The next day, the couple flew to Guangzhou on a military plane and met up with Chu Jiangnan at the airport.
Chu Jiangnan punched Qin Muye in the chest and scolded him with a smile: "A deputy division commander came to do odd jobs for me, you don't feel resentful, right?"
Qin Muye twisted his hand, rolled his eyes and said, "You haven't been active for half a year. You come to join in the fun for my wife's sake. Do you think I'm giving you face?"
Chu Jiangnan smiled and took back his hand and said, "I also brought two snipers. They are not as good as you. I brought you the sniper rifle. After we get there, we will go directly to the dock."
They were carrying weapons and could only enter the port through special channels, going directly to Kwai Chung Port from the sea.
Xie Wan stood on the speedboat and looked out, "Why are there so many boats today?"
Before reaching the dock, we saw a number of patrol boats on the sea, as well as some private yachts and fishing boats in the distance. Over at the dock, several large cargo ships were queuing to enter the port.
"What do you think? I dare say there are people hiding in those freighters."
Xie Wan frowned. She couldn't care less about those who hung other national flags, but she wanted to see whose flag it was that flew the dragon and lion flag.
In the past few years, the global economy was in recession and the shipping business was not doing well. The shipping giant Bao family packaged and sold off its terminals and ships.
Zhenhua took the opportunity to take over and captured one-third of the shipping business in the port city.
With the recovery of the shipping business, the Bao family wanted to get involved in shipping again. They approached Zhenhua to buy back the docks, but were rejected by Zhenhua.
So, the Bao family turned their attention to Jardine Matheson's Hutchison Whampoa.
At that time, both the Li family and the Bao family wanted Jardine Matheson's Hutchison Whampoa, and they secretly purchased stocks in the market, which attracted the attention of Jardine Matheson and began to fight back.
Xie Wan had told Chen Baoluo in advance that the Li family would make a feint to the east and attack in the west, taking advantage of the battle for the controlling rights of Hutchison Whampoa to join forces with the Bao family.
The Li family acquired the shares of Hutchison Whampoa in exchange for selling them to the Bao family.
The Bao family is a shareholder of HSBC. After this battle, the two families joined forces. The Bao family will help the Li family persuade HSBC's Shen Bi to sell 35% of He Ji Huangpu's shares to the Li family at a low price.
He Kee Whampoa is the asset that Zhenhua must acquire.
Although at that time Ho Kee Whampoa was still a British-owned enterprise with serious losses.
But it is the key to the future development of the Li family.
Ho Kee Whampoa's assets include the international container terminal and Kwai Tsing Terminal, which will be quite valuable in the future.
Paul Chan had contacted HSBC's Shen Bi in advance, but because of Zhenhua's vague Chinese background, HSBC refused to transfer the shares of Ho Kee Whampoa to Zhenhua.
Fortunately, with Xie Wan's reminder, Zhenhua had already secretly acquired 8% of Hutchison Whampoa's shares.
When the acquisition war between the Pao family, the Li family and Jardine Matheson was in full swing, the stock price of Wharf Holdings skyrocketed. If the war continued, no matter who won between the Li family and the Pao family, they would lose money.
Li Chaoren sought cooperation with the ship charter king and planned to transfer his Wharf shares to the ship charter king on the condition that he would help him take over Ho Kee Whampoa.
The charter king was overjoyed and agreed to Li Chaoren's proposal. The combined stocks of the two companies accounted for exactly 34% of the total shares of Hutchison Whampoa, exceeding the 33% owned by Jardine Matheson.
However, when the shipping king went to Jardine Matheson to transfer the controlling stake, he almost died of anger.
Jardine Matheson has just bought 2% of the shares from Zhenhua at market price.
It just exceeds the shares held by the charter king.
Chen Baoluo shamelessly revealed the news that Zhenhua still owns 6% of Wharf Holdings shares.
The charter king had to make an appointment with Paul Chen to meet.
As a result, the conditions proposed by Chen Baoluo were exactly the same as those proposed by the Li family.
Zhenhua also wants Heji Huangpu.
If Baochuan Wang does not help Zhenhua, Zhenhua will not sell its shares, but Chen Baoluo will join the board of directors of Wharf Holdings like Baochuan Wang. Moreover, he promised that he would stand on the side of Jardine Matheson for a long time.
Jardine Matheson welcomed this.
Because Paul Chen had been making trouble, the battle for Charter King to acquire Wharf Holdings' shares cost twice as much as expected.
If the acquisition fails, the charter king will not be able to explain to the shareholders of his group.
But he had already promised the Li family, so he had to bring Li Chaoren to negotiate with Chen Baoluo.
At this time, HSBC's CEO Stephen Sam actually had the intention to sell Hutchison Whampoa's shares to the Li family.
Of course the Li family was unwilling to give in.
The charter king turned against the Li family and went to tell Shen Bi that the Li family was only willing to pay 600 million yuan, which had to be paid off in two years. Zhenhua was willing to pay now and was willing to raise the price to 800 million yuan.
However, HSBC did not want Zhenhua to monopolize the port city's terminal and only agreed to sell half to Zhenhua.
After several companies negotiated together, Li Chao was furious. He could have obtained 35% of the shares of He Kee Whampoa at a low price, but in the end, he could only buy 17.5% of the shares.
However, Zhenhua actually agreed to Shen Bi's extremely harsh demands and bought 17.5% of the shares.
Heji Huangpu was a plan that Li Chaoren had planned for a long time, and it was a move that was vital to the development of the Li family.
Li Chaoren was unwilling, but finally had to give up the purchase.
It’s not that he couldn’t come up with 400 million to buy the remaining 17.5%, but he knew that once he bought it, in order to have a controlling stake, he would have to continue to compete with Zhenhua for the remaining shares of Ho Kee Whampoa.
Zhenhua agreed to sell the remaining shares of Hutchison Whampoa to the Bao family.
Zhenhua made 1 billion yuan just from Wharf Holdings' stocks. Zhenhua is not short of money at all.
Zhenhua also swallowed up the Li family. Their street in Causeway Bay alone can be mortgaged for tens of billions of yuan. If the Li family fights a takeover war with Zhenhua, they will definitely lose.
After the Li family was forced to give up, HSBC's Shen Bi had no choice but to ask Chen Baoluo whether he was willing to buy the remaining 17.5% of He Kee Whampoa's shares.
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