Rebirth in 1985

Chapter 589: Acquisition War

What is business? In Lu Shaohua's dictionary, business means official business, which is related to Phoenix Group. Especially when talking to Liu Mingzhang and other employees of Phoenix Group, the business that Lu Shaohua refers to is related to Phoenix Group.

So many things have happened in Phoenix Group recently, which has had a huge impact on two of its listed companies. One is Yingke Telecom, and the other is Lenovo Group, which was just acquired not long ago. These two companies have recently been affected by different levels, and their stock prices have only fallen and not risen. Fortunately, Phoenix Group has strong financial resources, and it is very easy to stabilize the stock prices of the two companies, so it has not caused an unmanageable situation.

For people like Liu Mingzhang who work in the financial industry, it is only natural for them to keep an eye on the stock market. As for the two companies owned by them, Yingke Telecom and Lenovo Group, their share prices only fell and did not rise, so they naturally noticed it. In addition, a high-level meeting was held within Phoenix Group, so they naturally knew exactly what had happened.

Now Lu Shaohua summoned them again and said that he had something important to do. Liu Mingzhang and the others had reason to believe that Lu Shaohua was preparing to fight back. That's right, whether it was Liu Mingzhang, Li Yunqing, or Li Zongen, they had all seen Lu Shaohua's methods and magic. On the surface, the Phoenix Group seemed to be facing a huge challenge, but in the eyes of the three of them, it was just a game, and Lu Shaohua didn't want to fight back at all costs.

Indeed, Lu Shaohua did not make a move to fight back at all costs, nor did he ever think about fighting back with all his strength. The reason was very simple. Lu Shaohua already owned shares in Microsoft, Dell, Apple, and IBM in his early years. If he fought back with all his strength, the four companies would likely face the crisis of bankruptcy, and wouldn't that be equivalent to ruining his own company!

"Are we going to deal with someone?" Liu Mingzhang asked.

Based on Liu Mingzhang's understanding of Lu Shaohua, if there was no special matter, Lu Shaohua would not gather the three of them together. At most, only one person would come up. But now, Lu Shaohua is not convenient to gather the three of them together, and even calls them to Lu Shaohua's residence. All signs indicate that Lu Shaohua is going to take a big action.

It is undeniable that Lu Shaohua did call Liu Mingzhang and the others to deal with people, but the targets were not just one, but four, four companies with great influence in the United States. "I called you here for only one purpose, and that is to acquire shares of Microsoft, IBM, Dell, and Apple."

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No one spoke the first word, including Liu Mingzhang who was very casual in front of Lu Shaohua. He did not speak the first word at this time either. The reason was that the news Lu Shaohua said was shocking enough. What kind of company was Microsoft, IBM, Dell, and Apple? The four of them knew it very well.

With the continuous evolution of human civilization over the years, computers have become an indispensable part of life and office. Among these four companies, three are computer manufacturers, and one is a computer operating system manufacturer. They also dominate the office software market and are developing very rapidly, which has led to their stock prices in the market rising again and again.

At this time, Lu Shaohua actually said that he wanted to buy their shares. In the past, Liu Mingzhang and the others thought it was just a trivial matter. But now, without a large amount of funds as a backing, it would be impossible to bring down the stock prices of the four companies and finally buy a large number of shares with a small amount of funds.

Does Phoenix Group have a lot of funds now?

No, Liu Mingzhang can answer this question. Although there are hundreds of billions of dollars in floating funds on the account, don't you see the current situation of Phoenix Group? It is a mess and it is impossible to withdraw funds when the money is needed.

As for Phoenix Financial's funds, they started to act when Lu Shaohua assigned them the task. The funds had already been divided up, and it was impossible to move those funds. Therefore, when Lu Shaohua said this, Liu Mingzhang showed an embarrassed look.

However, none of the people present were fools. Lu Shaohua's proposal to acquire the shares of those four companies was definitely not a spur of the moment decision. Thinking of the recent setbacks encountered by Phoenix Group, they all suddenly realized that Lu Shaohua was seeking revenge.

Since it was revenge, with Lu Shaohua's character, he would not care about the results, even if it would affect the original plan. So at this point, Liu Mingzhang had already thought about changing the original plan.

"I will mobilize the funds that have been arranged first, and then invest them in the layout after this is accomplished." Liu Mingzhang made up his mind and put forward his suggestions.

However, would Lu Shaohua disrupt his plans for the Asian countries just to acquire the shares of the four companies? The answer is obvious. Considering how seriously Lu Shaohua took the 97 Asian financial crisis, how could he lose the big picture for the small?

"That's not necessary." Lu Shaohua rejected Liu Mingzhang's suggestion to change the plan, then looked at Li Zongen and asked, "Zongen, how is your little fight going?"

