Reboot 2003

Chapter 262 041: Human nature (two in one)

The same thing has been said before, but the situation seems to be different this time.

Ma Yun went to answer the call from Yahoo headquarters, but the computer was still on here.

When the small shareholders heard the news, they jumped out anxiously: "Is it Miss Gu? We know about your "Super Smash Bros.", but what do you mean by restricting the platform?"

Zhou Hongyi couldn't explain it. He hadn't told anyone other than senior executives about this matter. Ah Yue directly brought it up to talk about it. It was fine if these directors found out. But now there are outsiders present, even beside him. There are reporters from the media—

It didn't matter that the quarrel between him and Ma Yun was known, but "Players Clash" planned to operate independently, which was one of the company's current important plans.

Of course, Ah Yue relied on infighting among the management to temporarily delay this matter, but the shareholders' meeting was going to be held in a few days. Now it seemed that he had to do this even if he had to bite the bullet.

The ugly daughter-in-law will have to meet her parents-in-law sooner or later, so maybe it’s time to relax.

"Miss Gu, we can discuss this issue after we're done..."

Zhou Hongyi thought about his words, but those small shareholders were unreasonable: "How can this be done? Zhou Hongyi, please explain the matter clearly to us. Let's not talk about how you turned a good advertising business into this mess. Now it's a mess." Dou is our most promising project, what do you want to do with this project? Tell me?..."

They may not really care about this little game, but this is an opportunity to use the topic to make use of the topic. Zhou Hongyi was not surprised by this and replied: "First of all, this is related to the company's business plan. I suggest you go to the shareholders' meeting to discuss it slowly." Discussion. Secondly, this is just a web game. Compared with direct profit, the company really cares more about its user attraction value..."

Zhou Hongyi said, looking at the eldest lady of the Gu family opposite, thinking that she is still immature after all, she is only in junior high school now. Based on the experience of meeting her before, maybe she does have this talent for playing small games, but she still has emotions when doing things. A little melted down...

Just as she was thinking this, she saw the boy next to the girl take out a stack of papers from his bag, then take one out and hand it to her.

This boy seemed to be one of the little geniuses who played games with her. Zhou Hongyi had met him a few times before and was not very impressed. However, it was he who whispered something just now that made Miss Gu suddenly mention that this was not suitable. Topics discussed in public...

Maybe this is a trap?
This absurd idea flashed through Zhou Hongyi's mind. The next moment, the girl took the paper. There was no additional communication between the two. She only glanced at the content on the paper, and then directly followed Zhou Hongyi's words: "This is Statistics we recently collected.”

As she spoke, she immediately took the form to others, especially in front of the laptop's camera: "The top row is our players' game statistics, and the bottom row is the social mini-games of the same magnitude on the market. You can see The stickiness of our players is no worse than that of other games, and the charging rates of other similar games are all statistically calculated. Basically, the per capita consumption can reach about 5 to 10..."

Zhou Hongyi shook her head helplessly.

However, A Yue immediately said: "You can see that the per capita consumption of our kind of social games is indeed not high, but casual games themselves have the problem of too low payment rates. The company's flagship product in the past was "Super Run", and its The per capita payment rate is very low, and my "Super Smash Bros." should be an important opportunity for the company to peacefully continue its past business methods, so I cannot agree with the company in any way to sacrifice this product to divert traffic to Yahoo's SNS."

Zhou Hongyi was stunned this time. He took a serious look at the table. It was normal for Ah Yue to object to his decision based on protecting his own project, but this seemed to be an analysis based entirely on company management.

The three small shareholders were the first to react: "Yes, this is not only a stupid decision, it is an obstruction to business operations! Not only do we want to impeach you, we also want to complain to the China Securities Regulatory Commission! You have violated the principle of honest service!"

These chattering clowns have become a bit troublesome for some reason. Zhou Hongyi quickly continued to explain: "Games on the web are different from ordinary online games. I will explain this in detail at the shareholders' meeting, and I will definitely give everyone a satisfactory result by then." The reply..."

Unable to talk any more, Zhou Hongyi felt that the situation was not good and finally became serious. However, at this moment, he felt a little guilty for no reason. He glanced at the boy next to A Yue and saw that the boy handed A Yue another piece of paper. ——

Still speechless, A Yue took a look and handed the paper over again: "I think everyone knows the popularity of the company's SNS. This is the company's other self-developed web game "Three Kingdoms" in the near future. Data, at this shareholders’ meeting, will you explain its operating conditions?”

As she spoke, A-Yue put the form in front of the camera again. The format of the form was the same as before - the form just now contained the popular "Happy Farm" and "Friends Fight", "Friends Buying and Selling", and "Cat Travels" Data on the successful works of these friends. This table is the data on "Three Kingdoms Famous Generals".

At first glance, the data on both sides are similar, and "Three Kingdoms" has even more. But a closer look shows that the unit measurement levels are different - whether it is click-through rate, Alexa index or estimated payment rate, the difference is astonishing. This game currently only has thousands Human-level players.

