Hong Kong Island. Castle Manor!
"Ding-deng-deng..."
While a group of senior executives of the British-owned group were discussing countermeasures, there was a sudden knock on the door outside the room!
"Please come in!"
As Jazz's voice reached the door, the door was quickly pushed open.
Immediately afterwards, everyone saw a middle-aged man in his forties hurried in.
Smith, Port Governor, Mark and others recognized at a glance that the person who came in was none other than Jazz's confidant assistant Williams, a very scheming person.
Williams walked quickly to Jazz and whispered a few words in his ear.
I don’t know what Williams said, but everyone in the study saw Jazz’s expression change rapidly.
For a moment, everyone's eyes were fixed on Jazz.
After a while, the Jazz, who came back to his senses, gave Williams a few words and asked him to leave.
After Williams left the study, Sir looked around the study and said in a deep voice: "Everyone, I just received news that that young man is going to declare war on us!"
"Declaration of war?"
Everyone was stunned when they heard this!
"That's right, it's a declaration of war!"
Then Sir continued: "Just now that young man secretly met with the He family, the Luo family and several other major Chinese-funded groups at the Li family manor, the young man proposed to take advantage of the fact that most of our funds were locked up. , concentrate all his efforts to regain financial control of Hong Kong Island, he will declare war on us in the financial field!"
"hiss!"
After everyone present heard this, they all couldn't help but take a breath.
On the one hand, he was shocked by the young man's ambition, and on the other hand, he was worried about the future of the alliance.
You know, the reason why they have been able to make crazy money in Hong Kong Island and even the entire East Asia over the years is because of their monopoly on Hong Kong Island's finance.
Here, they control 90% of the banking industry in Hong Kong, and these banks in turn control the issuance of Hong Kong dollars.
With these two Shangfang swords in hand, Chinese-funded enterprises could only let them slaughter them without any ability to fight back, and were eventually defeated by them one by one.
Now that young man wants to take back financial control of Hong Kong Island, which for them is definitely hitting their weak spot.
Once the opponent succeeds, it will be a devastating blow to the entire alliance, and they will no longer be able to make money just lying down.
Moreover, even if the other party does not succeed in all, as long as they regain part of their power, they will be able to compete and restrict them. This is not what they want to see.
After a moment of silence, the Hong Kong Governor said in a deep voice: "Sir, what is the situation now? Have those Chinese families reached an agreement with that young man?"
"Yes, they decided to jointly raise 3 billion Hong Kong dollars to launch a comprehensive acquisition of the banking industry we control!"
Then Jazz said again: "Fortunately, I was prepared and placed an informant among those people. Otherwise, I might have been caught off guard!"
Hearing this, everyone present flattered them one after another:
"Thank you Sir, otherwise we would be in danger this time. Thank you Sir!"
"Jazz had the foresight, otherwise we would really have been plotted by that young man!"
"Who says it's not..."
At this time, the Hong Kong Governor suddenly stood up and said: "Gentlemen, controlling the financial industry on Hong Kong Island is in the interests of all of us, and it is also what London is happy to see, so this time we must unite, otherwise decades of efforts will be lost." Disintegrated into nothing!”
"I agree with Mr. Hong Kong Governor. This time we must unite and never give the other side the slightest chance to take advantage of it!" Mark said.
"Then what should we do?" someone suddenly said.
This was when Smith took over and said loudly: "Since the other party's goal is to regain control of Hong Kong Island's financial industry, they will first compete with us for control of the major banks."
"With the case of Li Futiao taking full control of Longheng Bank, as long as the Chinese control a few more big banks, they will have a certain say in the financial community on Hong Kong Island. By then, we can control them as easily as we did before. , it’s unlikely!”
"As expected, the first targets of the other side are listed banks, such as Hang Seng Bank, Standard Chartered Bank, HSBC, etc."
Jazz nodded and said: "Smith's analysis is very reasonable. According to the news coming back from there, the other party is indeed planning to start from the stock market, first control part of the shares of major banks, and then slowly seize control of the banks!"
"So, we must now mobilize a large amount of funds to deal with their hostile takeover!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the senior executive of Jardine Matheson said in a deep voice: "But now most of our company's funds are tied up in gold, and we can't allocate much funds at all!"
"Then how much funds can you mobilize at Jardine?"
"Up to fifty million!"
Hearing this, everyone present fell silent.
Under the stock market crash, almost all companies suffered heavy losses, especially those engaged in real estate and finance. It would be good to survive.
Unexpectedly, the house leaked and it rained all night, and was hit hard by that young man one after another. Now even a large group like Jardine Matheson has no surplus. You can imagine the life of other companies.
Jazz was silent for a moment, and then said: "I myself am prepared to spend 1 billion Hong Kong dollars, and the rest is up to you. I estimate that if we want to win this war, we must prepare at least 4 to 5 billion Hong Kong dollars!"
At this time, someone suddenly suggested: "How about we start raising funds from internal members of the alliance? It won't be a big problem to raise several billion Hong Kong dollars!"
Smith sighed and said: "If it were before, a few billion Hong Kong dollars would not be much, but now, there shouldn't be many people responding to us!"
After hearing this, everyone present fell silent.
They all understood what Smith said. After suffering unprecedented losses in gold investment, the alliance's influence was weakening. Many people had already turned to Chinese capital, and the alliance's appeal was not as strong as before.
Furthermore, 60% of the more than 20 billion Hong Kong dollars invested previously came from ordinary members, and the remaining billions were the own funds of large companies and groups like them.
After losing so much money all at once, many members within the alliance couldn't live any longer.
Especially among the wealthy Chinese, more than a dozen of them have gone bankrupt, and most of the rest are struggling to support them. Who has the money to continue to support them now?
I'm afraid even if it is true, those people won't take it out!
Jazz frowned, and then said to Mark, the head of Citibank, "Mr. Mark, now we need your help!"
Mark thought for a moment and then said: "I can lend you 3 billion Hong Kong dollars at a low interest rate, but it requires asset collateral!"
"Understood, we won't make it difficult for you!"
Then, under the personal auspices of Jazz, everyone present immediately distributed the shares of the 3 billion loan.
Although no one is willing to use the assets or shares of each subsidiary as collateral to provide loans for the alliance, they also know that they have no other choice now.
Once Li Yi and others seize control of the financial industry, it will be a disaster for them.
How they harvested Chinese capital back then will be how Chinese capital harvests them next.
Therefore, people like the British Capital Group know that the time has come to fight...
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