163: Chapter 164 Tearing Off the Entertainment Label, Aiming for an IPO! The Reborn's Ultimate Offshore Defense

Hearing this instruction, General Manager Chen Shengqiang felt the nerves that had been taut for over half a year finally release.

He nodded heavily.

He knew clearly in his heart.

This meant that the "sinking meat grinder" that spat out pure cash every day was finally going to have its power cut.

"Once this wave of wartime subsidies is completely digested, which is to say, after a smooth transition into next year, the tone of our entire market must change."

Shen Du leaned back in his leather chair, his gaze profound as he began to plan the blueprint for Jiyuan Technology's healing and recovery after the war:

"Just like when we defeated the Beijing Circle families for the first time, we must begin to gradually withdraw all extreme wartime financial leverage."

"Let the high-pressure dividends slowly cool down. Let the entire merchant ecosystem of the Xinghuo Platform, as well as the underlying Four-Way-One-Reach joint logistics network, begin a period of smooth self-healing and repair."

"With the loss of the foreign capital disruptor who held tens of billions of dollars, the domestic sinking market has completely become the undisputed private territory of Jiyuan Technology. Once we lift the burden of subsidies and there are no more wounds bleeding uncontrollably..."

Shen Du paused, his lips curling into the domineering arc unique to those in power:

"This machine, Spark, will recover at the fastest speed, unstoppably, to its original healthy financial state. It will turn back into that profit-making machine with terrifying blood-creating capabilities!"

The complete calming of the war.

For an ordinary entrepreneur, this might be the finish line to pop champagne.

But for Shen Du, whose vision had long since transcended the era, this was merely clearing a roadblock on a new journey.

Shen Du crossed his hands against his chin, slowly withdrawing his gaze from the macro sand table.

He cast it toward the more treacherous and vast global capital market.

"There is one more thing, the most important one."

Shen Du's tone suddenly became solemn, and the air in the office seemed to solidify with his mood:

"Old Chen, from its founding until now, Jiyuan Technology has been charging forward at full speed, and its size has expanded into a true behemoth. Now that the war has subsided, it is time for us to prepare for our IPO!"

Hearing the words "IPO," General Manager Chen Shengqiang's pupils constricted.

He knew very well that this was the final leap for a startup to cross the dragon gate and truly be crowned king.

"But if we take our current setup directly to ring the bell on the other side of the ocean, the people on Wall Street won't give us the highest valuation."

Shen Du pointed out the fatal weakness of the current structure with surgical precision:

"In the eyes of international capital, no matter how much money Spark Live makes, it is just a 'cash cow' with ample cash flow. It will be firmly labeled with low-end tags like 'entertainment company' or 'internet marketing platform'."

Shen Du stood up, the vast ambition of a chess player fully revealed at this moment:

"Therefore, starting this year, Jiyuan Technology must completely tear off its entertainment label! It will no longer be a simple entertainment internet company. It must transform into a true technology company with hard-core technological barriers!"

"Go notify the Legal Department and the Strategic Investment Department."

Shen Du decisively issued the largest internal fission order since the founding of Jiyuan Technology:

"Effective immediately, completely reorganize the company's equity structure! Separate and strip the light-asset 'entertainment sector,' led by Spark Live, from the 'technology entity' that possesses core barriers!"

"I want to put the heavy assets we've invested in the deep waters of semiconductors and those future-critical chip foundry factories into the main body of Jiyuan Technology! Use the most hard-core underlying technology to break open the gates of Wall Street capital and push the valuation to the limit!"

This earth-shattering asset restructuring was not just for maximizing the valuation for the US IPO.

It was also the opening move in Shen Du's grand blueprint for going global.

Shen Du walked to the huge floor-to-ceiling window, looking down at the prosperous eastern metropolis beneath his feet.

His profound gaze had already pierced through the mist of the Pacific Ocean, locking onto the vast blue ocean on the other side.

"We have already exhausted the domestic sinking market, but that is far from enough."

Shen Du turned around and declared Jiyuan Technology's next ultimate strategy word by word:

"Money must absolutely not be earned only locally. We cannot let even a bite of the fat meat of overseas capital, or the huge cake of globalization, slip past us!"

"Once the equity structure is reorganized and the foundation is completely stabilized, we will prepare to enter the overseas market in full force!"

With the issuance of Shen Du's thunderous instructions, in just a few short months, the Jiyuan system, which had originally been like a massive nebula, completed an earth-shattering equity fission.

Under the new legal framework, the completely stripped-off "Jiyuan Technology" and "Jiyuan Entertainment" were no longer an unwieldy, bundled community.

Instead, they all became offshore sub-matrices directly and absolutely controlled by "Shen's Capital," which was established in Hong Kong and deeper overseas tax havens.

To outsiders, Shen Du now had the backing of that towering tree, Secretary Shen Hai of the Shanghai City Hall, making him invincible and all-powerful in the domestic business world.

There was no need to spend huge sums of money to create such a complex, and even strongly defensive, multinational offshore structure.

But only Shen Du knew in his heart that this was the bottom line he kept in his bones as a reborn person who had lived two lives.

The intersection of politics and business has always been treacherous and filled with murderous intent.

Shen Du was not sure how long the Shen Family tree could stand tall in the ever-changing torrent of the era.

If an uncontrollable black swan event happened one day, whether he could still find such a stable development environment in the country, in Shanghai, was all an unknown.

Therefore, he absolutely dared not bet his hard-won ten-billion-dollar empire without reservation on any single shelter.

A clever rabbit has three burrows.

He had to forge the safest, most impeccable multinational retreat for himself in advance through legal and asset separation.

This almost paranoid awe and caution stemmed from Shen Du's profound reflection on the painful lessons of his previous life.

In his previous life, it was precisely because he thought of the capital market as too simple and transparent, naively believing that he could sit back and relax as long as he caught a certain trend, that he was eventually ruthlessly eliminated by multinational giants with multiple moats during the violent fluctuations of the global economic cycle and the waves of various new opportunities.

In this life, even though he relied on the foresight advantage of being more than a decade ahead, charging forward and slaughtering in the sinking market, rubbing foreign capital consortia into the ground, he would never allow himself to fall into blind arrogance and self-confidence.

Because Shen Du understood better than anyone else in this world:

This world had long since had its original trajectory changed by the wings of his reborn butterfly.

The future was no longer that absolutely clear, known script that could be copied step by step.

Precisely because of this, Jiyuan Technology absolutely could not rely on a single business to grow wildly in a greenhouse.

It had to actively undergo the most cruel multi-dimensional fission and risk-resistant development at its most glorious, peak moment of rapid growth.

Standing before the floor-to-ceiling window of his massive empire, Shen Du stood with his hands behind his back, his profound gaze piercing through the mist of the era.

Living a second life, he not only wanted to win, but he wanted to win without a single leak.

He would never allow himself to repeat the same mistakes of his previous life.

This spark of technology belonging to Jiyuan would surely ignite every inch of the global market in the posture of the most stable multinational giant.