Chapter 753: The rich list is released, 160 billion!
At Junzi Interactive Entertainment, Lu Yiming sat on the sofa with his legs crossed, drinking coffee, and said to Jiang Rongfa, "Old Jiang, I have used all my resources to help you with publicity and promotion. You can't be lame, otherwise I will lose face."
Jiang Rongfa said confidently: "Don't worry, Mr. Lu, there will be absolutely no problems. The game is going exactly as you envisioned, and the final launch time will definitely not be later than the scheduled date."
Jiang Rongfa's words were actually conservative. Because Lu Yiming spared no expense and personally provided guidance, the research and development progress was actually very fast, much ahead of schedule, and there was sufficient room for error in the future.
As long as you know how to play, it is actually not difficult for the domestic game industry to "copy". In the previous life, "New Ghost Story" made by NetEase Games was once more popular than World of Warcraft because its painting style was more beautiful and gorgeous.
In this regard, foreigners' hardcore aesthetic style has really been criticized, otherwise the animation industry would not have been outperformed by the island countries for so long.
For example, the Hong Kong comics that learned from American comics were a huge flop, while in the American comics world, Marvel and D Huang Huidong would have gone bankrupt long ago if they had not made a comeback by making movies.
Facts have proved that the oriental aesthetic style is very popular all over the world and will be welcomed, so Lu Yiming plans to use the style of "A Chinese Ghost Story" for "The Wonderful World" instead of following the old path of "World of Warcraft". After all, if he wants to occupy the Xia country market, the style cannot learn from the hard-core style of American comics, but must be closer to the aesthetic of oriental people.
After assuring Lu Yiming, Jiang Rongfa actually became a little worried and said, "We are promoting the game so hard now. The game will not be able to be tested until at least June next year. What if the popularity drops after such a long delay? Should we wait until then to promote it?"
Lu Yiming smiled and said, "What are you afraid of? Blizzard has been delaying the release date every year, but they still make a lot of money, right? Besides, as long as the book is still being serialized, the animation is still being broadcast, and the comics are still being published, the popularity will not decrease, it will only get higher and higher."
At Tamron, Ma Teng felt his scalp tingling when he looked at the content released on the official website of “The Legend of Oz”.
In fact, it’s not just Ma Teng who feels the pinch, all domestic game companies feel the pinch.
This Lu Yiming is simply unethical. To promote the game, you set up a website and published a novel, which is fine, but you also spent a lot of effort on animation and comics? The game itself hasn't even come out yet, but you've already made a lot of money just from the peripherals, and your reputation has spread. Who can stand this?
“Is the quality of The Wizard of Oz really that high?”
Ma Teng was not talking to himself, but to Chen Tianjiao who was sitting on the sofa drinking tea.
Compared to Ma Teng's anxiety, Chen Tianjiao was not panicked at all in the face of such a severe situation. He said calmly: "Lu Yiming is too arrogant. He is now acting recklessly relying on QQ, the strongest promotion channel. Promoting too early may not be a good thing. Players are very impatient. Who will wait for him if they can't play the game for a long time?"
Ma Teng felt that what Chen Tianjiao said made a lot of sense, and his frown relaxed. He said, "Mr. Chen, that's a great idea. I was scared by this guy Lu Yiming. The game "The Legend of Immortal" won't be released until June. We, Tenglong Games, and Mr. Chen's Dasheng Network can just join forces to grab the agency of a batch of excellent games overseas and directly occupy the market in the next six months. The game "Legend of Mir 2" has been played for more than two years, and many players are a little tired of it. I believe that when our game comes back, they will definitely throw themselves into our arms."
With the improvement of computer hardware configuration, "Legend of Mir 2" has gradually failed to keep up with the times in terms of graphics and gameplay.
At this moment, Ma Teng's computer made a beeping sound, which was a reminder of new QQ messages.
Ma Teng blocked the daily message reminders, but did not block the messages from several important group chats.