"It's okay. We are now ready to scale back. We want to gather all the funds and invest them in the layout." Li Zongen expressed his plan.

"Yes." Lu Shaohua nodded. According to the plan at the time, Li Zongen should have gathered the funds. However, when faced with such a situation, Lu Shaohua had to make a small change to the plan and asked, "How much funds have you gathered?"

Asking about the total amount of funds already reveals Lu Shaohua's plan, which is to postpone the investment in the layout, gather the funds first, fight this battle well, and then return the funds and reinvest in the layout of Asian countries.

Li Zongen also understood what Lu Shaohua meant, nodded heavily, and said truthfully, "About 320 million US dollars."

Thirty billion US dollars may seem like a lot, but it is clearly not enough to deal with four large companies. After all, the stock market is not the same as the real world. To give an example, if you want to acquire an unlisted company with a market value of $10 billion, you only need to pay $10 billion or less to acquire it. However, the same cannot be said for a $10 billion listed company. You cannot use $10 billion to acquire a company on the stock market. Otherwise, the acquisition may fail and you may be stuck with it.

Lu Shaohua did not pay attention to the current market value of those four companies, but their market value should be several billion dollars or even hundreds of billions of dollars. However, his own funds are only 32 billion US dollars, which seems a bit insufficient to deal with four companies at the same time.

This is what Liu Mingzhang thought. He believed that 32 billion US dollars was too little. After all, the stock prices of the four companies were rising steadily. It would cost a lot of money to suppress the stock prices, not to mention the final acquisition.

"32 billion US dollars is too little. I roughly estimate that to deal with four companies at the same time, we will need at least 60 billion US dollars. Only in this way can we have an absolute advantage." Liu Mingzhang said helplessly.

Hearing this, Lu Shaohua smiled faintly, and did not refute Liu Mingzhang's statement, but asked a question that was irrelevant to the topic. "If you were asked to do it, what method would you choose? Well, tell us and express your opinions."

"The most primitive method is to raise their stock price to absorb enough stocks, then release the stocks to suppress the stock price, and finally make acquisitions to purchase the most shares with the smallest amount of funds." Li Yunqing was the first to speak as soon as Lu Shaohua finished speaking.

"Same." Li Zongen agreed with Li Yunqing's plan.

"Me too." Liu Mingzhang agreed.

Hearing this, Lu Shaohua smiled faintly, as if he had expected this, and then said, "According to your method, I think the most expensive part is to raise the stock price and absorb the goods, right?"

Lu Shaohua is not a talent in finance, but he is a reborn person and has been in the business world for so many years. Naturally, he knows every detail in it, so he asked this question.

"Indeed, the most money-wasting stage is the buying phase. After all, it is impossible to buy goods without raising the stock price, and we cannot buy their shares at a high price. We can only use this method to suppress the stock price and then buy shares." The person who answered this time was none other than Liu Mingzhang.

"If we could help you save the trouble of raising the stock price and allow you to directly lower the stock price, could you handle it with 32 billion US dollars?" Lu Shaohua asked with interest.

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No one spoke, and the scene was silent. The same went for Lu Shaohua. He didn't speak either, but looked at the three people with interest, watching their expressions change.

Liu Mingzhang and the other three were all confused at this time, but they suddenly came to their senses. At the same time, they also understood why Lu Shaohua did not continue the conversation but instead changed the subject and asked directly about their operating methods.

"Haha!" Liu Mingzhang laughed, but the smile on his face was uglier than the weapon. He sighed and said, "So you already had a plan. Why did you hide it from us? Hey!"

Liu Mingzhang's words expressed the thoughts of Li Zongen and Li Yunqing. They all looked at Lu Shaohua with eyes as if they wanted to eat him, and there was also a bit of contempt in their eyes, as if they were being played with.

"Ha ha!"

Lu Shaohua laughed loudly. In fact, he had gone through so much trouble just to test the three of them. Now the test was over. The solutions they came up with coincided with Lu Shaohua's, so Lu Shaohua had nothing to think about.

He stopped and began to give instructions for the next step, saying, "Zong En, when you go back later, gather all the funds and make sure it is completed by the morning of the day after tomorrow."

"clear."

"Mingzhang, you should also prepare yourself. Use an offshore company, deploy personnel, and make all preparations."

"Ok."

"Yunqing, you stay at your post and do nothing. Well, take over Mingzhang's work. He probably won't have much time these days. He needs to keep an eye on the situation in various Asian countries."

"no problem."

"Okay, go back."

Finally, with Lu Shaohua's words "go back", the group was disbanded. However, outsiders did not know that Phoenix Financial, a subsidiary of Phoenix Group, was mobilizing its forces and officially launched a takeover war against Microsoft, IBM, Dell and Apple.