King of Capital

Chapter 63: Brave and Shameless Zuckerberg

Xie Jingxing stayed in the ICU for three days. When he was transferred to the VIP ward, he learned that Facebook was caught in the vortex of the storm. He grimaced in pain and said with a haggard face, "It's a pity."

"Facebook will not have the energy to participate in the WhatsApp acquisition case in the future, and Google will most likely not get involved in this messy water." Zhou Fenglan said while moistening his lips with a wet cotton swab.

Xie Jing Xing was unwilling: "You shouldn't do this, it's a bit too much."

"When you feel better, come back to your country to recuperate. We'll find a time to get the marriage certificate and hold the wedding later." Zhou Fenglan continued to himself.

"Let's talk later. I feel a little dizzy."

Xie Jingxing's face turned completely cold and he spoke in a sickly tone. Zhou Fenglan stopped what he was doing and looked at him with scrutiny.

The two men stared at each other in silence for a moment. The latter smiled and nodded, placed a clean pistol beside the bed, and got up and left the ward without saying anything.

Zhou Fenglan's father and Lao Xie were the "original couple". When Yunshan was starting out, her father was in charge of the local economy. Later, her father crossed the Longmen and reached an awe-inspiring height. The relationship between the two families gradually became cold, and they had little contact for many years.

When it comes to her father's position, there is naturally no such thing as a so-called "marriage of alliance"; from Old Xie's perspective, he would rather stay away from him with awe, as the words spoken between children when they were young are all childish and innocent.

Yu Tong said that Zhou Fenglan only had one chance to go crazy, and Xie Jingxing also only had one chance to speak as her fiancé, which was why he told Xiao Ma Ge to put his lifelong event on the table.

He really lost a lot. Old Xie and his father and son had been preparing for decades to cool down their big moves, but they just happened to hit Facebook. In the end, he had to take the initiative to refuse to get married, which was very decent...

Xie Jingxing didn't think that Zhou Fenglan's behavior was wrong, he just couldn't accept that he had already laid the groundwork for this project, but it ended up in a simple and rough sweep.

Various things flashed through Xie Jingxing's mind in a daze, and his eyelids felt heavy as he was half asleep and half awake.

He didn't know how many hours he slept. When he woke up again, another girl appeared beside him. She smiled and asked, "When did you come?"

"About an hour or two, I didn't check the time."

Yu Tong was playing with the pistol beside the bed and asked, "Has Zhou Fenglan been here?"

"You didn't fight, did you?" Xie Jingxing teased.

Yu Tong rolled her eyes at him in reproach: "Your biggest shortcoming is that you always feel good about yourself. Do you know what she said to me? She said that my man is dying, not your man."

"I guess when she said that she really wanted me to slap her in the face, and she would never hit back, so there would be nothing to do."

She smiled smugly, blinked her bright eyes and said, "Whoever's man is dying will cry for him, I won't be fooled by her."

"…You are really smart."

Xie Jing Xing was speechless. Thinking about it carefully, he seemed to be feeling pretty good about himself in this regard. The women he had met in his past and present lives were all more rational than the other, and none of them were so love-minded as to risk their lives for him.

Yu Tong pouted in dissatisfaction: "She got it right. It was actually Microsoft and the other three companies that did the hard work, but she acted like a madman and everyone thought she was a gigolo."

"I still have to thank her, and thank you too." Xie Jingxing calmly said.

In fact, when he pulled Microsoft and the other three companies onto the chariot and the M&A team went overseas to sign a formal M&A agreement, the overall situation was already decided, and the counterattacks from Facebook, Google and Alibaba were all within his tolerance range.

Taking future generations as a lesson, ByteDance, Microsoft and Walmart together were able to protect the short video platform that is truly more dangerous from China during tense times; now is the last window of opportunity, and Microsoft, Apple and Amazon together cannot deal with WhatsApp, a legitimate American company?

