v3 Chapter 1115： 1 series of key deployments

On April 20, a news from the battlefield excited the British people.

The main battleship "General Belgrano" of the Argentine Task Force was sunk by the British "Conqueror" attack nuclear submarine at a distance of 187 nautical miles from the Falkland Islands.

Six other ships were also sunk, and the remaining ships fled back to Port Stanley in a panic.

This result not only excited the British people, but also shocked other countries.

Because this time, the British army created the first battle of a nuclear submarine sinking a surface warship after World War II.

Moreover, the "General Belgrano" has a full load of 13750 tons and is the largest surface ship sunk after World War II. Its sinking caused the Argentine naval forces to withdraw from the war and sit back and watch the British army gain Domination of the sea off the Falkland Islands.

When the air supremacy was suppressed, the Argentine military lost sea supremacy, leaving only the Argentine Air Force fighting alone.

The Argentine garrison on Mala Island has become a turtle in the urn, waiting for the British army to strangle.

It's just that the British have not been happy for a day, but there is a bad news on the battlefield.

The modern and advanced main battleship "Sheffield", which was launched by the British Navy in 1971 and costed 150 million U.S. dollars, was sunk by the Argentine Air Force, and it was actually worth only 200,000 U.S. dollars. French "Flying Fish" missile!

When this news spread to France, I don’t know how many French people were shocked. After the shock, they became proud. The French military also paid more attention to this air-launched main missile that had just entered service in 1979, because they knew that this missile will be used in the future. Will get a large number of orders, it is simply a pie in the sky!

The French were happy, but the British were angry. The 200,000-dollar missile was exchanged for their 150 million-dollar battleship. This huge gap was simply a blow to their faces.

And the missiles were made by the French, who the British hated. How to prevent the British from becoming embarrassed?

Xia Yu was speechless after receiving the news, and afterwards he could only sigh the wonder of fate. After all, the British navy could not escape the disaster.

The British army could have achieved a perfect victory. Now the main battleship "Sheffield" is sunk. It is destined that even if it wins, there will still be regrets!

The British military, who became angry from shame, went mad, and decided to launch a general offensive against the Argentine military, trying to end the war as soon as possible and save face for the British military.

In the middle of the night of April 23, the British Special Air Service Regiment took a helicopter to land at Fanning’s Point on Falkland Islands. After a night of reconnaissance, vertical landing and beach landing, more than a thousand British troops "dropped from the sky" successfully occupied San Carlos. Port, forty Argentine defenders stationed in the port were wiped out.

In the early morning of April 24, the British landing operation was in full swing. After the British landed, they immediately constructed defensive positions and formed an air defense firepower network with naval guns, various air defense missiles and anti-aircraft machine guns.

Then the troops landed continuously through the port of San Carlos, and the troops were divided into two groups to clamp down on the port of Stanley where the Argentine army gathered, and the ground war began in the mainland of Argentina.

The scale of victory is tilted towards the UK again!

And just now.

Xia Yu, who was returning to London from Norfolk for a break, got a message from the United States.

Peter Lynch, president of Polaris Capital, wants to ask him about one thing.

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In the office of Xia Yu, the headquarters of Guangming Fund, City of London.

Xia Yu looked at a report in his hand with a satisfied smile on his face.

"Peter Lynch did not disappoint me!"

Xia Yu said with a chuckle.

Although he hasn't been to the United States for over a year.

But Peter Lynch perfectly executed every order he issued by remote control, and Polaris Capital also grew rapidly under his management.

In the last year, Polaris Capital Co., Ltd. cooperated with the New York branch of Jiuding Securities Co., Ltd. and completed several extremely important tasks.

The first is to spend 1.9 billion US dollars to buy 14.6% of the shares of General Electric, becoming one of the major shareholders of General Electric.

If it's just like this, the key is that General Electric started to walk out of the bottom after Jack Welch took over as CEO in April last year. Now the market value has risen from the trough of 13 billion U.S. dollars to 25.4 billion. Dollar.

This also means that the floating profit of this equity held by Polaris Capital has reached 1.8 billion US dollars!

The second result is the Coca-Cola Company.

