"Look at how promising you are, you're here just to have a barbecue." Xia Zekai looked down upon the three of them.
Before the three of them arrived, he arranged for Wang Yi to call Qicheng Hotel and reserve a room. It seemed that it was no longer available.
The three of them didn't care. Wang Qiong said, "I've already eaten all the delicacies from the mountains and the sea, and I'm still missing this meal from you?"
"I just want to eat something ordinary right now, and barbecue is good."
Hearing what Wang Qiong said, Zhang Yiming and Liang Rubo also nodded.
Just like Wang Qiong said, including Xia Zekai, with their current status and status, there are really not many things they have never eaten. Besides, there are many more good cooks in the capital than in Qicheng, and Xia Zekai is still missing. Paused?
They all said so, and Xia Zekai ignored them: "Let's go, I'll take you to have a barbecue."
Not to mention the distance, there is one nearby, at the north gate of Ziyu Garden Community where Xia Zekai used to live. Unlike most barbecue restaurants in Qicheng, which only serve the meat skewers half-cooked, this barbecue restaurant The cleaned meat is directly skewered on the iron skewer and served directly.
All other condiments are prepared for you and you can bake them yourself.
Luo Xiyun was pregnant now, so she couldn't smell the fumes, so in the end she didn't go.
Yatou and Tongtong wanted to go along, but Luo Xiyun didn't let them go. Xia Zekai couldn't take care of them even if he chatted with the three of them.
If you can't eat or drink well, why go there? You might as well forget it at home.
Luo Xiyun said to them both: "Don't go, either of you. Let's make pineapple rice later."
"Okay, okay, I like to eat it the most." The two little sisters immediately behaved.
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It was not far away. Wang Yi drove the car, and Wu Jialei and three others followed behind in another car. When they arrived at the place, Xia Zekai and the four of them found a corner to sit down.
Different from the normal square table with four tables, the table seats here are all fixed, and the chairs are rows of chairs covered in soft sea leather. One chair can fit two people perfectly.
"Brother Xia, why is the food different from before?" Liang Rubo asked.
When he and Zhang Yiming came here before, they often held barbecues with Xia Zekai, but after returning to the capital, they couldn't taste the same.
"Let's bake it ourselves today. This store just opened, so it's quite interesting." Xia Zekai said.
When they heard that they had to bake it themselves, the three of them got excited.
Wang Yi and the four of them were divided into two tables. They occupied a table on each side of Xia Zekai's table and sat down to protect them.
After the waiter came, Xia Zekai ordered pure beef, pure lamb, and pork belly with garlic cloves. The rest was left to Wang Qiong and the other three to order what they wanted to eat.
Wang Yi had been following Xia Zekai for a long time, so he knew that politeness was useless. Both of them ordered a bunch of meat as if nothing had happened and grilled it slowly. They had to wait until Xia Zekai and the others finished eating.
"Brother Xia, have you checked whether your sister-in-law is pregnant with a boy or a girl this time?" Liang Rubo asked.
As soon as he finished speaking, Xia Zekai looked down on him: "Ru Bo, do you have a girlfriend now?"
Liang Rubo smiled "shyly": "Brother Xia, you know that I am too busy now. When Yi Xing goes through this stage and becomes stable again, I will take time to find a partner."
Xia Zekai said in his heart: "I knew it was like this."
He said: "Your sister-in-law has just found out that she is pregnant. At this time, it is impossible to tell whether she is male or female."
"Besides, boys and girls are the same, I don't care." Xia Zekai said calmly.
He really didn't care much.
Wang Qiong could see Xia Zekai's open-mindedness in his words, and her impression of Xia Zekai became much better.
"Boss Xia is right, girls are no worse than boys nowadays." She had deep opinions on Xia Zekai before.
Wang Qiong always felt that Xia Zekai had tricked her into dealing with the Nine-Nine Room.
Xia Zekai originally sold all the shares in Jiujiufang to Wang Qiong at a price increase. The more he thought about it, the more Wang Qiong felt that Xia Zekai did it on purpose.
There was also the subsequent increase in the price of Yixing shares. If these things were detailed one by one, there would be too many things. Wang Qiong felt that it was not bad enough.
But Xia Zekai's words today gave her a new understanding of Xia Zekai.
A man who single-handedly founded a company as big as Jingtong Development Co., Ltd. didn't even care about the issue of inheritance.
