History of Hong Kong Island

Chapter 230 Are You Threatening Me?
"Brother Tai." He Dingxian said sincerely, "If I don't settle this matter, you won't do business with me anymore."

"give it to me."

"Ghost, I'll settle it."

Huo Guantai moved his mouth, let out a long sigh, and stopped explaining: "Thank you, then I will make it clear to Taikoo that the land reclaimed from the sea will never be sold!"

"Ah."

He Dingxian opened the lid of the tea bowl, picked it up and took a sip: "It is my responsibility to solve the trouble."

Back then, if he didn't have a gun and someone, he could solve the ghost's troubles, and Huo Guantai would not have cooperated with him.

You know, he holds more than 30.00% of the shares of Lixin Real Estate. When Huo Guantai asked him for financing, besides asking for money, he also hoped that he would serve as a certain political endorsement.

To harm the interests of Lixin Real Estate is to harm his interests.

If this matter is not resolved cleanly, Huo Guantai may be forced to do nothing, and the share increase will allow HSBC to take a stake, which will invisibly reduce He Dingxian's income. The key is the next real estate company, and it will be very difficult to occupy another large share.

However, the soon-to-be-established real estate development company is the most profitable part of the real estate industry. If someone throws someone off the car with a quick kick, they will be murderous!

Swire Pacific is a standard purely British company, founded in Liverpool and registered in London. It has a century-old history and had trade exchanges with China at the end of the Qing Dynasty.In [-], a branch company was established in Shanghai, specializing in the textile industry, and then aimed at the steamboat market of the Yangtze River Shipping, and established the Shanghai Shipyard. The business reached its peak, and the fire was cooking. It has branches and offices in New York, Manchester and other places.

However, the big foreign trade that developed with the British national fortune is destined to weaken with the British national fortune.

Swire Pacific suffered heavy losses during World War II. British factories and machines were smashed, and factories in the mainland were confiscated. Finally, thanks to the particularity of Hong Kong Island, the Hong Kong Island branch became the most powerful place.

So Swire & Co. focused its development on Hong Kong Island, brought its technicians back to the old business, and established Swire Shipyard.

At present, Swire Dockyard is one of the three major shipyards on Hong Kong Island, commonly known as "Swire Dockyard", alongside it are "Navy Dockyard" and "Whampoa Dockyard". Well-known foreign firms.

However, it is still far behind HSBC, Standard Chartered, Hongkong Land and other foreign banks. The current development focus is on the aviation industry, aiming at the air freight market after World War II, hoping to gain a share of the pie with the help of technology accumulation.

Historically, Swire Pacific has undoubtedly achieved this. It has huge aviation maintenance factories in Hong Kong Island and Xiamen. At the same time, it owns 40.00% of the equity of Cathay Pacific Airways.

But just as the most profitable business of Taikoo before World War II was not shipbuilding, after World War II, the most profitable business of Taikoo was not aviation, but through the acquisition of Coca-Cola Cooperative Company, a company that made glass bottles for Coca-Cola Company acquired the same relationship with Coca-Cola Company Coca-Cola provides Coca-Cola with bottles from mainland China, Hong Kong Island, Japan, Southeast Asia, etc., and dozens of regions around the world.

This is a profitable business, just like Taikoo Sugar, the world's largest sugar factory before Taikoo, and now Taikoo is eyeing real estate.

night.

He Dingxian was in his study at home, carefully reviewing a business report, which was filled with information about Swire Pacific.

"It turns out that Swire Sugar has not shut down yet. A few years ago, Swire just injected capital into Cathay Pacific and participated in the construction of Kai Tak Airport, in order to develop the aviation industry." On his right is a piece of fruit, including carambola and watermelon , Melon.

"This time, you feel that the real estate industry is profitable again, and you want to come in?"

He Dingxian sneered: "I don't know who came up with the idea. I think Lixin Real Estate is easy to bully, and I want to directly develop it by purchasing land."

Swire will of course pay a little hard work fee, but it is far from the expected return.

This company's ambitions are really big, it wants to live in the sea, land and air, but according to his understanding, Taikoo has succeeded!Because before he saw the materials, he didn't know that Swire Pacific had shipyards and airlines, but he only knew that Swire Pacific had worked in real estate.

In the previous life, Taikoo Li Mall was well-known in the country. The central areas of several core cities all had Taikoo sites. Now it seems that Taikoo is teaming up with HSBC to squeeze him out of the real estate industry.

For Huo Guantai, this trick is not completely targeted, it is a set of operations of cutting and hitting, who is it cutting?
TMD!

It was to cut him!

He Dingxian's teeth itch with hatred in his heart. Ghosts have a characteristic, that is, they like to disgust you.

The Chinese will take their face into account when doing things, and they have to talk about the passage of time when they leave for tea, and Sir He is still in the police force.But the ghost doesn't. Seeing that you have no power, he will come out to grab food. I'm afraid that if you slow down, you won't get any food.

He Dingxian also thought about the growing business under his hand, the position of the anti-corruption office may not be able to cover it, and the anti-corruption is the police force, which cannot reach into the business world, and the few guns under his hands do not seem to be strong enough.

"The guys from the criminal group and the military uniform group come out to make trouble, and they can show their strength again, but if they are not in the position, the influence can be used once, and it can only be used as a hole card." Only when the person is in the position, the brothers will As the arm pointed out, people are not in their positions, and all they use are favors, and they can't be made up when they are used up.

