Chapter 403 The Most Powerful Group of People in Xiangjiang (Part 2)

  Although the merger of the Xiangjiang Four Associations would not be completed until 1986, in fact at this time the Four Associations were already fighting secretly.

  The merger of the four associations means the concentration of power. In the past, no matter whether it is the largest Far East Association or the smallest Kowloon Association, everyone is in charge of their own share, but if the four associations merge, it means that a chairperson position will be given up.

  In the Xiangjiang Stock Exchange Federation organized by the Four Associations, it is stipulated that the presidents of the Four Associations will take turns every year.

  But if the four clubs merge, there will be too many things to talk about.

   Among the four associations, Xiangjiang Association has been established for the longest time and has a stronger background, but its transaction volume has fallen to the third place among the four associations.

  Far Eastern Club, the second stock exchange established, is also the stock exchange with the largest trading volume in Xiangjiang.

   And this power struggle actually came from these two clubs.

   All want to be the first chairman after the merger of the four conferences.

In another time and space, the battle between the two sides has never stopped. The most important competition is the membership battle. Today, there are 950 registered stock brokers in Xiangjiang, and last year, Shi Weixian, the first securities commissioner of Xiangjiang, proposed that he hoped that 950 registered brokers Reduced to 300.

  But I was repulsed by the Fourth Association!

  Membership is the embodiment of the rights competition between the two parties, so naturally it has always been a thorny issue. Among them, the status of foreign-funded members and company members is the most difficult to solve.

  Traditionally, foreign members of the stock exchange can only obtain the status of 'subsidiary membership', and transactions must be conducted through local brokers.

  In 1969, a securities company in London applied to join the Hongkong Club, on the condition that all transactions must be conducted by a local member, and all commissions are also owned by the local member.

   Other brokerage firms in London followed suit and became associate members of the exchange.

  The associate membership fee is the same as that of the member, but the associate member hopes to become a full member in the future. Regardless.

   However, according to the Securities Ordinance, corporate members can join the stock exchange, regardless of the practice of individual exchanges.

  In this way, as soon as the "Securities Regulations" were announced, brokerage companies in London applied to become full members of the stock exchange.

  In the early stage of the preparation for the merger, Li Fuzhao proposed to give foreign members the qualification of "full membership", but was strongly opposed by the local broker represented by Yixiangjiang Club.

  In February this year, the Hong Kong Stock Exchange Federation passed a resolution refusing to accept overseas companies as full members.

   As a result, in 1979, Li Fuzhao broke the convention and accepted Lao Rufu of Canada Hongfa Securities as a full member of the Far East Club.

   Heung Kong, which adheres to the principle of only accepting local traders, complained to the Financial Secretary of the Hong Kong Government and the Securities Regulatory Office.

  But the Securities Regulatory Office has no legal basis, because the resolutions of the Federation are not legally binding, and the securities regulations allow the admission of company members from any country.

In July 1979, in order to prevent people from violating the rules, the Federation of Hong Kong Stock Exchanges passed a resolution: "...if any overseas member, or a person who has reason to suspect that he is representing an overseas member, contacts any member of the exchange, Seeking a way to become a full member, members should immediately report to the (federation) supervisor.”

  Federation meeting and record: The purpose of the resolution is to prevent all overseas members, or overseas member companies, or persons who have reason to represent overseas members or overseas member companies, from becoming full members of any exchange in Hong Kong.

  When drafting the merger regulations of the four associations, the China Securities Regulatory Commission noticed that local members needed protection to avoid direct competition from overseas rivals, and agreed that overseas companies could only be associate members.

As a result, in October 1980, that is, after the establishment of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (not officially announced) and the formulation of relevant policies, the Far East Club broke the convention again and accepted the director of the British company Vickers in Hong Kong, which had always been an associate member of the Hong Kong Club. Become an official member of the Far Eastern Club.

  Other exchanges such as Xiangjiang Club and Gold and Silver Club saw the general trend and followed suit one after another.

