"I've been back to China for two days. How long do you have to go crazy outside before you remember that you still have a home in Xinhai? You won't even go home for dinner today, will you? You just have to socialize a lot?"
Mrs. Cao called with a lot of resentment, questioned her aggressively, and told Cao Mo to go home for dinner at night.
Cao Mo watched the setting sun set on the sparkling lake, as if billions of gold coins were shining in the lake, and said to Shen Ji, "That's it for today, why don't you come to my house for a meal? I'll have a meal at home two days after I come back." After breakfast, my grandma is very resentful now, and I have to go back quickly to please the old woman."
There are still many things to talk about, and there are many details to discuss, which will not be finished in a while. Shen Ji thinks of going to Cao Mo for a meal. It would be best to talk slowly at night when he has time.
"It's great, we can go shopping again." Zhou Han shouted happily.
"I spent all afternoon and night shopping yesterday. I'm already very good at shopping, but I feel a little injured. Do you still have to go shopping today?" Song Yuqing asked angrily, thinking to avoid Zhou Han, a shopping maniac. .
"You said it yourself, you just returned from Africa and you walked around for several days before you felt you should take a break?" Zhou Han grabbed Song Yuqing's arm and asked without giving up.
Zhou Han lived a meticulous life and was more particular than Cao Mo. But in Africa, on the one hand, he had no need to buy other than summer clothes. On the other hand, the local shopping malls were in poor condition and the public security was chaotic. Occasionally, he would be followed by bodyguards when he went to the mall, so he quickly bought some If you need the necessities and leave, you won't be interested in wandering around at all.
After finally returning to China, Song Yuqing spent an afternoon and evening shopping yesterday. How could she fully satisfy her shopping instinct that has been suppressed for too long?
Song Yuqing remembered how enthusiastic she was about shopping when she first returned to China, so she reluctantly was pulled out of Cao Mo's office by Zhou Han.
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"Are you sure you don't want to take my car and drive this shabby motorcycle to pick up Cheng Xi? Aren't you afraid of stopping in front of Yinguang Plaza and attracting onlookers?" Shen Ji opened the door of the Mercedes-Benz and saw Cao Mo walking in front of the black motorcycle. Taking out the helmet, the bodyguard also started the Chevrolet cross-country and turned out, patted his forehead and asked, "You are driving this motorcycle, and the bodyguard is following you in a Chevrolet. Don't you mind the trouble?"
"A broken motorcycle? What do you think? This is Tianyue's newly developed prototype. I am now a quasi-professional test driver for Tianyue. I don't know how many days I will be able to stay when I return to China this time. I don't usually have time. This serious job requires Race against time to do it." Cao Mo patted the motorcycle and said with a smile to Shen Ji.
Cao Mo himself enjoyed driving.
For the two companies of Cornero Cement and Ibogu Mining, Cao Mo focused on the big ones and let go of the small ones. He trusted Wendy Skaff, Kabuga and others to handle the specific production and operation management.
However, on Tianyue Industrial's side, the details of technology development were included in the work reports sent to him regularly. Cao Mo himself felt that the development of Tianyue's new model was overflowing from deep in his heart. enthusiasm.
The prototype of the second new motorcycle with enhanced power has been developed for half a year and is becoming mature in all aspects. Of course, when Cao Mo returns to China, he will race against time to experience the advantages and disadvantages of the new model in daily driving.
This is also the only thing he can currently do to directly participate in the development of new models.
"If Huachen cannot turn around its losses this year, it will face the risk of delisting. The outside world predicts that Huachen may remove some assets with serious losses from the listed company and replace them with some assets that are guaranteed to be profitable this year. Make sure to take off the ST hat first. .Have you ever heard of this?" Shen Ji thought of something and asked.
"Xu Bin told me this, but Huachen's motorcycle and engine business are still profitable, and the pickup truck and car production lines with serious losses have too large an asset package," Cao Mo sat on the motorcycle and said, "I I have always been paying attention to the situation of Huachen Industrial, and I am not without ideas, but a skinny camel is bigger than a horse. Huachen Industrial's pickup and car production lines are currently suffering serious losses, but if they really want to be packaged and separated from the listed company, there will be thirty or forty losses. The appearance of 100 million cannot be digested by Tianyue Industry at this time..."
