The news of I.M. Pei's return to China soon spread, and even the Ark Building, which had not yet started, became the focus of domestic media.

At the same time, Shi Yuzhu recruited a group of game developers to personally participate in the creation of his "Journey".

The technical leader of the "Journey" project is Shang Jing, who previously participated in the development of Kingsoft WPS, and also worked as a technical assistant for Rebus, and developed the online game "Fengshen Bang" in Jinshan. In another time and space, this person will be poached by Sohu this year, participated in the formation of Firefox Studio, the predecessor of Sohu Changyou, and jumped ship to start a business after developing "Dragon Babu" - going around for many years, and finally returned to Rebus as the vice president of Xiaomi.

But now, Sohu and Sogou have long cooperated to establish Soupai Changyou, and "Dragon Babu" has been in development for more than half a year. Shang Jing, who wanted to seek greater development, was directly poached by Shi Yuzhu, and took away most of the Agni Studio from Jinshan.

Rebus is also a good man, and he does not resent his subordinates who have changed jobs, even if these subordinates are in a state of "competition" with Jinshan after they leave.

Even for some subordinates who quit their jobs to start businesses, Rebus will also make angel investments out of his own pocket. The money Rebus used as an investment was obtained from the sale of shares in Joyful.com, which gave rise to a number of successful companies, which were later regarded as "Xiaomi".

Shang Jing's wife later jumped ship and started a business, and successfully received an investment of 210,000 yuan from Rebus. Five years after its founding, the company acquired Xiaomi's Mi Chat business, and the two sides jointly formed Xiaomi Mutual Entertainment. Shang Jing eventually ran back to be the vice president of Xiaomi, because his wife was pregnant, and he was called by Rebus to take over his wife's position.

What does Shang Jing say, he is very lucky, but he is also very unlucky.

He is an old man and an important minister of Jinshan, and it stands to reason that he can get equity incentives, but he jumped ship before Jinshan went public. He was one of the two founders of Sohu Changyou, but he started his own business before Sohu Changyou went public. The web game company he founded later developed well, but it withdrew before Tencent injected capital. The online game company he founded was a smash hit, but it was hollowed out by shareholders, and a good CEO was sent to study in the directing department. When he came back from studying, he was assigned to the film and television department, which was specially built for him, the Bodhisattva, and as a result, he led the investment in "Painted Skin" to gain fame and fortune, but in the end he was completely excluded from the decision-making level.

Fortunately, Shang Jing married the right wife and was able to come back to take over as the vice president of Xiaomi when his wife was pregnant......

After Shi Yuzhu poached Shang Jing and his team, he personally participated in the planning of "Journey". He handed over the company to his henchmen, turned off his mobile phone, cut off contact with the outside world, and lived a year-long life of isolation.

The mission system and detailed gameplay of "Journey" may have been made by the studio at the beginning, but the final product was made by Shi Yuzhu. After each stage of the game, Shi Yuzhu will personally lead people to play semi-finished products, and write down any unsatisfactory points and let the studio modify them according to their own ideas. He has integrated all the tricks he has been selling health care products for many years into the game, making local tyrant players go crazy and throwing money at it, so that ordinary players can also enjoy it.

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After dealing with the affairs in the capital, Song Weiyang immediately prepared to fly to Hu Jian to participate in this year's gathering of members of the Golden Bull Club.

Who knew that Zhang, vice president of Guanghua School of Management of Peking University, who had had a few faces, suddenly found Song Weiyang with a phone call - a private phone number, which was left by each other when he participated in the CCTV Economic Person of the Year Award Ceremony.

There is nothing else, Vice President Zhang is just a middleman, and Du Xia, the boss of the family world, wants to invite Song Weiyang to dinner.

This face is really difficult to push, because Vice President Zhang is a well-known economist in China, and he will be promoted to the dean of the School of Management of Peking University in the future, and he used to talk to Song Weiyang.

Inside the courtyard.

Dressed in trousers, shirts, and glasses, Ducha was short and stocky, and had the temperament of a scholar and a businessman.

After a brief greeting, Du Xia said, "Mr. Song, I'm really sorry. Originally, I invited you to dinner, but now that you invite me to dinner, I will definitely make up for this meal when I have the opportunity in the future. ”

"Mr. Du is polite, Dean Zhang's friend is my friend of Song. Everyone is their own people, why do you need to talk about two things," Song Weiyang said a few polite words, and said with a smile, "What's more, we are also partners, Xifeng also has to ask Mr. Du's supermarket chain to sell products." ”

Du Xia smiled: "Where and where, we are a retail chain, we should be grateful to a big brand like Xifeng." ”

The two praised each other and talked about the scene, Song Weiyang was not in a hurry with a smile the whole time, he wanted to see how long the other party could go around.

Du Xia is not an ordinary small boss, but a tycoon who was ranked in the top 10 of last year's Forbes China Rich List.

This person used to be a scholar, studying economics, and went to the sea to do business in the 80s. In 1990, when he was speculating in foreign exchange on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, he had lost all the money he had earned for many years. Immediately, he went to Qiongdao to speculate on land, and with his keen sense of smell as an economist, he made a perfect withdrawal half a year before the collapse of Qiongdao real estate, and then took the money back to Jinmen to do real estate.

It has always been a mystery to do the operation during the real estate period, but he insisted that "every penny he made was clean", and even used it as a gimmick to seek to go public in the past two years.

In the mid-90s, Ducha began to gradually abandon the real estate development business and started a retail business of building materials related to real estate. He is an economist, and unlike ordinary clay-legged entrepreneurs, he first went abroad to investigate and bring back the Western retail industry, so some people call him "the father of China's modern retail industry".

