Chapter 771: Setting Rules for the Internet
Facing Lu Yiming's interested look, Chen Xianghong also got a little excited and said, "Mr. Lu, I plan to run the shops in the ancient town to a unified standard."
"Oh? What kind of unification method?"
Of course, Lu Yiming was very clear about the ways of playing in tourist areas in later generations, but he didn't know how people played when the tourism industry was just starting out.
Chen Xianghong explained: "I plan to set clear regulations on the town's public management, such as how often the water in the drains should be drained and how often the street lights should be cleaned. These alone can provide many jobs. Secondly, merchants who want to open stores in Wuzhen must accept unified management, such as the principle of unified pricing."
Then he took out a document and said, "Here, this is the plan I wrote. You can take a look at it."
Lu Yiming looked at the various principles and details set by Chen Xianghong, and suddenly felt that the man in front of him was no ordinary man. He really understood the pain points of the tourism industry.
This plan not only stipulates what each position should do and when, and the prices of various foods, but even how much rice to put in a rice dumpling and how much meat to put in a bun are calculated directly by grams. Even a serving of scrambled eggs with tomatoes cannot contain less than four eggs. Everything is written down in detail in the regulations.
After reading it, Li Yiwen was also dumbfounded and said, "Is it necessary to go to this extent?"
In his opinion, why should everyone obey unified standard management?
In other tourist attractions, don’t businesses operate independently and bear their own profits and losses?
How come in Wuzhen, we even have to control the scrambled eggs with tomatoes?
This time, it was Lu Yiming's turn to explain to Li Yiwen: "Haha, the management logic behind this is actually three words - standardization."
Chen Xianghong was so excited when he heard Lu Yiming say this that he almost regarded Lu Yiming as his confidant: "Mr. Lu is right. What I want is standardization. Many tourist attractions in China now cut corners, short-change tourists, and sell inferior products as good ones. They rip off tourists as much as they can. All kinds of chaos have been repeatedly banned, which has greatly affected tourists' travel experience."
Li Yiwen agreed with this and said, "It is true. When I traveled to other places, I was cheated by vendors in scenic spots. Moreover, there were vendors everywhere shouting their wares with loud speakers. It was so annoying that I couldn't appreciate the beautiful scenery of lakes and mountains at all."
Chen Xianghong said: "Tourists come out to play mainly to relax, so we must provide the best tourism atmosphere for tourists, rather than wear out their patience and let them go back with a lot of complaints. So in Wuzhen, as long as the merchants are obedient, all the money they earn belongs to them. Not only that, I will also pay them a basic salary every month."
Lu Yiming smiled and said, "According to your plan, Mr. Chen, the bosses in Wuzhen will probably become more Buddhist in the future. Tourists who come here will not hear merchants shouting at customers with loudspeakers, and there will be no malicious competition between merchants."
Chen Xianghong said: "Yes, this is my goal. Under a healthy management system, merchants will have a good attitude and tourists will naturally have a good experience. And tourists will come back only if they have fun."
Li Yiwen said: "If it really develops as you envisioned, then maybe you can really revitalize Wuzhen."
Chen Xianghong laughed and said, "Then I will have to borrow Mr. Li's good words."
Lu Yiming said to Chen Xianghong, "Mr. Chen, I told you before that I would hold the World Internet Conference in Wuzhen. Have you found a good place for us?"
Chen Xianghong said quickly, "We have found one. We will fence off the place and clean it up in a few days. Mr. Lu, with your publicity, Wuzhen will definitely be famous all over the world."
In Chen Xianghong's opinion, Lu Yiming came to Wuzhen for a meeting just to hype up Wuzhen - who would come to Wuzhen at this time? Even the people of Wuzhen didn't want to stay here.
Lu Yiming smiled slightly. He knew better than anyone that Wuzhen was famous all over the world. But Wuzhen was not famous all over the world because of him. It was Chen Xianghong who built Wuzhen.
In the next few days, Lu Yiming asked Li Yiwen and Chen Xianghong to coordinate and set up the venue.
