Rebirth 98, the rise started from ripping off Microsoft

Chapter 764 Sell Zhou Hongyi

In the beautiful country villa, Lu Yiming was sitting on the big leather sofa with his legs on the coffee table in front, talking on the phone while drinking coffee.

To be able to chat well at this point in time, the call was naturally from Shi Qingxue.

"When are you coming back?"

Listening to Shi Qingxue's voice, Lu Yiming's thoughts had already crossed the ocean and came to Shi Qingxue's side.

As the saying goes, not seeing each other every day is like three autumns, so the two have been separated for a century.

Lu Yiming smiled slightly and said, "Don't worry, I'll go back as soon as the matter here is finished, and I'll definitely be able to catch up with your birthday."

Shi Qingxue was very happy when she heard that Lu Yiming still remembered her birthday and wanted to rush back before her birthday. Feeling Lu Yiming's heart, she was very happy.However, she is a sensible person, so she didn't ask Lu Yiming to come back before then, but said: "Didn't you call yesterday to say that the negotiation was not going well? Anyway, birthdays happen every year, so you are still there Business matters."

Lu Yiming smiled and said: "Haha, you don't have to worry about this. It was Yang Zhiyuan who thought it through before. I guess he should think it through now."

"That's good. Then you are busy. I have to go to bed. It's too late."

"Go to sleep, go to sleep, good night."

"Good night, okay?"

Not long ago, he just received a call from Li Yiwen, saying that everything was going according to plan.

At the Yahoo headquarters at this time, Yang Zhiyuan had just received a long-distance call from the CEO Terry Semel from mainland China, and his expression was a bit ugly: "You said Li Hongyan's attitude suddenly changed?"

Terry Semel said: "The first time we met, we had a good chat. Li Hongyan was also very moved by our offer of 1 million US dollars from Yahoo. But for some reason, when we talked to him for the second time, All of a sudden, his attitude changed completely, and he refused to sell the company no matter what."

Yang Zhiyuan heard one head and two big. He didn't really want to buy a ferry, after all, he was actually more optimistic about 3721.

But now that the ferry is not sold, Yahoo has no room to maneuver, and can only be forced to accept Lu Yiming's lion's mouth.

Seeing that Christmas is coming soon in one month, if the company's stock price is not boosted, it will be even more difficult in the future.

At that time, the loss on the stock price will not be a matter of [-] to [-] million U.S. dollars. If it falls by a few percentage points, billions of dollars will be lost.

"Can we only accept the offer from 3721?"

"The current situation may only be like this."

Although Yang Zhiyuan didn't want to deal with Lu Yiming very much, but under the current situation, he had to call Lu Yiming.

"Mr. Lu."

Hearing Yang Zhiyuan's voice, Lu Yiming's face immediately beamed with joy. After all, this is a boy who gave away money, who could not be happy?

"Oh, Mr. Yang, I said why I woke up early today, and the magpies outside the window were chirping. I thought something good would happen. No, Mr. Yang, you just called."

Faced with Lu Yiming's ridicule, Yang Zhiyuan felt like his teeth were about to be gritted.But now the situation is stronger than others, even if he wished to tear Lu Yiming into pieces, he still had to talk to Lu Yiming here with a smiling face.

"Mr. Lu, you are really humorous. Mr. Lu, you have a lot of things to do every day. If there is nothing important, I wouldn't dare to disturb you, would I?"

Lu Yiming said cheerfully: "Mr. Yang is being modest, you are the one who is busy with business, Mr. Yang."

Yang Zhiyuan felt even more depressed. If this continues, the call won't get to the point for three hours.He said directly: "Boss Lu, I'm going to open the window to speak out. I'm calling to talk to you about the acquisition of 3721."

Although he had known for a long time that there was a high probability that he would come to this point, but now that he received a call from Yang Zhiyuan, Lu Yiming still showed a surprised look and said, "Ah, has Mr. Yang figured it out?"

