Chapter 681 Man's Treasure (7K big chapter, please subscribe and ask for a monthly pass~)

  Prince Building, Global Shipping Headquarters.

   "Daddy, what did Chu Huan say?"

  After seeing Bao Yugang hang up the phone, Wu Guangzheng asked Bao Yugang nervously.

Bao Yu just sat on the sofa, his expression became more relaxed, and he said: "Ah Huan has already agreed to lend us 500 million Hong Kong dollars in advance, and if we still need it, he will continue to provide funds of!"

  Wu Guangzheng and Su Haiwen were relieved to hear that Chu Huan was willing to lend them money.

  Before HSBC suddenly stopped helping them, this made Wu Guangzheng and Su Haiwen a little worried, worried that HSBC had already made a choice between them and Jardine, and decided to fully support Jardine instead of them.

  It's all right now, with Chu Huan's financial support, even if Jardine has HSBC's support, they don't have to worry about it anymore.

"Ah Zheng, I know that Chu Huan's grandmother is from Shenghai. I brought back some special products from Shenghai when I came back from my hometown. Tomorrow, you will go to No. 12 Mount Kellie Road and give these gifts to Chu Huan's grandmother. "

  Bao Yugang knew that if he had something on his side, there must be something on Chu Huan's side, so it would be more appropriate to give something to Chu Huan to express his gratitude, so it would be more appropriate to give it to Chu Huan's grandmother, so he told Wu Guangzheng.

  Wu Guangzheng also understood Bao Yugang's meaning, nodded and said: "I understand, Daddy, don't worry!"

Bao Yugang nodded slightly, and then said to Su Haiwen: "Awen, although we have A Huan's financial support, we still have to prepare part of the funds ourselves, so you still have to pay for the sale of the global shipping ships." Keep an eye on it!"

  Abandoning a boat and landing is divided into two steps. The first step is to find a real estate company that can accommodate global shipping, and the second step is to reduce the number of ships for global shipping.

Now Bao Yugang is the world's shipping king and owns the largest tonnage tanker. Since Bao Yugang has already confirmed that the impact of the oil crisis is by no means a simple change in the shipping cycle, Bao Yugang must complete it ahead of time. A slimming move for worldwide shipping.

  In this way, you can better avoid the impact of the cold wave on shipping in the future, and at the same time, you can provide more funds for global shipping.

   "I understand!" Su Haiwen nodded first, and then said worriedly: "It's just that there are still some different voices from the board of directors, Daddy, do you want to convene another board meeting to explain these things to them?"

  Bao Yugang waved his hand, and said indifferently: "No need, as long as HSBC is on our side, there will be no problem!"

Most of the tankers of Global Shipping are purchased with loans from HSBC. At the same time, HSBC also has a lot of shares in Global Shipping. It can be said that as long as HSBC and Bao Yugang agree to this matter, then the slimming action of Global Shipping will be successful. There will be no problem!

   "Ha!" Wu Guangzheng was in a good mood at this time, and suddenly said: "Daddy, you said that HSBC suddenly stopped helping us this time, are you planning to concentrate on helping Jardine Harmony win Wharf?"

Bao Yugang shook his head and said: "It's not very likely. HSBC has always wanted to reap the benefits of this matter. The best policy for them should be to bet on both sides at the same time. Whether we win or Jardine wins can have a huge impact on HSBC."

  Wu Guangzheng couldn't understand more and more, "If this is the case, then there is no reason for HSBC to withdraw. Did they already get some news that we don't know yet?"

  Su Haiwen also said with some agreement: "That's right, Daddy, I think we must seriously investigate this matter!"

  Bao Yugang nodded and said, "I know!"

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  Jardines headquarters!

  Compared to Bao Yugang who was able to find Chu Huan immediately after HSBC decided to withdraw its support for them, Jardine did not have such a helper.

   It cannot be said that Jardine has no helpers, but in the current Wharf takeover battle, Jardine can no longer find a helper of the same magnitude to help them.

   "It seems that now we can only sell part of the shares of Jardine and Hongkong Land according to our previous plan to collect cash and continue this acquisition war!"

  Bauford preached to Newbijan helplessly.

   Fortunately, they have not yet reached the point of desperation. Jardine has been able to stand in Xiangjiang for so long and has maintained its leading position in Xiangjiang. They can still continue to save themselves.

