Author: Linjiangxian

Ji Qi returned home in despair, with the conversation with Lu Yiming just now echoing in his mind. He hardly slept at night, so that when he returned to the company for a meeting the next day, he was not energetic and was distracted several times.

Seeing this, Liang Jianzhang asked: "What's wrong with you? Are you feeling unwell? You've been working too hard recently, why don't you go home and rest for a few days."

Ji Qi yawned and said, "It's okay, just continue with the meeting and don't worry about me."

After more than an hour, the meeting finally ended, and after everyone had dispersed, Ji Qi found Liang Jianzhang and said, "Mr. Liang, I do have something that I want you to help me with."

Liang Jianzhang still thought highly of this capable entrepreneurial partner. He immediately smiled and said, "Oh? What's the matter?"

Ji Qi said: "According to the company's strategic plan, we will go public in the United States in the future, right? If the listing is successful, will the seats on the board of directors change?"

The expression on Liang Jianzhang's face changed slightly and he asked: "Why do you suddenly ask about this?"

Ji Qi's face was calm, making it unclear what his inner thoughts were: "I just suddenly thought of it, so I asked."

Although the words were euphemistic, they were actually testing whether Liang Jianzhang knew about it and whether he really intended to burn bridges and kick him out of the company's board of directors.

As expected, Liang Jianzhang, who was "surprised", sounded a little evasive and said ambiguously: "Well, after the company is listed, the board of directors will definitely change accordingly. After all, the capital will enter the market, but you don't have to worry, these changes are normal.

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In the past, Ji Qi would not have thought about this. Even if he had thought about it, he was relieved when Liang Jianzhang said this. But after all, Lu Yiming had analyzed the root cause with him, so he would not be easily dismissed.

Fooled, he asked: "Is that so?"

Liang Jianzhang said seriously: "Of course, we have known each other for so many years and started a business together, can I still lie to you?"

Then, he persuaded again: "I don't know why you suddenly thought of this. I think you haven't had a good rest. You go back and have a good rest. If you have any questions, it won't be too late to talk about it after you have recovered."

After Ji Qi left the company, Liang Jianzhang looked sadly and picked up his cell phone to call Shen Nanpeng.

Afterwards, the two met in the coffee shop downstairs of the company.

Shen Nanpeng asked curiously: "Why did you suddenly call me to invite me for coffee? Shouldn't this be an evening event?"

Liang Jianzhang said: "Ji Qi has become suspicious. This morning, he asked me about the changes in board members after the company went public."

Shen Nanpeng was a little surprised and asked, "Why did he suddenly think of asking this?"

Liang Jianzhang said depressedly: "How do I know?"

"Old Shen, do we really have to kick Lao Ji out? Ctrip has been able to develop so smoothly in the past two years because of Lao Ji's great efforts."

In terms of friendship, Liang Jianzhang met Shen Nanpeng when he was thirteen years old, so compared to Ji Qi, the two of them are die-hard allies among Ctrip's Four Gentlemen.

Therefore, only Ji Qi and Fan Min were kept in the dark about the company's plans after its listing, while Liang Jianzhang himself was one of the insiders.

Shen Nanpeng shrugged slightly and said, "It's not that I want to kick him out, but that capital wants to kick him out. What can I do?"

He has been playing with capital for so many years, and has long been accustomed to this kind of thing. Capitalists will not talk about feelings with you, everything is based on profit.

Liang Jianzhang was different from Shen Nanpeng in that he was not engaged in finance, so he was inevitably a little conflicted about this kind of trivial matter, and he sighed heavily when he heard this.

Seeing Liang Jianzhang's appearance, Shen Nanpeng quickly persuaded him: "Old Liang, we have been friends for so many years, so I would like to remind you not to fight against capital. If Ctrip wants to have a better future, it must embrace Capital, many times in order to get something, we have to give up something, do you understand?"

Zhonghai, Lujia Garden.

Lu Yiming sat in the study room, looking at the information collected in his hands.

Li Yiwen was also there. He saw Ji Qi's photo and resume and curiously asked Lu Yiming: "You seem to be very optimistic about him?"

Lu Yiming smiled and said: "Of course, this person can be said to be an entrepreneurial genius."

If someone who has successively founded three billion-dollar unicorn companies is not an entrepreneurial genius, then there will be no genius in the world.

There is no doubt that Ji Qi has an extremely keen vision in the business field, his judgment is accurate, and he is a vigorous and resolute activist.

It's a pity that as an entrepreneur, Ji Qi is successful, but when facing capital, he is a complete loser.

He started a business three times and was eliminated twice. He did not understand equity design and was completely manipulated by capital. The country he worked so hard to build was in vain as a wedding dress for others.

Of course, Li Yiwen didn't know this.

He had some doubts about Lu Yiming's repeated tactics of internal estrangement and direct poaching of Ji Qi.

"I think you are a little too whimsical this time. The reputation of the Four Gentlemen of Ctrip is not small in the industry. You actually want Ji Qi to change jobs and leave Ctrip, the company he founded? Isn't this impossible?"

Putting aside personal feelings, although Ctrip's development is not booming now, it is still smooth sailing. When the time comes, we will introduce Wall Street capital and go public in the United States, and we can make a lot of money no matter what. If we change jobs now, wouldn't we be a fool?

Asking himself, Li Yiwen felt that if he were Ji Qi, he would not do such a stupid thing.

