"Thump!"
With an incredibly deep and loud bang!
Right downstairs from the Jardine Matheson headquarters building, on this cold, hard marble plaza.
This is a financial mecca that countless Hong Kong Island residents dream of. Many hardworking, lower-class citizens of Hong Kong Island would often bring their children downstairs to Jardine House.
They would often point to the highest floor and tirelessly admonish and encourage their children to study hard, get into university, and then have the opportunity to sit in an office up there and serve tea and water to the British.
A figure that was once incredibly arrogant and self-important is now crashing to the ground in an extremely distorted and inhuman manner.
Red and white fabric fragments, mixed with pieces of the expensive suit, suddenly splattered in all directions.
At that moment, a young female office worker who had just stepped out of the building happened to witness Newman's leap from the building, which was not the last moment of his life.
Startled, she dropped her coffee on the floor with a "thud," and then let out a piercing scream that could shatter the heavens.
"ah!"
"Someone jumped... jumped off a building!!"
"Look! That's...that's Jardine Matheson's taipan! It's Newbikin!!"
"My God! He really jumped off a building! He was the Emperor of England... and he committed suicide out of despair!!"
Newman's leap was a bloody scene that directly signaled the end of the era of British rule in Hong Kong.
However, this jump seems to be just the beginning.
It's like toppling the first domino.
In the next 48 hours, an unprecedented wave of suicides swept through the British-owned executives of Hong Kong Island.
This is no longer just commercial infighting; this is... this is capital's ruthless slaughter of humanity.
"Breaking news! Breaking news! Richard Brown, an executive director of HSBC, was found dead in his study at his Repulse Bay villa after committing suicide by shooting himself! It is alleged that he used a Luger pistol from his collection, dating back to World War II!"
"The financial director of Swire Group, after being taken away by the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) to assist in the investigation, hanged himself with his tie in the private bathroom of his detention cell!"
"A vice president at Standard Chartered Bank..."
"A director of Hutchison Whampoa..."
One after another, these were once powerful British "big bosses" and executives who wielded influence in Hong Kong Island, chatting and laughing in the Jockey Club and cigar bars, but now they ended their lives in such an extremely tragic and wretched way.
According to rough statistics from relevant newspapers and media, in just two days after Newbikin's death, as many as seven or eight British executives, including him, committed suicide by jumping off buildings, shooting themselves, or hanging themselves!
This is insane!
The entire island of Hong Kong was completely shaken!
This is a super earthquake that is a hundred times more terrifying than a stock market crash or any financial storm!
If Lin Huowang's last attack on Hongkong Land Group was merely a kick to the backside of that arrogant British tiger...
So this time...
Lin Huowang completely took advantage of this global silver futures war, and then, with an almost godlike and unbelievable method, directly drained the marrow of these British-owned groups!
When the tree falls, the monkeys scatter!
When a wall falls, everyone pushes it down!
When these British "emperors" died, the vast and bloated commercial empires behind them, already heavily indebted, instantly collapsed!
And so, a grand feast that had been prepared for a long time officially began!
Patriotic Hong Kong local entrepreneurs, led by the Huo, Bao, and Guo families, were almost "ordered" to take action, thanks to Liao Gong's covert coordination and the huge financial support from Lin Huowang and Hongkong Land Group!
Holding cash flows so abundant that they terrified all foreign banks, they launched a frenzied "division" of British core assets that had plummeted on the stock exchange and were even suspended from trading.
"The Fok family has made a move! They've spent HK$2 billion to successfully acquire 51% of the shares in Hong Kong Electric Holdings Limited! British capital... has completely lost control of Hong Kong Electric Holdings Limited!"
"Shipping magnate Sir Yue-kong Pao, with the assistance of Hongkong Land Group, repelled the last counterattack of the remnants of Jardine Matheson and officially took control of Wharf Holdings! An era has come to an end!"
"The Guo family has announced the full acquisition of Swire Group's...!"
...
This is absolutely a... historic partition!
The century-long colonial economic plunder by British capital on Hong Kong Island was uprooted in just a few days! It was an incredible and complete reshuffling!
It can be said that British capitalism has completely come to an end in Hong Kong.
Those Hong Kong entrepreneurs who have long since withstood the tests of the mainland have also received the best reward for their patriotic actions.
Especially for the Huo family, because Lin Huowang knew that he controlled the Hongkong Land Group, acquired ATV, and had a series of holding companies, which meant he was already attracting a lot of attention.
The remaining British-owned conglomerates mostly own real estate assets, with few other valuable or strategically significant assets.
Therefore, Lin Huowang took it upon himself to have Liao Gong and the Huo family use their connections with patriotic entrepreneurs in Hong Kong to help them complete asset acquisitions, achieve a leap in family assets, and better control these livelihood industries in Hong Kong and control stock prices.
Of course, in this feast, there were also some "minor characters," like weasels hiding in the shadows stealing chickens, who took advantage of the chaos to get some scraps.
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