Chapter 373: Ready
Between April and July of '86, there was a very big event, and the end result even affected the global financial industry, at least the Asian financial industry, and even the British royal family was shocked.
Standard Chartered Bank has a history of more than 100 years and is a leading large banking group in the global financial industry, that is, the famous Macquarie Bank during the Republic of China. After the merger with the British Standard Bank in '69, the South African Standard Bank, the largest in Africa, was also swallowed up.
By the 80s, Standard Chartered had become a giant international bank spanning Asia and Europe, linking Africa through the Middle East and the Mediterranean, and playing a pivotal role in the global financial market. In particular, its precious metals trading division, Scotia-Mocatta, is among the best in the metals futures and spot trading markets.
At the same time, the bank has also focused its efforts and business on Asia and Africa, and has continued to expand through Standard Chartered Bank, which is centered in Hong Kong, and Standard Bank, which is centered in South Africa, and which provide more than 90% of Standard Chartered Bank's benefits every year.
As we all know, the expansion and expansion of the financial industry is completed in the continuous annexation and acquisition, Standard Chartered Bank has been exhibited for more than a century, and there are no longer a few companies that have been annexed and acquired by it, and it is inevitable that it will be acquired.
In 86, another large financial group from the United Kingdom, also with a history of more than 100 years, launched an acquisition of Standard Chartered Bank.
In the original history, this acquisition was called the "Standard Chartered Bank Acquisition War", in the face of a group of already crazy peers, Standard Chartered Bank spent three months in the storm, and even the British royal family could not do anything.
That was until the end of the Rice Bank's takeover. The battle took a turn for the worse, with Malaysian tycoon Khoo Teck Put, Hong Kong tycoon charter king, and Australian billionaire Robert Holmes joining forces to crush the Rice Bank takeover in the final days.
Yet the three tycoons did just that. It can't be just to help Standard Chartered Bank, as the saying goes, there is no lunch without money, right, and the coolies on the dock still have to be paid.
After the acquisition campaign is completely over, the three richest people have won nearly 40% of the shares of Standard Chartered Bank, especially Qiu Teck Pua's harvest is the most abundant, and one person has more than 20% of the shares.
Even so. The British royal family is already very happy, at least they didn't start a fire in their own backyard, and directly awarded the three rich men the Commander of the Order of the British Empire and the title of Honorary Sir Honor, which can be regarded as a reward for saving the face of the British royal family.
In Mo Fei's memory, there are very few memories of the financial wars between such groups. But I just remember this paragraph, if you don't seize such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, you won't be punished by heaven, doesn't it say that 'heaven will suffer a miracle if you take it'.
Participating in such a big event, of course, he will not learn from Lei Feng, he is even richer than the three rich people who sharpen their knives, and his plans are even more long-term.
In other words, this Standard Chartered Bank is also good. Whether it's a merged standard bank or not, it's not a good bird. Standard Chartered Bank is based in Asia, and there were many opium and war money in China back then, and many things that hurt nature and reason were the shadow of this bank; Standard Bank has branches in 18 countries in Europe, especially in South Africa, which can be said to be the undisputed leader of the financial industry.
has been in this era for so long, but it has long since lost the feeling of being a little empty when even a lyric was taken out, not to mention the people's fat and people's ointment squeezed by imperialism on the small partners in Asia, Africa and Latin America, the more it is deserved.
Given Mo Fei's general understanding of this acquisition station. and Dai Caishen's natural overall view of his own man in this kind of thing, the two quickly customized a series of plans.
According to the rhythm of the original history, the three richest people did not have the strength to work against Rice Bank when they got up in the morning, and the most important thing was that the money could not keep up, which was billions of pounds. It's not Japanese yen or Italian lira.
The reason why we waited until July when the Rice Bank block was about to close was to make a sudden move, first, to raise enough funds, and second, to have people who could be united, and the three tycoons were likely to be connected to each other in the middle.
Mo Fei and Dai Caishen's plan is to start building an account group for Standard Chartered Bank while Rice Bank has just started, the plate has not yet been firmly stepped on, and people from all walks of life in other aspects have not begun to work together, waiting for another step.
The real get-away meeting should start from the month. At that time, Rice Bank had advanced all the way to Rock, and there was already a sense of invincibility in the world, and it was the time when it was easy to meddle. Moreover, through a month of observation and drills, Dai Caishen was able to have an in-depth understanding of the methods of Rice Bank, and the team's execution and response methods could also be relatively perfect.
