Reinventing the Millennium.

Chapter 1087 Fighting in the air (monthly ticket plus update) (4K)

In the first half of December, group-buying websites appeared in major cities across the country, and the word "group-buying" became popular all of a sudden.

Among them, according to the data seen by Fang Zhuo, Beijing has the most group buying activities, Shencheng is the second, followed by Pengcheng, Yangcheng, Zhengzhou, Wuhan and other cities.

He thought this matter was very interesting. He thought that Shencheng was the first place. After all, Lei Jun’s Mituan trial operation was based here as the largest city to develop. Unexpectedly, the market outlets appeared, and everyone chose Beijing as the starting point.

Yixin's circle of friends is still a grayscale test. The plan is to digest the new users after the Spring Festival and launch it in one fell swoop. However, Fang Zhuo and his acquaintances around him have used this slightly private function in advance.

On the evening of December 12th, Fang Zhuo posted a post in his circle of friends, thinking that the city distribution of group buying and the performance of the capital city were interesting.

Later, he posted a second post, trying to analyze the reasons for this situation.

Wang Fengyi commented under the feed: Actually, there is nothing else. Recently, Lord Jing is happy to give money. Everyone knows that and they all go there. IDG has invested a lot of money.

Before Fang Zhuo could reply, Xiong Xiaoge directly replied to Wang Fengyi under the dynamic comment: Why are you always concerned about our IDG?We didn't cast blindly.

Wang Fengyi mocked: Oh, isn't it time to ask me to vote on Zhihu?Isn't it time to toast and call me Huaxia Buffett?

Xiong Xiaoge strikes back: Who can take the "Huaxia Buffett" on the wine table seriously?No way?No way?Your boss is actually serious?

After Fang Zhuo answered the phone and opened Yixin, the two replied to each other a dozen times under their feeds. He was stunned to see them, and the number of likes on the feeds broke through a record high. Everyone was watching the two big investors. fight against each other.

"Hey, hey, why did you delete it? I was looking interesting."

As soon as Fang Zhuo deleted the post, Su Wei, who was seated next to him, rushed over.

"Let them quarrel by themselves, I want to see what everyone thinks, it's all gone." Fang Zhuo shook his head, what's the point of the two quarreling.

Su Wei is very sorry, the quarrel between the two is so interesting.

She flipped through her Moments on her mobile phone, thinking about the trigger of the quarrel just now, and suddenly asked: "This time, venture capitalists and entrepreneurs are really crazy. Everyone is desperately investing and attracting people, and they all want to give it a go." Market, hey, if you started your business at this point, what would you do?"

"Yeah, it's really a good time, investors are so irrational, tsk tsk." Fang Zhuo sighed, and then pondered, "If I start a group buying business at this time..."

Su Wei watched President Fang sitting up straight unconsciously, complex expressions of sincerity, fierceness, cunning, and sincerity flashed across his face, and he felt that the shadows of swords and swords walking on the rivers and lakes in the past few years were concentrated in this short moment His expression changed.

Fang Zhuo was fascinated for a while before opening his mouth, and said slowly: "Of course, when I start a group buying business, I put user interests first, conduct orderly word-of-mouth competition, actively communicate with investors, and strive for their capital investment and trust."

Su Wei gave a thumbs up and praised from the bottom of her heart: "Boss Fang, be careful!"

There are only myself, the secretary, and the driver in the car, who are you kidding?

Looking at her phone, she also posted a message on Moments, and put forward a hypothesis: If Fang Zhuo is now starting a business from scratch in the group buying market, do you think he can break out of the fierce market competition?

Sun Qi, vice president of e-buy, commented: With Mr. Fang's name alone, investors have to bring money to him to find him.

Su Wei hurriedly added: It's not that he is successful, but he started from scratch like this, do you understand the meaning?

This hypothesis was interesting, and soon attracted Xiong Xiaoge and Wang Fengyi, who were engaged in 1V1 voice exchange.

Xiong Xiaoge: Good guy!If he started from group buying at this time, I wouldn't have surrounded him with 6 venture capitals, I would have surrounded him with 17 venture capitalists!

Wang Fengyi: Isn't this Guan Gong fighting Qin Qiong?Undoubtedly, just like I still firmly supported President Fang when Xiong Xiaoge led the seven factions to besiege Hang Lung 23, this time, I will still invest money in him.

Weibo Wang Xing: Group buying is hot, Mr. Fang is here to do this... Maybe Fang will be able to develop a giant-level enterprise with this model of leveraging both ends.

Yu Hong: Ha, I can imagine his sincere face!

Su Wei turned her head to look, and made a request: "President Fang, give me a sincere face."

