Chapter 98: Suffering

After making threats in Wu Ren Shi, Lin Zhiming personally visited the newspaper people and asked them to publish the news that Tencent Technology's new technology encountered an insurmountable problem.

It was okay for newspapers with small scale or entertainment-oriented, but those large-scale or comprehensive newspapers were a little hesitant. They published news based on real evidence. Lin Zhiming had no evidence, but he asked them to publish the news. They felt it was not easy to do.

Listening to their righteous words, Lin Zhiming sneered in his heart, but said on the surface that he could understand them, but he guaranteed that this was definitely true news and that publishing it would not affect the image of their newspaper.

After saying this, Lin Zhiming stuffed another red envelope in their pockets and promised that if they wanted to invest in stocks and open an account at Huafa Securities, he would definitely have a gold medal broker receive them.

The more intellectuals there are, the more people play stocks.

Even the editors-in-chief of well-known newspapers would only get a fixed salary if they don't have shares, and at most a bonus based on the sales volume of the newspaper.

This income can make them live well, buy a house and a car to support their family, but it is not easy to come up with 500,000 or even 1 million to invest in stocks without breaking the bank.

So when they invest in stocks, the better ones may be able to find a broker to help them run the business, while the editors-in-chief of unknown newspapers can basically only go to the lobby.

Stock trading is actually very dependent on the source of information. Unless you are a gifted person with a keen intuition, most people's profit or loss depends on how quickly and accurately you receive the news.

In this era of poor information flow, financial practitioners can often receive news earlier than ordinary people, and large-scale financial institutions are more informed than small-scale institutions.

In the same financial institution, people at the top are usually more informed than those at the bottom. In

securities companies, gold medal brokers belong to the upper level, and those working in the lobby belong to the bottom.

So when they heard Lin Zhiming's promise, those editors-in-chief or senior reporters who trade stocks were a little tempted.

After hesitating, they asked Lin Zhiming again whether the news was true. After getting a positive answer, most people agreed to help.

Compared with Lin Zhiming, Jin Shiting and Xie Yaohua, who had received more accurate information, were more calm.

After receiving Jin Shiting's call, Xie Yaohua made an appointment to meet with the chairman of Tencent Technology.

They were not familiar with each other and had rarely met before, but Yaohua Securities was a well-known financial company in Hong Kong, and Xie Yaohua had an impressive resume and was worth a lot of money.

Although he has been very low-key in recent years and rarely returned to Hong Kong, it is easy for him to invite people out for dinner with his status.

The boss of Tencent Technology is surnamed Zhou, 32 years old this year, very young.

Judging from his age and the time when Tencent Technology was founded, he is not the founder, and he took over the company from his deceased father.

The change of person in charge is also one of the reasons why the company has been tepid in recent years.

This is not to say that the current president Jiang is incompetent. In fact, the current R&D center of Tencent Technology was established by him after he graduated from university and returned to Hong Kong.

But he is a technical person and is not as talented as his father in business management. Moreover, he firmly believes that R&D is the foundation for a company to become prosperous. After taking over the company, he invested a lot of money in R&D.

Unfortunately, he is young and his means are not as good as those of the old people in the company. Therefore, Tencent Technology was very noisy in the past few years, and it ended with the shareholders leaving with a group of old people.

The employee's departure was a big blow to Tencent Technology. If it were not for the R&D results, Tencent Technology might have disbanded long ago.

However, the research results produced by Tencent Technology at that time were mediocre, which could only barely stabilize the stock price and the morale of the army, so as not to be unable to recover from it.

Although Mr. Jiang's business talent is not as good as his father's, he is like his father. After those shareholders who relied on their seniority left and the morale of the army stabilized, he gradually took control of the company.

Because of this, Tencent Technology was able to develop new technologies after a few years.

Although the current Mr. Jiang is young, like most industrialists, he believes that good wine needs no bush, so he doesn't pay much attention to public opinion.

And many times, the leader's style of doing things can affect the style of the company.

Under the influence of Mr. Jiang, Tencent Technology did not pay much attention to public opinion.

This is also the main reason why Jin Shiting chose Tencent Technology.

If she wants to set a trap for Lin Zhiming, she can't really find an egg with cracks. If she does that, it's not a trap, but giving money to Lin Zhiming.

What she could find must be an egg without any seams, but it could be disguised as an egg with seams.

