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Chapter 1191 Android 2.0

Cat Room of China Club.

Compared to the bustling atmosphere of the past few days, even the air today reveals a sense of deathly silence.

"Okay, stop looking so sad. Now that things have come to this, there's no point in being upset or regretful."

Hearing this, Guo Wei, who had looked dead, regained some life on his face and complained to Liu Chuanzhi: "Boss Liu, I just can't accept it!"

"What's the point of being unwilling? Can you still take the company back?"

At this point, Liu Chuanzhi, who had a gloomy face, forced a smile and turned to look at Lu Zhiqiang and Shi Dazhu who were sitting next to him, "I'm sorry to have embarrassed you two brothers today."

"If you want to talk about being embarrassed, I am the one who is embarrassed today. Yang Tingkun scolded me like a grandson."

They are all family, so Shi Dazhu speaks very casually.

Lu Zhiqiang said indignantly: "That kid is too arrogant, we must find a way to deal with him."

Liu Chuanzhi waved his hand and said, "Let's not talk about him for now. The main reason for this incident is not because of him, but because of those guys who are content with their positions..."

Speaking of this, Liu Chuanzhi's face was full of hatred, and his expression began to become somewhat ferocious.

Yang Daqing, Guo Wei, Lu Zhiqiang and Shi Dazhu all gasped, looking shocked.

Yang Daqing hurriedly looked around. Fortunately, there were only a few of them here today and no outsiders.

Otherwise, if this word got out, his master's reputation would be ruined, and he might even have to suffer the consequences.

Of course, he doesn't mind his master singing Tears Behind Bars, but he has to wait until he takes the position first.

As long as he has control over conscience, he will give the old man a push unless he abdicates.

"Old Liu, have you made up your mind to take that step?"

As a close old brother, Lu Zhiqiang knows more about the inside story than others.

He had heard Liu Chuanzhi complain to him before, saying that Huake Holdings, the major shareholder of Liangxin Company, was obstructing everything and meddling in everything like an emperor, which made his old friend very unhappy.

A hint of cruelty appeared on Liu Chuanzhi's face.

“I had never made up my mind before, but what happened to Huaxia Digital today sounded the alarm for me.

No matter how much contribution you have made to the company, in their eyes, you are just a subordinate, a worker, and a red-headed document can crush you.

If conscientious companies want to truly break free from this constraint, only reform can usher in a new life.”

A hint of joy flashed in Yang Daqing's eyes. Reform, as the eldest disciple, he understood best how his master would reform, and he, the prince, would certainly benefit from it.

Thinking of this, he said righteously: "Master, I support you! In fact, this should have been done a long time ago. Liangxin Company is the kingdom you built with your own hands. Why should you let those people who know nothing give orders blindly?

Without you, the company would have collapsed more than 20 years ago, and would not have become the world's number one computer company today!"

Lu Zhiqiang and Shi Dazhu both nodded in agreement, expressing their strong support and agreement with these words.

"Master...what about me?"

Since the separation, Guo Wei hasn't called his master "Master" for a long time. He had planned to rebel after the MBO was completed in order to avenge his failure in the fight for the throne.

As a result, I have to come back and cling to my master.

Liu Chuanzhi said calmly: "You can go back to Liangxin Company and be a vice president first. Do it for now, and I will arrange something for you later."

Looking at the encouraging eyes of his senior brother Yang Daqing, although Guo Wei felt very aggrieved in his heart, he kept expressing his gratitude, thanking both his master and his senior brother.

After settling Guo Wei, the four people began to discuss in detail the specific reforms of Liangxin Company.

Hearing the four rats nearby talking about how to make money, Guo Wei wanted to join in, but found that he couldn't say a word.

After losing the Huaxia Digital platform, he has completely lost the opportunity to be on an equal footing with these people.

After seeing clearly the cold-bloodedness and greed of these people, Guo Wei suddenly had an urge to confess everything to his superiors.

However, he quickly dismissed this dangerous thought. They were all in the same boat. If he confessed, he would still have to spend the rest of his life in prison.

Since this way was not working, Guo Wei thought for a moment, an idea suddenly came to his mind, and he quickly said.

