Rebirth 98, the rise started from ripping off Microsoft

Chapter 531 A mere two hundred million dollars
Xu Bold was overwhelmed by Jin Mai's words, and said, "Really? The top ten richest people, that's too powerful. Is it true? You won't lie to me, will you?"

Jin Mai said solemnly: "How could I lie to you? Lie to you that I'm a puppy."

Seeing Xu Bold's expression, Jin Mai and Wang Xiujie were overjoyed.

As long as Xu boldly makes a decision and the deal is completed, they can sit back and relax.

[-] million US dollars, if they bought all the shares in Zhalang, they might be able to raise the stock price of Zhalang, and then sell them at a high price, not only will they not lose money, but they can also make a fortune.

Xu boldly looked excited, but in the end he felt that his IQ had taken over the high ground, so he said hesitantly: "However, I remember that the richest man in Lu said that he doesn't like this thing."

Seeing that things were about to succeed, Jin Mai and Wang Xiujie didn't want to fall short.After cursing Lu Yiming in his heart, Wang Xiujie said: "The richest man Lu and the founder of Zhalang, Wang Zhidong, have some personal grievances. Many people know about it, so this is just an angry word from the richest man. Young people, you speak a little bit Subjective emotions are also normal. Think about it, this project can be listed in the United States, how can there be problems?"

Seeing the two talking so extravagantly, Xu Daudao felt slanderous in his heart.

Sure enough, these financial players are dirty!
No problem, if there is no problem, why are you so eager to sell?Could it be that my Buddha is merciful to benefit mankind?

But I am not too poor. B ah.

For a while, Xu boldly felt that he had lost interest in stock trading.

You think you are a smart and brave financial expert who buys low and sells high, but in fact everything is in the hands of the banker, and retail investors are just tool people.

In [-], domestic news channels were still scarce.The gradual rise of the Internet has multiplied the number of people accessing information online.It was also at that time that domestic portals sprung up like mushrooms after rain.

Zha Lang is one of them.

Zha Lang, who won the largest overseas Chinese information website, has its own unique advantages.

Just as France hosted the World Cup in [-], football fans all over the country were looking forward to having a platform and channel to easily obtain instant information.

Wang Zhidong discovered this.

So before the start of the World Cup, there have been many teams' exclusive communities on Zhalang.com for fans to discuss.

Not only that, after the start of the World Cup, Zha Lang continuously updated information, creating a precedent for 24-hour live broadcast of football games.

Even though there is no live video broadcast, the text live broadcast still makes millions of fans watch it with gusto.

The slag wave exploded in one shot.

Relying on his outstanding performance during the World Cup in France, he won the title of the No. [-] football news station in Xiaguo.

It also drove the popularity of Zlang.com portal.

After tasting the sweetness in the World Cup, Wang Zhidong took the limelight in the reports of major events such as the Kosovo War, the earthquake in Taiwan Province, the entry into the WTO, and the Sydney Olympic Games.

At that time, when it comes to Chinese portals, Ding Lei's NetEase may be slightly inferior.

It was the great success on the portal website that allowed capital to see the prospect of Zhalang.

In March 3000, Zha Lang received an investment of 6000 million US dollars.Half a year later, another [-] million US dollars in financing was obtained.

When Zha Lang was killing and killing, the Internet bubble came, and many Internet companies went bankrupt.

However, Wang Zhidong led Zha Lang to climb to the top again.

On April [-], [-], when the Internet bubble was at its peak, Wang Zhidong adopted the method of spin-off, using the "VIE" model to make Zhalang successfully listed on NASDAQ, breaking the bottleneck of overseas financing for domestic companies.

The "VIE" model will also be called the Zhalang model in the future.

The full name of VIE is Variable Interest Entities, translated as variable interest entity, also known as "protocol control".

Its essence is a method adopted by domestic entities to achieve overseas listing.It means that the overseas listed entity is separated from the domestic operating entity. The overseas listed entity establishes a wholly-owned subsidiary in China. The wholly-owned subsidiary does not actually carry out the main business, but controls the business and finance of the domestic operating entity through an agreement. , making the operating entity a variable interest entity of the listed entity.

