Far away was unaware of Li Dong's return.
In fact, even if they knew, they would only think it was normal.
He was the founder of a Fortune 500 company. Although he had only been married for less than a month, he couldn't just abandon his company.
Before Li Dong made any big moves, the outside world paid less attention to him.
The world didn't revolve around one person. Even in Hua Xia, there were countless things happening every day.
At the end of June, Far away was not the center of attention. Neither was Ali.
All the internet giants seemed to have gone into hiding.
On the other hand, Shanda, another veteran Internet giant, had made a big move.
Shanda's Chen Tianqiao. It was hard for the outside world to judge whether he was a success or failure. To put it more bluntly, Chen Tianqiao seemed to be unlucky every time.
Chen Tianqiao had taken the right step back when he was the acting Legend. He seemed to have taken the wrong path for the rest of the journey.
When he acquired Sina, he was defeated by Sina's poison pill strategy and failed to complete the acquisition.
After that, Shanda started the Shanda Box project. In the end, the box project failed miserably. From then on, Shanda fell from its position as an internet giant.
After surviving the difficult period, in 2008, Chen Tianqiao became ambitious again. He started planning to build a Shanda entertainment empire.
Internet literature, online games, music, videos, and even some offline activities …
Since 2008, Shengda had been making constant moves, wanting to restore its former glory.
Because of this, Da Sheng had even chosen to stand in the distance during the last selection, hoping to receive support from afar.
As for Li Dong, although he knew Chen Tianqiao was going to repeat the same mistakes and fail again, according to Li Dong, his courage was commendable.
Because of this, Li Dong was willing to cooperate with Shanda in certain areas.
With Far away's support, Shanda could be said to be proud. In May, Shanda officially acquired Ku Six.
In the next few years, not many people knew about Ku Six.
However, at this time, Ku Six was not to be underestimated.
The current Ku Six was almost on par with Youku and Tudou. Its market share in the video industry was not low.
If Shanda wanted to build an entertainment empire, video websites were indispensable.
Youku, Tudou, and PP Video were currently the top three, followed by Ku6.
After obtaining Far away's support, Shanda also started to build its own video website. Chen Tianqiao felt that acquiring Ku6, which was currently ranked fourth, would increase Shanda's core competitiveness and perfect its layout.
After acquiring Ku6 in May, Shanda merged Ku6 and Shanda Wireless, which was later known as Huayou Century in the future. They wanted to create another listed company.
Once Ku6 was successfully listed, it would be the first video website to be listed in the country.
Feng Yu had the same idea as Li Dong. He wanted to make use of this opportunity to increase his fame, and at the same time, Shengda will continue to implement its entertainment empire plan. This way, it will receive more attention.
After defeating Ku Six, Chen Tianqiao was eager to give it a try.
Shanda Literature, Shanda Games, Shanda Videos …
An entertainment empire. At the very least, the embryonic form of an internet entertainment empire had been built.
Far away said that they wanted to buy Shengda Literature, but Chen Tianqiao ignored it. He thought that Li Dong was joking.
His empire's territory had taken shape, and Shanda Network was already listed.
As for Shanda Games, Shanda Wireless, and Shanda Literature, he was preparing to get them listed.
Once successful, Shanda would become the first internet company in Hua Xia to have four listed companies.
The once dominant position would return to Shanda.
Even Far away Technology, which was currently in the limelight, did not have a single listed company. Even if Weibo and Tencent were to be listed, they only had two companies.
Under such circumstances, Chen Tianqiao naturally would not sell Shanda Literature.
After acquiring Ku6 in May, Chen Tianqiao started to perfect his plan.
In June, Ku6 launched the first anti-piracy attack on Hua Xia.
Similar to LeTV, after Ku6 received 300 million from Shanda, it started to buy all kinds of video copyrights and started to clean up copyrighted content.
In the industry, the copyright fees for all kinds of TV series, movies, and variety shows kept rising.
Ku6 was raising the price, LeTV was raising the price, and from time to time, PP Video was also raising the price.
None of the video websites were profitable to begin with, and with the large amount of money they were burning, many video websites were facing a shortage of funds. No one was investing, and a large number of employees were being laid off.
With the 300 million from Shanda, Ku6 could be said to be in high spirits, sweeping through the video industry.
However, faced with the rising copyright fees, Chen Tianqiao called Youku, Tudou, and Far away to make Hua Xia's first video website …
Ku6's founder, Li Shanyou, also knew how to suffer. Old Chen only knew how to give orders and set goals, which was very similar to Li Dong's character.
Chen Tianqiao's internal management methods were not much different from Li Dong's. They both gave orders, and if they were not suitable, he would replace them.
Regarding this, Chen Tianqiao was very straightforward. As long as he achieved his goals, he did not care about anything else!
However, there was one difference between Chen Tianqiao and Li Dong. Li Dong looked like he did not care about anything, but in fact, he was worried about many things, especially the problem of funds. Li Dong knew what to do and would always think of ways to raise the funds himself.
However, Chen Tianqiao rarely cared about these things. He gave Ku6 300 million, which was not a small amount at this time.
