Chapter 767: NetEase Rises, Ding Sanshi Is Depressed
Unlike the strong economic atmosphere in Zhonghai, the political atmosphere in Beijing basically overwhelms the taste of money. After all, this is "the footsteps of the emperor" and "the best place".
However, Lu Yiming doesn't like this place very much because it feels too depressing.
Moreover, due to the smog, this place is not very suitable for settling down, so the properties that Lu Yiming purchased in Beijing are mainly for investment.
If he wants to live there alone, forget it. He prefers the climate in the south and is used to it after all.
After the ceremony, there is naturally a grand banquet.
In this transaction, 3721 and Yahoo can be said to have gained what they wanted, so the banquet was naturally a great success for both the hosts and the guests.
After the banquet, Zhou Hongyi, who was a little tipsy, found Lu Yiming and said to him, "Mr. Lu, I'm going to invite a few friends to have a dinner together in a few days."
Lu Yiming refused without hesitation and said, "No, I have to go back to Zhonghai tomorrow. My girlfriend is going to have a birthday."
For Lu Yiming now, that so-called dinner party is simply ineffective social interaction. Apart from listening to a bunch of compliments, it is useless.
Instead of spending this time, you might as well spend some time having fun with your girlfriend.
Zhou Hongyi said, "Young people, there are always opportunities to celebrate your birthday. You can just stay here for a few more days. Let me tell you, this is the capital, the environment is completely different from the south."
Lu Yiming smiled and said, "The environment is indeed different. I am not used to living here. It is too dry. I don't know how much water to drink every day. I am afraid that I will be poisoned by water."
"Besides, all the dinners you organized must be for flattering you. You want me to see you show off? I can't stand the stimulation."
Zhou Hongyi felt a little embarrassed when her thoughts were exposed and scratched her head involuntarily.
He really feels very happy now, after all, he has a bright future after joining Yahoo, so he can't wait to "share" this joy with people he knows. After all, he has been an unknown person for so many years, and now he has become a trend, he will feel uncomfortable if he doesn't show off.
Lu Yiming patted Zhou Hongyi on the shoulder and said bluntly: "Don't be too arrogant. Yahoo may not be as reliable as you think. Maybe you have fallen into a fire pit this time."
Zhou Hongyi was immediately depressed by these words: "Boss Lu, I'm so happy right now, can't you say something nice to me? You just keep pouring cold water on me."
Lu Yiming laughed: "Good medicine tastes bitter but is good for the disease, honest advice is unpleasant to the ear but is good for action. You are not short of praise now, so you have to tolerate other voices."
"Boss Lu, why are you suddenly so philosophical?"
“I’ve always been like this.”
Then, Lu Yiming continued, "If you are unhappy at Yahoo, you can come and find me directly."
Zhou Hongyi asked curiously, "What do I want to see you for?"
"Of course it's a project. Are you treating us to a meal?"
When Zhou Hongyi heard about the project, she immediately became interested and asked excitedly, "What project?"
Lu Yiming did not hide it and said directly: "I want to make anti-virus software."
“Anti-virus software?”
Zhou Hongyi sneered when she heard this: "Boss Lu, are you kidding me? Making antivirus software? I, Zhou Hongyi, will never make antivirus software in my life. It's tiring, unprofitable, and I get scolded. Look at what Kingsoft and Rising have become in these years. There's no future for them at all."
In the first few years of the 21st century, there were indeed a few companies that made antivirus software, and they were very popular. After all, computers were becoming more and more popular, and various viruses began to emerge. People who went online were not professionals, so they couldn't even identify viruses or avoid being poisoned, let alone kill viruses. They could only rely on antivirus software.
As a result, this antivirus software is also half-baked, and the principle of antivirus software inevitably requires a certain amount of memory and processor performance.
The configuration of the computer is not very high at the moment. It can freeze when playing online games. It is common to have disconnection and blue screen. Now there is also an anti-virus software to consume the performance, and various virus buffs are added...
Most people have no concept of performance, nor do they know about computer viruses. With some people fanning the flames, everyone naturally puts the blame for the computer's slowdown and lag on the antivirus software.
Lu Yiming teased, "Don't be so confident. History always moves forward. Maybe you will really like it after a while."
Zhou Hongyi said firmly: "Impossible, absolutely impossible!"
The next day, Lu Yiming brought his men back to Zhonghai.
After a good sleep, I woke up the next morning feeling refreshed.
Although in Lu Yiming's opinion, Zhonghai is in the north of Guangdong Province, so far north that it is definitely in the north, but after all, the climate of most coastal areas is similar, so after a trip to Beijing, Zhonghai was defined as the south by Lu Yiming.
When Lu Yiming got up, Shi Qingxue had already gone to class. Lu Yiming went out to the tea restaurant to have breakfast, then turned on his computer and started surfing the Internet.
After a while, he was attracted by an article.
The title of the article is: "The richest man looks down on a 100-fold investment return."
"I'm..."
Lu Yiming's blood pressure almost went up.
When he clicked on it, Lu Yiming found that the words were taken out of context in an extremely extreme way. Even Lu Yiming, the person involved, was confused and didn't know whether he had said these words or not.
