

Now is not the time to talk about taking a stake in HSBC, now the charter king is in a hurry to go back to deal with the follow-up matters of the Wharf, and Huo Yaowen is impossible to get in the way at this time, so he got up and shook hands with the charter king to say goodbye, before parting, he smiled and said: "Mr. Bao, the junior here wishes you smooth sailing in advance, take the Wharf as soon as possible, rub these British-funded foreign firms, and promote the prestige of my Chinese businessmen!"

"Haha, if it weren't for Huo Sheng's help, I'm afraid I would have been dragged to death by Zhidi. When I buy Wharf, I will invite Huo Sheng to drink. The charter king laughed heartily, with these 12 million shares, he was full of confidence in the acquisition of Wharf.

"It's easy to say, it's easy to say. ”

After a while, Huo Yaowen watched the charter boat king leave in a hurry. In my heart, I was thinking about how to invest in HSBC, knowing that the "HSBC Regulations" stipulate that "no single shareholder shall be allowed to hold more than 1% of the capital".

However, this ordinance is not absolute, and it is followed by a paragraph: "No person shall at any time be entitled to register holders of more than 1 per cent of the then issued capital, nor to have more than 1 per cent of the then issued capital, except with the approval of the Board of Directors, and the Board of Directors may, at any time, require any shareholder to make a statutory declaration or produce such other evidence as may be sufficient to establish that the shareholder has complied with the provisions of this Article." ”

To put it simply, the meaning of the "HSBC Ordinance" is that a single shareholder cannot hold more than 1% of the shares, and if you want to exceed this limit, you must obtain the consent of the board of directors.

This is also one of the reasons why Huo Yaowen found the king of chartered boats.

Subsequently, Fok Yaowen will contact a few more HSBC directors who can cooperate, so that he can become a shareholder of HSBC in the future and will not be restricted by the board of directors because of this regulation.

……

January 11, 1980.

The "Wharf War", an acquisition war that has lasted for more than half a year, has gradually come to an end. When the charter king acquired another 12 million shares of Huo Yaowen, and contacted several small shareholders of Wharf to increase their holdings of Wharf shares to 45%, Jardine Matheson saw that the general trend had gone, so they simply packaged all the 21% shares they held and sold them to the charter king at a price of 1.2 billion.

At this point, the sensational "Wharf acquisition war" in Hong Kong has officially come to an end.

The Hong Kong Observer gave this headline on the front page of its latest issue: "Raising 2 billion yuan in the middle of talking and laughing, the world's ship king will finally win Wharf!"

For a time, ordinary people have been proud of the feat of charter ship king's acquisition of the British-funded Wharf, which lasted for more than half a year, it can be said that it is not only the open and secret battle between the two sides of the acquisition, which is thrilling The outside world naturally does not know, but the first impression and idea of Hong Kong ordinary people on this acquisition war, that is, the charter ship king succeeded!

The successful acquisition of Wharf, a subsidiary of Jardine Matheson, was successful, and even though it paid a huge price, this battle completely opened the fig leaf of the British-funded foreign firms that had been declining day by day.

At this moment, Chinese businessmen and even ordinary people finally understand that the British-funded foreign firms that once dominated Hong Kong for a hundred years have begun to sunset, just like their motherland.

A new light is rising in the east.

As the "Oriental Daily", which has always liked to advocate for his boss, naturally did not let go of this good opportunity, Li Daoguang hurriedly found a writer who was proficient in the way of touting, and wrote an article that even Huo Yaowen blushed when he looked at it.

"If the charter king spent more than 2 billion Hong Kong dollars to acquire Wharf, a subsidiary of Hongkong Land, it is a fig leaf for Jardine Matheson, one of the four major British foreign companies.

So five years ago, Mr. Fok Yiu-man, chairman of Huanyu Group, spent a lot of money to become the largest shareholder of Hutchison & Co. in one fell swoop, and even incorporated the century-old Whampoa Dockyard into Hutchison & Co. and renamed it Hutchison Whampoa, a feat that can be said to have completely ended the era of the four major oceanic companies that monopolized Hong Kong for a hundred years.

I think that if someone wants to write a book about the history of Hong Kong in the future, there can be no politicians, there can be no business tycoons, but there must be Fok Yiu-man and the charter king.

Because of these two people, one ended the era of the four major ocean banks, and the other opened the last fig leaf of British capital. These two people completely announced the inevitable decline of British-funded foreign banks, and at the same time blew the clarion call for the rise of Chinese commercial capital!

In this magnificent era, it is full of confusion and distress about the unknown, but no matter what, you and I are lucky, because we have all witnessed this feat that will change the direction of Hong Kong's destiny in the future!"

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