At this time, no matter what decisions Soros and others make, they will not be able to influence the plans of the Borderless Group.

Wujiang Group is now buying the bottom at a low price, and it doesn't care whether the financial crisis will continue to happen.

During the 1997 Asian financial crisis, Xie Guomin's CP Group suffered an unprecedented crisis.

Unlike previous lives, this Asian financial crisis hit CP Group even harder.

Zhao Ye is very aware of the development potential of CP Group, and the temporary predicament is nothing.

Since 1994, CP Group has ranked first among Thai companies 6 times and 2nd among the "Asia's 200 Leading Companies" selected by the world-renowned financial magazine Far Eastern Economic Review.

It's awesome!

Moreover, CP Group is also the first foreign capital to invest in Shenzhen. In 1978, when the reform and opening up had just begun, Shenzhen was just a small fishing village, and no foreign businessman dared to invest there.

A high-quality stock like CP Group must be bought a little more.

Moreover, CP Group's main business is agriculture and animal husbandry, which can just carry out in-depth cooperation with Wujiang Agricultural Group.

Wujiang Group will acquire a large number of farms, pastures, and plantations in Thailand this time, and if CP Group helps and cooperates in Thailand, then it will definitely be smoother!

In addition, Zhao Ye admires Xie Guomin's personality, the fourth generation of the family has all joined Chinese nationality, and has invested 120 billion yuan in China in half a century, which has greatly promoted the development of the domestic market economy. Zhao Ye is also willing to help CP Group once.

At the same time, the investment team sent by Zhao Ye has gone to Thailand and is negotiating with CP Group about investment and shareholding. At present, CP Group is facing a great crisis and urgently needs a fund to tide over the difficulties.

The Thai stock market plummeted, and the market value of CP Group naturally fell sharply.

Lu Maoshi, the person in charge of [Borderless Capital], said to Xie Guomin: "Mr. Xie, under the Asian financial crisis, many banks have gone bankrupt and collapsed, and no bank will dare to lend to CP Group. If CP Group wants to survive the crisis, it is likely to sell assets and survive with broken arms. ”

Xie Guomin nodded noncommittally.

Without the emergence of [Borderless Capital], he may be trying to find a way to sell the property and recoup the funds.

Lu Maoshi smiled and said, "I came with kindness this time. CP Group is a company with great development potential, and we [Borderless Capital] are very optimistic about the future development of CP Group, so we are willing to invest in CP Group! ”

Xie Guomin also knows more about [Wujiang Capital] and knows that this is an extremely large asset management company under Wujiang Group.

"Mr. Lu, I don't know how much money [Borderless Capital] plans to invest in CP Group, and how much shares do you want to occupy?" Xie Guomin asked, he is in urgent need of funds now, and the arrival of [Borderless Capital] has brought him hope.

Lu Maoshi: "Invest 1.5 billion US dollars, accounting for 30% of the shares!" ”

In business, "asking for a sky-high price and paying back the money on the spot" is not an opportunity to take advantage of CP Group.

Xie Guomin has room for bargaining.

Nowadays, there are very few companies that can come up with so much money in one go.

Hearing this, Xie Guomin frowned slightly, if he accepted this condition, [Borderless Capital] would become the largest shareholder of CP Group, and his family would become the second largest shareholder of CP Group.

Xie Guomin would rather cut off his tail to survive than be robbed of the CP Group.

"Mr. Lu, with all due respect, I can't agree to your request, we CP Group will sell up to 15% of the shares to [Borderless Capital] !!"

"15% is a bit less, 20%, [Borderless Capital] is just optimistic about the potential of CP Group, not to compete with Mr. Xie for control of CP Group. If you can accept this request, [Borderless Capital] is willing to invest $1.25 billion in CP Group! ”

When Xie Guomin heard this, he couldn't help but hesitate a little, and after half a sound, he said, "Mr. Lu, please let me think about it." ”

Lu Maoshi smiled: "No problem, you can think about it slowly." ”

"Thank you, Mr. Lu, I'll contact you as soon as I think it through."

"Okay, then I'll take my leave."

Lu Maoshi smiled and shook hands with Xie Guomin to say goodbye.

This time in Thailand, Lu Maoshi and others had a heavy task.

Investing in CP Group is just one of the tasks.

……

Not to mention how the Xie Guomin family discussed, after Lu Maoshi and his party left the CP Group, they went to the next target - Bangkok Bank non-stop.

