Chapter 316

John Bao of the Securities Affairs Department of HSBC is 27 years old. He looks more like a financial elite than Shen Bi. Compared with Shen Bi's broad skeleton, John Bao looks slightly clean and symmetrical. He is a typical British high-rise Eagle nose nose with black framed glasses. At this time, he is wearing a white polo shirt and cotton trousers with straight trouser lines, The left hand is wearing golf gloves and is hitting the ball with a natural and unrestrained swing. The small golf ball rolls towards the hole with the turf slope and enters the hole accurately.

"Ten birds in the forest are better than one bird in the hand!" when Bao John saw the ball entering the hole, he turned back and shook his fists at Shen Bi, song TIANYAO, Angie pelis and Jiang Yongen, shouting an old English proverb.

Song TIANYAO, Shen Bi bit his cigar, gave a thumbs up to Bao John's beautiful ball and applauded.

He handed the club to the caddie, took off his gloves and left the staff to repair the lawn. With a little excitement, Bao John went back to the sun umbrella next to several people, took out a brown cigar from a cherry wood cigar box on the low table, skillfully cut off the eggplant cap, did not touch the gold filled lighter on the table, but chose the old-fashioned long handle match to light it, and slowly spit out a silver gray smoke, He smiled and said:

"When I was young, I wanted to be a professional golfer, fight side by side with Henry curton and teach Americans a lesson in the Leiden cup. Unfortunately, I couldn't play such a beautiful ball at that time. Mr. Song, your golf skills are also good. It seems that you have worked hard for it."

Song TIANYAO smiled modestly: "I practice golf skills, just like the British poor practice golf skills. Golf is just a springboard, a way to keep me away from poverty."

"That's it, that's it. Song, what he said is very correct. He's very frank. I've always said that the poor are not terrible. The poor don't know how to find a shortcut out of poverty is the most terrible. The poor who don't even want to move their mind can't even be redeemed by God. It's not a bad habit to say good. You always have to have some common hobbies with everyone." John Bao frankly said to song TIANYAO that learning golf technology is to be artful and agrees with it very much as a way of communicating with others.

Jiang Yongen, who is standing with Angie pelice in the distance to enjoy the green scenery, is very dismissive when he hears the words faintly coming from Bao John's mouth. These British people don't understand the suffering of Hong Kong people at all. The British poor may still have money to let their children practice cricket or golf, which are popular sports pursued by British upper class people, After becoming a well-known athlete, they can earn both fame and wealth immediately, but the Chinese poor in Hong Kong may not have the money to buy the cheapest golf club, not to mention this kind of golf course practice technology, even if they practice in the open space outside their home.

But standing next to Angie pelis, these words can only be thought in my heart.

Shen Bi forked his waist and bit his cigar in his mouth. Even if he ridiculed him, he also had the smell of vigorous action on the battlefield. At this time, he said to John Bao: "our Mr. Song's recent hobby has changed from developing wigs in the factory to playing golf, yachting and going to the horse club to see horse racing."

Song TIANYAO opened his hands to Shen Bi and asked, "what's wrong?"

"Yes, what's wrong?" John Bao smiled at Shen Bi: "You may think that Mr. Song's hobby of golf, yacht and horse racing is to meet the rich, capitalists, bankers and factory owners, but the first absolute premise is that he is qualified to use these hobbies to show that he is no different from the people he wants to meet, but the horse racing of the Horse Club seems to cost more than the hobby of yacht and golf A little higher. "

"I'm going to spend three to five years with Mr. Song to find a high-quality horse race at a reasonable price, buy it, and then participate in the Hong Kong Cup held by the Jockey Club." Shen Bi said jokingly with a cigar beside him: "You don't need to win the championship. You just need to beat the 'Prince of Persia' of Jardine's big class. It is said that the horse has been disgraced by those who deliberately buy it and lose for several consecutive years, so I think it's safer to buy a horse and beat it."

John Bauer laughed: "In fact, the little grudges between HSBC and Jardine a hundred years ago have nothing to do with us today, but it's so strange. When I joined HSBC after graduating from University, it seemed that the name Jardine was very annoying to me, and my college classmates reacted to the word HSBC the same as I did to the word Jardine."

Song TIANYAO had heard about the kindness, gratitude and resentment of Jardine Matheson and HSBC in recent 100 years when chatting with Shen Bi. However, if Shen Bi hadn't mentioned it, song TIANYAO really didn't know that so many interesting things had happened between the two giants.

