The richest man

Chapter 167

In the morning, the Hong Kong stock market was thrilling.

The stock prices of Wharf and Hongkong Land soared by 12 Hong Kong dollars and 13 Hong Kong dollars respectively, leaving countless stockholders dumbfounded.

Some people were excited and happy, some were annoyed that they sold early, and some followed suit, betting that the stock price would continue to skyrocket.

noon.

Keswick came to HSBC again. He only got a loan of 5 million Hong Kong dollars from HSBC yesterday. Keep lending.

Shen Bi also knew that Keswick was already "on the verge of an arrow, and had no choice but to issue it." As long as the other party could mortgage the shares to the bank, there would be no problem with the loan.

At the moment, Shen Bi took the opportunity to crazily lower the price because the risk was too high, but Keswick had no choice but to accept it.

In the afternoon, the stock market battle became more intense!
The battle between Kirin Securities and Jardine Matheson has reached a fever pitch, and the stock price has risen even more than in the morning!
Everyone thought that this acquisition battle would last for several days, but they never expected that at 3:5 in the afternoon, Kirin Securities actually stopped the acquisition, and then announced 49.9 minutes before the market closed that Kirin Securities had already held shares in Wharf and Hong Kong Land. Shares have reached [-]%.

As soon as the news was announced, the stockholders were extremely shocked, and then panicked!
The reason why the stock prices of Wharf and Hong Kong Land are so high is due to the competition between Kirin Securities and Jardine Matheson. Now that Kirin Securities has completed the acquisition of these two companies, the stock prices are bound to fall.

All of a sudden, countless stockholders sold shares of Wharf and Hongkong Land one after another. The stock prices of these two companies suddenly fell into an avalanche, and the whole market was crying!
Jardine Matheson.

Seeing that Kirin Securities announced the completion of the acquisition plan, Keswick slumped down on the stool, his mind blank!
Finished!

Keswick was almost desperate, his face became extremely pale, his hands fell limply, and his whole body was lost.

So far, Jardine has only held 21% of Wharf shares and 26% of Hong Kong Land shares.

Loan funds were almost fully cashed out.

Now the stock price has plummeted.

Jardine lost at least 6 million Hong Kong dollars.

Jardine companies will also be implicated, and their stock prices will fall...

If I had known today, it would be better to sell the shares to Zhang Jun at a high price.

Keswick regretted it extremely at this time.

……

Kirin Securities Co.

Everyone opened champagne to celebrate. After more than a year of planning, it finally succeeded, and won Wharf and Hongkong Land in one fell swoop.
Zhang Jun raised his glass to Zhao Wen and said, "Mr. Zhao, here's a toast to you. You have contributed a lot to the acquisition of Wharf and Hong Kong Land this time!"

"Don't dare to be the boss, the main reason is that you have strong financial resources and you use your power to overwhelm others, otherwise we would not be able to win these two companies." Zhao Wen said modestly. He knew very well that Jardine had very little control over Wharf and Hong Kong Land , What I did was just to save Zhang Jun the acquisition cost.

Zhang Jun said with a smile: "Mr. Zhao, you are so humble. Kirin Securities has acquired Wharf and Hongkong Land at this time, and has established a great reputation. It must be known to everyone in the industry! Mr. Zhao, your name It must have resounded through Hong Kong's financial circles!"

Hearing this, Zhao Wen smiled lightly, feeling happy and proud from the bottom of his heart.

As the saying goes, "wealth and wealth do not return to their hometown, they travel at night like clothes." He was originally from Hong Kong and has been working in the United States since then. When he returned to Hong Kong this time, he also wanted to make a name for himself in front of his relatives, friends or former classmates!

Which man does not have lofty ideals and ambitions?

Zhao Wen couldn't help but celebrate that he was selected by Zhang Jun, so that he could show his talent on a huge platform to his heart's content!
……

This night, countless people had trouble falling asleep.

Almost everyone is talking about the stock market battle in the sky and the final result.

"Today's stock market war is really thrilling. Jardine spent nearly one billion Hong Kong dollars, but in the end, Wharf and Hongkong Land were acquired by Kirin Securities. It's really emotional!"

