Chapter 301 Du Qingqing leaves, Qingchengs personnel shakes up!
"That's it."
Facing the sincerity shown by Wang Xin, to be honest, Zhang Shuo was a little moved, "I would like to know, if, I mean if, Moya is willing to acquire Molduan, do you have any additional requirements?"
Wang Xin must be asking for something when he cooperates like this.
"I hope to lead my team to join Qingcheng Group. I need to serve as executive vice president of Qingcheng Group. President would be better." Wang Xin was not polite at all.
Talented people are confident.
"I understand. In this case, we still need to discuss internally whether to acquire Mold Group." Even so, Zhang Shuo did not give Wang Xin an accurate answer.
Although Mold Tuan is in dire straits, it cannot be won by a few hundred million.
Funds should be used wisely!
"Then I will wait for your answer in Binhai City!"
Wang Xin shows unusual persistence, the kind that won't give up until he achieves his goal.
"what ever!"
………
In the afternoon of that day, Zhang Shuo held an online video conference through Feixun Conference.
Lu Kai, Pei Weiping and Du Qingqing attended the meeting.
"Everyone, please express your opinions first."
After Zhang Shuo introduced the basic situation, he did not rush to express his position, but first solicited everyone's opinions.
He himself hasn't made up his mind yet.
"Purely from the perspective of business complementarity, the acquisition of mold group is indeed a great reinforcement for Qingcheng Group. However, Qingcheng Group's funds have already been used for planned purposes and there is no additional funds to support this acquisition."
Pei Weiping was the first to speak.
After the A round of financing, if Qingcheng Group is short of money, it will not be able to allocate it directly from Sprout.
There is no way that Mei Ya can be taken advantage of.
"If you want to acquire, it can only increase capital." Pei Weiping added.
The so-called capital increase refers to the act of a company increasing its registered capital in accordance with the law in order to expand its business scale, broaden its business, and improve its creditworthiness.
For example, if the capital is increased by 2 billion, then all shareholders of Qingcheng Group need to subscribe according to their shareholding ratio. As the major shareholder of Qingcheng, Mei Ya needs to subscribe 80%, which is 1.6 billion.
It's also a big challenge.
"It doesn't necessarily mean increasing capital. We can merge." Lu Kai had a different view.
"How to merge?"
"It is to use Qingcheng Group as the main body to absorb the mold group, and determine the share exchange ratio based on the valuations of both parties. After the A round of financing, the valuation of the Qingcheng Group has exceeded 20 billion. The mold group's valuation is as high as 2 billion.
The two companies can exchange shares at a ratio of 1:10. This is equivalent to Qingcheng Group giving up 10% of its shares in exchange for 100% of Moutuan's shares." Lu Kai is indeed a master of capital operations.
"This is a good idea." Zhang Shuo nodded.
It is equivalent to saying that Qingcheng Group swallowed the mold whole without spending a penny.
Then I felt something was wrong again.
"The discussion now is not how to acquire, but whether to acquire, right?"
How does it feel.
Did they reach an agreement immediately on the acquisition of Moutuan?
"If we can absorb the mold without using cash, I support it."
Pei Weiping expressed his stance.
"The user information, merchant information, and operating experience in the local life services field that Mituan has accumulated since group buying have all strengthened Qingcheng Group." Du Qingqing also agreed.
Of course, Lu Kai had no objection, "I would like to add that the 1:10 share exchange I mentioned just now is just a metaphor, and the specific ratio can only be determined after evaluation by the Investment and Acquisition Department."
According to the valuation of both parties, 1:10 Qingcheng Group feels that it has lost money.
Although the merger does not require the Qingcheng Group to squeeze out its cash, if the Qingcheng Group is willing, it can easily raise 2 to 3 billion acquisition funds by initiating Series B financing.
There is actually no essential difference between the two.
The only difference is that the B round of financing introduces new investors, and the merger and share exchange is equivalent to introducing the previous shareholders of the mold group as "new investors" to Qingcheng Group.
Give me a chestnut.
Ahli holds 18.78% of the shares of Mituan, so after the 1:10 share exchange, Ahli will hold 1.878% of the shares of Qingcheng Group and become one of the small shareholders of Qingcheng Group.
