Chapter 488: Panicked

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This person's appearance is somewhat similar to Zhao Defang, but the expression on his face at the moment is very urgent. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Under everyone's attention, the young man hurriedly walked to Zhao Defang's side and whispered a few words in his ear. After the other party finished speaking, although Zhao Defang's expression was still calm, Tony Song Pashan on the other side found that his pupils instantly constricted.

"Mr. Tony, I'm really sorry, I have some things to deal with here temporarily, I'm afraid I can't continue to accompany you!"

"It's okay! Mr. Zhao is busy beforehand! It just so happens that I haven't walked around in Hong Kong this time. ”

Tony Songpashan laughed.

The business has been mixed for a long time, and they have all become human spirits. After seeing the urgency in Zhao Defang's heart, he also didn't ask, and cooperated to say goodbye.

"I asked Mr. Li to be your guide, he is a native of Hong Kong and is very familiar with this place!"

"Then it's troublesome Mr. Li!"

Originally sitting on Zhao Defang's left hand side, a middle-aged man in his forties with gold-rimmed glasses smiled and nodded, "Mr. Tony is polite, please!"

"Mr. Zhao, then I'll leave first!"

Zhao Defang smiled and nodded, "Mr. Tony, go slowly!"

Watching the other party walk out of the conference room with his entourage, and then his own trusted bodyguards closed the door, Zhao Defang's face, who was originally smiling, instantly became solemn.

"What you say is true?"

"Father, how can I joke about this kind of thing!" Zhao Zhuowen, who looked anxious, hurriedly picked up the computer he was carrying, put it on the table next to him, opened it, and found the curve chart of the Wharf Group in the Hong Kong stock market as quickly as possible!

From the above, it can be clearly seen that the share price of Wharf Group has been rising in the last two days. It's not a lot, but the upward momentum is very clear.

"I have already asked, in the past two days, Wang Zheng's Times Group has been eating a large amount of shares of Wharf Group in the secondary market, and now the equity in his hands has reached 20%!"

"Wang Zheng!" Zhao Defang's expression turned cold.

"That's right. Father, you may want to hurry up and get an idea. Otherwise, it's too late, and the Wharf Group will be someone else!" Zhao Zhuowen hurriedly said.

"Don't panic, we have 45% of Wharf's shares, far more than him. As long as you acquire another 5.1% of the shares from the secondary market, you can get a controlling stake and become invincible!"

"But father, there are no Wharf stocks in the secondary market now!" Zhao Zhuowen said anxiously.

"What did you say?" Zhao Defang's heart shook violently, and he grabbed his son's shoulder, and there was no previous calmness in his expression, "What you said is true?"

Zhao Zhuowen nodded hurriedly, "Previously, when I found out that Times Group had bought the shares of Wharf Group in a big way, I wanted to get a controlling stake in front of him, but when I was ready to enter the market, I found that there was no longer a stock of Wharf in the stock market!"

"Who is in the hands of the group's shares now?" Zhao Defang hurriedly said.

These days, his focus is all on East West Bank, and the occasional extra energy is also paying attention to Wang Zheng's movements, afraid that he will find trouble for himself again. Therefore, there is less attention to the Defond Group and its subsidiaries, including Wharf.

"In addition to the 45% we have, Wang Zheng's 20.1%, and HSBC has 7.8%, Henderson Land, Swire Hong Kong, Hang Seng Bank, Oriental Bank, Standard Chartered, Jardine Matheson, and MTR Corporation each hold about 2.8% of the shares, and the remaining 7.2% is in the hands of some retail investors!"

"Henderson Land, Swire Hong Kong, Hang Seng Bank, Oriental Bank, Standard Chartered...!" Thinking about the giant companies in the Hong Kong stock market, Zhao Defang intuitively felt a chaotic and huge black curtain enveloping him, "Why didn't you tell me these things before?"

Looking at the anger on his father's face, Zhao Zhuowen was also bitter in his heart, "Only 3% of the shares need to be notified to the board of directors, and the shareholding of these companies is basically less than 3%, they are all 2.5%, or 2.8%. Even, if it weren't for the fact that Times Group ate too many Wharf shares at once, so that we were aware of it, I am afraid we would still be kept in the dark. ”

"Smack!"

In anger, Zhao Defang slapped Zhao Zhuowen in the face, "What did I tell you when I handed over the company to you." Let you be careful of Wang Zheng, be careful of Wang Zheng, you just won't listen. As a result, now that things are out of control, I remembered to look for me, why did you go earlier?"

Zhao Zhuowen covered his face, full of grievances, "Dad, I can't be blamed for this matter." If you hadn't sold 15% of the group's shares to Wang Zheng, we wouldn't be in the predicament we are in now. ”

"What do you know, if we don't sell the stock, where are we going to raise money to buy East West Bank?" After Zhao Defang, who was full of emotion, finished speaking, he looked at his son, and he was angry. I want him to be a hero, but unfortunately he gave birth to two sons, one of whom has mental defects since he was a child, and the other is a normal person, but his business talent is average. On the contrary, the daughter is better than the two older brothers.