After 2000, Duxia turned his attention to the retail of daily necessities, which is commonly known as opening a supermarket chain.

Before 2004, Ducha was very cautious in his investments, and often ridiculed those who diversified and those who desperately expanded and opened stores, believing that these people were speculators who could not stand the test of time. He insisted on taking North China and Northwest China as his main positions, avoiding first-tier cities and laying out in second- and third-tier cities in the north, and declared that he would never cross the Yangtze River south before 2008.

In this way, by doing a retail chain, Duxia finally ranked among the top ten richest people in China last year.

It smells so good!

Du Xia has not been able to escape the law of true fragrance, and seeing foreign supermarket brands conquering cities in China, he has a sense of crisis that time cannot wait. So since last year, Duxia has frantically added new chain stores, and replaced more than half of the executives with foreigners, claiming to build an international team.

The capital chain began to collapse, and the reputation of the chain brand began to collapse......

How could a once cautious scholar-entrepreneur make such a fatal mistake?

Because Du Xia suddenly wanted to use the power of capital, all the crazy moves he made were to seek listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. As long as the company can be listed, the capital chain is not a problem, and word of mouth is not a problem, with his ability to completely correct it, and the success rate of listing is almost 100%, it is likely to create a retail empire in China - he wants to be a Chinese version of Wal-Mart.

Just when everything was ready, when the Hong Kong Stock Exchange was about to approve the listing application, the State Administration of Foreign Exchange of China suddenly issued a document requiring approval of the three links of the red-chip listing.

Du Xia wanted to cry without tears, he had calculated everything, but he couldn't count it, the State Administration of Foreign Exchange actually closed the door to the red-chip listing!

Drinking a little wine in the courtyard, Du Xia and Song Weiyang talked nonsense for a long time, and finally couldn't help but get to the point: "Is Mr. Song interested in investing in the retail industry?"

Song Weiyang took a sip of immortal wine and asked with a smile: "What, Mr. Du's company wants financing?"

"If the retail industry wants to expand, it must have enough capital. Originally, I wanted to go public and raise funds, but the State Administration of Foreign Exchange suddenly restricted the red chips of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, so I could only seek financial help through other channels. In terms of doing business, I am certainly inferior to Mr. Song in other places, but when it comes to doing retail chains, I think it is the second, and no one in China dares to recognize it as the first! When I opened my first supermarket, the sales volume reached 100 million yuan during the three-month trial operation. In the first year of opening a supermarket, I built 15 chain stores, and the net profit reached 78 million yuan! With Mr. Song's financial help and my ability to operate in the retail industry, I could build a Wal-Mart belonging to China within 10 years!"

Song Weiyang put down his wine glass and said with a smile: "I heard that more than half of the managers of Mr. Du's company have been replaced by foreigners? ”

Du Xia immediately patted his chest and promised: "Inviting foreigners to serve as the company's top management is all for the purpose of speculating on the listing." As long as Mr. Song is willing to invest, I will go back and fire all those foreign devils, they don't understand Chinese fart, and they can only eat dry rice if they stay. ”

Song Weiyang said: "Since last year, your company has been exposed to all kinds of negative news, and it seems that there are many problems in management. Also, the speed at which new stores are opened is so fast, I can't imagine where to find so many branch managers, and they won't be hired randomly, right?"

Du Xia once again assured: "As long as Mr. Song is willing to invest, I will directly close half of the branches opened in the past year! ”

Song Weiyang asked, "What is the relationship between Dean Zhang of Peking University and you?"

Du Xia smiled: "I'm an old friend with him." He has been an independent director of our company since 2001. ”

"No wonder Dean Zhang wants to be a middleman to help make an appointment for dinner," Song Weiyang suddenly realized, and asked with a serious face, "How big is the financial loophole you have now, to be honest, this can't deceive people." ”

Du Xia shook his head and smiled bitterly: "I owe 1.5 billion to the bank and more than 2 billion to the supplier." ”

"You're amazing!" Song Weiyang sighed sincerely.

Song Weiyang lamented not that Du Xia owed debts, but that he owed so much money and continued to expand wildly in another time and space. It's like a gambler, the gambling book has been smashed in, and you can only recklessly seek a chance to turn it over, and there is no turning back at all (unless someone spends a lot of money to come in and help get through the difficulties). After Duxia's road to listing was stuck, it opened stores at a faster pace for another year, just to be able to pass the listing review of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange.

It's a pity that it can't be listed, so you can only sell your assets.

First, it sold the building materials chain brand to foreign companies, then sold the supermarket chain brand to China Resources, and then sold various store properties. The most awesome thing about Du Xia is that his property has not been sold out for more than ten years, and until 2019, he was still on the Forbes list of the world's richest people, but he fell to 2057th, and even donated 30 million to his alma mater to repair the library.

From the mid-90s to 2004, Du Xia often bought all the stores when he opened chain stores, and even built shopping malls everywhere himself, and the real estate accumulated in ten years was enough for him to eat for a lifetime.

Although it owes nearly 4 billion yuan in foreign debt, Ducha's company is definitely a high-quality asset, and its fixed assets alone are worth tens of billions of dollars - with the real estate market booming, it will be worth more money in the future.

Song Weiyang asked, "How much do you want to finance?"

Du Xia said: "The more the merrier, it is better to have more than 1 billion!"

Song Weiyang thought for a while: "I'm going to Hu Jian to attend the Golden Bull Club party, you can also come with me to see who else is willing to invest in the Golden Bull Club." ”