The 168th capital buys ideal

Wei Dongsheng is rooted in China after all, and there is no need to cultivate the American market. Based on this interest judgment, Wei Dongsheng felt that he could establish a certain personal relationship with the interest groups behind Hillary Clinton and reduce the degree of containment of the Spring and Autumn Search by the American interest groups, even if the goal was perfectly achieved.

Moreover, after Spring and Autumn Search announced the two major strategies of domestic mergers and acquisitions of video websites and business development in the United States, the feedback from the capital market was excellent. Spring and Autumn Search's main image search feature was launched in the United States, and the practical research of netizens found that Spring and Autumn Search lagged behind Google in terms of comprehensiveness of content, but the accuracy rate was much higher than Google. "Google is a text search engine, Spring and Autumn is a picture search engine", relying on such a conceptual impression, Spring and Autumn Search quickly ushered in a group of fans in the American market.

Thanks to such good news, the market value of Spring and Autumn Search has risen rapidly. Spring & Autumn Search was listed on October 20, 2006, with a market capitalization hovering at $5.1 billion; After Spring and Autumn Search launched its image search engine in the United States, its market value swelled from $5.1 billion to $6.7 billion in less than 20 days.

Although far inferior to Google, Spring and Autumn Search is already a $6.7 billion company.

Spring Network, another listed subsidiary of Spring and Autumn Network, is also worth $7.8 billion.

Wei Dongsheng reached out to Clinton through the Westlake argument and circumvented the U.S. legal system to make political donations to Hillary Clinton with the Pacific Win-Win Group Leather Bag Company. Pacific Win-Win Group supports Hillary Clinton's re-election to the New York State Senate, and explicitly supports her in forming a presidential research committee to run for the 2008 presidential election. At this time, Hillary Clinton had already decided to run in the Democratic primary, and was in full swing to raise funds. As the saying goes, don't hit a smiling person, and in the face of political donations from the Spring and Autumn Group, which has a combined market value of at least $14.5 billion, Hillary Clinton responded quickly and kindly to Wei Dongsheng's support.

Wei Dongsheng saw Clinton in private and said with a smile: "When the West Lake is farewell, it will be a year." ”

Clinton still remembers that Wei Dongsheng valued Alibaba at $200 billion, which was the sum of the five companies including Alibaba, Tencent, NetEase, Sina, and Sohu in the Spring and Autumn Period, and politely praised Wei Dongsheng's achievements: "In one year, the road to a market value of $200 billion has just taken one-tenth of it." ”

Wei Dongsheng is not familiar with American love and culture, based on the principle of saying less and making fewer mistakes, he talked to Clinton about the business in two simple sentences: "Last year I invited you to cooperate with me, and now that it has been a year, what do you think?" ”

This time, Clinton did not categorically refuse.

Clinton was silent for a while, then said slowly: "I don't understand business operations." Instead of saving a penny as a two-term president, I left office owing millions of dollars in legal fees. ”

With the same rhetoric of "not understanding business operations," Clinton's tone now is completely different from that of last year's West Lake sword-debating rhetoric. Last year, when the West Lake was arguing about the sword, Clinton did not take it to heart at all; At this moment, Clinton's humble remarks were talking to Wei Dongsheng about conditions.

Wei Dongsheng stared at Clinton: "I need your international vision strategy." ”

Without waiting for Clinton to humble himself or refuse, Wei Dongsheng explained in detail: "It is the Pacific Win-Win Group that supports Mrs. Zun's candidacy for president, and as the name suggests, the Pacific Win-Win Group pursues a win-win situation between China and the United States." The Pacific Ocean is vast enough to accommodate China and the United States; Even if it can't accommodate two countries, I think the United States should have the stomach to search for the spring and autumn. I don't want it to become a victim of the game between China and the United States. ”

"Considering the complex international politics, Spring and Autumn Search will be divided into two in the future, with the headquarters remaining in China to develop the Chinese market, and the Spring and Autumn Division of American Search developing the North American market. Spring and Autumn Division U.S. Search, well, just like Google Huaguo, it will be referred to as Spring and Autumn America, and will be independently accounted for as a subsidiary in the future. That is to say, in addition to the financial holdings, Spring America and Spring Search will become two entities. In the Spring and Autumn Period, the United States will do its utmost to cooperate with the reasonable laws and policies of the United States, and will not politically correct slander China, nor will it cooperate with China in denouncing the United States. In the future, the United States will not participate in international politics, passively face international public opinion debates, and will not be politicized at all, and will only provide the most basic search services for North American users. ”

Clinton understood Wei Dongsheng's intentions and showed it appropriately to evaluate Wei Dongsheng's strategic layout: "Neutrality itself is a mistake. ”

Wei Dongsheng admitted: "Yes, I am too idealistic. ”

If neutral countries had been useful, Belgium would not have been beaten by Germany during the Second World War. Switzerland's neutrality policy seems to have succeeded, but in fact it is just a chicken soup hat, and Switzerland desperately kneels to Nazi Germany and has other uses in exchange for the so-called neutrality legend.

The Spring and Autumn Search is divided into two, which are independently accounted for, with the headquarters responsible for China and the branch responsible for North America.

