(.) Li Kunxi did grasp Zhou Liwen's movements, not to mention that Zhou Liwen did not hide that he obtained shares in Corning in the United States, because after obtaining the qualification to enter the board of directors, Zhou Liwen personally went to New York State and went to the headquarters of Corning in the United States.

Speaking of obtaining these shares, Zhou Liwen took a lot of effort. Corning is one of the world's most advanced manufacturers of specialty glass and ceramic materials, and owns the core technology and property rights of touch screens. This company is relatively low-key in the outside world, but in the eyes of those who know, no one will underestimate it. Let's not say that this company is one of the world's top 6O, if you look at the size of the company alone, Corning may not be as good as Zhou Liwen's or headquarters and chip factory, but in terms of its assets and profits, it is no less than any high-tech company, and even more.

When Zhou Liwen was still in China, he made up his mind to retaliate, but before retaliation, he must make follow-up preparations, especially the cooperation with Samsung is the top priority, because the touch screen supply of the company's products is in the hands of Samsung, if this problem is not solved, then Zhou Liwen will never act rashly.

It took a few months for Zhou Liwen to secretly absorb the shares of Corning in the United States through the resources of investment banks, and even the relationship between Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs. But in this way, the money paid in the end was much more than Zhou Liwen expected at first, and the equity alone cost Zhou Liwen $4.8 billion, which is also the reason why Corning's stock price shrank due to the decline in market demand for laptop LCD monitors not long ago. If the normal acquisition is followed, maybe $4.8 billion is not enough to double, and from this point of view, the investment bank is still very good this time.

Zhou Liwen has money, and his OR company also has money, but after all, most of the money is on paper, and the cash flow in his hands is not too much. Paying a huge amount of $600 million at once, this is also very difficult for Zhou Liwen, not to mention that he has to guard against Samsung's actions in this matter. However, what made him strange was that until Zhou Liwen completed the absorption of this equity, Samsung still did not react, and such a bizarre situation made Zhou Liwen a little puzzled.

Of course, Zhou Liwen will not know, because it is not Lee Kun-hee who mastered Samsung when he moved, but Lee Jae-chrome. Lee Jae-chrome, who has always thought that Zhou Liwen and his OR are "tyrants", didn't take Zhou Liwen in his eyes at all, and was complacent about the thrill of Samsung smartphones becoming the world's first. It wasn't until later that Zhou Liwen knew about these situations, and he was surprised and a little lucky, if it wasn't Lee Jae-chrome at the beginning, but Lee Kun-hee who continued to be in charge of Samsung Group, maybe his small actions would have been noticed by the other party a long time ago, and the process of acquiring the equity would not be as simple as it is now, and there would definitely be more difficult situations.

Of course, things can't be judged like this, maybe Lee Kun-hee didn't temporarily hand over the rights to his eldest son, then the previous Sha Zihao incident may not have happened. So, the world is very wonderful, and a small change can often have a huge impact and unknown consequences.

After Zhou Liwen officially joined the board of directors of Corning Inc., he submitted a purchase intention to the board of directors at the first meeting. Zhou Liwen placed a direct order for Corning in the name of the chairman of the company, and handed over almost 6% of the tablet and touch screen business to Corning in the United States.

It was a multibillion-dollar business, and the Corning Board of Directors was ecstatic, praising Zhou for his contributions to Corning, and all board members applauded Zhou as one of them.

"Bavc, maybe I'm a little greedy." Chairman and CEO Wei Wende C11PC asked with a smile: "Why don't you hand over all the touch screen orders of OR to us?" Do you think we at Corning don't have the capacity to complete these orders? Or rather, they don't feel comfortable with Corning's technology

"Of course not." Zhou Liwen smiled and shook his head: "Dear Mr. Wei Wende, if I had this kind of thought, do you think I would still spend a lot of effort to hold Corning's shares?" As I sit here, I express my confidence in Corning and my optimism about the future. ”

"I'm glad to hear that compliment, but you didn't answer my question, did you?" Wei Wende said with a smile that his remarks may seem a bit harsh or aggressive in Asia, especially in China, but in the United States, especially in the United States, especially in the board of directors of Corning, expressing their opinions, which is a scene that can often be seen in American board meetings.

Zhou Liwen was not surprised, and at the same time noticed the inquiring glances of other directors at him. Corning's annual sales and annual profit last year were $4.1 billion and $100 million, respectively, although lower demand for notebook computer LCD monitors had a significant impact on Corning's performance. Now, Zhou Liwen's purchase orders accounted for almost more than one-third of last year's annual sales, and if Corning signs this contract with OR, then the current weak Corning stock is bound to rise sharply, which is good news for all board members, including shareholders.