"Master, I still have some old colleagues in Huaxia Digital. How about I bring them out to form a company and compete with Yang Tingkun?

Didn't he want to buy it? I made him empty-handed!"

Hearing this, the four people stopped discussing and all looked at Guo Wei.

"How sure are you?" Liu Chuanzhi asked.

"Not 100%, but at least 80% sure." Guo Wei said confidently.

"This is a good idea. We should teach that kid a lesson." Lu Zhiqiang nodded, showing great agreement.

"Are you short of money? I'll invest 100 million in you."

Shi Dazhu still looked like he had plenty of money, so of course he would support Yang Tingkun if he could make him unhappy.

Yang Daqing said calmly: "Old Guo, I'm not trying to discourage you, this is difficult. What can you use to defeat them?"

Guo Wei replied indifferently, "You have to try it to know."

"alright."

Liu Chuanzhi actually knew about the dirty tricks between his two disciples, but he pretended not to know.

Power needs checks and balances so that one can firmly control the overall situation.

Liu Chuanzhi, who often compared himself to ancient wise ministers, liked to use this trick the most.

“If it’s really hard to do, then just do it.

Tell me if you need anything, Master will always be your strongest supporter."

"master……"

Guo Wei's eyes were red. He was a man in his forties and he almost cried.

"Alas, it has not been easy for you these years. It's also Master's fault that he was unable to protect you."

Seeing this scene, Lu Zhiqiang and Shi Dazhu were deeply moved by the deep affection between master and disciple.

——

Hongmeng Headquarters.

"Mr. Xu, this is the Android 2.0 system we developed. Compared to 1.0, it adds the homepage drop-down list you mentioned before."

Please ask Bojun to move his finger downwards.

A drop-down list appears.

Unlike what Xu Liang became familiar with later, the menu now only has six buttons: mute, data connection, airplane mode, vibrate, page lock and Bluetooth.

"Has the Bluetooth module been developed?" Xu Liang asked with a smile.

"Yes.

The main achievement of Android 2.0 is the development of Bluetooth function.

However, the current application scenarios of Bluetooth are not enough.”

Xu Liang: "You can contact Kunlun and ask them to develop consumer electronic devices such as headphones, MP3s, tablet computers, etc. with Bluetooth functions, and try to develop all the potential of the Android 2.0 system."

"Um."

Xu Liang: "Anything else?"

"The phone has been put to sleep mode. After 10 or 20 seconds, the phone will automatically turn off the screen to save power.

We’ve also added desktop snapping.”

Please help me with each operation.

"That's all we can do for now. The remaining features will have to wait until the phone's hardware is further improved before they can be released."

Hardware is the foundation and software is the house.

If you want to build a house higher, you must first lay a good foundation.

"It's already pretty good, take your time."

After patting him on the shoulder, Xu Liang looked at Lu Qi on the side.

"Old Lu, how is the Mobile Open Alliance going now?"

"Currently, 89 mobile phone companies have signed cooperation agreements with us, which basically covers 67% of mobile phone companies in the world."

"That's right. We must take good control of these mobile phone companies and stabilize them. In the future, the global mobile phone operating system market will be ours." Xu Liang said.

Lu Qi nodded quickly. He now understood Android's free strategy.

So I admire the boss very much. Once Android becomes the most widely used mobile phone system in the world as he expects, it will become the Windows of the computer industry.

Microsoft dominated the market with Windows, becoming the world's most valuable technology company and allowing Bill Gates to sit on the throne of the richest man for decades.

Now Android has also shown such potential.

He was extremely grateful to be the CEO of this company.

"I heard that Microsoft, Google, and Symbian are all stepping up the development of their own smartphone systems?" Xu Liang said.

“Yes, I have hired a professional business investigation company to track their progress. From the information we have received so far, it will take at least a year for their smartphone system to be truly available on the market.

This year, we are able to capture the entire market.”

The research and development of smartphone systems is not an easy job. Xu Liang acquired Android and continued to invest money. It took him three years to come up with Android 1.0.

Although Microsoft and Symbian have a certain foundation, it will take one or two years to launch a new smartphone system.