Including Scarlet Capital, a bitter rival, will also become a small shareholder of Qingcheng Group, holding 1.228% of the shares.
From the perspective of Wang Xin's management team, their entire team currently holds 69% of the shares of Mituuan. Naturally, they hope to be merged with Qingcheng Group rather than acquired in cash.
In this way, Wang Xin's team will hold 6.9% of the shares of Qingcheng Group, becoming the second largest shareholder of Qingcheng Group in one fell swoop, ensuring that they can gain a foothold in Qingcheng Group without being excluded.
This is also the bottom line of Wang Xin’s team.
"Since everyone agrees to acquire Moutuan through a merger, the next question is, Wang Xin proposed to serve as executive vice president or even president of Qingcheng Group. How should you respond?" Zhang Shuo asked again.
"President, you must not be able to do that, right?"
Seeing that Pei Weiping and Du Qingqing were not able to express their opinions, Lu Kai stood up decisively, "As for executive vice president, that also conflicts with Mr. Du's position. I suggest that at most one vice president position be given."
Du Qingqing is the senior vice president of Qingcheng Group. The original arrangement was that after Zhang Shuo stepped down as chairman of Qingcheng Group and Pei Weiping took over, Du Qingqing would take over as president.
Now a sudden change like Wang Xin has suddenly disrupted the personnel arrangements of Qingcheng Group.
"How about I step down and Mr. Pei becomes the chairman of Qingcheng Group, Mr. Du becomes the president of Qingcheng Group, and Wang Xin becomes the executive vice president?" Zhang Shuo gave a solution.
"I don't think it's appropriate."
Lu Kai objected again, "After Qingcheng Group integrated the mold group, the internal factions became more and more complicated, and it became even more necessary for you, Mr. Zhang, to be in charge. If you step down as chairman of Qingcheng Group at this time, I'm afraid there will be more trouble."
There is another point that Lu Kai did not say clearly.
That is, once Zhang Shuo steps down as chairman of Qingcheng Group, there is a possibility that Qingcheng Group will escape from the control of Germination. Although this possibility is slim, it still has to be guarded against.
Even if Zhang Shuo were to step down, an executive from the Germinal Group should concurrently serve as the chairman of Qingcheng Group, not Pei Weiping.
The most suitable position for Pei Weiping is his current position as president, unless he is promoted to the Germinal Group.
"Qingcheng Group cannot do without you, Mr. Zhang."
Pei Weiping also expressed his position. This was not about being arrogant, but after carefully weighing the pros and cons, it was indeed difficult for him to control the situation with his own funds, so Zhang Shuo was needed to take charge.
"I agree with Wang Xin to serve as executive vice president of Qingcheng Group."
Unexpectedly, the focus figure Du Qingqing actually stood up and expressed his willingness to let Xian.
"Are you sure? There is no such thing as joking in the workplace."
Zhang Shuo's eyes were fixed.
"Sure." Du Qingqing's eyes were clear and she said with a smile: "I originally planned to go to Huipu Business School to study this year, but Wang Xin is coming, so it saves trouble."
"You come to my office tomorrow."
Zhang Shuo neither agreed nor refused, and was ready to have a serious talk with Du Qingqing face to face.
See if there is anything hidden inside.
The video conference ended in a slightly awkward atmosphere.
………
The next day is Thursday.
Zhang Shuo was originally going to school, but in order to wait for Du Qingqing, he asked the teacher for leave.
Fortunately, there will be fewer classes next semester.
At about ten o'clock in the morning, Du Qingqing appeared in Zhang Shuo's office.
Compared to the landlady of Qingcheng Xiaozhu, who was still a little green more than a year ago, Du Qingqing has been in the position of a senior executive all year round. Under the influence of the environment, Du Qingqing appears to be more capable and has her own aura.
The kind that carries the wind when you walk.
Outside, with the blessing of good looks, he is already a well-known professional manager.
It's just that Du Qingqing, like Zhang Shuo, is restrained and doesn't like to show off. He never tries to flatter others in front of media reporters and makes shocking remarks from time to time.
He rarely even gives interviews to the media.
It can be seen that in some aspects, Du Qingqing is deliberately learning from Zhang Shuo.
