With the current communication conditions, the news of Idaka's refusal to "reconcile" with Ali spread in a short time. Almost everyone who followed the Didi and Uber merger was the first to hear the news.

The night in Beijing is hazy, and the lights are lit up among the high-rise buildings.

Xie Shihuang also greeted Cheng Wei and Wang Gang in the villa-style hotel where he lived to play cards in the living room. At this moment, the mobile phone resting on the desktop suddenly rang. He connected the phone, and the anxious voice of his subordinates came from inside, "Mr. Xie, Jing Gao rejected Mr. Dwarf's conversation, and he also lost him in public..."

The subordinate was still talking about grievances on the phone, and Xie Shihuang interrupted: "Okay, I know." As he spoke, he hung up the phone.

Cheng Wei and Wang Gang closed the cards in their hands, covered them on the table, and looked at Xie Shihuang with blank eyes. "Mr. Xie, how is the situation at the Pangu Seven Star Hotel?"

Xie Shihuang smiled and said slowly: "Jing Gao refuses to cooperate with our Ali. Eh, what are you doing in a daze, and then play cards. There is calm in every major event. ”

Cheng Wei and Wang Gang both smiled bitterly. But Mr. Xie's temper is also well-known within Ali. can only be absent-minded, and then accompany Xie Shihuang to continue to play cards.

At the card table in the hotel room, Xie Shihuang explained slowly while playing his cards: "Don't worry, you two. Now it's the well that is to be worried. I can say very clearly, Alipay, Uber don't want to use it. Well, this will help you compete, right? I'll have to wait and see if Idaka will call me privately to explain. He has my phone number. Not really, I'll report back to Mr. Ma. In the competition in the field of the Internet, who have we been afraid of? Won't Amazon, the world's largest market capitalization, be taken back by us?"

Cheng Wei and Wang Gang pondered.

Banning Alipay actually has a limited impact on Uber. In the competition between Uber and Didi, both have their own apps. Alipay's diversion effect is limited. Moreover, in the domestic payment field, everyone has a WeChat, and Alipay does not occupy an absolute dominance in the payment field.

However, the move of banning Alipay is tantamount to Alibaba personally ending up and standing behind Didi against the Phoenix Fund. So, does Ali have a chance of winning?

No matter from which aspect, from the corporate governance structure and system, from the vision and ability of the company's leadership, from the company's reserved technology, from the combat effectiveness of employees, from the amount of funds that can be mobilized, etc., Ali is an all-round advantage!

The two nodded convincingly.

However, until the next morning, Xie Shihuang did not wait for Jing Gao's impossible call.

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At night, Victoria Harbour is brightly lit and the sea breeze is gentle.

Liu Qing and her friend Guo Lingyu drank red wine on the balcony of the suite at The Peninsula Hotel, watching the sea view at night. Liu Qing has been in a bad mood since she saw Jing Gao the day before yesterday, and came to Hong Kong Island to find friends to relax.

Guo Lingyu was Chinese New Year's Eve at the time, but she was very well maintained, like a beauty in her twenties, with bright eyes and bright teeth, and skin like jade. At the beginning of October, when the capital and the magic capital are in autumn, you can still wear single clothes at night on Hong Kong Island. She wore an aqua blue blouse, and her curves were towering. Wear white shorts, slender snow-white legs overlapped. comforted Liu Qing, "Jean, don't worry about it first. I'll wait until tonight's results come out. ”

She can understand Liu Qing's anxiety, which is related to her career. It can be said that the position of president of Didi is equivalent to the height of her life. What if you throw it away? It's hard to get it back.

Liu Qing shook his head with a wry smile, picked up the wine glass, and drank the wine with a clatter, "Lili, you have seen this person Jing Gao." He's a little slumped. I don't think he's going to change his mind. ”

The day before yesterday, she, Cheng Wei and Mr. Xie met with Jing Gao in the clubhouse of Xianghe Golf Club, and Jing Gao gave a very strong answer: after the merger of Didi and Uber, she and Cheng Wei were asked to leave with Didi's core management team. A buffer period of six months to one year can be given.

This undoubtedly cut off her career path. It's no wonder she's in a good mood.

She wasn't even in the mood to call Mr. Yang (Yuan Qing) of Lenovo. Ali can't talk about it, and he still expects Jing Gao to give Uncle Yang face?

