Vol 2 Chapter 863: Woman's revenge

Chapter VIII

Woman's revenge

The aftermath of Lin Feng’s acquisition of Qiu Deba’s 14.99% of the shares in Standard Chartered Bank was not over. The Board of Directors of Standard Chartered Bank invited Lin Feng to participate in the Standard Chartered Board of Directors on September 1. This is an exciting to all Chinese people. News.

The Chinese bought British banks, which has never happened before, never before. Especially since the reform and opening up, in order to attract foreign investment, many domestic enterprises have sought foreign investment mergers in order to seek development under the great wave of reforms. However, for more than 20 years of reform and opening up, for the Chinese people, they have only seen state-owned enterprises continue to be invaded by foreign capital, and the state-owned brands that have developed hard to be acquired by foreign capital are then abandoned. National brands have become victims of foreign-funded enterprises' “iron shoes”. With the help of foreign capital, the situation of development and growth is unseen. In the face of this situation, the Chinese people are angry and mourn their misfortune.

Although many domestic companies have been thinking about acquiring foreign companies, they are either just thundering and not raining, or they are acquiring departments or businesses that foreign companies do not need at a high price. There has never been a precedent for acquiring foreign large-scale multinational companies, especially in the financial industry. , Has always been maintained by European and American companies, there is no place for Chinese companies at all. Unexpectedly, Lin Feng now says no to this. In a flash, he acquired 14.99% of the shares of Standard Chartered Bank in Qiu Deba’s hands and became the largest shareholder of this century-old British bank. This is true. Excited all Chinese people.

There was a joyous voice from all over the country, believing that this was a milestone for China to truly become prosperous and start anti-invasion of foreign companies. It is believed that Lin Feng's move will really kick off the acquisition of overseas companies by state-owned enterprises. Although Lin Feng has only become the largest shareholder of Standard Chartered Bank, he has not yet joined the board of directors of Standard Chartered Bank and has become a truly powerful executive director. But this is already an improvement for the Chinese people. Many netizens even shouted that Lin Feng would acquire Standard Chartered Bank and become the first Chinese holding bank and owning a private bank.

Regarding the expectations and heated discussions of domestic netizens, many so-called domestic experts once again jumped out to analyze. After the final discussion, many experts concluded that although Lin Fenggui is the richest man in the world and owns 14.99% of the shares in Standard Chartered Bank, he becomes the largest shareholder of Standard Chartered Bank. However, in the face of the united British forces of Standard Chartered Bank, he can only bow his head. At most, it is an ordinary executive director who has a spare job and is in charge of some unimportant departments.

Because Lin Feng is Chinese after all, and Standard Chartered Bank is a British bank, especially with the right to issue Hong Kong dollars, the British side will never allow him to be supervised by a Chinese. Absolutely not! The reason why the British government surrendered Hong Kong so easily back then was that Hong Kong's economy was actually under the control of the British side. Its Hong Kong dollar issuance rights are mainly in Standard Chartered Bank and HSBC, and these two banks are British banks. As long as the Hong Kong dollar is controlled, Hong Kong's financial lifeline will be grasped to a certain extent.

What's more, in the eyes of many domestic experts, Lin Feng's acquisition of Standard Chartered Bank is also to facilitate the company's financing and raise funds. Although Lin Feng and ICBC have a very good relationship and have jointly developed domestic personal low-value credit cards (all products under "DingDang.com", as long as "DingDang.com" customers reach a certain degree of credit, they can use installment payment for purchases), but Lin Feng's industry has now gone abroad and spread all over Southeast Asia. If you want to raise funds, it will naturally be inconvenient to go through ICBC. Acquiring certain shares of Standard Chartered Bank and becoming a major shareholder of Standard Chartered Bank will be more flexible in financing in the future. In particular, foreign banks will be more free in financing, and there is no need to worry about some * issues.

For this extremely rigorous and accurate analysis by many experts, many excited netizens are as if they were thrown cold water on their heads, and suddenly became unhappy. Originally, it was hoped that Lin Feng could own Standard Chartered Bank and regain half of the issuance rights of the Hong Kong dollar, so that Hong Kong truly belongs to China. It seems impossible at present.

