After the Divorce, I Could Hear the Voice of the Future
Chapter 444 - 439: The Fox Borrows the Tiger's Majesty, Waving the Big Flag

In his spare time, Lu Liang scrolled through his phone and came to realize that the comment section of his Weibo Douyin account had turned into a wishing well.

Last month's status update had reached over fifty-thousand comments.

"How did it suddenly cause such a big reaction?" he wondered to himself. After several years of work, he was no longer unknown.

As a person who often appeared in the news, he was no longer an instant hot search topic with just any small piece of news.

Hu Weiwei knocked on the door and entered, hearing Lu Liang talking to himself, she smiled and asked, "Mr. Lu, do you know about TMD?"

Internet companies also had new and old forces, the old were the BAT, Baidu, Ali, and Tencent.

To correspond with them, and as a more affectionate nickname, Toutiao became T, Meituan M, and DiDi D.

Among these companies, two are vital to people's livelihoods, especially DiDi, which has had one violent incident after another, pushing it into the limelight time and again.

"What incidents?"

Lu Liang picked up the boxed meal that Hu Weiwei had brought over. He would probably be busy tonight and just wanted to grab a quick bite.

"There are too many, countless harassment and indecent cases, and just in the past two months there have been two particularly vicious cases."

Hu Weiwei sighed as she recounted the stories of an air hostess and a female college student who passed away in their prime.

At this time, Lu Liang stepped in, and netizens naturally placed their hopes on him, hoping he could make a change.

Lu Liang was silent for a moment, then said softly, "Change will definitely come, but now is not the time."

Change has costs, and as long as the price to be paid is lower than the cost of change, you can postpone it.

During a company's rapid growth phase, there are definitely areas that cannot be covered, but as long as no major trouble arises, you can pretend nothing happened.

He suddenly looked at Hu Weiwei, "Mr. Hu, wasn't Mobike the same back then? Weren't there any cases of riders running red lights?"

Hu Weiwei was at a loss for words, silent, as Lu Liang gently spoke with a hint of warning, "Having empathy is good, but as a manager, you should first think from the company's perspective."

He had always wanted the company to have more 'softness', to be both rigid and flexible, to achieve harmony between yin and yang for true greatness.

But this 'softness' could not dominate. Instead, everything should still be considered from the company's perspective.

Liu Qing did quite well. After the incidents, they reformed the relevant features, but only imposed restrictions, not a total ban.

Because if you completely ban it, you lose a significant amount of profit, and drivers, due to many restrictions, would switch to other companies.

Although DiDi virtually monopolizes the ride-hailing market, its foundation is not stable and there are formidable competitors looking for opportunities.

Like Meituan, or Douyin, becoming a source of joy for the whole family is the aim of every internet company.

It's just a pity, Liu Qing is destined not to work for him.

"Mr. Lu, I understand." Hu Weiwei looked serious, catching the hint from Lu Liang's implicitly severe words.

Lu Liang smiled without saying much, picked up his boxed meal, and went to the temporary office next door.

"Did you get all of that?"

He handed over the materials given by Li Junyi to Xu Jiawei, instructing him to destroy them after reading.

While reorganizing the application materials over the next half-month, they'd make cuts slowly.

They couldn't let others know they had come with answers in hand, otherwise, Liu Qing might get desperate.

It was like boiling a frog in warm water, by the time she realized what was happening, it would be too late to turn the tide.

Old Liu still seemed so defiant because his backers were still strong and resilient.

Lu Liang didn't actually want to have a showdown with him to the end because, after all, both had extensive assets and wouldn't make rash all-or-nothing moves.

When the time came when there was no turning back, the Liu family would make the right choice and would not stiffen up over something that had already become a fait accompli.

Xu Jiawei pondered with the documents in hand and nodded, "Mr. Lu, I've memorized everything clearly."

"Report to DiDi tomorrow, form the IPO team, and take full responsibility in my absence."

Lu Liang walked over to the shredder, fed the dozen pages of paper into it, and after shredding them, he collected the scraps and flushed them down the toilet.

This temporary office was just a resting place for them; the formation of the DiDi IPO team and everyday office work should still be done at the DiDi company.

Xu Jiawei fought back his excitement and nodded. He was finally going to follow in the footsteps of his predecessors, expanding the borders for Lu Liang and the company.

As night deepened, Lu Liang left the company, planning on heading to the Guangqu Jinmao Mansion near Beijing East Station.

He didn't really want to go. In a few days, Zhang Tian'ai was off to film a show and wouldn't return to the country until next month.

But Yang Mi insisted their cat could do somersaults, and Lu Liang was curious to see what was going on.

The car traveled along the road,

Lu Liang suddenly received a call from Ota Ling.

His tone was extremely gentle, utterly ingratiating, "Mr. Lu, how have you been doing lately? I hope my foolish son hasn't caused you any trouble."

