What kind of publisher in the United States, Lin Xiaozhi didn't say that Lin Jianming couldn't guess who his target was.

After all, as the most developed country in the world's publishing industry, there are 50,000 publishers in the United States, if not 100,000, but also 50,000, even if you can kick out nine out of ten by elimination, even if there are only a few dozen left, it will be extremely difficult to guess Lin Xiaozhi's goal.

But as soon as he mentioned Standard Chartered (the previous chapter was wronged and revised), Rao was very ambiguous in his answer, but Lin Jianming still felt a flash of thunder and lightning in his head, and a name couldn't help but appear.

Standard Chartered!

In Hong Kong, when the word "Standard Chartered" is mentioned, I am afraid that the first thing that comes to everyone's mind is this old British bank in Hong Kong.

Globally, Standard Chartered is one of the oldest banks, having been established in 1853 under the charter of Queen Victoria. In 1858, Standard Chartered opened its first branch in Mumbai, India, followed by Kolkata and Shanghai, followed by Hong Kong and Singapore the following year.

In 1969, Standard Bank and Standard Chartered Bank merged to form Standard Chartered PLC, referred to as Standard Chartered Bank.

However, in 87, due to the continuous deterioration of the financial situation, Standard Chartered Bank had to reach an agreement with the Standard Bank Group of South Africa to sell all its shares in Standard Bank for cash, and the name was changed from "Standard Chartered Bank" to "Standard Chartered Bank" again.

Although it holds the title of an old international bank and is one of the note-issuing banks in Hong Kong, the current 'Standard Chartered Bank' is obviously a bit unworthy of its name.

As of 1991, the bank was 66. 8% of the profits come from Hong Kong, and its customers in the UK and even all of Europe together are only 30% more than the total number of customers in Hong Kong, and the annual profits of other markets other than Hong Kong are less than half of the size of Hong Kong, which is enough to explain a lot, and this figure was close to 80% a few years ago.

It is no wonder that this seemingly invincible giant, when it was hostilely acquired by Lloyds Bank, one of the four largest British banks in 86, had to ask the Chinese ship king Bao Yugang, Singapore's richest man Khoo Teck Puat and Australian billionaire Robert Hum to help protect the disk through personal connections, only to defeat the annexation by Lloyds, a British banking giant known as the 'capital hooligan'.

This is a sensational thing that happened around the world only a few years ago, and one of the protagonists, Bao Yugang, is still one of the top ten richest people in Hong Kong, of course Lin Jianming will not know about it. Although he doesn't know much about banks, he knows more inside information than ordinary people who have paid attention to it because of his identity.

In 1986, in order to prevent the hostile takeover by the capital rogue Lloyd, Standard Chartered Bank invited three gods to mobilize 1.3 billion pounds (about 16.3 billion Hong Kong dollars that year) to protect the law, and acquired a total of 37% of the shares of Standard Chartered Bank.

These three gods naturally did not help in vain, Bao Yugang was because he had received the help of Standard Chartered in the process of acquiring the British-funded group Wheelock, and Standard Chartered promised to provide various loans to the Bao family in the future, just like HSBC would support Li Chaoren, so he tried his best to protect the disk. In the battle to defend Standard Chartered Bank, Bao Yugang allocated funds successively4. 700 million pounds, acquired 14.5% of its shares, and became its largest shareholder for a time.

Singapore's richest man, Khoo Teck Puat, is the second person hired by Standard Chartered Bank, the most famous banker in Southeast Asia, and it is easier for Standard Chartered Bank to convince him than the other two.

The Chinese are not welcome in many countries in Southeast Asia, not only short-sighted, timid and afraid of things, but they are fierce and vicious to their own people to engage in regional discrimination and political confrontation, in the process of chasing wealth and free from political and military power, it is not an exaggeration to say that they are self-defeating, looking at the world it is difficult to find a big fat sheep who is better to bully than the Chinese, and it is also the most favorite foreign immigrants in Southeast Asia to bully.

