Li Mu's nuclear blackmail theory brought great shock and shock to Larry Page's psychology, and Li Mu's metaphor about kidnappers, $10 million ransom, $200 pistols and $1 bullets also shocked him. Larry Page is terrified.
Muye&Baidu.Inc is the bullet that Li Mu aimed at Larry Page's temple. It has little practical value, but it is extremely important to Google.
Now, Li Mu has priced Muye & Baidu. Inc at one-third of Google's market value, allowing Google to acquire it. Although this will cause Google to bleed a lot, it will not kill Google.
Larry Page no longer wants to think about how much impact it will have on him if Li Mu fully operates Muye & Baidu. Inc, because no matter how he thinks about it, there is only one outcome. Under Li Mu's full attack, Google will be seriously injured even if it is not dead. He had a chance to become a world champion like Usain Bolt, but if he can withstand this wave of attacks, he will be able to barely walk in the future.
From this point of view, Google’s next choice is to acquire Muye & Baidu. Benefit.
Deep down in his heart, Larry Page defined Li Mu's shameless behavior as: "a gangster-like act of buying and selling by force."
Just like those relatives of Yin Wenli in India who snatched away the groom at gunpoint, put a gun to their head, and then threw a woman in front of you, threatening you: marry her, or I will destroy you.
What can you do
In fact, this type of commercial blackmail is not the first of its kind to be committed by Li Mu, it has become commonplace in the Internet industry.
Every time a large company invests in a small company or emerging industry, there is almost always such blackmail and gaming behind it. Those companies that are invested and acquired by Tengxun and Ali may not really want to be invested and acquired by them. Even if they want to, They may not be willing to proceed at the final price, but all companies that finally accept offers from large groups are actually experiencing a potential threat and inner struggle.
There are many potential threats. For example: if you don't let me invest, or don't accept my investment offer, then I will do it myself, or I will support others to do it. In short, we will either become comrades-in-arms or enemies;
And those people are struggling in their hearts, just like Larry Page, whether to die standing or to live on their knees.
Those who finally choose to join a large platform almost always choose the latter.
Are there still too many malicious mergers in the capital market? To be honest, malicious annexations may account for the majority of all annexation cases.
In the previous life, China Internet had two giants, A and T, to check and balance each other. This also gave entrepreneurs a little room for mediation between Qi Chu and Qi Chu. It was like someone created a "Hungry Are You"? If the industry was dominated by T, T will tell him very forcefully, let me buy shares, otherwise I will make one myself and kill you. With Family A's checks and balances, "Are you hungry"'s fate has improved slightly. He can say to T, "Don't push me too hard, otherwise I will go to Family A." In the same way, he can also say to Family A. Listen, in the end, choose the relatively best solution between the two.
So many people who don’t understand the Internet think that these two companies are really powerful. They have their own layout for every business. They invest in so many companies, but there is so much slaughter and killing in the capital market behind them. There is very little Someone can see it.
For Larry Page, if there is an Internet company in front of him that can compete with Makino Technology, then he will have a chance to breathe a sigh of relief. But unfortunately, as far as the current Internet companies are concerned, no one can match it. Makino Technology competes.
After thinking about it, Larry Page could only say to Li Mu: "Mr. Li, I understand what you mean. I will contact our shareholders later and think about it carefully."
Li Mu nodded and said with an indifferent smile: "It's okay, you don't have to buy it, no one is forcing you."
Larry Page could only nod his head angrily, crying in his heart and thinking: He has already mentioned guns, bullets, and nuclear weapons, and he also said that no one is forcing us, so how can we be forced? Is it true that having a gun to your head is called a pussy
Seeing Larry Page's sad look, Li Mu smiled slightly and said calmly: "I've said all that needs to be said. I still have a show to record here. Go back. If you accept it this time, come to me again. Oh yes. Yes, if you come, bring the contract with you."
After Li Mu finished speaking, he turned around and walked back. Larry Page didn't say anything and just followed him, looking at his back with mixed feelings in his heart.
If Larry Page were asked to name the person he hates the most, the answer at this moment would definitely be Li Mu.
But if he were asked to name the person he admires most now, the answer would definitely be Li Mu.
A young man in his early twenties has made the Internet his own inland sea, and he has also used capital to the fullest.
Moreover, in Larry Page's view, Li Muwan Capital has an unusual aesthetic of violence. His strategy is: "Call daddy, or I will beat you until you scream or die."
Simple and crude, even a little cruel.
I also want to confidently raise my middle finger to him, and then yell: "F*ck-You!"
But after all, he is not strong enough, so he really cannot have this confidence.
Li Mu walked very fast and returned to the village in a few minutes. Larry Page walked very slowly, walking alone in the fields of the Chinese countryside, looking at the loess, crops, toes, and Look at the mountains, then look at the water, and finally when the sun sets over the western mountains, I look at the orange-red clouds in the sky and the sunset that looks like a hot spring egg yolk, and I sigh softly.
Admit it.
admit.
Kneel down. After standing for a long time, you will find that kneeling is actually quite comfortable.
