Reborn as a tycoon in Hong Kong

Lin Baicheng returned to the guest room. When he really had free time, it was already after eight o'clock in the evening.

Throughout the whole day, he certainly didn't have free time until now, but he didn't have that much free time before. Instead of being distracted, it would be better to wait until night to understand together.

In today's meeting with the senior officials, although I regretted not meeting the elderly, the senior officials still attached great importance to them and sent a high-level leader to preside over the meeting.

(More specifically, it’s not that I don’t want to write it, but that I will be reviewed and asked to modify it, so I won’t write it too specifically. Let everyone make up their own minds.)

Back in the guest room, Lin Baicheng did not listen to the report immediately, but went to take a shower first.

After coming out of the shower, Lin Baicheng felt refreshed and asked Chen Huixiang to start reporting.

"Just this morning, Director Hankison of the Hong Kong government told reporters that the whereabouts of the funds for cashing out, Mr. Lin, need to be investigated. It is suspected that you took the funds for cashing out to the mainland to support the development of the mainland."

"But at noon, Vice President Lin and Director Qin visited Governor Sir Mai. The Governor said that the Hong Kong government had no intention of investigating Mr. Lin. He said that he had always been good friends with Mr. Lin and that he would persuade Hankison The director publicly apologized to Mr. Lin. At about five o'clock, Director Hankison held a press conference to formally and publicly apologize to Mr. Lin, saying that he had been misled by a temporary worker."

When Chen Huixiang said this, she stopped when she saw Lin Baicheng raising his hand.

Lin Baicheng's face looked a little ugly: "This guy Hankison is okay. He took my benefits and even dealt with me in a big way. He didn't take me seriously at all."

Lin Baicheng actually knew that the senior officials of the Hong Kong government who took advantage of him also had a deep 'friendship' with the British capital. After all, Hong Kong still belongs to the British. In the past, it was the world of British capital. There are many people in the Hong Kong government who have interests. This It is inevitable.

Furthermore, the top leaders of the Hong Kong government are all white and British, so they are naturally from the British capital.

Lin Baicheng does not ask the senior officials of the Hong Kong government who have taken advantage of him to help him deal with the British capital, or even favor him when he conflicts with the British capital, but at least he must help him withstand the pressure of the British capital, and at the worst he must remain a neutral observer. Instead of helping Yingzi deal with him.

Taking advantage of him, Lin Baicheng, but helping Yingzi deal with him, this is unreasonable. He completely ignored Lin Baicheng, which made Lin Baicheng very dissatisfied.

"Hankson Hankison."

Lin Baicheng must not act like he has not seen anything. He must fight back. Otherwise, other high-level officials of the Hong Kong government who have taken advantage of him will only think that he is easy to bully. They can just take the benefits and do nothing, and then he will only become someone else. Fat in the eyes.

Once this happens, it is very likely that more people will target him among the senior officials of the Hong Kong government. If the British capital exerts its full force, the worst-case scenario may arise.

However, Lin Baicheng suddenly found that it was really difficult for him to deal with Hankison for a while. Hankison is the Director of the Financial Secretary of the Hong Kong Government. He is highly regarded and trusted by MacLehose and has a high status in the Hong Kong Government. It is not that easy for him to get rid of Hankison, let alone deal with the British capital. Huge support for Hankison.

If Hankison did something like this, the British capital would definitely protect Hankison to the death. Otherwise, if Hankison was allowed to be dealt with by Lin Baicheng, who would dare to work openly for the British capital in the future?

Therefore, even if it means buying horse bones for thousands of dollars, the British capital will strongly support Hankison and protect Hankison to the death.

"Sooner or later I want you to look good!"

Lin Baicheng decided to put Hankison's matter aside for now. Anyway, he would let someone use a magnifying glass to observe Hankison in the future. Unless Hankison never made mistakes, sooner or later he would have a chance to deal with Hankison.

However, Hankison's external remarks are not entirely bad. At least he let Lin Baicheng know one thing, that is, Downing Street and the Hong Kong government will not suppress his company like they did on the Bay Island. This is a great blessing among misfortunes. .

"How is Hutchison's stock price doing today?"

“The two institutions contacted by the Secretariat, Citigroup and Morgan Stanley, were raided this morning. It was said that someone reported that the two companies laundered money for foreign forces and needed to cooperate with the investigation, so the two companies could not buy and sell in accordance with the entrustment agreement. As for Huang’s stock, it’s no surprise that it was done by British capital.”