The main purpose of domestic entities to list overseas in the form of VIE is to avoid restrictions on the proportion of foreign capital in specific industries imposed by domestic laws and regulations, and to maximize financing.

The listing of Zha Lang was Wang Zhidong's highlight moment. He was full of ambition and carried himself away.Wang Zhidong did not realize at the time that his success was forged by the times, not just his personal efforts.

The most important thing is that he met Lu Yiming.

In later generations, Lu Yiming, from the perspective of a rising commoner, extremely despises scumbags, instigates confrontation, provokes conflicts for the sake of traffic, and does whatever it takes.A lot of the remarks make people's teeth itch.Lu Yiming wondered more than once why the country didn't ban Zhalang. Every person in this company counted as one, and they were all shot for "rumour-mongering" and "picking quarrels and provoking troubles." There was no wrongdoing.

But obviously this is impossible.

Now, having been reborn, Lu Yiming, who has met the weakest Zha Lang and has a lot of wealth in his hands, how could he tolerate Zha Lang following the previous route?

Just at this moment, the ignorant Wang Zhidong yelled at Lu Yiming again, and Lu Yiming naturally followed the trend, strangling Zha Lang in his cradle.

Wang Zhidong has actually been thinking about this issue recently.

Although he blamed Cao Guowei, he knew better than anyone else why Lu Yiming was targeting Zha Lang.

In the Zhalang headquarters, he thought hard and couldn't sleep at night.

Seeing the bad news coming one after another, Wang Zhidong was very depressed, and the person who caused him so much trouble was his "Guangdong fellow", Lu Yiming, the richest man in Xia Kingdom.

Wang Zhidong turned to look at a man beside him, and asked, "Old Jiang, do you think I did something wrong this time?"

He challenged Lu Yiming not only because he was inflated, but also because Lu Yiming was the most talked about person, stepping on Lu Yiming's position could bring huge traffic to Zha Lang.

But I didn't expect that Lu Yiming was not a good quarrel, and he didn't talk nonsense with him, he directly shorted the slag waves, and even made a move at this moment to wipe out the slag waves.

Jiang Fengnian is the chairman of Zha Lang, a native of Taiwan.Although he is ten years older than Wang Zhidong, the two are good friends who can talk about everything on the topic of the Internet, and Jiang Fengnian's status in Zhalang is not ordinary. It can be said that without him, Zhalang would not be what he is today .

Wang Zhidong still attaches great importance to Jiang Fengnian's attitude.

And Jiang Fengnian also had a dull expression on his face. Instead of blaming Wang Zhidong, he sighed and said, "I understand your thoughts, but you really chose the wrong partner. You shouldn't provoke Lu Yiming. The youngest richest man in the mainland, how can such a person have no temper?"

According to the logic of normal people, they would not spend hundreds of millions of dollars at the risk of losing money just to vent their anger, but Lu Yiming did just that.

Wang Zhidong, who hadn't expected this, now finally realized how stupid he was to provoke such a ruthless person.Lu Yiming's acting style is too sharp. You can say that he is young and vigorous, but if he is not vigorous, is he still called a young man?

Wang Zhidong asked himself, if he became the richest man at the age of 20, he would probably be even more glamorous than Lu Yiming.

But now that's the end of the matter, it's useless to talk about it.

Wang Zhidong regretted so much that he just wanted to slap himself.

Unknowingly, the time came to seven o'clock in the evening, which is the time when the financial channel broadcasts the "Finance Today" news.

This is a must-watch program for Wang Zhidong every day.

At this time, the TV set hanging on the wall has already started broadcasting the program.

However, the first news almost dropped his jaw.

What was reported on the news program was the news of Zha Lang's shareholding change!

Lu Yiming took advantage of Xu Boldness and devised a trick to deceive the world, and bought 18.00% of Zhalang's shares from Joe Burt at a very low price.

Because Zhalang is a listed company, when it holds more than 5.00% of the shares, it has to raise a placard, and its identity cannot be concealed at all.

And Lu Yiming didn't need to hide it, he just wanted to tell everyone that he was coming.

On the TV screen, a group of reporters surrounded Lu Yiming who had just walked out of the securities building.

