Who would still start a business seriously after being reborn?

Chapter 482 Pulling, pulling and pulling.

“Industrial software…” Qian Buqun thought for a moment and said, “I’ll report to headquarters first and see if we can apply for some discounts for you.”

"Thank you very much, Mr. Qian." Cheng Yi smiled happily.

IBM is a leading global industrial software company, and many well-known industrial software applications use IBM patents.

If IBM were to open up its software library, Momo's system would indeed be able to compete with Microsoft in government and enterprise procurement.

"The battle between Microsoft and IBM absolutely cannot stop." Cheng Yi sipped his tea, his mind constantly churning out ways to add more fuel to the fire.

Throughout history, whenever powerful figures fight, someone will always rise to prominence.

The United States rose to prominence after World War I.

The Soviet Union rose to prominence during World War II.

In this IT war, it's not unreasonable for a Momo Group to rise to prominence, is it?
"Stock price." Cheng Yi suddenly thought of a solution.

The Microsoft and IBM camps have a long-standing feud, and the financial groups behind them are also enemies.

In addition, Microsoft's acquisition of Apple from the IBM camp a few years ago further fueled the anger of the IBM conglomerates.

Now that we've opened up the door, we'll definitely have to fight hard.

On our side, we might as well let Enze Capital take the lead in controlling the stock prices of these participating companies and reaping profits from retail investors around the world.

Once someone starts, Wall Street conglomerates naturally follow suit.

They don't care about anything else as long as there's profit to be made.

They manipulate global news, suppress the stock prices of participating companies, buy at the bottom, drive up the price, and reap the profits.

This kind of thing is Enze Capital's forte.

Cheng Yi enabled DNS, logged into the email address of the chairman of Enze Capital, and sent a command to Enze Capital.

When Cheng Yi sent the text message, the senior management of Enze Capital were arguing fiercely.

Enze Capital is in a somewhat awkward position because none of the industries they have invested in are profitable.

Aside from Amazon's stock price rising by 189%, investments like Facebook, founded by Mark Zuckerberg, a senior researcher at the Gods Network Research Institute, and the rocket company run by Elon Musk, seem to have little value. As for the semiconductor and LED companies they've invested in, they're even more outrageous; these companies, apart from possessing some patents, have yet to turn a profit.

The most expensive is the Gods Network Research Institute. According to the institute's rules, these researchers can apply to have Enze Capital provide funding once to help them realize their research results or dreams.

Although this deal was basically a money-losing proposition, their big boss's interest in Andy Rubin was a bit excessive; in less than three months, he had already applied for $600 million.

They are researching what smartphone operating system.

What is a smartphone?
Where is it?

Furthermore, he spends all his time researching intelligent robots and smartphone operating systems, which is clearly a scam to make money.
None of those fired by Microsoft were wrongly accused.

If it weren't for the continuous dividends from Momo Group, they would probably have gone bankrupt for the second time.

As the president of Enze Capital, Mike really wanted to prove his abilities.

So this time, he wants to buy IT stocks at the bottom.

Mike's suggestion was also opposed by many executives.

Buying the IT sector at rock-bottom prices is just profiting from the war between Microsoft and IBM, isn't it?
It's alright now, they don't have time to worry about it, but once they're done fighting and realize what's happened, they might come looking for trouble later.

Although Enze Capital has some influence in Europe, these American companies are inherently domineering and almost never reason with you.

"Mr. Tony, what do you think of my proposal?" Seeing so many people objecting, Mike looked at Cheng Jian.

Although Cheng Jian doesn't manage much of the company's affairs, everyone knows that Cheng Jian is the big boss's spokesperson.

Cheng Jian yawned and said, "It would be best to ask the big boss."

"Yes, let's consult the big boss's opinion."

"We should still inform the big boss about this," the others echoed.

Seeing that everyone agreed, Mike didn't say anything more.

He originally intended to leverage his personal influence to push this forward, but now it seems that Enze Capital is not something he can control at all.

He asked his secretary to bring him a laptop and quickly logged into his email.

He received an email from Cheng Yi as soon as he logged into his email account.

Upon seeing the email, Mike was overjoyed and exclaimed, "The big boss just sent a message, telling us to do everything we can to buy up IT stocks at rock-bottom prices!"

Mike was overjoyed; at that moment, he felt a spiritual connection with the big boss.