Zhou Hongyi gritted his teeth, thinking that he was being made difficult by a little girl; but there was nothing he could do about it. He patted his chest and said that he had more confidence in the company's business strategy, but for a person who had just experienced such a level For failed companies, the credibility of such promises would have been quite embarrassing.

Obviously...the other party came prepared.

Zhou Hongyi began to feel troubled. He took a deep look at the girl opposite who was glaring bravely at her, and the boy sitting next to her who looked familiar to him.

For some reasons, there probably is something worthy of sympathy in this girl. He can understand this, but for a long time, he has tolerated too much. In order to communicate with her, he ran from Lin'an to Longshan several times. But he didn't get the results he hoped for; she also said bad words to her, but what could he say?

"Miss Gu." Zhou Hongyi said seriously, "I understand your feelings, but I want to warn you that all Alibaba's purpose of approaching you is to take advantage of you. Their purpose is completely opposite to the interests of our company. I know that you have always I want to revitalize your father's company, but no matter what, please stop..."

Zhou Hongyi observed each other at the same time. Before Ah Yue could answer, the boy next to her seemed to have a faint smile on his face, and he pulled out another piece of paper from a pile of documents.

And the paper changed hands like this, A Yue quickly glanced at it, and just like before, she displayed the data on the paper again——

"Uncle Zhou, I also understand what you said. Alibaba and Yahoo are indeed not in harmony."

"But Kuaiwan Company, of which I am the chairman, not only developed "Friends Brawl", but is also responsible for a large part of the business dealings with old customers. Although the company is encountering difficulties now, my data shows that they have not stopped any business with them because of this. The company's business, and the transaction volume between the two parties has expanded in the past two months..."

A Yue said seriously: "So Uncle Ma and the others are obviously not the company's enemies, and Alibaba is even increasing its holdings of the company's shares. I think the difference in interests between him and the company is not that serious. You are doing it deliberately." Exaggerating the threat!”

As he spoke, Kuaiwan Company's recent capital flow data was displayed, and the three small shareholders who were contacted through network communication happily agreed, somehow at a loss for words; other outsiders around him did not see the above content. , but based on Zhou Hongyi’s reaction, there was a lot of discussion...

So Zhou Hongyi finally understood that she was prepared!
According to strict regulations, he was the party with the absolute advantage. In Kuaikan Media, he represented most of the capital and the more important interests, so he was not worried about controlling the company from the beginning. right.

But for listed companies, "responsible for capital" is a political correctness. Company management is separated from capital and must be responsible not only for the main capital, but also for small shareholders.

In this environment, it seems meaningless to talk about motives and intimacy. A Yue is obviously talking about something more dangerous than Ma Yun's accusation just now.

Zhou Hongyi said coldly: "Miss Gu, I told you that you are young, so you should not push yourself too far. Everyone knows the situation of our company. Now no one refuses to recognize your contribution to the company, and the company has also implemented appropriate remuneration and rewards for you. But look, the media is not your family's property. If you continue to pester me, then don't blame me for being rude..."

He has never spoken to A Yue like this before, but sitting in this position, although he has been doing business well, he is not unable to deal with her and the Gu family behind her.

Saying this, A Yue seemed to flinch for a moment, and the others showed gloating expressions and subconsciously looked at the old man of the Gu family who had just left with Ma Yun.

But the next moment, the girl did not flinch like Ma Yun just now. Instead, she started making noise childishly: "Then tell me! If you can't tell the problem, I will kick you out today on behalf of my father!" Zhou Hongyi He didn't care about the embarrassment of arguing with the little girl, and asked angrily: "You are taking the benefits of the company and doing things that are detrimental to the company. What's there to say? The company gave you so many stocks in the previous negotiation. But you have been helping outsiders seize control of the company. As far as I know, you have successively received more than 100 million in funds from this classmate association. Why do you think I am here today?"

Like 'honest service', 'exchange of interests' is another politically sensitive issue for listed companies, but this is not politically correct, but politically incorrect... No matter what the reason is for bypassing the company to obtain benefits, as long as it is not an open and transparent transaction , everyone will naturally suspect that there is benefit transfer. A Yue received a donation of 100 million last year, and the donation is obviously not a public transaction.

"Old Zhou..."

Deng Wendi and another industrialist who were listening next to him couldn't stand it anymore... These are the rules of the game for adults. It seems a bit despicable to use them to deal with adults. What kind of deal is it to deal with a little girl?What's more, Gu Wenjie is his ex, and he is still receiving treatment in Meilijian. Zhou Hongyi directly used A Yue's collection of donations from the classmate association as an excuse. This is a bit too disgraceful anyway.

However, no one continued to stare at Zhou Hongyi and talk - at this moment, everyone suddenly became quiet again, because the boy took out a few documents from the pile of documents in his hand and handed them to Ayue.

A-Yue took the stack of documents and put the documents on the table without even looking at them.

"That was money donated to me by uncles and aunts from my classmates, but I spent it all in the company!"

As she spoke, she began to show the contents of the piece of paper: "This is all my operating expenses since last year. I didn't spend a penny myself. Except for the remaining 20 yuan, all the rest was used in " "Chaos" is on!"