A reporter asked: "Mr. Lu, what are you planning to do when you buy Zhalang? Before, you shorted Zhalang's stock price, and you were pessimistic about the portal website. Is it all for the purpose of buying Zhalang now?"

Lu Yiming smiled and said: "I still say the same thing, the portal website has no future, and I bought Zhalang, which is more of a personal grievance."

Obviously, the reporter's question was flawed. If Lu Yiming followed the reporter's words, it would be tantamount to admitting that he was playing tricks.Although this kind of thing is not illegal, it is also detrimental to the image.

However, Lu Yiming's answer gave the reporters an unexpected answer.

Enmity and hatred are obviously more topical than intrigues in the business field.

A reporter asked: "Mr. Lu, after you buy Zhalang, what do you plan to do with it? This is a listed company with a market value of nearly [-] billion. Is it possible that you really want to destroy it yourself?"

Lu Yiming sneered and asked back: "Why? Can't it work?"

The reporter was stunned by Lu Yiming's laughter, and his voice became much lower: "But wouldn't your money for buying shares be wasted?"

Lu Yiming said lightly: "It's only a few hundred million dollars, not worth mentioning."

Such a domineering speech directly shocked the reporters present with internal injuries.

This is the best interpretation of being rich and self-willed.

Hundreds of millions of dollars, just a mere return?

At this time, Zhang Chaoyang and Ding Sanshi, who were also watching the news, shuddered inexplicably, obviously frightened by Lu Yiming's "crazy".

Their companies, Sohu and NetEase, are also preparing to go public in the United States in the next few months.

If he accidentally offended Lu Yiming, the evil star, wouldn't he be following in the footsteps of Zha Lang?
It's scary just thinking about it!
Zhang Chaoyang directly called the person in charge of the content department, pointed to the screen on the TV and said to him: "In the future, negative news about Lu Yiming must not be touched, do you understand? If it is not necessary, all his news, Try not to touch it if you can. Although this guy has traffic, he is also fucking poisonous! I don’t want to wake up early in the morning, and Sohu’s surname is Lu.”

On NetEase, Ding Sanshi also issued a similar order.

It's not just them. After seeing the news, all those who made content held meetings with similar content.In order to let yourself live longer, if you can not provoke Lu Yiming, then try not to provoke him!
Slag wave.

After watching the news, Wang Zhidong's hands and feet were cold, and he didn't recover until Jiang Fengnian called him several times.

"Huh? What? Oh yeah, I gotta ask."

Wang Zhidong faltered a few times, then threw himself on the desk, dialed Joe Burt's phone, and asked loudly, "Joe! What's going on? I need an explanation!"

On the other side of the phone, the champagne in Joe Burt's hand hadn't been put down yet.

He only found out about it after reading the news.

He was supposed to pop champagne to celebrate the sale of his stake.

But what made him dumbfounded was that he had obviously sold his shares to a man named Xu Daudao, how could he suddenly become Lu Yiming?
When he received the call, he was questioned by Wang Zhidong before he could speak. As a noble white man, how could he bear this?He didn't even bother to reply, so he hung up the phone directly, and then called a few subordinates and ordered them to investigate the matter.

The shares were sold from Joe Burt. Of course, Wang Zhidong immediately thought of asking Joe Burt to clarify.You know, because of the adoption of the VIE structure, he now owns Zlang Lang's shares, which have been diluted from the initial 30% to 3.8%.

What's even worse is that he had signed a VAM agreement with the investor, promising that the development of Zhalang must meet the various requirements stipulated in the contract. If any data fails to meet the standard, he will be held accountable, and even... ...kicked out of the company he founded!

Thinking of this possibility, Wang Zhidong was paralyzed.

Now Joe Burt is hanging up on him!

After hanging up the phone, Wang Zhidong expressed his concerns to Jiang Fengnian.Jiang Fengnian suggested: "Let's find a way to get more shares, contact other shareholders, unite, and fight against Lu Yiming together. There is still hope."

"Ah, yes, his shares account for less than 50.00%, I still have a chance!"

