At Washington Airport, Zhang Ran was sitting on a chair in the waiting hall, flipping through the "Washington Times" in his hand, and the title of the article was very interesting: "I hope Mr. Zhang will fulfill his promise", which means Zhang Ran, don't fool us Americans!

The Washington Times article is in response to Zhang Ran's statement at the hearing yesterday that at least 10 billion yuan will be invested in ten years, after Zhang Ran threw out this statement, not only the media at the scene were shocked, but the parliamentarians were also shocked, after all, this is an investment of 10 billion, not 100 yuan, who can not be moved?

Chinese officials talk about their political achievements, and US lawmakers also talk about their political achievements, and if anyone can attract investment and increase employment for their state, then the votes will naturally be great. www.biquge.info In the 80s of the last century, a large number of Japanese cars were exported to the United States, causing many auto workers in Michigan and Ohio to lose their jobs, which led to serious conflicts. To address the friction, Toyota opened factories in these two states and then seven manufacturing bases in the United States. Later, as long as there was news that Toyota wanted to build a new plant, the southern states would fight desperately.

Therefore, after Zhang Ran threw out a promise to invest 10 billion yuan in ten years, except for hardcore anti-China elements like Coulbeson, other congressmen should be inclined to Zhang Ran, and it is not difficult for the peak of the century to acquire Netflix to pass the scrutiny.

As for whether 10 billion yuan can be realized in ten years, Zhang Ran is full of confidence, in his conception, the peak of the century is a global film company with a whole industry chain, so after completing the acquisition of Netflix, he will also make a series of acquisitions in the United States to complete the layout of the entire industrial chain, 10 billion in ten years is really nothing.

The acquisition of Netflix and mastering streaming media is a very key part of Zhang Ran's entire plan, and in his opinion, it is more meaningful than Wanda's acquisition of AMC, or even the acquisition of the Big Six. Wanda acquired AMC, does AMC dare to schedule domestic films on a large scale? No, even Wanda's movie AMC does not dare to schedule films on a large scale, unless it is a multinational blockbuster like "The Great Wall". But Netflix is an online movie site, and users are paid monthly, and putting some Chinese movies on the site will not have any adverse impact on Netflix's performance.

Before the start of "Tangshan Earthquake", Zhang Ran told Tangshan that hundreds of millions of overseas audiences would know about Tangshan, which is impossible to achieve by cinemas, and with Netflix, everything is possible.

The acquisition of Netflix has mastered an extremely important export platform, and the films of the peak of the century can be exported to the United States without obstacles, which is the biggest step taken by China's entertainment industry to enter Hollywood and even the world.

Zhang Ran was thinking wildly, and the mobile phone rang suddenly and rapidly, startling him. He took out his mobile phone and looked at it, and found that it was Yu Liping's phone, his heart moved, knowing that it must be an acquisition, and quickly pressed the answer button.

Yu Liping's voice sounded quite excited: "Zhang Ran, I just got the news that Netflix held an extraordinary shareholders' meeting the day after tomorrow, saying that it involved asset restructuring, I think it should be finalized by Microsoft, and they should want to pass the proposal for Microsoft's private placement, and the time for a decisive battle has come." ”

"Hastings this guy is really powerful, it only took a few days to get Microsoft!" Zhang Ran was taken aback, if he hadn't expected Hastings to do this, then he would definitely lose this time, he lowered his voice and said to Liping, "Offer $45 to Netflix, and submit a proposal to remove Hastings at the same time!"

Two days later, Netflix's conference room was renovated.

Behind the rostrum is a red display board with the words "Netflix 2007 Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders" written on it.

At half past eight in the morning, Hastings's car came to the downstairs of the office building, he got out of the car, raised his head and looked at the magnificent building in front of him, his heart fluctuated, Netflix from a small company of a few people, the whole Wall Street is not optimistic, to today, along the way to defeat many opponents, and today another opponent will be killed by himself.

At that moment, Hastings heard a commotion and turned his head to see a group of protesters in Blockbuster costumes, holding signs of various types, shouting slogans against Netflix and against themselves, and were protesting there.

Since Zhang Ran announced that he would not close stores or lay off employees after buying Netflix, he has won the support of many Blockbuster employees, and since then, people have come to the door of Netflix every day to protest. But Hastings didn't take them seriously, and any company, as long as there were mass layoffs, there would be employees who would come out and protest.

"Throw him!" shouted from the crowd, and the protesters suddenly had something more in their hands, red tomatoes and white eggs, and they had enough strength to smash the eggs and tomatoes in their hands towards Hastings.

An egg smashed directly into Hastings's forehead, smashing the house, and the yellow egg liquid ran down his face.

Before Hastings could react, the rain of eggs and tomatoes smashed on his body, cracking mercilessly, and the yellow egg wash and red tomato juice flowed all over his body. Hastings finally reacted, scolded shit, and rushed into the office building.

Hastings, who had fled into the office building, looked at his body, which was full of red and yellow things, how disgusting and disgusting. He swore in his heart that when he got Zhang, he would fire all the bastards at Blockbuster. An enraged Hastings arrived at his office with a load of egg wash and tomato juice and opened the door to the lounge under the surprised gaze of everyone. Chairmen's offices like theirs tend to have a relatively private lounge with beds, wardrobes, and a change of clothes.

