323 Great Encirclement and Suppression
"Yes, I am in an advantage when consuming the funds of the Kadoorie family now, and it is not me who is in a hurry, so it is much better than in China Power in the future." Bao Yugang nodded and said.
Although they all consume funds, they don't care about the result of the acquisition, and they don't need to think about how much the stock price is pulled up or whether it will trigger the acquisition offer, just desperately consume the funds in the hands of the other party.
"That's okay, I just used this time to win over a little more other shareholders, so as to ensure greater certainty." Guo Henian said.
"Does Leung still choose neutrality now? The 10% stake in his hand, once the shareholders' meeting is held, the influence is still not small. Chen Zhiwen asked, at present, both sides have their own advantages, in the case of competing for the vote of the shareholders' meeting, a 10% shareholder influence is almost semi-decisive, once you take refuge in your own side, it is almost a sure win, and if you still help the Kadoorie family, then your side will be much more difficult.
"This guy regretted it recently, probably because he saw that the price I offered was too high, and he wanted to make a move, but I didn't reply to him, because he bought his shares, and he would directly set off a takeover offer." Guo Henian said with a sigh.
"Yes, if it weren't for the Hong Kong government to change the regulations and buy the 10%, it would be a sure win." Chen Zhiwen nodded and said, there is no way, when several British-funded giants are acquired by him, the Hong Kong government will definitely put laws and regulations in order to protect British capital, whether it is in the past life or now.
"The acquisition is not good, but Guo Sheng can consider other ways to exchange, let him support you, Bao Sheng, you play slowly with the Kadoorie family in the stock market, HK Electric is already preparing to invest in a large power plant in eastern Guangdong Province, there will be some electricity back to Hong Kong, once this news is released, it will inevitably cause the share price of CLP to plummet, and when the time comes, we will shoot together and copy the bottom again." Chen Zhiwen said.
HK Electric in the hands of Li Jiacheng in the future, although the interests are very good, but the development of decades, or in Hong Kong a certain three points of the field, Chen Zhiwen will not be like this, such a large market in China, the future of the first power generation power, no matter how you can score a cup, especially in the 80-90s, the income of the power plant is still very good, ten years can generally return to the cost, the rest is earned.
In the past few months, HK Electric's senior management has been discussing with eastern Guangdong Province and Shenhai City, and finally decided to build a large-scale thermal power plant in Shenhai City, with part of the electricity for Shenhai City and part of the electricity for Hong Kong.
This project, in fact, has a great impact on China Power at all, and even if it does, it will take many years to reflect, but the capital market mainly looks at the future value and development trend, and such a news is enough to make the stock price of Central Power plummet.
"Well, it's time for me to do it." Bao Yugang nodded and said, seeing that Chen Zhiwen and Guo Henian had eaten meat, he naturally wanted to succeed as soon as possible, and with the advent of 80 years, he felt more and more that the maritime shipping market was about to undergo drastic changes, and the huge amount of money must also be transferred to Hong Kong in order to be truly safe.
"Is Hu Sheng still in China?" Guo Henian asked suddenly.
"Yes, he is still busy with the Guangzhou-Shenzhen Expressway, and our investment plan, he has also run some cities, it is estimated that he has some goals, and when he comes back, it is estimated that he will still discuss with us." Chen Zhiwen said with a smile.
Although the Hong Kong market has always been popular with most capitalists, this is obviously not suitable for Hu Yingxiang, the mainland infrastructure maniac, more interested in investing in the mainland, but unlike history, because Chen Zhiwen bought HK Electric, plus once revealed the idea of preparing to build a large number of power stations in China, Hu Ying, on the contrary, did not prepare to invest in power plant projects in eastern Guangdong Province, but concentrated on inspecting various major rivers in China and preparing to build bridges on these rivers.
Although it indirectly robbed the business of this infrastructure maniac, Chen Zhiwen's investment plan for Taishan will be enough to compensate the Hu family, and besides, except for eastern Guangdong Province, every other province lacks electricity, and Hu Yingxiang can go to other provinces if he still wants to build a power plant.
"Or he's more comfortable and doesn't have much ambition." Bao Yugang said with a smile that he had chatted with Hu Yingxiang many times, and he already knew that this old friend might not care much about "wealth" anymore.
"Just look away, we can all do this, it's just that we don't want to." Chen Zhiwen smiled and said that when they are ordinary people, many people fantasize that once their wealth is free, they will completely lie down, but in fact, especially those who have earned a lot of wealth by their own efforts, it is unlikely that they will stop chasing wealth.