Jiang Fengnian's words reminded Wang Zhidong, Wang Zhidong quickly found his phone book, and began to seek support from Zha Lang's shareholders one by one, especially the main members of the board of directors.

It is true that he went to the doctor in a hurry.

In addition to the background of American capital, there is also a major shareholder with the most shares in Zhalang in China, which is the chairman of Stone Group, the first angel investor to invest in Wang Zhidong, and also the "village head" of Zhongguancun—— Duan Yongji.

In order to show his sincerity, Wang Zhidong visited Duan Yongji in person the next morning.

"President Duan."

When the two met, Wang Zhidong acted very humble, and took out his gift first when entering the door.

"I know Mr. Duan likes to drink tea. It just so happened that a friend recently gave me a jar of this silver hair. I don't know about it. In my hands, it's like a dusty pearl, so I brought it to Mr. Duan right away."

Of course, this tea was bought by Wang Zhidong.

Duan Yongji took the tea in his hand, smiled all over his face, and said, "Look at you, just come, what gift do you bring? Sit down."

The two sat opposite each other, and Duan Yongji also knew that Wang Zhidong was going to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing, so he immediately asked: "Mr. Wang is so free today, so he came to visit me, and he shouldn't just bring me tea, right?" ?”

Wang Zhidong sighed, and said, "Mr. Duan, let me just say it straight. I have a personal grudge with that Lu Yiming, you should know about it, right? As a result, he doesn't talk about martial arts now, and not only shorts slag waves on US stocks , made Li Daitao stiff, and won a lot of shares in Zhalang. I have a hunch that he may have to hold a board meeting, and I hope you can help me in the board meeting, Mr. Duan."

Duan Yongji also read the news, and after hearing what Wang Zhidong said, he agreed without hesitation: "No problem, based on the friendship between the two of us, I must be optimistic about you, don't worry, I will support you to the end. "

The two were old acquaintances, and Wang Zhidong had no doubts about Duan Yongji's words, and felt quite at ease.

"It's still Mr. Duan who is righteous."

Duan Yongji has a lot of shares. If he firmly stands on Wang Zhidong's side, Lu Yiming won't dare to do anything wrong even if he gets so many shares.

After Duan Yongji was settled, Wang Zhidong couldn't wait to find other shareholders, so he got up and left immediately.

As soon as Wang Zhidong left, Duan Yongji called Lu Yiming.

"President Lu, Wang Zhidong came to see me just now."

"Well, don't worry, Mr. Lu, I will help you stabilize him."

"Okay, we'll be happy together."

Duan Yongji hung up the phone cheerfully. If he had to choose between Wang Zhidong and Lu Yiming to support him, anyone with a good brain would know how to choose.

China Sea.

When Lu Yiming answered Duan Yongji's call, he was at Pudong Airport to meet Li Yiwen who flew over from Baiyun City.

On the car back to the city, Li Yiwen said to Lu Yiming: "The 27 billion US dollars invested in the previous investment has now reached about 70.00% of the profit from short selling."

$19 billion in net income!
In less than two months of shorting U.S. stocks, Lu Yiming has made more than 150 small targets. This is an astronomical figure that many people can hardly imagine in their entire lives, and it is a huge wealth that many generations of business families cannot accumulate.

However, this is not the apex. After all, U.S. stocks are still falling, and short selling is still going on.

After the report was over, Li Yiwen asked: "I just heard that you spent [-] million US dollars to buy the shares of Zhalang?"

Lu Yiming got his wish, and laughed happily: "Yes, after the reorganization of the board of directors is completed, Wang Zhidong can be kicked out, and then Zha Lang can be stripped to pieces."

In the current Zhalang, the largest shareholders have been dealt with. The domestic Duan Yongji and the American capital, Lu Yiming bought 18.00% of the shares through Xu Daudao, and the rest also fell into Bill Gates and Bill Gates. In the hands of Paul Allen.

And these people have all received promises from Lu Yiming, so they will not stop his actions.

Only Wang Zhidong was kept in the dark, thinking that he could turn the tables and fight back.

However, the world of capital is ruthless. From the moment he chooses to believe in capital, he has actually lost.

Now, it's just a dying struggle.

(End of this chapter)