civilwarnovels Chapter 455 Lei Xiaojun: Little brother, your assets have surpassed mine!
Chapter 455 Lei Xiaojun: Little brother, your assets have surpassed mine!
Chapter 455 Lei Xiaojun: Little brother, your assets have surpassed mine!
Linhai City.
Inside the 37.2℃ soda company.
Wang Yuan was already sitting respectfully behind the tea table, brewing tea. Sitting in front of him were his boss and Boss Lei.
So he felt very honored to be able to make tea for the two of them.
No one else in the company is qualified to brew this tea.
Lei Xiaojun was naturally there to attend the celebration banquet of the soda liquor company. Moreover, news of his arrival in Linhai City had already been filmed and uploaded online.
This has undoubtedly boosted the popularity of the celebration banquet featuring 37.2°C soda.
Lei Xiaojun was looking at a stack of documents.
That was the plan and related data that the rice financing planning team had prepared for the financing of soda liquor: "Mr. Chen, according to the valuation weighting of the liquor industry, the valuation of this soda liquor company has reached 500 billion. However, the number of domestic funds that are interested in and have invested in liquor companies is limited to just a few."
According to his estimate, if he can raise more than 200 billion yuan by selling 45% of his shares this time, that would be good.
After all, other beverage companies haven't made their move yet and haven't released any products, so the estimates might be biased.
Chen Jincheng nodded. This was actually within his expectations. After all, the recipe for soda wine wasn't exactly a top secret. The fact that it had been able to raise so much funding was partly due to the brand value it had already generated and the fact that it had captured a significant market share.
Even other beverage companies are producing their own sodas, and a price war will begin. It's certain that the valuation of 37.2℃ Soda Company will experience a severe drop.
He was perfectly clear about this.
So this round of financing was actually a bit of a trap for those investors, but there's nothing we can do about it. These investors have money, so we can only use their money to do our own things first.
He also said, "So, we'll need to raise another round of financing from Second Star, probably around 100 billion, for 15% of the shares. This is my own sale of equity, so it won't dilute your shares, Mr. Lei."
Lei Xiaojun nodded.
The external valuation of Second Star was 500 billion, but according to President Chen's valuation, it has risen to more than 660 billion, which is much higher.
However, he is very familiar with the situation of Ershixingchen and knows its potential, especially its video e-commerce system, Ershixingchen's film and television department, and the Hanfu market. There will definitely be people who will accept this valuation.
Previously, Ershixingchen was definitely thriving, especially this time with the launch of the "Guofeng Girl" Hanfu (traditional Han clothing) video sales, which sold nearly 20 pieces and generated nearly 2 million yuan in profit.
Chen Jincheng then said, "President Lei, regarding the financing of Second Star, I mentioned it to you before and asked you to recommend suitable financing targets. Do you have any news?"
Lei Jun nodded: "There are two capital firms, one from Beijing and one from Shanghai, that are interested in Second Star. It would be better to choose the one from Beijing, as they have strong connections behind them. Moreover, they cannot show their faces in person and will not interfere in the company's operations."
"Yes, thank you, Mr. Lei." Chen Jincheng understood what Mr. Lei meant.
This kind of capital is also what their Second Star Empire needs, especially after the Python-Sparrow Devours the Dragon. Without such power to support them, all sorts of people will emerge.
"President Chen, I'm very curious, what exactly are you planning to do that requires so much cash?" Lei Xiaojun couldn't help but ask. Indeed, he had come to check on the situation at Ershixingchen, and it seemed there were no projects.
"Mr. Lei, Kuaishou is about to raise funds, and I want to acquire 25% of Kuaishou's shares." Chen Jincheng did not hide this from him.
After all, the key to the python swallowing the dragon is not acquiring shares in Kuaishou, but rather Kuaishou's listing on the stock exchange.
Once Douyin's video e-commerce platform collapses, Kuaishou will launch a full-scale attack on Douyin. At that time, he will demonstrate his role and influence, letting Kuaishou know that poaching him is the best way to weaken Douyin. Then, the two sides will hit it off, and financing will be a natural outcome.
After all, he had funds at that time, connections like Lei Jun behind him, and after the second round of financing for Xingchen, he also had capital connections in Beijing. In addition, he had a huge influence in short videos. Kuaishou would not refuse such a shareholder.
But we need to take it one step at a time. First, we need to successfully raise funds for the soda liquor company, and then let President Lei guide us to complete the financing with that capital firm in Beijing.
Lei Xiaojun looked at the financing document on the table with a sigh.
When Soda Wine Company and Second Star Company successfully raised funds, this Mr. Chen would likely be able to make it onto the rich list.
