On July 8, 1975, a series of Mercedes-Benz cars, witnessed by countless reporters, drove into the Hutchison Building, the headquarters building of Hutchison International.

The convoy did not stop in the underground garage, but directly in front of the gate on the first floor of Hutchison, which was to enter the Hutchison Building in front of everyone's witness.

"Chen Sheng, as the first Chinese in Hong Kong's history to acquire a British-funded foreign firm, do you have anything to share?"

"Chen Sheng, what will happen to the future of Hutchison? Can we really control the company, or are you just an investment? ”

"Mr. Chen, how do you solve the debt problem of Hutchison Group?"

"Mr. Chen, Hutchison's stock price has fallen sharply now, is there any measure to ensure that the stock price rises?"

The car door had just opened, and Chen Zhiwen had not completely left the body, and all kinds of questions were asked by the surrounding reporters like a bombardment, but fortunately, enough security had already been prepared, and the reporters couldn't get in at all.

Under the protection of a group of security bodyguards, Chen Zhiwen entered the Hutchison Building from the Hutchison Gate, and in the building, the reporter was directly stopped by the security guards at the door, and the surroundings were suddenly a lot quieter.

"Hello Mr. Chen, I am Alan Anderson, the secretary of the board of directors of Hutchison Group. Charbot, Mr. Qi Dezun arranged for me to come down and pick you up. A white man of about 30 years old, standing in front of the service desk in the hall, followed by two blonde young women, hurriedly walked forward and said after seeing Chen Zhiwen and his party come in.

"What about Qi Dezun?" Chen Zhiwen asked.

"Mr. Qi Dezun is upstairs, and the directors and senior management of the company are waiting for you upstairs." Alan said.

"Okay, let's go up then." Chen Zhiwen said lightly, this is to give himself a dismissal, so he sent a secretary to pick him up.

"Please." Alan turned around and waved his hand to indicate the direction, and a group of people walked towards the elevator, which was an elevator specially used for Hutchison high-rises, and there was a special person guarding the elevator.

The elevator was also slower, and it took 2 minutes to reach the designated floor, the highest meeting room of the Hutchison Group, located on the 26th floor of the highest floor of the building

"Please, the board meeting will be at 10 o'clock." After reaching the 26th floor, Alan said again.

Although the floor is not high, the single floor of the Hutchison Building is very large, and Chen Zhiwen walked for a while to reach the conference room located in the southeast corner.

This is also the original history of Li Jiacheng demolished it and built a super building on the basis of a large area, to be able to build a higher building, in the 50s when the Hutchison Building was just built, the land price was cheap, it was not cost-effective to build too high, it was better to buy more land and build a few more buildings, the same area, so that the cost was the lowest, but when the local price was very high, it was cost-effective to build a super building.

Whether it is any country, Europe and the United States or the mainland of later generations, as long as you look at the height of the building or the density of residential buildings in a city, you can roughly know whether the housing price is high, the higher the floor density, the higher the land price, the higher the housing price, and vice versa, the housing price is very low.

"Mr. Qi Dezun, Mr. Chen Zhiwen is here." After Allen walked into the conference room with Chen Zhiwen, he said to a white-haired white man with a round figure.

"Hello Mr. Chen, welcome to Hutchison Group." Qi Dezun got up unhurriedly and smiled, and at the same time shook hands politely.

"Welcome is not an accurate word, and as a majority shareholder in Hutchison, it is normal for me to come here." Chen Zhiwen also shook hands, but retorted with a light smile.

"Welcome" but to the guests, he is not, Qi Dezun's words, whether casual or deliberate, are to show that he is the host.

"That's right, my mistake, Chen Sheng, please take a seat." Qi Dezun's tone seemed to turn cold, but he quickly returned to normal.

"Okay, thank you." Chen Zhiwen sat down according to the guidance, this is the chairman of the board of directors, it seems that Qi Dezun is not confused, and he wants to fight for this position today.

"Mr. Chen, this is our bi-weekly board meeting, which was supposed to be held on the 10th, because you have just become a shareholder of Hutchison, so it was deliberately advanced by two days." Qi Dezun smiled and said, "I don't know if you have anything to say here?" ”

"Let's have a meeting first, I'll just listen." Chen Zhiwen said with a light smile.

"Okay, then let's have a normal meeting." Qi Dezun saw that Chen Zhiwen didn't move, and he was a little happy in his heart, but Li Harder on the side had a normal complexion, as if it was the first time he saw Chen Zhiwen.

At the beginning of the meeting, Qi Dezun introduced the board members of Hutchison to Chen Zhiwen one by one, and Chen Zhiwen also had an understanding of them, and two of the board members of Hutchison were from non-Hutchison, namely representatives of Hong Kong Telecom Group and the Kadoorie family.

Large British-funded groups in Hong Kong will also hold shares with each other to ensure the convenience of some business cooperation, and sometimes even if they don't, they will also send directors to each other, of course, these two situations only exist in the British-funded groups that have no competitive relationship, the Kadoorie family's main business is electricity, and Hong Kong Telecom is telephone, and there is no business conflict with Hutchison.

The other 9 people are all senior members of the board of directors within Hutchison, and none of the small shareholders who were scattered before Hutchison have been able to enter the board of directors, and the entire Hutchison is perfectly controlled by the management, even if the stock price has fallen by 90% from its peak, the scattered shareholders still cannot overthrow the board.

After the introduction, Qi Dezun entered a normal meeting state, and everyone reviewed the debt problems within the Hutchison Group, business development and so on.

Chen Zhiwen is also the first time to have a certain understanding of Hutchison's core business, and although Zhou Jiayang's team has also collected a lot of data, it is certainly not comparable to this internal information.

Hutchison's current situation is much worse than he predicted, all the major businesses, only the retail business and the port container terminal are still profitable, the others are losing money, a large number of real estate projects, basically have been suspended, the number is as high as dozens, before because of the collapse of land prices, the start of construction can not be sold, to this year a little better, but there is no money on the account, suppliers do not give goods, workers do not start work, forming a dead cycle.

Half an hour later, Qi Dezun said to Chen Zhiwen with a smile: "Chen Sheng, the current situation of Hutchison is probably like this, in terms of specific details, if you want to know, I can also give the information to you, now the harbor project and some real estate projects are unable to start because of lack of money, according to the current market situation, if we have a fund, about 150 million, we can start these projects, and the entire company can resume normal operations." ”

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