Chapter 392: Cooperation
Dongsheng is mainly composed of three major entities: Dongsheng Real Estate, Hexi Industrial Investment Fund and Dongsheng Group, a listed company, which are actually divided into five business divisions (groups) of grain and oil, real estate, building materials, overseas and industrial investment funds, while the Ding family mainly controls all this from the capital level through the holding parent company Dongsheng Holdings.
Because Dongsheng's senior management has part-time jobs between different companies, the board of directors of Dongsheng Real Estate and Dongsheng Group was held at the same time in the afternoon, in fact, except for a few outside directors and shareholders such as Shang Wendong, Cheng Xiang and Chen Rong, who had just resigned, the senior management of Dongsheng was mainly present.
After three o'clock in the afternoon, Cao Mo, Ding Zhaoqiang, and Qian Wenhan negotiated the cooperation framework at Tianyue Investment, and then Ding Zhaoqiang asked Guo Guangxin and Xu Xin to contact the senior management by phone to hold a meeting in Dongsheng Building.
They rushed over first, but many of the high-level executives were still working on the periphery or busy with other affairs, and they didn't have time to rush back to the Tung Sheng Building.
In addition, the old man Ding Xuesheng also said that he wanted to rush over to attend the meeting.
Seeing that there was still a period of time before people arrived, Cao Mo didn't want to sit there with a group of old guys and make hypocritical polite words, so he took Song Yuqing and Chen Feng back to visit relatives outside the sea.
"Hey, my workstation is still kept, have you arranged for someone to clean it every day, and express your respect for me to the fullest?" Cao Mo sat back on his workstation and asked Shen Ji jokingly.
"......," Shen Ji said with a smile, "Besides, put the incense burner!"
"Cao Mo, Manager Song," Zhou Qin, the front desk of the overseas department, has now become the deputy administrative manager of the overseas department, and still has a big grinning personality, and the others saw Cao Mo and Song Yuqing cautiously came over to greet and say hello, she just went out to run out and returned to the overseas department, so she ran directly over to hold Song Yuqing's arm and asked, "Today's Dongsheng stock price, did you pull the price limit in the end?" Why don't you tell us about such a big inside information, you know that many people regret it, and they all say that if they know the news in advance, they can mortgage the house to buy a ticket, and they can work for several years!"
"Do you think we look like such arrogant people?" Cao Mo asked with a smile.
"If I were you, so young and so rich, I wish people all over the world knew that they wouldn't be able to walk at night," Zhou Qin said, "By the way, when you come back this time, you will really cooperate with the group, right?"
After such a long time, the ordinary employees of other departments of Dongsheng may not know the situation of Tianyue and the relationship between Cao Mo and Tianyue Investment, but the internal employees of the overseas department have close exchanges and interactions with the West African branch, and most of them have some knowledge about the relationship between Conero Cement, Yibogu Mining and Cao Mo.
In short, the level of gossip inside Dongsheng Building, Cao Mo has long understood it.
This morning, Dongsheng's stock price was pressed on the falling limit by a huge number of sell-offs, not only the mood of Dongsheng's senior management seemed to be covered with, but ordinary employees were also worried.
Now that the economic situation is not good, there are many small companies that cannot support the closure, and it is not easy for them to find another job with a decent salary.
Dongsheng Group's stock pledge liquidation line is to be exposed, especially the major financial forums will expose Dongsheng's debt situation, even ordinary employees know what kind of crisis Dongsheng is facing, and how many people have the heart to work?
After the opening of the afternoon market, Dongsheng's stock price almost instantly pulled from the down limit to the limit, more like a pot of boiling oil poured into a calm lake, and the interior of Dongsheng Building was even more excited and discussed, and they all privately speculated about what was going on.
It wasn't until Cao Mo and Qian Wenhan accompanied Ding Zhaoqiang into the Dongsheng Building that the people on the side of the overseas department naturally guessed the truth for the first time; Zhou Qin's topic was of concern to everyone, and everyone pricked up their ears to listen.
