Chapter 67 Library
Lianji Technology was a highly profitable company under the Liang family, and it was also involved in the Liang family's core business. Zhao Shunian's attention was inevitably drawn to it.
After Zhao Shunian sent people to secretly investigate Lianji Technology, he found that the crisis beneath the prosperous business was due to its excessive reliance on a certain technology.
Once this technology breaks through or an alternative technology emerges, it will fall from a high building, and the Liang family will definitely be severely damaged.
Some people know that this problem exists, but before the disaster strikes, they turn a deaf ear and only care about their immediate interests.
When planning a chess game, one thing that cannot be avoided is the information gap. It is crucial to have more information and to gain insight into opportunities from the information in advance.
Because of the scanner, Zhao Shunian had contact with many companies related to materials. After realizing the problems with Lianji Technology, his attention to such companies increased sharply, and a mainland chemical company called Chaoyue caught his eye.
Zhao Shu began preparing for a second phase, acquiring companies that competed with Lianji Technology but showed potential. Chaoyue Chemicals was then quietly integrated into the Liang Group's business portfolio.
When there was progress in technology beyond chemistry, Zhao Shunian came up with a bold plan. After careful consideration and confirmation that the price was within his acceptable range, he decided to take a gamble.
Zhao Shunian reformed Lianji technology and continuously packaged it. These actions were only temporary solutions and not a fundamental solution, but he only needed to turn it into a big fish to lure sharks into the trap. His real purpose was to hunt sharks.
In the eyes of the elders of the Liang Group, Zhao Shunian belongs to the third generation. He is young and inexperienced, so they always treat him with contempt.
They put Zhao Shunian in charge of checking the group's accounts and pushed him to the position of chairman of Liang Group, just to flatter him and give him a sharp knife to dismember Liang Group.
When a whale dies, all things come to life. Sharks are the big players who share the whales, and these elders took this opportunity to devour the Liang family.
Zhao Shunian felt that they were fooling him, so he used these foolings to fool them. Every major decision he made in the Liang family was to their liking.
They didn't care about small decisions and thought they were unimportant. They took the initiative to hand the matter over to Zhao Shunian to handle, which was considered a sweet treat for him and to appease him.
Zhao Shunian used these small decisions to reverse the direction of larger ones. At the board meeting, he talked about reducing the group's debt ratio and generating more cash flow. He talked about the importance of cash and finally announced the decision to sell some of the group's assets.
The elders of the board of directors saw an opportunity to divide up the Liang assets, and Zhao Shunian seriously discussed with them which assets to sell.
Some loss-making companies under the Liang Group cannot be cleared out because they have vested interests with certain people on the board of directors, and they are sucking blood from the group.
Zhao Shunian gave them some benefits and sold some high-quality but not important assets, and the buyers had close ties with them.
After calculating the gains and losses, they found that they had gained more. Those zombie companies that were too big to be eliminated were successfully eliminated from the group.
The sale of Lianji Technology was a major news item, a major event. They saw that Zhao Shunian was genuinely interested in dismantling the Liang Group and had no interest in managing it; his focus had always been on Zhaoshi.
At the time, Liang Lisheng was still the chairman of the group. He had no intention of selling Lian Ji for his own benefit. However, he was sidelined by the board members, who were obsessed with profit and no one cared about him.
Liang Lisheng was appointed as the chairman because he introduced Western corporate management systems and did not want to run a family business. However, the Liang Group did not adapt to the local environment and he was fooled by the elders of the board of directors. Later, he sold some shares one after another. Now the shares he holds are not enough to fully control the group.
The acquisition of Lianji Technology involved multiple parties, each with its own agenda. The conflicts of interest were tangled and confusing, leading to the final sale of Lianji to materials giant Lehman for $10.3 billion. Zhao Shunian distributed one-third in dividends to shareholders, retaining two-thirds to manage the group. Many were eyeing that remaining share.
Because Zhao Shunian followed a series of actions by the board elders, some small shareholders had to sell their shares considering their investment returns.
Zhao Shunian acquired these shares at a low price. Almost three years ago, Liang’s Nancheng project collapsed and Liang’s stock price began to fall. He also bought a lot of shares from other shareholders. This was also an important reason why he was able to become the chairman of Liang.
By now, Zhao Shunian owned over 45% of the Liang Group's shares, making him the undisputed largest shareholder. Furthermore, the board of directors was divided, with some opposing him and treating him like a child, while others supported him. He had truly become the leader of the group, securing his position as Liang Group's chairman, no longer the ignorant butcher pushed into power by some.
The Liang Group also recovered from its wounds and was reborn in this game.
From 9:30 pm last night during daylight saving time to 5 am today, when the U.S. stock market opened, the share prices of Lianji and Lehman plummeted. Zhao Shunian and his team made a fortune by shorting these two companies and other related companies, with the amount reaching an astronomical figure.
In the entire game, the only place he wants to make a profit is here, and the expenses elsewhere are the cost for him to obtain huge benefits.
In fact, the cost he paid himself was not that much, the bulk of it was paid by the Liang Group. It was like he was getting something for nothing, turning money that did not belong to him into something else, and finally the money, including the principal and interest, fell into his own pocket.
The chess game was only nearing its end, not yet completely over. Zhao Shunian still had some things to deal with...
Sleepiness gradually set in, and Yu Yin felt drowsy. She was used to taking a nap. But she had spent so much time putting on makeup today, and no one else had seen it except herself and Zhao Shunian. She thought it would be a bit of a waste to just take it off.
During her lunch break at the studio, she sleeps on the sofa in the office without removing her makeup, and she touches up when she wakes up. When she takes a nap at home, she is used to removing all her makeup and lying comfortably on the big bed.
"You can go to sleep if you're tired."
Yu Yin blinked his eyes, trying to be more alert, "I'm not sleepy."
"It doesn't take a fool to tell that you're sleepy."
Yu Yin told Zhao Shunian what he had just thought.
Zhao Shunian said that she herself has appreciated the makeup, and as long as the process and the result make her satisfied and happy, other people are not important.
Yu Yin was persuaded by Zhao Shunian. She put her arms around his neck and leaned close to his lips. "Help me remove my makeup."
"I've never done this before. If you don't mind my unfamiliar skills, I can promise you." When he finished speaking, Zhao Shunian had closed the book in his hand and put it aside. He placed his palm on Yu Yin's slender waist.
"I'll teach you how to remove makeup, but if I teach you and you still can't do it, I'll be disgusted."
"I'll try my best not to dislike me." Zhao Shunian agreed.
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