Hearing this voice, Ma Teng sat down in front of the computer, opened the chat window and saw that it was the QQ group of that entrepreneur.
Lu Yiming sent a link in the group with a sentence attached.
"Yuedu Chinese website is holding a new event, everyone please come and support us."
In order to keep the topic of "Oz the Great and Powerful" hot, Lu Yiming directly organized a writing competition with prizes on Yuedu.com, using high prize money to attract authors to write novels on related themes, as long as they use the world view and background provided by the official.
At that time, Yixun Games only needs to pick out the most popular stories and add them to the game, which saves time and effort and allows more readers to participate.
This sense of participation is very important. Only in this way can we cultivate enough loyal users.
Think about it, isn’t it bold to play out the plot you wrote in the game?
Although Ma Teng despised Lu Yiming's behavior in his heart, he couldn't resist his curiosity and clicked on the link sent by Lu Yiming.
After reading it, he couldn't help but curse: "Lu Yiming has no moral integrity."
"What's wrong?"
Chen Tianjiao also came over to take a look. After reading it, he was speechless for a long time, and then he sighed: "Hey, Lu Yiming is a promotion genius. He even thought of this method! I originally thought that it was a mistake for him to promote the game so long in advance, but now it seems that this is the result of his careful planning. With such a call for articles, many people are eager to write, so the popularity is maintained, right? And if you write this book, if the content is selected into the game, then you will become a die-hard fan of this game. No wonder Lu Yiming started promoting it so long in advance, otherwise there would not be enough time."
After Ma Teng got angry, he became depressed. Before, he just felt a little anxious, but now he just wanted to play around and be a nobody.
Lu Yiming was clearly playing a big game of chess, with everything under his control, but he was being played around like a fool before the puzzle was revealed.
It's so shameful!
Not only Chen Tianjiao and Ma Teng, but everyone else in the group was also shocked by Lu Yiming's essay contest. Those who made games or those who didn't made games were all silent.
The key point is that Lu Yiming seemed to have no idea what kind of psychological damage this move had brought to the big guys in the group. He still shouted in the group: "Everyone go and like it. Whoever doesn't like it is looking down on me and will be put on the blacklist!"
Jack Ma couldn't stand it anymore and said, "Mr. Lu, you are the richest man in Asia, can you please have some sense of propriety and honor?"
Seeing Jack Ma bubbling, Lu Yiming responded unceremoniously: "Don't come on, weren't you shameless when you fooled me, an investor? Our eldest brother, don't laugh at the second brother!"
Everyone was helpless. After all, in the current Internet of Xia Country, although no one wanted to admit it, Lu Yiming was indeed the most powerful one. It was not an exaggeration to say that he was the leader. If you offended him, you would suffer the consequences.
"Okay, okay, I'll go like it."
Fortunately, the Yuedu Chinese website can be logged in directly with QQ, which saves the trouble of registration. Jack Ma went to like the essay, posted a comment, and then took a screenshot and sent it to the group, saying, "Is it OK now?"
Other people in the group were also speechless and rushed to like and comment.
The key point is that these people are also quite interesting. Because the QQ group basically uses real names, when they log in there, they naturally don’t think about any pen names or online names, and they directly link their QQ information.
On QQ, these people basically have real-name authentication, and their names all have a V in them, which is shining with gold.
To the extent that, as soon as they leave a message on the event page, they will all become golden big Vs and certified entrepreneurs.
As soon as these messages came out, they shocked everyone.
"Oh my god, who did I see? Isn't this Mr. Liu from New Hope Group? All my family's eggs are from him."
"Ali's boss Jack Ma!"
"And there's Brother Xiao Ma who was badly bullied by President Lu!"
Netizens were shocked under the messages from these bigwigs.
This lineup of bigwigs is unmatched by any ordinary economic forum.
Many people took screenshots of the page and sent them to their QQ friends or QQ groups, resulting in widespread secondary dissemination.
