Rebirth of wealth and freedom starts from the World Cup

Chapter 116: Xiao Ma Ge's End

The atmosphere at the negotiation table remained tense. Mao Yourong insisted on obtaining more equity incentives, while Zhao Zixuan was only willing to offer a 15% share.

This number is already the limit for him. If it were someone else, they would probably find it difficult to give up even 10%.

Zhao Zixuan knew in his heart that what he was eyeing was the powerful Beijing influence behind Mao Yourong.

A company without power support will inevitably be targeted by people with ulterior motives, no matter how good its development momentum is, and eventually become a victim of the capital game.

ByteDance’s experience has sounded a wake-up call for him.

Anyway, once the pie gets bigger, someone will have to share a piece of it sooner or later.

Therefore, he would rather seek strong backing at the beginning to jointly create this tempting cake.

Over the past three days, the two sides have been exchanging sharp words.

Finally, after in-depth negotiations and considerations, both sides decided to take a step back.

Zhao Zixuan decided to temporarily hand over the full operation rights of the Douyin APP to Mao Yourong for a period of two years.

In the next two years, if the Douyin APP can emerge and become a leader in the industry, Zhao Zixuan will generously allocate 18% of the shares to Mao Yourong.

It is worth mentioning that during this period, Mao Yourong’s monthly salary was only one yuan.

This means that if she fails to complete this difficult task, she will have worked for Zhao Zixuan for two years in vain, making her a real working queen.

Despite this, she still bravely accepted the challenge, and her courage is admirable.

However, Zhao Zixuan also understood that the reason why Mao Yourong dared to take such a risk was largely because of the powerful family power behind her.

It is precisely because of this strong backing that she can sign this gambling agreement with Zhao Zixuan without fear.

After Mao Yourong took over the power of the Douyin APP, Pei Yuhan's dissatisfaction with Zhao Zixuan surged into her heart like a tide.

Although the number of registered users of Douyin APP is slightly lower than that of Tianlai APP and Xuanshi APP, its development momentum is in full swing, especially the selection activity of the top ten campus beauties and campus handsome men of Imperial Capital University, which has pushed Douyin to the forefront.

In time, Pei Yuhan is confident that the Douyin APP will be able to catch up and achieve an amazing overtaking effect.

However, at this critical moment, Zhao Zixuan made an unexpected decision. He removed Pei Yuhan from her core position and threw her into the technical department, asking her to learn the recommendation algorithm from Xiang Liang.

This unexpected change made Pei Yuhan complain bitterly. She called Zhao Zixuan almost every day to beg him to return to his original position.

After all, she has poured countless efforts into the Douyin APP, but now she is forced to leave, which makes her feel extremely unwilling.

But no matter how unwilling she was, Zhao Zixuan's decision was unquestionable and as heavy as a military order. Unless Pei Yuhan did not intend to continue working at Heguang Technology, she would have no choice but to accept this transfer order.

10 month 1 day.

When the whole country was celebrating, Tengxun suddenly announced the launch of the Weishi APP, determined to enter the emerging short video market.

Pony Ma not only invested heavily in promoting the Weishi APP, but also mobilized a large number of senior executives to join the short video department.

At this point, Heguang Technology, the dark horse in the industry, finally welcomed its first strong opponent.

Before this, although Heguang Technology had many competitors, such as Kuaishou, Meipai and other apps, in Zhao Zixuan's eyes, these competitors were just small fish and shrimps and were not worth mentioning at all.

However, Tengxun is different. With the huge user base of QQ, WeChat and other products, Weishi APP naturally has hundreds of millions of users.

Coupled with Xiao Ma Ge's financial advantage, he has an absolute advantage in the money-burning competition. Even the wealthy Zhao Zixuan feels unprecedented pressure.

Against this backdrop, Zhao Zixuan, who had originally planned to use the National Day holiday to relax for a few days, had to change his plans and set out again on his journey to the imperial capital.

This international metropolis full of infinite possibilities will once again become the stage for his battle.

Coincidentally, on the day Zhao Zixuan left Xiaoxiang City, an unexpected visitor knocked on his door.

For the first time, the proud little princess Song Qiuya took the initiative to humble herself, with a hint of stubbornness and expectation, hoping to sit down with Zhao Zixuan and have a good talk about the inexplicable "cold war" between them.

She wanted to ask one thing clearly: Does Zhao Zixuan still regard her as his childhood sweetheart?

However, the person who opened the door was not Zhao Zixuan.

Wu Xianglian told Song Qiuya that her son had already embarked on the journey to the imperial capital at noon, and might be lying on the bed in a hotel, sleeping soundly.

This news was like a bolt from the blue, making Song Qiuya extremely angry.

She couldn't understand how Zhao Zixuan could travel alone without telling her and forget about her.

Didn't he know what kind of position she held in his heart? Could he really bear to treat her like this?
The rage in her heart was burning so fierce that she wished she could grow wings and fly to the imperial capital to question Zhao Zixuan face to face.

However, reality cruelly reminded her that as a senior high school student, she was under heavy academic pressure.

Moreover, the college entrance examination is approaching, which is the most critical moment in life, and she cannot be distracted in any way. If she delays her studies because of this matter, then all her past efforts will be in vain.

