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Chapter 340 Shocked the whole audience
Niu Bijian's betrayal was indeed of great benefit to Lin Haoran in taking over the Jardine Matheson Group.

Just look at how cooperative the top executives of these landholding groups are.

If Niu Bijian had not been the first to rebel, these people would never have surrendered so easily.

Faced with this situation, Henry Keswick knew that it was useless to say more here. He could only go back and think of ways to see if there was any way to take back Jardine Matheson.

So, the board meeting ended quickly.

As soon as the meeting was over, Henry Keswick hurriedly left the meeting room.

Another key figure, Bao Fuda, also left the meeting room in a hurry without saying a word. It had been decided at the meeting to remove Bao Fuda from his position in the Jardine Matheson Group, so the back of the former executive director looked particularly lonely.

He didn't expect that he would lose his job on such an ordinary day.

Many senior executives of the Hong Kong Land Group came over to greet Lin Haoran. Judging from their expressions, they seemed to have surrendered. At least the Hong Kong Land Group would not fall into chaos due to the drastic changes in the top management.

The security chief of Kangle Building who was standing outside the door had been waiting here for a long time. When he saw everyone coming out, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

He was about to report to Bao Fuda, but Bao Fuda simply pointed at Niu Bijian behind him, shook his head, and left.

Although he didn't understand what was going on, the security chief walked to Niu Bijian's side very conspicuously.

"Is there anything wrong?" Niu Bijian turned to look at him and asked.

"Mr. Boss, there are nearly 200 reporters gathered downstairs. If we don't respond, I'm worried they will cause trouble." The security chief said with a wry smile.

These nearly two hundred people do not refer to two hundred media outlets, but almost every media outlet sent two or three representatives.

Even so, the scene was quite astonishing.

The entire Hong Kong is only this small. After two or three hours of fermentation, it can be said that basically all the reporters who should have come have arrived.

Lin Haoran appeared at the Jardine Matheson Group and said that he had something to announce.

There is no need to guess that this announcement is definitely not a trivial matter and it is very likely to be a very sensational news.

Therefore, more and more reporters gathered.

"That's great. Let's hold a press conference right away. Send someone down to make preparations, and we'll go down together later to deal with these reporters!" Lin Haoran said with a smile.

He wanted to take this opportunity to announce two major events: he had successfully acquired the Hong Kong Land Group and indirectly controlled Jardine Matheson.

The acquisition of the Hong Kong Land Group and Jardine Matheson has been planned for a long time, from the beginning of the year to now.

Now that he has finally achieved something, Lin Haoran can't wait to spread the word.

This is definitely a big victory for the Chinese financial consortium.

Since Lin Haoran took complete control of the Hong Kong Land Group and Jardine Matheson, it symbolized that the Chinese financial conglomerates in Hong Kong had completely surpassed the British financial conglomerates.

Today, Chinese financial groups have already taken control of Jardine Matheson, Hong Kong Land Development, Hong Kong Electric Group, Wharf Holdings, Hutchison Whampoa and many more.

As for the British financial consortium, only a few major banks such as Bank of England, Swire Group and Wheelock Group are left.

Moreover, the Hong Kong Land Group also holds 3300 million A shares of Wheelock & Co. Although due to the AB equity system implemented by Wheelock, these 3300 million shares actually account for 11.8% of the shares, the voting rights are only 7.4%.

But even with only 7.4% of the voting rights, it is enough to mean that the Hong Kong Land Group is now one of the most important shareholders of the Wheelock Group.

In the future, if Lin Haoran wants to acquire Wheelock, he can launch an acquisition action against Wheelock at any time based on these 3300 million shares.

Fortunately, neither Jardine Matheson nor Hong Kong Holdings were AB shares, so Lin Haoran easily took over Hong Kong Holdings with his overwhelming voting rights, thereby indirectly controlling Jardine Matheson.

Otherwise, he would have to put in much more effort to win.

It was not difficult to prepare for the press conference. After Niu Bijian gave the order, the lobby on the first floor of Kangle Building soon became a temporary press conference site.

"Mr. Lin, that's not right. I should address you as boss from now on. Everything is ready downstairs. Let's go down together!" Niu Bijian turned to Lin Haoran. At this moment, he had clearly defined his new role.

In front of Lin Haoran, he was no longer the Jardine Matheson boss who was as famous as Shen Bi and had unlimited glory, but more like an ordinary clerk, a worker who might face the risk of being fired at any time.

In this situation, if he does not know how to adjust his mentality and attitude in time, then his position as a senior class leader may be unsustainable.

"Okay, then let's go down and meet these reporters!" Lin Haoran responded with a smile, feeling quite pleased with Niu Bijian's change of attitude.

Who could have imagined that just a few months ago, the boss of Jardine Matheson was so arrogant and condescending, thinking that he could easily deal with the business of a Chinese businessman and did not take Lin Haoran seriously at all.

