Who would still start a business seriously after being reborn?

Chapter 465 The Nine Thousand Years Old from Korea?
"Brother Fang, you're not joking, are you?" a middle-aged man said in a trembling voice, "If we're going to kidnap someone, we should kidnap the boss of Momo Internet Cafe."

"What do you know?" the middle-aged man from Wolf Totem said. "Do you even know what it means to capture the leader first? What good is it if you kidnap the boss of Momo Internet Cafe? Momo Group can just replace the boss."

“But, but this is too terrible.” Another young man said, “I wouldn’t dare to do it. I’d rather just close the internet cafe down.”

"Look at you, you're such a coward. You'll never amount to anything in this life." The middle-aged man from Wolf Totem stood up and said, "These days, it's all about the bold getting rich and the timid starving. Many of us have invested our entire fortune in our internet cafes. How many of us can really give it up? Besides, we're just trying to scare the Momo Group. We won't actually do anything to their chairman."

"I will discuss with more than 300 other districts and counties. If anyone is willing to kidnap the chairman of Momo Group, we will each contribute 10,000 yuan to raise 334 million yuan for the three families to cover their living expenses while they are in prison. In addition, the internet cafes where the three of them work can charge 20 cents less for internet access than ours," said the middle-aged man from Wolf Totem.

Upon hearing what the middle-aged man from Wolf Totem said, everyone fell into deep thought.

This method is feasible.

Even if the chairman of Momo Group is incredibly powerful and wealthy, he's still afraid of death, right?
As long as he is afraid of death, he will know how to restrain himself.

At this time, Momo Group also began to vigorously integrate Shengda's resources.

Shengda currently operates four games: Legend, Bubble Fighter, Crazy Tank, and Legend 3.

After taking over Shengda, Cheng Yi's first task was to maintain stability.

With all of Shengda's senior management resigning, Cheng Yi selected some capable and shrewd individuals from Shengda's middle management to fill the vacancies in order to ensure the group's normal operation.

When taking over a group, the worst thing you can do is to carry out a major purge. This will make everyone in the group feel insecure, and it will be difficult to guarantee even basic work, let alone work efficiency.

He has many things to do now: first, to ensure that Shengda Group continues to develop steadily; and second, to maintain good relations with Zhonghai City.

By eliminating a major taxpayer in Zhonghai City and purging all of Shengda's shareholders, they offended many local forces in Zhonghai, which requires careful consideration.

In addition, there are troubles with the South Korean Actoz Group.

Although Shanda signed a three-year agency agreement with Actoz Group, the operating entity has now changed, and Actoz Group of South Korea wants to take the opportunity to regain control of Legend.

They had been eyeing this money-making behemoth for a long time.

Standing in Chen Tianqiao's office, Cheng Yi couldn't help but feel a little emotional.

That's legendary.

It had become his property.

Cheng Yi had his secretary change to a boss's chair. He sat in the chair, put his legs up on Chen Tianqiao's desk, and enjoyed this hard-won peaceful time.

Starting a business is really too difficult.

Fight against heaven, fight against earth, fight against man.

If you are not careful, you may lose everything like Chen Tianqiao.

Before Cheng Yi could even settle into his seat, a shapely female secretary rushed into the office, her voice tinged with panic, and said, "Mr. Cheng, the specialist from Actoz Group is downstairs. Would you like to see him?"

"So fast? They seem to be in a hurry." Cheng Yi remained motionless and said, "Call them over."

"Yes!" The female secretary glanced at Cheng Yi with some fear, then turned and hurriedly left.

Although Cheng Yi looks very young, the fact that he was able to defeat Chen Tianqiao and take over Shengda shows that he is a ruthless person.

Moreover, in every previous business merger, the top executives' direct secretaries were dismissed, with almost no exceptions.

Although Cheng Yi has not parachuted in any of his own people or dismissed any Shengda employees since joining the company, some employees in sensitive positions are still living in fear.

Seeing his female secretary's panicked expression, Cheng Yi smiled.

When Chen Tianqiao left, he only took his closest personal assistant and a dozen or so founders with him. Although this female secretary was also in charge of Chen Tianqiao's office, she was a member of the secretariat.

There are seven or eight secretaries like her in the secretariat.

Cheng Yi had no intention of dismissing these people.

Firstly, Shengda doesn't have any secrets to speak of, after all, it's just an online game distribution company.

