The news of Hongkong Land's acquisition has not only become a hot headline in Hong Kong, but also in many overseas countries, especially for the Chinese, and the media has used a number of reports to describe and explain the matter, including the history of Jardine Matheson, the scale of Hongkong Land, and the rise of Chen Zhiwen, a business giant, etc., each of which has become a reading material for many Chinese people.

And some media in the United States even claimed that the end of the era of British capital in Hong Kong was not only in the Sino-British negotiations, the British government had given up what it had strived for, and even in how to hand over this kind of thing, it was restrained by the mainland, and Hong Kong's business field, several British-funded giants, were defeated by the Chinese, and one of the media laughed that Hong Kong's once major British-funded consortia were just a group of products that succeeded by policy, and when Chinese capital began to have a relatively fair environment, All British capital is a bunch of waste, and at the same time, it is recommended that Hong Kong should not continue to protect HSBC, but should be completely marketized.

The international media in the West cannot be all monolithic, and there are many internal contradictions, so naturally there are many media who are unhappy with the UK, and now with this opportunity, of course, they have to laugh at it a little, and even some of them extend to the current industrial situation in the UK, which is also a mess, and after losing the protection of the British government, there is no competitiveness at all.

Some officials of the British government were naturally furious when they saw these reports, but they knew that the more times like this, the more they could not reply. Although Hong Kong is still under their banner, the mainland has been staring at it, and if there is any problem, it will be magnified immediately.

Hot news, like a slap, needs to be worked together on both sides to shoot loudly, once you reply on your side, no matter what you reply to, whether the reply is right or not, these media will find out all kinds of problems like a prick, and then amplify it to form a larger hot traffic. And if you don't know, then there are fewer people who pay attention, and naturally no one will report it anymore, and media people are not stupid, and they will naturally not care if there is no traffic.

"These Yankees are really good at playing." Chen Zhiwen said with a smile after reading a batch of American newspapers.

Although he has been in Hong Kong for a long time, many of his businesses are in the United States and some other countries, so he still has some attention to international news, plus he has been here for ten years, and some big things can naturally be remembered, but many small ones can't be remembered if they don't take the initiative to see them, and by watching various news events, they may be able to promote these memories.

"It's business news, but it's reported in entertainment newspapers, and the Yankees probably see it as an entertainment thing." Zhou Jiayang said with a smile, and Huo Jianning on the side also nodded lightly.

"Well, Americans are generally not interested in overseas affairs, and what is happening in Hong Kong is not paying attention to them." Chen Zhiwen said nonchalantly: "But there is one point, this newspaper says that many industries in the UK are no longer good, and the British government has invited us to invest in the UK before, so after the matter of Landmark Jardine is over, we can consider this matter." ”

As the first country in the world to have an industrial revolution, Britain has been the world's largest industry for many years, and more than 100 years ago, the purpose of so many colonies was to gain a larger market to sell too much of their industrial capacity.

However, time has passed, and by the 60s, British industry has begun to decay, in terms of scale, far less than the United States on the other side of the ocean, in terms of technology, not as good as Germany, not to mention that there is more volume of Japan in the competition for the global market, the entire British industry, to a large extent, depends on the British mainland and those Commonwealth countries preferential import taxes.

However, the existence of the European Union is the need to communicate with each other, and under the requirements of the international environment, the British government has to reduce domestic import tax rates and open up the market, and the result is that it is beaten by various industrial products in Europe, not to mention Germany, that is, Italy and France are stronger than the United Kingdom.

This is why, by the end of the 70s, the British economy fell into a serious recession, and the oil crisis was a deep stab. In this process, a lot of private capital has fattened their pockets, but the mess is still a mess, and it cannot be easily solved by changing the owner, so attracting foreign capital has become an important thing.

"After receiving the invitation from the British government last time, I investigated some situations in the UK, and there are not many assets that can suit us, and some of them are okay, but it is estimated that the UK side is unlikely to sell them." Zhou Jiayang replied.

"Which ones?" Chen Zhiwen asked.

"I've got my eye on a couple of ports in the UK." Zhou Jiayang said with a smile.