But a company is not a real egg, it can speak, and what it says is more useful than a hundred or a thousand words from outsiders.

As the Hong Kong newspaper industry becomes more and more prosperous, all companies have begun to pay attention to public opinion and publicity. If she did not choose the right bait company, she would send someone to tell Lin Zhiming that there was a problem with the company, but as soon as he took action, the company would immediately come out to clarify that there was no problem, and her plan might fail. A company

like Tencent Technology, which can seamlessly pretend to have seams, does not pay attention to publicity, and is particularly slow to respond to public opinion, can be said to be hard to come by.

It just so happened that Lin Zhiming's ambition had expanded after several ups and downs in the past. He was no longer satisfied with the income of tens of millions or even hundreds of millions, and was full of thoughts of making a big fortune.

Therefore, this was the best and possibly the only opportunity.

Jin Shiting did not allow herself to fail, and Xie Yaohua did not want to fail either. So after meeting Mr. Jiang, he directly pointed out the crisis that Tencent Technology was facing and reminded the other party that if they continued to let public opinion go, it might affect the investment of Jutou.

In order to conquer new technologies and negotiate investment with Jutou, Mr. Jiang was so busy during this period that he really didn't care much about public opinion.

In his opinion, as long as he had strong technology, it would be impossible for him to not find investors.

As for the stock price fluctuations... Well, the recent increase in the company's stock price did make him a little nervous, but the current price is several times higher than the initial price, so he thinks it's okay.

So he didn't think there was anything wrong with the stock price drop, and naturally didn't want to clarify it. Anyway, everything will be stable after the cooperation agreement is signed.

But Xie Yaohua said that public opinion will affect Jutou's investment... Director Jiang thought about it for a long time and then said: "Why did you suddenly come to me to talk about these things?"

Xie Yaohua said half-truthfully: "Because I received news that Huafa Securities plans to short your company's stock."

Director Jiang's face changed. Although he is a technical person, he has been the chairman of a listed company for several years, so he still understands what short selling means. He asked: "Why does he do this?"

"Of course it's for money."

Xie Yaohua looked at the person sitting opposite him and said, "Lin Zhiming is a very greedy person. After he set his eyes on Tencent Technology, he felt that the stock price was too low. Even if it fell to zero, he would not make much money. So he released news that you have developed new technology and have the hope of getting giant investment, thereby raising the stock price. Yesterday, the stock price rose to his expected value, and he immediately sold it. Then he released news that you have encountered difficulties. If you remain indifferent and do not respond, what awaits you is definitely not just the price falling back to the original point, but falling below zero and being forced to delist."

Director Jiang's face changed. Although he knew that the company's stock price had been abnormal in the past few days, he did not think so deeply. He did not know that someone was maliciously shorting the company, which was why he was so calm.

Now that he knew the truth, he frowned and thought for a long time, then asked, "Why did you help me?"

"I have a grudge against Lin Zhiming, and I don't want to see his plan succeed."

Xie Yaohua's eyes were cold when he said this. Director Jiang saw it and believed that he had a grudge against Lin Zhiming, but he asked again, "What role did you play in this matter?"

"No matter what my role is," Xie Yaohua said frankly, "now we are on the same front."

Although Director Jiang is not smooth enough in the business world, he can lead the R&D department to develop new technologies, so he is definitely not a stupid person. He knew that Xie Yaohua said this, in fact, he admitted that he had mixed.

He felt a little uncomfortable, but the discomfort was limited. He felt that Xie Yaohua took the initiative to come to him and say these things. He probably didn't mean to trick him, but just went with the flow.

They didn't know each other very well before. Can he blame Xie Yaohua for going with the flow? He

can blame him, but there is no need.

Besides, Xie Yaohua's second half of the sentence was right. They are now on the same front, so there is no need for him to go against Xie Yaohua.

At most, they will stop communicating after this matter is settled.

Mr. Jiang thought about it and decided to listen to Xie Yaohua's opinion.

Xie Yaohua's opinion was very simple, attach importance to public opinion, announce the research results to the public as soon as possible, and confirm cooperation with investment giants as soon as possible.

Considering that Lin Zhiming would also work hard on public opinion, Xie Yaohua specially contacted the editor-in-chief of "Commercial Daily" and asked him to arrange a reporter to interview Mr. Jiang.

