Rebirth of Hong Kong 1981

As the saying goes, winners and losers.

Whoever loses, everything he does is wrong, it is a conspiracy that people believe.

If there hadn't been a formal negotiation between China and Britain on the Xiangjiang issue in [-], and if there hadn't been Mrs. Thatcher's thunderbolt fall, according to Carrian's previous situation, it might not have fallen.

What is too big to fail?

When an enterprise is as large as a country or a regional government is unwilling to see it fail, then when it encounters problems, the government part will take the initiative to help it solve the troubles.

Since 1980, Carrian has used the capital obtained from the stock market to start its journey of continuous expansion.

Behind the high-priced acquisitions, even big banks including HSBC and Standard Chartered favored it at that time, expressing their full support for various acquisitions of "Carrian" and adding prestige to "Carrian".

In that case, Carnegie is like a pig standing on the cusp of the storm, with support from all sides coming one after another.

There is no shortage of money and no shortage of opportunities.

In just two to three years, with the recognition of many shareholders, the optimism of various big banks, big companies, and even well-known foreign companies, the market value of Carrian Group has ballooned to a scale of over ten billion Hong Kong dollars.

Its industrial subsidiaries cover real estate, tourism, aviation and other fields, and its investment areas include the United States, island countries, Singapore and other places.

It is no exaggeration to say that even Li Chaoren, who had successfully settled in Hutchison Whampoa with the help of HSBC before, seemed overshadowed by Chen Songqing.

Under the exaggeration of the media, Carrian has become an international large investor, its strength and future have all the qualities to become "JP Morgan".

Standing on the tuyere, even a pig can take off.

What's more, Carrian has many advantageous resources. As long as there are no accidents, it is only a matter of time before Carrian becomes a large British-owned conglomerate surpassing HSBC and Standard Chartered within a few years.

Under such circumstances, even if Chen Songqing was a complete liar at the beginning, I believe she would change her original intention and make Carrian bigger and stronger.

No one likes darkness from birth, and who is willing to bear the infamy that is enough to ruin his reputation if he can appear in front of others in an upright manner?

However, God seems to have made a joke for everyone. Carrian's sudden rise and fall are only two or three years apart. The whole process is like a comet hitting the earth, which makes people caught off guard.

The Carrian incident broke out, and its behind-the-scenes boss Chen Songqing was arrested. This news appeared in major newspapers in Xiangjiang, and it was not only the people of Xiangjiang who were shocked.

At the same time, there is also the Jardine Group, which is now facing crazy attacks by Zheng Haiquan and others. Earlier, Jardine and Carrian also had transactions, and the transaction amount between the two parties was not small.

Earlier, Carrian proposed to Jardine Mathematics to acquire the Golden Gate Building under Hongkong Land. At the beginning, due to the momentum of Carrian, it had a great momentum of rising by the wind.

Therefore, during the transaction process, the Jardine Group agreed to Carrian's request to only pay [-]% of the purchase price in cash in advance, and then sold the Golden Gate Building to Carrian at a high price.

At that time, this transaction was a matter of mutual satisfaction and happiness for both parties.

However, no one thought that Carrian would have such an incident. If it had been changed at another time, even if Jardine was affected, the impact would not be great.

However, Jardine is in a bad situation now. The situation was still stalemate. The two sides can't help each other for the time being. Now that it's better, who knows whether this matter will become the last straw that crushes Jardine.

When the Carrian incident broke out and Chen Songqing was arrested, Asia Satellite TV immediately reported on it. An accident happened to Ning, to put a little pressure on those shareholders who still hold shares in Jardine Group and are still waiting to see.

With the two aggressively acquiring the tradable shares of Jardine Matheson and Hongkong Land in the market, as well as the shares in the hands of some shareholders, the remaining shareholders of Jardine Matheson Group and retail investors are all watching from the sidelines, preparing to make more money from the two companies. Some oil and water.

When the Carrian incident broke out this time, no matter how much money Carrian owes Jardine, no matter what relationship between Jardine and Carrian, Jardine cannot deny that in the process of Carrian's rise, Jardine has done a lot. Vigorously.

At that time, the Golden Gate Building involved a transaction of several hundred million Hong Kong dollars, and Jardine was counting on Carrian to repay the money as agreed, so how could it not help to raise Carrian's stock price.

Now that Carrian has an accident, it is naturally impossible for the Jardine Group to make a clean statement and not be affected at all.

