Chapter 154: Sky-high Price
"Oh, this was also developed by World Company? What kind of angel company is this?"
“Incredible, unbelievable!”
“Is the French I’m learning still useful?”
"I think there is some difference. There is a difference between speaking fluent French and using a machine translation, right? Maybe?"
"Have you noticed? As long as we change the location of our phones, we can try to go to other areas of the TT! It's really great to have simultaneous translation!"
"real?"
In an instant, TT became even more popular!
But this popularity immediately aroused vigilance from many parties. No matter it was the bigwigs of Wall Street, various capitalists, and even some spokesmen of the United States, they all immediately paid more attention to TT.
At the beginning, they just let it go and wait for development, but they didn't expect that after launching this feature, it would trigger such high popularity!
In fact, many people in China have a serious misunderstanding, believing that the West will defend the right to speak.
But in fact, when it comes to guiding the media and public opinion, they will only go too far and have no bottom line in critical areas!
Take recent events for example, Kanye West is a very obvious example.
There are also some old accounts that were uncovered after a foreign company acquired a certain company. Under the control of a former senior executive of a certain company, certain things were completely concealed. Even the official spokesperson of the United States forwarded a report from the New York Times and it was directly banned, allowing capital to override everything.
In addition, let’s use the example I mentioned before. There is an account that has great ill will towards us and has been reposting extremely negative reports about us and translating them to a certain foreign website to discredit us.
Because the story about our barbecue restaurant was translated and copied over, and the excerpts were all some of the most extreme comments and content, but the effect was to break down the defenses of our foreign friends.
What? Why was it just a beating? Why was it taken so seriously? Is this the place we usually promote? It's fake, it must be fake!
If our negative news can still attract attention and cause anger, we will know that this is a rare incident involving a bad apple, and it is rare that it can become news!
We must speak out and show support, but we cannot deny all of ourselves and wallow in self-hatred just because of one incident.
But obviously this kind of thing is not a big deal for them. Even if it is a shooting, as long as the death toll is not large or it is not targeted at a specific group of people, it will not even make the news. It is too normal.
The incident of someone being robbed and shot in a corner by a black gangster is far less impactful than a member of a sexual minority group speaking out about being discriminated against.
This contrast makes the news they are carrying taste the fragrance in the carefully selected shit.
So the account that was extremely malicious towards us was blocked for suspected false propaganda and fabrication of fake news. Well, it was considered as propaganda for us...
From this point, we can naturally know how much they value public opinion.
This resulted in Da Piaoliang, who had originally planned to wait and see until Wang Yi's enthusiasm cooled down after midnight before taking action, suddenly being unable to hold back.
“It compromises our safety.”
A spokesperson began to criticize the incident.
As for what kind of harm it is, it is vague, but it is harm anyway.
This immediately made many people smell something fishy. If TT were listed, it would soon usher in a wave of short selling, but unfortunately it did not.
What followed was the standard routine, they simply applied their law and ordered TT to be removed from the shelves.
This move naturally caused an uproar.
It even suppressed all the recent heat.
On the contrary, some books and some special ones grew in response.
TT had come on strong before, and the speed at which it spread and its reputation almost drove them crazy.
Now there is no doubt that they won!
We just can't afford to play, what can you do to us?
When this news reached back to the country, it naturally caused a lot of anger and criticism, but there was no effective solution.
The group of agents from before jumped out again to gloat over the misfortune.
“You deserve it!”
"It is still the West that understands what civilization is."
“This is what a civilized country should do.”
"Justice will prevail!"
Well, don’t think that they are just being sarcastic and being mean, they are serious and similar comments can be seen quite often.
However, at this time , Wang Yi, who had been prepared for a long time, also started the next operation and publicly stated that he was going to sell TT's overseas business.
My goodness, the major capitalists and financial tycoons who were clearly calling for the fight against TT at the beginning are now swarming in like sharks smelling blood.
They know exactly what good things are!
This low-threshold dissemination of music short videos is exactly what they need!
This is a group of people who have been trained with joy in learning. They cannot understand things that are too complicated, and short videos are just what they want.
They were wary at first because it was not their own thing, but once there was a chance that it became their own, of course there would be no problem.
His alma mater even contacted Wang Yi to ask for his opinion on this matter and whether he wanted to provide any help, but Wang Yi politely declined.
Just say that we have discussed it with Umbrella Corporation...
In the end, TT's overseas business was sold to Umbrella for one US dollar.
Many companies and chaebols that reported tens of billions of US dollars were shocked. What happened?!
But the dollar sale itself comes with some additional terms.
All software and technologies are only authorized. Umbrella Corporation has no disposal rights and cannot sell related technologies. Otherwise, it would rather remove the overseas version of TT from the shelves.
World Company has the right of priority purchase of some of Umbrella Company's products under the same conditions.
It's that simple!
Such a piece of fat meat suddenly fell into the hands of the nouveau riche Umbrella Corporation, and Umbrella Corporation's previous lenses were very eye-catching.
This immediately attracted a group of sharks that were waiting eagerly.
Then……
The news that Umbrella Security Company assisted the country of Ba with a thunderous sweep and swept through all the gangs in the twelve cities of Ba within seven days was reported.
All of a sudden, the aggressive group of people became gentlemanly...
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"Fighting and killing are not good, why don't we sit down and talk?"
In New Mexico, a representative of the lobbying team met with Jace with a smile, which made Jace fall into deep thought.
"Although we don't know who is behind you yet, everyone should know that you can't have it all to yourself here. Moreover, TT is involved in something crucial, and the impact is too great."
TT even has a procedure that can influence their selection of decision-makers, which naturally cannot be allowed to be in the hands of an anonymous, unlisted company!
"In principle, we are willing to give up most of the shares, but our company must ensure that we have the right to speak and fulfill the commitments we signed before."
After pondering for a moment, Jace made the decision he had prepared long ago.
Eventually, a joint venture company was established in Cayman to prepare for the listing of TT business. Umbrella held 10% of the shares, but like a certain book, although the shareholding was small, Umbrella still had the final say. The other 90% began to integrate capital and prepare for the subsequent listing.
Moreover, Umbrella did not take sides, and the fruits were divided equally.
Although it has caused some dissatisfaction, this division is an acceptable option as it maintains a balance between the two.
This choice immediately satisfied many old-line financial tycoons and capitals in the United States. Although Umbrella looked like a rookie, it rejected many olive branches when the lens came out before.
But he is still very sensible on this issue!
"Huh? Why are you giving away so much?"
Cheng Xue, who swept through the twelve cities in seven days to suppress all disobedience and established supreme authority in the Umbrella security team, couldn't help but curl her lips when she came back.
"It's not free, it can be exchanged for 30 billion US dollars, isn't that great?"
Li Yao smiled. This was planned from the beginning.
"Besides, we compromised and gave up such a big piece of the pie this time If there are still people who are ungrateful and push for more, then you can't blame us for punishing them without teaching them..."
