Video Game Empire

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Lloyds may never have imagined that the biggest bank merger battle in Britain's history would be disrupted by a group of Asians. ⊙Small, first of all, Mr. Li Xuan, the richest man in the world and the second largest shareholder of Standard Chartered Bank, officially issued a statement to express his support for the current management of Standard Chartered Bank.

Then, an investment company jointly established by a number of wealthy businessmen suddenly appeared in Hong Kong, announcing that it would participate in the bidding of Standard Chartered shares. The new company plans to buy 250,000 Standard Chartered shares, which will account for 14.9% of Standard Chartered's total share capital, just below the Bank of England's limit of 15% that requires approval.

After Xu Jiankui received the call from Li Xuan, he did not directly start the acquisition as originally planned. Because on the night that Li Xuan called him, Mr. Goldstein, a Hong Kong executive from Standard Chartered Bank, appeared in Hong Kong's ATV's trump card political talk show "Three Walks".

For the first time, he publicly expounded on the future development of Standard Chartered in Hong Kong. Hong Kong is entering a transition period, and Standard Chartered Bank, which has the right to issue notes, has a special status in the entire financial system of Hong Kong. Therefore, Standard Chartered Bank of Hong Kong needs to make appropriate strategic adjustments according to the changes in the situation.

The headquarters of Standard Chartered has made a decision to take Standard Chartered Hong Kong as an independent subsidiary and officially launch the plan to list on the Hong Kong stock market. The listed Hong Kong company Standard Chartered Bank will completely become a Hong Kong public company, giving back to the Hong Kong economy and all Hong Kong citizens with better services and performance.

Against the background of the British-funded consortium headed by Jardine He Company, the company's registered place has been continuously moved out of Hong Kong. Even the Hong Kong stock market responded enthusiastically the next day, with the Hang Seng Index soaring 4.5% throughout the day.

The news that Standard Chartered in Hong Kong will be split and listed independently has completely dispelled the last concerns of wealthy Hong Kong businessmen who are preparing to invest in the acquisition of Standard Chartered shares. Xu Jiankui immediately seized this favorable opportunity and actively carried out series under the banner of "God of Wealth Li". Successfully persuaded everyone to gather strength together and launch a fatal blow to Lloyds Bank.

When Xu Jiankui persuaded others to set up an investment company and compete for Standard Chartered shares, the Standard Chartered shares in Lloyds Bank's hands could only exceed 35%. But at this time, Li Xuan, who holds 17.5%, has declared his opposition to Lloyds Bank's merger.

And Coote, a wealthy Australian businessman who also opposed mergers and acquisitions, also followed his original plan. The Standard Chartered shares in his hand were successfully increased to 10%. As for the major shareholders of the two institutions who voted against the previous Standard Chartered Board of Directors, although both took the opportunity to reduce their holdings of Standard Chartered shares, they still held 8% of Standard Chartered shares.

That is to say, if Xu Jiankui and other newly emerging wealthy businessmen in Hong Kong successfully complete the scheduled 14.9% increase in holdings, then the total shares opposed to Lloyds Bank's acquisition of Standard Chartered will reach 50.4%, which also means that Lloyds Bank's acquisition plan will immediately go bankrupt.

And Xu Jiankui's style was indeed very ferocious when he came up. He entrusted the British Barclays Capital Company to publicly buy Standard Chartered shares at a price of 780 pence per share, which was 10 pence higher than the purchase price offered by Lloyds Bank. Lloyds immediately raised its offer to 785p. But Xu Jiankui was not to be outdone, and soon raised the purchase price to 790 pence.

Shares in Standard Chartered quickly climbed to 810 pence apiece amid the fierce rivalry between the two sides. However, the purchase price offered by Xu Jiankui still pressed Lloyds Bank under him. In just three days, Xu Jiankui's stake in Standard Chartered reached 7%.

But just then, a new spoiler emerged. Qiu Deba, a banker from Singapore, suddenly announced that he had purchased a 5% stake in Standard Chartered. And he also firmly supports the existing board of Standard Chartered Bank, against Lloyds Bank's mergers and acquisitions. That is to say, shareholders who oppose mergers and acquisitions. The total number of shares held in hands has reached 47.4%.

And Lloyds Bank is constantly emerging rivals. Under the joint attacks one after another, the actual acquired equity of Standard Chartered is less than 40%. In this extremely unfavorable situation, the board of directors of Lloyds Bank, after repeated weighing, finally decided to give up the plan to acquire Standard Chartered Bank!

