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After Mr. Zhao followed his father home, he repeated what Yang Chen said to his father, and then anxiously waited for his fate.

It is hard to imagine that Mr. Zhao, who is in his forties, still looks like a child listening to instructions in front of his father.

This scene really makes people don't know how to describe it.

Hearing that Yang Chen did not agree to invest in Huaguang Group, although Zhao Congyan was a little disappointed, he was not too surprised.

The reason why he invited Yang Chen to take a stake in Huaguang Group was not because he really wanted to sell Yang Chen a few shares of Huaguang Group.

As a generation of shipping king, everything he started was from Huaguang Group, so it is impossible for him to sell Huaguang Group to others.

Every entrepreneur treats the company he or she has built like a child. Unless absolutely necessary, they will never sell it.

At the same time, once Huaguang Group is gone, his title of shipping king will no longer be worthy of the name.

Sometimes this title is actually more important than the actual assets.

Thinking about the well-known bigwigs in Hong Kong today, when people mention their names, they will basically think of a series of titles they have such as shipping king, gambling king, czar, etc.

These titles are not worn by the big bosses themselves, but are a form of recognition by people.

It is precisely because of the title of Ship King that the Zhao family is respected everywhere. He, Ship King Zhao, is always respected by others wherever he goes.

Therefore, inviting Yang Chen to invest in Huaguang Group was just a way for King Zhao to regain the confidence of investors.

It's a pity that Yang Chen didn't accept his move, and even caused the other party to be dissatisfied.

When he thought of this, Ship King Zhao gave up the idea of ​​continuing to invite Yang Chen to become a shareholder of Huaguang Group.

He looked up at his son and saw his anxious look. He couldn't help but shake his head and said, "He just said a few words to you and then left?"

Facing his father's question, Mr. Zhao was embarrassed and didn't know how to answer.

Seeing that his son was silent, Ship King Zhao did not ask any more questions and waved his hand as if to shoo away flies, making Mr. Zhao feel like he had quickly disappeared in front of him.

In response to this, Mr. Zhao not only did not feel disappointed, but instead breathed a long sigh of relief and left the study with numb legs and feet.

The old man didn't say anything about banning his feet, which was a huge blessing to him. He had no interest in worrying about anything else, and he didn't want to worry about anything else.

In Mr. Zhao's view, as long as his father is still alive, the Zhao family will never collapse. Even if the Huaguang Group disappears, it will not affect his continued life of luxury and wealth.

After his son went out, Ship King Zhao began to fall into deep thought.

According to what his son told him, although Yang Chen has no intention of investing in Huaguang Group, he is interested in Huaguang Group's waterways in Asia.

Nowadays, although Huaguang Group has business all over the world, its main business is still in Asia.

Especially in Japan, Japan's economy has developed rapidly in recent years, and trade import and export have become larger and larger. Most of Hong Kong's shipping business comes from Japan.

Once Huaguang Group gives up its waterways and business in Asia, it will inevitably be greatly affected.

If Yang Chen's request is agreed to, Huaguang Group will inevitably reorganize and split up, abandon the Asian market, and then turn to ocean transportation.

Although ocean trade is more profitable, various developing countries in Asia have developed rapidly in recent years, and import and export trade has continued to increase.

If given a choice, he would rather give up overseas markets than the increasingly open market in Asia.

After all, there are many other shipping companies overseas. If Huaguang wants to develop, it will inevitably need to compete with these overseas shipping companies.

Unfortunately, now he has no choice. If he does not give up the Asian market or break up Huaguang Group, the debt crisis of Huaguang Group will crush it little by little.

It may even eventually affect other industries of the Zhao family, especially the real estate industry, which is becoming more and more popular nowadays.

After thinking about it, Ship King Zhao quickly figured out the situation, but how to split up the Huaguang Group would take a long time to deal with.

In addition, the most important thing is whether Yang Chen can come up with enough funds to acquire Huaguang Group's assets in Asia.

This point is very important. If Yang Chen can't come up with so much cash, he doesn't have to break up Huaguang Group.

Simply buying a few boats would not be enough to support the king of ships.

Back at Xue's house, Yang Chen unexpectedly received a call from a person. It was from Boss Lei himself, asking him to go to Lei's Building tomorrow to discuss the transfer of Kowloon Bus shares.

In the past few days, Boss Lei has visited several original shareholders of Kowloon Bus. Taking advantage of the fact that everyone was not very optimistic about the future of Kowloon Bus, Boss Lei stepped forward and purchased these shares at a price slightly higher than the market price.

of shares.

Because most of the original shareholders were Boss Lei's elders, everyone saw that he wanted to buy back the shares of Kowloon Bus, and they were happy to sell Boss Lei a favor.

The shares held by several original shareholders of Kowloon Bus are about 27%. Now, boss Lei, including his own shares, the number has reached as high as 47%, already occupying half of the equity of Kowloon Bus.

If it weren't for Boss Lei not having much interest in Kowloon Bus anymore, with the shares he currently holds, he would no longer be threatened by Sun Hung Kai.

Excluding Sun Hung Kai's more than ten percent shareholding, most of the remaining shares of Kowloon Bus, except for those held by a few other shareholders, are circulating on the stock market.

According to Boss Lei, the reason why the other shareholders did not agree to sell their shares was mostly because they wanted to increase the price.

Most of those people became shareholders of Kowloon Bus only after Kowloon Bus went public, and none of them have a deep relationship with Boss Lei.

Seeing that Boss Lei was interested in buying back Kowloon Bus shares, everyone wanted to raise the price.

Although the share price of Kowloon Bus has been falling, the decline has not been significant. Although the subway line has been opened in Hong Kong, people are still inseparable from buses in their daily lives.

Therefore, in the eyes of those shareholders, although Kowloon Bus shares are not high-quality stocks, they are a fairly stable source of income.

Of course, what they most want to see is the takeover battle between Boss Lei and Sun Hung Kai Sang, so that they can sell their shares at a high price.

It's a pity that they all made a mistake in their calculations. Boss Lei has no interest in Kowloon Bus at all now.

The reason why Sun Hung Kai keeps repurchasing Kowloon Bus shares in the stock market is just to further increase its influence on Kowloon Bus.

If Sun Hung Kai really wanted to compete with its boss Lei, how could it acquire tradable shares in the world?

Wouldn’t it be easier for them to go directly to the small shareholders of Kowloon Bus to negotiate the acquisition?

There is no company like Kowloon Bus that would be stupid enough to spend a lot of money to fight a takeover war. It won't make much money whether it wins or loses, and it will keep losing money.
Chapter completed!