History of Hong Kong Island

Chapter 453
May [-]th.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Beijing protested to the British Chargé d’affaires, spoke out for the incident in the New Territories, and mobilized the masses to demonstrate at the gate of the British Chargé d’affaires.That night, hundreds of people rushed into the British Chargé d’Affaires’ office and pasted up big-character posters reading “Support compatriots, oppose Britain and resist violence” in the consular office of the British chargé d’affaires.

The strength of the hometown officially debuted, giving the severely injured citizens of the New Territories a shot in the arm.

As a result, the riots in the New Territories developed into an international incident, and many parties suspected that there was a big power game behind the scenes.Through this incident, my hometown once again declared its determination to take back Hong Kong Island and supported the courage of our compatriots.People's Daily, Ta Kung Pao, Wen Wei Po and other newspapers published the news, and students from patriotic schools took to the streets to distribute newspapers to citizens, and the National Bank Central Headquarters installed loudspeakers on the roof to encourage publicity.

On the [-]th, more than [-] people from the Central Committee gathered and began to march towards the Governor's Mansion in Taipingshan. They posted big-character posters outside the Governor's Mansion, asking the Governor to respect the sovereignty of the people of the New Territories. The Governor was once the main target of the demonstrations.

Bai Liji temporarily transferred the office address to the Taipingshan Police Station, and dispatched [-] uniformed police officers to maintain order. That night, an explosives incident occurred at the Government House, resulting in the death of two public officials. Hong Kong Island announced for the first time that Kowloon and Hong Kong Island have a common A curfew is imposed.

However, the governor did not raise the level of emergency, and remained on the "alert" state, using force cautiously.

Eastern Bank.

Wearing a gray suit and glasses, Sima Xiang stood in front of an electronic screen and said back, "The stock price of Wharf has plummeted, British capital has fled, and we are gradually buying."

"Buy Wharf."

Huang Shitong roared fiercely.

More than [-] stockbrokers were sitting at their workstations, as if robots had received instructions, they picked up their phones one after another, dialed out, and shouted: "Help me buy Wharf."

"All."

"Is there any stock in Wharf?"

"Ding ding ding."

"Someone just listed [-] shares for sale?"

in the office.

The phone calls were noisy, like a sales company. In fact, the earliest stock market was like buying vegetables in the vegetable market, noisy.After the "Hang Seng Index" is released, each securities company has a recognized "public price".

According to the rise and fall of the Hang Seng Index, Hong Kong stocks will go up and down by a certain percentage. However, some companies have excellent business and strong market value, and occasionally rise against the trend.Thousands of people gathered in the securities company, some listed for sale, some paid for it, and the scene was extremely lively.

Now Hong Kong stocks have certain regulations, and the system of telephone trading can be adopted, but someone still needs to receive news from the securities company and go to the counter to carry out the trading procedures.Regardless of the fact that there are more than 60 people sitting in the Eastern Bank, there are more than [-] people helping in the securities company.

"Buy five thousand shares."

"Buy thirty thousand shares."

"An Italian seller just listed [-] shares!"

A clerk yelled.

"Take it all!"

Sima Xiang waved his hand.

Chen Zhan's expression was tense, and he stepped forward to persuade him: "Brother Xiang, you are too quick to accept the money and be careful not to let it go, do you want to slow down?"

"The big boss took out [-] million cash in one gulp, and received a Wharf warehouse just as an appetizer, and the appetizers are all gritty, how can you have the appetite to eat big dishes?" Sima Xiang was not tall, but he was extremely courageous in the financial market, and said decisively: "purchase!"

Chen Zhan was sweating profusely. It was the first time he traded hundreds of millions of cash. He felt a little guilty. He was afraid that the big boss would kill him if he suffered a loss. But facing Brother Xiang's decision, he turned his head and said to the stunned salesman: "purchase!"

"Buy!" The salesman yelled into the phone: "As long as it is a stock in Wharf, don't let go of a single share!"

In the fiery atmosphere, Huang Shitong lowered his head and lit a cigarette. His trembling fingers couldn't hide his excitement, and he stepped forward and said, "Wharf has not many individual stocks outside, and the terminal storage business is an iron rice bowl."

Sima Xiang nodded: "You can take as much as you want, even if someone maliciously smashes the order, the big boss will not blame you. Anyway, the rise and fall are controlled by the big boss, and we are only in charge of buying and selling."

The higher the level of financial warfare, the more affected by politics, the more skilled the trader, the less need for data analysis.High-end business wars are often simple and unpretentious. When British capital is harvested, Chinese capital will not be relentless.

Since the outbreak of the June [-] incident at the beginning of the month, the market economy on Hong Kong Island has been in a downturn, and the financial industry has been sluggish.

The Hang Seng Index has fallen for seven trading days in a row. The bosses of the Chinese capital have long been gearing up and eager to try. The British capital tried to hold on for a few days, hoping that the Hong Kong government can quickly resolve this incident. not solved.

With the official announcement from the north, the flight of foreign capital finally broke out. First of all, the first ones to flee were shareholders from Italy, Canada, Europe and the United States.They hold many stocks of British foreign firms, but they do not live on Hong Kong Island, and their information on Hong Kong Island only comes from international news.

I am afraid that the dispute on Hong Kong Island will escalate, and the flames of war will be ignited, the company's assets will be burned, and large sums of money will be cut.You must know that war is unpredictable, and once a war starts, hundreds of millions of assets will be wiped out.

