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Chapter 180 Progress of Four Stocks

“Boss, although the establishment of an intelligence department is exactly the same as the way we collect news information, in fact, the information we can obtain at present is quite limited.

To achieve the results you expect, you will need to invest a considerable amount of money in this.

For example, when the Ma family was running the gray industry in the past, we used some channels to obtain intelligence, including Chinese detectives, chief inspectors, and even some important officials of the Governor's Office. These required us to pay a lot of fees to maintain the relationship.

But after the "Limp Ho" incident, Mr. Ma asked us to cut off contact with most people, so now our sources of intelligence are very limited. Although we receive a lot of news and inside information faster than ordinary people, we have basically no way of knowing some things that others want to conceal.

However, if we want to rebuild these connections, it is not difficult, but it may require an additional expenditure of hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong dollars or even more each month.

In addition, we also need to contact and activate our informants at large British and Chinese companies so that we can obtain the business information you need from your boss as quickly as possible.

Therefore, in order to meet your needs, the company must spend at least one million Hong Kong dollars every month!" Cui Zilong said directly.

When the粵豪 incident was exposed, why were the Ma family able to make preparations in advance, and Ma Xiru even left Hong Kong in advance? It was because the Ma family had their own informants everywhere.

If Ma Xizhen had not wanted to stay in Hong Kong to handle those gray industries and convert them into cash as soon as possible, he would not have been caught by the Hong Kong police.

Even so, he eventually escaped from Hong Kong safely and headed for Taiwan.

The intelligence department established by the Ma family played an indispensable role in the success of all this.

This intelligence department was secretly set up by the Oriental Press Company.

Even though the relevant strength has been greatly reduced today, its foundation is still there and its basis is solid. It is not difficult to rebuild an intelligence department sufficient for Lin Haoran to use. It just costs more money.

"Okay, in that case, this matter will be handed over to you. But you have to remember to be cautious in these matters. You can't leave too many tails when doing anything. I don't want to cause too much trouble for me." Lin Haoran emphasized.

He doesn't really care about the extra expenditure of a few million Hong Kong dollars a month. He will be satisfied as long as there is enough return on these investments.

"Boss, please rest assured. I have experience in this. I was involved when the Ma family set up an intelligence department. Besides, it is not difficult to get those informants to come up with information one after another. Since you want to set up an intelligence department, I will do my best." Cui Zilong promised.

After chatting with Cui Zilong for a long time in the general manager's office of Oriental Press Company in Changye Building and gaining a deeper understanding of the company, Lin Haoran left Changye Building.

Next, there were actually not many changes at Oriental Press Company. They continued to do what they were doing. Except for the change of boss, there were actually no personnel changes.

Therefore, Lin Haoran's taking over of Oriental Press did not actually change the company too much. He just asked the company to strengthen the construction of its intelligence organization.

In a blink of an eye, the time came to May 2rd.

Today is Monday, and it is the day when the stock market opens.

Lin Haoran’s primary target now is the Jardine Matheson Group!
HK Electric Group holds a 6.4% stake in Hong Kong Land Development, which has laid a solid foundation for him.

If he still can't take over the Jardine Matheson Group, then he will have wasted this unexpected layout.

The 6.4% stake in the Swire Properties was indeed a surprise, and it was the other party who took the initiative to approach Lin Haoran and they finally successfully reached a cooperation agreement.

Causeway Bay, Wan'an Group Building, Huanyu Investment Company office.

Lin Haoran went out after lunch today, and his first destination was Huanyu Investment Company.

The original Federal Building, now the New Wan'an Building, is still under intensive renovation, so both the Wan'an Group and the Huanyu Investment Company continue to work in their original offices.

If you want to move there, it will take at least until the end of the month.

When we arrived here, the exchange's lunch break had ended and the afternoon stock market trading officially began.

The office has formed several small teams, each of which is responsible for corresponding tasks, and their team tasks cannot be communicated with other team members.

As they are all professionals in this industry, they naturally know what they can say and what they cannot say, and they have all signed confidentiality agreements. They must abide by the most basic professional ethics. If they tell anyone anything casually, they will not be able to survive in this industry. If they are found out, they will have to bear huge fines and possible imprisonment.

Therefore, without sufficient benefits, these people normally would not spread their actions.

Lin Haoran noticed that the number of employees at Huanyu Investment Company now reached more than 30 people, which was a significant increase compared to the previous few people.

Among them, at least half are very familiar faces.

Among these people are the original trading members, as well as employees who were later merged from the securities department of Wan'an Group. Lin Haoran has basically seen these people many times and is naturally familiar with them.

In addition to these people, there were some people that Lin Haoran had never seen before. They were obviously new employees recruited by Su Zhixue.

Nowadays, Su Zhixue, the general manager of Huanyu Investment Company, only needs to take charge of the overall situation and no longer needs to personally participate in the operation.

When I walked into Su Zhixue's office, I saw him studying the past orders and transaction status of several stocks.

Although he no longer needs to personally participate in absorbing shares, he still needs to assign tasks to his traders and has sufficient understanding of each stock so that he can better take charge of the overall situation and complete the tasks given to them by his boss.

"Boss, you're here." Seeing Lin Haoran, Su Zhixue quickly put down the work in his hands, stood up and greeted the boss.

