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Chapter 567 The Darkest Day (4400+ chapters, please subscribe~)

3:10pm!
With less than an hour left before the stock market closed, Provis returned to his office with a somewhat tired body. The meeting of HSBC this time seemed very lengthy, but this time the high-level meeting of HSBC was also the same as before. There is a slight difference. Almost every decision is made, there will be a secretary who records the content of the meeting and conveys their resolutions.

Increase holdings of a certain stock, reduce holdings of a certain stock, help a certain enterprise, or assess that a certain cooperative enterprise cannot continue to develop.
At the same time, there is also a special person in the conference room to report the situation of Xiangjiang stock market at any time.

John Bao returned to his office with Pu Weiss. After the two sat down,
"Things are finally coming to an end. If it is really as discussed at the meeting, this stock market crash will not last for so long. We still need to hurry up and deploy the affairs of Standard Chartered Bank and the Newspaper Association!" Provis said.

John Bao nodded and said, "That's right, but today's stock market is scary enough. There is still an hour before the market closes, and the drop has reached 580 points, which is almost the same as the drop in the last stock market crash!"

Pu Weishi showed a rare smile, and said: "This is just an opportunity. When I just had the meeting, I was already thinking that we can take advantage of this stock market crash, and Standard Chartered Bank and those shareholders of the newspaper group have suffered serious losses. field, so that we can minimize the cost of our acquisition!"

John Bao also smiled and said, "Actually, I have to thank Wu Jianye for this. If he hadn't announced the end of cooperation with several major newspaper groups, how could the stock prices of those newspaper groups have fallen so severely!"

Shopping malls are like battlefields. Although HSBC is now in partnership with several major newspaper groups, the lower the stock prices of the major newspaper groups, the less they will pay for entering the market to acquire equity. Now that it is confirmed that the stock market crash is not Goes on for too long, just short-term behavior.

Then Pu Weiss will no longer choose to wait and see!
"Tell Hu Cheng and them that HSBC will enter the market tomorrow!" Proverbs said.

In fact, according to Pu Weishi's idea, it is to enter the market today and take advantage of the last hour to sweep up the shares of several major newspaper groups. However, HSBC is a super bank after all, and although Pu Weishi is a big class, but It's not without restrictions. Tomorrow is the earliest time to go through many procedures.

Bao Yuehan said with a smile: "Understood, I believe they have been waiting very anxiously!"

Pu Weishi smiled, the more anxious, the more HSBC's entry, the more rain for them!
Then Pu Weishi called his secretary.

"Bring Ryan Henderson in!" Provis said, rubbing his forehead.

Provis's secretary said nervously, "Mr. Ryan Henderson, left 10 minutes ago!"

Pu Weishi was slightly taken aback, and asked, "Why?"

"Sir, you should read the news!"

Pu Weishi saw his secretary's unnatural expression, his heart sank slightly, and he said, "Turn on the TV!"

The secretary turned on the TV and dialed to the ATV financial channel!
After ATV was promoted to satellite TV, it is no longer a separate TV station. Now it has been divided into ATV Gold Channel, which is the first comprehensive channel of ATV, which is equivalent to CCTV. Then there are ATV Finance, ATV Sports , ATV English, ATV Movie and TV four major channels.

On the TV, the host of ATV was sitting there, talking about the news.

"This station just got the news that Yu Zhi Investment has reached an agreement with the major shareholders of Standard Chartered Bank, and will purchase the shares of Standard Chartered Bank from the shareholders of Standard Chartered Bank at a premium of 20%. Tomorrow, a press conference will be held to announce the news, and at the same time, Yu Zhi Investment has formally applied to the Heung Kong Merger and Acquisition Committee, and will apply for the full acquisition of the remaining shares of Standard Chartered Bank in the near future, and at the same time apply for delisting!"

Like being struck by lightning!

Pu Weishi sat there, unable to calm down for a long time.

But then Prowess shouted: "Contact Ryan Henderson immediately!"

It didn't take long for Ryan Henderson's call to be dialed.

"What's the situation with you?" Provis shouted.

"Didn't you see the news? Yu Zhi Investment took advantage of today's stock market crash to contact many shareholders of Standard Chartered Bank and bought shares of Standard Chartered Bank from them. When I went to find you, they were almost reaching an agreement." , During the meeting of your HSBC executives, they signed it, and then I received a call from Yanwen, they already held 71.59% of the shares of Standard Chartered Bank at that time, and it is meaningless to do anything else at this time!"

