The person who called SoftBank Investment Fund to express its interest in financing was a woman.

She introduced herself as Ye, called, Ye Qin. He is the marketing manager of SoftBank Huaxia Market, responsible for Internet projects.

Ms. Ye politely said on the phone: "Mr. Chen, SoftBank hopes to reach a friendly relationship with Mr. Chen's promising technology for financing cooperation. We, SoftBank, are very interested in the Internet products that Mr. Chen is currently operating, and are willing to do everything we can to help Mr. Chen when he needs to introduce capital. ”

The other party directly explained his intentions, and there was no need to bend around with his back against the big tree of SoftBank. It is believed that before deciding to raise funds, SoftBank had already figured out the details of the financing company. SoftBank will not do anything about trading at a loss.

Otherwise, the name of the investment madman Masayoshi Son is not in vain, but one successful financing case after another, which has contributed to his high return on investment.

Now, Masayoshi Son's SoftBank has actually chosen Youwei Technology. It is actually a matter of pride to be recognized by a senior investment institution that once you decide to invest, it is to build the hegemony of the industry.

However, the other party's enthusiasm, when it came to Chen Chuliang, was a bit like encountering cold air.

It's not that Chen Chuliang doesn't look down on SoftBank Investment.

Instead, Chen Chuliang has two no's in his life.

First, don't buy Japanese cars.

Second, do not do business with the Japanese.

In his bones, he is a Chinese entrepreneur with a strong national righteousness, the world is so big, he can't starve to death if he doesn't do business with the Japanese.

Received a call from SoftBank Investment Fund, despite the sincerity of the other party. Chen Chuliang still refused: "I'm sorry, I, I'm not interested in Japanese investment institutions. ”

Thinking of the public service in later generations, Taobao, Didi taxi, these popular products, there are Japanese investment institutions behind them to make a lot of money and many people drool, Chen Chuliang simply does not deal with the Japanese now, and does not want the Chinese people's money to be made by Japanese companies.

When Ms. Ye heard this, the other party seemed to have an unfriendly attitude towards SoftBank Investment.

She knows that the experience of Japanese companies in China is sometimes quite embarrassing, and from the day she entered the company, Ye Qin has received a lot of etiquette training on polite treatment of Chinese businessmen, the purpose of which is to raise the company's public image. Let Chinese businessmen be willing to cooperate with Japanese companies. As a result, all Japanese companies in China have shown that they are proficient in management, strict in all kinds of demanding requirements, and even the clothing for work must be stipulated without flaws, so as to obtain the Chinese people's pursuit of perfection, in order to gain the admiration of the Chinese people, and the favorability has risen.

"Mr. Chen, I can know why your company does not want to cooperate with SoftBank? I personally contacted you with sincerity and with a very optimistic attitude towards the future prospects of Huaxia Internet. ”

I have to say that SoftBank's Ye Qin speaks very sharply. Of course, to be the leader of a project, how can you do it without two brushes.

The other party broke the casserole and asked in the end, Chen Chuliang had no choice but to say: "There is no special reason." Miss Ye should know all the products of Youwei Technology, all of which are representative of the Internet, once they are crowned with other colors by the good deeds, I believe that we will deviate from the users of the public, so we will not consider SoftBank investment fundamentally. ”

Miss Ye had no choice but to say: "I think, because Mr. Chen's personal color is very serious." ”

Chen Chuliang did not answer.

ended the call with SoftBank investors. Chen Chuliang knows that even a sharp-eyed investor like SoftBank can come to the door, and he believes that there will be stronger investors than SoftBank, and he has now established a new confidence in the Chinese Internet market.

……

December 24, the day is Christmas Eve before Christmas in the West.

Chen Chuliang, who originally planned to go to Yanjing, failed to do so in the end.

There is no other reason.

Chen Chuliang was originally waiting for the flight at the airport, and flew Yanjing to meet Han Zhi's girl.

As a result, before boarding the plane, Xiao Ping made a phone call and rushed to his mobile phone, telling him that the company had a team of people, two men and one woman, and also told Chen Chuliang about the other party's intention to talk about financing!

Of course, work is more important than love, Chen Chuliang returned to the company directly from the airport, and met a team of people who came to the door to negotiate financing.

A combination of two men and one woman, both men are foreigners with yellow hair, blue eyes, and high noses. And the woman looks petite and lovely, a real, yellow-skinned, black-eyed Chinese.