The waiter in the store brought them the barbecue they ordered.
When several people took a look, the meat skewers looked a little bloodshot, which was really fresh. The waiter also said: "The beef and mutton are all freshly killed and cut, and the pork belly is from Jinluo Cold Fresh Meat. A few guests can
Just put the meat skewers on the stove to grill, there is a seasoning box over there, if you need anything else, just call me."
It's very clear and understandable.
"Brother Xia, bring the meat skewers over and let me try it." Zhang Yiming seemed to be interested in something new.
Liang Rubo also thinks it's quite interesting, more interesting than the kind that's baked half-cooked in a store.
The four people were roasting slowly, and from time to time they could hear the sound of water droplets falling on the charcoal fire, followed by a puff of smoke, which was very interesting.
"Do you want to eat chili? Forget it, you can add whatever flavor you want." Xia Zekai thought about it and roasted it himself.
Xia Zekai brought the liquor himself, and even Wang Qiong was no exception. Each of them poured a glass without being impatient, talking, grilling meat skewers and drinking.
"Yiming, how much money do you need this time and what are your plans?" Xia Zekai asked him.
When it came to business, even Liang Rubo and Wang Qiong came back to their senses and stared at Zhang Yiming.
Zhang Yiming had an idea in mind. He said: "This is what I think about it. Toutiao currently only needs to ensure product updates, server expansion and user retention. What I think is that each of our four parties will contribute 100 million. According to the current situation,
If the amount is 400 million, there will be no problem with Toutiao's annual expenses. By this time next year, Toutiao's content will be richer and more complete in all aspects. If we are still short of money, we will seek more external financing.
Big funding.”
400 million is not a small amount, and in this way, the current shareholding ratio is maintained. For Zhang Yiming, maintaining the current situation unchanged is a good result.
But what people didn't expect was that Liang Rubo said: "Yiming, I can't afford so much money now."
Zhang Yiming subconsciously turned to look at his old classmate, and then heard him say: "The last time Yixing raised funds, I invested a little bit, and now I only have more than 30 million in hand."
When he said this, Zhang Yiming also remembered this incident and asked him: "Are you investing 30 million this round?"
Zhang Yiming’s ideal situation is to collect 400 million yuan in funds in this round.
But who knew the gap on his old classmate's side would be so big.
And he only has more than 100 million in funds, so a shortfall of 70 million will be difficult to deal with.
Xia Zekai and Wang Qiong must be rich, but then the current shareholding ratio will be broken.
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Liang Rubo shook his head: "Yixing will have no profit output for a long time. I must leave 10 million to be enough for me to deal with other emergencies. In this round of Toutiao, I can only spend 20 million at most."
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This is a difference of 80 million, which is even worse than the budget just now.
"Three hundred and twenty million is not a lot," Xia Zekai said.
Wang Qiong didn't interrupt for the time being. She raised her wine glass and said, "Don't just talk, let's have a drink first and eat something."
"If you don't eat it, these meat skewers will be burnt." She pointed to the meat skewers grilled on the stove, and one of them was burnt.
Zhang Yiming wanted to collect these 400 million. He was thinking about a question, where would the remaining 80 million come from?
And after this round, his shares will drop a bit.
Not much, he can accept it.
The method of grilling your own meat is also very novel, but this job itself is a technical job, and what they grill is actually not as delicious as what a professional grills.
After eating and drinking, we returned to the Ziyu Garden Villa area.
The three of them were still thinking about staying in a hotel, and Xia Zekai nagged them: "What kind of hotel should we go to? There is no place for you guys to rest in this part of Qicheng."
After returning to the villa area, Xia Zekai did not take them back to the villa near the artificial lake, but to a smaller one in the south.
Asking Wang Yi to go back and get the key, he opened the door. Looking at Wang Qiong and the other two people who were still confused, Xia Zekai pointed at the villa and said, "This is mine too. After the decoration, no one has lived in it. You guys
Just stay here tonight, it’s better than a hotel anyway.”
"Brother Xia, how many houses do you have?" Liang Rubo asked a question.
Even Zhang Yiming and Wang Qiong turned to look at him.
Xia Zekai said with a smile: "They are all worthless things. There is also a villa in this villa area, in the west, and it is not very big."
Xia Zekai said lightly.
His accumulation is far beyond what Zhang Yiming and Liang Rubo can match.