There was a voice of sorrow from all over the country. For Lin Feng's visit to the Board of Directors of Standard Chartered Bank on September 1st, he suddenly lost a lot of expectations.

At this time, Ma Huateng was receiving a distinguished customer at the headquarters of Tencent in Shenzhen.

"Director Liu, should you think more about it?" Ma Huateng looked at the jeweled lady in front of him with a frown. This lady is one of the directors of South Africa's mih group and holds 11.2% of the shares of South Africa's mih group, while South Africa's mih group holds 35.71% of the shares of Tencent and is the largest shareholder of Tencent. And because the current director Liu owns shares of South African mih, and because of the Chinese, he became one of the executive directors of the South African mih group in Tencent. It's just that the South African mih group does not participate in the administrative management of Tencent due to an agreement between the two parties.

But not participating does not mean that you cannot participate. The contract signed at the beginning was originally a contract of intent, and Ma Huateng believed that as long as he did well, the contract would remain effective. After all, South African mhi is not a fool, and will not suddenly intervene in the company's administrative management when the company's performance is booming, and disrupt the originally good prospects. But who could have expected that Director Liu suddenly came today, proposed a brand-new plan, and asked Ma Huateng to implement it as soon as possible. This gave Ma Huateng a particularly headache.

Of course, this is not to say that this plan is not good or how bad it is. On the contrary, this plan is very operational and has a bright market prospect. But there is one drawback, and only this one, and that is that this plan will completely offend Lin Feng.

Yes, it is to offend Lin Feng, to offend today's richest man in the world, and he is also the owner of 10% equity in Tencent.

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"Dong Ma, you have to know that you are the chairman of Tencent, the founder of Tencent, and you are responsible for Tencent. I think this plan is very feasible. Given Tencent's current market position in mainland China, as long as this plan is launched, it will definitely be Very popular with users. I don't know what you are hesitating about?" Ms. Liu hummed softly.

Ma Huateng looked helpless. How could he not hesitate? The plan proposed by Ms. Liu is to launch "PaiPai.com" and "DingDang.com" under Lin Feng to **** "c2c" customer resources. Because "DingDang.com" currently focuses on "b2c" and the review of its merchants’ personal data is too rigorous, many individual businesses have complained, and "DingDang.com" requires every merchant to pay a certain deposit to prevent Individual businesses have committed fraud and other behaviors.

This move by "DingDang.com" was originally to protect the rights and interests of consumers, but there is no doubt that the threshold for individual businesses has been raised, and it has also extended the capital turnover period of many individual businesses, which has invisibly increased costs. This makes many individual businesses extremely dissatisfied, even a little bit complain. At this time, if Tencent launches "PaiPai.com", it will undoubtedly cater to the liking of a large number of individual businesses. Coupled with Tencent's market share of instant messaging in the mainland China market, Ma Huateng can expect that "PaiPai.com" will be fast. Rise, and even replace "Dingdong.com" as the largest personal trading platform in the future.

("Dingdang.com" has been converted from a single "c2c" person-to-person transaction to "b2c" business-to-person transactions. Therefore, "Dingdang.com" can no longer be called a personal online trading platform in the strict sense.)

However, in this way, Lin Feng is bound to anger. Based on Ma Huateng’s understanding of Lin Feng, Lin Feng will never allow anyone or the company to provoke him. Whether it is for the company’s or personal interests, Lin Feng will definitely take action against him, and it’s never The act of mercilessly beheading dissidents. Therefore, Ma Huateng's heart is full of fear. Although he wants to develop Tencent, he must not offend Lin Feng, otherwise, if Lin Feng retaliates, Ma Huateng asks himself that he cannot bear Lin Feng's anger.

"Ma Dong, are you willing to be kept underneath by Lin Feng forever? Tencent controls 98% of the domestic instant messaging market, with more than 100 million members, and with the growth of young people now, in another ten years, two In ten years, I am afraid that more than half of the people in China will use Tencent in the future. Ma Dong, you are a smart person and you should know what a fortune is. Are you willing to always be used by Lin Feng and just become Lin Feng A puppet of the wind!" Ms. Liu's tone was extremely acrid, and she was picking Ma Huateng's painful ribs everywhere, making Ma Huateng particularly uncomfortable, and a little irritability in her heart was inexplicably raised.

