Volume 3: Taking Roots 2016 Chapter 692: Sit Back and Enjoy the Fruits
Whenever he is in this classical garden, Zhou Dongsheng can truly feel what it means to find peace in the midst of noise.
It can be said that "you can enjoy the beauty of mountains and rivers without leaving the city, and you can enjoy the fun of forests and springs while living in a bustling city". In such a piece of heaven and earth, there are mountains and water, flowers and trees planted , a pond, pavilions and towers dotted in between, and rugged rocks.
Combined with the ever-changing scenery of small bridges and flowing water, it seems that each visit brings a completely different experience.
No wonder Ding Sanshi chose to establish a pig farm branch in this city and lived here all year round. It is indeed a good place to enjoy the rest of his life and prolong his life.
Of course, being able to live in this garden mansion worth hundreds of millions and enjoy a little leisure time from busy life, it would be hard not to prolong your life.
While there was a lot of fuss in Hangzhou, Zhou Dongsheng would naturally come here from time to time to ask for money when he had time, since he was just sitting around doing nothing anyway.
Ding Sanshi, who has always admired Zhou Dongsheng, naturally welcomed the intrusion of such a young friend.
After all, when people get older, they like to deal with energetic young people. If they are influenced by their vitality, they will feel younger too.
So, it is natural that men always like young and beautiful girls, right?
Ding Sanshi fiddled with the tea leaves expertly and couldn't help but make a joke as he looked at Zhou Dongsheng as he surveyed the garden courtyard.
"What? If you like it, just buy one. You can be my neighbor and live with me. Wouldn't it be more convenient if you come over for dinner?"
There is no wall that is impenetrable. Although the list has not yet been announced, when Zhou Dongsheng chose to cooperate, the news naturally spread like wildfire .
Even if Zhou Dongsheng is not included in these two entertainment-based wealth lists, his wealth is not an unknown number that is difficult to estimate.
After all, these are basically all investments and assets that are open to the public, not to mention that he himself is also a unique representative figure among the Internet celebrities.
Now, he is almost the same as Principal Wang, and each has his own strengths. Some people even give them the title of "Southern Zhou and Northern King" to measure their equal performance in the world of Internet celebrities.
As the saying goes, if you are in the world, how can you be without a reputation?
In terms of titles, in front of Principal Wang, who has many heavyweight titles such as "One of the Four Young Masters of Beijing" and "National Husband".
Zhou Dongsheng, who just made his debut, is obviously still a little immature and has a long way to go.
"I do have this idea. After all, there is heaven above and Suzhou and Hangzhou below. Hangzhou is indeed a good place to raise people. When I want to retire, I will come and keep you company."
Zhou Dongsheng said cheerfully.
"Yes, at your age, the bright lights and nightlife of the city still attract you more." Ding Sanshi said leisurely while holding the teacup and savoring it carefully.
"Hehe!" Zhou Dongsheng could not deny it and just smiled.
However, apart from coming here to ask for money, Zhou Dongsheng is a person who never comes to visit someone without a reason. The reason why he came to find Ding Sanshi was to seek advice.
" Brother Ding , I have something I want to ask you..." Zhou Dongsheng leaned over and said sincerely.
Ding Sanshi glanced at Zhou Dongsheng, as if he saw through him, and said with a smile: "What about financing?"
"As expected, nothing can be hidden from my brother Ding. He is truly an expert in foresight!" Zhou Dongsheng gave a thumbs up and praised him.
"You've been very popular recently, do you still need to guess about this? It's rare that you're thoughtful enough to ask..." Ding Sanshi said with a little emotion.
Although he had only known the young man Zhou Dongsheng for a short time, Ding Sanshi could be considered one of the bystanders who had witnessed his growth process.
As one of the earliest entrepreneurs in China's Internet industry, Ding Sanshi is undoubtedly also one of the first people to enjoy the dividends of the Internet industry and the dividends of the times.
It was also under this opportunity that he became the richest man in China, representing the Internet industry. This landmark event can almost be regarded as one of the symbols of the rise of China's Internet.
It was also from him that the Internet industry's wealth-making myths and miracles began to continue to this day.
For Ding Sanshi, who has long been the richest man and has never fallen behind, the Internet is a stage for young people to display their talents...
