The flight Elon Musk took arrived at Yanjing Capital Airport at 2 a.m. Yanjing time.

This time, there was only one Chinese female translator who came to China with Elon Musk. In addition, Elon Musk did not bring any paypal staff.

A driver of the Makino Technology fleet, a businessman of the company, and a public relations officer picked up the plane at the airport and sent Elon Musk and his translator to the hotel he booked in advance.

When I settled in the hotel room, it was 3:10 in the morning. Because I had a sleep on the plane, Elon Musk was very energetic now, so he used his portable laptop to connect to the hotel's network and chatted with his partner Peter Thiel, who was far away in Silicon Valley, through yy video.

It was 12:10 noon in San Francisco time. Peter Til didn't even have time to eat rice, so he first had a video call with Elon Musk to communicate the specific details of this "friendly collision".

Peter Thiel said: "After you got on the plane, I started to release news. This morning, many Internet media released news. Now the entire Silicon Valley knows that you have gone to China and knows that you are going to meet Li Mu."

Elon Musk asked him: "Did ebay contact you?"

Peter Thiel said: "Not yet, I think they are paying close attention, but they shouldn't take the initiative to speak until there is no definite news."

Elon Musk looked at the time and said, "The meeting time between Li Mu and I was 10 a.m. and 5 p.m., and I had an open lunch and a private dinner. I just heard from the business staff of Muye Technology that there should be Chinese media interviews for tomorrow's lunch."

Peter Thiel immediately asked excitedly: "Is that true?! Li Mu invited the Chinese media?"

Elon Musk nodded: "This is what the business staff of Makino Technology said, and it should not be wrong."

"That's great!" Peter Thiel laughed and said, "If Li Mu took the initiative to release the meeting with you, it would be even more beneficial to us! At that time, I will let the domestic media report and the Chinese media report, which will definitely push the momentum of meeting you two higher. At that time, I believe ebay will feel unprecedented pressure! This is really great news!"

Elon Musk smiled and said, "Yes, I didn't expect that Li Mu would invite the media to attend. In this way, the rest of the matter will be left to you and ebay to meet. It would be best to increase our valuation by 15-20%!"

Peter Thiel nodded and said with a reminder look: "By the way, when you meet Li Mu, you must be as humble as possible. Although you are trying to use Li Mu to stimulate eBay to offer higher prices this time, don't let Li Mu see it, otherwise we may have another enemy in the future."

Elon Musk immediately said: "Don't worry, I will handle this."

"That's good." Peter Thiel smiled and said, "It's less than seven hours before you meet. I think you should hurry up and rest, first accumulate your energy, and then meet Li Mu. Although he will not be able to acquire Paypal, maintaining a good personal relationship with him will also be of great benefit to us in the future."

Elon Musk laughed and said, "Of course, you go to have a meal quickly, I'll take a shower and lie down for a while."

"Ok!"

...

At 9:30 the next morning, Li Mu arrived at Muye Technology on time. When he arrived at Muye Technology, the convoy of Muye Technology had just set off and went to the hotel where Elon Musk stayed to pick him up to meet Li Mu.

Before Elon Musk came, Li Mu called Lin Qingya and yynet editor-in-chief Wang Nan to his office and confirmed their work arrangements with them in advance.

First of all, Lin Qingya, Li Mu asked her to communicate with all the invited media. The interview is interview and the shooting is shooting, but how to write and publish the press release, Muye Technology still needs to set the tone. If any media publishes the article without authorization, the cooperation will be permanently terminated in the future.

The second is Wang Nan's side. YY.com will start tracking and reporting Elon Musk's visit to China this morning. No matter how the report is written, the tone must be: Elon Musk goes to China and pays homage to Makino Technology in advance.

In addition, Li Mu also asked Lin Qingya to contact ebay headquarters in advance. Once the talks with Elon Musk collapsed, Elon Musk was unwilling to let Muye Technology and ebay jointly invest in paypal, then Lin Qingya would contact ebay directly and clearly told them that he had no idea of ​​acquiring paypal, so that they would not have misjudgments.

In short, if Li Mu can't get into Paypal's car this time, he will never let Elon Musk take any benefits directly or indirectly from him. The ultimate goal is to make him agree to join him in promoting the plan of ebay and Muye Technology to jointly invest in Paypal.

The Makino Technology's fleet strictly followed the scheduled time and slowly carried Elon Musk and his accompanying translator to Makino Technology.

Li Mu did not go out to greet him, but sat upright in his office, waiting for Elon Musk to come to visit.

For Li Mu, although Elon Musk is a very powerful figure, his strength is much worse than himself at present, and he definitely has no reason to welcome him.