"I'll tell you the inside information, if you buy Dongsheng's stock, will you hate me if you lose?" Cao Mo asked with a smile.
"You tell me, I don't dare to buy stocks - we have several self-proclaimed stock gods in the overseas department last year, every day the group is full of all kinds of inside information, and the said stocks can't be doubled the next day, but this year it seems that even the underwear has been lost, and no one in the group has talked about stocks for months, I dare to touch the game?" Wang Wen said.
"......" Cao Mo smiled and said, "Whether you can cooperate or not depends on the situation discussed in the next meeting, after all, there is still a formal procedure to go, but you don't have a chance to buy Dongsheng's shares." If the initial negotiation can be successful, Dongsheng will directly stop trading tomorrow; if the negotiation fails, Dongsheng's stock price will have to get up from where to continue to lie down......"
"The old chairman is here!" Xu Xin was still thinking about the situation when Guo Jian left, his mood was not very good, but he couldn't leave the work in hand, and at this time he came over to inform Cao Mo that Ding Xuesheng had gone directly to the headquarters floor.
"Wang Wen and Li Qixi, why didn't they see their people?" Cao Mo asked Shen Ji.
"They should be going to the Qingshan factory in the afternoon, do you think they will also attend the meeting?" asked Shen Ji.
"Call and ask, if they're nearby, just show up, if they're not there, forget it......"
Li Qixi returned to China during this time to report on his work.
And Wang Wen finally got together with Feng Rui, although Dongsheng did not object to the internal division of male and female employees, but Wang Wen was also transferred back to work in China, and neither of them was allowed to be in a small department.
In cooperation between the two sides, Dongsheng cares about how much financial support Cao Mo and Qian Wenhan can provide, and one of the key points that Cao Mo focuses on is how to better integrate and expand the investment projects and resources of the two sides in West Africa.
This point is discussed in the Tianyue headquarters to talk about a large framework, that is, to absorb the shares of Conero Foods held by Tianyue Investment into the listed company, but the follow-up needs Li Qixi, Wang Jianzhong, Zhao Xinyu and others to participate in further discussion of the specific integration plan.
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Without waiting for Li Qixi and Wang Wen to come over, Cao Mo and Shen Ji went to the headquarters floor to see Ding Xuesheng; at this time, Chen Rong had already rushed over, and the high-level executives of Dongsheng also arrived one after another.
The framework agreements discussed in the afternoon had been printed out and placed on the table.
A group of people chatted with the old chairman Ding Xuesheng while reading the agreement; Cao Mo walked in, his eyes swept around and he didn't see Dong Chengpeng's figure, it seems that Han Shaorong and Dong Chengpeng are still quite self-aware, and at this time they have already figured out where the fork is, and they didn't let Dong Chengpeng come over to perform.
Of course, Cao Mo has a feeling of loss that is not completely in place.
For the listed company Dongsheng Group, the Ding family holds 40% of the shares through Dongsheng Holdings, and Shang Wendong, Cheng Xiang, Chen Rong and other senior executives hold 20% of the shares, while the Ding family holds more than 90% of the shares of Dongsheng Real Estate with Shang Wendong, Cheng Xiang, Chen Rong and other senior executives through Dongsheng Holdings.
Therefore, those who are here today can make any final decision on Dongsheng Real Estate, Dongsheng Group, and Hexi Industrial Investment Fund.
However, Dongsheng Real Estate has been seeking large financing for more than a year, and is also preparing for listing, and the asset audit work has done a good job; the net assets of 7.4 billion yuan are finally valued at only 6 billion yuan, even at the most severe moment of Dongsheng's debt crisis, it is still quite incredible in the eyes of many people.
Everyone has the traditional conservative thinking of not selling assets cheaply, but Ding Xuesheng was present, Ding Zhaoqiang insisted on this, Shang Wendong and Cheng Xiang did not express objections, and other high-level executives who only hold a small number of shares are unlikely to stand up and question anything.