"Renjun is doing quite well, his ability to handle affairs is very strong, Wen Chao often praises him to me, truly a case of 'like father, like son.'"

Lu Liang's face showed contemplation, he suddenly gestured and took out his tablet from his bag, and opened up the day's Bitcoin market conditions.

Suddenly, a knowing look crossed his face.

Wen Chao should have followed his instructions, having Mitsui Sumitomo and Hyundai Group exert their effort in Japan and Korea, touting the advantages of cryptocurrency.

He hasn't checked in a few days, but Bitcoin has soared from $3,325 that night, to a closing price of $4,652 the previous second.

Ota Ling should already know the investment product, and combining it with when they probably collaborated, it wouldn't be hard to guess the approximate cost price.

It should be below $2,000, possibly around $1,700 or $1,800, so by now, it has at least doubled.

Thus, it was no surprise that he would make a call to inquire politely.

One billion dollars, in a little over a month, with a guaranteed return of at least 100%; even if he treated Lu Liang like his own father, it would be deserved.

Ota Ling's smile brightened, "Mr. Lu, you're too kind. It's my son's great fortune to have been able to help you in this life."

He spoke of the real reason behind Bitcoin's recent fluctuations, their hiring of finance experts to heavily promote it, which was just one aspect.

What really sent Bitcoin's prices skyrocketing was the announcement that it would be listed on the Chicago Commodity Exchange a while back.

That day, after the news was released.

Representatives from BlackRock, Vanguard, and others subsequently met with Mizuho Bank, Mitsubishi Japan United, and their own Mitsui Sumitomo.

According to Ota Ling's knowledge, neighboring banks like Han Ya, National, and Woori, which were held by Wall Street institutions, were also interviewed.

They collectively introduced a new financial concept, emphasizing the need for a new investment channel to face the increasingly complex international situation, with requirements for decentralization, global liquidity, investment value, and technological innovation.

At first, they didn't understand what it meant and pondered over it for a long time.

It wasn't until Wen Chao explained to him that their investment project was Bitcoin, a new type of cryptocurrency.

That's when it clicked for Ota Ling: decentralization, global liquidity, investment value, and technological innovation.

This was a glaringly obvious fit, wasn't it?

As a result, as Mitsui Sumitomo realized this, they extensively touted the advantages of Bitcoin, and other banks tasked with this also caught on.

They all joined the camp promoting cryptocurrency and started buying Bitcoin in large quantities, completing the task set by their masters, and the market took off directly.

"Mr. Lu, in my fifty-two years of life, there haven't been many people I admire, but you are definitely one of them."

Ota Ling's admiration for Lu Liang flowed endlessly, like the surging river, like the Yellow River overflowing, uncontrollable once it started.

Now, even if Lu Liang told him that his first love, Nakamori Akina, was a man, he wouldn't have the slightest doubt.

"A few months ago, I was in New York assisting Panda with its IPO and heard them talking about this."

Lu Liang squinted his eyes and forcefully clung to the prestige, pretending that he had perfectly integrated into Wall Street and become one of them.

After all, the fact that Ota Ling mentioned 'interviews' showed that it was a directive sent from a superior to an inferior.

The banks of both countries acknowledge the US Dollar as their father, so his pretending to fit in, to enjoy the godfather treatment in the future, wasn't too much to ask for.

Moreover, with Ota Ling's disclosure, the context behind the Bitcoin surge became gradually clearer.

It was as Lu Liang had initially suspected, the secret financial consortiums behind Wall Street.

A market that was just barely over twenty billion dollars had rapidly inflated by 20 times in just a few months; it seemed only they had the capacity.

Ota Ling's expression grew serious, and his tone became even more respectful, "Mr. Lu, may I know when you are planning to visit Tokyo next?"

He wanted to cling tightly to Lu Liang's coattails, even if it meant bringing down the Moon Goddess Chang'e to his bed, he would find a way to do it.

As a Chinese-born and bred individual who has access to Wall Street's core projects.

Sun Zhengyi, with his Hu Jian ancestry, a Korean-Japanese, grew up in America.

He could rely on his identity to play both ends against the middle in his youth, but once he held a high position, others saw him as a foreigner.

That's why he eventually settled down in Tokyo, but it took him most of his life to barely gain acceptance.

But Lu Liang had taken only two and a half, less than three years, truly terrifying, even more so than the Squid Clan.

"I've been quite busy lately, so I'm not quite sure, but I'll definitely inform you in advance before I go."

Lu Liang was somewhat absent-minded, feeling like he was playing with fire, worried that one day it would burn him.

After ending the call with Ota Ling, and before he reached Jinmao Mansion, he received a call from Zheng Xuanyi.

It was another round of flattery, admiring Lu Liang's foresight, and Lu Liang rolled out the same rhetoric he used to deal with Ota Ling.