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"Father-in-law, it's not good!"

Wu Guangzheng trotted all the way into the chairman's office, knocked on the door and saw the charter king for the first time, he immediately shouted urgently: "Father-in-law, I just received the news that Jardine Matheson Co., Ltd. is recovering Wharf shares at a price of 90 yuan per share. ”

"It's 90!" The charter king frowned, and the right hand holding the pen was clenched into a fist.

It's just that the charter king never expected that Jardine would be 90 yuan per share as soon as he made a move, and this price may make many people tempted. After all, the takeover war has been deadlocked for several months, and those major speculative companies that want to make a profit from it may have long run out of patience and must want to sell as soon as possible to get out.

"What should we do now, father-in-law, should we also raise the price to buy. Wu Guangzheng is very aware of his father-in-law's eagerness for Wharf, once the acquisition of Jardine Matheson is successful, so much of a long-term plan will come to naught!

You must know that in the past two years, the global shipping of the charter ship king has been reducing its holdings of large and small oil tankers, and there are only twenty or thirty cargo ships left after selling it now.

Hearing Wu Guangzheng's words, although the charter king was also very worried, after all, he had been fighting in the business sea for decades, and he was much calmer than his son-in-law, and his face remained calm and indifferent at this time.

Because the charter king knows that panic will not solve any trouble, but will put himself in trouble.

After pondering for a long time, when Wu Guangzheng was a little impatient and wanted to continue to ask, the charter king suddenly asked: "Guangzheng, are you sure that Jardine Matheson will take back the shares of Wharf at a price of 90 yuan per share?"

"Sure ......"

Just wanted to say that he was sure, but Wu Guangzheng suddenly paused, and he didn't say a word of certainty. Although Jardine Matheson did announce that it would be recovered at a price of 90 yuan per share, it did not seem to explain that it would be used in cash.

From Wu Guangzheng's hesitant face, he saw a trace of uncertainty, and hurriedly asked, "Is it that the people of Jardine did not say that they used cash?"

Wu Guangzheng thought about it carefully, nodded and said, "Yes, father-in-law, Jardine doesn't seem to say that it will be recovered with cash." ”

"Hehe......" When he heard that it was not in cash, the charter king breathed a sigh of relief, sat on the chair, and sneered: "I said how could Jardine Matheson be willing to recycle the shares of Wharf at such a high price, and it turned out that it was still under the idea of exchanging shares for shares." ”

"Shares for shares?" Wu Guangzheng immediately thought of Sir Zhou's Milk Company in 73, "Father-in-law, do you mean that Jardine Matheson wants to exchange Jardine Matheson shares for Wharf shares just like Sir Zhou's Dairy International Company acquired a few years ago?"

"How could it be Jardine shares. I think it should still be Hongkong Land stock, after all, Wharf is affiliated with Hongkong Land. ”

The charter king knew very well in his heart that Jardine Matheson stock was the lifeblood of Jardine Matheson, how could he be willing to exchange it.

After his father-in-law's analysis, Wu Guangzheng also relaxed a lot and said: "If Jardine Matheson really wants to exchange land shares for Kowloon shares, I don't think anyone will change them." Everyone should still remember that in 73 years, Jardine Matheson exchanged Hongkong shares for Sir Chow's Dairy Company shares, but it made shareholders lose a lot and was the culprit who indirectly induced the stock market crash. ”

"It's hard to say. ”

Although the charter king has the same idea as his son-in-law, no one can understand the psychology of people.

Wu Guangzheng asked, "Then father-in-law, what do you mean?"

The charter king thought for a while and said: "You find out as soon as possible whether Jardine Matheson is exchanging land shares for Kowloon shares, if so, you will directly announce to the outside world that we will buy it at a price of 95 yuan per share, and explain that it is to give cash!"

"Yes!"

After a while, after Wu Guangzheng went out, the charter king looked at the closed door, pondered for a long time, and decided that the problem of the Wharf must be solved as soon as possible, otherwise it will be himself who will lose if it continues to drag on.

Thinking of this, the charter boat king picked up the telephone on the desk, took out a phone book, and called according to the number on it.

It didn't take long for a familiar voice to be heard from the other end.

"Hey?"

The charter boat king laughed and said, "Huo Sheng is me." ”

……

The next morning, Huo Yaowen took a few bodyguards and Yin Wenyao to the Global Shipping Company.

When Huo Yaowen entered the office, the charter boat king did not rush to get down to business, but pulled him to sit in the rest area, but he was not in a hurry to make kung fu tea.

After a while, the charter boat king handed the teacup to Huo Yaowen: "Huo Sheng taste the kung fu tea I made." ”

Taking the small teacup, Huo Yaowen glanced at the Pu'er cake on the coffee table, and said with a smile: "I didn't expect Mr. Bao to also like to drink Pu'er Kung Fu Tea." ”

The charter king laughed and said, "When people are old, they like to do some laborious work of grinding foreign workers." In the past, I didn't like to drink kung fu tea, I hated that it was too troublesome to make, and there was a lot of attention in it, but since I learned it, it is also a lot of fun to calm down and make kung fu tea. ”

Don't look at the benevolent eyes of the chartered ship now, others think it is a simple old man at a glance, but in fact, none of the people who are engaged in shipping are simple.

Not to mention the charter king, a world-class "ship king" who started from scratch step by step in the 50s. Therefore, some elderly business tycoons in Hong Kong know that the charter boat king was very hot-tempered when he was young.