The day before the agreed date, suddenly many luxury cars and buses entered Wuzhen. The originally small and quiet town suddenly became very lively.
The residents in the town were shocked and surprised when they saw .
When have so many people come here?
In the parking lot, Internet tycoons got out of their cars one after another. Ding Sanshi, who had already sold his company, joked to Zhou Hongyi, "Microsoft Vice President and Microsoft Greater China CEO Chen Yongzheng is here. This is like a martial arts conference for the IT industry."
Zhou Hongyi said: "Then Mr. Lu is our martial arts leader, right?"
Then, Zhou Hongyi provoked Ding Sanshi again: "Do you regret it? If you hadn't sold the company before, you would definitely have a place among the IT industry leaders who came this time. Even according to the current share price of NetEase, I'm afraid you would have to sit in the second seat."
Ding Sanshi said angrily: "Don't mention this anymore. The more you talk about it, the more sad I get. I have decided to specialize in intelligent pig farming in the future. Pork is getting more and more expensive now, so this will definitely make money."
Seeing this, Zhou Hongyi couldn't help but complain: "Mr. Lu is really committing a sin. A successful person in the IT industry has been forced to raise pigs."
"You never stop talking..."
Ding Sanshi said this, then looked around and saw two people walking towards him while talking and chatting not far away. One of them was a familiar face.
"Speak of the devil and he will appear. Look, isn't that Chen Yongzheng? Who is the person next to him? It seems that Chen Yongzheng is very polite when talking to him."
Chen Yongzheng is still very famous in the circle. In the latest list of the top ten IT industry figures in Xiaguo in 2003, Chen Yongzheng ranked third with 32% of the votes.
Vice President of Microsoft Corporation and CEO of Microsoft Greater China, both of these titles represent his status in the domestic IT industry.
However, Zhou Hongyi said, "You don't even know the man next to Chen Yonghong? He is Shi Caijiang, the CEO of Yiwen.com. He is one of the top ten IT figures in our country this year, although he ranks last."
When Ding Sanshi heard about Yiwen.com, he immediately snorted, "It's the Zhalang from before, right?"
Zhalang was NetEase's old rival. Ding Sanshi still had some impression of this company, but later Zhalang was acquired and his NetEase was sold, so he stopped paying attention to it.
As for Shi Caijiang's identity, Ding Sanshi had never heard of it. After all, it was not his fault. Shi Caijiang had only succeeded in taking office in the last six months. The previous CEO had always been Cao Guowei.
"Who is this General Shi Cai? How could he make Chen Yongzheng lose half a body length? Yiwen.com doesn't have such a big reputation, right?"
Zhou Hongyi said: "Of course Yiwen.com is not that big, but Mr. Lu is rich."
Ding Sanshi asked: "What does this have to do with Mr. Lu? I know that Yiwen Tianxia was invested by Mr. Lu, but it shouldn't be like this."
Zhou Hongyi had to remind him: "Of course, investors won't do that, but Mr. Lu's girlfriend's last name is also Shi."
“Oh my god!”
Ding Sanshi understood it immediately and shouted, "No way?"
Seeing him making a fuss, Zhou Hongyi snorted and said, "What's wrong with that? It's just as you thought. Caijiang was previously in the real estate industry, and he is just a rookie in the industry, with assets that may have just exceeded 100 million. Yiwen is a listed company. If it weren't for this relationship, he would not be a CEO."
Ding Sanshi said excitedly: "He is the father-in-law of Mr. Lu, no wonder, come on, let's go up and make ourselves familiar with him."
After saying that, Ding Sanshi left Zhou Hongyi behind and walked quickly to General Shi. He introduced himself respectfully, "Hello, Mr. Shi. I am Ding Sanshi, the founder of NetEase, and now a loyal user of Quwen. I feel uncomfortable if I don't read the news on Quwen every day. I am also a good friend and business partner of Mr. Lu..."