"Why do you suddenly want to study at Huipu Business School?"
Of course, with Du Qingqing and Zhang Shuo, there is no need to beat around the bush and say whatever they want.
Although the opportunities for the two to meet in real life have been greatly reduced since the Qingcheng Group headquarters moved to Yangcheng, Zhang Shuo still receives artistic photos of Du Qingqing from Chen Xiaowan from time to time.
He was very doubtful.
Du Qingqing already knew that Chen Xiaowan was a traitor.
"It's not sudden. There was a plan before. President Pei also knew about it." Facing Zhang Shuo again, Du Qingqing no longer felt any pressure and could deal with it calmly.
"What's the reason?"
Zhang Shuo really didn't know about this and was negligent.
“Since Qingcheng Group’s financing, the business system has become more and more complex, and the things that need to be dealt with have become more and more complicated. Don’t worry, I am already a little overwhelmed. I walk on thin ice every day, for fear that a wrong decision will cause harm to the group.
It will bring heavy losses." Du Qingqing's voice revealed a hint of exhaustion.
"So you just want to learn how to recharge your batteries?"
"Yes." Du Qingqing nodded, "I don't have the innate talent you have. I am a relatively stupid person. I can't improve myself only through work practice. I also need to catch up on theory."
This does not mean that Du Qingqing has no ambition.
In fact, just the opposite is true. Just because she wanted to go further, she planned to recharge her batteries midway and lay a solid foundation before she showed her timidity and made mistakes, so that she could climb higher in the future.
To appreciate the beautiful scenery higher up.
"I didn't expect that."
After listening to Du Qingqing's explanation, Zhang Shuo's anger subsided, but he gave Du Qingqing a lofty look.
He is worthy of being the person he originally selected.
"If you want to strive for progress, of course I won't stop you, but why did you choose this time?" Because he valued Du Qingqing, Zhang Shuo had to explain clearly and analyze the stakes for Du Qingqing.
"Wang Xin is not working alone. Once the mold group is integrated into Qingcheng Group, the entire founding team of mold group will join Qingcheng. To put it more bluntly, Wang Xin's appointment as the executive vice president of Qingcheng Group will definitely not be done alone.
Dou, I believe he will soon be able to gain a firm foothold in the Qingcheng Group and arrange his people one by one."
"Have you ever thought about it? It's very possible that by the time you come back from further training, Qingcheng will no longer have your place."
This is a very realistic thing.
The workplace is never a harmonious one, especially when it comes to competition among senior executives.
"That's better than being forced out by others due to lack of ability in the future." Like Zhang Shuo, Du Qingqing is actually a very dignified person at heart, and she also refuses to admit defeat.
Once something is decided, even nine oxen cannot bring it back.
"Since you decided to bear the consequences, I won't say anything. I will say hello to Director Wu at Huipu Business School. After all, he came from there and is familiar with the situation!"
Of course, Zhang Shuo also hopes that Du Qingqing can really learn something in business school.
"Thanks!"
Du Qingqing blinked, but didn't say much.
"When I am studying, I will learn more about e-commerce when I have time."
Zhang Shuo couldn't bear it after all.
Du Qingqing can be said to be the only executive who was trained from scratch within the budding department, but he still inevitably hit the career ceiling.
Senior brother Wang Yan also counts, but after all, he takes the technical route.
It’s quite different from Du Qingqing’s management line.
When dealing with such an internal relative, whether from a company or personal perspective, Zhang Shuo would not be able to leave Du Qingqing alone, but would rather give her more opportunities and platforms for experience.
I hope that one day Du Qingqing can really grow up and take charge of her own business.
"E-commerce?" Du Qingqing was a little confused, and then thought of something, "The group is going to enter the e-commerce industry in the future? But e-commerce is already a highly competitive industry, do we still have a chance?"
"Look at this."
Zhang Shuo did not explain much and stood up directly to show Du Qingqing the Pin Xixi plan.
Du Qingqing looked at it very seriously.
Not for anything else, just because this planning plan came from Zhang Shuo, so it must be famous.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Pin Xixi has been handed over to the technology center for incubation. When you return from further studies, it will be almost time to go online. If you are willing, I can leave it to you to take charge." Zhang Shuo.
Tell him his plan.