   As a result, 10 overseas members were accepted as regular members at once.

   In this competition, it can be seen that Li Fuzhao won in the end.

However, the Xiangjiang Association is not a vegetarian. Using its influence in the Hong Kong government, Li Fuzhao did not make Li Fuzhao the first chairman after the merger of the four associations. Instead, Hu Hanhui of the Gold and Silver Association became the first chairman. Chairman.

  However, Hu Hanhui's health had problems at that time, so although Li Fuzhao had the title of vice-chairman, he was exercising the rights of chairman.

  Back to the present, is it really for Chu Huan's sake that Li Fuzhao finds Chu Huan now?

   Obviously not, he hoped that the company under Chu Huan's name could be listed on the Far East Council!

Now the whole of Xiangjiang knows that Chu Huan actually controls a total of five listed companies, Li & Fung Group, which accounts for 51% of the shares, Taihe Group, Qichang Group, and Dehuibao Group, which has been acquired by Cao Yunshang. , and finally Chinese Land!

   However, in the Li & Fung Group, Chu Huan only holds shares and does not participate in the management of the group, so shareholders do not regard these three listed companies as Chu Huan's industry.

  Dehuibao Foreign Firm is even more so, he was acquired by Cao Yunshang, strictly speaking, it has nothing to do with Chu Huan!

  Only this Huaren Real Estate is a listed company that has been classified as Chu Huan's property by the media!

   As a result, Huaren Properties was listed on the Xiangjiang Club, and has nothing to do with the Far East Club!

  So Li Fuzhao now finds Chu Huan, hoping to persuade Chu Huan to let Hang Lung Real Estate merge with Huhua Real Estate and then go public in the Far East.

  All Xiangjiang people know that as long as these two real estate companies are merged, it will be a super real estate company in Xiangjiang comparable to Landmark and Wharf.

  If you add Sun Hung Kai, New World, Hopewell Properties and other companies that were previously listed in the Far East Club, Li Fuzhao’s Far East Club is qualified to challenge the Xiangjiang Club in terms of top consortiums!

After hearing Li Fuzhao's meaning, Chu Huan immediately figured out the twists and turns inside, and said with a smile: "Li Sheng, once you talk about the listing, I don't think you need to say more, although I am indeed a little Cash was needed, but it never occurred to me to take those two companies public.

   It’s better to keep the company in my own hands. I haven’t forgotten how I got these two companies! "

   Regarding this point, Chu Huan did not lie to Li Fuzhao. Chu Huan did have the listed company Huaren Real Estate in his hands, but Huaren Real Estate used it to prepare for future events.

  That's why Chu Huan has kept his status as a listed company. As for Hang Lung Real Estate and Huhua Real Estate, they are basically about to complete the merger work now.

  The merger of these two real estate companies is for better management, not for listing them.

As for the funding issue, with the support of HSBC, Hang Seng and other banks in the early stage, coupled with his existing funds, it can basically be completed. As for the mid-term, Chu Huan believes that by that time, he will no longer be short of this fund. .

  Li Fuzhao frowned slightly when he heard Chu Huan's simple and clear rejection.

  But thinking that the person in front of him is Chu Huan, who is now in the limelight in Xiangjiang, Li Fuzhao still suppressed the dissatisfaction in his heart.

   "Mr. Chu, as long as you are willing, I can guarantee that even if the listing of Mr. Chu's new real estate company does not release too many shares, it can become one of the companies with the highest stock price in Xiangjiang!"

  Chu Huan glanced at Li Fuzhao meaningfully, and then said with a smile: "Li Sheng is joking, since I have no plan to list the company's stock, then naturally there is no such thing as stock price or stock price!"

  In Xiangjiang in later generations, there was a movie "Eavesdropping 2", which told the story of the ICAC's arrangement to arrest a landlord's association composed of several Xiangjiang securities firm bosses.

