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"Then I wonder when the board meeting will be held?" Lin Haoran asked.

"The preliminary decision will be to hold the meeting at nine o'clock tomorrow morning. Currently, more than a dozen important shareholders of Jardine Matheson are in Hong Kong." Niu Bijian responded over the phone.

"Okay, then I will attend the Jardine Matheson board meeting on time tomorrow." Lin Haoran replied with a smile.

He was not too surprised that Niu Bijian agreed to his request.

Because when he was chatting with Niu Bijian in his office, Lin Haoran knew from his reaction that the other party was attracted to her.

As for Shen Bi also agreeing, that is even less surprising.

Because the final decision discussed by Lin Haoran and Niu Bijian was for Lin Haoran to give up control of Jardine Matheson and merely enter the senior management of Jardine Matheson as a major shareholder.

What does this mean?
It means that Jardine Matheson is not Lin Haoran's company, and it means that Lin Haoran cannot use Jardine Matheson to surpass Bank of Hong Kong in strength.

In this way, Shen Bi naturally felt relieved.

After hanging up the phone, Lin Haoran was in a good mood.

The Jardine Matheson Group is no longer in a hurry to announce his acquisition.

Because once it is announced, Jardine Matheson will definitely not be able to continue with the mutual control plan.

As a result, his plan to use the Hong Kong Land Group to take control of Jardine Matheson & Co., Ltd. failed.

After leaving the Hong Kong Electric Group Building, Lin Haoran went to the villa area in Kowloon Tong.

His elder brother Lin Hao Ning lives in this area.

However, this time Lin Haoran did not come to see his elder brother Lin Hao Ning, but to visit Liu Luanxiong.

Liu Luanxiong bought a villa in the Hutchison Whampoa villa area last year, but he has never moved in.

Now that Lin Haoran has sold his shares to the Jianing Group, the power of Aigo Company has begun to shake. It is obvious that Liu Luanxiong is no longer suitable to live in the factory, so he moved directly into this villa with his wife and children.

In the morning, Liu Luanxiong called specially and sincerely invited Lin Haoran to visit Liu's house.

Considering that he felt somewhat sorry for Liu Luanxiong in selling his shares in Aigo, Lin Haoran finally decided to accept the invitation and visit him in the evening.

After passing through the busy Hung Hom Cross-Harbour Tunnel and heading north along the main traffic artery of Princess Road, Lin Haoran arrived at the villa area where Liu Luanxiong lived in less than half an hour.

There are many villas here, and the population density is higher than some areas in Hong Kong Island, but the housing prices are obviously not comparable to those in Mid-Levels villas, Peak mansions, Deep Water Bay villas, etc.

"Haoran, I'm glad to see you here. Let's go to the study and have a good chat." Liu Luanxiong went out to greet him with a smile on his face.

Following closely behind him was his wife, Mrs. Liu, holding a little boy about one year old in her arms.

"Wait a moment, I'll get something." Lin Haoran took a few exquisite gift boxes from Li Weiguo with a smile, turned around and handed them to Liu Luanxiong, "This is my first time here, and I brought some small gifts for my sister-in-law and the children."

"There's no need to be so polite when you come to my place, and there's no need to bring any gifts." Although Liu Luanxiong said this, he still happily took the gift box handed to him by Lin Haoran.

The group walked into the villa and, led by Liu Luanxiong, came to the spacious study.

"I have asked the kitchen to prepare dinner. We must have a good drink tonight!" Liu Luanxiong's face was filled with smiles at this moment. He did not mind at all that Lin Haoran sold his shares to Jianing Group.

"You seem to be in a good mood. How's things going at Aimego now?" Lin Haoran asked curiously, sitting on the sofa, face to face with Liu Luanxiong.

In recent days, he has not paid much attention to the situation of Aigo.

After all, that company has nothing to do with him now.

His attention was entirely focused on the affairs of the Jardine Matheson Group and Jardine Matheson. Now, how to take control of these two foreign companies was his most important matter.

There were indeed reports in the newspapers about the competition between Liu Luanxiong and Chen Songqing at the Aigo Company, but Lin Haoran knew very well that most of the news was fake.

As a former shareholder of Aimego and someone who knew Liu Luanxiong well, he could see that most of the news circulating in the newspapers was not true.

"What else can I do? I compete with the other party openly while selling shares secretly. Now I actually hold less than 20% of the shares. These days, while many people are watching the stock speculation of Aigo, I took the opportunity to sell a lot of stocks, and try to sell them all before they find out that I have given up Aigo. Of course, even if I don't sell them all, I don't care. The current stock price of Aigo is higher than the actual situation. I have made a lot of money. Sooner or later, I will come back.

I researched the Jianing Group and found that their source of funding is questionable. As you said, their foundation may be shaky and they are not as strong as we thought.

