Chapter 50 Relief
Under Chen Zhihua's guidance, Li Yuanzhe has applied for bankruptcy to the court. However, although the bankruptcy has been filed, it still needs to wait for a while because the court needs to review Li Yuanzhe's bankruptcy application before giving the result. So this provides Li Yuanzhe with time so that he can persuade the employees of the coordinate company and prepare to open another new company.
"Mr. Li, if you want to open a new company, how much does it cost, but will I have a clear idea in my mind?" Chen Zhihua asked Li Yuanzhe. According to the current rate of Hong Kong dollar and Korean won 1 to 130, he had already been preparing to allocate 30 million Hong Kong dollars to invest in Li Yuanzhe's new company.
"When I founded the coordinates, I only had one million US dollars. Now if I need to maintain the company's operation for half a year to do development, it would be at least...at least 2.5 million!" After a slight pause, Li Yuanzhe glanced at Chen Zhihua and said, "But... but if I save a little, two million should be enough." In fact, what Li Yuanzhe mentioned refers to savings in some instruments and equipment. Although the work done by these instruments and equipment can be replaced by human resources, this will greatly increase the workload of employees of the entire company. However, Li Yuanzhe felt that it was enough to get Chen Zhihua's help, and he did not want to increase the burden on his benefactor, so he said that.
Chen Zhihua shook his head and said, "Mr. Li, I will help you this time because I want to be your eternal friend. But since I took out the money for investment, I certainly hope that you can do a good job in the company and use the money in necessary places!" Chen Zhihua went over and patted Li Yuanzhe on the shoulder and said, "Mr. Li, I will give you HK$30 million. I hope you can grasp it well and do a good job in the new company!"
Li Yuanzhe had not come back to his senses at the beginning, but he silently calculated the rate of Hong Kong dollar to Korean won, and immediately said in surprise: "Mr. Chen, no, no, I can't take that much money!"
Chen Zhihua smiled and said, "My money is not for nothing. I'm investing in you. In the future, I will have 51% of the shares in the new company. Are you willing to do this?" In fact, Chen Zhihua was a little worried that he would have a lot of shares in 51%, which made Li Yuanzhe dissatisfied. However, Chen Zhihua also noticed the recent boom in the Chinese online game market and was willing to develop in this regard, so he must have control over Li Yuanzhe's new company. In this way, if he really wants to enter the online game market in the future, it can be easier and more convenient to operate.
However, Chen Zhihua's concerns were obviously redundant. Li Yuanzhe had nothing at all, but suddenly he received Chen Zhihua's help and was completely grateful to Chen Zhihua. At this time, Chen Zhihua took out 30 million, and he knew very clearly that Chen Zhihua's help to him. Otherwise, Chen Zhihua would use the 30 million to open a new company, so Li Yuanzhe agreed readily without hesitation: "Mr. Chen, please don't worry, I can definitely run the new company well and will never let your expectations down."
Chen Zhihua nodded with satisfaction and said, "Okay, Mr. Li, I hope our future cooperation will be pleasant!"
After discussing this matter, Chen Zhihua learned about some related matters in the online game market from Li Yuanzhe. For Chen Zhihua, he didn't know much about the online game market, so since he was willing to invest in this area, it is obviously necessary to learn more about it.
The difference between South Korea's online game market and China is that they started early in online game development and the market is mature. In 2005 alone, the revenue of online games was US$630 million, accounting for 45.3% of the online game market share in the entire Asia-Pacific region (excluding Japan), which accounted for 31.4% of the global online game market in 2004. South Korea's reputation in the global online game market mainly comes from the popularity of large-scale multiplayer online role-playing games. According to the forecast of the US market consulting firm IDC, the revenue of the Korean online game market will grow to US$990 million by 2010. During the same period, the Asia-Pacific online game market will grow from the current US$1.4 billion to US$3.6 billion.
However, unlike the Japanese, American and European markets where video games dominate, South Korea is unique in online games powered by Internet cafes. China's online game market is somewhat similar to South Korea's in this regard. And because the market operation mode and market foundation are very similar, online games developed by some Korean companies in recent years have become extremely popular in China, and many Chinese game agents who represent Korean online games have made a lot of money.
The market cake of online games is slowly growing. If you can take this opportunity to get a share of the pie, the future returns will definitely be far more than the current 30 million. Chen Zhihua can already be sure of this, so he is more determined to take this risk and invest in Li Yuanzhe who is in trouble.
After Coordinate Game Company filed for bankruptcy, Li Yuanzhe quickly contacted his old subordinates and prepared to start a new company.
Two days later, just as Chen Zhihua and Li Yuanzhe were sitting in the hotel restaurant talking, several men wearing black suits suddenly came over. One of the shorter men sat down on a chair between Chen Zhihua and Li Yuanzhe, and said to Li Yuanzhe in a rather awkward Korean dialect: "Hello, Mr. Li!"
