Chapter 786 Intervening in the Acquisition

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Huaguo Shenzhen, SF Express headquarters.

Sitting at the desk, Wang Wei meticulously flipped through the documents on the desk.

As the president of SF Express Group, Wang Wei, as the chief helm of SF Express, is as legendary as the company he leads. At the age of 22, with a start-up capital of 100,000 yuan, he has developed from a start-up company with a total of 6 people to the current SF Express Group with a market value of 10 billion.

Even Jack Ma admires him deeply.

But today he was obviously absent-minded, which is very rare. He put the pen aside, reached out and rubbed his sore brows.

Think about it carefully, the last time this kind of anxiety appeared was in 2002.

At that time, SF Express was facing a severe test of acquiring rights from franchisees. If successful, SF Express will become the first logistics company in China to get rid of the franchise system and realize direct management from enterprises to outlets.

There is no doubt that this has touched the cakes of big and small franchisees. However, in the process of acquiring rights, Wang Wei's performance was also quite strong, and he even stated that before the deadline, he would either sell the company's shares to him or get out of SF Express.

It was also Wang Wei's strength that caused his death. Some franchisees even invited the underworld forces in Xiangjiang to chase and kill Wang Wei. And this incident has left a deep shadow on his daily life-until today, he has 4-6 bodyguards around him wherever he appears.

At this time, Li Dongqi, his right-hand man, pushed the door open and walked in quickly.

Wang Wei didn't blame him for not knocking on the door, but hurriedly asked.

"How about it, did the Future People Group agree?"

Hearing this, Li Dongqi smiled wryly and shook his head.

"No, the other party gave me the feeling that they have great ambitions for the cake in the logistics market."

Wang Wei didn't seem surprised by Li Dongqi's answer.

Occupying vrstore, a virtual reality shopping platform with huge traffic, Future People Group even has a faint momentum of commanding the crowd in the field of e-commerce. Nowadays, many people have developed the illusory and realistic shopping experience in the virtual world, including Wang Wei himself. Every time he puts down his helmet, he can't help but praise the vrstore designer for being a genius.

With such unique advantages,

Rather, Jiang Chen would not be interested in logistics, that would be strange.

After pondering for a moment, Wang Wei said in a deep voice.

"Tomorrow, I will go to Xinguo personally. If I can meet Jiang Chen, I will personally convince him."

"No need, he probably will come to Xiangjiang tomorrow." Li Dongqi sighed.

Hearing this, Wang Wei was taken aback for a moment, and his brows gradually frowned.

Now it's a little difficult.

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While SF Express was finding it difficult, Jiang Chen actually also felt it was difficult, otherwise he would not have come to Huaguo in person.

The company Xia Shiyu chose was Shentong, and for the 11% premium offered by the Future Group, the proposal to acquire 51% of the shares of Shentong for US$1.7 billion, several major shareholders expressed their satisfaction with the price.

It is a good thing that the Future Group will invest in STO! Among other things, even if they rely on their resources on vrstore and tilt a little towards STO Express, the shares in their hands will be worth more than twice as much as they are now, not to mention that Future Group will buy it at a premium of 11%!

As long as part of the stock is sold, the rest of the stock will be worth more, and such a good thing will be rejected by a fool.

But that being said, something went wrong at the end of the acquisition.

Just when the signing was about to be completed, several shareholders who originally agreed to sell their shares temporarily changed their minds and refused to sell their shares. No matter how much the salesman sent by Future Group tried to persuade him, it was useless.

The Future People Group asked the reason and found out that it wasn't that these shareholders didn't want to make a move, but that the government started to intervene.

This made Jiang Chen a little unexpected, but when Xia Shiyu heard the news, he showed such an expression as expected.

Regarding the mutual mergers and acquisitions among small companies, the attitude adopted by the government is often based on the standard of "following the law of market economy development". When it comes to big companies, however, the government is much more cautious.

Here is a typical case, that is, the acquisition of Huiyuan Juice Group by Coca-Cola in 2009 was rejected by the Ministry of Commerce in the name of anti-monopoly. This situation is not unique to China. Huawei's repeated setbacks in the United States can basically be attributed to the fact that since 2008, the US government has been systematically preventing the company from acquiring US assets. As a result, Huawei has repeatedly suffered setbacks when entering the US telecommunications industry.

What I have to point out here is that if the Future Group was registered in Shanghai instead of a small country in the Western Pacific that has no international influence and is worth wooing, perhaps the Mirage helmet would not have the opportunity to be listed in the United States from the very beginning.

Originally, Jiang Chen expected the Liu family to help with this matter, but Mr. Liu's answer left him speechless.

The Liu family does have some power in the upper echelon, but this matter cannot be decided by him alone. After all, the political power of the Republic is not limited to their family. The government is wary of too much intervention by the Future Group, and is not very interested in the drone logistics.

Cutting 400,000 jobs to 50,000 may seem tempting to other companies, but from the government's standpoint, aren't you reducing the employment rate?

In many cases, it is not because you are advanced that you have to be introduced, unless you cannot live without you.

For example, quantum communication satellites have not opened up the Huaguo market so far because they may have an impact on the "Big Three Telecoms" that monopolize the market.

"During the general meeting of our Liu family, we voted against the proposal to intervene in the acquisition. I can't help you much in this matter. But, I can tell you that the bottom line is here." At the end of the call, the old god Liu Xiangguo smiled on the ground.

"Oh? What is it?" Jiang Chen asked simply.

You fucking take so much money every year, you should do something, right?

"Equity," Liu Xiangguo gave an abstract word, "Future Group can develop the market, but it cannot monopolize the market. Do you understand what I mean? If you want to acquire Shentong, you can only hold 30% This is the bottom line given by the discussion above. Or, you start a logistics company from scratch.”

In the end, the old man's tone was somewhat meaningful.

"Where's the drone?" This was what Jiang Chen was most concerned about.

"Drones... Of course we still hope that you can cooperate with domestic logistics companies. After all, this drone technology is very interesting!"

The first half of the sentence is quite clear, Hua Guo will not make a fuss about the upcoming drone management bill, but the meaning of the second half of the sentence is somewhat unclear.

But since he had already asked the answer, Jiang Chen stopped chatting with the old guy. But before hanging up the phone, he suddenly thought of something, and then asked another question.

"Speaking of which, have you ever heard of an organization called Freemasonry?"

His eyes narrowed, Liu Xiangguo frowned slightly, and his tone became a little unpredictable.

"Freemasonry? How did you get involved with those people?"

"It's just that they found me unilaterally."

"Oh, then you have met a very troublesome opponent." Liu Xiangguo smiled gloatingly, "How is it? Do you want to go back to China? They can't make any trouble in China."

"It's better to avoid it, I'm quite comfortable outside."

After hanging up the phone, he immediately found Xia Shiyu. The two exchanged views with each other.

And the answer is clear.

The profit of the logistics market is quite huge. Since around 10 years ago, the scale of the logistics industry has experienced a blowout growth. According to the data in 2015, the annual business volume has exceeded 20 billion pieces, and the total industry revenue has reached 200 billion yuan.

If it works well, the Huaguo market alone can bring tens of billions of profits to the Future Group every year!

Although there are some troubles in terms of policy, it is not impossible to solve them.

If you can't anal from the front, then let's go around from the side! (To be continued.)

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