August 21st, at 2:30 pm, Dangdang headquarters on Anwai Street, Chaoyang District, Beijing.
Li Guoqing was sitting in his office, feeling very good.
He just flew back from Wuxi with his company team yesterday and is very satisfied with this cooperation negotiation with the local government on the logistics center.
If all goes well, before the end of this year, Dangdang's East China regional headquarters will be located in Wuxi's High-tech Zone, and a logistics center and office building with a total area of more than 60,000 square meters will be built.
The logistics center built here will become the most important core base in Dangdang's national sales network, fully covering East China and partially supporting sales in South China.
There is no doubt that this cooperation will serve as a solid step in the vigorous development of Dangdang.com.
From the end of last year to the first half of this year, Dangdang has been developing at a rapid pace, expanding categories, increasing publicity, and building warehousing. Even many financial media are very optimistic that Dangdang will become the second largest company in the domestic B2C e-commerce industry.
Thanks to Tesco's investment and development in B2C, companies such as Amazon and Dangdang have learned their shame and bravely pursued it. However, Amazon China's initiative has been suppressed by the US headquarters, and its pace is not as radical as Dangdang.
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In the past half year, Dangdang's development strategy seems to have changed. Many senior executives close to the core feel that Mr. Li has been stimulated by the rapid development of Tesco.
However, this kind of Dangdang is highly praised in the media, which makes Li Guoqing quite useful.
This afternoon, he was sitting in the office chatting and laughing with the visiting guest Lei Jun. Seeing the Kingsoft CEO listening carefully, he felt even more energetic.
Li Guoqing chatted with Lei Jun for a while and found out that he had invested in the company in addition to his job. He jokingly said: "Ms. Lei is so interested in e-commerce. Does he want to invest in us? That would be great."
, Tou Dang Dang definitely has a future.”
Before Lei Jun could answer, Li Guoqing's phone rang. Then Mr. Li's face changed a little, and his voice was a little loud when he responded, "What are you doing here? What? Where are you? Where?"
Two seconds later, Lei Jun watched Mr. Li holding his phone and stood up.
Lei Jun asked in confusion: "Mr. Li, what's wrong?"
Li Guoqing sat down again: "It's okay, let's have a friend."
Lei Jun looked at Mr. Li who said this and frowned. He really didn't look like he was happy to have a friend.
The two continued to chat, but Lei Jun found that Mr. Li was obviously a little absent-minded. He couldn't help but wonder who Mr. Li's friends were, which made him change like this.
A few minutes later, accompanied by a knock on the door, the office door was pushed open, and a vicious voice came.
"Qingzi, I'm here to collect the money!"
Lei Jun looked back following the voice, and was surprised to find that the guest holding a stack of documents in his hand seemed familiar, like Mr. Fang, but he had a sinister tone and was not sure. Look again...
"Hey, Mr. Lei is here too." Fang Zhuo led a group of people into the president's office of Dangdang, holding the shareholding documents of Yike Investment in his hand. He was surprised to see Mr. Lei here.
Lei Jun stood up and was interrupted by Li Guoqing's voice just as he was about to say hello.
"Fang Zhuo, what do you want to do when you break into Dangdang? What do you want to do when you bring so many people into my office? How much money do you charge?!" Li Guoqing's face was serious and extremely dissatisfied. He didn't know he was here to steal the official seal.
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Fang Zhuo shook the document in his hand and slapped it on the desk: "Qingzi, I don't want to hear what you are saying! What does intrusion mean? I am a shareholder inspecting the company's operating conditions!"
"Yike Investment is no longer a shareholder of Dangdang? What's written in black and white doesn't count anymore?"
"Also, what do you think I should charge?"
"Didn't I buy these Dangdang shares with real money? Didn't you insist on buying them back?"
Fang Zhuo turned around and glanced at the employees coming up from the outside of the office, and thought it would be better to talk to Qingzi directly.
He motioned for those who followed him to go out partially so that the office would not be so crowded, and then wanted Lei Jun to avoid the unexpected appearance. However, when he turned around again, he found that Lei Jun had already sat back, and was sitting on the sofa.