In the rebuilt Hong Kong Island, the economic market will never be dominated by British capital. Coupled with the always domineering policies of the North, no foreign boss would dare to bet.There is a saying that "surrender and lose half", they know how to choose between losing half and losing all.

A small number of people dared to bet that Hong Kong Island would not go to war and followed up with bottom-hunting. It was because of the small amount of funds and the mentality of fighting for it that it still could not affect the market.Big assets never gamble, and tend to be safe.

However, foreign capital began to flee, which caused panic and fell, and British capital couldn't help it, and began to cut flesh one after another.

The housing market has already plunged by a third.

Sima Xiang set several goals: "The first is to acquire the shares of retail investors in Wharf and win the wharf storage business for the big boss; the second is to buy the Star Ferry Company and help the big boss monopolize the Hong Kong Island ferry market; the third is to acquire Swire Matheson Cathay Pacific, the fourth is to acquire the supermarket business of Jardine Matheson.”

Among them, emptying the scattered shares of Wharf can lay the foundation for the future acquisition of Wharf.Not to mention the acquisition of the Star Ferry, the acquisition of Cathay Pacific Airways is because Sima Xiang is very optimistic about the aviation business.In addition, Swire Pacific only won the bid for the Coca-Cola franchise last year, and it has just invested in the construction of an Asian super factory. The cash flow is insufficient, which is a good opportunity for a serious blow.The "Wellcome Supermarket" of Jardine Matheson is currently the largest snack market on Hong Kong Island, with an annual cash revenue of over 5000 million.

If these four businesses can be won with a scale of [-] million yuan, it is best, and the remaining [-] million yuan can also buy some "favorable" stocks to prepare for the right to print money in the future.If you have enough money, you can buy some real estate projects when the real estate market hits bottom.

This plan was completely approved by the big boss. As for who other Chinese companies want to attack, that is the business of other companies.After all, just because the bosses of the chamber of commerce promised to spend money to buy the bottom of the British capital does not mean that they will hand over all the money to the Eastern Bank for trading.

Eastern Bank is just a chess player blowing the horn. Each boss has his own direction, but the Chinese-owned bosses are very united. Once a Chinese-funded company acquires a British-funded company, the rest of the Chinese-funded companies will not enter the market to raise prices.

There is meat everywhere, enough for Chinese bosses to eat all they want!

HSBC, Standard Chartered, Lee Lee, Swire, Wheelock and other foreign firms wanted to meet with the Governor, and asked the Governor to calm down the situation as soon as possible and reduce the loss of British capital.They fully foresee the Chinese capital taking the opportunity to counterattack and acquire the plan, but capital flight is not controlled by individuals.Even if the four major foreign firms are united, they can barely control the decline of their own companies at best.

The governor, who has always been concerned about the economy, is in a state of desperation and is unable to manage the capital market anymore.

twenty days.

The Governor met with the Chairman of the Fighting Committee "Yang Guang" and member "Lu Hanming". Hong Kong Island and Kowloon are at the same level, and members of the New Territories are selected to decide on the affairs of the New Territories. Awarding the Medal of Justice of the Peace to Lu Hanming, Szeto Ying and others is tantamount to agreeing that the New Territories will enter a semi-autonomous model.

Disagree with the "Dingquan" clause proposed by Lu Hanming, and insist on not wanting to give up the land rights in the New Territories.After all, as long as the Hong Kong government governs the New Territories in name, it has always been indifferent to the internal autonomy of the New Territories. However, the Hong Kong government needs the coastline around Tsuen Wan to revitalize the economy. The tariffs during the year are all contributing to the villagers of the New Territories.

The negotiations between the two parties broke up unhappy. In fact, Yang Guang had no intention of negotiating peace with the Hong Kong government at all.Because for him, the interests of the Hong Kong government and the New Territories are not important. The important thing is to build up momentum and gain political autonomy so that he can ask the boss for credit.

The governor saw that the villagers in the New Territories were tough on the outside and soft on the inside, and judged that the villagers in the New Territories would not last long, so he decided to put pressure on the New Territories again.After all, the economic foundation of the small farmers in the New Territories is weak, and the farmland will be overgrown with weeds if it is not plowed for a week. If Chinese merchants deliver rice noodles to them, someone can't plow the land for them for free, right?The longer the incident drags on, the better it will be for the Hong Kong government.People in the New Territories have relief food this month, but they will not have it next year.

On the 21th.

There were gatherings and demonstrations in Central again. Due to the shortage of explosion-proof emergency response forces, many police officers had been working overtime for more than a week, and many of them could only sleep two or three hours a day.As a result, the Hong Kong government had to order the Hong Kong Island District Crime Squad to disperse the citizens.

Bai Liji probably felt that the matter was coming to an end, and using Chinese police officers would at most award medals and raise ranks, which was a huge price to pay.Unexpectedly, as soon as the order was issued to the Police Department, the Chief of Police rushed to the Governor's Mansion in person, handed over a stack of documents, and said bitterly: "Sir, Assistant Director of Hong Kong Island District He Dingxian, Superintendent of Operations Department Yan Xiong, Chong Chief Inspector Chen Zichao of the crime team, Lei Luo of the Kowloon District Criminal Team, a total of 56 Chinese police officers above the inspector level submitted leave applications, claiming that they were sick and unable to perform their duties."

The incident of collective leave of middle and senior commanders of the police force is unprecedented, and it can be called a political thunderstorm.

Bai Liji was stunned, and swept a stack of leave notices to the ground. He couldn't accept it at all, and sternly shouted: "Let them go to work immediately and lead the troops to Central Ring to disperse the citizens, or they will never come again!"

(End of this chapter)