my return 2002

Chapter 186

Soon, Tan Qunzhao came to the office.

"Mr. Chen, are you looking for me?"

Chen Tianqiao greeted: "Sit down, what's going on with that Singularity Chinese website?"

"Oh, that's right. You asked me to acquire a few companies to improve my performance before. I came into contact with some companies by the way. This singularity is a novel website. Isn't Inspur Technology's Jian Yu Jiang Hu adapted from a novel? I think Can we copy it too?" Tan Qunzhao explained.

Chen Tianqiao shook his head when he heard it: "The success of Jian Yujianghu is mainly due to the innovation of the gameplay, and has little to do with the novel, and how much influence can this kind of online novel have? If you want to adapt it, you can simply buy the works of everyone like Jin Gu Wenliang. "

Tan Qunzhao's face changed when he heard the words, and he wanted to continue fighting for it, but he heard Chen Tianqiao ask: "What is the valuation of this Singularity Chinese website?"

"They asked for $300 million, but I think it shouldn't be a problem to squeeze it down to $200 million."

Chen Tianqiao waved his hands indifferently when he heard it: "Hey, I thought it was a big deal. It's only 200 million US dollars. It's worth asking the secretary to tell me. By the way, the secretary said just now that the Singularity Chinese website is in contact with Inspur Technology. ,what's going on?"

"I heard that Shen Lang recently bought the copyright of a best-selling online novel and directly offered a sky-high price of 100 million. I doubt it."

Before Tan Qunzhao finished speaking, Chen Tianqiao sneered and said, "The boy surnamed Shen has just started making some money."

"One million, he is digging holes for his colleagues!"

Indeed, spending 2004 million yuan to buy the copyright of an online novel in 100 was clearly an act of driving up the price of the copyright.

"Then, Mr. Chen, the Singularity Chinese website."

Chen Tianqiao smiled: "Of course we have to continue the discussion. Even if we don't buy it, it's good to cause some trouble for that kid surnamed Shen."

Tan Qunzhao heaved a sigh of relief. In fact, he is still very interested in this project. More importantly, based on his observation of Shen Lang, this young man has never done a loss-making business. Since he is negotiating an acquisition with Singularity, then Explain that this site has potential for development.

The expressions of Wu Wenhui and Lin Tingfeng when they came downstairs of Inspur Technology were almost the same as when Xiao Ding came.

They have some doubts, is this really the company that is willing to spend 100 million yuan to buy the copyright of "Zhu Xian"?
It doesn't feel any better than Qi, does it?

But better than Xiao Ding, they still knew Shen Lang, and they didn't make jokes about Shen Lang as a secretary.

"Mr. Wu, Mr. Lin, please sit down."

Shen Lang was not as enthusiastic about these two as he was about Shi Yuzhu, and just said something lightly.

Wu Wenhui and Lin Tingfeng also felt that something was wrong, at least Shen Lang received them in person, unlike before going to Shanda, not to mention Chen Tianqiao, even Tan Qunzhao did not show up.

At this time, Singularity is just a newborn baby in front of these industry giants.

After the two were seated, Shen Lang went straight to the point: "I heard that the two of you are here this time to seek cooperation, so why not tell me, how do you want to cooperate?"

Wu Wenhui and Lin Tingfeng looked at each other, and Wu Wenhui regained his composure.

"Mr. Shen, it's like this. Although our Singularity Chinese website is not yet profitable, we have found an effective profit model. It's just that our current paying users are not large enough. We need to promote and invest. Of course, the most The good thing is that you can give Singularity a certain amount of resources.”

Shen Lang nodded secretly, as he had expected, the singularity in this period was actually very difficult, it is said that Wu Wenhui sold all the houses in order to maintain the operation of the website, apparently even the money from selling the houses was burned out now.

"It's fine to invest, just quote a price directly."

Wu Wenhui and Lin Tingfeng were a little excited, but Shen Lang was as "bold" as the rumors they had heard.

"Mr. Shen, there is one thing I want to explain in advance. Our founding team hopes that after you acquire Singularity, you will still hand over Singularity to us for management. This needs to be written into the contract."

When saying this, Wu Wenhui carefully looked at Shen Lang's expression. After all, this request was actually a little too much. He paid for it, but he still wouldn't let him take the things away.

Shen Lang laughed secretly in his heart, he didn't have any suitable talents to manage Singularity, even if Wu Wenhui and the others wanted to take the money and leave, he would keep these people.

