Chapter 599: Breaking News
This was a huge difference from their lack of interest a week ago.
So Chen Yan did not hesitate at all and directly sent He Mengxue, the president of the group's investment business, to lead the negotiations.
After several years of training, He Mengxue's abilities have become increasingly outstanding, so she quickly negotiated the share purchase agreement at a relatively reasonable price...
Everything will be completed as soon as both parties complete the agreement and announce it to the public.
And at this time... in China.
Because of Zhao Qingtian's all-round blockade of Chen Yan, many wealthy people in the country who knew the two or knew about this matter also had other ideas...
As the fastest-growing rich man in Qindong in the past two years, Chen Yan's actions had actually been noticed by people across the country.
Many people are watching, learning and thinking about Chen Yan's every move and every decision.
Of course, in addition to many people who want to see how far he can develop, there are also many people who want to see when he will fall.
After all, Chen Yan's career was going so smoothly that he looked like the leading actor in a TV series.
Moreover, he hardly encountered any setbacks, and every step and every time was the best choice.
This kind of good luck makes many people not only envious, but also jealous and jealous.
Moreover, they analyzed Chen Yan's development history and felt that although he was capable and lucky, he always had a shortcoming, which was official relations.
Especially in China, capital is not the most powerful force. After all capital develops to a certain level, it will slowly look for official forces to cooperate with or be interdependent with it.
This has almost become an iron rule.
After all, this is a unique social and economic environment in China...
As it turned out, this was not the case with Chen Yan.
Except in the past two years, Chen Yan has tried to operate some official forces in Qindao. Before that, Chen Yan had no intersection with any official forces.
Therefore, many people know that this must be Chen Yan’s weak point.
As long as this weak point is found, Chen Yan will most likely be defeated instantly.
At that time, everyone can go and eat Chen Yan’s “corpse” after he falls down, and the empty market.
Of course, everyone knew it, and although many people envied Chen Yan, no one dared to take action.
Because everyone knows that Chen Yan has two powerful backers, the Zhao family and the He family, to protect him.
As a result... no one expected that Chen Yan's support in the Zhao family would suddenly collapse, and Zhao Qingtian, the main branch of the Zhao family, would "turn the tables" and directly attack Chen Yan.
The subsequent developments shocked everyone even more.
Chen Yan was actually completely defeated when facing Zhao Qingtian!
That kind of overwhelming power of officialdom simply astonished everyone.
Moreover, it was clear that Chen Yan's counterattack and response were not a problem, and his company had already taken shape as a giant enterprise. However, in the face of such a terrifying force, he had almost no power to fight back.
From the beginning to the end, Zhao Jia Qingtian crushed the past with an absolute advantage.
Chen Yan's largest traffic portals, Douyin and Toutiao, were required to make rectifications, games were required to be removed from the shelves, and variety shows were cancelled. All the restrictions brought Chen Yan's entertainment empire to the brink of collapse.
Even Lu Man, the "spokesperson" of the Chen Group, has been less active recently. She doesn't look like a first-line female star at all.
To be honest, many people were tempted at that moment, and they all wanted to join Zhao Qingtian in killing Chen Yan and sharing his wealth.
But no one dared to take action.
After all, what Chen Yan is best at is turning the tide against the odds.
However, as time went by, Chen Yan's decline became more and more obvious, and more and more people began to consider this possibility.
Many people are working in tandem and in unity.
Even many wealthy people within Qin Dong were hesitant.
In the wealthy circles of the Qindong Peninsula, when they talk about Chen Yan privately, the pride and envy of the past are gone, and instead the tone is full of preaching and criticism.
for example ……
"To develop domestically, you still have to develop official power. Otherwise, you will end up like Chen Yan."
“In the early stages of development, there will be some bumps and setbacks, otherwise it will be unable to recover.”
"Such a large group, I didn't expect it to fail so soon. As expected, meteors occur in every generation, but stars are very rare."
"In fact, the best thing for Chen Yan now is to go to Zhao Qingtian and make peace. Although he may lose some shares, at least he will have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of his life."
Just when everyone thought Chen Yan was going to fail and compromise...
At the end of March, a piece of news suddenly went viral all over the world and caused a huge stir in China.
Chen Group Overseas Investment Company plans to acquire 30% of the shares of Valve, the parent company of STM, the world's largest independent game platform, at a price of RMB 17 billion, with technology investment, becoming the second largest shareholder of Valve.
Valve is one of the largest game production companies in the world, and has produced a number of high-quality games, such as "Counter-Strike", "Half-Life", "Dota2", etc.
The STM platform is also the world's largest independent game platform, with annual profits reaching 21 billion yuan.
When this news came out, it shocked everyone like a bomb.
The person who had been paying attention to Chen Yan had only two thoughts in his mind at this moment.
The first thought was: After hitting a wall in the country, Chen Yan actually went overseas to develop his career?
Moreover, it is such a huge investment right at the beginning?
And the second thought was... where the hell did Chen Yan get so much money!
Everyone knows that Chen Yan can make money.
But how much do games and movies make?
Where did he get the rest of the money?
Is all the money earned through financial means?
Although everyone has heard about Chen Yan stirring up trouble in Hong Kong and bloodbathing the whole world, Chen Yan has never disclosed how much money he has earned.
So everyone just guessed that he made billions.
But now it’s over tens of billions!
This time, Chen Yan became great again in the eyes of everyone.
In the eyes of some people who are familiar with the gaming industry, Chen Yan's image is even more majestic.
After all, everyone knows that Valve is not short of money and has a tough temper. Many big companies that wanted to invest were rejected.
As a result, Chen Yan succeeded now?
What magic does he have that could impress Valve?
This is even more enviable when you consider that Chen Yan is always able to complete some impossible acquisitions and investments.
