Reborn Tech Maniac

Chapter 206 Thank You One After Another

Real Estate has indeed fallen into the hole it dug for itself. The momentum of its additional purchases has led to it surpassing Charter King from behind.

The British guy, who has been playing with financial capital for hundreds of years, is obviously more experienced. Seeing that the wind direction is wrong and runs counter to the goal he originally designed, he hastily used various excuses to delay the transaction. After the evening of Tuesday, June 6, he declared The additional purchases came to an end temporarily, and the shares of Wharf actually resumed trading the next day.

It seems that the final battle for Wharf, still in accordance with historical inertia, has come to an end at this point in time.

But the ripples caused by a stone thrown into the pond can't be calmed down so quickly.

For example, Wharf's stock price did not fall as fast as in the previous life, and still remained at a price of nearly HK$80 before the suspension. Obviously, Wharf investors, who had very few circulating shares on the market, were still lucky enough to think that there was still money left. There will be a follow up.

Landmark’s additional purchases came to an abrupt end. The final result, whether there is any suspicion of market fraud, has been discussed by the outside world, and the Heung Kong Securities Regulatory Office is also under the pressure of public opinion, and continues to discuss.

It is said that the reason why the West is developed is that it respects the spirit of contract in business practices. In other words, it abides by the rules of the game. However, it would be foolish and naive to think that this is equivalent to fairness.Just like the media reporting news, the truth is often only part of it, and it may also be the part that the recipient expects. This is the most brilliant way to confuse people.

Taking advantage of information asymmetry, veterans who know the rules well, play with rookies who have little knowledge of the rules. No one does not like to do this.

Now, the chairman of Jardine Niu Bijian, the executive director of Hongkong Land, Bao Fuda, and some senior consultants are discussing how to find a plausible excuse within the framework of the rules to completely end this failed increase in purchases. through the current public opinion.

The charter king, who raised huge funds from HSBC, spent HK$90 billion to buy 13.00% of Wharf shares from Tang Huan at a price of HK$11.7.

Naturally, such a large-scale cash flow cannot escape the eyes and ears of interested people, not to mention that Xiangjiang's British capital has always been intricately linked with each other, especially for established foreign firms like Jardine Matheson. Niu Bijian served as a director of HSBC.

The maximum that the charter king can do is nothing more than delaying its information acquisition and letting Jardine know it later. As a result, in this precious time difference, Zhidi pinched his nose and procrastinated to increase the purchase Millions of shares in Wharf.

You must know that Jardine relied on selling the Golden Gate Building to the Carrian Group at the beginning of the year and at the same time selling some properties in the UK to raise enough capital to support this layout. Now that stealing chickens is not enough to lose money, how can I pay shareholders, especially Cassac? Family confession?

"This Huading Investment Company got so many Wharf stocks, and you didn't even notice at all?" Niubijian was greatly annoyed. He had always been worried about Cheng Yaojin who had come out halfway.

"No way, there is always a shortage of smart people in this world. Maybe they have discovered this business opportunity and have this strength?" Bao Fuda sighed helplessly, "Don't worry about this, let's quickly think of a way to deal with the aftermath. .”

After discussion and discussion, these business elites have not found a perfect solution, but they have reached a consensus that they cannot let the outside world continue to discuss. They must divert the attention of public opinion and stop chasing Jardine. To achieve this goal, it can only muddy the water and drag in the other person involved, the charter king.

It is said that Hongkong Land is suspected of transaction fraud, and the other party deliberately concealed major transactions. Most likely, they have quietly grasped the control of Wharf, so they should propose a "partial acquisition" to other Wharf shareholders.

"Let's deal with it like this first. Isn't this ship tycoon strong enough to raise funds? Let's use this question to make things difficult for him."
Niu Bijian sneered, and he was even more angry that the charter king still held back the news after he got the control of Wharf, which made it useless to increase the land purchase at a high price. What about the conspiracy that everyone said?
"By the way, bring HSBC in, they guys are too mercenary." Niu Bijian said bitterly.

The countermeasures discussed by Yihe are naturally unknown to outsiders, but Tang Huan can guess a lot from the changes in public opinion in the past few days and comparing the information from his previous life.

However, these turmoils have nothing to do with him. He has already stepped away from them. The next main focus of capital in Xiangjiang is the big liar Jiani Group, as well as the next developments of Land and Jardine.

Maybe the capital game was played too smoothly for the first time, and the joy brought by success stimulated Tang Huan to become more energetic. Zhao Yazhi and Guan Zhilin were tossed by him in turn to avoid the battle, and they avoided the two residences far away.

Fortunately, Tang Huan had a very important matter to be busy with, so he found a place to vent his excess energy.

Compared with the disastrous victory in the previous life, the Chartered Ship King has won both the face and face, so he naturally won Tang Huan's favor, and specifically proposed that he want to visit Zheru Xiangjiang Company.

Tang Huan attaches great importance to this reception. He has a close relationship with Boss Huo, who is regarded as the first heavyweight wealthy Chinese businessman visitor. But after all, there is a human factor in this, but the chartering king used his real ability to win over. .

