Reinventing the Millennium.

Chapter 351 I Want to Make a Mistake (Two in One)

With the arrival of Sina CEO Wang Yan, other Sina executives and people from Yangcheng Xunlong also arrived in Shanghai on the same day.

Because considering the current situation, there are not many people from both sides, and they all have normal physical performance for many days.

Fang Zhuo showed proper etiquette to Yangcheng Xunlong, thinking that this would be a perfect win-win situation, where the other party would take the money and his own side would gain a higher market value.

With regard to the wireless value-added market, after Sina merged with Xunlong, it can basically declare that it has the status of sitting on the top of the list. There is also TOM, a listed company in Xiangjiang, in front of it.

There is still a lot of potential to be tapped in this market, and 2003 is destined to be a year full of big service providers.

On the morning of March 3, the contract that has been reviewed and negotiated was signed by the president of Sina under the camera, marking the successful acquisition of Xunlong by Sina, and it also means that Sina's first-quarter financial report will be very good.

At the same time, Sina's board of directors will undergo changes in June this year. Those who should abdicate will abdicate, and those who should leave the market will leave. The new management has already used the stock price to prove who is next.

This afternoon, Sina Corporation issued a concise announcement, stating that it has completed a major asset acquisition.

As of the closing time of NASDAQ in the United States, the closing price of SINA broke through 20 US dollars.

That is, on the night when the stock price had a historic breakthrough, all Sina employees received another open letter from President Fang Zhuo.

Compared with the last open letter widely circulated in the industry, Fang Zhuo's this time is quite long.

He didn't express much emotion, but just talked about Sina's establishment, development, breakthroughs, twists and turns, listing, turmoil... until today.

However, such a straightforward narration made many old employees feel deeply, and many people even watched it with tears in their eyes, because they were either bystanders or experienced all this themselves.

Although Fang Zhuo talked about the development of the times and the efforts of all employees in the open letter, everyone still subconsciously compared him with Sina's past senior management.

Wang Zhidong failed, Jiang Fengnian failed, Mao Daolin failed, Duan Yongji failed.

Fang Zhuo did it.

Sina's stock price exceeded the issue price for the first time, breaking through the 20-dollar threshold, and the last peaceful conclusion of the open letter.

——This is just a new starting point.

This night, many Sina employees tossed and turned. Unlike last year's high-level turmoil, everyone was full of expectations and yearning for the future.

Huaxia companies, especially Internet companies like Sina, which have struggled to develop and go public, have a lot of founder feelings and labels.

Even though Fang Zhuo gained control through struggle, some people in the company still regard Wang Zhidong as a symbol in their hearts, not to mention the middle-level faction influenced by Duan Yongji.

When Fang Zhuo competed for Sina, his methods were quite fierce. When he really became the president, he didn't care much about this faction or that faction, as long as he could do things.

Today, with the peak stock price, internal tenderness, and external development, the situation is thriving, and the industry status is eye-catching. The president is not only the president authorized by the board of directors, but also the president of the employees.

On April 4, Fang Zhuo held a management meeting after Sina's acquisition of Xunlong on the 1rd floor of Hang Lung, and listened in detail to everyone's suggestions for the wireless value-added market.

In fact, it is not easy for Sina to focus on developing a leading position in this market, because competitors adopt a style of text message content without borders, which is still very attractive to users.

But it is also easy to spoil the market.

Regardless of China Mobile or China Unicom, they temporarily focus on market coverage or supervision and cannot keep up with development, but they will eventually make adjustments to this.

Fang Zhuo considers that from this aspect, he can actively promote value-added services with benign content with operators, so as not to let bad money drive out good money.

It is not only to regulate the market, but also to narrow the gap with the previous ones.

The meeting lasted for a long time, and some personnel adjustments were made, and we also talked about the key points of Sina's current news.

In the evening, the meeting ended.

This is Wang Yan's first visit to the 23rd floor of Hang Lung in Yike, and it is inevitable to browse and appreciate it.

He will not return to Beijing immediately when he comes to Shanghai this time, and will stay until the 10th of this month to attend the Internet Industry Development Conference scheduled to be held on the Bund.

The meeting was jointly held by the three major portal websites. It was originally scheduled to be held in Beijing, but considering the situation in Beijing in March, it was changed to Shanghai. Tencent, Alibaba, Baidu and other well-developed industry companies were invited.

