Chapter 66
“Whether it is true or not, Mr. Chi can check the information disclosed by the Nasdaq Stock Exchange and he will know at a glance.”
Chi Yufeng’s face turned pale, and he opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but he didn’t know how to say it.
In fact, when he saw the equity statement, he already knew it was true, but he didn’t want to believe it. He didn’t want to believe that the domestic gaming giant he built was acquired by someone.
Su Chengyang looked at Chi Yufeng’s face, which was red for a while, then white for a while. He felt amused in his heart. The next second, he looked serious and said solemnly:”Mr. Chi, do you have any questions?”
“If there is no problem, we will proceed to the next step”
“According to the company law, when a shareholder holds 67% of the shares, he has absolute ownership.”
Looking at Chi Yufeng, who had a gloomy face, Su Chengyang sneered in his heart
“According to the articles of association, I have the right to remove and re-elect the position of chairman of the board, so from now on, I will be the chairman of the board, President Chi, do you have any objection?”
Looking at that smiling face, Chi Yufeng wanted to kick him twice. If looks could kill, Su Chengyang would have been cut into pieces by now.
Su Chengyang ignored Chi Yufeng’s murderous eyes, chuckled and said,”President Chi didn’t say anything, it seems that he agrees with my proposal”
“Very good, let’s move on to the next step, the appointment of the company’s CEO.”
At the moment, Chi Yufeng is concurrently serving as CEO.
Chi Yufeng’s face was very gloomy. He had expected that after Su Chengyang took power, he would definitely change a group of people, but he didn’t expect it to be so soon.
What puzzled him was that Su Chengyang had just arrived and he shouldn’t know the people in the company.
Who would he appoint as CEO?
Or would he directly transfer someone in from outside?
With doubts, Chi Yufeng didn’t say a word, but just observed with a gloomy face.
“Eight”eight nine zero” nine zero” and in the conference room, the executives of Perfect World began to breathe rapidly. After seeing Su Chengyang suppress Chi Yufeng to death, they had already accepted the reality of the change of dynasty.
And just now Su Chengyang said that a new CEO would be appointed, which obviously shows that Su Chengyang himself will not take this position, and this position can be said to be second to one person and above ten thousand people. Who doesn’t want to sit in this position if they are ambitious and have aspirations.
So, they all looked at Su Chengyang who was sitting in the main seat with envy.
Su Chengyang, who took in the expressions of the crowd, smiled in his heart. Sure enough, power is the thing that can shake people’s hearts the most.
Under the expectant gaze of everyone, Su Chengyang turned his gaze to Li Qing. Li Qing, who noticed his gaze, breathed quickly and his heartbeat accelerated, beating non-stop, while Xiao Hong, who was sitting next to Li Qing, felt a sinking feeling in his heart, and a bad premonition arose.
“The new CEO of the company is Li Qing from Zulong Studio.”
After the words fell, everyone in the conference room looked at Li Qing, their eyes full of envy and jealousy.
Xiao Hong clenched his fists tightly, looking at Li Qing with eyes full of jealousy and resentment. He hated Su Chengyang in his heart.
If Su Chengyang had not appeared, according to the”original history”, he would have taken over the position of CEO. Xiao Hong, who was arrogant and always suppressed Li Qing, would never admit defeat. Chi Yufeng
, who was sitting next to him, had a flash of surprise in his eyes when he heard Su Chengyang appoint Li Qing as CEO.
Could it be that Li Qing had already joined Su Chengyang?
That must be the case.
Otherwise , there are so many people in the conference room, why did Su Chengyang appoint him as CEO?
Thinking of this, Chi Yufeng looked at Li Qing with a hint of anger.
At this moment, in his heart, Li Qing was a traitor who betrayed him and joined forces with outsiders to drive him away.
Li Qing naturally noticed the anger in Chi Yufeng’s eyes, and he was a little puzzled. He didn’t understand why Chi Yufeng was like this. He was briefly suspicious, but was soon washed away by the surprise brought by the pie in the sky.
He stood up excitedly:”Thank you for the trust of the chairman, I will do my best to do a good job and lead the company to a higher level.”
Su Chengyang looked at Li Qing with a thick smile on his face:”Mr. Li’s ability is obvious to all, I believe you will be able to lead Perfect World to go further.”
Seeing Su Chengyang’s encouraging and trusting eyes, Li Qing felt a warm current in his heart, and he felt that a man would die for his friend.
Don’t look at him, he is a veteran of Perfect World, but Chi Yufeng has been suppressing him everywhere over the years, and even supported Xiao Hong to fight against him.
Obviously, the outside players have a big reaction and complained about the skin-changing games, but they turned a blind eye to it. In order to pursue short-term interests, they launched a large number of skin-changing games.