Fang Zhuo immediately expressed sincerity.

Su Wei sighed, don't say it, hey, don't say it.

Fang Zhuo asked sincerely, "What's wrong?"

Su Wei showed the interface of her mobile phone to the man in front of her who could freely retract her sincerity.

Fang Zhuo took a closer look and saw the excitement mixed with yin and yang and slander, and when he took a closer look, there were two words written all over the screen - approval.

He shook his head slightly, not taking it seriously.

But the circle of friends is said to be private, in fact, the circle of friends tested now is indeed quite private.

However, there is a person like Xiong Xiaoge who works on Zhihu. Instead of forwarding the screenshots of Moments and comments below, he edited the question and posted it on Zhihu as an interesting question.

If Mr. Fang came to do group buying...

This question has caused some discussion, but has not received many answers. On the other side of the Hong Kong stock market, Fang Zhuo suddenly disclosed information. As one of the main shareholders of Morningstar, he increased his shareholding to 12.6%.

Originally, this information did not cause too much splash. After all, Mr. Fang has a lot of assets in his hands, so it is not surprising to increase his holdings of a stock.

However, on the second day after the information was disclosed, the announcement made by Morningstar Semiconductor made the matter turbulent.

Morningstar said it will release a performance forecast for the second half of the year on December 12.

It was not a quarterly report, not an interim report, nor an annual report. It was rare to see a performance forecast for the next half year. However, the release time of this forecast was too close to the time when Fang Zhuo increased his holdings.

According to the practice of Hong Kong stocks, the major shareholders and executives of listed companies will try to avoid stock trading during the sensitive period before the performance is published, so as to avoid suspicion of insider trading.

This "sensitive period" is not clearly stipulated in the rules, but it is generally 60 days before the annual report, 30 days before the interim report and quarterly report, and it is extremely rare that the operation of increasing and reducing holdings is carried out within 30 days.

Morningstar's performance forecast is too close to Fang Zhuo's increase in stock holdings. If the former is positive for profits, the latter's stocks will naturally increase, which is very sensitive.

Sure enough, on the second day after Morningstar issued the announcement, the Hong Kong Stock Exchange announced that it would investigate the operation of Fang Zhuo, a shareholder of Morningstar, and asked the parties involved not to conduct other operations.

If necessary, an interim injunction will also be applied for to freeze related assets.

Just in November, the Hong Kong Stock Exchange launched an insider trading investigation on Wang Fengyi of Shenxin Kechuang, and it still has no results today. Zhuo sends out a survey...

This is definitely big news, and, although unrelated in content, the two pieces of news together make waves.

However, others don't know about this so-called insider trading investigation. Morningstar is fully aware of the situation. Mr. Fang has expressed his willingness to strengthen cooperation before, which seems to include increasing his shareholding. Repelled back.

This is not over yet. After Morningstar used its own announcement to pour the investigation on the shareholder Fang Zhuo, Liang Gongwei immediately convened the board of directors and demanded the approval of the "Shareholder Rights Plan" to better protect the interests of the company's shareholders.

This plan is also called "equity dilution anti-acquisition measures", commonly known as the "poison pill plan", the purpose is to fight back against hostile takeovers and dilute the proportion of equity in the acquirer's hands.

In the past ten years, the most widely reported "poison pill plan" came from the battle for control of Sina, and the final victory was Fang Zhuo, who was regarded as the hostile takeover party.

Precisely, the "Shareholder Rights Plan" that Morningstar's board of directors intends to pass is to guard against one of the company's major shareholders.

Today is different from the past. Now Fang Zhuo’s intentions and operations are transparent, and now he is under the investigation of insider trading by the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. As long as the board of directors approves it, Fang Zhuo’s possible hostile takeover can be almost completely repelled.

Liang Gongwei clearly mentioned this point at the board meeting.

Just when he thought the voting was just a routine matter, internal conflicts and external acquisition intentions, which were widely reported by the Hong Kong media afterwards, occurred.

There are seven members of the board of directors of Morning Star, Liang Gongwei, Yang Weiyi, Rong Tianxing, and Shi Deli are all old buddies who started the company together, and the remaining three are senior technical executives such as Lin Yongyu, Xiao Shuoyuan, and Zhou Zhongyun.

When Liang Gongwei proposed to pass the document, Yang Weiyi had to declare his rights.

"Mr. Liang, this may not be too rigid. The insider trading investigation... I still abstain." Yang Weiyi expressed a small opinion.

Liang Gongwei has this kind of attitude. Before Yang Weiyi came to the door and proposed to start a new cooperation with Yike. He abstained now, which is also understandable.

