Chapter 49 Help, Invest
While sleeping in a daze, Chen Zhihua suddenly felt someone patting his shoulder, and he immediately woke up from his sleep. He raised his head and looked at the person who patted him. It turned out to be the drunk man. He looked at him with gratitude, and when he saw him wake up, he knelt down and kowtowed, and said a few words loudly in Korean.
Chen Zhihua didn't know when the drunkard woke up, nor who he was, but from what he meant, Chen Zhihua understood that he was grateful for his life-saving grace. Of course, Chen Zhihua saved people not for the gratitude of others, but when he saw the drunkard's appearance and heard his words, Chen Zhihua felt that everything he did last night was worth it, after all, the other party was not a cold person.
Chen Zhihua looked at the man and saw that he had a five-short figure unique to Koreans, a national face and small eyes. Although he had some black bruises on his face, he looked like this and was still a handsome talent.
"You're welcome, it's just a slight effort!" Chen Zhihua said to the other party in a stiff manner, "It's fine if you're fine."
The drunk man was stunned for a moment, and he didn't expect that Chen Zhihua was not a Korean. However, he immediately came to his senses, said thank you again, and then asked Chen Zhihua: "What do you call you, sir?"
"My surname is Chen, and my name is Zhihua!"
"Oh, it's Mr. Chen, thank you, Mr. Chen." He paused slightly, and stood at attention and said to Chen Zhihua: "Mr. Chen, my name is Li Yuanzhe, please give me some advice!" While speaking, Jin Li Yuanzhe nodded formally to Chen Zhihua, which was to thank Chen Zhihua.
The Koreans are really serious about etiquette. After saying these few words, Li Yuanzhe kowtowed and nodded, and thanked Chen Zhihua three times in a row. Chen Zhihua waved his hand a little embarrassedly, indicating that he didn't have to be so polite.
"Mr. Chen, are you Chinese?" Li Yuanzhe looked at Chen Zhihua a few times and said, "I'm sorry, I asked abruptly. I heard from my accent that Mr. Chen seems to be Chinese."
Chen Zhihua nodded and said, "I came to South Korea from China to travel."
"Can I come to Korea for a trip? I can drive you..." After a pause, Li Yuanzhe smiled bitterly and said, "I almost forgot. After today, I have nothing. I am so sorry Mr. Chen, I can't take you everywhere and see the landlords."
Chen Zhihua asked curiously: "I don't know if Mr. Li has encountered any difficulties. If so, you might as well say it out and see if I can help you!"
"Mr. Chen, I appreciate your kindness, but..." Li Yuanzhe shook his head gently and said, "But no one can help with my affairs, because after today, the matter will be over."
"Mr. Li, don't you mind telling me about your affairs?" Chen Zhihua was stirred by Li Yuanzhe's words and couldn't help but say something to him again.
Li Yuanzhe was not very willing to mention his own affairs, but when he saw Chen Zhihua repeatedly requesting, he was embarrassed to refuse his savior again, so he could only tell the matter outright.
It turned out that Li Yuanzhe was the boss of a Korean online game company. He had studied at MIT in the United States. After returning to South Korea, he founded an online game company called Coordinates. After several years of development, their company has achieved great results in the development of online games and launched an online game called Dragon City War, which was well received by the entire online game industry. At this time, an investment bank from Japan, a venture capital investment bank from Ida, who came to Li Yuanzhe, posted an olive branch to Li Yuanzhe's coordinate online game company, saying that it would give coordinates a certain investment and try its best to help the coordinates package and list them in the United States.
Listing in the United States may be a common wish of all business people all over the world. This means that their own company has been recognized by the capital market. If it can be listed in the United States, the world financial center, the benefits and development that the company can get in the future will be huge. Under this mentality, the passionate Li Yuanzhe agreed to the investment plan of Jingtian Investment Bank without much consideration, allowing them to inject funds into the coordinate company, and successively recruit some managers sent by Jingtian one after another.
In the next six months, in order to realize the dream of going public, Li Yuanzhe followed many of the requirements for Jingtian Investment Bank. Later, he even handed over the source code for the entire Longcheng War game development to Jingtian Investment Bank. Jingtian Investment Bank called it the most powerful weapon to convince other international investors.
Just one month ago, Li Yuanzhe suddenly received a document letter from Jingtian Investment Bank, which said that he hoped that Li Yuanzhe could return the two million US dollars invested by Jingtian Investment Bank in coordinates and suspend the investment plan of the coordinates. Li Yuanzhe did not expect that Jingtian Investment would do this suddenly, so he hurriedly sought legal means to resolve the dispute. However, it was obvious that Jingtian Investment Bank had completely planned it. In the previous cooperation agreement signed by the two parties, Jingtian Investment Bank had indeed stipulated that it had the right to recover the investment, which made Li Yuanzhe and his coordinate game company completely in trouble on the spot. In the following time, Jingtian Investment Bank sent several letters to the coordinate company, roughly saying that if Li Yuanzhe could not afford the two million US dollars, the coordinate game company must belong to Jingtian Investment Bank.