   Moreover, selling shares in Jardine and Hong Kong Land to obtain cash and continue to acquire Wharf shares is also a strategy they have already thought about before.

  Niu Bijian nodded slightly, and said: "It seems that this can only be the case, and I will tell Mr. Henry!"

   Bao Fuda was not worried about this matter, but asked the same question as Wu Guangzheng, that is, has HSBC given up supporting Jardine this time, has they changed their previous strategy and is ready to fully support Bao Yugang?

Niu Bijian’s answer was also similar to that of Bao Yugang, thinking that this possibility is unlikely, “I think there must be other things that made HSBC stop this kind of assistance, but I don’t know if this matter has anything to do with the Wharf acquisition battle. It doesn't matter!"

  Bao Fuda said: "I will send someone to investigate this matter!"

"Ok!"

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   In fact, there is no need for Bao and Jardine to investigate. Just after the New Year, the news about Japan's Sakura Bank preparing to compete with HSBC for the Royal Bank of Scotland has appeared in Xiangjiang's newspapers.

  After seeing this news, Xiang Jiang, who has been paying attention to this matter, finally analyzed the same result as Shen Bi.

The mysterious funds that entered the Xiangjiang stock market before actually came from Sakura Bank in Japan, and their purpose of doing so was to mobilize funds from HSBC, so as to gain a greater advantage in competing with the Royal Bank of Scotland !

   At this time, the new year has just passed, and the whole Xiangjiang is still immersed in the joy of the new year, and now this news has quickly occupied the front pages of the major newspapers in Xiangjiang.

   Known as the first major news of Xiangjiang in 1979!

   "It seems that these people have been confused by the smoke bomb you released!"

  Cao Yunshang looked at the newspaper in his hand and preached in a good mood.

Chu Huan also had a smile on his face. This matter was naturally operated by Chu Huan. If the funds from Japan appeared on the Xiangjiang stock market for a long time without reason, someone would analyze the funds sooner or later. If it is related to me, if this is the case, I believe that according to the abilities of these people, I can quickly understand that I am doing this to wait for Jardine to sell my shares.

  Now that everyone knows about it, Niu Bijian will definitely not do this, and Chu Huan's plan will naturally come to nothing.

  So Chu Huan specially flew to Tokyo, Japan, and met with Mitsui Takamaga, and then the current situation appeared. Sakura Bank asked the Royal Bank of Scotland about the possibility of acquisition.

  Chu Huan said with a smile: "As long as you grasp their most fundamental needs, then they will definitely follow the ideas I arranged!"

  What is the most important thing for HSBC at this time?

  The acquisition of Royal Bank of Scotland is the most important thing for HSBC.

  Royal Bank of Scotland is the largest settlement bank in Scotland and the fifth largest settlement bank in the UK.

  This is the best European bank that HSBC has been thinking about.

   "Can HSBC really acquire the Royal Bank of Scotland this time?" Cao Yunshang asked Chu Huan curiously.

  Chu Huan shook his head and said: "HSBC chose the wrong bank, Royal Bank of Scotland is not something they can buy if they want!"

In another time and space, RBS was indeed the first European bank that HSBC had in mind, but HSBC forgot one thing, or it can be said that HSBC's arrogance prevented them from paying attention to this at the beginning. thing.

   That is the Scots, but they have always been very unhappy with England, not to mention HSBC, even if an English bank wants to acquire the Royal Bank of Scotland, it will be rejected by the entire Scots, let alone HSBC in Xiangjiang.

In another time and space, after HSBC noticed this incident, it immediately lowered its noble head and immediately emphasized its own Scottish ancestry. The management of China has long been in the hands of the Scots of England!

  At the same time, HSBC also expressed its willingness to let Scottish institutions control part of the bank's shares!

   At that time, it was not Sakura Bank that competed with HSBC, but Standard Chartered Bank.

At the same time that HSBC proposed to acquire RBS, Standard Chartered Bank immediately proposed a reverse takeover proposal, exchanging one Standard Chartered ordinary share plus one floating-rate bond with a face value of 225 pence plus cash of 220 pence for five RBS ordinary shares. , The acquisition price will be increased to 213 pence per share.

  The day after the proposal was released, the Board of Directors of Standard Chartered Bank and the Board of Directors of Royal Bank of Scotland issued a joint statement, stating that the Board of Directors of Royal Bank of Scotland agreed to the new acquisition conditions of Standard Chartered Bank and recommended shareholders to accept it.

