Chapter 292 The tens-billion deal was reached, and Qiandu became the final winner!
That night.
Zhang Shuo attended Lin Weiwei's birthday party and gave Lin Weiwei enough face.
There are only a few friends who have been playing together since childhood. If the relationship is not maintained properly, Zhang Shuo will probably become a loner in a few years.
Then he would rather be more secular and smell more of the fireworks of the human world.
"Thanks!"
Lin Weiwei was holding a wine glass, her face was rosy, showing that she was in a very happy mood.
When taking a group photo.
Lin Weiwei, the birthday girl, stood aside while Zhang Shuo was forcibly pushed to the C position.
This is reality.
Especially at the end of the show, Zhang Shuo inexplicably gained a few more Weixin friends, and received no less than two hotel room numbers that night. The implication should not be too obvious.
There was even an actress who directly sent Zhang Shuo seductive photos in black stockings.
The kind that can make people nose bleed.
These actors are nothing like ordinary people when it comes to commotion.
“Your circle is so chaotic!”
Of course it is impossible for Zhang Shuo to go, as the wild flowers are not as fragrant as Chen Lu.
………
Qiandu Headquarters.
While Zhang Shuo was acting cool, the competition between Tengda, Ahri, and Qiandu also entered a fierce stage.
"It's not a problem to keep pushing it like this. It's time to make a decision."
After Tenda quoted a price of 8.5 billion, Mr. San finally realized that it was time for a last-ditch battle. Now he had to either quit or seal his throat with a sword, not giving the enemy any chance to struggle.
At this point, Qiandu’s advantage is actually the biggest.
Because Tengda and Ali have consumed a lot of working capital in their previous major entertainment mergers and acquisitions, only Qiandu still has tens of billions of cash in hand and can definitely make the final decision.
"so."
Mr. San quickly made up his mind, "Let's make the last round of quotations. 71 Assistant and Motu Xiuxiu will be packaged together for a total price of 12 billion. What do you think?"
"It should be enough to drive away Tengda and Ahri."
Gong Juren was shocked. He had rarely seen the third master make such a big determination.
"Then do it!"
The third master was of course very distressed to quote this price. It basically meant that Qiandu's work in 2011 was in vain, and the whole year's net profit was included in it.
It's not even close to enough.
Although 2011 has not completely passed, Qiandu's Finance Department has calculated an approximate profit figure, which is basically between 7.5 billion and 8 billion.
This means that if you want to win 71 Assistant, you have to invest more than half of last year's profits.
Can it not hurt?
Especially when the second master thought that it had only been a year and a half since the birth of 71 Assistant, and less than a year for Motu Xiuxiu, it made his liver hurt even more.
"It's just a money grab!"
At the beginning, the upper limit of the budget given by Qiandu was only 7 to 8 billion. It was unrealistic. Due to the sudden end of Tengda, the cost doubled.
As for this, we are still not 100% guaranteed to win, so who can we ask to reason with?
………
Friday, December 30th.
As soon as Qiandu made a quotation, Luo Changan immediately came to report.
"Twelve billion, this price has almost reached the bottom." Zhang Shuo was not greedy and said with a smile: "Let Tengda and the Ahli family know that if they can't show greater sincerity, we will follow
Qiandu has signed a contract."
"OK."
Luo Changan was also very excited.
The completion of this shocking deal means that the financial situation of Germination Group will be greatly improved, and it will be able to start its investment business again in 2012.
After learning Qiandu's final quotation, the uncle decisively gave in. Faced with such an astonishing quotation, even if Ahri had the intention, it was powerless.
Unless Mei Ya is willing to pay on credit, this is of course impossible.
"The good thing is that Tengda didn't succeed either." Ren Xiaoyao comforted with a smile.
"yes."
Somehow, the uncle's mood suddenly became happy, "I just took advantage of that kid Zhang Shuo and used Tengda's fate to disrupt the situation, and made billions more for nothing. I earned this money."