Thanks to Peter Lynch’s efforts, he finally bought 25.4% of Coca-Cola’s shares from the Chicago Consortium and 21.7% of the shares from the Morgan Consortium. The total cost is 930 million US dollars.

But the Coca-Cola Company was freed from the struggle of the three consortia.

Together with the 38.2% equity held by the British Bright Fund, Xia Yu actually owns 85.3% of The Coca-Cola Company, and the remaining equity is scattered outside.

But for Xia Yu, who already has actual absolute control, the total 14.7% of the shares scattered outside of Coca-Cola are already very small without preparing to privatize Coca-Cola.

Besides.

Polaris Capital's Taiwan branch has also grown rapidly. It has invested in dozens of potential companies in Taiwan, including Hon Hai, which was named by Xia Yu, and acquired 45 percent of the equity.

……

This time, Peter Lynch’s report to Xia Yu on the company’s development is not the main thing.

The core purpose is about an acquisition.

The management of Coca-Cola Company, after many discussions, formulated a new long-term strategic development plan, and the most important thing was an acquisition.

The Coca-Cola Company hopes to acquire Columbia Film Industries, one of the Hollywood giants that are currently at a trough, to open up the channel between Coca-Cola and the entertainment industry, use movies to drive Coca-Cola’s sales growth, increase Coca-Cola’s market exposure and improve its product image.

The current CEO of Coca-Cola Company Donald Robert also gave an example, that is, all the celebrities drink Coca-Cola, and Pepsi only appears in the hands of the villain...

The current market value of Columbia Pictures is only more than 370 million U.S. dollars, but if a wholly-owned acquisition is to be privatized, it is conservatively estimated that it will require 600 million U.S. dollars or more.

The Coca-Cola Company itself can't get it out, so it must be the need to issue additional stocks for mergers and acquisitions, and it also requires a large amount of capital.

Because Xia Yu attaches great importance to Coca-Cola, and Polaris Capital already has a MGM film company in Hollywood, Peter Lynch is not able to make a decision, so he reports the situation to Xia Yu, hoping that he will make the decision. .

"咚...咚...咚......"

Looking at the information in his hand, Xia Yu smiled slightly, tapping the table with his fingers rhythmically, and the information about Coca-Cola in his previous life emerged in his mind.

In the past, the Coca-Cola Company also acquired Columbia Film Industries. The latter was in the hands of Coca-Cola Company, and many classic films appeared, and the company also went out of the trough.

It's just that the Coca-Cola Company's strategic plan to use movies to substantially drive Coke sales has failed.

But the Coca-Cola Company did not lose, because the Coca-Cola Company later sold the Columbia Film Industry Company to the island nation Sony Corporation for $5 billion.

So now Coca-Cola is willing to buy Columbia Pictures.

More importantly, Xia Yu is really not satisfied with owning only one MGM Pictures company. He hopes to occupy half of Hollywood and become the supreme king of Hollywood!

Let Polaris Capital buy a Hollywood giant again, too direct, too conspicuous, and easy to cause backlash.

Therefore, it is undoubtedly a good way to buy Columbia Film Industries in the name of Coca-Cola, and the success rate will even be higher than that of Polaris Capital, which already owns a Hollywood giant.

Even if the Coca-Cola Company does not need it in the future, it can be left-handed and right-handed.

There are so many benefits, so what is there to hesitate? Of course it is approved!

But at this time, Xia Yu saw Coca-Cola's plan from the information again, and he subconsciously frowned.

After calculating the time difference, it was found that San Francisco should be around nine o'clock in the morning. Xia Yu picked up the phone and called Peter Lynch's office.

After a while, the call was connected.

Xia Yu said very simply: "Peter, this is Xia Yu... The company is managed very well, I am very satisfied, thanks for your hard work..."

"Fully support the Coca-Cola Company to buy Columbia Pictures Industries, and strengthen the cooperation between MGM Pictures and it..."

"There is another point. The decision of Coca-Cola to change the formula is wrong. I disagree. The formula of Coca-Cola is the company's brand spirit, leading the loyalty of consumers. Changing the formula is to change the habits of all consumers and challenge their consumer beliefs. , The consequences are extremely serious, let the company use other methods to increase sales..."

"Pattern!"