From its inception to the present, Google has been at the forefront of the Internet and the forefront of search engines. However, Larry Page has to admit that although it is very fulfilling to overcome obstacles alone, it is also very tiring. , if you kneel down to Makino Technology, you will have an armored vehicle, and the thorns ahead will no longer be a problem.
So, Larry Page simply sat on a field ridge, took out his mobile phone, and called his assistant who was still sleeping in the United States.
"Good morning, Mr. Page..." Through the phone, Larry Page could imagine the sleepy look on his assistant's face.
He said: "Julia, it's evening in China, and I'm looking at the sunset. If you open the window, the sun should just show its head. Can you imagine? We are nearly 10,000 kilometers apart, and we are seeing the same sun. , but here at my place, the day is almost over, but at your place, the day has just begun..."
The girl on the other end of the phone was stunned for about ten seconds and asked awkwardly: "Mr. Page, when did you become so..."
Speaking of this, the girl suddenly stopped. She didn't know what adjective to use to describe Larry Page now. Boring? Neuropathy? Still don’t know what it means
After thinking for a long time, the girl finally blurted out the word "poetic"...
Making a phone call from the other side of the world to get up and look at the sun, putting aside the neurotic factor, can indeed have something to do with poetry.
At this time, Larry Page suddenly put away his melancholy tone and ordered: "Julia, notify all shareholders and company executives immediately, and come to the company for a conference call with me in half an hour. The situation is urgent. No delay!”
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When Li Mu returned to the mushroom house, Huang Lei had already started stewing fish. He turned on two stoves at the same time, one to stew crucian carp soup and the other to stew grass carp. The yard was filled with the aroma of fish, which made people feel inexplicably happy.
When He Yan saw Li Mu coming back, he took advantage of the fact that the camera crew was not following him and asked Li Mu in a low voice: "Mr. Li, I heard that the CEO of Google came to see you?"
Li Mu nodded: "Here he comes."
He Yan asked: "Would you like to invite him over for dinner? After all, he is your guest from afar."
Li Mu smiled and said: "He is not my guest. Even if he is, he is an uninvited guest. You don't need to worry about him and let him play with himself."
He Juan was surprised in his heart, but said nothing more.
Huang Lei greeted at this time: "Everyone, it's almost time for us to eat. Yu Yan, please clear the table."
The fish cooked by Huang Lei was indeed very good. This dinner brought back Li Mu's memories of his childhood. In fact, he didn't like eating fish for a long time because he was tired of eating it. In the early years, fish was very easy to catch. Li Mu Dad always catches several kilograms every time he goes out, and the family of three simply can't finish it all. But Dad Li is particularly obsessed with fishing. As a result, every day's meals at home are related to fish.
However, since he went to college in his previous life, Li Mu rarely ate the fish stewed by his parents. Especially after eating too much in the cafeteria, he missed the time when his parents stewed fish every day. After being reborn in this life, Dad Li has already reached the age where he was obsessed with fishing, and he soon went to Beijing to study, so he couldn't almost relive this kind of life.
In this meal, almost all the ingredients were taken from the local area, and the cooking skills were also sublimated to a certain extent on the basis of home cooking, so it immediately reminded Li Mu of precious memories from his previous life.
While eating, Li Mu suddenly had an idea and said to the three of them: "After dinner, we can go out to catch some cicada monkeys and come back and fry them, right?"
"Are you aware of the monkey?" All three of them had question marks written all over their faces.
Li Mu said: "It's the golden cicada, the one who climbed up the tree and became a cicada."
"Got it?" Peng Yuyan said with a horrified look on his face: "Can that thing be eaten?"
Li Mu said: "It's not only edible, it's simply delicious. It tastes like crunchy chicken and is ten times more nutritious than beef."
"Real or false..." Peng Yuyan was still frightened when he thought of the dark cicada.
Huang Lei said with a smile: "Not to mention, I have actually eaten it once before. It looked strange, but it tasted really delicious."
He Yan asked curiously: "Teacher Huang, is that food really edible?"
"Yes." Huang Lei said seriously: "It's very fragrant and chewy after frying."
He Yan hesitated for a moment and said, "Then I can give it a try later."
Peng Yuyan waved his hand: "I don't think I'll try anymore, but I can help you catch it."
Li Mu said: "Don't say it so early now, I'm afraid you will eat more than anyone else later."
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Twenty minutes later, the four people went out with flashlights, net bags, bamboo poles and other equipment. Accompanied by the camera crew, they plunged into the woods behind the village to look for the cicada turtle that had emerged from the ground.
When Larry Page came back from a conference call that lasted more than an hour, the first thing he did was go straight to the Mushroom House to find Li Mu. As a result, he was stopped by the staff at the door of the Mushroom House. He said in not quite authentic Chinese. : "I'm looking for Mr. Li Muli, I have something important to do!"
The staff member said: "Mr. Li and the others went to the forest to catch cicada turtles."
"What?"
"Cicada, Do-you-understand?"
"No, I-don't-understand..."
The staff's English was average and they didn't know how to say "Ziguigui" in English, so they said in English: "Mr. Li and the others went to the woods to find food..."
(End of chapter)