Khoo Teck Puat is not immune to disasters as the richest man in Singapore, and his banks in Brunei, Malaysia, and Indonesia have been viciously harassed by the local government since the sixties and seventies, and in recent years, they have been worse every year. It just so happened that Standard Chartered Bank had a lot of political influence in Southeast Asia, and at the same time, Standard Chartered also had some high-quality assets under the name of Qiu Deba, so the two sides hit it off, and Qiu Deba followed Bao Yugang and acquired more than 11% of the shares of Standard Chartered.

Robert Hum is an Australian hotel tycoon and a descendant of a former senior at Standard Chartered Bank, and he has Standard Chartered blood. However, in order to invite this British descendant to help, Standard Chartered paid far more than lobbying Bao Yugang and Qiu Depu. White people are heavy on profits, and Robert Houm has been selling Standard Chartered shares at high prices in the past few years, and even ignoring the subsequent decline in Standard Chartered's stock price.

Lin Jianming estimated that these three people should have signed a restriction agreement with Standard Chartered Bank when they first came to help it, after all, the senior management of Standard Chartered would not be willing to lead the wolf to drive the tiger.

Since Lloyds Bank completely abandoned the acquisition of Standard Chartered in 87, the Bao Yugang family has sold more than 6% of the Standard Chartered shares, and the remaining Standard Chartered shares in the hands of Robert Houm, who sold the most ruthless land, may not even be 5%.

Even Qiu Depu, who has not been sold, and even surpassed Bao Yugang to become the largest private shareholder of Standard Chartered through several acquisitions, has also dispersed more than 13% of the Standard Chartered shares in his hands to himself and several wives and children, and is not listed in his own company name.

Private shareholders and institutional shareholders are two completely different concepts, the former only has influence and dividend rights, and whether there is a seat on the board depends on the attitude of the senior management of Standard Chartered. However, institutional shareholders not only have all the rights of the former, but can even interfere in the daily operation of Standard Chartered Bank and the appointment and dismissal of senior management.

Lin Jianming's head turned rapidly, and he was more and more sure that his amazing nephew might really want to do something to the giant of Standard Chartered, and his heart couldn't help but be moved.

It's a pity that he had the heart to ask Lin Xiaozhi a few more words, but found that he had already set his sights on the dazzling venue to attend the stage, and obviously had no intention of speaking again.

……

"How could it be me?"

Liu Qingyun muttered sluggishly, and his pupils couldn't help but dilate slightly.

"Ah Yun, congratulations!"

"Tell you, hurry up and get ready to go down to the stage to receive the award!"

Wu Zhenyu and Huang Qiusheng, two friends who were still sitting next to him, pushed him excitedly, Liu Qingyun finally recovered from the shock, resisted the excitement in his heart and nodded heavily with the two friends, and didn't even have time to express his gratitude to some of the people around him who congratulated him, so he stumbled to the stage.

This scene was just a slight smile in the eyes of many people, Fa Ge and John Woo sat next to each other, and when they saw it, they couldn't help but think of their performance when they were nominated for Best Actor at the Academy Awards for the first time, and now they don't think much better than Liu Qingyun.

"Thank you to the Academy Awards and the judges for ......" After Liu Qingyun stumbled onto the podium, after receiving the 'Best Actor' Gold Cup from Faye Wong, who smiled and thanked him with a smile, his eyes were a little red with excitement, so that he even forgot the acceptance speech that he had prepared a long time ago, and said in a choked voice: "As an actor, I have dreamed many times that one day I can stand on this podium and proudly pick up the gold cup that represents the industry's highest affirmation of an actor's ability." But I also know very well that behind the glory symbolized by this weight, it is necessary to hone my acting skills and self-sublimation day after day. I am honored to be invited by Mr. Lim Hsiao Chi to play the role of the leading actor in his new film last year. In the process of filming, he used his experience and extraordinary vision to let me learn a lot, and I also took a lot of detours......"

"...... Uproar"

The acceptance speech, which was not gorgeous but full of emotion, won countless applause for Liu Qingyun inside and outside the venue. In addition to some of the cameras in the venue that continued to fall on Liu Qingyun, several cameras also swept in the direction of Lin Xiaozhi, exposing the scene where he was whispering to Lin Jianming on the big screen and many small screens in the venue.

