Hikvision is quite looking forward to the upcoming meeting with Li Mu.

Li Mu's influence on the Chinese Internet is really too great, and since he made his mark in the Internet industry, he has not had any well-known stains. Moreover, Li Mu is the behind-the-scenes driver of actively promoting the development of the Internet industry, allowing the Internet industry to flourish while also paying more attention to the whole society. Therefore, for practitioners in the Internet and high-tech fields, they have a natural favorable impression of Li Mu himself.

Hikvision is looking forward to a certain degree to cooperate with Li Mu, because Li Mu represents a huge resource and influence in the Internet field. Cooperating with him will greatly promote the development of the company. Just look at Shenzhou Computer, you will know that their current development speed has entered the stage of turbulence.

Everyone wants to take advantage of Li Mu's ride-sharing, and the same is true for Hikvision. They have witnessed the rise of Shenzhou with their own eyes. As companies focusing on hardware, they look forward to becoming the second Shenzhou computer under the Li Mu's ecological system.

Because the company is full of expectations for Li Mu, they did not realize that the famous Li Mu has extended his sharp fangs to his newly established unpopular company.

The representative sent by Hikvision to meet Li Mu this time was Zhao Xianliang's old classmate Zhong Xinhua. The main reason why he was asked to represent the entire Hikvision, even the entire 52 institute, was that he and Zhao Xianliang were old acquaintances, and Li Mu came to discuss cooperation because Zhao Xianliang made a match. With this relationship, Zhong Xinhua is naturally the most suitable representative for interviewing Li Mu.

Zhong Xinhua booked a teahouse by the West Lake very early in advance, which is famous for tea and Jiangsu and Zhejiang dim sum. When we met for the first time, Li Mu ordered him to meet him in private and talk about the general direction. If the general direction is OK, the two sides will take the team to sit down and discuss in depth.

At 5:30 pm, Li Mu met Zhong Xinhua in the agreed teahouse.

Zhong Xinhua and Zhao Xianliang are about the same age and are in their forties this year.

However, he is different from someone like Zhao Xianliang who has been working in the mall for 20 years. He has been working hard for more than 20 years since he graduated from university, so he looks a little older than Zhao Xianliang. His hair on his temples is half white, and the feeling that Li Mu gives him is three words: inconspicuous.

With inconspicuous clothes, inconspicuous figure, and inconspicuous appearance and temperament, Zhong Xinhua looks more like an ordinary middle school teacher than a scientific researcher.

However, Zhong Xinhua is very familiar with Li Mu. Because he has seen too many interviews and reports of Li Mu, he did not feel unfamiliar with the first time he saw him. Instead, he felt that Li Mu was indeed as advertised by the media, exuding the aura of a successful person all over his body. Although he was young, he completely turned himself into a scum in his momentum.

Zhong Xinhua, who was a little nervous, shook hands with Li Mu, and sat opposite each other. For the first time, he observed this legendary young man close-up. He felt that he was not different from that on TV. He was very casual, and when he met, he took the initiative to call himself Uncle Zhong, which made him a little flattered.

Li Mu and Zhong Xinhua first made some polite decisions, but then did not get to the point immediately, but chatted casually about the only person they knew each other, namely Zhao Xianliang.

Zhong Xinhua was very curious about how Li Mu knew Zhao Xianliang, who was over 20 years older than him, and the fields they were engaged in were very different. It is logical that it was difficult to have intersections.

Because Zhong Xinhua is Zhao Xianliang's high school classmate, Li Mu said to Zhong Xinhua: "Uncle Zhong, I'm going to tell you that Uncle Zhao's daughter is my girlfriend."

"Oh?" Zhong Xinhua widened his eyes and exclaimed: "Is Ziqiu your girlfriend?"

Li Mu nodded: "That's right."

Zhong Xinhua quickly came to his senses and said with a happy look: "I really didn't expect that you were a virtuous future son-in-law..."

Zhong Xinhua was particularly happy. Li Mu had such a relationship with Zhao Xianliang. He and Zhao Xianliang were high school classmates and old friends for many years. In the future, Hikvision and Li Mu could play the emotional card in a tactful way. This would definitely be more beneficial to Hikvision.

Zhong Xinhua, who regards Hikvision as his own biological flesh, was thinking about how to make Hikvision better. Hikvision's current dilemma has troubled him very much. He naturally hopes that Li Mu can bring Hikvision a timely support. If it is just business transactions, the terms of cooperation will be relatively strict, but if he can mediate in terms of relationships, there should be some room for looseness.

Li Mu didn't expect that Zhong Xinhua would be so excited to answer his answer, but if you think about it carefully, you can understand that Huaxia is a society of personal relationships, and everyone hopes to rely on favors for benefits. This is understandable. You can also give a discount when buying things and finding acquaintances. What's more, if you invest in such a big thing, a little bit of relaxed conditions may also bring huge additional benefits to the company.

