Qin Xizhen made several overseas calls to Cheng Ran, saying that Chen Muyi was working hard to secure musicians' digital copyrights, and that she was controlling this remotely while accompanying her mother on a trip to Europe. If there was something that Chen Muyi couldn't negotiate with, she would personally take action after the trip.
So far, the musicians on Cheng Ran's list are being incorporated into the Tianxing Music system step by step. When Qin Xizhen called, he said that more than 10 million yuan has been invested now, and whether he should continue to invest and take over the entire list given by Cheng Ran.
Cheng Ran said he would eat as much as he could, and Qin Xizhen asked what if the money was not enough. Cheng Ran said he could support him and give him another 10 million yuan.
Qin Xizhen's tone became much lighter afterwards.
Cheng Ran asked Qin Xizhen to lead Tianxing Music to carry out a large-scale digital music signing plan in the music industry. In fact, it was a well-targeted move. After all, no one knew yet that in the near future, with the bursting of the Nasdaq bubble, this shock wave would hit, and the domestic Internet industry would also enter a cold wave.
The birth of Mobile Dream Network at that time provided a safe haven, so later generations said that it "saved the Chinese Internet". Mobile Dream Network cooperated with more than 400 SP network service providers during that period, and provided more than 30,000 types of services. The three major portals in later generations were just a few SP providers of Dream Network at that time.
In the severe winter of China's Internet industry in the next two years, Mobile Dream Network, whose main business is short messaging, has become the most important weapon for the domestic Internet to monetize and profit from netizens.
It has also truly achieved the goal of "integrating upstream and downstream industry value chains" at the beginning of its establishment and realizing the "win-win" goal. The process from establishment to realization is exemplary.
But this was an era of barbaric growth, and the DreamNet aircraft carrier eventually ran aground and fell into pieces due to fatal problems such as poor internal management and lax supervision. However, it is undeniable that its historical contribution is huge.
The "Digital Musician Project" that Cheng Ran asked Qin Xizhen to do was actually waiting for such an opportunity. When Mobile Dream Network was founded, its revenue was 10 million in the first year, and it reached more than 150 billion a year at its peak. It directly supported the Chinese Internet to get rid of the shadow of the cold winter and triggered a wave of listing. Its power can be seen from the earliest text messages to ringtones and then to wireless music projects. In Cheng Ran's view, every link is a gold mine worth mining.
Whether it is Qin Xizhen's breakthrough in digital music copyright or CQ's SMS wireless business, there will be great achievements in the future.
Li Mingshi and Lin Xiaosong's CQs worked behind closed doors all day long to think about the business, and many new business directions emerged, but the final review was still on Cheng Ran's side.
CQ high-level meetings would be held on a weekend afternoon, which later became a CQ routine and was known as the "Upper Council" by the outside world.
Many years later, people have been speculating about the origins of this practice. Some say it is convenient to summarize the development report of the past week, to have a leading role, and to propose a work plan for the next week. This form of weekly plan is the reason why CQ has been so cautious in launching various projects that keep pace with the times during its development.
But in fact, neither of them is true. Only the earliest group of elders knew why there was a "Senate" on Saturday afternoon. It was purely because Cheng Ran did not have classes at that time and had the most free time.
At the weekend meeting, Cheng Ran looked at many developments and finally circled two directions. One was CQ's virtual currency. This plan was proposed by a technician named Xu Ye. The idea was to use virtual currency to purchase various value-added services. The other direction was the "virtual community" plan proposed by Li Mingshi.
Cheng Ran circled the last plan, indicating that the virtual community can be connected with Lianzhong. The community can be connected to the Lianzhong platform and can directly go online to play games. At the same time, CQ's virtual currency can be used to purchase and exchange Lianzhong coins, but it can only be exchanged in one direction. Secondly, the number of coin markets should be controlled every month to avoid the economic system crisis of the platform.
At the same time, the personalized customization business of the virtual community can be put forward as the "Avatar Project".
While everyone in CQ was still figuring it out, Cheng Ran explained, "Avatar, originally known as Avatar in English, has its roots in Sanskrit, and generally means incarnation, reincarnation, or the descent of a god from heaven to the world.
CQ's "Avatar Project" is to allow people to have an avatar on the Internet. We will add the customization of personal image in the new version, and also launch a virtual mall, where users can dress up their own characters and pets, and use CQ coins to buy related decorations. When we can't have face-to-face conversations through video, we can let people use virtual images to greet the person on the other end of the computer.
Moreover, even if photos and videos can be used to communicate, people may not be willing to show their true faces on the Internet, so Avatar will be a good choice for them. "
As soon as this conclusion came out, the entire Senate was in an uproar. Everyone expressed their opinions and spoke one after another. They all felt that this model was very attractive and exciting.
