Rebirth 98, the rise started from ripping off Microsoft

Chapter 609 Ctrip
After listening to Li Yiwen's words, Lu Yiming felt that he was not well.

"What is hooking up? Don't use such obscene words?"

Li Yiwen laughed even more obscenely: "Then the newspaper said that the two of you stayed in the hotel last night and both met your parents. It seems that a good thing is about to come, a strong alliance, what do you say?"

"Fuck..."

Lu Yiming snatched the newspaper, glanced at it, and immediately criticized: "These media reporters are too unscrupulous, are they really just a picture at the beginning, and the rest depends on making up?"

"fake?"

Li Yiwen jokingly said: "This girl is quite beautiful."

Lu Yiming shook his head slightly, and said: "Pretty is pretty, but you also know that this kind of thing is not my style at all, I am very single-minded."

"puff……"

Lu Yiming said, "Pack up your things and leave this afternoon."

Li Yiwen was quite surprised: "So anxious?"

Lu Yiming said with a serious face: "If I don't leave again, I'm afraid someone will bring a baby to recognize my father tomorrow. 36 measures, walking is the best."

Li Yiwen teased: "My good fellow, are you running away with a bucket all night? Aren't you afraid that others will say that you've been messed up and abandoned?"

Lu Yiming said dejectedly: "Quickly shut your crow's mouth, don't let the good ones not work and the bad ones, then I will lose my life at the end of the day."

However, as soon as Lu Yiming got on the plane, the news of his "escaping marriage" began to spread, and the story was spread well.

Although it is not likely to make the headlines of the newspapers, the vitality of this kind of rumor is extremely strong, and it soon became the talk of many local people after dinner.

Of course, these are things for later, so let’s not press them for the time being.

In the Chen family, after hearing the news of Lu Yiming's "running away", Chen Zefu looked regretful. He also wanted to take this opportunity to see if he could let Lu Yiming get in touch with his granddaughter and make the fake come true.

In the blink of an eye, the man ran away.

Chen Jinlan was very annoyed, she naturally didn't have any feelings for Lu Yiming, but Lu Yiming's "fleeing away" behavior still made her feel ashamed.

"Hmph, this Lu Yiming, am I that scary? Hmph, it's best not to let me catch him again, or I'll let him know why flowers are so popular."

Usually, it was her who didn't look straight at the blind date, but this time, it was Lu Yiming who left her and ran away, which was completely different psychologically.

Standing aside, Chen Jinmei comforted and said, "Okay, the family will arrange other blind date candidates for you. With our Chen family's family background and status, are you afraid that you won't find a good match?"

Chen Jinlan was very upset when she heard the words, and couldn't help muttering: "Then it's better to find Lu Yiming, at least he looks pleasing to the eye."

Compared with the group of rich second generations she had met before, Lu Yiming was much better.This person is afraid of comparison. The so-called rich second generation she met before felt bad. Now that she met Lu Yiming, she felt that those people were even worse.

On the plane back to Zhonghai, Lu Yiming chatted with Li Yiwen about the topic he had talked about with Chen Zefu that night.

Li Yiwen thought that Lu Yiming was going to open a hotel, and immediately complained: "You just invested in eel farming in your hometown, which is outrageous enough, and now you want to open a hotel? If you are separated by mountains, you can't eat too much. If the span is too big, but It's easy to pull eggs."

Lu Yiming explained: "It's not directly opening a hotel. What I mean is to integrate the Internet with the hotel and even the entire travel field. In fact, it is to move the original things such as booking rooms, air tickets, and tickets from offline to offline. Online, build a platform on the Internet, so that users can solve problems that had to be solved before going out without leaving home, avoiding the pain of running back and forth.”

Li Yiwen's eyes lit up after listening.

As the leader of Lu Yiming's subordinates, he often needs to travel to various places to inspect the situation of companies in various places. Sometimes when Lu Yiming is using the plane, he can only take public transportation. Buying tickets and accommodation is a very troublesome problem for him.