Not to mention Google.

However, compared with the first two companies, Xu Liang is more worried about Google.

“Pay more attention to Google.”

Lu Qi was a little puzzled because Google was a complete newcomer in operating system development.

Microsoft should also be worried, as they have accumulated a lot of experience in operating systems.

Xu Liang understood what he was thinking.

"As our ancestors said, a blank sheet of paper is the best for painting. It is precisely because Google has no experience that it is more able to innovate and even directly copy Android without hesitation.

In contrast, Microsoft and Symbian have both been developing in the operating system field for many years and have their own achievements and glory. They are too arrogant to put aside their pride and copy us, and they are also unwilling to put aside their past successful experiences.

The mobile phone operating systems they make will all bear the shadow of computer operating systems and feature phone operating systems.

Compared to a true smartphone operating system, this is clearly a mistake.

So, I'm not too worried about them.

Google is the real enemy that we need to be wary of!

It not only has strong capital, but also a sufficiently excellent R\u0026D team!

If they really decide to compete with us in the field of mobile operating systems, they will be a formidable opponent. "

"Got it. I'll keep an eye on Google."

Patting his shoulder, Xu Liang continued.

"I'll leave Android to you and Lao Qiu. If you encounter any problems that you can't solve, call me and Lao Xie."

"OK."

After leaving Android's office area, the phone soon started ringing.

He glanced at the caller ID and smiled at Li Jinling, "It looks like Lao Yang and the others have finished their work."

"Liu Chuanzhi and his gang are overestimating themselves. How dare a mere conscientious company compete with you for Huaxia Digital?!"

Xu Liang smiled helplessly.

Neither Hongmeng nor Pangu are listed companies, and the outside world is not clear about how much cash they have.

And the conscientious company is not small.

As one of the world's three largest PC manufacturers, with total annual revenue of nearly US$4 billion, Liu Chuanzhi does not think he is much inferior to Xu Liang.

As for the amount of funds, with the development of the business world today, there are countless mergers and acquisitions of small companies swallowing large ones.

Press the answer key.

Yang Tingkun's voice came over, his tone revealing joy.

"Mr. Xu, the auction is over and the shares are in our hands."

"How much?"

"2.501 billion, a little more than expected."

"2.501 billion? Haha, Liu Chuanzhi must be looking unhappy."

As someone who has been in the business world for a long time, he knew the secret behind the final 100 million without having to guess.

It's obviously a slap in the face with money. Even if you have a good temper, you can't stand it, let alone a guy like Liu Chuanzhi who thinks highly of himself.

"Haha, that's pretty ugly."

"You, you, he is a senior in the business world after all. He is looking after so many people, you should at least show some respect!" Xu Liang teased.

"I would like to, but this old man is determined to compete with us Hongmeng, slander you, and the reputation of the company. Of course I have to teach him a lesson, so that there will be no one who takes advantage of his seniority to step on us."

"That's right. We won't take the initiative to cause trouble, but we must resolutely fight back when the time comes."

"You're right. ...By the way, Mr. Xu. Huaxia Digital was sold at a good price this time, and Huake Institute also wanted to sell us the 17.83% of Huaxia Digital's shares held by Liangxin Company. I made the decision and agreed.

But in this case, Pangu's stake in Huaxia Digital will reach 60.77%, triggering a full acquisition."

Xu Liang: "Don't worry, just acquire it completely. It's just Huaxia Digital, so if you want to delist, then delist.

Regarding funding, I will let Mr. Xie connect with you.

Whether it is acquiring the equity of a conscientious company or a full acquisition, there is no need to worry. "

"Okay, thank you for your support."

Xu Liang smiled and said, "Huaxia Digital has been run conscientiously for many years, and I guess there is some chaos inside. You should investigate it carefully and come up with an integration plan."

"Okay, I'll make a plan for you to review as soon as possible."

Xu Liang responded, "Liu Chuanzhi and his disciples are used to doing some dirty things. You should be on guard in advance, don't let him take advantage of us and make a fool of ourselves."

"Don't worry, I will be careful."

"That's all. Call me if you have anything else."

"OK."

