“Hahahahahahaha…” At the headquarters of CQ, everyone was immersed in a cheerful and happy atmosphere.
"Do you really ask you to do this?" Chen Yuzhong asked with a smile.
Lin Xiaosong nodded, "That's not the case. I was dumbfounded when I heard it, wondering how I could say it. It would be fine if I said the first half... If I said the second half, I think people would definitely throw water in my face, just like in a TV show. Looking at her expression at the time, she must have wanted to imitate the TV and find this opportunity, but I didn't give it to her. After that, I was just polite and tried to win people over with my virtue. I guess she got internal injuries from holding it in."
Xu Zhen smiled and said, "You should have said that. Maybe we could have made a date. Actually, Ms. Lu is pretty."
Lin Xiaosong had a strange expression on his face. "Is that Assistant Lu you are meeting? Don't meet the French Nun Miejue behind you or you will die!"
"Just run away as soon as you make the appointment, our brothers will stop you!" Li Mingshi joked.
Lin Xiaosong's cowardly expression made everyone laugh, "Are you going to stop me or her? I'm afraid you'd rather sacrifice me..."
"Have you read the news? YuBi announced that it would reduce all channel fees. Computer News said, 'For such a large game manufacturer, it is rare for YuBi to change its mind every day. This can only mean that the personnel adjustment of YuBi's internal executives has brought them a lot of shock. YuBi still has a long way to go in exploring the domestic game market...'"
Computer News was already the largest computer publication in China at that time. Unlike other computer magazines, it covered both industry technology and business news, and its authority was firmly at the top of the list in China. The first advertisement Cheng Ran put up for the game was to maximize the novelty of the board game and the attention of potential consumers by leveraging the circulation of Computer News.
"Beautiful... Yubi is messed up..."
"Let me see... Computer News said it was because of their personnel adjustment, haha..."
"IT Information Daily speculated that the two parties had their own agenda in the channel cooperation, and Yu Bi was worried that Pu Zhenglai was preparing for both situations... They were all guessing, and they were doing serious analysis, but no one knew the real reason..."
The real reason is only known to them, and it makes people proud.
"After a letter from Mr. Cheng, Yu Bi lost its composure. Some time ago, they were confident that they would cooperate with Pu Zheng Company and were overbearing in terms of channels..." Xu Zhen, who was speaking, still remembered the grudge, "They used Yu Bi's name to poach people, but those who were unlikely to achieve great things would be poached. Just wait and see. One day, they will know how important it is for people to choose the right path in their lives..."
Among the crowd, Chen Yuzhong was from Fulong. At this time, he thought that Mr. Cheng and his son were really father and son. One of them came out when no one was optimistic about Fulong and made a name for himself in the industry. The other was also a hard worker. Even if the opponent was the boss of a domestic game manufacturer, he would still play all kinds of tricks under his nose.
Li Mingshi looked at Lin Xiaosong with a smile, "Are you convinced now?"
Because when Lin Xiaosong first took up his post at CQ, he felt that Li Mingshi had too high an opinion of Cheng Ran. In his opinion, some of the predictions broke his inherent cognition and judgment system. At the beginning, he did not have the trust that Li Mingshi had in Cheng Ran. Frankly speaking, Lin Xiaosong might have been worried in his heart... Cheng Ran was too young.
And now, Lin Xiaosong nodded and gave a thumbs up, "I am convinced, Mr. Cheng!"
Li Mingshi added, "Actually, I think you can really make an appointment. I think Assistant Lu is probably impressed by you. If we form a marriage alliance with Yu Bi in the future, won't we recruit him?"
Amid another burst of laughter, Lin Xiaosong shouted, "Get out!"
At the turn of the millennium, the employees of this small company were dreaming of one day swallowing up a whale.
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Cheng Ran wrote a letter directly to President Yubi, disclosing CQ's strategic plan. Would it expose his secrets? In fact, there was no need to worry. First of all, by building his own payment system through the soil of Internet cafes, once it came out, there would be basically no confidentiality. In this field, it was a question of who would take the lead. Of course, there would be endless followers. It was just a fantasy to want to keep it completely confidential.
The only question is whether others can keep up. And once they do, can they surpass them
Take the original company of CQ for example, didn't it also follow the Israeli ICQ, but just made Chinese changes, so it was better than its predecessor and has always been in the forefront. Then, there were many followers, but they just couldn't keep up. Just like the current CQ, its popularity is increasing day by day, and it has passed the million-user mark, which immediately affected many websites that saw this. For example, the local Tianfu portal in Chengdu has built in-site communication, and some BBSs have also begun to try to open private chats similar to CQ. Even portal websites are taking action, such as Tonglang's UC and Sohu's IM... It's just that this is a winner-takes-all situation. No one expected that a small instant messaging software would not only complete the contact function, but when its scale reaches a certain level, the quantitative change will lead to qualitative change, and it will kidnap people's social network.