"But..." Ma Huateng was still full of hesitation in his heart. He does want to develop Tencent, but he offends Lin Feng to be unwilling, not to mention that the two sides are currently in a sweet period of cooperation. Moreover, Tencent also relied on "Second World" games, allowing "qq" to gradually go abroad and compete with communication tools such as icq abroad. This is the benefit of the cooperation between the two sides. If this relationship is broken, Ma Huateng does not know what will happen then.

"Ma Dong, you should know that if Tencent wants to develop, it must expand into different fields. These fields are now covered by Lin Feng. Unless you don't want to develop Tencent, you will certainly offend Lin Feng." Ms. Liu continued to lobby. "If you are a man, you should have the courage to swallow the mountains and rivers. What's more, in this matter, Tencent is invincible. There is only one day left for QQ, and if domestic netizens are still using QQ, Tencent will not fail."

Ma Huateng absolutely agrees with Ms. Liu on this point. The reason why Tencent is different from other companies and has more advantages than other it companies (including Lin Feng’s "Second World") is that the 120 million registered users of "qq" and "qq" (will be more in the future) ), this is the unique capital owned by Tencent. And unlike the registered player accounts owned by other game companies, players can not play a game, but it is impossible to not use QQ.

If this battle is lost, Tencent still has a way to retreat, continue to be the leader of instant messaging, and slowly accumulate strength to make a comeback. To win, it will ride the wind and waves, expand new profit points for Tencent, and can really squeeze out the mountain that is pressing on all domestic IT companies-Lin Feng's "Second World".

Of course, this is just squeezing out, because the "Second World" also has resources that other domestic IT companies (including most IT companies in the world) do not have-"amd" and "ati", the most important on personal computers Of two accessories. What Ma Huateng admired Lin Feng most was the "amd" and "ati", which had been in a state of serious losses in the merger and acquisition. Although the "Second World" spent the past two years and used personal influence to bring a large number of domestic orders for "amd" and "ati", "amd" and "ati" barely reached a balance of payments, and the profit ratio was increased. That said, it's not cost-effective. But Ma Huateng still admired Lin Feng's move at the time. Just such a move made the "Second World" invincible. After owning "amd" and "ati", as Linfeng Chinese, almost half of the computer orders in the Chinese mainland market have become Linfeng's "Second World" possessions. Regarding this obvious "local protectionism" color, Intel has repeatedly protested, but it can only protest, just like every time the United States is about to attack a certain country, the United Nations can only protest, without playing any practical role.

Thinking of this, Ma Huateng's heart also moved. They are all invincible companies, one with absolute technology and one with absolute network resources. Why can the "Second World" be able to respond to a hundred responses and dominate the group, while its own Tencent can only be the second seat? He can become the richest man in the world, why can't he? Even if you can't become the richest man in the world, it's good to be able to double your wealth several times.

People are not for themselves, and the earth will die! Besides, the princes and generals would rather have a kind!

There was a throbbing in Ma Huateng's heart. Lin Feng's success stimulated all IT giants. Almost all itit talents in China took Lin Feng as their goal and example. No one wanted to succeed, especially now that there is a chance. The question is, whether Ma Huateng is willing to take this step.

Ms. Liu looked at Ma Huateng's face, and didn't say anything. Some things need to be figured out personally, and no matter how many others say, it's no use. But this time, regardless of whether Ma Huateng agrees or not, she must deal with Lin Feng. Of course, if Ma Huateng agrees, then it would be better. The two sides will work together to discuss how to deal with Lin Feng's strength. If Ma Huateng does not cooperate, she will directly ask the mih group for authorization to impeach Ma Huateng. The mih group owns 35.71% of the shares. As long as it acquires a little more on the market, it can overwhelm the holdings of Ma Huateng and others and obtain the right to decide.

In short, in Ms. Liu's mind, this time, Lin Feng must be dealt with anyway, and Lin Feng must pay the price. Who made Lin Feng bully her precious son-Xia Qianhe!