God's New Clothes

Since he didn't plan to sell the company, Xu Shi'an had to find other ways to make money.

He took care of some more work, didn't go home at night, and didn't go to the group to work overtime. Instead, he asked the driver to take him to a club that he hadn't seen for a long time.

The manager of the clubhouse was also very surprised when he saw him: "Hey, Young Master Xu, what brought you here? You said you haven't been here for a long time, what's the matter today, are you here to see Brother Daren?"

Xu Shi'an said lightly, "Yes, I have an appointment with him."

"Then go this way, I'll take you there."

Xu Shi'an followed the manager to a private room, and when the door was pushed open, the rumbling music almost knocked him off his feet. Xu Shi'an also wondered, how did he keep his hearing in such a place every day?

Zhao Daren was still surrounded by a group of "beauties under the knife", and there were a few buddies beside him, some he knew and some he didn't know, there was a lot of wine on the table, obviously he had already had a round of drinking.

Seeing Xu Shi'an come in, Zhao Daren immediately waved to him, threw the microphone at the person next to him, stopped singing himself, and said, "Cut it, you guys want to sing something lyrical."

The girls never took their eyes off Xu Shi'an since they saw him coming in. A girl next to Zhao Daren leaned over him and asked, "Brother Daren, who is this, and you won't introduce me?"

Zhao Daren's nasty words came: "Fucking can't close his legs again, can he? His girlfriends are all supermodels, and you look down on them like this. Go, go, go there, don't delay us two brothers talking !"

The girls were reluctantly sent away, Xu Shi'an sat down beside Zhao Daren, and called Brother Daren.

Zhao Daren leaned on the sofa, hummed, and looked back and forth at Xu Shi'an: "You boy, okay, I heard that you just recently succeeded in attempting to usurp the throne, I said why haven't I seen you for half a year, it turned out to be a big move. ,Hahaha……"

Xu Shi'an was worried about how to explain his whereabouts in the past six months. After all, he had been away from the organization for too long, and he was a little lacking in loyalty. Hearing Zhao Daren's words, he just took advantage of the slope and said, "What's 'seeking to usurp the throne', I am' "Accept orders in danger", the company kept getting placards, and my dad was so anxious that he was hospitalized."

"Hey, what's more, I just bought some of your company's stock recently, and it's soaring! Come on, tell me some inside information, should I sell it now or collect some chips?"

Xu Shi'an's eyes lit up, why did things go so smoothly, Zhao Daren didn't need to ask himself, and Zhao Daren cut the words, and asked, "How much did you buy?"

Zhao Daren felt that the back of his butt was a little tight, and he took out a maraca from behind and threw it to the singer: "Fuck, keep your voice down, you can't hear you!" Then he picked up the foreign wine on the coffee table and said, "It's not much, Tens of millions."

Zhao Daren's family is engaged in real estate, with billions or tens of billions of investment at every turn, tens of millions is really nothing.

Xu Shi'an said: "Brother Ren, if you are really optimistic about our company, why not come and be our major shareholder."

Zhao Daren raised his index finger and scratched his eyebrows, asking: "What do you mean?"

Xu Shi'an didn't hide anything from him, and told Zhao Daren about the company's current situation, the process of MTC's several placard raisings, and their countermeasures.

After hearing this, Zhao Daren smiled slightly, and his small eyes rolled around several times: "You want me to be your 'White Knight'①, a hero to save the beauty?"

Although Zhao Daren is rough, his heart is like a mirror, and nothing can be hidden from his eyes.If he doesn't want to sell ANNA-X, Xu Shi'an has only this last way to go.He looked at Zhao Daren solemnly: "Indeed."

The smile on Zhao Daren's face slowly narrowed, he turned his head sharply, looked at Xu Shi'an sharply, as if he had changed, and said in a low voice: "You want me to pay, but you don't really want to control the company. Do you think this is beautiful?"

Those who can fumble in the mall are all bloodthirsty wolves, and Zhao Daren is no exception.When they play together, they are brotherly, but when it comes to business, they still pay one yard for one yard.Xu Shi'an knew that if he didn't tear off a piece of meat, who would take advantage of him for nothing.

He said: "I will ask my consulting company to provide you with an investment return agreement, which will definitely give you more benefits than investing in other projects. Besides, you have so many commercial properties across the country. YG originally had a relationship with you. Cooperation, you invest in us, you can maximize the advantages of both parties, I think this is a win-win deal."

After Zhao Daren heard it, he didn't say anything, pointed at Xu Shi'an with a finger, and laughed sinisterly.

Xu Shi'an met his eyes and smiled.He offered such a sincere condition, but what he got in exchange was Zhao Daren's reaction, he was a little unclear about the elder brother's pulse.

With a round beer belly, Zhao Daren stretched out his hand and patted Xu Shian's thigh: "Boy, if you just touch your upper and lower lips like this, I will lose hundreds of millions. How can it be so cheap?"

Xu Shi'an thought that the conditions he had given were not good enough, and said, "Brother Daren, please accept whatever conditions you have."