But on the surface, he still pretended to hesitate, and then said: "The content and operation of the website can continue to be entrusted to you, but I will arrange other people for the personnel and finance departments."

Both Wu Wenhui and Lin Tingfeng breathed a sigh of relief. As for the rights to personnel and finance?Don't worry, Singularity doesn't have these two departments at all now. They are the founders who work part-time. Every month, Wu Wenhui rides a bicycle to the post office to remit money to the authors one by one. Every remittance is done carefully. , for fear of making a wrong turn.

After this condition is negotiated, it is nothing more than the price. Although Wu Wenhui didn't spend much money to start Singularity, he also spent a lot of effort. He even sold the house. It's not true love, and he really can't do such a thing.

Human psychology is actually very strange. A thing is obviously not yours right away, but you still want to prove its value. At this time, it is really not for money, but to prove that everything you have done before is valuable. of.

So as soon as Wu Wenhui opened his mouth, he gave Shen Lang a big mouth: "400 million US dollars."

Shen Lang was so annoyed that he almost pointed at the door to tell them to get out.

"Mr. Wu, you still have another chance to make an offer."

Lin Tingfeng was actually dumbfounded when he heard Wu Wenhui's quotation. Before coming here, he clearly negotiated a quotation of 300 million U.S. dollars, giving the other party room to bargain.

Wu Wenhui saw that Shen Lang's face was not right, and quickly sneered to ease the atmosphere: "Ahem, I'm just kidding, Mr. Shen don't mind."

"240 million dollars, what do you think?"

After hesitating for a while, Wu Wenhui finally gritted his teeth and made an offer that he thought was suitable.

Shen Lang waved his hand directly: "1500 million RMB, if you think it is suitable, you can sign the contract now."

Lin Tingfeng secretly pulled Wu Wenhui. In his opinion, 1500 million RMB was a pretty good price.

However, Wu Wenhui said to Shen Lang: "Mr. Shen, can we go back and discuss it before giving you an answer?"

"No problem, my quotation is still valid within three days, but I want you to understand that I don't have to buy Singularity, nor do you have to buy Singularity." Shen Lang's tone was full of warning.

Wu Wenhui could only smile awkwardly, and took Lin Tingfeng away.

It wasn't until in the elevator that Wu Wenhui let out a sigh of relief: "Huh, I didn't expect this Shen Lang to be so young and have such a strong aura."

"Nonsense, can you be an ordinary person who can do business like this." Lin Tingfeng gave Wu Wenhui an angry look.

"I was almost scared to death by you just now, you dare to ask, 400 million US dollars."

Wu Wenhui said with a sneer, "Isn't this just trying to test it out?"

"Then what should we do now? I think 1500 million RMB is quite a lot."

While talking, Wu Wenhui's cell phone rang.

Two minutes later, Wu Wenhui hung up the phone, and Lin Tingfeng asked with concern when he saw his dull face.

"What's wrong? Whose phone number?"

Wu Wenhui regained his composure: "President Sheng Da Tan called."

"Tan Qunzhao?"

"Ah."

"Is he calling himself at this time?"

Wu Wenhui nodded: "That's right, he wants to buy Singularity, and he asked us to go to Shanda for an interview tomorrow."

"Then, here at Inspur Technology"

"Anyway, there are still three days left. Let's go to Shanda to see the situation first."

Originally begging for door-to-door sales, it suddenly became a family with a daughter and two begging. Wu Wenhui's mentality also changed a little, and she simply put Shen Lang's warning behind her.

Three days later, Shen Lang received a call from Wu Wenhui. The other party thanked him for a while, and then politely rejected Shen Lang's offer.

Shen Lang hung up the phone without saying anything.

In the afternoon of that day, Shanda reported that it had acquired Singularity wholly, with an external offer of 300 million US dollars. As for how much Wu Wenhui's team actually got, only they knew.

Once the news of Shanda’s acquisition of Singularity was exposed, it caused a sensation in the entire web literature circle. The writers of the web literature rushed to tell each other and celebrated together. They all thought that Shanda’s entry would shake up the development of the entire web literature industry.

"It looks like I've been tricked!" When Shen Lang heard the news, a sneer appeared on his face.

"Okay, very good, it's a lot of fun to fight with others, this is what you started the fire first!"