Zhou Hongyi looked at Ding Sanshi's back and was speechless: "What kind of person is this? He only knows how to flatter others. He has no future."
After that, he also came in front of General Shi, nodded and said: "Hello, Mr. Shi, I am Zhou Hongyi, the partner of Mr. Lu and the founder of 3721."
At this time, General Shi Cai was quite touched.
As the vice president of Microsoft, he had to put on a smiling face in front of him. He naturally knew that Chen Yongzheng was not coming for him. Yiwen.com was still a strong company in the domestic IT industry, but it could not compare with Microsoft.
The reason why Chen Yongzheng was so polite to him was entirely out of consideration for Lu Yiming.
Ding Sanshi and Zhou Hongyi who came over here were all here because of Lu Yiming.
Shi Caijiang had never been too impressed with Lu Yiming's status as the richest man, after all, he was Lu Yiming's future father-in-law. But today, he finally understood how important this richest man was.
Just at this moment, Lu Yiming appeared.
Many people who recognized Lu Yiming greeted him.
Lu Yiming responded one by one, but he walked straight towards General Shi and said with a smile: "Uncle Shi, why didn't you call me directly after you got off the plane? I could pick you up at the airport."
General Shi Cai rarely shows up in public, so many people don't know him. Now, when they saw Lu Yiming actually took the initiative to greet him and even said he would go to pick him up at the airport, they were all shocked.
"Who is he? Mr. Lu actually said he would pick him up at the airport in person. What a great honor."
With so many bigwigs present, who is qualified to have Mr. Lu personally pick him up at the airport?
"It seems that Mr. Lu has a very special relationship with this CEO."
"I can tell at a glance that you guys don't usually pay attention to Mr. Lu. Didn't you hear Mr. Lu call him Uncle Shi just now? Mr. Lu's girlfriend's last name is also Shi, don't you understand?"
"Damn, from what you said, this CEO has an extraordinary status."
When Lu Yiming said he would pick me up at the airport, Shi Caijiang quickly said, "You are so busy, how can you have time to pick me up? I can just come by myself."
Although he was Lu Yiming's future father-in-law, the wealthy general did not dare to show any attitude in front of Lu Yiming.
After all, this son-in-law is so awesome.
Moreover, he is now the CEO of Yiwen.com and a director of the company, holding shares in the company. Both his personal wealth and social status are beyond his dreams in the past - although he is a mascot in the company, who has enabled him to have all this?
Shi Cai will know what is going on.
If Lu Yiming hadn't helped him get to the position, he would never have been able to reach where he is today.
Chen Yongzheng had met Lu Yiming before and was quite familiar with him, so he took the initiative to greet him and said, "Mr. Lu, long time no see."
Lu Yiming also smiled and shook hands with him, saying, "Mr. Chen is so kind to me."
Chen Yongzheng smiled and said, "What are you talking about, Mr. Lu? I am very happy to receive the invitation."
Shi Caijiang said to Lu Yiming: "When I got off the plane just now, I happened to meet Mr. Chen. Mr. Chen invited me to come here in his car, so I didn't call you."
Chen Yongzheng was just worrying about how to get closer to Lu Yiming. After hearing what General Shi said, he immediately gave General Shi a grateful look and said modestly, "Mr. Shi, you're too polite."
Lu Yiming said to Chen Yongzheng in a teasing tone: "Mr. Chen, I heard that Microsoft is going to make a big move recently. Is MSN planning to go to war with QQ?"
In the past two years, MSN has been constantly making small moves.
After all, the new field of social networking is slowly showing huge commercial potential, and Microsoft, as the dominant player in operating systems, cannot help but be interested.
Chen Yongzheng quickly explained: "Mr. Lu, you are joking. QQ is the leading social software in Xiaguo. MSN has no intention of competing with Yixun for the time being. We are just expanding our business normally."
This is of course nonsense, but the polite words still need to be said. After all, everyone is wearing suits and ties and is a respectable person in the upper class. Even if they fight to the death in private, they still have to maintain proper manners in public.
