Reborn Tech Maniac

Chapter 694 The enemy's attack becomes an assist

"Next, there are two main tasks surrounding Heung Kong Electric. One is to inflate the stock price and increase costs; the other is to show weakness and lure the enemy to go deeper. In short, it is to turn Liu Luanxiong's blitzkrieg into HSBC and ours. War of attrition." Tang Huan finally gave clear instructions.

"If this acquisition is really brought into the stage of comprehensive acquisition and consumption after the shareholding ratio of 30.00% five, I am afraid it will be a lose-lose ending." In particular, it is not a wise move for a company like HSBC to have more money than it does.

Tang Huan smiled disapprovingly of the harsh words, "Little people and snakes like Liu Luanxiong can be shameless, but we are not good at acting. I have to pay a huge amount of consumption, at most it can be regarded as a second California high-speed rail investment, and I can still afford it. Besides, it is not known whether this war of attrition can continue until the end of the year."

In fact, in the Qinhe department, only Zhou Mi knew Tang Huan's true attitude towards HSBC. Others only thought that their boss's dislike for HSBC stemmed from multiple conflicts of commercial interests.
Therefore, these British executives, including Niu Bijian and Ma Shimin, feel that it is only natural that Qinhe does not let HSBC take every inch of land, as long as it does not destroy the other party.

I have to say that Tang Huan, who is proficient in pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger, has superb acting skills.For a long time, he has maintained the image of an innocent person who was forced to strike back when the other party came knocking.

The Jardine family is the biggest victim of this disguise. Although the Chinese media often hypes that Tang Huan ate Jardine and avenged William Jardine, the founder of Jardine more than 100 years ago, for instigating the Opium War, which greatly boosted the aspirations of the Chinese people. ; However, the mainstream view, including in the UK, is that Jardine tried to prevent Tang Huan's business power from growing in Hong Kong, so as not to threaten its own vested interests. This resulted in disaster and was entirely its own fault.

Especially after Tang Huan completed the acquisition of Yihe, he reused a large number of old officials of Yihe. Yihe quickly became immersed in the happiness of the bright future brought by the boss Tang Huan. The Keswick family, the owner, also shows that Tang Huan, a businessman, is not out of national justice to retaliate against the British, but is entirely driven by profit.

Now that Tang Huan was going to have an upright confrontation with HSBC, he didn't let others think of anything other than disputes over commercial interests.

Seeing Tang Huan's arrogance, what else could Ma Shimin do besides being in awe of the boss's unfathomable energy?
Seeing that this subordinate no longer objected, Tang Huan joked with a smile, "You never thought that Xiangjiang Electric might have its stock price skyrocketed in this acquisition battle, and then surpass Xiangjiang Telecom in one fell swoop, becoming the market capitalization of Xiangjiang Electric." No. [-] company, you also enjoy the taste of the supreme class?"

Although it unexpectedly suffered a franchise crisis in the second half of last year, it also let the public know in disguise how many practical things Heungkong Telecom has done, how smoothly it has developed, and how strong its value has been after receiving Tang Huan's technical support.

At this stage, the number of Xiangjiang Telecom users has reached 310 million, with 0.41 telephone lines and 0.54 telephone sets per capita. The penetration rate ranks third in the world after New York in the United States and Tokyo in Japan.

If these achievements are still false, then re-planning the original slightly messy dialing rules, launching various preferential packages, and even canceling the urban telephone charges for the first time in the world, it will definitely be on the bright side and everyone can feel it It is a move of convenience and benefit to the people.

In addition, Heung Kong Telecom has also made remarkable achievements in new services such as mobile phones, dial-up Internet access, caller ID, and telephone consultation, as well as overseas investment.

Of course, Heung Kong Telecom will definitely not make a profit at a loss. Due to the adoption of Tang Huan's new digital technology, the data throughput of the equipment has been greatly increased, thus effectively controlling costs and further increasing the room for huge profits.

After entering 1987, the Hong Kong stock market became more and more bullish, and Hong Kong Telecom, which performed well, naturally won the favor of investors, and its market value soared all the way, approaching 70 billion U.S. dollars. Ken was walking almost with his nostrils in the air.

Now that Tang Huan used this gimmick to stimulate himself, Ma Shimin couldn't help feeling a little excited, rubbed his hands and muttered, "This is not good, after all, this name is false, once the limelight passes, it will return to its original form."