He looked around at everyone with a mixture of excitement and pride, and said, "Everyone, come up with a plan as soon as possible, and develop individual bottom-fishing strategies for companies like Microsoft, Samsung, IBM, and Intel! The big boss has allocated us with the following amount of funding this time..."

Mike held up five fingers and said, "One hundred million dollars."

The eyes of everyone present suddenly lit up.

Using $100 million to buy at the bottom means there's a lot of room for maneuver.

Just as Mike and his various capital teams began buying up IT stocks at rock-bottom prices, Lei Jun once again arrived in Jingzhou City, weary from his journey.

This time, Cheng Yi personally came to receive Lei Jun. As soon as he saw Lei Jun, Cheng Yi laughed and said, "President Lei, I don't know why, but I feel particularly close to you as soon as I see you."

"Hehe." Although Lei Jun was angry inside, he still smiled insincerely.

Cheng Yi added, "I mentioned your suggestion at the press conference. You don't mind, do you?"

“How could that be? Those are my true feelings,” Lei Jun said. “I came here this time with the authorization of our chairman, specifically to discuss cooperation matters with you.”

"That's wonderful! If our two families join forces, won't we be invincible?" Cheng Yi smiled innocently.

"Yes, yes," Lei Jun said with a bright smile, "Ever since I met President Cheng last time, I've wanted to fight alongside him."

"Right? Hahaha, it was because I felt Lei Jun's good intentions that I unconsciously brought up your suggestion at the press conference," Cheng Yi laughed. Hearing the exchange between Cheng Yi and Lei Jun, Chen Rui's lips twitched involuntarily.

This……

These two are absolutely shameless!
Both sides clearly wished the other would die sooner, but they acted like brothers.

"I need to write this down and study it carefully; you never know when I might need it when I start my own business," Chen Rui thought to himself.

This time, Cheng Yi's reception was very grand.

He specially arranged a banquet in the executive hall of the Handong Hotel and invited many prominent figures from Jingzhou City to accompany him, treating Lei Jun like a star surrounded by the moon.

At the banquet, Lei Jun and Cheng Yi clinked glasses and chatted amiably, almost to the point of forming a sworn brotherhood.

Back in their office at Momo Technology Building, the two had a serious disagreement when discussing the details of the collaboration.

The core of the disagreement between the two parties was the cost of helping WPS with marketing.

Lei Jun's meaning was very clear: Jinshan was helping Momo Group absorb the damage, and Momo Group should bear the promotion costs.

Cheng Yi's attitude was also very clear: they were just helping out.

You can contribute your time, connections, and network, but not your money.

Not only can they not contribute money, but Jinshan also needs to cover the costs incurred during the promotion process, since it's about helping Jinshan with marketing.

The two of them refused to give in and argued until their faces were red with anger.

"Gentlemen, please be magnanimous, please be magnanimous." Chen Rui, standing to the side, kept trying to mediate, working up a sweat.

He now seriously doubted whether Cheng Yi was even a college student. How could someone who was a college student be doing this? His aura even overshadowed their boss, Lei, by several heads.

Is there such a thing as innate business talent?

Lei Jun snorted, "President Cheng, since you insist, then we can't continue this discussion. We've basically stopped updating WPS, and our main business has shifted to Kingsoft Antivirus and games! The reason we restarted the WPS project is to lend you a hand!"

"Mr. Lei, how about this, I'll back down." Seeing that Lei Jun was unwilling to budge and had the Momo Group completely under his control, Cheng Yi smiled and said, "We're all friends, there's no need to ruin our relationship."

“I didn’t mean to hurt our relationship with President Cheng.” Lei Jun snorted. “I did come here with sincerity this time, and we really wanted to help you, but I didn’t feel any sincerity from President Cheng at all.”

Cheng Yi said, "Hey, we're all working for different people. How about this: we'll cover the promotion costs for WPS this time, but we'll set up a separate subsidiary for the WPS business, with us holding 60% of the shares. You just said that you've given up on WPS. If we help you get it up and running, wouldn't that be a windfall?"

“No way.” Lei Jun refused decisively.

Cheng Yi frowned slightly and said, "President Lei, you're making things difficult for me. In that case, there's no need for us to continue talking. We'll choose another area to compete with Microsoft."

Cheng Yi stood up, extended his hand, and said with a smile, "Then let's end our negotiations here."