Since he was going to be visited, Tang Huan naturally wanted to show the strength of his business, so that there were practical things to see, so he rearranged the product showroom on the first floor and prepared explanatory materials at the same time.

In addition, Tang Huan also equipped the conference room with a Kodak slide projector. Although it is not as good as the advanced conference system composed of computer PPT, projectors, etc. decades later, it is enough for current presentations.

Tang Huan accompanied the chartered king and personally provided the explanation. With his eloquent communication skills, the old man went from being a complete stranger to a layman to a trainee who was just beginning to see the ropes.

Especially in the conference room, Tang Huan used slides to demonstrate the role of microcomputers in the company's business processes with pictures and texts, and focused on the broad prospects of combining the traditional public telephone switching network with computer-based communication technology.

"I really live and learn to be old, and my trip was an eye-opener." The charter king laughed heartily, "Xiao Tang worked so hard to explain high-tech to me, an old man who is not strong at accepting new things, there must be something in it. Plan it, or I'm sorry for your shrewd head."

"I'm just a computer seller, and I'm here to do marketing work for you." Tang Huan also laughed, then changed the topic and lowered his voice and said: "Of course, I also have a small purpose, I hope you will always help me. Keep an eye on what’s happening in the industry, like utilities.”

"Public utilities?" The charter king asked with some doubts.

Wu Guangzheng reacted quickly and immediately took over the conversation, "Brother Tang, isn't he interested in Xiangjiang Telephone Company?"

"I'm really interested in it, because I need a platform for technology application." Tang Huan nodded frankly.

In the original time and space, under the leadership of Niu Bijian and the executive director and general manager of Hong Kong Land, Bao Fuda, Hong Kong Land spent a lot of money and actively expanded, trying to rebuild and consolidate Jardine's leading position in the Hong Kong business community, including the acquisition of Hong Kong Telephone Company in 1981. With [-]% of the shares, he became a major shareholder.

It can be said that their investment vision is worthy of recognition.The Heung Kong Telephone Company, with a long history, obtained a 1925-year franchise of the officially approved local telephone network as early as 50.

However, the franchise was temporarily suspended due to the Japanese invasion during World War II, and was restored after the war.

In 1968, Xiangjiang Telephone Company obtained an additional 1975-year franchise effective from 20, and decided to lay an optical fiber backbone network in Xiangjiang City in 1981, laying the foundation for the future development of the data communication industry.

In addition to the fixed-line telephone business of the old bank, Xiangjiang Telephone Company also began to provide mobile communication services in 1983 through its subsidiary Communication Services Limited-CSL Instant Communication Services Co., Ltd.

However, Xiangjiang Telephone Company's communication franchise is limited to the local area of ​​Xiangjiang, and the external communication is handled by Cable & Wireless, that is, the Dadong Telegraph Bureau.

After Jardine decided to shift its business focus out of Xiangjiang, it sold its shares in Xiangjiang Telephone Company to Great East Telegraph in 1984, and Dadong Telegraph fully acquired Hong Kong Telephone in 1988 and merged the two companies Formed Heung Kong Telecom Co., Ltd., namely Heung Kong Telecom.

In 1994, the number of fixed-line lines in Xiangjiang reached 300 million, and Hong Kong telephone numbers were upgraded to eight digits in 1995. However, the franchise of Xiangjiang Telephone Company also expired in the same year, and it could no longer continue to monopolize the fixed-line business in Xiangjiang. Facing competition from other new competitors.

As for the final fate of Heung Kong Telephone Company, under the influence of various factors, Li Zekai, who was taken advantage of the upsurge of technology stocks in 2000, borrowed a huge amount of US$110 billion through Yingke Digital Power, acquired it, and merged it into Telecom Yingke.

In any case, before 1995, Xiangjiang Telephone Company had unique advantages by virtue of its franchise rights. If it could be controlled and become a platform, Tang Huan would be able to use the technology of combining computers and communications. For example, now He will also have the motivation to work on that pager app that only beeps.

High-quality assets like Hong Kong Telephone Company cannot be obtained casually by taking advantage of the situation during the economic crisis. Control must be obtained through upright acquisitions.

Seeing Tang Huan's plan, the charter king couldn't help but suddenly smiled, "Xiao Tang is really brave in doing things."

"My funds mainly come from the United States, and I don't have to rely on HSBC. Some businesses can gain a first-mover advantage through surprise attacks, so I ask you to keep them secret." Tang Huan said pointedly.

The charter king nodded, "It's really not a good thing to rely too much on HSBC."

Next came the luncheon. After the guests and hosts had a good time, the charter king bid farewell and left, while Wu Guangzheng stayed to discuss a deal, "Brother Tang, your high-tech products are so advanced, we plan to purchase a batch to improve office efficiency." .”

"Customer first, Zheru's products and services will definitely satisfy you." Another celebrity customer, this is a series of thanks, Tang Huan muttered in his heart, and promised with a smile on his face.

(End of this chapter)