  Although there is no real landlord association in Xiangjiang, there is such a person who can easily manipulate the stock prices of listed companies in Xiangjiang!

   And this person is Li Fuzhao, the most powerful person in Hong Kong's securities industry!

   In fact, Li Fuzhao is also a very controversial person in Xiangjiang.

  In 1987, due to the impact of the North American stock market, the Hong Kong stock market once again suffered a stock market crash on Black Monday. In order to avoid greater losses, Li Fuzhao chose to suspend the market for four days against the nature of business!

   But this did not prevent Xiangjiang stock market from crashing, and even caused a bigger chain reaction!

   Later, some people said that Li Fuzhao announced the suspension of the market not to save Xiangjiang's stock market, but to avoid losses for his own interests.

   In the second year, Li Fuzhao was taken away by ICAC and sued for "accepting shares of listed companies as a reward for facilitating listing". Later, Li Fuzhao was sentenced and imprisoned. After being detained for two years and eight months, he was released early.

  Seeing that Chu Huan was unmoved, Li Fuzhao left with an ugly expression.

  After Li Fuzhao left, Jian Yueqiang came over and stood beside Chu Huan.

   "It seems that you did not agree to Li Fuzhao's request to go public!"

   "Li Sheng's attitude doesn't seem to be asking, but more like ordering!" Chu Huan said with a smile: "Uncle Jian also guessed Li Sheng's plan?"

"Li Fuzhao is used to being domineering, and he even broke into the board of directors of the Bank of East Asia before. Such a person would make it difficult for him to ask for help." Jian Yueqiang said with a smile: "There is nothing to guess, now Xiangjiang will fight, Far East will fight So powerful, although the Far East Club’s transaction volume far exceeds that of Xiangjiang Club, there are several British consortiums in the hands of Xiangjiang Club. If they want to surpass Xiangjiang Club in terms of influence, they can only find a way on Ni, the newly promoted richest man in Xiangjiang. !"

  Chu Huan shrugged and said, "Then there is no other way. The lack of money is only temporary. For the sake of this momentary pleasure, I am not so stupid as to let my company be remembered by others."

  Jian Yueqiang laughed and said, "You are the only one who can say that in Xiangjiang!"

   Seeing what Chu Huan wanted to say, Jian Yueqiang said directly: "Don't tell me that you are just lucky, no one will believe it anymore!"

  Chu Huan said indifferently: "I'm really lucky!"

   If things like rebirth + time travel are not lucky, then there is nothing lucky!

  Although some people really don't want to be reborn.

  Jian Yueqiang changed the subject, "Li Fushu came to me just now, and I hope I can talk to you. If you need it in the future, don't forget the Bank of East Asia. After all, the Bank of East Asia was the first to grow up with you!"

   "Hehe!" Chu Huan smiled and said, "Is this playing the emotional card? It's just that when he took over the position of the Bank of East Asia's top class in your hands, he didn't show much emotion!"

  The competition between Jian Yueqiang and Li Fushu for the position of the top class of the Bank of East Asia was not as smooth as it seemed on the outside.

  Simply speaking, measuring the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain is Li Fushu's behavior in this matter.

  Jian Yueqiang's descendant, Chu Huan, has never met a few times, and he is not willing to return to Xiangjiang at all, but Li Fushu still thinks that Jian's family is likely to compete with him for the position of the top class of the Bank of East Asia.

   So it was inevitable that some small tricks were used. Jian Yueqiang was too lazy to have some ugly things happen inside the company at his last moment, so he simply retreated ahead of time!

  Jian Yueqiang was a little relieved, he was used to the indifference and ruthlessness in the business field, and having a nephew like Chu Huan by his side made Jian Yueqiang feel very warm.

"It's over when it's over, and I didn't take it to heart. It's still the same sentence as before. If you can, help the Bank of East Asia. After all, this bank was founded by my father. Although the Jane family has left the Bank of East Asia, I still hope that Bank of East Asia will get better and better!"

