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Chapter 736 Get your wish
At the Huo Mansion in the Mid-Levels luxury residential area, Mr. Huo was carefully reading the Ming Pao in his hand word by word, his expression complex and amused. At this time, Mr. Huo's eldest son, Huo Zhenting, came over with a cup of freshly brewed Tieguanyin tea. After placing the cup in front of Mr. Huo, Huo Zhenting asked his father in confusion, "Father, since the Ningyuan Group has begun its attack, do we need to help them?"

"Zhen Ting, the real king disdains help from others, so I want to see whether the Ningyuan Group is the king." Old Huo shook his head disapprovingly, feeling that the Ningyuan Group might not need their help.

"Father, you want to use this acquisition to see the strength of Ningyuan Group, right?" After all, he has been with his father for a long time and understands his father's thoughts to some extent. At this time, Huo Zhenting couldn't help but ask in confusion.

"Yes! This Ningyuan Group is so mysterious. No one knows where they came from. It's as if they appeared out of nowhere."

"Father, I know what to do. I will keep an eye on the Hong Kong stock market at all times and must know the specific operations of Ningyuan Group." After understanding what his father meant, Huo Zhenting nodded in understanding.

"Well, although Ningyuan Group's capital comes from Wall Street and Swiss Bank, it always gives me a strange feeling. If Ningyuan Group had not had any contact with my hometown, I would have suspected that Ningyuan Group was another purely Chinese-funded enterprise." At this time, Mr. Huo couldn't help but express his doubts. He always felt that there seemed to be something wrong with the Ningyuan Group.

"Huh? Father, our hometown doesn't have such strength now, right?" Huo Zhenting suddenly felt that his father's idea was too unrealistic.

"Yes! So this is what I find strange." Mr. Huo also knew that his thoughts were a bit strange, so he shook his head with a wry smile on his face.

"Father, could Ningyuan Group be a Japanese-funded enterprise? You know, Japanese-funded enterprises have been investing heavily overseas recently." At this time, Huo Zhenting also followed his father's words and expressed his own guess.

"Impossible! Japanese companies don't have the courage to do that, and this isn't their style."

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When Li Chaoren and Charter King guessed that it was Ningyuan Group that launched an attack on the British trading company, and knew that they were passively involved in this business war, they wisely realized that they had no way out, and the best reaction now was to cooperate with Ningyuan Group promptly and efficiently.

Then, Li Chaoren and Baochuanwang jointly held a press conference to the outside world, and announced to the outside media that they had officially issued an acquisition invitation to the Wharf Group, and were ready to obtain a huge loan from HSBC to complete the acquisition of Wharf. For a while, the Hong Kong stock market entered a frenzy mode, and these senior investors in Hong Kong immediately went into a crazy state. All the residents of Hong Kong Island were caught up in the carnival of this huge feast.

However, the four major trading companies sat together in panic and united to face the outside world. But it was not until then that they discovered that their four companies were in the same situation, and it was extremely difficult to help Jardine Matheson to keep Hutchison Whampoa in this turmoil. In the end, they could only think of HSBC, which was standing behind them.

As the boss of HSBC, Shen Bi had to step forward in person and directly find Li Chaoren, one of the protagonists of this incident. Li Chaoren looked at the God of Wealth who dominated Hong Kong Island in front of him, but he had to give this God of Wealth a face and agreed to Shen Bi to give up the acquisition of Hutchison Whampoa Group.

When Shen Bi saw that Li Chaoren was able to give him this face, and realized that Li Chaoren had a way of making choices that was difficult for ordinary people to understand, he couldn't help but value Li Chaoren more in his heart, and was ready to find a suitable opportunity to help Li Chaoren. So in the end, Shen Bi stood up with a smile and shook hands with Li Chaoren intimately. However, the two smiling people did not notice that they were captured by a camera lens.

"Master, why are you humans so complicated? You should be enemies, but you actively cooperate with our actions." Chen Jinhua, an AI robot who has been paying attention to public opinion in Hong Kong, couldn't help but express his biggest confusion at the moment.

