Cheng Ran knew that the sudden exposure of this incident had a huge impact on his former colleagues in Shanhai Compound, and they needed some time to digest it. Even though everyone started playing games, surfing the Internet, and chatting from time to time, their hearts were definitely churning. It was only to avoid being exposed as "making a fuss about something that Cheng Ran took for granted" that everyone just superficially did the things at hand.
At this time, even strong adults who went into business might not be able to create the same atmosphere as the Tianxing Dojo, let alone high school students of their age.
A few years later, there was a young man in Chengdu who liked to play games. He set up a studio in college and developed games, which sold tens of millions. He became a hot topic in public opinion and became a household name. But his father was a liquor agent and real estate agent, and he invested millions to start his business. Although Cheng Ran's brother Cheng Qi is also a model of college student entrepreneurship and has some fame, he has not cashed in real money, so it has not caused much reaction.
They also didn't know how to define the impact that this friend who they had grown up with brought to them. This was actually on a distant level from the topics they had heard from others before, such as someone's child passed the tenth level piano test or which boss's son opened a bar on Binhe Road. No, Cheng Ran was even worse than them.
It is rare for high school students to create such a scene in later generations, let alone in this era. It is precisely the various legends of this era of grassroots rise that make people have varying degrees of awe and admiration for those who can create wealth, go into business, and dare to take risks to create a situation.
However, the image of such a person overlaps with that of the friends they grew up with.
So at Jiang Hongshao's home, even Jiang Hongshao's mother, who had a high rank in the provincial party committee, praised this matter upon hearing it.
However, the feeling of hearing about and actually seeing such a thing right in front of you is very different.
Cheng Ran knew how much ripples had been stirred up in their hearts. He could see the shock in the eyes of Yao Beibei, Liu Ying and others. The waves stirred up by such things might sometimes accompany them for their entire lives, and even affect them. Cheng Ran was unwilling to reveal all of this, in fact, it was also out of such consideration. Some shocks can inspire people, while some shocks can also affect people and even deviate from their original life track.
Yao Beibei's voice came from the other side, "Cheng Ran, you have board games on the first floor, an Internet cafe on the second floor, and what's upstairs? I heard it's a cafe, right? Actually, you just want to satisfy your hobby of playing games! We don't know you yet... You just do it for fun!"
She then said to everyone, "I have an uncle named Yang Tao, whom you all know. He opened an ecological plant landscape store in Wenjiang District. On the opening day, the district chief even went to cut the ribbon for him..."
Yu Xiao said, "Alright, alright, Yao Beibei, I heard you say that your uncle, the district chief, has come to cut the ribbon and take photos with you countless times. He may be the most powerful person in your family."
Yao Beibei said "not without pride", "That's right, when I came to Chengdu this time, he kept asking me to go out and play, and I will take you to visit my uncle Yang Tao someday... I heard it's very beautiful..."
As she spoke, Yao Beibei did not forget to stare at Cheng Ran a few times.
Forget it, I was overthinking it. I thought it would have some influence on them. People like Yao Beibei are still doing their own thing.
Cheng Ran smiled and thought that this was a good thing as no one treated him as an outlier, so he started another game and continued playing.
The elevator and the corridor suddenly seemed crowded and lively. For a moment, the atmosphere there was abruptly different. A lot of people gathered there. The middle and senior management of Tianxingdao Hall were all there. The waiters also lined up, obviously after a rehearsal in advance. Then, several government officials who were dressed in shirts, trousers and leather shoes, and looked very formal, came from the corridor and stood on both sides of the waiters' inner circle. Some of them were holding cameras and some were carrying video cameras. Those government officials smiled as if they were basking in the spring breeze and greeted the long line coming out of the stairs on the third floor.
The leader was a middle-aged man who was wearing a jacket with a plain sweater underneath, but looked calm overall. He wore a pair of round-frame glasses and had his hair parted in the middle. There were also several female and male officials beside him. They were chatting and laughing with Jiang Zhou as they came to the second floor.
Although the noise was loud, it did not have much impact on the people who were playing games on the second floor of the Internet city, so the inspection is still going on.
The news over there was also heard from some people inside the Internet city, and information was gradually transmitted from many curious people who were looking on.
"It's Mayor Yan and his party! They're inspecting the Tianxing Dojo!"
"Mayor Yan... Rongcheng's Executive Vice Mayor Yan Tongfang?"
"It's Yan Tongfang. I guess it will be broadcast on Chengdu Channel 4 news tonight! People from the TV station have come... The reporters are also there..."
When the news came, Cheng Ran and his friends from Shanhai Academy were actually in the center of the crowd. Cheng Ran remembered that Jiang Zhou had mentioned this to him before, saying that Yan Tongfang was coming to inspect Tianxing Hall. After the third and fourth floors of Tianxing Hall were put into operation, especially the sweeping signing of Tianxing Music in the Chengdu music scene some time ago, it was an invisible advertisement. Then the concept of the maker base garage coffee came out.
In fact, for officials like Yan Tongfang, the profits and taxes of Tianxingdaoguan are insignificant, and they may even ask the government for policies. However, culture and the response to the current wave of Internet wealth creation may be what the other party cares about. Many officials will try hard to create such an image for themselves, which is not only real and friendly, close to the people, but also can create image connotation, killing two birds with one stone.
Yan Tongfang's schedule is not fixed. Jiang Zhou also said that he was notified in recent days. In fact, the earliest notification was three days ago, but the schedule was changed on the same day. Today's notice was probably also a temporary one, and it was during Christmas.
This kind of thing was just an episode for Cheng Ran, and with Jiang Zhou to deal with it, he certainly didn't have to worry about it. Afterwards, Jiang Zhou would naturally give him feedback on some details and things to pay attention to, and he would make fine adjustments at that time.
So Jiang Zhou came forward to deal with the government officials. He first talked about the concept of the garage coffee on the third and fourth floors. After that, he accompanied Yan Tongfang to visit the second floor, which is also the first broadband Internet cafe in Chengdu. This aspect can also be reported in the news, showing the leadership's concern and attention, and at the same time demonstrating that Chengdu is at the forefront of the country in telecommunications and network-related businesses.
Yan Tongfang came to a row of camera seats and chatted with a netizen, talking about the impact and changes of broadband and asked him what he was playing.
The other party had already popped up the game page, pretending to pull out QQ, saying that he was chatting with friends, talking about physics and life ideals...
During this process, the publicity staff took a lot of photos.
The first floor of Tianxing Dojo is the first themed coffee and gaming bar in China. Yan Tongfang estimated that after taking a walk today, he would be touched by the entity and concept of Tianxing Dojo, which is always stepping on the nodes and taking a step forward.
After the TV station and government personnel left the first floor one after another, the noise on the second floor gradually died down.
However, at this time, Yu Xiao, Yao Beibei and the others were staring at Cheng Ran in a daze.
The mayor just came and made news over there with the agent of Tenxing Dojo.
The real boss they knew was just sitting here, playing games with them, with only his back shown to the other side.
All of that... was indifferent.
(Happy Children's Day!)