After returning to his residence, Zhang Junfeng saw Li Fuzhen sitting on the sofa in the living room, wearing a furry blanket and watching TV. Zhang Junfeng immediately took off his leather shoes and walked over quickly, sitting next to her very naturally, feeling the fragrance coming from her body, Zhang Junfeng immediately felt a lot more relaxed.
"We held a video conference with Matto Walls in the United States using the company's equipment to discuss the next investment direction. It seems that he was a little anxious because he failed to become the new president of Goldman Sachs as he wished!"
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Li Fuzhen leaned on Zhang Junfeng and listened to what he said quietly. She did not comment on what Zhang Junfeng said. After Zhang Junfeng finished speaking, she asked him gently, "Are you hungry after coming back so late? Do you want me to cook you a bowl of noodles?"
Zhang Junfeng smiled and patted Li Fuzhen's shoulder, saying, "No need, the temperature is relatively low at night, go upstairs and rest first~!"
After hearing what Zhang Junfeng said, Li Fuzhen didn't say anything else. She straightened the blanket she was wearing, then got up and went upstairs with a calm expression.
Seeing Li Fuzhen's expression changing so quickly, Zhang Junfeng couldn't help but smile.
After resting for a while in the living room downstairs, Zhang Junfeng took out his mobile phone and called Nacho Morgan. While it was still morning in America, he planned to communicate with Nacho Morgan.
As long as they can convince the other party, the three subsequent institutions will work together and jointly invest hundreds of billions of Hong Kong dollars to acquire real estate projects in Hong Kong. I think the real estate companies in Hong Kong will also take action.
By then, the recovery of Hong Kong's real estate industry will be much faster than in the past. This will be a good sign for them!
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Nacho Morgan, who had just finished a meeting and returned to the office to enjoy a cup of coffee, looked at the familiar number on his phone and a bright smile soon appeared on his face.
"No wonder I feel that my fortune should be good today. When I saw your call, I thought you must have good news to tell me~!" After Nacho Morgan answered the phone, he smiled and greeted Zhang Junfeng.
"...Then your sixth sense is quite accurate! Just as you said, there is indeed a new investment project that is related to the previous real estate investment plan in Hong Kong. I wonder if JPMorgan Chase is interested?" Zhang Junfeng stated his purpose with a chuckle.
Although Nacho Morgan had previously established Tianfu Real Estate Company to enter the real estate industry in Hong Kong, and had also had his Morgan Investment Bank invest part of the money, the plan had changed and he even had to continue to increase the stakes and place a heavy bet. This kind of thing still needed to be made clear to the other party in advance to avoid any misunderstandings in subsequent operations.
Hearing Zhang Junfeng say this, Nacho Morgan's curiosity suddenly surged, and he eagerly asked Zhang Junfeng for the details of his plan.
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"... Zhang Junfeng, do you think that if our three companies enter the real estate industry in Hong Kong, the local real estate developers there will not take any extreme actions? There is an old saying in Dragon Country that goes 'a strong dragon cannot suppress a local snake'. If those guys create trouble for us, I'm afraid things won't develop so smoothly..." After thinking for a while, Nacho Morgan expressed a different opinion.
Previously, the two companies cooperated and invested in real estate companies in the name of a unit of Tianfu Real Estate Company. They might be regarded as "suckers" and "big spenders" by their peers in Hong Kong, and they might even be eager to transfer the properties they had locked up in their hands to recover the funds.
But once there are multiple companies taking on large-scale real estate projects, those guys' ideas will definitely change. Even at that time, if they hold on to the real estate projects and refuse to sell them, they may be doing wedding clothes for others in vain!
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After understanding Nacho Morgan's concerns, Zhang Junfeng quickly thought of a solution. A few minutes later, Zhang Junfeng suggested, "In this case, we might as well start with the Hong Kong government. We can intervene as a foreign investment institution and ask them to mediate. I think the real estate companies in Hong Kong will be happy to cooperate~!"
Zhang Junfeng's words made Nacho Morgan's eyes light up. According to the plan Zhang Junfeng just mentioned, the funds they will invest in the Hong Kong real estate industry will be as high as hundreds of billions of Hong Kong dollars. It will not be difficult to persuade those politicians with such a huge amount of funds.
