Chapter 357 Ant Financial Starts Financing
The morning light shines through the lush leaves onto the ground, forming beams of light spots. The garden is full of flowers, and the air is filled with the faint fragrance of green plants, with occasional bursts of bird calls.

After the renovation, the old house in a quiet place in the bustling city became much more comfortable to live in than a large flat. Unfortunately, Xie Jingxing was not lucky enough to enjoy it. He hurriedly ate breakfast and dressed up to go out.

"How long will this trip take?"

Yu Tong carried her daughter to the door, and Song Anli took the suitcase from the babysitter.

Xie Jing Xing said uncertainly: "Three to five days, the stock market takes up too much energy and a lot of miscellaneous things have piled up."

"Don't spit on your clothes."

Yu Tong carefully reminded that the two-month-old baby could already lift his head, and he lay in his mother's arms, rubbing his chubby little face against his father.

Xie Jingxing used a finger to scrape the saliva from the corner of his daughter's mouth: "Say goodbye to Daddy."

"Yeah, yeah."

The baby could only make simple musical scales and blink his big watery eyes. After a few minutes of warm parent-child interaction, Song Anli packed the suitcase.

"Okay, let's go quickly so as not to be late. Don't let him drink too much at social events, drink in moderation."

Yu Tong gave his final instructions in a gentle tone, and Song Anli nodded slightly in response. The next period of time would be very busy, so she temporarily put aside her work at Xiao Ma Pentium and returned to Xie Jingxing.

First of all, as for Grapefruit Capital, since it has decided to split the business to form an investment group, many interests that should be fought for must be prepared in advance.

"This is Mr. Zhao from Shanghai Guotou and Director Jian from the district."

Xie Jingxing did not go straight to the airport after leaving home, but went to a property near Lujiazui first. Song Anli emphasized the two people standing in front of the welcoming crowd.

The property consists of two five-story buildings that are not facing the street. There is a large yard in front of the buildings and a garden covering six or seven acres in the back. The surrounding areas are all antique-style houses built around the 1980s.

Now it is mostly used as branch offices of schools, scientific research institutions, and government agencies. The environment is secluded and low-key, with convenient transportation and complete surrounding infrastructure.

"I see that European and American venture capital firms don't like to squeeze into office buildings and prefer independent office spaces. Our Grapefruit Capital is among the best in the world, so naturally we have to align with international peers in all aspects!"

Director Jian introduced enthusiastically: "This place is very suitable for Xiyou Capital. If it doesn't work, let President Zhao find a way. We must choose a satisfactory one for Xiyou."

"Director Jian revealed all my secrets right from the start. Even if I try harder, I won't be able to squeeze out any more!" Mr. Zhao complained with an exaggerated sigh.

Xie Jingxing expressed his sincere gratitude: "Thank you very much for the support of Director Jian and President Zhao. I am really shameless in stealing your beauty."

"Mr. Xie, please don't be polite. Our job is to provide logistical services for high-quality companies like Xiyou. Do you think the district can do anything else for you? If you have any needs, please feel free to ask." Director Jian's attitude was particularly sincere.

Xie Jingxing was speechless for a moment, and could only shake his hand vigorously to express his gratitude, and then turned to say goodbye: "Director Jian, that's it for now, I have to go to the airport right away to catch a flight, there is a project in Chuncheng to cut the ribbon."

Director Jian escorted him to the car without any delay, and was very warm and friendly at the end, saying that they were ready to sign the real estate transaction contract at any time.

17.5 billion yuan is more than 6.5% off the market price, but not everyone is eligible to buy it.

This is a generous treatment for a private investment group worth 3500 billion yuan that is about to take shape. It should have all the other policy support such as tax exemptions, but if they don't give it to it, other districts in Shanghai will rush to give it.

Excluding the industrial agglomeration effect and apparent achievements that can be brought about by world-class financial institutions, the most important thing is that Xu Xiang has pulled out too much mud.

