Gold Investor

Chapter 4 The Age of Capital (3)
Fang Yubin only nodded his head lightly, and didn't say anything more.It's not that he hasn't thought about Qi Yu's reasoning.When he first came to the company, Fang Yubin also kept his attitude very low.After a period of time, I found that even if you are cautious everywhere, the favorability of outsiders towards you has not increased.In Rongding, students from majors and returnees from prestigious schools are like crucian carp crossing the river. People really don't look down on Fang Yubin's wild way, especially seeing Fang Yubin being reused by Yuan Ruilang, outsiders are even more jealous.

Since you all look down on me no matter what, I don't need to look up to you!After achieving outstanding performance at work, Fang Yubin's personality changed.In his opinion, it is better to be a hedgehog covered in thorns than a guinea pig.Even though hedgehogs are hated by others, they can be a guinea pig, but no one likes them.

Seeing that Fang Yubin didn't speak, Qi Yu sighed: "When will you change your conceit, I will be Amitabha. Otherwise, sooner or later, I will suffer a lot."

"Change, change, change." Fang Yubin agreed, while changing the topic, "I have been busy with the publication of the new book last week, and worked overtime on the weekend to get the materials in the company, so I didn't spend time with you. Where did you go on the weekend?"

Qi Yu didn't answer, but asked: "How is the sales of the new book? How much money can you make?"

Fang Yubin said: "This kind of professional book is not a romance novel, but a niche reading material. It's okay to rely on it to earn some influence in the circle. The money is really not much."

Qi Yu pursed her mouth: "Don't you ask me what I do on weekends? I went to see the house. But if I don't have money, how can I buy a house?"

After working hard in Shanghai for many years, Fang Yubin only mortgaged a single apartment of more than 30 square meters.Such a house is really shabby for getting married.Qi Yu said that it is impossible to maintain an office romance for a long time.As long as she gets certain guarantees, she will marry Fang Yubin and resign from the company.The so-called security is a three-bedroom house.

In all fairness, in a place like Shanghai, coupled with Qi Yu's conditions, this request is not too much.It's a pity that the current Fang Yubin is a hero who can't be beat by a penny.

Fang Yubin's time as deputy director is still very short.Last year, I bought a house for my parents in my hometown, and I bought a car worth more than [-] yuan, and I don't have much savings in my hand.

Whenever Qi Yu mentioned the matter of the house, Fang Yubin's heart would always be filled with bitterness.Living in Shanghai is not easy!When I was alone in Shanghai, my heart was full of curiosity that "the world is so big".For this ideal, he is willing to endure the days of Yangzhou fried rice at noon, Master Kong's instant noodles at night, and Xibeifeng for breakfast.He was even kicked out by the landlord because of rent arrears.Later, his work got on the right track, and he finally didn't have to worry about the rent, but the pressure of getting married and starting a family seemed to be like a mountain pressing on his head, making him breathless.

Driving a car worth more than [-] yuan is driving on the wide road of an international metropolis, looking at the million-dollar luxury cars driving towards you, or when you are in a hurry, you see men and women coming out of high-end residential areas, all dressed in jewels, with a relaxed look on their faces. Walking the dog, every time at this time, Fang Yubin always feels deep melancholy in his heart - from graduating from university to now, he has been desperately fighting for ten years, but if he really wants to gain a firm foothold in this city, let himself And future family members live a dignified life, but it is so difficult!
Seeing that Fang Yubin was frowning, Qi Yu complained: "You people, once you export a big business of tens of millions or hundreds of millions, but when it's your turn, you are dumbfounded."

Fang Yubin said: "You work in the company, and you don't know what's going on with us? The big business is negotiated for the company, and the money will not go to your own pocket. You are in the financial department, and you must handle hundreds of millions of funds every year." , but you can’t save a penny in your account. Coal miners dig so much coal every day, and they can’t drag it out and sell it by themselves.”

"I hate it." Qi Yu kicked Fang Yubin, "Do you think I'm a coal worker?"

Fang Yubin put on a hippie smile: "Aren't we having fun while we're suffering, tell a joke?"

