Chapter 1554 Merger Plan

After Su Xueqing and Zheng Li toasted, they went back to their private room.

Pi Yangyang, Li Wei and others continued to discuss the plan of opening a branch company in the provincial capital.

A head poked stealthily in at the door, with a fawning smile on his face. He looked at the people in the room but didn't dare to go in easily.

Pi Yangyang was sitting right in front of the door and he saw the man at a glance.

When he recognized this person, he couldn't help but frown and said, "Zhu Zhenghao, what are you doing sticking your head out?"

It turned out that this person was their classmate, Zhu Zhenghao, the general manager of Sihaitongda Logistics.

According to Li Wei, Zhu Zhenghao once wanted to acquire Jiuzhou Yunda in order to monopolize Qingjiang Logistics.

However, unexpectedly, Pi Yangyang intervened and Jiuzhou Yunda not only came back to life, but also quickly surpassed Sihai Tongda and became the number one logistics company in Qingjiang.

The situation has reversed in the past few months. Jiuzhou Yunda has been unable to receive many orders, while Sihai Shipping's orders have been decreasing day by day.

In particular, some old customers who had long-term cooperation with Sihai also turned to Jiuzhou.

In the first two months, Sihai received almost no large orders, and only some small orders with thin profits occasionally came to them.

For this reason, Zhu Zhenghao's father was furious and threatened several times to remove Zhu Zhenghao from his position as general manager.

Zhu Zhenghao quickly asked around and conducted an investigation. Eventually, he found that all of their old customers from all over the world had collectively turned to Jiuzhou.

Even some of their truck drivers from all over the world jumped to Kyushu.

Jiuzhou is their competitor, and their customers have all run over to it. As a result, the gap in scale between the two companies has widened further.

He told his father about the situation, but his father couldn't come up with any good solution.

Although they took measures such as reducing logistics costs, giving out discount coupons, and even finding some company CEOs in charge of logistics and giving them direct kickbacks, none of them worked.

Those old customers, if they are polite, will still say a few words to me, but if they are impolite, I won’t even see them.

At this moment, both Zhu and his son panicked.

The company maintains so many vehicles, rents train cars and cargo ships, and employs hundreds of people, all of which require expenses.

After a month without orders, the company ran into financial problems.

To date, part of the employees’ wages have been in arrears and they have been sued by the labor and social security department.

If this continues, the company will inevitably go bankrupt and will have to owe a huge debt.

Zhu's father and son panicked. They learned that the reason Jiuzhou had been able to develop so amazingly was because Pi Yangyang had invested in it.

The "second generation group" that Pi Yangyang recently created in Beijing has already spread throughout the national business circles.

With the endorsement of the four largest families in the country, who wouldn’t want to hand over the business to Pi Yangyang’s company?

So the father and son finally lamented in despair, knowing that there was no way to save the situation.

The only way they could think of to stop the loss was to sell Sihai.

However, in Qingjiang now, Jiuzhou is the only dominant company, and the others are all small companies. No one can swallow up a big company like Sihai.

Even if there is capital to swallow it, no one is stupid enough to buy Sihai to compete with Jiuzhou.

So, even though Sihai has been advertising the product for sale for over a month, no one has shown interest in it.

In the end, Zhu Zhenghao thought of Li Wei.

The only way is to sell the Four Seas to Jiuzhou, because only Jiuzhou has the ability to swallow the Four Seas, and only Jiuzhou dares to merge the Four Seas.

Half a year ago, Zhu Zhenghao would never have believed that his Four Seas would one day be annexed by Li Wei's Nine Provinces.

But reality gave him a hard slap in the face.

The more arrogant they were in the past, the more miserable they are now.

He tried every possible means to find out that Li Wei had come to Yangui Tower for dinner, so he went to find him.

The purpose was to persuade Li Wei to merge with Sihaitongda.

He also had a plan in mind. Instead of selling all of Sihai, he would make Sihai a stake in Jiuzhou, even if it was just to make it a branch company under Jiuzhou.

In this way, at least his Zhu family can still retain shares in the logistics company, and can even rely on Jiuzhou to make money without doing anything.

Although he was very unconvinced in his heart, he still forced a full smile on his face and tried to lower his posture as much as possible.

Hearing Pi Yangyang's voice, Li Wei, Pan Zhishun and Chen Xing all looked towards the door in surprise.

Zhu Zhenghao no longer hid, pushed the door open and said, "Dear students, what a coincidence, I am having dinner with a client here, and I heard your voices at the door, so... I came in to say hello."

Chen Xing said, "Mr. Zhu is so polite?"

Zhu Zhenghao smiled awkwardly and said, "We are classmates after all. It's only right for us to say hello when we meet."

Pi Yangyang said calmly: "Boss Zhu, how about sitting down and having a couple of drinks and some food?"

Zhu Zhenghao quickly said, "I've already eaten and was about to go back. I heard your voices and came in to say hello. I can't eat anymore, so how about I offer a glass of wine to my old classmates..."

As he spoke, he asked the waiter to bring a wine glass.

Li Wei poured him a glass and said, "Mr. Zhu, do you have something to say?"

Zhu Zhenghao held up the wine glass and said, "Let's drink first. I toast to everyone..."

Then he tilted his head back and drank the wine.

When he put down his glass, Li Wei said, "If you have anything to say, just say it."

Zhu Zhenghao didn't sit down either. He stood beside the table and tried to smile. "Mr. Li, I do have something I want to discuss with you."

Li Wei said, "Hmm," and said, "I'm all ears."

In fact, Li Wei had heard about the difficulties of Sihai Tongda a long time ago.

It's just that he has been busy with the development of the company recently and has no time to pay attention to Sihai's affairs.

Now seeing Zhu Zhenghao being humble, I roughly guessed the purpose of his coming here.

But he remained calm and waited for Zhu Zhenghao to speak out himself.

"It's like this. Mr. Li's Jiuzhou Yunda is developing very well now and has become the largest logistics company in Qingjiang. I really admire this. I think we can develop together and avoid unnecessary competition..."

Zhu Zhenghao said cautiously.

Li Wei smiled calmly and said, "Why? President Zhu is still thinking about acquiring my Jiuzhou Yunda?"

Zhu Zhenghao was startled, then he smiled bitterly and said, "Mr. Li, you are joking. I don't have the ability to acquire Jiuzhou."

"So what do you mean by avoiding competition?"

Li Wei asked with a curious look on his face.

"I'm wondering if our two companies can merge and form one." Zhu Zhenghao thought for a moment and stated his purpose. "Mr. Li, as long as our two companies merge, we will be a strong alliance. Won't we have the final say on Qingjiang's logistics in the future?"

Li Wei smiled calmly and asked with great interest: "Merge? Join forces? Mr. Zhu, can you tell me more about it?"

He never asked Zhu Zhenghao to sit down. Zhu Zhenghao just stood there and watched them drink and eat.

In fact, he didn't have dinner, and his stomach was already feeling hungry.

But he was too embarrassed to say it out loud, so he could only endure it.

"Our two companies will merge into one, and the shareholding ratio after the merger will be allocated according to market valuation. Of course, I am willing to take the lead and make certain concessions in terms of shares. As long as the merger is successful, our company will be ranked as one of the top logistics companies in the province..."

Zhu Zhenghao spoke out with some passion the words he had been preparing for countless times.

As soon as he finished speaking, Chen Xing sneered and said, "Boss Zhu, is it because Sihai can't continue to operate, so you want to merge with our Jiuzhou?"