Chapter 452 Know Yourself and Know Your Enemy

On the afternoon of February 8, company employees who flew to Shanghai from the United States arrived one after another.

Because the cooperation between APEX and Changhong needed to be separated through a contract, Fang Zhuo directly set up an independent third-party company in New York to complete various legal procedures.

However, the people who needed to go to Changhong for a meeting today have not yet arrived. The vice president of Walmart's channel supply who was found through personal connections will not arrive until tomorrow.

The board meeting on the 10th of Changhong is at 3 pm. Fang Zhuo has scheduled a flight to Chengdu on the evening of the 9th or the morning of the 10th. The route weather in these two time periods has been checked and is suitable for flying.

That night, just as Fang Zhuo was considering his statement to Lao Ni after the board meeting, IDG's Xiong Xiaoge called in.

"Mr. Fang, I just found out that you were on the "News Broadcast", so I called to mock you."

Fang Zhuo felt puzzled: "Mockery? Old Xiong, are you crazy?"

"You, the richest man in mainland China, said in the news that you don't know how to talk to venture capital. You must not know that Peking University Guanghua School of Management has included the Sina acquisition case and the Guahao.com financing case in its textbooks!" Xiong Xiaoge laughed, "Someone still knows about President Fang's bad behavior!"

Fang Zhuo's thoughts turned slightly, oh, Old Xiong must have come to mock him as soon as he knew about such a textbook.

He smiled and said, "Is there any problem with this? Lao Xiong, you all misunderstood me."

"It was because I didn't know how to talk to investment institutions at the beginning, so..."

"So, I might have been a little too aggressive at that time, and some of my actions may have caused harm to you. I say this with full of apologies. Now, after training, I can already grasp the balance of everyone."

"The redemption of medical shares is my compensation for realizing this."

"Lao Xiong, think about it, isn't it?"

Xiong Xiaoge was stunned.

This, this is how you understand it?

It hurts because you don't understand, and now you have become gentle and elegant after understanding?

Pah!

Fang Zhuo continued to sigh: "Lao Xiong, I'm not saying anything bad about you, it's because you don't understand the meaning behind the words that you always misunderstand me. As for you investors, don't think that I don't do the project well. I want to see the project succeed more than any of you."

"Anyone who hinders the success of the project, whether it's investors or affiliated companies, don't blame me for being rude."

Xiong Xiaoge was speechless.

Fang Zhuo added: "Of course, it's all within the scope of reasonable commercial competition."

Xiong Xiaoge recovered and complained: "Mr. Fang, you might as well not add this sentence."

"I'm still afraid that you will misunderstand me, Lao Xiong. Prejudice is a mountain in people's hearts." Fang Zhuo persuaded, "If you don't look at me with tinted glasses, I won't have so many concerns."

The phone call ended.

Xiong Xiaoge was dazed for a while, and suddenly realized that he had witnessed Fang Zhuo's arrogance with his own eyes!

But is seeing the truth?

Xiong Xiaoge fell into deep thought.

On the other side, Fang Zhuo asked his assistant to find a textbook from Peking University Guanghua without hesitation, wanting to see how it described Sina's acquisition and Guahao.com's financing.

After taking a look, it was not disappointing, but it was also unsatisfactory.

The tone of the textbook description is relatively objective, but some tacit understandings known only to the parties involved make the logic of some details far-fetched, and can only be attributed to business phenomena or personal charm.

Fang Zhuo put down the latest version of the textbook, knowing that these would probably become a small fog in the history of domestic business development.

But who cares?

Fang Zhuo shook his head and picked up a stack of information again, which was an analysis of Changhong's possible successor corporate leaders.

Among them, Zhao Yong is the most important one. He is now the deputy leader of the prefecture-level city of Fucheng, which is also the city where Changhong's headquarters is located.

But not only that, he graduated from Tsinghua University, joined Changhong in 1993, and was pushed to the front in 2000 to take over Ni Runfeng, who was out of management at that time, and became the general manager of the listed company.