Chen Zhihua listened quietly to Li Yuanzhe's painful narrative. Chen Zhihua frowned when he heard him handing over the source code of the game to the other party. The source code of the game is equivalent to the highest commercial secret of the entire coordinate game company. Although the two companies are working together, the game company is actually equivalent to handing over the lifeblood of its own money to the other party. In this way, even if Jingtian Investment cannot get the two million US dollars of investment back, it will actually make a profit.
"Mr. Li, your game source code has been given to the other party. Even if you get the company back with two million US dollars, you will immediately fall into trouble. So I advise you to give up!" Sometimes some things are like this. If a person makes a mistake by himself, he must bear it himself. Only in this way can people constantly summarize their experiences in the mistakes and become more mature.
Li Yuanzhe was worried about the fact that he owed two million US dollars. During this period, he kept borrowing money everywhere, preparing to get the company back no matter what. However, when he heard Chen Zhihua say this, he suddenly became discouraged. He finally woke up in an instant. Everything he did before was that he was unwilling to accept reality. Even if he really raised two million US dollars and returned it to Jingtian Investment Bank, the most important game source code had fallen into the hands of others, so the company still had no hope.
"What should I do?" Li Yuanzhe hugged his head in pain, squatting on the ground, only knowing how to murmur: "It's over, it's over, it's over..."
"Mr. Li, the only thing you can do now is to file for bankruptcy as soon as possible." Chen Zhihua frowned and said, "Only by filing for bankruptcy, you don't need to pay back the two million, and they can't get the coordinate company."
"Then..." Li Yuanzhe was stunned again when he heard Chen Zhihua's words, and after a while, he said: "If there is no coordinate company, what should I do?"
Chen Zhihua waved his hands and made a helpless expression and said, "This is also impossible. If you want to use two million to protect your coordinate company, it is better to use these two million to build a new company. This may be more realistic!" After a slightly paused, Chen Zhihua continued, "You must know that even if the ant nest collapses, as long as the ant is still there, you can still continue to build a nest in another place, so the important thing is the ant, not the ant nest."
Chen Zhihua's metaphor does feel a bit inconsistent in Li Yuanzhe's ears, but Li Yuanzhe was not in the mood to pay attention to these things at this time. For him, Chen Zhihua's words were like suddenly giving him hope, making him feel like he had caught a life-saving straw in drowning. After thinking for a while, he suddenly said dejectedly: "Mr. Chen, thank you very much for your suggestions. I will file for bankruptcy immediately, but I no longer have the ability to raise money to start another company."
Chen Zhihua also pondered for a while, and suddenly said to Li Yuanzhe: "Mr. Li, if you ask you to build another company again, are you confident that you will do it better than before?"
Indeed, losing a game that took a lot of effort to make both Li Yuanzhe and the coordinate company suffered a great blow. However, when Li Yuanzhe heard Chen Zhihua's question, he almost subconsciously gritted his teeth and replied: "I can, I will definitely be able to make a better game than before!"
Chen Zhihua quietly looked at the firm expression on Li Yuanzhe's face, nodded and said, "Okay, Mr. Li, you go and file for bankruptcy now, and then..." While speaking, Chen Zhihua wrote down the hotel room number and phone number in his pen, handed it to Li Yuanzhe and said, "Mr. Li, after you have done everything, come here to find me. I am willing to have a good talk with you!"
Li Yuanzhe didn't know who Chen Zhihua was, but from the conversations he had been with him, he felt in his heart that the young man in front of him felt that he was not an ordinary person, so he respectfully took Chen Zhihua's address and phone number, nodded and agreed.
The two of them went through the discharge procedures. Because Li Yuanzhe was penniless, he could only feel guilty and gratefully accepted Chen Zhihua's funding for him this time. Then, after saying goodbye to Chen Zhihua in a hurry, he went to the relevant department to apply for his bankruptcy application.
Chen Zhihua rushed back to the hotel, Zhou Xiangjun and the others were still sleeping. After the previous incident, Chen Zhihua lost all sleepiness. He turned on the computer and searched the information of Inoue Investment Bank and the coordinate game company online. If you don’t check, it turned out that the games made by this coordinate game company are really very popular in the market. On several large game websites in South Korea, the Dragon City War ranked first on the most popular game ranking list for several consecutive months, almost becoming an online game that dominated the entire market. The Ida Investment Bank is an investment bank in Japan, but its business scope is very wide. It is said that it has a background of the underworld. Rumors of their money laundering were leaked in Japan, but the police have never been able to come up with any evidence, so it was left alone.
