I Inherited 5,000 Years of Family Property-Chapter 502 - 500: How about I just acquire the company directly?

"This is your plan?" Lu Yiyao, standing beside him, was already speechless after listening to Zhang Menglong's phone call.

She had just seen him laughing like a maniac and thought he had come up with some great idea, but to her surprise, it was still the same old approach—smashing the problem with money, simple and crude!

"What do you think, isn't it brilliant?" Zhang Menglong said proudly. Many people could think of spending money, but to spend it in this way was not something just anyone could think of.

"You're incredible, truly worthy of being you," Lu Yiyao did not try to dissuade Zhang Menglong because she knew that he would absolutely not take her opinion into consideration on this matter.

"What the hell?"

On the other end of the phone, Lei Jia was completely stunned. What did he mean by "Is the building for sale"? They had just met, and the first thing he asks is whether he's selling his building? What the heck was this move?

"I want to buy the building owned by Mr. Lei, and I hope Mr. Lei can bear the pain and part with it. As for the price, you can name it, and I absolutely won't bargain!" Zhang Menglong was not one for beating around the bush; after all, the need to do so meant a lack of confidence, but for Zhang Menglong, he could afford any price, so why not be direct and forceful?

"This..." Mr. Zhang, your request is a bit abrupt, you've got to give me a moment to process this.

Lei Jia couldn't help but rub his temples. Dealing with really rich people like this was just too much—you disagree on something, and they want to buy your skyscraper. How are you supposed to deal with that?

"It's like this," Zhang Menglong said, "I study at Jiangnan University of Science and Technology, and my girlfriend is at the Music College. Because her school is expanding enrollment, the old campus isn't enough, so she has been assigned to the new campus. I was thinking, if the old campus could be expanded, she wouldn't have to move, and we wouldn't have to be in a long-distance relationship."

"That's your reason?" Lei Jia didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Just because of a wish like this, you actually want to buy our building? Is your imagination made of black holes?

"Yes," said Zhang Menglong in the tone of someone sipping green tea, "Mr. Lei, you should be able to understand my feelings, right?"

I understand my ass! Lei Jia felt like exploding on the spot.

They weren't a tiny workshop, not one of those little companies with a dozen people who just needed an office building and some computers to work.

They were a publicly traded company with over 2,000 employees. Aside from office space, they needed a place for servers, and lots of space for their staff to exercise and relax. It wasn't a place that you could just pack up and relocate.

Now for the sake of your romance, should I move my 2,000 employees to live under a bridge? Isn't this request a bit too outrageous?

"Mr. Zhang, there are more than 2,000 employees in my company, top to bottom. Perhaps it's you who should be understanding towards us."

"Mr. Lei, I've done some estimates. The Flame Soul Building cost about 470 million to construct initially. Let's round it up for simplicity, and call it 500 million as a goal," Zhang Menglong started doing the math.

"According to the average property price of around 9,200 yuan per square meter in our district at that time, the average price in Jiangdong District is now about 38,000 yuan. Following this increase, the current price of the Flame Soul Building should be around 20 billion."

"Then I also considered that you will have a lot of things to deal with, including employee arrangements and the transportation of company equipment, so I'm offering 30 billion to buy it outright. What do you think of this price?"

"Cough cough cough!"

The figure made Lei Jia cough violently. With an opening hand like a royal flush, how could one respond?

To sell? The company would then have to uproot itself for a long time to come, finding an office space that could accommodate 2,000 people was no easy task, and even though the money was enough to build another skyscraper, that would take another two or three years.

Not to sell?

The offer was too good to pass up.

Strictly speaking, the price of the building was indeed around 20 billion now, but who has ever heard of employee subsidies and equipment transportation costs running as high as 10 billion? It's foolish to miss out on easy money, he even thought about giving up the gaming industry for real estate—without lifting a finger, a net profit of 10 billion in five years, would that not be tempting?

He hesitated. After all, the company was not solely his, and while the price was attractive enough to sway him, it wasn't an instant win and thus also hard to persuade the other shareholders.

Moving the company would obviously result in a significant turnover of staff, which would greatly affect the stability of the company.

"It seems that Mr. Lei isn't quite satisfied with the price," Zhang Menglong said without getting angry. After all, for such a big matter, no one could make a decision right away, but this also showed that the attack of 3 billion wasn't powerful enough.

Lei Jia remained silent.

"4 billion!"

"Hiss!" Lei Jia immediately put on the Mask of Pain.

The last time someone had thrown around money like this was years ago when Tengxun wanted to acquire their Yanhun Network. Unexpectedly, a few years later, the scenario had hardly changed, although the person was different.

"5 billion?"

On the other end of the phone, Lei Jia had already started pinching the space between his eyebrows; who could withstand this? Zhang Menglong, are you a demon?

Suddenly, an idea flashed through Lei Jia's mind.

He had always dreamed of developing a new game, but this game broke from the existing mature market models, and the shareholders opposed it. That was because, although the company had a high turnover, strictly speaking, its profits weren't that high.

Purchasing IP costs money, development costs money, game operation costs money—money was required everywhere, and when all was said and done, the profit margins were actually very limited.

But if they had this 5 billion, they could do a lot more; what about taking a portion for a gamble?

They could completely rebuild a new team; the old team would continue with the previous projects while the new team could go all in on developing the new game. Even if it failed, how many billions could they possibly lose in a year?

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This was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!

"6 billion?!"

"7 billion?"

In the moment of thought, Zhang Menglong had already begun to run wild with his offers, as if the unit behind the numbers wasn't 'billion' but 'yuan'.

"8 billion?"

"Hold on!" Zhang Menglong checked the information about Yanhun on his phone, "Its market value is only 77 billion. Since the sum I'm offering has exceeded its market value, why don't I just buy the entire company instead?"

"Mr. Lei, I've changed my mind. I might as well just acquire the company. If I became the majority shareholder, then wouldn't I be the one calling the shots in the company?"

"Ah, this..." Lei Jia had never seen this kind of move before.

You wanted a relationship so bad that you were willing to expand a school; for the sake of expanding the school, you planned to buy a building worth 2 billion. But as you kept increasing your offer, you suddenly realized you'd offered too much, enough to acquire the company, and then you decided to go ahead and buy it.

Even with a few extra peanuts to munch on while drinking you couldn't make a decision so incredibly rash, could you?

With those 8 billion, why bother going to graduate school? If you love being in love and staying close together so much, take that money and travel the world; stick together however you want.

Are you out of your mind? If you're not ill, then take a few steps! He was simply speechless!

No, he absolutely couldn't allow Zhang Menglong to acquire the company. Otherwise, if he had the final say in the company, who knew how many years it would take for his project to get off the ground?

"Mr. Zhang, there's really no need, truly no need!" Lei Jia hurriedly said, "It's just a building, not worth so much. How about we settle for the compromise price you mentioned, 5 billion? What do you think?"

"It's not about the money for me; it's your attitude towards love that has moved me. I am really touched," Lei Jia said with conviction, "This favor, I'll definitely help with!"