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After the meeting, Li Jiacheng called Lin Haoran directly.

"Mr. Li, please wait for me for half an hour, I'll be there soon!" After learning the purpose of the call, Lin Haoran said directly.

He had been looking forward to this call from Li Jiacheng for more than half a month, and finally received it today.

It was worth it that he waited so long.

After hanging up the phone, Lin Haoran took a private car directly to the China Bank Building.

Twenty minutes later, we arrived at the underground parking lot of the China Bank Building.

When he went up to the lobby on the first floor, staff were already waiting for him.

Led by the staff of Cheung Kong Holdings, we took the elevator to Li Jiacheng's office.

Of course, he was well aware of the actions of Jardine Matheson and the Hong Kong Land Group during this nearly one month.

However, he remained calm and did not try to stop Jardine Matheson's actions.

These British financial groups accelerated their plans for mutual control of the two groups, which was exactly what he wanted!

At most, the Swire Properties and Jardine Matheson had obtained a certain degree of financing, so the shares he originally held also shrunk a little. However, he did not do nothing. Instead, he asked the people from Universal Investment Company to continue to increase their holdings. He increased his holdings by the same amount as the shares shrunk.

Fortunately, Jardine Matheson Land Development Group did not raise too much funds, and nearly half of them were absorbed through the secondary market, so it did not need to increase its holdings much.

To date, his shareholding in Jardine Matheson & Co. remains at around 19%.

The shares of the Hong Kong Land Development, including the Hong Kong Electric Group, have already reached 43%.

Hong Kong Electric Group had always maintained a 6% stake. After the decline, under the instructions of Lin Haoran, Hong Kong Electric Group also increased its holdings in Hong Kong Land Development.

Until today, Lin Haoran knew that it was time to close the net.

The Hong Kong Land Group holds a 30.1% stake in Jardine Matheson!
This means that once he takes over the Jardine Matheson Group, these 30.1% of shares will also be controlled by him. Together with the 19% of Jardine Matheson shares he holds, it means that the Jardine Matheson shares he actually controls can reach a terrifying 49.1%. In this case, can Jardine Matheson still escape?
Can't run away!

As for the Jardine Matheson Group, Lin Haoran was not panicked at all.

Although he knew that Jardine Matheson now held 30.2% of the shares of the Hong Kong Land Development, plus the British consortium held about 12% of the shares, the two parties together held about 42% of the shares.

But he himself holds 43%.

In fact, the shares of the Swire Group on the stock market today are very small.

Everyone thinks that there are fewer sell orders from the Swire Properties because no one wants to sell.

The truth is that the shares remaining in the hands of ordinary shareholders have dropped to less than ten points, because some of them are still in the hands of Li Jiacheng.

Lin Haoran had been waiting for Li Jiacheng's call, but he didn't expect that the other party never called him.

Based on his understanding of Li Jiacheng, even if Li Jiacheng did not sell it to him, he would not sell it to someone from the British consortium.

Given Li Jiacheng's low-key, modest character and his reluctance to offend others, he would ultimately choose to sell the company to the British consortium unless he could not get satisfactory results from the negotiations with Lin Haoran.

Therefore, Lin Haoran has never been in a hurry.

Now, I finally waited for the other party to contact me actively.

"Mr. Lin, I didn't expect that you have such big ambitions. Congratulations, your dream is about to come true!" Li Jiacheng couldn't help but sigh when he saw Lin Haoran.

Through this series of events, Li Jiacheng had already guessed Lin Haoran's thoughts.

Why did they not announce it even though they already had a controlling stake in Hutchison Whampoa Group?

When Jardine Matheson and Swire Properties jointly announced that they had acquired mutual control, Li Ka-shing finally understood Lin Haoran's true purpose.

The other party wanted to use the Jardine Matheson Group to indirectly control Jardine Matheson. Even Li Ka-shing could not have imagined this ambition before.

After all, I underestimated this young man.

In front of Lin Haoran, his ambition was totally insignificant and Li Jiacheng had to admit defeat!

"It hasn't succeeded yet!" Lin Haoran said with a smile.

"Mr. Lin, I won't be a bad person. I will lend you a helping hand and sell you all the shares of the Jardine Matheson Group that we hold!" Li Jiacheng continued.

"Mr. Li, I have been waiting for you to say this for a long time. As for the price, how about we calculate it according to the market price?" Lin Haoran laughed.

"Okay, let's calculate it based on the market price!" To Lin Haoran's surprise, Li Jiacheng agreed readily.

According to current market conditions, the shares he holds are worth approximately HK$5.2 million.

According to the funds he had previously purchased, he spent about 4.7 million Hong Kong dollars.

In fact, Li Jiacheng was very satisfied to earn nearly 50 million Hong Kong dollars from this. "When Mr. Lin takes control of the Hong Kong Land Group, I think we can cooperate in many areas!" Li Jiacheng continued.

"Of course!"

With everyone being in a good mood, the two sides finalized the deal in just a few words.

