123 The-for-tat of the board

"If I don't have a stake in Hutchison, how does Mr. Qi Dezun plan to solve this problem?" Chen Zhiwen asked directly.

"The best way is to find a bank to borrow." Qi Dezun said.

"Are there any banks willing to lend money to Hutchison?" Chen Zhiwen asked lightly.

"HSBC rejected my request." Qi Dezun paused and said, "So I am going to persuade shareholders to reinvest at the next shareholders' meeting, but since Chen Sheng has become the largest shareholder of Hutchison, it is most appropriate for you to come forward." ”

"It's not going to be so easy for those shareholders to invest in it, but I can pay for it alone." Chen Zhiwen said with a smile.

"Really?" Qi Dezun didn't believe it, 150 million Hong Kong dollars in cash, but astronomical, in Hong Kong, even if it is Jardine Matheson, if it wants to come up with such a sum of cash, although it can be done, it is a little difficult, and Chen Zhiwen has spent at least 2-300 million yuan to acquire the shares of Hutchison Group, and now he can come up with such a large amount of money, even if it is a loan, it is very amazing.

"I can make another contribution to Hutchison, but you have to promise me one more condition." Chen Zhiwen said with a smile.

"On what terms?" Qi Dezun asked.

"Mr. Qi Dezun, you are 60 years old this year, right?" Chen Zhiwen suddenly changed the subject.

"According to the Chinese algorithm, the virtual age is 60, but I am actually only 58." Qi Dezun was stunned, and immediately had a bad premonition in his heart.

"I heard that Mr. Qi Dezun has been in Hong Kong for decades, and the fact that Hutchison can have this status today is also the result of your hard work for ten years, I think it is time for Mr. Qi Dezun to return to the United Kingdom for retirement." Chen Zhiwen said lightly.

As soon as the words fell, the decibel level of the entire conference room immediately dropped, and many people even held their breath, except for Richard, everyone else looked at Chen Zhiwen and Qi Dezun in shock, although they knew that today's meeting would definitely have open and secret battles, but they didn't expect that this young man, who had just become a major shareholder of Hutchison, really wanted to remove Qi Dezun directly.

"Chen Sheng, what do you mean by this?" Qi Dezun said with some anger, he was full of confidence that Chen Zhiwen would not do anything to him, at most he would add a little mess to him, disgust him, to show the authority of his major shareholder, but he never imagined that he would go directly to nuclear weapons when they first met.

"That's what it means, Hutchison has developed to this day, you have merit, I don't deny it, but the debt crisis has become like this, and you have also contributed to it, and you still have no solution to the problem, but blindly borrow money, or take money from shareholders, you say, do shareholders want you to do?" Chen Zhiwen said coldly.

Originally, Qi Dezun asked all shareholders to raise a total of 175 million Hong Kong dollars according to the proportion of shares at the shareholders' meeting, which caused public anger, and finally Shen Bi took the opportunity to vote on behalf of shareholders to remove Qi Dezun, and then HSBC became a shareholder of Hutchison, and since then, Hutchison has entered the HSBC era.

For Qi Dezun, Chen Zhiwen has no intention of staying at all, one is that he lacks ability, and the rapid expansion of Hutchison was indeed completed in his hands, but regardless of the expansion of risks, who would not desperately borrow money to buy?

Bought so many different businesses and can not promote each other, just to expand the scale of acquisitions, the second is arrogance, dead to save face, in 73 years when the Hong Kong stock market crisis, in order to stabilize the stock price, the sale of property funds into the profit and then to the shareholders dividends, and later even loans to dividends, as a result of the internal normal business because of the rupture of the capital chain and stop running, and eventually led to the outbreak of the entire Hutchison Group Hong Kong history of the largest debt crisis.

"The removal of the chairman of the board of directors can only be effective if the board of directors obtains a two-thirds vote or is approved by the general meeting of shareholders." Qi Dezun said coldly.

