"Golden Cicada Shelling" is a doppelganger method to get rid of enemies, transfer or retreat, and complete special missions. The key to using this strategy lies in "getting rid of it", so that although the content has changed, the form still exists, and the enemy seems to have not moved, so that the enemy can be stabilized and he can be withdrawn. Li Ka-shing, a wealthy Hong Kong businessman, successfully used this strategy in his business war with Jardine Matheson.

Li Ka-shing is a real estate developer who rose in Hong Kong in the 70s of the 20th century, he has considered almost every piece of land and house in Hong Kong, and analyzed the stock market of almost every listed company. The hard work paid off, and he finally obtained a top-secret information - the British-owned Jardine Matheson, the largest British foreign bank in Hong Kong, although it is the big owner of Wharf Limited Co., Ltd., actually accounts for less than 20% of the shares, which is simply disproportionate, which shows that Jardine Matheson's foundation in Wharf is weak. Tsim Sha Tsui has long become a bustling business district, and the actual land price of the Wharf next to it has been a thousand dollars, while the stock price has not moved for many years, and the face value of the stock is unbelievably low. These are all favorable conditions for the competition for Wharf. If you buy a large number of Wharf shares, you can still bid with Jardine Matheson even if you lose the ticket. The people who hold shares, under the same bid, are of course more willing to sell to the Chinese. Therefore, buying 50% of the shares as soon as possible and replacing Jardine Matheson as a big proprietor will give you the right to use the land in Wharf to develop real estate, which can be regarded as a huge profit.

Li Ka-shing got this information and immediately decided to diversify and absorb Wharf stocks. From 1977 onwards, he quietly dispersed his name and sucked in 18% of the shares.

Due to Lee's large intake of stocks, the price per share rose rapidly from HK$10 to more than $30, which aroused the vigilance of Jardine Matheson. Lee's sneak attack will inevitably turn into positional warfare. The two armies faced each other, and Lee's strength was greatly weaker than that of Jardine Matheson, and it was difficult to win by hard work. At this time, if Li continues to buy shares, Jardine Matheson will inevitably recover Wharf shares at a high price, and it will be rich and rich, and Li will definitely fail miserably.

Li Ka-shing deserves to be a first-class businessman, and he decided to retreat into advance and turn danger into relief. His plan to get out of his shell was to find someone to fight against Jardine in his place and sell all the shares to him at a high price.

One day in September 1978, two locals dressed in Chinese clothes had a brief but mysterious meeting in Mandarin in the premium private room of Mandarin Court in Central. Although the time was only 20 minutes, it decided the key to the separation of the $2 billion Wharf from the British-owned Jardine Matheson.

Among these two people, one is the real estate developer Li Ka-shing, and the other is the ship king Bao Yugang, all 20 million shares were resold to Bao Yugang, and Bao will help Li buy 90 million shares of British-funded Hutchison Whampoa shares from HSBC. Both were overjoyed.

Li knew the difficulty and retreated, retreated to make a profit, and sold favors and enriched himself, isn't it wise! Bao Ze will use Lee's intelligence, information and excellent judgment to realize his long-cherished wish, and this is a clever plan that cannot be bought with a huge amount of money, not to mention that Li has laid the foundation for him to win a Wharf worth $2 billion! Bao Zizhi knows that he does have strength, Sheng Yihe knows in his heart, this trick is being used, and he will get 18% of Wharf shares in one fell swoop without much effort, and he will have the same strength as Jardine at the opening, how can he not be happy!

In addition, Li Ka-shing successfully set up a cover for Bao Yugang behind the scenes, but when Li was discovered by Jardine Matheson, he stopped doing it, making Jardine Matheson mistakenly believe that he had saved the day.