Chapter 104 - 89: One After Another
Chapter 104: Chapter 89: One After Another
He’d been back in Magong Town for less than two days and was still busy handling a recent backlog of company affairs.
A few sparrows flew to the window and landed on the stainless steel bars of the security grille. Their beady little black eyes watched the two-legged beast toiling away, their little heads unable to comprehend why this creature didn’t need to search for food.
CLICK...
The sound and vibration of the main door opening instantly scared the sparrows away.
Just then, Vice General Manager Jiang Haibo rushed into his office, a conflicted look on his face.
"Boss, a company called Anyi Investment Company has sent us a partnership proposal."
"Anyi Investment?" Jiang Miao looked up, surprised. "Tell me about it."
"Here’s the situation..." Jiang Haibo carefully recounted the contents of their proposal.
Meanwhile, Jiang Miao opened his personal laptop to look into the company. His brow quickly furrowed. The capital behind this investment firm was formidable.
Its largest shareholder was Company A, one of the "big four" global grain traders known as ABCD.
The second-largest shareholder was Xing Island Bank, the third was the Xing Island Region’s Fengli Group, and the fourth was Guo He. All three of these were major capital forces in Southeast Asia.
And there were five smaller Western shareholders as well.
Jiang Haibo quickly finished explaining their objective.
"Offer five billion to acquire fifty-one percent of our company’s shares? I remain CEO? They won’t interfere with management and operations? Heh..." Jiang Miao had no interest in the price. He looked up and ordered:
"Reply to them directly. Tell them our company does not require strategic investment."
"I understand." Jiang Haibo nodded. In his heart, he didn’t trust the promises of these corporate predators either. If they agreed to sell the shares, it would be like opening Hailufeng Company’s closed system. In the future, the investors would undoubtedly find ways to influence company decisions, and even infiltrate and control it.
It wasn’t uncommon for company founders to be forced out.
Although Jiang Haibo wasn’t a shareholder, he was well aware that once Anyi Investment secured a 51% stake, the virtual stock plan Hailufeng Company had been preparing would most likely be dead in the water.
On a matter that concerned his own interests like this, his stance was fundamentally aligned with Jiang Miao’s.
In other words, none of Hailufeng Company’s current executives wanted a new major shareholder to suddenly appear. Even if this shareholder promised not to interfere with management and operations, they wouldn’t be so quick to believe it.
As for whether the other party might bribe executives like Jiang Haibo to facilitate their infiltration and control of Hailufeng Company?
That was certainly a possibility.
But Jiang Haibo was keenly aware that his own abilities were limited; he wasn’t irreplaceable. Plus, since he didn’t have any company shares, the other party would very likely use him and then kick him to the curb, or even set him up to take the fall for something.
Rather than covet some meager payout from Anyi Investment, it was better to just honestly accept the company’s virtual stock.
Sometimes, the most important thing in life is to know your own limitations.
Those with ambitions as high as the sky often have fates as fragile as paper.
This was also Jiang Miao’s criterion for hiring: he didn’t choose overly ambitious people with lofty aspirations. Such people often had ambitions that outstripped their abilities. They disliked doing solid, down-to-earth work, preferring to take risks and go to extremes. They were harder to control and more likely to leave the company.
After discussing a few more things with Jiang Haibo, Jiang Miao was left alone in his office to think.
Though he had rejected Anyi Investment’s offer, he wasn’t as calm as he appeared on the surface. He was already contemplating whether they would resort to dirty tricks against Hailufeng Company.
’Tonight, I’ll hack into their internal network. You’d better not try any funny business, or else...’
Jiang Miao wasn’t worried about normal business competition. If they were to have a fair fight in the marketplace, he could accept either victory or defeat.
But if they wanted to play dirty, he would absolutely make them understand what a life full of "accidents" looked like.
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「Shanghai, Xujiahui.」
The Anyi Investment Company office building.
A cold female voice echoed softly from within the CEO’s office.
"General Manager Zhang, Hailufeng Company just sent their reply. They said they don’t need investment and have rejected our acquisition offer."
CEO Zhang Zuowei, spinning in his chair, listened to his assistant’s report. A flash of displeasure crossed his face, but it was quickly replaced by a laugh. "Some punk who got lucky. Just as I thought, these tech geeks are all so stubborn. He thinks a little bit of technology is all it takes to conquer the business world. How adorably naive."
"General Manager Zhang, does that mean we’re giving up?" the head of the Investment Analysis Department asked cautiously.
Zhang Zuowei waved his hand dismissively. "Since he refuses to do this the easy way, there’s no need for further contact. Meihua."
"Yes, General Manager Zhang," his assistant, Gao Meihua, replied, her face expressionless.
Zhang Zuowei ordered with a sneer, "Notify all our partner companies to cease any and all cooperation with Hailufeng Company. Didn’t they invest in a feed factory? Tell our affiliated fishmeal suppliers to cut off their supply."
"Understood. We’ll notify our partners as soon as possible," Gao Meihua said with a nod.
Clearly, their investigation hadn’t been thorough. They had no idea that Hailufeng Company’s feed factory was planning to use Egyptian Catfish as its raw material.