After successfully thwarting Lloyds Bank's hostile takeover, Standard Chartered's management will naturally have to pay a huge price to support their friends in return. You must know that Standard Chartered's share price plummeted immediately after Lloyds Bank officially announced that it had abandoned the acquisition. It fell sharply from 815 pence per share to 719 pence.

And market analysts are generally pessimistic forecasts, the price of Standard Chartered shares has not hit rock bottom, may have been down to about 650 pence per share before the merger war.

Taking the 17.5% shares held by Li Xuan as an example, he did not choose to sell his Standard Chartered shares to Lloyds Bank when the stock price rose to the highest level. At current share prices, there has been a book impairment of more than £27 million.

Standard Chartered's share price fell back in retaliation. For Li Xuan, he just lost an opportunity to make a profit, but he actually did not lose any money. After all, he had already held these stocks long before the stock price rose. But for Xu Jiankui and other people who joined the takeover battle later, what they lost was real money.

Among them, the biggest loss was Xu Jiankui, the leader. As the convener of the bidding action, he also had a large amount of cash that Li Xuan prepared for him in advance. Therefore, when contacting other people, Xu Jiankui said that he could go up first to give everyone time to raise funds.

In order to acquire the 7% stake in Standard Chartered, they spent a total of 87 million pounds, while Xu Jiankui spent all the 62 million pounds prepared by Li Xuan. Therefore, he accounts for the largest proportion of newly established investment companies, and he needs to bear the largest share price loss.

Fortunately, he only helped Li Xuan to buy it, so he was not really distressed. However, after Xu Jiankui, Mr. Goldstein, the Taipan of Standard Chartered in Hong Kong, announced that he was going to split and list Hong Kong Standard Chartered Company, he had already vaguely guessed Li Xuan's intention.

Therefore, after Lloyds Bank announced that it had abandoned its merger and acquisition plan, he was the first to ask Standard Chartered Bank to speed up the listing process of Hong Kong companies as soon as possible. Xu Jiankui also asked the Standard Chartered board of directors to agree to their investors to replace their own equity with the equity of a Hong Kong subsidiary.

Although the senior management of Standard Chartered had reached a similar agreement with Li Xuan before, it was forced to agree to the alliance under the city under the last resort. Standard Chartered is naturally reluctant to really give up control of the Hong Kong company, and their original idea was to use delaying tactics as much as possible.

But Li Xuan never expected it. The small moves that Standard Chartered executives may take, so he immediately put forward a request for re-election to the Standard Chartered board of directors. Li Xuan hopes to reorganize the board of directors of Standard Chartered into 9 seats, and supports Xu Jiankui and Qiu Deba to join the board of directors of Standard Chartered.

The total number of shares in the hands of Li Xuan, Xu Jiankui, and Qiu Deba has accounted for 30% of the total share capital of Standard Chartered. The requirement to obtain three seats is also reasonable. And Hong Kong newspapers also published candid photos of Li Xuan and the two having dinner and talking happily.

In case Li Xuan's proposal is really passed. Then the alliance of the three Chinese people will become a powerful force in the board of directors of Standard Chartered, which will inevitably form a serious fetter on the decision-making of the management.

Therefore, the management of Standard Chartered can only choose the lesser of the two. By replacing the shares of Standard Chartered Group in the hands of Li Xuan and others with the shares of Standard Chartered in Hong Kong. Thereby reducing their influence on the board of directors of the group, which is a way to abandon the car and keep the handsome.

So under the circumstance that Xu Jiankui came forward to play side drums, Li Xuan quickly reached a preliminary compromise with the board of directors of Standard Chartered on the issue of equity replacement. As for the details of the specific replacement ratio, the two sides are bound to sit down and discuss in detail. After all, whether it is Standard Chartered Bank or Li Xuan. They will definitely keep as much of their equity in Standard Chartered in Hong Kong as possible.

And this kind of negotiation, which is a bargain, naturally does not require the big boss Li Xuan to come forward in person. His team will solve this problem before Standard Chartered in Hong Kong goes public.

The bottom line given by Li Xuan is to obtain at least 40% of the shares in listed companies. Of course, if it can reach 45%, it is naturally the best, then reserve 30% of the equity for Standard Chartered Group, and then publicly issue 25% of new shares, everything will be perfect.

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Putting aside the matter of Standard Chartered Bank for the time being, Li Xuan is after attending Standard Chartered's board of directors. After returning to Hong Kong from London, I received some good news. The A-2 project, which lasted a year and a half, was launched. Finally came up with a mature prototype.