He is in his prime, has corporate qualifications, administrative connections, and has briefly served as the top leader of the company.

Fang Zhuo browsed Zhao Yong's information, thought for half an hour, picked up the phone and called the assistant's number, and ordered: "Sort out all the decisions made by Zhao Yong from Fucheng during his tenure as general manager of Changhong, and give them to me immediately after sorting them out, don't wait."

Zhao Yong served as the general manager of Changhong for 10 months, and the decisions made during this period are enough to analyze this person and his ideas about the company.

As the saying goes, knowing yourself and knowing your enemy, you can fight a hundred battles without danger.

This is Fang Zhuo's experience in maneuvering in the board of directors.

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February 10.

At 1 pm, Zhao Yong and Changhong's Southwest Regional Director Zhong Jiexin had lunch together to make final preparations for the board of directors at 3 o'clock.

Changhong's sales division area was a reform made by Zhao Yong when he was the general manager of Changhong. Later, Ni Runfeng took over again and this deployment was destroyed, but part of it continued.

Zhong Jiexin is the remaining regional director, and he is also Zhao Yong's confidant in Changhong.

Since Zhao Yong left Changhong and entered Fucheng to take up an administrative position, a lot of information in the company was learned through this regional director.

Of course, Zhao Yong has more than one channel, and many of his direct descendants are still in important positions.

Three years.

Three years.

Finally, the day of completing the battle has come.

Zhao Yong and Zhong Jiexin talked, and his heart became calmer. The three years of administrative career also trained him to cultivate his qi. Moreover, there was no possibility of Ni Runfeng turning the tables today. The afternoon board meeting was called a board meeting, but in fact, there would be many executives of Changhong.

This meeting was more of a formal announcement than a palace coup.

Changhong Electric is a listed company. The absolute majority shareholder Changhong Group owns 53.63% of the shares. The group has been quite dissatisfied with the company's business under Ni Runfeng's management and is willing to adjust the position. Now seeing this public backlash, the result is doomed.

At 2:30 in the afternoon, two cars slowly stopped at the door of the hotel where the board of directors was held.

Zhao Yong and several senior executives of Changhong Electric have arrived.

"Today is indeed a good day. I saw the magpie again."

Zhao Yong has always seen magpies these days. He heard the chirping sound again before the meeting today and thought it was a good sign.

He laughed before entering the hotel: "It seems that everything will go smoothly this afternoon."

A few people chatted and laughed, walked into the hotel, and took the elevator to the conference room on the third floor.

The leaders of the state-owned assets and the group have not arrived yet, but many executives of Changhong Electric who received the notice have arrived one after another. Some of them received the notice suddenly, and some of them knew about this matter last night.

In Zhao Yong's view, these middle and senior management are all forces that can be won over. They don't need to say anything. Just their silence on the current situation of the company is enough to let the leaders know that the situation is serious.

At 2:50, four leaders of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission and the group walked into the conference room.

Zhao Yong greeted them neither servilely nor arrogantly, while the leaders were slightly warmer.

This scene was seen by the executives of Changhong Electric.

At 3 o'clock, as the door of the conference room was pushed open, Ni Runfeng and two company assistants walked in.

He was stunned when he looked at the conference room that obviously exceeded the number of directors.

"Sit down, Mr. Ni." Mu Wenrui, vice chairman of Changhong Group, saw Ni Runfeng stop and greeted him calmly.

Ni Runfeng frowned slightly, and couldn't help sighing at this unexpected meeting scene.

Mr. Fang should have arrived, but he couldn't be contacted. He said there would be the latest news about APEX, but even if there was new news, it would be useless now.

Ni Runfeng sat down at his seat and saw Zhao Yong opposite him, and understood who was behind the situation today.

"Mr. Ni, long time no see." Zhao Yong said softly.

Ni Runfeng looked around the conference room, looked at Zhao Yong again, did not respond, and only looked at the four leaders in the main seat silently.

Zhao Yong didn't care. In fact, Mr. Ni's sigh after entering the door symbolized that the dust had settled.