But people's hearts are greedy, just as Wei Wende asked, since Zhou Liwen is already a member of the board of directors of his company, why can't he put all the orders in the hands of Corning in the United States? If this order can be obtained, it will account for almost half of the annual sales, then this year, maybe Corning will be able to rely on this cooperation to jump from the bottom of the 6O to more than 48O, and even to rush into the ranks of the 3O is also very sure.

Zhou Liwen smiled and made an apologetic gesture to Wei Wende: "Personally, of course, I want to put all the orders in the hands of Corning, not to mention that I am still a member of the board of directors, Corning makes money, as a dual identity of customer and director, maybe I can make two money." ”

Hearing Zhou Liwen say this, everyone immediately laughed. Indeed, what Zhou Liwen said is right, although he is the chairman of the OR company, Ding Dan handed over to Corning of the United States will certainly not relax the price, this is the rule of business, everything is according to normal profits. Moreover, neither Wei Wende nor the other directors think that there is anything wrong with doing this, business is business, even if it is a father and son doing business, they have to bargain in all aspects, let alone such a big business.

However, Zhou Liwen also has an identity, that is, the director of Corning in the United States. With this order, Corning's profits and sales will inevitably increase significantly. In this way, as Zhou Liwen said, as a director, he still has a profit in Corning, which is not equivalent to making two sums of money?

When everyone's laughter subsided a little, Zhou Liwen said: "But it's a pity that I can't give the rest of the orders to Corning in the United States, maybe some people know that those orders are from Samsung Corning." Of course, as a joint venture factory, the company can also make a profit in this regard, although the overall comparison has to be divided into parts

Wei Wende and the others were silent for a moment, there is indeed a Samsung Corning company, this guy is a joint venture between Corning and Samsung Group a few years ago. At the beginning, the person in charge of this joint venture was Wei Wende, but he never expected that after the Samsung Corning joint venture factory was put into production, the joint venture not only did not bring too many benefits to the Corning headquarters in the United States, but continued to encroach on the market of Corning in the United States, which was a situation they did not expect when the joint venture factory was established.

In some ways, Samsung Corning's growth is good for the headquarters, but in reality, apart from factory expenses and costs, the profit distributed according to investment is not much. What makes Corning's board of directors even more angry is that the core technology is all Corning of the United States, and the Koreans just invest manpower and material resources to sit back and enjoy the results, which is simply unbearable for uncles and aunts

"Damn Koreans," one of the directors cursed through gritted teeth: "The United States guarantees them democracy and freedom, and they are anti...

And in this way to plunder wealth from us. Wei Wende, I've said it before, Huang ...... Koreans are unreliable" The director seemed to have some opinion of Asians, and almost blurted out dangerous racist remarks. Fortunately, his gaze swept to Zhou Liwen, who was sitting on the side, and he swallowed the words that had come to his mouth.

Wei Wende looked a little embarrassed, because he was the one who led the success of the joint venture, and he also made certain guarantees in order to convince the board of directors. But now, Samsung Corning is getting bigger and bigger, which has affected the living space of Corning in the United States, if it continues like this, not to mention that the purpose of the original joint venture cannot be achieved, and there will even be greater trouble.

"We can't let the Koreans go on like this, and I propose to take back control of Samsung Corning, and it's better to buy the company directly from the Koreans and take it into our hands." Another director made a suggestion, which was echoed by many as soon as the words fell.

"Bavc, what do you think about this?" Wei Wende saw everyone's excited expressions, thought about it and asked Zhou Liwen.

Zhou Liwen shook his head slowly and said, "I haven't been a member of Corning for a long time, so I'm afraid I can't say anything about this matter. ”

"It's okay, just talk about opinions." Wei Wende asked with a smile, who would have thought that Zhou Liwen would still smile and refuse to express his position.

"Well, I'll do it another way." Wei Wende thought about it for a while and said, "If we buy Samsung Corning, can you give us all the previous business orders, I mean or all the orders related to touch screens?" ”

"That's no problem," Zhou Liwen replied briskly, but he added: "As long as there will be no change in quality, price and production supply, I can assure you." ”

"OK" Wei Wende suddenly laughed, with Zhou Liwen's guarantee, he had the bottom in his heart. Although it is impossible for Zhou Liwen to sign all the order contracts with him now, don't forget that today is a board meeting, and what Zhou Liwen, as a member of the board of directors, said is recorded in the meeting, and with Zhou Liwen's identity and status, he will definitely not turn around and deny it.

"Then what are we waiting for" The director, who had been a little racist before, stood up and said to everyone: "I propose that the board of directors add an agenda item today, that is, to acquire Samsung Corning and integrate this company into Corning Corporation in the United States."

"I agree"

"I also agree"

"Agree ......"

The directors present raised their hands one by one, Zhou Liwen also raised his hand with everyone, seeing such a situation, Wei Wende of course would not be angry, and even he had such an idea, and he raised his hand last with a stern expression.