"Even if the board of directors is over, there is no need for a shareholder meeting, I already have 46% of Hutchison shares in my hands, I can hold a general meeting of shareholders to hold one specifically for the purpose of removing you, are you sure you want me to do this?" Chen Zhiwen said with a smile.

“46%?” Qi Dezun was stunned for a moment and said, "You bought another 5% of the shares?" ”

"Yes, Hutchison stock is now falling again, so I naturally bought some." Chen Zhiwen said.

After the media exposed that the capital of the acquisition of Hutchison Group was a local Chinese, although public opinion was praising it, supporting it, and being proud of the Chinese, the capital market was different, and Hutchison stock immediately fell in half, and no one seemed to believe that a Chinese could save the Hutchison Group on the verge of collapse.

Zhou Jiayang's team also predicted this, so after the stock price plummeted, it started to buy again, and it acquired 5% in three days, and the acquisition cost of these three days was very low, which was similar to the beginning.

"If I leave Hutchison, what is Chen Sheng's plan to operate?" Qi Dezun said coldly, and at this moment, he realized that he had no tricks at all.

The other party has 46% of the equity, just find a few small shareholders, you can raise 50% of the voting rights, plus he himself is not liked by the shareholders, if it is really a shareholders' meeting, it will definitely lose, the only hope is that he has many years of management experience in Hutchison, as long as the unity of the top management within Hutchison, any new shareholders can not do anything to them.

"I know you've signed an internal agreement to advance and retreat together, so you can advance and retreat together, right?" Chen Zhiwen opened his hands and said happily: "If you are willing to stay, you can keep your original position, and if you want to resign, you can resign now, I will definitely not have any opinions." ”

In the conference room, Richard glanced at several people, who fell silent after looking at them.

After meeting with Chen Zhiwen, he greeted the top brass of his faction and asked which side he needed to stand on.

As a large company with bloated management, in fact, many important positions are absolutely impossible for only one person to absolutely master, many people even if they have not done a certain position, but there are people who do things under them, and there are people around them who cooperate, and these people will generally not have any major problems if they get started.

In the era of Qi Dezun's management, there were also many factions among his subordinates, which existed within any large company, and this time Hutchison changed dramatically, Richard naturally wanted to protect his faction, and at the same time, it was also an opportunity for his people to enter more high-level positions.

"I resign."

"I resign, too."

After a while, 2 people took the initiative to stand up, Qi Dezun smiled at the corner of his mouth, and when everyone stood up here, in the face of this situation, no one could really make everyone resign, and the new shareholders could only admit defeat.

And once Chen Zhiwen admits defeat, it is not this time that he loses, and the future company will still be decided by him Qi Dezun.

However, after waiting for a while, no one stood up again, Qi Dezun's face suddenly changed, and the two people who stood up were also very embarrassed.

Richard raised his eyebrows slightly, among the people present, he only informed 3 people, and the other 5 people belonged to Qi Dezun, but now only 2 people stood up, which also shows that the other three are only willing to wait until the end to express their opinions.

That is, waiting for others to strike first, I finally made up a number, but after the two people stood up, Richard and several people did not react, which also caused them to not react.

This is really the same as what Chen Zhiwen said last time, without the core benefit sharing or the leadership of the core figures, it is impossible for people to unite, there are only ten people on the scene, there is no way to succeed, and if it involves hundreds of people who signed the agreement to advance and retreat together, it is even more impossible to really "advance and retreat together".

"You guys?" Qi Dezun's face was angry, he looked at his subordinates who were still sitting still, saw Richard, a confidant assistant, and asked, "Richard, you also rebelled?" ”

"He didn't defect, I'm the majority shareholder of Hutchison, and the board of directors should be accountable to me." Chen Zhiwen said calmly: "I have observed for a long time, and Mr. Richard's ability has been recognized by many people in Hutchison, so I will appoint him as the new senior class of Hutchison." ”

(End of chapter)