Rebirth 98, the rise starts from ripping off Microsoft

Chapter 764 Sold Zhou Hongyi too

Author: Linjiangxian

Chapter 764 Sold Zhou Hongyi too

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

If we could have a lively conversation at this time, it was natural that this call came from Shi Qingxue.

"When will you come back?"

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

As the saying goes, a day without seeing each other is like three autumns apart, so the two of them have been separated for a century.

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

When Shi Qingxue heard that Lu Yiming still remembered her birthday and wanted to rush back before her birthday, she was very happy to feel Lu Yiming's affection. However, she was a sensible person, so she did not ask Lu Yiming to do it before then.

When he came back, he said: "Didn't you tell me on the phone yesterday that the negotiations were not going well? Birthdays happen every year anyway, and your career is more important over there."

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

"That's good. Then go ahead and get busy. I have to go to bed. It's too late."

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

"Good night."

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 CEO Terry Semel from mainland China. His expression was a bit ugly: "You said Li Hongyan's attitude suddenly changed?"

Terry Semel said: "We had a good chat when we first met, and Li Hongyan was also very moved by our Yahoo offer of US$150 million. But for some reason, when I talked to him for the second time,

His attitude suddenly changed completely and he refused to sell the company no matter what."

Yang Zhiyuan heard that he was not really interested in buying a ferry. After all, he was actually more optimistic about 3721.

But now that the ferry is not for sale, Yahoo has lost its room for maneuver and is forced to accept Lu Yiming's big mouth.

Seeing that Christmas is coming up in just one month, if the company's stock price doesn't get a boost, the days to come will be even more difficult.

At that time, the loss on the stock price will no longer be a matter of 100 or 200 million US dollars. If it falls by a few percentage points, billions of dollars will be lost.

"Can we only accept the offer of 3721?"

"The current situation may only be like this."

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

"Mr. Lu."

Hearing Yang Zhiyuan's voice, Lu Yiming's face suddenly lit up with joy. After all, this was a money-giving boy, who could not be happy?

"Oh, Mr. Yang, I asked you why I woke up so early today. The magpies outside the window were chirping. I thought something good would happen. Mr. Yang, you called me."

Faced with Lu Yiming's teasing, Yang Zhiyuan felt like his teeth were about to be broken. But now the situation is stronger than others. Even if he wants to tear Lu Yiming into pieces, now he has to accompany Lu Yiming to talk nonsense here.

"Mr. Lu, you have such a sense of humor. Mr. Lu, you have a lot of things to do every day. If there is nothing important, I wouldn't dare to disturb you, right?"

Lu Yiming said cheerfully: "Mr. Yang, you are so humble. Mr. Yang, you are the one with the busy business."

Yang Zhiyuan felt even more depressed. If the conversation continued like this, the phone call would not get to the point for three hours. He said directly: "Mr. Lu, I will just open the window and speak frankly. I am making this call to have a chat with you."

Let’s talk about the acquisition of 3721.”

Although he had long known that there was a high probability that he would reach this point, when he received the call from Yang Zhiyuan, Lu Yiming still showed a look of surprise and said, "Ah, has Mr. Yang figured it out?"

Before arriving in the beautiful country, Lu Yiming dared to boast about Haikou in front of Zhou Hongyi, so he was naturally sure of it. If Yahoo wants to expand its business, it must cooperate with Ferry or 3721. Lu Yiming is the major shareholder of 3721.

Li Yiwen is the major shareholder of Ferry, and it can be said that both companies are controlled by Lu Yiming. It can be said that no matter how we negotiate, it is impossible for Yang Zhiyuan to dig out Lu Yiming's Wuzhishan.

Yang Zhiyuan sighed, as if he had lost a battle, and said feebly: "Mr. Lu, you are so awesome, you have no plans left. I also just learned that you are the major shareholder of Ferry.

The chief financial officer is also your cousin. Whether I’m talking to 3721 or Ferry, I’m actually talking to you.”

This makes people very desperate.

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

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

When things have reached this point, Jerry Yang has no right to speak at all and can only accept any plan from Lu Yiming. If he doesn't accept it, Yahoo will be hung up and beaten by Google.

In the reception room of Yahoo headquarters, Lu Yiming looked relaxed and smiled. On the other hand, Yang Zhiyuan had a dark face, as if someone owed him $100 million.

