Return to 88: Starting from Marrying My Sister-in-law

"Minor Divine Power" was created by Lu Yang.

However, compared to its own son "Little Genius", its composition has been more complex since its inception.

He had a falling out with Jiang Wanmeng back then.

Lu Yang decided to start afresh, establishing Xiaotiancai and Xiaoshentong, two electronics factories that produced VCDs, in his hometown of Baoqing and Pengcheng respectively.

Because its factory was located in a small, inland third-tier city with inconvenient transportation, Xiaotiancai's development was relatively slow at the beginning, far behind Xiaoshentong, which built its factory in Shenzhen.

Therefore, the shareholder composition is also very simple.

No one interfered; the only individual shareholder was Lu Yang himself.

Conversely, Xiao Shentong attracted attention from the very beginning of its operation. Xiao Jun said he wanted to invest, and Mu Qizhong also said he wanted to invest. Then, the local bigwigs, the Qian family, which was still under the control of the old man of the Qian family at that time, also said through their daughter Qian Youyou that they wanted to invest and even helped him resolve the disputes between the villagers over the land...

The factory was built very quickly.

After Lu Yang was willing to spend money to pave the way and bought advertising space on CCTV's prime-time channel at an exorbitant price, Xiao Shen Tong brand VCDs swept across both sides of the Yangtze River in a very short time, quickly occupying the national market and becoming the leader in less than a year.

Its market share is far ahead of the competition.

We will crush all other similar brands.

At this point, Lu Yang faced two choices.

Alternatively, maintain the status quo and quietly make a fortune.

Alternatively, they can continue to raise funds and expand the number of shareholders.

He chose the second one.

There are two reasons.

First of all, it's good to make money quietly and discreetly, but doing so can easily make people resentful, and it also shows that you are trying to take all the profits for yourself, and it will push all the capital that people are envious of to the opponent's camp.

However, competitors are not fools. After receiving capital injections, they immediately launched a siege against Xiaoshentong, which had not yet fully consolidated its market leadership position.

Secondly, Lu Yang was not as well-off as he is now. He was extremely short of money and funds to realize the money-making ideas that kept popping into his head.

These ideas, once the opportunity was missed, were gone forever.

Financing.

Refinancing.

It will be done in three steps.

First, select the strongest local resources to become your partners.

Secondly, they selected the most friendly external investors who could help Xiaoshentong achieve its US listing and earn US dollar foreign exchange to become their partners.

These two steps are called dividing the cake.

The final step: going public and cutting the cake.

Alone Better Together.

Everyone was satisfied.

Lu Yang was also happy, and of course, his first choice was to start cashing out his Little Divine Power stocks.

It was around this time.

He now has a large amount of foreign exchange capital at his disposal.

Next, he bought up Microsoft stock at its lowest point and made a fortune in less than a year.
Following that, the eight-inch wafer fab was set up in Singapore, Southeast Asia.

Asian financial crisis.

He blocked Soros' Quantum Fund, switched to shorting the Japanese yen, bought the Nikkei at its lowest point, and returned to Hong Kong Island to snatch the most central piece of land in the Cyberport project, which was then led by the Hong Kong government.

All of these projects, if chosen at random, could earn Lu Yang at least several hundred million or even several billion.

They all have one prerequisite.

First, Lu Yang himself needs to have a solid financial foundation and be able to come up with real money, not RMB, but foreign exchange, specifically US dollars.

However, if Xiao Shen Tong does not go public.

We'll make this move.

It failed to list on Nasdaq.

Will these things happen in the future?

It's impossible for it to happen again.

At most, Lu Yang is still currently stuck in mainland China.

Perhaps because they are focusing all their attention on investments in mainland China.

They won't earn less money.

But as for status...
That cannot be compared to today.

Nowadays, when people mention Lu Yang or Century Group, they think: "That's a multinational corporation, a big company that helps the country earn US dollars and foreign exchange!"
In conclusion, Lu Yang's move was absolutely the right one.

But what about the cost?

I wonder if losing absolute control of Xiao Shentong counts?

Well, it's not just a matter of losing absolute control anymore.

Why did Xiao Jun take that gamble?
Why would they use their hard-earned money, even their entire savings, to borrow from institutions, to frantically buy up Xiaoshentong's stock at rock-bottom prices?

It's simple in theory.

Over the past few years, Lu Yang has been reducing his holdings of Xiaoshentong shares, from absolute control at the beginning, to relative control after the listing, and then he kept reducing them, and the reductions became more and more drastic...

To this day!
It's kind of embarrassing to say.

Lu Yang's current holdings of Little Divine Power shares are so small that he's not even among the top three shareholders—the second or third largest...heh heh...he doesn't even have a share.

