Hong Kong: Rise of the Kings

May 13, 1976.

For many Hong Kong people, today is not an auspicious day, nor is it a holiday. It is just an ordinary day. Going to work, waiting to get off work, listening to the boss yelling, enduring all kinds of mental torture and physical labor for three meals a day and to support the family.

But at this time, the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in Central is no longer as cold as before. There are crowds of people. Dozens of ceiling fans are whirring above the hall. Even if they are all running at full capacity, it still makes people feel hot and unbearable.

Look at those stock brokers. Even if it is extremely hot, they are dressed in suits and leather shoes, meticulously dressed, and very dedicated. They can't help but take out their handkerchiefs to wipe the sweat from their foreheads.

In front of them, there are two long rows of hundreds of telephones, and more than a dozen stock brokers are talking loudly on the phone.

Because of the heat and the surrounding noise, they talk so loudly that you can hear what they are talking about even if you stand at the door. It feels like this is not a stock exchange, but a vegetable market.

In fact, it is not that these stockbrokers are impolite and do not know how to be polite and solemn, but that the Hong Kong Stock Exchange has established rules since its establishment, strictly prohibiting stockbrokers from whispering when trading or quoting, especially not whispering to each other.

This kind of behavior that traditional Chinese businessmen are most accustomed to cannot appear in the exchange at all.

To put it bluntly, the stock exchange was founded by foreigners, and foreigners do not trust these Chinese, so they stipulate that their conversations must be loud so that most of their peers can hear them to prevent stockbrokers from colluding to cheat.

Meng Qingsong is the brokerage manager of the stock bank here. His ancestral home is Weihai, Shandong. He is tall and strong, which is in stark contrast to his delicate heart and work attitude.

He is 35 years old this year, which is a mature and stable man with a strong sense of professionalism and a period of rising business.

Meng Qingsong is not only excellent himself, but also the team he leads is excellent. He is especially appreciated by foreign bosses. He knows many rich bosses in Hong Kong, including his recent "noble man" Li Zhaoheng.

Everyone knows that the Li family is rich and powerful in Hong Kong. It is said that a small agent once climbed up to the Li family and soared to the sky. Not only did his performance soar, but he also made a lot of money and bought a house in the best location in Sham Shui Po.

So there is a saying among these agents: "If you want to make money, find the Li family!"

Meng Qingsong has longed for the Li family, but he has no chance to contact them. To be precise, although he is a stock manager, he is not qualified to contact big guys like the Li family. Those who can do business with the Li family and trade stocks on behalf of the Li family are all top players here, to be precise, those who have drunk foreign ink and are British or Chinese.

Unfortunately, although Meng Qingsong is very good, he is a Chinese, and he is a third-class person in Hong Kong, even worse than the Indian brother, so big families like the Li family will not contact him at all and ask him to help trade stocks.

But Meng Qingsong did not expect that this phenomenon would be broken a week ago.

That day, Smith, the foreign boss, said he wanted to introduce a big shot to him. Looking at the foreigner's expression and attitude, he was very cautious, and even had a hint of jealousy in his eyes.

Who did Meng Qingsong guess that person was?

Meng Qingsong was surprised when they met at Victoria Cafe. The other party was the second young master of the Li family - Li Zhaoheng!

Li Zhaoheng can be regarded as a top-notch figure in Hong Kong, especially in recent years, his reputation has been resounding throughout Hong Kong with several big business deals.

Meng Qingsong didn't know why a great man like Li Zhaoheng wanted to find him? He guessed that it might be related to stock speculation. After all, his major and what he was good at were these.

During the banquet, Li Zhaoheng did not immediately reveal his intention, but just praised Meng Qingsong a few words, praising his superb skills and profound skills in stocks, and the several plans he had made before were all OK.

Although Meng Qingsong knew that these were all polite words, he was still very happy in his heart. He felt that the second young master of the Li family was not only outstanding in talent, but also so approachable, modest and cautious.

Suddenly, Meng Qingsong had a great liking for Li Zhaoheng.

After three rounds of wine, the dishes were delicious.

Li Zhaoheng then turned the topic to stock trading, and asked Meng Qingsong several technical questions about stocks.

Meng Qingsong answered well, treated each question carefully, and answered seriously.

Meng Qingsong's attitude also won Li Zhaoheng's favor, and he nodded in approval.

After this tacit "assessment" was over, Li Zhaoheng explained his intention and wanted to hire, or more accurately, recruit Meng Qingsong to work for him. He planned to do a big thing in the near future and needed a capable and clean person. Meng Qingsong looked very good.

