Rebirth of Hong Kong 1981

  Chapter 784 The Carrian Incident, Yihe Suffered

   On the way back to Xiangjiang in Simon Keswick, the Hong Kong stock market was shaken by another news

  In history, 1982 was definitely the saddest year in Hong Kong, especially in the stock market, whether it was a listed company or a shareholder.

   After 1973, they once again realized what despair is.

   Looking back at history, in this year, the two aspects that affected the Hong Kong stock market, apart from Thatcher’s wrestling, should have been the outbreak of the Carrian incident.

In the first year, all listed companies of Heung Kong Securities Co. had their stock prices plummeted due to the impact of interest rate hikes. However, due to various factors, Carrian's stock prices rose instead of falling. .

  Carrian's stock price has been rising since the beginning, and its behind-the-scenes boss, Chen Songqing, has been mythed by many media.

   Chen Songqing has always been very mysterious and rarely appears in front of the media, but it is precisely because of his mysterious background that promotes the rise of Carrian.

  Unfortunately, there are unforeseen circumstances in the sky, and good fortune for people.

  Carrian escaped the impact of the previous interest rate hike, but he still couldn't escape the situation in the general environment. Whatever Mrs. Thatcher's fall, it was considered that Carrian was pushed into the abyss.

   Later generations marked the Carianin incident as a fraud case, and everyone has always regarded Chen Qingsong as a complete liar, believing that he used his left-handed and right-handed behavior to obtain personal illegal benefits, which is a heinous crime.

   However, all of this was just born out of time.

   As the saying goes, the king loses.

  The loser, everything he did was wrong, it was a conspiracy that people believed.

   If there was no formal negotiation between China and the UK on the Hong Kong issue in 1982, and if there was no lightning strike from Mrs Thatcher, according to the previous situation of Carrian, it would not necessarily fall.

  What is too big to fail?

  When an enterprise is as big as a country, or a regional government is unwilling to see it fall, then when it encounters a problem, the government part will take the initiative to help it solve the problem.

   Since 1980, Carrian started its journey of continuous expansion with funds obtained from the stock market.

  Behind the sky-high acquisitions, even big banks including HSBC, Standard Chartered, etc. were very fond of them at that time, and they expressed their full support for the various acquisitions of "Carrian", adding to the prestige of "Carrian".

   In that situation, Carrian is like a pig on the cusp of the storm, and support from all sides comes one after another.

   There is no shortage of money and no shortage of opportunities.

   In just two or three years, with the approval of many shareholders, and the optimism of various big banks, large companies, and even well-known foreign companies, the market value of Carrian Group has jumped to a scale of more than 10 billion Hong Kong dollars.

  's industrial subsidiaries cover real estate, tourism, aviation and other fields, and investment regions, such as the United States, island countries, Singapore and other places have their extensive investment.

   It is no exaggeration to say that even Li Chaoren, who successfully settled in Hutchison Whampoa with the help of HSBC before, was overshadowed by Chen Songqing.

  Under the media's rendering, Carrian has become a large international investor, and its strength and future have all the qualities to become "Xiangjiang Morgan".

  Standing on the tuyere, even a pig can take off.

   What's more, Carrian, which has many advantageous resources, as long as there is no accident, it will only be a matter of time before Carrian will become a large-scale British consortium that surpasses HSBC and Standard Chartered in a few years.

   Under such circumstances, even if Chen Songqing was a complete liar at first, I believe that he will change his original intention and make Carrian bigger and stronger.

  No one is born to like darkness and can appear in front of people with integrity. Who is willing to bear the infamy that is enough to ruin their reputation?

   However, God seemed to have played a joke on everyone. Carrian suddenly rose and fell suddenly. It was only two or three years apart. The whole process was like a comet hitting the earth, and people were caught off guard.

The   Carrian incident broke out and the behind-the-scenes boss Chen Songqing was arrested. The news appeared in major newspapers in Hong Kong, and it was not only the people of Hong Kong that shocked.

   At the same time, there is also the Jardine Group, which is now facing frantic attacks by Zheng Hiquan and others. Earlier, Jardine and Carrian also had transactions, and the amount of transactions between the two parties was not small.

  Earlier on the acquisition of Carrian, Xiang Jardine proposed to acquire the Jinmen Building under Landmark. At the beginning, due to the strong momentum of Carrian, there was a great momentum to rise in the wind.

   Therefore, during the transaction process, Jardine He Group agreed to Carrian's request to deliver only 10% of the purchase price in cash in advance, and then sold the Golden Gate Building to Carrian at a high price.

   This transaction was at the time a matter of mutual liking and mutual joy for both parties.

   However, no one thought that this incident would happen to Carrian. If it were changed to another time, even if Jardine was affected, the impact would not be great.

   But Yihe is in a bad situation right now. The original situation is still deadlocked, and neither of the two sides can do anything for the time being. Now that it is better, no one can say whether this matter will become the last straw that kills Yihe.

When the Carrian incident broke out and Chen Songqing was arrested, Asia Satellite TV immediately reported it on a rolling basis. If something happened to Ning, let's put a little pressure on those shareholders who still hold Jardine shares and are still waiting to see.

As the two companies aggressively acquired the tradable shares of Jardine Matheson and Landmark on the market, as well as the shares held by some shareholders, the remaining shareholders of Jardine Matheson and retail investors are watching on the sidelines, preparing to make more money from the two companies. Some oil.

This time the carrian incident broke out, no matter how much money Carrian owes to Jardine Group, no matter what the relationship between Jardine and Carrian is, one point that Jardine cannot deny, in the process of the rise of Carrian, Jardine Group has made a lot of mistakes. vigorously.

   At that time, the Kinmen Building was involved in transactions of several hundred million Hong Kong dollars. Jardine was counting on Carrian to repay the money as agreed, so how could it not help raise Carrian's share price.

   Now that something has happened to Carrian, it is naturally impossible for the Jardine Group to be completely unaffected.

   Of course, compared to the state-owned Yumin Bank Malaysia, the backer behind Carrian, the loss of Jardine is insignificant.

   The collapse of the Carrian Group has affected even a national bank. In the process, Yuman Bank Malaysia has suffered heavy losses.

  Professional backer, one of a kind, that's it.

   As for the culprit, Chen Songqing, although he was punished by law in the end, it was completely negligible compared to the benefits he gained from it.

  Commercial fraud in this era is really the lowest cost crime. Compared with the big gangster Zhang Dahan, smart people commit crimes, and their destructive power is far from those of those with well-developed muscles.

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   (end of this chapter)