The chair in front of the desk was given away.
When Lei Jun saw Mr. Fang looking over, he quickly gave a small smile and tried his best not to be kicked out. Today's inspection of the e-commerce industry was at the right time...
Fang Zhuo didn't pay too much attention. He sat down on the chair politely and smiled at Li Guoqing: "Mr. Li, you didn't forget the bet last year, did you?"
Without waiting for Li Guoqing to answer, the proprietress Yu Yu who came after hearing the news quickly walked into the office.
She stood in front of Fang Zhuo like a woman, slapped her hand on the desk again, and angrily said: "Mr. Fang! I have always respected you! You are also a person of status and status! Do you think you are so careless about your image?
Are you here to cause trouble?"
"Am I causing trouble? Who robbed our Tongzhou land?" Fang Zhuo today is settling old and new accounts together, "Who is causing trouble?"
Yu Yu said angrily: "Has Tesco signed it? Has it been stamped? Is that robbery? Tongzhou only allows you, Tesco, to build warehouses? Is Tesco so overbearing? Are you, Mr. Fang, so overbearing? There is no one in the world."
Did you use the word 'reason'?"
The boss's wife was angry and was not afraid of the richest man in the Mainland at all.
Fang Zhuo, however, just laughed and slapped the documents back and forth on the table: "Signing, sealing, and reasoning. Today I am here to reason. If you grab the land, you will grab it. If the shares should be cashed in, hurry up and cash them in."
, $66 million is not a penny less!”
Yu Yu sneered and said: "You, the richest man, have such a big face. He originally paid 11 million, but now he wants 66 million just by slapping his upper and lower lips? Why don't you go and grab it?"
Fang Zhuo raised his brows and looked at Li Guoqing: "This is the number agreed upon by Qingzi and I, isn't it? Mr. Yu doesn't know about it yet, right?"
As soon as these words came out, the angry Yu Yu was startled, and then looked at her husband, who had recently been trying to make himself stronger.
Lei Jun, who was watching the excitement from the side, was also wondering in his mind, what do you mean? Does this mean that Mr. Li and Mr. Fang had some private agreement that was hidden from Mr. Yu?
Li Guoqing was speechless under the gazes of several people: "This, this matter..."
He was thinking about how to mention this to his wife on the way back after he made a bet to buy back shares. However, the more he thought about it, the less he knew how to bring it up. As time passed, he decided to start his career first. Anyway, there was still a long time.
Pick a suitable day to say it.
The agreed period for gambling is until December, but Fang Zhuo comes to visit in August!
How unreasonable!
Fang Zhuo confirmed the situation after looking at this scene. He held documents in his hand and patted the desk. He said leisurely: "On December 17 last year, Qingzi and I attended the e-commerce conference together. Qingzi
Very dissatisfied that I still hold Dangdang shares."
"At that time, Ma Chen proposed the bet, Ding Lei set the bet, Ma Huateng testified, and Amazon's Wang Hanhua watched the excitement. Mr. Yu, you can ask any of them for verification to see if what I said is true."
"The bet is very simple. Can Dangdang be valued at more than 3 times in one year? If so, 18% of my shares will be sold to you at last year's market price of 22 million. If not, Dangdang will be repurchased this year at 3 times the market price of 66 million."
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Fang Zhuo looked at Li Guoqing with a smile and said, "Qingzi, I didn't lie, did I?"
Li Guoqing froze in place under his wife's increasingly fierce gaze.
However, even if he didn't say anything, Yu Yu knew the facts.
She rushed over with all her strength and said angrily: "Li Guoqing, I'm going to tear your mouth apart!"
"Hey, hey, what are you doing? We are all human!" Li Guoqing reached out to stop his wife's angry attack, but Yu Yu grabbed his arm more fiercely.
The accompanying security assistant tried to pull the two away, but Yu Yu got really angry and held on to his arm.
For a moment, the office was in chaos, and the documents on the table were swept to the floor.