"This is a good idea! Future Capital has already invested in many Internet companies, which can help each other. It seems to be a good idea. When do you plan to start?"

Lu Yiming smiled and said, "I don't plan to do it myself. Someone is already doing this. I'll just buy it when he's done."

Li Yiwen asked curiously, "Who is it?"

In his opinion, most of the things Lu Yiming did were daring to be the first, and he only did things that others hadn't done yet.Now that Lu Yiming said that someone was already doing it, he felt very curious.

Lu Yiming said, "Liang Jianzhang."

Li Yiwen thought for a while and said, "I don't know."

Lu Yiming smiled and said, "We'll know each other later."

When the plane landed in the Mediterranean Sea, Lu Yiming went to the school to report first, and after completing the formalities, he found Long Qiquan directly with a gift.

In the office, Lu Yiming put the two bottles of Moutai he brought on the table, and said to Long Qiquan, "Professor Long, happy new year."

Long Qiquan complained: "A busy person still remembers that he is a student of Furi University? How long has this semester passed, and it's still the New Year."

Lu Yiming said with a smile: "Professor Long, don't care about these details. I am raising eels with Professor Jiang."

After chatting for a while, Lu Yiming asked, "By the way, Professor Long, do you still remember a student named Liang Jianzhang you taught before?"

Speaking of Liang Jianzhang, Long Qiquan immediately became interested and said with a smile: "Of course, how could I not remember that kind of genius? This classmate Liang is not simple. Self-taught research designed a software for writing metrical poems using programs, which won the gold medal in the National Computer Programming Contest for Middle School Students. Two years later, as a junior high school student, he was directly admitted to our youth class at Fuda University."

With such a resume, there is no doubt that he is a genius with a truly extraordinary IQ.

And Liang Jianzhang's subsequent experience was also not simple.

Liang Jianzhang is not only smart, but also studies very hard. It only took him one year to get a boat ticket to the United States, and he joined Georgia Institute of Technology to study computer science. , and later went to Oracle to become a technical backbone.

As Liang Jianzhang's former teacher of professional courses, Long Qiquan naturally had a good impression of this talented student, and he spoke eloquently, with a lot of nostalgia in his tone.

Afterwards, he looked at Lu Yiming and asked, "Oh no, why did you ask him all of a sudden?"

Lu Yiming smiled and said: "I just got the news that he returned to China two years ago and started his own business. I just wanted to chat with you. I'm quite interested in his entrepreneurial direction and plan to invest."

Only then did Long Qiquan understand, and smiled immediately: "I should have known a long time ago that you just go to the Three Treasures Palace for nothing. Now you actually have your idea on me."

Lu Yiming was not ashamed, instead he said plausibly: "Professor Long, look at what you said, didn't I help you find a reason to meet him to catch up on the old days?"

Long Qiquan didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and said, "Okay, don't talk about your nonsense, you'll be a good boy if you get a bargain. I'll see if I can get in touch, and I'll let you know when the time comes."

"Okay, thank you, Professor Long."

A day later, Long Qiquan called Lu Yiming and said, "I have contacted Liang Jianzhang, and we will have dinner together tonight."

"No problem! Professor Long is still awesome."

At night, in the hotel box, Lu Yiming saw Liang Jianzhang.

For the former teacher, although he only stayed at Fuda for one year, and seldom contacted him after graduation, Liang Jianzhang respected Long Qiquan very much because of Xia Guo's tradition of respecting teachers, and said politely when they met : "Professor Long took the initiative to call to invite me to dinner. I am really ashamed. It should be me who invites the teacher to dinner."

Long Qiquan said with a smile: "There is no need to talk about that between us, and I called you today because I was entrusted by others. Come on, let me introduce you, this is my student Lu Yiming. It is him I said I wanted to see you, so I called to bother you."

"Lu Yiming?"

It has been more than two years since he returned to China, and he has naturally heard of Lu Yiming, the youngest richest man in Xia Kingdom's history.

"Nice to meet you."

Looking at the man in front of him who was over [-] years old, but still full of vigor and drive unique to young people, Lu Yiming also smiled.

