I lost my vegetative state, and I became the richest man in the world

Chapter 235 Yang Ming also wants to be the world's ship king!
The Imperial Group has successively swallowed Wharf Matheson, Hutchison Whampoa Matheson, and Jardine Land Matheson.

In addition to having a large amount of reserve land.

For example, Wharf International has a large number of high-quality terminals and warehouses in Xiangjiang. This is why Bao Yugang focused on Wharf in history, and even insisted on winning Wharf, because the terminals and warehouses under Wharf are suitable for him. The huge sea fleet of the Bao Yugang family.

As for Hutchison Whampoa?

Hutchison Whampoa owns a large number of terminals and warehouses in Xiangjiang and even overseas.

Historically, after Li Jiacheng swallowed Hutchison Whampoa, his Changjiang Industrial Group also began to own huge ports in Xiangjiang and around the world.

Jardine Land?

Currently, 40% of Jardine's business volume is in Xiangjiang, and 60% of its business volume is in the world. In addition to Nanyang, there are also Middle East, South Philippines, and even European and American countries.

Many docks and warehouses in these countries are also owned by Jardine Matheson.

Now the imperial group has swallowed all these three foreign firms.

Yang Ming wants to form the shipping business of these three foreign firms into Xiangjiang No. [-] Shipping Group, so that he can make use of their resource advantages as much as possible.

After the combination of the shipping industry of the three foreign companies, the total tonnage of the combined load has exceeded 300 million tons.

This is already the third or fourth largest shipping group in Xiangjiang, besides Bao Yugang's Global Shipping Group, Asia Shipping Group, and Orient Overseas Group.

"Boss, you mean to integrate resources and combine the shipping companies of the Wharf Group, the shipping companies of the Jardine Matheson Group, and the shipping companies of the Hutchison Shipping Group into a new shipping company." Ma Shimin asked.

"Yes, that's what it means."

In addition to its own resource advantages.

Yang Ming is well aware of the upcoming changes in the international and domestic environments.

It has to be said that in history, Bao Yugang and Cao Wenjing's predictions on the international shipping industry in the 80s were relatively accurate. However, from the beginning to the end, the shipping industry has always been Bao Yugang's main business, and he just gave up temporarily.

Historically, Bao Yugang obtained a large amount of funds by abandoning the boat and landed. He successively swallowed Wharf, Wheelock, and became a shareholder of Zhada Bank. Later, he continued to expand the global shipping industry.

In 1991, after Bao Yugang died of cancer, the Bao family property was divided into four, and the eldest daughter and eldest son-in-law Su Yuwen inherited the main business of global shipping.

This time, Yang Ming wants to enter the shipping industry not only because of the integration of internal resource advantages.

Yang Ming still wants to be the world's shipping king!
"Actually, I also want to be the world's shipping king."

Yang Ming looked at Meris and the others and said with a smile.

Merris knew that it was not that simple for the boss to do that.

Which, in fact, is the real purpose.

Yang Ming has already started to quietly target Defeng Foreign Firm, the third largest foreign firm in Xiangjiang.

Yang Ming and the Imperial Group successively swallowed Hutchison Whampoa, the second largest foreign company in Xiangjiang, and Jardine Land, the largest foreign company in Xiangjiang, which has aroused the vigilance of Wheelock and Swire Pacific.

Wheelock & Co., Ltd. is now jointly controlled by two major shareholders.

The second largest shareholder is John Madeng. The Madeng family owns 2103.5 million Wheelock A shares, accounting for about 6.7%, and owns 5354.9 million Wheelock B shares, accounting for about 22.7%.

However, the largest shareholder of Wheelock & Co. is the Zhang Yuliang family.

The Zhang Yuliang family owns more shares in Wheelock than the John Maseng family.

Among them, 1385.5 million Wheelock A shares accounted for 4.4%, and 1.15 million Wheelock B shares accounted for 48.9%.

In the mid-70s, Jardine Matheson, and even Hutchison Whampoa, which is controlled by Huifeng Bank, once wanted to acquire Wheelock & Co.

Because of various relationships, in the end Jardine Land and Hutchison Whampoa failed to acquire Wheelock & Co.

Now Wheelock & Co. is divided into A-shares and B-shares. It is precisely because of this that it is difficult for other companies to acquire Wheelock & Co., and they need to hold both A-shares and B-shares.

In addition, the combined shares of the Zhang Yuliang family, the largest shareholder of Wheelock, and the second largest shareholder, John Maseng, completely control Wheelock & Co., even if other people covet Wheelock.

in history?
Why Bao Yugang successfully swallowed Wheelock.

This is also because, in the 80s, when the global shipping industry was in decline, John Maseng, as the boss of Wheelock, continued to invest in the shipping industry on a large scale despite the opposition of Zhang Yuliang’s family, causing Wheelock to suffer serious losses. Borrow money from the outside world to solve debt problems.

This also led to irreconcilable conflicts between the Zhang Yuliang family and the Ma Deng family.

