My 1999

In a private room of a private club on Chaoyang Inner Street.

Duan Yongji, Wang Yan and Mao Daolin were sitting on the sofa, and the atmosphere was somewhat silent.

Duan Yongji blew out a smoke ring.

"You two, after such a long time, I believe you have all figured out that Wang Zhidong is really worthless.

Xinlang has nearly 100 million U.S. dollars on its books, but it refuses to pay dividends to us shareholders. If this continues, everyone will have to suffer from the northwest wind this year.

Therefore, he must not be allowed to continue to be in charge of Xinlang. "

Wang Yan and Mao Daolin nodded. The reason why they serve as directors of Xinlang is that apart from reputation, their biggest purpose is to make money.

Anyone who stands in their way of making money is their enemy.

“Since we want to drive Wang Zhidong away, the board of directors should not have agreed to his acquisition of Hongmeng.com.

If it succeeds and Xinlang turns a profit, there will be no excuse for him to leave. "Wang Yan said in a deep voice.

Duan Yongji shook his head.

"It's impossible for us not to agree. If we refuse something that is obviously beneficial to the development of the company at a glance, it will be spread out and weaken our own prestige.

And I was still thinking about driving away Wang Zhidong, signing an agreement with Hongmeng, turning Xinlang from losses to profits, and strengthening our leadership over Xinlang. How could I refuse?

As for what you are worried about.

Haha, if Wang Zhidong wants to sign a contract, he has to go through our board of directors. When the time comes, we will do something about the contract amount, and we will just refuse to agree. "

"Having said that, we must take action quickly and be careful of long nights and many dreams." Mao Daolin said.

Duan Yongji nodded, "The shareholders' meeting has just passed, so it's not appropriate to take action for the time being.

However, it is impossible for Hongmeng and Wang Zhidong to reach an agreement in the short term. So we have enough time to kill with one hit. "

Duan Yongji smashed the cigarette butt on the table.

Mao Daolin and Wang Yan nodded.

After the discussion, the three of them left.

Duan Yongji had just gone to the bathroom and was about to leave when the cell phone in his pocket suddenly rang.

I picked it up, took a look at it, and quickly connected it.

"Brother Liu, why do you have time to call me?"

"Are you in the club?"

"yes."

"Come to Box 1 and introduce me to you."

"Who has such a big face that he actually deserves your brother Liu to come forward in person?"

"An interesting young man, you will know it when you meet him."

After agreeing, Duan Yongji put away his phone and walked towards the club.

Come to box number one.

Knocked on the door.

"Come in."

Listening to the familiar voice, Duan Yongji opened the door and went in. In the luxuriously decorated box, sitting at the head was an imposing old man wearing a suit and glasses.

Sitting next to him was an elegant young man wearing a black suit and a golden tie.

"Yonggi is here, come and sit down."

Duan Yongji walked over.

"Brother Liu, who is this...?"

"Let me introduce, this is Li Yanhong, the founder of Baidu Company, and a new member of our Taishan Club."

"It turns out to be Mr. Li. I've heard of him for a long time."

Li Yanhong quickly stood up and held the other person's right hand, speaking politely.

"Mr. Duan, you're welcome. I still have a lot to learn from a business senior like you."

Duan Yongji smiled slightly, took back his hand and sat down on the sofa next to him.

"Brother Liu, you didn't call me here just to introduce Yanhong to me, right?"

"Of course not. Yanhong wants to discuss a business deal with you, so let me be the go-between to ask you out."

"oh?"

Seeing Duan Yongji's questioning look, Li Yanhong smiled.

"I heard that Xinlang is negotiating with Hongmeng about a website deal?"

"That's what happened." After a pause, Duan Yongji continued, "Why, Baidu is also interested?"

“Baidu is indeed interested, but we also know that we cannot afford hundreds of millions of dollars in acquisition funds, so we plan to cooperate with Xinlang.

We, Baidu, can contribute part of the money spent by Xinlang to purchase the Hongmeng website. After the completion of the project, we obtained a certain share of the website and added Baidu’s search box to the homepage of the website. "

"How much money does Bai Du plan to spend and how many shares do he want?"

Xinlang doesn't have a search business, so it doesn't care who the search service provider is, but it cares more about how much money Li Yanhong can provide.

"10 million US dollars, 5% of Hongmeng website shares."

"Is Yanhong so generous?"

Duan Yongji was a little surprised.

According to the current selling price of Hongmeng website, you can get at least 8% or even 10% of the equity for US$10 million.

Li Yanhong smiled, "Brother Duan should know that we at Baidu are in the search business, so we value adding a search box on the home page of the website more than shares."

If it wasn't for Xu Liang's calculation that he wouldn't sell the website collection to Baidu, he wouldn't have spent such a high price to cooperate with Xinlang.

Duan Yongji nodded slightly, "The CEO and president of Xinlang is Wang Zhidong, Yanhong should go talk to him."

