Chapter 135: Successful Exchange of Lithography Machine and Chip Design Blueprints! (Part 5/5)

“Indeed, it’s great!” Professor Li Ping nodded and said, “It looks like I’ll have to become a loyal user of the uu chat software.”

“You could promote it to other colleagues in the college, so everyone can download this chat software,” Su Xiaoli suggested.

“I’ll go find the dean later and ask him to issue a notice for all faculty and students in the college to download and use it,” Professor Li Ping said.

“Thank you! I’m very grateful!”

“What are you thanking me for! This chat software is indeed useful! It should be me thanking your Tang Feng! I hope he continues to excel and make this chat software even better!” Professor Li Ping laughed.

“That’s for sure!” Su Xiaoli appeared very confident.

Then, she bid farewell to Professor Li Ping and left.

Professor Li Ping went to the dean’s office.

Not long after, Su Xiaoli arrived at the company.

Su Ming and the others were not there.

Ning Xiao and the others were also busy.

“Where are Su Ming and the others? Didn’t they come today?” Su Xiaoli asked with interest.

“They came to the company this morning and then went to various internet cafes in the capital to promote the company’s chat software,” Ning Xiao answered.

“They really are diligent! What about Tang Feng?” Su Xiaoli continued to ask.

“He’s in the office. Two people came to the office! One of them looks familiar, but I can’t remember where I’ve seen him before,” Ning Xiao answered.

“I’ll go take a look!” Su Xiaoli said and then went to Tang Feng’s office.

Upon reaching the door, she knocked politely.

Tang Feng was discussing with the visitors and apologized before getting up to open the door.

He saw Su Xiaoli and let her in.

“These two gentlemen, let me introduce you. This is Su Xiaoli, our company’s vice president and the second largest shareholder. Also, she is my girlfriend.”

“Xiaoli, these two gentlemen are from Xuzhou. This is Mr. Ma Huateng, the CEO of Tencent, and Mr. Zhang Qing, the chief technology officer of Tencent.”

“Hello!” Su Xiaoli greeted them.

She didn’t expect Tencent to act so quickly.

In such a short time, they had approached them.

“Ms. Su, Mr. Ma and his colleagues have come mainly to discuss acquiring our company,” Tang Feng said.

“Acquiring the company?” Su Xiaoli was obviously stunned! The other party was too direct! They came directly to discuss acquisition!

“Yes,” Ma Huateng nodded and said, “Our company is very interested in the chat software developed by your company. We want to acquire it. Rest assured, we will definitely offer a price that satisfies you.”

Su Xiaoli didn’t say anything but looked at Tang Feng.

“I’ve already told Mr. Ma that I will not sell this chat software,” Tang Feng made his stance clear.

“Mr. Tang, I know the chat software you developed is very good! But our chat software already has two hundred million users! Once we acquire your chat software, we can directly copy these features over. If you don’t agree, we will find a way to copy those features anyway. It’s just a matter of you suing us. But we can drag it out until your company can no longer sustain itself,” Ma Huateng said a lot in one breath.

“Mr. Ma, are you threatening me?” Tang Feng looked at him, showing a hint of displeasure.

“I’m just reminding you. You are a math genius, the king of Go, the god of basketball, you can do many things. You don’t need to waste your time on this chat software. Besides, once we acquire your company, we can hire you as our chief consultant and give you some shares! You won’t earn less than you do now,” Ma Huateng appealed to reason and emotion, offering very tempting conditions.

“Shares are not important to me,” Tang Feng shook his head.

“What is important?” Ma Huateng asked.

“What’s important is the control over the company! I will absolutely not give up control of the company! Because I am very clear in my heart, once control is lost, it also means that my ideals cannot be realized,” Tang Feng answered.

Ma Huateng and Zhang Qing exchanged glances but didn’t speak.

“If we are willing to give up control of the company?” Ma Huateng hesitated for a moment but eventually brought it up.

“I must be hearing wrong? You are willing to give up control?” Tang Feng was very surprised.

“You heard right!” Ma Huateng nodded, saying, “If you can sell the developed chat software to Tencent, then we are willing to let you have control of Tencent.”

“Mr. Ma, do you know what the internet company I founded is called?” Tang Feng looked at him with a smile and asked.

“Li Feng Network,” Ma Huateng answered.

“The name takes one character from both Ms. Su’s and my names. For me, this company is very important. So, I cannot possibly sell the company,” Tang Feng said.

Ma Huateng didn’t speak, just glanced at Zhang Qing.

After a while, he said to Tang Feng, “I’ll go back and have a meeting with the shareholders of my company! If they agree, I can merge the entire Tencent into your Li Feng Network. We can become new partners.”

“Will your shareholders agree? After all, Tencent has two hundred million users,” Tang Feng was somewhat worried.

“I will find a way to convince them. Mr. Tang, Ms. Su, let’s leave it at that for today. Once we have a result on our side, we will contact you,” Ma Huateng stood up.

“You’ve come all the way from Xuzhou, at least have a meal before you go,” Tang Feng retained them.

“Let’s do it another day! If we can become partners, then there will be plenty of opportunities to eat together,” Ma Huateng responded.

Seeing him say this, Tang Feng didn’t insist any further.

Ma Huateng and Zhang Qing left.

Tang Feng and Su Xiaoli saw them off to the door.

Only after they watched their car leave did the two return to the company.

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