Fang Zhuo stood up from the chair, leaving space for them, and kindly persuaded: "Don't fight, don't fight, wait until I take the money and leave before going back to fight. Pay attention to your image, I have to meet the employees later, really
Just a small workshop?"
After all, it was not the place for a fight, so Yu Yu and Li Guoqing gradually let each other go.
Li Guoqing's mouth was still fine, but there was a scratch on the left side of his face.
Yu Yu, who had a full beard and tail, looked coldly at the unlucky visitor, and quickly grasped the key information: "Fang Zhuo, even if this bet is true, it is only a unilateral agreement between Li Guoqing and you, without Dangdang's approval.
The consent of the board of directors has no legal effect at all!"
Fang Zhuo said easily: "So, I didn't find you, Mr. Yu, or Dangdang, so I went to Qingzi. If you think it has no legal effect, then please leave the office. I will talk to Qingzi and see what he does."
explain."
Although Li Guoqing was arrested, he still said to himself: "I spit on you and nail you on!"
Yu Yu turned around and glared: "Then you pay, you pay the person named Fang now!"
Li Guoqing immediately said: "Let's discuss it. Do you think it is a good thing to put the shares in Fang Zhuo's hands?"
Yu Yu took a breath and realized that these words were not unreasonable. They were words that she often said.
There are two things she regrets most.
First, he did not accept the financing group headed by Fang Zhuo, but instead made Fang Zhuo determined to enter the e-commerce industry himself, which resulted in the creation of the strongest competitor, Tesco.
The second reason was that he hesitated to dislike Tiger Fund at the beginning, so he hired Yike Investment to replace Tiger Fund.
If there is no first thing, there will be no regrets about the second thing, but...
To this day, every bit of progress Dangdang makes has a powerful competitor sharing the results. This makes Yu Yu feel so disgusting.
She was silent for a while and pointed out a very important point: "Fang Zhuo, if I heard you right, you agreed on a year, which is until December. It's not the time yet. Why are you leading so many people to rush now?"
Entering Dangdang's office? You have disrupted our normal business order."
Fang Zhuo took the documents that the secretary picked up from the ground and sneered slightly: "That's Qingzi. If it had been anyone else, I wouldn't have come at all for such a small amount of money. I came here today just to ask why you are taking my land."
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Yu Yu warned: "There are still four months until December. Half a year is enough for us to take a further step forward in Dangdang. You have to cash in your shares and you have to fulfill your bet, so can you judge Dangdang's valuation just by your words?"
Fang Zhuo tapped his left hand with the document: "Why are you taking my land?"
Yu Yu continued: "If we really want to determine who wins, of course we have to wait until December to find an investment institution to judge the value of Dangdang. If we lose by then, we will naturally be willing to admit defeat."
Fang Zhuo still asked: "Why do you want to steal my land?"
Li Guoqing slammed the table: "You can't say anything else!"
Fang Zhuo changed his sentence: "Why are you trying to grab my land when Lehman is shorting Yike?"
Li Guoqing became more assertive as his wife aligned with him: "Fang, the bet hasn't expired yet. I'll naturally see who wins with you in December!"
Fang Zhuo smiled and said: "Qingzi, do you really think the valuation is so high? Since I'm here today, I naturally asked around the venture capital firms, and none of them gave a valuation of more than 200 million US dollars. What's more,
Don’t say it’s broken by 3.”
"Excuse me, Qingzi, Mr. Yu, how are you going to increase Dangdang's market value to US$366 million? 2.85 billion Huaxia coins in April?"
"Originally, it wouldn't be a bad idea to wait until December. If you insist on taking advantage of the turmoil in Yike to seize Yesco's land by abnormal means, then let's settle the accounts of the shares first."
Yu Yu insisted coldly: "December!"
Li Guoqing's wife sang to her husband: "Yes, December!"
Fang Zhuo threw the documents on his desk: "It's good to close the office door today, but you can do it in December. By then, I will invite all the media I can invite to let
Let’s all witness this bet that will go down in the history of e-commerce.”
Yu Yu's thoughts turned around, evaluating money and reputation, evaluating the effectiveness of the bet, and evaluating the company's brand.
