Chapter 1571: Fuse

Li Dong returned to a distant place, and the outside world knew nothing about it for the time being.

In fact, even if they knew it, outsiders would only think it was normal.

The founder of a Fortune 500 company, although newly married for less than a month, can't really let go of the company and ignore it.

Before Li Dong made any big moves, the outside world paid a lot less attention to him at this time.

The earth does not revolve around a single person, even in China, countless things happen every day.

At the end of June, the distance was not in focus, and neither was Ali.

These Internet giants seem to be dormant at the moment.

However, Shanda, another old Internet giant, has made a lot of noise.

Shanda Chen Tianqiao, for this person, it is difficult for the outside world to judge whether he is a success or a failure, whether he is good or not, or to put it more directly, Chen Tianqiao seems to be a little bit unlucky every time.

Except that Chen Tianqiao took the right step when acting as a legend back then, he seems to have taken the wrong step in the rest of the way.

When Sina was first acquired, it missed a move and was repelled by Sina's poison pill tactics, failing to complete the merger and acquisition plan.

Afterwards, Shanda started the Shanda Box Project, but the Box Project failed miserably. Since then, Shanda has fallen from its former position as an Internet giant.

After finally overcoming the difficult period, since 2008, Chen Tianqiao once again had ambitions and began to build a grand entertainment empire plan.

Internet literature, online games, music, videos, including some offline layouts...

Since 2008, Shanda has been making constant moves, trying to restore the glory of the year.

For this reason, even in the last team standing, Shanda chose to stand in a distant place, eager to get support from afar.

As for Li Dong, although he knew that Chen Tianqiao would repeat the same mistakes and continue to fail, but according to Li Dong's words - courage is commendable.

For this reason, Li Dong is also willing to cooperate with Shanda in some fields.

With the support from afar, Shanda can be said to be elated. In May, Shanda officially won Kuliu.com.

In the next few years, there will not be too many people who know about Ku6.

However, at this time, Ku Liu should not be underestimated.

The current Kuliu is almost comparable to Youku and Tudou, and its market share in the video field is not low.

Shanda wants to build an entertainment empire, video sites are essential.

Youku, Tudou, and PP Video are currently the top three, followed by Kuliu.

While gaining support from afar, Shanda is also ambitious to start building its own video website, and the acquisition of Ku6, currently ranked fourth, in Chen Tianqiao's view, will obviously increase Shanda's core competitiveness and improve the overall layout.

After winning Ku6 in May, Shanda merged Ku6 with Shanda Wireless, which is later Hurray, and wanted to build a listed company again.

Once Kuliu goes public, it will be the first domestic video website to go public.

Just like Li Dong's idea, Shanda will continue to implement his entertainment empire plan while taking advantage of the opportunity of going public to increase his reputation, which will attract much more attention.

After winning Ku6, Chen Tianqiao was eager to try.

Shanda Literature, Shanda Games, Shanda Video...

The entertainment empire, at least the embryonic form of the Internet entertainment empire has been built.

As for this time, when Yuanfang said they wanted to buy their Shanda Literature, Chen Tianqiao naturally ignored it, thinking that Li Dong was joking.

His empire has already taken shape, and Shanda Network is now listed.

As for Shanda Games, Shanda Wireless, and Shanda Literature, he is preparing plans to go public.

Once successful, Shanda will soon become China's first Internet group with four listed companies.

The former dominance is about to return to the Shanda name again.

Even Yuanfang Technology, which is now in the limelight, currently does not have a single listed company under its umbrella. Even if Weibo and Teng Xun have successfully resumed listing, there are only two.

Under such circumstances, Chen Tianqiao would naturally not sell Shanda Literature.

Since the acquisition of Ku6 in May, Chen Tianqiao began to plan and perfect his plan.

In June, Kuliu Video launched China Video's first anti-piracy campaign.

Similar to LeTV, the shit-stirring stick, after receiving the support of Shanda’s 300 million funds, Kuliu began to fight high, bought various video copyrights, and began to clean up non-copyrighted content.