  Chu Huan laughed softly: "If you want to make the Bank of East Asia better and better, there is no way!"

  Jian Yueqiang glanced at Chu Huan helplessly, and said, "Is that why you want the Bank of East Asia?"

  Chu Huan said: "Uncle Jian, you said, let me have a bank of my own!"

  Jian Yueqiang said: "Stop changing the concept for me, what I said is that it is best to have a foreign bank!"

   "Both, what are you talking about, so happy?"

While Chu Huan was chatting with Jian Yueqiang, Luo Pishi, Counselor of Xiangjiang, came over, followed by a white man of about 50 years old, and Chu Huan had recognized him at this time, the Secretary of Finance of Xiangjiang Sir Xia Dingji!

  The administrative body of the Hong Kong government is the Counselor's Office (later the Chief Secretary), and its highest officer is the Counselor's Office.

  The status of the Colonial Secretary is second only to the Governor. When the Governor is absent, the Colonial Secretary acts as the Governor's authority (the name is the Acting Governor).

   There are 14 policy departments under the Administrative Department, and dozens of administrative departments such as departments, divisions, and bureaus under each department, covering almost all-encompassing areas of jurisdiction. For example, the administrative departments below the Security Section include: Security Department, Police Force, Immigration Department, Correctional Services Department, Fire Services Department, Auxiliary Medical Service, Civil Security Force, Royal Auxiliary Police, Royal Auxiliary Air Force, Royal Auxiliary Corps, etc.

  The Financial Services Department is an administrative agency that specializes in managing government financial policies and work, assisting and supervising the specific administrative work of the Economics Division, Finance Division, Industry and Commerce Division, and Public Works Division within the Counselor Department.

  The chief executive of the Department is the Financial Secretary.

  The chief executive of the Department of Justice is the Department of Justice. He is the legal adviser to the Governor and the Hong Kong government. He is responsible for the legal guidance of various administrative departments, and does not specifically manage the administrative agencies related to the Secretary of State.

  The Colonial Secretary, the Financial Secretary, and the Attorney General are the right-hand men of the Governor. They are known as the three pillars of the Hong Kong government, and they are ex officio members of the Executive Council and the Legislative Council.

  Before when Tang Yongquan dismissed Zhou Ruoqing from Hehe International, the other party proposed to go to the economics department to complain, and the economics department was under the supervision of the Financial Secretary!

  There are two little gossips about this Xia Dingji. At this time, there is an employee in the financial department who is with Xia Dingji.

  Another gossip is that Xia Dingji's granddaughter Jessie Cave played Venda Brown in the hit IP "Harry Potter" in "Harry Potter's Betrayal of the Half-Blood Prince".

   It can also be said that this is Xiangjiang's nominal God of Wealth!

   But why didn't I see him just now!

   "Nothing to talk about!" Jian Yueqiang said with a smile: "Why are you two here in the mood!"

  Luo Bishi smiled and said: "We are here for alms this time!"

  Jian Yueqiang looked at Chu Huan and said with a smile, "I just said that the title of the richest man is not that good. Look, even Xiangjiang's God of Wealth has come to ask you for alms!"

Chu Huan spread his hands and said, "Everyone, you have misunderstood the person. I am not Chu Huan but Chu Le. I am Chu Huan's long-lost twin brother. If you want to get alms, you should go to him instead of me. !"

  Luo Bishi, Xia Dingji, and Jian Yueqiang were all stunned. No one thought that Chu Huan would say that.

   Followed by happy laughter.

  After laughing, Xia Dingji said seriously: "I didn't expect Mr. Chu to be such an interesting person. If I had known earlier, I should have met Mr. Chu earlier!"

  Chu Huan said helplessly: "Sir Xia Dingji, let's talk about what your Hong Kong government wants me to do!"

Since Xia Dingji came here in person, it means that this matter will definitely not be small. If you think about the Hong Kong government's plan to join hands with HSBC to attack the Youth Toys and Struggle Printing Factory, you can understand that they are here to eat big players this time. !