These made him dissatisfied for a long time.
However, Chi Yufeng stood on Xiao Hong’s side, which made his position in Perfect World very awkward.
Naturally, he was dissatisfied with Chi Yufeng, the original investment mentor, but he had been suppressing him all these years.
Now, the dark clouds have dispersed, the new sunshine is shining, and he has been promoted to CEO again. Naturally, he is full of energy.
“The second thing is about Xiao Hong’s position. From now on, he will be transferred from his post to serve as the president of Zongheng Chinese Network, responsible for the online novel business.”
Su Chengyang did not kick him out directly. He did not make any mistakes. He fired people right away, which had a bad impact. So he simply transferred him from the game business to manage literature.
At present, the entire Perfect World structure, in addition to the game business, also has a film and television business, that is, Perfect Film and Television. In addition, Zongheng Chinese Network, one of the three major online literature companies, and the game media 178 Game Network are all its subsidiaries.
From the perspective of layout, it is very forward-looking and can be said to be the most visionary among the current game companies in China.
From the online novel IP, incubating it into games, or film and television, and then exporting marketing through its 178 game website, it can be said that the entire industry chain is complete, and at this time, many domestic game companies are still obsessed with game development.
It is precisely because of Perfect’s capital layout that it has not invested much in game research and development, and other industries have not seen profits for a long time. In this case, skin-changing games were born.
It cannot be said that Perfect’s strategy is wrong , it can only be said that he was too eager for success.
At this time, after hearing Su Chengyang’s new appointment of Xiao Hong, many executives in the conference room all looked at Xiao Hong with a gloating look on their faces. From the senior vice president of the group to the president of a subsidiary company, he was definitely demoted, and he was also separated from the most important game business, which was equivalent to being demoted to a low-income government.
This made many people who were dissatisfied with Xiao Hong feel very happy.
Xiao Hong saw the strange looks of the people, and his dissatisfaction and resentment towards Su Chengyang became deeper and deeper. He wanted to stand up immediately and leave.
But he suppressed this impulse.
Leaving at this time is equivalent to resigning without a job. Even if he wants to leave, he has to wait until he finds the next job.
And he has a doubt in his heart, that is, he and Su Chengyang met for the first time, why did the other party suppress him?
He didn’t understand this.
After taking a look at Xiao Hong, who looked normal and did not show any anger, Su Chengyang’s eyes flashed with surprise, and he admired Xiao Hong’s forbearance.
“Okay, the meeting ends here, everyone can go home.”
“By the way, please ask Mr. Chi to stay.”
Su Chengyang saw that it was almost time, so he waved his hand and signaled that everyone could leave.
“Mr. Su is very capable.”
Without the outsiders, Chi Yufeng’s face turned cold, and he looked at Su Chengyang coldly.
Su Chengyang smiled faintly, and understood what Chi Yufeng meant by his words, his plot to win over Li Qing and suppress Xiao Hong.
“Mr. Chi, let’s not beat around the bush. I plan to privatize Perfect World. I want your shares. Name your price.”
Chi Yufeng’s face changed:”You want to get rid of me?”
“Don’t even think about it”
“I founded Perfect World, and I will not leave.”
Su Chengyang laughed and said,”Boss Chi, please stop acting in front of me. What do you mean you founded Perfect World? Aren’t you ashamed to say that?””
“If you talk about founding it, it was Li Qing who founded it. You just invested 2 million to buy it.”
“Besides, I am now discussing with you in all sincerity. If you make me angry, I will force the acquisition, what can you do?”
According to the formula law, when the major shareholder holds 67% of the shares, it can be forced to privatize and clear out shareholders.
Even if this method does not work, the controlling shareholder can still have control over the company through capital increase and stock expansion. Capital increase and stock expansion means increasing the company’s share capital.
The original 200 million share capital has now increased by half to 400 million share capital, and the newly increased 200 million share capital requires shareholders to increase capital.
If there is no capital increase, the shares will be diluted.
The original shareholding was 20%. After the capital increase and stock expansion, the shareholders who did not increase the capital will have their 20% shares diluted by half.
This method, It is one of the means often used by some powerful major shareholders to dilute the shares of small shareholders.
Of course, there is another method, which is unequal voting rights for the same shares. Before going public, some Internet companies often implement unequal voting rights for the same shares in order to avoid the founders being kicked out of the company and losing the management rights of the company.
However, Su Chengyang had someone check it out long ago, and Perfect did not have this mechanism when it was listed on NASDAQ.
This is why he was able to run rampant and directly show his cards to confront Chi Yufeng.
If it was like Jingdong and Ali with unequal voting rights for the same shares, Su Chengyang would not have acquired it, but only as an investment project.
