{Time: January 1, 2004}

{Location: Earth}

January 1, 2004, which means New Year to Westerners, is just New Year's Day in the eyes of flower growers.

Naturally, many people are on holiday on New Year's Day, but things are a little different in the Emperor Penguin dormitory in Lianhua North. The Emperor Penguin employees have experienced the most difficult December, and entering Thursday, January 1st, it is difficult to

The atmosphere is still permeating the dormitories and offices scattered throughout.

As work time approached at noon, three people suddenly rushed out of one of the emperor penguin dormitories.

They walked back and forth in the corridor like madmen, but they made a tacit understanding not to knock on the same door.

They knocked on the door with great force, causing many members of the room with the door open in the corridor to frown.

"3.5 billion!"

"3.5 billion!"

"3.5 billion!"

The three people kept repeating this number, which puzzled many people who heard it.

Finally, one of the doors opened.

Han Qinghua frowned and looked at Mo Fan, who looked excited. He couldn't imagine what kind of good things would happen to Emperor Penguins in the near future.

Is it my cheap brother-in-law who doesn’t sell skrpe?

Or was it that the mastermind behind the scenes who came looking for trouble died suddenly?

"3.5... billion!, 3.5... billion."

Probably because he was too excited, Mo Fan felt that he couldn't suppress the excitement in his heart, and even his usual mouth was stuck at this time.

"What 3.5 billion? Can you explain it clearly?"

When the banging on the door sounded, Maitreya Yang Jian raised his eyelids and took a look. He had just heard a series of hurried footsteps outside the door, but he didn't expect that someone was coming directly to knock on their door?

Who is this?

Why choose this time?

Don’t you know that our emperor penguins are in trouble lately?

Yang Jian sat there steadily and let Zhang Xinyi, who was near the door, open the door.

As soon as the door opened, Zhang Xinyi saw Lin Changxin's excited face.

When he saw that the person who opened the door was Zhang Xinyi, Lin Changxin reached out excitedly, grabbed Zhang Xinyi's hand, and walked straight towards Yang Jian.

Zhang Xinyi was completely stunned. She had been with Lin Changxin not long ago. They had always been in an underground relationship. How could she hold hands in front of her colleagues like today?

Yang Jian also looked curiously at Lin Changxin who was walking towards him. Seeing that he was excited, Yang Jian did not beat up the mandarin ducks because of the recent bad things.

"Axin, are you going to use the good deeds of the two of you to bring happiness to us Emperor Penguins?"

Yang Jian suppressed the irritability in his heart and tried his best to put a smile on his face.

But Lin Changxin was dumbfounded. He looked back at Zhang Xinyi, who was being held by him, and then realized that his girlfriend's face was covered with red clouds, and she was looking at the floor nervously, not knowing what to do.

Lin Changxin didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He quickly turned his head and said, "Mr. Yang, please read the news on NetEase."

"Ah?" Yang Jian was also dumbfounded. How did he know what Lin Changxin meant?

While I was wondering, there was another rush of footsteps in the corridor. The footsteps in twos and threes were mixed together, and it sounded like there were many people.

Yang Jian poked his head curiously, but his eyes met with Han Qinghua's as he turned the corner.

"3.5 billion, Lao Yang! That's 3.5 billion!"

Han Qinghua was followed by Zhang Xiaolong and Wu Zhenyu, and behind them were Ma Jin, Mo Fan and Lu Zhenyu. All of them were Emperor Penguin's old team members. Since they temporarily moved back to the Lianhua North Dormitory to work, they often live and eat.

Together, our relationship is a little closer than before.

At this time, their faces were all flushed, and the clearly visible expressions of excitement on their faces had displaced the sad faces they had been looking at recently.

In just one sentence, Han Qinghua had already arrived at Yang Jianjian's side when he said the last word.

Without any reaction from Yang Jian, Han Qinghua helped Maitreya Buddha up from the stool. Without saying a word, he opened the browser on Yang Jian's computer and started to operate it.

Yang Jian saw Han Qinghua moving the mouse quickly and quickly clicked on a piece of news. Then he crossed his arms and watched Han Qinghua pouting at the monitor.

After glancing at the proud and excited expression on Han Qinghua's face, Yang Jian looked at the monitor in confusion.

Just one glance, and his eyes widened unconsciously.

"Billion times acquisition of skrpe, a deal of up to 3.5 billion"

Yibei Company, the largest c2c e-commerce website in the United States, will officially launch a new round of acquisitions on January 1, 2004 after acquiring Beibao for 1.8 billion in 2002. According to reliable sources, the skrpe software in this acquisition is Zhonghua

Software products of SAR Emperor Penguin Company.

According to Jeff Jordan, senior vice president of Billion, the founder of skrpe is the former coo of Beibao - Ning Zimo. Billion CEO Meg Whitman had paid attention to this then-employed person when she last acquired Beibao.

Beibao's youngest coo, the flower-growing young man, praised it all the time, and now he is even more praising the skrpe product developed by the Emperor Penguin founder.