Meng Qingsong didn't know why Li Zhaoheng came to him, but his boss Smith knew. In order to find the right person, Li Zhaoheng actually sent people to the stock brokerage to investigate and observe for a long time, and finally selected three people. Meng Qingsong was the best and most critical one among the three.

Smith was very jealous of this, or rather, he was very jealous of Meng Qingsong. After all, being valued by someone like Li Zhaoheng, it was not impossible for him to soar to the sky in the future, and his future was even limitless.

However, the foreigner Smith also knew his own limitations. In addition to his advantages of being British, having white skin, and having green eyes, he could not compare with Meng Qingsong in other aspects.

Meng Qingsong represents countless talented Chinese stockbrokers in Hong Kong. These people are smart, hard-working, and hardworking. It is only because of their skin problems that they are treated as subordinates by these ghosts and are ordered around.

Now Lee Zhaoheng selects talents, not nationality, let alone white or yellow skin color. Only Meng Qingsong can stand out.

Meng Qingsong did not expect that he would be so lucky today that he would be favored by a big man like Lee Zhaoheng. When Lee Zhaoheng personally recruited him, Meng Qingsong was so excited that he almost agreed.

However, as a stockbroker, Meng Qingsong was accustomed to being cautious in his work. He asked Lee Zhaoheng what exactly he was recruiting for.

Lee Zhaoheng didn't hide anything. He took a sip of coffee and replied with a smile: "Acquire Hengchuang Real Estate!"

Just this sentence scared Meng Qingsong to death.

Why?

Everyone knows what kind of company Hengchuang Real Estate is.

I also know who the big boss behind this company is!

Du Yongxiao!

Hong Kong’s first Chinese police commissioner!

President of Hong Kong Du Group!

It is said that his private wealth is in the billions, and he is among the top five richest people in Hong Kong!

The most important thing is that this person is still very young!

Youth is your capital,

Don't be afraid of losing!

What's more, there are many legends about Du Yongxiao in Hong Kong's arena and business, even if Meng Qingsong doesn't want to hear them.

What about cleaning up street tigers?

What bloody massacre!

Du Yongxiao was given the image of a green face, fangs, and killing people.

Meng Qingsong is in the stock business.

What I'm most afraid of is going against a strong man like Du Yongxiao. If he wins, it's easy to say, but if he loses, he'll probably lose his skin even if he doesn't die.

Meng Qingsong was not willing to bury himself in a mere acquisition.

After Meng Qingsong learned that his future opponent was the Du Group and Du Yongxiao, he did not directly agree to Lee Zhaoheng. Instead, he used coffee to cover up his inner thoughts. He just changed the topic and said that this coffee was a bit bitter and not as good as Nathan's. It tastes delicious, not only has a pure taste, but is also freshly ground by hand.

Who is Li Zhaoheng? How could he not know Meng Qingsong's little intentions when he saw this?

For people like Meng Qingsong, in addition to showing attitude and sincerity, the most important thing is that the benefits are readily available and tangible.

So, Lee Siu-hang directly took out a house deed in the luxury area of ​​Sham Shui Po and handed it to Meng Qingsong, saying that he would be a neighbor of that very powerful colleague. His house was even twice as expensive as that of his colleague.

When Meng Qingsong saw the house deed, his eyelids jumped again and again, and a kind of greed rose in his heart.

Seeing that Lee Zhaoheng was so generous, Ghost God Smith was even more jealous and wished he could take over the property deed instead of Meng Qingsong.

Meng Qingsong's mind was racing rapidly.

His colleague who lives in Sham Shui Po is the object of envy among most of them. Everyone talks about it frequently and is envious of him.

Meng Qingsong's family of six still lives near the Kowloon Walled City. Although the Kowloon Walled City is being demolished and rebuilt after it was captured by To Yongxiao, Hong Kong people still regard it as a "slum" area.

Meng Qingsong works hard and saves money. The purpose is to move away from where he lives, and then when he meets someone outside, when asked where he lives, he can tell the person loudly, which high-end community he lives in, and whether there are people nearby. Some rich people, some famous people, etc. instead of telling others like before that they live near the Kowloon Walled City where they like to eat dog meat hotpot.

Seeing Meng Qingsong's heartbeat, Li Zhaoheng knew that the overall situation was decided. He pushed the house deed and said: "Complete the task successfully, this is yours! Give it a try, and the third generation of wealth will be enough for your son to live in a big villa instead of Kowloon Walled City!”

Meng Qingsong's heart was pounding, and he looked at Li Zhaoheng. For the first time, he realized that this man was really scary, and he could understand people so clearly.