I saw the woman, with a pair of dark eyes, looking around, looking curious.

In this group, it is estimated that only one is the master of the team leader, and the other slightly younger man and woman should belong to the group as interns, because only the two of them are holding a file bag, among which the girl with a pair of heavy tortoiseshell black-rimmed glasses and a ponytail is tied up, revealing that she should not be too old.

The other party suddenly came to the company, Xiao Ping was greeting this team of people, although the other party came to the door, did not report the name of the company, did not reveal personal information, made mysterious, but Xiao Ping could feel the huge energy hidden by the other party from this group of teams.

When Chen Chuliang returned from the airport and came to the company as soon as possible, one of the two men with a high nose bridge, a man in his forties, asked him in a Chinese language that he was not very proficient in, "Are you the CEO of a technology company?"

There was a clear look of disbelief in his tone.

If the boss of this company is Xiao Ping, who received them just now, he can still accept it, but he never expected that the company with a valuation of more than 1.5 billion yuan in their Goldman Sachs Asian investment banking company, the boss behind the scenes, is a little scary.

Not only him, but even the two assistants who came with him were shocked at the moment.

As interns at Goldman Sachs Investment Group's Asian investment bank, the two men met too many business geniuses with his teacher Charlemagne, but this was the first time they had met an entrepreneur younger than the tortoiseshell-rimmed girl with tortoiseshell glasses of one of their interns. This kind of thing is not very common.

For a while, the scene was a little cold.

Or is he too young, the pressure is too great, and there is always an illusion that he is not doing things well, Chen Chuliang smiled, redeemed the embarrassment of the cold field, and said, "I am the boss of Youwei Technology." ”

The man who spoke just now realized that the morale of himself and the others seemed to be hit, and coughed twice, "I didn't expect that the boss of Youwei Technology Company is so young, okay, let me give a brief introduction, my name is Charlemagne." On the left is my assistant Pierce, and on the right is Jeanliu, a beautiful Chinese girl. ”

Chen Chuliang nodded, indicating that he was fortunate to know. As for the beautiful Chinese girl he said, Chen Chuliang looked over and was okay, with two dimples and a ponytail when he laughed. Youthful and beautiful, with big eyes, and very bright.

Then sit down directly across from the other three.

"A few of them are here to talk about financing. ”

Chen Chuliang went directly to the topic, he even pushed off the big event of spending Christmas with his girlfriend and rushed back, of course, in order to negotiate financing as soon as possible to buy Wangyi.

Charlemagne raised his hand. "Yes, or no. ”

He smiled, an experienced fox.

"Before that, can I ask Mr. Chen a few questions?"

Chen Chuliang said: "No problem. ”

Charlemagne asked the first question.

"How many shares does Mr. Chen plan to dilute in this financing?"

Chen Chuliang nodded, he didn't want to answer this question once when he saw someone, he was very tired.

Charlemagne asked the second question: "Chen always intends to dilute the stake in Youwei Technology, or the stake in the company that runs the game today!"

"Only dilution of the stake in the subsidiary. It's a cliché, but investors seem to like to get to the bottom of it. He said it one more time.

Charlemagne continued: "If we decide to raise money, how long will it take for the amount to arrive?"

Chen Chuliang felt that this person who talked about financing was refreshing enough, and immediately said, "We do not accept installment payments, only one-time payments. ”

With a "snap", Charlemagne snapped his fingers and told Jeanliu, an intern next to him, to take out the contract that had been drawn up long ago in the document bag.

"Mr. Chen, this is Goldman Sachs Asia Investment Bank's financing plan for the company that operates "Legend of Blood", this is an original draft, you can see it first! If there is anything that needs to be discussed, the agreement will be revised, but. I also asked Mr. Chen a few questions just now, and the content of the agreement should not be too different. ”

Charlemagne finally gave his way in.

Goldman Sachs Asia Investment Bank. This is a giant like Taishan Beidou in the investment industry, and has participated in the financing of many super entity companies in China, compared with SoftBank, which is still dominant in Asia, compared with Goldman Sachs, it is a bit like shrimp seeing a big fish.

It turns out that the bigger the investment bank, the more simplistic the way it acts.

After all, what you want to see when you invest is a predictable return in the future.

Obviously. In the eyes of Goldman Sachs, today's promising technology is only worth investing in games, so it will not be stingy with how much money it throws in, because Goldman Sachs' team has already budgeted for this investment.