“Alright, then I respect President Cheng’s choice.” Lei Jun stood up, shook hands with Cheng Yi, and said, “I hope there will be opportunities to cooperate in the future.”

"There definitely will be." Cheng Yi smiled sincerely.

"President Lei? This..." Chen Rui wanted to say something, but Lei Jun stopped him with a look.

They had already received financial support from Lianxiang Group before coming here.

They already have financial support, so why did they have to escalate the conflict with Momo Group to this point?
Cheng Yi personally saw Lei Jun off from the industrial park. Lei Jun said goodbye to Cheng Yi and got into a Mercedes-Benz van.

At this moment, Cheng Yi was still standing at the entrance of Momo Technology Industrial Park, and he also felt that Lei Jun was a bit of a problem.

Beside him was Li Weiwei, the newly appointed president's assistant.

Li Weiwei was an elite recruited by Cheng Yi from the headquarters of Starcom with a hefty sum of money. In her previous life, she was invited by Ma Yun to come out of retirement after three visits to her home. She was in charge of Alibaba's investments in high technology, new energy, cultural industries, and consumer services. She was extremely capable.

She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics, and a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT. After graduating in 2000, she held senior positions in several IT groups. Two months ago, Starcom began contacting Li Weiwei, hoping to recruit her to Starcom Group as a vice president.

After Cheng Yi learned of this news, he immediately contacted Starcom Group and brought Li Weiwei under his wing.

With the rise of Momo Group, it needs far too many elites.

Especially for him, after becoming the acting president, he needed to take charge of many affairs of the group, but he simply didn't have that much energy. So having a few capable assistants could save him a lot of trouble.

Within the group, many people refer to Cheng Yi's secretary Qi Wei and his assistant Li Weiwei as the "Cheng Family's Twin Weis".

With Qi Wei's administrative skills combined with Li Weiwei's business acumen, they can help Cheng Yi handle 70% of the president's affairs.

Standing next to Cheng Yi, Li Weiwei said, "President Cheng, it seems like Lei Jun is playing hard to get."

"Hmm." Cheng Yi laughed, "I bet he'll call me within an hour. He won't really leave Jingzhou City. This is WPS's only chance to break the deadlock!"

Upon arriving at the airport, Chen Rui could no longer contain himself and said, "President Lei, I really don't understand. Don't we already have financial support? Why are we still making financial demands on Momo Group?"

Lei Jun smiled and said, "This is called a tug-of-war. I want Momo Group to know that this cooperation is not something they can do as they please. If we can't establish equal status, won't we be at their beck and call every day once the cooperation begins?"

Chen Rui suddenly realized and said, "I see."

Lei Jun laughed and said, "Of course, money is also a factor. Momo Group is rich and powerful, so it shouldn't be a problem for them to come up with tens of millions. We're here to help this time, so the control is on our side. It's fine if they don't contribute money, but waiving the 30% channel fee for JX Online shouldn't be a problem, right?"

"I understand," Chen Rui said excitedly. "President Lei really thinks ahead."

Lei Jun sighed, "There's nothing we can do. The worst thing about business cooperation is when the two parties are not on equal footing. We are not on equal footing with Momo Group right now. If we don't gain enough bargaining power, when this cooperation ends, it will be the time when Momo Group swallows us up."

Soon, a smile appeared on Lei Jun's face, and he said confidently, "Don't worry, Momo Group and Microsoft are bound to have a battle, and the best way to strike at Microsoft is through office software. Even if Momo Group develops it, they won't have time. They won't let us really go back to Yanjing City. At most, Cheng Yi will call us in an hour to persuade us to stay!"

Lei Jun and Chen Rui had a cup of coffee in the airport coffee shop. He glanced at the time and thought to himself, "It's been an hour, why hasn't he called yet?"

At this moment, Cheng Yi, sitting in his office, checked the time and frowned, saying, "Strange, could it be that Lei Jun really plans to return to Yanjing City?"

After thinking it over and over again, Cheng Yi took out his phone and found Lei Jun's number.

At this moment, Lei Jun also took out his phone and found Cheng Yi's number.

"That's enough! We can't drag this out any longer. If we do, it might really fall apart. Let's just show him our hand." Cheng Yi and Lei Jun had this thought at the same time and dialed each other's numbers.

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(End of this chapter)