Qi Yu also smiled: "Okay, okay, this girl is planted on your glib tongue." After a pause, Qi Yu said again: "It's your business that you like to force a smile, where do you get the money to buy a house? ?”

Because of this problem, Fang Yubin tossed and turned for countless nights.At this moment, he could only repeat what he had said to Qi Yu countless times: "I can't get enough money to buy a house for the time being. But in the long run, this amount of money is not too much pressure on me. You see I am already an associate director now, and I should be able to become a director soon, and my annual salary will increase by then. Wait a year or two, and I will definitely be able to come up with a down payment."

"Forget it, talking about money hurts feelings, and talking about feelings hurts money. It seems that you can't count on you for the money to buy a house, so I have to find the way." Qi Yu said.

"What kind of knowledge do you have?" Fang Yubin asked.

Qi Yu blinked: "Of course you will know when the time comes."

3 When a company grows big, it becomes an officialdom
Yuan Ruilang raised his wrist and looked at his watch, showing displeasure.Fang Yubin's face was full of anxiety, and he kept taking out his mobile phone to make calls.

In the past month, the communication between Fang Yubin and He Zhaowei was very smooth.The business plan submitted by He Zhaowei was also praised by Yuan Ruilang.According to the plan, today will be the most important part of the entire investment process - on-site briefing.Senior management of Rongding Capital Shanghai Company and external industry experts gathered together to listen to He Zhaowei's analysis and introduction to the project.

Fang Yubin and He Zhaowei spent the whole day yesterday, and the two even simulated the process of the briefing session.Based on his own experience, Fang Yubin sorted out more than a dozen questions that investors like to ask most.If He Zhaowei's answer is not in place, Fang Yubin will point it out immediately, and the two of them will deliberate and correct it.

The clock on the wall of the conference room pointed to 3:10 pm, 10 minutes had passed since the investment meeting was originally expected to start, and He Zhaowei still did not show up, and his mobile phone was turned off.Fang Yubin stomped his feet anxiously.

Meng Wei, head of the company's finance department, has always been a difficult woman to get along with.Today, she was the first to shoot: "Director Fang, the Accelink Technology you contacted is too unreliable! You can be late for such a big event. How dare others invest money in such a company? "

In normal times, Fang Yubin would have pushed Meng Wei back, but today he knew he was wrong, so he blushed and remained silent.Lin Shengfeng, the vice president of the company, came out to smooth things over: "No one would joke about this kind of thing, it must be some unexpected situation."

"Let's wait a little longer." Yan Fei, the company's executive vice president, said.As the second in command of the Shanghai company, Yan Fei is only 36 years old.He is also the youngest branch vice president of Rhodium Capital and is regarded as the future star of the group company.

Yan Fei graduated from a prestigious university and has served as the secretary to the president Fei Yunpeng for a long time after entering Rongding.Last year, he parachuted into the Shanghai company and took over the post of executive vice president.

The equity structure of Rhodium Capital is quite different in the Chinese corporate world. Among its shareholders, there are powerful state-owned giants, popular godfathers of private enterprises, and Fortune 500 companies from across the ocean.Therefore, it is difficult for outsiders to define what kind of company Rongding Capital is.It is not a pure state-owned enterprise, private enterprise or foreign enterprise, but it has the characteristics of these enterprises.

There is a saying: When the forest is big, there are all kinds of birds; when the enterprise is big, it becomes an officialdom.This sentence could not be more suitable for Rong Ding!Take the Shanghai company as an example. Yuan Ruilang and Yan Fei are in the top two positions respectively. Yuan Ruilang is the favorite general of Ding Yifu, the chairman of the head office, and Yan Fei has also served as Fei Yunpeng's secretary.This is almost doomed, the relationship between Yuan and Yan is very delicate.

Time passed by every minute and every second, and it was 3:[-] in a blink of an eye.Lin Shengfeng is a good guy in the company, he is still holding the material with a smile, showing no emotion.Yan Fei's face was quite stiff, he seemed to want to reprimand Fang Yubin, but finally restrained himself - this briefing was decided by Yuan Ruilang, if he spoke at this time, would Yuan Ruilang feel that someone would take the opportunity to criticize Huai?