The vacuum in the financial industry that has been ceded needs to be filled, and it is natural for Grapefruit Capital to become a pillar of Shanghai’s financial industry, and then form a new industry ecology with this as the center.

"There is a world where there are people."

The plane roared into the sky. Xie Jingxing looked out the window at the gradually shrinking city cluster, and inexplicably thought of the Chang'an Club where he and Li Ming met at the end of the previous year.

This year, the capital city has demolished a large number of such clubs, and only a few that remain are lingering on.

But as long as the things talked about in the club are still there, sooner or later a group of new people will gather together, in a restaurant or a roadside stall or anywhere else, to talk about the same old things.

Xie Jingxing cannot control everyone, he can only try his best to restrain himself and his business and not become the next Xu Xiang.

"Let's start recruiting people, clean up the new office space, and move in by the end of the year."

He collected his thoughts and made a decision. 'Jingxing Investment Group' would enter the corporate registration process and the corresponding management team could start recruiting in advance.

The total number of employees in securities, mother funds, venture capital and various businesses will not exceed fifty. Currently, employees of Grapefruit Capital account for half of them, which means that it will be enough to recruit more than 20 people.

The team of fifty people manages 3500 billion in investments, with an average of 70 billion per person, which is equivalent to just over 10 billion US dollars, equivalent to half the size of mainstream medium-sized funds on the market.

This was just the starting point that Old Xie gave Xie Jingxing to practice with when he first returned to China.

Therefore, employees with this ability are not available in any market around the world. Their work mailboxes are regularly filled with headhunters every month. If they want to change jobs, they can send a message to the headhunter tonight and get an interview tomorrow morning.

The headhunting fees are all paid by the companies.

Grapefruit Capital is not particularly attractive, and it is doubtful how many qualified employees it will be able to recruit when it moves to a new office space at the end of the year.

However, Xie Jingxing would sometimes think these days, if he had nothing now, how could he single-handedly rebuild a financial empire!
"Very handsome, very photogenic." Song Anli gave a thumbs up with her beautiful eyes rolling around.

Xie Jing Xing pulled up the collar of his rhino horn-lined shirt and stood up: "When am I not on camera?"

"There are still some, you don't allow me to take pictures." Song Anli leaned close to his ear and breathed hot air.

Xie Jingxing buttoned up his shirt: "If I didn't take a picture, then I don't have it."

"Then you are perfect without any blind spots."

Song Anli softly added that the logic had reached a closed loop, and she slowed down her pace slightly, allowing all the cameras to focus on Xie Jingxing, who was the first to walk down the plane's gangway.

She stood quietly behind him.

Reporters, executive jackets, and black official cars greeted us on the tarmac.

Today is the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the first phase of Yunhe Logistics Chuncheng Land 10,000-ton Cold Chain Transport Port. In fact, it was completed two weeks ago, but it was delayed until now when Xie Jingxing had time to hold the ribbon-cutting ceremony.

It's not that the project itself deserves such seriousness, but that his personal reputation has been pushed to the peak by official certification.

If Asia's largest cold chain center is a 3-point performance for Chuncheng, then Xie Jingxing's appearance on the platform is a 5-point performance. He doesn't have to do anything. After cutting the ribbon, he has a celebratory banquet and drinks until he is drunk.

The next morning, I woke up, made a pot of tea, and talked about how there are many high-quality investment opportunities in Spring City. If Luzhou can set up a 100 billion industrial fund, we can do it too. The people of the whole city can also work together and persistently pursue Grapefruit Capital.

Xie Jingxing had no right to refuse such a boring trip. All his subordinates kept whispering in his ears: "Boss Xie, if you show up to entertain us, our work efficiency will increase exponentially. It's such a good deal if you just smile!"

The only thing he could decide now was what was in his crotch. At noon, he gave a necklace as a gift to a beautiful Chuncheng Chengtou girl who had just finished her engagement party, and then rushed to the airport to continue his journey.

