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Chapter 326 I Can't Sleep Until You Die

As September arrived, Haofeng Group's investment department received long-awaited good news.

This clandestine operation, involving transnational technology and sensitive semiconductor raw materials, consumed months of effort from Haofeng's investment and legal departments.

They bypassed multiple layers of regulation, utilizing dozens of fictitious offshore trust funds hidden in Switzerland and the Cayman Islands, and had foreign agents hired at high salaries overseas conduct multiple rounds of small-scale fundraising.

Without alerting the Ministry of Finance and financial regulators, they quietly acquired a full 5% stake in Shin-Etsu Chemical on the secondary market!

This cross-border acquisition, aimed at breaking into the upstream bottleneck of high-end photoresist and large silicon wafers, cost Haofeng Group a whopping 13 billion RMB!

Almost simultaneously, another, even larger, fund transfer was also completed.

The 36 billion RMB investment agreement signed with Wang Jianlin, the richest man in China, involving Wanda's delisting, was also transferred to Wanda Commercial Management's corporate account under the personal control of CFO Gao Huai.

The two expenditures combined amount to a staggering 50 billion RMB!

Within just half a month, thanks to the almost miraculous scheduling ability of Haofeng's financial system, the full payment and transaction were completed!

The cornerstone that supports these two substantial investments...

It is naturally Haofeng Animation and Film City, a subsidiary of Haofeng Group that was spun off and restructured for listing!

……

Just a week ago, in the trading hall of the Shanghai Stock Exchange.

As Li Fengdai rang the bell amidst great anticipation, this super cultural tourism project, covering tens of thousands of acres and combining a real-life retro street with top global animation IPs, was officially launched.

With the green channel opened by the provincial and municipal governments, it took only three months to announce its successful listing on the A-share main board market!

The stock price surged immediately upon opening! It hit the daily limit up for several consecutive trading days!

With the support of the capital market and retail investors, the overall market value of Haofeng Animation and Film City has been driven up to 50 billion RMB!

This is not only the fourth listed company under the Haofeng Group, but also the first truly substantial stock in the A-share main board, representing a technology and culture concept of film and television bases and animation parks!

Its potential for imagination and its premium concept are unparalleled in today's market!

Li Feng's financial techniques during this IPO showcased the art of leverage to its fullest extent.

......

"Discarding the 20% of original shares purchased by the province with 8 billion yuan, and then discarding the 20% allocated to retail investors..."

Inside the president's office, the chief secretary, Zhang Yuxi, was handing two agreements, freshly stamped with the official seal of the provincial trust agency, to Li Feng.

"Boss, you personally still hold a 60% controlling stake."

"As you instructed, the investment department has already completed the connection with the provincial trust."

"We appropriated 30% of the shares and pledged them to provincial financial institutions, obtaining a low-interest cash loan of 10 billion RMB!"

"However, boss..."

When Zhang Yuxi was doing the accounting, even though she was used to seeing all sorts of things, a hint of fear still flashed in her eyes.

"With the 10 billion yuan loan newly pledged in the province, our group's total apparent liabilities have now reached 180 billion yuan!"

"180 billion?" Li Feng seemed unfazed by the staggering figure.

As the saying goes, having too many lice makes you less itchy.

"It's not 1.8 trillion, this is nothing!"

……

This rapid listing, which took only three months and whose approval process in Beijing seemed almost perfunctory, naturally caused quite a stir in the domestic business community.

The person most affected was none other than Wang Jianlin, the richest man in China and head of Wanda Group.

It's worth noting that since he completed his delisting from the Hong Kong stock market last month, he has been eagerly anticipating Wanda Commercial Management's rapid relisting on the A-share market.

But Lao Wang, who had made several trips to the China Securities Regulatory Commission, had been met with many setbacks over the past two weeks.

The various cumbersome audits, the complicated local equity disputes, and the tightening of national financing policies for real estate companies made Wanda's listing process seem far less smooth than he had initially imagined.

When Shenzhen Real Estate Group bought Vanke shares from him, they promised to give it the green light, but now, let alone Wanda, even Xu's attempt to backdoor list Shenzhen Real Estate Group has not yet yielded any results.

But what about Li Feng?!

It's nothing more than a cultural tourism project for a film and television city, launched on a whim, and rang the bell in three months!

Old Wang saw all this and couldn't help but feel envious, jealous, and resentful!

"Ring ring—"

The phone on the desk vibrated, and the name flashing on the screen was Wang, the richest man in China.

"Oh my! Brother Li! Congratulations! Great news!!" As soon as the call connected, Old Wang's hearty and enthusiastic laughter pierced through the receiver.

"I saw the news about Haofeng Animation and Film City's listing on the A-share market! It's had a week of consecutive limit-up days! Liangjiang Province really went all out to support you this time."

"This level of prestige is making me envious!"

Li Feng greeted him politely, "Brother Wang, you flatter me. I'm just making a living thanks to good policies and support from the province."

"In terms of physical strength, how can Haofeng compare with Wanda?"

"Brother Li, don't be so modest with your older brother."

Old Wang on the other end of the phone changed the subject, his tone becoming more pleading and probing:

"To be honest, Wanda Pictures and Wanda Commercial Management are currently finalizing their applications with several securities firms."

However, the market sentiment in the A-shares sector has been extremely tight lately, and the queuing process is incredibly cumbersome.

"Brother, you are now a prominent figure in Liangjiang Province, and you have influence in Nanjing and at the higher levels."

"Considering our years of cooperation, could you please do me a favor and pull some strings?"

Old Wang was asking him to sound out the higher-ups, or even say a few good words for Wanda, so that they could make things easier for Wanda's listing plan, which was stuck in the approval process.

"Haha, don't worry, Brother Wang, we're brothers, what's Wanda's business is my business!"

Li Feng agreed readily over the phone, his voice full of enthusiasm:

"Next time I go to the provincial capital to report on my work, I'll definitely find an opportunity to mention it to the leaders in person!"

"If I can help, I'll definitely do it!"

"Good brother! You're so generous! I'm really indebted to you for this! Once this is done, I'll definitely throw a banquet to thank you properly!" Old Wang was overjoyed and hung up the phone with profuse thanks.

I heard the busy tone coming from my phone.

Li Feng casually tossed his phone onto the table, and the enthusiasm and smile on his face quickly vanished without a trace.

Is this paving the way for Wanda's A-share listing?

The depth in Li Feng's eyes seemed to see through the tragedies of the era that would unfold in the next few years.

With a stroke of his pen, he signed that $3.6 billion bet with Wang Jianlin, precisely because he had accurately predicted that Wanda would have no chance of successfully listing on the A-share market within the next two or three years, given the high-pressure red line of the government's real estate regulation!

If he were to mediate for Lao Wang now, and something unexpected happened that actually led to Wanda's successful listing on the A-share market...

Then the richest man in China would have a lot of funds coming back, and the Wanda empire would be revived.

Then how will Li Feng continue to exploit the cinema chains under Lao Wang's name?!

"Brother Wang, it's not like I'm being unreasonable as a younger brother." Li Feng muttered to himself as he looked out the window at the gradually darkening sky.

"As the saying goes, it's better to die for your fellow Daoists than for me."

"Besides, that monopolistic theater chain is still in your own hands, brother."

"I can't sleep if you don't die."