"Commercial Daily" is one of the most authoritative business newspapers in Hong Kong.

Therefore, the news released by Lin Zhiming before, whether it was Tencent Technology's development of new technology or the new technology encountered difficulties, "Commercial Daily" did not report anything.

They wanted to contact Tencent Technology to do an exclusive interview with Mr. Jiang, but he was very busy at this time and did not agree. This time Xie Yaohua took the initiative to contact them and could help arrange an exclusive interview with Mr. Jiang, and of course they were happy to do so.

Because "Commercial Daily" mainly wanted to understand Tencent Technology's new technology and hoped to visit the factory, Mr. Jiang also agreed, so the interview was arranged for the next day.

Although he decided to trust Xie Yaohua temporarily, Jiang didn't sleep well that night. On the one hand, he felt that they had the same goal, but on the other hand, he was worried that he was conspiring with a tiger.

However, when he arrived at the company the next day, he learned that there were more reports about the difficulties encountered by their new technology, and the meaning of bad news was more obvious, so Jiang stopped worrying.

Xie Yaohua may not be a good person, but Lin Zhiming is definitely his enemy.

Affected by the overwhelming reports in the morning, the stock price of Tencent Technology began to plunge as soon as the exchange opened that day, almost a price every second.

By noon, the increase in the previous few days had fallen by nearly half.

The exchange is not open at noon, but those who can't wait can still sell their stocks, but they will not be traded until the lunch market opens. So as soon as the market opened in the afternoon, the stock price of Tencent Technology jumped down again.

Lin Zhiming, who was waiting in the lobby, saw the latest stock price of Tencent Technology and waved his fist excitedly.

Although the number has not yet reached his ideal price, if it continues to fall like this, he will be able to buy back the stocks and return the borrowed stocks at the latest tomorrow.

And he will have collected more than 2 billion in cash, and his net worth will skyrocket.

Unfortunately, there is still a year left. If he can apply to declare Jin Shiting dead now, maybe he can rush into the top 50 of the Hong Kong rich list after this.

By then, how can Wen Rongsheng have the confidence to oppose him and Wen Jiaqi being together?

If his net worth can double on this basis in the next two years, maybe he doesn't need to find ways to hook up with Wen Jiaqi anymore. He can completely marry a rich girl with a good family background and a good reputation.

But that's all for the future. Now, he has to seize this opportunity.

Lin Zhiming was thinking in his mind, and suddenly realized something. He looked up at the counter of Yaohua Securities and met Xie Yaohua's eyes.

Lin Zhiming naturally didn't like Xie Yaohua. After all, they were rivals in love and in their careers.

Although he finally got the beauty, he never won Jin Shiting's heart, and the development of Huafa Securities was far inferior to Yaohua Securities. So even though Jin Shiting had been missing for so many years, Xie Yaohua was still a thorn in his side.

Speaking of which, when Jin Shiting first disappeared, he was very worried that Xie Yaohua had rescued her. After all, he had always been obsessed with her, and he happened to be in Hong Kong when the fire broke out.

At first, Lin Zhiming was very nervous, fearing that Jin Shiting would jump out and expose what he had done.

But six years later, Jin Shiting never showed up, and Lin Zhiming gradually felt relieved. He felt that even if Xie Yaohua had rescued her, she must have been seriously injured in the fire, and might have died long ago.

With Jin Shiting's personality, if she was still alive, she would not be able to bear hiding behind him all the time and not come forward to sue and identify him.

After thinking about these, Lin Zhiming finally let go of the fact that Jin Shiting loved Xie Yaohua and never took him seriously. If he could win this war, he would be able to completely get rid of the shadow cast by Xie Yaohua and no longer take this man seriously.

Thinking of that day coming, Lin Zhiming's hands started to tremble with excitement, and he gave Xie Yaohua a smug smile.

But Lin Zhiming's complacency did not last long. The next morning, as soon as he entered the company, his subordinates came over and said, "Mr. Lin, something bad has happened!"

Lin Zhiming was in high spirits and naturally could not bear to hear such words. He frowned and asked, "What is it that is worth your panic?"

"This morning, the Commercial Daily published an interview with the chairman of Tencent Technology, saying that they have found a solution to the difficulties encountered in the new technology."

Lin Zhiming's face changed instantly, and he grabbed the other person's collar and asked, "What did you say?"

"I, I said..."