After talking for more than ten minutes, Xia Yu hung up.

In later generations, the Coca-Cola Company changed its formula in the 1980s and was even called by the New York Times as one of the most significant mistakes made by the American business community in a century.

After only changing the formula for three months, angry consumers were reluctant to change back to the original formula. However, the damage caused by this process to Coca-Cola was extremely far-reaching, causing Coca-Cola’s sales to drop a lot and the market for nothing. Hand over to Pepsi-Cola Company.

Since Coca-Cola is now his own, how could he ignore it knowing that the management is making wrong decisions now?

Even if the management doesn't understand and is dissatisfied, Xia Yu doesn't care, and will change if the big deal comes.

He is the real controller, and his orders must be implemented!

……

In the next few days, Xia Yu, accompanied by George Berkeley, inspected the Royal Bank of Scotland and Standard Chartered Bank.

The personnel in these two banks were cleaned up again, and all the personnel belonging to the Rohill family or related personnel, whether they were senior executives or middle-level personnel, were dismissed.

Before the Rothschild family was still a shareholder, Xia Yu couldn't do it if he wanted to. Now that he has finally managed to fully control the two banks, he will naturally not hesitate.

The purpose of this is to keep it secret.

What's more, the Royal Bank of Scotland and Standard Chartered have been dragging on for long enough. If one thing is not done quickly, it is likely to suffer heavy losses.

That is, the sovereign debts to Latin American countries must be cleaned up as soon as possible!

When Xia Yu previously controlled the Royal Bank of Scotland and Standard Chartered, he asked George Berkeley to make statistics on the sovereign debt of these two banks against Latin American countries.

Among them, the Royal Bank of Scotland holds more than US$2.23 billion in sovereign debts of Latin American countries.

Standard Chartered Bank holds more than US$1.98 billion in sovereign debt to Latin American countries.

It is worth mentioning that Standard Chartered Bank also holds 39% of the shares of Standard Chartered Bank, the largest bank in South Africa.

Standard Chartered Bank of South Africa also holds more than US$670 million in sovereign debt to Latin American countries.

Before Xia Yu asked Duke Carter Howard to pit the Rothschild family, plotting to sell Lloyds Bank’s sovereign debt one after another, and most of them were deliberately transferred to Barclays at low prices.

But Barclays Bank has always been a shareholder of Royal Bank of Scotland and Standard Chartered Bank, so Xia Yu can't do anything at all.

Now that the Rohill family has been cleaned out, and the employees have also cleaned it out, then the time bomb of up to 4.2 billion US dollars held by the two banks must be thrown out as soon as possible.

Otherwise, once the Latin American sovereign debt crisis broke out and the Latin American countries refused to repay their debts, Xia Yu would have to lose more than 4.2 billion US dollars!

Therefore, after Xia Yu inspected the two banks and went back, he immediately called George Berkeley and the presidents of the two banks for a short meeting to clarify the work requirements.

Before June, all the sovereign debts of the Latin American countries held by the Royal Bank of Scotland and Standard Chartered should be cleared out and should be transferred to Barclays Bank as much as possible. Quality banks to be acquired.

During the meeting, the president of Standard Chartered Bank also asked whether or not Standard Chartered Bank of South Africa should also transfer its sovereign debt.

After all, Standard Chartered Bank is the largest shareholder of Standard Chartered Bank in South Africa. If the latter loses more than 670 million U.S. dollars, it is equivalent to a loss of more than 260 million U.S. dollars to the Standard Chartered Bank according to the proportion of equity.

This is a big number!

However, Xia Yu directly rejected the proposal of the President of Standard Chartered Bank.

First, letting South Africa's Standard Chartered Bank transfer sovereign debt will cause unnecessary risks.

Secondly, Xia Yu has a plan to make the South African Standard Chartered Bank, the largest commercial bank in South Africa and Africa, suffer heavy losses. It is not a great opportunity!

So after he clarified his ideas, the president of Standard Chartered Bank was pleasantly surprised and praised Xia Yu's brilliance.

After finishing the tasks of the two banks, Xia Yu was idle again.

He is still in the UK, there is only one thing left!

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PS: Two chapters are combined into one chapter. There is no update today, I hope you will know!

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