"Hey, when Jardine Matheson acquired the Milk Company, it is nothing compared to what it is today! Jardine Matheson and Kirin Securities don't have any money at all. They pay 1 yuan for the price increase, and the other yuan is 2 yuan. The two sides are fighting each other. Come on. Let me go, in just one day, the stock prices of these two companies have skyrocketed by 50 yuan, which is really exaggerated!"

"I heard that many people fish in troubled waters and want to buy some stocks. When the decisive battle comes, they can take the opportunity to make a fortune. But I didn't expect that this acquisition war came and went quickly, and it ended in one day... I A friend bought nearly 30 Hong Kong dollars of stocks at a high price, this is a good deal, and I lost money!!"

"Hahaha, luckily I don't have any money, so I just watch the excitement, it's exciting anyway!"

"It has now been confirmed that the behind-the-scenes boss of Kirin Securities is Zhang Jun...First he bought Hutchison Whampoa, and now he has bought Wharf and Hong Kong Land. I can't imagine how much influence he has in Hong Kong!"

"..."

At this time, not only ordinary people are discussing, but Hong Kong's rich and nobles are also discussing.

The British-funded consortiums are even more insecure, for fear that Zhang Jun will target them for the next acquisition.

Because... their control over their own company is also not strong.

"A lesson from the past, a guide for the future! The family must increase its shareholding in the company and hold it firmly in its hands. Otherwise, we will also fall into the fate of the Keswick family..."

"Yes, I agree!"

"Seconded!!"

……

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The next morning, when the stock market opened, something strange happened.

The leading stocks Hong Kong Land and Wharf plummeted, which was terrible.

In this case, the stock prices of other companies will also plummet.

But today, the stock prices of these companies, especially the British foreign firms, are extremely abnormal, and they have risen sharply.

Obviously, these British-funded consortiums have become frightened and have spent huge sums of money to increase their shareholdings.

Seeing this, Zhang Jun was stunned: "Am I that scary? Are you afraid that I will buy you?!"

"Boss, the stock prices of Standard Chartered Bank and Hongkong Electric have also risen..." Zhao Wen said leisurely.

"Even if the stock price rises, they won't have more financial resources than us. It depends on who buys more." Zhang Jun looked indifferent. Right now, especially Standard Chartered Bank, Kirin Securities has acquired 33.4%, which is already the No. [-] in Standard Chartered Bank. major shareholder.

Since the shares of Standard Chartered Bank are relatively dispersed, Zhang Jun can control Standard Chartered Bank even if he only holds 33.4% of the shares.However, Zhang Jun also wanted to take advantage of the relatively low stock price of Standard Chartered Bank to absorb more.

The banking business is not as good as the industry, and it is difficult to sell other businesses. Coupled with Zhang Jun's ability to dominate the financial industry, once shareholders know that Zhang Jun has acquired Standard Chartered Bank, the stock price of Standard Chartered Bank will not soar.How did Zhang Jun absorb the shares of Standard Chartered Bank at a low price...

Bang! ! !
"Someone jumped off the building!!!"

"This person borrowed usury to speculate in stocks and wanted to hoard some shares of Wharf and Hong Kong Land. The result was tragic. I don't know how much money he lost! Alas, the stock market is risky, and you need to be cautious when entering the market! Most importantly, you must not Borrowing money to speculate in stocks!" An old stockholder sighed and sighed.

"..."

After the morning, the stock prices of Wharf and Hongkong Land nearly halved. However, this is not the final result. According to experts’ analysis, they will plummet in the afternoon, and Wharf and Hongkong Land will carry out corporate restructuring soon.

In fact, the same is true.

Zhang Jun took Zhao Wen and others to the headquarters of Hong Kong Land and Wharf to hold board meetings successively. Zhang Jun served as the chairman of the board of directors of Wharf and Hong Kong Land, and kicked out all the confidantes of Jardine Matheson from the company. Most of the supplementary staff came from Hutchison Whampoa Transfer over to strengthen your control over the company.

Subsequently, Zhang Jun began to arrange manpower to carry out corporate restructuring of Wharf and Hongkong Land.

Take Wharf as an example, if Zhang Jun hadn’t acquired Hutchison Whampoa, Wharf would have been the largest terminal in Hong Kong at that time. Its industries included most of the terminals and warehouses in Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, the New Territories, and Hong Kong Island, as well as hotels and buildings. , Tram and other high-quality industries.