Of course, in the cooperation framework agreement, there is also room for Dongsheng's senior management to inject capital and increase their holdings at the same price.
In short, being able to raise more funds is conducive to completely alleviating the severe debt crisis that Dongsheng is currently facing.
Cao Mo and Qian Wenhan also promised that after the agreement was signed, Tianyue and Xinhong would inject 2 billion financing funds into Dongsheng Real Estate as soon as possible, first solve the short-term debt maturity problem that Dongsheng Real Estate will face at the end of the month, and the follow-up financing will be adjusted according to the scale of Dongjiang Securities' capital contribution.
Whether or not the Dongjiang Securities Industrial Investment Fund can participate and how much money to come up with, not only Ge Jun, but even Qi Weijun, chairman of Dongjiang Securities, has no decision-making power, and the decision-making power is in the investment committee, and the decision-making process is also complicated.
In order to completely relax Han Shaorong's vigilance, Cao Mo directly took out 1.5 billion yuan from Tianyue Investment to initially exchange 18.75% of Dongsheng Real Estate's shares, while Xinhong Investment first took out 500 million funds and initially exchanged 6.25% of Dongsheng Real Estate's shares.
At such a grim moment, Cao Mo's promised capital contribution is all in place in one step, and he also stands up to bear the biggest risk and responsibility first.
Although Ding Zhaoqiang's personality is more or less rigid and self-serving, he is still quite qualified as an entrepreneur, if it were not for Dongsheng's extremely stable and high-quality operation and asset structure, in addition to the debt crisis caused by overly radical expansion, there are no major internal problems, and Qian Wenhan would not have been able to jump in with Cao Mo so neatly.
As for Dong Chengpeng's betrayal and Shang Wendong and Cheng Xiang's vacillation, this is not a fundamental problem in modern enterprises.
Could it be that you really expect your subordinates to have unswerving allegiance to your superiors and completely ignore their own interests?
Cao Mo and Qian Wenhan have no intention of interfering in Dongsheng's internal management, except for Chen Rong withdrawing his previous resignation application and reinstating his position, the biggest change in the management of the listed company Dongsheng Group is that Shen Ji replaces Dong Chengpeng as the new director, and at the same time serves as senior vice president and president of the overseas investment division.
Chen Rong also serves as a director and senior vice president of Dongsheng Real Estate on behalf of her and Tianyue Investment, and Sun Hung Investment will only send one director to Dongsheng Real Estate after the completion of the capital injection, and will not arrange for anyone to directly enter the management of Dongsheng Real Estate.
In this way, it is basically necessary to maintain the stability of the original management of Dongsheng Group and Dongsheng Real Estate with Ding Zhaoqiang as the core, and whether and how to further adjust the follow-up management is still based on Ding Zhaoqiang's opinion.
Whether or not to send directors and supervisors in the follow-up and whether to supervise the finances of the two companies will be adjusted according to the situation after Dongjiang Securities officially makes the decision to invest in Dongsheng Group and Dongsheng Real Estate.
When these things were negotiated, the meeting was negotiated in a relaxed atmosphere, and all kinds of procedures were carried out in an orderly manner.
Dongsheng Group and Dongsheng Real Estate first made the decision on the adjustment of directors and management respectively.
After the shareholders and directors present at the meeting signed the resolution, the new board of directors then made a resolution to accept the first capital injection of 2 billion yuan from Tianyue Investment and Xinhong Investment and the strategic framework cooperation between Dongsheng Real Estate, and made the decision to accept Tianyue Investment and Xinhong Investment to increase their holdings of listed company shares by a total of 200 million yuan, promote the private placement of new shares to Tianyue Investment, absorb the controlling stake of Conero Foods, and integrate the oil palm, cocoa plantation and crushing plant of the two parties.
In the end, Ding Zhaoqiang, Cao Mo, and Qian Wenhan signed the two agreements.
After signing the contract, Dongsheng headquarters held a small celebration party and disclosed the news. On the one hand, this move is not only to respond to the needs of supervision, but also to stimulate people as soon as possible, stabilize the stock price of Dongsheng Group as soon as possible, and also hope to open the borrowing and leasing restrictions of financial institutions on Dongsheng Real Estate.