"Of course, people earn it based on their own skills."
With my current status, I certainly won’t envy these billions, it just feels quite mysterious.
………
Tenda Building.
The second master's mood was not as happy as the elder's. It could even be said that he was depressed. He finally got a chance to compete fairly, but ended up losing to his opponent's offer.
The previous quotation of 8.5 billion was already the upper limit of what Tenda could afford.
Short of money?
A year ago, the second master would not have believed that this kind of thing would happen to Tengda even if he was beaten to death.
But this is reality.
"Boss, why don't you go to your old friend to borrow some money?" Lu Jian suggested.
As a native of Lingnan, Er Ye has friends all over the world in shopping malls, including those in Xiangjiang. It is not very difficult to temporarily borrow billions of working capital.
"never mind!"
The second master waved his hand and frowned slightly, "I always feel that Zhang Shuo suddenly chose to sell 71 Assistant at this time. There must be some tricks in it that we don't understand."
"You mean, Assistant 71 is actually an empty shell?"
"That's not the case."
The second master shook his head, "71 Assistant must be genuine. This cannot deceive others."
If it were parallel imports, Tengda, Ahri, and Qiandu, they wouldn't be robbing them to death. Do you really think that the teams of the three companies are just freeloaders? You have already figured out the details of 71 Assistant and Motu Xiuxiu.
"That means that Mei Ya is really short of money. The news I got is that Mei Ya's loans are still increasing recently."
"Maybe, but it's definitely not the main reason." The second master frowned, "If the funds are really tight in the sprout, you can follow the Qingcheng Group's approach and choose financing. There is no need to sell 71 Assistant."
"What do you mean?" Lu Jian didn't understand either.
"I can't explain it, it's just a feeling. Looking at Zhang Shuo's past actions, he always takes one step and sees three steps. According to common sense, there should be no reason to sell 71 Assistant at this time, but he did it again.
You know, decisions that seem unbelievable to outsiders must be because they don't really understand the inside story." The second master also became more and more mysterious as he spoke.
"Isn't this a bit idealistic?"
Lu Jian was very surprised. This was not the second master he knew, right?
"is a bit."
The second master also made himself laugh, "Just think of it as self-comfort."
"If you want to say that Zhang Shuo is a mysterious person, that's quite a bit."
Lu Jian quickly went back to make up for it, "Take Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment as an example. To this day, we still haven't figured out who did those game planning. It's too mysterious. If this was placed in an online novel, it would be Destiny's Child.
"
"The son of destiny? Who is not?"
The second master didn't really care, "I just can't see through this Zhang Shuo."
………
2012, January 2.
Just after New Year's Day, Lu Kai, rotating president of Sprout Group, and Gong Juren, president of Qiandu Group, jointly held a press conference at the Media Center of Sprout Building.
It was announced to the public——
Qiandu acquired 71 Assistant and Motu Xiuxiu from the Sprout Group for 12 billion.
"Excuse me, Mr. Lu, why did you choose to sell 71 Assistant and Motu Xiuxiu?" a reporter asked.
In my impression, the bigger the Internet company is, the more it will cherish its own feathers. Even if it wants to cut off a certain project, it will be cut off directly instead of packaging high-quality projects for sale like Sprout.
This can easily leave a negative impression on the outside world that "the sprout is dead".
Not to mention the sale of high-quality projects, even if it is a normal layoff, Internet giants will be very cautious when releasing information to the outside world, for fear of having any adverse impact on the stock market.
Unlike Germination, it seems that she has no scruples in this regard at all.
"Sprouting Group chose to sell 71 Assistant and Motu Xiuxiu just for the sake of internal business adjustment. While cutting off some projects, it will also incubate new projects."
However, Lu Kai is a master of Tai Chi, and even if he said it, he didn't say it.
"Can you reveal some information about the new project?" The reporter has not given up yet.
