A week later, Gu Zhi returned to Shenyong with his mother Lin Zhi.

On the return trip, Cai Chongxin, Ali's No. 2 person, personally drove him off.

Ma Ling had just received an investment of $5 million from Gu Zhi and couldn't wait to get busy.

He really didn't want to delay for a second, Cai Chongxin, as his right-hand man, was full of eyesight, and took the initiative to ask Ying to see off Gu Zhi's mother and son.

Although Gu Zhi didn't say it, he was quite dissatisfied with Cai Chongxin in his heart.

This time, Ali's investment negotiations did not go as smoothly as he imagined, otherwise they would not have been negotiated for a whole week before they were decided.

In the negotiation process, the biggest obstacle encountered was Cai Chongxin, Ali's No. 2 person.

Originally from Wanwan, Tsai Chongxin is also a Canadian citizen, a bar-chartered lawyer in New York, and a venture capitalist.

By the standards of the world, he is an authentic upper-class elite of society.

After Ma Ling founded Alibaba, Cai Chongxin decisively gave up his job with an annual salary of 5 million yuan and joined Alibaba, which had just been established.

As one of Ali's real bigwigs, Cai Chongxin stayed by Ma Ling's side from the early days of entrepreneurship until 2017, and most of the 18 Arhats who founded Ali with Ma Ling have resigned from Ali.

There is no doubt about his ability, according to the original trend of history, if he had not introduced Goldman Sachs' investment for Ali, Ali's future development may be different.

But now that Gu Zhi has come back from rebirth, he wants to cut off Hu Goldman's investment, and Cai Chongxin has naturally become the biggest obstacle to his trip.

Cai Chongxin's study and work experience abroad has made him very familiar with the set of rules that run by large Western companies, and on the other hand, he naturally distrusts Chinese businessmen.

One is the mainland, where the economy is just beginning to start, and the other is Wanwan, which is known as one of the four Asian tigers, and it is not surprising that the people of Wanwan have such an idea.

Therefore, when Cai Chongxin heard that a businessman in the mainland garment industry was going to invest in Alibaba, he strongly opposed it.

Gu Zhi estimated that Ma Ling rejected 38 investors in the previous life, probably due to the influence of Cai Chongxin to a certain extent.

After Gu Zhi and Lin Zhi came to Hangzhou, Cai Chongxin also bluntly expressed his opposition to Ma Ling, and at the same time inspected Lin Zhi with Ma Ling.

There is one thing that Ma Ling and Cai Chongxin have the same idea, that is, for Ali at this stage, they cannot accept investment at will, but also see whether investors can bring other additional benefits to Ali in addition to money.

Whether it is a follow-up A round and B round of investment, or an international vision, or a strong publicity channel, etc.

Obviously, Linzhi's investment did not meet the requirements of the two of them at all.

Moreover, there is Cai Chongxin, the pillow wind has been blowing again, and Ma Ling himself also wants to introduce famous foreign capital groups to invest in Alibaba.

However, none of them expected that it was not Lin Zhi who led the investment negotiations at all, but her son, an underage high school student!

Absurd!

This is the unanimous thought of all the high-level leaders in Ali's office after knowing the truth.

Cai Chongxin's face darkened on the spot, and his evaluation of mainland investors was invisibly lowered.

Investment is not child's play, how can a minor student participate and decide?

Thanks to Gu Zhi's preparation, he spoke a large stream of fluent English to everyone on the spot, in addition to a simple self-introduction, he also told Ali's early development plan one by one, and he spoke it well.

This mouth directly shocked everyone, including Lin Zhi.

The first thing she thought of was her son's study, although she knew that Gu Zhi's grades in school were very good, she didn't expect his spoken English to be so fluent.

Here, Ma Ling and Cai Chongxin and other Ali executives were stunned for 2 seconds!

What Gu Zhi said is basically the same as their early plan for Ali, and in comparison, it is even more complete and purposeful.

These are still just thoughts and thoughts that exist in their heads, and only a few high-level executives know one thing, how can a student who has just met know so well about Ali?

As for English, they weren't so shocked.

Huaguo has entered the stage of learning English for all, and has included English in the college entrance examination and university compulsory examinations.

Therefore, many families with a good economic environment will take the initiative to let their children tutor English, and it is common to hire foreign teachers at a high price, and it is not uncommon for them to implement bilingual education from an early age.

Xiang Linzhi is a wealthy businessman, and there are many children who can speak English fluently since they were young, and it is not surprising that Gu Zhi can speak English.

Only Lin Zhi himself knew that their Gu Zhike had never practiced English specifically.

In fact, Gu Zhi deliberately spoke English not to pretend to be forced, but just to do what he liked.

As we all know, Ma Ling once took the initiative to talk to foreign tourists on the edge of the West Lake every day, and took them around Hangzhou as a free tour guide, just to practice his English.

His love for English is obvious to all, and now that Gu Zhi is pouring out English that is more fluent than him, he can naturally get his favor and appreciation.

To put it bluntly, it's just to please Ma's father.

Coupled with the bombshell thrown in the content of his words, Ma Lingyi wanted to talk to him.

In addition, Cai Chongxin, who is very unkind to them, can't let him look down on them.

Next, Ma Ling transferred everyone, including Cai Chongxin, and Gu Zhi took his mother.

The two of them talked secretly for a whole day, and no one knew what they were talking about.

Both sides tacitly did not publicize the content of this conversation, and afterwards Lin Zhi asked Gu Zhi, and Gu Zhi just said that they were just chatting casually.

In short, after coming out, Ma Ling announced to the whole company that he had accepted Gu Zhi's investment of 5 million US dollars, which is 41.4 million yuan according to the real-time USD/RMB exchange rate of 8.28.

The investment intentions of both parties have been determined, but the investment has not yet ended at this step, and the next step is to determine the Ali shares that Gu Zhi can get after investment.

This is a time for pure mutual bargaining, and the two sides of the bargaining are Gu Zhi and Cai Chongxin.

Gu Zhi originally thought that he would take 50% of the shares at a fixed price, just like Goldman Sachs in the original history.

Cai Chongxin refused to do so, and fought with Gu Zhi.

After all, Gu Zhi is not an international giant group with a senior background like Goldman Sachs, and his voice is much weaker in comparison.

Cai Chongxin also has rich experience in venture capital, and he has vigorously suppressed Gu Zhi's momentum in terms of equity, so that Ali can fight for some more shares, which can be in the hands of the founding team itself.

But he didn't expect that Gu Zhi could speak well, his English was good enough, let alone Chinese, and when it came to arguing and debating, the two people who had study abroad experience were comparable.

The knowledge is even richer, and many of the investment aspects are even clearer than him, not at all like a high school student.

In addition, Gu Zhi's mother Lin Zhi was helping him on the side, and it was basically impossible to trick him.

In this way, the two sides quarreled for a week, and in the end, Gu Zhi only won 45% of Ali's shares because of too little actual combat experience.

Because of this, he disliked Cai Chongxin even more.

Lin Zhi took advantage of this week to have another time in Hangzhou, and went to West Lake, Lingyin Temple, Hefang Street, Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, Yue Tomb, Longjing Tea Field...

Before leaving, I bought a large bag of Longjing tea and chrysanthemum tea, which I wanted to take back to give to the consultant. He usually likes to drink tea, and every time he finishes class, he always has to take a sip to moisten his throat.

In addition, I also bought West Lake lotus root noodles, Dingsheng cakes, and dried bamboo shoots, which are all special snacks in Hangzhou.

When they went back, the mother and son carried a large bag, but fortunately they didn't take the train, otherwise they would have been tortured to death for 10 hours.