Xiang Yuliang booked a seat in a garden-style hotel. This hotel used to be used to receive foreign guests, but it was later bought by a hotel owner who specialized in making a hotel several times, and turned into an expensive boutique hotel. The hotel is located in the suburbs, the house is quite ancient, the whole hotel does not have a second floor, and a low-key plaque on the low-key gate reads "Returning to the Garden", which is obviously taken from Tao Yuanming's "Returning to the Garden".

Jiang Chao drove his father's Highlander over. Xiang Yuliang greeted Jiang Chao at the door and waved at Jiang Chao's car.

After Jiang Chao parked the car, Xiang Yuliang took Jiang Chao in.

"I didn't expect that your freewheeling bike made a good sound, but you still drove a Highlander. Xiang Yuliang smiled and said, "It's very low-key." ”

Jiang Chao shook his head: "This is my father's car." ”

"Oh?

Jiang Chao said casually: "My father teaches at the university. ”

"It turned out to be a scholarly family!" Xiang Yuliang praised from the bottom of his heart, and then said to himself: "I really envy people like you who have learned a lot of knowledge in your parents' generation, and your parents' good habits will imperceptibly affect you." ”

Jiang Chao's heart moved, but it was difficult to speak. Listening to Xiang Yuliang's words, it seemed to faintly reveal his dissatisfaction with his parents.

Xiang Yuliang continued: "My parents are farmers. But you also know that some farmers are simple, and some are not. What is the meaning of that sentence - poor mountains and bad waters come out of the people, my parents are about this kind of thing. ”

Jiang Chao was silent, it seems that Xiang Yuliang's childhood was not very good, and his parents should have hurt him a lot. It's not a good thing for him to say.

Xiang Yuliang didn't continue to elaborate, and led the topic elsewhere, and the two walked while chatting some gossip. The hotel is very large, with small bridges and flowing water, rockery fruit trees, antique, and finally came to a hut, and two tall waitresses wearing cheongsams stood at the door to greet them.

It looks like a cottage, but when you walk in, it is a very luxuriously decorated teahouse private room.

After Xiang Yuliang sat down, he got straight to the point: "This time, I ran most of Huaguo to find you, I wanted to communicate with you about one thing." ”

Jiang Chao sat opposite Xiang Yuliang, and when he saw the other party's serious expression, he cheered up: "Listen to me." ”

"Lai Mei has approached me and wants me to sell my shares, but this is probably not a good thing for you. According to the law, you have the right of first refusal for shareholders to sell their shares. So, I'm going to ask for your opinion. Xiang Yuliang took out a cigarette.

Jiang Chao fell silent.

Xiang Yuliang was not in a hurry, lit a cigarette, took a puff without turning his head, and the smoke drifted in the opposite direction to Jiang Chao.

Jiang Chao thought for a while, and said in a deep voice: "Mr. Xiang should not only tell me this, right? If Mr. Xiang really wants to sell, just bring it up at the shareholders' meeting, since he came to me alone to talk about this matter, then I want to hear what Mr. Xiang thinks." ”

Xiang Yuliang couldn't help but admire in his heart, Jiang Chao was so young, he was so old, thinking about himself, he was still an ignorant student at this age, such a contrast even made Xiang Yuliang a little envious. He smiled, "That's true. ”

Xiang Yuliang took another puff of cigarette: "Actually, I am inclined to sell equity. You know, this kind of money is made by an investment company like ours, and it's important to time your exit. However, there is a problem with one of the projects in hand, and I need to return a sum of money recently, if Lai Mei is sure that I am in a hurry to use the money, I am afraid that the price will not go up......"

Hearing this, Jiang Chao's eyebrows raised slightly. He also knows about the difficulties encountered by Wansheng Capital on that project. Because Jiang Chao likes to ponder some financial hot problems when he has nothing to do, he has carefully studied Wansheng's trouble, and even came up with some eyebrows. But after all, it was someone else's business, and he had no reason to rashly go up to give advice to others, so after thinking about it, he said: "So Mr. Xiang is looking for me ......"

Xiang Yuliang smiled slightly: "I hope you cooperate with me and sing a double reed." ”

Jiang Chao was noncommittal: "How to cooperate?"

Xiang Yuliang extinguished his cigarette and said seriously: "That's the case, I proposed to sell the equity to OKO at the shareholders' meeting, and you will object it to your face." After all, having a competitor own nearly half of your own stake is about the same as a hostile takeover, and that's not a good thing. ”

Jiang Chao didn't speak, and Xiang Yuliang continued: "However, you don't have enough cash on hand to buy the equity in my hand, so it is inevitable to continue to look for investment outside." Lai Mei must be very anxious, so I can negotiate with Lai Mei to raise the premium. ”

Jiang Chao listened patiently, took a sip of tea, was thinking in his heart, absent-minded, he couldn't taste what the tea in his hand tasted like, put down the cup and said expressionlessly: "Why should I help you?"

Xiang Yuliang shook his head and said solemnly: "You are not only helping me, but also yourself." ”

Jiang Chao poured himself another cup of tea and said, "Why do you say that?"

Xiang Yuliang smiled and said, "Brother Jiang, you are a smart person. Let me ask, think about it, do you really plan to go dark on the road of free bicycle?"

Jiang Chao was silent.

Xiang Yuliang continued: "Although you are starting a business for the first time, I can see that you are not the kind of stunned youth, you understand many truths. The next situation is not to say that you should also know, shared bicycles are about to start a war of burning money, although you rely on strategies to stabilize the university market, but with the emergence of more and more shared bicycles, the university market will be slowly eroded. ”

Jiang Chao silently took a sip of tea.

Xiang Yuliang said: "Haven't you noticed that the shared bicycle is fundamentally different from any previous project, either to be the largest or to die, and the market will eventually leave a few oligarchs at most." OKO is backed by Niu Xun and has sufficient capital, and among the final winners, there is probably OKO. And then there's Abariri, and they're sure to end up wrestling with Niu Xun soon. Other companies are cannon fodder. ”

Jiang Chao was shocked in his heart, and he had also thought about Xiang Yuliang's words, but Xiang Yuliang said that he was still a little uncomfortable when he said the ending of continuing to walk on the bicycle as he wished.

Xiang Yuliang saw that Jiang Chao was about to be moved, and hurriedly made up for it: "Although the bicycle is gaining momentum now, after all, there is no strong backer, even if it takes five or six times your cost to eat away at your market, people can afford to spend this money, and they are willing to spend it." If you're looking for a backer, then it's a buyer's market, so it's better to cash out now while you're at a high level. ”

Jiang Chao knew that what Xiang Yuliang said was reasonable, and after some ideological struggle, he sighed: "Mr. Xiang is really a master negotiator!"

Xiang Yuliang hurriedly said: "I just said the truth, whether it is up to Brother Jiang to judge for himself." ”

Jiang Chao admitted that he had been persuaded by Xiang Yuliang. But his only question is, will anyone else agree?

Especially Dong Slow, Niu Yunshu, Pan Jian and Zhu Di, they have put in the most effort, and the free bicycle is like a carefully cultivated child for them, Jiang Chao can't help but fall into a deep dilemma. But Jiang Chao also knows that quitting at this time is indeed the best time.

It's still the same sentence, capital is ruthless, capital is ruthless.