Although the valuation of Dongsheng Real Estate is low in the eyes of many people, after signing it, everyone is relaxed.
Ding Zhaoqiang pulled Cao Mo, Qian Wenhan, and Ge Jun to sit in the corner to rest, and asked: "The president's office just invited reporters from Xinhai Evening News, Xinmin Morning News, Oriental Finance Network, Sina.com and other media to hold a small press conference to officially announce the good news of our three cooperation.
"You and Qian are not people who like to show up in the mirror, and I don't like to be troublesome, so this kind of drudgery will be thrown to Shen Jibei!" Cao Mo saw Xu Xin take out a makeup case and discuss something with a few reporters in the opposite aisle, it seems that he has to put on makeup before being interviewed on camera, where would he take on such a drudgery?
Cao Mo pushed the matter away, and said to Ding Zhaoqiang very concernedly: "We still want to wait for a while, where we are having the celebration banquet, it is more important." β
β...... You can rest assured that this will definitely be arranged. Ding Zhaoqiang smiled helplessly, expressed his respect for Cao Mo's opinion, and made a gesture to Guo Guangxin, asking him to arrange for others to deal with the press conference and interview.
Sometimes it's really strange, in the past, I would only think that Cao Mo would be too frivolous to say such things, but at this time, I felt that he was straightforward and not so perfunctory, Ding Zhaoqiang thought to himself, this is probably a change of mentality caused by the fact that Cao Mo is already on a par with him and does not hesitate to lend a hand at such a grim moment, right?
Yes, even if he had imagined the most optimistically, he didn't expect to sign the deal today.
He also thought that even if Cao Mo and Qian Wenhan showed the greatest sincerity, they would delay for three or five days with reasonable requests for detailed negotiations, so as to exert invisible pressure on them.
Cao Mo beckoned Shen Ji to come over, and told him in a low voice: "You are responsible for going up to show your face at the press conference later, and you are also interviewed, the terms of cooperation between the three of us, you should be more detailed, try to make everything look very detailed and fully prepared - I believe your acting skills are ......"
"......" Seeing Ding Zhaoqiang look at him in surprise, Cao Mo spread his hands and said, "I didn't let Shen Ji lie publicly, I did spend a lot of time pondering the specific terms of cooperation this month, and I also discussed with Lao Qian twice, but Lao Qian didn't think that Mr. Ding would decide to cooperate with us so quickly......
"I didn't expect Han Shaorong to fall for you so easily. Qian Wenhan said.
"When Han Shaorong will make a move is determined by the progress of Xinyihua's absorption of Taihua shares, and I don't have the ability to decide when they will start and when they won't. Cao Mo smiled.
Ding Zhaoqiang's heart moved, and he asked in surprise: "Is it that Han Shaorong bought Guo Jian's secret communication, you already know about itβhow do you know? Is it that in fact you have not given up your ambitions for Taihua?"
"It's not ambitious, you can't let them turn Cornello Marina into a mess that no one can clean up, right?"
The three parties have reached such close cooperation, and there is naturally no need to hide these key information from Ding Zhaoqiang, Cao Mo said in a low voice,
In order to attack Taihua, Han Shaorong has long secretly negotiated a cooperation agreement with Volkov Investment and the Oppenheimer family, and the supporting forces behind Volkov Investment and the Oppenheimer family are actually the Bank of the Atlantic, which originated in Dracula and is mainly engaged in foreign exchange settlement transactions in West Africa, and Sturgeon Foster, who was born in the British Foster family. Sturgeon Foster's goal is to take over the new Taihua refinery, which will then be integrated with the Atlantic Oil Trading Company and the Port of Lake Conero to develop into an important oil trading and refining base in West Africa. When I found Sturgeon Foster, I asked him: Is it more beneficial for him to cooperate with Han Shaorong to achieve this goal, or is it more beneficial for them to achieve this goal by cooperating with me? In this way, Sturgeon Foster sold Han Shaorong's underwear to me without hesitation......