You have to know that at that time, all American giants, whether they were in the Internet industry or not, wanted to get a piece of the pie with ByteDance, while the only followers of WhatsApp were Facebook and Google.

In this situation, if the three Microsoft companies cannot even get past Congress, how can they survive? It would be less troublesome if they were split up and dismembered as soon as possible.

Xie Jingxing believed that someone wanted to kill him directly and disintegrate the cooperation of the four parties from within, rather than causing trouble from the outside. This was the best proof that the opponent had already succeeded halfway, but he never expected Zhou Fenglan to be so decisive.

Without hesitation, he stepped in swiftly and with ruthless tactics, using both coaxing and intimidation to get the parties to maintain mutual trust and stability. He then took the offensive instead of defensive and attacked Facebook, sparking external conflicts so that the internal parties had no time to suspect each other and were forced to point their guns at the outside world.

At the same time, all other competitors will be eliminated. Anyone who dares to jump out and make a move will be related to Prism.

It's not that Zhou Fenglan is powerful enough to influence all the Internet giants in the United States, but that these giants need a brave person to take the blame for "Prism", and now Zuckerberg is this brave person...

Don’t even think about him having the time to get involved in the WhatsApp acquisition case in the future. He has to survive this crisis before he can talk about other things.

Even the giants who already want to see Facebook die will actively exercise their subjective ability and work harder than before without any benefits. Everyone wants to crush Zuckerberg to death so that everything can survive.

So although Zhou Fenglan seemed to have done nothing, in fact he had done his best by taking advantage of the situation. No one would accept a second threat, just like the Northern Dynasty, which had to beg for donations every day to make a living, and would not easily bring up the nuclear bomb as an issue.

"Have you found out who sent the gunman?" Xie Jingxing suddenly thought of something and asked curiously.

His thinking was right, but his methods were too crude. If he had been gentler, Zhou Fenglan would not have had the opportunity to throw a tantrum and go crazy.

Yu Tong was silent for a few seconds: "Tea Party members, extreme conservatives."

"I won't waste my energy on revenge anymore. Even if I know who it is, if there is an opportunity for cooperation after I am discharged from the hospital, I will just use this as an excuse to negotiate the price with him with a smile." Xie Jingxing explained sincerely from the bottom of his heart.

Yu Tong stared helplessly: "Then why are you asking?" "Curious? And who exposed the news of the WhatsApp acquisition case before? I still can't find out." Xie Jingxing felt lost.

He felt like he had been fighting hard for many years and was about to kill the Japanese, but then the United States dropped a nuclear bomb and he won inexplicably...

"Apple." Yu Tong gave the answer.

When Bill Gates and Cook were on the phone, she was sitting next to the former. The world's richest man was furious when Cook asked him, "Did you do the shooting?" After hanging up the phone, he said angrily that it must be Apple that leaked the news of WhatsApp's acquisition!

Xie Jingxing's mood improved and he said cheerfully: "Cook also said it was Microsoft who did it, right?"

"I think both families did it." Yu Tong commented quietly.

"I feel so too."

Xie Jingxing smiled happily, feeling very happy, and agreed repeatedly. There was another very important reason why he could bring Microsoft and Apple together to cooperate - hatred.

Apple and Facebook have turned into adversaries as they entered the mobile Internet era. Apple's communication tools iMessage and Facetime are thriving with the help of the iOS ecosystem, and Apple is not very interested in acquiring WhatsApp. However, it still has an interest in causing trouble for Facebook, and a great one.

Apple and Google also have a deep hatred. In his later years, Jobs threatened to spend $40 billion to drop a nuclear bomb to kill the damn Google because of the mobile system.

In addition, Facebook and Google's advertising revenue accounts for as much as 90%, which is in sharp conflict with the Apple iOS ecosystem. Therefore, there is a high possibility that it will act as a troublemaker and disgust these two companies.

Not to mention Microsoft and Google, the two companies even agreed not to suppress each other by lobbying Congress.