Especially the major venture capital companies, they were eager to "poach" Chen Yan to their own company.
After all, being able to “fool” an excellent company into accepting investment is also a skill. And it is a very powerful skill.
Just when everyone was shocked by Chen Yan's methods, second news came from abroad.
Netflix, the world's largest streaming platform and one of the top five Hollywood giants in the United States, has reached an investment agreement with Chen Group's overseas investment company.
In order to enhance the competitiveness of the group's film and television companies overseas, Chen Group's overseas investment company plans to invest 10 billion yuan in Netflix and hold approximately 8% of the shares.
Immediately afterwards, the two sides announced a series of cooperation matters.
For example, Netflix will have in-depth cooperation with Douyin's overseas version to carry out relevant advertising and promotion.
For example, the Chen Group authorized the overseas streaming rights of its variety shows, movies, and TV series to Netflix. Netflix will be responsible for the distribution and sales of the series on overseas streaming platforms.
In addition to these two pieces of news, the Chen Group, as if intending to flex its muscles to the outside world, announced for the first time the number of overseas users and revenue of the group.
Among them, Douyin's overseas version has topped the Android and Apple stores in more than 50 countries around the world. After several years of development, it has 200 to 100 million daily active users and has become the world's largest short video platform.
The results are gratifying.
In addition to the overseas version of Douyin, Chen Group's overseas financial company achieved a net profit of more than 40 billion yuan overseas throughout the year.
This is net profit, not revenue or fund size.
In his public announcement, Chen Yan also predicted that in the new year, the daily active users of the overseas version of Douyin will exceed 500 million, the fund size of financial companies will reach one trillion, and the profit will exceed 300 billion.
Once these data were released, the country was completely silent.
Those who originally said that Chen Yan was about to die now all felt a burning sensation on their faces.
Those who were originally working together to bring down Chen Yan and eat Chen Yan's body, their faces looked like they had a few more footprints.
After all, how many domestic companies can achieve the scale and revenue of Chen Yan Group overseas?
If you can't even achieve this, then you don't even have the qualifications to fight with Chen Yan.
Moreover, I don’t know if it was intentional, but the Chen Group deliberately omitted domestic users and revenue when publishing public reports.
Although everyone knows that Chen Group has considerable revenue and users in China, Chen Group has not announced it.
It's like saying to the outside world: We have decided to give up the domestic market. But even without the domestic market, we will still develop very well.
This kind of statement really makes many people feel mixed emotions.
After all, it is really difficult for China to produce such an excellent company and such an excellent person.
Especially since Chen Yan is good at fighting in civil wars and foreign wars. Most importantly, he is still young...
If nothing unexpected happens, this will be one of the country's core competitive advantages in the global capital market in the future.
As a result, he is now being forced to leave because of this situation.
To be honest, it's really a pity.
And Chen Yan's statement was not just to show off.
His purpose was twofold.
One is to put pressure internally and let some officials who still have conscience see what Zhao Qingtian has done.
The second was to throw a smoke bomb for Zhao Qingtian, making him think that he had really decided not to play anymore and was planning to go abroad.
In this case, some of Chen Yan's things abroad would only be interpreted by him as normal business behavior and would not be taken seriously.
In fact, Chen Yan achieved both of his goals.
After Chen Yan really shifted his development focus to overseas, Zhao Qingtian did relax a lot, and then... continued to push forward the plan, preparing to completely block Chen Yan's development in the country.
And some interested people in the domestic government also paid attention to this matter because of Chen Yan's actions...
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Tiandu.
That slightly shabby conference room.
The old Du who answered the phone last time was reporting to a dignified old man, "Mr. Li, have you paid attention to the recent incident of the Chen Group?"
The dignified old man said "Hmm?" and then looked at him with interest, "What Chen Group? A private enterprise?"
"Du kid. When did you become interested in a company? This has nothing to do with our field."
Lao Du told the truth, "Because there is something behind this matter."
As he spoke, he took out a folder and handed it to the old man with both hands, "This is some information I have collected in the past six months."
“I feel like there are a lot of fishy things going on here.”
The old man did not take the information, but looked at Lao Du with a serious expression, "Lao Du, you have to know that there are rules in our line of work. We cannot be swayed by personal feelings."
Lao Du said seriously, "Mr. Li, I am not swayed by personal feelings. If there is no problem, I will not deliberately fabricate or investigate."
"I discovered that there were many problems in this matter, so I went to investigate."
"Moreover, I always keep in mind our philosophy of not letting go of tigers, but also not letting go of any flies."
"Okay." Hearing Lao Du's heartfelt words, Mr. Li couldn't help but praise him. Then he took the information and said, "Okay. Then I'll take a look at the information you prepared."
"Let's see what's going on here."...
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While Chen Yan was flourishing overseas and things were going smoothly in Tiandu.
At this time, in Qindao, Lu Man's villa, a small-scale meeting was also being held...
…
To be honest, Zhao Ying didn't know why she came to Luman's house. Anyway, Yu Qiaoqiao called her, so she came.
What was even more strange to her was that…it didn’t matter that she came as soon as she was called. She asked me why the other people also came as soon as they were called?
For example, Yang Rou and He Mengxue. Although Zhao Ying didn't have much contact with them, she knew that a lot of things had happened in the group recently and the entire strategy was shifting outward. They were extremely busy.
For example, Lu Man, she is free. But for a first-line female star to be available at any time, is that not respectable?
Moreover, he directly contributed his own home.
Then, if I want to hear some gossip in the future, I can just call her over to ask her? And by the way... have some fun at her house.
While Lu Si was lost in thought, Zhao Ying looked at the people present with a bit of confusion.
Then she was "surprised" to find out: Hey. The people at this party are the same as the last small party with many people?
Except... there is one more Yu Qiaoqiao.
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