Li Yuanzhe was a little surprised at first. After seeing who was coming clearly, he frowned and said coldly: "Hello, Mr. Maedanaka Yoshi!"
Chen Zhihua didn't know who Maitanaka Yoshi was, but he vaguely felt that Li Yuanzhe and his atmosphere seemed a little strange, so he just sat aside and stopped talking. However, his eyes were often staring at the men brought by "Mr. Maitanaka Yoshi" from time to time to deal with the sudden situation.
"Mr. Li, I wonder what you are going to pay off the money you owed us?" Maedanaka Yoshihide first looked at Chen Zhihua, then looked at Li Yuanzhe with a smile and said, "You must know that the deadline for repaying the debt has passed. Does Mr. Li not plan to repay the debt?"
"Mr. Maitanaka Yoshi, because I really don't have the ability to repay the money, I have filed for bankruptcy in the court." Li Yuanzhe calmly told the other party, "Mr. Maitanaka Yoshi, I am really grateful for the matter this time, because you have learned a lot of things."
Mr. Maeda was slightly surprised. He never expected to get such a result, because before that, the Korean man in front of him, who was simply a fool in his heart, had been determined to raise money to protect his company, but he suddenly wanted to file for bankruptcy after not seeing him for a few days. It really made him a little confused and felt a little disappointed.
"Mr. Li, things are actually easy to discuss. Don't you want to keep your company?" Maedanaka Yoshi said tentatively to Li Yuanzhe: "If you are willing to transfer 85% of the company's shares to our Ida Investment Bank, then we can write off the debt of 2 million US dollars. Wouldn't this be good for everyone?"
Chen Zhihua understood at this time. Maedanaka Yoshi was a member of Ida Investment Bank. Although he didn't know what method they could find here, after hearing Maedanaka Yoshi shamelessly wanted to coordinate 85% of the company's shares as soon as he spoke, he couldn't help but sigh that he had just compared 51% of the new company's shares with him now, which was really a slim thing.
"You have obtained the source code of the Dragon City War. The coordinate company has no use value to you. In order not to repay this debt, I had no choice but to file for bankruptcy in the court." Li Yuanzhe suppressed his anger and said, "Mr. Maedanaka Yoshi, my cooperation with you has ended. Please leave. I have to talk to my friends about something."
According to the previous plan, Maedanaka Yoshi was originally planning to force Li Yuanzhe, who was determined to keep the coordinate game company, and then asked him to give up the equity of the coordinate game company. In this way, Ida Investment Bank only spent half a year and a small price of two million US dollars to completely control this very potential online game company. However, at this time, Li Yuanzhe didn't know what medicine he took, and suddenly changed his original intention and took the initiative to file for bankruptcy. This immediately made Maedanaka Yoshi feel that if it weren't for the fact that he still had such a popular game, Dragon City War, in his hand, everything he had done before would have been wasted.
"Mr. Li, are you really unwilling to repay this debt?" Maedanaka Yoshihide saw that he was so soft that he immediately changed his face, his face became a little hideous and said, "Mr. Li, you will really make me embarrassed if you do this. You must know that two million is not a small amount. This may really damage the friendship we only see!"
Maedanaka Yoshi's expression and his words were full of threat. Li Yuanzhe's face changed and he immediately wanted to stand up and scold, but Chen Zhihua saw his movements and quickly said in Japanese before him: "Hello, Mr. Maeda, it's your first time meeting, please give me some advice."
Maedanaka Yoshi was stunned for a moment and looked at Chen Zhihua with some confusion. Chen Zhihua's fluent Japanese made him unable to guess Chen Zhihua's identity for a while.
"Mr. Maeda, you have already obtained the game Dragon City War. Wouldn't it be great to end this thing like this?" After pausing slightly, Chen Zhihua held back his expression on his face and said in a deep voice: "If you do things too well, I'm afraid you won't even get Dragon City War."
"Who are you?" Maedanaka Yoshihide turned his eyes and stared at Chen Zhihua, "Hello, this is the first time I met, please give me some advice."
Chen Zhihua shook his head and said, "You don't need to know who I am, but I can tell you clearly that if you continue to force me, then Mr. Li can consider opening up the source code of the Dragon City War."
Maedanaka Yoshi was slightly surprised. He never expected Chen Zhihua to say this. You should know that if Li Yuanzhe really sacrificed everything and opened up the source code of the entire Dragon City War, Ida Investment Bank would really have no way to do it. Moreover, Ida Investment Bank did such a disgraceful thing and would never dare to show it out, otherwise he would not be able to gain a foothold in this industry in the future.
After pondering for a while, at this time, Maedanaka Yoshika finally realized that Li Yuanzhe's change seemed to be related to Chen Zhihua. He glanced at Chen Zhihua viciously, and secretly guessed in his heart what the person was from.