Because of the same factor, the number of participants has also been reduced, but the gold content is still high.

"Mr. Fang, the president's office here is very nice."

Wang Yan walked around the entire 23rd floor and walked back to the President's Office.

"Jinmao is better. If you have nothing to do tomorrow, you can go and have a look. There is half a floor of Sina just below the 22nd floor. You can also work there." Fang Zhuo said with a smile.

Wang Yan nodded, and chatted about the meeting ten days later: "Baidu is developing really well now, Mr. Fang, do you think we can try its field?"

"We still have more media attributes, and we don't have search engine technical talents. I heard that Alibaba is going to engage in B2C, and the merchant resource reserve in their hands is a big threshold." Fang Zhuo shook his head slightly, but he did consider Sina. new growth point.

The wireless value-added market can be used as a short-to-medium-term profit point, but it cannot be relied on for a long time, and it is very easy to be restricted and fall into a red ocean.

Like Netease, its development in the wireless value-added market is not as good as that of Sina, but its performance in the game field is very strong. Although the stock price will not catch up with Sina for a while, the follow-up growth is still worth looking forward to.

Of course, Fang Zhuo thinks this way based on his identity as the fund controller.

"Everyone is very competitive in e-mail these days." Wang Yan talked about work, and the competition in the industry sometimes comes and goes, "Don't follow up, seeing other companies occupy the market, follow up, e-mail There is no good profit point."

"Enterprises are all about making money." Fang Zhuo smiled. The competition for e-mail was reflected in the report. Apart from considering a certain company, he has no other intentions for the time being.

Regarding the wireless value-added market and the competition of e-mail, these are topics that can be discussed at industry development conferences.

Fang Zhuo also wanted to hear the opinions of other heads.

"Mr. Fang, when I came here, I also received a call from the leader, who praised Sina's performance in news reports during this period." Wang Yan gave another feedback.

Sina City Channel was the first to report and remind in Guangdong Province, and then released news together with CCTV, followed by a special page, and then set up a front-line news team.

This series of actions was noticed by the higher authorities and leaders. Although there were a few hours of tidbits in the Yangcheng News, the follow-up situation has proved Sina's keen insight.

That's a huge plus.

"Well, I don't know how much our news can help. I think it's better than nothing. Oh yes, regarding this point, you just came to Shanghai. I have an idea. Is it safe to listen to it?" Fang Zhuo Zheng said, "Can Yike, Yike and Sina jointly do something for those medical staff who have paid?"

"Sina can be praised by the public, and the three companies can support the families behind them. If there are young people of the right age, they can also give priority to jobs."

Domestic medical staff have already made painful sacrifices, which were mentioned in the report of the front-line working group of Sina.

"Yes." Wang Yan agreed.

Fang Zhuo thought about it and said, "I mean, this matter can be done quietly, without publicity."

Wang Yan was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and said, "This kind of thing can be announced in a high-profile manner. Mr. Fang is still afraid that someone will say that we will not succeed in fishing for fame? It is a good thing in itself, and those who pay are rewarded by social enterprises. I think it is also worthy of publicity."

"I think that if it is mentioned repeatedly, those families that have been hurt will be hurt again." Fang Zhuo said.

Wang Yan thought for a while, and said, "Let me watch this matter myself, and pay attention to it, it's still good."

"Well, I don't worry about Brother Wang's work." Fang Zhuo affirmed.

"I feel comfortable working under the guidance of Mr. Fang's values." Wang Yan replied quite sincerely.

"There is also a matter of values." Fang Zhuo said seriously, "I won't play games for Brother Wang at night. If you want to eat, just have someone take you there. You can solve this by yourself."

Wang Yan gave a questioning expression.

"My mother made dumplings at night and told me to go back and eat them." Fang Zhuo was serious.

"it is good……"

Wang Yan only remembered one thing after seeing the president leave. He could propose to come to eat dumplings together without disturbing Mr. Fang's values.

……

At the beginning of April, the temperature in Shanghai has risen, generally at 4-14 degrees.

However, Xu Mingchang, who was busy with the reconstruction of the old city in Jing'an District, did not feel better. First, this key project was affected by many dimensional factors, and the progress was lower than expected.

Second, he has paid more attention to the development of the Internet and found that the growth rate of Sina's stock price is so fast that Fang Zhuo is rushing to become the richest man in the mainland.

One price a day, growing every day.