After saying "goodbye", Xu Liang hung up the phone.

——

After research and discussions, the leaders of Huake Holdings, the state-owned asset management agency behind the Huake Institute, unanimously agreed to cash out at a high price and sell all of the 47.43% of Huaxia Digital shares held by Liangxin Company to Pangu Company.

After the resolution was submitted, it was quickly approved.

Together with the 13.34% stake held by the Blackstone Group, Pangu will acquire a total of 60.77% of China Digital's shares, and the total transaction price has reached HK$3.54 billion.

After the transaction was completed, China Digital immediately reported the relevant information to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and disclosed it to the public.

As soon as the news came out, it blinded countless people's eyes.

Because in this transaction, China Digital's share price was HK$6.64 per share, which was a premium of 89.7% or nearly double the share price of HK$3.5 per share before the company was suspended.

Moreover, although not much is known about the new shareholder Pangu Corporation, the Hongmeng Group behind it is a world-class Internet giant.

Xu Liang, the actual controller behind the group, is a well-known technology tycoon and capital tycoon in China, the United States and even the world.

Financial media outlets have launched a grand coverage of the event, predicting that the entry of technology entrepreneur Xu Liang will inject technological genes into Hua Xia Digital, turning it into a giant software service provider.

Various brokerages gave Hua Xia Digital a buy rating, and some institutions gave a target price of HK$10 per share.

Benefiting from these favorable factors, as soon as Hua Xia Digital resumed trading, its share price exploded on the spot, and continued to soar all the way, soon breaking through 7 Hong Kong dollars per share.

According to the trading rules of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, in order to protect the interests of small shareholders, the joint acquirers must make a full acquisition offer to retail investors in the open market.

The execution of the offer price must be consistent with the transaction price of the previous equity transfers by the major shareholders, that is, HK$6.64 per share.

Shareholders and institutions willing to accept the offer can sell their shares to Pangu at this price.

If too many offers are accepted and the number of public shares outside is less than 25%, China Digital's listing status will be lost.

However, just as Xu Liang and Yang Tingkun predicted, the market is quite optimistic about the transaction in which the major shareholder of China Digital changes hands.

The stock price after resumption of trading is far higher than the acquisition price, and there will definitely not be many shareholders and institutions willing to accept the tender offer.

Since the tender offer requires a 21-day wait, the deal has not yet been finalized.

——

As time passed and we gradually approached the end of 2007, A-shares also underwent major changes.

The days when you could make money no matter what stocks you bought are gone forever. After the Shanghai Composite Index hit an all-time high of 6,124 points in the middle of last month, it took a sharp downward turn.

Investors originally thought that it was a technical adjustment and that the index would rise again next month. Eight thousand points or ten thousand points would not be a dream.

But as time went by, the Shanghai Composite Index not only did not change its mind, but instead acted like a scumbag, deceiving investors' feelings time and time again.

The once bullish stocks are no longer doing well and have been hitting the daily limit for many days in a row.

The fresh leeks that entered the market just last month deeply felt the sharpness of the sickle, but they still have faith and firmly believe that 6124 points will come back one day, and this day will not make them wait too long.

But deep affection will always be betrayed.

But Xu Liang didn't care, as Hanhua had already withdrawn all of its assets in A-shares.

"This is the A-share asset liquidation report that was just compiled."

Taking it from Jiang Xiaoyang, Xu Liang briefly flipped through it.

Hanhua has three offices in the mainland, Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, with a total of 14 venture capital funds, 11 private equity funds and 3 real estate investment funds.

Excluding venture capital, the three major offices cashed out 51.9 billion Chinese yuan from the stock market.

Of this, 23.9 billion is client funds and the rest is floating profit.

Hanhua Group's proprietary trading department also holds dozens of A-shares.

These include high-quality stocks such as Qinglv Holdings, Yangcheng Procter \u0026 Gamble, and Wuliangye.

After closing all these assets, 83.7 billion Chinese yuan was cashed out.

If we follow the price at which Hanhua initially invested, the average floating profit over the past five or six years would be 5.9 times.

Then there is Hanhua’s public fund department.

There are 37 different types of stock funds, mixed funds, bond funds, and money market funds in total.

