Chapter 10 Zhang Hai on stage: Destiny Three playing with Li Jingwei

Initially, Singapore's No. 1 Food Company almost became the new owner of Jianlibao.In the third month after that crucial joint meeting, Li Jingwei was notified to attend a dinner party.At the banquet, a Singaporean businessman named Wei Chenghui was introduced to Li Jingwei, and the mayor said clearly that the city government had selected Mr. Wei's company to purchase Jianlibao. When Li Jingwei heard the words, he was like a thunderclap.His resentment can be imagined.The next day, at the company's internal working meal, he suddenly lost control and uttered foul words: "Damn it, I don't know about the sale of stocks in the market, so I just told me to have a meal together."

On November 20, Singapore No. 1 Food Company and the Sanshui City Government initially signed an agreement. The Sanshui City Government will sell all 100% of Jianlibao's shares at a price of 380 million yuan.In this agreement—and in all future agreements, the appraised value of the illustrious Jianlibao brand is zero.This decision made it hard for Li Jingwei to accept. He could not understand why the city government would rather sell the company to a foreign company he had never met before, rather than sell it to a company that had been established by one hand and spent all his life working on it, and was willing to pay a higher price. of myself.Under his behind-the-scenes planning, the domestic media was moved by the news, and for a while, "Jianlibao was ruthlessly sold at a low price", "China's first national brand flag was cut off" and other public opinions were overwhelming. The high emotions mixed in it obviously made it difficult for the Sanshui City Government.On the one hand, Jianlibao announced that it was willing to "redeem" Jianlibao at a price of 450 million yuan; on the other hand, it completely boycotted Singaporeans who tried to enter the company for audit and audit, and refused to hand over relevant business information.

Li Jingwei's confrontational attitude and the surging public opinion offensive pushed the Sanshui Municipal Government, which already lacked the ability to deal with public relations, into an extremely embarrassing corner.An official of the Sanshui City government later said quite angrily: "The media's early intervention disrupted our plan and made us completely passive." The Singapore plan was quickly aborted. The two sides of Jianlibao have reached an irreconcilable confrontational situation.The Sanshui City Government must find a "domestic buyer" in the shortest possible time, so as to "reasonably and legally" stop Li Jingwei's team's MBO plan.

The most likely to buy Jianlibao is of course the beverage industry peers.At that time, in China, the beverage companies as famous as Jianlibao included Robust in Guangzhou and Wahaha in Hangzhou.Among them, Robust has been acquired by Danone of France, so there is no further discussion, and Wahaha has become the last choice.Zong Qinghou is a model of Zhejiang merchants, shrewd and cautious.He is naturally very attracted to Jianlibao, but he suffers from not knowing the actual background of the company, and is quite afraid of its strong corporate culture.At the same time, Li Jingwei used various channels to use both hard and soft tactics against Zong Qinghou, trying to persuade him to hold his hand high.As a result, the negotiations between the Sanshui Municipal Government and Wahaha were either overt or covert, entangled and moved forward.

At this time, the situation in Sanshui was at an extremely delicate moment.The Sanshui Municipal Government set the sales schedule before the end of January 2002, because "the month before the Spring Festival is the peak season for beverage orders, and all changes must occur before the peak season."However, the negotiation with Hangzhou has never been settled. Zong Qinghou is obviously making two-handed preparations, either giving Li Jingwei enough face, or slashing at the last moment. On January 9, 2002, the Sanshui Municipal Government and the Jianlibao team held another meeting for dialogue.At this time, Li Jingwei had repelled the Singaporeans, dissuaded Zong Qinghou, and gained the upper hand in public opinion. He decided that it was impossible for fate to snatch Jianlibao from him for the third time.Therefore, he asked the mayor in a questioning tone, why he completely abandoned the Jianlibao entrepreneurial team and insisted on selling Jianlibao, "Why don't you let us buy it back?" The mayor immediately said: "If you want to buy it, I will give you a week time."

