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On the other side, at the Jardine Matheson Company headquarters building, Niu Bijian also met with many reporters.

At this moment, he also knew Lin Haoran's attitude towards Jardine Matheson.

Faced with Lin Haoran, the sudden covetous person, he was still quite worried in his heart. After all, he knew that Lin Haoran had previously borrowed 20 billion Hong Kong dollars from Huifeng Bank!
At that time, no one knew what the huge sum of money was for, but now, Niu Bijian finally understood that the other party was planning to use the funds to acquire Jardine Matheson!

Whether it was Niu Bijian himself or other shareholders of Jardine Matheson, they were inevitably shaken in the face of the financially powerful Lin Haoran.

Can they really be as solid as a rock and unshakable?
The answer may be no.

However, in the face of reporters' repeated questions, Niu Bijian responded firmly: "After in-depth discussions with all shareholders, we can clearly tell you that Jardine Matheson has no intention of selling to the outside world. Mr. Lin Haoran's covetousness for Jardine Matheson will eventually come to nothing. Jardine Matheson will always be the core enterprise of our British consortium and will never fall into the hands of Chinese capital!"

In public, he naturally had to remain calm and not show any panic.

"So, what do you think about the fact that Mr. Lin Haoran has become a major shareholder of Jardine Matheson?" a reporter continued to ask.

Niu Bijian replied solemnly: "Even if Mr. Lin has become a major shareholder, he cannot shake our Jardine Matheson's controlling stake. On this issue, all of our British shareholders are completely unanimous and unwavering!"

"If Mr. Lin insists on continuing to increase his stake in Jardine Matheson, will this affect your controlling position?" a reporter continued to ask.

"It will be absolutely difficult for Mr. Lin to further acquire more shares, and we are ready to take corresponding countermeasures. Therefore, I advise Mr. Lin to give up the idea of ​​Jardine Matheson, because he cannot succeed in the acquisition, and naturally cannot shake my control over Jardine Matheson!" Niu Bijian replied quickly and firmly.

"Then what countermeasures does Mr. Niu Bijian plan to take next? Can you tell us?"

……

Wanqing Building, 31st floor, Lin Haoran’s office.

At this time, he was holding the evidence of traitor sent by 13K. Lin Haoran only took a look at it and prepared to wait until the stock market closed today before giving it to Su Zhixue to deal with.

After all, an ordinary employee wouldn't be asked to handle it personally.

Just when the share price of the Jardine Matheson Group plummeted to a certain level, the Jardine Matheson Group team of Universal Investment Company, under the leadership of Su Zhixue, had begun to secretly continue to absorb the shares of the Jardine Matheson Group.

This is the day with the most pending orders for Hutchison Whampoa Group shares in recent months.

A large number of pending orders are not purchased and continue to accumulate on the secondary market platform.

In order to sell as quickly as possible, investors keep offering lower prices, thereby continuously lowering the transaction price.

The traders of Huanyu Investment Company continued to absorb some stocks.

At the Bank of China Building, which is hundreds of meters away from the Wanqing Building, a department is also keeping a close eye on the secondary market of the Jardine Matheson Group.

This is the securities department of Cheung Kong Holdings.

Earlier this month, after returning to Hong Kong from the UK, Li Ka-shing announced that he would officially take over Hutchison Whampoa, and the former chairman of the board, Mr. Welch, was forced to resign.

In other words, Hutchison Whampoa, one of the four major British trading companies, has been officially taken over by Li Ka-shing.

So he set his sights wholeheartedly on the Jardine Matheson Group.

Two days ago, when Li Jiacheng learned that Lin Haoran had set his sights on the Hong Kong Land Group and had been planning to invest in the Hong Kong Land Group for more than half a year, the first thing he thought of was: "Oh no, I'm going to fail again this time!"

As a result, it was reported in the newspaper today that the company that Lin Haoran wanted to acquire was not the Jardine Matheson Group, but Jardine Matheson!

So Li Jiacheng regained his confidence.

Although Cheung Kong Holdings and Hutchison Whampoa do not hold many shares in the Hong Kong Land Development today, Li Ka-shing believes that the Hong Kong Land Development itself is a giant and it would not be so easy to acquire it. They just need to take it slowly.

Li Jiacheng believed that as long as he was given two years to plan secretly, he would be able to take over the Jardine Matheson Group.

Moreover, after officially taking over Hutchison Whampoa, Li Ka-shing had another helper on his road to acquiring the Hong Kong Land Group.

Therefore, now Cheung Kong Holdings can acquire shares of Hong Kong Land Development together with Hutchison Whampoa Group.

He had his own sources of intelligence, so he was the first to know about the interviews with both Niu Bijian and Lin Haoran.

At this moment, in Li Jiacheng's view, this might be a good opportunity to accelerate his acquisition of the Hong Kong Land Group. Let Lin Haoran fight with Jardine Matheson in public, while he secretly acquires shares of the Hong Kong Land Group!

Lin Haoran saw that the British consortium only held about 30% of the shares of the Hutchison Whampoa Group, and Li Jiacheng could naturally see that.

