Volume 4: The World of Great Conflict Chapter 0451 Power and Shadow
When she woke up, the news that Catherine was going to meet Milton Schweiner, whose Chinese name was Schwellen, had arrived.
Schwellen did not object to Bolin Investment Holdings' acquisition of the Butt family's shares in Cannes Englisch, but he also said that he had no intention of selling his shares.
After washing up, Nan Yi drank the coffee brought by Anna, took out the information about Jardine Matheson and studied it word by word.
"Taikoo Li and Taikoo Hui are both projects of Swire Pacific, which means that Swire Pacific will return to the mainland for development [Swire Pacific ended its mainland business in the late 1950s]. To do real estate in the mainland, you must have good relations with the mainland; Cathay Pacific involves aviation safety..."
Nan Yi chewed the words "aviation safety" over and over again. When he chewed them for the ninth time, his mind was opened. He looked at his watch and saw that it was not too late in Xiangkeng, so Nan Yi picked up the phone and called Lai Biao.
"Not asleep yet?"
"Not yet. You called me so late. What's the matter?"
"What are you busy with recently?" Nan Yi asked instead of answering directly.
"What else can I be busy with? I'm at work. Come on, you're calling me so late, you must have something to ask for. Just get to the point."
"Ha, your temper has become hot." Nan Yi smiled and said, "Are you familiar with Cathay Pacific?"
"It's very familiar. I've studied it thoroughly."
Lai Biao's answer made Nan Yi's eyes light up, "You are not researching it just to buy its stocks, are you?"
"Buy some bullshit stocks. For the sake of work, we are Red Letter..."
"Come on, there's no need to say the rest. You shouldn't tell me the content of your work." Nan Yi interrupted Lai Biao.
"Okay, you idiot are still so cautious. Come on, why are you asking this?"
“Xiangkeng is an inseparable part of us.”
"nonsense."
“Xiangkeng’s real estate prospects are very good.”
"You don't have to tell me."
"The land in Xiangkeng will be very valuable in the future."
"Hey, let's get straight to the point. I still need to sleep." Lai Biao expressed his extreme indignation at Nan Yi's behavior of keeping the secret.
"Okay, then I'll be frank. I'm planning on taking over Yingni in Cannes. I want you to do me a favor and go meet Shi Weilun from the Shi Huaiya family and have a good chat with him."
"You want me to put pressure on him?"
"It's not about putting pressure on others, just a chat in a friendly atmosphere, that's all."
"Stop talking nonsense. I know what you mean. Come on, I'll go there for you."
"Don't help me, help yourself."
"Count me in?"
"You should get what you pay for. Although the housing prices in Xiangkeng have just risen a little, the properties that belong to you can still be mortgaged. Tell me, how much do you want?"
“How much is the investment in the whole plan?”
"About 170 million."
“What do you estimate the future return to be?”
"It's hard to say. If you develop it into a property and rent it out in the future, you should get a return of dozens or even hundreds of times. However, you will need to invest a lot of money later, and the payback period will be very long."
“Long-term guaranteed harvests regardless of drought or flood?”
"That's about right." Nan Yi answered sincerely, "I am very optimistic about its return prospects."
"All in, just watch and help me operate." Lai Biao said.
“Okay, even if you invest 50 million Hong Kong dollars, it’s hard to say how much it will actually account for now. Once the subsequent plans are implemented, I should be able to calculate an amount, and I’ll tell you then.
By the way, your property has generated some rental income. After deducting my commission, you can probably get about 1.97 million Hong Kong dollars. I'll have someone send it to you in the next two days."
"Forget it. I don't need to spend money for the time being. You can help me reinvest it."
"Then I'll help you invest in the stock market of China. Just let me know when you need the money."
“Don’t invest in Hong Kong stocks?”
"The returns on the Chinese stock market will be higher."
"Then you decide."
"Um."
The next day, Lai Biao went to talk to Schwellen.