Seeing that Cao Mo suddenly paused when he said this, Shen Ji asked, "What are you thinking about?"
"I came back to China this time to help solve the difficulties Dongsheng is facing, but some people in Dongsheng still treat me like a dumpling. This is really upsetting," Cao Mo said. "I think our attitude is also different. Don't be too weak, I will ask Xu Bin to contact Hua Chen tomorrow..."
Shen Ji knew that Cao Mo did this to put pressure on Dongsheng, but if Xu Bin came into contact with Hua Chen and the two parties had a pleasant conversation, then it would not be a matter of dividing some of the funds, or even Cao Mo's hands. The three to four billion funds raised now are not enough, and additional methods are needed to raise more funds.
When the time comes, Qian Wenhan and Dongjiang Securities will most likely be pulled over by Cao Mo, and Dongsheng will be unable to raise funds from Qian Wenhan and Dongjiang Securities.
"Okay, we'll talk about it in detail when we get to your house." Shen Ji sighed softly, thinking about going to Cao Mo's house first and then talking about it.
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In the evening, just as the traffic rush hour in Xinhai City was catching up, the mobility advantage of motorcycles was fully demonstrated. Cao Mo rushed to Yinguang Square first, and after being delayed for more than 20 minutes to pick up Cheng Xi from work, he almost arrived at Tianzifang with Shen Ji.
Cao Mo pushed the motorcycle into the yard and saw Cheng Xi's father sitting in the corridor drinking tea with his father. He asked curiously: "Hey, Uncle Cheng, why did you come here to have a meal?"
"You'd better remove the word 'ye'. It's true that my dad came over to eat, but you forced me here." Cheng Xi hugged Cao Mo's arm and said coquettishly.
"I mean that shameless Shen Ji, who dares to speak against you?" Cao Mo said with a smile.
"..." Cheng Zhengjie looked at the black motorcycle that Cao Mo had just parked and said, "You are still pretending to be a pig and eating the tiger. If you don't build a good car, is it worthy of your net worth?"
"This motorcycle looks inconspicuous. More than 70 million yuan was invested in its development. There are only three units in the world. Most of the parts are handmade. How can it be inferior to any super luxury car?" Cao Mo said with a smile.
Cao Mo looked around and saw Chen Rong talking on the phone in the living room. He did not see the figure of Cheng Xi's mother, Yang Lifang, but it was not surprising that Yang Lifang had not been in contact with their family in these years. This awkwardness would not disappear anytime soon. of.
Cao Mo and Cheng Xi went to the backyard to say hello to Mrs. Cao who was busy in the kitchen, and then walked back to the front yard. Just as they were about to pull up a chair and sit down, they saw Han Shuyun walking in with a small bag on his back.
Han Shuyun didn't know who he was talking to on the phone.
She was so happy that her face suddenly dropped when she saw Cao Mo. She was as cold as ice and ignored everyone, and went straight upstairs to her room without saying a word.
During the holidays, Han Shuyun could wander around, go on trips with classmates, etc., and it was easy to pass the time. But when he returned to school after the holidays, he couldn't get used to living in a dormitory. When he returned to his father's place, there were only a few nannies who could take care of his daily life in every possible way. Other than that, it's really lonely and boring.
She may not be able to have a meal with her father two or three days out of ten days, and sometimes she even has to meet a vulgar woman who is inexplicable and obviously very hypocritical but tries her best to please her, which makes her even more irritable.
Living in Tianzifang, even if I shut myself in my room most of the time, or go to a cafe on the street to kill time with a book or laptop, I still don't have that unbreakable feeling of loneliness deep in my heart.
It's just that Cao Mo's face is really annoying.
Han Shuyun wanted Cao Mo not to return home, but she had nothing to do living here. But when she walked to the second floor, she suddenly thought that Cheng Zhengjie was here, and Cheng Xi was still brazenly flirting with Cao Mo?
How is this going?
Could it be that Cheng Xi’s mother didn’t strongly object to the relationship between Cheng Xi and Cao Mo, so she made it public?
When Han Shuyun walked into the room, he couldn't help but push the window open a crack and peeked at Cao Mo and the others talking in the corridor downstairs. Cheng Xi sat next to Cao Mo with a low stool and occasionally put his arm on Cao Mo when they were talking and laughing.
