"Chen Zhiwen? Is he asking me out at this time?" Li Jiacheng said with a frown.
"Probably for Wharf?" Zhuang Yueming said: "In the past two years, Chen Zhiwen's real estate company invested a lot of money into various real estate projects, especially in Hung Hom. However, in the past six months, the speed of acquiring land seems to have slowed down a lot. Regardless of It’s for whatever reason, but they must already have a lot of cash in their hands.”
"That's true. It would make sense if that were the case. But when the real estate market was rising, it started to restrain itself. I originally thought that Chen Zhiwen was worried that there would be another problem with land prices. It seems that he was also preparing to use British capital again. Li Jiacheng nodded and said, "It's just that now that Wharf has been disturbed by us, I'm afraid it has affected his plan."
"No matter what, if he is also planning to acquire Wharf, then I can easily sell him a favor." Li Jiacheng said with a smile.
"That's right. Let's go and have a look in three days." Zhuang Yueming nodded and said.
Three days later, the presidential suite in the Hilton Hotel:
"Li Sheng, it has only been more than three months since we came back from the mainland, but you have caused a big tsunami in Hong Kong?" Seeing Li Jiacheng, Chen Zhiwen immediately said with a smile. We are all old friends, not only We have collaborated a lot, and even stayed together in the Mainland for a month. Among the dozens of people who went to the Mainland together, basically everyone has become much closer, and the ones we are familiar with will only become better.
"Shame on you, Chen Sheng, please stop laughing. Returning in vain is nothing like a tsunami. It's a far cry from Chen Sheng's acquisition of Hutchison." Li Jiacheng shook his head and said.
"It's still different. What I acquired back then was just a British-owned company that was in serious debt and almost going bankrupt. No matter how big it was, it was still a mess. If I hadn't injected a lot of capital, Hutchison would still be here today. What?" Chen Zhiwen said: "No one wanted Hutchison back then. My acquisition was simple, but Li Sheng, you have been so tough on Jardine this time, it is enough to be recorded in the annals of our Hong Kong business history. "
"If you lose, you lose. All historical records are fake." Li Jiacheng shook his head and said.
"HSBC just intervened. Li Sheng is a real estate company. It is normal for HSBC to let go under pressure." Chen Zhiwen said.
"Well, Mr. Chen, if you invite me here today, is it because of the Wharf stocks in my hand?" Li Jiacheng asked "sincerely". He is also smart. If you invite him out at this time, it must be for the Wharf stocks.
"Li Sheng is indeed a smart man. That's what I mean. I wonder how many Wharf stocks Li Sheng has in his hands?" Chen Zhiwen asked.
"Almost 9.8 million shares." Li Jiacheng said. He previously acquired 12% of the shares, about 10.5 million shares, and subsequently sold some to cash out when the price was high, so now there are so many.
"Okay, I want to buy all the Wharf stocks in your hands at a price of 30 Hong Kong dollars per share. What do you think of Li Sheng?" Chen Zhiwen said again.
"30 Hong Kong dollars per share? Okay, no problem." Li Jiacheng agreed without even thinking about it.
Before he came, he had guessed that it was very likely that Chen Zhiwen would acquire the Wharf stocks in his hands today, so he had already calculated the price in his mind. Based on his investment and the current Wharf stock price, as long as Chen Zhiwen's offer exceeded this Count, that’s it.
"Li Sheng is so refreshing." Chen Zhiwen said with a smile. The stock price of Wharf has fluctuated around 23-25 Hong Kong dollars in the past two days. If you want to acquire about 10% of the stock at one time, 30 Hong Kong dollars is actually not too much. Otherwise, in At this point, go to the stock market for acquisitions. If a little money comes in or a little bit of news comes out, the stock price may double again.
Li Jiacheng said with a smile: "Sheng Chen wants to teach us Chinese a lesson for these British-owned enterprises that only know how to dominate us. I, Li Jiacheng, do not have the ability, but I am still happy to support Chen Sheng. If When Chen Sheng really gets the Wharf and develops some of the Wharf projects, if there is a chance, I, Cheung Kong Holdings, will still be willing to cooperate with Chen Sheng again."
"Okay, no problem." Chen Zhiwen nodded. Regardless of whether what he said was true or false, what Li Jiacheng said was indeed very comfortable.
"Then I will send these stocks to your house tomorrow. If the transaction is to be cut, when will Chen Sheng go?" Li Jiacheng asked.
"Li Sheng, wait for me a little longer. I still need to buy some more stocks in the stock market, so I can be more confident. How about seven days?" Chen Zhiwen said.