"This is a commercial secret and I have no right to disclose it. I believe I will meet with you later."
Okay!
Another correct nonsense.
"As far as I know, 71 Assistant is an important distribution channel for Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment's mobile games. After the sale, will it have an impact on the distribution of Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment?"
"We have signed a supplementary agreement with Qiandu. After 71 Assistant changes ownership, we will still maintain close cooperation with Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment and will not have any impact on the release of new games under Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment."
You just need to pay an additional channel fee.
Qiandu itself does not make games, so there is no need to worry about Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment in this regard. On the other hand, Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment is the largest customer of 71 Assistant.
Can't afford to offend.
The only change may be that, after all, 71 Assistant is no longer owned by the company. In the future, when Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment releases new games, it will not be able to do whatever it wants in terms of channel promotion.
It is bound to compete with other manufacturers for recommendation positions.
But this impact is actually minimal. Weixin will soon launch a "Game Center" function to divert traffic for games under Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment. Is it no better than 71 Assistant?
Secondly, after Maili X1 is launched, Maili Mall will also give preferential treatment to Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment.
This is another powerful channel.
In addition, Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment is already a golden brand, even if it is weaker in terms of publicity and distribution, it can quickly attract incoming traffic due to its good reputation among the player community and excellent product quality.
The reliance on game promotion channels is not as great as outsiders imagine.
This is why.
Sprout's decision to sell 71 Assistant at this point in time was a well-thought-out decision.
This is not just a slap on the head.
"Mr. Lu, as far as I know, Motu Xiuxiu is a product incubated internally by Buya. It was sold less than half a year after it went online. Aren't you worried that Motu Xiuxiu can't be explained to you? Or is it the user's feelings?
In your eyes, it actually doesn’t matter?” The reporter continued to ask.
This is a bit challenging.
"Every product under the umbrella of Sprout is based on the priority of user experience. This is one of the fundamental reasons why many of Sprout's products can gain the trust of users."
However, Lu Kai remained calm and continued: "As for Motu Xiuxiu, it is incubated internally by Buya. It is precisely because of the good user experience that it can win the favor of users and gain recognition from Qiandu.
After TuXiuXiu is transferred to Qiandu, I believe that with Qiandu’s background and the support of MoTuXiuXiu’s original development team, the user experience will not fade, but will only get better and better. Before abandoning users
Tell me, where to start?"
"Then why sell it?" The reporter was still chasing after him.
"As I said just now, it's just a business adjustment and has nothing to do with anything else." Lu Kai didn't take this trick and put on a posture of "Believe it or not, I believe it anyway."
It's just that the oil and salt are not getting into it.
Seeing that there was no valuable news from Lu Kai's plan, the reporter turned his firepower on Gong Juren, "Excuse me, Mr. Gong, why did Qiandu pay a high price to acquire 71 Assistant and Motu Xiuxiu?"
"First of all, let me state that Qiandu's acquisition of 71 Assistant and Motu Xiuxiu was scientifically and reasonably calculated, and there is no such thing as a high price."
Gong Juren was obviously not a rookie and was not fooled at all.
"Secondly, Qiandu's acquisition is based on the consideration of enriching the group's business lines and laying out mobile Internet traffic entrances. It is a good reinforcement for Qiandu's existing business."
"Can it be understood that Qiandu's internal innovation capabilities are insufficient? Or does it mean that Qiandu's layout in the mobile Internet has fallen behind, so it needs to be strengthened through acquisitions?" The reporter was very tricky.
Also very annoying.
Gong Juren's face twitched, and then he regained his composure, "No Internet company is omniscient and omnipotent. Improving business layout through investment and mergers and acquisitions is a normal operation. Just like Qiandu's previous operations in the local life services and large entertainment fields,
There is no problem of insufficient innovation.”
