As soon as he heard Hu Pei say that he had a way, Li Yanhong wanted to know very much and asked, "Brother Hu, just say it quickly." ”

Hu Pei did not make reservations and said: "If you want Baidu to remove the threat of Zhongli Technology, it seems that the first thing is to increase capital." ”

"Capital increase?"

Li Yanhong, there was also a flash of inspiration in his head.

Hu Pei's suggestion is really a bit of a defeat to win.

This set of operations, for Li Yanhong, who has been in the United States for several years, is no stranger, the company wants to survive, the company wants to develop, then let the shareholders increase the capital according to the number of shares, so that the company can go to the next level, of course, this kind of operation, will naturally eliminate some unstable small shareholders, and will also drive away some major shareholders with more equity not to play, after all, no one's money comes in vain.

Seeing that Li Yanhong was enlightened by his own reminder, Hu Pei continued: "That's right, it's a capital increase, as far as I know, Youwei Technology, the parent company of Zhongli Technology, now only has "Legend of Blood" This cash cow for their various products on the Internet as support, in the absence of other investors to intervene, promising technology will be more concerned about their overall considerations than the current Baidu, I dare to conclude that the current capital chain of promising technology, absolutely insufficient, it can even be said, don't look at their many products, if a company has a mistake in its operation, they will definitely abandon the car to protect the handsome. ”

is worthy of an expert who came back from Wall Street in the United States, Hu Pei's words are already a very in-depth analysis, why did he propose to increase capital.

There are two reasons for this.

First, Zhongli Technology Company, which invested in Baidu, is limited by the pressure of the parent company's capital chain, and it is easy to become a point that the other party temporarily discards.

Second, although we know that the ultimate goal of Youwei Technology is to encroach on Baidu's search engine and achieve the goal of kicking out all the founders of Baidu, from now on, Baidu will increase its capital and upgrade its own content operation, to a large extent, so that Youwei Technology has no time to take care of anything else.

In this way, even if Promising Technology has the intention to do things, it can only hinder its current situation and have to give up its plan to continue to invest in Baidu, and their shares in Baidu will be greatly diluted and will not be able to make waves in a short period of time.

After listening to Hu Pei's analysis, Li Yanhong also began to nod, and the smile on his face increased.

He said to Hu Pei: "Zhongli Technology's shares in Baidu are 25%, which is already the second largest shareholder after me, if Baidu needs to increase its capital by 80 million this time, Zhongli Technology will have to take out 20 million, if we increase its capital by 800 million, according to the equity distribution, they must increase their capital by 200 million! However, their capital chain, so that they do not have such a big appetite, continue to maintain the number of shares held in Baidu, when the shares are diluted, naturally, the threat to Baidu is small. ”

Li Yanhong seems to have seen a turnaround.

The method Hu Pei said should be regarded as surviving in death.

After all, once Baidu proposes to increase its capital, all shareholders will increase their capital accordingly, and he Li Yanhong's shareholding in Baidu is also 40%, which is Baidu's largest shareholder, if Baidu increases its capital by 800 million, he will also increase his capital by more than 200 million.

This can be regarded as everyone contributing money to make Baidu completely burn.

Money is not a problem, as long as Baidu's crisis can be solved, even if it is for Li Yanhong to borrow usury.

Seeing that Li Yanhong should know how to operate, Hu Pei nodded and said: "Most of the subsidiaries of Youwei Technology are still in the stage of burning money, and their funds will definitely not be too abundant, and if they want to drive them away, they can only take advantage of their powerlessness, and if it is too late, we will not be able to kick the other party out by means of capital increase." Presumably, you can also see that this capital increase is actually Baidu's own meat to drive the wolf away, but if it succeeds, it will completely drive away the wolf. We are betting on each other, we can't afford to play a capital war with us, and then we quit this table at Baidu. ”

Li Yanhong heard that Hu Pei was telling him to play a big gamble like in Las Vegas.

If you win the bet, Baidu will belong to you, and if you lose the bet, Baidu will belong to someone else.

To describe it in two words, it is 'stud'! Winning the pinnacle of life, losing, and defeating.

After a pause for a few seconds, Li Yanhong finally made a decision in his heart, and he sighed that this was a big gamble

"Just do as you say. However, there is a problem, even if Zhongli Technology does not participate in Baidu's capital increase plan and is diluted shares, but they are still the tail that Baidu can't shake off, we can only dilute the other party's shares, so that Baidu has been embezzled for a few years, but it cannot be completely avoided that Baidu will not fall into the hands of the other party again, after all, what Baidu lacks most now is the end product. In the end, shareholders still chose to combine the end products and make Zhongli Technology more ecological. ”

Li Yanhong also understands very well that the capital increase can only dilute the shares of the other party, so as not to let Baidu be annexed by the other party within three or five years, but how Baidu can get out of the predicament, that is what he should think about.

Hu Pei has plans to increase capital, so he has already thought of the next method, and said: "The purpose of Zhongli Technology is to plunder Baidu's search engine technology. And we can completely split Baidu's search engine technology out of a separate search engine company, Zhongli Technology in Baidu company does not own 25% of the shares, after being diluted, it is estimated that the shares will be less, when the time comes, Baidu can use the split out of the engine company, to replace the other party's Baidu shares, anyway, the other party's purpose, are all going to the engine technology, after the replacement of shares, the rest of Baidu, is not completely back to the hand?

Li Yanhong said: "In this way, won't the other party become the largest controlling shareholder of the search engine company that Baidu spun off?

Hu Pei said: "That's right, although the other party is the largest controlling person of Baidu Engine Company, but the split Baidu is now the small tail of the split engine company, and the split Baidu, with the help of this Baidu engine controlled by promising technology, is used to get involved in other Internet ecology, which is the only way Baidu can go now." Don't forget, Zhongli Technology has now controlled the end of Baidu to death, and Baidu can't jump out of the other party's tight spell at all. ”

Listening to what Hu Pei said, Li Yanhong's face became heavier.

He saw from Zhongli Technology's invasion attempt at Baidu that an Internet company must first form its own ecology. And the most critical thing in this ecology is its own core products.

He has always regarded the search engine as the core of Baidu, but now this core has been targeted, basically equivalent to his own Baidu, just responsible for the development of car engine company, but the engine created, but can only be bought to the car research and development company, he wants to build a separate factory to get a complete set of car assembly, completely unable to catch up with the technology of the car research and development company, then the core of the search engine loses its role.

Li Yanhong also recognized his shortcomings and asked: "What can Baidu do? What else is there that Youwei Technology is not involved in now?"

In the face of Li Yanhong's questioning, it can also be said that he is not confident, Hu Pei said: "Of course there is, that is, e-commerce!"