"Besides, after next year, the share price of Aigo will definitely be affected by the market, and a sharp drop in the share price will be inevitable. I will then slowly absorb it back!" Lin Haoran said with a smile on his face.

Obviously, he is very satisfied with the current price.

Lin Haoran nodded and had a detailed chat with him.

From Liu Luanxiong's words, Lin Haoran learned that although the more than 20 points of shares he sold caused the stock price of Aigo Company to be unable to continue to rise, it still allowed him to sell in large quantities while no one knew his thoughts.

The shares that rose by more than 20 points are equivalent to 20 to 30 million shares, which is indeed a lot, but there are too many shareholders, so even if he sells them in large quantities, the impact will not be that big.

"Didn't Chen Songqing come to talk to you?" Lin Haoran asked curiously.

"I have already talked to Chen Songqing. He hopes that I will give up my controlling stake in Aigo, but he promised that I can continue to serve as the general manager, but I need to take their position and merge Aigo into the Jianing Group and make it a subsidiary of the Jianing Group.

Now, he and I are getting along fine on the surface. I still handle company affairs normally during the day, and Jianing Group has sent in financial personnel and placed several senior executives at the top. They still don’t know that I plan to give up the controlling stake in Aimigo, and they think I will fight to the end!" Liu Luanxiong replied.

"Logically, there are quite a lot of Aigo shares on the stock market after you sold them. It should be easy for him to increase his holdings, right? Even if the market value has been hyped up to 30 billion Hong Kong dollars now, it won't be difficult to increase his holdings by a few more points. This should be enough for him to declare that he controls Aigo, right?" Lin Haoran was a little confused.

"I guess they are afraid that if they announce it directly, it will cause the stock price of Aigo to plummet, so they are considering how to act to reduce the impact on the stock market!" Liu Luanxiong guessed.

Liu Luanxiong's words made Lin Haoran feel suddenly enlightened.

Indeed, based on what Lin Haoran knew about the Jianing Group, the other party's acquisition of Aimego was nothing more than an attempt to use Aimego to make more money through crooked means.

However, if the share price of Aigo plummets, it will obviously not be in the interests of the Jianing Group.

"By the way, Haoran, I would like to ask you something. I now have hundreds of millions of Hong Kong dollars in cash. Do you think I should invest all this money in buying land or real estate?" Liu Luanxiong asked humbly.

Lin Haoran thought about it and realized that it was already approaching October 1980, which meant that it was actually not far from the peak period of the Hong Kong real estate market in recent years.

As far as I can remember, the highest price was probably in early 1981.

After that, the price basically stopped rising throughout 1981, and at that time, the real estate bubble had already begun to emerge.

This situation continued until September 1982, when the Iron Lady fell and Hong Kong's real estate bubble finally collapsed.

Today, there are still nearly two years until that time.

But in fact, the price of buying land, real estate and other properties has almost reached its peak. Even if you invest in them for two years, you will not lose money, but you will definitely not get too much profit.

Of course, there is definitely some profit to be made. At least the increase in the past few months is much better than depositing the money in the bank.

"If you don't know what to do with the money, then I think you can indeed invest the money in real estate. However, you must pay attention that once you find any abnormalities in the real estate industry, it is best to get rid of it as soon as possible. The housing prices in Hong Kong have risen a bit too much now. I am worried that there will be a real estate bubble in the future. As for whether it will happen, I am not sure." Lin Haoran said cautiously.

Although he knew that the Hong Kong real estate bubble was bound to happen, he certainly couldn't say it out loud. He could only give an estimate.

"I'm not afraid of this. I plan to wait until next summer when Aimego's performance plummets, which will surely affect the stock price. Then I will need to withdraw funds and secretly absorb shares!" Liu Luanxiong said with a smile.

He did not deliberately hide this from Lin Haoran, because the idea was given to him by Lin Haoran.

"If you really don't know where to spend your funds, I can suggest that you buy shares of Huifeng Bank. Its stocks are suitable for long-term holding but not for short-term speculation. As you know, bank stocks are greatly affected by the economy. But from a long-term perspective, I think Huifeng Bank is a very good stock. Or you can see if there are any listed companies that you are interested in and you can acquire them for fun." Lin Haoran said with a smile.

"Forget it. I have no interest in Huifeng Bank. But you also reminded me that the stock market is so hot right now. Maybe I can try to enter the investment world." Liu Luanxiong's eyes lit up.

"Then give it a try. With your current wealth, it's time to try investing." Lin Haoran agreed with his idea.

This tycoon is known as the king of gold hunting. His outstanding performance and successful cases in the investment field are not much inferior to those of Li Jiacheng.

This shows that he is very talented in the field of investment. (End of this chapter)