In the comment section below the article, many people questioned him, mainly because in real life, making money has never been an easy thing, whether you are an ordinary worker or a boss who runs your own business.
For many physical manufacturing industries, their annual profits cannot even keep up with inflation, and all the money they earn is hard-earned money.
But Lu Yiming invested in an Internet company, left it there for a few years, and then sold it at a hundred times the price. Who could withstand this?
Lu Yiming really attracted a lot of hatred by selling 3721 to Yahoo.
After all, apart from investing 5 million, he never cared about it at all. The money was made too easily. Who wouldn't be jealous?
What's more, the main theme of social propaganda now is to get rich through hard work. If Lu Yiming's behavior had happened thirty or forty years ago, it would have been considered speculation and he would have been killed in minutes.
However, Lu Yiming actually scoffed at this statement. If hard work alone could make you rich, there would be no poor people in the world.
After all, Lu Yiming is the richest man in Asia, and he is so young, and he does things in an unconventional way, so he has received so much attention. His every move can be said to not escape the eyes of those who are interested.
He himself is such a hot topic and controversial. If he were to take his words out of context and distort the facts, how much traffic would he be able to attract?
At this time, the Internet is not well developed, and the scope of news dissemination is not wide enough, so those "marketing accounts" are only jumping around in their own small areas. If it were twenty years later, these things about Lu Yiming would be hyped up eight hundred times a day by short videos.
Lu Yiming had already gotten used to these things on the Internet. After all, he used to watch melons on his phone every day, and now he had become a melon for others to eat. It was just the retribution of heaven. Anyway, the Internet has no memory these days, and it won't be long before no one will pay attention to this matter.
However, things went against our wishes. There is always Murphy's Law in this world: the more you don't want something, the more it will appear.
A few days later, everyone thought the news focus would shift to someone else, but because NetEase's stock price skyrocketed, Lu Yiming once again made headlines in major mainstream newspapers and media across the country.
Thanks to the profits from Westward Journey Online II, NetEase's game revenue reached 203 million, and its stock price soared to 70 US dollars. Lu Yiming, who had already retained the title of Asia's richest man, saw his assets surge by another 8 billion!
Two years ago, when Lu Yiming bought NetEase, he only spent 80 million, and it was Fatty Ding who begged him to sell it to him.
Another investment with a return rate of more than one hundred times!
And this time they made even more money, earning 8 billion with 80 million!
When Lu Yiming saw the file sent by NetEase, he couldn't help but take a breath.
As expected, it is an online game that has been making money for more than 20 years. Its power is really terrifying.
Lu Yiming had just said that a hundredfold return was nothing, and now there was another small shock to Lu Yiming, and a large group of people on the Internet were immediately defeated.
After all, although a 100-fold investment is indeed amazing, there are so many stockholders in the world that it is understandable from a probability perspective that one of them gets lucky. For example, those who first grabbed Alibaba's IPO stocks basically had a 100-fold return.
But the case of NetEase is different. Not only is the amount of money bigger, but the story is also very legendary.
During the stock market crash, NetEase's stock price fell to nothing, and investors avoided it. Ding Sanshi wanted to sell but couldn't, and he almost dumped the stock and exited the market. It was Lu Yiming who saved NetEase, preventing it from going bankrupt that year and keeping the hope of a comeback.
Then, so many years have passed, and there seems to be no movement in this deal since then. The outside world has not heard any news from NetEase, and NetEase has not launched any products during this period.
Just when everyone was about to forget about the deal and NetEase, NetEase returned with the Westward Journey Online series, which became an instant success and gave NetEase a cash cow. The idea for this game came from Lu Yiming.
Now, NetEase has taken off again with the sequel to Westward Journey Online, and its stock price has soared like a rocket. With just one IP and two games, NetEase has firmly established itself as the top domestic game producer.
Such ups and downs are truly legendary.
On the Internet, many workers have lost their defenses.
"Mr. Lu is so rich, why is his assets still increasing in value so fast?"
"That is to say, our salary can only increase by a few hundred yuan a year, while Mr. Lu can easily earn hundreds of millions or even billions. Is this going to let us live?"
"It's so horrible, so horrible!"
"You know nothing. It's much harder to go from zero to one million than from one million to one hundred million. Mr. Lu is an example, because even a penny can stump a hero, but they can make money from money!"
"Yes, even if you and Mr. Lu are both optimistic about a project, you can't come up with the money to do it. Mr. Lu not only did it, but also directly crushed his competitors in terms of scale. How could he not make money quickly?"
“The most miserable people are always at the bottom.”
In Lu Yiming's group of entrepreneurs, Zhou Hongyi directly @Ding Sanshi.
"@Ding Sanshi Hey, Fatty Ding, have you read the news? NetEase's stock price has skyrocketed."
Ma Teng: "You are the one who brought... here?"
Zhou Hongyi: "It's me."
Ding Sanshi: "Stop making trouble. I'm annoyed."
