In the face of someone betraying inside and a strong enemy outside, Simon Keswick has no choice, because he can't come up with a solution to the current crisis of Jardine Land.

There are many shareholders on the scene, but no matter who controls Hongkong Land, as long as anyone can bring Hongkong Land back to life and raise Hongkong Land's stock price, they will follow whom.

Obviously, Chen Zhiwen is the most suitable, as for Simon Keswick? What's that? There are not many people who know each other on the spot.

However, the only bad thing is that Chen Zhiwen's listed company, unlike other listed companies in Hong Kong, never pays dividends, but holds all profits in his own hands.

In their words, if my investment ability is stronger than yours, you should believe me, the money can create more income in my hands, if you don't believe it, think you are more capable, then you can sell all the stocks!

If other companies dared to say such a disregard for shareholders, I am afraid that they would have been scolded to death a long time ago, but this kind of strong and confident words came out of the mouths of the strong, and no one objected.

Simon Keswick glanced at a group of British people in the area on the left below, which he had brought over and were going to vote for him at the shareholders' meeting, but the sudden interference of Huo Jianning and the others seemed to make up their minds, let alone others.

"Okay, everyone, no matter who is the most suitable for Jardine and Land, this is not something that I or Mr. Keswick can decide unilaterally, the shareholders' meeting will naturally be decided by the shareholders." Niu Bijian said again.

"Jardine Matheson and Hongkong Land have a controlling stake in each other, and they can represent each other, which is a completely unreasonable factor, and the real shareholders will have no rights, this is a document issued by the Supreme Court of Hong Kong." Simon Keswick also said that Chen Zhiwen has more than 20% of Hongkong Land's shares, and if Niu Bijian votes for Hongkong Land as Jardine Matheson, then the others will not play.

Since coming to Hong Kong, he has intended to use the previous regulations of European and American countries to break this chain of mutual control, and this itself is also unreasonable, and the Hong Kong government court has to pay attention to it, otherwise, in the future, the big conglomerates will be divided into two, and then hold shares with each other, so is it necessary for the entire stock market to exist?

However, such a shareholding model itself is legal, and Simon Keswick spent a lot of effort to get a court document that does not have the voting rights of the other party at the shareholders' meeting, which is not for Jardine Land, but for all the people who operate the same.

This is the secret weapon he prepared, originally with this document, plus his own shares and the Keswick family's previous control of Jardine Land, and at the same time, Niu Bijian and others ran the company like this, Simon Keswick is still very sure of winning this shareholders' meeting.

But now, Niu Bijian actually took the initiative to resign, and also introduced Chen Zhiwen's capital before leaving, which clearly wanted to disgust him, or rather, he must have reached other cooperation with Chen Zhiwen.

No matter what his chances of winning now, he has to revoke New Bijian's voting rights, otherwise, he can go back to the UK directly.

After receiving the documents passed by his subordinates, Niu Bijian didn't care about it and said, "Okay, no problem. ”

In fact, when Jardine Land engaged in serial mutual control, there was great opposition from various business circles, this model was not feasible overseas, and seriously infringed on the rights and interests of shareholders, but the Hong Kong government may also be for the purpose of protecting Jardine Matheson, turning a blind eye to this, and other consortiums are also unwilling to offend Jardine Matheson, so they only pay lip service.

But when the Keswick family applied for the abolition of the voting rights of the mutually controlled enterprises in order to compete for control of Jardine Land, this was basically successful, and even if Chen Zhiwen applied for it, it could be successful. After all, although the Hong Kong government favors British-funded enterprises, it cannot override market stability, and if it does not agree, it will allow large enterprises to hold shares in each other, which is tantamount to destroying all the efforts of the Hong Kong government to build the stock market, and may even lead to another collapse of the stock market.

Ignoring Simon Keswick, he said, "Now it's better to ask those who have already made a decision to vote first." ”

Since he decided to cooperate with Chen Zhiwen in exchange for his future development, he has naturally been prepared for a long time.

Except for some small shareholders or shareholders with very, very small shares, most of the shareholders, Niu Bijian also knows, or at least knows, and which of them have a good relationship with the Keswick family, which ones don't care about the status of Hongkong Land, and only need to make money, and which ones may be inclined to be acquired by Chen Zhiwen, or which people are even willing to sell their shares and so on.

Niu Bijian also from the number of shares, from more to less, with the right people contacted, through accurate crowd selection, in a very short period of time, he found a lot of shareholders for Chen Zhiwen who were willing to support him, or shareholders who were willing to sell their shares, of course, the price is still negotiated by Chen Zhiwen, or those who are willing, will also put forward their own conditions, but how to say, Niu Bijian accurately found these people, and basically will not disclose this matter.

This is the terrible thing about a high-level undercover agent, all the information is exposed, so that the acquirer Chen Zhiwen can obtain the consent of a large number of shareholders in the shortest time and at the lowest cost.