In fact, this is indeed the case. Although no one owes him US$100 million, he has to spend US$100 million more than the psychological price to acquire 3721.

Rounding off, does this not mean a loss of 100 million?

"Mr. Yang, what's wrong? You don't look very good. Aren't you happy for our future cooperation?"

Yang Zhiyuan really wanted to say I'm happy, you idiot, but after all, everyone still has an identity, and swearing was a bit outrageous, so he could only purse his lips and say nothing, secretly swearing in his heart that he would wait for the opportunity to find Lu Yiming.

You must take out all your anger from today.

Seeing that Yang Zhiyuan didn't speak, Lu Yiming comforted him and said: "Oh, Mr. Yang, why are you so sad? The successful acquisition of 3721 is a great thing for Yahoo. By integrating 3721's leading Chinese keyword search technology, Yahoo directly controls

It is a powerful tool to enter the Chinese search market, and the future prospects are unlimited.”

Although there is a lot of ridicule in this statement, it is also an indisputable fact.

In fact, the technical strength of 3721 is still very strong, and it can even compete with the ferry at this time.

This has been personally confirmed by relevant technical experts from the Ministry of Information Industry. Although Zhou Hongyi's moral bottom line is very flexible, his technical level is really not high enough.

The Chinese keyword search system with independent intellectual property rights developed by 3721, which is also the online real-name search system, adopts the industry's leading algorithm and scalable distributed architecture, and has good reliability and fault tolerance.

Supports search queries on massive scale data.

This technology is what Yahoo is most in urgent need of right now.

In the field of the Internet, technology is priceless, especially for a technology with broad application prospects. The famous American Internet analyst Safa Ratschy once pointed out in the "Golden Search" report that search services are moving toward precision and capitalization.

, the development trend of native language, elitism and regionalization.

To put it bluntly, the previous enclosure model of portal websites no longer works. In the future, the search market will be more professional, more detailed, and better able to bring a good user experience to users.

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

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

Therefore, although the price of US$220 million is high, Yang Zhiyuan has to pay for it, because if he does not buy it, he will only lose more.

But no one is willing to spend more money, so when Yang Zhiyuan faced Lu Yiming, he naturally didn't give him a good look, and said in a strange way: "Mr. Lu, you still know how to do business. You only invested five million at the beginning, and now you have a net profit of

With more than 500 million yuan, in just a few years, there are hundreds of times the income. It is true that the waves behind the Yangtze River push the waves ahead, and you are not polite to me, an old-timer."

Old God Lu Yiming said on the ground: "Hey, you can't say this, Mr. Yang, we are in business, what I gave you is the market price, even the friendship price, I didn't say I would be rude to you.

I mean, from a personal perspective, I still respect you very much. After all, we are both of the Xia Kingdom’s bloodline, so your achievements are also my pride.”

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

Hearing what Lu Yiming said, Yang Zhiyuan was so angry that his teeth itched, but at this point, he had no other choice. He could only bite his back teeth and said: "Then Mr. Lu, you should make more money."

.”

Later, Jerry Yang spoke again: "We at Yahoo can provide the money, but the original technical team of 3721 must stay, especially Zhou Hongyi, who cannot 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 is optimistic about Zhou Hongyi, doesn’t Lu Yiming not be optimistic about Zhou Hongyi?

Lu Yiming invested in 3721 because he was optimistic about Zhou Hongyi.

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

When Yang Zhiyuan heard what Lu Yiming said, he was immediately very dissatisfied and said, "Mr. Lu, I spent an extra $100 million! Can't you agree to this small request?"

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

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

Lu Yiming said cheerfully: "It's not too much, ten million US dollars, let him continue to work in 3721 for a while, no problem, right?"

Yang Zhiyuan wanted to say there was a problem, but he thought that he had already spent the 100 million U.S. dollars, so he would not be short of the 10 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.

It was late at night, and Zhou Hongyi was lying on the bed, but she couldn't fall asleep. Her wife Hu Huan woke up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom. When she saw Zhou Hongyi looking at the sky, she asked curiously: "What's wrong with you? Is that right?"

Didn't you encounter another problem in business? I see that you haven't been sleeping well in the past few days."

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

The two first met through BBS. Later, Zhou Hongyi resigned from Founder and founded 3721. Every time his career hit a bottleneck, Hu Huan gave her full support and could be called his good wife.