"So, Qiandu's goal is to continue to control the traffic entrance and collect rents based on traffic?" Perhaps because this is not Qiandu's home court, the reporter is not as considerate as before, and is full of firepower.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "It's not manipulation, it's using traffic to serve customers." Gong Juren was already a little unhappy.
Upon seeing this, the manager of the public relations department of the Sprout Group who presided over the press conference quickly cut off the reporters' questions and announced the end of the press conference.
In order to prevent each other from being able to step down.
Interestingly, after the press conference, the group of reporters still chased Gong Juren and bombarded him with pointed questions one after another, forcing Gong Juren to flee the scene in embarrassment.
This is also why Sprout Group established a public relations department early.
In order to deal with these media, we hired two senior reporters from other newspapers to predict in advance where reporters might make trouble before holding a press conference.
If necessary.
There will even be an internal rehearsal before the official press conference.
This also ensures that every press conference held by the Sprout Group goes smoothly without any rollover accidents or any negative impact on the group.
future.
How to learn to deal with the media is a required course for companies and corporate executives.
If there is no targeted training in this area, it is very likely that Gong Juren will be in the embarrassing situation he is now in, and there may even be an embarrassing situation where he answers questions incorrectly and does not know all three questions.
"You just ask, I just read the manuscript. If you get the answer right, I lose!"
………
the other side.
As soon as the news of the press conference came out, it instantly caused a sensation on the entire Internet.
"Am I right? 12 billion? I have never seen so much money in my life."
"Wake up upstairs, you will never see so much money in ten lifetimes."
"This is China Internet's biggest deal so far, right?"
"When it comes to local tyrants, they have to reach a thousand levels. If they don't take action, they will have more than a hundred small targets."
"Bu Ya, this is Qin Shihuang touching the wire, it's crazy!"
"So, do you make money by making games or developing software? In my impression, even Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment, which claims to be a money maker, can't make so much, right? It's outrageous!"
"The question is, why did Mei Ya sell 71 Assistant?"
"You're stupid. It's more than 10 billion. Who wouldn't want to sell it?"
"But isn't this sprout? Can sprout be short of money?"
"Who would think it's too much money? I'll make 12 billion in the first year. Isn't it great?"
…
Not only on the Internet, but also within the Sprout Group, there was a lot of discussion about this, especially the two teams of 71 Assistant and Motu Xiuxiu. Faced with the sudden news, they were immediately thrown into confusion.
They are all concerned about one issue——
"Will they all leave the sprout and join Qiandu?"
Fortunately, the group's human resources department quickly responded and employees of the two teams had two options.
The first is to join Qiandu Group.
In order to operate 71 Assistant and Motu Xiuxiu, Qiandu has planned to rent an office building in Binhai City and set up an independent business department.
Employees from both teams can join this division.
Of course, Qiandu will definitely arrange for management to take over, and by then, the team will inevitably go through a round of drastic personnel adjustments.
The second is to continue to stay in the bud, but to accept internal circulation.
Sprout is still in a talent shortage situation and is fully capable of digesting these two teams internally.
Artists and programmers like Motu Xiuxiu can be transferred within Qinghe Technology, or they can be transferred to Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment, Qingcheng Group, or the group's technology center.
The 71 Assistant development team can even join the MaiLi Technology Software Division as a group to lead the development of "Maili Mall" to achieve seamless connection.
As for Qiandu, there is no restriction on whether the two team members can stay or go.
The reason is also very simple. Qiandu itself has a profound foundation. Since neither team will stay, Qiandu also has enough talents internally to take over the subsequent development and operation of 71 Assistant and Motu Xiuxiu.
It can also avoid internal friction.
Of course, there will definitely be a transition period in between.
The specific choice depends on the employee's personal plan. It is safe to stay in Sprout, but joining Qiandu seems to be a very good choice.
After all, Qiandu is one of the three giants of China's Internet. Its position is actually higher than Bu Ya, and the internal benefits are not bad. The key is that there is no need to transfer positions, which saves worry and effort.