Lin Haoran nodded, closed the office door, and asked with a smile: "How is the progress?"

Several days have passed since the acquisition of the four stocks.

"Boss, this is the situation of absorption before the lunch break this morning. I have summarized them all." Su Zhixue handed a notebook to Lin Haoran respectfully. Lin Haoran took the notebook and sat down to read it.

The four stocks of Hong Kong Land Development, Jardine Matheson & Co., China Gas and Kowloon Motor Bus are now the targets of Universal Investment Company.

At this moment, the notebook records the acquisition situation of these four stocks, including the total number of shares, the proportion, the expenditure funds, the average price per share, etc.

Hong Kong Land Development: Currently owns approximately 3.42% of the shares, with a total expenditure of HK$2.672 million.

Jardine Matheson: Currently owns approximately 1.82% of the shares, with a total expenditure of HK$7815 million.

Towngas: Currently owns approximately 2.41% of the shares, with a total expenditure of HK$1413 million.

Kowloon Motor Bus: Currently owns approximately 2.59% of the shares, with a total expenditure of HK$1354 million.

Seeing these data, Lin Haoran was slightly surprised.

Unexpectedly, in just a few days, Huanyu Investment Company's progress was so fast.

In particular, their key target, Hong Kong Land Development, already holds about 3.42% of the shares. If the approximately 6.4% stake of Hong Kong Electric Company Limited is included, the shares of Hong Kong Land Development secretly controlled by Lin Haoran are almost reaching 10%.

Even with other things, Lin Haoran was very satisfied with the progress.

The notebook contains the trading data for every trading day, and Lin Haoran can see it very clearly.

Especially this morning, the absorption of the four stocks was much higher than in the past.

"Why are you so active in trading today? Is there a possibility that you will be discovered?" Lin Haoran asked.

"Don't worry, boss. Today the stock market has seen good gains in most cases, so trading is very active. The trading volume in the morning alone is enough to be larger than the entire day's trading volume last Friday. So we're taking this opportunity to make large purchases under the cover of such huge trading volume. This way, there will be no risk of being discovered!" Su Zhixue explained.

Lin Haoran nodded. If the stock market remained very active, although stock prices would certainly continue to rise, his absorption speed would also increase continuously.

In just a few days, he has spent about 3.73 million yuan here. The rapid expenditure of funds also proves that he owns more and more shares and the money is worth spending.

Among these four stocks, he is determined to acquire three of them, namely, Hongkong Land Group, China Gas and Kowloon Motor Bus.

As for Jardine Matheson, he could acquire it or not, just let nature take its course, because he valued the Hong Kong Land Group more.

Towngas is the only gas supplier in Hong Kong and monopolizes the entire Hong Kong market. Like the Hong Kong Electric Group, it has a very stable source of income. It can be said that this company does not make reckless investments and its annual profits are very stable.

If we take over this company, we will have a stable income every year.

Another target, Kowloon Motor Bus, is the largest bus company in Hong Kong. The company owns a large amount of land in Kowloon, distributed throughout the Kowloon Peninsula. It is also the largest bus company in Hong Kong.

In fact, there is also a bus company on Hong Kong Island that also owns a large amount of land, and that is China Motor Bus.

However, compared with Kowloon Motor Bus, China Motor Bus is much smaller in scale.

The reason is very simple. The population of Kowloon Peninsula is much larger than that of Hong Kong Island, and there are many ordinary people, so the passenger source of Kowloon Motor Bus is several times more than that of China Motor Bus.

Therefore, Lin Haoran felt that it would be more cost-effective to acquire Kowloon Motor Bus.

In fact, both Kowloon Motor Bus and China Gas will be coveted by other consortiums by the end of this year.

For example, Kowloon Motor Bus will be targeted by Sun Hung Kai.

China Gas was targeted by the Jardine Matheson Group, but according to past history it would eventually be successfully acquired by Henderson Land Development.

So, there are quite a few competitors.

All of this is actually the normal development trend of Hong Kong's business community. Chinese-funded enterprises, especially real estate enterprises, have all made a lot of money in recent years. If they want to expand the scale of their enterprises, the easiest way is naturally to directly acquire other high-quality enterprises, especially those listed companies with a lot of land reserve resources or those companies with monopoly nature and stable income. These have become the targets of these rapidly rising Chinese-funded consortiums.

Fortunately, it is only the beginning of the year and he has enough time to plan.

By the time these people want to enter the market and think about how to take over these companies, perhaps he has already absorbed enough shares.

This is the benefit of planning ahead.

He stayed at Huanyu Investment Company for a whole afternoon and left only when the stock market closed.

The afternoon trading was not as active as the morning trading, and the absorption rate suddenly slowed down.

However, these are all normal. The changes in the stock market are huge. As long as you hear some rumors, it will immediately affect the rise and fall trend of a stock or even the entire stock market.

After leaving the Wan'an Group Building, Lin Haoran drove directly to the Hong Kong Electric Group.

In the general manager's office of the Hong Kong Electric Corporation's headquarters building, Chen Shoulin was reviewing documents. When he saw Lin Haoran walk in, he put down his work.

"Boss, I was just about to call you. I have something important to report to you." Chen Shoulin said with a smile.

(End of this chapter)