"I believe that Brother Duan's influence within Xinlang is greater than Mr. Wang's."

This sentence made Duan Yongji feel very comfortable.

"Yanhong has given you too much praise. But since Brother Liu is the guarantee for this matter, and you are so sincere, Yanhong, Xinlang is very willing to cooperate with Baidu."

"Thank you, Brother Duan."

Duan Yongji smiled and said: "But this matter cannot be rushed. I will call you personally when there is news."

"Then I'm just waiting for the good news from Brother Duan?"

"Haha, no problem."

"By the way, there is one more thing I want to ask Brother Duan."

"You speak."

"How long will it take for the search service provider contract signed between Bing and Xinlang to expire?"

"Two and a half years."

Li Yanhong frowned.

too long.

"I would like to ask Brother Duan, when you signed the contract, was there a liquidated damages clause?"

"Yes, $50 million."

Li Yanhong's heart skipped a beat, this was too much.

"Yanhong, although I also hope that Xinlang will cooperate with Baidu, unless you can pay 50 million in liquidated damages, there is nothing I can do."

Hearing this, Li Yanhong shook her head heartily.

Although Baidu made some money, he couldn't afford such a huge sum of money.

"Thank you, Brother Duan, I understand."

"Okay, we've almost finished talking about the business. Come on, let's have a drink first." Liu Zhuanzhi said with a smile.

"cheers."

——

"Mr. Xu, this is the enrollment situation of New Dream this year."

He took the document from Teng Huaming's hand and read it.

The number of art students enrolled in the college entrance examination has exceeded 9,000, and the number of art students enrolled in the college entrance examination is currently around 1,200.

“The enrollment in children’s art is a bit low.”

"It's a bit small. However, we have just started this business and our influence has not yet spread. Moreover, we currently only operate in Beijing and have not expanded to the whole country.

If it is expanded, I believe the number of enrollments will increase greatly. "

Xu Liang nodded.

"Mr. Xu, there is something I want to report to you." Teng Hua Ming said.

"you say."

"Most of the commercial real estate we bought in Beijing covers an area of ​​7,500 to 10,000 square meters. At present, it is difficult for our children's art enrollment to use so many venues. Many of them don't even have a third."

"If you don't need it, you can continue to rent it out." Xu Liang said.

"It can be rented, but when people mix, the safety risks will be infinitely magnified. Once there is an accident, our responsibility will be great."

Xu Liang frowned.

Teng Huaming’s worries are justified.

Because most of the commercial real estate they bought were old buildings. Although the interiors looked good after renovation, they were not as good as those high-end office buildings and it was difficult to attract those big companies.

People who come to rent office space from them are either small companies or small companies.

There is a large turnover of personnel, and there is a mixture of dragons and snakes.

It's really not safe to hang out with most children who don't have much discerning ability.

"Do you have any idea?"

"Carry out subject-based education and make full use of the space."

Xu Liang frowned.

He was unwilling to engage in subject education because his future was limited to only twenty years.

But twenty years is not a short time.

After thinking for a long time, Xu Liang made up his mind.

“Subject-based education can be done, but it cannot be branded as New Dreams, and it must be independently accounted for.”

He knows the prospects of subject-based education in China, but others don't.

When the new brand is launched, it can send American money to the Nasdaq circle.

It is enough to sell out the equity before the deadline.

Teng Huaming immediately agreed, as long as Xu Liang allowed subject education, independent accounting and new brands were just small sections.

The two discussed for a long time and decided to name this brand that specializes in subject-based education ‘Ideal Education’.

The general development strategy of ideal education was decided, and the specific matters were left to Teng Huaming.

"By the way, the art exam has started now, right?"

"The joint entrance examinations in various provinces have ended, and now it is the time for the school entrance examinations of various colleges, but they will last until the end of March at most. April to May is the period for the results to be announced."

"We must pay attention to those outstanding students. Their grades are our best admissions brochures."

"clear."

After asking some questions about the operation of New Dream, Teng Huaming was asked to leave.

Just as he was about to get up and walk around, his phone suddenly rang.

He looked at the caller ID and pressed the answer button.

"Sister Hong, why do you have time to call me?"

"Liangzi, during the Chinese New Year, you promised to let me go to your company for an internship. You won't forget it, right?"

"How come? You can come anytime you want."

"Just one more week, I still have some things to deal with at school."

"Okay, call me when you get to the capital."

"Understood. By the way, Liangzi, I heard that office politics can be annoying. Do you have one in your company?"

"At least I didn't see it. But don't worry, you are my cousin after all, no one dares to wear small shoes for you."

"That's true. Also, Liangzi, you are considered rich and handsome now. Do you have a girlfriend?"

"Sister, you haven't even graduated from college, why are you so gossipy? If you want, there are many rich and handsome people in our company. I can introduce them to you."

"No, I still want to be young and lively for a few more years."

After chatting for a few more words, Xu Liang hung up the phone.

I walked around in New Dream and left near noon.