Bao John of HSBC Securities Affairs Department is 27 years old this year. He looks more like a financial elite than Chen Bi, who looks a little tougher. Bao John looks a little clean and well-proportioned than Chen Bi's wide skeleton. He has a typical British towering eagle-hook nose and nose shape. He is wearing a white polo shirt and cotton trousers with straight lines. He is wearing a golf glove on his left hand and is swinging his ball in a cool swing. As the small golf ball is hit, it rolls towards the hole against the slope of the turf and enters the hole accurately.

"Ten birds are worse than one bird in the hand!" After seeing the ball enter the hole, Bao John turned around and excitedly looked at Chen Bi, Song Tianyao, Anji Peris, Jiang Yongen and others next to him, clenched their fists and shouted an old-fashioned British proverb.

Song Tianyao and Chen Bi bit the cigar and gave a thumbs up at John Bao's beautiful ball and applauded.

He handed the club to the caddy, took off his gloves, and left the staff to repair the lawn. Bao John walked 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 hat. Instead of touching the lighter that asked for gold on the table, he chose an old long-handled match to light it, slowly spit out a silver-gray smoke, and said with a smile:

"I once thought of becoming a professional golfer when I was young, fighting side by side with Henry Curton, and teaching Americans a lesson in the Leiden Cup. Unfortunately, I couldn't score such a beautiful goal at that time. Mr. Song, your golf skills are also good, and it seems like I've practiced hard for it."

Song Tianyao smiled humbly: "I practice golf skills, just like the poor in the UK practice golf skills. Golf is just a springboard and a way to keep me away from poverty."

"That's it, that's it, Song, said it very correctly. These words are very frank. I have always said that poor people are not scary. Poor people do not know how to find shortcuts to get rid of poverty. The most terrible thing is that poor people who don't even want to move their minds cannot even be saved by God. It is not a bad habit to vote for others. You must have some common hobbies with everyone." Bao John said frankly to Song Tianyao that learning golf skills is for art and that he is very acknowledged as a way to communicate with others.

Jiang Yongen, who stood with Angie Peris in the distance and admired the green scenery, heard the words from John Bao, and was very dissatisfied. These British people did not understand the suffering of Hong Kong people at all. The poor British people may still have money to let their children practice cricket or golf, which are popular sports that British upper-class people pursue. After becoming famous athletes, they will immediately gain fame and fortune. However, the poor Chinese in Hong Kong, let alone practice golf courses, even if they practice in the open space outside their homes, they may not have the money to buy the cheapest golf club.

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

Chen Bi flipped his waist and bit a cigar in his mouth. Even though he joked, he had a sense of decisiveness on the battlefield. At this time, he said to John Bao: "Our Mr. Song's hobbies have recently changed from developing wigs in factories to playing golf, yachts and going to the horses to watch horse racing."

Song Tianyao opened his hands to Chen Bi and asked with confidence: "Is there anything wrong?"

"Yes, is there anything wrong?" Bao John also smiled at Chen Bi, saying: "You may think that Mr. Song can regard golf, yachts and horse racing as hobbies to meet rich people, capitalists, bankers, and factory owners, but first of all, there is an absolute premise, that is, he is already qualified to use these hobbies to show that he is no different from those who are going to meet. However, horse racing in the Jockey Club seems to cost a little more than the hobbies of yachts and golf."

"I plan to spend three to five years with Mr. Song to find a high-quality racehorse with reasonable prices, buy it, and then participate in the Hong Kong Cup competition held by the Jockey Club." Chen Bi held a cigar next to him and said in a joke: "There is no need to win the championship, just the results are needed to suppress the 'Prince of Persian' of Jardine Mahjong. I heard that the racehorse has been making HSBC people who deliberately lost their minds for several consecutive years, so I think it is safer to buy a horse and suppress it."

Bao John laughed: "Actually, the little grudges between HSBC and Jardine have nothing to do with us today, but it's so strange. When I graduated from college and joined HSBC, I naturally began to feel that the name Jardine was very annoying. Moreover, after my college classmate entered Jardine’s job, the word HSBC was the same as my reaction to the word Jardine.”