"Li Sheng, this a-2 really realizes the separation of the machine and the card. This memory card produced by Dongfang Semiconductor is divided into 28 and 56 conventional cards, which are used to load ordinary games. The super-large-capacity card specially developed by "Pokémon" has a storage capacity of 112!" Du Wenqiang pointed to the three small cards of one centimeter square that looked exactly the same in his hand.

Du Wenqiang said he picked up the new orange handheld on the table and took off its back cover. Then he continued to introduce: "a-2 uses the latest LCD technology developed by the Oriental Research Institute. Although it is far inferior to the picture of the TV, the picture quality of the previous a-1 is much more delicate! Game! The machine uses three rechargeable small batteries, which can last for 4 hours in a slow state!"

While explaining, Du Wenqiang inserted a game card into the game card slot. Then re-install the back cover of the game console, then press and hold the on/off button of the game console for a long time, wait until the game console screen lights up, and then release the button. What he just inserted was the game card of "Pokémon", so after the game console was turned on, he directly entered the "Pokémon" game start screen.

"The game card has its own storage function, which can save the player's game progress, such as the various pet babies they have collected and cultivated! When the player starts the game for the first time, the game program will release a series of small tasks to help the player familiarize himself with the game's way of exceeding the game. Introduce in the text of the game background!" Du Wenqiang said and handed the game console to Li Xuan.

According to the instructions of the game characters, Li Xuan quickly became familiar with how to nurture and train his pet baby, and how to make his pet baby fight! It only took about ten minutes for Xiao Zhi, a novice trainer controlled by Li Xuan, to leave his hometown and embark on a journey to travel across the entire Pokémon continent!

"Li Sheng, the most interesting thing about this "Pokémon" is that two game consoles can be played online, we can try it now!" Du Wenqiang had already pulled out the drawer of his desk while Li Xuan was immersed in the game. Got out a new game console.

On the screen of the game console in Li Xuan's hand, a dialog box to invite a battle quickly popped up. After he chose to confirm, the two game consoles quickly completed the networking. The game immediately enters the arena mode, and each player can send the three strongest Pokémon in their hands to participate in the battle.

Li Xuan only had three Pokémon that he had just collected from the quest, two of which had not undergone any combat training and were still at level zero. The only Pokémon with only combat experience is a Pikachu given to the protagonist Ash by the Doctor in the plot at the beginning of the game, but its current level is only at level 3.

In the battle frame, Du Wenqiang's first Pokémon was level 10, so Li Xuan's three Pokémon failed to survive the next round in the face of the disparate power comparison.

"In the game, Pokémon will experience a strength threshold every 5 levels. If the level difference between two babies exceeds 5 levels, they will be crushed!" Du Wenqiang said, "I'm sending a few Pokémon now. Here, you take it!"

Du Wenqiang just finished speaking, and another dialog box for game treasure exchange popped up in Li Xuan's game. The exchange parties can exchange up to three pet babies at a time. Of course, Li Xuan did not return his three babies to the other party, but chose to receive them unilaterally.

"We also put a limit on the Pokémon in the game, each baby can only be copied up to 3 times, and the copy cannot continue to be cloned! At the same time, players only have 5 pet **** initially~www.readwn.com~ So you now You must give up the pets you have always had before you can take over the 3 Pokémon I passed on to you.

And if you want to increase the number of pet balls, only by constantly upgrading or doing tasks, each player can have up to 12 pet balls. In this way, each pet quota in the hands of the player is very precious, and everyone needs to carefully plan their development route from the beginning! "Du Wenqiang said and made a captain request to Li Xuan.

The 3 pet babies Li Xuan got newly were between 8 and 10. The 3 pets that Du Wenqiang dispatched to battle were of equal strength, but he was still defeated very quickly!

Du Wen ** laughed twice before continuing to explain: "In this "Pokémon" game, in addition to level suppression, there is also attribute suppression. For example, my water-type pet just now is fighting against your fire-type pet. When you have a pet, you have a damage bonus. And if your fire-type pet encounters a wood-type pet, you can also get a damage bonus!"

Li Xuan did not play the first-generation version of "Pokemon" on Nintendo's a in his previous life, so he could not use it to compare with the a-2 and "Pokémon" currently developed by Dongfang Games. But after half an hour of personal experience, he found that the game in his hand had exceeded his original expectations and gave him a lot of surprises! (To be continued..)