When Li Guoqing heard this, he couldn't help but pick up the cup on the table and throw it to the ground: "Fang Zhuo, don't bully others too much!"
"Everyone is happy when the payment is settled." Fang Zhuo was not afraid of throwing the glass, but instead helped to settle the accounts. "Last year, I sold my shares in Dangdang. At that time, the price I quoted to Jinxin Capital was US$35 million."
He continued: "After more than half a year of development, Dangdang has made great progress. Although 66 million is a bit of a premium, isn't this premium worth it to you?"
The quotation is a quotation. It was higher last year. Of course it will be much lower if we really want to make a deal.
However, after listening to this kind of analysis, the parties concerned can feel more at ease.
Li Guoqing and Yu Yu looked at each other.
Yu Yu took another look at the scratches on Li Guoqing's face.
After all, they are husband and wife, and the two of them reluctantly have a consensus in their hearts that they want to take back the shares that they have cherished.
Yu Yu slowly said: "Mr. Fang, you came to visit like this today. As a member of Dangdang's board of directors, it is indeed the first day that I know about the bet between you and Li Guoqing. I understand, but I cannot accept your exorbitant asking price.
If you are sincere, then we will sit down and talk."
Fang Zhuo listened to the words of the landlady and turned his attention to Li Guoqing, who was spitting and nailing.
Li Guoqing remained silent.
Fang Zhuo smiled slightly and said calmly: "Not a hair less."
Yu Yu said angrily: "You!"
"If Qingzi doesn't admit it, even if you don't admit it even if I ask the media to ask Ma and the others, then the shares will be kept until you go public. I also want to see if Dangdang can get 66 million US dollars from its listing."
Fang Zhuo said indifferently.
Can Dangdang go public?
Judging from the current situation, both Li Guoqing and Yu Yu have this confidence.
As for whether the 18% stake is worth $66 million?
They also have confidence.
Fang Zhuo continued: "I heard that Alibaba will be listed next year. You should be listed in 2008. At worst, I will wait for another year or two. You can develop Dangdang well in the past two years and let me sell it.
It’s a good price.”
2008 is just around the corner, Qingzi! Mr. Yu! Adang! Seize the opportunity!
Yu Yu felt that huge feeling of nausea again, what happened when a competitor shared the fruit!
She gritted her teeth and finally gave in: "Li Guoqing and I will discuss it again. Even if we want to acquire it, we will need to find a third party. How is that possible if you ask us to pay for it now?"
Fang Zhuo could understand this and said lightly: "Not a cent should be missing."
He motioned to his secretary to pick up the equity documents on the table. He felt that Qingzi and Mr. Yu had no intention of shaking hands with him. He nodded to Lei Jun who had seen enough of the excitement: "Mr. Lei, come to Shanghai to visit when you have time. Let's go."
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Lei Jun shook hands with Mr. Fang and watched him leave the office with a group of people in a hurry.
All of a sudden, Dangdang's CEO office was left with only three deserted people.
Lei Jun suddenly felt embarrassed.
He said goodbye in a stern voice: "Mr. Li, Mr. Yu, you guys, just talk. Thank you Mr. Li for your guidance today. I'll treat you to dinner another day."
When Lei Jun said this, he felt like he was being sarcastic, but he couldn't think of a better way to say it.
Fortunately, the couple, who were glaring again, had no time to be polite.
Lei Jun left the office, took a few breaths, relaxed his toes, and took two steps. Surprisingly, he found that Dangdang's working atmosphere was not affected much.
He asked the director seemingly unintentionally: "Aren't you curious what Mr. Fang is here for?"
"What can Mr. Fang do? It's just about shares. There's no need to bring a group of people." The director said indifferently.
Lei Jun suddenly felt the difference in style. Mr. Fang barged in so viciously, and no one in Dangdang was uncomfortable with it. The threshold here had been raised...
If it were me, I might just be arguing loudly, but now I'm still pointing fingers.
This kind of treatment is really enviable!
This chapter has been completed!