   It can be seen that at that time, Standard Chartered had an advantage over HSBC in the matter of the acquisition of the Royal Bank of Scotland.

   But in the end, Standard Chartered Bank's acquisition proposal was finally rejected by the British Monopoly and Mergers Committee, and HSBC's acquisition proposal also suffered the same fate.

   It is said that the main reason why the British Monopoly and Merger Commission rejected HSBC's proposal was that Hong Kong's banking supervision did not meet the British standards at that time, and the special status enjoyed by HSBC in Hong Kong.

In this campaign, HSBC Bank can be said to have failed successfully, but after the failure of this acquisition, HSBC also understood one thing. Even though they think they are a British bank, their status in Xiangjiang and their place of registration are in Xiangjiang. The reason is that in fact, the British side does not really recognize them as HSBC.

  So in the later stage, HSBC shifted its target from Royal Bank of Scotland to Midland Bank, one of the four major settlement banks in England, but still encountered the same problem during this period.

  But this time HSBC had a new approach. At that time, HSBC announced a group reorganization, upgrading a subsidiary of HSBC based in London to the group's holding company, namely HSBC Holdings Limited.

  In this way, HSBC achieved a low-key and ingenious relocation in disguise. At least in name, HSBC is already a company headquartered and registered in London.

  In the end, it was this decision that made HSBC finally complete the merger with Midland Bank after a long merger and acquisition process.

   "So, this time, HSBC is doomed to fail?" Cao Yunshang said with a smile.

  Chu Huan nodded and said with a smile, "It seems so."

  Cao Yunshang asked Chu Huan: "When are you going to announce the official start of the acquisition of Jardine?"

Chu Huan said: "Wait a little longer, Jardines has not yet started selling their shares with Hongkong Land, until HSBC gets into the quagmire of acquiring the Royal Bank of Scotland, and Jardines gets into the quagmire of competing with Pao for Wharf Warehouse." , is when we officially start to debut!"

  Cao Yunshang nodded, and said: "So, this matter will take at least a year!"

In Xiangjiang, there is only one Chu Huan, who can use a huge amount of cash to acquire a company after being able to do what Chu Huan did. It is a truly normal business acquisition, especially when it involves their business in the current environment. Each of the acquisitions at the ceiling level of the environment will last for two or three years before there will be results.

   In fact, it is Chu Huan at this time. It takes a long time to plan to acquire a company according to his own psychological price, such as Bank of East Asia and Far East Bank!

  Actually, Chu Huan has not stopped infiltrating and acquiring these two banks, but the process is very long.

   "By the way, are you planning to go to Los Angeles to hold the annual meeting of Jiaku this time?" Cao Yunshang asked Chu Huan.

  The annual meeting of Jiaku is held every year, so Cao Yunshang will ask such a question at this time.

  Chu Huan shook his head and said, "It's decided in Denmark, not Los Angeles. Youth Toys just acquired Lego last year. I'm going to deal with Lego's personnel issues and future development plans."

  Cao Yunshang nodded, and then asked softly: "Then will you go for a long time this time?"

  Although last year’s global meeting in Jiaku only lasted for more than a week, Chu Huan actually spent two or three months inspecting his global business.

Normally, Cao Yunshang would definitely not have such a problem, but she is pregnant now, and it has been seven months, and the due date will be three months away, Cao Yunshang does not want Chu Huan to leave Xiangjiang for too long time.

  Chu Huan understood Cao Yunshang's thoughts, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, it won't take that long this time, basically it can be solved in two weeks!"

  Last year, it was because Chu Huan had big or small business problems in Japan, North America, Europe and other places, and Chu Huan needed to deal with them personally. This was the reason why Chu Huan was delayed for a long time, but it is different now.

  The business of the entire Jiaku has been on the right track, and at the same time, the two hidden groups of Kyushu and Yunhai have no problems, so Chu Huan doesn't need to stay outside for too long.

  Hearing what Chu Huan said, Cao Yunshang immediately smiled.

In fact, Chu Huan didn't want to miss the birth of his first child. The child of Angle had already been born, and Jeffries had finally researched the DNA compared to another time and space with the support of Jiaku funds. Detection Technology.

  After testing, Chu Huan had nothing to do with the child born to Angle.

