"Stop dwelling on these meaningless questions!" Yang Yuan interrupted Jia Yapeng directly, "The advantage of Fantasy Computer lies in its global sales network, not in any actual assets. Please don't deliberately drag this into areas unrelated to us!"
"Then I've also said that Jiangnan Group never needs Fantasy Computer's sales network. This kind of asset has no value to us," Jia Yapeng said indifferently.
"Heh, then I'd like to ask, even if Fantasy Computer possesses a powerful production line and various core technology patents related to computers, I'm sure you in Jiangnan Group don't need these things either!"
"After all, Fantasy Computer has been deeply involved in the binary computer field, and since Jiangnan Group has already launched its quinary computer, then technology patents and production lines related to binary computers are also meaningless to you. You wouldn't possibly sell binary computers, would you!"
"So I am very curious, what exactly does Jiangnan Group want, and what does it want to get from our Fantasy Group? Over 10 billion US dollars is not a small sum. Even Huang He would feel a pang of heartache to pay this amount!" Yang Yuan retorted, a question that had been bothering him recently.
After casting aside his initial emotional fluctuations, Yang Yuan had also been unable to understand why Jiangnan Group would want to acquire their company. After all, Fantasy Computer's industrial chain was basically irrelevant to Jiangnan Group, and Fantasy Computer's assets did not hold much significance for Jiangnan Group. This was something Yang Yuan couldn't figure out.
"Is the answer to this question very important to you?" Jia Yapeng asked in confusion.
"It's not very important to me, it's very important to the entire Fantasy Computer, and it's very important to the entire board of directors!" Yang Yuan said solemnly. We must know what Jiangnan Group intends to do to us, otherwise how can we feel at ease selling our shares to you.
"Do the other directors also want to know?" Jia Yapeng glanced at the other directors, and almost all of them nodded. They were indeed very curious about the answer to this question.
In fact, everyone in the circle was very curious about this matter. What Yang Yuan could think of, other big players could also think of. They really couldn't understand what Jiangnan Group wanted from Fantasy Computer that made them willing to buy Fantasy Computer at this time.
"I'm sorry, I cannot tell you the answer to this question right now. I need to ask the chairman for instructions!" Jia Yapeng, who had just claimed to have full authorization, had to ask Huang He for instructions on such a question. This made many people begin to question how much negotiation authority Jia Yapeng actually possessed.
Fortunately, Jia Yapeng did not keep them waiting for too long. He even directly called Mr. Huang in front of the board of directors. After explaining the requirements of the Fantasy Computer board of directors, Jia Yapeng nodded repeatedly in agreement, and finally hung up the phone, saying, "Our chairman said that this question was not necessary to investigate deeply; it is a personal reason. But if you gentlemen truly wish to know, it is not impossible, but we hope you will sign a confidentiality agreement with us, and after receiving my answer, you will not disclose the answer within the stipulated time."
"For just one question, you even want to sign a confidentiality agreement!" Everyone's expression changed instantly, and then they quickly thought about many things.
Finally, they came to a conclusion: Jiangnan Group must be planning a grand scheme, a plan that could change the entire computer market landscape, and Fantasy Computer was the most crucial link in Huang He's plan, so Huang He needed everyone to sign a confidentiality agreement.
Because once this plan was leaked, it would definitely alert Jiangnan Group's competitors.
But who were these competitors?
After a moment of thought, everyone looked at the computers in their hands and the window icons on their desktops. The answer in their hearts was already clear.
That's right, the target must be Microsoft, and even Intel behind Microsoft. At this time, Jiangnan Group's biggest ambition must be to completely swallow the entire computer market. Otherwise, they would not have invested huge sums of money into a quinary computer that had no chance of success. Was the purpose not to eliminate Microsoft and Intel?
Once Jiangnan Group controlled the qualification of chip suppliers for the entire computer market, and could also monopolize the qualification of chip suppliers for the personal terminal market, then Jiangnan Group would completely dominate the entire computer chip field. At that time, all companies and corporations in the world would probably have to act according to Jiangnan Group's wishes. What a terrifying future this would be. xxs
The directors felt that they had guessed Jiangnan Group's intentions, but they also realized that they had only guessed half of it, and the other half they couldn't guess no matter how hard they tried.
That is, what qualifications did Fantasy Computer possess to become the pawn for Jiangnan Group to overturn the hegemony of Microsoft and Intel.
Although Microsoft was notorious for the Lj incident, their market position remained unshakable. Only the Chinese market, which was the home market cultivated by Jiangnan Group, had been shaken.