But Meng Qingsong is more concerned about that house at the moment!

The benefits are readily available and he will never let them go.

He took the house deed and said, "Mr. Li, I do!"

"That's right! Then Du Yongxiao is not a real big tiger, what is there to be afraid of?"

At that moment, Li Zhaoheng was content and hesitant, while Meng Qingsong was filled with pride——

Bet!

…

Back to the present——

Several of Meng Qingsong's men were among the people making phone calls at this time, holding the phone and buying Hengchuang shares in a fast tone——

"Buy! Buy them all! We will buy as much as the other party throws!"

"Yes, I must swallow the Hengchuang stock no matter what!"

Ghost Smith, who came to the exchange to sit here today, put down his tea with an ugly expression on his face, because he saw with his own eyes that the stock price of Hengchuang Real Estate was still soaring. Hengchuang Real Estate was hit by a scandal before, and the stock plummeted. That was also when Lee Zhaoheng started a hostile takeover. Constant creation time.

As a close friend of Lee Zhaoheng, Ghost Smith once vowed to Lee Zhaoheng that he would win over Hengchuang at the minimum cost, but now——

At this moment, a stock price reporter picked up the chalk and strode to the blackboard and wrote down the Hengchuang stock value.

The market opened today with a 3% rise, which is not a good sign for Smith.

Smith has been sitting in the exchange hall for almost two hours in the morning. At this time, there are dozens of buy orders for Hengchuang Real Estate's stocks on the blackboard of the trading hall. The total number is more than 4,000 lots, but the sell orders have not yet been placed. There were only a few sell orders, and the occasional sell order was immediately digested by the huge buy order base. According to this trend, when the exchange closes in the afternoon, Hengchuang's stock price can easily be raised to more than three yuan per share by buy orders.

Looking at the increasing number of purchase orders, Smith became more and more distressed. Although Li Zhaoheng was taking hostile takeover actions, he was unwilling to spend so much money.

Smith glanced at Meng Qingsong, the stock manager who was roaring at his subordinates.

Meng Qingsong took out a handkerchief from time to time to wipe the sweat from his forehead.

A few days ago, everyone thought that Hengchuang Real Estate was going to be finished. Many shareholders were frantically selling their stocks. Meng Qingsong could easily buy these shares at the lowest price and pave the way for Li Zhaoheng to swallow Hengchuang.

But who would have thought that it would be so abnormal from the day before yesterday. Hengchuang actually took out a huge amount of funds to buy back its own stocks, directly pushing up Hengchuang Real Estate, which was about to fall to the bottom.

At this time, Meng Qingsong was in a dilemma. Now that he had swallowed so many Hengchuang stocks, he had two choices.

First, sell the stocks in his hands and earn a high price difference, which could help Li Zhaoheng make at least tens of millions!

As a stockbroker, this is the best choice. You should stop when you are ahead. You should know how to stop loss and stop profit. This is the only way to succeed as a broker.

Second, continue to increase efforts to compete with Hengchuang to acquire stocks sold on the market. If you continue like this, you may lose the money you earn and have to take out the reserve funds that Li Zhaoheng prepared for him.

The advantage of doing this is that you can swallow Hengchuang in the end by relying on the number of shares. The disadvantage is that the cost is too high. Is it worth it?

In normal times, Meng Qingsong will definitely choose the first method, stop profit in time, and stop fighting while the market is in chaos.

But he knows that Li Zhaoheng's acquisition of Hengchuang has another purpose, and the goal is to snipe the big backer behind Hengchuang Real Estate-Du Group.

So now he has only one way to choose, that is to continue to frantically acquire Hengchuang stocks, no matter how high the price is!

This is Li Zhaoheng's order!

What's more, Li Zhaoheng told him that he has raised 10 billion for him!

With 10 billion in hand,

Meng Qingsong doesn't need any skills or techniques at all, he can beat Hengchuang and Du Yongxiao to death!

In the face of absolute strength, the stock market is your own fish pond, you can play it as you want!

In addition, Meng Qingsong guessed that the reason why Hengchuang's stock price rose sharply was that Hengchuang was releasing smoke bombs, and it was at the end of its strength and had no last funds.

But they have the support of bigwigs such as Li Jiacheng of Cheung Kong Holdings, Li Zhaoji of Henderson Land Development, and Qiu Defu of Far East Bank, and the strength is clear at a glance!

"Yes! I will definitely win this round! Everyone is afraid of Du Yongxiao, but I want to defeat him!" Meng Qingsong clenched his fists and vowed.