Forcing Me to Be a Godly Tycoon, Right?

Chapter 1539 - 579:

Zhang Jingdong arrived at the entrance of the villa, and a black Rolls-Royce Phantom slowly stopped nearby.Moreover, he noticed that this Rolls-Royce Phantom was not Xu Donghai’s because the license plate was different.

The driver got out and opened the car door for him, after which he settled into the back seat.

Soon the car started slowly, disappearing around the street corner.

All the way, Zhang Jingdong began to constantly think about how to negotiate with Zhang Xiaolong.

In his impression, Zhang Xiaolong currently wasn’t short of money.

Previously, when he sold Foxmail to Bo Da Company, he made 12 million, essentially achieving financial freedom.

Speaking of this, there was an interesting little episode involving Lei Busi.

In 1997, Zhang Xiaolong created Foxmail, and the following year, Lei Busi, who had just become the general manager of Kingsoft, approached Zhang Xiaolong to buy his Foxmail.

Zhang Xiaolong asked for 150,000, and Lei Busi immediately agreed.

But unexpectedly, Lei Busi, who had just become Kingsoft’s general manager, was really busy, so he assigned the matter to a subordinate.

However, this subordinate didn’t understand the value of Foxmail and actually forgot about it, while Zhang Xiaolong thought they didn’t want it, so he didn’t contact them proactively.

Fast forward to 2000, it was widely known that this year welcomed the internet bubble, and most internet companies were having a hard time.

At this moment, Zhang Xiaolong was completely disheartened and didn’t even bother to optimize or update Foxmail.

Coincidentally, Bo Da Company saw the potential in email services and proactively approached Zhang Xiaolong to acquire his Foxmail.

Zhang Xiaolong was too shy to set a price, so he let the other party offer, and the president of Bo Da Company directly opened with "How about 12 million?"

At that moment, Zhang Xiaolong felt like our country’s weapons experts meeting the Saudi prince buying Dongfeng missiles, so delighted he could almost not speak.

So after the acquisition was completed, he couldn’t bear it and agreed to join the company.

Unfortunately, Bo Da Company didn’t have the fate of Tencent in later years; even after acquiring such a talent, the company’s performance kept declining year after year.

Finally, in 2005, they packaged Zhang Xiaolong and his Foxmail and sold them to Tencent, leading to the later famous "Father of WeChat."

After thinking it over, Zhang Jingdong gradually showed a difficult expression.

Mainly because Zhang Xiaolong currently wasn’t short of money, and he hadn’t yet thought of what dream to paint to make him willingly join.

In the past life, Tencent persuaded him because they offered enough money, and secondly, Tencent wanted to optimize QQ Mail, which was Zhang Xiaolong’s specialty, so he agreed.

Yet his company currently didn’t have a business that particularly suited Zhang Xiaolong.

But if he wanted to acquire Zhang Xiaolong, it was almost his last chance now, as Tencent would begin approaching him in a few months at most.

Moreover, Tencent’s company was in Shenzhen, while his company’s headquarters was in Jiangdu, so he was at a disadvantage in this regard.

He could only act first to gain the upper hand.

At this moment, the car slowly stopped below Yutang Spring.

It was Xu Donghai who had helped arrange the meet here.

Zhang Jingdong glanced at the time.

6:35.

There was a little time left until the agreed 7 o’clock, so he didn’t get out of the car immediately, but continued to think inside.

After another ten minutes, he still had no clue.

At this moment, he suddenly saw a black Volvo XC90 parked nearby, and Zhang Xiaolong stepped down from the driver’s seat.

He wore a white tennis cap, a black polo shirt on top, and white shorts below, looking not like he was going to meet guests but rather to play tennis.

Initially, Zhang Jingdong felt he wasn’t taking their meeting seriously, but soon a flash of inspiration struck, and he knew how to deal with him.

Immediately, he swiftly got out of the car and quickly caught up with Zhang Xiaolong.

"Hello, are you Zhang Xiaolong from Bo Da Company, Mr. Zhang?"

Zhang Xiaolong stopped upon hearing and turned to look at Zhang Jingdong.

Seeing he was very young, he hesitated slightly and said, "Yes, I’m Zhang Xiaolong, and you are?"

"I’m Zhang Jingdong from Dongsheng Group, and tonight’s meet was arranged with the help of Mr. Xu Donghai."

Zhang Xiaolong instantly looked surprised: "Is that right, I didn’t expect you yourself to be so young!"

"You also look much younger than I imagined, but this is normal; we’re both in the internet industry, which is quite trendy domestically right now, so it makes sense for us to look young as pioneers."

Zhang Xiaolong smiled and nodded: "This indeed makes a lot of sense."

"Let’s go to the private room to chat."

"Alright."

Zhang Jingdong then approached the reception desk.

"May I ask which private room Mr. Xu Donghai reserved?"

"Are you Mr. Zhang Jingdong?"

"Yes."

The attendant’s eyes instantly showed more respect: "Mr. Xu reserved room number 8 for you, I’ll have someone take you there."

With that, they waved to a nearby attendant.

Subsequently, Zhang Jingdong and Zhang Xiaolong followed the person to room number 8.

After sitting down, Zhang Jingdong handed the menu to Zhang Xiaolong.

But Zhang Xiaolong waved his hand saying, "Boss Zhang, I usually play tennis in the evenings these two months, so I generally don’t have dinner; please don’t mind."

"Is that so..." Zhang Jingdong’s heart stirred: "Well, I happen not to be hungry now either."

Then he turned to the attendant and said, "Then bring us the best tea here."

"Alright, please wait a moment."