Before any financing was done, the valuation wouldn't be calculated. But after financing, the valuation of Soda Wine and Second Star will be recognized and included in the rich list.
Just think about how much capital Mr. Chen has. If Soda Wine is valued at 500 billion, and he still has 55% of the shares, that's 275 billion. Plus, he has 65% of the shares in Ershixingchen, which is over 430 billion.
This alone is over 700 billion. Although it's an estimated value, which of the people on the rich list doesn't have this or that valuation? How much private liquid capital do they really have?
Crucially, Mr. Chen will also have 300 billion yuan in working capital at that time, which, combined with the valuation, would bring it to the hundreds of billions level.
Even someone of his status and position would be shocked.
It seems... the other person's wealth is even higher than his, so he's probably in the top 20 of the rich list?
Although Mr. Chen's valuation is inflated, and Ershixingchen's valuation could be halved due to a major blow, he is a legend at the moment he successfully raised funds.
Moreover, he is the embodiment of a grassroots success story, and the sensation he will cause will be unimaginable.
Thinking back to when the other party came to him for funding, he was truly glad that he had generously provided the funding. Therefore, he also had a share in the other party's legendary story.
He felt a little down for a moment, after all, he had been surpassed by his younger brother.
Then, he became even more determined to get into the car business. He figured his younger brother would definitely be able to provide him with a lot of funding, and he was sure he could make a name for himself.
At this moment, a manager walked in from outside and reported, "Boss, Mr. Wang, we can go over to the central stadium now."
"Understood." Wang Yuan nodded, then turned to Chen Jincheng and the other man and said, "Boss, Mr. Lei, shall we head over to the Central Gymnasium now?"
"Okay, let's go!" Chen Jincheng nodded.
Then, the three of them left the teahouse and went downstairs. When they arrived at the Jin Mao Tower, Wang Yuan had already arranged for a luxury car to take them there.
The Central Gymnasium is also a well-known stadium in Linhai City, capable of accommodating tens of thousands of people, making it more than enough for the 37.2℃ Soda Wine Company to hold a celebration banquet.
After all, even if the soda company invited all the factory workers, company employees, and distributors, there wouldn't be many seats available.
So, the soda company also invited the employees of Second Star Entertainment, including the artists. It was voluntary for them to attend. In addition, the city sent a lot of tickets. Today, the majority of the tickets were probably from the city.
After all, Mr. Wu (Chapter 370) has agreed to attend the celebration banquet, and once the tickets are distributed, a large number of people from various departments will definitely come.
Even so, tables were set up to make the scene look a bit more lively.
These tables were naturally designed so that invited guests could eat while watching the performance.
For ordinary employees, the celebration banquet is mainly about eating and drinking.
Moreover, all the tables are arranged around the main stage.
However, because there are many performances, including celebrities and internet influencers, the speed and intervals of serving the dishes need to be carefully managed. For this reason, the soda company also found 5 professional teams to work together to manage the process.
When Chen Jincheng and Lei Xiaojun arrived, they found a large crowd gathered outside the stadium, including many reporters and internet celebrities who came to ride the wave of popularity.
With Mr. Lei in attendance, along with celebrities like Xue Qian and Phoenix Legend, this celebration banquet was quite large.
Upon entering the central stadium, Chen Jincheng and Lei Xiaojun separated. Wang Yuan led Lei Xiaojun into the venue, as he needed to go backstage to greet Xue Qian and the others, and also to check on Cai Xiaoyi's preparations.
That evening, she was going to livestream the entire celebration party, and Sister Hong would also be promoting the livestream for her. The soda wine advertisement video she had filmed earlier had already been pinned to the top of the feed. All she had to do was encourage the viewers in the livestream to buy the soda wine through the video link.
When the Second Starry Sky team simultaneously promotes the soda wine sales video, this time it will definitely achieve a terrifying sales result for Cai Xiaoyi's soda wine, which will also boost the soda wine company's financing efforts.
"Old Cheng, we meet again." Xue Qian greeted Chen Jincheng with a big smile. He really felt that the other party was making a bigger and bigger show of things.
"I hope this trip didn't interfere with your other plans?" Chen Jincheng exchanged a few pleasantries with Xue Qian.
Afterwards, Phoenix Legend and other invited celebrities greeted him.
The internet celebrity from the company who was assigned to perform also came up to greet him. They were all girls who liked traditional Chinese style, and they all surrounded him.
As time passed, a host arranged by Ershixingchen took the stage and announced the start of the celebration banquet. The opening was naturally given by Wang Yuan, who was dressed in a suit and tie, his face beaming with smiles as he stepped onto the stage: "Hello everyone, I am Wang Yuan, the general manager of 37.2℃ Soda Wine. Thank you all for coming..."