Lin Qingya personally brought Elon Musk and the translator to Li Mu's office. When Elon Musk appeared behind Lin Qingya and stepped into Li Mu's office, Li Mu felt nervous for a moment, but after a moment, the tension disappeared because Li Mu could see that Elon Musk was really nervous.

Elon Musk came in and saw Li Mu, nervous and excited. After Lin Qingya introduced him, he stepped towards Li Mu, who was sitting in an office chair. Not only was he smiling, but Li Mu could see from the moment he took a step, he did not participate in the swaying arm. It seemed that he was ready to shake hands with him.

Li Mu stood up slowly at this time and did not rush to go out of the desk, but waited for Elon Musk to arrive.

Through the wide desk, Elon Musk stretched out his hand to Li Mu excitedly and said in a less skillful Chinese: "Hello, Mr. Li!"

Li Mu was a little surprised, but when he saw the Chinese girl following Elon Musk, he probably realized that this might be a greeting that Elon Musk had learned specifically to see him.

So Li Mu smiled slightly and said to him in Chinese: "Hello, Mr. Musk."

After saying this, Li Mu came out of his desk, pointed to the sofa in the reception area, and said to him: "Please here."

Li Mu is very good at English. He has accumulated over the past ten years in his previous life. There is definitely no problem in talking to Elon Musk directly in English. However, Li Mu feels that this is not when he shows his English speaking ability in front of Elon Musk. As the host, as the object of Elon Musk's "friendly collision", he is higher than his identity and momentum. If he speaks English to him at this time, wouldn't it be too shameful for him?

So, Li Mu had already made up his mind that he would not speak a word of English when he met Elon Musk today.

Elon Musk's female translator whispered to translate a sentence behind him, so Elon Musk hurriedly nodded to Li Mu and thanked him. Then he followed Li Mu to the sofa in the reception area and sat opposite the two of them.

Li Mu did not arrange for an interpreter, but just asked Lin Qingya to stay here to listen. With Elon Musk and his translator, both sides were two people, one man and one woman, and they looked a little more harmonious.

As soon as Elon Musk sat down, he said to Li Mu in English: "Mr. Li, I have heard of your name for a long time. It is a great honor for me to meet you here today."

After the accompanying translation was instantly translated into Chinese, Li Mucai smiled and said, "Mr. Musk, don't be so polite. Although I have not been to the United States yet, as an Internet practitioner, I really hope to make friends with more Silicon Valley elites."

Li Mu did not say that he had long admired Elon Musk's name, nor even said that he had heard of him or was equally honored to see him, but said that he was quite interested in making friends with him like "Silicon Valley business", and to some extent, he was also drawing a hierarchical boundary with Elon Musk.

For Elon Musk, Li Mu achieved such a success at the age of 20, and was not on the same level as himself, so he didn't feel anything wrong with Li Mu's way of speaking. He continued to use words he had prepared long ago and flattered: "Your company's yy has achieved extremely amazing achievements in the United States in a short period of time. This is really impressive. Now yy has become a must-have office software for the entire United States and even the entire Western elite. I believe yy's future prospects will be limitless!"

Li Mu nodded slightly and said with a smile: "Yy's ability to achieve such a good situation is inseparable from the strong support of Paypal. As the largest online payment channel in Western society, Paypal's future will definitely be very broad."

Elon Musk smiled humbly and said: "Compared with paypal, there is still a big gap in product functions, design concepts, technical difficulties and future development space."

Li Mu smiled unanimously and said, "There are huge differences in the nature and positioning of the two products, just like tires and engines. There is no need to compare the two. As long as they can better cooperate with each other, they can complement each other and develop together."

Elon Musk agreed with Li Mu's metaphor very much and exclaimed: "Mr. Li's metaphor is too appropriate. Paypal and yy are like tires and engines. They should cooperate with each other so that we can all have greater room for development."

Li Mu nodded and asked him: "I don't know what is the main purpose of Mr. Musk's trip to China and Muye Technology this time?"

As soon as Elon Musk hesitated, he expressed his purpose of the trip: "Mr. Li, I am here this time because I hope Paypal can have a deeper cooperation with YY and Makino Technology."

Li Mu asked him with great interest: "What is the deeper cooperation?"

Elon Musk said: "At the capital level, because we are considering taking paypal recently, I think yy's global strategy in the future must be inseparable from the full support of paypal, such as paypal, so I hope Mr. Li can consider whether he is interested in acquiring paypal."

After saying this, Elon Musk looked at Li Mu nervously. What he feared most was that Li Mu directly said he refused. Li Mu had already arranged an interview with Chinese media at noon. If he directly refused his intention to sell, he might be conveyed by Chinese media at noon. In that case, once it reached ebay's ears, his "friendly collision" plan would not have much room for development.
Chapter completed!