In the industry, the copyright fees of various TV series, movies, and variety shows are rising steadily.

Kuliu is raising prices, LeTV is raising prices, and PP videos are also raising prices from time to time.

Originally, none of the video sites were profitable, and in addition to burning a lot of money, many video sites are now experiencing financial constraints, no investment, and a large number of layoffs.

With the 300 million funds provided by Shanda, Ku6 can be said to be high-spirited and invincible in the video field.

However, in response to the ever-increasing copyright fees, Chen Tianqiao urged one phone after another, overthrew Youku, Tudou, and Yuanfang, and built China's No. 1 video website...

Li Shanyou, the founder of Kuliu, also knows himself through suffering. Old Chen Guang can give orders and set goals, which is very similar to Li Dong's personality.

Chen Tianqiao's internal management methods in Shanda are not much different from Li Dong's. They are all based on orders, and if they are not suitable, they will be replaced.

Regarding this point, Chen Tianqiao is very straightforward, as long as he completes the goal, he doesn't care about the rest!

However, there is another difference between Chen Tianqiao and Li Dong, that is, Li Dong doesn't care about it, but in fact he worries a lot, especially the issue of funds, Li Dong knows it well, and will find a way to raise money every time.

But Chen Tianqiao seldom cared about these things. He gave Kuliu 300 million funds, which is not too little at this time.

Among other things, 300 million, it's okay to hit one of the top three, right?

If it ranks among the top three and then goes public, there will be room for manipulation.

But none of the top three could get in, and even if it went public, the effect would not meet expectations.

For this reason, the impatient Chen Tianqiao naturally called one after another to urge him. In just one month, Chen Tianqiao even issued a military order. Li Shanyou had to take full responsibility for not being able to enter the top three!

How negative?

Resignation is inevitable, not only his resignation, but also his entrepreneurial team must leave with him, and Shanda Wireless will take over Kuliu.

If we say that when Shanda acquired Kuliu in May, Li Shanyou felt that he had met a benefactor and saved his life.

Then in June, Li Shanyou knew that he was wrong, it was outrageously wrong!

Chen Tianqiao was too impatient, too eager for success, and his character was even more independent than the rumored Li Dong.

Under Chen Tianqiao's urging and coercion, Kuliu spent 200 million on copyright fees within a month!

In terms of marketing, tens of millions were spent.

In addition, Kuliu needs money to operate, and within a month, Kuliu almost burned all the money.

And the money was almost burned, but still failed to enter the ranks of the top three.

At this time, when Chen Tianqiao threatened and urged again, Li Shan opened his mouth to ask for money.

Probably Chen Tianqiao himself didn’t expect that Kuliu would burn money so quickly. When he heard that Li Shanyou asked for money, Chen Tianqiao was so angry that he almost vomited blood. It’s okay to burn 300 million a month. Anyway, let me see Let's score!

For Yuanfang, 300 million is nothing, but for Shanda, 300 million is really not a small amount.

If he entered the top three, then Chen Tianqiao would only think it was worth it.

If you don't, it's a waste of money!

For this reason, Chen Tianqiao was not too polite to Li Shanyou on the phone, and Chen Tianqiao also flatly refused the question of funds.

It's only 300 million, and Li Shan can figure it out on his own. Before Shanda Wireless went public, he couldn't enter the top three. Naturally, someone will have to take responsibility.

...

Originally, these were internal struggles within the enterprise, and it is very common for merged and acquired enterprises to have problems of one kind or another.

But who knows, Li Shanyou is also a violent temper.

He was originally a person who liked to talk about loyalty in the world, and he was more casual in the company. He had always been a little uncomfortable with some of Shanda's management methods.

Before Chen Tianqiao asked him to burn money to advance to the top three, he had no choice but to follow Chen Tianqiao's advice and keep burning money to move forward.

But other people are not dead, not to mention Yuanfang’s wealth and wealth. Youku and Tudou are seeking to go public, and the capital behind them is not willing to lose their top three positions, so they will naturally burn money.

300 million, after the copyright fee has been raised infinitely, how can it be spent.