Ryan Henderson's tone was full of complaints, and at the same time, there was a hint of helplessness. Besides, the timing of the investment choice was too good. At this time, the Xiangjiang stock market was in a state of panic, and no one knew what would happen tomorrow. During the phone call, what the other party brought up made him even more helpless and frightened!

"Why is it meaningless? As long as you don't agree to sell the shares of Standard Chartered Bank in your hand, they will not be able to fully acquire Standard Chartered Bank. At the same time, the shares in your hand will also be sold, returning to the critical point of 35%!" Provis was doing Last effort!

Ryan Henderson said helplessly: "There is news, which has not been reported in the news, that is, Standard Chartered Bank has established a relationship with the British side. Moving to Xiangjiang is also a strategy of Yuzhi Investment. If I do not agree to sell the shares of Standard Chartered Bank in my hand, they will announce this decision in advance. At this time, most of the shares of Standard Chartered Bank are in the hands of Yuzhi Investment. There is no way to object."

Speaking of this, Pu Weishi has also understood that the current situation in Xiangjiang is unstable. If Standard Chartered Bank relocates to Xiangjiang, many shareholders will panic. The reason why Yuzhi Investment did not announce this decision before is that In order to use this trick to deal with Ryan Henderson, and Ryan Henderson obviously does not have much confidence in Xiangjiang's future, so now he is disheartened!
After hanging up the phone, Provis fell into silence
Bao Yuehan was listening to the whole conversation, and his expression was not good at this time, and he thought of another meaning.

"If Standard Chartered Bank relocates to Xiangjiang, then the status of Standard Chartered Bank in Xiangjiang will be different!"

The reason why the development of Standard Chartered Bank did not keep up with HSBC was because HSBC was registered in Hong Kong, while Standard Chartered was registered in England.

HSBC is rooted in Xiangjiang, and has seized the wave of development of Chinese-funded enterprises, taking advantage of the trend to defeat all the banks and becoming the largest banking consortium in Xiangjiang.

Now, as the return of Xiangjiang is getting closer, many companies have doubts about the future of Xiangjiang and choose to move away from Xiangjiang. At this time, if Standard Chartered Bank chooses to move its registration to Xiangjiang, then for ordinary For the citizens of Xiangjiang, it will be a booster, and the status of Standard Chartered Bank will also rise accordingly!
"We must find a way to stop this thing!" Pu Weishi said!

John Bao said in a deep voice, "How to stop it?"

He also knows that it needs to be stopped, but how to stop it is the key to the problem.

"Initiate our relationship in England, first find out what kind of relationship Yu Zhi's investment has left, and at the same time contact our related companies, I want to make Standard Chartered Bank a run for cash!" Provis said coldly.

Bao Yuehan was stunned, and asked, "A run for cash? It's not easy to make a run for Standard Chartered Bank happen!"

Pu Weishi: "It is not easy but it has to be done. Xiangjiang must be HSBC's Xiangjiang!"

HSBC can support many companies, but on the premise of all these, HSBC must be the largest banking group in Hong Kong. If someone dares to challenge the authority of HSBC, then they will take off the shell of goodwill of HSBC.

John Bao said: "Understood!"

At this time, the phone in Prowess's office rang again. The ringtone of the phone seemed to be able to tell the master the severity of what the caller wanted to say. Although they all had the same ringtone, the ringtone at this time sounded the same Irritability and anxiety.

"Hello, who is it?" Pu Weishi pressed the speakerphone, his voice seemed a little impatient.

"Mr. Pu Weishi, it's not good. Just now, a large amount of money suddenly appeared in the stock market, and all the stocks quoted by our major groups were taken away!" Hu Qiang's anxious and panicked voice came from the phone!

"what!"

Pu Weishi felt that everything was not going well for him today. Just the day before, he thought that everything was under control, but in just one hour, everything seemed to be developing in the opposite direction.

"Just now, a large amount of money appeared in the stock market, and all the listed shares of our group were taken away!" Hu Qiang repeated again.

Pu Weishi and Bao Yuehan looked at each other, and they both saw shock in each other's eyes!

"Yiwang Group!" The two said at the same time.

Hu Cheng was on the other end of the phone and asked anxiously, "What?"

"The opponent is Yiwang Group!" Pu Weishi shouted!

At this time, who else is there besides Yiwang Group?
"How many shares did they take away?" Bao John I got it.

"It is estimated that each group has bought at least 20% of the shares, and they are still buying at this time. We can't grab each other at all!" Hu Qiang said.