Those who are not very willing to struggle, generally may be the rich second generation, of course, this kind of thing is not necessarily a bad thing, many big families, not afraid of the second generation to eat, drink and have fun, but afraid of the second generation to work hard.
Hu Yingxiang's situation is different, he has earned enough wealth in Hong Kong, and when he knew that Hong Kong had more wealth, he instead transferred a large amount of capital to the mainland, in fact, he didn't care about making more money in Hong Kong.
"Everyone has their own ambitions, and I still admire Hu Sheng very much." Guo Henian nodded and said.
"In fact, there are many high-yield projects in China, and when the Kadoorie family is cleaned up, we can also prepare to invest a few more in the mainland, so as not to disappoint everyone." Chen Zhiwen smiled and said. In the 80s, hotels or infrastructure had a high rate of return, but this market was too big and needed too much investment, and Chen Zhiwen could not take it all, so except for a few with the highest returns, the others were the most cost-effective to introduce multiple funds.
"Okay, then I'll take my leave." Bao Yugang nodded and said.
"Okay." Chen Zhiwen nodded and said.
After the three said goodbye, the next day, the stock acquisition office of the "sugar king" of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange suddenly withdrew, and the Kadoorie family naturally found out about it for the first time.
The shareholders at the scene naturally knew about it, and both sides suddenly withdrew, which immediately caused panic, especially those shareholders who took over at a high level, and when they didn't know what was happening, the stock price of the hotel plummeted in one day, from the highest 80 Hong Kong dollars to 55 Hong Kong dollars.
The next day, the stock price rose slightly, and it seemed that there was a small amount of acquisition by big capital.
The third day continued to fall.
Fell on the fourth day.
The fifth is a small increase.
The time soon entered August, and the hot summer could not warm the cold hearts of many Hong Kong Stock Exchange investors.
During this time, the stock of the hotel was as turbulent as the waves, and I don't know how many people wanted to go in and make a wave, but the losses came out.
CLP Tower Headquarters:
"Big brother, in the past half month, Guo Henian's funds have been acquired on a large scale in the stock market, and a bunch of large-scale sales, resulting in serious losses on our side, and some of CLP's funds have been somewhat lost." Henry Kadoorie said.
"Keep buying low and selling high, consuming our funds, the other party should be the top master, and even the people who win more can not play." Michael Kadoorie said with some heartache, so much money was smashed, although he also obtained some stocks, but this kind of high-priced purchase is really too much of a loss, but now he has more than 25% of the stocks in his hands, neither can he sell, nor give up, he is completely trapped, but there is no other better way.
"There is another thing, HK Electric announced a cooperation plan with the mainland, ready to build a thermal power plant in the mainland, and then reverse transmission to Hong Kong, which made CLP's stock price plummet, Standard Chartered Bank just called to confirm, although it did not say, but the meaning is obvious, let us control the risk." Henry Kadoorie said.
"Don't worry about this, we are also talking about cooperation with China, even if HK Electric cooperates with China again, it will not directly affect us in a short period of time." Michael Kadoorie said.
Henry said with some hesitation: "It's better not to announce this matter for the time being, we are cooperating with a nuclear power plant, from the perspective of global history, no one likes to have a nuclear power plant nearby, if it really leaks out, I am afraid it will cause certain problems." ”
"That's right, let's wait for the matter of the big hotel to pass." Michael Kadoorie nodded and said: "Recently, Liang Zhonghao seems to have avoided me and suddenly traveled to Southeast Asia, which is Guo Henian's territory, and I am worried that he will betray us. ”
"Liang Zhonghao? If he is bought by Guo Henian, then we? Henry Kadoorie was taken aback, as the majority shareholder of the Grand Hotel, if he did not support the Kadoorie family, it would be troublesome.
"The most hateful thing is this surnamed Liang, who has always promised to stand on our side before, but at the last moment he actually hid." Michael Kadoorie said with some sorrow that if the Liang family did not support the Kadoorie family at the beginning, in the face of the attack of Southeast Asian capital giants, even if they wanted to keep the family assets, but they really couldn't do it, they would have taken the initiative to give up under the condition of obtaining the greatest benefits, but at this point, the family has invested hundreds of millions of dollars, but it is very likely to face the end of failure.
"Now there is no possibility of even getting out of the whole body." Henry Kadoorie said with a frown.
"I can only take one step at a time." Michael Kadoorie sighed.
Galaxy Tower:
"Bao Sheng, I have good news for you. The Kadoorie family has spent a lot of existing funds in recent times, and the news has come from Standard Chartered Bank. Chen Zhiwen made an appointment to meet Bao Yugang and told him the good news.