Even Wang Qiong can't compare with Xia Zekai in terms of houses. But having said that, Xia Zekai has more houses than her, but the price of houses in Qicheng is different from that in Magic City.
Zhang Yiming stayed up all night.
When Xia Zekai got up early in the morning for a run, he came over to call them, and he saw that Zhang Yiming was very tired.
"Yi Ming, love the bed?" Xia Zekai said.
Zhang Yiming shook his head: "Brother Xia, to be honest, I originally thought that one family's investment of 100 million was just right, but it turned out that there was such a difference with Lao Liang."
Xia Zekai didn't care at all. He said: "I thought it was such a big deal. Yiming, to put it bluntly, you care too much. This kind of thing is very common."
The two of them were running slowly in front. Zhang Yiming chewed on what Xia Zekai said. He understood what Xia Zekai meant.
Xia Zekai ran for a while and suddenly remembered something and asked him, "Do you need me to find another fund for you to fill the 80 million gap?"
"Where?" Zhang Yiming asked subconsciously.
Xia Zekai said: "Your sister-in-law Kaiyun has invested a lot of money, and she doesn't know where to put it. She is pregnant again now. I'm thinking of letting her invest a little here and a little there. It's too worrying for her to worry about it. I might as well invest it all at once for you."
Already."
Zhang Yiming was silent and did not speak. Xia Zekai asked him again: "Besides this 100 million, you should have money there."
When he, Zhang Yiming, and Liang Rubo sold the shares to Wang Qiongyi Travel, each of them received an after-tax bonus of 200 million yuan. None of them were the ones who squandered the money as soon as they got it. In such a short period of time, what happened to the money?
Maybe it will be gone if you say no.
Zhang Yiming nodded: "I do still have some."
"Then you give half of the 80 million and let your sister-in-law give half." Xia Zekai jumped on the spot for a while and stretched his calves. He said: "Don't worry, neither I nor your sister-in-law will be in today's headlines."
We will be consistent with you in terms of operation and development.”
This sentence broke through Zhang Yiming's psychological defense. After thinking for a while, he nodded: "Okay, that's it."
After the exercise, when he went back to the villa for dinner, Xia Zekai told his wife this matter alone.
After Luo Xiyun heard this, he was stunned for a moment: "Zekai, didn't you tell me before that you don't want external funds?"
"No, but Rubo can't afford so much money, and Yiming wants to maintain his share advantage, so just say whether you want to invest or not." Xia Zekai asked his wife.
Luo Xiyun took a deep breath and stretched out four fingers: "Forty million?"
"Yes, invest 40 million, don't interfere in the operation and management of Toutiao, and just wait for the company's value to appreciate. Once you sell the shares, you will surely become a rich woman."
"I am a rich woman now, okay!" Luo Xiyun said seriously.
She asked a question: "Zekai, can this matter be settled so simply?"
"How difficult do you think it is to invest RMB 1.8 million in a small company and not be able to explain it for several days?" Xia Zekai asked her.
Luo Xiyun had nothing to say, so she finally nodded: "Vote!"
This is an opportunity that her husband finally won for her. In this regard, she still trusts Xia Zekai's investment ability.
In Luo Xiyun's impression, Xia Zekai rarely invests randomly, but every project he invests in will make more or less profit.
Once this is settled, the rest is easy.
In this round of internal capital increase, Zhang Yiming himself invested 140 million, Xia Zekai and Wang Qiong each invested 100 million, Liang Rubo invested 20 million, Kaiyun Investment invested 40 million, and Toutiao's shares were re-divided.
With these 400 million in funds, according to Zhang Yiming's own estimation, there will be no worries about lack of funds in the next year.
In addition to normal development and updates, Toutiao now mainly focuses on external promotion, but their cumulative downloads have now exceeded 10 million.
Next they have to consider how to attract more people and retain them.
Rich content is what they should consider next.
When there was no news from the outside world, the capital increase was over, and Toutiao injected another huge sum of money.
Zhang Yiming and the three of them stayed in Qicheng for one more day, and went back on Monday morning.
I have a lot on my hands, but I don't want to play around all the time.
Xia Zekai called Sun Guoqiang again and asked him to transfer 100 million to him and ask him to pay the tax he should pay.
Sun Guoqiang no longer had the time to think about the use of funds with Xia Zekai. He could just follow his boss's orders.