Afterwards, Lin Haoran called the legal advisor from Huanyu Investment Company, and on the same day, both parties signed the equity transfer agreement.

In the end, Lin Haoran bought the 5.2% stake in the Hong Kong Land Development held by Hutchison Whampoa and Cheung Kong Holdings, both owned by Li Ka-shing, for HK$4.32 million.

Adding the 43% held by Lin Haoran himself, Lin Haoran’s shareholding in the Jardine Matheson Group has reached 47.3%!
No matter how hard the British financial groups struggle, it will be useless for them to get this share.

When Li Ka-shing first took over Hutchison Whampoa, his ambition was extremely big. He was confident that he could surpass Bao Yugang in a short period of time.

In the future, becoming the richest man in Hong Kong is no longer a dream!
But after selling these shares, Li Jiacheng no longer had any idea of ​​becoming the richest man in Hong Kong.

Because he knew that this young man, Lin Haoran, was about to control the two giants, Jardine Matheson and Hong Kong Holdings, plus the Hong Kong Electric Group, Man Ching Group, etc. that he already controlled. How could he compete with them?
Such strength had completely crushed him, leaving him no chance to even think about competing with him.

Since sincerity exists, why does reason arise?
At 4:30 p.m. that day, a plane slowly landed at Kai Tak International Airport.

This plane flew over from the UK.

On the plane, half of the faces were foreigners and half were Chinese.

If Lin Haoran were here, he would be able to recognize quickly that one of them was Mr. Henry Keswick, the famous head of the Keswick family.

That’s right, after more than half a month, Mr. Henry Keswick flew to Hong Kong from the UK again.

His purpose this time was very simple, which was to kick Lin Haoran out of the board of directors of Jardine Matheson!

At this moment, some of his trusted associates from Jardine Matheson had already come to pick him up at the airport.

The completion of the mutual control of Jardine Matheson Land gave him confidence.

Although in the end the mutual control of shares between Jardine Matheson Land was only about 30%, which was a little short of the 40% they had planned, but in Henry Keswick's view, this was enough to force Lin Haoran out of office!

With the 30.1% stake in Jardine Matheson held by the Hong Kong Land Group, plus their shares in the British consortium, it is easy to exceed 50%.

In this situation, he was no longer afraid of Lin Haoran's threats. No matter how much he increased his holdings, it would be impossible for him to surpass the shares controlled by their British consortium.

So, after tolerating this Chinese man for nearly a month, it is time to close the net and kick Lin Haoran out of the board of directors as soon as possible.

In this way, he will be more confident in ousting Niu Bijian in the future.

During this period of time, he has also understood Niu Bijian's intention, which is just to let Lin Haoran restrain him.

But how could Niu Bijian have imagined that he had already thought of kicking Lin Haoran out of Jardine Matheson?
Henry Keswick has certainly not been doing nothing this month.

After he returned to England, he first approached several important shareholders of Huifeng Bank with the aim of asking them to persuade Shen Bi to agree to support Jardine Matheson in kicking Lin Haoran out of the board of directors.

The shares of Jardine Matheson held by Huifeng Bank also had a great influence on Jardine Matheson's decision this time.

In the end, after promising various benefits to the bosses of the British financial consortium behind the Huifeng Bank, he succeeded and successfully persuaded the British financial consortium behind the Huifeng Bank, and then indirectly persuaded Shen Bi.

Therefore, when he came to Hong Kong this time, Henry Keswick was very confident that he could kick Lin Haoran out of the board of directors of Jardine Matheson. Even if Niu Bijian wanted to help Lin Haoran, in Henry Keswick's view, it would be of no use.

"Are you ready?" Henry Keswick asked the driver while sitting in the car.

This driver was no ordinary person. He was an important senior executive of Jardine Matheson and his confidant in the company.

"Mr. Henry, everything is ready. In the afternoon, I have applied to Mr. Niu Bijian to initiate a board meeting. The time will be set at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. Mr. Niu Bijian should have notified all board members by now!" The confidant answered while driving.

"Well, you did a good job!" Henry Keswick nodded with satisfaction.

"Tomorrow, that damned Chinese man will be kicked out of Jardine Matheson.

I have long disliked this Chinese man, Lin Haoran, and now he actually wants to acquire Jardine Matheson?

Go dream!

Jardine Matheson will always belong to the Keswick family, and no one else can get involved!" Henry Keswick murmured.

Henry Keswick has great ambitions. He wants to build the Keswick family into a top family in the world, like the Rothschild family.

And Jardine Matheson was the source of his confidence.

As long as Jardine Matheson is completely in the hands of the family, this dream will come true sooner or later.

The car finally stopped in the underground parking lot of a skyscraper in Central. The sign of the building was the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, a famous luxury hotel in Hong Kong and an international hotel investment and management group.

Mandarin Oriental Hotel was founded in 1963 and is also an important part of Jardine Matheson. (End of this chapter)