Jeff Jordan said that whether it was the acquisition of Beibao by Billion in the past, or the cooperation between Billion and skrpe at the end of 2002, a good foundation for cooperation has been established between Billion and skrpe's founder, Mr. Ning Zimo.

Husband Jordan firmly believes that with sincerity, the company will be able to successfully complete this first acquisition after the New Year of 2004.

As a voip software that has only been online and developed for 16 months, skrpe has unparalleled ability to attract money in the entire voip field. In the 16 months since its launch, skrpe has developed a total of 100 million global users, and has grown in popularity.

In the fourth quarter of 2003, it created a turnover of 93 million, and the annual revenue was as high as 250 million US dollars.

According to experts on Wall Street and Silicon Valley, Yibei's acquisition of skrpe will bring new business scope to skrpe. According to skrpe's current development trajectory, skrpe's turnover is likely to exceed 800 million in the next year, and it will obtain at least 400 million US dollars.

net profit, and experts estimate the purchase price of skrpe to be 3.5 billion...

Yang Jian's hand holding the cup was trembling slightly. He really couldn't believe that the skrpe used by emperor penguins was so valuable.

The bolded number on the web page seemed to be shining with a dazzling light, forcing him to avoid looking away.

He turned around and looked at the crowd blankly. There were faces of Han Qinghua and others filled with excitement.

After a long while, he finally managed to say:

"This is such a big deal, with such a large acquisition amount. How can he, who is usually such a low-key person, be willing to reveal his name in this acquisition?"

Yang Jian seemed to be asking, but also seemed to be saying something.

But the key points he mentioned were only revealed in front of everyone at this moment.

When Han Qinghua and others heard this, they were stunned for a moment. This key point turned around in their hearts, and when it returned to their faces, everyone looked at each other again.

yes,

He usually,

So low-key,

Why are you willing to disclose yourself?

Is it so troublesome to solve the problem of the company?

But, he chose a special way?

***+***

Jeff Jordan stood in the tea room and stared at Ning Zi who was making coffee for a long time. When he threw ice cubes into the cup, he finally couldn't help the doubts in his heart and said:

"Ning, we have always known that you are a low-key person, and we are still negotiating."

After a pause, Jeff Jordan stared at Ning Zi's eyes that were looking at him silently and wondered, "At this time, if you ask us to help spread the news, it will actually be very detrimental to your negotiations."

Ning Zimo glanced at him when he heard the words, lowered his head and still shook the cup. After a long time, he finally said, "It's what you say, but you definitely don't do it when you do it. You want to say that I borrowed from you billions of times

The dissemination of news through information channels can be regarded as using your resources, which in itself is not a problem.

But if you think that you have helped me hundreds of millions of times because of this matter, I will give in without a bottom line, which is obviously impossible."

Seeing Ning Zimo shrugging his shoulders with a rogue expression, even though this action was very funny on him, Jeff Jordan couldn't help but laugh.

Because, on the first day of the New Year in 2004, Beibao's negotiation team had returned to skrpe's corporate headquarters in Luxembourg and returned to the negotiating table.

As for the message sent out today, it was the only consensus reached during the last negotiation.

But it is this consensus that Jeff Jordan cannot understand.

From the perspective of business negotiations, this would be a very unfavorable condition for skrpe. He didn't think Ning didn't understand this simple truth.

Ning Zimo found it funny when he saw Jeff Jordan's expression of hatred. After all, the guy opposite him was now his enemy in the mall, so why did he worry about him?

Thinking of this, Ning Zi silently thought about Jeff Jordan, raised the cup in his hand, raised his chin at him and smiled and said, "Man, you guys have been maintaining the same progress as before Christmas recently. After all, we have known each other for so long, you should know

My character, so this matter is really not something you can decide."

Seeing Jeff Jordan frowning, Ning Zimo said nonchalantly, "I've told you countless times that it's a million times worse. Even though you're in it and don't want to admit it, I know you understand what I mean. So.

, let’s just wait for Ms. Whitman’s arrival. The only thing is…”

Ning Zimo walked up to Jeff Jordan and said softly to him, "I was wondering if you would be interested in coming to Europe in the middle of this year to help me lead our Emperor Penguin b2c project."

Jeff Jordan suddenly stared at Ning Zimo with his eyes wide open.

Suddenly, he felt that he couldn't keep up with this young man's extremely wide-ranging thoughts.

***+***

At the beginning of the new year in the West in 2004, the eyes of Internet people around the world and even Wall Street were looking towards Luxembourg in Europe.

Here, a lengthy negotiation has been going on in recent days, and new information is revealed every day.

January 2: "Billion times: We are definitely buying a new business model"

January 3: "Billion times wide bet on Internet phone, skrpe's net worth from 0 to 3.5 billion in 13 months"

January 4: "After Yibei acquires skrpe, the richest man in the Internet will change hands"

The storm is brewing. If the information on the first day of the new year just makes flower-growing Internet people have a wait-and-see attitude. Then when the latest news about Meg Whitman’s personal visit to Luxembourg was revealed on January 12, flower-growing countries in China
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