The second stop was Beijing. Panda TV’s first self-produced variety show “Creation Camp 101” was not as popular as the original timeline, but it also successfully formed a girl group to debut and was on the hot search list every other day.

Verify the feasibility of platform PUGC content production and idol industrial assembly line production at the same time.

Both Pei Fei's personal studio's artist brokerage business and Pony.com's variety show production business have benefited. As the distribution terminal of the entire pan-entertainment industry chain, Panda TV is naturally not bad.

Officially launching a new round of financing, we will continue to create content internally and burn money in external competition to kill all competitors!
Therefore, the state-owned enterprises directly under the propaganda department took the initiative to approach us to participate in the investment. Coming for the "Education Power" which has become more and more red and professional in the past six months, the leader specifically asked to have a deep exchange with Mr. Xie in person. After talking about work, it was already late and it was normal for them to have a meal.

During the dinner, they happened to invite a reporter from their own corporate newspaper to interview and write a report. Xie Jingxing couldn't refuse, so it would be more practical to try to drink less.

On the morning of the third day, I gave a private encouragement to the girl group's most beautiful member and gave her a necklace as a gift. The business trip itinerary remained unchanged, and we went to Yizhuang Guotou to have a fight.

This is finally a serious matter, but it is destined to produce no results.

Yizhuang Guotou took the lead in organizing a large number of Beijing chip industry funds and spent several months to successfully help Beijing Junzheng acquire the US listed chip design and manufacturing company 'ISSI'.

Then the problem arose. As Zeng Shixiong had expected, ISSI's important supplier indeed opposed Jingcheng Junzheng's acquisition by GigaDevice.

On one hand, other shareholders except Yizhuang Guotou felt that the deal had failed them, while on the other hand, Zhu Yiming was drooling over the deal and insisted on buying it. The two sides were arguing and it was very unpleasant.

The meeting lasted until late at night but ended without any results. Xie Jingxing privately asked Zhu Yiming to go to Luzhou for detailed discussions. There was some progress in Changxin Storage's acquisition of the technology patents of the former European chip giant "Qimonda".

So they went to Luzhou the next day, but before they could completely persuade Zhu Yiming to surrender, the Zhuhai Meizu started a riot again.

Huang Zhang sent a message to Xie Jingxing for the third time in half a year, saying that by the time the new flagship phone is launched in November this year, the company will be able to completely stabilize more than 50% of Xiaomi's shipments.

By then he will retire and live in seclusion in the mountains. Being in charge of the company's personnel management is too tiring and exhausting. It is not a life for a human being. It would be better for him to be a carpenter.

No matter how Xie Jingxing tried to persuade Huang Zhang, he remained unmoved and looked completely bored.

There was no way. These were all debts that should have been resolved long ago, but because he was busy with the stock market during this period, he had delayed the debt until now. He could only calm down and talk with this guy all night long.

Huang Zhang said that he was exhausted from managing the company, but in fact he was slowly realizing what founders often say - everything capital gives you will be repaid double sooner or later.

Alibaba forced him to develop a mobile operating system based on Alibaba Cloud to compete with Apple's IOS and Android. Xie's faction forced him to develop low-end phones and build the supply chain to compete with domestic mobile phone manufacturers.

Last year, he was able to stick to the idea of ​​"small but exquisite", but this year, he is obviously unable to do so. It is obvious who will earn more from the executive team he personally promoted, such as Bai Yongxiang and Li Nan...

Since you will lose control of the company sooner or later, you might as well retreat and struggle. If that doesn't work, just exit with dejection and dignity.

Huang Zhang's head was full of thoughts, and Xie Jingxing tried his best to comfort him.

Just when we had made some progress, we received a notice from Beijing inviting young entrepreneur leaders to come to our unit for background checks and to attend the celebration rehearsal meeting.