Fortunately, Lin Xiaozhi has always been distracted and focused on the awards, and not long after the screen camera swept to him, Liu Qingyun, who looked up at the podium, smiled at him and nodded, and the audience applauded him, which was not rude, but made many people more curious about what he was talking to Lin Jianming.

The announcement of the Best Actor Award is undoubtedly a big climax, and then in order to maintain the heat, the Best Actress was not immediately announced, but there was a small award of "Best Newcomer" in the middle, and then the winner of the "Best Actress" Gold Cup will be announced.

The Academy Awards' 'Best Newcomer' can barely be regarded as a small hit, not only because it is sandwiched between the Best Actor and Actress Gold Cup, but also because many newcomer Gold Cup winners have been born in the past few years since the launch of this award, which is basically thriving in the industry, and is also laughingly called 'Little Gold Cup' by many low-level artists and media.

The nominees for this year's Best Newcomer Award are Anita Yuen's "Yafei and Yaji", Ku Minghua's "Mong Kok Racecourse", Zhu Yin's "Truant Weilong 2", Sammi Cheng's "Flying Tiger Elite: Love in the World" and Xiong Xinxin's "Wong Fei Hung 2: Men Should Be Self-Improvement", all of which are extraordinary.

Yuan Yuyi doesn't need to say much, Sister Hong Kong was born in a beauty pageant, and her appearance is almost full.

Koo Minghua is the first batch of students to graduate from the drama theatre under the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, and his acting foundation is much deeper than that of many grassroots artists.

Zhu Yin is also from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, although she has not yet graduated, she has been exposed by the media since her debut in "Truant Dragon 2", and she is dating Xingye, which can be described as infinite.

Sammi Cheng, who was born as a singer, both passed platinum in his records the year before last and last year, and he and Faye Wong are also known as the three little divas in the Hong Kong music scene.

The last Xiong Xinxin's resume is also amazing, he and the Chinese kung fu superstar Jet Li, who has now become famous all over the world, have won the national martial arts championship, after entering the industry through Liu Jiaban earlier, he has been in many movies for Chow Yun-fat, Jet Li, Li Yuanba, Chow Xingchi and others as martial arts stand-ins, has been favored by Tsui Hark and Lin Xiaozhi, and was able to get roles in "Once Upon a Time" and some other films of Media Asia, and began to gradually move from behind the scenes to the foreground.

This little gold cup was finally won by Hong Kong sister Yuen Yuen for her outstanding performance in "Yafei and Yaji", this film full of black humor is invested by Zeng Zhiwei, directed and filmed by Ke Shouliang, and is the opening of the company UFO established by Hong Kong young Zhuang filmmakers.

With a burst of warm applause, John Woo, dressed in a black suit, walked out of the backstage passage, he came to the microphone in the center of the stage with the award envelope, nodded slightly, and said in a rough voice: "Thank you for the invitation of the Academy Awards Organizing Committee, I will be the guest of honor for this year's 'Best Actress' Award." In the past 92 years, Hong Kong has produced a number of acclaimed and acclaimed works, and even achieved amazing praise at some well-known international film festivals, after the research and nomination of the judges, this year's "Best Actress" nominations are ......"

Lin Jianming finally found an opportunity, and while John Woo was still reading the 'Best Actress' nomination on stage, he whispered to Lin Xiaozhi and asked: "Azhi, why don't you have you in this year's 'Best Actress'?" ”

As long as the script is not bad, the movie will not affect its performance, and it will not affect its performance, and it does not pay attention to the box office of the participating movies, so the more artistic the movie, the more likely it is for the hero and heroine to win awards. The "League of Assassins" I filmed last year is a standard popcorn movie, with big casts and computer special effects, and Liu Qingyun can explain that he can win the best actor, after all, this movie still pays great attention to the acting skills of the male protagonist, is it the heroine...... Well...... It's a little worse......"

Lin Xiaozhi naturally knew that he wanted to take the opportunity to turn his words to the investment he had just talked about, but he did not cooperate, and after finishing speaking, he made an expression of being engrossed in the stands, Lin Jianming was not without a little look, and when he saw the words that came to his mouth like this, he could only swallow them back, and forcibly endured the itch in his heart like a cat scratching, and also looked at the venue.