Zhou Hongyi made a laugh-pounding emoji that looked like it was asking for a beating, and asked knowingly, "Ah, what are you upset about? Is it because of the surge in NetEase's stock price?"
Many people who had been lurking in the group were exposed because of this topic. They were of course well aware of the huge turmoil in the stock market.
Ma Teng: "This time, Mr. Lu has successfully picked up the bargain again. Fatty Ding, if you had held on, you might be the one who made 8 billion today."
Ding Sanshi: "You are still blaming me. Why don't you think about your QQ? If you hadn't sold it, you would be the one making money now."
In front of the computer screen, Ma Teng's smile suddenly froze.
Then he sent a crying emoji.
It can be said that how proud he was just now, how sad he is now.
Ding Sanshi: "Hehe, come on, let's hurt each other."
Jack Ma: "In addition to killing people, do you also want to destroy their hearts?"
Just when everyone was chatting happily, Lu Yiming popped up: "Hey, what day is it today? Are you all so free? What are you talking about so happily?"
Zhou Hongyi had previously invited Lu Yiming to a dinner party when she was in Beijing, but failed. Now seeing this news, she immediately said, "NetEase's stock price has skyrocketed. Mr. Lu, your assets are heading for 170 billion, right? Shouldn't you treat everyone to a meal?"
Speaking of treating, everyone became interested, especially Ma Teng, who had just been stabbed in the lung by Ding Sanshi and urgently needed a big meal to make up for his broken heart.
"That's right, Mr. Lu, it's time to treat us to a meal."
Lu Yiming also thought that now that the Internet cold wave is gradually dissipating, new historical opportunities are right in front of us, and the Internet will be an important national strategic highland in the future, so it is just the right time to hold a "Martial Arts Conference".
So, he took advantage of the situation and said, "It seems to be true what you said. All industries abroad will stick together for warmth, and we can't be scattered. Now that the global Internet winter is over and the haze is gradually dissipating, it is just the right time for us to make further progress and compete for the right to speak on the world Internet. So let's call everyone in the circle and get together."
Seeing that Lu Yiming had given in, and that the excuse was well-founded, people couldn't help but feel excited, and everyone started to cheer.
"It's really not easy to eat Mr. Lu's meal. I'm starting to feel honored now."
"I have to say, Mr. Lu's words touched my heart. Foreigners always laugh at us, saying that when we are alone we are dragons, but when we are in a group we become insects. They mean that we fight among ourselves too much and don't know how to cooperate. We, the emerging Internet circle, will let them see that our united strength is enough to make the whole world tremble."
"Hearing what you said, I feel that this is not just a simple dinner party."
Zhou Hongyi was still thinking about the dinner she had talked about with Lu Yiming before, so she said, "Where is the dinner place? How about choosing Beijing? After all, it is the capital."
Several people in the capital city expressed their agreement.
However, some people expressed different opinions: "I think Zhonghai is more suitable. After all, the Internet is more related to capital, and Zhonghai's economy is the most developed and it is also at the forefront of fashion and trends."
"We can build one in Baiyun, after all, it is the frontier of reform and opening up."
Due to various ideas, the locations proposed by everyone are also varied.
Proposals for an international metropolis like China Overseas Capital Hong Kong are considered normal, but it is a bit hard to understand why someone suggested going to Mount Everest.
After talking for a long time, no one agreed. Lu Yiming suggested: "How about going to Jiangnan to find a place?"
Jack Ma immediately agreed, "I think Mr. Lu's suggestion is very good."
After all, he was born and raised in Jiangnan.
At this time, the economic center was still in the northern capital circle and the southern coastal economic zone. The ancient scene of riding a crane to Yangzhou with a fortune of 100,000 taels of silver had not yet reappeared. Therefore, many people did not quite understand Lu Yiming's proposal.
“Why did you choose Jiangnan?”
Lu Yiming said: "The Jiangnan water town has beautiful scenery and rich history and culture, which is more in line with the introverted temperament of us Xia people. The Internet is a new thing, representing the latest technology and concepts. I plan to find an ancient town with a long history to perfectly blend the classic and the modern. Don't you think it's cool?"
"Now that you put it that way, it's really cool. So where in Jiangnan should we choose? West Lake?"
"Although Hangzhou is a famous city, I have been there many times..."
"To be honest, there really aren't any surprises."
"Then where are we going, Mr. Lu?"
Lu Yiming said: "I think we can go to Wuzhen."
At that time, Wuzhen was still an unknown little place, and it was not yet the permanent venue for the World Internet Conference ten years later.
Therefore, Lu Yiming plans to complete the layout of Wuzhen one step ahead. At that time, he will not only make money, but also allow future capital to have enough influence and voice in Xiaguo's Internet industry .
In the previous life, the Internet industry in the Xia Kingdom was divided into many factions and there was fierce internal competition. This was a good thing at first, as it avoided industry monopoly. However, the infighting between major companies led to the Internet, which was supposed to be more convenient for users, being artificially divided, and even hindered the further development of artificial intelligence.
Therefore, Lu Yiming wanted to start planning now to completely reverse this situation.
And Wuzhen is the best opportunity.
