Ordinary Road 2010

The news of Kuaidu taxi financing just came out. After discussing with Liu Jianni, Lin Yi felt that the time was finally ripe, so he went south again and returned to his hometown Lin'an.

He didn't go home because he had an appointment today.

The place Lin Yi went to was a quiet coffee shop on Nanshan Road. He found this place, but it was actually his first visit.

He was the first to arrive. Fortunately, the guests were also very punctual and did not keep him waiting.

Lu Chuanwei pushed open the door, inspected this cafe with a rather artistic atmosphere, found his target, and walked straight over.

"Has Mr. Lu been to this store before?"

The way Lin Yi greeted him was like a familiar old friend, but in fact the two had only met each other a few times, and based on their respective identities and positions, it was hard to call them happy.

If you want to define the personal relationship between them, calling them "acquaintances" is probably a bit of an exaggeration, at most it can be regarded as "knowledge".

Lu Chuanwei simply replied: "No."

Lin Yi stretched out his hand and gestured in all directions, and introduced it with a sense of freshness: "This store is a cafe during the day, and it turns into a bar at night. I just found out."

Lu Chuanwei didn't pick up the topic, but asked: "Although today is a holiday, if Mr. Lin returns home to visit relatives or take a vacation, wouldn't he specially ask me, an outsider, to meet him?"

Lin Yi likes to socialize with polite people, and this is probably Lu Chuanwei's euphemistic way of expressing "speak quickly and let go of fart".

He smiled to show a little kindness, and then continued the topic he had just said: "Does Mr. Lu drink alcohol?"

"Drink a little."

Lin Yi said: "I don't like to drink alcohol, whether it's beer, white wine or red wine, it will make me feel uncomfortable, especially the feeling of being drunk once, and I don't want to experience it again."

"So I really don't understand why some people are obsessed with drinking. I heard that many people in the United States are actually addicted to alcohol. I don't know what Mr. Lu knows about them?"

Lu Chuanwei's tone remained unchanged: "I'm not an alcoholic, and I don't know much about them."

"Right."

Lin Yi didn't know what he meant by this. After talking nonsense, he found that Lu Chuanwei didn't seem to have any intention of chatting with him, so he finally brought the topic into the right place:

"Mr. Lu must have had a lot of opportunities to drink recently. After all, Kuaidu Taxi has just completed a successful financing. He should have opened champagne, right?"

Finally, when we got to the point, Lu Chuanwei cheered up.

He knew that Lin Yi didn't come to him to make friends, so the string in his mind was always tense, and he didn't answer the other party's boring topics.

"Of course this is something worth celebrating, but it's not time for Kuaidu Taxi to relax. After all, there are still Mr. Lin's thousands of miles of travel and the existence of Tutu Taxi."

"Of course, this is just respect among peers, and it doesn't mean that Kuaidu has any fear of you. The launch of the private car business this time is ahead of Dudu's taxi-hailing business. The investment and operation strategy are very successful."

"In time, I don't think Mr. Lin will have the time to sit here and drink coffee."

Lin Yi didn't specifically clarify the fact that he doesn't really like drinking coffee. He chose this place for some other purpose besides the environment.

"Mr. Lu, don't be too nervous. If I say that Kuaidu Taxi has completed the financing of 6 million U.S. dollars and came to congratulate you, you must think that I am a weasel giving New Year greetings to chickens, and I have no good intentions."

"But having said that, I'm sure I didn't come all the way here to ridicule you. Some media wanted to invite me and Cheng Wei to watch our jokes together, but we both refused."

"I think there should still be a consensus among the three parties, that is, no matter how much competition there is internally, it is better not to do things externally that will affect the image of the industry."

Lu Chuanwei didn't let down his vigilance because of Lin Yi's few words. Now that the conversation got to this point, he simply asked:

"Then what is Mr. Lin doing here today?"

"My purpose of coming here is the same as Liu Qing's purpose of coming here, and I guess she should have looked for you recently, right?"

Lu Chuanwei did not answer directly: "If this is the case, I think the satellite had already responded to the representative Kuaidu when we met last time."

"So I didn't look for Chen Weixing, I looked for you."

Lin Yi successfully interrupted him with this sentence, and then said to himself: "Let's start with the 6 million US dollars just mentioned."

"Let's be smart and don't talk dark words. The reason why Kuaidu was able to obtain such a large amount of financing in such a short period of time despite temporarily changing the financing plan has nothing to do with you."

"I didn't mean to look down on Bian Kuaidu when I said that, but you should know better than me how much effort Factory A has put in here, Mr. Lu."

"Factory A is really rich, I am very envious."

"This is the truth. Xie Shihuang should have told you that I once approached Factory A to discuss financing, but unfortunately they were unwilling to give me this opportunity."