On Mo's lap, they looked like a couple, and she no longer avoided her dad...
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After dinner, Han Shuyun pushed the dishes and chopsticks as usual and went upstairs to her room. Mrs. Cao felt that she could take care of the family's daily life, but she was very stubborn and refused to use a nanny.
Cheng Xi wanted to help Chen Rong and Jiaying clear away the messy dishes on the dinner table, but Chen Rong persuaded her to stop: "I'm just going to show off, you don't have to rush to show off, sit down and chat with your dad and the others."
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Cao Mo accompanied Cheng Zhengjie, his father and Shen Ji to sit in the teahouse drinking tea. The windows were open and the cool night breeze blew slowly from the Qingtang River.
Chen Rong was also quickly kicked out of the kitchen by Mrs. Cao. She walked over and took off her apron, sat down next to Cao Xiong, looked at Cao Mo, and Shen Ji asked: "Shen Ji told me about the afternoon meeting of Dongsheng's board of directors.
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"...Huachen may want to spin off the loss-making pickup and sedan production lines from the listed company. I plan to let Xu Bin contact Huachen first." Cao Mo nodded and said his plan. He will definitely give Ding Zhaoqiang and Dong
Sheng's other directors exerted some pressure. As for whether this method was appropriate, he still had to talk to Chen Rong.
"..." Chen Rong could only shrug, unable to express any opinion.
After the major banks tightened their money supply, they basically had no loan quota to real estate developers. Even if there was, it was very limited, there were many people competing for it, and the costs behind the scenes were also very high. Others, such as trusts, private equity funds, and similar financial investment institutions
, their funds pursue stable returns with controllable risks, and the interest released has long exceeded twelve points.
Cao Mo now has a lot of funds, and he really wants to take the risk to buy the bottom. At a time when money is extremely tight, he has a lot of high-quality assets to choose from, so why would he think that Dongsheng would be taking a big advantage by giving him three or four more points?
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Even though Chen Rong herself owns Dongsheng Group and holds shares of Dongsheng Real Estate, she doesn't think Cao Mo will suffer this loss at all.
Of course, Chen Rong is not worried about how much personal loss she will suffer.
To put it bluntly, the biggest risk of liquidity problems and the break of the capital chain is the debt crisis. Especially the Ding family and other large and small shareholders, in addition to Dongsheng Real Estate and listed companies, have to bear additional burdens for the need of rapid development.
A lot of debt.
The same is true for Chen Rong.
However, even if Chen Rong personally defaults on an additional loan of nearly 200 million yuan from the bank, whether it is Cao Mo or Dongjiang Securities as a guarantee, the assets and shares she pledged to the bank will not be auctioned. You can wait until the end to see the results.
Cao Mo hesitated for a while, and finally said to Chen Rong and Shen Ji: "I have actually suspected Dong Chengpeng for a long time that there is something wrong with Dongsheng's board of directors this afternoon. Has he been secretly stoking trouble?"
"What's wrong with Dong Chengpeng?" Chen Rong asked in surprise.
In her early years, she mainly followed Han Shaorong to work hard in the world. After breaking up with Han Shaorong, she got Dongsheng's shares, and because she had financial management skills, she officially joined Dongsheng and became Dongsheng's executive vice president.
Dong Chengpeng joined Dongsheng in the late 1980s and has always followed Ding Zhaoqiang. Dong Chengpeng's personal ability is very strong, but it can also be said that everything he accomplished was achieved by the Ding family. At the same time, his personal interests are also closely related to Dongsheng was tied up with the Ding family. It was hard for Chen Rong to imagine what problems Dong Chengpeng would have.
Although Cheng Zhengjie and Cheng Xi are not very familiar with the Dongsheng family, the upper class circle in Xinhai City is actually very narrow. What's more, they all had some intersection in the early years, and they all knew about Dong Chengpeng's existence.
They all knew that Dong Chengpeng held less shares in Dongsheng than Chen Rong, but in the minds of Ding Zhaoqiang and the rest of the Ding family, he was definitely a direct descendant who was more trustworthy and reliable than Chen Rong. They looked at Cao Mo in confusion. I know he saw something wrong with Dong Chengpeng.