HSBC and Jardine Matheson are two giants of the British in Hong Kong. Although Jardine Matheson now has a seat on the board of directors of HSBC, the two sides look like a combination of interests. However, the dirty behind the surface of these two combinations over the past century has made the employees of the two companies enjoy talking and laughing more than the apparent respect for each other.

In the early days of HSBC's establishment a hundred years ago, Jardine's was already the first of the five major British firms in the Far East. When HSBC invited foreign firms to take shares in HSBC, Jardine's was the first to refuse. When HSBC applied for a business license, Jardine's was also the first to oppose and even express fierce opposition. From London to Hong Kong, almost all departments arranged people to lobby for the success of HSBC Erect obstacles.

The reason is nothing more than interests. Long before the outbreak of the Opium War, Jardine started exchange and loan business with a large amount of cash obtained from the opium trade.

After entering Shanghai, Jardine's banking department actually handled most of the international exchange business in Shanghai, including not only general commercial remittances, but also remittances from the British government. The public funds remitted to Hong Kong by consuls of various countries were still using its draft until 1855. None of the other foreign banks and foreign banks was qualified to compete with Jardine.

In order to maintain close relations with Chinese business and government, Jardine Matheson has also lent loans to Chinese banks and local governments. If you take a stake in HSBC, it means that Jardine's own financial businesses should be incorporated into HSBC. The old Jardine's foreign bank refused to take a stake in HSBC because it was unwilling to give up its lucrative international exchange and loan business.

Jardine's unwillingness to voluntarily give up its banking business, which is so huge that it surpasses most banks and banks, is also a manifestation of the sharpening of the contradiction between Oceania bank and professional banks at that time. Therefore, it is not surprising that Jardine's fierce action in the process of HSBC applying for a business license. It was originally fat meat in its own bowl, but now it has become food in others' bowl. How can it swallow this tone.

For HSBC to be formally established, the governor of Hong Kong must issue a concession order to complete the legislation in Hong Kong and obtain the approval of the British government. HSBC officially operated in Hong Kong on March 3, 1865, but it obtained the business license and concession order of the British government on August 14, 1866, that is, HSBC opened in Hong Kong for more than a year, There are no legal procedures.

Despite the great success of HSBC's business in Hong Kong for more than a year, the business license was delayed for more than a year. Jardine Matheson's obstruction is the main factor in such a delay.

Moreover, the sponsors of HSBC were all well-known British foreign banks doing business in China, and several of them were enemies of Jardine's foreign bank. In particular, Baoshun foreign bank, Jardine's thorn, was the main sponsor of HSBC. Its old rival was HSBC, and Jardine's foreign bank certainly did not want to deal with HSBC.

At that time, John Diandi, the chief of Baoshun foreign bank, who was the first to respond to the launch of HSBC, was impressed by Jardine's malicious obstruction of HSBC's establishment, so he made a bold move. However, this chief's means was not a shopping strategy, but an absolute inferior means. Jardine had no way to prevent HSBC's establishment, so he just wanted to add nausea to Jardine.

When David Jardine, the leader of Jardine Jardine, went to London to exert pressure on the British Ministry of Finance and tried to prevent HSBC from obtaining a business license, without saying a word, Mr. John British smashed a lot of money and made his own bed for David Jardine's beautiful mistress left in Hong Kong.

Moreover, in the Hong Kong Cup race, John Diandi spent a lot of money to buy a pure blood horse and won the Hong Kong Cup won by Robert Jardine Jardine for several years.

John Diandi, a member of the board of directors of HSBC at that time, a typical character of Baoshun foreign firm, announced to Jardine with these two things that if you do my business, I will do your women and horses.

The two things John British did were talked about with great relish in British upper class society. He was indeed too arrogant and overbearing. HSBC did not get a business license, but on the day of opening up, he held the woman who seduced Jardine's boss with money in his left hand and the pure blood horse who snatched the Hong Kong Cup from Jardine's hand in his right hand, The faces of the two giants of Jardine's foreign firm were swollen and green.

Men estimate that the most embarrassing thing is that women and honor are taken away.

Then Wang Yihe, a foreigner, sharpened his tusks and prepared to attack.

