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Chapter 648 This company is good, let’s acquire it!
These words from the senior executive completely angered Shen Bi.

At the beginning, it was Shen Bi who decided to target the Bank of East Asia first!
Although he had the consent of all the senior executives present, didn't this senior executive mean to blame him, the head of Huifeng Bank?

Shen Bi slammed the table suddenly. There was a loud "bang" that was particularly harsh in the silent and depressing meeting room. Everyone's discussion came to an abrupt end and all eyes were focused on Shen Bi.

Shen Bi's face turned black, his eyes were wide open and glaring, veins bulged on his forehead, and his chest heaved violently, obviously he was extremely angry.

"Mr. Cohen, what do you mean by this? What's the point of saying these things now? When we first decided to take action against the Bank of East Asia, it was unanimous. Now that we are in trouble, you want to put all the responsibility on me?
What's more, even if we don't take the initiative, given Lin Haoran's previous style, now that he has entered the financial industry, do you think he can bear not to take action against our Huifeng Bank?

Don't be naive. This is a business world. I think Mr. Cohen understands that business is like a battlefield. Don't forget the ending of Jardine Matheson! " Almost every word Shen Bi said seemed to be squeezed out from between his teeth.

Mr. Cohen was one of the few people present who dared to disagree with him.

It was because he was the representative of a certain consortium behind Huifeng Bank. Faced with a person with such a background, even Shen Bi, as a bank boss, could only feel depressed and helpless.

When Huifeng Bank was developing smoothly, such people naturally would not dare to challenge Shen Bi's authority so blatantly.

In the past, Huifeng Bank was at its peak in the financial world, and all its businesses were thriving. As the head of the bank, Shen Bi made decisive decisions and used tough measures. He led Huifeng Bank to overcome difficulties in the fierce market competition and won countless praises and wealth.

Those senior executives who have the support of the consortium behind them are also in awe of him. Even if they are dissatisfied in their hearts, they can only endure it secretly and dare not express it easily.

However, the situation is very different now.

Huifeng Bank encountered many difficulties in its actions against Bank of East Asia. Not only did it fail to defeat its opponent as quickly as expected, but it also fell into a quagmire itself.

Business was hampered, capital chain was tight, and market reputation was also affected to a certain extent.

At this critical juncture, characters like Cohen began to stir, trying to take the opportunity to suppress Shen Bi, and even attempted to put all the blame on him in order to gain greater benefits for himself within the bank.

"We made the decision together, but it was you who proposed it, wasn't it? In every previous decision, you were the one who made the final decision. We were just following your wishes.

Now that something has gone wrong, you want to clear yourself of all blame, but that's not easy!" Mr. Cohen responded tit for tat with a provocative smile on his face.

The recent situation of Huifeng Bank has already caused a stir among the many major shareholders behind Huifeng Bank and aroused their strong dissatisfaction, which naturally includes the forces behind Mr. Cohen.

In their eyes, no matter how strong the opponent is, Huifeng Bank's market share has shrunk significantly and its stock price has plummeted. As the helmsman of the bank, Shen Bi is the person primarily responsible.

After all, Huifeng Bank caused such a big mess. If Shen Bi didn't take the main responsibility, who else could take it?
Shen Bi was so angry that he clenched his fists. In the past, he, Shen Bi, was a man with final say in Huifeng Bank. Although the usual decisions were made by the board of directors, he, Shen Bi, actually had the final say.

In the past few years, with his outstanding leadership and accurate market insight, he has defeated many competitors, including the "King of Foreign Banks" Jardine Matheson, and created brilliant achievements for Bank of Hong Kong. He has helped Bank of Hong Kong to continue to expand its territory in the financial landscape and firmly sit on the position of the overlord of Hong Kong's business world.

Among those shareholders and executives who once fought side by side with him and planned great undertakings together, which one of them did not enjoy generous dividends and dividends pouring in like a tide under his leadership, and each of them made a fortune?

But now, when the bank encountered some setbacks, these people immediately turned hostile and pushed all the responsibilities onto him, completely disregarding their past friendship. Such ungrateful behavior really chilled him!
Just as Shen Bi was about to engage in another fierce confrontation with the other party, Bao John, the vice chairman of the board of directors, could no longer bear it.

Bao John said, "Everyone, now is not the time to quarrel. Quarreling will not solve the problem, but will only make us more chaotic. Huifeng Bank is in a precarious situation at the moment. We should work together to overcome the difficulties."