"007, this is the biggest difference between humans and you AI robots. Your thinking is all fixed patterns set by humans, while we humans think about how to maximize our benefits." At this time, Suning smiled and explained that this is the biggest difference between humans and machines.

"Master, although I feel that what you said makes sense, I still prefer the purity of our AI robots."

"Haha, since Superman Li and Baochuanwang have taken the initiative to cooperate with us, let's start our second step of the plan." Without paying too much attention to the robot's expressionless sigh, Suning instead told him the next arrangements.

"Yes, Master." AI robot Chen Jinhua immediately accepted the order expressionlessly. Then, he looked at Su Ning again with confusion and asked, "Master, are you going to leak the photos of Li Chaoren and Shen Bi as well?"

"Of course! Otherwise our plan would not be perfect." Suning said with a sneer.

"Yes! Master."

Then the handshake photo of Shen Bi and Li Chaoren was exposed in major media, and the caption was "HSBC boss supports Li Chaoren in acquiring British enterprises". Such inflammatory copy and pictures were no less than the "shocking style" of later generations. It immediately added fuel to the hot acquisition of the Wharf Group and made the foreigners in Jardine Matheson go crazy. They no longer trusted HSBC's explanation, and then started their own self-destructive mode.

Everyone should know that in addition to being the parent company of Wharf Holdings, Jardine Matheson is also one of its subsidiaries. This is the Hutchison Whampoa that launched the "Hutchison Drinks Milk" campaign in 1973, which caused the 1973 stock market crash. Moreover, Jardine Matheson has always directly controlled Hutchison Whampoa, and Hutchison Whampoa controls Wharf Holdings. Therefore, Jardine Matheson withdrew all the funds from the head office and Hutchison Whampoa to invest in the repurchase of Wharf Holdings' shares, and announced to the outside world that it would use Hutchison Whampoa's shares to replace Wharf Holdings' shares held by shareholders.

Just when Jardine Matheson thought it had secured victory in this business war, major media outlets in Hong Kong received even more explosive news. All the actions of Jardine Matheson and Hong Kong Land Development were exposed, and now Jardine Matheson and Hong Kong Land Development have become an empty shell without any funds.

Next, the share prices of Jardine Matheson and Hong Kong Land Group plummeted to the bottom at the speed of light, causing panic selling among Hong Kong investors. Even HSBC quickly sold off its shares in Jardine Matheson Group companies. Anyone with a discerning eye could see that the Jardine Matheson Group was finished.

All the large amounts of shares sold by shareholders and HSBC were taken over by Ningyuan Group at the lowest price. When Ningyuan Group controlled 51% of the shares of Jardine Matheson and Hong Kong Land Development respectively, Ningyuan Group immediately held a press conference to announce the news to the outside world, officially announcing the complete acquisition of all assets of the Jardine Matheson Group.

"Shit! It turns out that Ningyuan Group was just bluffing and targeting the entire Jardine Matheson Company." After knowing the real target of Ningyuan Group, the charter king couldn't help but curse.

"Old Bao, I feel that the Ningyuan Group was originally targeting Jardine Matheson and Hong Kong Holdings. Hutchison Whampoa might just be a target to attract fire." Li Chaoren quickly figured everything out and expressed his guess.

"Boss Li, are you saying that Ningyuan Group is actually not interested in Wharf Group?" After hearing Li Chaoren's analysis, the ship charter king who had always been thinking about Wharf could not help but be surprised.

"Huh? How could it be possible! Ningyuan Group is such a greedy company, how could they give up such a huge profit?" Li Chaoren knew that the charter king was eager to abandon the ship and go ashore, so he couldn't help but shake his head and said with a smile. "Damn it! This Ningyuan Group is really despicable." The charter king, who finally realized everything, couldn't help but curse.

"Lao Bao, I think Ningyuan Group may contact us soon. After all, we have a lot of Wharf shares in our hands."

"Humph! I won't sell it! I just won't sell it to them." The ship charter king couldn't help but say angrily.

"Haha, Lao Bao, since things have become like this, let's not get hung up on money anymore. After all, we don't have the opportunity to acquire Wharf Holdings."