But if China were to completely change its computer market, it would take at least 5-10 years, as this was the time required for a hardware upgrade cycle. Most users would certainly wait until their computers were damaged or so slow that they could no longer function before considering replacing them.
And only when replacing computers would they consider switching from the Windows system to the Lingyun system. After all, both systems were bound to their respective hardware. If the hardware was not replaced, the software could not be replaced either.
At present, these board members, including the former richest man in China, the former chairman of Fantasy Computer, and the most successful entrepreneur in China, couldn't figure out what Mr. Huang was up to.
And such doubts meant that they could not refuse the opportunity to ask this question.
In the end, all the directors expressed their willingness to sign the confidentiality agreement. Jiangnan Group was also very professional. Jia Yapeng's secretary opened her work terminal and directly used voice commands to instruct the intelligent AI to create a confidentiality agreement for single information intelligence.
Then, this intelligent AI actually took only three minutes to generate a confidentiality agreement with rigorous logic, meticulous legal clauses, and over 30 specific provisions, with almost no loopholes.
Everyone present, including Yang Yuan, signed the confidentiality agreement without hesitation. Jia Yapeng then nodded and slowly spoke, revealing the fundamental reason why Jiangnan Group wanted to acquire Fantasy Computer.
"Actually, Fantasy Computer is a birthday gift!" Jia Yapeng said expressionlessly. "Our Jiangnan Group's permanent chief engineer, the founder of the company, Chairman Huang He's most respected teacher, and the President of Jiangnan University, Academician Ni Guangnan, is about to celebrate his 80th birthday."
"After much deliberation, Chairman Huang felt that no gift would be more suitable for his teacher than Fantasy Computer. Therefore, Chairman Huang intends to acquire the entire Fantasy Computer outright and then present it to Academician Ni on his birthday."
"Because this is a surprise carefully prepared by Chairman Huang, we do not wish for Academician Ni to know this secret in advance!"
Silence, a dead silence filled the entire venue.
"That's it..." one director couldn't help but say.
"Do you need any more reasons?" Jia Yapeng retorted.
"Jiangnan Group is spending over ten billion dollars to buy us, just to give us away as a gift!" this director questioned indignantly.
"Your words have some issues, let me correct them for you!" Jia Yapeng said calmly. "Firstly, Jiangnan Group does not intend to spend over ten billion dollars to buy Fantasy Computer, unless you are willing to sell all your shares."
"Secondly, Fantasy Computer is not exactly being given away as a gift. It is merely returning to its rightful owner, as Academician Ni is also one of the core founders of Fantasy Computer. For Fantasy Computer to return to his hands can be considered returning to its rightful owner."
After Jia Yapeng finished speaking, a former chairman present couldn't help but take a few steps back, staring blankly at Jia Yapeng. The name Ni Guangnan clearly triggered too many memories for him.
"There is nothing more to discuss. Fantasy Computer is not at a point where we have to give ourselves away as a gift!" Yang Yuan snorted. With that, he helped the old chairman and left.
The other directors also found it difficult to accept such a result, so they left one after another. The negotiation completely broke down due to this issue.
"You will come back to find me, I'll be waiting for you!" Jia Yapeng was quite unfazed, and cheerfully said to everyone, while finishing a cup of tea.
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Thus, both parties signed the confidentiality agreement, strictly prohibiting the disclosure of the reason for Jiangnan Group's acquisition of Fantasy Computer.
However, the failure of the negotiation itself was not within the scope of the confidentiality agreement. Therefore, the news that Jiangnan Group and Fantasy Computer had broken off negotiations broke out in the industry, and Fantasy Computer subsequently returned to a sharp downward trend, and the banks began to demand repayment of debts again.
Yang Yuan's attitude was very firm. He delivered a passionate speech to the board of directors, believing that Fantasy Computer's difficulties were only temporary and that Fantasy Computer would soon overcome them.
At the same time, Fantasy Computer would abandon its previous operating strategy focused on the Chinese market and devote all its energy to its subsidiaries acquired in various parts of the world, striving to expand Fantasy Computer's scale in the global market, rather than continuing to compete with reckless enterprises in the domestic market.
After all, Fantasy Computer's advantage lay in the low-price supply contracts it had signed with various binary computer companies, not in competing for the quinary computer market.
This was actually a very correct strategy, and the board of directors supported this strategy. However, for some unknown reason, Yang Yuan's words were leaked again.