Recently, Li Zeju and Hutchison Whampoa's executives have frequently gone to the United States and Canada. On the one hand, it is about investment in ports, and on the other hand, it is about acquiring telecom companies in Canada and the United States.

This was discussed with Feng Yu before. Ralph can handle it in the United States, but Li Zeju has an advantage in Canada. After all, he is now Canadian.

In the UK, Cheung Kong executives also frequently interacted with each other. Last month, Li Chaoren even went there in person.

This month, good news came. The business of the British power grid has been negotiated. Yesterday, Li Chaoren personally signed the contract, with a total price of about US$9 billion, controlling one-third of the UK's electricity supply. Although the profit is not high, the profit is very stable, and it only requires another amount of money to transform the power grid.

In addition, the negotiations on British water companies have also made breakthrough progress, and now the final price is not enough. After the acquisition, nearly 8% of the UK's tap water supply is their business.

And that's not all. Li Chaoren felt that 8% of the share was too low and his competitiveness was weak. So he was negotiating with another company that supplies domestic water and sewage treatment, intending to acquire it at the same time and then merge it, so the share would be greatly increased, especially greatly increasing the industry's voice.

This investment is expected to be close to $3 billion.

If it is Cheung Kong, the working capital is not enough, but now with Feng Yu's investment, there is no need to worry. What's more, Li Chaoren and other shareholders have also injected capital into it. The current Changji is far stronger than the same period in the previous life.

Li Chaoren is also extremely prestigious in the UK and has a close relationship with many local rich people in the UK.

This time, Li Chaoren was also received by the British Queen and talked about his ideas about the British market. It just so happened that the UK wanted to vigorously attract foreign capital, use foreign capital to drive the local economy and drive the economic development of the UK.

The two hit it off and they were all happy.

Li Chaoren has long planned to enter the British market, and this is also a vague support from China. Maintaining closer cooperation with the UK can differentiate the relationship between the UK and the United States to a certain extent.

After the economic crisis, the United States is struggling to revitalize its economy. Chinese companies have invested a lot, namely to help the United States economy recover, but in fact, it is to make money. The American market is still the most active market in the world.

The UK is also among the top in Europe. They want to maintain their own economic development and keep their income from being reduced too much. They also want to invest in countries that are not seriously hit this time.

During this period, China not only bought US government bonds, but also bought US government bonds from many countries in Europe. This is equivalent to a large debt lender, playing the role of a bank, and others are working for China, the bank, making money.

No matter how much you make, I have the lowest risk and the most stable returns. Especially this time, Huaxia specifically emphasized exchange rate changes, which will be subject to Huaxia's decision. At that time, you will be asked to repay the pound, US dollar, euro or rmb, and Huaxia will choose.

I can't buy your treasury bonds. If I want me to buy them, this is the condition. At the same time, we must relax our China corporate investment policies and give some preferential treatment. We must allow settlement in RMB on some projects.

In the past, some advantageous companies in China wanted to go out, but it was very difficult. Now that the conditions have been reduced, the company's own strength has been improved, and it will be much easier to go out again.

Feng Yu told Li Chaoren that he should not only invest in electricity and water, but also consider other aspects. Li Chaoren also thinks so, and is also talking about gas, transportation, communications, etc.

In his previous life, Li Chaoren did not have so much liquidity, and many acquisitions were much slower. However, in this life, Li Chaoren was even richer, and with Feng Yu, a powerful ally, many acquisition negotiations were conducted almost at the same time.

Now many executives of Cheung Kong and Hutchison often travel between the UK and Hong Kong. Every day, the negotiation progress will change.

The British gas network is good all over the world, and one thing can be proved. London was foggy at the time, and the sky was full of fog, and it was known to the whole world.

Later, many people thought that the UK had managed it itself, which was better air purification technology. But the most fundamental reason was that the UK discovered a huge natural gas field and then took the lead in building urban natural gas supply pipelines, which allowed the UK to reduce the combustion of coal and charcoal and reduce a large amount of waste gas emissions. This is the fundamental reason.

If the UK's governance technology is pretty good now, the UK's air governance technology was actually very terrible at that time.

Water, electricity, gas, transportation, and communication are all good at Li Chaoren's company. Although Li Chaoren has also invested in a variety of businesses, it can be regarded as diversified investment, these five types are the foundation of Li Chaoren's company.

They must strengthen their advantageous business and use their rich management experience in this area to ensure that the business continues to expand, profits continue to increase, and costs continue to decrease.

In addition, the UK is also a market he specially selected. Europe's financial, trade, information center, and regional advantages are very strong, and the market radiation is very good.

Especially the UK's manufacturing industry is very strong and its cutting-edge technology R&D capabilities are world-class. This has little to do with Li Chaoren, but it has a great relationship with China.

Although China is the world's top manufacturing power and a member of the BRICS countries, it is considered to be the economic center of the world fifty years later, there are still many weak areas.

Some of the things you spend money may not be able to surpass in a short period of time, because the gap is too big. It is very likely that you spent a lot of money but what you have developed is the technology from someone else a few years ago.

It is better to spend money directly to buy some more advanced technologies and then develop them to reach the forefront of the world.

There is an industry that can be represented here, that is, the automobile industry. It was originally a decades away from the developed countries in the world. Then, after continuous purchases, the introduction of advanced foreign technologies, and even allowing the other party to invest in technology, thus driving the development of the industry and slowly catching up with the world's peers.

Although there is still some gap between the world's number one, this gap is no longer completely invisible to catch up. Even the Chinese car companies have developed from bringing in to going out.

But what makes Feng Yu unhappy is that it will be so difficult to acquire British telecommunications companies. This is the most beneficial industry for Feng Yu, and it can form a complementary advantage with Feng Yu's other industries.

What makes China Zhengfu more concerned is Li Chaoren's acquisition of British Railway. Once successful, the high-speed rail can be introduced to the UK, thus eliminating the German and French competitors.

In the future, many netizens around the world will say that Li Chaoren controls the people's livelihood in the UK, but perhaps many people will not notice that Feng Yu is behind it.
Chapter completed!