Hearing Li Xu's words, the charter king couldn't help but say, "It seems that Hong Kong will have another Chinese tycoon."
Li Xu didn't respond.
It has to be said that few can match the courage of the ship charter king.
Even though he knew that Newbigin would most likely not let him off easily, he remained calm and even acted as if he didn't care.
Then the ship charter king asked someone to prepare the contract. After both parties signed the contract, they continued chatting until very late.
Two more days passed, and Xu Xiangqian and Li Xu's 300 million yuan of funds were all used up.
At this time, the 500 million yuan from the ship charter king had already been deposited into Xu Xiangqian's bank account, and the next step was naturally to help him acquire stocks.
Just as Li Xu expected, Xu Xiangqian's abnormality was soon discovered by Niu Bijian.
Without saying a word, he went straight to HSBC boss Shen Bi and asked him to help check the number of stocks Xu Xiangqian had acquired during this period.
Shen Bi rejected his request on the grounds that customer information could not be disclosed.
Niu Bijian was so angry that he almost vomited blood. Who revealed Xu Xiangqian's identity to me a few days ago?
Even though he was so angry, he didn't dare to say a word in front of Shen Bi.
There was no way around it. Shen Bi was just following the rules, and there was no way to find fault with him at all.
Moreover, Jardine Matheson is extremely short of funds at the moment, and may have to turn to Shen Bi, the God of Wealth, for help someday.
Under such circumstances, Newbigin naturally did not dare to offend him.
Unable to get the information he wanted to know from Shen Bi, Niu Bijian immediately asked someone to contact the exchange staff.
Someone couldn't resist the temptation and accepted a hefty consulting fee, telling others the number of shares Xu Xiangqian held.
When Newbigin heard that Xu Xiangqian had 14 million shares, he was stunned.
You only have 300 million yuan in funds, so how did you buy so many stocks?
After coming to his senses, Newbijian arranged people to buy stocks from Xu Xiangqian while convening a board meeting.
When the shipping king received the news, he knew that Xu Xiangqian's actions had been discovered, so he no longer hid it and directly announced to the public that he held 33.7% of Hutchison Whampoa's shares.
This does not include the 7.8% of Xu Xiangqian and Li Xu.
As soon as the news came out, the whole of Hong Kong Island became excited.
People knew that the charter king was going to seize power.
The stock price of Hutchison Whampoa rose sharply, soaring from more than 40 yuan to 62 yuan.
As soon as Newbijian finished the board meeting, he hurried to visit the ship charter king.
He wanted to exchange the real estate properties under the name of Hong Kong Holdings for the shares held by the shipping king.
Hongkong Land's real estate properties are all located in prime locations and their value is immeasurable.
The charter king said that he could exchange them, but he had to exchange them for those valuable buildings.
Newbigin's face turned green and he said it was impossible, then proposed to exchange it for two buildings and some high-end residences.
The boat charterer just laughed and sent the guest away.
Seeing that the charter king was unwilling to give up his shares, Newbeckoning resorted to a drastic measure and announced that he would exchange two shares of Hutchison Whampoa plus some bonds, with a total market value of HK$100, for one share of Wharf Holdings.
Before people could react to this news, they received another bombshell.
The charter king purchased one share of Wharf Holdings for HK$103, bringing the total to 15 million shares, increasing his stake to 49%.
The price is too high and Newbigin is unable to compete.
Seeing that Hutchison Whampoa was about to change hands, the unwilling Newbigin came up with another idea.
That is to sell the Wharf Holdings shares held by Hutchison Whampoa to the ship chartering king.
He wanted to save some face in this way.
The shares initially held by Swire Properties were very cheap, about ten dollars per share. The price of the additional shares purchased last year was also not high, only thirty or forty dollars. Now selling them at one hundred and five dollars per share, a huge profit can be made.
In this case, who would dare to laugh at him?
Newbigin knew very well that if the ship charter king knew that it was Hutchison Whampoa who was selling the stocks, he would never buy them.
So Newbigin found some people, broke up the shares into small pieces, gave them the shares, and asked them to go find the ship charter king.
His plan was only half successful.
Because when these people went there, the charter king had almost collected enough.
The result was that Swire Properties earned less than 300 million.
As for Li Xu and Xu Xiangqian, they can only be described as making a lot of money.
After deducting taxes and principal, Li Xu earned 580 million yuan and Xu Xiangqian earned 145 million yuan.
Li Xu and the other two were so happy that they didn't sleep all night.
Due to Li Xu's influence, something that was originally scheduled to happen next year happened more than half a year earlier.
Li Xu didn't expect this situation to happen.
His original plan was to make a fortune from Charter King's acquisition of Wharf Holdings next year and then invest.
He even made an investment plan.
Now all the plans have to be scrapped.
Making a plan is extremely troublesome. It takes at least ten days or half a month to complete.
Li Xu and the other two have been in Hong Kong for such a long time and they can't delay any longer. Besides, the fan factory is about to start operation and a shoe factory needs to be built, so time is tight.
Finally, Li Xu decided to make the new plan before the New Year and invest after the New Year.
Xu Xiangqian and the other person had no objection at all.
Li Xu was not very comfortable putting so much money in Xu Xiangqian's account.
So he asked the king of charter ships for help and asked him to find Shen Bi and open a back door for him.
In this way, Li Xu, a mainlander, got an account at HSBC.
Not only that, the charter king also helped him open an account in HSBC Securities Investment Department.
From now on, Li Xu can use his own account to trade stocks.
After the change of ownership of Hutchison Whampoa, the ship charter king once again hosted a banquet for Li Xu and the other two.
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