DF Chapter 40
by Volare“What’s going on? Sheng Jia, did you secretly go for further studies behind our backs?”
Listening to the professional jargon coming from Sheng Jia’s mouth, Xu Lijing was utterly confused. “We agreed to study together, how did you suddenly make such great strides?”
Sheng Jia glanced at her, “Because before coming, I spent three days studying business communication terminology.”
“Knowing too much might not be good, but it’s enough to pretend you’re very professional.”
This time, Song Yi wasn’t responsible for the negotiation. Dressed in a small suit with small sunglasses, her 1.7-meter height was very imposing.
Xu Lijing and Su Zhaolin, on the other hand, perked up at Sheng Jia’s words.
“Is this the legendary industry jargon? Why didn’t you share this sooner?” Su Zhaolin hurriedly urged, “Hurry up and let me see too, otherwise I’ll feel a little unsure.”
Sheng Jia sent a file to the group chat when she heard this, “You didn’t ask me for it either.”
Her expression was a little helpless.
Sheng Jia was definitely not the type to think so much for others, and Xu Lijing and Su Zhaolin were also fairly carefree. Their team hadn’t had much of a break-in period, let alone such tacit understanding.
After the two received the vocabulary, they started to study seriously. Sheng Jia reviewed Liu Yishan’s plan that she had recorded while visiting, and after confirming it with Song Ji’an, she sent it to the professional assessment personnel sent by Song Ningqiu.
Before long, a preliminary estimate came back from the other end.
—6.72 million.
This only included Liu Yishan’s budget for expanding the scale, establishing a laboratory, and a self-produced feed processing plant.
Her initial plan for the future was definitely not limited to this. Behind the old farmer’s pig farm, there were still hundreds of acres of barren land, which showed her ambition when she chose the location in the first place.
Sheng Jia and the others had never handled such a large number. Millions of dollars seemed like a few dozen yuan, calculated by them and ready to be spent so easily.
Sheng Jia was rarely in a daze. So this was Song Ji’an’s world.
She turned her head to look at Song Ji’an, who was communicating with the assessment personnel on the other side. Her face was still serious, but she couldn’t see any reverence for money.
Song Ji’an was already wondering how to negotiate later, and how much she could concede at most. This 6.72 million might be unattainable for ordinary people for a lifetime, but for her, it was just a practice run to impress her mother. Even if Song Ji’an tried to appear ordinary in her daily life, and tried to be approachable, at this moment, the gap between them was already obvious.
Sheng Jia thought of Sheng Huaiying’s salary, a fixed salary of three thousand five a month. She would have to work hard for one thousand nine hundred and twenty months, or one hundred and sixty years, without spending a penny to earn that much.
Class divided them with a clear red line. While they were still shocked by the money, Song Ji’an was in deep thought, unconsciously nudging Sheng Jia, “Sheng Jia, look, I brought a budget of 15 million this time. More than that might not be possible, but according to my past exchanges with Liu Yishan, she doesn’t like to say everything. The follow-up plan probably has at least another 10 million or so that she didn’t say, and she wants a share of probably more than 60 percent.”
“I have a question,” Xu Lijing suddenly asked, “Her current valuation is more than 20 million, and your investment accounts for almost three-quarters of her valuation. According to the funds, taking more than half should be completely possible.”
“No, her equity structure is not just funds, and this 20 million doesn’t constitute the entire equity. Part of her equity structure is the value calculated according to technology. We don’t know that part of the value, so the specific valuation doesn’t include pig farming technology, breeding technology, and the like.” Song Ji’an explained, “This part of the deficiency allows them to seize the opportunity. When the time comes, whether it is more or less, they will quote themselves.”
This was also the reason why Song Ji’an wasn’t very confident, and according to Liu Yishan’s plan, she must have already divided the shares they could split cleanly. To fight for more, she needed more negotiation skills or conditions sufficient for the other party to give up.
In addition to money, the conditions included manpower. Song Ji’an had several other plans in mind from the beginning, but she wasn’t very confident, because her cooperation with Liu Yishan was only based on getting money. What they agreed on was that Song Ji’an would not intervene in the factory’s management and operation. If she followed up with the plan she envisioned, her people might insert themselves into it, violating this promise.
“Why don’t you write down all your remaining thoughts?” Su Zhaolin suggested, “Let’s speculate about the possible reactions of the other party one by one and prepare in advance.”
Song Ji’an nodded.
She had made a total of five extra preparations in her heart, from which it could be inferred that Liu Yishan might refuse.
“Sheng Jia, what do you think?” Xu Lijing asked Sheng Jia, who hadn’t said much since calculating the investment amount of 6.72 million.
Only then did Sheng Jia slowly put down her phone. She rubbed her temples before saying, “According to Director Liu’s goals and ambitions that Song Ji’an mentioned, if you want to use low equity in exchange for the other party’s compromise, whether you recommend talents from your side to enter the management, R&D, or ordinary employee level, I don’t think the other party will agree, unless you give up more interests, so much that she doesn’t care about her power being dispersed, and that she is supervised by your people.”
“Then what ideas do you have?” Song Ji’an wasn’t angry at being rejected, but instead curiously asked Sheng Jia.
According to Sheng Jia’s character, if she didn’t have other opinions, it was absolutely impossible for her to completely deny others.
Sure enough, in the next second, Sheng Jia said, “You only recommend, don’t arrange.”
Song Ji’an asked with interest, “What do you mean?”