Cohen curled his lips nonchalantly and said sarcastically: "Mr. Bao John's words are light. In the past two months, we have held almost as many meetings as the board of directors held in the whole year in previous years, but have we ever really solved the problem properly?
"Hasn't it always been the Bank of East Asia that has been beaten to a pulp, with its market share shrinking? Someone has to take the responsibility, right? Is he going to drag everyone down with Mr. Shen Bi?"

If it were in the past, there would definitely be supporters of Shen Bi coming out to refute Mr. Cohen.

But now, his voice was the only one heard at the scene, and no other executives came out to stop or refute it.

From this we can see that in fact the top management of Huifeng Bank is no longer a united front, people’s hearts are floating and undercurrents are surging.

This really proves the old saying: In good times, everyone rushes to raise their glasses to celebrate; in bad times, everyone is busy hiding their glasses.

When you stand proudly at the top, the whole world seems to smile at you, full of flattery and fawning;

But once you hit rock bottom and are in a miserable state, even the empty echo seems to be full of ridicule and mockery.

Look at the real world, it is so cruel and straightforward.

At this moment, in this conference room, most people's minds have already gone off track.

They no longer focus on racking their brains and finding ways to solve the current difficulties faced by Huifeng Bank, but instead rack their brains to figure out how to completely clear themselves of responsibility in this crisis.

At this moment when the situation was tense and the atmosphere was deadlocked, Pu Weishi, who had just taken office as the chairman of Hengsheng Bank, came out to help Shen Bi.

Although Pu Weishi has served as the chairman of the board of directors of Hengsheng Bank, his position as executive director of Huifeng Bank has not been cancelled.

Pu Weishi knew in his heart that no matter what difficulties Huifeng Bank was facing now, his current position was entirely due to Mr. Shen Bi.

Mr. Shen Bi had already designated him as his successor and had cultivated him carefully and taught him all his knowledge over the years. He will always remember this kindness.

What's more, if Shen Bi fell, his situation within Huifeng Bank would actually become precarious as he was regarded as a descendant of Shen Bi.

How could those forces who were already dissatisfied with Shen Bi and took the opportunity to cause chaos easily let go of him, a key figure in the "Shen Bi faction"?

So, at this time Pu Weishi stood up.

Suddenly, the scene fell silent, and everyone wanted to see what Pu Weishi wanted to say.

He actually didn't want to take the lead because he had made decisions many times before, and the final results were not good.

If Shen Bi is the person most responsible, then Pu Weishi must be the second person most responsible.

But he also knew that given Huifeng Bank's current situation, unity and external confrontation were the only way out.

If the internal disputes continue, Bank of East Asia will collapse without any further action from the Bank of East Asia.

Pu Weishi took a deep breath, glanced at everyone present, and slowly said: "Everyone, I understand your feelings at the moment. Huifeng Bank is now facing difficulties, and everyone has pressure and dissatisfaction in their hearts.

However, this will not work. Now that Lin Haoran wants to snatch the business of our Huifeng Bank again, if we continue like this, more and more customers will run away!

Therefore, the most important thing for us now is to maintain our current market share, especially those major customers, which must be maintained well. Since Lin Haoran can visit those major customers privately, why don’t we also visit them in person?
I think our reputation must be higher than Lin Haoran's. Once we come forward, promise them many benefits, and then sign a long-term cooperation agreement with them, then we can at least be invincible!

People like Mr. Li Ka-shing and Mr. Bao Yugang of Hutchison Whampoa, Mr. Jock Schiff of Swire, Mr. John Madden of Wheelock and Mr. Lawrence Kadoorie of China Light and Power, etc., are all our long-term partners with whom we have deep business dealings and interests.

We might as well organize a high-level visiting group, led by Mr. Shen Bi, Mr. Bao John and me personally, to visit these important customers one by one.

During the visit, we not only expressed our gratitude for their long-term support, but also explained to them in detail that the difficulties currently encountered by Huifeng Bank are only temporary. We have the confidence and ability to overcome them and will provide them with better-quality and more stable financial services.

At the same time, we can develop personalized cooperation plans based on the needs of different customers, such as providing more favorable loan interest rates, more flexible repayment periods, or conducting in-depth cooperation in some emerging business areas to jointly explore the market. "

What Pu Weishi meant was actually very simple. The most important thing for them right now was to stabilize their existing major customer resources and avoid a large number of customers being lost under the competitive impact of Bank of East Asia, thereby stabilizing the market share of Huifeng Bank and buying time and opportunities for a subsequent reversal of the situation.

Otherwise, the top management of Huifeng Bank will only be caught in endless internal struggles, while the external market will be completely devoured by Bank of East Asia. By then, the once glorious financial building of Huifeng Bank will surely collapse.

