Hong Kong Island's wealthy era

Chapter 98 Wharf ([-])
February 2, the first day of the first month.

The headlines on the front page of today's newspapers are not Chinese New Year greetings, since the "Bao Li Lei" associate company is concerned about the content of the land acquisition offer.

Citizens discovered that the acquisition amount amounted to HK$52.2 billion, and they began to discuss whether the "Bao Li Lei" company was really rich.

In fact, only Lei Liquan and the others knew that this was all "ammunition" provided by HSBC. HSBC also wanted to take this opportunity to completely defeat Jardine Matheson and consolidate HSBC's position as the number one British capital.

On the second day of the tender offer, Simon Keswick, the head of Jardine, who was far away and the sun never set, arrived in Hong Kong. The first thing he did when he arrived in Hong Kong was to announce the resignation of Taipan Niu Bijian.

The second thing is to send an invitation to Lei Liquan and the others to have tea with him and start negotiations.He also said that Jardine was considering selling Wharf to them in exchange for the three not to launch a fatal attack on Land.

After hearing this order, the subordinates cautiously continued to ask for instructions: "Boss, what if they don't agree to attend the meeting?"

After all, the three of them have the initiative, and they have enough confidence to ask for more benefits.

"You go make an appointment with the charter king and the three of them. If they don't talk and insist on carrying the offer to the end, then I will lobby No. 10 Downing Street to expel them all from Hong Kong. I believe that my family will go all out. ."

This is a naked threat, and it is also what Lei Liquan and the three of them are worried about. Although the shares can be transferred before being expelled from Xiangjiang, this is not what they want to see.After all, their roots are in Hong Kong.

When the subordinates saw that the boss was ready to fight to the death, they didn't dare to say anything. They immediately sent out invitations and invited three people at once.

In this land acquisition battle, Charter King and Lei Liquan invested the same amount, about HK$13 billion. Li Jiacheng only invested HK$6.5 million, of which Lei Liquan only used Wharf's equity, while Li Chaoren used Wharf. Equity conversion and part of cash, while Charter King uses 9.8% of Land shares plus cash.

After the acquisition is completed in the future, the distribution of benefits will also be based on the proportion of capital contribution, which has been agreed in advance.

"Bao Li Lei" company actually holds 27.6% of the equity of Land Land and 11% of the equity of Wharf.

The funds for the subsequent land tender offer were actually provided by HSBC.HSBC actually gave its full support this time, using Hang Seng Bank to acquire Wylie's Wharf shares, while cutting off any financial aid from the Jardine Matheson Group, and lobbying the Hong Kong government to remain neutral during the acquisition process!
Once Lei Liquan and the others reach a deal with Land, Wharf's stock price will definitely fall, and Hang Seng Bank will also suffer losses.

Shen Bi asked the three companies to establish business relationships with Hang Seng and provide interest to Hang Seng in the form of financial services to recover their losses.

In order to kill Yihe, Shen Bi did not seek to make profits, but only wanted to stop losses.

Finally, Lei Liquan and the three of them decided to negotiate with Jardine to resolve the dispute.

In Jardine's negotiations with them, Lei Liquan and the others were only responsible for drawing the bottom line. As for the details of the negotiations, a team of three people came forward to negotiate.

When will it be discussed specifically?Jardine Matheson is definitely the most urgent, because after the takeover bid for Land Company is issued, small shareholders may sell Land shares to them every day.

So every day they delay, the more leverage they have.

Since the negotiations began, Lei Liquan has been busy with nothing.

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During this period, because he was busy with the Wharf acquisition war and did not even spend time with his family during the Spring Festival, Lei Liquan decided to take two days off.

Lei Liquan had just returned home and had just rested for half a day when he was pulled out by Lei Juehua.

I took my son and daughter-in-law with me and rushed to Happy Valley Racecourse together. Because Lei Le was too young, he stayed at home and was taken care of by a nanny.

Lei Liquan looked at the time and saw that it was past six o'clock in the afternoon, so he casually asked: "Dad, are you going to eat somewhere?"