  Since then, the child has been born as an orphan and sent to the orphanage. Every year, a mysterious person will give the orphanage a sum of money until the child is adopted or becomes an adult at the age of 18!

Speaking of this matter, there is actually an interesting thing. Chu Huan funded Jeffries originally only for the purpose of identification, but he did not expect that after the advent of this technology, it would be used by countless hospitals in many countries. of favor.

   For this reason, Shenhai Investment came forward, joined hands with Europe's first library, and Jeffries Research Laboratory to jointly establish a pharmaceutical company called Azure Pharmaceuticals!

  So now it can be confirmed that the child in Cao Yunshang's womb is Chu Huan's first child!

  Because of Cao Yunshang's health, Cao Yunshang did not go with Chu Huan this time when he went to Europe, but Miao Kexiu and Zhao Yazhi accompanied Chu Huan.

   Two weeks passed quickly, and when Chu Huan came back from Europe, it was already late February.

   "Boss, this is about the future development plan of Zhanlan Pharmaceutical. It has been completed according to your request at the annual meeting. This is just sent by the headquarters of Zhanlan Pharmaceutical!"

  Xu Yi came to Chu Huan's office with a stack of documents in his arms. Whenever the global meeting of Jiaku ended, Xu Yi was the busiest.

At the global meeting, Chu Huan will formulate the development requirements of each company, and the management of these companies will formulate detailed development plans according to Chu Huan's requirements, and finally the Xiangjiang Jiaku headquarters will discuss and check for leaks. Fill in the vacancy, and finally hand it over to Chu Huan.

  For the chemical industry in the 1970s, it was a very bad time, and there was no new development in chemical technology.

   However, the pharmaceutical industry ushered in a new era.

There are two new waves of innovation, one based on major breakthroughs in biochemistry, enzymology and microbiology, and the other based on a new science called molecular biology, namely recombinant DNA and genetic engineering major developments.

Based on these two new waves, Chu Huan also determined the anti-war plan of Azure Pharmaceuticals, established two laboratories, and planned to recruit a research and development team of 5,000 people this year to develop new drugs. Chu Huan specifically mentioned two drugs.

  One is the hepatitis B vaccine, which belongs to the normal range of medicine.

   Another well-known pharmaceutical company in time and space, Merck, collaborated with a university to develop the first genetically engineered vaccine for human use in history—Hepatitis B vaccine, which was approved by the FDA in 1986.

  As for the R&D team of 5,000 people, it seems to be a huge team, but in fact it is only 500 people more than the current R&D team of Merck!

  Zhanlan Pharmaceutical is a new company. Without a huge research team, it is impossible to fight against the top pharmaceutical companies in the world.

  Zhanlan Pharmaceutical will not only recruit a research and development team of 5,000 people this year, but also recruit a huge marketing team after their new drug is successfully developed.

   And this is actually the trump card of HR Pharmaceuticals.

  In addition to the hepatitis B vaccine, Chu Huan also proposed another drug research and development for Zhanlan Pharmaceutical. In fact, to be precise, this cannot be called a drug.

   But the launch of this thing really caused a sensation in the whole world. The name of this drug is Viagra, also known as Brother W!

In the 70s, 80s and 90s, HR was not the largest pharmaceutical company in the world. According to the data of Fortune magazine in 1994, HR only ranked sixth in the US pharmaceutical industry with annual sales of 7.4 billion US dollars. The top ones are Bristol-Myers Squibb, Merck, Smith Kline, Abbott and AHP.

   If placed in the global ranking, it lags behind Hochester and Bayer in Germany, Glaxo in England and Roche in Switzerland.

  But in the 1990s, after the successful research and development of Viagra, it brought huge benefits to HR, which also provided a better foundation for them to become the world's largest pharmaceutical company.

   In fact, the launch of Viagra was somewhat legendary. At that time, HR was not developing this drug, but they were developing a drug for treating angina pectoris.

  In the 1990s, angina pectoris was still an incurable disease, and many companies in the world were intensively developing the main medicine.

  HR Company was also among them. At that time, the main direction of treating angina pectoris was to relax the smooth muscle of the blood vessel wall through drugs, dilate blood vessels, reduce heart pressure, and relieve pain.

  Unfortunately, the effect of HR's drug on relieving the pressure on the heart is very unsatisfactory.