Secondly, he wasn't worried that these female secretaries would report anything to Chen Tianqiao.

These days, no one can talk about loyalty with anyone else; everything depends on Mane.

They will be loyal to whoever pays them.

Besides, she is, after all, the female secretary of the No.1 Internet Group; she can't be trained just like that.

About fifteen minutes later, three middle-aged men with Korean facial features entered the office, led by the female secretary.

At this moment, Cheng Yi was still lying in his executive chair with his feet propped up on the desk, reviewing Shengda Group's financial statements for the past two years.

The three middle-aged men were initially very arrogant, walking in with their heads held high, acting superior. But after a while, they realized something was wrong.

The young man sitting in Chen Tianqiao's seat made no move to pay them any attention.

"Are you the new president of Shengda Group?" the leading Korean asked directly.

Cheng Yi shifted the financial statement in his hand slightly, glanced casually at the three of them, and said, "Please sit down first, and let me finish reading this document."

The female secretary stood to the side, a look of surprise in her eyes.

In the past, when these three people came, Chairman Chen always received them with the utmost respect.

The Korean man in the middle, in particular, was extremely arrogant. Last time he came over, he almost got into a fight with Chen Tianqiao.

This South Korean man is named Kim Jung-hyuk, and he is the vice president of the South Korean Actoz Group.

Within Shengda, some even referred to Kim Jung-hyuk as "the Nine Thousand Years Old".

Because Kim Jung-hyuk manages almost everything, 80% of the conflicts between Actoz Group and Shengda in the past two years stemmed from Kim Jung-hyuk's temper.

Even if the Legend version is slightly modified, Kim Jung-hyuk will fly over to confront him, making many of Shengda's management wonder if Kim Jung-hyuk has bought an annual airfare from Seoul to Zhonghai.

Upon seeing Cheng Yi's attitude, Kim Jung-hyuk immediately flew into a rage. He pointed at Cheng Yi and roared, "What kind of attitude is this? I am Kim Jung-hyuk of Actoz!" Kim Jung-hyuk spoke Chinese quite well, although it had a 'pragmatism' tone, his pronunciation was still relatively clear.

"Bang!" Cheng Yi slammed the financial report on his desk, staring coldly at Kim Jung-hyuk, and said, "I've never heard of you."

Kim Jung-hyuk, his face flushed, said, "I'm here with orders from the group! Shengda has undergone a change of ownership, and we are canceling your Legendary agency rights!"

"Oh, are you done talking?" Cheng Yi asked.

"?" Kim Jung-hyuk was taken aback.

He often threatened to cancel his agency rights, and Chen Tianqiao and his group were very swayed by this tactic.

When the private server controversy was raging a while ago, they threatened to cancel the agency rights with Shengda, and Shengda's senior executives personally flew to their Korean headquarters to apologize.

Cheng Yi still had his feet propped up on the desk and said, "You just said it yourself, Shengda's main body has changed. If you want to act tough, go find Chen Tianqiao. I won't fall for your tricks."

"Didn't you hear me clearly?" Kim Jung-hyuk roared. "I said, we're canceling your agency rights!"

Cheng Yi scratched his head and finally stood up.

He took out the agency contract between Shengda and Actoz from the drawer, threw it on the table and said, "If I'm not mistaken, the expiration date of this contract should be July 13, 2004."

"You need to understand this clearly: Actoz reserves the right to the final interpretation of this contract!" Kim Jung-hyuk said in a deep voice.

"You also need to understand that you are in China now!" Cheng Yi looked at Kim Jung-hyuk and sneered, "Go back and tell your chairman that Shengda has recently encountered some financial problems, and the Legend's share will be given to you later."

"???" Kim Jung-hyuk wondered if he had misheard.

Doesn't this young man understand the point he's making?

While I was negotiating to terminate my contract, this young man was talking about profit sharing?
Cheng Yi flashed his signature harmless smile and said, "Or you can go ahead and sue. Shengda is now a property of Momo Group. You can sue Shengda or Momo Group, it's up to you. You can't break this contract, not even Jesus could help. We can't give you the profit sharing right now either. Go ahead and sue if you want. If there's nothing else, you can go back."

Cheng Yi's words made Kim Jung-hyuk tremble with anger.

He was used to dealing with the refined and cultured elites like Chen Tianqiao, and had never seen anyone as unreasonable as Cheng Yi.
Cheng Yi is absolutely shameless; his shamelessness rivals that of Alibaba founder Ma Yun.

