After divorce, I can hear the voice of the future

Chapter 776 The Demon King Returns to Hong Kong
The Demon King Returns to Hong Kong!!!

A new storm is brewing!

Who will be his hunting target this time?

The moment the private jet landed at Hong Kong Airport, news of Lu Liang's return to Hong Kong spread like wildfire across the entire Hong Kong Peninsula.

Although more than half a month has passed since the New World Development dispute, the people of Hong Kong still remember that Lu Liang's leadership and promotion directly led to the change of ownership of two large real estate groups, with the chairmen either fleeing or crippled.

More than half a month later, the day after Chinese Estates completed the repurchase and the delisting approval was granted, Lu Liang came to Hong Kong again, clearly intending to take the next step of his plan.

"I hope he keeps his promise and can be reasonable." A sigh revealed the bitterness in the hearts of Hong Kong's wealthy families.

After a two-week break, Lu Liang is now in near-peak form, not only holding over $2000 billion in cash flow, but also having Hengtai's New World and the Yang family's Emperor Group at his beck and call.

It's no exaggeration to say that whoever he glares at will get pregnant.

They could only place their hopes on Lu Liang's promise.

After all, even HSBC has temporarily avoided its sharp edge, drastically scaling back its business and adopting a defensive posture of 360 degrees and no blind spots.

If they become Lu Liang's hunting targets, they probably won't even have the thought of resisting; they can only obediently raise their hands in surrender.

Meanwhile, the Hong Kong Airport Express.

Two Mercedes-Benz vans in front and two behind, a total of four, were arranged in a long line, protecting the silver Rolls-Royce in the middle.

Yang Qisheng volunteered to pick him up at the airport, and on the way to the city, he took the opportunity to tell him about some trivial things that had happened after Lu Liang left Hong Kong.

For example, HSBC took measures to shrink its business, and Zheng Jiachun was still in the ICU before Lu Liang left Hong Kong.

Lu Liang remarked with emotion, "After being in a coma for 48 hours, Mr. Zheng only suffered from hemiplegia. He's really lucky."

"If he was really in a coma for that long, he should have been brain dead and become a vegetable."

Yang Qisheng looked strange as he recounted his speculation during a casual conversation with a friend that Zheng Jiachun most likely had already woken up within 12 hours of falling into a coma.

However, in the final stages of the bidding war, his almost obsessive behavior not only offended HSBC but also jeopardized Chow Tai Fook's shares.

This caused him to feel extremely remorseful after he regained consciousness, so he pretended that his life was hanging in the balance and pushed Zheng Qiming out to take the blame and accept public criticism.

After all, Chinese people believe that death is a great loss, and the eldest son's act of selling his grandfather's land has attracted public attention, so they should be lenient towards his behavior.

It's unclear whether Xu Jiayin knows about this or is still remembering the kindness Tong Shu showed her back then.

After Hengtai successfully raised funds, it immediately repaid the HK$50 billion bridge loan owed by New World to Chow Tai Fook.

This action also allowed the Cheng family's Chow Tai Fook Group to emerge unscathed from the New World ownership dispute, without any impact whatsoever.

"Hengtai's actions were simply a condition for the Zheng family to stop fighting with Hengtai."

Lu Liang couldn't help but chuckle and began to recount the whole story.

At that time, it was the tail end of the bidding war, and the Zheng family had no support from HSBC and had run out of funds.

They could only borrow HK$500 billion in bridge financing from Chow Tai Fook Group in the name of New World Group.

The equity acquired with this funding is merely registered under the group's name; whoever is the chairman has the authority to use this equity.

The chairman at the time was Zheng Jiachun, so those shares were temporarily used by him, and the later chairman was Xu Jiayin.

Old Xu can choose not to repay for a short period of time, since the guarantor is Zheng Jiachun and the creditor is New World Group, not him, Xu Jiayin.

This would also drag Chow Tai Fook into the mess, but Cheng Kai-ming promised to stop competing with Hengtai, completely withdraw from New World Development, and relinquish all his power.

Hengtai is, after all, a newcomer. Even if it holds absolute control, if the Zheng family follows the example of Wang Shi of Vanke back then...

Even if they drag it out, it can take seven or eight years.

That's why Mr. Xu agreed to return the HK$500 billion bridge loan as soon as Hengtai Group successfully raised funds, thus extricating Chow Tai Fook from the situation.

This is also a two-birds-with-one-stone strategy, clearing away all obstacles for Hengtai to take over the New World.

On the other hand, it can also earn a good reputation for being sentimental and slightly salvage public opinion.

"I see." Yang Qisheng suddenly realized that the situation was not as complicated as he had imagined. Acquiring a group worth hundreds of billions was indeed no easy task.

Suddenly, he heard Lu Liang say jokingly, "However, it is indeed possible that Zheng Jiachun is faking his death."

"Did you visit him in the hospital?" Lu Liang asked.

“I went with my father, and now that I think about it carefully, something really didn’t seem right,” Yang Qisheng recalled.

Zheng Jiachun lay pale on the hospital bed.

Although he could only move his head, Zheng Qiming was the one who told him about his paralysis.

I did not actually see it with my own eyes.

Lu Liang pondered for a moment, then smiled: "Whether it's true or false doesn't matter; it won't affect the outcome."

