Throughout April of 1992, Zhou Qingfeng basically stayed at hk. His main job was to remove some hidden dangers in the town. This time grabbing the HSBC treasury was counted as a hidden mission. Because of the extraordinary effect, he received a reward of 500,000 points.
At least the cost of buying various "junks" from the e-commerce plane has been supplemented.
Regarding this shocking case, the British investigation has undergone an unimaginable change from the beginning-he also worried and guarded that he would become the key target of the investigation, but in fact it was not.
Sophia sneaked into the Governor's Office and other important institutions several times, and found that all parties involved in the investigation of the case believed that there was a deeply buried inner ghost, even the HSBC executives thought so.
Probably the British guy has become a habit of playing conspiracy, and the first reaction when something goes wrong is to find an insider.
Secondly, HSBC is helping itself. The wealth of a century-old enterprise is not only the gold and currency in the treasury, but also a large number of real estate, shares, registered bonds, and subsidiaries.
Zhou Qingfeng did not leave many clues, and even the T-80U was transported back to Tianyang on the third day after the incident. Even if the British have gathered a large number of elites in the industry, the case can be solved indefinitely.
Many of the funds in the vault are not owned by HSBC. There are real estate agents, affiliated banks, and insurance companies. Everyone needs capital turnover every day and it is impossible to drag it forever.
Otherwise, it's really a big death.
In order to survive, in order to deal with the coming tide of runs, the truth is that nothing matters.
The executives of HSBC Holdings soon decided to sell off a large number of non-main business assets under the company's name, while allowing customers to convert large deposits and bonds into company shares.
For example, HSBC acquired 51% of Hang Seng Bank's shares for a mere HK$51 million in 65 years, and subsequently held more than 60% of the shares. In the 1990s, Hang Seng Bank was also very valuable.
HSBC also has the largest foreign bank in the Arab region, the British Bank of the Middle East. There is the oldest bank in India, the Indian Commercial Bank. It wholly owns SITC Bank, one of the top 20 in the United States.
It also has a nearly 15% stake in Midland Bank, one of the four largest settlement banks in the UK. It originally had to complete the holding of the latter in June 1992, but now it has no money.
This is only the assets of the financial sector, and there are countless other assets. In order to survive, these things are sold at low prices.
In mid-April, Zhou Qingfeng received an invitation letter from HSBC, and did not say that the bank is currently in financial difficulties, only that a rare asset auction will be held in the near future. As a'quality customer' of HSBC, he is welcome to take the time to participate.
The auction will be held in Central, but there is no need for customers to be there directly, just register in advance and bidding anonymously. HSBC keeps secrets for customers, and by the way, I wish President Zhou a happy life and a prosperous career.
Happy, Uncle Zhou is very happy.
HSBC sent the auction list and printed a very beautiful booklet. There are more than twenty books in different categories. From antique calligraphy and painting to Western art, from port land to building buildings, as well as corporate shares and operating entities.
Not only HSBC is selling assets, but many implicated wealthy people have to sell their properties in exchange for working capital because they are facing a financial crisis.
At this moment, all grievances and grievances must be put aside, and it is serious to get money to help yourself. Is there a dead egg under the nest? There is no associated company that wants HSBC to fall.
If it really falls, everyone will be crushed to death or dragged into the abyss.
Against this background, it's great to have cash in your hand. Zhou Qingfeng stayed in the branch office building in Causeway Bay, looking through the auction brochure sent by HSBC with great interest.
The starting prices of listed auction items are often only one-third or even one-fourth of the market price. As long as it is not hyped, it is still a good deal to buy in.
Zhou Qingfeng moved a lot of antiques and artworks from the HSBC vault. These are small in size, light in weight and high in value. But he has no interest in it.
Those left by their ancestors can donate them to domestic museums anonymously if they find the opportunity to donate them to domestic museums anonymously; for foreign ones, they can also exchange a lot of money if they seek opportunities to sell on the European art black market.
In terms of real estate, there are more than a dozen wealthy hks selling properties, including mid-level villas, high-rise buildings, undeveloped land, and even properties in Southeast Asia.
Some shipping companies sell large oil tankers and freighters under their names, overseas ports, and even sell them together with people and ships, and they can operate directly with the money.
Some people are selling factories, garment factories, plastic factories, and electronics factories. Toys, hardware, clocks, big and small, there are many categories, all-encompassing.
Most of these are labor-intensive enterprises with low technical level, but they can solve a large number of jobs.
At present, the wage level of hk is high, and the low-end manufacturing industry has no competitive ability. It is moving to the Pearl River Delta region, so the selling price is very cheap.
Take a closer look, it's like Pan Jiayuan picking up a leak. Usually, most of them are fakes. Today, it is rare that a batch of rare assets have come-otherwise, they are not enough to attract foreign capital.
Zhou Qingfeng had to put aside his jokes and paid attention to this. He finds a pen to draw circles on the auction items he is interested in, and he draws a few more circles for those who are particularly interested.
Circle around, there are hundreds of entries in the booklet.
Including hk's seven or eight commercial buildings, four or five residential plots that have not yet been built, and a shipping company with more than a dozen ships. In Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaysia and other places in the port, plantation estates and mines.
There are also a mess of small factories that need to be integrated and a small bank with branches in Europe, America and other places.
The total cost of all industries is about 1.5 billion US dollars. It doesn't look cheap, but if you buy it during the normal season, the cost will be at least doubled.
Just don’t know how many people will bid at the auction
Zhou Qingfeng called to Sophia and Irene, pointed to the item in the booklet circled by him, and said: "The crisis of others is the time for the expansion of the'Holy Light'.
Now that the group has money, it will be wasted if it is not used. It is better to spend it. While these guys broke their arms to save themselves, we happened to add some shortcomings to the group. "
HSBC’s issuance of this invitation letter is equivalent to actually lifting the fund freeze on the “Holy Light” and allowing it to use its own financial network to conduct transactions.
This matter is tacit understanding, not suitable for public declaration, and indeed it can only be traded anonymously.
Using the enemy's money to buy the enemy's assets is a pleasure no matter how you think. The only trouble is how does the'Holy Light' legally take out the funds in its hands
But this is certainly not an unsolvable problem. In the worst case, the domestic foreign exchange system will be used for payment, and at most some foreign exchange will be used for domestic purchases.
The domestic soft sister currency exchange rate has changed from '4' to '5', depreciated by nearly 30% in the blink of an eye, and will soon change to '8'. I don't believe that the Foreign Exchange Administration is in no hurry.
Sophia processes the official documents very quickly, she only needs a tap of her finger, and the'copy' can be completed in an instant.
As Zhou Qingfeng's secretary, Irene contacted many companies in the pamphlet privately to find out about auctions and transactions.
External publicity, naturally, as a company with a semi-official background in mainland China, "Shengguang" intends to make large-scale acquisitions at low prices.
"Harmony Weekly" flattered the president-the "God of Management" expanded against the trend, and hk has a bright economic prospect. The article also roughly points out the industries that Qingfeng is interested in next week and the purchase amount.
After the flattering article was published, the phone number of the'Shengguang' branch in Causeway Bay was immediately blown up-the one who can come up with real money is the uncle.
There are many companies that were not optimistic about auctions and did not intend to sell assets. It can be seen that there are really benefactors who are willing to come out to'clean up the mess.' Everyone feels that it is safer to'hold cash' at present.
Throughout April, Zhou Qingfeng was busy buying other people's businesses—too many, really too many. I didn't want it, but they insisted on giving it to me. He also said that this is the responsibility of the rich.
Uncle Zhou really carried a heavy burden.