Huo Yaowen listened to the words of the charter boat king, and drank less than two taels of tea in the small teacup.

After the other party finished speaking, the corner of his mouth smiled slightly: "My father has been obsessed with kung fu tea recently, and when I was at home, I was often pulled by him to study how to make kung fu tea." ”

"Yes, it seems that I am going to visit Ling Zun in Huo Sheng's Mansion when I have time, and learn how to make this kung fu tea with him. ”

While speaking, the charter boat king picked up the small pot on the tea stove and filled Huo Yaowen with tea.

After it was full, he smiled and asked, "Huo Sheng, how does my kung fu tea taste?"

"Great! This must be some years old, right?"

Huo Yaowen gave a thumbs up and said: "Although I don't know kung fu tea, but when I drank the kung fu tea made by Mr. Bao, not only did I not drink a trace of the peculiar smell of old tea, but I felt the fragrance of new tea, which can be described as fragrant on my lips and teeth!"

"Haha, Huo Sheng, you still say that you don't understand tea? You can even taste old tea and new tea, this is not like a person who doesn't understand at all. ”

"I really don't understand it at all, mainly because I recently drank tea with my father at home. ”

Huo Yaowen shook his head and smiled, "My father bought an old Pu'er tea cake not long ago, and he took out the new tea cake to compare the taste. That's why I can drink the difference in one sip, and I think that in a few days, Mr. Bao will let me taste it again, I'm afraid I won't be able to tell the difference between the new and the old. ”

Last month, Huo Chengcai, who was almost 60 years old, officially retired, and more than a dozen Chengcai bookstores that were opened in this year were handed over to Yaowen Book Publishing Company to be responsible for operation. When he had nothing to do, he became obsessed with kung fu tea, and in addition to teasing his grandchildren at home on weekdays, he was delving into the study of kung fu tea.

"Then it seems that Mr. Huo is still very talented, I can't do it, when I first learned, I drank it for more than a month and couldn't tell the difference between good and bad tea. ”

“……”

The two chatted for more than half an hour.

Huo Yaowen knew that the charter ship king was grinding time, in order to let himself take the initiative, so that he could wait to discuss the acquisition.

But Huo Yaowen is not in a hurry, almost sixty or seventy percent of the more than 10 million Wharf shares in his hand were acquired last year. At that time, the price was not high, only about 20 yuan per share, even if you count the high-priced acquisitions this year, all of them add up to five or six billion.

The conversion of five or six billion Hong Kong dollars into US dollars is also about 100 million US dollars, but he does not lack this for Huo Yaowen at present.

After a long while, the charter king saw that Huo Yaowen was still talking and laughing with him, without any eagerness and anxiety, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart that the future was terrifying.

Since Huo Yaowen didn't take the initiative, the charter boat king didn't continue to sit firmly on the fish platform, and after talking about the common thing again, he suddenly said: "I don't know what Huo Sheng is thinking about?"

Seeing that the other party finally spoke, Huo Yaowen breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "Mr. Bao, in fact, when you called me yesterday to ask me to come over, someone from Jardine Matheson also approached me and wanted to buy the Wharf shares in my hand, and it was purchased at 90 yuan per share in cash. ”

The charter king was startled at first, and then when he heard that Jardine Matheson was buying it at a price of 90 yuan per share, he laughed and said, "It seems that Jardine Matheson also knows that exchanging stocks for shares will not work on Huo Sheng." ”

"That's it, Huo Sheng, I won't let you suffer, I'm willing to buy Huo Sheng's Wharf shares for 100 yuan per share. ”

"Mr. Bao, are you sure it's 100 per share? ”

"No matter how much, I'll take it all!"

The charter king doesn't know how many shares Huo Yaowen has in his hands, but the people below analyze that he should hold at least a few million shares.

"Mr. Bao, you have to think about it carefully, I have 12 million shares in my hands. "100 yuan per share, to be honest, Huo Yaowen is very tempted, as long as he sells it, it will be 1.2 billion, and he can easily earn 6 or 7 billion yuan after removing the cost of the original acquisition.

12 million!

Hearing that there were so many, the charter king was surprised: "I didn't expect Huo Sheng to have so many stocks in his hands! It seems that Huo Sheng has swept away all the scattered stocks on the market." ”

"Pretty much. ”

Huo Yaowen did not say that he started to acquire it slowly last year.

"12 million shares ......"

The charter king hesitated for a moment in his heart, he now has only more than 2 billion funds in his hands, and all of them have received the shares in Huo Yaowen's hands at once, although he can increase his holdings in the Wharf to about 37%, but the charter king is afraid that Jardine Matheson will have a backhand, after all, there are still a lot of Wharf stocks scattered outside.

However, hesitation is not the character of the charter king, and the thought of being able to directly take 12 million shares will be greatly beneficial to his full acquisition of Wharf shares later, and he was just about to agree to receive them all.

I heard Huo Yaowen say: "Mr. Bao, I know that the funds you have raised are only more than two billion, and taking out half of them at once may be a bit unfavorable to the subsequent acquisition, so we can change the way of cooperation." ”

"A different way of working together?"

The charter king's eyes were dumbfounded, and he couldn't figure out Huo Yaowen's intentions, so he thought for a while and said, "I don't know what it means to change the way of cooperation?" ”

Huo Yaowen's eyes were like torches, staring at the face of the charter boat king seriously, and said word by word: "I want to invest in HSBC!"

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