Yang Qisheng nodded and said, "However, for both reason and sentiment, you should still go and visit him."

"We'll definitely go, but there's no rush. We can go another time later." As the two were talking, they arrived at the former Zhixiang Building, now renamed Tianxing Financial Building.

Previously, this building belonged to Chinese Estates Holdings Limited, and was sold to Skystar Financial Holdings Limited for HK$72 billion.

However, that's all in the past now, since even Chinese Estates Holdings is now part of Skystar Financial Holdings.

Lu Liang simply prefers the name "Chinese Estates Holdings," so he's keeping it for now.

"Mr. Lu, if there's nothing else you need me to do, I'll be leaving now?"

Once Lu Liang was delivered to his destination, Yang Qisheng's mission was complete.

Although he, like the people of Hong Kong and even international organizations, was very curious about Lu Liang's next steps after returning to Hong Kong.

But that level of conflict was beyond his ability to intervene or offer any assistance.

Knowing too much is not a good thing when you are powerless to do anything about it.

If Lu Liang needs him, he can go through fire and water without batting an eye with just one phone call.

"Okay, I'll find you for drinks again sometime." Lu Liang nodded slightly and watched Yang Qisheng leave in his car.

"Mr. Lu, this way please."

Wen Chao was waiting at the entrance early in the morning. He led Lu Liang, introducing the company environment and reporting on his work as they walked.

Originally, Guang Sheng Bank only occupied floors 1-5 of the building, but now it has been shelled by Xingheng Investment.

In the future, there will only be more and more financial businesses related to banking, securities, and insurance.

Therefore, most of the 52-story building was reserved for Guang Sheng Bank, with only the top few floors retained.

The top floor is Lu Liang's office, half of which is an office area and the other half is an open-air sports field, as well as a helipad.

There is still a nearly new Agusta AW139 luxury helicopter, priced at $1200 million, parked on the tarmac.

Business leaders often like to purchase valuable items in the company's name, partly to offset taxes and partly to use the company's name for personal gain.

Although this has many advantages, with the change of ownership of the group, these properties purchased under the name of Chinese Estates Holdings have found their new owners.

The Agusta helicopter is just one example; Chinese Estates Holdings also owns a yacht, several luxury cars, and several luxury homes in the Repulse Bay villa district.

It can be said that all that remains of Lau is money and the fan factory in Yuen Long; nearly 90% of his businesses belong to Luk Leung.

Wen Chao glanced at Lu Liang without saying a word: "There are some irrelevant people in the mansion who haven't been cleared out yet."

For some reason, he suddenly remembered the scene where Stephen Chow's character Wei Xiaobao raided Ao Bai's house.

They didn't just raid homes, they raided people too.

"Da Liu has had kidney failure for so many years, yet he still keeps a mistress outside. Sure enough, men only behave when they're hanging on the wall." Lu Liang chuckled.

The next second, he suddenly met Wen Chao's gaze, his smile froze, and his eyes turned unfriendly: "You'd better not let me know what you're thinking!"

"I didn't think anything of it!"

Wen Chao gave an awkward smile and quickly explained, while taking out financial statements to change the subject: "President Lu, from the time we launched the acquisition of China Estates to the time the privatization was approved, we have invested a total of US$38.25 billion."

Data shows that Chinese Estates Holdings has assets valued at US$33 billion, liabilities of US$14 billion, and cash on hand of US$12 billion.

Lu Liang was surprised and said with a smile, "Not bad, the loss is less than a billion dollars."

Including working capital, the company has a total of $45 billion in assets and cash, and $52.25 billion in investments and liabilities.

In theory, they only needed to spend US$7.25 million, equivalent to HK$56.55 billion, to acquire Chinese Estates Holdings.

“Mr. Lu, your calculation is actually quite accurate.” Wen Chao couldn’t help but chuckle, naturally sensing Lu Liang’s teasing tone.

It's true that you can calculate it that way, but you can't just calculate it that way, because Lu Liang intentionally ignored their sunk costs and the risks they would bear.

Lau was known as a stock market sniper in the last century. For decades, he dominated the Hong Kong stock market, always the one targeting others, and no one ever dared to target him.

Including Chinese Estates, which he was proud of, if it had been someone else instead of Lu Liang, the Earth Society would have devoured them long ago.

High risk demands high reward, which is why they were able to acquire the prestigious Chinese Estates Holdings Limited (CHIHK) with a loss of only $7.25 million.

"Tianxing Financial has just finished renovations and needs to make a big splash to let the world know we exist."

Lu Liang walked to the balcony, leaned on the railing with both hands, and looked down at Victoria Harbour in the distance from above.

Hong Kong's cityscape is beautiful, and it is one of the best in the country.

"Is it Ali's online payment business in East Asia?" Wen Chao asked. He had only recently learned that Lu Liang and Ma Yun had such an agreement.

When he learned of this, he greatly admired Mr. Ma's nonchalant attitude. Ant Group's IPO failed, making it a failed project, and he even completely gave up the overseas online payment market that he had painstakingly built up over the past ten years.

Wen Chao spent nearly two years in Tokyo and frequently traveled to Korea for business, so he was well aware of Alipay's high market share in the payment business in those two countries.

Once they capture the online payment markets in both countries, they will have the ability to compete with Apple Pay and local online payment platforms with almost no effort.

(End of this chapter)