Bangkok Bank suffered heavy losses in the financial crisis and was on the verge of bankruptcy. Speaking of which, Wujiang Group is also an accomplice, and it is precisely because Wujiang Group borrowed a lot of Thai baht from Bangkok Bank that it caused Bangkok Bank to lose a lot of money.

Founded on December 1, 1944 and headquartered in Bangkok, Bangkok Bank is the largest bank in Thailand, with more than 1,100 branches and a large number of ATMs in Thailand.

Chen Zhishen, president of Bangkok Bank, looked at Lu Maoshi, who was sitting opposite, with a complicated expression.

If it weren't for Wujiang Group, Bangkok Bank would not have lost so much, causing a run on the bank and almost going bankrupt.

Lu Maoshi: "Mr. Chen, the Asian financial crisis came too suddenly, no one could have imagined it. I am here to invest in Bangkok Bank on behalf of [Borderless Capital]. I believe that once [Borderless Capital] takes a stake in Bangkok Bank, it will greatly enhance the confidence of bank depositors, and the bank run crisis will disappear soon! ”

Chen Zhishen nodded, which was regarded as an endorsement of this.

"How much money does [Borderless Capital] intend to invest? How much do you have a share? ”

"$1 billion, 20%!" Lu Maoshi replied. The total assets under management of Bangkok Bank are actually not much, the market value is not high, and counting the impact of the Asian financial crisis, Bangkok Bank is in a difficult situation, and [Borderless Capital] can give this condition, which is actually relatively good.

At the moment, it is not [Borderless Capital] that needs Bangkok Bank, but Bangkok Bank needs [Borderless Capital].

As long as Bangkok Bank can borrow the momentum of [Boundless], it will be able to ride the wind in Thailand immediately, and perhaps create a more brilliant tomorrow!

In the evening of the same day, Bangkok Bank held a shareholders' meeting, and it was imminent to solve the bank run crisis, and the conditions given by [Borderless Capital] were not bad, so the major shareholders quickly agreed to the conditions of [Borderless Capital].

If you don't agree, you can't do it, the Thai people already know from the Internet that [Borderless Capital] is in contact with Bangkok Bank, and if the negotiations break down, I am afraid it will cause a more serious bank run.

Two days later, [Borderless Capital] officially signed an investment agreement with Bangkok Bank.

As soon as the news was announced, the run on Bangkok Bank disappeared immediately, and the stock price soared.

Countless Thai investors danced excitedly: "Thank God, Wujiang Group has come to the rescue, and we are finally saved in Thailand!" ”

The entire Thai media and people seem to have far more confidence in the TPG than in the Thai government, after all, the BPG is a business empire that can defeat Soros!

Seeing this, Xie Guomin of CP Group also agreed to the conditions of [Borderless Capital] and let [Borderless Capital] take a stake in CP Group. This is also great news for CP Group......

Lu Maoshi and others blossomed everywhere, and then successively invested in PetroThailand, Siam White Cement, Kasikornbank, Yiwang Information (Thailand's largest mobile phone operator), Thai Airways International, and Bangkok Dusit Medical Services Group......

At the same time, [Borderless Capital] has also acquired a large number of farms and pastures in Thailand, accounting for 14.5% of Thailand's agricultural and pastoral land.

It can be said that Zhao Ye has become the king of planting in Thailand.

Thailand's economy began to pick up rapidly at this time.

The Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia and other countries are still devastated at this time, and people's lives are in dire straits, and they have called on Wujiang Group to come to the rescue.

At this time, various countries have put forward very favorable conditions to the Wujiang Group, hoping that the Wujiang Group can save the market.

Wujiang Group has some experience in copying in Thailand.

Casually, the next thing Borderless Group is actually very simple, which is to replicate the work in Thailand in other countries in Southeast Asia.

With the announcement of the rescue of the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia and other countries.

As soon as the news came out, before Wujiang Group came up with a dime, the stock prices of Southeast Asian countries had soared wildly, and international speculators were dumbfounded, and they couldn't suppress the stock market no matter how much they suppressed.

Soros and the others were speechless, and at the same time, they couldn't help but feel a deep chill.

The prestige of the Wujiang Group is so high, just announcing a piece of news has caused such a huge impact, it is really terrifying!

Soros and others hurriedly confessed.

We can only turn the gun around and go to those countries that have not been rescued by the Borderless Group, such as Japan and South Korea......

[Borderless Capital] is frantically "sweeping" in Southeast Asian countries at this time.

Yes, buying a company or taking a stake in a company is like sweeping the flea market.

Of course, the acquisition or investment targets are mainly banks, telecommunications, energy, agriculture and pasture.