"......" Ding Zhaoqiang's mouth opened, his heart was shocked, and he really didn't know what to say.
Cao Mo returned to China yesterday, and Han Shaorong set out to attack Taihua and Dongsheng yesterday, he thought that these two things were purely coincidental, or that Han Shaorong thought that Cao Mo would intervene and was forced to act in advance.
It was he who was completely wrong.
In fact, all of Han Shaorong's movements were under Cao Mo's close surveillance, and Cao Mo was waiting for Han Shaorong to launch an offensive against Taihua and Dongsheng, and then waited for his Ding family to "enter the palace"!
Cao Mo chose to return to China at this time.
At this moment, he also suddenly understood one thing.
It is not purely that Dongsheng needs Cao Mo's unilateral financial assistance, Cao Mo can lend a hand so simply, in addition to the concessions he has made for the sake of profit, Cao Mo actually needs Dongsheng to help him complete a huge and ambitious industrial layout to a certain extent.
Ding Zhaoqiang didn't realize this before, because he didn't see where Cao Mo's true ambitions for Taihua were.
He now understands that the Taihua Group, which seems to have a chaotic main business, has the most exciting asset for Cao Mo, which is the fledgling Conero Coastal New Town.
Conero Marina New City is a chicken rib, a burden, and a mud pond in the eyes of others, but if it can be combined with Conero Lake Industrial Park, Conero Energy, and the factories and mines invested and built by Ibogu Mining and Conero Cement in Longta, as well as the plantations, crushing plants and aluminum profile finishing bases invested and built by Dongsheng in Longta, it will be built into a huge and deep-rooted industrial empire on the banks of Draculamo, the pearl of West Africa.
In Cao Mo's hands, Conero Coastal New City will have the possibility of completing the construction, and it is no longer a big and improper delusion.
From this point of view, Cao Mo will definitely not tolerate Dongsheng falling into the hands of Huamao, not just a personal grudge.
Sturgeon Master saw this, so he abandoned Han Shaorong so rashly, and turned his head to cooperate with Cao Mo without any memory.
In the framework agreement they just signed, it seems that Cao Mo wants to merge Conero Foods into Dongsheng Group, but in fact, when Cao Mo gets the controlling stake in Taihua Group, his real intention should be to put Dongsheng's oil palm plantation base and crushing plant in Kanem and Conero Foods' cocoa planting base in West Africa into Taihua Group.
This is the first way to sketch out the rudiments of his industrial empire in West Africa.
Of course, Dongsheng does not necessarily need to completely withdraw from these industries, and can jointly participate in the shareholding, as long as the control falls into the hands of Cao Mo, the Taihua Group.
It doesn't even matter who owns the plantations, crushing mills and other industries, as long as we can work together to promote the construction and development of such an industrial empire on the shores of Lake Conero, and to jointly promote the realization of this process.
In Cao Mo's layout, Dongsheng Group is an indispensable help and an indispensable participant, and Cao Mo may even use part of the strength and resources of Dongsheng Group to fight for a controlling stake in Taihua Group.
If Tianyue Investment is to pay 2 billion yuan alone and take over the pledged Taihua shares from financial institutions, the strength is a bit large, but Dongsheng Group, Xinhong Investment and Dongjiang Securities are involved, and Tianyue Investment will bear much less financial pressure.
They signed a concerted action agreement to concentrate the voting rights of their shares into one family, and will also effectively control the control of Taihua Group, and finally achieve the goal of taking over Conero Marina New Town.
Thinking through these, Ding Zhaoqiang was shocked and even more mixed.
The shock was to think of Cao Mo's great ambition and the depth of the scheme, but Baiwei Chen Za thought that he had thought through it only after Cao Mo took the initiative to expose all this.
He thought that he had taken Cao Mo seriously enough to examine him on an equal footing at this time, but he suddenly found that he still knew too little about the young man in front of him.