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Henry Keswick's words immediately surprised everyone at the scene who did not know the purpose in advance.

There were even quite a few people who expressed their surprise.

Even Niu Bijian had a look of shock on his face at this moment.

He didn't expect that the purpose of Henry Keswick's convening of the board of directors was to drive Lin Haoran out of Jardine Matheson!

When Niu Bijian first saw Lin Haoran becoming the vice chairman of Jardine Matheson, he was worried that Lin would interfere too much in the affairs of Jardine Matheson.

But as time went by, Niu Bijian discovered that Lin Haoran really did not care about the management of the company at all, just as he said.

In fact, from the beginning of the month to the end of this month, Lin Haoran has only come to Jardine House a few times.

Therefore, he gradually felt that letting Lin Haoran join the core team of the Jardine Matheson Group board of directors was the best choice.

Not only did he not care about the affairs of Jardine Matheson, he was even able to restrain Henry Keswick, allowing the boss to exercise his power to the maximum extent in Jardine Matheson.

If it continues like this, it will naturally be the best for Niu Bijian!

But Jardine Matheson and Hong Kong Land Development have just completed mutual control, but Henry Keswick is already impatient to kick Lin Haoran out of the Jardine Matheson board of directors?

At this moment, Niu Bijian thought a lot, and he finally understood why Henry Keswick had urged him to speed up the mutual control plan.

"But how can he be sure that he can oust Mr. Lin Haoran?" This is what Niu Bijian was confused about.

The reason why Niu Bijian had never thought of this possibility was because he felt that Henry Keswick would not be able to get so many people to support him in driving Lin Haoran away.

After all, Mr. Shen Bi supported Lin Haoran to join the board of directors and supported him to become the vice chairman of the board of directors of Jardine Matheson.

In addition, Bao Fuda is also his confidant. As the executive director of the Jardine Matheson Group, Bao Fuda represents a large voting right on the Jardine Matheson Group side. It is impossible for him to support it. So in this case, Niu Bijian does not think that Henry Keswick will succeed in driving Lin Haoran away.

No matter what, all he could do next was wait and see. Today's meeting had already somewhat gotten out of his control.

Many people were shocked.

On the other hand, Lin Haoran's face was as gloomy as water, with no expression at all, as if what Henry Keswick said had nothing to do with him at all.

Of course he was not panicking. After all, Henry Keswick had his own confidence, and so did Lin Haoran.

Once his confidence is made public, there is no doubt that everyone present will be even more shocked.

"Ladies and gentlemen, next we will vote on the removal of Mr. Lin Haoran from his positions as vice chairman of the board of directors and as a member of the board of directors. This vote will decide by voting rights whether to remove Mr. Lin Haoran from his positions. Please raise your hands if you agree, and do nothing if you disagree!" At this moment, Niu Bijian could only stand up helplessly and announce the vote.

But he also didn't think Henry Keswick would succeed.

He was unwilling to see Lin Haoran leave the board of directors of Jardine Matheson, but he could do nothing in the face of Henry Keswick's attack, because as the representative of the British financial consortium, Henry Keswick had made this decision.

As soon as Niu Bijian finished speaking, everyone at the scene made their own choice.

Among the British financial consortium, except for those shareholders who supported Niu Bijian, most of the others raised their hands.

Not only that, even Shen Bi, the boss of Huifeng Bank, raised his hands.

At this moment, Lin Haoran finally understood why he had such an embarrassed expression in the elevator. It turned out that he wanted to be Henry Keswick's accomplice this time.

No wonder!

In addition to Shen Bi, a more important representative, Bao Fuda, also raised his hand on behalf of the Jardine Matheson Group. In addition, several shareholders of the Jardine Matheson Group also raised their hands.

Today, the Hong Kong Land Group holds a 30.1% stake in Jardine Matheson, so the voting rights of the Hong Kong Land Group are also very important.

As the actual manager of the Jardine Matheson Group, it is obvious that Bao Fuda is qualified to express the opinions on behalf of the Jardine Matheson Group.

Combined with the votes of those shareholders of Landmark Group, it can be said that Landmark Group completely and unanimously supports Henry Keswick in kicking Lin Haoran out of the board of directors of Jardine Matheson.

"Mr. Bao Fuda, you!" Niu Bijian looked at Bao Fuda, the executive director and general manager of the Jardine Matheson Group, who he had always regarded as his confidant, in shock.

He couldn't imagine that the actual manager of the Jardine Matheson Group, who had always obeyed his orders, did not choose to follow him this time, but instead followed Henry Keswick and supported driving Lin Haoran out of Jardine Matheson?

"Mr. Niu Bijian, I'm sorry, this time I support Mr. Henry Keswick!" Bao Fuda said in a low voice.

In fact, Henry Keswick had already persuaded Bowdoin privately.

Previously, Jardine Matheson held a 20% stake in the Hong Kong Land Group and was the actual controller of the Hong Kong Land Group.

On the contrary, the Hong Kong Land Group does not hold any shares in Jardine Matheson.

Therefore, the Hong Kong Land Group has always been a joint venture subsidiary of Jardine Matheson.