As a rich man who also stirs up troubles in the secondary trading market, Xu Mingchang is considering whether to also control a listed Internet company.

However, not to mention that the Internet is generally bullish this year, even this liquidity will be difficult to come up with for a while.

On April 4, Xu Mingchang encountered an incident that made him angry. A bank urged the company to repay the loan in advance.

Xu Mingchang was extremely dissatisfied and directly called the president.

Without saying anything, the other party also lost his temper, and directly responded.

"You're not the richest man in Shencheng anymore, what are you talking about?"

Xu Mingchang angrily reprimanded the other party, thinking that some people in the bank have extremely low professional ability, and they can only make loans if they make loans. What does this have to do with whether the capital is rich or not?
A day later, Xu Mingchang borrowed a sum of money to repay the company's loan in advance, and at the same time looked for a new bank to provide funds.

Sometimes fame is money.

Xu Mingchang has a deep understanding of this point, so he is considering another interview with the media to show the size of the rich.

Two days later, Xu Mingchang met reporters at the door of his company, and was asked about wealth again.

This time, his reply was simple and direct.

"The list is all scribbled. I and my family have a wealth of 400 billion. How could it be only 3.2 million US dollars? It's just ridiculous."

3.2 million US dollars is the number calculated by the Forbes rich list, which is just over 26 billion US dollars when converted into Huaxia coins.

And Xu Mingchang's publicized wealth is 400 billion, which is far beyond this figure, which is surprising.

By the way, in order to show that the list is unreliable, Xu Mingchang added a price to Fang Zhuo's net worth: "Just like Fang Zhuo, he is not only 4.5 million US dollars, but he must have 300 to [-] billion US dollars."

"Let me tell you, this list is not reliable, don't ask me this question next time."

Xu Mingchang lightly separated himself and Fang Zhuo's net worth by tens of billions, and then didn't give any more responses.

The news reached Fang Zhuo within a few hours.

"He must be insane, why mention me if he has nothing to say? He is talking nonsense about 300 to [-] billion."

Fang Zhuo only told the executives in the office as a joke.

However, Xu Mingchang's statement to the media not only reached Fang Zhuona, but also reached the ears of the police who were investigating Xu Mingchang's issue recently.

The Forbes rich list edition has long made many people on the list feel ashamed, but it is not the only reason for Xu Mingchang.

The cause of the investigation was not Xu Mingchang, but a bank president in Xiangjiang, and it was precisely because of the investigation of the latter that the former was involved.

The investigation has been going on in secret for some time.

On the afternoon of April 4th, another site closed the network, and Shencheng also heard Xu Mingchang's rhetoric to the media.

Xu Mingchang with a net worth of 400 billion.

The proud Xu Mingchang.

"Captain, when is the action against this person?" Shencheng police held an internal meeting on the night of the 7th to study the action.

"Tomorrow, he should be more certain about this."

Xu Mingchang's investigation will not happen in a short while, and everything that needs to be confirmed has been confirmed.

"What about Fang Zhuo of Yike? Xu Mingchang said that his net worth is far more than 4.5 million U.S. dollars, but this is not right." The police did not doubt Xu Mingchang's words for a while. Humans are really easy to spot problems.

"Bring them back together tomorrow and ask about the situation. What Xu Mingchang said is not evidence. Let's check the tax and see what this person is like."

The police arranged one more thing for the next day's operation, and they only planned to question the richest man in Shanghai in a serious atmosphere to see if there were any unexpected gains.

On the morning of April 4, Xu Mingchang, a rich man in Shanghai who stirred up the situation in both places, was taken away by the police in public.

Later, Fang Zhuo in the President's Office on the 23rd floor of Hang Lung also saw an unexpected visitor and encountered gentle control.

Fang Zhuo was very surprised, extremely surprised, he didn't hear any wind or news at all.

Especially, when he was sitting in the interrogation room facing the two economic investigators, his thoughts were still a little confused.

Be frank and lenient, answer every question, have a good attitude, and be proactive.

But this still seemed to make the other party a little dissatisfied, and soon one of them left the room temporarily.

"Can I make a phone call?"

Fang Zhuo made a request after asking for a glass of water.

The remaining staff member hesitated for a moment, thinking of his daughter-in-law who was struggling in the front line of the hospital, he agreed to the request.

After all, this is an interrogation room, not an interrogation room.

(End of this chapter)