Corning's board of directors has internally approved a decision to acquire Samsung Corning, and it is one thing to pass the decision and another to complete the acquisition. With the strength of Samsung Group, it is not so simple for Corning to completely acquire Samsung Corning, according to Zhou Liwen's budget, just to acquire the shares owned by the other party may have to pay a large price. In addition, if Samsung opposes this acquisition and goes toe-to-toe with Corning, perhaps Corning will have to pay more to achieve its goal, and there is even the possibility of failure.

Wei Wende was an unusually shrewd businessman, and he could not have been unaware of this, so after the passage he warned everyone that they must be tight-lipped about the matter in order to ensure that the acquisition was completed normally. The directors are not fools, of course, they know Wei Wende's intentions, and they agreed in one bite.

In fact, it was not Wei Wende or Corning that got the most benefits from the board of directors this time, but Zhou Liwen, who participated in the board of directors for the first time. Zhou Liwen sharpened his head and drilled into the board of directors of Corning in the United States, and threw out such a large order at this time, the purpose of which is to form an irreparable rift between Corning and Samsung Corning. And now, Zhou Liwen's goal has been preliminarily achieved, and with the support of Corning in the United States, at least half of his worries have been dispelled. Even if Samsung Corning stops supplying touch screens to OR now, Zhou Liwen, who has Corning's channel in the United States, can still maintain it, as long as he grits his teeth and waits for Samsung Corning to give a full acquisition than Corning in the United States, then this kind of worry will never arise again.

However, Zhou Liwen's move in his hand was not only this card, after he played the first card in his hand at Corning, another card was played at the same time. On the night of his participation in Corning's board of directors, Mr. Zhou received a guest at a luxury hotel in Manhattan, New York.

"I've kept you waiting." Zhou Liwen walked into the hotel room, a man who was nearly 6 years old stood up, saw the other party Zhou Liwen hurriedly stepped forward, greeted him with an apologetic tone, and stretched out his hand to the other party at the same time.

"It's okay, I know that Director Zhou is busy, and I didn't have to wait long." The man shook hands with Zhou Liwen with a smile, and at the same time asked Zhou Liwen whether his work was going well and whether he was in good health.

This room is the most luxurious room in the hotel, and after the two parties sat down, Zhou Liwen asked each other if the journey to New York was smooth. Unexpectedly, such a sentence suddenly aroused the other party's emotion, and told Zhou Liwen with a somewhat angry expression that it was not going well.

"What's going on? Could it be that I didn't arrange my itinerary for you? Zhou Liwen said with some surprise, and at the same time turned to look at Karl on the side, as if blaming him for not entertaining his guests.

"Dong Zhou, this has nothing to do with your arrangement, in fact, I didn't follow your arrangement this time, but adjusted it temporarily."

"Why?" This week Levine is even more strange.

The other party smiled bitterly and sighed: "When I left, it seemed that someone was following me, so I temporarily changed my itinerary for safety." ”

"Stalking you? Could it be someone from Samsung? Zhou Liwen was surprised.

The man nodded: "If it weren't for the cleverness of my driver who recognized a guy driving a taxi following behind my car, and the other party was actually Jin Juanzhen of the Samsung Property Inspection Team, or I wouldn't have known anything." This dog seems to have been following me for days, and if I'm not mistaken, he must have been sent by Lee Kun-hee, this old bastard is a brute."

Then, the other party scolded Li Jianxi with some excitement, what an old and immortal bastard, bastard, scum of the Li family, etc. If it weren't for the fact that the Korean scolding vocabulary was not as colorful as the Chinese, maybe Zhou Liwen would be different from anything tonight, just listening to him scolding people could listen to it all night. But even so, he still scolded for nearly half an hour, and when he was done, he stood up embarrassedly and bowed to Zhou Liwen to apologize.

"It's nothing, if I were you, I might do the same, I understand your feelings." Zhou Liwen smiled generously and waved his hand.

"Dong Zhou, you really know me, it's really my great honor to have a confidant like you." The other party said with a grateful expression, but as for whether he thinks so in his heart, the ghost knows.

The man sitting in front of Zhou Liwen is none other than Lee Jae-hyun, the chairman of South Korea's CI Group, that is, Lee Kun-hee's nephew, Lee Jae-chrome's cousin, and Lee Kun-hee's eldest brother Lee Meng-hee's eldest son.

Compared with Lee Kun-hee's current majesty, both his father Lee Meng-hee and Lee Jae-hyun, who is the chairman of the CI Group, are more "miserable". Losing the rights of Samsung, the father and son fell from high to the dust, and now they can't even own the shares that Samsung Group deserves, and they were driven out of Samsung Group by his ruthless third uncle.

In order to compete for equity and control of Samsung, both Lee Meng-hee and Lee Jae-hyun have been fighting with Lee Kun-hee for many years, but they are fighting back and forth, and their hope of victory is getting slimmer and slimmer.

The old refused to admit defeat, and he had a posture of stumbling to the end with the other party.

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