Hastings entered the bathroom, took off his coat, washed the tomatoes and eggs on his head, opened the closet, took a set of clean clothes to change into, and hurried to the conference room.

At this time, Netflix's management and major shareholders had arrived, and when they saw Hastings, they nodded at him lightly, and they all had a faint smile on their faces.

However, Hastings noticed that among the shareholders present today, there were several new faces, one of whom he knew, it was Carl Icahn, and he was not worried about Kal Icahn, this kind of person who came purely for money, as long as you let him make money, everything else is easy to say. However, it was a few other people who were sitting upright, and there was no joy or sorrow on their faces, which made him feel that he was not very good, and he instinctively felt that these people might stand on Zhang Ran's side.

The board meeting was scheduled for nine o'clock, and it wasn't until eight fifty o'clock that Zhang Ran walked in with a relaxed face.

The moment he saw Zhang Ran, Hastings looked at the few people who were sitting precariously, and sure enough, as he expected, although the five people did not greet Zhang Ran, they had a very brief eye contact. Hastings' heart chuckled, these guys were indeed Zhang Ran's concerted actors, and they were here to sabotage the resolution of this shareholders' meeting!

Zhang Ran came to his place and sat down, glanced at Hastings, and suddenly laughed: "Mr. Hastings, just now I met a lot of Blockbuster protesters downstairs, they said that they gave you a lot of tomatoes and eggs, I don't know if it's true? What are you doing with so many tomatoes and eggs, are you going to invite us to eat tomato scrambled eggs at noon today? I'm quite good at this dish, do you want me to help?"

"Zhang Ran!" Hearing Zhang Ran's cynicism, Hastings almost vomited blood out of breath and almost got up on the case, but he still remembered what the occasion was, and finally held back and said coldly, "Actually, you know that as soon as this extraordinary shareholders' meeting opens, you will lose." Now you can only take advantage of your words, I sympathize with you!"

Zhang Ran looked around the conference room, then his eyes fell on Hastings' face, and said lightly: "Mr. Hastings, you are not only the chairman and founder of Netflix, but also a member of the board of directors of Microsoft, and I heard that Bill Gates is very optimistic about you and has designated you as Steve Ballmer's successor." As long as Netflix merges into Microsoft, then Microsoft will gain 11 million online users, and you can be regarded as a great contribution to Microsoft, taking Steve Ballmer's class, that is just around the corner, I will congratulate you in advance!"

When everyone present heard Zhang Ran's words, their eyes focused on Hastings' face, Hastings is a member of Microsoft's board of directors, and is promoting the cooperation between Netflix and Microsoft, is it really like Zhang Ran said?

A trace of panic flashed in Hastings' eyes, but he immediately calmed down and said lightly: "I won't quarrel with you, the time is up, everyone is here, and now the meeting is officially opened!"

After hearing Hastings say this, the host of the shareholders' meeting announced the start of the shareholders' meeting, and then introduced the agenda and related proposals of the shareholders' meeting, and then several executives of the company came up one after another, introducing the background of this major asset restructuring, as well as the benefits, several people chattered a lot, in fact, in one sentence, Netflix can get better development opportunities by cooperating with Microsoft.

After a few executives had made presentations, it was time for questions from shareholders. What is surprising is that none of the shareholders asked, not even Zhang Ran. Many people thought that Zhang Ran would take the opportunity to attack Hastings, but he just sat quietly, feeling like I wanted to be a quiet beautiful man.

Hastings's heart couldn't help sinking, he was even more convinced that Zhang Ran had some strategy to sabotage the private placement plan, and it was related to those five people, but he couldn't understand that if they were acting in concert, then they had to make it public, if they didn't make it public, then they would be in violation, how could Zhang Ran do this?

The host waited for a while, but still no shareholders got up to ask questions, so he said: "It seems that everyone is very clear about the additional issuance plan this time, so let's enter the next link and vote for the private placement proposal!"

Ballot boxes were carried into the hall, and the voting forms were distributed to the shareholders present, and people began to fill out the forms.

The voting takes only 10 minutes from start to finish, and then the results of the voting are counted by the accountant under the supervision of the impartial officer.

Fifteen minutes later, the results were in.

When the host saw the statistical results clearly, his face changed greatly, and he paused for a few seconds before he cried and said with a sad face: "The support rate for the proposal on the private placement to Microsoft is 63.4%, and the opposition is 36.6%, and the bill will not be passed!"

As soon as this conclusion came out, there was an immediate uproar, and everyone looked at Zhang Ran and Hastings, which was really unexpected by everyone.

Hastings' face turned iron-blue, although he had this premonition before the vote, and he was prepared in his heart, but after the real results came out, he still couldn't calm down.

Because he knows very well that if the private placement is rejected, the contest between himself and Zhang Ran will basically be lost, and once Zhang Ran completes the acquisition, he will definitely be swept away, just like he swept Randolph out of the house.

Hastings was unwilling to lose like this, stood up, pointed to the five shareholders with unfamiliar faces, and screamed: "The five of them bought the shares after the beginning of the acquisition at the peak of the century, and now they voted against it together with Zhang Ran, and in fact they have formed a concerted action." But they didn't publicize it, violating the U.S. Securities and Exchange Act, so their votes are invalid!"