"Dong Chengpeng disagrees with me on many aspects concerning the development of Tianyue Industrial and other Dongsheng-owned companies, almost openly. He doesn't hide anything and seems to be doing business," Cao Mo wouldn't be so stupid as to say Cheng Xi talked about Xu Xin in front of him and drank tea and said, "But for this time, Dong Chengpeng is a little emotional. What reason does he have to exclude me from Dongsheng?"
When Cao Mo was short of funds several times in Kanem, he always directly opened the capital injection gap and absorbed Dongsheng's capital injection at a relatively low discount; Dongsheng exchanged some shares with strong growth potential and obtained much higher than the so-called interest. Growth income.
The rapid growth of Cornero Energy, Cornero Food and Tianyue Industry in recent years has proved this point.
Although Dongsheng subsequently focused on the development of domestic industries and no longer participated in the capital injection of Gulf of Guinea shipping and Ibogu Mining, Cao Mo's capital injection conditions for strategic partners such as Shen Ji were extremely generous and cheap.
Since Dongsheng Real Estate is currently facing such great financial pressure, and the relationship between the two parties cannot be said to be close, it is necessary to open a certain capital injection gap and let Tianyue directly take part of the shares to share the risks and share in the future high growth of Dongsheng Real Estate. The benefits it brings are just a matter of course.
Not only Cao Mo himself, but Chen Rong and Shen Ji all thought that when Cao Mo came back this time, the focus of the negotiations between the two parties should be
What size of capital injection gap should be opened, the price of capital injection and share increase, and how much additional lending liability should Cao Mozhao have in proportion to the capital injection and share exchange.
The Ding family holds 70% of the shares of Dongsheng Real Estate, and has directly injected more than 2 billion in capital. In addition, it has also lent nearly 3 billion in funds to Dongsheng Real Estate for use. These funds are all shares of the listed company held by the Ding family. The mortgage loan was resold to Dongsheng Real Estate, and the Ding family did not calculate a penny more interest on it, which was their responsibility as a major shareholder.
The same is generally true for other shareholders. Part of their investment in Dongsheng Real Estate is direct capital injection and shareholding, and part is borrowing money from Chen Rong. She also raised an additional 200 million and loaned it to Dongsheng Real Estate for use.
This is equivalent to equalizing the rights and responsibilities of shareholders.
Therefore, if Cao Mo really wants to inject capital into shares, he should also bear certain lending responsibilities.
At this time, I expected Cao Mo to step forward and be a white horse knight for Dongsheng. Even Ding Zhaoqiang was ready to convert shares at a low price. However, at the afternoon board meeting, Dong Chengpeng and two other directors and shareholders who were more important than Chen Rong, They all strongly opposed opening the capital injection gap, so they thought of borrowing a sum of cash from Cao Mo at a higher interest rate. Chen Rong and Shen Ji were both surprised.
To be honest, Chen Rong and Shen Ji prefer to believe that in the eyes of Dong Chengpeng and others, they feel that the situation is not that bad, and it is likely that it will get better after a while, or that they still have ways to borrow enough funds from other channels. They are not willing to Their interests in Dongsheng Real Estate were diluted by others with cheap chips.
Dongsheng Real Estate has a relatively large portfolio. Whether it is a direct listing or a shell listing through asset restructuring, it is very difficult. Therefore, last year, in order to solve the problem of financial pressure, Dongsheng Real Estate tried to attract capital injections.
But last year, even at the end of the year, the situation was far from as precarious as it is now.
At that time, Dongsheng Real Estate made an offer with a valuation of 20 billion, and had several rounds of talks with multiple investment institutions, but unfortunately all ended in vain.
Until now, even though the investment institutions we had contacted before expressed interest in investing in Dongsheng Real Estate, they were only willing to accept a valuation of 10 billion at most.
Dongsheng Real Estate has a net worth of 8 to 9 billion. A year ago, if any investment institution said it would only accept a valuation of 10 billion from Dongsheng Real Estate, Ding Zhaoqiang would have kicked them out.
Even under the current situation, it is easy to understand that Dong Chengpeng and others are unwilling to accept capital injection at such a low valuation.
Chen Rong and Shen Ji had never thought about Dong Chengpeng's problems before, and the other two important directors and shareholders were strongly opposed. They thought that if they talked about injecting capital at this time, Cao Mo would definitely lower the price too harshly, so they simply didn't Talked.