Many difficult matters, precisely because of the intervention of the authorities, will become one-sided. Although money is not omnipotent, in many situations, it is more useful than other things! …
Finally, under Zhang Junfeng's supplementary plan, Nacho Morgan agreed to Zhang Junfeng's new plan. He will notify Morgan Investment Bank in the near future and ask them to cooperate with Zhang Junfeng to complete this matter. As for funding, JPMorgan Chase can invest up to 4 billion US dollars to cooperate with Zhang Junfeng's actions.
Zhang Junfeng was also quite satisfied with Nacho Morgan's decision. Even if Goldman Sachs did not mobilize enough funds, as long as they could get involved, it would be much easier to persuade the officials in Hong Kong to come forward!
The title of a financial giant on Wall Street in the United States has extremely high prestige and influence on a global scale. If you rashly reject such an invitation for corporate cooperation, you will probably have to worry about whether you will be "secretly retaliated" by these financial giants one day in the future~!
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As the plan of the three financial institutions to jointly enter the Hong Kong real estate market was officially confirmed, in the following few days, Zhang Junfeng's life returned to its usual peaceful state.
Just as Zhang Junfeng finished reading the information Wu Xiuying brought over and was about to take a break to relax, Wu Xiuying knocked on the door and walked in quickly, "Boss, there is a person who claims to be the general manager of Longguo Qiandu Company who wants to visit you without an appointment. Do you want to meet him?"
"The general manager of Qiandu Company?! Could the guy you are talking about be called Li Yanhong?!" Zhang Junfeng was stunned for a moment, and then quickly reacted.
Two weeks ago, Comet Capital received an email from Qiandu Company requesting investment and cooperation. He remembered that he had responded that he was willing to cooperate. He didn't expect that this guy would come after such a long time. It seems that he is more patient than he expected~!
"...Bring him to the conference room. I'll go meet him later~!" Zhang Junfeng agreed after a little thought. If he remembered correctly, although Li Yanhong was unlucky when he founded Qiandu, he happened to run into the Internet crisis, but he successfully got through it in the next one or two years by raising new funds.
After that, he continued to forge ahead for more than ten years, successfully defeated many of his peers, and later became the "Big Three" of the Dragon Country Internet Industry together with Alibaba and Penguin! It was because of Li Yanhong's ability that Zhang Junfeng had the idea of recruiting him. Otherwise, if he missed this opportunity, this guy might get investment from other people/institutions like in his previous life, and still rise.
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A few minutes later, when Zhang Junfeng and Wu Xiuying appeared in the conference room, Li Yanhong and his group, who had been waiting there, stood up hurriedly, fearing that their attitude was not correct and would make the big boss Zhang Junfeng dissatisfied.
"Mr. Li, I already know why you're here. But could you please talk about your Qiandu company's business philosophy and core selling points?"
"The current Internet industry boom has declined. Even top technology companies such as Microsoft, Amazon, and Yahoo, which once had market capitalizations of hundreds of billions and trillions of U.S. dollars, have seen sharp declines in market value. If there is not enough persuasiveness and profit points, I'm afraid Mr. Li's trip will be in vain~!" Zhang Junfeng stated his views seriously.
Although Zhang Junfeng was still willing to provide an investment to Qiandu Company at this moment, he was also very happy to take this opportunity to verify Li Yanhong's ability.
Hearing that Zhang Junfeng's request was not demanding, Li Yanhong nodded, organized his words, and began to talk about his original plan, "I founded Qiandu Company because I hope to provide search engine services in the Longguo market. According to the original estimate, the Qiandu search engine developed by our company will be launched this year."
"I have worked in Silicon Valley for many years and know the core content of foreign search engines in detail. We only need to make our Qiandu search engine have accurate search results, rich information resources and subsequent user experience plans to improve this search engine. I believe that it will not take long to gain recognition from the majority of users in Longguo and even become the leading company in the field of search engines in Longguo!"
"In the future, our company will use the Qiandu search engine as a springboard to gradually develop in a diversified way and get involved in the construction of the Internet ecosystem. We will refer to the popular products of Internet companies such as Yahoo, learn from them, develop similar products, and expand our Qiandu company's product ecosystem..."