Before he came to the beautiful country, if Lu Yiming dared to boast about Haikou in front of Zhou Hongyi, he naturally had his own confidence.If Yahoo wants to expand its business, it must cooperate with Ferry or 3721. Lu Yiming is the major shareholder of 3721, and Li Yiwen is the major shareholder of Ferry. It can be said that both companies are controlled by Lu Yiming.It can be said that no matter how you talk about it, it is impossible for Yang Zhiyuan to break out of Lu Yiming's Wuzhi Mountain.

Yang Zhiyuan sighed, as if he had lost a battle, and said weakly: "Mr. Lu, you are so powerful, you have no plans to spare. I just learned that the major shareholder of Ferry is you The chief financial officer of the company is also your cousin, whether I am talking to 3721 or the ferry, I am actually talking to you."

This makes people very hopeless.

You have changed countless opponents, only to find that the opponent has never changed. Maybe only those who have experienced it will understand the feeling of despair?

Lu Yiming said with a very innocent expression: "Hey, I didn't do this on purpose, it's just a coincidence. After all, to be honest, I basically have shares in all the Internet companies that have been mixed up now."

At this point in the matter, Yang Zhiyuan had no right to speak at all, and could only accept any proposal from Lu Yiming.If you don't accept it, Yahoo will be hanged and beaten by Google.

In the Yahoo headquarters, in the living room, Lu Yiming looked relaxed and smiling.On the other hand, Yang Zhiyuan had a dark face, as if someone owed him [-] million US dollars.

In fact, it was true. Although no one owed him 3721 million U.S. dollars, he had to spend [-] million U.S. dollars more than the psychological price to acquire [-].

Rounding up, doesn't that mean a loss of [-] million?

"Mr. Yang, what's the matter? You don't seem to be in a good mood. Don't you feel happy for our next cooperation?"

Yang Zhiyuan really wanted to say that I am happy for you to blow your head, but after all, everyone is still a person of status, and it is really shameful to swear, so he could only purse his lips and say nothing, secretly vowing in his heart that he would wait for the chance to find Lu Yiming. Be sure to take all the anger out of today.

Seeing that Yang Zhiyuan did not open his mouth, Lu Yiming comforted him and said: "Oh, why is Mr. Yang so sad? The successful acquisition of 3721 is a great thing for Yahoo. By integrating 3721's leading Chinese keyword search technology, Yahoo directly masters It is a sharp weapon to enter the Chinese search market, and the future prospects are unlimited."

Although there are many ridicules in this statement, it is also an indisputable fact.

In fact, the technical strength of 3721 is still very strong, even comparable to the ferry at this time.

This was personally confirmed by relevant technical experts from the Ministry of Information Industry. Although Zhou Hongyi is very flexible in his moral bottom line, his technical level is really not that high.

The Chinese keyword search system with independent intellectual property rights developed by 3721, that is, the network real-name search system, adopts the industry-leading algorithm and scalable distributed architecture, and has good reliability and fault tolerance. Supports search queries on massive scale data.

This technology is currently the most urgently needed by Yahoo.

In the Internet field, technology is priceless, especially for a technology with broad application prospects.Safa Ratschy, a well-known Internet analyst in the United States, once pointed out in the "Golden Search" report that search services are developing towards precision, capitalization, mother tongue, elite and regionalization.

To put it bluntly, the enclosure model used to play portal websites is no longer good. In the future search market, it will be more professional, more detailed, and better to bring users a good experience.

And this is also a sign of the Internet 2.0 era.

After winning 3721, Yahoo has the ticket to enter a new era.

Therefore, although the price of 2.2 million U.S. dollars was high, Yang Zhiyuan had to pay the money, because he would only lose more if he didn't buy it.

But no one is willing to spend more money, so when Yang Zhiyuan faced Lu Yiming, he naturally didn't give him a good face, and said eccentrically: "You still know how to do business, Mr. Lu. You only invested 500 million at the beginning, and now you have a net profit of [-] million." It’s more than one hundred million, and in just a few years, there will be a hundred times the income. It really is the wave of the Yangtze River that pushes the waves ahead, and you are not polite to me, an old senior."

