“Thank you very much. Regardless of whether Chairman Zheng is willing to meet with us or not, please leave me your address, and this set of Yoshitomo Nara’s Lone Star will be sent directly to your home.” The head of the private equity firm said with a smile.
Li Miaomiao politely declined, saying, "I cannot accept such a generous gift without having done anything in return. I only helped you pass on a message, and I am really not comfortable accepting such a big gift."
The head of the organization rolled his eyes and said, "Well then, Ms. Li, I'll send you a Taobao link later. I'll sell you a fake painting by Yoshitomo Nara, complete with a forged certificate from Christie's."
"I passed through security when I entered the Science and Technology Innovation Biotechnology Building. I did not carry any recording devices with me, and my phone was always on the table. Please rest assured that no third person will know about our conversation."
What do you think?
Li Miaomiao still refused: "Since you're being so direct, I'll be direct too. I don't lack money right now. My strategic placement quota for the listing of Kechuang Bio is about 400,000 shares. These 400,000 shares are worth 200 million yuan if sold on the market."
The strategic placement quota for senior executives of Kechuang Bio's IPO is 7.03% of the total issued share capital, and the issued share capital accounts for 10% of the total share capital.
In other words, the strategic placement quota for senior executives is about 2.8 million shares, while Li Miaomiao, as the vice general manager, has a quota of about 15%, which is a subscription ratio of 420,000 shares.
The subscription ratio here refers to the percentage of shares that can be purchased at the IPO price.
Li Miaomiao continued, "In addition, Zheng Li gave me all of his strategic placement quota, so I don't lack money at all."
"If I accept such a valuable gift from you, I will inevitably have to do things for you in the future. Once it happens once, it will happen again. You can give me more and more valuable gifts step by step."
"And I will also be bound by personal relationships to help you with some things I cannot do."
"This amount of leverage is far from enough."
"So no matter what I think, I can't accept your gift, even if I don't know how you found out I like Yoshitomo Nara's artwork."
The atmosphere became a little tense after Li Miaomiao directly refused. She continued:
"Don't worry, I'll bring it if I need to, but these things are really unnecessary."
"If you want to give me the Lone Star, you can put it up for auction at Christie's, and I will buy it at market price."
It's actually quite simple. Li Miaomiao used Yoshitomo Nara's work as her phone wallpaper, which was seen by someone with ulterior motives during a meeting at Kechuang Bio, and then the information was leaked.
Information is often revealed without your knowledge, so if possible, it's advisable to put a privacy screen protector on your phone.
After finally ending the power struggle with the head of the private equity firm, Li Miaomiao went online to do some research.
That set of Yoshitomo Nara's works was even more expensive than she thought; it was a piece auctioned at Christie's Hong Kong last year, with a final price of HKD 3.75 million.
"The institution's spending is too big; this sugar-coated bullet is a bit excessive."
"I don't lack money now, so there's no need for me to touch this kind of money."
Li Miaomiao's feelings towards Zheng Li have always been more gratitude than anything else. In just two years, she has climbed a staircase that most people cannot climb in a lifetime.
The social evaluation system is different from that in school, where most schools have a binary evaluation system where you get a reward for your efforts.
However, once you enter the workforce, you might put in ten times the effort but not necessarily receive a single reward.
Li Miaomiao put in ten times the effort and received twenty or even thirty times the reward, for which she was fully aware and very grateful.
The board of directors of Kechuang Bio meets once a week. Zheng Li attends occasionally, and if he doesn't attend, Li Miaomiao will send him the proposals and agendas so he can provide feedback.
Li Miaomiao thought back and realized that she had communicated with Zheng Li quite a bit, but they had only talked about work. Whenever she tried to talk about things in her life, Zheng Li would clearly lose interest and become very perfunctory.
She sighed and then called her father:
"Dad, the private equity manager you introduced me to today came with a sweet talk!" Li Miaomiao said with dissatisfaction.
Li Xulin was in his office at the time. "Haha, he's my college classmate. He also studied biology as an undergraduate, but later went to Shenhai to study finance. He asked me to help him."
“We were good friends in college. I would often have meals with him when I went to Shanghai. We were pretty close friends. He told me he was going to see you. Tell me the details of today’s meeting.”
Li Miaomiao slowly recounted everything that had happened that day.
Li Xulin laughed and cursed, "Damn it, no wonder I lose money in the stock market every day. These institutions are using off-market tricks. You were right to refuse; there's no need for you to get involved in this kind of thing."
"Besides, he asked me beforehand before giving you the gift, and I said it was to test you."
“My plan is for him to test you. If you accept the things he gives you, I will return them to him in another way.”
Li Miaomiao said helplessly, "Dad, don't make things worse for me. I've encountered plenty of people wanting to give me gifts in the past two years. I'm not going to miss this lesson!"
"Besides, do you know how much the gift he gave was worth? You'd probably have to sell your house in Jiangcheng to pay him back."
Li Xulin asked doubtfully, "He told me it was nothing."
“The item he gave me sold for HK$3.75 million at Christie’s last year, and it’s estimated to go up even more this year. How can you come up with so much cash if you don’t sell your house?” Li Miaomiao explained.
Li Xulin chuckled: "When he told me it was just a small thing, I thought it was just a bag worth tens of thousands of yuan. I can still afford a bag worth tens of thousands of yuan. The value system of these people in finance is different from ours."
He made a fuss about millions of dollars.
Li Miaomiao further explained: "If Zheng Li really cooperated with them to manipulate the stock price, with Kechuang Bio's market capitalization of several hundred billion, there would be too much room for them to profit."
"Looking back, I realize that this is really nothing compared to the profits."
"After we passed the listing approval of the Shanghai Stock Exchange, the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) asked us senior executives to attend a training course."
"Regarding the collusion between executives of listed companies and institutions to manipulate stock prices, even companies with a market value of only a few billion can generate tens of millions in profits in a year, let alone science and technology innovation companies."
"You've heard of Zhangzidao, right? The scallops came and went. I don't believe there wasn't some organization colluding with the company to fleece them."
Zhangzidao is a rather outrageous listed company; they even got involved in the eruption of the Tongan volcano.
Li Xulin murmured, "You're right. I won't introduce you to these people in the financial world anymore."
"Speaking of which, Jiangcheng has recently contacted me, wanting to use my connections to inquire whether it's possible for Kechuang Biotechnology to move back to Jiangcheng?"
"Jiangcheng is willing to make every effort to create a favorable business environment for science and technology innovation and biotechnology."
"The leaders of Donghu New Area came to me personally, and I couldn't refuse, so I helped them inquire about it."
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