But a daughter is not a son after all. From his attitude towards Yu Yixue, it can be seen that Zhao Defang is indifferent to his daughter.

"You immediately call Wang Dongsheng of HSBC for me, and say that tonight, no, invite him to dinner at the Peninsula Hotel this afternoon!" Zhao Defang commanded very quickly after forcing himself to calm down.

"Dad, why don't you contact the Bank of East Asia and Jardine Matheson Group first, we don't usually have a very good relationship with them?"

"Use your brains!" "Use your brains!" after glaring at his son, "If you look at the holdings of these guys, each of them is only 3%, which is obviously speculation, not a normal investment." Go to them and nothing will come of it at all. Moreover, these bastards have less than 3% of the equity in each company, and even if we spend time acquiring it, it will not be enough for us to get a controlling stake. Instead of wasting time, it is better to go directly to Wang Dongsheng, as long as we get 7.8% in the hands of HSBC, we can be invincible!"

"Dad, you're still wise!" Zhao Zhuowen hurriedly complimented.

Zhao Defang didn't seem to hear his words, but his expression was full of nervousness, "I hope Wang Zheng hasn't had time to get the 7.8% equity of Wharf yet!"

"Ding Dong...!"

As soon as Zhao Defang's words fell, a crisp prompt sound sounded in his ears. The two subconsciously turned their heads together and looked at the lower right corner of the computer screen, only to see a news pop-up window in front of them.

The headline of the news shocked the father and son after reading it, and they didn't need to be instructed, Zhao Zhuowen, who looked panicked, had already hurriedly clicked on the pop-up window.

Immediately, a news headline titled 'Hong Kong blue-chip Wharf Group is about to change hands' appeared in front of the two.

Below the headline, Times Group bought a 7.8% stake in Hong Kong's HSBC for $1.8 billion. and acquired 19.8% of the shares of Wharf Group held by eight companies, including Henderson Land, Swire Hong Kong, Hang Seng Bank, Oriental Bank, Standard Chartered and Jardine Matheson, for US$4.4 billion!

At the end of the news, Times Group became the majority shareholder of Hong Kong's real estate flagship Wharf Group with a 47.8% stake, surpassing Defond Group's 45%, and announced that the old Hong Kong real estate company officially changed hands.

Looking at the on-site photos of the joint press conference of Times Group, HSBC, Henderson Development and other companies, as well as the lines of information with amazing words, Zhao Defang's father and son were cold in their hearts.

"Dad, it's impossible! Where did that person surnamed Wang get so much money to buy the group's shares?" Zhao Zhuowen panicked.

Zhao Defang, who looked gloomy, did not answer his son's question, and he also had certain doubts about Wang Zheng's source of funds.

Although during this time, the focus of his attention was mostly on East West Bank. But Wang Zheng's vigilance has never been relaxed, especially the flow of his funds.

He clearly knew that the 10 billion Huaxia coins he lent to Wang Zheng some time ago, as well as Wang Zheng's own reserves, were used to acquire the Golden Eagle Trading Group and the Intime Department Store Group.

What Zhao knows about the $2.04 billion he cashed out from East West Bank is that Wang Zheng used 1.7 billion of it to acquire properties in 27 large department stores and shopping malls in 18 cities on the mainland, as well as 15 large department stores in the mainland.

Only the 2.8% stake he recently sold and the $300 million he cashed out are still in his hands.

But even with the $300 million, plus the mortgage of his 15 percent stake in Wharf, the money he borrowed from the bank was not enough for him to buy 27.7 percent of the $6.2 billion Wharf Group.

"There must be someone behind him to help him!" Zhao Defang definitely thought that although he couldn't guess who it was, there were only a few people who had the ability to mobilize so many large groups in Hong Kong to help.

"Li Jiacheng, Li Zhaoji, or Zheng Yutong?"

Zhao Defang's brows furrowed into a small mountain, he really couldn't think of Wang Zheng, who had never been to Hong Kong before and had nothing to do with these local wealthy families in Hong Kong, how could he say that any of the three people could help?

But who are they?

"Knock knock!"

Just then, there was another knock on the door.

"Come in!"

As soon as Zhao Defang's words fell, a young secretary in his thirties pushed the door and walked in.

"Boss, just now Wang Kai, the president of Times Group, sent an invitation!"

"Who?"

Zhao Defang was shocked, and instantly said in surprise.

"The president of the Times Group!"

The secretary hurriedly said.

"Bring it to me!"

The secretary nodded, hurriedly trotted to Zhao Defang's side, and handed him the invitation.

Zhao Defang took it and opened it, and his eyes immediately narrowed.