It coincided with the end of the American Civil War in 1866 and the outbreak of the cotton industry crisis that shocked Europe. During the American Civil War, the cotton in Mumbai, India was used as a substitute for American cotton, and the British capitalists who bought and sold short were the first to bear the brunt. Dozens of old British banks were in danger. Within three months, seven British banks declared bankruptcy, Three or four banks with cross holdings held by John and Ying Shun are bankrupt, and with the outbreak of the cotton crisis, the real estate bubble in Mumbai and Shanghai has burst, and the price of land in Mumbai and Shanghai has fallen sharply.

At that time, almost no one, British bank or British foreign bank, was affected. Only Jardine's foreign bank, relying on its foresight, early judged that the American civil war would end in the near future. This speculative feast was over, so it disposed of its cotton business and real estate business in Mumbai and Shanghai, made a lot of money and left early, After escaping from this speculation, he began to transform and focus on China's railway and port business.

Many foreign banks and banks are dragged down by debt and are about to go bankrupt. Baoshun foreign bank is also the main sponsor of HSBC, who slept with Jardine's boss and woman six months ago and robbed each other's trophy.

In desperation, Baoshun and several other foreign firms seek the Jianghu emergency of Yihe foreign firm, which has made a lot of money.

Song TIANYAO guessed that John Diandi might have gone to Jardine Matheson to ask for help. The picture was as follows:

John - burst into tears and cried bitterly: "brother, take a hand with you. When we traveled across the sea to the east together, we always had a deep friendship."

"Pu, your mother, when I slept with my woman and robbed my trophy, why didn't you talk about deep friendship?" Robert Jardine smiled darkly: "you want me to help? Hand over your woman to let me sleep, and then return the trophy to me."

John said at once, "my woman and the trophy are outside. I've already brought them."

After Robert Jardine had a good time, he said with a toothpick in his mouth: "the landlord doesn't have any surplus food. Well, if you transfer the four-wheel route on the Yangtze River to me, I'll consider helping you through the difficulties."

Then John offered immediately: "a hundred dollars, four ships and one route, I'll sell it to you right away."

"Didn't I tell you that the landlord had no surplus food? Twenty yuan."

"Fxxkyou! You're cutting my flesh!" John yelled loudly, and then immediately said happily, "deal!"

"I'll think about it for two months. Now I have five yuan in my pocket. I'll give you five yuan first. The route is mine. You take five yuan to buy a steamed bun first, and I'll accompany your wife."

"I'll hold your lung. If I have another chance, I'll kill you!" John looked at Robert Jardine and walked away with his wife in his arms. He looked at the five yuan on the ground in despair. Five yuan was not enough to buy steamed buns and get through the difficulties.

Then, there was no chance for him to kill his opponent. John Jardine Jardine and his Baoshun foreign bank went bankrupt because of Jardine's failure to save. The newborn HSBC lost its most important pillar and the situation was in jeopardy. Jardine wanted to kill HSBC in one fell swoop during the crisis, forcing it to the dead end of bankruptcy and closing down.

However, the British Ministry of finance, the colonial government of Hong Kong and even other sponsors of HSBC realized that if HSBC fell again, Jardine's foreign bank would really cover the sky in Hong Kong and China, and the British government itself did not want to see Jardine's completely unrestricted state.

Therefore, under the tripartite rescue, HSBC barely took a breath and failed to follow the footsteps of Baoshun foreign bank.

HSBC also began to realize that it should not be right with Jardine on the face of it, but should have a good relationship with each other, just like John Britain's idiot. Therefore, since 1866, it has repeatedly extended an olive branch and invited Jardine to take shares in HSBC, but Jardine has always maintained arrogance. The two sides did not cooperate until 1877, when HSBC was indeed qualified to be faced up by Jardine.

But even after the cooperation, the two sides have always been open swords and hidden arrows.

Even John's dirty means of fooling each other's women and robbing each other's honor have been repeated several times over the past century.

Perhaps a Jardine employee was unknown before, but if he can get a mistress or wife of a manager of HSBC, he will definitely become a hero in Jardine forever.

The opposite is true of HSBC.

In fact, these are just jokes for song TIANYAO.

For him, Jardine Matheson and HSBC are two giants. Chinese businessmen who want to deal with the British should learn to stand in line, either choose British HSBC or take refuge in British Jardine Matheson.

The Lin family has always followed the pace of harmony since Lin Xizhen. Song TIANYAO didn't even have the qualification to eat ash in the past.

He song TIANYAO wants to find some help, so he can only choose HSBC, which is still behind Jardine at this time.