The old god Lu Yiming said on the ground: "Hey, you can't say that, Mr. Yang, we are talking about business, and I am giving you market prices, even friendship prices, but I didn't say that I would be rude to you." Meaning. Starting from personal feelings, I still have great respect for you. After all, we belong to the blood of the Xia Kingdom, and your achievements are also my pride."

"Besides, if you buy 3721, you will be able to compete with Google. You will definitely not lose money on this deal. And I am quite satisfied with the price, so we are now in a win-win situation."

Hearing Lu Yiming say such words, Yang Zhiyuan was so angry that his teeth were itchy, but the matter has come to this point, he has no other choice, he can only grit his molars and say: "Then Mr. Lu, you earn more money." .”

Later, Yang Zhiyuan said again: "Yahoo can pay the money, but the original technical team of 3721 must stay, especially Zhou Hongyi, he can't leave."

Obviously, Yang Zhiyuan took a fancy to Zhou Hongyi's talent.

However, could Lu Yiming not know what Yang Zhiyuan was thinking?

Besides, Yang Zhiyuan was optimistic about Zhou Hongyi. Could it be that Lu Yiming was not optimistic about Zhou Hongyi?
Lu Yiming invested in 3721 because he was optimistic about Zhou Hongyi.

He said decisively: "To be honest, I still have a new project I plan to entrust to him. Besides, Mr. Zhou is my dear friend, brother..."

Hearing what Lu Yiming said, Yang Zhiyuan was very dissatisfied immediately, and said, "Mr. Lu, I spent an extra [-] million dollars! Can't you even agree to this little request?"

Lu Yiming said with a smile: "I mean, I have to pay more."

Yang Zhiyuan almost sprayed Lu Yiming with salt soda.Then, he said in a muffled voice, "How much more?"

Lu Yiming said happily: "I don't want too much, 1000 million US dollars, let him continue to work in 3721 for a while, no problem?"

Yang Zhiyuan wanted to say that there was a problem, but he thought that he had already paid out the 1000 million US dollars, so he was not short of the [-] million, so he gritted his teeth and said, "Of course there is no problem."

In this way, Lu Yiming not only sold 3721, but also sold Zhou Hongyi conveniently.

It was late at night, Zhou Hongyi lay on the bed, but couldn't fall asleep.Her wife, Hu Huan, woke up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom. Seeing Zhou Hongyi looking up at the sky, she asked curiously, "What's wrong with you? Have you encountered any problems in business? I think you haven't been sleeping for the past few days. OK."

In 1996, Zhou Hongyi joined the Founder Group, so he met his wife who was also working at Founder at the time.

In the beginning, the two met through BBS. Later, Zhou Hongyi resigned from Fangzheng and founded 3721. Every time his career faced bottlenecks, Hu Huan would give his full support, and he could be called his good wife.

Therefore, Zhou Hongyi hesitated again and again, and told his wife that Lu Yiming was negotiating with Yahoo.

Logically speaking, this should be regarded as the top secret of 3721 company, but Hu Huan is a person who knows the general situation, and when he established 3721, he started the business with Hu Huan's family's money, so Hu Huan is half of the company The people inside are gone.

After hearing the ins and outs of the matter, Hu Huan was very surprised: "Are you going to sell 3721?"

Zhou Hongyi put her arms around her shoulders, sighed and said, "It would be great if I could sell it. I'll just keep the money in my pocket. What I'm most worried about now is that Mr. Lu's asking price is too high, scaring Yahoo away."

Hu Huan frowned slightly, and first comforted him: "Mr. Lu should not be a person without measure." Then he asked, "How much is Mr. Lu's asking price?"

Zhou Hongyi said, "2.2 million dollars."

This price directly shocked Hu Huan.

She really didn't expect that in just a few short years, 3721 would be so valuable when she asked her parents to use money to support her husband's business. Her original investment would be multiplied hundreds of times!
Just as the couple chatted more and more excitedly, Zhou Hongyi's cell phone rang.

Hu Huan said dissatisfiedly: "It's so late, who still calls? Why don't you answer it, and just call back tomorrow during the day."

