The flowers in the factory of rebirth are too fierce

Wen Tiangao stared at Lin Zhiyuan seriously. "Xiao Lin, we met a few times before. I had a good impression of you. Although you are young, you are very calm. But this time you acted a little radical..."

Lin Zhiyuan smiled bitterly and said, "Leader, Director Li and Minister Wu have criticized me on this issue, but I personally have a different opinion."

"Oh?" Wen Tiangao raised his eyebrows, "Tell me about it."

"Both leaders thought I shouldn't be so aggressive because if the investment failed, all my efforts over the past decade would go to waste. They both advised me to play it safe."

"Then why do you still do this?" Wen Tiangao was also a little curious.

"Because..." Lin Zhiyuan took a deep breath, "I know I will succeed. The smartphone project will definitely be developed. I will use this project to earn more than 100 billion US dollars in profits for the China Electronics Technology Group, drive the development of other companies in the group, and let the workers have work to do and get bonuses. At the same time, this project can also drive an industrial cluster and even provide employment for 100,000 people..."

Lin Zhiyuan talked eloquently, and Wen Tiangao sighed, "It seems that I can't persuade you, Xiaolin. Now we emphasize the separation of government and business. Since your leadership team has made a collective decision, it is not easy for me to interfere. Let me say one last thing, you must be careful about foreign acquisitions and investments."

Lin Zhiyuan smiled. After more than a week of running around, his wish had finally come true, and now no one could stop him.

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After obtaining the organization's approval, Lin Zhiyuan immediately flew back to Silicon Valley with Liao Jinsheng.

Lin Zhiyuan himself did not expect that during the time he returned to China, General Magic and Newark Company had undergone great changes, especially General Magic Company, which did not receive a response after making an offer. This made several shareholders of the company think that their offer was too high and scared away these Shenzhou people.

After waiting for a few days, several shareholders united and found Yuan Fei who was stationed in Silicon Valley, and took the initiative to propose to lower the offer price.

Yuan Fei didn't get a response from Lin Zhiyuan, so he didn't dare to make a decision and could only continue to drag it out. This behavior made several shareholders even more frustrated.

Universal Magic was on the verge of bankruptcy, and if Music Garden did not acquire it, several shareholders would lose all their money. So they lowered their offer again, from the initial 5 million to the current 1 million.

But Jonathan said that for a company that was about to go bankrupt, one million dollars was not enough, so he should delay it for a few more days and try to get the price down to five hundred thousand dollars.

Newark also showed some signs of reluctance. The reason they had offered $200 million was because Seaman and Ives were confident in their technology. They believed that as long as they had enough funds, they could perfect the multi-touch technology in two to three years.

So they were unwilling to let other companies snatch their scientific research results at a low price. Although the offer of $200 million was a bit high, Seaman and Ives were indifferent. If you recognize the value of Newark, then you have to pay $200 million. If you don’t recognize it, the two of them will continue their research.

The variable came with the angel investor who invested in the Newark company last year.

This investor was optimistic about Newark's technology, so he invested 2000 million U.S. dollars in 2001 to support the company's technological research and development. Unexpectedly, the Internet bubble burst soon after, and most companies in Silicon Valley were caught in an economic quagmire. He thought the situation would be better in , but it got worse and worse. Companies in the small Silicon Valley went bankrupt every day. After September , the U.S. stock market was hit hard, and both the Dow Jones and Nasdaq plummeted. This investor couldn't hold on any longer, and he pessimistically believed that his investment would most likely be wasted.

At this time, Music Garden appeared. As the world's best-selling music player company, it must have plenty of cash, which rekindled the investor's hope. He now just wanted to sell his shares as soon as possible, but he didn't expect that Seaman and Elvis called out a sky-high price of 200 million US dollars, which almost made him collapse on the spot.

After waiting for a few days, there was no movement from Music Garden. The investor naturally thought that it was the offer from Seaman and Elvis that scared away the acquirer. So the investor went to Newark Company and had a big fight with Seaman and Elvis. Then he took the initiative to contact Yuan Fei through Jonathan and expressed his willingness to sell 40% of Newark Company's shares to Music Garden Company at the original price of 20 million US dollars.

Yuan Fei also did not respond, only saying that he would report to his superiors.

This wait lasted another week.

The investor contacted Yuan Fei again, and this time, he took the initiative to lower the offer price for the shares to US$15 million.

Lin Zhiyuan himself did not expect that while he was trying to persuade the leaders to agree to the acquisition plan, so many things happened in Silicon Valley across the ocean. When he returned here again, everything became much simpler.

Soon, Music Garden acquired General Magic Company for $600,000, and then acquired 40% of Newark Company's shares held by the investor for $13 million. Finally, Jonathan came forward, and after several rounds of difficult negotiations with Seaman and Elvis, Music Garden made several guarantees. One was that it would fully support Newark Company's scientific research in the future, and the other was that the treatment of existing employees would remain unchanged. These two items were also written into the contract. Only then did Seaman and Elvis agree to sell 20% of their shares to Music Garden for $40 million.

Music Garden Company became the largest shareholder of Newark Company.

The two companies that Lin Zhiyuan had been dreaming of were finally acquired. The next step was to integrate the two companies together.

Jonathan once again played an important role as the know-it-all of Silicon Valley. Taking advantage of the falling housing prices in Silicon Valley, Jonathan rented a four-story office building near San Jose as the new office location for General Magic and Newark. As soon as the house was rented, he started decorating it.

Lin Zhiyuan's biggest requirement for the new company is that security must be top-notch. Researchers working here are not allowed to take any paper, USB flash drives, disks or other storage media out of the company.

All scientific researchers from both companies have signed strict confidentiality agreements and will face huge compensation if any information is leaked.

Until now, neither Scoli and Fadek from General Magic, nor Seaman and Elvis from Newark know what products Music Garden will develop?