This operation is a combination of taking chestnuts in the fire and snatching food, and it has to bite a large piece of meat under the strict defense of the two major banking groups, the three tycoons, and people with lofty ideals from all sides. The three richest people can take nearly forty percent of the shares, and I believe that Rice Bank will not be less in their hands, and other participants in it also need to gain something, and the total shares of these three should be more than sixty percent.
Mo Fei didn't dare to have too high expectations, it was best to win the seat of the largest individual shareholder of Standard Chartered Bank, which originally belonged to Qiu Depu, and it would be very good to be able to get more than 10% of the shares if he was at the first level, these are not outside the frame in Dai Mozhen's opinion, otherwise wouldn't he underestimate Dai Caishen's means.
At this time, Mo Fei would not have thought at all, and even Dai Caishen did not think that after the implementation of the plan to act as a spoiler this time, the benefits guarded were enough to make anyone completely crazy. And it also laid the groundwork, as long as the opportunity is right, you can unscrupulously carry out follow-up individual operations, so that the largest individual shareholder of Standard Chartered Bank in the original history, Qiu Tepit, finally had to sell his shares to Dai Caishen, and Temasek, who has been eyeing Temasek for a long time, can only go home to play with pee.
And in Dai Caishen's team, the first to join were Wu Long's classmates and their subordinates. A few days ago, after Mo Fei had just taken Dai Caishen into the room, he took Dai Mozhen to meet those people, and Dai Caishen's position was Mo Fei's financial investment consultant. Originally, I thought that Dai Caishen was a woman, and a few guys who were a little underestimated, after Dai Caishen used a little means, he finally saw what it was called a very positive master, and they admired it one by one.
After Mo Fei said the proportion of Dai Caishen's profits in the crude oil futures market some time ago, he directly had nothing to say, and completely became Dai Caishen's little brother. As for whether they can become the core junior brother, it depends on their future performance, you must know that Dai Caishen is already in charge of the equivalent of astronomical wealth now, and I don't know how much they will meet each other in the future.
After agreeing on the plan, it was naturally a private entertainment program, and the two of them simply ate something at home, and without doing anything else, they began to roll around on the sheets as soon as possible, and there was no need to elaborate on it overnight.
Early the next morning, Mo Fei had just finished his workout and returned to the accommodation he had prepared for himself and Dai Mozhen, when he received a call from Wu Yusen, and the preparations for "Pirates of Malacca" were finally all ready, and they could be filmed at any time.
Speaking of this "Pirates of Malacca", it really brought a lot of trouble to Mo Fei and Phoenix Culture, without it, because the Hong Kong film industry and the media industry are not optimistic about this film, thinking that this kind of behavior is a crazy act of burning money.
It is no wonder that others think that there has never been a film in Hong Kong that has been close to 300 million Hong Kong dollars before filming, just the preparation work and the consumption of props. And this film has to be filmed on the spot, not only in Hong Kong, but also in Southeast Asia and even the Indian Ocean with big ships to drag props to shoot, if you add the actors' salaries and various shooting costs, I don't know how much money it will take to get it, at least it won't be below 400 million Hong Kong dollars, how much box office does such a film have to sell to make a profit.
In fact, such a large investment was something Mo Fei hadn't thought of before, and the props and preparations in his plan were about 100 million Hong Kong dollars. There is a saying that 'where the money is spent', and now all the prop boats of "Pirates of Malacca" are built according to the standards of the historical period that the content of the film fits, and the wood used is all giant teak from the primeval forest smuggled from Indonesia; Yiying's ship guns and so on are also made in their original size, and they can even be fired normally; What is even more surprising is that the Phoenix culture also built medieval piers and various buildings on two beaches, although it is only a virtual appearance, but it is also unique, and the cost of this can be imagined.
Of course, this money is not spent in vain, and the final income will definitely be far greater than today's investment. First of all, "Pirates of Malacca" is enough to satisfy anyone, and if all goes well, a film can recoup all its investment and make a profit.
Moreover, when the sequel is filmed in the future, all the props, ships and naval guns and other props are completely sufficient, including the warships, which are enough to shoot the tenth part of the planned "Pirates of Malacca".
What's even more powerful, and what people can't see now, is that after the "Pirates of Malacca" series became completely popular, it became a money-absorbing weapon in the global film market, and after having a large number of hardcore fans and supporters, it was influential enough to promote the birth of a corresponding theme park, which was the real money-attracting weapon.