However, Hong Kong Land only haunts the most expensive places in Hong Kong. It is the largest landowner in Hong Kong Central. Its Connaught Building, Cultural Oriental Hotel, Prince Building, Alexandra Building, etc. are connected to Landmark Plaza and become the "heart" of Hong Kong Central.

Hongkong Land acquired the milk company and entered the catering industry through its equity in Maxim’s Catering Group. It also owns Wellcome Supermarket, Mannings Pharmacy and other companies...

Zhang Jun saw a headache and asked Ma Shimin to come over to coordinate the work, and the businesses of the two companies overlapped a lot.

Chinese Land began to acquire the real estate businesses of Wharf and Hongkong Land.

Once these enterprises overlap, Zhang Jun's influence on Hong Kong's economy will reach an unprecedented level!
Li Jiacheng in his previous life was known as "Li Bancheng", but compared with Zhang Junyi at this moment, he was still a bit behind.

At this moment, Li Jiacheng, Huo Yingdong and others gathered at the golf course to play again.

The sun is shining and the grass is fragrant.

Everyone couldn't help feeling Zhang Jun's generosity.

"Old Li, you are still the best. At that time, I guessed that Zhang Jun was Mingxiu plank road secretly hiding Chencang!" Zheng Yutong admired Li Jiacheng.

Li Jiacheng smiled and said: "What am I so good about? Zhang Jun is so good. Now, Wharf and Hong Kong Land have been taken down by him, and he has become the biggest landlord in Hong Kong!!"

"Oh, it's only been a few years, and Zhang Jun has grown to such a level that I can look up to him..." Zheng Yutong couldn't help but sigh.

"By the way, Old Zheng, Chow Tai Fook's stock price has soared today, so you are increasing your shareholding, right?" Li Jiacheng asked.

Zheng Yutong smiled awkwardly, nodded and admitted: "That's right, Zhang Jun has acquired Hutchison Whampoa, Wharf and Hong Kong Land successively. He is extremely powerful, and I am also afraid..."

"Hey, let's not talk about you. Now in Hong Kong, no one is afraid. I also raised funds to increase the shares of Cheung Kong Industrial. Fortunately, I have a relatively strong control over the company. Besides, my real estate company is small. I can't catch his eyes..." Li Jiacheng shook his head and laughed at himself.

Huo Yingdong said: "Right now, the four major foreign companies and Hutchison Whampoa have been acquired, and Jardine's vitality has been greatly damaged. Only the Swire Group and Wheelock are left. I guess Zhang Jun may take Wheelock!"

When Bao Yugang heard the words, he was immediately troubled. Wharf was gone, and Hongkong Land was gone. He could only set his sights on the weaker Wheelock & Company.

"Zhang Jun won't really want to buy Wheelock?" Bao Yugang worried.

In fact, Bao Yugang was worried for nothing. Wheelock’s main business is the shipping industry. In the 80s, the shipping industry plummeted, and Wheelock’s losses were in a mess. Zhang Jun has no intention of buying Wheelock at all. Remember that the shipyard under the name of Huangpu Company is sold, and Wheelock will be pitted.

As far as Zhang Jun knows, Wheelock is very optimistic about the shipping industry, and he must be very interested in Huangpu Dockyard for various shipbuilding and shipbuilding.

……

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This time, Jardine lost hundreds of millions of Hong Kong dollars, which directly caused the stock prices of other listed companies in Jardine to plummet, the capital chain broke, and very serious financial problems broke out.

After losing control of Wharf and Hong Kong Land, Jardine Matheson has been unable to repay the loan from HSBC.

The Keswick family suffered a huge loss and fell from the top rich families in Hong Kong.

Due to the sharp drop in the stock prices of Jardine's listed companies, the rising Chinese businessmen naturally would not miss the opportunity and besieged Jardine one after another.

In order to hold on to its own company, Jardine can only tear down the east wall, make up for the west wall, and give up some companies.

But even so, Jardine Matheson is still facing the danger of falling apart.

Everyone pushes on the wall!
Of course, Zhang Jun also wants to add insult to injury. There are many high-quality assets in the Jardine Mathematics industry. For example, Jardine Mathematics Insurance Consulting Group is the largest insurance brokerage company in the UK and Europe, and one of the top six insurance brokerage companies in the world.

There are also Golden Gate Construction, Jardine Motors Group, Ren Fu Hong Co., Ltd...