Zhong Xinhua's originally nervous mood has now eased a lot. He asked Li Mu impatiently: "Mr. Li has been making efforts in the Internet field, so why did he suddenly turn his attention to the security monitoring field?"

Li Mu smiled slightly and said, "Uncle Zhong, the reason why I want to get involved in the security monitoring field is actually the most important thing that I want to take security monitoring as an entry point for getting involved in hardware manufacturing."

Before Hikvision was taken into account, the plan of the "Skynet Monitoring System" was the highest secret for Li Mu in front of them, which must not be disclosed. Otherwise, once Hikvision realizes that the country will vigorously develop the urban monitoring system in the future, it will be immediately injected with a shot of a heart. It will be even more difficult to get it off at that time.

Zhong Xinhua was very surprised at Li Mu's answer. He originally thought that Li Mu had great ambitions in the field of security monitoring, so he chose this industry. Unexpectedly, Li Mu just wanted to use the security monitoring industry as an entry point.

Zhong Xinhua asked Li Mu curiously: "Mr. Li, if you want to make hardware, there are many areas that need to enter better than security monitoring, right? And the market space is much larger."

Li Mu smiled and said: "Hardware is a very long-term direction in my future plan, so if you choose an entry point, you cannot choose a too popular field, because the more popular the field, the more fierce the competition will be, and it will be more difficult to start from scratch in this field."

As he said that, Li Mu added: "If Muye Technology's first hardware project chooses a popular field and then dives into it for two or three years without any results, it will be a big blow to everyone's confidence and enthusiasm. I would rather choose an unpopular industry to practice for the team, strive to achieve rapid results, and have a smooth start, so that everyone can continue to work hard."

Zhong Xinhua carefully understood what Li Mu meant and felt that he was not only thinking right, but was very wise.

Compared with software, hardware requires more powerful technical accumulation. It is really difficult to catch up with the gap in popular hardware fields and it takes too long to implement it.

In contrast, Zhong Xinhua also admitted that the security monitoring field is not a popular industry at home and abroad, especially in China, where the market demand is pitiful, and there are only a handful of companies in the same industry. Even Hikvision has just been in the army for less than a year, and it is almost a virgin land.

Zhong Xinhua was afraid that Li Mu would have this "unpopular" first impression of the security monitoring field, which would reduce his attention and valuation of Hikvision, so he said to Li Mu: "Actually, I think that the domestic security monitoring industry will usher in a blowout in the next few years. Domestic financial industries such as banks, securities, precious metals, etc. now have an increasing demand for monitoring products. Therefore, although this industry is very unpopular now, it will definitely have great potential in the future."

Li Mu nodded, thinking that I should know this better than you. Even if you are developing a security monitoring system, you may not dare to imagine that in the future, every city in China will be covered by video surveillance; and even more, you may not dare to imagine that at a crossroads, there will be as many as dozens of cameras with various functions; the future public transportation systems will be covered by surveillance video; and in the future, there will be a driving recorder for uninterrupted cameras in almost half of the private cars in the future.

By taking over Hikvision and integrating a complete security monitoring industry chain, Li Mu can achieve the ultimate in the security monitoring industry in advance, and at the same time make a lot of technical accumulation for a larger hardware market in the future.

Li Mu said to Zhong Xinhua: "Uncle Zhong, I do have some confidence in the field of security monitoring, so this is also the fundamental motivation for me to come and meet you. But I want to know what is Hikvision's current self-valuation in the capital market?"

If a company wants to raise funds, it must first have a self-quotation, including the valuation of its intention and how many shares it is to use to raise funds. The investor then bargained according to the specific situation of the company and finally discussed a price that both parties agree. Hikvision is no exception.

Before Zhong Xinhua came, Hikvision had an internal meeting and discussed it. After analyzing many actual situations, it had a quotation plan.

Seeing Li Mu asking, Zhong Xinhua said, "Our current idea is to sell about 30% of the shares at a valuation of 40 million."

Zhong Xinhua said that the valuation of 40 million is not as confident as Zhong Xinhua said. In fact, Hikvision is not worth so much money now. If it is really put into the capital market, it is estimated that 30 million will be enough.

After talking about this price, Zhong Xinhua also looked at Li Mu with guilt, worried that this price would make Li Mu feel that Hikvision was not sincere, and also worried that if Li Mu bargained, it would be too severe.

At this time, Li Mu smiled and said, "Uncle Zhong, I respect the value of core technology. Although I don't know much about Hikvision, I still recognize Hikvision's valuation. 40 million RMB may be high in the eyes of other capital parties, but in my eyes, the price is very real, and it is even a bit low."

Zhong Xinhua asked in surprise: "Mr. Li acknowledged our offer?"

Li Mu smiled unanimously and said, "If we cooperate, I can give Hikvision a valuation of 50 million."

Zhong Xinhua was like a dream. Why did Li Mu not lower the price, but instead took the initiative to raise the price for Hikvision?
Chapter completed!