Facing Lin Zhiming's terrifying eyes, the person whose collar was grabbed swallowed his saliva. Just as he was about to repeat what he had just said, Lin Zhiming had already let go of his collar and asked, "Where is the newspaper?"

The man finally breathed a sigh of relief, raised the newspaper in his hand and said, "I have it here."

Lin Zhiming snatched the newspaper and walked towards the office while quickly browsing the folded interview.

When he walked into the office, he had finished reading the report.

The content of the report was very simple, with only one central idea: Tencent Technology did develop new technology and did encounter technical difficulties, but they already had a solution, so it would not affect the cooperation with the investment giant.

After reading the content, Lin Zhiming was so angry that he swept all the documents on the desk to the ground.

After venting, Lin Zhiming sat behind his desk, panting. Although his face looked ugly, he looked much calmer. After about two or three minutes, he picked up the phone and dialed the internal line and said, "Come to my office."

Lin Zhiming had just been stopped in the company lobby. After entering the office, there was another round of banging. During this period, everyone in the company understood the situation, so the person who received the call was very nervous.

When he arrived at the door of Lin Zhiming's office, he took a deep breath before knocking on the door.

"Come in."

Hearing the voice, he pushed the door open and walked in. Sure enough, he saw a mess on the ground. Lin Zhiming's face was also very gloomy, which made him a little afraid to speak.

Lin Zhiming didn't intend to listen to him. He grabbed the only folder left on the desk and threw it at him: "Didn't they say that the technical problems encountered by Tencent Technology were very difficult and they couldn't solve them? Why did they find a solution in just a few days?"

"This... Mr. Lin, I don't know either. When I bribed the staff of Tencent Technology to inquire, they did tell me so," the visitor said with a bitter face, "I didn't expect that they had found a solution."

Lin Zhiming knew what the visitor said.

In fact, he was the first to hear that Tencent Technology had developed a new technology but encountered difficulties, but he was a suspicious person, so he found a trusted subordinate and asked him to bribe the relevant personnel of Tencent Technology.

After making sure there were no problems, he formulated a short-selling plan. He thought it was foolproof, but he didn't expect to be trapped in a trap...

a trap!

Lin Zhiming suddenly had an idea and raised his head abruptly, gritting his teeth and saying, "Xie Yaohua!"

The visitor worked at Huafa Securities, so he naturally knew Xie Yaohua. He also quickly realized something and asked cautiously, "Mr. Lin, do you mean that this was done by Yaohua Securities?" "

Except him, no one else!" Lin Zhiming clenched his fists and said angrily.

"Then... what should we do now?" The visitor asked himself, "Should we hurry up and buy back the stocks?"

They sold the stocks at the highest point, so buying them back now and returning them is also profitable, just not that much, but it is better to make hundreds of millions than to sell them again after the stock price goes up and lose hundreds of millions.

If it were normal, Lin Zhiming might have stopped now.

Although he is a gambler, he is not a big gambler. Everything he does is to make money.

But when he thought about himself falling into Xie Yaohua's trap, Lin Zhiming was very unwilling. He could have made more money, but now...

In addition, stopping now would mean that he had lost to Xie Yaohua in this invisible war, and the one thing he least wanted to admit in his life was that he was not as good as Xie Yaohua.

Thinking of this, Lin Zhiming finally made up his mind: "No! Isn't Xie Yaohua going to fight me? Then let's fight to the end!"

After saying that, Lin Zhiming picked up the phone again and dialed the number of the editor-in-chief of another business newspaper in Hong Kong, asking to meet with the other party.

After agreeing on a meeting time, Lin Zhiming did not go out immediately, but waited in the office for the opening event to arrive.

At ten o'clock, the morning session of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange opened.

Lin Zhiming, who was in the office, also got the latest stock price of Tencent Technology at the first time.

Compared with the closing price yesterday, it has increased by nearly one-third.

The moment he saw the numbers clearly, Lin Zhiming slammed his desk hard, then stood up and walked out.

...

As the largest commercial newspaper in Hong Kong, "Commercial Daily" has a special status in the hearts of stockholders.

Therefore, although the interview with the chairman of Tencent Technology only occupies a small space in the newspaper, for stockholders who bought Tencent Technology, this report is still like a shot of adrenaline, which rekindled their expectations for the rise in the stock price of Tencent Technology.