Such an idea sounds very wonderful, but in fact, it is to treat the governments of the world as fools with an IQ of 250, and the Chinese political bloc and the American political bloc as blind people.

If such a business spin-off can avoid international games, those multinational group giants will already dominate the world, and they will not have to spend a lot of time, energy, and resources to work hard to publicize those markets where there is a conflict of interest. Don't say that Wei Dongsheng set his roots in China, that is, Wei Dongsheng advertised that he was an international capital without roots, so someone had to believe it?

Why should I believe you?

Why does the U.S. government believe you, and why does the Chinese government believe you?

Is your neutrality harmless, has it been certified by the United States, has it been certified by China?

The simplest example. The US National Security Agency (NSA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) are preparing to launch a secret surveillance program codenamed "Prism", in which well-known companies, including giants such as Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Apple, and Cisco, are actively or passively involved. If Spring and Autumn Search develops and grows with image search features, it will definitely have to cooperate with the Prism project. The question is, how will Chunqiu guarantee the United States at that time, and on what basis will the United States guarantee that the same data will not be leaked to China?

What if the NSA and the FBI continue to ask Chunqiu to cooperate with the Prism project and ask Chunqiu for information and data on China?

If the Spring and Autumn Search dares to promise the United States, the Chinese government will definitely immediately dig into the Spring and Autumn Period.

However, does Chunqiu dare to refuse the United States?

Of course, you can refuse verbally, and swear to the people of the world that you will never disclose the user's private data. However, this can only be said verbally, and if you dare to do it in private, the NSA and the FBI will teach you how to be a human being every second. Is it all too familiar for a company controlled by Huaguo Capital to be suspected of transmitting data to Huaguo but resisting the censorship of the U.S. government? How Google withdrew from China, how Spring and Autumn will have to get out of the United States, and the U.S. government will also stifle Spring and Autumn as an uncontrollable factor.

It would not help to instigate Snowden to expose the prism in advance.

Similar programs are tacit policy, and the United States has deployed other surveillance programs in addition to Prism. Not only the United States, but also the European Union has an EU surveillance program. Even if the prism is exposed, it will continue to be carried out in the midst of doubts, and at most enlighten the people to know what era they live in, and will not solve the problem that Spring and Autumn faced cannot have both fish and bear's paws.

Wei Dongsheng admits that the idea of neutrality is a kind of idealized simplicity.

Wei Dongsheng communicated with Clinton: "Yes, this world is not like I want to be neutral and be neutral, I have neutral capital first, and then I can choose neutrality. As a small company, Spring and Autumn wanted to be neutral and not be troubled, just as Belgium did not want to get involved in the dispute between Germany and France. But, as I said a year ago, the state is the state and the world is the world; A nation is a nation, and human beings are human beings. Chunqiu has no intention of stepping into the field of national political interests, but wants to think from the standpoint of human beings and develop some business that is meaningful to the entire human race. ”

Clinton smiled back.

Wei Dongsheng slowly turned to a sincere tone: "I understand, I think it's what I think, I don't care if others believe it or not." I said that I think from the standpoint of the whole human race, you will not believe me, the United States will not believe me, and China will not believe me. However, it is precisely because of this that I need your help. ”

Clinton: "I believe in you. ”

Wei Dongsheng smiled: "This is a lie. ”

Clinton: "I'd like to believe it's true." ”

Wei Dongsheng's expression became serious: "Yes, this is a truth." You can oversee the United States, and if it doesn't think from the standpoint of humanity as a whole, you can betray it at any time. ”

Wei Dongsheng and Clinton were not fellow travelers, and they also knew that Clinton would never be able to do things for him with consciousness, so he immediately offered his money weapon: "Last year, when the West Lake was discussing the sword, I invited you to be the first adviser of the Spring and Autumn American Branch, on the condition that you have a 10% stake in a new star company with a market value of $10 billion. Now, let me tell you, the so-called U.S. branch is the Spring and Autumn Search U.S. branch, and I am willing to transfer 10% of the equity of Spring and Autumn America to you through Pacific Win-Win Group. ”

"Of course, the total amount of Spring and Autumn Search is only $6.7 billion so far, and Spring and Autumn U.S. net worth is certainly not worth $10 billion. I believe in its potential, but I can't let you take the risk. Therefore, I have prepared a cash compensation contract, and Pacific Win-Win Group will sign a 10-year cooperation contract with you, from January 2007 to January 2017. ”

"For the duration of your contract, you will receive a base annual salary of $1.2 million and a monthly bonus of $1 million. The standard of the monthly reward is whether the Spring and Autumn Search has been disastrous by non-market factors from the United States, taking next year 2007 as an example, if the Spring and Autumn United States is safe and stable throughout the year without twists and turns, you will be rewarded with a total of 12 million US dollars in excellent strategic bonuses in 12 months. ”

From 2007 to December 31, 2009, you will only get a total of $39.6 million in annual salary for three years and a strategic bonus of 36 months, as well as an appreciation of 10% of Spring and Autumn America's shares. By 2010, the basic annual salary and monthly strategic bonus were paid as usual; If the 10% stake in the U.S. appreciates by less than $1 billion in the spring and autumn of that year, we buy back 1% at a price of $1 billion, which is paying you $100 million in stock dividends. ”