Chapter 61: Coveting the candidate of Hutchison Whampoa!
Yang Ming naturally guessed the reason why Shen Bi invited him to meet at the Xiangjiang Jockey Club.
Yang Ming knew that this Shen Bi was definitely not the kind of person who dealt with business matters.
If that were the case, historically, he would not have sold Hutchison Whampoa to Li Jiacheng at a low price.
After Shen Yi retired, we can learn that Shen Yi’s family not only collected many valuable Swiss gold watches, but also a very special gift.
It was what Li Jiacheng gave to him back then.
It is said that Li Jiacheng gave Shen Bi a golden statue of the Huifeng Bank Building, which is more than one meter high, based on the model of the Huifeng Bank Building.
If this was not because Shen Bi sold Hutchison Whampoa to Li Jiacheng at a cheap price, how could Li Jiacheng give such an expensive gift?
From this point of view, this Shen Bi is not only selfish, but also a little greedy.
Others are greedy for money.
He is greedy for Swiss gold watches, or gold.
Whether it is a Swiss gold watch or gold, it can actually be converted into money.
From the boxes of Swiss gold watches that the other party collected, we can know that they were all gifts he received from others during his tenure at Huifeng Bank, especially during his tenure at Huifeng Bank. We can also know that he has been greedy for a lot of things. .
Yang Ming is most afraid that the other party is not greedy, which will make it more difficult for him to attack.
"Kaila, do you think Mr. Shen is willing to sell Hutchison International's shares to me?" Yang Ming asked, getting closer to Kayla.
Kayla said directly: "Not necessarily."
"why?"
"Mr. Yang, there are many people who are eyeing Hutchison Whampoa. I know that there are Chinese rich people such as Li Jiacheng and Bao Yugang, and even other British rich people, who are very coveted by Hutchison Whampoa. I even heard that, Now Hutchison Whampoa CEO Wei Li and his management team have been trying to negotiate with Huifeng Bank to obtain a controlling stake in Hutchison International."
Wei Li?
This Weili is no ordinary person.
He is originally from Scotland and was born in Australia in 1932, which makes him 46 years old.
Wei Li is still very legendary.
He started out as a lumberjack in Australia, and later joined the Singapore Company. After successfully saving several companies, he arrived in Hong Kong in 1964 for development. He even turned many companies in Hong Kong from losses to profits, and emerged in the Hong Kong business community. He was known as the company doctor. , which means that the company can be brought back to life.
In 1975, after Huifeng Bank became the largest shareholder of Hutchison International, it invited Wei Li to serve as the CEO of Hutchison International.
After Wei Li took office, Hutchison International made vigorous rectifications and reforms to stop losses and improve the group's management system. Even last year, Hutchison International and Whampoa Dockyard were merged into Hutchison Whampoa.
When Li Jiacheng and others coveted Hutchison Whampoa, Hutchison Whampoa has now begun to get on the right track and start to make profits.
In this case, Weili and his management team are certainly ambitious.
They hope to take the shares of Hutchison International from Huifeng Bank and control Hutchison Whampoa.
However, Huifeng Bank's policies have already determined that it is impossible to sell Hutchison Whampoa to British capital, so the Weili management team will naturally not be able to succeed.
Keira said Wesley and his management team also wanted to capture Hutchison Whampoa.
In Yang Ming's opinion, it is simply impossible.
In any case, this Wei Li is like an outsider. He was invited by Huifeng Bank to temporarily manage Hutchison Whampoa. How could he become the new owner of Hutchison Whampoa?
Wesley and his management team were the last to get Hutchison.
"It is absolutely impossible for Wei Li and his management team." Yang Ming said directly.
"Mr. Yang, you are right. Whoever Huifeng Bank sells Hutchison Whampoa's shares can't sell it to Weili and his management team. In my opinion, the one who has the best chance of getting Hutchison Whampoa now is, Either Li Jiacheng or Bao Yugang."
"why?"
Yang Ming learned from Kaila.
It turns out that Changchun Industrial and Huifeng Bank have cooperated a lot in recent years, and Li Jiacheng and Shen Bi are relatively close friends.
Not to mention Bao Yugang.
Bao Yugang has cooperated with Huifeng Bank in the 1960s.
In the 1970s, it even had a joint venture with Huifeng Bank.
For example, Huifeng Bank has shares in Global Shipping, and Global Shipping also has shares in Huifeng Bank. Bao Yugang is also the major shareholder of Huifeng Bank.
Historically, Shen Bi decided to sell Hutchison International's shares to Li Jiacheng, and Bao Yugang was a witness.
At that time, Bao Yugang was also the major shareholder of Huifeng Bank. He had no decision-making power. No matter whether he opposed Shen Bi's sale of Hutchison International's shares to Li Jiacheng, he was of no use.
Because the decision-making power lies with Shen Yan.
As for the other directors and even shareholders of Huifeng Bank, they are of no use.
"Mr. Yang, according to my understanding of Huifeng Bank, Hutchison Whampoa has started to get on the right track now, and it will definitely sell its Hutchison Whampoa shares to a third party as promised back then. Therefore, I think the sooner I get it, The better.”
Keira could think that way.
That's naturally because Huifeng Bank is a financial bank, and credit is very important.
Many people are watching now.
Since Huifeng Bank said back then that it would sell its shares when Hutchison Whampoa was on the right track and profitable, it shouldn't have to wait too long.
Yang Ming knew this.
Historically, on September 1979, 9, Shen Bi officially sold all the shares of Hutchison International to Li Jiacheng, allowing Li Jiacheng to rise to the sky.
It is February 1978, 2, which seems still early.
In fact, it's not very slow.
"Keira, I can tell you that when I was preparing to swallow up Wharf, I was also preparing to swallow up Hutchison Whampoa."
what?
Keira almost screamed in surprise.
Yang Ming is actually preparing to swallow up Hutchison Whampoa?
"This, how is this possible?"
"Speaking of it, it is actually easier to acquire Hutchison Whampoa than Wharf. Because Wharf's biggest rival is Jardine Matheson Land. If it had not been a surprise attack on Jardine Matheson Land, I am afraid it would not have been so easy when Jardine Matheson Land reacted. Take the Wharf."
Historically, it took Bao Yugang many years to swallow up Wharf, and he even almost failed.
Now Yang Ming is making a sneak attack, or he has enough liquidity to make a thunderous strike.
As for Hutchison Whampoa, it's different.
If Li Jiacheng persuades Shen Bi to sell Hutchison International's shares to him, then it will be won without any difficulty.
It actually took a lot of time for Li Jiacheng to convince Shen Bi, including financial and material resources, emotional investment, and even it is said that Li Jiacheng's wife Zhuang Yueming met Shen Bi many times in private. Outsiders don't know what the specific talks between the two parties were. .
Now Yang Ming is different from Li Jiacheng. He doesn't have to be as humble as Li Jiacheng to please Shen Bi.
"I have asked people to secretly acquire 10% of Hutchison International's shares."
10% of stocks?
Kayla was also a little surprised. She didn't expect that Yang Ming had secretly bought more than 20 million shares of Hutchison International without knowing it.
Compared with the 90 million shares of Huifeng Bank, this is far behind.
As long as Yang Ming gets these, coupled with Yang Ming's own reasons now, the scale of initiative will gradually move closer to him.
If Shen Bian must sell Hutchison International's shares to Li Jiacheng, he must think twice before doing so.
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