At the same time, Microsoft is also a small shareholder of Facebook. There was a sweet period between them before, but Microsoft was rejected when it wanted to acquire Facebook. Microsoft turned against Facebook and threatened to initiate a patent lawsuit. Zuckerberg gritted his teeth and paid hundreds of millions of dollars in protection fees.

Xie Jingxing really put a lot of effort from all angles to deal with several giants, and he was quite proud of it.

"So Tencent wants to continue lobbying Microsoft and Apple and take advantage of the current opportunity to dismantle Facebook." Yu Tong does not have his good attitude.

Xie Jing Xing was stunned for a moment and thought about it and said, "Did Brother Xiao Ma test you?"

"Cook also called me to ask if you are feeling better. Thank you for your contribution to this deal. Apple and Microsoft have decided to jointly transfer 3% of Forsan's shares as a bonus to you."

Yu Tong continued with a hint of pride in his tone, "Tencent's equity cannot be transferred. What Pony Ma meant is that we are one family. There will be plenty of opportunities for cooperation in China in the future. You will lead Didi's next round of financing."

"It's really not easy for everyone to get together and work together. If they are willing to give, just accept it reluctantly."

Xie Jingxing's words sounded like he was pretending to be in the late stage of cancer, but he really didn't want to take any benefits. The money was actually the after-sales service fee.

Facebook was in a state of disgrace and in danger. Pony Ma was worried that Microsoft and Apple would take the opportunity to kill Facebook, so they turned against him and kicked him out.

Microsoft and Apple are worried about Facebook's languishing performance. Tencent, faced with a sudden reduction in pressure, swallowed up WhatsApp and turned its back on it, after all, Pony Ma actually holds a 51% stake.

To put it bluntly, Zhou Fenglan's move was too heavy-handed, and everyone had no time to react and exert actual control over WhatsApp. Either party could have overturned the table. Apple and Microsoft have been in a love-hate relationship for more than 40 years.

Everyone needs Xie Jingxing to continue to guarantee. Once the merger is completed and WhatsApp has been operating smoothly for one to two years, the interests of all parties will be firmly intertwined and the risk of overturning the table can be minimized.

Bezos, after all the fuss, is the only one who stays out of it and quietly invests a small amount of money in the entire payment system, without having to worry about anything else.

Xie Jingxing reviewed the entire M&A transaction and finally remembered this invisible man: "It's a pity that Amazon's competitors are not in the Internet industry, otherwise they would have to pay some after-sales insurance."

"Not necessarily." Yu Tong said mysteriously.

Xie Jingxing was puzzled: "What do you mean?"

"Facebook hasn't given up yet. Elon Musk wants to meet you."

Yu Tong revealed an important piece of news that Zhou Fenglan had concealed: "On the second day after you were in the ICU, Elon Musk came to me and proposed another M&A plan. Facebook and Tencent would work together to acquire WhatsApp, leaving Microsoft behind. PayPal could also participate in the joint development of a mobile software third-party payment product."

"WhatsApp is too important to Facebook."

It was both reasonable and unexpected, Xie Jingxing commented with emotion.

Musk is a shareholder of Facebook and PayPal, the largest mobile payment platform in the United States, which is a strategic competitor of Amazon. Zuckerberg is completely shameless to come up with such an outrageous merger and acquisition plan.

Yu Tong encouraged with a smile: "You are just an intermediary anyway, this plan will definitely give you more benefits than Tencent and Sifang."

"Do you really want to fight with Zhou Fenglan?" Xie Jingxing glanced at her.

Not to mention anything else, Zhou Fenglan had just cleared the obstacles and sent Facebook to the ICU, but he turned around and got arm in arm with Zuckerberg. How could the princess put her face down?

Yu Tong put down the pistol he had been stroking for a long time, and disassembled it into parts again with swift movements: "It would feel great if I could slap the princess in the face. It's time to revise your will."

She reassembled the pistol, disinfected it with alcohol, and placed it next to the bed, exactly in its original position.

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