"Oh, borrow money from me?!" Lin Cheng was a little surprised: "In this era of rampant financial crisis, why did Li Sheng conclude that I still have surplus funds, but I don't know that the landlord's family has no surplus grain!"

Li Chaoren smiled mysteriously: "Lin Sheng, don't talk in front of real people, you have always given people the feeling of being a bamboo in your chest, no matter what kind of pressure you face, you are indifferent, this is clearly an external manifestation of having food in your hand and not panicking in your heart."

And some time ago, I would rather pour tea and admit my mistakes to you, a junior, as an elder, do I really think I'm afraid of you?!

No, when it comes to the status of you and me today, everything we do is only based on success or failure, regardless of right or wrong.

The reason why I bowed my head to you was not because I thought it was wrong for Xiaochao to take the initiative to provoke you, but because he lost to you, and in addition, your age and your depth made me feel terrified, so I simply admitted defeat. ”

"Only talk about success or failure, regardless of right or wrong!" Lin Cheng savored this sentence carefully, and had to admit that he had learned a little bit of true skill from what Li Chaoren said.

This sentence is very similar to Cao Cao's saying "I would rather bear others than others bear me", and Li Chaoren said it so frankly! How domineering!

What is a Hero?

This is the one in front of you!

Of course, the reason why Li Chaoren has been undefeated in the mall almost all his life, in addition to his heroic posture, his ability to recognize people and judge the situation is top-notch, which can be seen from seeing him take the initiative to admit defeat to Lin Cheng.

Since Li Chaoren is outspoken, Lin Cheng is not pretentious, he said bluntly: "Li Sheng, with all due respect, in times of economic crisis, it is a truth that women and children know that money is king, if I have funds, why don't I keep them for my own use, but lend them to you?"

Li Chaoren is cunning and cunning, as soon as he heard Lin Cheng's words, he knew that there was a way to borrow money, and Lin Cheng's gesture of refusing was just to bargain.

So he said: "Lin Sheng, Ming people don't say secret words, if you mention any conditions, as long as it is within a reasonable range, I will try my best to meet them." ”

Li Chaoren has been in shopping malls for decades, and naturally knows that after the economic crisis, it is a great opportunity to expand the business territory.

Why?

After the economic crisis, a large number of very promising companies will fall into the predicament of being short of funds and unsustainable, and this is a godsend opportunity for big fish to swallow small fish, and big enterprises to swallow up small enterprises.

The Cheung Kong and Hutchison groups under his control grew rapidly after the economic crisis.

The reason why Li Chaoren borrowed money from Lin Cheng was, first, that he saw the opportunity to fall into the well and took advantage of the disastrous defeat of Soros to ruthlessly cut off a piece of meat on the international speculators; second, after surviving the crisis, he immediately launched an acquisition of the company he was optimistic about, and implemented the move of swallowing small fish by big fish.

As everyone knows, Lin Cheng also has exactly the same idea as Li Chaoren, but everything is negotiable, and Li Chaoren has a gold mine that Lin Cheng is extremely envious of.

So Lin Cheng opened his mouth and said, "I want some shares of Li Sheng." ”

"Impossible!" When it came to shares, Li Chaoren did not hesitate and categorically refused.

Whether it is Changshi or Hutchison, it is the lifeblood of Li Chaoren, and he will never let Lin Cheng, an extremely dangerous guy, get involved.

"Li Sheng, you can listen to me first. Lin Cheng smiled: "The shares I want are neither Cheung Kong nor Hutchison's shares, but the shares of Orange Telecom in the United Kingdom." ”

"Orange Telecom?!" Lin Cheng didn't mention this company, and Li Chaoren almost forgot about it.

Why did Lin Cheng have to take a stake in Orange Telecom?

This is about to be mentioned in the case of Vodafone's acquisition of Mannesman, which is known as the acquisition of the century.

In 1999, the British Vodafone Group acquired the German Mannesmann Group, which can be called the acquisition of the century. The process is magnificent, the peaks and loops are turning, and it is amazing.

Vodafone Group was founded in 1984, focusing on the telecommunications industry, while Mannesmann is a veteran German consortium, founded in 1890, with a strong industrial foundation, including the leading metallurgical equipment company Demark, and the hydraulic equipment leading enterprise Rexroth.

In front of Mannesman, Vodafone is just a hairy boy who has not dried up.

Mannesmann entered the telecom operations industry in 1990 with the acquisition of Deutsche Telekom, and in 1999 he competed with Vodafone for Orange Telecom, the third largest mobile phone operator in the United Kingdom, at a cost of 32.8 billion euros, beating Vodafone.

In order to recapture Orange, Vodafone in Britain even proposed to buy Mannesman as a whole.

Although he lost to Mannesman in the bid for Orange, Vodafone couldn't swallow this breath, and then did not stop doing it, and in order to get Orange, he actually launched a hostile takeover of Mannesman.

Of course, although the battle between Vodafone and Mannesman was extremely exciting, after the completion of the merger and acquisition, everyone was shocked to realize that the biggest winner of this merger and acquisition case was not Vodafone, which achieved the snake swallowing elephant, but Li Chaoren, who sold the shares of Orange Telecom.

In 1993, Hutchison invested HK$8.4 billion in the UK to set up Orange, a telecommunications business, and a few years later, the global telecommunications and Internet boom made Orange highly valuated.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Li Chaoren sold his shares to Mannesmann of Germany at a price of 118 billion Hong Kong dollars, and made a profit of more than 100 billion Hong Kong dollars in one fell swoop. And Li Chaoren's negotiations with Germany's Mannesmann took only 7 days.

Afterwards, the Hong Kong media relished: Li Chaoren "sold oranges for 100 billion" and "100 billion in seven days", which put Li Chaoren on the altar.

As a reborn, Lin Cheng naturally knows this allusion, if Li Chaoren is in urgent need of money at this time, why not do it?

Li Chaoren hesitated, although Orange shares are just a chess piece he laid out for the future popularity of electronic technology, but what does Lin Cheng want Orange shares to do?

Does he want to enter the European telecommunications market?!

"Li Sheng, make a price, what is the value of the Orange shares in your hand?" Lin Cheng saw Li Chaoren hesitate and urged casually.

Li Chaoren didn't understand and asked: "Lin Sheng, forgive me for taking the liberty of taking the liberty of what do you want Orange shares for?"

Lin Cheng smiled: "What else can this be, of course, it is for investment, I am optimistic that telecommunications will be hot in the next few years, so I want to invest in telecommunications shares and wait for appreciation." ”

Lin Cheng could see that if he lied to Li Chaoren, he would definitely see the clues, so it was better to be frank with him and admit that the acquisition of Orange shares was to make a lot of money.

Li Chaoren was relieved to see that Lin Cheng didn't look like a lie, it seems that Lin Cheng is just making investments, not to enter the telecommunications market, so Orange shares can be sold to Lin Cheng.

Of course, Li Chaoren will not let himself suffer in terms of price, he directly opened his mouth: "I own 45% of the shares of Orange Telecom, and I will sell it to you for 20 billion Hong Kong dollars, how about it?"

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