But can we blame Lu Yang for this?

You definitely can't blame Lu Yang!

Who told him to have eyes that could see into the future?

Knowing full well that Little Magic's stock price would experience its biggest crash in its history at some point in the future, a brutal and inhumane halving of its value, cutting it to the ankles, from a peak market value of $200 billion to $100 billion would be the least of it; it wouldn't be surprising if it fell to $50 billion or even $30 billion.

So, I ask you...?
Who's coming?

Who the hell holds so many stocks with so much potential for profit? When there's an opportunity to cash out at a high price, wouldn't they take it?
Who cares if some powerful entity seizes the opportunity to take over power, or if they manage to wrest control of Little Divine Power from Lu Yang and oust him as chairman...

and then?
After I sold my stocks, I have so much real money in my hands that I could easily rebuild a small Shentong Electronics company, or even two small Shentong Electronics companies. Why would I be afraid of you trying to seize power?

These are Lu Yang's true feelings.

Money is the most important thing.

First, secure the money, especially the US dollars. Once you have it, then we'll talk about other things.

We'll just have to see how things go when the time comes.

If some capital is truly envious, or if certain foreign institutions join forces to oust Lu Yang from his position as chairman of Xiao Shentong and turn Xiao Shentong into a "foreign enterprise" with a yellow exterior but a white heart, then that is its fate.

If there's a chance to take it back, then take it back.

Can't get it back?

If all else fails, we can just move to another place.

With money in hand, plenty of money, why worry about not being able to buy what you want?
Of course, it's also possible that you really can't buy it, after all, this so-called free world is actually not free at all...

Xiao Jun was anxious!

I'm so hot-tempered!

I'm worried about losing my position as CEO!

Lu Yang saw it all.

I tried to persuade him, to give him heartfelt advice, "I know you're anxious, but don't rush. Listen to me, let's act together. Just do as I say, and we'll win for sure..."

At first, people listened to a little.

I stopped listening to it later.

I always felt that some treacherous people wanted to harm me.

Even from another perspective, Lu Yang, you are no longer the largest shareholder of Xiao Shentong, not even the second largest shareholder. So I, Xiao Jun, no longer rely on you for a living. In fact, if I work hard, I might be able to replace you as chairman, right?
Lu Yang was certain that Xiao Jun had thought this way at some point.

What can be done?
How to do?
We can't just tie this guy up, can we?
Then I grabbed his ear and said, "I'm from the future, I know what's going to happen in the stock market, are you going to listen or not?"

Please, just kidding!
How could that be!
Xiao Jun's current situation is entirely his own doing; he reaps what he sows.

Yeah, if anyone says Lu Yang is disloyal, Lu Yang will get angry. "Are we still friends?"

"Yes."

"Are we still buddies?"

"Yes."

"Isn't my own sister your woman? Didn't Youyou even give birth to your son?"

"Yes, you're right."

“Then help me one more time, just one more time, lend me another 2 million US dollars. I only need 2 million US dollars. I’m sure I can turn this around.”

It was still that top-floor office.

Xiao Jun, furious, pointed at Lu Yang's nose and questioned him.

Oh no, she's about to kneel down before Lu Yang after being pinned against the wall.

Having reached a dead end, he couldn't care less about anything else. As long as he could borrow the money today and get the $2 million to turn things around, he didn't care about his dignity.

What about Lu Yang?
Lu Yang got up immediately and ran away.

You can kneel if you want, but don't kneel in front of me.

He walked to the floor-to-ceiling window in the office, looked out, and said, "If you've come here today and are still only thinking about borrowing money, then you can leave."

It's not that we don't want to help, it's that we simply can't help.

Before the Nasdaq has completely bottomed out.

Buy tech stocks at rock-bottom prices?
Or is it a mid-range concept stock within the technology sector?

Anyone who copies this will die!

Let alone a mere 2 million US dollars, even if you add another 10 billion US dollars, it's still a death sentence!

Xiao Jun could no longer kneel down.

Because kneeling wouldn't help; there was no one in front of them.

He thought that since he had humbled himself so much and even knelt down before Lu Yang, Lu Yang should at least have a little bit of pity and, out of consideration for their friendship, brotherhood, and kinship, should at least lend him a hand.
Give them a helping hand!
It would be good to help him up.

He had something to say: he would beg and plead to get this life-saving money.

It's hard.

His fist hardened.

Xiao Jun silently got up and walked to the floor-to-ceiling window in the office, standing side by side with Lu Yang.

With a dark expression, he said, "Are you really going to just stand by and watch me die?"