"However, in this way, from the establishment of Kuaidi Taxi, the A round, the B round, the C round, and the D round, every round of financing has not been absent from the factory A."

"In addition to the Jingwei of the B round, the other investors are either the real body of the A factory or the related households of the A factory."

"I don't know how many shares Factory A has in Kuaidu after several rounds, but what I'm more curious about is how many owners Factory A can be in Kuaidu."

"Mr. Lu, you shouldn't be a good CEO, right?"

Lin Yi's words were clearly sowing dissension, just like what he said about Cheng Wei in front of Liu Chiping back then, it was purely a heart-breaking theory.

Lu Chuanwei still didn't change his face: "Mr. Lin, Mr. Xie said at the beginning that you were talking nonsense at Factory A, attacking the stability and unity within Kuaidu. If you still do this today, I'm afraid it's nothing new."

"Am I talking nonsense?"

Lin Yi recalled the meeting with Xie Shihuang back then, and it seemed that this was the most authentic evaluation of the other party meeting him.

"Mr. Lu, you know better than me whether what I said is true."

"It's not easy to be the president of the Airborne Corps. You already have a restless second-in-chief like Chen Weixing by your side, and now there is another factory A who becomes the overlord."

"I just asked how many masters Factory A can be in Kuaidu, and now I want to ask one more question, how many masters can you be in Kuaidu, Mr. Lu?"

Lu Chuanwei asked calmly: "If Mr. Lin thinks that I can't make the decision, why ask me out today?"

Lin Yi didn't pursue and fight fiercely, he changed his words in a very sensible way:

"I made a slip of the tongue, Mr. Lu, and I would like to take back what I just said. It is precisely because I think Mr. Lu is always the most discerning and decisive person, that's why I chose to ask you out today."

"Ask me out to persuade you to surrender?"

There was a bit of irony in Lu Chuanwei's words, but Lin Yi became more sincere:

"That's absolutely not my intention. In fact, I want to provide Mr. Lu with a win-win solution that both of you can be satisfied with."

He bent his fingers and said with a smile, "WIN WIN."

Chapter 459

"You're more mature than I thought."

Lu Chuanwei suddenly began to talk about his impression of Lin Yi: "At first, I thought that traveling thousands of miles to today was largely due to good luck, but you made me change my opinion."

"Looking back now, when we met last time, you were laying the groundwork for today's events, and even set up a small ambush between me and Chen Weixing."

"Out of contempt for your age, I didn't take any precautions, and I didn't realize that you had such a purpose and plan."

"Although I am not the real founder of Kuaidi Dache, I have been fighting side by side with this company with this name since I started my business in China. The fate of me and Kuaidu Dache has long been closely linked and cannot be separated."

"No matter whether there is any rift between me and Chen Weixing, no matter how and to what extent Factory A intervened in Kuaidi Taxi, it is not a reason for me to give up on it."

Lin Yi didn't feel disappointed or depressed because of his self-evident statement, but felt very relieved.

"I never asked you to give up."

"Mr. Lu, I don't know if you still remember Dahuangfeng taking a taxi? It was about this time a year ago. I went to Shencheng to find Li Yongjin."

"I know he talked with you and Dudu's Cheng Wei. He should have been close to reaching a deal with you at that time, but he sold it to me in the end. Do you want to know why?"

The time when this incident happened is not far away, but Lu Chuanwei has a surprisingly long feeling, because the structure of the taxi industry just a year ago was far from what it is now.

Of course, he still had a fresh memory of Dahuangfeng taking a taxi. It was a great regret for Kuaidu to miss Dahuangfeng, but the bigger regret was that he gave Lin Yi a chance.

Lu Chuanwei can be sure that if Lin Yisheng hadn't been robbed of Dahuangfeng to take a taxi, then he would not have been able to get Xiongchang's investment.

Naturally, there is no way to show off your power here today.

He didn't answer Lin Yi's question, but he didn't interrupt either. He just sat there quietly waiting for him to continue.

"At that time, I told Li Yongjin that no matter what price you offered him, I would pay 30% more. This is my determination and sincerity for this deal."

"The same Mr. Lu, now I have the same determination and sincerity for Kuaidu Taxi."

"I am willing to use the valuation of the latest round of financing of both parties as a benchmark to discuss the merger with Kuaidu. This is not an acquisition but a cooperation."

"Whether it is Kuaidu Taxi itself or Mr. Lu, I am willing to give the maximum preferential treatment. If you are willing to continue to contribute to this industry, I can give you the position of CEO and retire as chairman. .”

Kuaidu Taxi's latest round of $6 million is a valuation that can only be supported by the support of Factory A. Otherwise, based on Kuaidu itself, the business of the three companies is not in an 8:7:6 relationship.