He spoke at length, full of emotion, before officially beginning his performance.
Cai Xiaoyi was in a pre-arranged position, already live streaming, and her live stream could capture the entire stage.
Chen Jincheng and Sister Hong were also keeping a close eye on Cai Xiaoyi's live stream data.
Because the soda company already had a lot of online buzz, Cai Xiaoyi's live stream was flooded with viewers even before the promotion started, with over 5 people watching online in a short time.
Everyone was using this live stream to see what was going on at the celebration banquet and to figure out who Chen Jincheng's motives were. "Sister Hong, can we start streaming now?" Chen Jincheng said, seeing that it was about time, and told Sister Hong to start streaming.
Almost immediately, the number of viewers in Cai Xiaoyi's live stream began to increase rapidly, because Ershi Xingchen had directly reached 1000 million daily active viewers.
This is equivalent to an SSS-level stream.
Furthermore, at night, Ershi Xingchen can provide three SSS-level streams to Cai Xiaoyi's live stream.
At present, besides Chen Jincheng, only Wangzai has achieved SSS-level streaming traffic, so you can imagine how terrifying Cai Xiaoyi's live stream data will be tonight.
You could only say she was lucky, since she happened to be the spokesperson for a soda wine company that needed funding.
Therefore, there is some truth to the saying that luck is more important than ability.
That's exactly what happened to Cai Xiaoyi.
With 1000 million viewers, many Douyin users found Cai Xiaoyi's live stream as soon as they picked up their phones.
Many people saw Cai Xiaoyi's sweet smile, which shrank to the corner of the live stream screen, and entered it into Zhihu. After all, beautiful women are popular everywhere, especially those with sweet and infectious smiles.
Naturally, most people were not interested in Cai Xiaoyi, and many even disliked female anchors. These people were planning to scroll away, but then a celebrity's performance appeared, which drew their attention back.
Then, by sheer coincidence, Lei Xiaojun appeared on the live stream again, which immediately drew everyone's attention for a long time, and some even clicked into the live stream.
When people realized that the live stream was of Chen Jincheng's soda-themed celebration party, they were all surprised. They had seen the news online before, but they didn't expect to see a live stream of Chen Jincheng's celebration party as soon as they logged on.
Just then, those who entered the live stream saw the same comments flying across the screen:
"Chen Jincheng went to great lengths to hold this celebration banquet; he must have some purpose in doing so."
"I think so too. I can't help it if Chen Jincheng doesn't cause trouble."
"I just don't know what Chen Jincheng is up to this time."
"..."
Such discussions have attracted more and more people. Chen Jincheng is now well-known to many, who also know that he likes to stir up trouble and has caused so many big incidents online that it seems impossible to count them all on one hand.
My curiosity was piqued.
Inside the Jin Mao Tower, Yi Jin watched Cai Xiaoyi's live stream and instructed his employees: "Keep sending these kinds of comments, and edit new comments every few minutes."
Not only him, but other video bloggers also had their video accounts in the live stream, sending out such comments, just to let people know that Brother Cheng was going to do something big that night.
Moreover, it seems that Brother Cheng has something very important to do. This celebration banquet, as well as the previous hype, are all for this matter.
Many people stayed in the live stream because of the comments posted by these slice accounts.
Zhao Hesheng was like that. When he saw that Chen Jincheng was up to something, he not only stayed to watch the live stream, but also called all his friends over. There were girls among them, and there was also 37.2°C soda on the table.
"What exactly is Chen Jincheng up to?"
"I'm also curious; Chen Jincheng seems to be making quite a big fuss this time."
"Some people in the comments said that Chen Jincheng's celebration banquet was just a prelude to something else."
"..."
Like Zhao Hesheng and others, many people stayed in the live stream, which resulted in a high retention rate for Cai Xiaoyi's live stream, and it soon exceeded 30+ viewers.
This is an absolutely terrifying number of online viewers for many internet celebrities.
Many online celebrities instinctively flocked to Cai Xiaoyi's live stream to check on her, especially those who knew Cai Xiaoyi.
After all, during her live streams, Cai Xiaoyi met many people in the same industry, and they would compete against each other, chat, and so on.
Previously, Cai Xiaoyi and the others only had a few thousand acquaintances online, so it's quite surprising that she suddenly has over 30 online acquaintances.
It's a very upsetting thing when someone you know suddenly becomes rich.
In the end, it can only be attributed to Cai Xiaoyi having a good boss.
They have bosses like Chen Jincheng, who can suddenly have hundreds of thousands of online followers.