Therefore, in his opinion, although the current share price of the Hong Kong Land Group is ridiculously high, if he can control the Hong Kong Land Group at a cost of HK$3 billion, it will definitely be a business that can only make profits!

"Lin Haoran is still too young and too greedy. He wants to indirectly control the Hong Kong Land Group by acquiring Jardine Matheson. If he can concentrate on the Hong Kong Land Group, I may not have a chance to take advantage of it.

But now, he is overestimating his own capabilities and coveting Jardine Matheson, intending to clash head-on with the British financial group. Being young and hot-tempered is not a good thing, let him suffer more!" Li Jiacheng glanced at the information handed over by his men, a smile appeared on his lips, and he muttered to himself.

He was quite satisfied with the current situation.

For this reason, the securities departments of Cheung Kong Holdings and Hutchison Whampoa Group have quietly joined the ranks of increasing holdings in Hutchison Whampoa Group shares.

"Perhaps, when Lin Haoran is showing signs of losing ground in the competition with Jardine Matheson, I can lend him a helping hand and let him concentrate on dealing with Jardine Matheson, while I will focus on the Jardine Matheson Group. He should be happy to accept this proposal!" At this moment, Li Jiacheng had a new plan in mind.

Since taking over Hutchison Whampoa, his ambition has spread like wildfire and is out of control.

Since he was able to successfully take over Hutchison Whampoa like a snake swallowing an elephant, why couldn’t he conquer the Hong Kong Land Group in the same way?
Once he gains control of the controlling stake in the Hong Kong Land Group and combines the strengths of the Cheung Kong Group and the Hutchison Whampoa Group, he will undoubtedly become Hong Kong's leading super consortium leader!

This is exactly where Li Jiacheng’s current ambition lies!
When Cheung Kong Group and Hutchison Whampoa took action together, Su Zhixue also noticed something unusual.

"Boss, that long-standing competitor hasn't given up yet. After the share price of the Jardine Matheson Group fell, the other party took action at the same time as we did!" Su Zhixue came to Lin Haoran's office and reported to his boss.

"Oh? They are really haunting me. I lowered the share price of Jardine Matheson Group, and they came in to take advantage of the bargain?" Lin Haoran murmured with a frown.

After thinking for a while, Lin Haoran continued to ask: "How is the other party's absorption speed?"

"Not very fast. They seemed to be worried about pushing up the stock price all of a sudden, so they were very cautious in buying. They were in perfect harmony with our actions. They only competed with us for stocks below HK$68 per share, and did not move at all for stocks above HK$68. By the way, HK$68 per share is almost the total market value of the Hong Kong Land Development, which is about HK$ billion." Su Zhixue replied.

Lin Haoran nodded and said, "Since they don't want to raise the share price too high, then you can directly raise the total market value of the Hong Kong Land Group to HK$11 billion. In this way, how many shares can you get?"

Want to get a big bargain?
How could such a good thing happen?

"I need to do some statistics on this. The orders placed by the Swire Group are changing every moment." Su Zhixue answered cautiously.

"Well, get busy. No need to count for now. Just raise the share price of the Swire Properties to HK$11 billion. At the same time, continue to monitor the stock market to see if the other party continues to make moves after the share price rises. Notify me immediately if anything happens!" Lin Haoran said directly.

Before today, including the shares held by Universal Investments and Hong Kong Electric Group, he actually controlled nearly 37% of the shares of the Hong Kong Land Development.

In other words, as long as he absorbs another 3% and spends an additional HK$40 to million, it will be enough for his shareholding in the Hong Kong Land Development to exceed %.

In addition, there are rarely a large number of orders in the secondary market nowadays. This is a good opportunity. Once you miss this opportunity, it will be difficult to grasp it in the future.

Because there can't be too many scattered shares in the secondary market nowadays.

Moreover, he did not want the unknown competitor to hold too many shares in the Hutchison Whampoa Group.

If he holds too much, what if he finds that he cannot acquire the Hutchison Whampoa Group and turns to wait for a higher price and sells his shares to the British consortiums of Jardine Matheson? Then, even if he already holds 40% of the shares, his position may not be stable.

Therefore, he took advantage of such a good opportunity to buy more shares and at the same time raised the stock price a little. In this way, he could achieve the goal of increasing holdings quickly and prevent his opponents from continuing to buy.

Li Jiacheng hid himself so deeply that Lin Haoran didn't even know that the person who was secretly against him was Li Jiacheng.

In fact, there were many Chinese financial groups that set their sights on the Swire Properties Group later, but it was Li Ka-shing who took the first step.

In another world, Li Ka-shing coveted the Swire Group many times, but unfortunately he always ended in failure.

Lin Haoran went to the Finance Department of Huanyu Investment Company and was surprised to find out that he had only spent about HK$20 billion of the HK$ billion he had borrowed from Huifeng Bank.

Not only that, during his time in the UK, he used the Shipley Company to earn 3.7 million Hong Kong dollars, so in fact he still had more than ten billion Hong Kong dollars in available funds.

With such sufficient financial resources, Lin Haoran is 100% sure of acquiring the Landmark Group. (End of this chapter)