I turned around to look at Leon Hua’s side face, which was as stereoscopic as a sculpture and was illuminated by the faint light from the car’s instrumentation, which made him look more gentle than usual.
“Is that Lanhai Technology Company just so important that you take it very seriously and are determined to buy it?” I asked Leon.
“The Hua’s family has always wanted to buy a small but beautiful technology company to use it as its strategic layout. But those technology companies are very easy to go bankrupt and most of them go broke within two years. But Lanhai Technology is well developed among them, and I believe it would be better developed if it weren’t for the conflict between the two founders. Therefore, it is very cost-effective to buy such a competitive company when it has trouble. Most importantly, it’s a company that even the board of directors is focused on and wants to buy, but they can’t make it now.”
I nodded, and I basically understood what he meant.
Then he added,” I have promised the board that I would definitely buy this company. So you must fight for me.”
“But now that they could not buy it, it must not be a easy thing to complete. So what if we can not make it, either? What should we do then?” I said worriedly.
“That would be your own problem.” Leon said.
“It is you who boast, so it’s not fair to me now that you want me to complete it.”
“There is no real justice in this world at all. If you ask for justice, then buy the Lanhai Technology directly. It is not amazing of you if you complete what others can do as well. If you do something that others can not do, that can show you Nala Yao really are capable.”
“That’s easy for you to say. I am not capable at all. Now you are pushing me to a difficult situation just like roasting me on fire.”
“I’m not roasting you, but giving you a chance to prove yourself. Later you can talk to your that senior fellow apprentice and try to figure out his true thought. Now I will leave this thing to you.” Leon said.
“I will try my best.”
As we talked, we arrived at our destination, which was a club in the imitation of the Japanese style. We could see through the curtains that the sake and Japanese cuisine were all laid out, and there were several young women who wore kimonos and clogs, and they were waiting beside to serve.
The sake was very strong and people could get drunk easily.
For those alumni who had already drunk a lot, the sake here might be the cause of their being dead drunk at last, I reckoned some of them would become so drunk that they have to walk sideways out of here tonight.
I noticed those women became disappointed after seeing this kind of dining environment. They probably wanted to go to the night club, where the lights were dim and the music was loud so that they could be closer to Leon.
But they dared not to do that in here.
Leon really made a callous proposal. He said he would buy us a few drinks, then he really invited us to drink, and what we were going to drink was strong liquor.
Therefore, after a few rounds, most people could not drink anymore.
Those women intended to take this chance to play the finger-guessing game with Leon, but he said he didn’t know how to play. Leon never refused anyone who wanted to drink with him, besides, he would even drink clean at one gulp without frowning.
Those women always sat beside Leon, while Feng Shen leaned toward me, of course not really leaned on me, but a little closer to my seat.
“My sister, you can really drink a lot. I am drunk now, but I still want to have a drink with you.” Feng raised his glass and said to me.
“Brother, don’t drink anymore now that you are drunk. How is your company running now? I have heard that your company is one of the most promising technology companies in Hai City.” I seized the chance to say.
“The most promising technology company, that was a long time ago. Now my company is at great risk and many people want to buy it. Even the board of directors will be changed too.” Feng signed and said.
“What’s the matter? You are so capable, how could you possibly get the company into trouble?”
“My sister, haven’t you heard such words like we don’t worry about our powerful opponents, but stupid teammates who would only get us in great trouble. I was just trapped by that kind of stupid teammate.” Feng started to stop at nothing to talk.
“Oh, but I still can’t quite understand what you just said.” I pretended to be confused.
“When the company was developed into a certain extent, my partner and I began to divide the work. I was in charge of the company’s management and operation, and he was in charge of the research and development. What I didn’t expect was that later he would credit himself with all the products developed in our company, and he would think all I do everyday was just enjoying myself. He proposed to buy out my shares, in fact, he just wanted to kick me out of the company.”
I pretended to be very angry,”How could he do such a thing since you have gone through a lot together?”
“People are all fickle, and human nature is just so evil, I myself have no other ways.”
“So how will you deal with it? You are just going to sell your share to your partner? Or will you find other buyers, or just continue to hold on by yourself?”
“Of course I will not be kicked out. Why should I sell my share to other people? But now the previous capitalists think my partner has my company’s core technology, and I am not needed anymore. So they want to collaborate to kick me out. But no matter how, I will not sell. If they insist to buy my share, then they must pay me half a billion, or it will be completely impossible for them to buy!”
I thought his price was too high. Because in our acquisition case, the total value of his company was less than 300 million. And what he meant now was that his own share would cost half a billion, no wonder Chenxing Hua could not make an agreement with him.
“Then what if they refuse to pay you such a high price, how will you deal with it?” I asked him tentatively.
“If they won’t make a concession, nor will I. Let’s wait and see who will win at last now that nobody will give up. Anyway, the company’s capital chain has been broken, I don’t care if we all go broke.”
“But the company you’ve worked so hard to establish will eventually become less and less valuable, and the most important thing for technology companies is to keep innovating. Now if the company’s capital is inadequate, and it has no new product output, then the original products can not be updated anymore, and your company will gradually lose the users you have accumulated for the past years. At that time, the company will be really worthless.”
Feng signed and said,” I know what you said is reasonable. But I just can’t be convinced that they want to take advantage of me. If it weren’t for me, this company wouldn’t have developed to this extent at all. Now since it looks like the company is going to make a lot of money, they just want to kick me out, how can they do such things like that?”
After hearing his words, I had a rough idea about how to deal with him.
“What about your partner? Is he willing to sell his share to you? Have you ever thought about kicking him and his supporters out?”
Feng shook his head and said,”He still owns the core technology now, and I have only been in charge of the operation of the company in the past two years, with no control over the technology research and development. He just thinks that even without me, the company can still operate as usual, but can not be the same if he leaves, that’s why he wants to kick me out.”
I nodded.
What he meant was that if his partner sold him the company, he still couldn’t really run it on his own because he had been away from the core business of the company in the past two years. Although he said he had been in charge of the operation, maybe he really forgot his original aspiration of starting a business and thought he could lead a life of pleasure and enjoy himself now that he had enough money. It was one of the evidences that he had been riding horses in the horse farm for a long time.
Not to mention riding a horse was very expensive, even someone like Leon Hua who had his own horse in the horse farm was so busy that he had not much time to go there at all.
But the fact that Feng was a regular customer there meant that all he wanted was just enjoying himself, leading to his loss of practical control of the company and his result of being kicked out of the company.
Therefore, fundamentally, it was his own problems that led to this result.
I basically had a solution in my mind after talking with him.