"Fortunately, the gross profit manager's operation team did not have any changes. They bought a large number of Hutchison Whampoa shares through the Bank of East Asia, pushing Hutchison Whampoa's stock price to the closing price of HK$80.35. Today's increase is as high as 13.49%. Compared with last Friday, The 16.8% decline is not much different."

“Have British investors continued to short Hutchison Whampoa today?”

"Today there are funds to continue to short Hutchison Whampoa. Hutchison Whampoa's stock price once fell to close to HK$63 in early trading. However, there are not many short-selling funds today. It is unlikely that British capital will continue to short-sell."

"Vice President Lin said that the operation team of the gross profit manager reported that another large fund was also buying a large amount of Hutchison Whampoa's stock today. It was contacted that the British capital was short selling, and it was speculated that the British capital was buying to cover. The stock is short, so British capital is likely to be long today.”

"Speaking of which, can you calculate the cost price of British capital's short selling?"

"Director Qin has said this before. We can't calculate it because we don't know when British capital started short selling, nor do we know the number of stocks sold short."

"Forget it if you don't know."

Lin Baicheng was not very concerned about this. After waving his hand, he said: "Tell me how many Hutchison Whampoa shares we have repurchased so far, how much money we have spent in total, and what the average repurchase price is."

"So far, we have repurchased twice, one by entrusting Goldman Sachs to buy on our behalf, and the other by the team led by Haruko Mori today."

"The first is to entrust Goldman Sachs to buy. The average purchase price of Goldman Sachs is 76.3 Hong Kong dollars. Counting hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong dollars in handling fees, the total of 13.1 million shares cost exactly one billion Hong Kong dollars."

"However, we still have to pay Goldman Sachs a high handling fee of 2.3%, which is 2.3% of one billion Hong Kong dollars of funds, totaling 23 million Hong Kong dollars."

"In total, we spent a total of HK$1.023 billion on these 13.1 million shares. On average, the cost price per share is HK$78.09."

"As for the operation team brought by the gross profit manager, this morning they spent a total of 468 million Hong Kong dollars to buy 6.835 million shares, with an average cost price of 68.33 Hong Kong dollars."

"In the afternoon, the operation team spent HK$582 million to buy 7.522 million shares, and the average purchase price was HK$77.1."

"Today the operating team spent HK$1.05 billion to purchase stocks, including the HK$16 million to be paid to Bank of East Asia, which means a total of HK$1.066 billion was spent to purchase a total of 14.357 million shares of Hutchison Whampoa shares. Each The average cost of a share should be HK$74.25."

"If these two purchases are combined, the total cost is HK$2.089 billion, the total number of shares purchased is 27.457 million shares, accounting for 6.24% of the total share capital, and the average purchase cost per share is HK$76.08."

Chen Huixiang reported in great detail. These statistical data were compiled by the Secretariat, and all aspects were taken into consideration. After Chen Huixiang got the data, she even calculated it again herself, and then reported it to Lin Baicheng after confirming that the data was OK.

Otherwise, if wrong data is reported, even if the secretariat is responsible for the statistical error, the reporter, Chen Huixiang, will still be responsible.

"When I bought 6.24% of Hutchison Whampoa shares, the average cost price was a little over HK$76, which was below HK$80, which is pretty good."

After hearing this, Lin Baicheng couldn't help but nodded with satisfaction. There has been a lot of bad news recently, but short selling by British investors is not without benefits for him. Buying back these stocks is a benefit. The price of the purchased stocks is at his expected price of 80 Hong Kong dollars. below.

Chen Huixiang asked aloud: "Mr. Lin, today's closing price of Hutchison Whampoa is 80.35 Hong Kong dollars, which is above 80 Hong Kong dollars. Should we continue to buy Hutchison Whampoa's shares next?"

"You really need to think about this carefully."

Lin Baicheng pondered and nodded. If it was for the purpose of killing short sellers or preventing short sellers from making huge profits, then of course they would continue to buy Hutchison Whampoa's stock and push Hutchison Whampoa's stock price as high as possible.

But the problem is that buying Hutchison Whampoa's stock price at a high price harms Lin Baicheng's own interests.

It will only take two years for China and Britain to start formal negotiations on the return of Hong Kong, but the negotiation briefing will be carried out earlier. Even if the land price and property market in Hong Kong do not collapse early, they will definitely not rise, or even fall back, and real estate is the main business. One of them, Hutchison Whampoa, is bound to see a correction in its share price.

Furthermore, Hutchison Whampoa is about to acquire Bentley Motors. The investment in Bentley Motors will not be small, but the possibility of getting a return on the investment in the first year is very small. In three to five years, Bentley Motors will be able to replenish the parent company. That's great. Don't even think about making the car company make a lot of money in the first year of investment.