  So even though Xia Dingji still greeted Chu Huan with a smile at this time, Chu Huan still felt that the other side was disgusting.

   But now Chu Huan really can't make too much trouble with the Hong Kong government. His own factory workers are the trump card in Chu Huan's hands, and they can't be used often, otherwise they will be worthless.

  Of course, if the opponent is a lion, Chu Huan doesn’t mind letting this year’s Hong Kong government experience what financial warfare is in advance!

Xia Dingji said: "We know that Mr. Chu and HSBC have always had a charity fund in operation. This time we found Mr. Chu and wanted to discuss with Mr. Chu whether the direction of this charity fund's funding this year could be the public housing that is about to be completed in Sha Tin. Because of the stock market crash and the oil crisis, Hong Kong's economy has not been very good. In the past two years, the Hong Kong government has frequently run into deficits. Now the funds that can be mobilized are indeed limited. Therefore, if the finishing work of public housing can be helped by Mr. Chu, we will The Financial Secretary is really grateful to Director Chu!"

  At the beginning, Chu Huan built Huaye City in Shatian, moved mountains and reclaimed 8 million square feet, and returned 4 million square feet of it to the Hong Kong government to support the Hong Kong government's ten-year public housing plan.

   It's only been less than two years now, Xia Dingji actually asked Chu Huan to help complete the 'finishing' work?

   "Sir Xia Dingji, I think you should go to my elder brother, I really can't do anything about this!"

  Chu Huan refused aloud.

Xia Dingji smiled, and said: "Mr. Chu, we don't mean to let you undertake all the projects behind the public housing plan, but we just hope that Mr. Chu can provide a part of the existing public housing residents who have already completed the project. Convenience!"

  Chu Huan didn't understand the other party's meaning, and looked at him directly.

Sure enough, Xia Dingji continued: "It's like this. Some residents of the New Territories have already lived in the public housing, but there are no other large factories nearby except for Chu Dong's Youth Toys and Struggle Printing Factory. It is not an easy task to solve the work of so many people.”

Chu Huan understood that these people lived in public housing, but it did not solve their fundamental problem, that is, the source of income behind, so Xia Dingji found himself this time because he wanted to help the Hong Kong government solve the employment problem of these people .

  However, there are obviously two things that still make Chu Huan a little confused about why the Hong Kong government did this.

  First of all, before this, the Hong Kong government should have known one of its trump cards, that is, the 20,000 workers working in the Youth Toys and Struggle Printing Factory and the 20,000 families behind them.

   Now the Hong Kong government still wants to stuff people for itself?

   Aren't they worried about their growing influence?

  Secondly, why did you mention the charity fund that you cooperated with HSBC?

  In fact, the Hong Kong government has nothing to do. The key to the public housing plan is not to have houses.

   Only with economic resources can these people truly become the stable factors of Xiangjiang, otherwise, they will still be the unstable factors of Xiangjiang!

  This is not what the Hong Kong government wants to see.

   Now in Xiangjiang, only Chu Huan has the ability to solve the employment problem of so many people!

   They are the way to go!

  That's why Luo Bishi told Chu Huan before that the land application for Youth Toys and Struggle Printing Factory has been approved by the Hong Kong government, and this is the reason.

  As for why Chu Huan’s charity fund is used.

"Our idea is this. The employees recruited by Mr. Chu's two factories and the game factory under construction are only recruited from these families living in public housing. In addition, we also invite Mr. Chu's charitable fund to cooperate with our financial secretary. Joint funding, where to build a school for public housing residents to learn and let them have a skill!"

  Xia Dingji told Chu Huan of his plan!

   And Chu Huan also solved the doubts in his heart at this time.

  Simply speaking, the Hong Kong government is using its own money to buy them fame!

   Although he was the specific operator of these two matters, when they were announced to the public, the Hong Kong government must have come forward. Chu Huan even suspected that the Hong Kong government had already made some agreements with those people in the public housing at this time.