After listening to Pu Weishi's words, Shen Bi's anger subsided a little. He naturally understood that what Pu Weishi said was true.

At this moment, he can no longer be blinded by Cohen's provocation and must put the overall situation first.

He nodded slightly, then stood up and said in a steady tone: "Mr. Pu Weishi is right. Our Huifeng Bank has been able to grow to its current size thanks to the strong support of these big customers.

On the other hand, ordinary customers only run small businesses and have no loyalty at all. They are like fence-sitters who go with the wind and will go to whichever bank offers the highest interest rate.

Today, Bank of East Asia's strategy of attracting customers with high interest rates is no longer sustainable. At this point, they can no longer pose a substantial threat to us.

Therefore, we must focus our work on these big customers at the moment. Lin Haoran has already seen the importance of these big customers. If we still sit back and do nothing, we will only watch our customers continue to leave.

Now that our group is facing difficulties, we should put aside our differences, unite as one, and work together to protect this hard-earned foundation.”

The big financial clients in Hong Kong are undoubtedly the solid foundation that has enabled Huifeng Bank to stand firm for a hundred years.

Now that Lin Haoran has begun to pry these cornerstones, if Huifeng Bank remains indifferent and does not know how to strengthen them in time, then it can only be said that it has its own fault if it is ruthlessly eliminated by the market. Bao John also echoed: "Yes, now is not the time to blame each other, Mr. Cohen, your ideas may have your reasons, but blindly shirking responsibility will not solve the problem. We should focus on how to deal with the current crisis."

Seeing that people's attitudes had changed, Cohen knew that it was not appropriate to continue to dwell on this matter.

He snorted coldly and said, "I hope your plan works, otherwise you can't escape the responsibility."

"By the way, everyone. How dare they offend us? In my opinion, it is not enough to just not do business with them. I suggest that we make a public statement to ban Universal Research.

Let the word spread that whoever dares to cooperate with Huanyu Research Company will be against our Huifeng Bank! In this way, this ignorant company will pay a heavy price! "

Pu Weishi ignored Cohen's previous harsh words and pointed his finger at Global Research, with a fierce look in his eyes.

"Okay, I fully agree with this matter! Our Huifeng Bank is indeed in deep trouble now, and we need to do our utmost to cope with challenges from all sides, but we are not willing to be bullied casually. Those random companies dare to come out and oppose us. They are simply courting death and don't know how to live or die!"

Shen Bi had long been dissatisfied with the company, but when he heard Pu Weishi's suggestion, he decisively agreed.

When the others heard this, no one objected.

After all, who among them hasn't been angry during this period?
And this Universal Research Company actually dared to add fuel to the fire. How could the senior executives present swallow this?

At this moment, the atmosphere in the conference room became subtle again. The suppressed anger in everyone's hearts seemed to have found a new outlet, and they were all eager to try.

So, the meeting ended like this.

In the market, the latest financial industry report released by the Global Research Company became increasingly popular in Hong Kong. In less than half a day, it had spread throughout Hong Kong. Even in remote fishing villages, many villagers were discussing these topics.

After all, both Bank of East Asia and Bank of East Asia are quite well-known in Hong Kong.

It is undeniable that Bank of East Asia's previous market share was only around 3%, but as an old Chinese bank with roots in Hong Kong for more than years, it has long been famous and well-known.

Today, Bank of East Asia has created huge waves in the Hong Kong financial market with a series of precise and powerful strategies.

Its market share has soared like a rocket, visibly eroding the market share of established banks such as Huifeng Bank, Hengsheng Bank and Standard Chartered Bank, and is on the verge of becoming equal to Huifeng Bank.

How can such an astonishing situation not be jaw-dropping?
How could it not cause a stir in Hong Kong's financial circles and spark heated discussions among the public?

Moreover, Bank of East Asia has pure Chinese blood flowing in its veins. It is a genuine local Chinese bank, which is fundamentally different from British banks such as Bank of East Asia.

Back then, Hengsheng Bank was forced to be acquired by Huifeng Bank out of helplessness. At that moment, many old citizens of Hong Kong were filled with sighs, but they could only watch helplessly.

After all, Hong Kong is still under the shadow of colonial rule. Ordinary people have little influence and are completely powerless to change the established cruel reality. They can only swallow the bitterness silently and accept this sad ending.

Foreigners are first-class citizens and Chinese are second-class citizens. In Hong Kong, which was ruled by the colony, the strict hierarchy was like an insurmountable gap that lay across the hearts of every Chinese.

They were unwilling to accept, but helpless.