It is impossible for a person to exist independently without social networks. Just like you use IM, and your family, relatives and friends use CQ, eventually you will have to give up IM and return to CQ.
The same is true for the Internet cafe payment system that Cheng Ran is working on. Once it is released, it will naturally become no secret. Everyone can imitate it, but the key is whether it has core popularity. If a game company or website comes out with this at this time, it is too advanced. Things that are too advanced often end up with failure.
Only the game "Spirit Realm" was very popular, and traditional channels showed drawbacks at this time when the impact of online games came. When the players felt the pain personally, the emergence of an Internet cafe payment system was like a timely relief after a long drought.
Before the conflict with Yu Bi broke out, Cheng Ran did not reveal any information to Chen Yuzhong, but asked Chen Yuzhong to do a lot of preliminary preparations, to raise a team, to raise a team that went deep into Internet cafes in various places to collect feedback and statistical information. Inside CQ, no one understood why he insisted on spending this operating cost.
It was not until the team had spent a thousand days preparing for the final result that everyone suddenly realized the truth, and CQ's "Payment Ark" was quickly put into operation.
Internet cafe owners like this software very much. It solved the problem of "paper being too expensive in Luoyang" of CQ coins. On the other hand, it can also directly transfer the profits from the physical store to the last-level terminal facing Internet cafe players. The subjective initiative brought by this is very huge. Profit is the engine of human activities. This means that the efficiency and collection rate of CQ's front-end system are rapidly improving.
Therefore, CQ's "Payment Ark" was promoted and installed virally in Internet cafes.
This is something that followers cannot learn in a short time. At least they have to wait until an online game product with a certain degree of popularity comes out before they can get a piece of the pie.
This is why Cheng Ran wrote that letter to Yu Bi. After CQ's payment platform was built, it was too late and too slow for a company like Yu Bi to rebuild such a payment platform for its distribution, whether it was a stand-alone game or an online game. It was even something they could not do.
Because of CQ's payment Ark, everyone is used to it.
Habits are hard to change.
So the two sides can cooperate in the future.
Will there be competitors in the future? Of course there will be, and it is unknown. Cheng Ran does not know what kind of situation will come after he flaps his wings. If he wants to suppress his competitors, then incorporating large companies like Yubi into the system will enhance competitiveness.
When YuBi joins the CQ payment platform, it will undoubtedly add heavyweight content to the payment platform, which in turn will hijack the loyalty of players and users, which will be a win-win situation. At the same time, CQ payment will become stronger and stronger, enough to attract more manufacturers to join and form an aggregation.
CQ payment should take this path.
Yu Bi is always in a negotiating attitude. They should have opened a special line and have someone to follow up and try to have further negotiations with them. Of course, the timing is not yet ripe and it is not time yet.
So, we can’t pay attention to them for now.
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Cheng Ran and Xie Feibai met again. This time it was not a private appointment, but a strictly "foreign exchange". Xu Lan and Xie Feibai's mother Zhang Wei's Yanhua Group held a thank-you party in Longquan Mountain at the end of the year, inviting some of their friends and Chengdu's political and business circles.
Cheng Ran was pulled over by Xu Lan because Xu Lan had to attend a meeting today and there would be no one at home to cook for him.
"Does he have bodyguards when he goes out? I heard they are security guards? Their family is cooperating with the Rongcheng Military Region, and it's a national project. Are they specially assigned to him?"
In the somewhat humble Longquan Villa Hotel which was used as a meeting venue, Xie Feibai was surrounded by some people of his age, who were gathered together and talking about something.
"Last time I saw a Lexus with the license plate number '川O6666V' on Guanghua Road, which is comparable to the 9988 BMW that Brother Hu's family owns. I heard that it's their family car?"
In this era, the "O" license plate is still a symbol of privileged cars.
In the garden were the children of some politicians and businessmen, who were chatting with Xie Feibai about Cheng Ran's situation.
"Xie bro, you have a good relationship with him, right?"
"Will he come today?"
Xie Feibai smiled under everyone's gaze, "I guess... we know each other..."
With a modest expression, he looked at the person who had just spoken and said, "What bodyguard? That sounds absurd... And cooperating with the military region, how could you know about this? Would they tell you? Even if you are an insider, you are also a leaker. So, don't ask... And what about the 666 license plate? That doesn't exist."
"He probably won't come. He rarely attends such occasions."
Xie Feibai was talking, listening to these rumors about Cheng Ran, but he actually felt it was funny. The things about Cheng Ran were spread by Deng Wei and Ma Hongyu, who were close to him. They didn't say much, except that they knew the son of Mr. Cheng, who was very famous in Rongcheng. Of course, the rest of the things about the boss behind Tianxing Dojo were kept secret.