After reading this information, Chen Zhihua probably had a little basic understanding of the matter of the coordinate game company. Li Yuanzhe, who came out to start a business as soon as he graduated, was probably a person who really knew how to make games, but he didn't quite understand the way capital operation was. Because of the recent rise of the coordinate game company, it was soon peeped at by some unscrupulous venture capital companies. Jingtian Investment Bank was obviously one of them. In the whole thing, Jingtian Investment Bank took advantage of Li Jiuzhe's lack of understanding of the capital market and set up a trap to let him jump in, thus forcing Li Yuanzhe to this current situation and obtain the source code of the Dragon City War. This approach is really inauthentic and a bit *. From this point of view, Chen Zhihua is very sympathetic to Li Yuanzhe's experience.
After confirming the authenticity of Li Yuanzhe's identity and the authenticity of what he said, Chen Zhihua began to think about an idea that emerged when he was talking to Li Yuanzhe: to help Li Yuanzhe get out of the predicament and invest money to let him open a new company.
According to Chen Zhihua's idea, Li Yuanzhe seems to be a person who can achieve success in the game field. It can be seen from his previous coordinate game making a popular game like Dragon City War. If he can make an investment in him, the possibility of getting a return is very high, especially when Li Yuanzhe is in trouble and reaches out to help him, then what he will get will not only be rewards, but also friendship.
Chen Zhihua thought about this issue very seriously. After Zhou Xiangjun and others woke up, he told them about the incident and used it to ask them for their opinions.
Zhou Xiangjun and Liu Xiaoyu are investment consultants of Morgan Stanley and are well-known in the capital operation of venture capital. After thinking about it, Liu Xiaoyu first said: "If Li Yuanzhe is really capable of making a new game better than the Dragon City War, then the current investment will certainly be very worth it. I am afraid that after this incident, he will not be able to maintain a normal mentality."
Chen Zhihua understood Liu Xiaoyu's concerns very well, but he also knew that venture capital would inevitably have risks. In the current situation, Chen Zhihua was very willing to take this risk.
"Since Li Yuanzhe can make a popular game, I think he has the ability to make the second one, not to mention that after applying for bankruptcy by Coordinates, he can bring all the employees of the company closer to the new company. As long as the original team continues to work hard, I believe that the opportunity to make a good new game is very great!" Zhou Xiangjun analyzed for Chen Zhihua, "This investment is definitely over-made, and the risk is also very low. You can try it."
After hearing Zhou Xiangjun's words, Chen Zhihua felt a sense of friendship. He couldn't help but smile and said to Zhou Xiangjun and Liu Xiaoyu: "Actually, I have always wanted to tell you that you might as well come to Yuanheng to help me. Although Yuanheng is not as famous as Morgan Stanley, I can definitely raise my salary higher than them."
Chen Zhihua's words immediately made Zhou Xiangjun and Liu Xiaoyu feel a little moved. After getting along with Chen Zhihua for a while, they all knew Chen Zhihua's character and also liked the feeling of doing things with Chen Zhihua. However, they could not make this decision for a while, so after the two of them smiled at each other, they didn't say anything else.
Chen Zhihua also understood the thoughts of Zhou Xiangjun and Liu Xiaoyu. Since they had not made any decision, they could not continue to talk about this matter, so they continued to change the topic and asked about some details that need to be paid attention to in the capital operation of venture capital. Zhou Xiangjun and Liu Xiaoyu are both very experienced in this regard. Although they cannot disclose the specific operation methods of Morgan Stanley, they still gave Chen Zhihua a lot of useful opinions, which benefited Chen Zhihua very much.
On that day, Chen Zhihua did not attend the itinerary arranged by the tour group, but just stayed in the hotel alone, waiting for Li Yuanzhe to arrive. It was not until the evening that Li Yuanzhe dragged his tired body to Chen Zhihua's room. Chen Zhihua saw him look depressed, and of course he knew that he must be very unhappy in his heart, so he smiled and said, "Mr. Li, you don't need this. There is an old saying in China that is, 'Give me a mistake and gain wisdom'. That is to say, only by summarizing experience in a fall can a person become smarter in the future. Although your current situation is not good, this experience will be a very valuable asset for you in the future!"
Hearing Chen Zhihua's words, Li Yuanzhe immediately cheered up a little and said, "Mr. Chen, thank you for your encouragement. I will never forget your great kindness to me in this life."
Chen Zhihua thought for a while and said, "Mr. Li, this is actually the case. I thought about it for a long time and decided to invest money in you. I wonder if Mr. Li still has the courage to open a new company?"
Li Yuanzhe was stunned for a moment, then came to his senses, and said with a joyful expression: "Mr. Chen, are you talking about it true? I'm not in a dream, aren't I?"
"Mr. Li, maybe I know very little about you, but after listening to your experience, I think Mr. Li, you are a person I can trust." Chen Zhihua smiled faintly, "If Mr. Li is confident that he can do better than before, then I am really interested in taking this risk and seeing if I have seen the wrong person!"
Chapter completed!