Song Tianyao had heard of the grudges and grudges between Jardine and HSBC for nearly a hundred years before when chatting with Shen Bi, but if it weren't for Chen Bi's mention, Song Tianyao wouldn't have known that so many interesting things had happened between these two giants.

HSBC and Jardine Centre are two giants of British people in Hong Kong. Although Jardine Centre now has a board seat on the board of directors of HSBC, both parties look like a combination of interests, the filth behind these two combinations over the past century has made employees of the two companies talk about it more relish and laughed at than their superficial respect.

A hundred years ago, in the early days of HSBC's establishment, Jardine Mahjong was already the first of the five major commercial banks in the Far East. When HSBC invited various foreign banks to invest in HSBC, Jardine Mahjong was the first to jump out and refuse. When HSBC applied for a business license, Jardine Mahjong was the first to oppose it, and even showed fierce performance. From London to Hong Kong, almost all departments arranged people to lobby to lay out obstacles for the establishment of HSBC.

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

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

In order to maintain close relations with the Chinese business community and government, Jardine Wong has also loaned money banks and local governments in China. If it invests in HSBC, it means that Jardine Wong’s own financial businesses must be incorporated into HSBC Bank. The old Jardine Wong Bank refused to invest in HSBC because it was unwilling to give up its profitable international exchange and loan business, so it refused to invest in HSBC.

Jardines is unwilling to give up its banking business that is so huge that it surpasses most money banks and banks. This is also the manifestation of the sharpening of the contradiction between Ocean Bank and professional banks at that time. Therefore, it is not surprising that Jardines takes fierce action during the process of applying for a business license in HSBC. It was originally the fat meat in its own bowl, but now it has become the food in others' bowls. How can it swallow this?

If HSBC is officially established, it must issue a licensing order by the Governor of Hong Kong to complete legislation in Hong Kong and obtain approval from the British government. HSBC officially opened in Hong Kong on March 3, 1865, but after obtaining the business license and licensing order from the British government, it was August 14, 1866, which means that HSBC opened in Hong Kong for more than a year without any legal procedures.

Although HSBC has achieved great success in its Hong Kong business over the past year, its business license has been delayed for more than a year before it has been obtained. Such delays have led to the obstruction of Jardinet Foreign Company.

Moreover, the initiators of HSBC were all well-known British foreign banks that were doing business in China. Several of them were rivals of Jardine Wong, especially Jardine Wong's eyes, Baoshun Foreign Bank was the main initiator of HSBC. His old rival was HSBC. Of course, Jardine Wong did not want to deal with HSBC.

At that time, John Diandi, the senior member of Baoshun Foreign Bank, who was the first to initiate HSBC Bank, was moved by Jardine Mai-obstructing HSBC's establishment, so he took action. However, the method of this senior member was not a shopping mall strategy, but an absolute lower-class method. Jardine had no way to prevent HSBC from being established, so he just wanted to add disgust to Jardine.

When Jardine Jardine ran to London to put pressure on the British Treasury to prevent HSBC from obtaining its business license, Mr. John Diandi broke out a lot of money without saying a word and put David Jardine's beautiful mistress in Hong Kong in bed.

Moreover, in the Hong Kong Cup horse racing competition, John Dingdi spent a lot of money and bought a purebred horse, which won the Hong Kong Cup where Jardinet, Robert Jardine won for several years.

HSBC's board member at that time, John Diandi, a typical character with a personality, used these two things to announce to Jardinet that if you do my business, I will deal with your women and horses.

John's two things he did were rumored to be talked about in the upper class of British society. He was indeed too arrogant and domineering. HSBC did not get a business license, but on the day he opened his business, he held the woman who took the money to seduce the big brother Jardine's in bed with his left hand, and the purebred horse that snatched the Hong Kong Cup from Jardine's hand with his right hand. The two big brothers Jardine's foreign company's faces were swollen and green.

The most embarrassing thing for men is that women and honors are taken away.

Then the king of foreign trade, Yihe, grinding her fangs, was ready to take an opportunity to take a move.