“According to Liu Yishan’s future structure, the expansion area will be at least three times larger than it is now. Expansion means that the number of employees and talents needed will increase. There are only two recruitment paths, either social recruitment or campus recruitment. Not to mention social recruitment, let’s talk about campus recruitment. Ordinary employees might not matter, but if you want to recruit high-tech talents, that is, graduates from famous universities, her factory doesn’t have the competitiveness.” Sheng Jia said, “Most of the companies participating in campus recruitment at famous universities are stronger than her. Her location and salary may not be able to attract outstanding talents. As for social recruitment, it’s not impossible to dig up technical talents in social recruitment. Most of the job seekers in social recruitment have work experience. Ordinary talents might be easy to find, but why would talented people who are willing to take root here and start from scratch apply here instead of higher-level units?”
“She wants to expand and develop to become bigger and stronger, so she must pass the talent barrier. Your conditions with her are not necessarily a must, but should be recommendations from the beginning.” Sheng Jia continued, “Arranging will only make the other party feel your invasion, but if it is a recommendation, then the other party owes you a favor.”
“Think about it, going everywhere to recruit and having the cooperation partner recommend relevant and reliable talents for her to interview and train herself, which one will she choose?”
Song Ji’an’s eyes lit up slightly, “You’re right, and these people can’t be handled by me. I can directly transfer a batch of reliable job applications that were not accepted from Song’s Heavy Industry to her, so that she can ask them herself if they are willing to come to the interview. This is a complete favor, without any personal ideas.”
“And the shares I want can’t be too few, I have to ask for more. This is helping her solve a big problem, so it can’t be negotiated through negotiation.” The more Song Ji’an said, the more confident she became, and she punched Sheng Jia’s shoulder, “I can’t tell, Sheng Jia, you have so many clever ideas.”
“Do you Zhao’s Heavy Industry have talents in the animal husbandry industry?” Su Zhaolin couldn’t help but ask, “Isn’t your family just doing the steel industry?”
“More than that,” Song Ji’an counted, “Although my family mainly operates in heavy industry, it actually involves many other side businesses, such as real estate, fisheries, aquaculture, and tourism. It’s just that the most famous recently are Jingang Heavy Industry and newly developed related products.”
“What a rich and powerful family.” Xu Lijing gave her a thumbs up, and suddenly remembered something, and joked, “Speaking of which, won’t we have to worry about finding a job in the future with this resume?”
Song Ji’an waved her hand, put her arm around Xu Lijing’s shoulder, and raised her chin, “Where else do you want to apply for a job? If I form a team in the future, how can I not have a place for you?”
With such a definite answer, everyone could see that she was serious. Xu Lijing put away her hippie smile and said seriously, “Then I still have to study hard in the future and strive to go to your legal department. I can’t get in through the back door and embarrass you.”
“What about me? I’ll go to the bodyguard academy for further studies after graduation and be your security captain?” Song Yi laughed, “It seems good too. I searched for the treatment of the security captain of your Song’s Heavy Industry some time ago and found that it has already surpassed most middle-level managers in enterprises, and it also requires at least a special forces level.”
“It’s more promising to be a personal bodyguard,” Song Ji’an suggested, “The salary of several bodyguards around my mother is almost six figures every month.”
“Wow,” Song Yi heard the value of personal bodyguards for the first time, “Thank you, Little Song, for giving me a new goal to work hard for. If I have the opportunity to participate in the Olympic Games in the future, I will apply to your Song’s after I retire.”
“An Olympic champion as a personal bodyguard?” Su Zhaolin laughed, “Can the dream be bigger? You’re already an Olympic champion, can you still lack money?”
“It’s up to you. Can’t the Olympic champion also take on some private work?” Song Yi’s eyes lit up, “That’s a job with a million-dollar annual salary. And according to the current premium, it may be even higher in the future.”
Seeing this, Su Zhaolin said with her cheeks propped up, “What about me? My sister has changed her attitude recently and is very lenient to me. She even lets me choose whatever major I want in college.”
“What major do you like?” Xu Lijing asked.
“Me? Actually, I want to study chemical engineering. My sister said that my family’s money is enough to support me. I can pursue my dreams with interest. Last semester, Grandma Meng gave me the key to the chemistry lab, and I sneaked in to do a lot of experiments. I like it so much.”
For the first time, Su Zhaolin’s eyes showed a obsessed look, “You don’t know how wonderful the reaction between chemical reagents is.”
“I think I have to find a sugar daddy now, and I hope to get money from Song Ji’an here to invest in the laboratory in the future,” she thought happily, “I will definitely not let your money go to waste.”
Song Ji’an nodded when she heard this, “I also believe you won’t.”
Su Zhaolin’s grades were on par with hers, and her overall qualities were extremely strong. She absolutely believed that the other party could do what she wanted to do.
The topic went off track while they were chatting, but no one cared. Instead, Song Ji’an couldn’t help but turn her head and ask Sheng Jia: “Sheng Jia, what do you want to do in the future.”
She didn’t realize that while she was enthusiastically discussing with Xu Lijing and the others, Sheng Jia’s eyes never left her, and it could even be said that she was always watching her.
Sheng Jia was watching her radiance, watching her make promises about the future with her friends with a wave of her hand, watching that free and easy soul with unlimited confidence.
She couldn’t convince herself to participate in the life they were building, because her future was ethereal. She didn’t know where her future would lead.
So, there was no answer to this question.
She could only shake her head and say to Song Ji’an: “I don’t know yet, and I haven’t thought so much about it.”
“I know, this is just looking at the present and the feet, the most practical way to go step by step.” Su Zhaolin nodded, “Anyway, Sheng Jia, your grades are so good, other schools will probably be vying for you in the future, so you can choose any major you want.”
No, actually it wasn’t.
Sheng Jia replied silently in her heart.
She looked very far ahead and planned many futures for herself, but she didn’t know which future she would end up in.