Just think about it, when these people get together, it's a lineup that would only be seen at the Boao Forum for Asia or some economic conference. Now they appear on the activity interface of Yuedu Chinese website. Isn't this shocking?
Naturally, many editors who follow hot topics would not miss this opportunity. They started with a picture, made up all the content, and came up with all kinds of copywriting in their minds. It soon spread on the Internet, and they became living Bodhisattvas, which greatly helped promote a wave of essay solicitation.
Lu Yiming saw this and was very happy, so he said in the group: "Thank you all for your help. I'm not a stingy person, so I'll give everyone some small red envelopes."
When people heard that Lu Yiming was going to send out red envelopes, the group quickly became lively.
"You are such a stingy person, but you actually give out red envelopes?"
"It's not easy, it's not easy. I never thought that one day I would be able to snatch a red envelope from Mr. Lu."
"I'm ready, start giving out red envelopes."
Although everyone is not short of money, of course the more entertainment activities like this, the better.
For a moment, everyone was ready to share in Lu Yiming's good fortune.
"Be ready."
Lu Yiming said this and then directly sent a red envelope.
The amount is two hundred yuan.
Divided into twenty.
Soon, the red envelopes were divided up.
"Eight dollars, thanks, boss."
"Where can I get this money?"
"You haven't used Alipay yet? It can be reflected in your Alipay account."
"Wow, I'm rich, I actually have more than twenty dollars!"
A group of bosses worth over 100 million yuan were cheering for a few dollars or tens of dollars.
Ma Teng looked at 0.01 on the screen and thought they were just being noisy.
On September 9, 2003, when the eyes of many bigwigs in the domestic business circle were still on Mr. Lu and Yuedu.com, a piece of news from across the ocean suddenly shocked the entire capital industry.
Home Inns, which was established only one year ago, successfully went public in the United States. On the first day of trading, its stock price closed up 88.56% to US$33.94, and it successfully raised US$80 million, instantly becoming the stock with the highest opening day increase on the Nasdaq at that time!
Home Inns' stock price soared, sweeping away the gloom of Chinese stocks listed in the US.
In the QQ group, Zhou Hongyi posted the news link and said, "Home Inn? Isn't this a company that Mr. Lu invested in before? I remember this incident was on the news at that time."
Jack Ma was somewhat envious: "Mr. Lu is indeed worthy of being Mr. Lu. Home Inns has only been established for less than a year, and now it is directly listed, and its market value is 550 million US dollars."
The people in the group watched the news and felt envious, jealous and hateful.
It hurts more to see Mr. Lu making money than for me to lose money!
"How many billions has Mr. Lu made? When he first invested in Home Inn, Mr. Lu only spent 30 million, right?"
Ma Teng sighed and said, "It's not just Home Inn. Don't forget that Mr. Lu also owns two other equally representative Internet companies, Yixun and Junzi Interactive Entertainment. It seems that these two companies will soon enter the capital market."
Yixun's flagship product is QQ, and there is no need to say much about Junzi Interactive Entertainment. "Legend of Mir 2" has been popular for several years and there is still no sign of decline in popularity. "The Legend of Oz" became popular before it was released, and various derivatives and peripherals are booming.
Zhou Hongyi teased Ma Teng and said, "I remember you invented QQ, right? And then you sold it to Mr. Lu, the richest man, for one million?"
Xiao Ma Ge's face on the other side of the screen turned as black as a casserole, and he hated Zhou Hongyi to the core.
This guy really brings up things that are not related to the topic!
“Ha, haha…”
In 2003, Xiaguo had just recovered from its pains.
At this time, after experiencing a brief carnival of the listing of the three major portals, the Xia Kingdom's Internet was quickly hit by the global Internet bubble and was almost unable to recover.
After the bubble, Xiaguo Internet, which had just recovered from the trough, really needed a shot in the arm to inject confidence into the market.
Three years have passed since the Internet cold wave began in 2000. There are three local companies in Xia country that are highly expected by countless Chinese people. They are Yixun, Junzi Interactive Entertainment and Home Inns.