Therefore, if the merger is based on this valuation, it is actually a very favorable condition for Kuaidu, but Lu Chuanwei remains unmoved.

"Boss Lin's structure is not as big as your tone sounds, is it? Dudu Cheng Wei and Liu Qing agreed to let me be the co-CEO."

When Lin Yi said that he was the CEO and the chairman himself, it was obvious that he still held the final decision-making power in the company's operations.

Although Lu Chuanwei brought up Dudu's conditions to talk about the matter, Lin didn't feel frustrated at all, but was very pleasantly surprised.

It is good to be willing to talk about conditions, but what is afraid is not to talk about conditions.

Lin Yi knew that Liu Qing spent much longer thinking about this matter than himself, and it was not easy for him to pry a small hole in Lu Chuanwei.

"Co-CEO, it's unheard of, may I ask which big company with a name has adopted this kind of management structure?"

"Mr. Lu should be very clear that these are all lies. Who are Cheng Wei and Liu Qing? You have known each other for so long. Using such nonsense to bluff people shows that they are not sincere."

Lu Chuanwei also seemed to realize that it was a mistake for Cheng Wei and Liu Qing who mentioned Dudu just now, so he immediately put away the topic and didn't go deeper here.

He thought for a while and asked, "Why don't you talk to Chen Weixing about this matter?"

Among the two current heads of Kuaidi Taxi, Chen Weixing is younger than Lu Chuanwei. He also has another online game career, and his personality is more flamboyant and narcissistic.

For Lin Yi, Chen Weixing was even more difficult to deal with.

There are reasons why he likes Lu Chuanwei, but some reasons can be openly discussed, and some reasons can only be understood.

"Boss Lu knows that I'm from Lin'an, right?"

This sentence is very out of context, but after the long conversation just now, Lu Chuanwei did not resist so much, so he simply nodded.

Lin Yi seemed to have completely forgotten what they had just discussed, completely forgotten about Lu Chuanwei's question, and concentrated on telling his own story.

"I grew up in Lin'an and never left the city before graduating from high school."

"When I went to university, my dad sent me there for the first time. I remember clearly that it was a 13-hour train ride."

"I actually like the city of Beijing. It is both ancient and modern, solemn and prosperous. If there is no smog, I think I will like its winter even more."

"The people there are also nice. I've never met Zheng Huangqi's aunt with the sky-reaching pattern. I used to listen to the ruffian Beijing movies, but after a long time, I still feel very kind. She likes everyone."

“Nevertheless, after living there for a long time, I still find myself at times alienated from that city.”

"For example, I don't know why Shichahai is called the sea, and I don't know which princess is buried under the princess grave."

"These things don't seem to be very important. They are not worth mentioning in life. I never asked about them. It's not because I'm worried about Lu Qi."

"Until one day I heard that the citizens of the capital went to the Lama Temple to grab incense. I thought it was news, but a thought immediately popped into my mind: Isn't this something that happens every year in Lingyin Temple?"

"At that time, I knew that it wasn't that I had any opinions, or that there was something wrong with the capital, but that some positions had long been occupied by other places."

"Mr. Lu, do you know why I came to see you today?"

"Because today is the Double Ninth Festival."

After Lin finished telling his story, he looked at Lu Chuanwei, and found that he still had confusion on his face. It seemed that he had been abroad for a long time, and he was not used to this way of expression.

The turn was too big, so he had to collect it: "Mr. Lu, I heard that the money you invested in Kuaidu Taxi was originally intended to be used to buy a house in the United States."

"Because I was determined to return to China to start a business, I lost the deposit and gave up the house. I wonder how your family in the United States is doing?"

"You've been here for almost two years, and you seem to be living here alone. I guess you don't have time to take a good tour of the city of Lin'an."

"Based on my life experience, the last thing you should miss in Lin'an autumn is sweet-scented osmanthus. I hope you have the opportunity to take your family to see it."

Chapter 460 Are You Talking About Me?

"Will that Lu Chuanwei promise you?"

The person who asked the question was Gu Caiwei. She has been intensively promoting her group's second album for the past two or three months, and her schedule has just slowed down.

There was an event in Lin'an today and an appointment was made with Lin Yi in advance, that's why he chose to come back today.

The conversation between Lin Yi and Lu Chuanwei was over, and they rushed to meet Gu Caiwei at her home in Lin'an.

Gu Caiwei is very popular now, she and GIVE ME FIVE already have a lot of eyeliners outside their residence in Shanghai, and Peng Yuchen has recently banned the two of them from meeting there.

Although it is very inconvenient, to be honest, the idol group's announcement of their address is originally for fans to chase, but it is safe in terms of safety.

Fortunately, her address in Lin'an has never been disclosed, and it is also a high-end community with strict gated access, so it is difficult for outsiders to get in, so Peng Yuchen agreed to meet them here.