Song Qiuya, who prides herself on being excellent, would never allow such a thing to happen to herself.

Thinking of this, she clenched her teeth, buried the anger and disappointment deep in her heart, and decided to let go of this emotional entanglement first and go all out to face the upcoming college entrance examination.

Zhao Zixuan knew nothing about Song Qiuya's sudden visit.

After returning to the imperial capital and leaving the airport, he prepared to rush to Heguang Technology as soon as possible. He notified Cheng Yuyan in advance to pick him up, but the person who came was Pei Yuhan.

Pei Yuhan's outfit today is particularly eye-catching. Her long gray hair flutters in the wind, and her exquisite makeup makes her facial features look more three-dimensional and beautiful.

She was not very tall, but probably over 1.6 meters tall. She was wearing a grey shirt with a white vest underneath, which cleverly and deliberately showed off her white skin. The tight black jeans perfectly outlined her slender legs.

Zhao Zixuan walked over quickly, admired her closely, and said in admiration, "Yuhan, I haven't seen you for a while. You've become more and more beautiful. Where's Yuyan? Why didn't she come?"

Pei Yuhan took the initiative to reach out and take Zhao Zixuan's backpack, and replied easily: "Thank you for the compliment, Boss. My two hours of dressing up have not been in vain. Yuyan had something urgent to do, so I came to pick you up."

There were people coming and going at the airport entrance. Zhao Zixuan asked as he walked by: "What's wrong with her? It's the National Day holiday now, and Tsinghua and Peking University should also be on holiday, right? She can't even spare this little time?"

Pei Yuhan shook her head helplessly, "I don't know about that. In fact, I haven't seen her for a long time, and I have no idea what she has been busy with recently."

It was a dark night, and Pei Yuhan was driving the black Mercedes-Benz commercial vehicle of Heguang Technology smoothly on the streets of the imperial capital.

Zhao Zixuan sat in the back row, closing his eyes and looking calm.

This car, as the company car of Heguang Technology, was carefully selected by Cheng Yuyan at the instruction of Zhao Zixuan.

The top student from Peking University and Tsinghua University spent a lot of money, purchasing three models of commercial vehicles including Mercedes-Benz and Rolls-Royce at one time, with a total cost of more than five million yuan.

For this reason, Cheng Yuyan specifically asked Zhao Zixuan whether he was satisfied. If not, she could improve the level a little bit.

At that time, Zhao Zixuan felt that Cheng Yuyan was helping him save money, because the business car in his mind should be a Cullinan, a luxury car worth at least five or six million, rather than three cars totaling more than five million.

But it's not a big problem.

After all, Heguang Technology has just started, and I am often not in the capital. No matter how good the car I buy is, I can't use it myself. It will be fine as long as it can be used.

"Boss, do I need to arrange a hotel for you first?"

While driving, Pei Yuhan glanced at Zhao Zixuan, who was resting with his eyes closed, through the rearview mirror and asked, "I see you look a little tired."

Zhao Zixuan didn't open his eyes and responded calmly, "No, let's go to the company first. The new company has been moved for so long, and I haven't visited it yet. It's a good opportunity to see how many dedicated employees are still working overtime during the National Day holiday."

Pei Yuhan said: "It's so late now, there shouldn't be many people in the company. Boss, you haven't eaten yet, right? How about we go eat first?"

"I'm not hungry, just do as I say."

"Ok."

Pei Yuhan glanced at Zhao Zixuan through the rearview mirror, nodded, and drove towards Yingdu Building, the newly rented office building of Heguang Technology.

ByteDance also has an office in this building, and the two companies are only separated by the upper and lower floors.

Heguang Technology rented two floors, one for Tianlai APP and the other as the office of Xuanshi APP.

It was already seven in the evening when Zhao Zixuan arrived at the company. As it was a holiday, everyone in the company had gone home except for the necessary employees and management.

The management was originally preparing to leave work, but after receiving the notice that Zhao Zixuan would be visiting the company in person, they all stayed and waited for President Zhao to arrive.

Accompanied by Pei Yuhan, Zhao Zixuan successfully passed the electronic access control.

As the door opened, Luo Feng and a group of employees cheered enthusiastically: "Director Zhao, welcome to our office!"

Zhao Zixuan couldn't help but laugh and waved his hand to signal everyone not to do so.

"Everyone go to work, those who don't have work can go home and rest. Managers and supervisors, follow me to the conference room, we will have a short meeting." He instructed calmly.

Afterwards, surrounded by Luo Feng and others, Zhao Zixuan walked into the conference room, and a brief meeting was about to begin.

Huang Youwei arrived late, ten minutes after the meeting started. Because they received the notice at the last minute, many executives were still on their way.

Zhao Zixuan didn't care. He first listened to the company's employees express their opinions and ideas one by one, and then waited until all the executives arrived before he started speaking.

Half an hour later, all the management of Heguang Technology gathered together. Even Mao Yourong came with two assistants and a secretary. It was quite a grand occasion.

Seeing that it was almost done, Zhao Zixuan stood up and officially announced:

"I believe everyone has heard about the news that Tengxun announced the launch of the Weishi APP. I returned to the company this time to deal with this competitor. If you have any ideas, please feel free to speak up..."

(End of this chapter)