Therefore, it is foreseeable that after the acquisition of Bentley Motors, there may be a wave of speculation in the stock price in the short term, but Hutchison Whampoa's financial statements in the previous few years will not be very good-looking.

If the two factors are superimposed, Hutchison Whampoa's stock price will definitely turn downward in more than a year. The specific decline will depend on the company's revenue and profit.

Therefore, if Lin Baicheng buys Hutchison Whampoa shares at too high a price now, it will be a huge loss if he keeps holding on to them.

“Maybe I could buy first and then reduce my holdings?”

Lin Baicheng couldn't help but secretly thought that he could buy Hutchison Whampoa's stocks first, and then slowly reduce the holdings of the stocks he bought at high prices, so that he wouldn't have to worry about the cost of buying the stocks being too high.

Moreover, in this way, it can also raise Hutchison Whampoa's stock price and prevent short-selling British capital from having an easier time. This is also very important.

"Does the Secretariat have any suggestions?"

"Vice President Lin did not mention this matter when he contacted us."

"I see."

Lin Baicheng nodded. In this situation, the importance of communication can be seen. If he can contact Xiangjiang immediately, or even directly contact Qin Lan, he can communicate with Qin Lan.

"So, have the restrictions on me by the Securities Regulatory Commission been lifted?"

"Not yet, but Vice President Lin has said that Director Qin said that the results will be available tomorrow. I think since Director Qin said that, it means that she has the confidence that there will be good news tomorrow if nothing unexpected happens. ." Chen Huixiang replied.

"Do you want tomorrow? Okay."

Lin Baicheng frowned slightly, but didn't say anything. It was within his acceptable range to resolve the matter tomorrow.

"Tomorrow I will have to communicate with some official leaders. I will leave it to you, Secretary Chen, to contact Xiangjiang."

"When you contact my sister, ask her to tell Qin Lan on my behalf that there must be good news tomorrow and don't let me down."

"Also, ask my sister to tell Haruko to arrange for the operation team to continue buying Hutchison Whampoa's stocks. As long as Hutchison Whampoa's stock price is not higher than 85 Hong Kong dollars, continue to buy, but don't buy too much. The upper limit is 2 billion Hong Kong dollars. .”

"You can buy as much as you can. When the Securities Regulatory Commission's restrictions are lifted, you can buy through Yum Securities. The buyer will still be an offshore company. Don't buy in my own name."

Lin Baicheng decided to let the operating team continue to buy Hutchison Whampoa's shares, but he was not prepared to buy too much money, and the cost price of the purchase could not be too high, otherwise it would be difficult to reduce the holdings later.

Lin Baicheng believes that as long as the operating team supports the stock price below 85 Hong Kong dollars, funds will definitely enter the market to go long and join hands with retail investors to raise the stock price. It will be basically impossible for British investors to buy Hutchison Whampoa's stock price at a low price. .

"Okay Mr. Lin, I will talk to Vice President Lin tomorrow morning."

Chen Huixiang agreed, and then said: "Besides these, Mr. Lin, do you have any other instructions?"

"Pay attention to the news in Hong Kong. If the media keeps reporting on my reduction of holdings and cashing out tens of billions of funds, let the secretariat find a way to divert people's attention. Stars under Asia Star Media Group are the best choice."

"Celebrities have a large number of fans and naturally attract attention. If big news suddenly comes out, it will definitely divert people's attention."

"You don't need to say more about how to do it, right?"

Lin Baicheng thought for a while and said that he didn't want his reduction of holdings to cash out to be discussed every day and affect his reputation. The best way was to create a big news to divert people's attention, and celebrities were the best choice.

"Don't worry, the Secretariat will definitely be able to handle it. It would be outrageous if it couldn't even handle this kind of thing."

Chen Huixiang immediately said that the big boss must explain everything clearly, so wouldn’t the secretariat’s role be dispensable?

Lin Baicheng asked: "Well, besides these, is there anything else you want to report?"

"No more, Mr. Lin." Chen Huixiang shook her head.

"That's it. I'll contact Xiangjiang tomorrow morning. Now you can go back to your room."

"Mr. Lin, I'll go back first. If you have any instructions, please feel free to contact me."

"Um!"

Lin Baicheng waved his hand.

Lin Baicheng and others had a lot of chats with senior leaders today. He needs to think about it carefully now. After all, this is related to his development in the next few decades. To put it further, it is related to the future of his descendants.

Compared with these, although things over Xiangjiang are also important, their importance is far inferior and cannot be compared with things here.