Of course, compared to the state-owned Umin Bank Malaysia, the financial backer behind Carrian, Jardine's losses seem to be insignificant.

Carrian Group fell, and even a national bank was affected. Umin Bank Malaysia suffered heavy losses in the process.

There is no such thing as a professional backer, and this is it.

As for the culprit, Chen Songqing, although he was punished by law in the end, it is completely negligible compared to the benefits he gained from it.

Commercial fraud in this era is really the lowest-cost crime. Compared with the big gangster behind, smart people commit crimes, and their destructive power is far beyond that of those muscular people.

Chapter 789 Tough

Under the successive reports of Asia Satellite TV and Hong Kong's major media, the truth behind the Carrian incident has been unearthed, and more and more companies have been implicated.

Not only Jardine, but also many banks and investment institutions in Xiangjiang, including HSBC, have also been implicated.

Originally, the stocks of Jardine Matheson and Hongkong Land, because of the competition between the two, not only did not fall, but continued to rise.

This gave many speculators a chance to seize the opportunity, and at the same time, it also caused a stalemate between Yihe and Zheng Haiquan.

Now that the Carrian incident broke out, such a company with a scale of more than [-] billion is suddenly facing the danger of collapse. At this moment, everyone can no longer have confidence in the Jardine Group.

In particular, Asia Satellite TV also disclosed the current debt situation of Hongkong Land Company. This is like stabbing a hornet's nest, directly making those shareholders and retail investors who hold Jardine Group shares completely uneasy.

For a while, Hongkong Land's stock fell wildly, and all the listed companies under Jardine Matheson Group enjoyed the process of plummeting stock prices again, without the previous rising trend at all.

Together, this panic effect can no longer be stopped.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Zheng Haiquan and others continued to absorb the scattered shares in the market, and at the same time quickly expressed their intention to continue to acquire the shares in their hands to the shareholders they had contacted before.

Like Zheng Haiquan and others, Jardine also responded quickly under the organization of Niubijian. However, due to limited funds, Jardine can only selectively retain some listed companies.

Compared with Hongkong Land, Jardine Matheson’s executives pay more attention to Jardine Matheson. Jardine Matheson Group is already facing high financial problems. The group will inevitably follow in Carrian's footsteps.

A lesson learned from the past, as Jardine's taiban king, Niu Bijian did not hesitate at all, and directly chose to take the lead in keeping Jardine Matheson.

On Zheng Haiquan's side, it was the exact opposite of Jardine's choice. They immediately chose to accelerate the acquisition of Hongkong Land's shares, striving to achieve the ultimate controlling interest in Hongkong Land.

Although Hongkong Land is burdened with huge debts, these debts are completely negligible compared with the many high-quality assets it controls.

There are too many companies with great development potential under Hongkong Land, and almost half of the essence of the Jardine Group is concentrated. Even if the later generations of Jardine shifted their focus out of Xiangjiang and sold many high-quality assets during the period to repay debts, it still ranks among the top ten companies from the beginning to the end. The ranks of the world's top [-] companies have never fallen.

Once the land company is won, then the background problem that Yang Chen lacks will no longer exist.

Just like the previous Jardine Group, holding a foreign firm in one hand and a powerful real estate company in the other, the two companies complement each other, making Jardine Group the first of the four major foreign firms in Hong Kong.

Now Yang Chen has Hang Seng Bank in his hands. Although compared with the influence of Jardine Matheson Bank, Hang Seng Bank still has a big gap, but this gap, after Yang Chen's efforts in many ways, its strong cash flow, It has already far surpassed Jardine Matheson, a subsidiary of the Jardine Group.

The only thing Yang Chen lacks now is a company with strength, scale, and foundation.

And land happens to be the most appropriate right now.

Due to the previous expansion strategy of Newbiken, Hongkong Land has completely got rid of the image of a real estate company, and its business covers retail, service, aviation, manufacturing and other fields.

That is to say, if he controls Hongkong Land Company, then Yang Chen, like Li Chaoren, can use the resources of (Hutchison Whampoa) Landmark to lay a solid foundation for himself, so as to insert two soaring growth engines for his business empire in one fell swoop. wing.

Hang Seng Building

Li Guowei, who had just hung up the phone, ran to the trading room excitedly, and excitedly said to Zheng Haiquan, who was watching the operator's operation: "Manager Zheng, Swire has already replied, and they said that if we are willing to At the previous price, they are willing to sell the 5.00% of the shares they hold in order to acquire the shares they hold in Hongkong Land.”