Zhao Daren narrowed his squinting eyes, pressed his lips with his thumb, first looked at Xu Shi'an, and then glanced at the girls who kept peeking this way, and a bad idea popped up: "They They say you do a good job, but I haven’t seen it before, so let’s do it, girl over there, I’ll give you [-] million if you win one here, you’re not losing money, right?”

It's not like Xu Shi'an doesn't know about Zhao Daren's money, squandering, licentiousness and even madness. It's not like he hasn't seen Russian roulette or depth charges, but he never plays like that.Making love is a private matter between two people. When you feel it, the atmosphere is here. If you love me, let it be.If you do such a private thing in front of everyone, how is it different from a beast?

Xu Shi'an resisted the urge to give Zhao Daren a hard time, turned his head, his sharp jaw was so sharp that he could see the blade, and he said to Zhao Daren: "Brother, you are embarrassing me a bit now, business is business, nothing is involved. If you are not interested, forget it.” Xu Shi’an picked up a glass of wine from someone who was on the table and said, “Brothers, I’m sorry, this glass is my own punishment!”

After finishing the glass of wine, Xu Shi'an got up and was about to leave, but Zhao Daren grabbed him and said shamelessly, "I'm just kidding with you, why do you take it seriously? You've been the chairman of the board for a few days! Forced, sit down, sit down, I haven't finished talking yet!"

If it wasn't for Qian's face, Xu Shi'an really wanted to slap Zhao Daren on the face.The anger in his heart gathered and dispersed, dispersed and gathered again, and finally sat back on the sofa.

Zhao Daren patted his face: "Tell me, who are you going to show a cold face all day long? But come on, those little girls are still going to eat your tricks, and I'm fucking convinced. I just I want to see if you have a bottom line, people with a bottom line are reliable in doing things, if you don't have a bottom line for money, I'm so fucking worried!"

Xu Shi'an was angry and kept silent, so Zhao Daren stopped talking to him: "Then what, if you ask me to invest money, I have to tell you well, your YG did not close their stores last year, right? I know, but your own brand is doing very well, I heard that you have found a particularly good designer, right?"

When Tong Yan was mentioned, Xu Shi'an's heart moved and he nodded slightly.

Zhao Daren leaned on the sofa with one hand and supported his knee with the other, and said to Xu Shi'an sideways: "I have a suggestion, you let your designer go to YG, what is your men's clothing? Come out, the fucking PM250 exceeds the standard! Redesign, and then... Then I think about it, right, and then you have to come up with a complete brand upgrade plan, including but not limited to store renovation, advertising, supply chain management , Go to the inventory plan." Zhao Daren moved closer to Xu Shi'an, and made a gesture of twirling his fingers, "Take out the plan, and the money will be in place immediately, how about it, little brother?"

Although Zhao Daren often stays out, he looks like an out-and-out prodigal, but Xu Shian knows that he is actually very business-minded. In recent years, real estate has been difficult, so he invests everywhere. Xu Shian knows Projects include digital entertainment development, cloud medical care, online education, AI robots... There should be many other projects that he doesn't know about.

Based on his understanding of Zhao Daren, he meant to do this very seriously when he said this, and these things were actually things that Xu Shi'an wanted to do long ago but had no chance to do them.

Xu Shi'an said: "Give me two days, and I will give you the plan."

Zhao Daren's chubby face smiled: "Don't worry, work slowly and carefully."

Xu Shi'an said, "I'm in a hurry."

Two days later, Xu Shi'an first found his father with the plan for Zhao Daren.Although he is the acting chairman in name, he doesn't dare to act first at this juncture. To operate on YG, no matter whether it is liposuction or castration, the old man of the family must agree to it.

Xu Yunsheng has been discharged from the hospital at this time and is recuperating at home.After seeing Xu Shi'an's brand upgrade plan and Zhao Daren's investment plan, he took off his presbyopic glasses and put them in the glasses case. He closed his eyes and asked Xu Shi'an: "Zhao Daren is your friend. I also know his father. Their family I still know the details."

"Brother Da Ren is now mainly engaged in investment. The projects he invests in are large or small, and the sum is not one hundred but eighty."

Xu Yunsheng said: "Are you afraid that I won't trust you? Actually, I'm not very worried about him."

Xu Shi'an tentatively asked: "Are you worried about YG's brand upgrade?"

"YG has indeed faced problems of overcapacity, lack of innovation, aging marketing, and terminal saturation in the past few years, but it is still moving forward relying on inertia. In the past, we could barely survive by relying on the sinking of channels, but now many stores in first-tier cities When something goes wrong, we have to think about it. Although some of our stores are closed, there are still thousands of them. The inventory pressure is too great. How to digest these inventories, what channels to digest them, how to connect new and old brands, It's a big project."

Xu Shi'an said: "It's really big, but we have to start. We start store renovation in first-tier cities, release inventory to second- and third-tier cities, factory stores, and discount stores, and then find some Wechat scalpers. Don't underestimate Wechat merchants. Ability, Dad, don't worry, as long as you start, everything will turn around."