Although he was forced to bow his head and apologize in front of TV viewers across Hong Kong due to Lin Haoran's counterattack, he certainly still felt unwilling.

However, today, how could he dare to harbor any resentment?

Lin Haoran took Niu Bijian, Su Zhixue, Chen Shoulin and others to the first floor in the elevator. Burton, with his financial team, went directly to the finance department of the Landmark Group to review the financial status of the Landmark Group in order to prevent these British financial groups from tampering with the finance department.

After all, the finances of the Swire Group involve tens of billions of funds at any time. With a little tampering, hundreds of millions may disappear.

Now, Lin Haoran is the absolute controlling shareholder of the Jardine Matheson Group, so naturally he does not want to see this situation.

Let’s not talk about anything else. Just two years ago, the Qingzhou Yingni Company, a company that was not very large at all, the chairman was able to make tens of millions by simply doing some small tricks, not to mention a giant like the Swire Properties with a market value of tens of billions.

Moreover, although the market value of the Swire Properties Group is close to 10 billion, in fact, its true value is far beyond this figure.

Take the Kangle Building where they are at the moment, for example. This building, once the tallest building in Hong Kong and now the second tallest building, is worth more than tens of billions of Hong Kong dollars.

The Hong Kong Land Group also owns many similar commercial buildings in Central, Wan Chai, Causeway Bay and other places.

Although these buildings may not be as tall as the Kangle Building, they are at least 20 to 30 stories high. According to current housing prices, each building is worth more than HK$1 billion.

The title of “King of Central” is well-deserved.

This is also the reason why the Hong Kong Land Group can firmly sit on the throne of the largest real estate company in Hong Kong.

Throughout Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Land Group's properties and cooperative businesses are spread all over the place and their number is even larger.

Therefore, in Lin Haoran's eyes, the market value of 10 billion is far from reflecting its true value.

Although the Hong Kong Land Group currently has billions of Hong Kong dollars in debt, these debts are just a drop in the bucket compared to its overall strength.

If two more years pass, the debt of the Hong Kong Land Development will increase to more than HK$10 billion.

But now, it is not even 1981 yet, and the debt of the Swire Properties Group is still at a controllable stage.

Now that Lin Haoran has officially taken over the Jardine Matheson Group, he naturally will not allow the Jardine Matheson Group to continue investing blindly everywhere like the Jardine Matheson Group in another world.

Under such management, the Swire Group will naturally not repeat the same mistakes and become the "debt king" with heavy debts.

Several people soon arrived at the lobby on the first floor.

At this time, the lobby on the first floor was maintained in an orderly manner by dozens of security personnel, and the reporters were neatly arranged in a specific area.

The periphery was carefully decorated, creating a press conference atmosphere, and even a podium was built. The overall look was quite standardized and professional.

Seeing Lin Haoran and Niu Bijian, there was an immediate commotion at the scene.

However, with the maintenance of many security personnel, the scene soon became quiet.

Lin Haoran and Niu Bijian came to the podium and looked at the two or three hundred reporters in front of them.

At this time, his subordinate had handed over a wired microphone, which was passed to Niu Bijian, who then passed it to Lin Haoran.

Lin Haoran held the microphone in his hand and smiled at the many reporters.

As everyone was looking forward to it, he said, "I'm sure you all are very curious about why I came to the Landmark Group this time, and why Mr. Niu Bijian and I are here."

Lin Haoran's words made many people nod their heads involuntarily.

Those who came early have already been here for three hours.

Especially just now, they saw Henry Keswick, the famous former boss of Jardine Matheson, leaving with a gloomy face under the protection of bodyguards. This made everyone even more curious about what Lin Haoran had done today!
Now, the time has finally come to announce the news, how can they not be excited!

So, at this moment everyone was looking at Lin Haoran with expectant eyes, waiting for his next words.

"I, Lin Haoran, would like to formally announce a few things to you all here: starting from today, I, Lin Haoran, will officially take over the Hong Kong Land Development and become the controlling shareholder and manager of the Hong Kong Land Development. In addition, from now on, Jardine Matheson will become a subsidiary holding subsidiary of the Hong Kong Land Development. Mr. Niu Bijian will continue to serve as the manager of Jardine Matheson and will be directly supervised by me. That's about all I have to say!" Lin Haoran announced with a smile on his face.

Every word Lin Haoran said was unbelievable to the reporters present.

This, this, is it true?

It is simply the opposite of Tiangang!

Did Lin Haoran successfully control Jardine Matheson and Hong Kong Holdings?

The Hong Kong Land Group actually holds a controlling stake in Jardine Matheson & Co.?

In the past, wasn’t Jardine Matheson & Co. the parent company of the Hong Kong Land Group?
What exactly is going on?

Everyone was confused at the moment, with disbelief written all over their faces.

This news came too suddenly and was too shocking!
Jardine Matheson!
The Jardine Matheson Group!
Will they all become Chinese-funded enterprises in the future?
(End of this chapter)