This may also be the way Niu Bijian is showing his value.

The people below began to discuss with each other after Niu Bijian finished speaking, but there were also people who went directly to the ballot box in front of them to vote, two boxes, one agreed, one disagreed, and each vote will be written with their shareholder name or company information, etc., as well as the proportion of shares held, and finally the official votes through internal voting to decide whether the opinion can be passed.

"Simon, it seems that your family has been away from Hong Kong for too long, and its reputation is not good." Niu Bijian said arrogantly, although he was forced to lose to Chen Zhiwen, but if you think about it carefully, it is nothing, the capital of the two sides is already too different, that is, before the real estate crisis, Hongkong Land can only rely on mutual control with Yizhi to protect itself, not that Chen Zhiwen at that time could not be acquired, but the price will be very high and not cost-effective.

Now, under the persecution of the Keswick family, he was forced to resign, and Simon Keswick was the first opponent against him, and now he was embarrassed, and he was naturally very happy.

"You just said that you are going to resign, it seems that Chen Zhiwen is not ready to continue to let you be the Taipan of Jardine Matheson after the acquisition of Land, right?" Simon Keswick sneered and said: "Although I don't like Chen Zhiwen, but many times I also admire him very much, his ability is also very rare in the world, I am also convinced by losing to him, but I now find that he has one thing in common with me, that is, it is a toothless dog, we will not raise it." ”

Since he has fallen out, Simon Keswick will naturally not be polite, in fact, he also knows that even if Niu Bijian does not betray Jardine Land, under Chen Zhiwen's watchful eye, it will be difficult to fight against such a local big consortium by relying on him, but it is one thing to lose in his efforts, but it is another thing to be stabbed in the back.

"Hmph, don't be too strong-tongued, you are still worried, if Hongkong Land is acquired by Chen Zhiwen, then under the mutual control of Yizhi, what will happen to the Jardine Group of your Keswick family, right?" Niu Bijian was also very annoyed after hearing this, but he also knew that to a certain extent, Simon Keswick was not wrong, and after this incident, his behavior would definitely be shamed by British capital in the Hong Kong business community, no matter how he explained, he did betray the "British-funded interest group".

And if he can still do the Taipan of Jardine or Landmark, then such a price is still worth it, but Chen Zhiwen obviously disagrees, this will become another joke, the only chance to turn the tables, that is, to run his own company smoothly in the future and become the number one person in the Hong Kong business community, then he can wash away everything now, as long as it is successful, what he did before is right.

"Yizhi's mutual control has been lifted, and after Chen Zhiwen controls Land, it is useless to vote on Yihe, and the follow-up only needs to decompose each other." Simon Keswick said.

Hongkong Land is indeed the biggest asset of Jardine Matheson, but it is not the only one, no one wants to lose Land, but there is really no way, then it can only "give up the big and keep the small", which is much better than nothing, and Land, but also only has strong financial resources, relying on rent collection to basically ensure income from drought and flood, if it were not for the large-scale expansion of the waste of Niubijian at the wrong time, this kind of enterprise would not have fallen to the point it is today. The Jardine Group itself has a lot of business, involving dozens of countries around the world and dozens of different businesses, but because the operation is not very good and the losses are serious, if it is in the hands of capable people and the operation is good, the scale effect and profit will not be lower than that of Hongkong Land.

"Oh, there's one thing I forgot to tell you." Niu Bijian said with a smile: "Chen Zhiwen also has some Jardine shares in his hands, almost 18%, which is less than twice the shareholding of your Keswick family!" ”

"What did you say?" Simon Keswick almost stood up in a hurry and said, "This is your idea?" ”

"Of course not, my idea, it's impossible for him to buy so many shares in such a short period of time, right?" Niu Bijian said with a smile: "Hutchison also began to acquire Jardine shares as early as 5 years ago, which was the same period as Land, which means that Chen Zhiwen didn't just play the idea of Hongkong Land a few years ago. ”

"Jardine belongs to my Keswick family, and no one should try to snatch it." Simon Keswick said coldly.

"Your family's? With just a 10% stake, your family has a lot of investments in other companies in other industries, right? But since it is said that Jardine is owned by the Keswick family, why does your family only have 10% of the shares? If this ratio reaches 30%, I don't think Chen Zhiwen will fight the idea of Jardine Matheson again, and even if you control Hongkong Land through Jardine, then it will not be so easy for him to acquire Hongkong Land, even I, it is impossible to get the management of Jardine from your family in the first place. Niu Bijian sneered.

The source of all the problems is actually the diversified investment logic of the Keswick family, which is unwilling to invest fully in Hong Kong assets, which has led to all the problems today. Of course, in this case, he will always be the vice president of Jardine Matheson.

Simon Keswick fell silent and did not argue any further.

Below, the voting results were slowly counted, and a total of 24% of people agreed with Chen Zhiwen's investment in Hongkong Land.

(End of chapter)