300 million, it should not be a problem to get into the top three, right?
If it got into the top three and got listed, there would be room for improvement.
But if it could not get into the top three, even if it got listed, the effect would not be as expected.
Because of this, the impatient Chen Tianqiao naturally called Li Shanyou one after another to urge him. In just a month, Chen Tianqiao even started to issue a military order. If it could not get into the top three, Li Shanyou would take full responsibility!
How could he take responsibility?
Leaving was inevitable. Not only him, but his team would also leave with him, and Shanda Wireless would take over Ku6.
If it was said that when Shanda acquired Ku6 in May, Li Shanyou felt that he had met a benefactor, a lifesaver, then in June, Li Shanyou knew that he was wrong.
But in June, Li Shanyou knew he was wrong, ridiculously 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 pressure, Ku6 spent 200 million on copyright fees in one month!
And for marketing, they spent tens of millions.
In addition, Ku6's operations needed money, and in one month, Ku6 almost used up all its money.
And even after spending almost all of its money, it still could not get into the top three.
At this time, when Chen Tianqiao was pressuring him again, Li Shanyou asked for money.
Chen Tianqiao probably did not expect that Cool Six would burn through money so quickly. When he heard that Li Shanyou wanted money, Chen Tianqiao was so angry that he almost vomited blood. It's fine if you burn through 300 million a month, but you should at least show me some results!
Far away, 300 million was nothing, but to Shanda, it was not a small amount.
If it got into the top three, Chen Tianqiao would feel that it was worth it.
But if it did not, it was a waste of money!
For this reason, Chen Tianqiao's tone was not very polite to Li Shanyou on the phone, and Chen Tianqiao also rejected the issue of funds.
It was only 300 million, and Li Shanyou could do as he saw fit. Before Shanda Wireless went public, if it could not get into the top three, someone would have to bear the responsibility.
…
Originally, these were all internal conflicts, and it was common for companies to have all sorts of problems after mergers and acquisitions.
But who knew that Li Shanyou had a bad temper.
He was a loyal person, and he was more casual in the company. That was why he was not used to Shanda's management methods.
Previously, Chen Tianqiao had asked him to burn money to get into the top three, and he had no choice but to listen to Chen Tianqiao and burn money to get into the top three.
But other people were not dead. Far away, Youku and Tudou were trying to get into the top three, and the investors behind them were not willing to lose their top three positions. Naturally, they burned money.
After the copyright fees were raised, how could they spend 300 million?
In a month, the money was used up, and now even the employees' salaries were tight. Cool Six had hundreds of employees in the sales department, and the company's monthly expenses were at least several million.
Previously, no matter how hard Cool Six was, Li Shanyou had not reached the point where he could not afford to pay.
But this time, after getting into Shanda, the money was used up, and the boss did not want to pay. This made Li Shanyou, who thought he had found someone to rely on, completely dumbfounded.
On one hand, the boss was letting him burn money, regardless of the cost!
On the other hand, the money was used up, and he could not afford to pay the employees, but the boss wanted him to think of a way …
If he could think of a way to raise money, then why would Li Shanyou sell Cool Six!
Now, Chen Tianqiao was even more impolite over the phone, threatening to fire him and his team if he could not achieve his goal, but he did not mention anything about paying.
This time, Li Shanyou, who was previously grateful, could not take it anymore.
At the end of June, Cool Six ran out of money, and Shanda did not want to replenish it, so Li Shanyou discussed the matter with Cool Six's executives.
In the end, it was unknown whether Li Shanyou pushed for it himself, or if the executives had accidentally leaked the news, but in an instant, the company could not pay the employees, Shanda was going to lay off people, and Cool Six was a child picked up from the streets …
These words spread throughout Ku Six in an instant.
As if this was not enough, some Cool Six employees cried on Weibo, saying that Shanda was going to lay off people violently. Before the acquisition, they had agreed that they would not be changed, but in the end, they were kicked out in less than a month.
This time, many people started to support Shanda, accusing it of violence.
Including some of the companies that were acquired by Shanda, a group of employees and executives also added insult to injury.
In the blink of an eye, Sheng Da had become everyone's target.
The employees of Cool Six and the employees of other acquired companies formed an anti-violent layoff alliance, fighting against Shanda's management.
At this point, it was still an internal matter of Shanda Group.
But at this time, because of the "violent layoff," it seemed to have resonated with countless people.
On the internet, many secret alliances suddenly appeared.
Industrial companies were still fine, and there was not much movement. But there were more mergers and acquisitions of internet companies in the past two years.
On June 28th, an "anti-unfair treatment" protest broke out within Sina.
The employees of some of Sina's newly acquired industries and organizations accused Sina of implementing unfair treaties internally and discriminating against outsiders.
Sina's executives all came out to appease them, hoping to resolve the conflict and shift their attention to Shanda.
However, this matter seemed to have a chain reaction.
On June 29th, Ali, Baidu, Sohu … these IT giants all erupted in protests.
At this moment, the only giant company that did not participate in this matter was Far Away.