Because Maitanaka Yoshi wanted to force Li Yuanzhe to bow his head quickly, he had been sending people to search for Li Yuanzhe's whereabouts in the past two days. Finally, when Li Yuanzhe contacted some important employees in the coordinate company, he followed Li Yuanzhe to this hotel. However, Maitanaka Yoshi did not notice why Li Yuanzhe came to this hotel at all. It was not until this time that Chen Zhihua was the source of the change.
He stood up and bowed slightly, saying, "I'm glad to talk to you, goodbye!" Before he took two steps, Maedanaka Yoshi seemed not to give up and looked at him again, "Thank you for your advice, don't know if I can know your name?"
Chen Zhihua was not a person who had hidden his head and tail. After thinking about it, he said indifferently: "My name is Chen Zhihua!"
"Chen Zhihua..." Maedanaka Yoshimitsu said Chen Zhihua's name twice, then bowed again, and then hurriedly left with his subordinates.
Looking at Maedanaka Yoshihide's back, Chen Zhihua smiled and said, "These Japanese are really arrogant!"
Li Yuanzhe let out a sigh of relief and said with concern: "Mr. Chen, will this... cause you any trouble?"
"What trouble will I have?" Chen Zhihua showed a smile that made Li Yuanzhe feel at ease and said, "They will never dare to do anything randomly now, otherwise their two million US dollars will become waste. In this case, as long as they can find a good buyer and get rid of the Dragon City War as soon as possible, they can still make a big profit."
Li Yuanzhe felt a little relieved, but soon, he said a little indignantly: "It's a pity that we have developed the Dragon City War game for so long. If I weren't that stupid at the beginning, things wouldn't have come to this point!"
"Mr. Li, just treat it as a lesson, or experience!" Chen Zhihua patted Li Yuanzhe on the shoulder and encouraged him, "You still have a chance. With previous development experience, I believe that your new game will be better and the new company will be better." After a slightly paused, Chen Zhihua asked Li Yuanzhe: "In fact, when the coordinates file for bankruptcy, the game will inevitably stop for a period of time, which will undoubtedly lead to the loss of users. Even if Jingtian Investment sells the game and reopens it, the game will not be popular now by then!"
"Yes, I didn't think of this before. I was just unwilling to accept it and wanted to get the company back!" Until now, Li Yuanzhe finally recovered from his previous decadent and frustrated mood. At this time, he would look at things more thoroughly, and he admired Chen Zhihua's vision and ability even more.
Chen Zhihua thought of something and asked: "Mr. Li, have you thought of the name of the new company?"
"Because I was able to start a new company after getting your kindness from China, so..." Li Yuanzhe looked at Chen Zhihua with gratitude and said, "So I am going to name the new company Zhongen Game."
"Okay, Mr. Li, you are really a person who values feelings. I am willing to be friends with someone like you for the rest of my life!"
While talking, the two people held their hands tightly together, and they didn't let go for a long time...
Because Chen Zhihua has been with Li Yuanzhe for the past few days, he basically spent the entire trip to South Korea in hotels. Except for sometimes following Li Jiuzhe out on the street and trying authentic South Korean snacks, he didn't go to other places at all. Zhou Xiangjun and the others also knew Chen Zhihua's "diligence", so when he went to play every day, he would always bring some local specialties to Chen Zhihua so that Chen Zhihua could have souvenirs to share with his family and friends when he went back.
Before he knew it, seven days passed, and Chen Zhihua was about to leave South Korea. In the past few days, Chen Zhihua had transferred more than one million Hong Kong dollars from Yuanheng. After signing an agreement with the penniless Li Yuanzhe, he handed the money to Li Yuanzhe, asking him to start preparing for the establishment of the new company. Then he told Li Yuanzhe to go to Hong Kong as soon as possible to have a more detailed discussion with him, and after signing a formal contract, he would allocate the remaining funds to Li Yuanzhe.
Li Yuanzhe was grateful and followed Chen Zhihua and the others to the airport gate, and then he left reluctantly.
When the plane arrived in Hong Kong, Chen Zhihua asked Zhou Xiangjun and others to go back to Shenzhen first. He immediately returned home and told his grandfather and Zhang Li in detail about what he encountered in South Korea. Zhang Li and the old man had learned about some things from the long-distance phone call Chen Zhihua called back. At this time, after listening to Chen Zhihua's story, both of them felt that Chen Zhihua's success rate this time was very high, and the amount of funds invested was not too much. If this Korean company could really develop in the future, the return rate would be very considerable.
With the support of the old man and Zhang Li, Chen Zhihua became more confident in this investment. Although the investment in Li Yuanzhe has not yet received any returns, Chen Zhihua suddenly became a little "ready" in this regard. Investing in some potential companies may make Yuanheng's business more diversified, so that Yuanheng's operating risks can be relatively reduced. You should know that the most profitable thing in the world is the business of buying and selling companies, and Yuanheng can obviously develop in this aspect.
Chapter completed!