Li Chaoren's predictions turned out to be correct. Ningyuan Group's CEO, Chen Jinhua, soon showed up. He then invited Li Chaoren and Baochuan Wang to sit down at the Peninsula Hotel for coffee. "Mr. Li, Mr. Bao, I've always wanted to invite you two out for coffee, but I didn't expect it to happen until today."

"Hehe, we small businessmen can still understand a busy man like Mr. Chen." At this time, the ship charter king took a sip of coffee and then couldn't help but said to Chen Jinhua sarcastically.

Unfortunately, Chen Jinhua was just an AI robot with a brain full of programming. Of course, he couldn't hear the sarcasm of Bao Chuanwang at this time. He then stated the purpose of his visit without any reaction, "Mr. Li, Mr. Bao, our Ningyuan Group needs the Wharf Holdings shares you have, so please state your price directly."

"Mr. Chen, excuse me for asking, your Ningyuan Group has already controlled Jardine Matheson and Hong Kong Holdings, so there is no need to buy back shares of Wharf Holdings, right?" Li Chaoren on the side couldn't help but look at Chen Jinhua in confusion and asked.

"Mr. Li, Mr. Bao, I will not hide it from you. Our Ningyuan Group intends to arrange for the Wharf Group to delist." Chen Jinhua stated the business plan of Ningyuan Group without hesitation.

"What? Delisting?" Li Chaoren and the charter king looked at each other in surprise, then looked at Chen Jinhua with confusion and asked.

"Yes! In addition, our Ningyuan Group also intends to separate the port terminal business from the Wharf Group and register a separate port shipping company to operate port terminal businesses in countries around the world."

"Mr. Chen, this seems to involve your Ningyuan's business secrets, right?" Li Chaoren and the charter king knew clearly how huge this project was, and Li Chaoren couldn't help but asked in confusion.

"Haha, mainly because our Ningyuan Group wants to invite you two to join this new company. After all, only by making the pie bigger can we get more benefits."

"Sure! We are willing to accept your Ningyuan's invitation." At this time, Li Chaoren and the charter king had no reason to refuse. After all, this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

In this way, Ningyuan Group finally took over the entire Jardine Matheson Group as it wished, which immediately caused panic among the British banks in Hong Kong. As the largest supporter and capital behind the British banks, HSBC had to come forward in person to negotiate with Ningyuan Group. After all, if Ningyuan Group continued to mess around like this, HSBC would be the one to suffer in the end. For example, this acquisition case cost HSBC a lot of money.

"Mr. Chen, it's our first meeting. Please take care of me." Shen Bi, the boss of HSBC, still chose the Peninsula Hotel, and then shook hands with Chen Jinhua with a smile.

"Boss Shen, nice to meet you. I hope we can have cooperation." At this time, Chen Jinhua also stretched out his cold right hand, and then said a meaningful word to Shen Bi.

"Haha, of course we will! After all, your Ningyuan Group is also a big company in Hong Kong Island."

"Mr. Shen, thank you for your compliment."

"Mr. Chen, I believe you also know why I came this time. I also hope that Ningyuan Group can show some mercy."

"Boss Shen, we are all businessmen, and our Ningyuan Group does hold shares in three other ocean companies. We can't give up just because of your words."

"Mr. Chen, can't we also add our HSBC friendship?"

"Boss Shen, you've put our Ningyuan Group in a difficult position."

"Mr. Chen, can you tell me about your Ningyuan conditions? Perhaps we can reach a consensus."

"Boss Shen, our Ningyuan Group currently holds 35%, 30% and 17% of the shares of Hutchison Whampoa, Wheelock & Co., and Swire Pacific. Therefore, we can give up the 17% stake in Swire Pacific and allow British capital to continue investing in Hutchison Whampoa and Wheelock."

"What? Ningyuan Group wants to take over Hutchison Whampoa and Wheelock?"

"Yes! This is the bottom line of our Ningyuan Group. We also know that your bank owns a large number of shares in Hutchison Whampoa and Wheelock. We will definitely not let HSBC lose money in this transaction."

"Sure! Mr. Chen, I wish us a pleasant cooperation."

"Pleasant to work with."

(End of this chapter)