Chen Chuliang carefully read the original draft of the contract.

After he finished reading it, he handed it to Xiao Ping next to him for cross-examination.

Only then did I know that Mr. Cha was representing Goldman Sachs Investment Bank. ”

After holding the other party's words, Chen Chuliang looked around.

His eyes were fixed on the face of the girl named Jeanliu who was sitting on Charlemagne's right.

If Chen Chuliang is not mistaken, this woman is Liu Qing, the daughter of Liu Chuan, the founder of Didi Taxi, and the overlord of Huaxia Lenovo computer.

In his previous life, Chen Chuliang actually admired this peer who was less than two years old from his age and was able to create a woman who opened the era of online car-hailing. It seems that the other party is now studying in graduate school at Haval in the United States, and during his studies, he followed the people of Goldman Sachs Investment Bank to exercise around and hone his personal ability, so that there will be the appearance of the taxi artifact behind.

Soon, Xiao Ping told Chen Chuliang that there was no big problem with the other party's contract. There is only one point of it, which is a bit unreasonable, but it is also harmless and can be signed.

Moreover, Goldman Sachs gave Aiya Technology, which operates games, a market value of 1.3 billion coins, and 10% of the financing, which is 13 million US dollars. After the money arrives, you can buy NetEase.

"Mr. Cha's contract we have seen, Goldman Sachs' sincerity is the most reliable company I have ever seen, I hope the cooperation is happy." ”

Charlemagne hastened to say: "Happy cooperation. ”

Both sides stretched out their hands and came to a congratulatory handshake.

The conversation was brief, and there was almost nothing to overturn on the spot. After all, before investing, the investor, Goldman Sachs Investment Bank, had already done a detailed investigation before there would be the original draft of the contract in the document bag. Moreover, as a large amount of capital, this more than 10 million yuan is a drop in the bucket for Goldman Sachs.

On the contrary, if Goldman Sachs invests correctly, this more than 10 million yuan will create unimaginable value in the future.

"Mr. Cha, after the contract is signed, don't be busy, let's go have a glass of red wine to celebrate. ”

Mr. Cha said: "I'm sorry Mr. Chen, I have to rush back to China to spend Christmas with my wife and children." ”

Christmas is a grand festival in the West, similar to the Chinese New Year. Charlemagne came to Huaxia to talk about financing, and a lot of preparatory work in the early stage had exhausted him, and now that it was done, he naturally wanted to go back to rest and spend time with his family.

Chen Chuliang will not leave anyone.

Seeing a few people leave the company, Xiao Ping asked him next to him, "Boss, why do I think you always look at the person named Jeanliu among the three Goldman Sachs?"

Chen Chuliang shook his head.

After all, I didn't say what I wanted to say.

Did he tell Xiao Ping that although it was the first time they met, they had known each other for a long time?

……

On the fourth day after Goldman Sachs investment bank financing, 13 million US dollars were transferred to the account of Youwei Technology Company.

January 1, 2001.

If nothing else, NetEase will open the beta "Journey to the West" on this day.

However, now, after encountering the exposure of the core of the game on the Internet, NetEase's game has become the last straw that overwhelms Ding Lei.

Yangcheng, the headquarters of NetEase.

The atmosphere of the New Year did not make NetEase, which was mired in the quagmire, have a hint of the New Year. On the contrary, after NetEase's Ding Lei announced that he would buy NetEase, NetEase panicked.

Within NetEase, the game research and development department, which used to be directly under the orders of the company's boss Ding Lei, has a depression, and the head of the department, Wu Yufu, even has gray hair, leaving him and a few employees who have not left to stay here.

"Journey to the West" is gone, and NetEase is also going to encounter the situation of being sold, Wu Yufu feels that he has not done a good job, resulting in the leakage of the game content. However, the boss didn't get angry with him, and Wu Yu's father felt a sense of guilt in his heart.

Ding Lei has returned to work at NetEase, but he looks absent-minded.

On the first day of the new year, Ding Lei sat alone in the office and smoked a cigarette and looked at the prosperity of Yangcheng outside the company.

The phone on the table rang for a long time before Ding Lei reacted and answered.

Picking up the phone was a voice I didn't want to hear.

The other party asked him with a smile on the phone, is NetEase going to sell?

Ding Lei took a deep breath, feeling a sense of defeat and defeat, and said, "You want to buy it?"