After Zhou Hongyi chatted with Hu Huan, his psychological pressure eased a lot, and he was already a little sleepy. Seeing that Zhou Hongyi was yawning, Hu Huan was afraid that this phone call would drive away Zhou Hongyi's drowsiness. up.

Zhou Hongyi looked at the number and said helplessly, "It's the richest man Lu calling."

"Ok."

Hu Huan was speechless immediately.It is impossible not to answer the call from the richest man Lu.

As soon as the call was connected, Lu Yiming's voice came from the phone: "Congratulations, Lao Zhou, you are now a billionaire."

Zhou Hongyi couldn't believe it: "Yahoo agreed to our offer?"

Lu Yiming smiled: "Not really."

"what!?"

Zhou Hongyi was obviously frightened, but before he could ask, Lu Yiming's voice came out of the microphone again: "President Yang is very sincere, and he added another 1000 million US dollars."

Now Zhou Hongyi can't be dealt with, the price of 2.2 million US dollars is outrageous enough in his opinion.

Yahoo actually added an extra $1000 million?

What is this operation?
Yang Zhiyuan's head was kicked by a donkey?
"No, Mr. Lu, why do you sound more and more strange to me? Didn't he refuse to agree to 2.2 million before? Now he took the initiative to add 1000 million? I'm confused."

Lu Yiming explained to Zhou Hongyi: "It was true before, but things will always change. Old Zhou, the current situation is like this. Although you have become a billionaire, you may still be a billionaire in the future. You have to continue to be a wage earner."

"Continue to be a wage earner?"

Zhou Hongyi sensed that something was wrong.

He also thought that after this wave of entrepreneurial success, he would take his wife to travel around the world, but in the end, he became a billionaire and continued to be a wage earner?
"Mr. Lu, I don't understand what you said. I'm already planning to take my wife to eat, drink and have fun. How can I become a wage earner again? Who do I work for?"

Lu Yiming also knew that as long as a person had money, the first thing he would do was eat, drink, and have fun, but he had already sold Zhou Hongyi, so he had to give Yahoo an explanation, and Yang Zhiyuan's money couldn't be wasted.So he had no choice but to persuade him: "Although Mr. Yang agreed to our quotation, he also told me that this price is for your face. No one can replace your appeal in the team and channels. Yahoo! I spent so much money, not only to 'buy' 3721, but also to 'buy' you."

When Zhou Hongyi heard this, his whole body went numb, and he looked very unhappy.

Why should he work for others when he can be a rich man?
The point is, Lu Yiming "sold" him.

He is not a person who is willing to work for others. If he wanted to work, he would not have resigned from Founder Group back then.

"Mr. Lu, can't I just take the money and leave? The company is sold, and it doesn't make any sense for me to stay there."

To put it bluntly, Zhou Hongyi didn't like someone controlling him, he preferred to give orders by himself.

However, Lu Yiming took all the money, how could he make Zhou Hongyi mischievous?Immediately continued to persuade: "Old Zhou, I know you are a person of great talent, but the temporary dormancy is also for the purpose of flying higher in the future? After all, you founded 3721 by yourself. I think you can bring it to the world. A higher height. What's more, don't you want to use Yahoo's brand and technology to make some achievements in the search field?"

If Zhou Hongyi wanted to refuse, he was immediately held back.

Undoubtedly, Lu Yiming's words moved his heart.

After all, that's Yahoo!

Although it is now in decline, a lean camel is bigger than a horse, and a rotten boat still has three catties of nails. How could Zhou Hongyi not be interested in a multinational Internet platform like Yahoo?
In the end, Zhou Hongyi still couldn't resist the temptation, nodded coyly and said, "Since you have said so, Mr. Lu, I will definitely give you face."

Seeing that the task was finally completed, Lu Yiming also heaved a sigh of relief, and said, "That's right. In fact, I didn't say enough. You can go to Yahoo for a while. After you learn everything about Yahoo, you can directly Just leave, and you didn’t sign the deed of sale anyway. At that time, you will still be a billionaire, and you will still have Yahoo’s technology and experience in your hands. Isn’t this a big win?”

(End of this chapter)