Reborn as a Hong Kong Tycoon

Chapter 304
Saturday.

Lin Baicheng had lunch with the two presidents of Xinhua News Agency, Wang Yiping and Li Fuquan.

For now, Lin Baicheng will not take the initiative to contact the two presidents of Xinhua News Agency, because he has nothing to ask for their help. Usually, the two sides will meet when the two presidents want to visit him. No exception.

However, for this visit, Lin Baicheng chose to invite the two presidents to have dinner together.

After the meal, the three drank tea and chatted, gradually getting to the point.

"Mr. Lin, the current negotiations on the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States have come to an end. If there is no accident, the two countries will formally establish diplomatic relations soon."

"The development direction of domestic economic construction will not change. Wait until next year, comrades from China Merchants will come to invite Mr. Lin and other Hong Kong businessmen to invest in the mainland. I also hope that Mr. Lin will give more support."

"If you invest, there is no problem."

After hearing what the two said, Lin Baicheng nodded in agreement first, and then said: "However, there are some investment issues, and I have to understand them first."

Li Fuquan asked: "Mr. Lin, what is the problem?"

"For example, if the investment is in a factory, can the product be sold domestically? Which industries can be invested in? Is the invested company a sole proprietorship? There are also issues such as exchange rates."

Lin Baicheng didn't hide anything, and expressed some of his doubts.

Wang Yiping listened and said: "Mr. Lin, we can't answer these questions for you now, but we will report to the higher authorities. When the comrades from China Merchants come over, we will definitely explain in detail to Mr. Lin and other Chinese businessmen."

"It will be good to have someone explain it when the time comes."

Lin Baicheng nodded and said nothing more.

Wang Yiping said: "Mr. Lin, when comrades from China Merchants come over, we will invite Chinese businessmen from Xiangjiang to invest in the mainland. At that time, we hope that Mr. Lin will be able to appear and help invite some people to invest in the mainland." This is their The purpose of visiting Lin Baicheng today.

"I may not be able to help you with this."

Lin Baicheng shook his head when he heard the words: "It's not that I don't want to help. The two presidents should be very clear that I only started to make a fortune last year. In addition to my age, I can only be regarded as nodding friends with those Chinese businessmen, not many. Familiar. If you want to say that the one you are most familiar with is Bao Yugang Baosheng, but I think you will definitely invite Baosheng, and Baosheng will also agree to invest in the mainland, so I don’t need any more help.”

Li Fuquan praised: "Mr. Lin is humble. With your current fame and strength, your influence is not trivial."

"I can only say try my best."

Lin Baicheng didn't plan to talk too much, lest he might not get off the stage.

"Mr. Lin, you are willing to help, I am really grateful."

Both Wang Yiping and Li Fuquan thanked excitedly.

"You two are welcome."

Lin Baicheng waved his hand.

Afterwards, the three chatted about other things. Lin Baicheng originally wanted the two presidents to help find out if his mother, Zhao Huilan, had any relatives in the mainland. Later, he thought that it would not be good to ask someone to help him before he started investing, so he decided to wait until next year. After starting to invest in the mainland, it is not too late to ask the mainland government to help investigate.

Although it was Saturday, Lin Baicheng couldn't be free.

At around 02:30 in the afternoon, Lin Baicheng went to the Peninsula Hotel again, and had afternoon tea with Bao Yugang here.

Only this time, it was Lin Baicheng who invited Bao Yugang to come here for afternoon tea.

"Bao Sheng, what do you think of Hutchison Whampoa?"

While chatting, Lin Baicheng asked Bao Yugang.

Although he didn't know why Lin Baicheng asked himself this, Bao Yugang still mused and said: "Although the stock price of Hutchison Whampoa has fallen a lot recently, it is still caused by too much increase in the previous period. You know, at the beginning of the year Lin Sheng, when you first took over Hutchison Whampoa, the market value of Hutchison Whampoa was less than 30 billion Hong Kong dollars, but before this sharp drop, it rose to more than 200 billion Hong Kong dollars, a seven or eight times increase, which is really amazing. "

"Now that Hutchison Whampoa's stock price has fallen, it is returning to a reasonable value. Lin Sheng, you don't need to worry about the recent stock price drop. As long as the company develops well, the stock price of subsequent companies will rise again."

Bao Yugang expressed his relief. He thought that Lin Baicheng was upset because of the recent drop in the stock price of Hutchison Whampoa. After all, Hutchison Whampoa lost a market value of 80 billion Hong Kong dollars.

"Thank you Baosheng, I know all these things."

Lin Baicheng thanked him aloud, and then said: "Bao Sheng may not know that some people are shorting Hutchison Whampoa now, so after discussion, the board of directors decided to issue additional shares to strengthen the company's strength, and at the same time invite the fixed increase party to become a director of the company."

"Lin Sheng is trying to invite me to be a director of Hutchison Whampoa?"

But Bao Yugang heard the meaning of Lin Baicheng's words. It wasn't for this reason that the other party had no reason to say this to him suddenly.

"Yes, that's exactly what I mean."

Lin Baicheng nodded, and invited Bao Yugang not only because the two had a good relationship, but also because Bao Yugang was famous enough and Bao Yugang was a big boss of Chinese capital.Although Lin Baicheng has entered Hutchison Whampoa, the company still has a large British capital component. Lin Baicheng wants to slowly reverse this situation, and increasing the majority of Chinese shareholders is one of the means.

"Lin Sheng, how many shares are you planning to increase this time? What is the price of the increase?"

After Bao Yu just pondered for a while, he still asked.

Lin Baicheng did not hide anything, and said truthfully: "It is roughly between 5% and 10%, and the fixed increase price is between 33 Hong Kong dollars and 37 Hong Kong dollars."

When Bao Yugang heard the words, he silently calculated in his mind. The fixed increase price was calculated based on the middle price of 35 Hong Kong dollars, that is, the fixed increase was carried out based on Hutchison Whampoa's market value of 140 billion Hong Kong dollars. The fixed increase of 5% of the shares would cost at least 7 million Hong Kong dollars. Most of them are more than 10 billion Hong Kong dollars.

At least 7 million Hong Kong dollars, even for Bao Yugang, is not a small amount, so of course he has to think about it carefully to see if it is worthwhile to participate in the fixed increase of Hutchison Whampoa.

"Lin Sheng, I can't answer you now, I need to go back and think about it seriously."

Without thinking for a long time, Bao Yugang said aloud.Unless the fixed increase price is extremely low, he will definitely not make a decision right away. Even if he decides to participate in the fixed increase, he has to go back and ask someone to calculate it carefully to see which fixed increase price is more suitable.

"this is necessary."

Lin Baicheng was not surprised when he heard the words. After all, this investment involved at least hundreds of millions of Hong Kong dollars. It would be strange if Bao Yu agreed immediately.

If it were Lin Baicheng himself, unless he thought he had taken a huge advantage, and in order to avoid accidents, he would not immediately agree to it. Letting his team conduct a more professional evaluation is the correct choice.

After that, Lin Baicheng and Bao Yugang chatted about other things, and they left the Peninsula Hotel not long after.

(End of this chapter)