At this moment, Cai Xiaoyi began her task, which was to promote the soda wine: "As you can see, today is a celebration banquet for our boss's soda wine company, so naturally, our soda wine is indispensable. Today, as long as you click on the video link at the top, you can buy the 37.2 soda wine at a 7% discount."
For people who already enjoy drinking soda, a 7% discount would definitely make them willing to buy a case or two.
For example, Zhao Hesheng and his group ordered 10 boxes directly, and even booked the place where the girl lived.
That's how you win a girl's favor!
With the push of traffic, the number of online viewers in Cai Xiaoyi's live broadcast room is growing rapidly.
It quickly surpassed 50 online viewers, and at this rate, it will likely surpass Want Want's 75 online viewers soon.
This doesn't mean that Cai Xiaoyi has surpassed Want Want; after all, Want Want has a huge number of loyal fans.
Cai Xiaoyi was just there to join in the fun, and was also attracted by factors such as the soda company's celebration banquet, Chen Jincheng, celebrities, Ms. Lei, etc., and was not a fan of hers.
It's unknown how many people she'll retain after this live stream ends.
Unbeknownst to Wangzai, he was also secretly watching Cai Xiaoyi's live stream. When he saw that the number of viewers in Cai Xiaoyi's live stream had exceeded 80, he felt his mentality collapse.
It's one thing to be unable to compare to Chen Jincheng, but now you can't even compare to one of Chen Jincheng's women. What kind of nonsense is this?
He was about to curse.
As the number of viewers in Cai Xiaoyi's live stream increased, the 7% off soda wine did indeed sell very well. Soon, Cai Xiaoyi's video sales topped the Douyin sales chart, selling 20 cases. Then, as the number of viewers in her live stream increased, the orders for soda wine also increased rapidly.
With the second wave of 1000 million viewers, Cai Xiaoyi's live stream viewership exceeded 150 million, and the number of orders for Su's soda wine reached more than 320 million cases.
Following this trend, if all the traffic is used up, Cai Xiaoyi's live stream viewership will easily exceed 300 million, but the retention rate is a bit low.
However, doubling the sales volume of soda wine is not a problem, and reaching a total sales volume of 7 million with a 4% discount is also not a problem.
While this sales figure cannot compare to Chen Jincheng's previous billions of yuan in sales, the low price of the alcoholic beverages is unavoidable, and this sales volume will definitely help with financing.
Zhao Hesheng and the others kept watching Cai Xiaoyi's live stream, watching one celebrity and internet celebrity after another take the stage to perform.
Gao Qian and the other girls who love traditional Chinese style danced together, and Phoenix Legend also sang, which ignited the entire audience.
But as the program went on and the celebration banquet was about to end, Zhao Hesheng and his friends were somewhat disappointed that Chen Jincheng hadn't caused any trouble.
Not only them, but also the viewers in Cai Xiaoyi's live broadcast room were the same. They gathered here and waited for so long, just waiting for Chen Jincheng to do something. But who knew that after waiting for so long, they didn't see Chen Jincheng at all. He didn't even show his face. What kind of trouble was he going to do?
At that moment, Wang Yuan walked onto the stage, smiling and addressing everyone: "Thank you all for attending our 37.2℃ Soda Wine celebration banquet. Now it's coming to an end, and I'd like to announce the most important thing for our company: our soda wine company is officially raising funds, with a valuation of 500 billion."
These words immediately caused an uproar among the people present. The people from the city were from various departments and naturally knew what 500 billion yuan meant; it was a figure that would make them famous in their Linhai City.
The employees and artists of Second Star all stared wide-eyed. This soda company belongs to the boss. If the financing is successful, how much money will the boss have?
The two girls who had just stepped off the stage, Pan Min and Huang Yuyao, both showed longing and eagerness in their eyes.
They knew their boss was rich before, but they didn't have a concrete idea of what that meant. Now, hearing the figure of 500 billion, they felt a huge shock and their breathing became rapid.
Those Cheng girls felt fortunate, fortunate to have a relationship with him. He was so rich, no matter what, as long as they behaved, he would definitely make sure they would have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of their lives.
This was a subconscious thought, after all, the figure of 500 billion was too much of a shock to them.
The viewers in the live stream were completely dumbfounded.
Previously, many people online said that someone was willing to raise 500 billion yuan for Er Shi Xing Chen, but no one has ever been seen raising funds for Er Shi Xing Chen. Now, Chen Jincheng's soda wine company is also asking for 500 billion yuan in funding.
Oh my god.
Could Chen Jincheng really succeed in raising funds?
impossible?
If he succeeds, what will Chen Jincheng's status and position be then?
(End of this chapter)