  So the money, I took it myself, but the reputation, the Hong Kong government fell.

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   "There are three questions!" Chu Huan put away his smile at this time and asked seriously.

  Xia Dingji said: "Mr. Chu, please speak!"

"The first question is, how much budget is needed to build a night school like the one mentioned by Sir Xia Dingji? The second question is, if the residents of the public housing cannot meet the number of people required by my three factories, can I not be here? Have other places recruited workers? The third question is, if the residents of public housing become factory workers, but their status is not good enough to work, then is there no way for our factories to fire them?"

  Chu Huan asked calmly.

  Xia Dingji frowned slightly, unexpectedly Chu Huan asked the two most important questions directly.

   In this matter, the Hong Kong government needs Chu Huan's help, but at the same time, it is impossible to say that they are not on guard or calculating Chu Huan. The most important thing is the last two of Chu Huan's three questions!

  According to the discussion between Xia Dingji and Robert Roberts, in fact, we don’t care whether your factory has enough people, you have to recruit people from public housing, if there are not enough people, then wait, when the number is enough, when will continue!

  In addition, residents of public housing cannot be dismissed.

  But I didn't expect Chu Huan to discover these two points so quickly!

  Hehe, what problems did I encounter when I didn’t know about the reform of state-owned enterprises?

Seeing that Xia Dingji didn't speak, Chu Huan knew that he had guessed correctly, and said, "Sir Xia Dingji, I personally hope to help the Hong Kong government with this matter, but if I can't bear the consequences, I'm sorry , this matter is not negotiable."

  Xia Dingji and Luo Bishi frowned again. They didn't expect Chu Huan to be so decisive, but thinking of the cards in Chu Huan's hands, and the fact that the Hong Kong government really needs Chu Huan's help now, it was Luo Bishi who finally broke the silence.

   "Mr. Chu, the matter is not as complicated as you think. The residents of the public housing are still doing well. I think they will definitely not be in the situation you said?"

  Chu Huan shook his head and said: "I also believe that those people are good and hardworking, but I can't bet on this matter. After all, there are tens of thousands of people eating with me now!"

  Hearing Chu Huan say that there are still tens of thousands of people eating with him, Xia Dingji and Luo Bishi frowned again.

"Haha!" Xia Dingji laughed suddenly: "Mr. Chu, you are thinking too much. You are helping our Hong Kong government with this matter. Naturally, our Hong Kong government will not let Mr. Chu's business suffer. We can do these two things." Continue to discuss, but regarding the matter of the night school, we really can't delay any longer!"

  Chu Huan understands that he can't be too disrespectful to the Hong Kong government, but it's impossible for Chu Huan to agree to the other party so easily, he must get some benefits!

"Sir Robert, Sir Xia Dingji, I personally very much hope to make some personal contributions to the future development of Xiangjiang, but now I am just an ordinary citizen of Xiangjiang, and most of the time I am powerless. If I am a member of the Executive Council, I think I can do more services for the citizens of Xiangjiang!"

   What Chu Huan wanted this time was not economic, but political!

The Administrative Bureau, which was called the Xiangjiang Political Bureau in the early days, is known by its name. In the last century, there were only three members of the Administrative Bureau, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Justice, and the Commander of the British Army in Hong Kong. These three are also known as: Of course MP!

   Later, the Financial Secretary was added, and the number of MPs increased to four!

  At the end of the last century, the Executive Council set up non-official members, usually held by taipans from HSBC and Jardine. It was not until 1926 that there was the first Chinese non-official member!

  Now the number of non-official members of the Xiangjiang Administrative Bureau is half of Chinese and ghosts!

   And what Chu Huan wants is the status of an unofficial member of parliament!

   It’s a bit late, but it’s not too late. I’ll continue to code and try to finish it before 8 o’clock~~Thank you for your support~·

  

  

  (end of this chapter)