Since Qingcheng Group is likely to have no place for Du Qingqing in the future, the options left for Du Qingqing are either to be transferred to the group headquarters or to develop new business for the group.
It is difficult to find a third option.
At the group headquarters, the senior management staff was relatively complete. For a while, Zhang Shuo really couldn't find a position that was more suitable for Du Qingqing.
Then I settled for the next best thing and thought of the Pinxixi project.
Du Qingqing originally started out in new retail and has experience in operating the Qingcheng APP, which is quite suitable for Pinxixi’s new e-commerce business.
As for whether it can be done, it depends on Du Qingqing's ability.
"I will understand carefully."
Du Qingqing felt warm in her heart, Zhang Shuo took special care of her after all.
If this were replaced by other senior executives of the group, if they dared to study midway so willfully, it would be good to keep their original positions, not to mention, there would be opportunities to develop new businesses.
"Thanks!"
Before leaving, Du Qingqing thanked him again.
"You're welcome, aren't you?" Zhang Shuo smiled and waved his hand, joking deliberately: "Since you choose to further your studies, then study hard. If you fail to pass the graduation exam, I will be inedged."
"..."
Du Qingqing gave Zhang Shuo a blow in the eye and left proudly like a peacock.
………
Du Qingqing's problem was solved here, and at two o'clock in the afternoon, Zhang Shuo took the initiative to make an appointment with Wang Xin.
Lu Kai was also present.
"In principle, I can agree to the two requests you made yesterday, namely the merger of Moutuan into Qingcheng Group and the position of executive vice president of Qingcheng Group."
As soon as they met, Zhang Shuo gave Wang Xin reassurance.
"Thanks!"
Wang Xin suppressed his excitement and shook hands with Zhang Shuo.
"Mr. Lu will discuss the specific details of the cooperation with you. I have a class in the afternoon." After setting the general framework of the cooperation, Zhang Shuo naturally did not need to intervene in the remaining negotiations.
Lu Kai can handle it.
"Ah? Oh, okay, okay..."
When Wang Xin heard about the class, he didn't react at first. Then he remembered that Zhang Shuo was still in graduate school. He couldn't help but feel an extremely strange feeling in his heart, but he could only press it down forcefully.
………
Friday, February 17th.
Negotiations between Lu Kai and Wang Xin are being conducted in private and secretly.
At the same time, Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment launched two new games at the same time - "Nuan Nuan Around the World" and "Chain War" "as usual".
In January, because it spanned the Spring Festival holiday, it was rare that Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment had no new games online.
This time, after 71 Assistant was sold to Qiandu, it was the "first time" that Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment used external channels to release a new game, which naturally attracted special attention from both inside and outside the industry.
"Nuan Nuan Travels Around the World" is the second part of the Nuan Nuan series.
Players will play the role of a cute girl named "Nuan Nuan", encounter various interesting emergencies while traveling around the world, and use unique costumes to meet mission challenges one after another.
"Nuan Nuan Dress Up Story", which was launched in October last year, was very popular among female players, and its recharge turnover reached new highs, making it a dark horse within Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment.
No one inside Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment expected it to be so profitable.
In view of this, I naturally have extra expectations for "Nuan Nuan Travels Around the World".
"Chain Chronicle" is a high-quality RPG card mobile game that integrates tower defense, action, and adventure. Driven by "My Name is MT" and "Drunken Man", mobile card games have become a very popular category.
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Very popular with players.
The original time and space of "Chain Chronicle" was created by SEGA, a famous Japanese game manufacturer, and was released in July 2013.
Needless to say, this will be another Japanese-style card mobile game, just like the previous "Puzzle and Dragons", mainly targeting the Japanese market.
Of course, there are also some domestic audiences.
Both new games are absolutely full of sincerity, both in terms of creativity and production level.
but!
For players who have become accustomed to Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment leading the new trend of mobile games, these two new games, one is a "sequel" and the other is Japanese style, it is difficult to say how amazing they are.
It's a bit disappointing.
"It seems that the blue bird is not omnipotent."
"Well, I'm kind of resting on my laurels."
"You can understand it, how can it be so easy to be original? You also need to play the game and be original in the category!"
"That is, compared to Tengda, Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment is already very conscientious!"