Forget about money market funds and bond funds.

The equity assets in stock funds and mixed funds basically need to be sold.

In this regard, Hanhua cashed out another 33.5 billion Chinese yuan.

However, the management fees of public funds are too low, and they make money entirely by relying on their scale. Due to the current investment atmosphere in the country, they can hardly make any money at all.

In total, Hanhua cashed out 169.1 billion Chinese yuan from A shares.

In addition to returning the principal and dividends to customers, paying profits and taxes, and distributing dividends to the management team, Hanhua Group finally earned a net income of 92.7 billion Chinese yuan.

"Not bad, put it into the file." Xu Liang put down the information.

The domestic revenue is just a small portion of the Hanhua Group's revenue.

The global financial market is the real big deal.

"Many clients are asking us when we will raise funds for the new fund?" said Jiang Xiaoyang.

“Please hold off for now. The global capital market is in a downward trend and is far from reaching the bottom. The funds raised now are just deposited in our account.

There is no need to damage our reputation for a little management fee."

Lehman Brothers’ bankruptcy did not occur until September, and the global capital market will certainly experience a decline this year.

It will take at least next year to enter the market to buy at the bottom.

We can just raise funds again when the time comes.

Jiang Xiaoyang frowned slightly, "Is the crisis really that serious?"

"It will be worse than you expected! The impact of the collapse of the CDS market worth more than 60 trillion US dollars is no worse than the Great Depression in the United States in 1929!"

Jiang Xiaoyang's pretty face showed disbelief.

She certainly knew that the US subprime mortgage crisis was more serious than it appeared on the surface, but she never thought that it would have a global impact like the Great Depression in the United States.

But she also knew her man's ability. In the past eight years, he has never failed since he first bet on the Nasdaq crisis.

"Are you serious?"

"Very seriously."

After a moment of silence, Jiang Xiaoyang slowly said: "It seems that we need to speed up our withdrawal."

“How many stocks are still left unsold?”

"Netflix, Ctrip, NetEase, Sohu, Mengniu, Anta, Nvidia, ASML, ATI, BlackBerry..."

Jiang Xiaoyang counted more than twenty stocks, most of which were Hanhua’s heavily-weighted stocks in which it held more than 10% of the shares, mainly technology stocks and Internet stocks.

Because there are too many shares held, it takes a lot of time to close the positions without causing major fluctuations in the equity.

"Hurry up, we don't have much time left."

Xu Liang said slowly.

The global financial markets were moving downward much faster than he had expected.

"Oh, remember this. The funds raised by the major offices around the world can be returned to the clients, but the money from the Qinglong Fund will remain in the account for the time being."

Jiang Xiaoyang was also a smart man and understood his plan instantly.

Nodded decisively.

As the world's largest private equity fund, Hanhua Qinglong Fund holds 11 investment portfolios, manages US$160 billion, and holds equity assets in major stock markets around the world. At its peak, the assets exceeded US$620 billion (leveraged).

Now 70% of the positions have been closed.

The investors of Hanhua Qinglong Fund are major pension funds and university education funds around the world, American blue-blood aristocrats, European old aristocrats and other powerful classes.

Holding this money is equivalent to holding the lifeblood of these people.

In the future, if Hanhua stirs up trouble in the capital market, these people can also help provide protection.

“Do Pacific Fund and Phoenix Fund need to be moved?”

"unnecessary."

Pacific Fund is a hedge fund and will definitely take advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to fight in the capital market.

Phoenix Fund holds shares in unlisted companies. Not only are they difficult to sell, but he doesn't want to sell them either.

After the chat, Xu Liang looked at the time.

"go home?"

"You go back first. I have a meeting with the securities department later." Jiang Xiaoyang said.

It was the end of the year and everyone was busy, so Xu Liang didn't ask too many questions. He stood up, hugged her, and kissed her red lips a few times.

"Don't work too late."

"Don't worry, I'll be home at seven in the evening at the latest."

Xu Liang smiled, nodded, then turned and left.

When I came out of the Hanhua Center, it was still early.

He originally wanted to go home, but then he changed his mind.