Lu Yiming smiled and said: "As long as the price is set high enough, there will be no invincible thunderstorm in the world, not to mention that Ctrip is not a monolith. I have told you a long time ago that businessmen can have a bottom line, but they must not act out of emotion."

Li Yiwen retorted: "But you always act out of emotion."

If nothing else, let’s just talk about the recent times. When I saw Li Jiahuang’s eel scam, I couldn’t bear that the people were deceived into losing their money, so I squeezed Li Jiahuang and others away and took over the business myself.

Although according to Lu Yiming, he saw that there is money to be made in cultivating eels. But in Li Yiwen's view, all Lu Yiming's previous investments were in the direction of high technology and the Internet, and he had never been exposed to the aquaculture industry or rural areas. If this matter had not been He doesn't believe in selfishness.

Lu Yiming said lightly: "I never think that I am a businessman."

Li Yiwen raised his eyebrows and said, "Then what are you?"

Lu Yiming said: "According to Chen Jinlan, I am a prophet."

"cut."

At this moment, Lu Yiming's cell phone rang.

The call was from Ji Qi. His tone of voice was a little depressed: "Mr. Lu, do you have time? Come out and have a chat?"

A victorious smile appeared on Lu Yiming's face and he said, "Have you thought it through?"

"Um."

Lu Yiming laughed loudly: "Then let's go to the place where we ate last time. We will talk about the rest when we meet."

After hanging up the phone, Lu Yiming shook the PHS phone in his hand and said to Li Yiwen: "Look, isn't this done?"

Li Yiwen asked: "Who called?"

"Ji Qi."

Li Yiwen suddenly became energetic and asked in surprise: "Why is he calling you? Is he really that idiot who finally made Ctrip public and ran away before making money?"

Lu Yiming smiled and said: "What kind of fool? He means seeing the situation clearly and stopping losses in time."

"What kind of ecstasy soup did you pour into Ji Qi? You actually broke up the combination of Ctrip's four gentlemen?"

Lu Yiming smiled proudly and said: "I was just telling him the facts and reasoning. It was not me who could convince him to change jobs, but the greed of capital."

Lu Yiming and Ji Qi met at the same place. Compared with the last time, Ji Qi was much less energetic at this time. He looked tired and haggard. It seemed that he had not been able to sleep well for many days.

In the past few days, while on vacation, Ji Qi privately consulted many financial professionals about Ctrip's equity structure, and the conclusions he reached made him very uncomfortable.

According to Ctrip's equity structure, the capital that holds a large amount of equity can replace the founder at any time if he wants.

And he has no countermeasures at all. For Ctrip, which he founded, he has changed from a co-founder to a dispensable senior wage earner.

Not only is the salary low, but the shares are only a few percent, and they will be diluted again before going public. By then, the company can say that it has nothing to do with him at all.

Ji Qi obviously couldn't accept this kind of thing.

The reason why he quit his job and started his own business was so that he would not work for others. As a result, after working for a long time, he became a worker again. Who can withstand this?

When Ji Qi came to see Lu Yiming this time, although his mental state was much worse, his eyes were firmer, because at this moment, he already had the consciousness to start over again.

Although he was deeply hit by the betrayal of his entrepreneurial partner, he was born in poverty and had already become as firm as iron under the hardships of life.

After Lu Yiming sat down, he said, "Mr. Ji, your mental state is not good. The dark circles under your eyes are so heavy. Isn't it because you are thinking about something and can't sleep?"

Facing Lu Yiming's slightly ridiculing words, Ji Qi said with a serious face: "Mr. Lu, I have thought clearly. I want to leave Ctrip and start a new business."

Lu Yiming smiled and said: "Then what is your new entrepreneurial direction? Is it to start a new company like Ctrip, and then defeat Ctrip to stage the return of the king?"

Ji Qi said: "I have this idea."

After all, life is all about fighting for publicity. Now that Ctrip is going to kick Ji Qi out, Ji Qi certainly wants to prove it to everyone.

Lu Yiming applauded: "You are ambitious! So how do you think your new company can compete with Ctrip?"

After pondering for a moment, Ji Qi expressed his thoughts.

"That's what I think. Now that Xia is reforming and opening up, even the negotiations to join the WTO have entered the final stage, so the business atmosphere in the future will definitely get better and better. As a result, there will be frequent personnel movements, business negotiations, and business trips.

Tourism, etc. The demand for food and accommodation will be very strong.”

"Ctrip is engaged in air ticket booking and hotel reservation services. I have contacted many hotels before. I think a cheap and fast hotel has broad development prospects."

"When people travel to other cities, they can't stay in a luxury hotel that costs several hundred yuan a room. Not every ordinary person can afford that."

"So, I plan to provide a cheap hotel accommodation service that ordinary people can afford."

I have to say that Ji Qi's vision is indeed unique.

As Xia State joined the WTO and gradually became the world's factory, the domestic economy developed at an alarming rate.

In this strong business atmosphere, whether you are a person doing business in other places, a corporate employee on a business trip, or a salaryman who has money and wants to travel, convenient and clean accommodation is indispensable.

In this field, domestic development is quite lagging behind. In addition to expensive large hotels, there are only various small hotels of varying quality.

Not only are the accommodation conditions in small hotels extremely poor, but in many cases they cannot even guarantee safety.
To be continued...