The two parties agreed that Li Jingwei's team took out 450 million yuan at one time to buy all the shares of Jianlibao, and from then on, the road will be open, and each side will go their own way.The people at the table were not speculative, and the terms were drawn up, that is, they broke up coldly. Seeing the twists and turns, the willows are dark and the flowers are bright, but at this moment, fate has played tricks on Li Jingwei for the third time cruelly. At this time, Zhang Hai, who was only 28 years old, appeared on the stage. Zhang Hai is one of the most mysterious figures in the history of Chinese enterprises in the past 30 years. In 1974, he was born in a family of primary school teachers in Kaifeng, Henan.One of his elementary school teachers commented on him, "Relying on his cleverness, he likes to lie, and he never blush when lying."When he was in junior high school, Zhang Hai suddenly opened his "eyes of the sky" and became a magical boy with special functions. Someone saw him "holding a large holly leaf in his mouth, and the leaf will automatically shrink in size after a while, and his outline It remains the same, which is amazing." In May 1992, Zhang Hai, who had just turned 18, opened a Tibetan secret fitness center in Jingmen, Hubei.Half a year later, the Henan Provincial Academy of Social Sciences established the Institute of Tibetan Tantric Yoga Culture, with Zhang Hai as the director.There are propaganda reports that when he was 6 years old, he was arranged by the Panchen Lama to go to Qinghai to worship under the seat of Xia Ridong Living Buddha in Xiaqiong Temple of Tantric Buddhism.These miraculous legends packaged Kaifeng teenager Zhang Hai as a child prodigy with a mysterious background, and a group of devout believers began to gather around him, many of whom later became his business partners.

Since 1995, Zhang Hainan has set foot in the business world.He became the owner of a company called Kaidi Investment Company, and then entered the listed company China Hi-Tech in 1998 through a related party transaction.He later said quite proudly: "When I was 25 years old, I served as the chairman of China Hi-Tech. At that time, I was the youngest chairman of a listed company in China. Many of our directors are the presidents of universities." Nam Kwong hyped Yinge Investment and entered listed companies such as Founder Technology, Shenzhen Tianma, Fiyta A, and Shenzhen Chase.In just a few years, a prestigious "Kaidi Department" was built in the gray and dangerous Chinese capital market, and became the most famous at that time along with the "Delong Department" of the Tang Brothers and the "Chinese Science Department" of Luliang. Several major stock market makers.

Zhang Hai's entry into Jianlibao was not a premeditated event. In late December 2001, he traveled from Guangzhou to Shanghai for work. When he was boringly flipping through newspapers on the plane, he suddenly saw a report that Jianlibao's equity was about to be transferred.As soon as the plane landed in Shanghai, he immediately bought a return ticket and hurried to Sanshui City. The appearance of Zhang Hai made the unwilling Sanshui municipal government meet a friend of the world. Although everyone couldn't believe his youth, the "Kaidi Department" and China High-Tech that he represented were like a thunderbolt.On the business card he gave, there are more prominent titles one after another: Chairman of Oriental Times Investment Company, Chairman of China Hi-Tech, Director of Founder Technology, Chairman of Hong Kong Kangda Holdings, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Hong Kong Huide Fund, Shenzhen Yizhonghe The legal representative of the investment company... The honest and impatient Sanshui city government officials really can't tell which sentence is true and which sentence is false by the young mysterious man in front of them.However, his background and conditions are satisfactory. Zhang Hai promised to buy Li Jingwei according to his bid, and the company that will come forward will be Zhejiang International Trust and Investment Company, a purebred state-owned enterprise.So the negotiations proceeded at an astonishing speed in an atmosphere where everything "looks beautiful".

On January 14, 2002, on the sixth day after the Sanshui municipal government promised to "raise enough money within a week and sell it to the management team", Li Jingwei, who was looking around to raise funds, was suddenly summoned to the municipal government.Before his butt could sit on the chair, the mayor told him: "This matter has been settled. We have now decided to sell Jianlibao to Zhejiang Guotou." On January 15, at Jianlibao Villa in Sanshui, a hastily prepared signing ceremony was held in full view.The Sanshui Municipal Government transferred 75% of Jianlibao's shares to Zhejiang SDIC for a price of 338 million yuan.During the ceremony, Li Jingwei, who was on the verge of failure, was like an abandoned old horse, sitting silently in a corner of the venue, unable to hide his lonely expression.The next day, the photo of him "looking up to the sky with tears in his eyes and not saying a word" was published on all domestic news websites and financial media, and the viewers were all moved by it.

This also became Li Jingwei's last sad appearance.Since then, this cheerful old man who likes to make friends with young reporters has never said a word in the public media.