Xie Jingxing suddenly had no control over what was going on in his crotch, so he obediently rushed into the city, keeping himself clean and shouldering the important responsibility of being a role model for the youth of the new era.

I started my business trip in late July, flying all over the country with an average of two flights a day, and time passed in the blink of an eye until early August.

Teacher Ma wrote a handwritten letter: My heart is filled with longing for your youth, but I have been pondering your thoughts until now because of you. I hope Jingxing will come to the West Lake to meet us - Ant Financial launched its first round of public financing.

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"But for your sake? You are blaming me."

In Hangzhou, the golf course was green and the grass was calm. Xie Jingxing's face was hidden under his ball cap, and the sunlight could only illuminate the smile on the corners of his mouth.

"Snapped."

Mr. Ma swung the club hard, and the ball flew far away in an arc in the air. He said calmly, "The financing was supposed to start on the 6th of last month, but I stopped it."

On July 7, when the stock market was in a bloodbath, Xie Jingxing announced a 5 billion self-rescue plan on the news that evening.

"So what is Ant Financial's valuation in this round?" he asked with interest.

Mr. Ma waved to the caddie behind him to drive to the front first: "The valuation is 450 billion US dollars, and the financing is 120 billion RMB."

“Less than 5% equity share.”

Xie Jingxing swung his club in admiration, and more than a dozen men and women in the distance applauded and thanked him for his good play. These caddies did not accept tips and only ate meat.

Social Security, PICC, China Life, China Development Bank, China Post, and Jinpu, all of them are state-owned assets. There is no state-owned asset of a higher level than them.

Xie Jingxing felt that he was a junior here, but Teacher Ma asked him to come to the table and share a piece of meat.

"But for your sake."

He savored the taste a second time: "To be honest, you flatter me too much."

"When will you take over Meituan?" Teacher Ma walked forward without making any comment.

Xie Jing Xing looked up at the sun and squinted his eyes: "It should be soon, either next month or the month after next."

"From the time we met until now, you seem to have never been vague." Teacher Ma hinted.

Xie Jingxing was speechless: "I benefited a lot from your supper at the Internet Conference last year."

"Ha, modesty."

Teacher Ma smiled and said, "Then I will start moving first. I hope you can help me."

"grateful."

Xie Jingxing didn't care much. Two months ago, Alibaba was caught off guard by Meituan's collusion with Tencent. The moment it launched Koubei.com in retaliation, it meant that war was inevitable.

What Mr. Ma meant by taking action first was that word-of-mouth.com had two months to prepare its food and military supplies.

When Meituan is acquired by Xinda E, the entire battlefield in the local life sector will be cleared. At this moment, the two friends who are talking and laughing will be the ones who most want to eat each other alive.

So why invest in Ant Financial?
Mr. Ma believes that Xinda E is not a company in the traditional sense, an agent launched by an Internet giant in the chaos of taking sides, but a unicorn company under Xie Capital, which is a combination of Yunshan Group and Taihe Xiyou.

In short, Xie Jingxing has truly become a faction of his own, a faction of Internet giants that has no desire to operate its own payment business.

Regardless of the final outcome between New Dang E and Koubei, Tencent will not be the biggest winner.

"Grapefruit Capital is going to start raising funds for two new funds, one USD fund of 50 billion and one RMB fund of 150 billion. Mr. Ma, would you like to invest?" Xie Jingxing walked forward.

Teacher Ma suddenly looked back and said, "Aren't people in your circle pessimistically predicting that there will be a 'money panic' next?"

"That's right, only in this way can I be worthy of your high regard." Xie Jingxing explained seriously.

Song Anli stood aside in silence. Originally, the US dollar fund was expected to raise 35 billion US dollars, and the RMB fund was expected to raise 100 billion, which was a reasonable calculation.

But it doesn't matter, everything Xie Jingxing did has never been reasonable.

Song Anli blinked her bright eyes and thought, but for the sake of the Lord, there is no need to hesitate...

(End of this chapter)