Of course, Chen Rong and Shen Ji can also understand that Dong Chengpeng has problems from Cao Mo's perspective.
The other two directors and shareholders have nothing to do with Cao Mo. They are wary of Cao Mo, but that's fine.
Even if the situation is not that bad, Dong Chengpeng should know that with such a deep relationship between the two parties, Cao Mo is qualified to enjoy the treatment and quotation of a strategic investor.
At this time, Dong Chengpeng stood up and opposed opening the capital injection window for Cao Mo. He didn't even give him a chance to talk. It didn't look like it was a business matter.
The question is what does Ding Zhaoqiang think in his heart, or is Ding Zhaoqiang actually quite happy to see Dong Chengpeng stand up and be a villain and test Cao Mo's background?
Also, why did Dong Chengpeng object to Cao Mo being a strategic investor and being more closely tied to Dongsheng?
"Last year you took me to Chonghai to see the Ziying Lake project, and accidentally happened upon my brother-in-law asking Chen Fan to intercede. After we broke the story, it was supposed to end without any resolution, but coincidentally, Lu Yan and Guo Jian were the second I rushed directly to Chonghai to find my brother-in-law the day before, and I didn’t contact him through any channels afterwards.”
Cao Mo was not stupid enough to talk about Xu Xin in front of Cheng Xi, even though he and Xu Xin had nothing to do with each other, so he brought up the story about bumping into his brother-in-law in Chonghai at the end of last year and said,
"I knew about this at the time, so I suspected that someone close to your uncle had tipped off Lu Yan, but I didn't want you to be upset, so I didn't mention it to you. Now I have even more reason to suspect that this person is Dong Chengpeng."
"Dong Chengpeng knew both Lu Jianchao and Lu Jiancheng, but why did he have to secretly communicate with the Lu family?" Shen Ji still found it unbelievable.
"Did Han Shaorong have some secret deal with Dong Chengpeng?" After all, Chen Rong had lived with Han Shaorong for so many years. Cao Mo even talked about this, so how could she not be able to contact Han Shaorong?
Only Han Shaorong has more motivation than the Lu family to prevent Cao Mo from getting closer to Dong Sheng, and he is also more capable than the Lu family to bribe Dong Chengpeng.
The Lu family is still weaker, worse than the Ding family. What qualifications does it have to make Dong Chengpeng abandon the Ding family and secretly flirt with them?
"I also suspected this, but I couldn't find direct evidence," Cao Mo said. "I initially suspected that Dong Chengpeng was just targeting me because my personality is too unpleasant. Now I suspect that they have a deeper intention... …”
Although Shen Ji still didn't quite understand why Dong Chengpeng secretly colluded with Han Shaorong, no matter what he did in the past few years, Cao Mo at least never looked at people with a blind eye, so he couldn't help but think deeply about the possibility of Dong Chengpeng colluding with Han Shaorong. And what exactly are they trying to plot...
And after contacting the other two directors and shareholders who were in the board meeting today and opposed opening the capital injection gap with Dong Chengpeng, Shen Ji couldn't help but suspect that the other two directors and shareholders had also secretly negotiated terms with Han Shaorong.
Shen Ji could also imagine the risks that would arise if Dong Chengpeng and the two directors had different aspirations when the economic situation was so urgent and Dongsheng was experiencing internal and external troubles.
However, he is not a fledgling boy who will immediately run to his uncle regardless of the situation and expose the true colors of Dong Chengpeng and others.
After all, Cao Mo has no real evidence. A few small things may show that Dong Chengpeng has intentions against Cao Mo, but they cannot explain more.
They had close contact with Cao Mo and understood each other well, so they believed in Cao Mo's judgment.
If he really wanted to run up to his uncle and say something was wrong with Dong Chengpeng, he might have bad intentions towards Dong Sheng. His uncle's first reaction would probably be to suspect that something was wrong with him, and that he was ordered by Cao Mo to run over and say something about Dong Chengpeng. Bad words
"Headache!" Shen Ji banged his head and asked Cao Mo, "Besides these two points, what other clues did you see that could indicate something is wrong with Dong Chengpeng?"
Shen Ji is a member of the Ding family, so of course he cannot sit idly by, but he also knows his uncle's character. If he wants to expose Dong Chengpeng, he needs more evidence...