Chang Wei watched Shen Bi take a big sip of water, and said lightly: "It's just a hundred tons of gold, HSBC won't be unable to eat it, right?" ”

Shen Bi drank the water in the dry cup, but still felt dry in his mouth. He realized that this was an incomparably important deal that he could not afford to miss.

"No!"

Taking a deep breath, Shen Bi said: "HSBC's volume is not something that can be measured by a hundred tons of gold. ”

He froze his mind, and while carefully looking at Chang Wei, he secretly thought in his heart.

"According to the current international gold price, 100 tons of gold is worth about 700 million US dollars." He organized his language and said slowly: "But I believe that what Mr. Chang wants will not be 700 million US dollars in cash, right?" ”

When Chang Wei heard this, his eyes lit up, and the room seemed to be swept by a bolt of lightning, and Shen Bi, who was stabbed, couldn't help but close his eyes.

"HSBC's Taipan really lives up to its reputation." Chang Wei said: "That's right, pure money doesn't mean anything to me. ”

"Then get straight to the point." Shen Bi Zhengse said: "Gold is of great significance to banks, and we really need it. But I hope that the conditions put forward by Mr. Chang will not exceed our bottom line. ”

Chang Wei put down the stilted Erlang's legs and sat up straight, like a mountain.

"I heard that Lee Ka Seng is seeking to annex Hutchison Whampoa." His voice was thick and stressful: "If I want to be Hutchison Whampoa, what do you say?" ”

When Shen Bi heard this, his surprise overflowed, and then he smiled and said: "I didn't expect that the debt-ridden Hutchison Whampoa would become a sweetheart." ”

That's right, what Chang Wei wants is Hutchison Whampoa. That in the original history, it was during this time that Hutchison Whampoa was annexed by Li Jiacheng.

As the most worthwhile business in the life of Li Jiacheng, a pure capitalist, he swallowed Hutchison Whampoa, worth more than 6 billion Hong Kong dollars, with a market value of less than one billion Hong Kong dollars, and became the first businessman on Hong Kong Island to annex a foreign company.

But Chang Wei just wants to intervene.

Li Jiacheng? While going cool.

Chang Wei started with Hutchison Whampoa for a reason. Hutchison Whampoa is composed of Hutchison & Co. and Whampoa Dock. Hutchison & Co. has sales channels, and Whampoa Dockyard is one of the three major shipyards on Hong Kong Island at this time, with the ability to repair and build 10,000-ton ships.

This is what Chang Wei values most.

Shen Bi pondered.

The battle for Hutchison Whampoa has now entered a white heat. Li Jiacheng, Bao Yugang, Jardine Matheson, you sang and I appeared, and I was making a lot of noise.

Some time ago, Bao Yugang interviewed Shen Bi many times to mediate for Li Jiacheng, and Shen Bi was already tempted.

But now, he hesitated.

On one side is the ship king Bao Yugang and the emerging bourgeoisie Li Jiacheng on Hong Kong Island, and on the other side is a hundred tons of gold. The scale in my heart is difficult to choose for a while.

Shen Bi's thoughts were clear in Chang Wei's eyes.

Shen Bi's contradictions, Chang Wei is also clear.

On one side is the relationship, on the other side is gold, if the amount of gold is not large, the natural relationship is important. But a hundred tons of gold!

However, Chang Wei also saw that this hundred tons of gold was still not enough to make Shen Bi bow his head completely.

So he picked up the teacup and took a sip: "How about two hundred tons of gold?" ”

Shen Bi raised his head all of a sudden, and said in a lost voice: "Two hundred tons of gold?!" ”

"That's right, two hundred tons." Chang Wei said that these two hundred tons of gold were like two hundred tons of stones, and his expression was so worthless.

Shen Bi opened his mouth: "You won." ”

"Okay." Chang Wei put down the teacup, stroked his palm and said: "Now I make a request, HSBC has done it, two hundred tons of gold are offered with both hands, if I can't do it, I'll go to Citi." ”

"Please." Shen Bi stretched out his hand to signal.

"The first step is to wholly acquire Hutchison Whampoa." Chang Wei said: "The second step is to delist. ”

When Shen Bi heard this, he thought for a while: "It can be done." ”

The two reached a preliminary agreement, and Shen Bi said: "I don't ask the source of Mr. Chang's two hundred tons of gold. But I need to see them first to make sure that Mr. Chang is not joking. ”

Chang Wei said: "With a billion-dollar business, who do you think dares to play around?" What I want is Hutchison Whampoa, it's there, I can't run away. Two hundred tons of gold, which cannot be seen by anyone until the transaction is completed. ”

Shen Bi was silent.

He could understand what Chang Wei meant. Two hundred tons of gold, if it were known, God knows how much trouble it would make.

If it were him, he would have guarded against this.

After thinking about it, he said, "In this way, today we reached a verbal agreement. Next, I need to hold a board meeting and help Mr. Chang contact Mr. Bao Yugang, who has 10 million shares of Hutchison Whampoa. How about we make an appointment for a detailed discussion? ”

Chang Wei is indispensable.

After sending Chang Wei away, Shen Bi sat alone for half an hour, and after the key members or agents of the HSBC board of directors arrived, a meeting was held.

When I heard that a Chinese man wanted to snatch food from Li Jiacheng on the basis of 200 tons of gold, and cut off Hu Hutchison Whampoa from Li Jiacheng, the directors immediately discussed it.

Someone said: "What is the origin of this Chinese named Chang Wei?" ”

Shen Bi picked up a piece of paper: "This is the information I just found." Seldom. His origin was blank, and he only found out that he claimed to be an overseas Chinese returned from the United States. ”

"Two hundred tons of gold!" Another director said: "This is definitely not something that ordinary people can come up with. I think he might have something to do with the north. In addition to state power, can a private person come up with two hundred tons of gold? ”

"You can't sell Hutchison Whampoa to him!" Someone immediately objected: "If he is from the north, no amount of money can be sold to him." ”

"I don't think so." The third director said: "Think about it, how important is 200 tons of gold to us? The international gold price has risen year after year, and now 200 tons of gold is worth $1.4 billion, and it may be $2 billion in two years. We are a bank, and only then can we have the confidence to press the gold warehouse. And gold is strategically important to a country, and I don't think the north will take out 200 tons of gold and buy a mere Hutchison Whampoa. ”

His words were met with a lot of approval.

After a lot of discussion, the final decision still fell on Shen Bi, the chairman of the board.

"I approve of the deal," he said. Whether his gold came from the north or not, as long as it was in our favor, the rest could be ignored. Don't forget, we are capitalists. Hong Kong Island is our territory, and all banks and foreign banks are not just a Hutchison Whampoa that can be shaken, so why sell them to him?! ”

That's right, they are capitalists.

Monetary interests come first.

And they have absolute confidence that they control most of the interests of Hong Kong Island.

Shen Bi made a final decision and ended the meeting. Next, he has to make rigorous preparations for this.

Chang Wei, after leaving HSBC, directly found a law firm and hired a lawyer to solve all the legal problems of the transaction for him.