The reason why Chen Chuliang did not contact Li Yanhong himself was because Li Yanhong, who had been in Silicon Valley for several years, was born with a keen sense of business warfare, and it was even possible to think of whether their two unconscious meetings would be the beginning of a "conspiracy", the purpose of which was to obtain Baidu equity.

If Li Yanhong is asked to think about this aspect, Baidu domain names will definitely be sold cheaply, or they will not be sold at all.

So Chen Chuliang asked Zhang Ning to negotiate with Li Yanhong as an intermediary to lower Li Yanhong's vigilance, and after obtaining Baidu's equity, he appeared as the boss behind the scenes, and Li Yanhong regretted it too late.

Moreover, after Li Yanhong officially launched Baidu, Chen Chuliang still has Baidu pictures, Baidu videos, Baidu stickers, Baidu music, Baidu maps, and many other domain names around Baidu products.

Li Yanhong wants to make Baidu bigger, and on the road of diversification of its products, he will definitely find that the road ahead seems to have been pinched by a person invisibly, and if he wants to develop products around the name of Baidu, then he can only dilute his own shares.

This will inevitably cause Chen Chuliang to have more and more shares of Baidu in the future, and before Baidu prepares to go public, he will have enough money to acquire the original shares in the hands of other employees of Baidu, and the number of shares he holds may exceed that of Li Yanhong, who founded Baidu.

At that time, Chen Chuliang successfully replaced Li Yanhong as the actual controller of Baidu.

It's a far-fetched goal, but it's not impossible to achieve.

……..

In the Zhongguancun Electronics Building, Li Yanhong and Xu Yong are talking about equipment purchase to a businessman they know.

The location of the new company has been determined, temporarily placed in a hotel next to Yanda, with an area of only a few dozen square meters, which is relatively ordinary, and the company's employees are also recruiting, after all, Li Yanhong returned to China to start a business and only got 1.2 million US dollars in venture capital, and he can't be allowed to roll up his sleeves and do it, everything needs to be simple.

After negotiating the price with the merchant, Li Yanhong apologized to his partner Xu Yong and said that he would answer the phone.

When he came to a quiet place with a little less crowd next to him, Li Yanhong gently greeted the caller: "Hello, I'm Li Yanhong." ”

"Hello Mr. Li, I hope it didn't bother you. ”

On the phone, Zhang Ning's still very immature voice always gives people a very young feeling.

Li Yanhong wondered if the other party was looking for a job.

After all, Xu Yong and Xu Yong posted a lot of recruitment leaflets on the campuses of Yan University and Tsinghua University, and there should be students calling to apply for jobs and join their team in the past two days.

"Well, hello, I'm empty right now, no bothering. Are you here to apply for a job?" Li Yanhong replied in a dignified manner. If the other party is a job applicant, he intends to tell the other party the location of the interview.

On the phone, Zhang Ning went straight to the point and said: "No, I'm not a job seeker. I've heard people say, Mr. Li wants to get a domain name called Baidu?"

Listening to the word "Baidu" on the phone, Li Yanhong was not calm at all.

Since the other party said so, that is, he has a Baidu domain name that he thinks about day and night?

Regardless of where the other party knew that he wanted to get a Baidu domain name, Li Yanhong asked the other party anxiously on the phone: "Baidu domain name is in your hand?"

Li Yanhong expected the other party to answer "yes", rather than providing him with a clue.

Zhang Ning replied affirmatively on the phone: "Well, I registered this domain name not long ago. ”

"Great, friend, can we have a good talk? I want to buy this domain name from you. ”

It didn't take much effort to get it, Li Yanhong was overjoyed, his feeling was not wrong. The domain name Baidu really appeared before the arrival of the New Year.

He liked the domain name Baidu because he wanted to create a Chinese search engine company that was suitable for the Chinese market and Chinese heritage. If the company's name is not Baidu, Li Yanhong will have regrets in his life.

He didn't expect that this domain name was deliberately left to him by God, and he actually asked the person who owned the domain name to call, and Li Yanhong's heart to buy the domain name was even stronger.

Zhang Ning passed on the words that Chen Chuliang gave him on the phone: "Mr. Li, we can sell Baidu domain names." ”

Li Yanhong was overjoyed: "Well, I know, I can buy it for you, you can make a price." ”

On the phone, Li Yanhong didn't show too much like, because he knew that personal emotions were extremely unfavorable to negotiations, especially when the opponent seized this, when the lion opened his mouth, he was really difficult to ride a tiger.

Zhang Ning said lightly: "I think Mr. Li will be mistaken, what I want is not how much money Mr. Li gave me to buy this domain name from me." What I want is how many company shares Mr. Li can give me, so I think about whether to sell Baidu domain names. ”

"Shares?"

As soon as Li Yanhong heard the other party's tone, he knew that the other party did not simply want to sell domain names.

"I'm sorry, but I'm not going to buy a domain name with company shares. Li Yanhong directly rejected Zhang Ning's conditions. Shares represent ownership of the company, and no entrepreneur will easily trade shares, unless it is the earliest employees of the company and a part of the share capital diluted to attract capital at the time of financing.

Zhang Ning on the other end of the phone smiled, Chen Chuliang told him, whether the other party loves it or not, don't pull it down, anyway, when negotiating, he has absolute dominance, as soon as he heard that Li Yanhong was unwilling to ask for it, he didn't care who was on the other side, and said directly: "Since Mr. Li is not interesting, then I won't bother." However, I would like to remind you that Mr. Li will not be unaware of the precedent of selling $8 million and $30 million in shares for the world's top-level domain when he returned from the United States. Now Mr. Li refuses my request, perhaps because he thinks that the domain name Baidu is not valuable, but it is easy to get money, and it will be difficult to find, Mr. Li is a search engine person, and he should know better than me the effect of a good domain name. ”

After speaking, he made a "beep" and hung up directly.

"Hey, friend, don't hang up yet!" Li Yanhong wanted to stay, but found that the other party had hung up the phone.

Li Yanhong felt a pang of chagrin in his heart.

Indeed, abroad, top-level domains like this have sold for millions of dollars and a certain amount of stock. But the Baidu domain name he wants to get is just his personal liking, and it doesn't make much sense, but the other party just grasped this, which is the same as antiques, there is no exact price, just see whether the collector is willing to pay for it.

Moreover, the other party wanted to buy it with the company's shares, and the other party did not say how many shares it wanted, thinking that it was to let him speak, which made Li Yanhong even more passive.

However, the Baidu domain name has finally appeared, and what Li Yanhong has to do now is to calm down and think about how to reply to the other party.

On that side, Zhang Ning, who hung up Li Yanhong's phone, immediately called Chen Chuliang back.

"Boss, Li Yanhong has been contacted, and the other party doesn't seem to agree to exchange shares for domain names. However, listening to his tone, it seems that he cares a lot about Baidu domain names. ”

Chen Chuliang was watching Han Zhi familiarize himself with the new laptop, and said with a smile: "It's okay, we can afford to wait." ”