  However, HR unexpectedly discovered that the drug they developed had unexpected effects in other places.

  After this effect was known by HR, he immediately changed the direction of research and development, and then Brother W came out and became popular all over the world.

   As far as Chu Huan is concerned, he doesn't care whether this thing is a drug or not, but it can bring enough reputation to the company, and a large amount of cash is enough.

  Pharmaceutical research, like many heavy industries, is a money-losing business.

  In order to make Zhanlan Pharmaceutical develop, Chu Huan has already decided to spend 1 billion US dollars in research and development in the early stage.

  As long as there is a drug that can be developed, all these investments are sprinkled with water.

   In addition, there is another reason for doing this, and that is to infinitely dilute Jeffries' shares in Azure Pharmaceuticals.

That is to say, there are many companies in Chu Huan's current industry that are rich in cash. In addition, Chu Huan's gains in the stock market and foreign exchange market are large enough, so that when Chu Huan first entered the pharmaceutical industry, he could make such a large sum of money. invest so much money.

  After reading the development plan of Zhanlan Pharmaceutical that Xu Yi handed over, Chu Huan expressed his satisfaction and asked them to continue.

In addition, there is another thing that Chu Huan needs to pay attention to this year, that is, the price of oil will soar again this year. In January last year, the price of crude oil was only 13.2 US dollars a barrel, but at this moment this year, the price of crude oil has already risen The price of a barrel has reached 20.8 US dollars, and by November this year, the price of crude oil will soar to 40.8 US dollars per barrel!

   "Have you contacted all the warehouses you want to contact?" Chu Huan asked Xu Yi after putting aside the development plan of Zhanlan Pharmaceutical.

  Crude oil futures have not yet been listed. If Chu Huan wants to make a difference in this matter, he can only trade in the spot market.

  But this time Chu Huan does not want to cooperate with the five major oil companies in North America, but is going to cooperate directly with oil-producing countries.

  In fact, this kind of cooperation is more troublesome for Chu Huan, far inferior to the cooperation between Chu Huan and the five major oil companies.

  If it was this time last year, Chu Huan would have no such resources to use.

But who made Chu Huan reach a consensus with Armand Hamer, the president of Occidental Petroleum Corporation in North America last year, and jointly established a company. At first, Armand Hamer wanted to use this company to knock on the door of his hometown , but now Chu Huan wants to use this company to take the lead in knocking on the door of the oil industry.

  Of course, there are still many problems here. For example, the global oil field basically belonged to North America’s private land during this period, and external funds would not be allowed to enter this industry at all.

  So what Chu Huan wants to do more is to take advantage of this oil crisis, master more oil refining technology and equipment research and development, and other matters must be done in secret.

  At this time, Chu Huan has already set his sights on the Soviet Union and Saudi Arabia. If he really wants to develop better in the oil field, these two places are markets that Chu Huan will never let go.

  So when entering the 1980s, Ma Jizu will shift his focus from Europe to these two places. Of course, Europe will not give up, but other people will take over Ma Jizu's position.

The rise in oil prices was not only seen by Chu Huan, but also felt by Armand Hammer. But the difference between them and Chu Huan is that Chu Huan clearly knew the soaring price of crude oil, but they didn't know it, and they didn't know it. Know the exact time.

In order to deal with the oil crisis this time, Chu Huan also took out 1 billion US dollars to do this. According to the current price of crude oil, it will double in November. Of course, other expenses are excluded. With a profit of 500 million US dollars, Chu Huan was already very satisfied.

   Now let Xu Yi contact the warehouse, in fact, it is also for storing these crude oils!

   Just like what Chu Huan did in the first oil crisis!

  Xu Yi nodded and said: "I have already contacted you, and you can directly deposit it in then!"

  Chu Huan said: "In addition, let Lin Feng organize the defense force well, I don't want anyone to make trouble then!"

  Chu Huan was not sloppy in the matter of oil, and even called Lin Feng back from his hometown to organize forces to protect the crude oil after Chu Huan completed the acquisition.

  However, with Armand Hammer standing in front, it should not be able to attract official blows from North America, but no matter what, you still have to guarantee your own strength!

  Xu Yi nodded and said: "Boss Lin has already started deploying manpower, and he also asked me to tell the boss that as long as he is here, there will be no problems with any batch of crude oil!"

"Ok!"

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