But this was passed around, and no one knew what kind of story it would spread among people. Xie Feibai had never seen the so-called Lexus car they were talking about. If he had seen one, it would be a Santana, which was from their Fulong Company. And Xie Houming could imagine what Cheng Ran would say about the license plate "6666", "rustic..."
Hearing that Cheng Ran would not come, the people present were generally disappointed. However, this kind of topic was just an episode. Everyone present had their own topics to talk about. As they were chatting, a piece of news came that the person who was previously called "Brother Hu" had arrived. So many people who had gathered with Xie Feibai found excuses to leave and went over.
Of the dozen or so people who were originally with Xie Feibai, almost half of them left after "Brother Hu" arrived.
The main thing is that this "Brother Hu" is a popular person in everyone's circle. There is no need to talk about his family. Although he is not as famous as Xie Feibai's father, he is also a prominent figure. However, family background is secondary. The reason why he is very famous among these young people is that many people in the circle jealously regard him as a "tough guy". When he was in college, he opened a bar in the south of the city, a steak house, and a KTV singing city of which he is a major shareholder.
A while ago, a luxury car drove into their Jinjiang College, and it was said that the girls' dormitory was in an uproar. I guess he was just thinking about it, hoping that one of the girls in the class would be willing to get in his car. At this time, this kind of news is still very exciting and eye-catching.
But this "Brother Hu" was not in the same circle as them. Everyone in the same circle knew each other more or less. The only thing Xie Feibai disliked was this young man named Hu. He didn't know if he was trying to save face in front of his friends or if he sincerely believed so. He once expressed his disdain for Xie Feibai, thinking that Xie Feibai was of a lower grade and not worthy of being on the stage.
These words naturally reached Xie Feibai's ears through some channels. To be honest, Xie Feibai did not show any specific reaction. If he was annoyed, it was not worth it to get annoyed by a few frivolous words from someone so far away.
Xie Feibai knew his own situation. There were so many people who disliked him and he had offended so many people. If he got angry over these words that were only said to save face, he would have died of anger. As long as he didn't say it to his face, he wouldn't come to his house. If he did, he might use him as a pawn.
But in the eyes of some people, it seems that what was said about the young man surnamed Hu was right. Xie Feibai was fierce in fighting and had a fierce reputation, but when he met someone of a higher level like "Brother Hu", he was outshined. The young man could open his own bar and start a career when he was in college. To put it bluntly, he was a rich man who did not need to ask his family for money.
Therefore, some people who had connections in both circles naturally moved closer to "Brother Hu" and became "good friends" with him. As a result, some people became distant from Xie Feibai.
Xie Feibai knew all about this matter, but everyone seemed to be harmonious on the surface and didn't expose it.
But there were still some people who heard "Brother Hu is here" but did not follow him. There were three men and two women. Firstly, they were just nodding acquaintances with Brother Hu, and the main reason was that they could learn more about Cheng Ran, the son of Mr. Cheng, from Xie Feibai and his friends. Xie Feibai would say a few words from time to time. They all knew that Cheng Ran had tricked a group of people into the Academic Affairs Office when he was in middle school. He was also a middle-level student, but he rose all the way. In the past, Shanhai went from the middle to the first in the grade. Finally, they heard that he was a dark horse in Rongcheng No. 10 Middle School.
Everyone was still chatting here, and their mood was not affected by the arrival of "Brother Hu". A man who had just excused himself to leave and now walked over came over and greeted Xie Feibai and others awkwardly, then said to a man among them, "Zhong Jun, Brother Hu is here, he wants you to come over."
The man named Zhong Jun looked at Xie Feibai with embarrassment, then looked at the person who came over to call people. He knew both sides, and logically, he had a better relationship with "Brother Hu", but he couldn't resist wanting to hear more about Cheng Ran from Xie Feibai, so he didn't say hello to Brother Hu just now. As a result, the other party came over to call people specifically.
Zhong Jun glanced at Xie Feibai and said, "I'll go over there and come back in a moment."
Ma Hongyu, who was next to Xie Feibai, said coldly, "Go ahead. We may not be here for a while. We may go play cards."
"Then I'll come to find you later." Zhong Jun did not forget to express his attitude, and then left with the people Brother Hu called.
After the people left, everyone felt quite deserted here. After all, there were so many people just now, and now there are so many people, the mood for conversation has been dampened. Xie Feibai said, "Let's go to the coffee bar and play Three Kingdoms!"
Everyone agreed and were preparing to go over when Xie Feibai's phone rang.
Xie Feibai hung up his Nokia phone after answering it, looked around at everyone, and smiled, "Someone's here... Let's go, come with me to pick someone up."