If possible, Qiandu also hopes to retain the core members of the two teams, not only to cherish their talents, but also to ensure that 71 Assistant and Motu Xiuxiu can have a smooth transition.
to this end.
Qiandu President Gong Juren will stay in Binhai City to preside over the overall situation. After the contract was signed, he has begun non-stop meetings with the core members of the two teams and promised various conditions.
The purpose is to retain people.
On the contrary, as the selling party, Sprout Group behaved very restrainedly, and the human resources department did not deliberately talk to any employees, let alone promise any additional conditions.
I really want to make a promise.
So what will employees in other departments of Sprout Group think?
………
Sprout Building.
Regardless of the buzz from the outside world, Zhang Shuo himself was very calm. While the press conference was going on, he was in the office, signing the grant application for January submitted by the Finance Department.
Because it is the first month of 2012, there are many more grant applications in January, including——
Pay 640 million progress payment to Nokia;
Allocate RMB 600 million in operating funds to Maili Technology, including R&D special funds of RMB 500 million;
Allocate 200 million R&D funding to the Fertile Soil Research Institute;
Allocate 400 million project funds to Germinal Real Estate;
Allocate 400 million operating funds to Qinghe Technology, including 200 million special funds for Spring Festival marketing;
Allocate 200 million operating funds to Qingyun Data, including 100 million R&D special funds;
Allocate 200 million operating funds to Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment, including 100 million R&D special funds;
Allocate 100 million operating funds to Germination Group, and also approve 300 million special funds for year-end bonuses.
The total amount is 3.04 billion. The allocation exceeds 3 billion. It is also the largest allocation in a single month for the Sprout Group, setting a new record.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Even so.
The single-month R&D expenditures of Maili Technology and Fertile Land Research Institute only increased by 100 million each, which is still a long way from the annual R&D budget of 15 billion proposed by Zhang Shuo.
This cannot be accomplished overnight either.
It is necessary to continuously increase the R&D budget as the number of researchers continues to increase, and at the same time based on specific R&D needs. It is impossible to say that the R&D budget will be full at the beginning of the year.
Maybe even say.
R&D expenditures in the fourth quarter will exceed one-third, or even close to half, of the whole year.
Zhang Shuo attaches great importance to research and development and is willing to spend money, but he must also respect objective laws, right? You can't just throw money at it just because you have abundant funds.
Even if it is smashed, Maili Technology and Fertile Land Research Institute will not be able to digest it.
--slightly--
[Level]: Level 9 (3.42 million/8 million)
[Support Fund]: 10 million/day
【Cash】: 3.35 billion
[Loan]: 6.95 billion (bank loan) 700 million (corporate bond)
--slightly--
Although Sprout Group's expenditure in January hit a record high, it was because in December last year, the overseas agency rights of "Dream Town" and "Puzzle and Dragons" were sold for a sky-high price of 1.8 billion.
In December, Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment turned in a record profit of 950 million, and the overall revenue and expenditure actually tended to be balanced.
Cash flow remains at a high of 3.3 billion.
As Qiandu's RMB 12 billion is subsequently received, the sprout's cash flow will exceed the RMB 15 billion mark.
It is true that you can live a very prosperous and prosperous year.
Of course, the miraculous achievement of "balance of payments" in December was due not only to the contribution of Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment and the unshakable 300 million support fund, but also to the credit of bank mortgage loans.
Not only did the 2.7 billion arrival loan not decrease, but it increased to 3 billion.
I gained 300 million more working capital for nothing.
And because Qingcheng Building was transferred to Qingcheng Group, 450 million bank mortgage loans were transferred to Sprout Group, and the group's total loan size was actually reduced by 150 million.
This has also further improved the balance sheet of Sprout Group.
It can be said to be even more joy than joy!
The question now facing Zhang Shuo is - "How to use the money now that it has been received?"