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Chapter 355
Chang Wei looked at Shen Bi gulping down water in a leisurely manner, and said lightly, "It's only a hundred tons of gold, HSBC won't be able to eat it, right?"

Shen Bi drank up the water in the glass, but still felt parched.He realized that this was an extremely important deal, and he must not miss it.

"No!"

Taking a deep breath, Shen Bi said, "The size of HSBC cannot be measured by a hundred tons of gold."

He collected himself, looked at Chang Wei carefully, and thought secretly in his heart.

"According to the current international gold price, one hundred tons of gold is worth about [-] million U.S. dollars." He organized his words, and said slowly: "But I believe that what Mr. Chang wants is definitely not [-] million U.S. dollars in cash?"

When Chang Wei heard this, his eyes lit up, as if a bolt of lightning flashed across the room, and Shen Bi couldn't help but close his eyes.

"HSBC Taipan really deserves its reputation." Chang Wei said: "That's right, pure money doesn't mean anything to me."

"Then get straight to the point." Shen Bi said seriously: "Gold is of great significance to the bank, and we really need it. But I hope that the conditions proposed by Mr. Chang will not exceed our bottom line."

Chang Wei put down his crossed legs and sat up straight like a mountain.

"I heard that Li Jiacheng is seeking to merge Hutchison Whampoa." His voice was thick and the pressure was overwhelming: "If I also want Hutchison Whampoa, what do you say?"

Shen Bi was astonished beyond words when he heard the words, and then he laughed and said, "I didn't expect that Hutchison Whampoa, which is heavily in debt, has become a favorite."

That's right, what Chang Wei wants is Hutchison Whampoa.In the original history, Hutchison Whampoa was annexed by Li Jiacheng during this period.

As Li Jiacheng, a pure capitalist, the most worthwhile business in his life, he swallowed Hutchison Whampoa worth more than 60 billion Hong Kong dollars with the Changshi Group with a market value of less than one billion Hong Kong dollars, becoming the first in Hong Kong Island to annex a foreign firm The businessman, in the decades that followed, was featured in a great book.

But Chang Wei wanted to intervene.

Li Jiacheng?Cool off.

There is a reason for Chang Wei to start with Hutchison Whampoa.Hutchison Whampoa is composed of Hutchison & Co. and Whampoa Dockyard.Hutchison has sales channels, and Huangpu Dockyard is one of the three major dockyards on Hong Kong Island at this time, a heavyweight heavy industry enterprise with the ability to repair and build [-]-ton giant ships.

This is what Chang Wei values.

Shen Bi thought.

The battle for Hutchison Whampoa is now heating up.Li Jiacheng, Bao Yugang, Yihe Matheson, you just finished singing and I came on stage, it was a lively scene.

Some time ago, Bao Yugang interviewed Shen Bi many times to mediate for Li Jiacheng, and Shen Bi was already tempted.

But now, he hesitated.

On one side are Bao Yugang, the shipping tycoon, and Li Jiacheng, an emerging wealthy man on Hong Kong Island, and on the other side is a hundred tons of gold.The Libra in my heart is hard to choose for a while.

Shen Bi's thoughts were clearly visible in Chang Wei's eyes.

Chang Wei is also clear about Shen Bi's contradictions.

One side is relationship, and the other side is gold. If the amount of gold is not much, naturally relationship is the most important.But a hundred tons of gold!
However, Chang Wei could also see that this hundred tons of gold was still not enough to make Shen Bi bow his head completely.

So he picked up his teacup and took a sip: "How about two hundred tons of gold?"

Shen Bi raised his head all of a sudden, and lost his voice, "Two hundred tons of gold?!"

"That's right, two hundred tons." Chang Wei said that these two hundred tons of gold were like two hundred tons of stones, and his expression was so insignificant.

Shen Bi opened his mouth: "You won."

"Okay." Chang Wei put down his teacup, stroked his palms and said, "Now I've made a request, and HSBC has fulfilled it. Two hundred tons of gold will be offered with both hands. If it can't be done, I'll go to Citigroup."

"Please." Shen Bi stretched out his hand to signal.

"The first step is to fully acquire Hutchison Whampoa." Chang Wei said: "The second step is to delist."

After hearing this, Shen Bi thought for a while: "It can be done."

The two reached a preliminary agreement, and Shen Bi said: "I don't ask the source of Mr. Chang's two hundred tons of gold. But I need to see them first, so that I can be sure that Mr. Chang is not joking."

Chang Wei said: "A business of billions of dollars, who do you think dares to play around? What I want is Hutchison Whampoa, it is there, and it cannot escape. Two hundred tons of gold, before the transaction is completed, no one can let anyone See."

Shen Bi was silent.

He could understand what Chang Wei meant.Two hundred tons of gold, if someone finds out, God knows how big a commotion will be caused.

If it were him, he would also guard against this.

After thinking for a while, he said: "Well, today we have reached an oral agreement. Next, I need to hold a board meeting and help Mr. Chang contact Mr. Bao Yugang. He has 1000 million shares of Hutchison Whampoa. Let's make an appointment How about a detailed discussion?"

Chang Wei has nothing to do with himself.

After seeing off Chang Wei, Shen Bi sat alone for half an hour, and after the main members or agents of the HSBC board of directors arrived, a meeting was held.

Hearing that a Chinese wanted to snatch Hu Hutchison Whampoa from Li Jiacheng with [-] tons of gold as proof, the directors immediately discussed it.

Someone asked: "Who is this Chinese named Chang Wei?"

Shen Bi picked up a piece of paper: "This is the information I just found. It's very little. His background is blank, only he claims to be an overseas Chinese who returned from the United States."

"Two hundred tons of gold!" Another director said: "This is definitely not something that ordinary people can get out. I think he may have something to do with the north. Apart from the state power, can a private person come up with two hundred tons of gold?"

"You can't sell Hutchison Whampoa to him!" Someone immediately objected: "If he is from the north, no matter how much money you have, you can't sell it to him."

"I don't think so." The third director said: "Think about it, everyone, what is the significance of two hundred tons of gold to us? The international gold price has been rising year after year. Now two hundred tons of gold are worth 14 billion U.S. dollars. It may be 20 billion U.S. dollars a year. We are a bank, and we have the confidence to hold gold in the warehouse. And gold is of great strategic significance to a country. I don’t think the north will take out [-] tons of gold to buy a mere Hutchison Whampoa.”

His words received a lot of approval.

After a lot of discussion, the final decision still fell to Shen Bi, the chairman of the board.

He said: "I agree with this deal. Regardless of whether his gold comes from the north or not, as long as it is beneficial to us, other things can be ignored. Don't forget, we are capitalists. Hong Kong Island is our territory. Banks, The foreign firm is not something that can be shaken by a mere Hutchison Whampoa, so why not sell it to him?!"

Yes, they are capitalists.

Money interests come first.

And they have absolute confidence to control most of the interests of Hong Kong Island.

Shen Bi made a final decision and ended the meeting.Next, he will make rigorous preparations for this.

And Chang Wei, after leaving HSBC, directly found a law firm and hired a stick of litigator to solve all the legal problems of this transaction for him.

(End of this chapter)