"Let's go see Marseille first and then eat."

"Marseilles?"

"Last month, Zhen saw that I was bored, so she asked someone to buy me a horse. Is there a race tonight?"

"This is a big deal." Lei Liquan looked at Li Jianzhen. It was rare to see Lei Juehua so happy in so many years, so he agreed with him. "I see my father drinking tea every day. I have played with my father at the racecourse since I was a child. I thought it was very good, so I suggested that my father buy a racehorse at the racecourse." Li Yanzhen explained to Lei Liquan.

"Well, I also support this matter, so that dad's life will not be too monotonous." Lei Liquan said while hugging Li Zhenzhen.

Horse racing, with its exciting scenes and generous bonuses, makes many Hong Kong people happy and has become an indispensable part of the daily life of most Hong Kong people.Everyone in Xiangjiang buys horse racing tickets, which are lottery tickets. Everyone comes to buy horses because they want to get rich overnight.In fact, buying horses is a kind of gambling.

Therefore, horse racing has become a part of Xiangjiang culture.

For ordinary people, the horse racing culture places emphasis on gambling but not on horses.

For horse owners in horse racing clubs, they place more emphasis on horses than gambling.

Only at the Hong Kong Jockey Club can you truly witness the "horse culture" of Hong Kong.

The Jockey Club is essentially a high-end private club with strict membership requirements. Anyone who is not a social elite cannot become a member. Only by becoming a member can you become a horse owner.

Lei Juehua owns a horse racing horse and is going to watch his horse racing match tonight. By the way, he will introduce a wealthy businessman family to Lei Liquan.

Lei Juehua said to Lei Liquan: "Son, I am also going to buy you a racehorse, and a champion jockey will be responsible for training the horse. There is hope that it can become the top horse this season, but I haven't chosen it yet."

Li Yanzhen, who had been sitting next to Lei Liquan, heard this and said: "Buy a horse race imported from New Zealand. I have watched horse racing several times before, and the champion horses are all New Zealand horses."

"Okay, it's just that the horse is a bit ugly." It seems that Lei Juehua has done a lot of research on horses in the past two months.

Li Yanzhen said happily: "In the future, when I go to the racecourse to watch horse races, I can watch my own champion horse."

Lei Liquan smiled and said, "Then I have to raise a few more horses, and the chance of winning the championship will be higher."

"In the future, I will go to raise horses with my dad. Anyway, the horse farm is fun." Li Yanzhen said.

"Yeah." Lei Liquan nodded in agreement.

Lei Juehua said: "Every time you win a race, you will get a bonus. If you get a good ranking, you can easily earn back your expenses and buy more horses. This is also an investment, and it is also an investment in connections. Who doesn't go to the racecourse? There are many people on the scene, and ordinary people have no chance to enter the racecourse.”

Lei Liquan agrees with Lei Juehua's view.To become a member, you are either 'rich' or 'noble', and the racecourse has become a gathering place for Hong Kong's wealth and celebrity circles.

Lei Liquan immediately expressed his support and said: "Buy as many horses as you want, and try to choose foals imported from New Zealand."

Lei Liquan remembered reading a news report in his previous life. Nearly half of the championship horses were imported from New Zealand, which meant that New Zealand horses were more likely to get good rankings. Li Yizhen also said the same thing just now.

Lei Juehua said: "Boss Yang has always suggested that I buy a New Zealand horse, but that horse is too ugly, so I didn't like it."

But since his son and daughter-in-law liked it, he decided to buy some New Zealand racing horses.

"Boss Yang? Which Boss Yang?" Lei Liquan asked Lei Jue.

"Yang Yuanlong, the cotton spinning king of Xiangjiang, you should also know his two daughters." Lei Juehua.

Lei Liquan paused. Hearing what Lei Juehua said, he must know a woman?Lei Liquan has never seen their daughters.

"Dad, I know his youngest daughter Yang Jiji, but Brother Li may not know her." Li Yanzhen said with a smile.

By the time we were chatting, the team had already arrived at Happy Valley Racecourse.

(End of this chapter)