“Mr. Su, don’t go too far.”
Chi Yufeng’s eyes were full of anger, staring at Su Chengyang
“Mr. Chi, why bother? Anyway, you have lost control of the company, so there is no point in staying here. It is better to cash out and leave, and invest in new projects, which may be more promising.”
“Aren’t you in education?”
“I think online education is pretty good and has broad prospects in the future…………”
“You, just focus on this. The gaming industry is not suitable for you…………”
Su Chengyang smiled at Chi Yufeng, and his words made people who didn’t know the inside story think that Su Chengyang was doing this for his own good.
“How do you know I’m in the education business?”
After saying this, Chi Yufeng wanted to slap himself for asking such a stupid question. He must have found out his background to be able to control so many shares of Perfect World without making a sound.
Besides, it’s not a secret that he’s in Hongen Education. It can be found out with a little investigation.
Su Chengyang put away the smile on his face and looked serious:”Mr. Chi, I hope you will think about this matter carefully.”
As he said that, Su Chengyang took out a business card, stood up and walked to Chi Yufeng’s side, and put the business card in front of him.
“This is my business card. Call me when you have time.”
“I have something else to do, so I’ll leave you now.”
After saying that, he walked out of the meeting room with a smile on his face.
The empty meeting room left Chi Yufeng with a gloomy face.
After leaving the meeting room, Su Chengyang stopped a person and asked about Li Qing’s office, then walked straight to Li Qing’s office. Li Qing, who got the news, walked out of the office as soon as possible, and when he saw Su Chengyang walking towards him, he hurried forward;”Hello, Chairman!””
“Let’s go to your office. I have something to tell you.
Su Chengyang patted Li Qing on the shoulder and said.
“Chairman, please.”
After walking a few steps, he entered Li Qing’s office.
“Chairman, please have some water.”
Li Qing poured a glass of water and placed it in front of Su Chengyang.
“Um~~”
“Sit down, I have something to tell you.”
Li Qing sat down immediately after hearing this, sitting upright, looking attentively.
“Let me first talk about the projects that the company is currently operating and the status of the research and development projects.
Su Chengyang decided to understand the situation first.
“The company is currently operating projects such as”Perfect World》、《Zhu Xian online game,”Wulin Wai Zhuan”》、《Red Cliff》、《Dance Party》、《Pocket Journey to the West” and other six games, and the development projects include”The Mummy”》、《”The Continent of Gods and Demons” and”Fantasy Zhu Xian”》、《”Wow, the R&
D efforts are quite impressive.
But the direction is wrong.
Apart from the early games that sold well, the rest, such as Red Cliff, Hot Dance, Pocket, and the later games that imitated Warcraft, such as Gods and Demons, etc., all failed without exception.
It is estimated that even the R&D funds have not been recovered.
It is just a waste of time!
“In this way, except for Fantasy Zhu Xian, the remaining three projects that have been approved will all be cancelled.”
“this…Chairman, is it inappropriate to cancel all of them? The three games of Gods and Demons, Gods and Ghosts, and Jianglong have invested more than 100 million yuan in research and development. If we cancel them now, won’t it be a loss in vain?”
Li Qing said cautiously.
Su Chengyang glanced at him and said lightly:”There are not many 1.5 players in Europe and the United States who play MMOPRG games. Do you think that the Gods and Ghosts and Gods and Demons you developed can be more fun than World of Warcraft?”
“this…”
Li Qing was speechless when asked
“See, you don’t have confidence in yourself, let alone the players.”
“What’s the point of developing a game that has no hope?”
“Rather than ruining your reputation later, it is better to be decisive now.”
“All right, it’s settled.”
Su Chengyang was a little impatient, and he made the final decision, not wanting to explain any more.
Li Qing saw this and didn’t dare to say more, and nodded quickly:”Yes!”
“I have two ideas here. Listen to them.”
“First, we will make an FPS game, similar to the previous CS game, and a bit like Penguin’s CF, both of which are shooting games, charging for props.”
“The second one is a competitive survival game. One hundred players are put on an island and asked to look for materials, such as guns, bullets, grenades, and various cold weapons. Every once in a while, a poison circle will appear and the players need to run out of the poison circle to survive.”
“There are many vehicles on the way, such as cars, motorcycles, airships, etc. Players can form teams of five people until the final team wins….”
Su Chengyang briefly described the gameplay of the two games, CSGO and PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds.
Li Qing was very familiar with the former, after all, CS games have been around for a long time, but it was the second game that made Li Qing’s eyes light up.
“Chairman, this second game is quite interesting, but what is the profit model? Props?”
“Yes, selling skin props is just like CF, selling character costumes and gun skin props!”
Li Qing nodded. The success of CF is enough to explain many problems.