"He Zhaowei's cell phone still doesn't work?" Yuan Ruilang asked sharply.

"His mobile phone is always turned off." Fang Yubin, who knew he had messed up the matter, looked guilty.

"No more, the meeting is adjourned!" Yuan Ruilang slapped the table and got up to leave.

Yan Fei also stood up. He walked up to Fang Yubin and patted him on the shoulder: "You are not a rookie who just entered the industry. You shouldn't make such low-level mistakes. I won't say much, just learn from it."

Back in the office, Fang Yubin was in a very depressed mood.A well-prepared investment briefing ended like this in the end!He Zhaowei, He Zhaowei, you are too unreliable!
Fang Yubin picked up the phone and made another frantic call, but He Zhaowei's phone was still turned off.Unwilling to be reconciled, he rushed out of the office and drove towards He Zhaowei's company in a Sagitar car.

It's not time to get off work, but He Zhaowei's company is closed.Looking in through the glass door, the documents inside are in a mess, and the computer on the desk has obviously been moved.Fang Yubin became more and more confused. He went to the office next door and asked, "Where did the people from the company next door go?"

"You mean the software company next door," said a female clerk. "At noon, a group of policemen came and searched inside. They seemed to have arrested a few people. In the afternoon, all the people inside were gone."

Fang Yubin was taken aback: "What did they do?"

The clerk shook his head: "I don't know either."

Fang Yubin was very anxious. He originally wanted to call He Zhaowei's wife to see if he could find out what happened, but then he thought, she is pregnant now, so it's best not to know about it.

Fang Yubin had no choice but to drive around in the street until after 7:[-] pm when his cell phone rang, and he took it out to see that it was He Zhaowei calling.He quickly answered the phone: "what happened, where are you now?"

He Zhaowei's tone was dejected: "I just came out of the Public Security Bureau. Today's incident was deliberately caused by someone."

"I'll come over right away, let's talk about it when we meet." Fang Yubin stepped on the accelerator, and the car accelerated suddenly.

He Zhaowei was standing at the gate of the Public Security Bureau, wearing a well-pressed dark suit, no tie, and messy hair.The two talked on the phone in the morning, and He Zhaowei told Fang Yubin that he had bought a suit and had his hair done for this briefing.It seems that He Zhaowei was taken away by the police when he was wearing this suit and was about to go out.During an afternoon of interrogation, he scratched his hair a lot, so his suit was still neat, but his hairstyle was messed up.

After getting into the car, Fang Yubin asked, "You are a software developer, how did you mess with the police?"

He Zhaowei was emotional: "This is the third worst trick of our competitors. They framed me for stealing technology, infringing on intellectual property rights, and even reported to the Public Security Bureau."

Fang Yubin handed over a bottle of mineral water: "Don't get excited, speak slowly."

He Zhaowei took a sip of water and poured out his grievances—an Internet company called Huoshi Technology had developed a similar software before.However, in He Zhaowei's view, Firestone's software has many loopholes, far inferior to the new software he designed.Recently, many users complained that Firestone's things were not easy to use, and switched to new software.In order to kill competitors in their infancy, Flint Technology reported to the Public Security Bureau that He Zhaowei had plagiarized the technology.

"The other people's software went online first, did you copy their stuff?" Fang Yubin asked.

"Their software was launched first, which is indeed helpful to my research and development, but it is not the same as plagiarism." He Zhaowei said, "After the advent of the atomic bomb, a fierce debate broke out in the American scientific community-whether it can be used in the development of the atomic bomb?" Going one step further on the basis to create a more powerful hydrogen bomb? However, after the Americans have produced a hydrogen bomb, other countries naturally don’t need to waste time on this issue. They only need to think about how to develop a hydrogen bomb. You said that these latecomers who saved time , can it be considered plagiarism?"

"What do the people from the Public Security Bureau say?" Fang Yubin felt that it was really difficult to talk to a man of science and engineering like He Zhaowei. He could give you a lot of words with a simple question.I simply went straight to the point, straight to the point.