Lu Yang silently shook his head. "That's not it. I want to save you and give you a hand, but not lend you money. Lending you money would really harm you."

Xiao Jun wanted to laugh, but he forced a laugh, trying to make an expression that was even uglier than crying.

The fist hardened, then loosened.

I gripped it tightly, then let go.

Over and over again.

Finally, taking a deep breath and trying to calm himself, he continued with a dark expression, "You really don't have much faith in it? It's a company you founded, a child you raised, and the stock price has clearly already bottomed out..."

The more she talked, the more aggrieved she felt.

It was truly moving to hear, and deeply touching.

It's as if all the things Xiao Jun did, all the setbacks he suffered, were because he wanted to help Lu Yang, to protect the company, no, to protect the child Lu Yang raised.

Lu Yang was both amused and exasperated.

She almost, just a tiny bit, couldn't maintain her calm expression.

It's hard.

His fist hardened.

He took a deep breath and said calmly, "Why are you crying, you big man? Crying won't help. Did I say I was going to give up on it?"

Upon hearing this, Xiao Jun's face flashed with surprise. He immediately turned his head, his bloodshot eyes fixed on Lu Yang, and said, "You haven't given up on it? I don't believe it unless you lend me another sum of money, 2 million US dollars. I only have 2 million US dollars..."

You fucking bastard.

Lu Yang wanted to curse: What does it have to do with whether I give up on it or not, or whether I lend you money or not?
Xiao Jun, however, continued to shout, "You provide the money, I'll buy at the bottom, and I'll execute the plan."

If we fail, then the money is a loan from me, and I promise to pay it back. If we succeed, we'll split the shares equally; you'll still be the chairman, and I'll still be the president.

As long as this company exists, I will always be your little brother, your little brother. If you point east, I will never go west.

how about it?
Is this alright now?

He looked at Lu Yang with eyes full of expectation.

Lu Yang said calmly, "No."

Those two short words shattered all the expectations that Xiao Jun's eyes were filled with at that moment.

He swayed.

I held onto the floor-to-ceiling window glass with both hands to prevent my legs from giving way and causing me to fall to the ground.

"Really...really...is there absolutely no room for negotiation?"

This time, his voice finally carried a real sob.

It doesn't seem like he's faking it.

Lu Yang hesitated for a moment, but still said with a hard heart, "No, I've said it many times. At this moment, lending you money would be harming you."

"No-"

Xiao Jun roared, interrupting Lu Yang.

Turning around, she stared into Lu Yang's eyes and said, word by word, "So you called me here today just to humiliate me?"

Lu Yang looked at him quietly.

The two stared at each other for 1 minute, 2 minutes, 3 minutes...

At least four or five minutes later.

Lu Yang turned around, walked to his desk, opened the drawer, and took out a document.

It was slammed on the table.

"Sign it, and you'll be free. You won't have to worry about these things anymore. Take this money and wait for the next opportunity. If you're still willing to listen to me, I'll show you the way."

Xiao Jun walked step by step toward the desk.

They arrived opposite Lu Yang.

With his hands on the desk, he bent over and stared intently at the document that Lu Yang had slammed onto the desk, reading it word by word.

no doubt.

This is an equity transfer agreement.

The transferor is Xiao Jun, who is transferring all of his Little Prodigy shares, including but not limited to those he purchased from the US stock market since April 10, as well as... the original shares he held when Little Prodigy Electronics was first established, the second batch of original shares invested by the Zhao Group after the Zhao family's downfall with Lu Yang's tacit approval, and so on... all of them.

He was the seller?

So, who are the buyers?

Xiao Jun slowly raised his head, looked at Lu Yang with a strange expression, seven parts doubt, two parts confusion, and a trace of anger. "Is this your decision? You kept saying you didn't think it was a good idea, you kept saying that helping me would only harm me, but in the end, your goal is to take them all away from me, is that it?"

Even though he had considered all the possibilities, he still did not expect that Lu Yang would actually send him a transfer agreement and ask him to sign it.

Anger surged through his mind.

He instinctively picked up the equity transfer agreement with both hands, gripping it tightly, as if he would hear a hissing sound the next moment—the sound of paper being torn to shreds by angry hands.

"I only had one copy of this document printed!"

“You tore it up, which means you’re refusing, and I won’t have anyone print another copy.”

"Remember, this is your only chance."

Lu Yang leaned forward and reached out to grasp Xiao Jun's arm, staring into his eyes as he said, word by word, "I've said it many times, and I'll say it again: lending you money is harming you, buying the chips in your hands is helping you. Believe it or not."

Xiao Jun's hands, which were gripping the document, trembled for a moment before he put it down. (End of Chapter)