However, before he could respond, Lin Yongyu said succinctly: "I also abstain."

Liang Gongwei was stunned, and his eyes inspected the faces of Yang Weiyi and Lin Yongyu.

Immediately, he looked at Tiedan Rong Tianxing.

"I agree." Rong Tianxing did not disappoint the leader.

Just as Liang Gongwei breathed a sigh of relief, he heard the voice of abstaining again. This time it was Xiao Shuoyuan, also an old man.

Zhou Zhongyun was sitting next to Xiao Shuoyuan, looked at his old friend in surprise, and immediately said in a deep voice: "I agree, I agree to this "Shareholder Rights Plan", this is just a precaution, what are you afraid of?"

3 votes in favor, 3 abstentions.

Another vote is the founder Shi Deli, who is also a long-time friend of Liang Gongwei.

Liang Gongwei had just revealed a frightening smile when he heard his friend's voice.

"Mr. Yang is actually right." Shi Deli pushed Yang Weiyi out first, and then expressed his decision, "It's not good to be too sharp, I will also abstain."

The 7-member board of directors only agreed with 3 votes, but even abstentions were counted in the total number of votes according to regulations.

4 abstentions, this result is no different from 4 votes against!

It's just that it sounds more gentle.

Liang Gongwei looked at his friend Shi Deli in disbelief, and asked, "Do you know what this means?"

The most important vote to pass the poison pill was abstained.

"The company wants to develop, why is there such a conflict?" Shi Deli avoided the eyes of the head, but he still said, "My vote is not for myself. If there is a conflict, the stock price will not know how to fall. , we must always think about our employees who hold shares."

When he said this, he raised his eyes again, looked directly at Liang Gongwei, and persuaded him: "It's not easy for anyone, Lao Liang, there is no need, there is something to discuss."

Liang Gongwei sneered: "Are you worried about your employees' stocks or your own stocks?"

"If you insist on thinking this way, I can't help it." Shi Deli said lightly.

Liang Gongwei was furious, and charged at the case, scanning the four abstaining directors: "I have known for a long time that someone with the surname Fang is giving and receiving privately. Without you people, he would dare to ask me to buy shares?!"

Yang Weiyi frowned and said, "Mr. Liang, please calm down first, this matter is not what you think."

"You were the first one to come to me about cooperating with Yike!" Liang Gongwei glared at Yang Weiyi.

Yang Weiyi was taken aback, there is a second one?

"Yang Weiyi, did I treat you well?" Liang Gongwei raised his voice and pointed at the president's nose, "If you want to sell the company, you can just say so today! Don't cover up to make everyone unhappy!"

Being reprimanded like this, Yang Weiyi also stood up, frowned and said, "I'm all talking about business, I don't have any private exchanges as you imagined."

He turned and left the conference room.

Seeing this, Liang Gongwei looked at the remaining directors who had cast 3 abstentions.

Shi Deli shook his head, got up and left silently.

Lin Yongyu said: "Mr. Liang, today is about business. Since I am a director, I think I can express my ideas. I really don't agree with this poison pill plan. It will only make the company worse."

After he finished speaking, he left, while Xiao Shuoyuan, who had abstained from voting, didn't say anything, and followed behind silently.

In a blink of an eye, there were only three people left in the conference room.

Liang Gongwei slapped the table suddenly, startled and angry: "Okay, okay, different heart, different heart!"

He knew that because of the previous cooperation with Yike, there were people who were influenced by that side, but he never expected that this influence had corrupted so many people in the board of directors!

Except for Lin Yongyu, who has not been on the board of directors for too long, the other three are all seniors of the company, colleagues and comrades-in-arms who have come over these years!

shocking!Appalling!

Liang Gongwei's face was livid, he didn't expect that the important poison pill plan would be stuck in the board of directors.

However, no matter whether it is a ulterior motive or a public one, first the insider trading investigation, and then the poison pill plan, these actions have pushed the relationship between the two parties to the most tense point.

"Mr. Rong, you go to the media and tell us what happened today, and let's talk about the business disruption of our Morning Star this year." Liang Gongwei issued an order after a long time, that the Morning Star will continue until today, and the person surnamed Fang cannot escape.

Rong Tianxing nodded, knowing that he wanted to create pressure on Fang Zhuo.

Soon, news of Morningstar's internal struggle appeared on the pages of Hong Kong media.

When this kind of report spread to the mainland, the insider trading investigation and the poison pill plan's obstruction were immediately linked together.

It seemed that Mr. Fang and the head of Chenxing fought back and forth in the air, and the result was... a hard match.