"What's the harm in giving it a try." Tang Huan smiled slightly, "Qinhe and other industries continue to develop outwards, how can its achievements stop at the level of a company with the highest market capitalization in the Hong Kong stock market. What's on the shoulders of you executives The burden will only get heavier and heavier.”

"Of course I let my boss dictate." Ma Shimin hastily expressed his loyalty.

After making this joke, Tang Huan frowned and said: "Compared to Liu Luanxiong's scheming and HSBC's sophisticated methods, we are not inferior in capital operations at all. I am not worried, but how to confuse the other party to keep taking the bait?" , it is not so easy to handle, and the two aspects of capital wrestling and luring the enemy to go deep complement each other."

Ma Shimin also found himself in trouble, "Boss, you are the richest man in the United States. You have strong financial resources and are recognized by the world. Now you want to show weakness to others, which is really difficult to do."

The two were thinking hard when Weng Jingjing walked in with a stack of folders in her arms, and interjected with a smile: "You men only focus on the big picture, but you didn't notice that there have been newspapers that have been badmouthing the richest man for a long time. Mister."

Ma Shimin glanced at Weng Jingjing, whose dimples appeared when she smiled, and laid out the newspapers and magazines he had specially collected. No wonder the big boss valued this little lover who was born in the entertainment industry and specially sent him to Xiangjiang University. After being trained as a master of law, the ability to act according to the situation is indeed not comparable to those in the vase.

""Financial Times"?" Tang Huan couldn't help laughing after glancing at it for the first time, "there are already many banks in Xiangjiang, but there are even more newspapers. How did I hear such a famous newspaper name for the first time?" Said. This reminds me of one thing, after many Hong Kong businessmen have gone to mainland China, the company names printed on their business cards often start with prefixes such as Universal and Universal."

"Don't underestimate people. Although this "Financial Times" was only established this year, the boss is a powerful rookie in the newspaper industry. He spared no expense to hire the former editor-in-chief of "Wen Wei Po" as the president, and the former editor-in-chief of "Financial Daily" Huang Yanglie As the editor-in-chief, we must take advantage of the current bull market to turn all shareholders into our own readers."

As Weng Jingjing explained, she picked out a few more newspapers and magazines, placed them in front of Tang Huan, and introduced: "Tiantian Daily, Fresh Weekly, Youth Magazine...these publications are all in This year it’s under the same owner.”

"It's amazing. Is a new newspaper giant about to emerge in Xiangjiang?" Tang Huan raised his eyebrows and asked his younger brother with interest, "Who is this person?"

"You must also know this person." Weng Jingjing smiled mischievously, "I heard that since he got face-hugged last time, he never went to DreamWorks again."

"Really?" Tang Huan agreed casually absent-mindedly, his attention was obviously attracted by the "Financial Times" in front of him.

I saw the above analysis:
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Previously, in order to invest in new projects, Xiangjiang Electric kept cashing out by reducing its shareholding, indicating that it did not receive the full support of the parent company.This is not surprising. The relationship between Qinhe Group and HSBC Bank is in dire straits. Naturally, the industry has lost an extremely important source of loans, and thus the capital chain is not well-off.

On the other hand, Tang Huan, the boss of Qinhe Group, has operated a huge project costing more than 300 billion U.S. dollars in California, the California High Speed ​​Rail. Therefore, Mr. Richest Man’s capital chain must be very tight, and it is difficult to support Xiangjiang. .

Therefore, although it is more difficult to acquire Xiangjiang Electric than when Yihe snatched Xiangjiang Electric from Qinhe, Qinhe's coping ability has also declined.

If a sister company like Xiangjiang Telecom intends to help, there will inevitably be loopholes in itself, and Liu Luanxiong, who is said to have unlimited withdrawal rights, will never let go of new sniping targets.

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"The analysis is really brilliant!" Mr. Longyan Dayue's richest man, taking pictures of this "Financial Times", kept saying "good", which seemed to speak to his heart.

After a while, Tang Huan remembered to ask, "You haven't said yet, who is the real boss of this "Financial Times"?"

"Huang Yulang, the founder of Yulang International." Weng Jingjing replied angrily.

"It turned out to be him." Tang Huan suddenly realized and nodded, and then asked suspiciously, "Even if Huang Yulang hates me from the bottom of his heart, there is no need to take risks and enter the Hong Kong Newspaper industry across fields, right? Besides, why is he Are you starting to wave the flag for Liu Luanxiong?"

