Liu Ruoyi didn't expect the penguin to unify their thoughts so quickly. Although the proposed plan is a bit strange, after all, Penguin is still far from a listed company, and this kind of convertible debt method is obviously unacceptable for most venture capital institutions.

However, Liu Ruoyi didn't care about the little Jiujiu in the hearts of the founders of Penguin, and readily agreed to their request. Of course, in terms of interest, it is still calculated according to the market price of 20%, after all, the risk of this debt is still very large, if it is a different company, Liu Ruoyi may not dare to lend it out like this.

Venture capital funds are originally relying on ten times and dozens of times the high returns of successful enterprises to balance the risk of losing all their capital to failed enterprises, and the return of this kind of borrowing is less than 10%, which is not enough to resist the risk exposure of failure.

But who made Liu Ruoyi the majority shareholder of the penguin, in terms of a single share, she is actually the largest shareholder of the penguin! And this thing to do now is also very important for the development of the penguin, if it can really win the Zhonglian game, the development of the penguin will no longer be shackled, and the social field will ensure its hegemony.

As long as the penguin father doesn't get dizzy and enters a new field and burns a lot of money, the penguin will really open the sky from now on.

The rest of the matter is how to use this platform to increase the number of profitable businesses. In Liu Ruoyi's mind, she has actually conceived a lot of broad avenues for the future of penguins!

Of course, the premise is that the current Penguin leadership must establish a sense of trust in Liu Ruoyi, and at the same time, let Liu Ruoyi find a sense of security, at least keep the shares relatively balanced on both sides, and no one should think about eating each other's shares, then everything is easy to say.

When Daddy Penguin made a phone call to get the money and was full of ambition to talk to the major shareholders of Zhonglian, he didn't expect that the first negotiator didn't want to think about it at all.

"Mr. Ma, we have no intention of selling Zhonglian shares for the time being, thank you for calling, goodbye!" The first call made by Daddy Penguin was hung up in less than ten seconds.

People don't even give a chance to bargain!

This makes Daddy Penguin a little discouraged, because this major shareholder owns more than 50% of the shares of Zhonglian Games through indirect shareholding! It can be said that as long as they buy the shares of Zhonglian in their hands, they can control Zhonglian!

But it backfired, and people didn't have the idea of selling at all!

It's a bit of a disturbance.

But Daddy Penguin is not a person who gives up easily, this road doesn't work, so he takes a different path.

"Mr. Bao, I took the liberty to disturb me. "Penguin Dad still respects Bao Luqiao, the soul of Zhonglian, after all, from the perspective of the development of the IT industry, Mr. Bao is an iconic predecessor, and many IT early development histories can't avoid him.

"It's okay, welcome Mr. Ma. Bao Luqiao still attaches great importance to the visit of the penguin father. Because after transferring most of the shares, Bao Luqiao actually had the idea of going.

After the controlling shareholder rejected his new financing plan with another partner, Bao Luqiao was even more distracted.

Now the development of Zhonglian can be said to have reached a very critical time, if there is no funds to come in and pull quickly, the excellent window opportunity for the development of Zhonglian will be lost.

There is not much threshold for the technical complexity of chess and card leisure and entertainment games, and many large Internet companies have the manpower and material resources to enter the game.

Mr. Bao has been staring at whether Penguin's next step will be to cut into this field of leisure and entertainment chess and card games.

But today, Mr. Ma suddenly came to visit, what does this mean, Bao Luqiao really has no bottom in his heart.

"I don't know if Mr. Ma is here today, what are you doing?" Bao Luqiao is a technical school, and he also likes a straightforward style of thinking about problems, and he asks questions if he doesn't understand.

"Mr. Bao, frankly speaking, when Ma came here today, he actually had some ideas to discuss with Mr. Bao, if it is not right, Mr. Bao will treat it as a joke. "Also as a technical person, Mr. Ma actually prefers this straightforward style, rather than the nonsense that can't get into the topic for half a day.

"Oh, please. Bao Luqiao made an inviting gesture and wanted to hear what Mr. Ma had to say.