"It's true to say that, but I still hope that Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment can bring more amazing works."
With the explosion of smartphones, the mobile game industry has also exploded. Although Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment is still outstanding, the entire market has obviously become more lively.
The number of new works launched every month has also doubled, giving players more options to choose from.
Of course, Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment cannot satisfy everyone.
"It's good to take a break. Otherwise, if you are praised too high, you will be in trouble if you can't get down."
Zhang Shuo said this to Cao Yanhua and Liu Xiaohui, who were sitting across from each other. Taking advantage of the release of the new game, it was a good time to talk about Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment’s mobile game production plan for this year.
The last time he "submitted" game planning plans in large quantities was at the end of June last year.
At that time, eight game plans were handed over to Cao Yanhua, which supported the performance of Bluebird Interactive Entertainment in the second half of 2011. "Nuan Nuan Around the World" and "Chain War" were the last two in stock.
Currently, among the three major mobile game studios of Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment, there is only one new mobile game in production, "Wangxian", and the rest are developing subsequent updated versions of old mobile games.
It does feel like "resting on one's laurels".
No wonder Cao Yanhua wanted to drag Liu Xiaohui and shamelessly come to Zhang Shuo to "buy goods". The golden brand that Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment has finally established can't be destroyed just like this.
Zhang Shuo actually had some inventory in his hands, and there was quite a lot of it. Whenever he had nothing to do, he would write about game plans, and before he knew it, he was able to build a strong family fortune.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! The reason why it was not handed over to Cao Yanhua years ago was mainly due to three considerations.
First, we don’t want to put too much pressure on friends such as Tengda and Wangyi.
If Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment maintains its high-yield momentum last year and becomes the dominant player in the mobile game industry, who knows what extraordinary things Tenda and other friends will do behind the scenes if they are forced to do so.
It's better to keep a steady hand.
After the rich man scandal, Zhang Shuo knew very well how to shoot the first bird.
Second, I don’t want to give netizens too high expectations.
Just like what Zhang Shuo said just now, Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment can be a golden brand, but it cannot be overly mythical by players. Once it is promoted to a pedestal, the expectations will be high and full, and the follow-up will actually be very troublesome.
It is impossible for Zhang Shuo to maintain stable output all the time and come up with hit items from time to time.
In the final analysis, the ultimate goal of Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment is not to serve the ideals of the gaming industry, to become a benchmark in the gaming industry and to be admired by all players.
Even if it is, it's just a side effect.
The meaning of the existence of Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment is to continuously collect money and continuously inject blood to the Sprout Group. Even if it is a less excellent work, as long as there is enough krypton gold, Zhang Shuo will "learn from it".
Think further.
Ten years later, when Zhang Shuo has nothing to copy, what will Jade Bird Entertainment do at that time?
Third, we don’t want Jade Bird Mutual Entertainment to be eager for quick success.
Smartphones are still in a period of high explosive growth, and the dividends of the mobile game industry are still being released at a rapid pace. While developing new mobile games is important, maintaining and operating old mobile games is equally important.
Zhang Shuo does not want to say that the game studio under Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment spends most of its energy on developing new mobile games and neglects to update and iterate the versions of old mobile games, so that it cannot keep up with the rhythm.
Then there are some losses outweighing the gains.
The number of phenomenal mobile games, even blockbuster mobile games, is ultimately limited, but the life cycle of a game can be very long, ranging from three to five years to ten years.
Some mobile games can also develop sequels.
If you can't squeeze out the value of these old mobile games to the maximum extent, what's the point of frantically developing new mobile games?
It's just superficial beauty, drinking poison to quench thirst.
Based on the above considerations, as well as the fact that the current mobile game market is still very limited and the potential of old mobile games is still being released, Zhang Shuo deliberately slowed down the development progress of Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment’s new mobile games.
Deliberately cooled for several months.
"How far is the development progress of the new version of Dota 2?" Zhang Shuo, who clearly knew the purpose of Cao and Liu's visit, deliberately did not mention the new game development plan, but was concerned about the development progress of Dota 2.
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This is also the highlight of Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment this year.
Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment can shine in the field of PC games, but we hope that Dota 2 can be reborn from the ashes.