There are always people who describe Lin Cheng as the lucky one who has been kissed by the goddess of luck.

But people's minds will soon change, people think that Lin Cheng was not only kissed by the goddess of luck, he was even slept with by the goddess of luck, otherwise how can he explain his luck.

As early as October 1999, the major shareholder of Orange Telecom sold 45% of its shares to the German industrial giant Mannesner AG to obtain 40 billion Hong Kong dollars in cash and 10% of Mannesner's shares with a market value of 78 billion Hong Kong dollars at that time.

More than 100 reporters gathered outside Li Chaoren's mansion in Repulse Bay to interview Li Chaoren and ask if the incident was true and whether Hutchison was the ultimate beneficiary of the "100 billion orange sales" incident.

Li Chaoren went out for an interview: "It is indeed true that 100 billion oranges are sold, but there is another person who sells oranges, not Hutchison." In order to defeat international speculators in the financial crisis, Hutchison sold Orange Telecom shares for 20 billion Hong Kong dollars as early as August 98. ”

The reporter hurriedly asked who the buyer was, but Li Chaoren sighed and said: "Hutchison signed a confidentiality agreement with the buyer, and I can't say who the buyer is, but when the time comes, the buyer will naturally appear consciously." ”

Li Chaoren's words are for the sake of it, and it is inconvenient for media reporters to ask them anymore, after all, anyone can see that Li Chaoren's mood is quite depressed.

That's right, Hutchison only spent US$500 million to acquire Orange Telecom at that time, but when it sold its shares, it recovered HK$20 billion, which is equivalent to nearly 4 billion to buy 20 billion to sell, and the difference was as high as HK$160.

But there is no harm if there is no comparison, compared to Lin Cheng's 20 billion Hong Kong dollars to buy 118 billion Hong Kong dollars and sell, Lin Cheng has made nearly 100 billion Hong Kong dollars as soon as he comes and goes, he is the biggest winner of the "100 billion orange sales" incident!

Thinking of the sale of orange shares to Lin Cheng from his own hands, Li Chaoren can't wait to turn back time, and he can go back to August 27, 1998, Li Chaoren will definitely refuse Lin Cheng's 20 billion Hong Kong dollars temptation in person.

But everything goes for now, Li Chaoren is not a person who can't afford to lose, and the sale of Orange shares has brought him a net income of 16 billion Hong Kong dollars.

He used this income to buy a large number of properties after the financial crisis, and the value of these properties will be even higher than the current 100 billion Hong Kong dollars in the future.

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At 10 o'clock in the morning of February 3, 2000, in London, England, Vodafone held a press conference that attracted worldwide attention, and Vodafone CEO Krijgent proudly announced to the world: Vodafone of Britain has reached an agreement on the acquisition of German Mannesnay Company, with an acquisition amount of up to 185 billion US dollars, which is the largest acquisition in human history so far. From then on, Vodafone UK will merge with Germany's Mannesnay.

The protracted "wolf dispute" between Vodafone and Mannesner has attracted the attention of the world's media as early as the end of last year, and its fuse is the British Orange Telecom.

Vodafone was a fledgling company compared to the German industrial giant Mannesne, founded in 1890, Vodafone was founded in the United Kingdom in 1985 and established the UK's first wireless analogue signal network that year, and two years later, Vodafone has been recognized as the world's largest mobile communications company.

In 1999, after more than 10 years of expansion, Vodafone has established its own power map in many countries around the world, including the United States imperialism, the world's largest power, but only the European continent has never been able to establish its own advantages.

The capture of the European market has become a problem for Vodafone, but the side of the couch does not allow others to snore, and Vodafone first extended its claws to the same home Orange telecommunications company.

However, to Vodafone's surprise, its claws have not yet reached the European continent, but the claws from the European continent have reached out to their own back garden.

In October 1999, Orange Telecom was acquired by the German company Mannesner for 32.8 billion euros.

Vodafone was so angry that in order to get Orange, it even had to swallow Mannesne's company in one gulp, and launched a hostile takeover of Mannesne's company, which opened the prelude to the "tiger and wolf dispute" that lasted for more than three months.

This acquisition war is known as the best acquisition war of the century, in order not to be said to be the number of water words, the process of the author will not be repeated, anyway, it can be described by "climax, wonderful" eight big words, the two sides have done their best to win the victory.

However, when a tiger and a wolf fought to the death, it was Lin Cheng, the largest individual shareholder of the Mannesne Company, who decided the final outcome.

After Lin Cheng returned to eastern Guangdong from Sichuan Province, he originally wanted to wait for the New Year in his hometown in Qingjiang, but after Vodafone CEO Christian found out that Lin Cheng was the largest shareholder of the Mannesne Company, he traveled thousands of miles and oceans, and on the afternoon of January 28, he personally drove to Lin Cheng's home in Qingjiang and launched a two-hour persuasion negotiation with Lin Cheng, so there was a scene that happened at 10 o'clock in the morning of February 3.

When Khrrigent announced to the world that Vodafone had successfully acquired the Mannesner Company, the world's media was in an uproar.

Although Vodafone was already the world's largest telecommunications service company at the time, it was still a drop in the bucket compared to the century-old giant Mannesne.

But everyone never expected that Vodafone, a little witch, would swallow an elephant and swallow Mannesne's big witch in one bite, and Mannesne, who had been established for 109 years, would end in such a way, which is really unbelievable.

But what is even more shocking is to come, when Krijgent announced the list of thanks, who is this Lin Cheng mentioned in the words?

All the reporters were puzzled, and it was said that Lin Cheng was the majority shareholder of Orange Telecom, and that he was also the mastermind behind the decision to sell Orange Telecom to Germany's Mannesne in October last year.

Now the mastermind behind the scenes has stepped in again, selling a 10.2% stake in Mannesner to Vodafone, making a profit of $18.5 billion.

Wait, after careful calculation, this Lin Cheng has already made a profit of $15 billion when he sold Orange shares, and now he has made a profit of $18.5 billion when he sells Mannesne shares, doesn't it mean that he has made a profit of $33.5 billion in these two transactions?!

After calculating Lin Cheng's income, there was an uproar at the scene, is this another miracle of wealth after Lin Cheng?!

So the question is, who is this Lin Cheng?

Fortunately, Krigent did not sell it again, and his next sentence was: "Mr. Lin Cheng, it is the Chinese Lin who ranked third on the Forbes list last year!"