Kim Jung-hyuk said in a deep voice, "You'd better think carefully about what you're saying. Do you really want to sue us?"

"Sue us? Our Momo Group fights over 800 lawsuits a year, what's one more?" Cheng Yi sneered. "Go back and tell your chairman that if he wants to communicate with me in the future, he'd better know his place first. What kind of Tom, Dick, or Harry dares to show off in front of me?"

This was the first time Kim Jung-hyuk had been humiliated like this.

He's the vice president of Actoz! Since the release of their first game, "Millennium," Actoz has become a leader in the Korean online gaming industry, and their major shareholder is Samsung C&T, a super multinational conglomerate.

Honestly, shouldn't he be respected?

Kim Jung-hyuk gritted his teeth and said, "You will regret your words."

"If you keep talking nonsense, I'll buy your company and fire you." Cheng Yi said irritably, "Get lost. Come talk to me again when you've figured out your place. Until you do, I can't give you the legendary dividends."

Kim Jung-hyuk had originally wanted to say a few harsh words, but when he saw Lin Yong-heung walk into the office with two bodyguards, he swallowed back the harsh words that were about to come out.

This guy is really awful; he has to be reported to the company and severely punished.

Lin Yongxing, accompanied by two bodyguards, escorted Jin Zhenghe and the other two out of the office. Cheng Yi couldn't help but smile.

Thinking about it carefully, it's actually quite fun.

Shengda used its agency rights to make things difficult for Momo Legend back then, and now Actoz is using its agency rights to make things difficult for Shengda.

The funniest part is that I actually experienced all of them myself.

Cheng Yi vaguely remembers that since 2002, Actoz had been threatening Shengda with contract termination and had siphoned off a lot of money from Shengda.

Furthermore, due to Actoz's threats, the capital market unanimously felt that Shengda's revenue model was too singular and that there was a risk of contract termination, so it delayed in valuing Shengda and even rejected Shengda's listing application.

By the end of 2003, Actoz had gone even further, blaming Shengda for the domestic private servers and demanding that Shengda compensate them for their economic losses, thus forcing Shengda to increase its revenue share.

Ultimately, with nowhere left to retreat and no room for further tolerance, Chen Tianqiao was forced to launch a counterattack in self-defense. He first contacted the seven major shareholders of Actoz Group and spent more than US$90 million to purchase 29% of Actoz Group's shares. Then, he spent a high price of US$160 million to purchase 22% of the shares from Samsung C&T. In the end, he controlled Actoz with 51% of the shares, completely eliminating the sword hanging over their heads.

Only after eliminating this biggest hidden danger was Shengda Group able to list on NASDAQ.

Cheng Yi speculated that Chen Tianqiao's mental breakdown and decision to sell Shengda was partly due to the encirclement and suppression by Momo Group, and partly because Actoz Group was causing trouble like flies.

However, this is understandable, as Shengda Legend has now become Actoz Group's only source of revenue, so they naturally want to maximize profits.

This understanding also has two sides.

He could understand Actoz because it happened to Chen Tianqiao.

But if it happens to him, he won't understand it at all.

Now that he has taken over Shengda, he is determined to resolve the hidden dangers facing Shengda and maximize the benefits of Shengda Legend.

Compared to the Primordial Era, Shengda Legend's situation is actually quite awkward.

True whales (players who spend real money on in-game purchases) don't want to get wrecked in Shengda Legend. Most of the players who still stay in Shengda Legend are just used to the game and don't want to make any changes.

It's fair to say that most players who spend a little money have already joined the game "Primordial Era".

Honghuang Chronicles is like university, while Shengda Legend is like high school. In the end, the final destination is still Honghuang Chronicles.

However, the biggest challenge facing Shengda Legend now is not Honghuang War Chronicles, but the tens of thousands of private servers.

Since the conflict between Shengda Group and them began, this private server has spread like a rapidly multiplying virus, reaching a point where it is no longer controllable.

Shengda had tried to appease the enemy, but after they had already tricked the first batch of private server operators, no one believed their lies anymore. Everyone was hiding behind the scenes, and many of them rented overseas servers, making it extremely difficult to find out their identities.

"Perhaps it's time to change the model." A crazy idea suddenly flashed through Cheng Yi's mind.

If this model succeeds, the peak online player count for the game "Primordial Era" will rise to an extremely terrifying level.

(End of this chapter)