Afterwards, Catherine visited again and bought 28% of Cannes Cement shares from Swire Group at a premium of 60%, spending HK$42.65 million; and bought 24% of shares from the Butt family at a premium of HK$28.56 million.
Including the 110,000 shares that Zhao Shixian bought from the secondary market, Nan Yi already owns 52.64% of Kangcheng Yingni’s shares, which is still 14.36% away from absolute control.
While Catherine was taking action, Changsheng Fund was also busy. Under the instructions of Li Tongban, people from Changsheng Fund were visiting the small shareholders of Kangcheng Yingni and had already reached an agreement with several small shareholders on the intention to acquire shares.
Neither Zhao Shixian nor Li Tongban made any moves in the secondary market, but the people in HSBC's securities department were not idle. The clients they received commissions from were to buy as much as possible, the more the better.
On June 8, they quietly bought more than 40,000 shares of Kangcheng Yingni, pushing the share price up to 5.8 yuan, and then immediately fell silent. It was not that they did not want to continue, but it was Saturday and the stock market was closed.
"President, why don't we continue to buy out the shares held by small shareholders?"
"There's no need for that. Let Li Tongban buy it. We already have the controlling stake, so we won't do anything for now. Li Tongban targeted Kangcheng Yingni because of the land it owns. Our entry into the game was purely accidental.
According to my original idea, Nan's will not be too deeply involved in the real estate of Hong Kong, and real estate will not become our Nan's main industry; investment in real estate is more for speculative purposes. "
"So, the chairman doesn't want us to lead the development of the land in Hung Hom, but wants to hand it over to Li Tongban?" asked Ueto Masami.
"Yes, let him lead the development, and we can just be a shareholder. As for Kangcheng Yingni, I have ideas on how to run it well.
If you want to get rich, you must first build roads. If the mainland wants to reform and revitalize the economy, it needs to improve transportation conditions. I know the current situation of the mainland's roads, and you know it too.
The era of large-scale infrastructure construction in the mainland is about to arrive. It is a good opportunity to invest in cement plants in the mainland at this time. The cement industry will have great potential.”
The cement industry is not very prominent, but it is actually very profitable and is an evergreen industry. At least before Nan Yi traveled through time, the cement industry in the entire world had not shown any signs of weakness, but was instead thriving.
He knows a friend whose hometown village has a hill containing limestone, so since the late 1980s, their village has opened a cement factory. When other people could only earn four or five thousand yuan a year, the annual per capita dividends in their village were tens of thousands.
This went on for many years until the village ran out of limestone and the cement factory began to move out and build factories elsewhere. The villagers naturally followed suit and, as the village expanded, they also invested in small cement factories in other places.
Entering the 21st century, almost every villager in this village is the owner of a cement factory, owning at least one cement factory. Some even own several cement factories. Some have even run their cement factories into large groups.
Most of the villagers have little assets, and a small number are not doing well, not because of poor management of the cement factory, but because of other bad habits, such as prostitution, gambling, and drugs.
It is impossible for every villager in this village to be a business elite and have a business mind, but few of them can run a bad business. It is conceivable that in addition to the mutual help among villagers, there must be a reason why this industry is easier to get into.
The memories in his mind coupled with professional and scientific analysis prompted Nan Yi to enter the cement industry to get a piece of the pie.
"Entering China under the name of Bolin Investment Holdings?"
"Well, foreign investment can enjoy preferential policies in China. At the beginning, we built a factory in Guangdong Province, and our main markets were Hong Kong, Macau and Japan. This way, we are a foreign exchange earning enterprise, and we can enjoy more preferential policies and taxation."
"So, our next step is to negotiate with Li Tongban. Once the deal is done, we will hold a shareholders' meeting to propose a capital increase, dilute the shares of the small shareholders who refuse to leave, and then proceed with privatization and delisting?"
"Well, that's about it. Contact Liang Huiwen and ask the Intelligence Committee to formulate a specific plan."
"Where's Wu Zhenlin?"
