Fu Chengyu's expression softened slightly, and after carefully considering what the lawyer had said, he realized that it made sense.
Even if the legal team signs a contract with Fu Chengyu today, it will not be effective unless Fu Jianzhi himself comes back to sign it. Therefore, the probability that the legal team is an imposter is very small. It is certain that it was arranged by Fu Jianzhi before he left.
Seeing that Fu Chengyu no longer questioned their identities, the lawyer produced a power of attorney personally signed by Fu Jianzhi.
This is why their legal team dared to accept the case without meeting their client in person after receiving double the legal fees from Ruan Chen. Otherwise, even if they had received double the legal fees, given the large amount involved in the case, they wouldn't have dared to agree to it without meeting Fu Jianzhi in person.
Neither of them knew that the power of attorney, which had already been confirmed and was personally signed by Fu Jianzhi, was also printed and prepared by Ruan Chen early in the morning.
“Alright, let’s continue our discussion,” Fu Chengyu gestured, appearing very magnanimous. “Since my brother invited you here, it means he must have something to say. If you’re going to say it, please state your conditions first.”
"Mr. Fu Jianzhi didn't impose any conditions; he simply offered two profit-sharing plans."
Although these two profit-sharing plans were also given to the legal team by Ruan Chen, she specifically instructed that during the entire negotiation process, they must not mention anything related to her.
Ms. Ruan also signed a confidentiality agreement with them regarding this clause.
If any actions of the legal team reveal Ruan Chen's existence to Fu Chengyu, the legal team will return ten times the fees paid by Ruan Chen. Therefore, the legal team is extremely careful during the negotiations and will not let Fu Chengyu discover any clues about Ruan Chen.
"Two options? Tell me about them."
Fu Chengyu was a little surprised. He thought Fu Jianzhi would bargain over the amount of the dividend, after all, it was 35 billion yuan—even if it was reduced to 30 billion yuan, it would still recover 5 billion yuan of the loss.
However, Fu Jianzhi only provided a profit-sharing plan, instead of specifying the amount of profit-sharing.
In Fu Chengyu's view, as long as he could get the 35 billion yuan out of the Fu Group, he didn't care how or in what form it was taken.
"The first option is to distribute the 35 billion yuan as stock dividends."
"In other words, dividends will be distributed to all shareholders in the form of bonus shares, which will significantly increase the number of shares of the Fu Group that you hold. I believe that you will receive more dividends from the Fu Group next year."
As soon as he presented his plan, Fu Chengyu frowned.
If dividends are distributed in the form of stock dividends, then it's no different from not distributing them at all.
At least for the Fu Group now, it's no different from not dividing the profits at all; the profits still stay within the group, so he simply cannot agree to this condition.
Sure enough, the majority of shareholders who supported dividends also started to complain.
Although some people were tempted by this dividend distribution method, knowing that their dividends would double next year, they insisted on rejecting the plan because they had already received benefits from Fu Chengyu.
Another group of people knew that the two brothers in the Fu Group were fighting for power and did not think that the Fu Group could make any profits next year under such circumstances. They thought that the brothers might even ruin the group. They just wanted to get their share of the 35 billion yuan this year.
"The second method is cash dividends."
Immediately, someone below started to jeer, "Then there's no need to discuss it anymore. We agree to the second option: cash dividends. We want to take the money and leave now."
The legal team gestured for silence and continued, "However, if it is a cash dividend, then we must agree to Mr. Fu Jianzhi's additional terms."
Upon hearing the words "additional terms," Fu Chengyu sneered, knowing that his younger brother was not so simple and would not willingly hand over the money.
He gestured for his legal team to continue.
"The additional terms are also very simple. Shareholders who choose cash dividends must agree that Fu Group will also repurchase the Fu Group shares that you currently hold in cash at the original purchase price."
"In other words, if you want cash dividends, you will no longer be shareholders of the Fu Group."
This time, the people below stopped rushing to make a fuss and instead began to weigh their options.
As is well known, the Fu Group has risen rapidly in recent years, and its stock price has reached an unprecedented peak.
Basically, everyone who owns shares bought them when the Fu Group's stock price was low. If the shares are repurchased at the original price now, these people will definitely suffer losses.
However, their main consideration was whether the loss they were in was worth it compared to the dividends they would receive.
Fu Chengyu vaguely sensed something was wrong; he couldn't agree to this condition and wanted to stop it.
But things had progressed to this point, and it was no longer up to him to make the decision; one shareholder after another nodded in agreement.
The Fu brothers' feud, coupled with the recent news that the former chairman was seriously ill, has led many to worry that the Fu Group's rise to prominence is inevitably followed by decline.
Getting off the ship now would be a wise move.
Soon, the shareholders signed the contracts one after another, and all that was left was for Fu Jianzhi to come back and sign them, at which point the matter would be settled.
Fu Chengyu roughly estimated that the Fu Group would need to spend about 28 billion yuan this time. Although it wasn't as much as he had expected, it was still enough.
Now they're just waiting for Fu Jianzhi to come back and fix things, so they'll eventually fall into his trap.
However, Fu Chengyu overlooked the number of shares that were repurchased, which, when added together, amounted to approximately 21%.
He naturally wouldn't calculate that if those 21% of the shares fell into Fu Jianzhi's hands, combined with Fu Jianzhi's own shares and the shares he inherited from his mother, Fu Jianzhi would become the largest shareholder of the group.
It's understandable that Fu Chengyu didn't want to, because even if it were 10%, let alone 121%, it would be difficult for Fu Jianzhi to take it all. In the end, these shares would simply be reinvested in the market.
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