There has never been a shortage of talented young people, and it is these young people who continue to come forward one after another that provide the Internet with a continuous source of power, and thus create many miracles.
As a witness sitting in the VIP seat at the forefront of the industry, Ding Sanshi has naturally witnessed the rise of young people many times. Even the glory of the pig factory is inseparable from the supply of young blood.
As the helmsman of the pig farm, Ding Sanshi has always been keen on providing a stage for young people to display their talents. After all, this way he can reap the fruits of his labor and ensure that he does not fall behind.
At the same time, Ding Sanshi also benefited a lot from dealing with Duan Yongping, who once saved the pig farm from disaster, and especially agreed with his concept of investment talent.
Youth is capital, youth is the future. Investing in young people also means buying insurance for your future, an insurance that has the chance to get more returns.
Perhaps it was precisely because of the implementation of this concept that Duan Yongping was able to create the glory of the BBK faction. At the same time, his two disciples who started their own business also became the top mobile phone manufacturers in the country.
Although Mr. Duan, who lives in seclusion behind the scenes, keeps a low profile, there is no doubt that the wealth he possesses is by no means as ordinary as it appears on the surface. Whether it is early investment or the feedback from his disciples, it is all unfathomable wealth.
The dealings between the two men, from their acquaintance over pig factory stocks to Ding Sanshi introducing Huang Zheng to Mr. Duan, can be said to have formed a cycle of reciprocity.
After Pinduoduo completed a financing of hundreds of millions of US dollars with Tenda, the two, as one of the early investors, have begun to generate considerable returns from this investment.
At the same time, it was the opportunity brought by the Pinxixi project that made the young man Zhou Dongsheng enter Ding Sanshi's vision.
After implementing this concept to the end, Ding Sanshi, who repeated the same trick on Zhou Dongsheng, once again successfully demonstrated the forward-looking nature of this concept.
Investing in the PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds project alone has already created considerable returns for QQ Millionaire, and it has also given QQ Millionaire's gaming department, which has long been subordinate to Tencent, a chance to hold its head high.
Not to mention the later two major projects, Tik Tok and Mobike. Ding Sanshi, who benefited from the fruits of his labor, had gained so many benefits from Zhou Dongsheng that he felt a little embarrassed.
That is why, if given the opportunity, Ding Sanshi would naturally be very happy to give Zhou Dongsheng guidance and help him solve his problems.
"You are a popular guy in the capital market now. I think what you are worried about is not the lack of interest in financing."
"On the contrary, there are too many choices and you don't know what to choose for a while? Or are you afraid of offending people?"
Ding Sanshi said this in a teasing tone, but he hit the nail on the head on Zhou Dongsheng's thoughts.
After all, strictly speaking, this was Zhou Dongsheng's first formal external financing, and it was also the first time that he was praised by a number of well-known and established capital institutions.
Previously, whether it was persuading Principal Wang to invest in Xiaorenren Media or actively seeking investment opportunities, it was all achieved by Zhou Dongsheng through his own initiative.
Now the roles have been reversed, and it is Zhou Dongsheng who is resting and waiting for the right price. While Zhou Dongsheng enjoys this subtle feeling, he is naturally also conflicted.
"Brother Ding, please stop teasing me. This is the first time for me to get married, so I came to ask you for advice."
Zhou Dongsheng was not unfamiliar with the matter and said, "Just take advantage of the situation."
Although the basic purpose of financing is undoubtedly to provide resources for the future development of the enterprise, it can be said that the essence remains the same.
But although all roads lead to Rome, there are shortcuts. There is no need to go in the opposite direction just to prove that the earth is round.
Making full use of the resources at your disposal to maximize your profits is undoubtedly the shortcut.
"That's easy. How about we do it today? I'll arrange a dinner for you and we can discuss this matter over the dinner table?"
Zhou Dongsheng's inner thoughts were completely exposed in front of an old fox like Ding Sanshi.
Ding Sanshi was not vague and went straight to the point. It was just a small matter of saving face, which was naturally a piece of cake for Ding Sanshi.
Just because Zhou Dongsheng was such a considerate young man, there was no reason for Ding Sanshi not to help.
