Recast youth

Chapter 2232 The first step towards capital

Guo Kongnian's attitude is very sincere.

However, Ye Feng is not a fool. Although Guo Kongnian is not the actual owner of the South China Morning Post, he is the chairman of a mainland business giant. He has been in business for many years. How could there be a low-level mistake that he and his uncle did not communicate well?
And the South China Morning Post is worth US$3 million.

How can a US$3 million industry be so careless?

In any case, Ye Feng would definitely not believe it.

Ye Feng wouldn't believe it, and Chen Huang naturally wouldn't believe these words either. He was the one who contacted the North China Morning Post acquisition. Now that something went wrong, he picked up the tea cup and took a sip of tea.

Then he leaned back and leaned on the sofa. The aura of the red background was instantly revealed. He looked at Guo Kongnian with a smile and said: "Mr. Guo, you haven't been working hard in the mall for a year or two, so don't use these things." You’re just trying to fool us with your rhetoric, just tell us what conditions you want and see if we can negotiate.”

Guo Kongnian was a little embarrassed when he heard this.

He knew Chen Huang's background. To be honest, he admired Ye Feng for being rich and wanted to be friends with Ye Feng, but Guo Kongnian was actually more in awe of people like Chen Huang.

Low-key.

There is a background.

If Guo Kongnian's grain and oil company wants to develop smoothly in the mainland, it must not offend such people. Otherwise, he will use his connections to inspect product quality alone, which will be enough for his company.

"I can't hide it from Mr. Chen."

Guo Kongnian was also very afraid of Chen Huang, so he mentioned the purpose of this time. He turned to Ye Feng and said, "Mr. Ye has a Weibo company under his name, right?"

As soon as Guo Kongnian opened his mouth, Ye Feng understood Guo Kongnian's intention. Now that Weibo has shown great potential among unicorn companies and is not listed yet, Guo Kongnian wanted to invest in Weibo's original stock.

However, Ye Feng didn't show anything. Instead, he looked at Guo Kongnian calmly and said, "Is Mr. Guo interested in Weibo's original shares?"

"Somewhat interested."

Guo Kongnian admitted frankly, but then he immediately explained: "But don't worry, Mr. Ye, I'm not that greedy. It's just that the Internet has developed very fast in the past few years. To be honest, sometimes old people like us who are doing business, I really can’t understand the speed of change of Internet companies and why they are so valuable, so I would like to take this opportunity to keep pace with the times and learn from Mr. Ye.”

What Guo Kongnian said is actually correct.

Let’s not talk about Lanshan and Weibo.

Take Penguin as an example. Around 06, Penguin was listed in Hong Kong with a market value of just over 100 billion US dollars. But what about two years later?Penguin's total market value has risen to $800 billion.

This is simply unimaginable for Guo Kongnian, who is a real-life enterprise. It is unimaginable not only for him, but also for the Asian Sugar King behind him.

Because according to their past business experience, making money is actually accumulated bit by bit over time, but the Internet is different. Internet companies jump up in several levels.

How exciting is this for the big guys who are doing their job to make real money?Decades of hard work are not as good as the change in market value in one year.

Who can understand?

No one can understand.

Not to mention Guo Kongnian, even the current bosses of these Internet companies, can they understand?No, they don't have this concept in their minds at all. Some of them just try to maximize data and make money.

Including Ye Feng, this is actually the case.

His current layout is all about improving his Internet ecological cycle. Hearing what Guo Kongnian said, Ye Feng couldn't help but said: "The times are changing, and there are some things that we ourselves cannot understand. However, the Internet is not a precedent. In the stock market, , has been like this for a long time. I wonder if there is a movie called Big Era. Has Mr. Guo seen it? If Mr. Guo has seen it, he should understand why Internet companies are so valuable." Guo Kongnian understood Ye Feng's words after hearing this. meaning.

In fact, if you know everything about the shopping mall, you can know everything. There are many things that can be followed, such as the stock market. What is everyone pursuing?The pursuit of benefits, and the same is true for the Internet.

Everyone comes in to pursue the benefits.

This has pushed the market value of Internet companies to a new high. At this time, can they really make so much money?Not necessarily, although Penguin will become a trillion-level giant in the future.

But who can know now?
If someone was really so sure, Li Chaoren would not have let his son sell Penguin's shares back then.

As for Ye Feng, if he didn't have the plug-in of rebirth, he couldn't be sure how far Penguin, Ali, or Lanshan would reach in the future. Watching as he walked, getting on and off the bus countless times along the way, it was definitely going to happen.

Guo Kongnian thought about it for a while, then made the final decision with Ye Feng, and said: "Actually, Mr. Ye wants 51% of the shares of the North China Morning Post. It is not impossible. In terms of price, I will give Mr. Ye the maximum discount, 1.5 million U.S. dollars." ."

to be honest.

Given the influence of North China Morning Post, the asking price of US$3 million is not excessive at all. However, the difference between the equity ratio of 51% and 49% may seem to be only 2%, but in fact it has a huge difference.

It comes down to control.

Therefore, Guo Kongnian’s price of US$1.5 million is really not expensive at all.

As the saying goes, there is no such thing as pie in the sky.

Ye Feng said nothing, waiting for Guo Kongnian's follow-up.

Sure enough, Guo Kongnian looked at Ye Feng and continued: "I just told Mr. Ye about my idea. When Mr. Ye's Weibo goes public, I want to hold some original shares of your company."

Ye Feng asked, "What if I regret it then?"

Guo Kongnian seemed not to have expected that Ye Feng would come out like this, but after thinking about it for a while, Guo Kongnian still said: "If Mr. Ye regrets it, just pretend that I didn't say this today."

"Okay, deal."

Ye Feng agreed to Guo Kongnian's request.

It's not that Ye Feng compromised with Guo Kongnian for the North China Morning Post, but before Weibo's listing, there must be a part of the public shareholding, so transferring part of the original shares to Guo Kongnian is not a particularly difficult thing. After all, good things in the world, How can I let you take it all by yourself?
The conversation has reached this point.

It's a lot more harmonious down there.

Ye Feng, Chen Huang and Guo Kongnian confirmed the details of Bei China Morning Post's acquisition, personnel and management. Kerry Media will continue to hold 49% of the controlling stake in Bei China Morning Post, while Ye Feng holds 51% of the shares.

In this way, the North China Morning Post, a newspaper with a history of nearly a century in Hong Kong, began to change hands.

However, it will take some time before the North China Morning Post really belongs to Ye Feng. At present, it is only a verbal agreement between the two parties. We will have to wait for the acquisition contract and other matters to be implemented in detail before the North China Morning Post really belongs to Ye Feng.

Ye Feng doesn't really want to change the specific personnel framework, and plans to keep the original team.

But in the management, Ye Feng plans to put Li Bing in. In addition, he will give Wang Xiaoqiang a separate office in the corner. This is also Ye Feng's first step towards capital.

(End of this chapter)