Moreover, Zhao Ye intends to build a large hotel group, so he specially asked Lu Maoshi and others to acquire the Shangri-La Hotel Group of Malaysian overseas Chinese Guo Henian.

Qiao Guohe is known as the "Asian Sugar King" and has strong strength, but it has also suffered heavy losses in the financial crisis, and the company is facing a huge crisis.

Selling Shangri-La Hotels & Resorts can raise funds to help the company tide over the difficult times, and on the other hand, it can also befriend Wujiang Group and strive for some cooperation.

In fact, [Borderless Capital] has already bought a large number of stocks at low prices in the stock market. At the same time, other shareholders of Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts were approached to buy shares from them.

Qiao Guohe doesn't know how many shares [Borderless Capital] has, maybe more than himself.

[Borderless Capital] is rich and rich, and Qiao Guo He does not dare to gamble at all.

Rather than competing with [Borderless Capital] for control of Shangri-La Hotel Group, it is better to take the opportunity to sell the shares in your hand at a good price.

In addition to acquiring Shangri-La Hotel Group, Borderless Capital also acquired Mandarin Oriental in Hong Kong.

Mandarin Oriental is a five-star hotel on par with The Peninsula Hong Kong, which originally belonged to the Jardine Matheson Group, but was acquired by [Borderless Capital].

For Hong Kong people, Jardine Matheson is very good, but for Wujiang Group, it is just like that.

Zhao Ye founded the Oriental Hotel Group, merging the Mandarin Oriental Hotel and the Shangri-La Hotel into the other hotel group.

In the future, with the great development of the global economy, the flourishing tourism industry and the vigorous development of the hotel industry, it is of course the best for Wujiang Group to lay out hotels as soon as possible.

Moreover, it can just cooperate with the expansion of Wanjiang City or Wanjiang Square.

If there is a five-star hotel in Wanjiang City or Wanjiang Square, the grade will naturally be improved.

Of course, in addition to five-star hotels, Oriental Hotel Group has also incorporated some three- or four-star hotels, and not all places are suitable for building five-star hotels, which is not good for the environment and damages the brand image.

Soon, time flashed to the end of 1997.

Wujiang Group has spent nearly $100 billion in Southeast Asia, and has occupied a large market share in retail, tourism, communications, electricity, civil water, transportation and other industries.

Zhao Ye also began to try to let the trade between the two sides be settled in RMB.

Anyway, as long as you spend in supermarkets, hotels, and scenic spots of Wujiang Group, you can use RMB.

Chinese like to travel once they have money, and Wujiang Group's ability to provide RMB settlement in Southeast Asia will definitely attract more Chinese tourists.

This can be regarded as a role in promoting the internationalization of the people.

With the increase in trade between Southeast Asian countries and China, coupled with the influence of Wujiang Group in Southeast Asian countries, it will be easier to promote the internationalization of the renminbi in the future.

Moreover, Southeast Asian countries actually do not have much US dollars, and being able to use RMB for settlement is absolutely beneficial and harmless for them.

It is only the interests of country M that are harmed.

Of course, country M will not sit idly by and may coerce and lure Southeast Asian countries.

Given the current strong military power of country M.

Southeast Asian countries may not even dare to let out a fart.

At present, China is mainly focusing on economic development, and only when the economy is strong can it have enough financial resources to develop its military strength. In recent years, China's science and technology have developed rapidly, China's military industry has made huge gains, and its military strength has improved rapidly.

……

1998, the beginning of the new year.

The economies of Southeast Asian countries are gradually recovering, and Japan and South Korea are starting to suffer at this time.

Soros and others have nowhere to vent their anger, so they can only frantically bite Japan and South Korea.

The stock markets of Japan and South Korea have plummeted wildly, and the economy has suffered a severe economic downturn.

Banks and factories went bankrupt.

Tens of thousands of people have been laid off and unemployed.

Japan, in particular, experienced a huge economic crisis only a few years ago, which led to a sharp recession in Japan, and many Japanese people have lingering fears when they see the stock market crash.

South Korea's economic strength is worse than Japan's, and when the financial crisis hits, it will be difficult to resist.

Samsung, Hyundai, Daewoo, LG, Rakuten, POSCO...... This fat sheep is greedy~

The South Korean market is relatively conservative and xenophobic, and the monopoly of consortia is serious.

In the previous life, the United States also took advantage of the Asian financial crisis to reach into the Korean market, thus controlling many Korean conglomerates.

Zhao Ye couldn't help but extend his tentacles to South Korea......

(End of chapter)