In 1985, a consortium of rich merchants headed by Nanyang tycoon Qiu Debo set his eyes on Wheelock & Co., and acquired Wheelock & Co. at a high price.

At this time, Bao Yugang, who had just swallowed Wharf not long ago, naturally had his eyes on Wheelock & Co. secretly.

Bao Yugang has not rashly proposed to acquire Wheelock & Co. because of his long-standing relationship with John Maseng's family, so he cannot rush forward.

However, Bao Yugang could not just watch Wheelock & Co. fall into the hands of Qiu Debo and others from the Nanyang consortium.

After Bao Yugang personally contacted Zhang's family in secret.

Zhang Yuliang's family has long been irreconcilable because of the conflict with John Maseng's family. They also wanted to withdraw from Wheelock & Co., so they gave up Wheelock's shares and sold them all to Bao Yugang.

After Bao Yugang acquired the shares of Zhang Yuliang's family in Wheelock & Co., he was already the largest shareholder, but it was not enough to control Wheelock & Co. Ltd.

Moreover, at that time, the Qiu Debo consortium, which had already acquired 25% of the shares of Wheelock & Co., had no intention of giving up Wheelock & Co. at all.

In addition, John Maseng did not want to give up easily.

When the Bao Yugang family purchased the shares of Wheelock & Co. in the market at a high price, it was the same as the purchase of Wharf & Co. at a high price in history.

In the end, the Bao Yugang family successfully increased the shares of Wheelock & Co. to 49%.

The Qiu Debo consortium, which owns 25% of the shares, also gave up Wheelock & Co., sold the shares to Wharf, and the Bao Yugang family completely controlled Wheelock.

Seeing that Bao Yugang has completely controlled the company, the Maseng family left Wheelock.

Now Wheelock & Co. is divided into A-shares and B-shares, which is more complicated. In addition, after the Empire Group swallowed Hutchison Whampoa and Jardine Land, it began to make the Ma Deng family and the Zhang Yuliang family nervous.

During this period of time, in addition to holding more A-shares and B-shares of Wheelock & Co., basically, the combined shares of these two major shareholders have completely controlled Wheelock & Co., Ltd.

If it hadn't been for John Maseng or Zhang Yuliang's family to give up Wheelock & Co., it would have been impossible for other third parties to swallow up Wheelock & Co.

Yang Ming knew that with John Maseng's character, he would definitely increase his investment in the shipping industry as he did in history, which would eventually lead to a huge loss for Wheelock, which would lead to irreconcilable conflicts with Zhang Yuliang's family.

At that time, the Zhang Yuliang family will still give up the shares of Wheelock & Co., and withdraw from Wheelock & Co., then at that time, it will be the best opportunity for the Imperial Group to swallow the third largest company in Xiangjiang.

In addition, Yang Ming is now targeting Bao Yugang's global shipping.

At the beginning of the year, Bao Yugang had proposed the plan of abandoning the ship and landing. The purpose was to sell part of the large ship, transfer funds to land, and invest in other land industries.

Historically, Bao Yugang used this method to swallow foreign firms such as Wharf.

Now that Yang Ming is involved in the shipping industry, Bao Yugang's family must be very skeptical. Will they continue with the plan of abandoning the boat and landing?
After all, the shipping industry is the root of the Bao Yugang family. If it is overtaken by the Imperial Group, it will still be a big blow to the Bao Yugang family.

In that case, the Bao Yugang family had no choice but to guard against, and even continue to increase investment in the shipping industry.

This is for Yang Ming.

It's not just as simple as killing three birds with one stone.

Yang Ming wants to form the largest shipping group and become the world's shipping king.

It is also necessary to target John Maseng of Wheelock & Co., as well as the Zhang Yuliang family, and swallow up Wheelock & Co. at the right time.

The Bao Yugang family must also be suspicious of this and dare not carry out the plan of abandoning the boat and landing.

In other words, in addition to building a real world ship king, Yang Ming also has to prepare for swallowing the third largest foreign company in Hong Kong, Tak Fung & Co.

Like these, except for himself, Meris and others do not know.

Because of Yang Ming's relationship, they successively swallowed Wharf, Hutchison Whampoa, and Jardine Land, which really scared other British foreign companies.

Not only is Wheelock very difficult to acquire, but Swire Pacific is also very difficult to acquire.

Unless the purchase price offered by Yang Ming is enough to tempt the Zhang Yuliang family of Wheelock, in history, if there is no irreconcilable conflict between John Maseng and the Zhang family, it is basically impossible for the Zhang Yuliang family to withdraw from Wheelock.

If Zhang Yuliang's family did not withdraw and continued to cooperate with John Ma Deng, outsiders, including Qiu Debo and Bao Yugang, would have no way to swallow Wheelock.

As for Swire Pacific Holdings under the control of the Swire family, through various cross-holdings, it is more complicated than the cross-holding of Jardine Land in history.

Even, Swire's Swire family has acquired more than 49% of Swire's shares, and it is basically impossible for other Chinese capital to swallow Swire.

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