In the black and white form, the handwriting of the girl Juanxiu clearly recorded such things as "debugging the server 1000 a month" and signed a work contract with a classmate who is willing to do copywriting. The contract amount is 5 yuan for one year and has been settled. "First Month Galaxy" The cloud server fee was 1, and later increased by 1000 due to elastic load. "The studio's daily catering expenses are 4000 yuan." Although this is not formal, it is her private property...

Zhou Hongyi grabbed the document and seemed to be extremely angry and laughed, but Ah Yue was unreasonable - "I didn't plan to use the money originally, but the company put forward harsh conditions that were quite unfavorable to the development team in the first negotiation. That’s why I spent my own money to make it, and now that I’ve handed the game over to the company, and you’re going to accuse me of my source of funding, how do you think you’re doing?”

As he spoke, he even bared his teeth and claws a little ridiculously: "Uncle Zhou, I can understand your position of protecting the interests of major shareholders, but because of this I think you are incompetent. It is people like you who have caused the stock price of my father's company to continue to rise. Fall, resign! Stop doing this!"

As she spoke, she reached out to pull Zhou Hongyi's suit and tie. Everyone quickly came up to stop her, but it was only then that everyone realized that she was indeed negotiating——

Not only does she pretend to be confused and say that Ma Yun and her company have good intentions, but the human accidents that were originally not on the table are also directly brought to the table after combining some secondary market value orientations...

Not to mention that such things are useful in Meilijian's court, and the business world is such a human world after all - in order to plug holes in the companies after they cash out and save their gambling shares, there were even nationalities just now. The entrepreneur called on her classmates to manipulate the stock price. As a girl who is not yet an adult, she did this in order to stabilize the company after her father was unable to perform his duties. There is no room for criticism.

And looking at the other side...

It might be right to use the usual methods used in the adult world to deal with the opponent, but the opponent is a teenage girl, which is already a bit disgraceful.

There hadn't been any quarrel yet. At this moment, Zhou Hongyi was stretched out and pulled by her little hand. She didn't resist. Her tie was pulled askew, and her face turned red and white.

The girl was quickly pulled away by the boy, but Zhou Hongyi didn't straighten his suit that was pulled askew. He finally let out a long sigh and said in front of everyone: "That's okay, then I'll resign."

"Yes, this is what you said!"

A Yue had no intention of staying. After being pulled away by the boy and Deng Wendi, she pointed at each other rudely. More people were attracted by the chaos here. Ma Yun, who had just gone out to make a phone call, came back in a hurry. , followed by the old man of the Gu family, and the reinforcements he called for——

Liu Chengzhi and several other seniors came over with a large group of people. As the core of this circle, they have been very keen on building connections in recent years, and are naturally very enthusiastic about Ma Yun's interference with Kuaikan Media; After seeing the chaos here, he quickly came over to take charge of the overall situation.

"Ayue, what's wrong with you? If you feel uncomfortable, go and rest."

Liu Chengzhi saw A Yue arguing with Zhou Hongyi and hurriedly came over to stop the chaos. He is the godfather of entrepreneurs, so he speaks naturally and clearly. This is not to preach to the younger generation, but to protect her. After all, no matter what, there is no noise in such an occasion. It’s all a bit unreasonable…

The others fell silent, except for Ma Yun, who was talking to Yahoo's new CEO on the phone recently, saying good things, explaining that he really didn't have any bad intentions...

Liu Chengzhi pulled up a chair and sat down at the messy wine table. After he sat casually at the messy wine table, the whole scene seemed to come into focus; and he smiled and looked at Zhou Hongyi opposite, who lowered his head blankly.

"Xiao Zhou, it was probably [-] when we first met."

Liu Chengzhi talked to him with a smile, but Zhou Hongyi looked at him as if he was crazy, then stood up and left.

"This kid..." Liu Chengzhi frowned slightly. He was a well-educated person. He shook his head and cursed with a smile, but he vaguely realized that the atmosphere was not quite right.

Deng Wendi reminded him in a low voice: "Mr. Liu, Mr. Ma, and Zhou Hongyi have already said they will resign."

"..."

The boss of Yahoo on the phone was still talking nonstop, and the eyes of the people watching were a bit dazzling for some reason.

Ma Yun still held the phone, and looked back at each other with Liu Chengzhi, and then looked back to see Zhou Hongyi walking out of the hotel lobby lonely with his hands in his pockets.

what's the situation?
They finally looked back again, and A Yue, who seemed very angry just now, had put on a happy expression and was packing paper documents with the boy next to her, and was still talking in a low voice.

"Speaking of which, who should we choose to be our boss in the future?"

"See for yourself..."

The two children were a bit insignificant. Not only did they not give up their seats to their elders, they also spoke to themselves and others could hear them.

But it was only then that the two people who had just joined in reacted.

I don’t know the reason yet, but in short, this negotiation that had been planned for a long time suddenly succeeded.

It's just that for some reason, at the dinner table where the busybodies were watching, the focus of everyone's attention suddenly turned to this young man and woman who had no sense of existence just now.

Compared to the sudden good news, this was originally an insignificant matter, but after so many years, for some reason, the two of them suddenly felt that the sight of others was a bit dazzling.

(End of this chapter)