During the period when Magnesium Tuan was merged into Cao Cao Dianping, things were generally uneventful.
The reason is simple. The employees of Magnesium Tuan have already experienced a merger before.
Although they are the merged party this time, as low-level employees, as long as the company does not significantly lay off employees, who cares who the boss is.
What's more, Chen Dongcheng's reputation has always been very good.
Cao Cao's companies are famous for their good welfare benefits.
The public's wishes and the management's focus on showing off to the new boss also resulted in this merger being quite smooth.
Zhang Tao has been so busy lately that he hit the back of his head with his foot, and Wang Xing is just the general manager in name.
In fact, I no longer pay attention to the specific matters of the company, and focus on looking for an industry to start a business again.
The two huge companies merged, with more than 60,000 employees.
This amount gave Zhang Tao quite a headache.
But the main problem now is that there is not enough office space.
Although the Trust Plaza is large, it can only accommodate most employees from Cao Cao Dianping.
Now that the employees at Magnesium Group have been merged into the company, their salary has increased fivefold.
No matter what happened before, we are all employees of the same company now, so we can't favor one over the other.
Therefore, Zhang Tao found Chen Dongcheng again and wanted to see what this person had to say first.
"How much capital does the company have now?"
"Cash equivalents are about 36 billion, of which 22 billion are in magnesium groups."
Speaking of this, Zhang Tao couldn't help but feel a little emotional.
If Chen Dongcheng hadn't dealt with Xiao Ma first, Magnesium Group's funds were quite strong and it would have been impossible to lose so quickly.
"It's not bad. Let's use part of it to buy an office building first. Since Magnesium Group has decided to develop in the capital, it has to show off its muscles with other companies."
Chen Dongcheng's style of doing things is completely different from Wang Xing's.
If it were Wang Xing, he would definitely be reluctant to spend more than one billion to buy an office building.
If you have that kind of money, wouldn’t it be nice to open more businesses and increase the valuation?
But Cao Cao’s group buying now is different from Wang Xing’s time.
The market has formed a monopoly, but there is too much money.
There is no need to burn money, and with the size of Are You Hungry?, it is too difficult to challenge Cao Cao’s group buying position.
Unless Chen Dongcheng, Zhang Tao and others lose their minds, they have no chance of overturning Cao Cao's leading position in group buying.
"Hey, I'm just waiting for you to let go. What do you think of this office building?"
Zhang Tao chuckled and immediately took out the documents in his hand, obviously fully prepared.
"Okay, you want to play tricks with me? Let me see, Ark Building?"
Chen Dongcheng gave Zhang Tao a funny look and looked at the document carefully: "The owner is the Maple Tree Group in Singapore?"
"Yes, I have investigated this company. It is a typical multinational company that hoards commercial assets as an investment method. As long as the price is reasonable, they will definitely be willing to sell it."
Zhang Tao glanced at Chen Dongcheng's expression and showed no intention of refusing. He felt happy and continued to introduce.
"This building is quite old. It is part of the first phase of Zhongguancun Software Park. Although it is called a building, it is only three stories high and covers a very large area."
"This is a real picture. Take a look. It covers an area of 22,700 square meters and a construction area of 19,700 square meters. It includes 112 parking spaces, tennis courts, basketball courts, staff restaurants, etc. After we buy it, we can house almost eight people.
Thousands of employees.”
"What about the price?"
Chen Dongcheng took a few glances, and there was no need to say much about the Zhongguancun Software Park.
It can be called China’s Silicon Valley, where many well-known companies gather.
If Cao Cao's group buying settled there, it would indirectly improve his own performance.
"Mapletree Group acquired this building in 2014 for 420 million. I guess the other party's appetite is not small, but it can definitely be acquired within 800 million."
Zhang Tao felt a little guilty when talking about the price. The price is really not low.
In another location, it would be enough to buy a piece of land and build a headquarters of my own.
But who said this is the capital?
What's more, that building is still in Zhongguancun.
Chinese Silicon Valley!
Moreover, the most important task of the newly merged Cao Cao Group Buying Group is to go public, and there is not much time to slowly build the headquarters.
By the time the headquarters was finished, the day lilies were already cold.
"You should make an appointment to meet with the other party first to see the other party's intention to sell. If we can negotiate within 750 million, I have no problem with it."
Chen Dongcheng made a brief assessment and found that the large-scale office building transactions in Beijing were not too many in the first place.
Such a scarce project will attract many competitors.
"Don't worry, I will definitely cut the price to less than 750 million."
Zhang Tao was immediately overjoyed. If the price still couldn't be negotiated, he really had to raise his head to see Mr. Chen.
"Don't be too happy yet. The Ark Building can only handle 8,000 people. Where are the remaining 40,000 people?"
Chen Dongcheng waved his hand and rubbed his eyebrows. He had been worried about this matter recently.
"Well, why don't we let them hold on first?"
Zhang Tao is also a clever woman who can't make a living without rice, so the company can't keep buying properties, right?
Even if Mr. Chen has no objection, will other shareholders agree?
"No, people don't worry about scarcity, but about inequality. Think about it. If you buy the Ark Building and 8,000 people move in, what will the remaining employees think?"
Chen Dongcheng rejected Zhang Tao's proposal without hesitation.
"Do you have any other projects on hand?"
Chen Dongcheng thought that since Zhang Tao wanted to buy an office building, he couldn't just focus on one Ark Building.
"Well, Mr. Chen, I have learned about other projects, but they are all too expensive, none of them are less than one billion."
Zhang Tao is still a bit worried. Buying an office building is not buying cabbage.
Within one billion, with the current size of Cao Cao Group Buying, it is very easy.
But if it's an office building worth several billion, it's a bit of a stretch.
"Bring it to me first, and then we'll talk about the rest."
Chen Dongcheng waved his hand, and Zhang Tao quickly asked someone to send detailed information on other projects.
"Huh? Is this a piece of land?"
Chen Dongcheng looked at the information, suddenly stopped and looked up at Zhang Tao.
"Ah? Are you talking about the land in Changping District?"
Zhang Tao was stunned for a moment. He didn't expect the boss to suddenly ask about this land, but he still introduced: "The nature of this land is F2 public mixed residential land, with a total land size of 46,848 square meters and a total planned building area of 137,272 square meters."
"That's good. The area is not small. Many real estate companies should be interested, right?"
When Chen Dongcheng heard this, he secretly thought it was a pity and had no other thoughts.
Although their Internet company has money, they cannot compete with those real estate companies when it comes to buying land.
"On the contrary, this land is a bit tasteless."
Zhang Tao shook his head, his expression somewhat disgusted.
"Huh? How do you say it?" Chen Dongcheng was a little curious.
“The main reason is that the division of this land is rather awkward, with public buildings accounting for 70% and residential buildings accounting for 30%.”
“In addition to complying with the industrial development direction of Changping District, the winning bidder must also own 50% of the scale of the above-ground public buildings for no less than 20 years.”
“If you need to transfer or split and sell the property after the expiration, you must obtain the consent of the Changping District Government before handling the relevant procedures.”
“The conditions are so harsh that real estate companies simply cannot develop it on their own.”
"That's why this land will be used to attract powerful partners."
Zhang Tao spread his hands: "To put it bluntly, real estate companies are afraid that this land will fall into their hands. The residential area is only 30%, and the public building area has to be held for 20 years. It will cost them their lives."
Outside real estate companies are not interested, which means there will be few competitors.
It happened that Magnesium Group had a large number of employees and needed a new headquarters building.
Even if it is temporarily unavailable, it doesn't matter. As long as it gives everyone a hope, everyone at least has something to look forward to.