This expectation was quickly reflected in the stock price. The stock price of Tencent Technology has been climbing all day. Although the climbing speed is not fast, until the afternoon market close, the stock price has not risen to the highest point of the previous few days, but the effect is already very gratifying.

Until the next morning, another business newspaper in Hong Kong published a report, openly questioning the authenticity of the interview with the chairman of Tencent Technology.

However, the reporter who wrote this report was very smart. He did not target the "Commercial Daily" and targeted Chairman Jiang from beginning to end, saying that he did not produce strong evidence to prove that Tencent Technology really has a solution. He said these words, which is likely to be a lie to stabilize the stock price.

It is not new for listed companies to manipulate stock prices. Many shareholders have suffered this loss. So when this report came out, the rise of Tencent Technology's stock stopped.

Lin Zhiming continued to contact those entertainment newspapers and asked them to continue to badmouth Tencent Technology and force them to produce evidence.

Of course, Tencent Technology could not produce evidence. There were only two ways to prove that they had thought of a solution to the problem. One was to directly overcome the problem, but this would take time and money. The other was to make the solution public. But if the solution was made public, how could their new technology be hidden?

The future is the age of computers. A new technology related to computers could bring billions of profits. Tencent Technology worked so hard for so long that it was impossible for it to hand over the profits to others.

Therefore, they could only start from other aspects to fight this public debate, which also led to their inability to fully suppress Lin Zhiming, and the two sides were caught in a bitter public debate.

As the public debate between the two sides began, the stock of Tencent Technology began to rise and fall, and the hearts of the stockholders also went up and down, and the ones who were worried almost went to the hospital.

Until another weekend passed, on Monday, the latest issue of "Business Daily" published a news that Tencent Technology and the investment giant officially signed a cooperation agreement, the latter will inject capital into the former, and the former will also transfer shares to the latter.

As soon as the news came out, the stockholders who insisted on believing in Tencent Technology in this public debate were all cheered up, and the stockholders who were hesitant and finally sold their shares regretted it.

Regardless of whether they were the former or the latter, or those who had never bought Tencent Technology shares, they all rushed to the exchange hall to buy Tencent Technology shares.

At the close of the morning, the stock price of Tencent Technology reached a new high again.

When the market opened in the afternoon, the stock price continued to rise straight up. Although the growth rate was slower the next day, the performance was still strong. In less than three days, the stock price doubled from the original high point.

On this day, other securities companies were cheering, but Huafa Securities was in a gloomy mood. Employees quietly packed up their things and waited for possible layoffs. Shareholders gathered together to criticize Lin Zhiming's stupid behavior.

As for the criticized Lin Zhiming, he sat alone in the office with an expressionless face, as if he had lost his soul.

Until a ring rang.

He picked up the phone and saw a familiar number. He thought about something, wiped his face and answered the phone: "Dear, what's wrong?"

Wen Jiaqi's excited voice soon rang in the microphone: "I heard that the stock price of Tiantengfei Technology has increased several times in the past few days. Are the stocks you bought for me before from this company?"

"Yes, it is from this company."

Wen Jiaqi's voice on the other end of the phone added a bit of joy: "Then has my principal also increased several times?"

Lin Zhiming hesitated: "...I bought it at their loss."

Wen Jiaqi's voice froze: "What do you mean?"

"I mean you... I have lost all your capital," Lin Zhiming said, explaining quickly, "but dear, trust me, I will definitely help you make more money in the future..."

Wen Jiaqi was furious and yelled into the phone, "Shut up! Who is your dear? You have lost all my money, and you still want me to trust you?"

"Gigi, calm down," thinking that he was about to lose everything, Lin Zhiming suppressed his resentment and asked emotionally, "Does it mean that you don't love me anymore if you lose money?"

"If you can't help me make money, why should I love you?" Wen Jiaqi cursed loudly, "Are you a pig? Pigs won't buy Tencent Technology at a loss at this time, okay? You are like this and still say that you are the successor to the stock king! You still have the nerve to say that you can help me make more money, do you think I'm stupid and easy to fool!"

"Gigi, I really..."

Lin Zhiming wanted to defend himself, but Wen Jiaqi didn't want to hear his voice, so she interrupted him and said, "Lin Zhiming, I tell you, we are finished!"

"Gigi..."

But as soon as he opened his mouth, he heard a busy tone from the microphone: "Beep...beep..."