"That's right, I think Zhonglian Games is a very promising leisure and entertainment platform, and Mr. Bao is also a respected predecessor in the IT industry.

"After carefully discussing the feasibility of Penguin's leisure and entertainment business development, we found that if we had the opportunity to cooperate with Zhonglian Games, then our business development would be faster and the advantages would be more obvious. ”

"Cooperation?" Bao Luqiao was a little confused about the question that Mr. Ma suddenly threw up when he came to the door, and frankly said that for Mr. Ma, although Bao Luqiao could not be said to be discriminatory, but in terms of psychology, there was still more or less a big brother idea in it.

Regarding the cooperation idea suddenly put forward by Mr. Ma, Bao Luqiao was a little confused for a moment, and he didn't know what kind of cooperation Mr. Ma wanted?

Could it be that the Penguin software should be embedded in the Zhonglian platform to promote the Zhonglian game?

"What kind of cooperation method? Bao is willing to hear about it. Bao Luqiao couldn't think of it, so let's just listen to what the other party said.

"To put it simply, Penguin wants to acquire the Zhonglian platform, and then invite Mr. Bao to join us and continue to be responsible for the integration and development of Zhonglian Games in Penguin, and everyone will work together to create a new Penguin. Mr. Ma made his intention for today clear.

"Acquisition of Zhonglian?" Bao Luqiao, who was still guessing Mr. Ma's true thoughts at the last moment, was stunned by Mr. Ma's statement. You must know that the Zhonglian platform is not a small platform, with the strength of penguins, why should you acquire Zhonglian?

"Yes, we hope to acquire Zhonglian to achieve a strong alliance and minimize the waste of disorderly competition and duplicate development in the industry. Mr. Ma saw that Bao Luqiao was completely unprepared, and repeatedly emphasized. The major shareholders can't knock on the door, and I don't know if they can reach an agreement here with these key minority shareholders.

Although Bao Luqiao's shares of the founders have been reduced to a minority, as a key figure in Zhonglian, Mr. Ma knows that as long as they want to join Penguin to find a way together, there may be a new way to solve this acquisition problem.

"Mr. Ma, I think you should talk to our major shareholders about this idea" Bao Luqiao understood Mr. Ma's words, but he still didn't understand Mr. Ma's approach. "Presumably, Mr. Ma also knows that the shares of our founders can no longer influence the decision-making policy of Zhonglian. ”

"No, I think Mr. Bao is the key figure in Zhonglian. Mr. Ma shook his head, "Don't hide it from Mr. Bao, we contacted the major shareholders, but they refused." ”

Sooner or later, the other party will know about these things, and Mr. Ma will simply be simpler. "However, we feel that in Zhonglian, the majority shareholder is not the only one who can cooperate, and if Mr. Bao thinks that we can cooperate with Penguin, we can explore ways to solve this problem together. ”

As the actual controller and trader of Zhonglian, Bao Luqiao's influence on Zhonglian is of course very important at this stage. To put it more extremely, now that the Bao Luqiao team has been completely withdrawn and restarted, it will not take long for this system to be set up.

In his mind, if he really can't acquire Zhonglian Games, he can dig up the Bao Luqiao team to be responsible for the technical research and development of this business, which is also a key part of shortening Penguin casual games.

As for saying that this kind of operation is a bit of a violation of the non-compete restriction, but please this is the era when the Internet has just begun to grow savagely.

"Mr. Ma, frankly speaking, we can't count when we talk in Zhonglian. Bao Luqiao shook his head, he is not doing well in Zhonglian now, whether it is a development plan or a resource application, now the major shareholders have the final say, and many of the ideas he puts forward, the major shareholders often veto them in one sentence.

There is no way, who let them lack money and sell the main shares of the company early, and now the shares of their founders together are only a little more than 20 percent, and they have no weight at the company's shareholders' meeting.

"We understand that this is the case from some angles, but frankly, what do you think about such an idea?" Mr. Ma has not given up his efforts.