"Mr. Liang is a young genius, I often hear Professor Long mention it, let me take you as a role model."

Long Qiquan looked at Lu Yiming, but he didn't say anything about the sedan chairs being carried by everyone.

Naturally, Liang Jianzhang also knew that these were all stage talk, and immediately said: "You are everyone's role model. If you are a genius, who would dare to compare with you."

Long Qiquan said: "Okay, okay, sit down first, what do you want to eat?"

Lu Yiming smiled and said, "Professor Long, you can just order whatever you want. After talking about this meal, I will invite you."

Long Qiquan joked: "Then I'll just order it, and the price will be sky-high when you pay the bill later, so don't cry."

Liang Jianzhang said straight to the point: "Professor Long is here today, so I asked you to call me a junior. I don't know why the junior came to me today? You can't find hundreds of thousands of people every minute. Shall I come over for dinner?"

Lu Yiming also said bluntly: "Senior is really quick to talk. Then I won't hide it. I invited you here today because I want to talk to you about Ctrip's investment."

"Do you want to invest in Ctrip?"

Liang Jianzhang was really surprised by Lu Yiming's thoughts.

Today's Ctrip has developed for less than two years. Although it has a good momentum, it is not well-known in China. The main reason is that the business of online travel is too unpopular now, and even computers have not been popularized on a large scale. In front of the giant crocodile, it is very inconspicuous.

He couldn't figure out how Ctrip was targeted by Lu Yiming.

"good."

Lu Yiming talked eloquently: "I am very optimistic about the development of the Internet. Now it is the 21st century and the information age has arrived. The Internet will continue to penetrate into traditional fields such as food, clothing, housing and transportation, bringing about unprecedented business changes. My future capital, It was founded to invest in a bright future. And your Ctrip is destined to shine in the future.”

This unabashed praise surprised Liang Jianzhang. After all, when doing business, if a buyer is interested in something, they will usually come up with various reasons to try to lower the price.Like Lu Yiming who boasted about Ctrip as soon as he came up, didn't he say clearly, "I have money, you can kill it as you like"?

Despite being flattered, Liang Jianzhang did not lose his mind. After pondering for a moment, he said, "Thank you Mr. Lu for your love, but I have to go back and discuss with other shareholders before making a decision about the financing."

Lu Yiming is not in a hurry, after all, Ctrip.com is still more than two years away from going public, and if you enter now, there will naturally be no shortage of opportunities to eat meat.It happened that the food was coming up one after another, so I greeted enthusiastically: "Okay, then we will talk about it later, come, let's have a drink together?"

After drinking and eating, Liang Jianzhang returned to the company, and immediately called his good friends and business partners Shen Nanpeng and Ji Qi, and told them about Lu Yiming's desire to invest in Ctrip.

Hearing that Lu Yiming wanted to invest in Ctrip, Ji Qi was very excited, and immediately said: "The richest man wants to invest in us? This is a great thing, have you agreed?"

Shen Nanpeng frowned slightly, and said calmly: "I think it's better for us to wait and see for the time being."

Ji Qi was suddenly puzzled.

Liang Jianzhang also said: "Although we just received 1000-[-] million US dollars in Series C financing from Carlyle in November last year, we have to burn a lot of money to open up new markets, and there is never too much money. .Now that the richest man in Lu has taken a fancy to Ctrip, I think this is a good thing."

Shen Nanpeng said: "Of course I know that the company's business expansion needs a lot of financial support, and as the richest man, Lu Yiming, his investment can bring us Ctrip a huge reputation and attention, but the problem is that you have to consider the opinions of other investors. .”

The original Ctrip was established by three people. Shen Nanpeng invested 60 yuan, accounting for 40% of the shares.Liang Jianzhang and Ji Qi each invested 20 yuan, accounting for 30% of the shares.

Later, with the development of the company, Shen Nanpeng relied on his status as a director of Deutsche Bank and director of Xiaguo Capital Markets to attract three investments to Ctrip, making IDG, Softbank and Carlyle Investments successively become the company's The shareholders of the company hold 700 million US dollars in funds.

