Reborn 92's Business Tycoon

Chapter 552: Let the bullets fly for a while

'Is someone really going to burn money at this time?' Feng Yiping calmly brewed himself a cup of tea. 'Of course there are people with spare cash, but apart from me, who has the confidence to burn it?'

'It seems that there wasn't before, but after watching your interview, maybe they have confidence now,'

'Why? In the interview, I didn't say anything about this, did I?'

'You didn't say it, but someone who is interested will definitely analyse it,' Jin Ling sat down leisurely and looked at him and said, 'Since you started your own business in high school until now, all the decisions you have made have been proven correct, without a single mistake. Even the opinions in those articles in your magazine are mostly correct,'

This is what Zhu Yuan was asking for feedback. Cui Yunling had been meeting with people frequently in the past few days, and had mentioned it to them several times: 'Don't look at General Manager Feng's young age, the decisions he makes are always correct, and his vision is higher than ours by a long shot. I really admire him!'

'So they believe that it is also very correct and a visionary investment for me to pour money into the website now?' Feng Yiping finished her sentence for her.

'Yes, isn't that right?' Jin Ling looked at him slightly inquisitively. "In fact, I don't understand why you have never made a mistake with your decisions," she looked at the door and whispered, 'including that time in the stock market,'

'In fact, it's not much, how should I put it, detailed data collection, a keen insight into the big picture, plus maybe a little bit of unreliable talent.

What else would you think it was? Come on, since the reform and opening up, there have been more people who have succeeded than us, mainly thanks to the policies and the blessings of this era,'

'So what are you going to do about this? I don't think it's appropriate to just let Cui Yunling go,' Jin Ling said.

'Do all the executives at Autonet use company-issued computers, whether desktops or laptops?'

During Jin Ling's trip to the United States in July, Hong Haoran listened to Feng Yiping's words and got a lot of brand new 'second-hand goods' back at a very favourable price.

'Yes,' Jin Ling understood what he meant, "after that, I already asked Manager Zhu to "maintain' the executives' computers,'

'Then give him a full-time secretary, use some means to collect the backgrounds of the people and companies he comes into contact with, and then see,'

'That's it?' Jin Ling waited a moment, seeing that he had nothing to say, and couldn't help but ask.

'That's it, don't worry, I know what I'm doing,'

This time, Jin Ling went out with doubts. Feng Yiping didn't go into detail with her. He now had a new idea, but only a general idea. However, one thing was certain: this time, many people had misjudged the situation.

His claim that money is being burned is not a joke. At this time, going to a car website is really going to burn money, and it won't be for a short time, at least until the end of 2002.

To be precise, those domestic portals did not finally come out of the trough until 2003 during the SARS period, when direct contact between people was restricted and contact through the Internet and text messages increased.

Even if it is more than two years from now until the end of 2002, it is certain that the revenue will definitely be negative during these two years. At present, it is estimated that only Feng Yiping has seen the importance of registered users to a website – this is also the reason why he chose to enter at this time.

He is investing more in advance now, attracting high-quality users first to lay a solid foundation, while the subsequent car websites can only have a meagre existence, with a few oil stars on top and a vegetable inside.

Haha, if Cui Yunling encourages those people to enter the industry now with the prospect of a bright future and 'money', when they face the cruel reality of actually losing money month after month, quarter after quarter, year after year, with the hope of soon having big piles of green US dollars in their pockets, and when it seems that there is no hope of making a profit and going public is even more remote, what will those people who have been fooled by him do?

Comrade Cui Yunling, can you still leave in one piece?

Ouch, that image is too beautiful, I don't dare think about it.

So, Feng Yiping really wasn't worried at all, so he let him toss and turn for a while. Anyway, the more he tosses and turns now, the bigger the pit he's digging for himself.

What he's doing now is preparing the bullet that will shoot him in two years. Feng Yiping gave a wicked smile, 'Let the bullet fly for a while!'

He was playing the long game, waiting for the big catch, waiting for someone to help him dig the big hole. Little did he know that some people were even more unscrupulous than the experts and professors who had tried to step on him before.

With the broadcast of that interview, and the official release of the Chinese version of Blue Ocean Strategy in major bookstores, and the subsequent sales, Feng Yiping was becoming known to more and more people in China. From then on, the name Feng Yiping was no longer just a personal name, but a celebrity name.

He was not happy for a few days, and then, many individuals and organisations used his name and fame very conveniently, without even saying hello.

The first fake news to pop up was from a company called Jinlun Electronics in the west, which announced to the world that 'on the eve of the upcoming listing of the company's shares, our company has hired the youngest business management expert and business prodigy in the country, the author of the book Blue Ocean Strategy, Mr. Feng Yiping, as an independent director. Also hired at the same time were Professor Mao, an economics expert who enjoys special allowances from the State Council, and the chief economist of the World Bank Institute... It is believed that with the concerted efforts of the above-mentioned people, we will be successfully listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange within this quarter.'

This boast sounded so real that even many employees of the company, including Feng Yiping, believed it. However, they felt quite proud when they heard the news.

Feng Yiping really couldn't help laughing when he read the news. This company called Jinlun Electronics... Do you know which way my door opens? Anyway, I don't know which way your door opens.

But how should this problem be solved? Should a solemn statement be published immediately? That seems a bit too impatient. People might think you're just waiting for these things to happen. Didn't you see that the other experts whose names were mentioned haven't made a peep?

Besides, that would be like giving the other side free publicity.

That would show some substance.

However, Feng Yiping didn't believe a word these big liars said, not even the punctuation. Was it possible that apart from himself, all those experts were fictional?

The lawyer's investigation quickly confirmed his suspicions. The professor Mao did exist, but he had no knowledge of being hired by the independent director. As for the other person, the chief economic expert at the World Bank Institute, there was such a position, but the name did not match.

There was no hesitation, and several letters from the lawyer were sent immediately, to the company, the local industry and commerce department and other regulatory departments.

As more and more similar things happened, Feng Yiping gradually got used to it. When you become famous, things like this are inevitable. It just means that the company's legal adviser has more work to do and often has to send lawyer's letters.

Of course, no one was sued. It was not worth it. Even if those companies had problems in the future, having these lawyer's letters as a record would completely prove that Feng Yiping had nothing to do with those problems.

Feng Yiping, who was used to all this turmoil, was preparing for the next big event. 'President Bao, have you finished the procedures for the advance dividend?'

Next month, he would need a large sum of foreign exchange, the more the better, and this time, it was still not easy to let Li Ruiyuan of the financial company operate, so the funds of the financial company were also not easy to use. After calculating, apart from the money in his own account, there was only nearly ten million US dollars in the publishing house's account.

If he were in China, he could just write a note and take it over to use, since the company was his own anyway, and he would pay it back in a month and a half. But that was Hong Kong, and he didn't want to be convicted of misappropriation of funds because he was using his own money. So he called a board meeting, and Feng Yiping, the majority shareholder, and Jiasheng Investment, the other shareholder – in fact, it was all him – made a resolution to pay dividends early.

'The finance department is taking care of it, but as you requested, it can definitely be done by the end of the month.' Bao Zhuoyuan was very happy, because in addition to the board's decision to pay dividends early, they also calculated a bonus for their management team, which was very generous.

'Thank you, Mr. Bao!'

Although there were some murmurs, everything went very smoothly!

What Feng Yiping, who was now overjoyed, didn't know was that starting tomorrow, he would be involuntarily involved in another matter.