Xu Yunsheng opened his eyes and looked at his son. Since handing over the company to Xu Shian, he has taken a series of measures that are very effective. He no longer doubts Xu Shian's personal ability, and believes that he will definitely lead YG out of the predicament, and even open up a new one. The situation is just... Some doubts still linger in his heart, like a dark cloud above his head, and it will rain at some point.

As an "old fox" who has been struggling in the mall for so many years, Xu Yunsheng knows that now is not the time.

He went on to ask: "Let Tong Yan come to YG, is it your idea or Zhao Daren's idea?"

This is the first time Xu Shian heard Tong Yan’s name from his father. He used to call Tong Yan “the designer”. Xu Shi’an was not sure if this meant a change. He said: “It was indeed Brother Daren who first proposed it , Replacing the designer is also part of the brand rebuilding. He feels that since we have ready-made candidates, there is no need to take the risk of finding someone from the outside. This is also one of his funding conditions." Xu Shian told the truth, perfectly concealing his desire to put Tong Yan's little thoughts tied by his side.

Xu Yunsheng snorted coldly in his heart, his face was still detached: "He is designing women's clothing, we are men's clothing."

"Actually, there is no difference. The main thing is the control of the design concept. I have seen the men's clothing designed by him, and there is no problem."

Xu Yunsheng nodded and asked, "Then what about your company?"

Xu Shi'an had already made up his mind, and said, "Tong Yan has a very mature assistant who can completely serve as the designer of ANNA-X independently, so that he can fully devote himself to YG's work."

Xu Yunsheng pondered for a while, holding the teacup in his hand and turning it around, as if he was weighing the pros and cons of this plan in his heart, and after a while he said: "Just follow your plan, but let me remind you, no matter it's the whole staff The shareholding plan is still the shares purchased by Zhao Daren, and one day, we will still get them back."

Xu Shi'an suppressed the joy in his heart and said: "Don't worry about this, I have considered it a long time ago, and I am asking the consultant team to come up with a plan."

It was rare for the father and son to agree. After chatting for a while, Xu Shi'an was about to leave, but Xu Yunsheng called him back. Xu Shi'an turned back and asked his father, "What else do you want?"

Xu Yunsheng seemed to be speechless, and after a long time he asked, "You said your mother is in New York?"

Xu Shi'an was very surprised. In the past 20 years, her mother's name has almost become a sensitive word in their family, and she can't even mention it. I don't know what happened to Xu Yunsheng today.He replied: "Yes, she is an art consultant for the Metropolitan Museum of Art."

"She...she..." Xu Yunsheng stuttered for a long time without asking a word.

Xu Shi'an learned to be filial this time, and did not confront his father anymore, and continued: "She doesn't seem to have changed much, she is similar to when she was young, and I think she is living happily."

Xu Yunchang let out a long sigh, lowered his head, and fiddled with his teacup again, unable to tell whether he felt sorry or relieved.In the end, he waved to Xu Shi'an and let him go back.

After passing his father's hurdle, Xu Shi'an showed the plan to Zhao Daren non-stop. Zhao Daren had no objection to the plan as a whole, but gave him some ideas on the implementation details.The two-person team quickly signed the agreement, and Zhao Daren's funds were immediately available, and he soon became the second largest shareholder of YG.

So far, the controllable shares of Xu Shi'an's concerted action ② finally reached 50.00%. When MTC saw that they had introduced the white knight, they gave up the idea of ​​acquisition. As soon as the stock was sold, they left after making money.

Zhao Daren predicted that YG's stock would plummet after MTC ran away, so he took the opportunity to absorb chips again and let out the wind that every commercial real estate project of his would have a brand new flagship store of YG. YG's stock rebounded, and Zhao Daren was still young Made a fortune.

The swords and swords in the market are invisible to ordinary people, and the ups and downs of the stock market can only reflect the tip of the iceberg. It is more of a game hidden under the water. The fight is about resources, relationships, and even more action.Opportunities will flash by in times of crisis. Xu Shi'an seized it, and he escaped from birth. Some people hesitated and were reluctant to give others a little bit of benefits. In the end, the control of the company changed hands, and he himself went away.

Only Xu Shi'an knew how thrilling this strike was. Through this acquisition, he also quietly lifted a corner of YG's heavy shell. He knew that he still had another tough battle to fight, but he was not afraid, because He has Tong Yan.

The author says:

①When a company becomes the target of mergers and acquisitions by other companies (usually a hostile takeover), the management of the company seeks a "friendly" company for merger in order to prevent the occurrence of a hostile takeover, and this "friendly" company is acquired Known as the "White Knight". ②Person acting in concert: Refers to the person who, through agreements or other arrangements, jointly expands the number of voting rights of a listed company's shares that an investor can control with other investors. -----If you are willing, you can follow the author's Weibo@岩谷云归, and there will be a lottery draw after a while after the end. One of the conditions is to subscribe to the full text before the lottery.The prizes include Hermes Land Perfume and some jade pendants, see Weibo for details.Thank you readers for reading here, thank you for your support!