Chicago Tribune shareholders and key executives discussed for hours and eventually reached a consensus that Future Group could buy the Chicago Tribune for $2 billion.

Otherwise, they will resolutely not agree to the acquisition, and even if the Future Group uses other means to force the acquisition, they will resist to the end.

They will even stir up public opinion that the Future Group is using some bad means to force the Chicago Tribune to buy.

When the time comes, let's see who will be more affected.

Feedback from the Chicago Tribune in Grena told Xu Qing.

Xu Qing was not surprised by the reaction of the Chicago Tribune, which was all in his expectation.

The purchase price of $1 billion is indeed low for the Chicago Tribune now.

The Chicago Tribune's normal purchase price is around $1.5 billion.

The Chicago Tribune has a newspaper that sells more than 500,000 copies, is one of the top 10 most visited news sites by users, and has a number of other newspapers, magazines, and a printing press.

But how could Xu Qing buy the Chicago Tribune at a normal price.

Using the normal purchase price is not at all relieved by Xu Qing, those Chicago shareholders make a lot of money, and they don't care about the Chicago Tribune being bought at all.

Only the acquisition of the Chicago Tribune at an abnormal price can make those shareholders heartbroken, angry, and depressed.

The Chicago Tribune threatened to mobilize public opinion and have a bad impact on the Future Group, but in Xu Qing's view, this threat has no threat, and it is very simple to crack.

Putting out the Chicago Tribune's black material, and then finding some celebrities who have been hacked by the Chicago Tribune to sue the Chicago Tribune, you can crack this threat.

Speaking of which, there are too many celebrities who have been hacked by the Chicago Tribune.

Although the Chicago Tribune is very smart, it never goes to the celebrities of the big forces, only the celebrities of the general power.

Xu Qing is the only celebrity of the big force they have ever hacked.

It may be that when they hacked Xu Qing at the beginning, Xu Qing's power was very weak.

They didn't expect Xu Qing's rise to be so fast, and they tasted the benefits brought by Hei Xu Qing, and Hei Xu Qing couldn't stop from then on.

They are not afraid of celebrities of average power suing them, in fact, few of these celebrities are suing them.

Prosecution requires a lot of costs, money, time, effort, and other costs.

And it's not just the Chicago Tribune who hacks those powerful celebrities, there are a lot of people who hack.

Those celebrities are used to being hacked, and the probability of suing the Chicago Tribune is low.

It is precisely because the Chicago Tribune has hacked many celebrities that it is not clean in itself, how can a media that likes black celebrities be clean.

And the Chicago Tribune also uses some bad means to force the acquisition of other media, so the Chicago Tribune should not have too much black material.

In the past, those celebrities did not sue the Chicago Tribune for various reasons, but now that the Future Group contacts them, there will definitely be many people who are willing to come forward and sue.

These celebrities knew that this was a good opportunity to take down the Chicago Tribune, and that the lawyers for the prosecution were all covered by the Future Group.

All they have to do is sue the Chicago Tribune as plaintiffs, and Future Group will take care of the rest.

Xu Qing asked Green to begin a plan to suppress the Chicago Tribune.

Green first asked the Tyrannosaurus Rex Foundation to prepare to short the Chicago Tribune, and then Green began to release black material about the Chicago Tribune.

Green has a large number of black materials from the Chicago Tribune, which are large and small, and the largest can make the stock price of the Chicago Tribune fall by more than a dozen percent.

According to the size, the black material released by Green at the beginning was a small black material, and he observed the reaction of the Chicago Tribune while putting the black material.

After all, Future Group is also going to buy the Chicago Tribune, and releasing all the black material at once may completely stink the Chicago Tribune.

A Chicago Tribune that stinks completely is not what the Future Group wants.

It is very difficult or even impossible to restore the previous reputation after completely stinking.

If Future Group doesn't buy the Chicago Tribune, it can release all the black material and completely stink the Chicago Tribune.

The Chicago Tribune's shareholders and executives were stunned, they didn't expect the Future Group to move so quickly.

In the same conference room again, Black said: "Future Group has begun to use means to suppress our company's stock price, and now we are discussing whether to start mobilizing public opinion." ”

George said: "Obviously, the Future Group is definitely doing more than that, and they seem to be watching our reaction, and the black material they are now releasing about our company is relatively small.

But if we still don't agree to the acquisition, the black material released will definitely get bigger and bigger, we can't sit still, we must turn the passive into the active, I suggest that we start to mobilize public opinion now. ”

A shareholder spoke: "There is a problem we need to pay attention to, the future group must know that we will mobilize public opinion, but they don't seem to care at all about our public opinion, where their confidence comes from, this needs our attention, otherwise the public opinion we mobilize is likely to be ineffective." ”

Another shareholder agreed: "I also think we need to pay attention to the confidence of the Future Group, they are likely to use extraordinary means to counter our public opinion attacks, if we can know their confidence in advance, or we can crack it." ”

Everyone in the room was thinking about what the confidence of the Future Group was.

Blake thought about a few possibilities and said: "I think the confidence of the future group may come from several aspects, one is our company's black materials, we don't know how much black materials our company has in the hands of the future group, but there must be a lot."

They may use black material to divert public opinion's attention and make public opinion pay attention to our black material, rather than the forced acquisition of the Chicago Tribune by Future Group.

Second, the Future Group firmly denied the use of coercive means to acquire the Chicago Tribune, and they can say that the $1 billion offer is a tentative offer, and we have no evidence that the Future Group has released our black material, and public opinion may believe the Future Group more.

The third is to unite with other celebrities who have been hacked by us to sue us, everyone should know that we have hacked many celebrities over the years, and few celebrities have sued us, but this does not mean that those celebrities do not want to sue us.

It's just that they don't want to sue because of the high cost of prosecution, but now that the behemoth of Future Group is taking the lead, some of them are likely to come forward and sue us.

These are a few of the possibilities that I have in mind so far, and what other possibilities do you have in mind?"

Others added a few possibilities one after another, and then everyone discussed how to crack the confidence of the Future Group.

The result of the discussion gave them a toothache, and it turned out to be impossible to crack.