"Ports? That's unlikely, this thing is drought and flood to ensure harvest, even if the British government wants to sell the state-owned port, it will not be our turn, at least for now, it is difficult to succeed. Chen Zhiwen shook his head with a smile and said: "There are two areas, I am still a little optimistic, the first is part of the automobile industry, but this has nothing to do with you, I will let the American AMC operate this matter, and the second is the local shipbuilding industry in the United Kingdom." ”

"Shipbuilding? Are we going to get into this space? But Britain doesn't seem to be able to do it well in this regard. Zhou Jiayang thought for a while and said.

"It's not good, but if it's still that strong, do we still have a chance to buy it?" Chen Zhiwen shook his head and said: "What I fancy is not the traditional shipbuilding industry, but the private luxury cruise industry, this industry, more concerned about the brand and origin, Europe and Britain Europe are more suitable, our capital investment is not a problem."

However, the scale of this industry is not very large, and I would like to try whether this industry can be relocated to Hong Kong. ”

Many years ago, Chen Zhiwen actually thought about whether he could leave a little industry for the future of Hong Kong, not to mention the entire industrial chain, but even a part of it was enough. This is not absolutely impossible, because the wages in the big cities of South Korea and Japan are not much worse than those in Hong Kong, and they can support a large number of industries.

Of course, people have a large place, a whole industry chain, and a large number of talents, while Hong Kong has nothing, but the deep-sea city next door will have a large number of industrial facilities in the future, which can be regarded as a kind of foundation.

Therefore, Hong Kong needs an industry that is not suitable for the general people's livelihood, and when this industry is labeled as Hong Kong's origin, some people may be able to accept it.

The particularity of this industry is that it is not an industrialized product, each one is customized, so that there is no need for a very complex industrial chain to support production, and the profit itself is very high, Hong Kong's future wages can be easily covered, and the next door Shenhai City will definitely have this type of processing plant.

In the future of China and even Asia, after the economy improves, many rich people will have a high demand for cruise ships, but most of them are also purchased from Europe and the United States, even Japan and South Korea have few this industry, of course, it may also be that these two countries do not look down, after all, the private cruise industry, the output value is too small.

But for Hong Kong, it is very good, the future of Hong Kong, will indeed be real estate and finance to engage in industrial hollowing, but these two industries serve the rich, even after 2020, there are still a lot of poor people in Hong Kong, these people into the factory can stabilize their lives, or very happy, but modern large-scale civilian goods are not suitable for Hong Kong at all, but some high-profit non-standard products can.

However, whether it can succeed or not depends on fate, Chen Zhiwen can acquire technology and spend money to stabilize quality, but the building of Hong Kong brands is the most unstable factor, but Chen Zhiwen still thinks that he can try it, first, to have a number of small industries, and secondly, to take care of many ordinary people in Hong Kong in the future. Or you can find someone directly from the mainland.

This thing can't be made in the mainland, because in the next 40 years, it is unlikely that wealthy people in the mainland will choose mainland brands when they buy luxury goods, but Hong Kong brands are possible.

"Okay, I'll send someone to the UK to investigate." Zhou Jiayang said that although he didn't know much about it, he also knew that this kind of industry would not be large-scale, and there would not be much money to acquire.

"How's Jardine doing? When will the secondary vote start? Chen Zhiwen asked again. In the last vote, the vote for a stake in Jardine Matheson did not get more than two-thirds of the voting rights, but it doesn't matter, just wait, the rest of the people "think" clearly, and vote again.

"A week after the appointment, I have already arranged for people to communicate with many shareholders who have not voted before, and they either agree to vote or say that they can accept our acquisition, but I have not yet negotiated the price, because if there are enough people who vote in the end, we will not need to buy these people's shares at a high price." Zhou Jiayang replied that the easiest way to control a company is to directly direct the shares, obtain enough equity, so as to control the company, and from other shareholders, the premium is certain, and the cost of buying shares and then buying on the stock market is more sky-high.

"Well, yes, this matter is basically nine out of ten." Chen Zhiwen nodded with satisfaction and said, even if the vote still doesn't work, it's a big deal to buy it again, anyway, the market value of Jardine Matheson is far less than that of Land, the Keswick family actually controls Jardine Matheson through a small amount of money, and then Jardine controls Edane Land and the former Wharf, so as to complete the operation of controlling a large consortium with a small amount of money, but it is too ruthless, and the proportion in his hands is ridiculously small, and he was finally forcibly acquired by outsiders.

"Chen Sheng, Simon Keswick of the Keswick family, he came to me and said he wanted to meet you." Zhou Jiayang said again.

(End of chapter)