Standard Chartered Bank lent hundreds of millions of dollars to the Kadoorie family, so it naturally has the right to supervise the flow of funds, but this is a trade secret, and the bank cannot tell others, but as long as it does not involve too specific information, it is a very vague gray area, and Chen Zhiwen does not need such accurate data here, and it is not a problem to miss tens of millions, and in order to avoid legal risks, these things are done by his subordinates, Chen Zhiwen and Standard Chartered Daban Bill Winter will not talk about these secrets, they are all told by their subordinates, Then inform the boss.
"It's about the same, I also spent 200 million Hong Kong dollars on my side, in this case, when I dispose of these shares in my hand, cash them out, and then officially announce the acquisition plan for CLP." Bao Yugang nodded and said.
"Okay, everything goes according to plan." Chen Zhiwen said with a smile.
Ten days later, when the share price of Grand Hotel fell below HK$40 again, two more news appeared that shocked Hong Kong.
Kwok officially announced that he had acquired 34.9% of the shares, and according to the laws of the Hong Kong government, he could join the board of directors of the hotel, and at the same time obtain two voting rights on the board of directors, and also publicly publicized that the Kadoorie family has invested all its resources and energy in CLP Power over the years, while ignoring the needs of the shareholders of the hotel.
Therefore, he officially announced that he would convene a board of directors as a major shareholder, calling for the removal of the current board of directors and the establishment of a new top management.
But this is actually expected by everyone, after all, the stock market has been playing for more than a month, and I don't know how many people have profited from it, but another news is even more shocking.
Bao Yugang officially announced that he already has a 22.8% stake in CLP, because he is optimistic about the future development of Hong Kong's power industry, so he plans to make a long-term acquisition in the stock market in cash until the acquisition reaches 34.9%, however, Bao Yugang also said that he will not compete for the management of the company.
It's just that this kind of thing, who believes it?
Anyone with a little brain knows that Bao Yugang is aiming to obtain China Power, and Guo Henian's acquisition of the Grand Hotel is obviously just foreplay, or the two have negotiated, otherwise, how could a world sugar king and a world ship king suddenly attack the Kadoorie family at the same time.
As for the Kadoorie family, it was indeed too unlucky, and they were taken as prey by two of the world's most powerful Chinese.
Hong Kong, HSBC Headquarters.
Shen Bi personally received a guest who had not come for a long time.
"Chen Sheng, I don't know if I came to my HSBC in person, what advice do you have." Shen Bi said with a smile, although he has been slapped in the face and cheated many times, he still has the most basic face of high society.
"Mr. Shen Bi, I came here today in the hope of avoiding another conflict." Chen Zhiwen said with a light smile.
"Conflict? In this way, the Kadoorie family was besieged, and it was indeed from Chen Sheng's hands. Shen Bi said calmly: "At the beginning, I was very strange why Guo Henian stared at the hotel, but later Bao Yugang made a move, and I understood, but the two of them can cooperate like this, I guessed that someone must guide them, and the world can have this ability, and it will be Chen Sheng." ”
"Thanks for the compliment." Chen Zhiwen said with a smile: "Mr. Shen Bi, I actually don't want to be an enemy with HSBC, so I took advantage of the fact that HSBC hasn't interfered much now, so I deliberately came to communicate first."
Bao Sheng's intention to abandon the boat and land has been ironclad, and no one can stop him, which is actually due to Mr. Shen Bi's change in strategy for ocean shipping. ”
"So Bao Yugang chose CLP, which is a very good choice." Shen Bi nodded and said, since he came to the HSBC Taipan, he was keenly aware of the possible future crisis in the HNA market, so he began to cut off HSBC's cooperation with many shipping companies, including Bao Yugang, even if he is a director of HSBC, HSBC's Taipan has absolute control, but the relationship between the two is usually not bad.
"There are indeed a lot of high-quality companies in Hong Kong, but there are few that can meet Bao Yugang's financial requirements, which involves the investment of Bao Sheng's lifelong assets, and he will never give up, so any consortium or bank that helps the Kadoorie family needs to consider how much it can support, because once it fails, it will be a huge financial loss." Chen Zhiwen said with a smile.
"Chen Sheng's good means, from Guo Henian to Bao Yugang, they are all under your control, it seems that if the Kadoorie family's company is acquired, Chen Sheng will have a lot of benefits." Bao Yugang said with a smile.
"It's just a matter of becoming a shareholder, and there may be some cooperation with others." Chen Zhiwen said with a light smile.
"Well, I won't help the Kadoorie family anymore." Shen Bi thought about it, nodded and said, in the face of the three world's top Chinese, HSBC will not be stupid to fight hard.
(End of chapter)