Because of this, when Bank of East Asia rose strongly, it was not difficult to imagine how many ordinary citizens of Hong Kong were happy to see it!
Kang Le Building, 51st floor, in Lin Haoran’s office.

At this moment, sitting opposite Lin Haoran was Cui Zilong, the president of Oriental Press Company.

"Boss, the mercenary group we formed in the Philippines participated in a secret military operation this month at the invitation of the local Chinese May Fourth Gang. They performed outstandingly, and with only one death and four injuries, they successfully wiped out a large local gang organization that had been entrenched in Luzon for many years, and completed the task assigned by the employer excellently.

This battle not only brought us a very generous commission, but also made us famous and renowned throughout the Nanyang mercenary community.

Just yesterday, the richest man in Thailand called me personally, hoping to hire two elite bodyguards from us to be responsible for his security!
On the Hong Kong side, Mr. Li Zhaoji contacted me personally, intending to hire a personal bodyguard from us!" Cui Zilong smiled, his excitement was beyond words.

"Oh? This is a great thing, they did a great job!" Lin Haoran's eyes flashed with admiration, the corners of his mouth slightly raised, and he exclaimed.

This is his personal force. The stronger this mercenary group is, the more confident he will be in business negotiations and dealing with potential threats.

Moreover, as their reputation grows, the better their business in high-end security will be!
For example, now even the richest man in Thailand wants to hire bodyguards from them. It can be imagined that their security capabilities have been completely recognized by these bigwigs.

This is naturally a good thing.

Since we are in the security business, reputation is definitely necessary.

This was not the first time they had cooperated with the May Fourth Gang, and they had a very clear understanding of this gang.

For the Global Security Consulting Company, this is just a business. They can train their troops, make money, and enhance their reputation at the same time, killing two birds with one stone.

As for the local government?

They don't care about the farce of the gang society.

The police force in the Philippines is relatively weak and its control over society is limited, so the underworld is rampant there.

The local government of the Philippines would rather see these groups fighting each other than caring about the disputes and conflicts between them.

As long as it does not affect the interests of senior government officials and does not trigger large-scale public riots, most of them choose to turn a blind eye.

Cui Zilong continued, "Boss, the success of this mission has expanded our business territory in Southeast Asia.

Many local Chinese chambers of commerce have contacted me, hoping to establish long-term partnerships with us and cooperate in security, intelligence gathering and other areas. This is a great opportunity for us to expand our business and enhance our influence.”

Lin Haoran nodded.

The overseas training base in the Philippines is of great significance to Global Safety Consultants.

It is undeniable that the company initially invested a lot of manpower, material and financial resources in this land, but now, these investments have begun to bear fruitful results.

In just less than two years, Global Security Consultants has expanded its business to the entire Nanyang region with its outstanding strength and precise market positioning.

For a newly established security consulting company, such a rapid development is truly miraculous and is enough to attract the attention of its peers in the industry.

Nowadays, members of the Global Security Consulting Company in Hong Kong select a group of people to go there for training every once in a while.

Those who came back were basically elites who had seen blood.

In this way, Lin Haoran’s industry in Hong Kong will naturally be safer!
As the two chatted, they inevitably brought the topic back to Hong Kong.

"By the way, boss, in my opinion, this Universal Research Company is really good. It can make such accurate calculations with such little data. Moreover, it is quite courageous to dare to provoke Huifeng Bank.

As far as I know, they have been blacklisted by Huifeng Bank, and they will not regret it after knowing it.”

Talking about the Global Research Company, Cui Zilong held the idea of ​​watching the show, but he admired the behavior of the boss of the Global Research Company.

In Hong Kong, apart from Lin Haoran, who else dares to offend Huifeng Bank?
Even though Huifeng Bank has lost a lot of market share to Bank of East Asia, their reputation remains.

But Yu Zhize, the boss of Universal Research Company, is so stubborn that he even goes so far as to offend a behemoth like Huifeng Bank just to become famous.

Now it seems that they have succeeded and become famous. Although it is a small company, it has become a well-known enterprise in Hong Kong.

I just don't know whether Universal Research Company can withstand the revenge of Huifeng Bank in the future given its vengeful nature.

"Indeed, this company is very good." Lin Haoran laughed.

"Boss, their research and analysis capabilities are indeed outstanding. If they can cooperate with our intelligence department, it will greatly enhance our overall efficiency." Cui Zilong said with some emotion.

Lin Haoran tapped the table with his fingertips, and after a moment's silence, he smiled and said, "In that case, let's acquire this company!"

(End of this chapter)