Although Li Dong knew about what was happening outside, he felt that this had nothing to do with Far Away. He still treated some outsiders well.
Of course, even if he did not care, Li Dong still asked Yuan Chengdao to arrange people to appease them.
But for some reason, on the night of the 29th, a piece of news spread in Far Away's internal system.
Tencent's trading was about to resume. Li Dong had promised to reward 100 million shares, and half of it was split among the top management.
The remaining half fell into the hands of Far Away's employees.
As for the rest, even if they were PP employees, they might not even get anything in the end.
This kind of unequal treatment was too big of a difference!
Also, the previous Weibo shares and the subsequent retail shares had nothing to do with outsiders like them. It had nothing to do with ordinary employees. Can you accept the feeling of seeing your colleagues become millionaires or multi-millionaires?
Now, Kuliu was fighting, Sina, Ali, and other outsiders were fighting. Why didn't Far Away fight?
Just look at Sina. They were appeasing these people, eliminating some unfair agreements, and giving them equal treatment.
Far Away's Gome, Tencent, and other companies, why didn't they fight?
Especially Tencent. This time, Tencent's trading was resuming, but Li Dong did not give a single cent. Was this right?
As for the shares in the past, that was in the past. In fact, after Far Away was merged, Li Dong was a miser.
Tencent was the target of resuming, but the Tencent and PP employees did not get as much as the rest. Why!
Someone had started to contact these people secretly. Far Away was about to start a revolution!
Li Dong was rich and could bring his wife to travel around the world. He could not let them go without food.
… …
Under such circumstances, influenced by Shengda, the people in the distance also began to stir.
Compared to Shengda, Far Away had more than 300,000 employees and was approaching 400,000.
More than half of them were outsiders!
With so many people working together, it was impossible for no news to leak.
On the night of the 29th, Li Dong was working on a plan when the phone beside him suddenly rang.
Li Dong frowned. He looked at the caller ID and answered, "What's wrong?"
"General Manager Li, we are in trouble!"
The call was from Yuan Chengdao. At this moment, Yuan Chengdao's tone was hurried as he hurriedly said, "Due to the influence of the outside world, there is also a series of disturbances in Faraway! Especially … "
"Especially what?"
"Especially this morning. We announced that we will use 10 billion RMB to purchase Longhua's properties. This caused a lot of dissatisfaction internally. There are rumors that we are doing this for Longhua's IPO and for you. Far Away's retail interests are ignored. Some of our partners are wavering, and some employees feel that we should not support Longhua. Many people are saying … saying that you … "
"Say it!"
"They say that you killed the donkey when it was no longer of use. Far Away's retail interests were not able to create more profits for you, so you turned your attention to the IT industry and the real estate business, abandoning Far Away's retail interests.
This includes the evacuation of Beijing. Far Away has been quiet recently, and we have been focusing on Far Away Technology. Many people are dissatisfied.
Even some veteran employees and supervisors were extremely dissatisfied with this arrangement.
This time, the outside world is in turmoil, and our side is also unstable.
General Manager Li, it's fine if there are only a few of them. Far Away has hundreds of thousands of employees. Once there is unrest, we will be in big trouble!
I have called for an emergency meeting. You … "
"I'll be there soon!"
After Li Dong finished speaking, he hung up the phone. His face looked a little gloomy.
Far Away was going to have a civil war at this time. This was something he did not expect.
If other companies fell into chaos, then so be it. But if Distance An fell into chaos, then it would be finished.
This was Far Away's weakness.
Far Away had too many foreign companies, and the internal department had always been full of troubles.
But with Li Dong's big strides, everyone ignored this, or rather, they did not have the time to think about it.
But recently, Far Away's main movements had been in Far Away Technology.
Far Away's retail did not expand. Instead, it reduced its scale, and Beijing's stores were evacuated.
Under such circumstances, everyone could bear with it for a period of time. But now, it had been a few months since they evacuated from Beijing, and there was still no movement from the company.
They had just issued 10 billion worth of bonds, and some executives felt that it was to fill the gap when they evacuated from Beijing.
But who knew that Li Dong would use it to support Longhua.
Coupled with the influence of the outside world and the internal connections, this dissatisfaction reached its peak with Li Dong's ceasing of activities.
Once it erupted, it would definitely cause the biggest mess Far Away had ever been established.
Most of the time, the collapse of a company was due to internal instability.
Far Away was strong now, but once the internal instability occurred, the huge business empire could collapse at any time.
Thinking of this, Li Dong did not stay any longer. Even though the sky was dark and it was almost midnight, Li Dong still quickly put on his clothes, called Wang Cheng, and rushed to the office.
In the car, Li Dong frowned.
There was always a reason for the outbreak of civil war.
Some of the previous reasons seemed very important, but if there was no one to guide it, it would not have spread to Far Away in such a short period of time.
Who was guiding all of this?
What was the purpose?
Was it an opponent, or someone from the inside?
Li Dong thought of this and gradually fell into deep thought.
Perhaps, before taking the first step of expansion, it was time for a major reorganization.
If the internal was not stable, how could they compete with the global giants. This time …
Maybe it was also an opportunity!
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