As time went by, all the guests arrived that night and checked into the hotel.
The next morning, the much-anticipated "First World Internet Conference" was successfully opened in Wuzhen.
The subsequent meetings were basically just bigwigs from all sides taking turns to come on stage and brag, shouting out all kinds of loud slogans about how they were going to become bigger and stronger and create greater glory in the coming 2004.
As for the specific dry stuff, not a single word was mentioned.
After all, the Internet is a huge gold mine, but if anyone really discovers a gold vein, they will definitely not choose to expand, but to seize the opportunity and occupy the territory first.
At the venue, looking at the guests on the stage talking excitedly, Li Yiwen showed a deeply puzzled expression on his face and asked Lu Yiming who was sitting next to him: "Is this kind of gathering meaningful? I just listened to your bragging, and what you said was completely meaningless."
Lu Yiming smiled and said, "Which of these entrepreneurs who can survive the Internet winter is a fool? What if they leak their own business secrets and are preempted by their competitors?"
In such situations, many truths cannot be told.
Li Yiwen curled his lips, thinking of how Lu Yiming had spent tens of millions on this "bragging conference", and immediately complained: "According to what you said, there is no need to come here for a meeting. This meeting is completely meaningless."
Seeing that Li Yiwen still didn't understand why they had to come to Wuzhen for the meeting, Lu Yiming explained the reason to him: "This gathering is not so much a response to the call of me, the leader of the martial arts world, but rather a gathering for warmth after the cold wave has receded."
Li Yiwen understood now, and suddenly realized: "I see, so it's because a lot of investors don't dare to invest in the IT industry before, so you guys got together and made some noise to attract the attention of the financiers?"
Lu Yiming smiled and said, "At least others think so. Although I have no shortage of investment, I also want to sit on the position of leader."
Li Yiwen saw that Lu Yiming's smile was very cunning, and he immediately became more cautious: "What are you planning to do?"
At this time, the host on the stage said: "Next, please invite our richest man Lu to come to the stage to give a speech. Everyone applaud."
There was thunderous applause at the scene, countless eyes looked towards Lu Yiming, and all the camera equipment was aimed at him.
Lu Yiming stood up and stepped onto the podium. He first said in a humorous tone, "I am the youngest person present today. Facing all the seniors in the industry, I am actually a little nervous."
Many people in the audience immediately started to make a noise, saying, "Mr. Lu, you also know how to be humble?"
Zhou Hongyi even said loudly: "When we were in the group, Mr. Lu, you have never been so humble."
Everyone burst into laughter.
Lu Yiming spread his hands and said, "Okay, to be honest, I'm not panicking at all. After all, I'm the youngest, and youth is my greatest asset. Why should I panic?"
Then, Lu Yiming got to the point and said, "When the Internet was first created, it was for information sharing. Through the connection of the network, the collision of ideas between people can generate countless possibilities and bring endless creative sparks."
Then, Lu Yiming changed the subject and said, "The core of the Internet is freedom of thought, but there is no order without rules, and freedom should not be disorderly and chaotic, so I want to set a few rules for Xiaguo's Internet."
As soon as these words were spoken, many people frowned.
Although Lu Yiming is the richest man, the business world still ranks people based on seniority. Therefore, Lu Yiming's status as the leader is more of a symbolic meaning. Everyone gives Lu Yiming face for the sake of "money".
But Lu Yiming's action clearly showed that he wanted to be the one to share the cake and consolidate his status as the leader.
Instantly, many people became unhappy, including Yang Qing, a representative sent by Lenovo, because of Jianlai Technology, the two parties were in fierce competition in the PC market.
As the saying goes, competitors are like enemies. Yang Qing did not give Lu Yiming any face and said directly, "Boss Lu, isn't it inappropriate for you to do this?"
Lu Yiming looked at Yang Qing calmly: "I just hope that Xiaguo's IT industry can develop in a healthy and orderly manner so that everyone can benefit from it. Why? Mr. Yang doesn't want this?"