"Seven days? Chen Sheng, have you been plotting Wharf for a long time?" Li Jiacheng suddenly understood. No wonder when he made the acquisition, he felt that there were too few floating stocks in the market. When the stock price was high, many parties were trying to smash it. It is obvious that other major shareholders are taking advantage of the opportunity to manipulate the market.
"Yes, in fact, I have been accumulating Wharf stocks long before I took action on Hutchison." Chen Zhiwen said with a smile. It would be okay to tell Li Jiacheng now, after all, he was about to break the table with Jardine. , it doesn’t matter what secret is about to be revealed.
"So long? I wonder how many Wharf stocks Chen Sheng has in his hands now?" Li Jiacheng asked curiously.
"Almost 25%." Chen Zhiwen said.
"25%?" Li Jiacheng was shocked. This ratio exceeded Jardine Matheson's shareholding. If he added 10% of his own stock, it would basically be a sure win. But there was another problem. He quickly Thinking of a possibility, he asked: "Sheng Chen, did you make large acquisitions every time Wharf issued additional shares?"
"Yes, otherwise, it would be impossible to acquire so many stocks without telling Jardine and so many financial experts." Chen Zhiwen nodded and said.
When Hutchison was acquired before, Hutchison was in such bad shape that it was possible to acquire a sufficient ratio. But even so, it was discovered later that occasionally suppressing the stock price by releasing news or selling stocks was only suitable for the early stage of the acquisition. In the later stage, the market As the number of highly liquid stocks decreases and the trading volume of stocks increases, they will be discovered to a certain extent.
Although Wharf's Harbor City is a gold-eating beast, it is not as bad as Hutchison's back then. Even if it is acquired slowly, it is difficult to guarantee that it will not be discovered. However, when Wharf raises shares in the stock market to obtain funds, it will It’s different.
The additional shares will be bought by shareholders or investment institutions, and Chen Zhiwen also plays one of them. This is a normal transaction. At other times, it is only a small amount of acquisitions. Therefore, to this day, it still has not caused any excitement in the stock market. Any unusual fluctuations.
"No wonder when I investigated Wharf's stock last year, I found that it had expanded its shares and raised funds many times, but it did not cause the stock price to plummet. It turned out that Chen Sheng was taking over the business on a large scale." Li Jiacheng said.
"Actually, there are only a few high-quality, large-scale and easy-to-get British companies in Hong Kong. It is normal for our goals to overlap." Chen Zhiwen said with a smile.
"Yes, we see the same thing, hahaha." Li Jiacheng nodded and said.
"In that case, Li Sheng helps me keep it secret for a while, and I will mobilize some funds, which is close to 300 million Hong Kong dollars. It will also take a few days." Chen Zhiwen said.
"No problem, don't worry, Mr. Chen, I won't tell anyone about this." Li Jiacheng said.
After returning home, as soon as Li Jiacheng sat down, Zhuang Yueming walked past Ali with a fruit platter and asked: "Is Chen Zhiwen looking for you because he wants to acquire Wharf?"
"I promised Chen Zhiwen not to tell anyone, including you." Li Jiacheng said with a smile.
"Then I guess you don't tell me." Zhuang Yueming smiled and said: "It seems to be the same as what I guessed. Since he told you everything, it means that you sold the stock to him. Chen Zhiwen is After being silent for more than two years after acquiring Hutchison, it is preparing to take action against British capital again."
"Let's talk about it in a week. We will have a lot of cash in our hands soon. Now I am thinking about how to use the money." Li Jiacheng said with a smile.
Zhuang Yueming asked: "Would you like to acquire another British company?"
"Forget it, this failure can be regarded as a lesson. The entire market is very good now. Once the acquisition news is leaked, the stock price will inevitably rise several times. Yangtze River Industrial has no ability to continue to follow." Li Jiacheng shook his head and said: " It is better to develop new projects normally. A large-scale project like Huangpu Garden is expected to earn more than one billion yuan."
"Yes, it just so happens that Chen Zhiwen is about to take action against Wharf. Let's see what Yihe will do, right?" Zhuang Yueming nodded and said.
Seven days later, Zhou Jiayang, who was in charge of the Wharf acquisition, and Xu Jinhong of the Galaxy Group came to Chen Zhiwen's office together.
"Sheng Chen, in the past seven days, we have acquired another 1.5% of the shares in the stock market. Now we have almost 27% of Wharf shares. Adding in the 10.2% we will acquire from Li Jiacheng, we will have 37% proportion." reported Yang Hui of the Zhou family.
"We already have a veto power, let's see now, what else will Newbill do?" Chen Zhiwen nodded and said, he has always wanted to accomplish the acquisition of Wharf since he traveled to Hong Kong. Later, With a little capital, I started to operate slowly, and today, I can finally complete the final blow.
