Chapter 2057 Controlling the British People's Livelihood

Recently, Li Zeju and Hutchison executives have frequently traveled to the United States and Canada. On the one hand, it is about investment in ports, and on the other hand, it is the acquisition of telecommunications companies in Canada and the United States.

This was discussed with Feng Yu before, and Ralph in the US can handle it, but Li Zeju has an advantage in Canada, after all, he is now a Canadian citizen.

On the British side, there are also senior executives from Changshi who come and go frequently, and even Li Ren went there in person last month.

This month, good news came. The business of the British power grid has been negotiated. Yesterday, Mr. Li went to sign the contract in person. Although the profit is not high, the income is very stable, but it needs to invest another sum of money to carry out the transformation of the power grid.

Moreover, a breakthrough has been made in the negotiation of the British water company, and now the final price is only a matter of time. After the acquisition, nearly 8% of the tap water supply in the UK will be their business.

And this is not the end, Li felt that the 8% share was too low and the competitiveness was weak. So at the same time, I am negotiating with another company that supplies domestic water and sewage treatment, planning to acquire it at the same time, and then merge it, then the share will increase a lot, especially the right to speak in the industry will be greatly improved.

This investment is expected to be close to three billion US dollars.

If it was simply Changshi Company, the working capital would not be enough at all, but now with Feng Yu's investment, there is no need to worry about it. What's more, Li Ren and other shareholders have also injected capital into it, and the current Changji is far stronger than the same period in the previous life.

Li Ren is also extremely prestigious in the UK, and has inextricable relationships with many rich people in the UK.

This time, Li Ren was also received by the Queen of England, and talked a lot about his vision for the British market. It just so happens that the UK wants to vigorously attract foreign investment and use foreign investment to stimulate the local economy and drive the UK's economic development.

The two hit it off, and everyone was happy.

Li Ren has long planned to enter the British market on a large scale, and this is also implicitly supported by Huaxia. Maintaining closer cooperation with the United Kingdom can divide the relationship between the United Kingdom and the United States to a certain extent.

After the economic crisis, the United States is struggling to revive its economy. Chinese companies have invested heavily, nominally to help the U.S. economy recover, but in fact to make money. The U.S. market is still the most active market in the world.

The damage to the UK is also among the top in Europe. They want to maintain their own economic development and keep their income from falling too much, and they also want to invest in countries that have not been seriously hit this time.

During this period of time, China not only bought the national debt of the United States, but also the national debt of the United Kingdom and many European countries. This is equivalent to a big moneylender, playing the role of a bank, and everyone else is working for Huaxia Bank to make money.

No matter how much you earn, my risk is the lowest and my income is the most stable. In particular, Huaxia specifically emphasized the exchange rate changes this time, subject to Huaxia's decision, when the time comes, you will be asked to repay in pounds, dollars, euros or RMB, and it is up to Huaxia to choose.

I don't need to buy your national debt, if you want me to buy it, that's the condition. At the same time, we need to relax our Huaxia corporate investment policy, give some preferential treatment, and allow settlement in Rmb for some projects.

In the past, some advantageous enterprises in Huaxia wanted to go out, but it was very difficult. Now that the conditions have been lowered and the strength of the enterprise itself has been improved, it will be much easier to go out.

Feng Yu told Li Ren that don't just invest in electricity and water, but also consider other aspects. Mr. Li thinks the same way, and they are talking about gas, transportation, communication and other aspects.

In the previous life, Li didn't have so much liquidity, and many acquisitions were much slower. But in this life, the Li people are richer, and with Feng Yu as a powerful ally, many acquisition negotiations were carried out almost at the same time.

Now many executives of Cheung Kong and Hutchison often travel between the UK and Xiangjiang, and the progress of negotiations will change every day.

The gas network in the UK is considered good in the world.

There is one thing to prove. At the beginning, London was the city of fog, and the sky was full of fog, which was known all over the world.

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

If it is said that the British air treatment technology is not bad now, but the British air treatment technology at that time was actually very scumbag.

Water, electricity, gas, transportation, and communications are all areas that Li Ren's business is good at. Although Li Ren has also invested in a variety of businesses, which can be regarded as diversified investment, but these five types are the foundation of Li Ren's enterprise.

They need to strengthen their advantageous business and use their rich management experience in this area to ensure continuous expansion of business, continuous improvement of profits, and continuous reduction of costs.

And the UK is also a market he specially selected. Europe's financial, trade, and information center has a very strong regional advantage and a very good market radiation.

In particular, the UK's manufacturing industry is very strong, and its cutting-edge scientific and technological research capabilities are world-class. This has little to do with Li, but it has a lot to do with China.

Although China is the world's top manufacturing country and a member of the BRIC countries, it is considered to be the economic center of the world fifty years later, but there are still many weaknesses.

Some are things that you spend money on, and you may not be able to surpass them in a short period of time, because the gap is too large. It is very likely that you have spent a lot of money, but what you have researched is someone else's technology a few years ago.

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

There is an industry that can be a representative here, and that is the automobile industry. At first, it was several decades behind the world's developed countries, and then after continuous purchases, introduction of foreign advanced technology, and even allowing the other party to invest in technology, it drove the development of the industry and slowly caught up with the world's counterparts.

Although there is still some gap from the world's number one, the gap is not completely hopeless to catch up. Even China's car companies have developed from introduction to going out.

What makes Feng Yu unhappy is that it will be so difficult to acquire a British telecommunications company. This is the most beneficial industry for Feng Yu, which can form complementary advantages with Feng Yu's other industries.

What Huaxia Zhengfu is more concerned about is the acquisition of the British railway by the Li people. Once successful, the high-speed rail can be introduced to the UK, and the German and French competitors will be eliminated.

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

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