In one month, the money was burned out, and now even the salaries of the employees are tight. Kuliu has hundreds of employees in the marketing and sales alone, and the company's various expenses a month, let alone millions of dollars.

No matter how difficult it was for Kuliu before, Li Shanyou was not at the point where he could not afford to pay his wages.

But this time, after the introduction of Shanda, the old capital was burnt out, and the boss didn't pay any money, which made Li Shanyou who felt that he had found a reliance completely confused.

On the one hand, the owner let him burn money, regardless of the cost!

On the one hand, the money was burned out and the wages could not be paid, but the boss asked himself to find a way...

If he could find a way to raise money, then what cool six would Li Shanyou sell!

Now Chen Tianqiao was even more rude on the phone, threatening to tell him and his team to leave if they failed to achieve their goals, but they still didn't say anything about giving money.

Now, Li Shanyou, who was still grateful before, couldn't bear it anymore.

At the end of June, when Kuliu ran out of cash and Shanda didn't give any supplements, Li Shanyou talked with Kuliu's executives about it.

In the end, I don’t know if it was Li Shanyou who promoted it himself, or if some executives inadvertently leaked the news. In an instant, the company couldn’t pay wages, Shanda wanted to lay off workers on a large scale, and Kuliu was a picked child...

This kind of words spread throughout Kuliu at once.

As if this was not enough, some Kuliu employees cried on Weibo that Shanda was going to lay off workers violently. Before the acquisition, it was agreed that they would not change, but in the end they were kicked out within a month.

At this moment, many people began to express their solidarity and complained about Shanda's atrocities.

Including some companies that were acquired by Shanda, a group of employees and resigned executives also fell into trouble at this time.

In an instant, Shanda became the target of Wan Fu.

The employees of Kuliu, together with the employees of other mergers and acquisitions, formed an anti-violent layoff alliance front, and confronted Shanda's management.

At this point, it is still an internal matter of the Shanda Group.

But at this time, because of the "violent layoffs" statement, it seemed to resonate with countless people.

On the Internet, many secret front alliances suddenly appeared.

Industrial companies are fine, and there is little movement for the time being, but Internet companies have acquired more in the past two years.

On June 28, a "anti-unequal treatment" protest broke out within Sina.

Employees of some industries and institutions newly merged by Sina have accused Sina of implementing unequal treaties internally and discriminating against outsiders like them.

Sina's senior executives came forward to appease, hoping to resolve the conflict and shift their attention to Shanda.

However, things seemed to have a chain reaction.

On June 29th, Ali, Baidu, Sohu... Among these IT giants, waves of protests erupted one after another.

At this moment, the only giant company outside the world is probably the only one in the distance.

Although Li Dong knew about the outside world, he felt that it had little to do with Yuanfang. He treated some foreign departments very well.

Of course, it doesn't matter if you don't care, but Li Dong still asked Yuan Chengdao to arrange someone to go down to appease him.

But for some reason, on the night of the 29th, a message spread in the distant internal system.

Teng Xun is about to resume trading, and half of the 100 million shares that Li Dong promised to reward will be divided up by the senior management.

The remaining half fell into the hands of the employees of Yuanfang's original system.

As for other people, even PP employees, I am afraid that they will not be able to get three melons and two dates in the end.

This kind of unequal treatment makes a huge difference!

Also, the Weibo stocks before and the retail shares after that have nothing to do with their foreign relations or ordinary employees. Can you accept this sense of gap when you sit and watch your colleagues become millionaires?

Now, Kuliu is fighting, and foreign departments such as Sina and Ali are fighting, why is Yuanfang not fighting?

Just look at Sina and you will know that these people are being appeased, some unequal agreements are being eliminated, and they are being treated equally.

Why don't the Guomei and Teng Xun families in the distance, including people from other systems, fight?

Especially Teng Xun, this time Teng Xun resumed the card, but Li Dong didn't give up, should he?

As for the shares he held before, that was before. In fact, after being merged into Yuanfang, Li Dong didn't pull out a hair of his iron cock.

