Chapter 132 Who will take the blame (6)
A huge rocking chair is placed in the office on the top floor of Jardine Mall. Through transparent floor-to-ceiling glass, various types of ships in the Victoria Bay Area are clearly visible in the distance.
Liang Yuan was wearing a set of home-based shorts and was swaying slowly on the rocking chair. Next to the rocking chair was a dark brown short table, and there were stacks of documents several inches tall on the short table.
He quickly flipped through the file in his hand until the last page, and Liang Yuan stared at his signature that looked like a quantum code for a long time.
Liang Yuan suddenly turned his head and looked at Qilian Mountain standing behind him, and asked in a tangled manner: "Lao Qi, do you think I want to add a handprint or something on this historic document?"
Faced with the sudden appearance of such brain-sucking problems by the big boss, Qilianshan could only helplessly spread his hands and made a casual expression of yours.
“Ah…haha….”
Liang Yuan grabbed his hair awkwardly, and suddenly threw the documents in his hand on the low table beside him. He jumped up from the rocking chair very quickly, rushed to the floor-to-ceiling window, slapped the tempered glass with his palm, and shouted excitedly in the direction of the bay: "I announce that from now on, I will be the uncrowned king of Hong Kong ohhoh."
Qilianshan stood honestly and watched Liang Yuan vent his accumulated emotions for a long time.
It can be said that since he rushed to Federal Germany in April, Liang Yuan finally found a qualified nurse for his infancy COMAC.
No one can imagine how much pressure Liang Yuan, who made this series of key decisions, endured and what kind of inner torment he had experienced.
Thinking back on the ups and downs of the past six months and the international situation that has been unrecognizable at this time, Qilian Mountain seemed to be in the clouds in a different world.
The documents that were thrown by Liang Yuan on the short table were scattered in a mess. Under the dark blue file cover, several Chinese and English words of standard size No. 5 were exposed:
"From December 1, 1989, Jardines Strategy Holdings Limited will transfer its first listing status to London, England, and is expected to end its second listing status in Hong Kong within three years..."
"From now on, Jardiney Tactics Holdings Co., Ltd. will transfer all shares to South Africa 1024 International Investment Group..."
The organizational structure of Jardine Mahjong Group at this time was very different from that of Jia Xiaosheng and Li Chaoren when they joined forces to acquire the land a few years ago.
Jardine Holdings and Hong Kong Land held shares in each other, which was the structure of Nvbijian’s plan to defend Jardine Holdings in the late 1970s in order to avoid Chinese consortiums spy on Jardine’s assets.
As Newbi was resilient, Simon Caesarba, who took over the control of Jardine Mahjong Group, was not allowed to have Chinese assets to take over Jardine Mahjong's business in Hong Kong. At that time, Caesar, Jia Xiaosheng and others had a tragedy over the acquisition of the land, but it was not just that Caesar was dissatisfied with Jia Xiaosheng and others' bid to take advantage of the situation.
It is precisely because of this that Caesar made a significant adjustment to Jardine’s organizational system. In 1987, Jardine Group underwent a major restructuring. At that time, Jardine Holdings, Jardine Securities, and Hong Kong Land, three listed companies listed in Hong Kong, jointly invested funds to form Hong Kong Investors Co., Ltd.
Hong Kong Land has injected all its 12.5% of Jardine's equity into a new company. After a dazzling merger and reorganization, Hong Kong Land has become a relatively simple listed real estate commercial company. Subsidiaries such as Mandarin Oriental Hotel and Dai Niu International Holdings, which were originally under Land, were split and listed.
At this point, all Jardine Group's businesses in Hong Kong have been broken down into ** subsidiaries that are not related to each other, and the control of all subsidiaries is merged under the control of Jardine Strategic Holdings Co., Ltd., registered in Bermuda.
Jardine Strategy Holdings, registered in Bermuda, includes four major Hong Kong listed flagship subsidiaries, including Hong Kong Land, Mandarin Oriental Hotel, Dairy International Holdings, and Jardine Pacific.
Under the four major flagship subsidiaries are branches responsible for specific businesses, such as Jardine Pacific's Hong Kong Air Freight Station, Kinmen Construction, Jardine Serving, such as Meixin Food, Huikang Supermarket Chain, 7-11 Convenience Store, etc.
After the restructuring, Jardines Group, Bermuda-registered Jardines strategy can be said to be the brain and nerve center of Jardines Hong Kong's business. The four flagship listed companies are Jardines Group's trunk based in Hong Kong, and the subsidiary responsible for the specific business is the various tentacles that Jardines extends to Hong Kong society.
For more than a hundred years, Jardine has firmly inserted itself into Hong Kong's economic and social life through this octopus-like organizational structure. Now Jardine's brain and nerve center have completely fallen into Liang Yuan's control.