Thinking of the two meetings with Jing Gao, a smile appeared on the corner of Guo Lingyu's mouth, I have to say, this is a very powerful man. And indeed, as Liu Qing said, his personality is a bit awkward! However, who doesn't have the will to persevere?

Guo Lingyu shook the tall glass elegantly, and the red wine exuded a rich fragrance in the night, just like her beauty, and said, "Jean, I think you are too pessimistic." There is a high probability that Jing Gao will refuse the kindness of the Ali department, then you just turn over!"

Liu Qing laughed, stroked the hair that fell to his forehead, held the armrest of the rattan chair with both hands, and said, "Lili, you don't know enough about the domestic online car-hailing market. The merger of Didi and Uber is the trend of the times. It is absolutely impossible for two ride-hailing giants to exist at the same time as in the United States. The battle between Uber and Lift in the North American market is expected to continue to exist. There are antitrust law reasons for this, and there are also reasons why global capital is concentrated in the United States. There is no such situation in China. ”

"So what?" Guo Lingyu smiled slightly, opening the perspective of "bystander clearing", "According to Alibaba's assumption, after the merger of Didi and Uber, Didi will occupy two board seats, and Uber will occupy three." The question now is if Itaka continues to refuse tonight, will Ali be able to get Itaka to give in and accept the agreement?"

Liu Qing sipped his wine in silence.

With Liu Qing's IQ, how could he not have thought of this? However, first of all, Guo Lingyu did not understand the situation in China. Alibaba's current investment style is to pursue control. For example, Didi, although the list of shareholders cannot be written on an A4 piece of paper, the company is controlled by the management team!

This is not to say that Tencent's equity is gone. Rather, it refers to Tencent's influence in Didi. The landmark event is that Didi abandoned the original Tencent map and used the Ali Gaode map instead.

Therefore, she and Cheng Wei are temporarily under Uber, and this model is definitely only temporary. In the future, when going public in the United States, as long as capital is introduced, it is easy to impact the inherent board structure and change control.

Before going public, the shareholders' equity will be diluted, usually to less than 20 percent, so should the seats on the board of directors be increased or adjusted? The board of directors should have independent directors in addition to the executive directors. INEDs have the right to vote when making decisions on the board of directors!

With the tightness of Ali's system, there was also a risk that control would change hands. Yahoo, which owned 40 percent of Alibaba's shares back then, had some ideas on corporate governance that ran counter to Ma Yun. Fortunately, it was Ma Yun who suppressed Yahoo's influence on the board of directors in a timely manner, and continued to acquire shares, compromise, and exchange, which stabilized the situation.

Jing Gao didn't know if he knew the style of the Ali department, so he refused very resolutely.

Guo Lingyu is right. So, will Ali finally be able to use all kinds of means to get Itaka to submit? It must depend on how determined Ali is.

So for her, this matter is still out of her control.

Just as the two were chatting, Liu Qing's mobile phone rang, and it was Cheng Wei calling. Liu Qing confessed, got up and went to the hotel room to answer the phone, "Mr. Cheng, the results are out?"

Cheng Wei was still playing cards with Xie Shihuang in the hotel, and learned from various channels what happened at tonight's banquet, and took the opportunity of releasing water to call Liu Qing and his reliable partner in his career to report the good news. The voice was slightly excited, "Yes." Liu Qing and Jing Gao humiliated the chairman of Ali Entertainment's strategy committee, Dajin Dajin, at tonight's banquet. The two talked in public. Do you know what Mr. Xie said?"

Liu Qing realized the moment he heard the word "humiliation": Ali needed an excuse to do it. Or the moral high ground. In other words, Ali has made up its mind to use resources to compete for dominance in the field of "online car-hailing".

Although he guessed the result, Liu Qing was still very cooperative: "Mr. Cheng, what did Mr. Xie say?"

Cheng Wei relayed Xie Shihuang's words, added his analysis, and then discussed countermeasures with Liu Qing.

About an hour later, Liu Qing hung up the phone, walked out of the room with a smile, and said with a smile: "Lili, the curtain of the times is about to open." ”

Guo Lingyu watched his friend be full of fighting spirit after answering the phone, and he understood in his heart, and raised his glass, "To you." ”

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Let's say that in the banquet hall on the 3rd floor of Pangu Seven Star Hotel, a group of stars witnessed a wonderful "big show". The joke of the East X Express was passed on and the house was full of laughter. It is estimated that it will become a stalk that will be ridiculed in the future.