In fact, Niu Bijian is still the boss of the Hong Kong Land Group, but his power in the Hong Kong Land Group is obviously not as great as that in Jardine Matheson. The main control of the Hong Kong Land Group is more in the hands of the executive director Bao Fuda.

But now, the Swire Properties Group and Jardine Matheson have actually achieved mutual control. Each has become the other's "largest shareholder" and has reached an undisputed level of controlling stake.

In this case, Jardine Matheson and Hong Kong Land Group are actually equal enterprises, rather than Hong Kong Land Group being a subsidiary of Jardine Matheson! Therefore, Bao Fuda's ambition naturally grew.

At this time, Henry Keswick made a promise to Bowdoin that if he ousted Niu Bijian in the future, he would train Bowdoin as the successor of Jardine Matheson, or at the very least continue to maintain his identity with the Jardine Matheson Group.

So, Bafouda decisively rebelled and turned to support Henry Keswick.

In Bao Fuda's opinion, we are all professional managers, so why should I be one level lower than Niu Bijian?
Niu Bijian's expression looked extremely complicated at this moment.

He quickly glanced around the room and knew without careful calculation that the current voting results were enough to put Lin Haoran at a disadvantage in this board meeting.

Although Lin Haoran holds more than ten percentage points of shares, it is difficult for him to maintain this position as the majority of members oppose his joining the board of directors.

His plan had just been implemented for less than a month, but it failed at the last minute. Niu Bijian was very unwilling to accept this.

But he was helpless. He had lost the support of Shen Bi and Bao Fuda one after another, and his plan to use Lin Haoran to contain Henry Keswick had failed.

"According to the calculation of voting rights, the approval rate for this vote is 64% and the disapproval rate is 36%. This vote has been officially passed! From now on, Mr. Lin Haoran will no longer serve as the vice chairman of the board of directors of Jardine Matheson, and his board membership will also be revoked!" Soon, the secretary-general in charge of statistics at the secretariat announced the final result.

Suddenly, there was a warm applause from the audience, and most of the foreigners smiled happily.

Lin Haoran's entry into the core senior management of Jardine Matheson was a shame for the people in these British financial groups.

Now, driving Lin Haoran out of the core senior management is their greatest victory.

Although Lin Haoran still holds a significant share, so what?
From now on, even if he continues to hold these shares, he will be just an ordinary shareholder!
"Jardine Matheson and Hong Kong Holdings will only be in the hands of our British financial group. We will never allow Chinese financial groups to covet them!" Henry Keswick stood up again and declared his victory.

Jardine Matheson is the property of his Keswick family, and he will not allow any Chinese financial group to get involved!

Lin Haoran had been silent before, but now he laughed.

These people are so naive. Do they really think that by uniting together they can drive him out of Jardine Matheson?

However, he was not in a hurry to announce that he actually had control of the Hutchison Whampoa Group.

After all, this is the headquarters of Jardine Matheson.

He announced here that although he could slap these people in the face, if he wanted to control Jardine Matheson, he had to take over the Jardine Matheson Group first.

Don't be in a hurry!
"Mr. Lin Haoran, do you have anything else to say?" At this time, Niu Bijian looked at Lin Haoran and said.

Niu Bijian was also unwilling to let Lin Haoran leave, but at this point, he could no longer make a decision.

It was inevitable that Lin Haoran would lose his position as a member of the board of directors of Jardine Matheson.

"I don't have anything to say, but there is one thing I want to tell you all. You have come all the way from the UK, so please don't rush back. Believe me, otherwise you may have to return to Hong Kong just after arriving in the UK!" Lin Haoran said with a smile.

No one could understand what Lin Haoran said, let alone the meaning of what he said.

However, Lin Haoran didn't care whether they could understand or not.

Let these people be proud of themselves for a while.

Soon, they will probably find out that they were too happy too early.

"Mr. Henry Keswick, is there anything else you want to say?" Niu Bijian looked at Henry Keswick again.

"No more, I have said everything I wanted to say this time!" Henry Keswick said with a smile on his face.

Without Lin Haoran, he had even more power in Jardine Matheson. He was even waiting for an opportunity to remove Niu Bijian and then let someone from their Keswick family take power and take over the management of Jardine Matheson again.

All this was going according to his plan.

"Then let's adjourn the meeting! Secretariat, please prepare an announcement and release it to the public as soon as possible after the meeting!" Niu Bijian said in a bad mood.

"Okay, Mr. Niu Bijian!" the head of the secretariat replied respectfully.

This meeting was over before it even lasted ten minutes.

And Henry Keswick's goal was achieved.

Lin Haoran walked out of the meeting room alone, feeling a little emotional.

This meeting was indeed somewhat beyond his expectations.

However, he didn't feel bad about it at all.

"Mr. Lin, please wait a moment!" At this time, Shen Bi called Lin Haoran from behind.

"What's wrong, Mr. Shen Bi?" Lin Haoran stopped and asked with a smile.

"Mr. Lin, I'm really sorry. My previous support was really helpless. I hope you can understand my situation. After all, I'm just a professional manager of Huifeng Bank. There are many British financial group shareholders behind me. I have to consider their opinions." Shen Bi said with a wry smile. (End of this chapter)