"Hehe, if Brother Ding is willing to come forward, then they will be more than happy to do so. If they can take advantage of the boy and taste Brother Ding's pork, then they will naturally be grateful and talkative..."
Zhou Dongsheng got the advantage and still acted like a good boy. With Ding Sanshi's support, he is no longer a fox who is using the tiger's skin to bully others.
Instead, it feels more like the care from a respected elder, and one can naturally do things more easily.
To round it off, Ding Sanshi is equivalent to the role of a sponsor.
"You have a very clear plan, you just want to eat my pork all day? With your appetite, I'm afraid the few pigs I raise are not enough for you to eat alone..."
Ding Sanshi scolded with a smile, but the implication was that he had agreed. In this way, Zhou Dongsheng naturally had no worries anymore.
"Doesn't this just prove that your pig, Brother Ding, is indeed the most delicious thing in the world? Once you have tasted it, you will never forget it. Otherwise, I wouldn't always be thinking about it..."
Zhou Dongsheng flattered him a little. Compared with bragging about Ding Sanshi's other clichéd deeds, this one was obviously more to Ding Sanshi's liking.
After all, no matter how rich you are, you still have to eat three meals a day.
Look, Ding Sanshi is laughing heartily, like a 200-pound fat man. How can he look like a top tycoon with a net worth of hundreds of billions?
"Compared to eating pork, I really didn't expect that the game you played, Chicken Dinner, would become so popular. It's a foregone conclusion that it will be the best phenomenal game of the year..."
Ding Sanshi changed the subject and brought the topic back to the game PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds.
As a company that started out in the gaming industry, it is also relying on the continuous revenue from its games that has given it the capital to build a huge company.
Games have at least half of the credit for the success of Zhuchang today, and as a vested interest, Ding Sanshi undoubtedly knows the games like the back of his hand.
Even so, the reason why Ding Sanshi was willing to invest in the game was more because of the young man Zhou Dongsheng rather than the game itself.
After all, when a game remains in the theoretical stage and has not been verified by the market, it is difficult to define which one is strong and which one is weak.
This is just like a movie. Before it is released, no matter how luxurious the team is or how awesome the technology is, the final judgment still has to be left to the market and the general public.
To some extent, games, like movies, belong to the category of popular art. Trying to make the content too highbrow and niche for the masses will ultimately be a unorthodox approach that won't work.
As a consumer product for the general public, if the public does not pay for it, it will naturally end up being a waste of money.
Even so, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, a phenomenal game that suddenly appeared out of nowhere, and the battle royale craze it has set off around the world, is still an amazing miracle.
After all, such a game that is popular all over the world actually came from a small workshop. A game producer who is keen on making battle royale games and an investor who is a complete layman constitute the main body of the small workshop.
Despite the investment from the gaming giant QQ, it is clear that it does not occupy a dominant position in the market, and this fact cannot be changed at all.
And in a sense, it became the first Chinese game to sweep the world and became the representative of the light of Chinese games.
In contrast, although Tenda has achieved full control of Riot Games and acquired the League of Legends game.
However, the European and American blood of the game itself means that no player will classify such a game as a Chinese game, let alone regard it as a representative one.
Although PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is not pure either, the game production team led by Brandon Green, the father of battle royale, is an Irishman.
The only difference is that the dominant position in this project is still China, whether it is capital or the strong support of the pig factory team...
This difference is perhaps just like the fact that the collections owned by the British Museum cannot represent British blood.
"Oh? Doesn't Brother Ding think highly of the game Overwatch, which is produced by Blizzard and represented by QQ? After all, anything produced by Blizzard must be high-quality."
Originally, the two games were about Guan Gong and Qin Qiong, but with the help of Zhou Dongsheng, they became like Mars hitting the Earth.
However, relying on the banner of "free" games, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds has the first-mover advantage and is not at all inferior in this confrontation.
Of course, in terms of revenue, it may not be as explosive as the results of buyout games, which generate sales of hundreds of millions of US dollars as soon as they are launched.
But in terms of long-term performance, time will prove what "free is the biggest scam on the Internet" means.
After all, such a truth has not only been verified countless times, but also led to the birth of a giant like Tengda.
“Although Overwatch’s agent has already recovered its cost when it was launched, in terms of the potential of the gameplay, I am more optimistic about the battle royale!”