As the American Civil War ended in 1866, the cotton industry crisis that shocked Europe broke out. During the American Civil War, cotton from Mumbai in India was speculating widely as a substitute for American cotton. British capitalists who made money by making money were the first to be short-selling. Dozens of old British banks were in danger. Within three months, seven consecutive British banks declared bankruptcy. Three or four banks that had cross-holdings with John Diandi were about to go bankrupt. Moreover, with the outbreak of the cotton industry crisis, the real estate bubbles in Mumbai and Shanghai burst, and the price of a large amount of land stock that the Baoshun Foreign Company hoarded in Mumbai and Shanghai plummeted.

At that time, almost everyone was affected by British banks or foreign banks. Only Jardinet Bank had judged that the American civil war would end soon with its advanced vision, and the speculative feast was over. Therefore, it dealt with the cotton business and Mumbai and Shanghai early, made a big profit, left the market early, and began to transform after getting out of this speculation, and turned its attention to China's railway and port business.

Many foreign banks and banks were dragged down by debts and bankruptcy was imminent. Half a year ago, he slept with the big woman from Jardine Mahjong and snatched each other's trophy, the main initiator of HSBC Bank, Baoshun Foreign Bank was also among them.

In desperation, Baoshun and several other foreign companies sought emergency rescue from Jardinea, which had already earned money.

Song Tianyao speculated that John Diandi might have gone to Jardine Mahjong for help back then roughly the following picture:

John was crying with tears in his eyes: "Brother, please help me, we all traveled across the ocean to the east, and we always had a deep friendship."

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

John Dingdi immediately said, "My woman and the trophy are outside, and I have already brought it."

After Robert Jardine finished his fun, he held his toothpick in his mouth and said, "The landlords don't have any surplus food, so let's do it. If you transfer the four-wheel route on the Yangtze River to me, I'll consider helping you through the difficulties."

Then John Diandi immediately offered a price: "One hundred yuan, four ships and one route, and I will sell you immediately."

"Didn't you tell you that the landlord's family has no surplus food? Twenty yuan."

"fxxkyou! You are cutting my flesh!" John cursed and immediately said happily: "Trade!"

"I'll think about it for another two months. Now I'll only cost five dollars in my pocket. I'll give you five dollars first. The route is mine. If you take five dollars, buy a bun first and I'll go with your wife."

"I'll take your lungs. If I have another chance, I will kill you!" John looked at Robert Jardine with a bumpy look at his wife and walked away, looking at the five dollars on the ground in despair. Five dollars is not enough to buy steamed buns to overcome the difficulties.

Then, there was no chance to kill his opponent. John Jardine and his Baoshun Foreign Company went bankrupt because of Jardine’s death. The new HSBC lost its most important pillar and the situation was in jeopardy. Jardine wanted to take advantage of the crisis to drive HSBC all out in one fell swoop, forcing it to a dead end to bankruptcy and close.

However, whether it is the British Ministry of Finance, the Hong Kong Colonial Government, or even other sponsors of HSBC Bank, they all realized that if HSBC collapses again, Jardine Mahjong will really cover up the sky in Hong Kong and China, and the British government itself does not want to see Jardine Mahjong in a completely unrestricted state.

So under the rescue of the three parties, HSBC barely breathed this breath and failed to follow the footsteps of Baoshun Foreign Company.

HSBC also began to realize that it could not be against Jardine Jardine on the surface like John Dingdi's idiot, but to have a good relationship with each other. Therefore, since 1866, it has frequently extended olive branches to invite Jardine Jardine to invest in HSBC, but Jardine Jardine remained arrogant. It was not until 1877 that HSBC was indeed qualified to be faced by Jardine Jardine, and the two sides started cooperation.

But even after cooperation, both sides always use open and hidden arrows and make endless moves.

Even John's obscene way of flirting with each other's women and robbing each other's honors has been repeated several times over the past century.

Maybe a certain Jardine Map employee was unknown before, but if he could get the mistress or wife of a manager of HSBC, he would definitely become a hero in history within Jardine Map.

On the contrary, HSBC is the same.

In fact, these are just jokes for Song Tianyao.

For him, Jardine & HSBC are two giant beasts. Chinese businessmen who want to deal with the British must learn to take sides, either choose HSBC in the UK or surrender to Jardine & HSBC in the UK.

Since Lin Xizhen, the Lin family has always followed Jardine’s footsteps. Song Tianyao has no right to eat dust by relying on it.
Chapter completed!