"If Mr. Bao is interested in working with penguins, let's discuss the operational aspects together. For example, Mr. Bao can propose to buy back the shares in the hands of major shareholders at a premium, and then transfer them to us to join our penguin team. ”

Mr. Ma's method is indeed a feasible method, and the Bao Luqiao team initiates a buyback, and if the major shareholders consider the consequences of the core team's unmet demands, they may choose to make a lot of money and leave, and this kind of case is not only a few cases in business history for reference.

Bao Luqiao didn't expect Mr. Ma to be so persistent in Zhonglian Game Platform. However, in a hurry, he didn't have any idea, just asked casually, "If Mr. Ma wants to acquire, how much valuation will he give?"

"According to the current development of Zhonglian, we propose to discuss this issue together on the basis of 150 million. Mr. Ma was prepared for this question and directly said the number in his mind.

Bao Luqiao chuckled in his heart, and an extremely complex emotion surged into his heart. Although the valuation is lower than the financing plan made in the early part of last year, considering that it was still at the peak of the NASDAQ network stock at that time, and now that the bubble has long burst, Mr. Ma can still give a valuation similar to that financing plan, which is enough to show sincerity.

For a while, Bao Luqiao had the idea to sell his shares directly to Mr. Ma and left.

After all, according to the current valuation, almost 10% of the shares in his hand are more than 10 million, and it is also a good choice to take this money to leave this place that makes him feel more and more aggrieved, and to choose a new direction to do.

However, Bao Luqiao is not good at business, and he knows that this idea is unrealistic, if Mr. Ma only gets a small share, how will it help Penguin? Not at all.

"This question is too sudden for me, Mr. Ma let me think about it and say it again?" Bao Luqiao's heart was a little confused at the moment, and he simply proposed a truce.

"No problem, no problem, this matter is not in a hurry, Mr. Bao, then today we will talk about this, if Mr. Bao for Zhonglian and Penguins, or Mr. Bao you have any ideas about penguin cooperation, welcome to put forward for discussion, we have an open-ended, non-preset attitude towards this, by the way, in terms of acquisition funds, we have no problem at all. ”

Mr. Ma saw that he talked about this and knew that he couldn't go further today, so he also took the opportunity to say goodbye, but in the end, he still left a little tail for Mr. Bao to reverie.

"Okay, let's talk about this today, Mr. Ma, you see it's almost noon, stay and have a light meal together?" Bao Luqiao asked politely.

"Thank you Mr. Bao for your kind invitation, but I already have arrangements here at noon, so I won't trouble Mr. Bao, next time, next time we will make an appointment together." Mr. Ma excused himself. Today is an introduction, and there is nothing to talk about next, rather than everyone sitting and chatting awkwardly, it is better to wait for Bao Luqiao to figure it out before making an appointment.

If Bao Luqiao doesn't have any idea of cooperation in his heart, it seems that the Zhonglian platform doesn't have to think about it at all.

Mr. Ma didn't know how Bao Luqiao would make a decision, after all, this matter was relatively not an easy thing to decide, and even if Bao Luqiao figured it out and wanted to cooperate with the penguin, the subsequent operation would not be easy.

However, Mr. Ma is not the only one in this plan, and within Penguin, a casual game pre-research team has been established. If you really can't do it, then do it yourself.

Anyway, with the money Liu Ruoyi promised, if the penguins are allowed to do it themselves, it will take about a year at most to re-establish the platform for leisure and entertainment games. At least there is no problem with which common board games are available.

At the level of Penguin's core technology, there is no technical threshold for the game with this technical difficulty, a chess and card game is fast in three or five months, and slow in half a year, but the entire platform should be systematized and introduce new users to reach a certain scale, which still takes time to accumulate, not software development, and it will catch up with competitors overnight.

This idea is completely unrealistic.

For people who play these games, if there are already some familiar card friends to play together on a certain platform, they will not easily change the platform, although Penguin software has a large number of users, but after all, they are mainly based on chat and communication, to cultivate a group of habits to play games on the Penguin platform, it is not only time, but may also need some promotion means to slowly accumulate users.