Xu Liang from the product department said, "That's great! The character could be more beautiful, which fits my imagination of a tall, handsome man with square eyebrows and a triangular waist!"
Cheng Ran said, "It's not limited to the personalized clothing of the characters. We can also use some higher-level items to reflect the user's payment level, such as a car that only costs 998 yuan, a luxury house and other backgrounds. Cars can also be divided into family cars, mid-range cars, luxury cars, sports cars and so on."
Someone thought about it and said excitedly, "Driving a sports car in front of a beautiful woman must be very cool... It naturally meets people's desire to show off in social situations."
A group of people looked at Cheng Ran and murmured, "Are you a devil..."
Li Dong from the marketing department thought for a moment and said, "This is indeed a good product, but it is inevitable that once the item hierarchy system is involved, some people will lose the meaning and interest in continuing to pursue it after buying the highest-end product."
Cheng Ran said, "On the one hand, this virtual store will continue to expand, and people will have as many choices as possible for things of the same level. On the other hand, we can also solve this problem. These virtual items have a validity period, and the maximum retention period is six months. When the time is up, the system will take them back and launch newer, more attractive, and more popular products."
After Cheng Ran finished speaking, he saw a pair of eyes staring at him blankly.
"Well, what's the problem?"
"Are you... a demon?"
…
Yang Xia's arrival caused quite a stir in No. 10 Middle School. Of course, the first thing that happened was Zhu Xu and Yang Xia walking and laughing together, which immediately made this already outstanding girl enter the sight of countless people.
Later I learned that she was a transfer student and used to be classmates with Cheng Ran and Jiang Hongshao. There were still many transfer students at this stage in No. 10 Middle School. Among them, there were many who did not do well in the high school entrance examination and came down to repeat the year. However, Yang Xia became the only topic of discussion.
Later, facts proved that gold shines everywhere, especially after Yang Xia successively rejected the pursuit of two famous boys in Class 3 and Class 8 who either had good grades or were good at sports, she was suddenly put at the center of public attention.
The key point is that there is nothing wrong with Yang Xia. I heard that her grades are also very good, and she seems to be very popular with the teachers. Several subject teachers have talked to her individually with varying degrees of friendliness, asking her if she is still used to their lectures and if there are any questions. It can be seen that Yang Xia is also a "seed player" in the eyes of the teachers.
During the physical education class that day, Zhu Xu bought some water and sat here, looking at Yang Xia from afar under the shade of the tree. Indeed, when he learned that he and Yang Xia were in the same class, he was very excited, and there was something indescribable called fate growing in his heart.
Ben's heart, which had just been rekindled because he saw Yang Xia and Cheng Ran greeting each other on the first day of school, was extinguished by Cheng Ran. But then he observed Zhu Xu and found that Yang Xia was not only cold towards Cheng Ran. When she and Jiang Hongshao met in the same school, they were very natural.
Then Zhu Xu came to the conclusion that indifference was just her protective color when she came to this strange school to cope with the unfamiliar environment. She would only remove her protective color in front of people she was familiar with, such as Cheng Ran and Jiang Hongshao, who were once in the same school in Shanhai.
So for a girl like Yang Xia, once you really get into her heart, the enthusiasm that follows and the indifference she gives you at the beginning are absolutely worlds apart. It is definitely a sight worth seeing.
So when Yang Xia was resting after physical education class, Zhu Xu, who always had a mysophobia, came to her and sat down directly on the flower bed without caring about getting his light-colored pants dirty.
He didn't care how much discussion this action caused or how many people on the playground covered their mouths.
This is even more the effect he wanted to achieve.
Yang Xia unscrewed the cap of the mineral water bottle, turned her head with water in her mouth, looked at him, swallowed the water and smiled at him.
The two chatted casually for a while, just talking about their feelings about No. 10 Middle School during the new period of school. Yang Xia said it was very good, better than she had imagined, and then said thank you to Zhu Xu for that day.
Zhu Xu shook his head and asked casually, "You and Cheng Ran were classmates before. From your tone, it seems that sometimes he does things that are annoying."
Yang Xia was stunned for a moment, "Huh?"
Zhu Xu added that you said that day that he took your card and it was annoying.
Yang Xia smiled and said, "No, I'm used to joking around."
Zhu Xu caught the subtle words, "Before...?"
"We grew up in the same courtyard, as the legend goes..." Yang Xia turned around and smiled at him, "Childhood sweethearts, right?"
"… "
Yang Xia asked in confusion, "What's wrong?"
"No, it's fine..." Zhu Xu took a deep breath, holding back the slight reluctance in his heart, and said, "So, he and Jiang Hongshao are in the same class. Why didn't you choose to be in the same class as them when you transferred here? Didn't they let you choose a class?"
"Let me choose," Yang Xia smiled gently, her eyes as bright as the sunset.
“So, I didn’t choose to be with him.”