If He Dingxian uses the power of the Chinese police to do things, he will lose a move, and there will be resistance to regaining power in the future.

The simplest reason is that he is no longer paying the fees of the brothers, so why should you work hard for him?For righteousness?It’s okay to say it, but if there are large-scale casualties when the brothers go out on the street, or if they are reprimanded and punished by high-level officials, who will take care of it?
He is in power and can help the brothers carry it back. Is Gao Yongsheng willing to carry it for him?
As a qualified politician, Brother Sheng may even take advantage of this opportunity... Therefore, He Dingxian can only hope that the "Anti-Corruption Investigation Act" will be passed to expand the scope of the anti-corruption office. Greedy power.

A big point is that they hope to use this to retain their influence in the business world and increase their resistance to the attacks of foreign firms.

"I hope Brother Tai can hold on."

He Dingxian put down the materials of Swire Pacific and sighed in his heart.

It will take time for the bill to pass.

At present, the Hong Kong Governor's Office has not yet approved it, and the business community does not know yet. Once the Hong Kong Governor's Office approves it, foreign firms will definitely speed up their pace and press Lixin.

Sometimes it is very interesting to review the development history of British banks. After all, Great Britain, as the winner of World War I, used to be an empire on which the sun never sets. The ups and downs, the development of mergers and acquisitions, and business ideas have witnessed the transformation of the world's business history.

half a month later.

HSBC, VIP room.

Huo Guantai was wearing a black suit and a blue tie, opened the door and bowed softly: "Pray sir."

HSBC executive Qi Yaolin stood up on the sofa seat, and came forward to shake hands with a smile on his face: "Huo Sheng, good morning."

"Morning." After Huo Guantai shook hands with Qi Yaolin and said happily, he glanced at another ghost sitting next to him, Xuansha, Taikoo Taipan.Xuan Sha stood up when his eyes caught him, and nodded with a smile, looking very respectful.

Qi Yaolin stood in the middle and introduced him: "Huo Sheng, this is Xuan Sha, the president of Swire Pacific, responsible for all the business of Hong Kong Island."

"Xuan sir." Huo Guantai stepped forward to shake hands, his expression much calmer, while Xuan Sha was a middle-aged man in his forties, in the prime of life, different from the gray-haired ghost next to him, after shaking hands, he said: "Huo Sheng, I have admired your name for a long time, please take care of me."

"Don't dare to be that." Huo Guantai spoke Cantonese.

Qi Yaolin said: "Sit."

The three of them sat down on the sofa, and the female secretary opened the door of the box and handed them a cup of coffee.

"Thank you." Huo Guantai nodded casually, picked up the coffee cup, took a sip before putting it down, and asked aloud, "Sir, what's the matter?"

"It's like this." Qi Yaolin clasped his hands together, crossed his fingers, crossed his legs, and sat on the chair gracefully: "HSBC invested in Swire Properties and is also a shareholder of Lixin Land, hoping to promote the cooperation between Lixin and Swire .”

"Can you sell the reclamation land of Lixin Real Estate to Swire Properties? In the future, Lixin Real Estate will be responsible for the construction and Swire Properties will be responsible for the development."

Qi Yaolin is best at exchanging resources in business to gain the maximum benefit, without blushing or heartbeat when speaking.

Huo Guantai sat between the two of them, as a guest, he was in a dilemma.

"Of course, Swire Properties will never buy at a low price, and in the real estate industry, Mr. Huo can still do it, but the division of labor is different." After Qi Yaolin finished speaking, he looked at Xuan Sha, and Xuan Sha saw that Mr. Huo did not answer, and continued. : "Mr. Huo can also become a shareholder of Swire Properties and work in the real estate industry together. At that time, Mr. Huo's personal company will undertake the reclamation project to build land for Swire Properties, and Swire Properties will make money for Mr. Huo."

"We are still in the same boat."

Seeing this, Qi Yaolin went on the offensive: "Huo Sheng, if Lixin Real Estate can reach a cooperation with Swire Properties, HSBC can continue to invest in the real estate company under your name in the future."

"If you don't agree."

Qi Yaolin shrugged his shoulders and leaned his back completely against the sofa, the implication was self-evident.

"Sorry, gentlemen." After a long silence, Huo Guantai stood up directly, and resolutely refused: "Lixin Real Estate is not my sole proprietorship company, and any decision you want to make needs to be discussed with the shareholders."

Qi Yaolin got up immediately, looking at Huo Guantai with wrong eyes.

"Mr. Huo!"

"You are the largest shareholder of the company, and HSBC is the third largest shareholder of the company. There are only three shareholders in the company. Together with you, can't I influence the company's decision?" Qi Yaolin's tone was threatening : "Without the help of HSBC, you are an orphan who is fishing for sea people's grass, what did you get to achieve today's achievements!"

Huo Guantai looked at the anger in the eyes of HSBC executives, and at the Taikoo taipan who was watching a theater beside him, his heart was shaken for a moment, but soon he took a deep breath and raised his breath: "Didn't I make money for HSBC!"

"What do you mean by talking to me like this!"

Huo Guantai is indeed an orphan who lost his father at the age of seven, but what the orphan fears most is fighting for his life, no one can threaten him!

"Are you threatening me?" Huo Guantai stepped forward, lifted Qi Yaolin's collar, and stared at him.

(End of this chapter)