Of course, the reason why the Caesar family completely abandoned their own economic network throughout Hong Kong after more than a hundred years of hard work is that what they obtained is not ordinary. The share delivery of Bermuda Jardine Strategy Holdings Co., Ltd. is the full shares of Fengyuan International Investment Co., Ltd., which was just established in Bermuda, was the company's full shares of Fengyuan International Investment Co., Ltd., which was just established in Bermuda.
Fengyuan International Investment Co., Ltd., also registered in the Bermuda Islands, is a purely controlled enterprise without any actual business. Currently, the only stock managed by Fengyuan International Investment is only 9% of the original shares of Federal Deutsche Telecom in the reorganization.
In this series of transactions, Yuanjia obtained 20.9% of the shares of Hong Kong listed company Hong Kong Land from the Caesars family, with a market value of approximately HK$3.3 billion; obtained 63% of the shares of Hong Kong listed company Jardine Pacific with a market value of approximately HK$6.527 billion; obtained 70% of the shares of Hong Kong listed company Mandarin Oriental Hotel with a market value of approximately HK$1.425 billion; obtained 58% of the shares of Hong Kong listed company Milk International Holdings Co., Ltd. with a market value of approximately HK$6.96 billion.
It can be said that through this transaction, the Caesar family transferred approximately HK$18.2 billion in wealth from Hong Kong at one time.
However, compared with the 9% stake in Federal Deutsche Telecom, Fengyuan International Investment Company, which has a minimum valuation market value of more than HK$26 billion, the 18.2 billion Jardin shares owned by the Caesars family can only be exchanged for about 70% of Fengyuan International Investment Company shares, and cannot exchange all of Fengyuan International shares.
If you exclude the additional 10% of Fengyuan International Investment shares needed to seduce the Caesar family and Land's small and medium shareholders to sign a share replacement agreement, after completing all the shares, Fengyuan International Investment will still have 20% of the shares controlled by Yuanjia.
In order to become the major shareholder of this European telecom giant, the Caesar family paid for the entire Jardin Hong Kong business and joined forces with a few former middle-class shareholders of Hong Kong Land to start arduous negotiations with Nübijian. In the end, they paid an additional US$1.667 billion in cash and finally earned the entire Fengyuan International investment as they wished.
In the cash exchange transaction, Nübijian unceremoniously doubled the remaining 20% of Fengyuan International's shares for HK$13 billion without hesitation, and linked the cash transactions and equity transactions through documents. In the end, Simon Caesar, who had few chips in his hand, could only swallow the "temporary price increase" led by Nübijian.
Of course, compared with the future increase in value of at least three times after the listing of Federal Deutsche Telekom stock, Simon Caesar only made less money. The opportunity to double more than one billion US dollars on this planet is for many businessmen to never encounter even in their entire lives.
Simon Caesar was extremely satisfied with the equity + cash transaction completed by He Yuanjia. After the transaction, Jardine's traditional power in Southeast Asia was not damaged at all. He only used the interests of Hong Kong. Simon Caesar fulfilled the family's long-standing dream to return to Europe, the economic center of the world.
Two to three years later, the Caesar family turned their gorgeous transformation into a cutting-edge enterprise standing at European technology, a super giant in the telecom industry, and a major shareholder of Federal Deutsche Telekom.
If the 9% share ownership of the former Hong Kong Land shareholder is enough to make Simon Caesar enter the reorganized board of directors of Federal Deutsche Telekom, a brand new industry, a brand new field, and a brand new profit point will slowly unfold in front of the family.
This transaction is the same for Liang Yuan. After Yuan Jia took over Yards' business power that has been developing in Hong Kong for nearly a hundred years, Liang Yuan's words about the uncrowned king of Hong Kong are not casually said.
Yuanjia will become the largest landlord in the Central region of Hong Kong, Yuanjia will become the leader of the Hong Kong retail industry, Yuanjia will become the monopoly giant of the Hong Kong catering industry, Yuanjia will become a giant in the transportation field in Hong Kong, Yuanjia will become a giant in the construction field in Hong Kong...
There are many similar descriptions, and a brand new field and a brand new world are also slowly unfolding in front of Liang Yuan.
With his hands shaking the long-sleeved T-shirt that had just been taken off, Liang Yuan slowly recovered from his excitement.
Blow gently because he slapped the slightly red palm of the tempered glass. Liang Yuan glanced at Qilianshan, who was standing behind him and smiled, saying: "In fact, in a sense, this acquisition is considered to be the original owner. Does Lao Qi know that Jardinea in history? It is the one that once copied the name of Jardinea when it was founded."
In 1832, Jardines Group's predecessor, Jardines, was officially established in Hong Kong after the British William Jardines and James Mardichen copied the Wu family's old brand "Jardines Travel".
"I have almost memorized the history of Jardine Mahjong, so of course I know this kind of thing."
"Although Jardin finally developed from Wu Bingjian to a world-renowned large-scale multinational institution in the 19th century, I firmly believe that the word Jardin will definitely receive more glorious glory in the hands of the eldest son than before." Qilianshan said with a smile.
Chapter completed!