With this drama, Shen Nanpeng successfully became the chairman, president and chief financial officer of Ctrip, holding the most critical financial lifeline of the company.

Behind Shen Nanpeng, there are powerful and well-established American and Japanese capital forces. Therefore, Shen Nanpeng has the final say on the company.

As for Shen Nanpeng and Lu Yiming, not to mention any deep hatred, there was still some small contact.

Liang Jianzhang said: "Then, why don't you ask for their opinions?"

Shen Nanpeng nodded slightly and said, "I'll make a phone call and ask them to come over."

Soon after, representatives from IDG, Softbank and Carlyle came to Ctrip headquarters.

After hearing that Lu Yiming planned to invest in Ctrip, everyone clearly expressed their opposition.

Regarding this, Ji Qi felt very incomprehensible, and asked, "Why do you all object to Lu's richest man buying shares in Ctrip? He has a lot of money in his hands, so the financing problem can be solved immediately?"

"It's not just a question of funds. Ctrip still has a big problem, which is that its popularity is too low. Lu Yiming has his own traffic and halo. All the companies he has invested in, and even the industries he participates in, have achieved great results. It's a big topic. If we introduce Lu Yiming as a shareholder, wouldn't it be 'become famous all over the world'?"

However, in the face of Ji Qi's persuasion, several people were unmoved.The representatives of Softbank and Carlyle Investment looked contemptuous and disdainful, and even threatened that if Ctrip wants to go public in the United States, it must listen to them.

A meeting ended unhappily, and Ji Qi asked Shen Nanpeng unhappily: "What's the matter with these representatives? Are they revenge against Lu Shoufu for killing his father or taking his wife?"

Shen Nanpeng sighed, and said to Ji Qi: "You don't know about this. Naturally, they themselves don't have any enmity with Lu's richest man, but the company behind them doesn't."

Ji Qi asked: "How do you say that?"

Shen Nanpeng said: "Before Softbank wanted to invest in Ali, even Mr. Sun personally came forward, but it still failed. It is said that the richest man in Lu was behind it. Do you think Mr. Sun is angry? As for Carlyle Investment and IDG, they are Mr. Lu lost hundreds of millions of dollars when he shorted the U.S. stocks, and this revenge is no different from killing his father."

Knowing this situation, Liang Jianzhang also looked helpless, but today's Ctrip, the shares are in the hands of foreign investors, and they have the final say. Even he, the founder, has nothing to do about it.

school.

After the evening self-study, Lu Yiming asked Li Quanwang out for a barbecue.The two talked about state affairs while drinking beer.

Li Quanwang patted his thigh and said: "The super earthquake in the Three Kingdoms, the death toll exceeded [-], it is simply too tragic."

Lu Yiming said with emotion: "In front of nature, human beings are insignificant. Especially in front of this kind of natural disaster. It seems that I have to talk to the people of the foundation. standard to build."

"Nine-magnitude earthquake? How dare you think about it." Li Quanwang didn't know that Lu Yiming was thinking about the earthquakes in [-] and [-]. He only thought that Lu Yiming was bragging.

At this time, Lu Yiming suddenly received a call from Liang Jianzhang, thinking that Ctrip would be settled soon, Lu Yiming was very happy and asked, "Mr. Liang, is the matter settled?"

On the phone, Liang Jianzhang was silent for a long time before he said in a low tone: I'm sorry Mr. Lu, I really hope to let you join Ctrip, but I'm a soft-spoken person in the company, and I can't talk to the other major shareholders. "

Lu Yiming frowned: "So, are you trying to reject me?"

Although the tone was calm, with Lu Yiming's current status in the world and his financial connections, Liang Jianzhang could feel the pressure of a mountain torrent and tsunami even through the microphone.

But he couldn't change the decisions of the major shareholders, so he could only say again: "President Lu, I'm sorry."

Lu Yiming asked coldly: "Can you tell me which major shareholders are against my joining?"

Liang Jianzhang said the list without hesitation.

(End of this chapter)