"Don't you know, Huang Yulang, Liu Luanxiong, and Lin Jianyue are all fellow Chaozhou fellows." Weng Jingjing said with a sweet smile.

"So that's it." Tang Huan suddenly realized again, "You should be careful. Not to mention, these smart and flexible people come together, and we really can't underestimate it."

Weng Jingjing continued: "Actually, Huang Yulang devoted himself to Xiangjiang Newspaper, which is not a complete cross-field development. It's just that after failing before, he had to concentrate on comics. But now the bull market, Yulang International's The listing, as well as the example of fellow Liu Luanxiong, brought him new opportunities to display his ambitions."

It turns out that despite Huang Yulang's success in the comics industry, his real dream is to become the second Jin Yong. He supports "Ming Pao" by writing about martial arts, but he has a wonderful pen for drawing comics. .

This sentiment is easy to understand. Due to the vulgar industry culture, comics at that time could not be considered elegant. No matter how good the comics boss was, he could not be as glamorous as the newspaper tycoon.

As early as the mid-1970s, when Huang Yulang was only in his 20s, he had achieved a little success in his career, so he founded "Sheng Bao", which mainly focused on comics and supplemented by recreational articles, but the final result of this newspaper was still a pity .

Of course, the young and vigorous Huang Yulang refused to give up. After that, he continued to run newspapers such as "Far East Economic Daily", "Shengbao", and "Xiangjiang Daily", but they still ran one after another. Fortunately, he had that comic pen. Losing money continuously, he was beaten back to his original shape and lived on the streets.

Regarding Huang Yulang's repeated failures in the development of the newspaper industry, Xiangjiang Media generally believes: "Huang Yulang only has a primary school education and has no experience in newspaper editing, so failure is a matter of course."

This analysis is not unreasonable. It's not that you can't get things done without culture, but that certain fields naturally require higher professionalism.

When the future of Hong Kong became clear and the Hong Kong stock market began to boom, Huang Yulang successfully promoted Yulang International to the stock market. The resulting surge in his wealth allowed him to regain his ambition to develop the newspaper industry.

You know, when the Asia branch of the American "Wall Street Journal" published an article introducing Huang Yulang, it called him a billionaire prodigy who "draws rainbows."After receiving this evaluation, Huang Yulang was overjoyed immediately, and he was so inflated that he didn't know where he was for a while, and then he called himself "Yulang Emperor" to his employees. The whole group is the "Yulang Empire", and even the printing factory is crowned It was the Imperial Printing House.

Fellow Liu Luanxiong's method of drawing blood from the stock market inspired Huang Yulang.At the beginning of Yulang International's listing, he owned 70.00% of Wu's shares, thus having a huge room for manipulation in "rights issue-fund-raising-expenses".

The big bull in the Xiangjiang stock market made this simple money-making model once again bring Huang Yulang great success.With cash and a thicker waist, he began to make big purchases—first, he spent 7700 million Hong Kong dollars to obtain 7% of the equity of Tiantian Newspaper and the entire equity of Tiantian Color Printing, and took over the recreational comprehensive newspaper "Daily Daily"; Then it bought "Fresh Weekly" at a price of 2520 million Hong Kong dollars, and "Youth Magazine" at a price of 930 million Hong Kong dollars.

What is even more exaggerated is that after Huang Yulang founded the "Financial Times", he traveled across the ocean and went to Malaysia, where he spent 7000 million Hong Kong dollars to acquire the second largest newspaper of the Hu family, "Sin Chew Daily". It seems that he is going to become a powerful media king like Hu Xian.

If these acquisitions are not real enough, then we will spend 1300 million Hong Kong dollars to take down the Chai Wan Kangmin Industrial Center as the so-called Imperial Printing Factory, and spend 7000 million Hong Kong dollars from the chairman of Sing Tao Press Group, Hu Xian, The purchase of the 10-storey King's Road News Building as the administrative and production headquarters of Yulang Group is enough to show how Huang Yulang is now killing all directions.

Seeing Weng Jingjing's brilliant record against Huang Yulang like a treasure, Tang Huan couldn't help laughing and said: "Why do you pay so much attention to this Emperor Yulang? Isn't it because of the joy of seeing Liexin and the heart of love?"

Seeing that the big boss was flirting with the little lover again, Ma Shimin quickly picked up his glass to pour water.

Weng Jingjing smiled slightly, with a dangerous gleam in her eyes, "He dares to target you, of course I will do my intelligence work well."

(End of this chapter)