The Keswick family was so busy that they borrowed money from everywhere. At this time, no one would lend them money, and Yin was not a charitable person.To make Jardine's situation worse, HSBC directly sent people to urge them to pay back the money at this time. Otherwise, HSBC would sell the shares mortgaged by Jardine if the repayment date expired.

A few days later, 1976 came.

In the new year and new weather, the oil crisis gradually disappeared, and Hong Kong's economy began to recover slowly.

However, all kinds of negative news about Jardine still filled the Hong Kong newspapers, making the British consortium terrified.

The Keswick family finally couldn't resist the pressure and began to sell off the business frantically.

Zhang Jun bought Golden Gate Construction and Jardine Insurance Consulting Group, and also bought Jardine's shares in Wharf and Hong Kong Land that were mortgaged by HSBC.

Golden Gate Construction Company was directly merged into Chinese Infrastructure.

Jardine Insurance Consulting Group changed its name to Kirin Insurance, and merged with Kirin Securities into the newly established Kirin Financial Group, with Zhao Wen as the general manager of Kirin Financial Group.

Kirin Insurance will get involved in more insurance business.

The profit of the insurance business is astonishing. Many financial giants started from insurance, and they can even become the world's top [-] companies!

……

The outside world is full of hustle and bustle, and the media is too busy, but Zhang Jun has leisure time and stays at home writing books.

All his novels have been serialized, and he hasn't written a novel for a long time.

"King Kong" was a hit at the box office, and he saw the huge potential of monster movies.

In 5 days, the global box office exceeded 1.5 million US dollars!
Peripheral income is even more exaggerated. The sales of King Kong dolls, arcade games, posters, stickers, pencil cases and other peripheral products have exceeded 10 billion US dollars.

"Jurassic Park" is a super IP, and he plans to write it down.

Anyway, you don’t need to spend much thought, just copy it!

Moreover, the word count of this novel is not many, only about 20 words.

The web articles of later generations can be tens of millions of words, or even 2000 million words, which is simply scary in this era.

When writing English novels, Zhang Jun has a typewriter, and he writes very quickly, crackling and knocking wildly, and he can write seven to eight thousand words in an hour.Write 4 words a day, and you can finish "Jurassic Park" in a week.

Now, Zhang Jun no longer plagiarizes Chinese novels, and at least he should leave some for others. He mainly plagiarizes English novels.

The European and American markets are huge, and the income of best-selling English novels may be tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of dollars, which is difficult for Chinese novels.

Zhang Jun spends several hours a day writing books, and spends the rest of his time learning about the company's situation.

……

"Zhang Jun has started to keep a low profile, and he rarely appears in public recently!"

"Well, since Zhang Jun became a business tycoon, it has been a long time since he wrote a book..." The book fan said regretfully, feeling very nostalgic for a year or two ago, and feeling of "regret to teach his husband and son-in-law to seek a title".

"Yeah, if Zhang Jun doesn't become a business tycoon, he will definitely create more and better works!"

"Oh, don't mention it, now he doesn't even release a music album, and he has been waiting for more than a year."

"..."

At this time, Zhang Jun decided to acquire an English-language publishing house to expand the international scale of his legendary publishing company.

"Jurassic Park" is just the beginning, and he may write more best-selling novels in the future. If the money does not flow to outsiders, the money will naturally be earned by himself!

Zhang Jun's goal is Penguin Press, which will publish fiction and non-fiction works, as well as children's books, which are most suitable for the works he is going to write.

And Penguin Press will develop very smoothly in the future, becoming one of the largest popular book publishers in the world.

Zhang Jun's office.

Hu Penghui, general manager of Hong Kong Daily Group, reported: "Boss, the situation is not good. Pearson is also buying Penguin Publishing House!"

"Pearson Company? Don't worry about it, as long as we bid high, can't we still buy it?" Zhang Jun said lightly, not paying attention to competitors.

"Okay, boss!"

"It's just my English novel "Jurassic Park", you take it first, and arrange for it to be listed after the acquisition of Penguin Publishing House!" Zhang Jun took out a stack of manuscripts from the drawer, and handed it to Hu Peng.

Hu Peng took it curiously, nodded and said, "Yes!"

"Okay, it's okay, you can go to work first." Zhang Jun signaled Hu Peng to leave.

