Rebirth of Hong Kong 1981

   Chapter 816 Swire Pacific

   After returning from HSBC, Yang Chen received a call from Li Guowei. There was already news from Swire Pacific, and the other party planned to talk to him privately.

  The acquisition of 30% of the shares of Cathay Pacific held by HSBC Bank from Yang Chen at a high price, Swire Pacific already knew that if this matter is not handled properly, it is likely to follow the footsteps of Jardine He Group.

   Affected by the adverse environment, Swire Pacific is really unwilling to have a bad relationship with the Yang consortium that is in full swing at this time. Although Cathay Pacific Airways is a relatively important subsidiary of Swire Pacific, no matter how important it is, it cannot equal the entire Swire group.

  Thinking of the current situation of Jardine Matheson, the senior management of Swire Matheson felt a lot of pressure.

   In addition, there is another reason why Swire Pacific has to make compromises, that is, the senior management of Swire Pacific is very afraid of Yang Chen's relationship with several big families in the UK.

   It stands to reason that for an important military enterprise like British Aerospace Corporation, the British government should not hand it over to a foreign talent. Even though Yang Chen holds British nationality now, after all, he is not a pure British person.

   However, just when the outside world thought it was impossible, the Thatcher government agreed.

   The specific reason for this is that Swire Pacific will naturally not be the same as those media newspapers, thinking that if Yang Chen is rich, he will be able to make the British government compromise.

  Money may be one aspect, but more importantly, it is because Yang Chen has a direct relationship with the cooperation of several big local British families.

   Among the families that have direct cooperation with Yang Chen, there are veteran nobles with extensive connections, political families with profound qualifications, and powerful British consortiums, and even the direct princes of the British royal family are also involved.

   Such a force, not to mention in the United Kingdom, also has a certain influence in other countries of the Commonwealth of Nations.

   With Yang Chen's support in the UK, the official forces obviously have no way to help each other. In this way, if Swire Pacific does not compromise, they can only choose to confront Yang Chen head-on.

   However, with Jardine's lessons learned, the senior executives of Swire Pacific are a little bit afraid, or, in other words, they have more than their hearts but their strengths are not enough.

   As one of the four major foreign firms in Hong Kong, there are quite a few listed companies under Swire Pacific. Cathay Pacific is a non-listed company. If Swire Pacific is unwilling, Yang Chen can't take it by force.

   However, other listed companies are different. As long as the price war starts, it can be predicted that the final result will definitely be more losses for Swire Pacific.

   Therefore, after learning that HSBC had sold 30% of the shares of Cathay Pacific Airways to Yang Chen, the senior management of Swire Pacific immediately chose to contact Li Guowei, the general manager of Hang Seng Bank.

  Li Guowei is the general manager of Hang Seng Bank. Although Hang Seng Bank does not have much business dealings with Swire Pacific, Xiangjiang is such a big place. Everyone bows their heads and does not look up to see each other. There is always some friendship.

   Swire Pacific wants to know whether Yang Chen wants to acquire the entire Cathay Pacific Airways, or he wants to control Cathay Pacific Airways, or he just wants to take a stake in Cathay Pacific Airways, so as to achieve the cooperation between Cathay Pacific Airways and British Aerospace.

   Yang Chen's mind was not clear, Taikoo Yangxing was not able to prescribe the right medicine, so he thought of using Li Guowei to explore Yang Chen's tone.

   After receiving a call from Li Guowei, Yang Chen couldn't help but smile after learning that Swire Pacific didn't mean to fight against him.

   In fact, after winning the Landmark Company, Yang Chen never thought about the idea of ​​moving the British consortium again.

  After all, everything is too much.

In recent years, the momentum of the rise of Chinese capital has been too fast. From the charter king's capture of Jardine's Wharf, to Li Chaoren, with the support of HSBC, he directly won Hutchison Whampoa, one of the four major foreign banks, and finally In addition, he recently seized the real estate company under the Jardine Group.

   Hutchison Whampoa, one of the four major foreign companies, has now changed its family, from a British-funded consortium to a Chinese-funded consortium. The strongest Jardine Group, after a series of blows, is now only half-life left.

  Fourth to the second, there are two foreign firms left. Swire Pacific is better. Due to the conservative strategy of the senior management of Swire Pacific in recent years, the impact of the turbulent situation in Xiangjiang has not caused much impact to Swire Pacific.

   A stable old driver, who is not good enough or not. According to the correct historical process, this buddy will become a difficult brother among the four major foreign companies that survived together with the Jardine Group in the future.

   Another weakest company, Wheelock, if Yang Chen remembers it well, in a few years, it will be acquired by the charter king, becoming the second consortium among the four major foreign firms to be acquired by Chinese capital.

  Before the 1970s, the four foreign firms, Jardine, Hutchison, Swire and Wheelock, had always been the leaders of the British-owned forces in Hong Kong. Now the four foreign firms have changed owners, castrated castrated, and are too busy to take care of themselves.

   It can be said that at this moment, the British capital is the weakest, and it is also the time when the gap between the Chinese capital and the British capital is the smallest.

   Maybe Yang Chen can take advantage of the opportunity to deal with Swire Pacific by the means of dealing with Jardine, and use a tough stance to suppress Swire Pacific, forcing Swire Pacific to give up Cathay Pacific.

   However, the consequences of doing so will be difficult to predict.

   The so-called, trapped beasts are still fighting.

Different from the overbearing habit of the Jardine He Group, which has caused serious dissatisfaction with both Chinese and British forces, Swire Pacific has always adhered to the low-end principle of doing things. Works fine by itself.

   When Yang Chen was targeting Jardine, the British forces chose to stand by and watch for various reasons.

But once Yang Chen regards Swire Pacific as an offensive target again, then with the good relationship between Swire Pacific and most of the British-funded forces, it is hard to say whether the British-funded forces will continue to stand idly by. If the contradictions are fully stimulated, the consequences will be unpredictable.

   As the saying goes, if you kill a thousand enemies, you will lose eight hundred.

  According to the correct orientation of history, the British capital will withdraw from Hong Kong step by step sooner or later, and the Chinese capital does not need to compete with the British capital in the final competition.

In the next 20 to 30 years, Heungkong still needs to develop steadily and provide a good platform for foreign exchange for the inland. Heungkong's historical mission has just begun, and the handover between the upper and lower levels of China and the UK needs peace, not continuous. Turmoil.

   Although the Xiangjiang economy in later generations has always been controlled by a group of capital bosses, it has been criticized.

   However, these people are still our own people in the end. As the old saying goes, it is better to rot in your own pot than to rot in someone else's.

  Because of their existence, it is difficult for those foreign forces to take root in Hong Kong, so as not to make Hong Kong out of control and become a bargaining chip for foreigners to manipulate.

   Even in chaos, it cannot shake its foundation.

   Therefore, Yang Chen doesn't want to see things that provoke a conflict between the British forces and the Chinese forces.

   instructed Li Guowei to let him come forward to negotiate with Swire Pacific. If he can obtain a wholly-owned acquisition of Cathay Pacific Airways, he can acquire it wholly. If he can't, don't force it, as long as he can achieve a controlling position.

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