Teng Xun was the target of the resumption of trading. As a result, the employees of Teng Xun and PP industries did not get as many shares as others. Why!

Someone secretly started connecting these people, and a revolution is about to start in the distance!

Li Dong made a fortune and took his wife to travel around the world. They can't even afford to eat.

...

Under such circumstances, under the influence of Shanda, the side in the distance is also ready to move.

Compared with Shanda and their few employees, Yuanfang currently has more than 300,000 employees and is heading towards 400,000.

And more than half of them belong to the foreign department!

With so many people in series, it is naturally impossible for no news to leak out.

On the night of the 29th, Li Dong was working on a plan when the cell phone next to him suddenly rang.

Li Dong frowned, glanced at the caller ID, and answered the channel: "What's wrong?"

"President Li, I'm in trouble!"

It was Yuan Chengdao who called, and Yuan Chengdao said in a hurry, "Affected by the outside world, there are also connections and turmoil in the distance!

especially……"

"Especially what?"

"Especially this morning, we announced that 10 billion funds were used to purchase properties in Longhua, which aroused great dissatisfaction internally.

There are rumors from the outside world, saying that we are creating greater benefits for Longhua IPO, creating greater benefits for you personally, and disregarding the interests of Yuanfang Retail.

Some of our partners began to waver, and some employees also felt that they should not support Longhua.

Many people say you... say you..."

"explain!"

"It is said that you are killing the donkey. After Yuanfang Retail could not create greater benefits for you, you turned your attention to the IT industry and real estate business, and abandoned Yuanfang Retail.

Including the previous evacuation in the capital, there has been no movement in Yuanfang retail recently. Our attention has been focused on Yuanfang Technology, which has made many people very dissatisfied.

Including some senior employee supervisors, they are also extremely dissatisfied.

This time the external turmoil is severe, and our side is also a little unstable.

Mr. Li, it's good that they have few people, once we have turmoil, especially the hundreds of thousands of employees in the distant retail, once the turmoil occurs, it will be a big trouble!

Now I have called an emergency meeting, your side..."

"I'll be right there!"

After Li Dong finished speaking, he hung up the phone with a gloomy expression on his face.

At this time, a large-scale civil strife is going to break out in the distance, which he did not expect.

If other companies are in chaos, they will be in chaos. Once the distant place is in chaos, it will be over.

This point is the weakness of the distance.

There are too many foreign departments in the distance, and the interior has always been full of hills, and all kinds of troubles continue.

But under Li Dong's big strides, everyone ignored these, or didn't have time to think about them.

But recently, on Yuanfang's side, the main action has always been on Yuanfang Technology's side.

Instead of expanding, Yuanfang Retail has reduced its scale, and its Beijing stores have been evacuated.

In this case, everyone can bear it for a while, but it has been several months since they evacuated from the capital, and there is still no movement from the group.

The 10 billion bond was just issued, and some executives felt that it was to fill in the vacancy of the previous evacuation from the capital.

But who knew, Li Dong actually used it to support Longhua.

Coupled with external influences and internal connections, this kind of dissatisfaction also reached its peak as Li Dong died down.

Once it erupts, it will definitely cause the biggest chaos since Yuanfang was established.

In many cases, the collapse of enterprises is caused by internal instability.

Although Yuanfang is powerful now, once the internal instability, the huge business empire may collapse sooner or later.

Thinking of this, Li Dong didn't stop there. Even though the sky was dark and it was almost midnight, Li Dong still quickly got dressed, greeted Wang Cheng, and hurried to the company.

In the car, Li Dong frowned.

Whenever civil unrest breaks out, there is a reason.

Although some of the previous reasons seem to be very important, if no one guides them, they will not spread in the distant interior in a short time.

Who is directing all this?

What is the purpose?

Is it an opponent, or an insider?

Thinking about this, Li Dong gradually fell into deep thought.

Perhaps, before taking a big expansion, it is time for a major overhaul.

The interior is not stable, so why compete with the global giants, this time...

Maybe it's also an opportunity, not necessarily!