Hu Peng nodded. With the manuscript, he couldn't wait to go back to his office and have a look at Zhang Jun's new book.

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Pearson Company is naturally not as rich and powerful as Zhang Jun.

After several rounds of negotiations, Zhang Jun spent US$1 million to fully acquire Penguin Press.

Immediately afterwards, a large-scale publicity and distribution of "Jurassic Park" began.

The author of this book is now Zhang Jun, and Zhang Jun's reputation is also huge in Europe, America and other places.

International music superstar, science fiction master, genius game designer, billionaire, etc., every title can attract attention!
Under the vigorous publicity of Penguin Press, "Jurassic Park" was quickly reported by major media and made headlines on the front page.

"New York Times": "After "The Three-Body Problem", another sci-fi masterpiece "Jurassic Park" by Zhang Jun was born. On a small island in Costa Rica, the creatures that ruled the earth tens of millions of years ago once again stood on the ground. The top of the food chain. The dream of a dinosaur paradise has become a nightmare for all visitors..."

The Los Angeles Times: "The Dinosaurs Are Coming, Are You Ready?"

In addition, Penguin paid senior book reviewers to promote it in newspapers.

"I'm Brown Julius. I have read Zhang Jun's new book "Jurassic Park" in advance. To be honest, I was shocked. This novel is very wonderfully written, exciting and scary! This book tells Yes, in order to make huge profits, rich man Hammond recruits top scientific and technological personnel, and uses the latest bioengineering technology to breed various kinds of dinosaurs on a small island in Costa Rica, in order to build a dinosaur paradise, namely "Jurassic Park".Unexpectedly, on the eve of the opening of the park, there was a crisis in the park. People on the island were constantly being swallowed by carnivorous dinosaurs, so people and dinosaurs fought desperately. ! ! "

Book reviewers are not bad money, this novel is indeed wonderful.

In Hong Kong, the mass media is a bit confused.

Having just acquired several companies from Jardine Company, Zhang Jun unexpectedly has time to write a novel.The Hong Kong media was also speechless.

Hong Kong book fans are a little disappointed, Nima, why is it an English novel, I can't understand it!

Some people even went to the door of the company to petition, hoping to translate "Jurassic Park" into Chinese as soon as possible!

Zhang Jun naturally readily agreed.

And a few days later, Legend Technology Company suddenly announced to the outside world that it will develop a new arcade game called "Dinosaur Kombat", which is very popular!
Of course, "Dinosaur Kombat" was also designed by Zhang Jun. This game is quite classic, and Zhang Jun was deeply impressed. He played N times in the video game hall that year, and it carried many childhood memories of the post-80s generation.

It can be seen from the name that this game is based on the "dinosaur" as a prototype to sell well.The game has four characters to choose from, and can support up to three people to play.You can choose a character by throwing a coin, and each character has two lives.The game belongs to the type of adventure, there are a total of eight levels.There is a Boss at the end of each level.

The props in this game are also very powerful. All firearms and props have the concept of ammunition. When the ammunition is used up, it can only be used as a one-time throwing prop...

The news of "Dinosaur Kombat" has just spread.

Legendary Films announced plans to adapt "Jurassic Park" and make it into a movie!

Good guy, this wave of news spread out, and all the major media in the world were sensationalized.

Hollywood film companies even took the initiative to seek cooperation on stage.

Dinosaurs are also monsters, this "Jurassic Park" may be the next "King Kong"! !

Now, Zhang Jun's new book has not been officially released yet, but it has become a huge hit.

Major bookstores around the world actively demand cooperation.

Penguin Press originally only printed 100 million books, but it was obviously not enough now. Before it was listed, it began to work overtime and print books like crazy.

December 1976, 1.

"King Kong" has a global box office of 6.2 million U.S. dollars, breaking the box office record of "Jaws" and becoming the first film in the world to break 6 million U.S. dollars.

"Zhang, I'm very interested in "Jurassic Park", but if you want me to be the director, I need to make a few conditions!!"

At this time, Spielberg called Zhang Jun from the United States.

As soon as the book was printed, Zhang Jun ordered his staff to send a copy to Spielberg and sent him a director invitation.

In Zhang Jun's view, Spielberg is the most suitable candidate for "Jurassic Park"...

(End of this chapter)