He Zhaowei said: "The Public Security Bureau only asked about the situation and did not express its position. Since they released me in one afternoon, it is probably not a big deal."

Fang Yubin asked again: "Why did everyone in the company run away after you were taken away?"

He Zhaowei shook his head: "I'm not at the company this afternoon, so I don't know what's going on inside." He went on to say, "Firestone Technology is too disgusting. I heard that in addition to reporting the case to the Public Security Bureau, they also wrote a press release and published it in more than a dozen media outlets. Go up, slander me for plagiarizing technology."

"Don't worry too." Fang Yubin comforted, "Go home tonight and have a good rest. I have nothing to do tomorrow, so I'll come to accompany you in the morning."

Early the next morning, Fang Yubin didn't go to work in Rongding, but went directly to He Zhaowei's company.Taking advantage of last night, he also learned about the status of Flint Technology.This technology company from Hangzhou has developed rapidly in recent years. It has not only completed multiple rounds of fundraising, but also introduced a domestic Internet giant headquartered in Hangzhou as a strategic partner.Huoshi Technology has now started to go public in the United States. The company's CEO Ye Yunlai expressed that he is confident that it will be listed on NASDAQ within one year.

Walking into the company, I saw three young people packing up files and computers in the room.Fang Yubin asked: "Is Mr. He here?" A young man pointed inside: "The boss is in the room."

He Zhaowei sat in the office alone, with his head drooping, his expression worse than yesterday.Fang Yubin asked: "What's the matter? I have come out of the police station safely, why are you still so depressed?"

He Zhaowei almost cried: "Did you see the three young men outside? Now there are only three people left in the company, and I have become a polished commander."

"What happened? Didn't there be more than [-] people yesterday?" Fang Yubin was quite surprised.

He Zhaowei said: "They were all poached by Huoshi with high salaries. I made a phone call today, and only two people were willing to come back. The others were determined to go to Huoshi's R&D center in Shanghai."

Fang Yubin couldn't help being worried about Zhaowei's situation, and he thought of what Yuan Ruilang said back then.Yuan Ruilang said that He Zhaowei was not generous enough and could not keep talents around him.This assessment seems appropriate.

Fang Yubin pulled up a chair and sat down: "Everyone is gone, your software must be shut down, right?"

He Zhaowei said: "With the absence of background maintenance personnel, the operation of the software will definitely be affected. But it will only be delayed for a few days, and it will be restored soon."

Fang Yubin was dubious: "You're not bragging, are you?"

He Zhaowei's voice gradually became louder: "I designed the software, and the core data is stored in my mind. The real core technical staff of the company is only me, and the others are just doing auxiliary work. Recruit a few programs with average technical ability If you are an employee, you can get on the job after a while of training, and you can’t miss anything.” After a pause, he went on to say: “Huoshi treats my guys as treasures, digs them up and gives them double salaries. They will soon find out that they have lost money. trade."

Fang Yubin said: "It's good that you can regain your strength."

He Zhaowei said: "At this moment, what I need most is capital. As long as I have money, this software will definitely become a hit. Is the investment mentioned earlier still worthwhile?"

"It probably won't work." Fang Yubin shook his head and said, "You missed the investment presentation meeting yesterday. No matter what the reason is, our boss is full of anger. In addition, your company has been involved in a lawsuit, and the employees are also angry. Being hollowed out, who would dare to invest money in?"

He Zhaowei scratched his hair with his hands, feeling very annoyed: "I don't have any money, and I can't be reconciled to just watching being crushed by flint like this."

There was silence in the office.A few minutes later, He Zhaowei's cell phone rang. He picked up the phone and listened to a few words before swearing, and then hung up the phone angrily.Fang Yubin asked: "Who, are you so angry?"

He Zhaowei said angrily: "A reporter. From last night to today, I have received more than a dozen calls like this. The reporter received Huoshi's money, and the first time he opened his mouth, he had bad intentions and always wanted to get something out of me. "

Fang Yubin lit a cigarette: "In order to bring you down, Huoshi Technology has spent a lot of money. Launching a media war and poaching employees with high salaries will cost money."

(End of this chapter)