At that time, which of these three companies would be the first to rush into the capital market and open up the situation became the focus of expectations from all parties.
But no matter what, Asia’s richest man Lu Yiming will be the final winner, because he is the largest shareholder of these three companies!
At home, Lu Yiming and Li Yiwen were celebrating with champagne.
Li Yiwen was very excited and said, "I didn't expect that among the three companies, Yixun, Junzi Interactive Entertainment and Home Inn, Home Inn would be the first to break through."
Who doesn’t like this kind of business, making a small investment for a big return and huge profits?
Li Yiwen once again admired Lu Yiming's vision and decision-making. You know, these three companies were not favored by all parties at the beginning. Even Li Yiwen himself thought they were money-losing companies.
But now the facts have slapped everyone in the face. These three companies, Yixun, Junzi Interactive Entertainment and Home Inns, are not money-losing companies. Instead, they have been able to buck the market trend during the Internet cold wave. They are even about to usher in a vigorous consumer Internet era and lay the foundation for the development of the Internet in the next 10 years.
"From now on, you are the uncrowned king of Xiaguo's Internet."
Lu Yiming's face was also filled with joy and a great sense of accomplishment.
After long-term planning, we have finally achieved today’s harvest.
At the end of September, the Hurun Rich List was released.
Lu Yiming once again topped the list, with personal assets of 160 billion, making all the pursuers behind him despair.
For example, Mr. Rong, who ranks second, is three times as old as Lu Yiming, but his assets are less than one twentieth of his.
A year is neither long nor short.
The assets of other people on the Hurun Rich List have not changed much. For example, Mr. Rong and Xu Yongmao, who ranked second and third last year, the former's assets are still 7 billion, without any change, while the latter's assets have only increased by 300 million to 6.8 billion.
Compared with Lu Yiming's annual increase and growth rate of 30 billion, there is no comparison at all.
At this time, Lu Yiming only had one company under his name, such as Quwen Tianxia, with a market value of nearly 10 billion yuan, which was enough to surpass other wealthy people behind him.
It is still easier to count for listed companies. For example, Yixun Technology and Jianlai Technology are non-listed companies and rarely release financial reports to the public, so it is very difficult to count and we can only roughly estimate a relatively low number.
Hurun was so worried about this that he went bald and had to delay the release of the rankings for more than a month.
Although everyone was prepared, they were still shocked speechless when they saw this list.
Mr. Lu is worthy of being the richest man in Lu. He is indeed ridiculously powerful.
How could people of this generation have ever seen so much money?
Even in my imagination, I wouldn't dare to think so boldly.
"Oh my goodness, how much is 160 billion? I don't even have 1,600 yuan, and Mr. Lu's assets are 100 million times mine!"
"Don't say anything. I just want to know if I can spend all this money."
Nowadays, a monthly salary of 1,600 yuan is considered a relatively good salary. One hundred million months means working for eight million years!
Eight million years ago, the Himalayas were just beginning to bulge.
"How much is 160 billion? I have no idea."
"About 1,680 tons. The load of a largest Jiefang truck is 30 tons, so it only took 56 trucks to haul it."
"That's it..."
"One truckload is thirty tons, fifty-six truckloads...do you really have to be so sharp?"
"Oh my god, money can be calculated by weight?"
More weird knowledge has been added!
After specific quantification, many people have a vague idea of how much 160 billion is.
But when it comes to the purchasing power of this money, everyone is at a loss.
Everyone knows that one dollar can buy a Deyuan meat bun, one hundred thousand dollars can buy a nice house, and one million dollars can buy a big villa.
Anything beyond that starts to get a bit fuzzy.
Don’t even mention people today. Even in 2023, if you ask an ordinary person how much one hundred million can buy, he will only tell you nonsense.
This is the limit of ordinary people's imagination.
Now, Lu Yiming's assets have reached this limit and have risen 1,600 times.
That's outrageous.