At this time, Hu Qiang and the others were completely panicked, because they might not even hold these shares in their own hands. If they continue at this speed, I believe that when the market closes today, the largest shareholder of their group will be replaced!

And the most important thing is that the other party is Yiwang Group. If Yiwang Group becomes the largest shareholder of several major newspaper groups, then the fate of Hu Cheng and others is self-evident.

Pu Weishi immediately said: "Contact the major shareholders of your group immediately, and tell us that the money from HSBC will arrive in the account tomorrow, and we can receive the shares in their hands, as long as they don't sell the shares to Yiwang Group!"

At this time, we must stabilize the major shareholders of the group, otherwise, when the other party contacts Yiwang Group, then HSBC will lose completely in this confrontation with Yiwang and Yaoguang Group. If this matter is disclosed, it will have a huge impact on HSBC.

Prestige is invisible and intangible, but it actually exists. It may take decades to establish it, but it may take a day to destroy it!
HSBC must maintain its prestige!

In fact, HSBC has another way to deal with Yiwang Group, which is to unite with the Hong Kong government to suppress Yiwang Group and Yaoguang Group. Now Wu Jianye's position in Yaoguang Group and Yiwang Group has been determined, and Wu Jianye His special status will definitely make him not have a good impression on the Hong Kong government side.

But at the beginning, the Hong Kong government had scruples, because both the Yaoguang Group and the Yiwang Group had already become giants. This time is not Xiangjiang in the 60s. The entire economy of the Hope Group Hong Kong will be subject to a major earthquake, and it will definitely be a disaster for the Hong Kong government.

And now Wu Jianye has almost controlled the entire media industry in Xiangjiang. When they are doing their own thing, they may be allowed to be ravaged by the Hong Kong government, but now the entire media industry in Xiangjiang is in the hands of Wu Jianye. At this time, If you want to unite with the Hong Kong government to deal with Wu Jianye, the power of the media is enough to make the Hong Kong government drink a pot. Maybe before Yi Wang, something happened to Yao Guang, the Hong Kong government will be in chaos!
one step late, one step late
Ten minutes later, Pu Weishi received a call from Hu Cheng again. The loneliness in his voice made Pu Weishi's heart ache.

"We have contacted several major shareholders of the group, and some of them have already sold their shares to Yiwang Group. Now Yiwang Group holds the least shares in Master Jin's "Ming Pao", but it has reached lost 31% of the equity, we lost”

Yes!

Several major newspaper groups lost!

And there is no way to lose, everything seems to have been arranged in advance, since yesterday's stock market went wrong, it was as if there was an invisible big hand manipulating everything, all the things they thought were seamless, now In front of that big hand, it was as if it was riddled with holes.

Hu Qiang and the others can't understand until now that many of the major shareholders in the group were partners when their father was around. The relationship between the two parties has always been good, and some are even their own family members. How about selling the shares to Wu Jianye?

In fact, it's just that they don't want to understand. In the final analysis, Xiangjiang is a capitalist society. Although the shares of several major newspaper groups are in the hands of these shareholders, these shareholders also have their own businesses. Who does business in Xiangjiang without taking loans? Yes, and the shares in their hands are the best collateral.

When the market is in a bull market, naturally there is no problem, but once the stock market enters a bear market, the shares they mortgaged are their reminders, and they need a lot of money to cover their positions or close their positions to make up for their losses. The stock prices of several major newspaper groups were blocked by Yiwang and Yaoguang, which was almost the time when the stock prices of Xiangjiang enterprises fell the most.

In order to avoid risks, the bank will definitely target these shares. Now that Yiwang Group has appeared and offered to buy their shares at a premium, will they wait?
Friendship, family relationship, at this time will appear extremely fragile
"Where did Wu Jianye get so much cash?"

At this time, this question was entangled in the head of Prowess. He couldn't figure it out. He bought the Standard Chartered Bank wholly and now bought the shares of several major newspaper groups at a premium.

The cash involved will exceed tens of billions of Hong Kong dollars!

What he didn't know was that when Wu Jianye decided to act, Yiwang Group's cash reserves had already reached an astonishing level. Don't forget, before that, Yu Zhi Investment had already started cashing out funds from the RB market. It is precisely because of the funds cashed out in the RB market that Wu Jianye completed this series of operations without even using Yaoguang Group's cash reserves!
This day is the darkest day in history for HSBC and all newspapers in Xiangjiang.

ATV will also officially launch "Legend of the New White Snake" tonight!
(End of this chapter)