The well is too narrow!

However, these people don't realize it at all: the monstrous waves have taken shape in the transmission of messages and phone calls at night!

The well tall and short and the big and the group left one after another. And Song Yan, Zhang Hu, Wu Jie, Wang Qiuyu and a few people were still socializing in the banquet. Song Yan originally wanted to develop in the entertainment industry.

Of course, this development does not mean that he is going to be a star. It's that Song Yan has already made a movie as a director, and he wants to continue to open a company in this industry and make money by making film and television dramas.

Wu Jie was much easier than Song Yan. His family was originally engaged in film and television. And it's also a top five company. He, Shaodong, is a sweet and sweet in the eyes of some celebrities. Moreover, he is not as motivated as Song Yan, and he doesn't want to become a leader. In the future, the family will have enough money for him to eat and play. Of course, there is no restraint on Song Yan's body. It is said that Wang Qiuyu is very good to him, and he has exceeded the boundaries of his sister's care for his younger brother.

Therefore, at the end of the banquet, before the end, Wu Jie took a recently popular actress to the upstairs room of the hotel to indulge in half an hour, and then checked the time, and then called his cousin and good brother Ren Chao on the bed.

"Brother Chao, the news is out. ”

Ren Chao was drinking in Ren Zhi's villa on the outskirts of the magic capital at the moment.

Although Ren Zhi is young, he has a very calm mentality, not like a young man in his twenties, but like a person in his thirties and forties. He likes to be quiet and there is a nanny in the villa who takes care of his daily life.

At this time, the nanny and aunt fried a few side dishes: two plates of seasonal vegetables, fried ham with cucumber, leek eggs, and shallots and tofu. A few more cold cuts: tomatoes with sugar, fried peanuts, marinated beef, and white-cut chicken.

Ren Zhi and Ren Chao's cousins sat in the restaurant and chatted while drinking beer. The magic is not better than the south, and the eleventh holiday has just passed and it is already autumn.

The dining room is brightly lit by an intricately shaped headlight on the ceiling. The rectangular solid wood dining table is covered with a white tablecloth, and a table of dishes is displayed.

Ren Chao didn't come for the first time, his forehead was sweating, and he sighed: "Xiaozhi, such a big villa, you don't want to bring a girlfriend back to live? You are not the same as the comfort of Aunt An's family, you don't understand the amorous feelings, right? I heard that Cheng Zhao of Uncle Cheng's family likes her." It turned out that the guy was like wood. ”

Ren Zhi was white and pure, very gentle, and scolded: "Get out! ”

He was born into a wealthy family and had a high vision. Ordinary beauties can't get into his eyes. And he knows a thing or two about his father's affairs. 's father lived for a lifetime, and in the end, Aunt Zhang accompanied him through his old age. Those who used to be celebrities and his relationship with him are average. Father and those aunts rarely see each other once a year, and it is good to meet without arguing about the discipline and education of his illegitimate brothers and sisters.

Aunt Zhang is very good to him, but stepmother is a stepmother after all. He misses his mother very, very much in the United States!

Therefore, he is very resistant to being unfaithful to love and family matters. Also pay attention to the fact that you only love one woman in this life and give your children a complete family. There is no need to shy away from it, at his age, he also has that kind of need. But he'd rather exercise, boil his body, or do it manually, rather than compromise.

His dissatisfaction with Jing Gao in his heart also has this factor. He subconsciously disliked Jing Gao very much, and he was messing with flowers and grass everywhere, just for that moment of comfort. Very low.

Ren Chao shook his head with a smile, "You, it's incurable." Brother, I am chic every day, so you can envy it. ”

Just as he was joking, Wu Jie's phone call came in and told him about the banquet tonight.

"Good. Good. Wu Jie, when I come back, I will have a yacht party for you. Ren Chao and Wu Jie laughed, hung up the phone, and looked at Ren Zhi. His phone was on hands-free the whole time just now, "Xiaozhi, what do you say?"

Ren Zhi smiled, and then said categorically: "Of course it's hands!"