The highest peak of the online literature industry is only a market size of tens of billions. For Shen Lang, he actually has a lot of choices. He doesn't have to do it. He just thinks that Singularity will come to him and spend a little money as an investment.

But Wu Wenhui negotiated the price with Shen Lang, turned around and sold Singularity to Shanda, a direct competitor, so it couldn't be tolerated.

"Hello, what? I'm looking for your boss."

In the early days of the development of the web literature industry, there were actually quite a few novel websites, such as Under the Pine Tree and Dragon’s Sky. However, although many novels were published on the Internet at that time, they did not have obvious attributes of web literature, and more were pursuing physical publishing, because During this time period, physical publishing can make money.

Among them, Singularity belongs to the heterogeneous among these websites. Although the models are different, they all gather a large number of early web novel authors, and they can be regarded as pioneers in the web industry.

Singularity’s management team has a different concept from Singularity. When Singularity opened the VIP membership payment model, it did not follow up. Instead, it continued to insist on free, trying to use advertising revenue to make profits. However, in the early days of the Internet, even a portal of Sina’s level No website can make money from advertising.

Naturally, it is inevitable to decline. Many people say that the failure is not enough respect for the author. In fact, they have no hematopoietic ability. The internal reason is that they rely entirely on external investment. If the author cannot make money, he cannot update steadily. It is not good to generate electricity for love. possibly long term.

At this time, it is not strictly a company, but a shareholder converted from many webmasters. Some contribute technology, and some contribute money. Among them, Kong Yi, the major shareholder, contributed 10,000+ at the beginning of the establishment of the site. Established leadership position.

Kong Yi was told by the customer service that a person named Shen Lang was looking for him, so he didn't think much about it at first, but the customer service added another sentence.

"He said he was the boss of Inspur Technology."

Kong Yi was drinking water, and sprayed a sip of water directly on the monitor. After he realized it, he didn't bother to wipe the monitor, and asked the customer service.

"What did you say? Say it aside!"

After confirming again and again, Kong Yi quickly picked up the phone and dialed the number recorded by the customer service.

After the news of Shanda's acquisition of Singularity came out, he was both panicked and envious. Although Singularity was not profitable, it still had a steady income. It was really almost impossible to maintain it, relying on the meager advertising fee every month , Even the purchase of bandwidth is stretched.

In the past two years, I have been attracting investment. Unfortunately, the online literature market has just sprouted, and there is no hope of profit at all. Who would use their own money for nothing?
"Hello, Mr. Shen. Okay, I'll go to Shanghai right away."

Hanging up the phone, Kong Yi excitedly rushed out of the room and told everyone the good news. For a while, the three-bedroom house was filled with cheers, and he didn't calm down until the downstairs neighbor knocked on the door.

Early the next morning, Kong Yi and a group of shareholders boarded the flight to Shanghai.

In the office of Inspur Technology, Shen Lang received them. There were many more people than Shen Lang imagined, and the shares were so scattered that he didn't expect.

Shen Lang didn't bother with them either, and directly offered 1500 million yuan for a wholly-owned acquisition. As for how they split it in private, Shen Lang didn't care.

Kong Yi and the others were stunned by Shen Lang's simple and rude throwing of money. Although Kong Yi was still a little unwilling, all shareholders, large and small, agreed to the offer and signed equity transfer agreements one after another. Kong Yi saw that the situation was over. , can only sign his own name on the agreement, take the money and leave.

That's right, it's literally taking the money and leaving. None of the shareholders and executives Shen Lang intends to stay. After all, they have already proved with actual performance that they can't compete with the Singularity. Keeping such a team, Shen Lang Wouldn't 1500 million be in vain?

After seeing off Kong Yi and the others, Shen Lang called Li Xuelin in.

"Old Li, don't you usually like to read novels? I just bought a novel website, and I will hand it over to you in the future."

Li Xuelin was shocked, but also a little dumbfounded: "Boss, can we stop this kind of surprise attack?"

To blame, Li Xuelin still accepted this task, explained the work in hand, and went to the capital. Of course, he was not a resident, but handed over to Kong Yi and the others. After the handover and confirmation of the assets, Kong Yi and the others could take to money.

There is no impenetrable wall in the world, and the news of Inspur Technology’s acquisition soon spread in the Internet circles. At first, everyone thought it was a rumor, and it was a way to attract attention by watching Singularity being acquired by Shanda.

However, more and more inside information was exposed, and everyone discovered that Inspur Technology was playing for real this time.

(End of this chapter)