Therefore, Zhou Hongyi hesitated and told her wife about Lu Yiming's negotiations 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 founded 3721, he started the business with money from Hu Huan's mother's family. If you round up, Hu Huan can be regarded as half of the company.

There are people inside.

After hearing the whole story, Hu Huan was very surprised: "You want to sell 3721?"

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

Hu Huan frowned slightly, and first comforted him: "Mr. Lu is probably not an impolite person." Then he asked, "How much does Mr. Lu offer?"

Zhou Hongyi said: "220 million US dollars."

This price shocked Hu Huan.

She really didn't expect that when she asked her parents to get money to support her husband's business, 3721 would become so valuable in just a few years. Her original investment would have doubled hundreds of times!

Just as the couple was getting more and more excited as they chatted, Zhou Hongyi's cell phone rang.

Hu Huan said dissatisfied: "It's so late, who is still calling? Why don't you answer the phone and just call me back during the day tomorrow."

After Zhou Hongyi chatted with Hu Huan, her psychological pressure was relieved a lot. She was already a little sleepy. Seeing Zhou Hongyi yawning, Hu Huan was afraid that this phone call would drive away Zhou Hongyi's sleepiness.

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

"All right."

Hu Huan was immediately speechless. It was 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 was in disbelief: "Yahoo agreed to our offer?"

Lu Yiming smiled: "That's not true."

"ah!?"

Zhou Hongyi was obviously frightened, but before he could ask further questions, Lu Yiming's voice came from the phone again: "Mr. Yang is very sincere. He has added another ten million US dollars."

Zhou Hongyi couldn't stand it now. The price of US$220 million was outrageous enough in his opinion.

Yahoo actually added an extra $10 million?

What is this operation?

Yang Zhiyuan was kicked in the head by a donkey?

"No, Mr. Lu, why do I feel more and more strange when you say this? Didn't he refuse to agree to 220 million before? Now he actually takes the initiative to add 10 million? I'm confused."

Lu Yiming explained to Zhou Hongyi: "That was true before, but things will always change. Old Zhou, the situation is like this now. Although you have become a billionaire, I'm afraid you will still be a billionaire in the future.

I have to continue to be a wage earner."

"Continue to be a wage earner?"

Zhou Hongyi sensed that something was wrong.

He was still thinking about taking his wife to travel around the world after this successful start-up business. In the end, he has become a billionaire and still has to continue to be a wage earner?

"Mr. Lu, I don't understand what you are saying. I already plan to take my wife to eat, drink and have fun. Why am I a wage earner again? Who am I going to work for?"

Lu Yiming also knows that as long as people have money, the first thing they do is think about eating, drinking and having fun. But he has sold Zhou Hongyi, so he must give Yahoo an explanation and not let Yang Zhiyuan's money go to waste. So he

I had no choice but to persuade: "Although Mr. Yang agreed to our quotation, he also told me that this price is based on your face. No one can replace your appeal in the team and channels. Yahoo spent a lot of money on it."

This amount of money is actually not only for 'buying' 3721, but also for 'buying' you."

When Zhou Hongyi heard this, her whole body went numb and she looked very unhappy.

Why should he work for others when he can be a rich man?

The key is that it was Lu Yiming who "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 has been sold and it doesn't make sense for me to stay there."

To put it bluntly, Zhou Hongyi doesn't like having someone supervising him, he prefers to give orders himself.

However, Lu Yiming had already collected the money, how could he still make Zhou Hongyi naughty? He immediately continued to persuade: "Old Zhou, I know you are a talented person, but you are dormant for the time being just to fly higher in the future.

?After all, you founded 3721, and I think you can take it to a higher level. What's more, don't you want to make some achievements in the search field with the help of Yahoo's brand and technology?"

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

There is no doubt that Lu Yiming's words moved his heart.

After all, it’s Yahoo!

Although it is somewhat in decline now, a skinny camel is bigger than a horse, and a broken ship still has three pounds 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. She nodded coyly and said, "Since you said so, Mr. Lu, I will definitely give you face."

Seeing that the task was finally completed, Lu Yiming also breathed a sigh of relief and said: "That's right. In fact, I haven't finished what I said. You can go to Yahoo for a while first. After you have learned everything about Yahoo, you can directly

Just leave, since you didn’t sign the contract anyway. You will still be a billionaire by then, and you will also have Yahoo’s technology and experience in your hands. Isn’t this a big win?”

(End of chapter)