"Then we will announce it after we harvest the stocks with Li Jiacheng?" Zhou Jiayang asked.
"Announce it." Chen Zhiwen nodded and said.
When Wharf stocks become very sensitive due to acquisitions, there is no longer any opportunity to slowly lurk for acquisitions. As long as more funds enter the market, it will arouse alarm, especially Chen Zhiwen's current status. Many people are speculating about him. Will it take action against Wharf or other British-owned companies? This has led to various counter-intuitive financial operations in the entire capital market.
In this case, a public acquisition is naturally possible. Even if you spend more money, the most important thing is to acquire the company quickly. Otherwise, the time cost will be huge. For the simplest example, Chen Zhiwen needs to prepare a lot. If the funds are wasted, then these funds cannot be used for investment, and the losses caused by this will be greater than acquiring them at a high price earlier.
"Okay, then I will go to Yangtze River Industries now to deliver the stocks with Li Jiacheng." Zhou Jiayang said.
Thursday, March 2nd.
A major piece of news once again detonated Hong Kong's financial circle: Li Jiacheng officially announced that the Wharf stocks in his hands had been transferred, and the other party was Chen Zhiwen.
"Chen Zhiwen wants to acquire Wharf" immediately became the headlines of newspapers in Hong Kong. Even the previous Hong Kong sister, who was causing a lot of trouble in the entertainment industry recently, was dating Mr. Huo, and was thrown into the corner.
After two years, the Chinese capital in Hong Kong is once again sharpening its skills and preparing to face its British opponents.
In the afternoon of that day, Galaxy Group came forward to officially announce that including the Wharf stocks it had previously held, Galaxy Group already owned a total of 37% of Wharf's stocks. The reason why it owned so much was because it was optimistic about Wharf's future.
At the same time, Galaxy Group will continue to acquire Wharf shares in cash at a price of HK$40 per share until the shareholding reaches 49.9%.
As soon as the news came out, Wharf's share price almost doubled, from the early 20s to 50.
Hong Kong, Connaught Building:
"Damn it, this Chen Zhiwen, we have already sold Wellcome Supermarket to him at a low price, and he is still interested in Wharf." Bao Fuda said angrily with blue veins on his face.
"Suddenly he has 37% of the stocks. It seems that he was slowly acquiring Wharf's stocks a few years ago. Otherwise, such a large transaction volume would have been impossible not to be discovered." Although Newbijian is also very Angry, but quickly calmed down. Anger is useless and will only affect correct decision-making.
"It has been acquired a long time ago." Bao Fuda pondered for a moment and said: "It seems that Chen Zhiwen took advantage of Wharf during the several expansions and financings. We were still wondering at the time why the stock market was not optimistic about Wharf's Harbor City plan at all. , but we can get funds quickly every time we raise funds.”
"Sure enough, it's ruthless. It seems that Henry Keswick has been preparing for this since he was still in Yihe. It took 4 years before he officially took action." Newbijian said with some emotion.
"Chen Zhiwen is much more difficult to deal with than Li Jiacheng. What should we do? Should we still go to Shen Bi?" Bao Fuda asked.
"That old fox Shen Bi is not that easy to help, and you also said that asking HSBC to come forward to deal with Li Jiacheng and dealing with Chen Zhiwen are two different things." Niu Bijian said with a frown.
Although the Jardine Group still looks huge now, insiders like them also know that Jardine's overseas investment losses are too serious. During this period, they have been spending a lot of effort to deal with this matter. Maybe they will give it another In one or two years, overseas business can be disposed of.
This period can be said to be the weakest period for Jardine Matheson in Hong Kong. Before Li Jiacheng took action against Wharf, Jardine Matheson would not be unable to deal with Cheung Kong Holdings, but it would definitely affect overseas business, so he found Shen Bi helps.
But this time, the asset size is no less than that of Jardine's Chen Zhiwen. How confident can Shen Bi be, and how could Shen Bi come forward casually if he was unsure about something.
Bao Fuda said: "Shen Bi may not be willing to help, but he is even less willing to face Chen Zhiwen who acquired Wharf. With the current overseas assets of Midea, Red Bull, Hutchison Whampoa, Galaxy, and Chen Zhiwen, if HSBC still wants to secure this Hong Kong We must not sit back and watch Chen Zhiwen get the No. 1 throne from Wharf."
"You're right to say that." Niubijian nodded and said.
Bao Fuda continued: "Even if Shen Bi no longer comes forward for us, he can still provide us with funds or some methods to make more profits. Those people are still quite good."
"Okay, then I'll go to HSBC now." Newbijian said.
(End of chapter)