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There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
Listening to Li Yanhong's confident words, Zhang Junfeng nodded from time to time, seeming to agree with the other party's words. This also made Li Yanhong somewhat happy, thinking that he might be able to successfully convince the other party in this conversation and attract a large amount of investment for the precarious Qiandu Company.
What Li Yanhong didn't expect was that after he finished speaking, the evaluation Zhang Junfeng gave made him at a loss for how to respond for a moment.
"If Mr. Li's idea was before the Internet crisis broke out last year, it would still be very attractive. However, with the collapse of Internet technology companies and the halving of the Nasdaq index, the shortcomings of Internet companies have been fully exposed!"
"That is, the initial investment is not proportional to the subsequent operating output. It may be okay at the beginning, but if the cost cannot be recovered for a long period of time, then it is only a matter of time before the company encounters a financial crisis or even faces bankruptcy!"
"...Mr. Li, do you have the confidence to make Qiandu Company profitable in a short period of time?" Zhang Junfeng looked at Li Yanhong, who looked a little nervous, with a smile on his face, looking forward to his next answer.
Li Yanhong, whose plan's flaws were exposed by Zhang Junfeng's words, was under increased pressure. He had never expected that Zhang Junfeng, a financial institution boss far away in Korea, knew so much about the shortcomings of Internet companies.
Fortunately, during this period of time, he did not sit idly by and wait for death, but also did a lot of thinking and solutions.
Li Yanhong calmed down and then spoke out the supplementary strategy in his mind, "Conventional Internet search engines make profits by charging advertising fees. Based on this, I came up with a more superior plan, which I named 'bidding ranking advertising'!"
"Through paid ranking, advertisers can set bids for keywords in search results. The higher the ranking, the higher the ad click-through rate, and the more fees the advertiser needs to pay. Baidu matches user search requests with advertisers' keywords to achieve accurate advertising and thus earn profits!"
"In addition, I also plan to set up an advertising alliance platform to allow other website owners to join the alliance and display our Qiandu company's advertisements on their websites. When users click on these ads, the website owners can get a certain commission, and Qiandu company will get a share of it. Through this advertising alliance, our Qiandu company's advertising business will definitely be able to expand to a wider range of website fields, and revenue will increase accordingly!"
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Listening to Li Yanhong's completely different new plan, everyone, including Zhang Junfeng, was shocked by his "genius" idea! It must be said that Li Yanhong, who has been deeply involved in the Internet industry for many years, is indeed more far-sighted than many founders of Internet companies who start their own businesses blindly! "Pa pa pa——! I now believe that as long as you give Mr. Li a chance, you can lead Qiandu Company through this difficult time, and even become a leader in the Internet industry in the future!" Zhang Junfeng did not hesitate to give him applause and recognition, and gave him a high evaluation.
Seeing Zhang Junfeng so sure about his plan, Li Yanhong, who was still worried, finally relaxed at this moment. He knew that his trip to Goryeo should be a sure thing! ...
After more than half an hour of bargaining, Zhang Junfeng successfully acquired 60% of Qiandu's shares with an investment of 6 million US dollars. The general manager and daily management of the company will still be managed by Li Yanhong, but the subsequent major decisions of the company need to be approved by Comet Capital before they can be moved forward.
Li Yanhong was quite surprised and delighted by such generous conditions. He had never expected that Zhang Junfeng, the big boss, would be so supportive. Not only did he not lower the price, but he was also willing to invest so much money at one time. It was beyond his expectation! 6 million US dollars converted into RMB is more than 42 million. If Qiandu Company still cannot regroup after receiving so much funds, then he, Li Yanhong, might as well close the company as soon as possible and return to America to continue to be a worker~!
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Seeing that Zhang Junfeng had specially arranged for staff to send Li Yanhong and others off, Wu Xiuying, who was standing next to Zhang Junfeng, asked in confusion, "Boss, do you really think this Qiandu company is good? If this guy is just talking big, then wouldn't the initial investment in him be wasted?"
"...It's not a waste of money. It's just a chance to use a few million dollars to bet on whether an Internet company can have a brighter future in the future! Even if there is a loss, it won't hurt Comet Capital now, right?"
Seeing Zhang Junfeng's somewhat arrogant answer, Wu Xiuying was helpless. She didn't know how to describe her boss. He was so generous in investing in a strange company, but why didn't he raise the salary of his subordinates? It was also "harmless"! (End of this chapter)