my return 2002

Chapter 182
"Haha, I said the sun is so bright today, so it's Mr. Shi who came to visit." Lei Jun stepped forward to greet him.

In the early years, Lei Jun and Shi Yuzhu met once in Zhuhai, but at that time Shi Yuzhu was already a famous young talent, and Lei Jun was just a little transparent who just went to Jinshan.

Shi Yuzhu also shook hands with Lei Jun enthusiastically: "Where is it, I took the liberty to come here to disturb you."

"President Shi, welcome." Shen Lang greeted him with a smile.

"President Shen, I have been hearing about your deeds for a long time. When I saw you today, you are indeed a young talent." Shi Yuzhu was surprised by Shen Lang's age. Although he had done research before coming here, when he really saw Shen Lang , still sighing at the other party's youth.

Shen Lang said with a smile: "How can I compare with President Shi, you are the real one who became famous at a young age."

"I said you should stop flattering each other here, and be envied by others." Lei Jun joked, pretending to be jealous.

Shen Lang and Shi Yuzhu looked at each other and laughed, Shen Lang welcomed Shi Yuzhu into the office.

"Mr. Shi, I don't have anything to entertain here. The West Lake Longjing was given to me by Mr. Zhu from Ninetowns. You give it to me."

Lei Jun said to Shi Yuzhu: "Mr. Shi, you don't know. This guy is very stingy. This tea has been in the company for several months. I didn't drink it in a daze. I just got your favor today. I will try it too." taste."

"Haha, you should have a good taste." Shi Yuzhu laughed.

Shen Lang gave Lei Jun a sideways glance: "You don't drink tea well, and you won't be able to taste it, it's a waste."

"Then I have to drink today, pour it quickly."

Shi Yuzhu took a sip of his tea and nodded: "Well, the tea has a long taste. It should be the new tea from last year. This tea is not bad."

"Since Mr. Shi likes it, I'll take some back later. Only those who know how to taste this tea can taste good or bad. Let it go to waste here." Shen Lang said politely.

"Then I'm welcome."

The three exchanged pleasantries for a while, and then Shi Yuzhu explained the purpose of their visit.

"Mr. Shen, can you show me your company's game project team? To tell you the truth, I took a long vacation for myself during this period, and fell in love with playing online games. I am now Jianyu Jianghu loyal players."

Shen Lang was taken aback for Shi Yuzhu's sudden request, and subconsciously thought of Zhengtu. Could it be that this guy came to me to steal his teacher?

But after thinking about it, Jianyu Jianghu and Zhengtu are completely two types of games, and there seems to be nothing to learn from, right?

"No problem." After thinking about it, Shen Lang readily agreed. The success of Jianyu Jianghu is largely due to its rich gameplay. If Shi Yuzhu really put his heart into research, he wouldn't visit so for a while.

Afterwards, Shen Lang brought Shi Yuzhu to the Jianyu Jianghu project team. The entire project team was very busy and had no time to greet them, so Shen Lang personally took charge of the explanation.

Shi Yuzhu listened with relish and praised a few words from time to time.

At noon, Shen Lang and Lei Jun invited Shi Yuzhu to dinner again, and the atmosphere was very harmonious.

After drinking for three rounds and eating five flavors, Shi Yuzhu said to Shen Lang with some emotion: "Jianyu Jianghu is indeed the first domestic online game, and it is difficult for other game manufacturers to imitate."

Shen Lang pretended to sigh and said: "In fact, the most difficult part of Jianyu Jianghu is not the game itself, but the operation. Now the root of Jianyu Jianghu's popularity is actually the economic system. We need non-stop design activities to balance the price of each server. .”

"Actually, in my opinion, the game that is the easiest to imitate in China is Legendary. Look at the overwhelming number of Legendary private servers, don't they all make a lot of money?"

Shi Yuzhu nodded approvingly, expressing his agreement.

After eating and drinking enough, Shi Yuzhu took his leave and left.

Lei Jun looked at Shi Yuzhu's back suspiciously and said: "This Shi Yuzhu doesn't mean he wants to start a business again?"

"Otherwise? Do you really think he has nothing to do?" Shen Lang gave Lei Jun a white look.

"Then you still show him around and tell him so much? It's not like your character."

"As a novice in the industry, will you directly challenge the most difficult one when you start a business? Only when you let him understand the difficulty will he retreat."

"So, you deliberately told Shi Yuzhu that the easiest thing to imitate is a legend! You are really bad."

"I'm not, I haven't, don't talk nonsense, I just slipped my tongue when I drank too much."

Lei Jun: .
On the other side, Shi Yuzhu had just returned to the hotel, sat on the sofa, and began to sort out the results of this half-day. He is a person who is used to summarizing.

As he saw with his own eyes, Sword Rain Jianghu is indeed not a project suitable for novices, it is too perfect, as Shen Lang said, even if it is copied, it is difficult to copy its essence.

Although he knew very well that Shen Lang's last words were intended to bring disaster to the east, but after making a comparison, Shi Yuzhu found that Shanda's game is indeed easier to copy.

Shi Yuzhu is a businessman. He only wants to make money by making games. He has never thought of standing at the top of the online game industry. Naturally, he has no idea of ​​challenging authority. He does whatever is the easiest and most profitable.

Thinking of this, Shi Yuzhu called the secretary.

"You can make an appointment with Mr. Chen from Shanda, or Mr. Tan from Shanda Games. Just say that I want to visit Shanda."

In the shadow of a famous tree, Chen Tianqiao heard the secretary say that Shi Yuzhu wanted to come to Shanda for a visit, so he agreed without thinking too much.

A few days later, Shi Yuzhu came to Shanda as scheduled, and Chen Tianqiao received him in person.

Shi Yuzhu claimed to be a legendary game fan, and kept his posture very low, which made Chen Tianqiao feel good about him. He personally took him to visit in Shanda. The person in charge of the group called to explain to Shi Yuzhu.

For example, in the legendary project team, Shi Yuzhu asked.

"I bought a [-]th-level fighter account before, why do I still feel that I am not very good?"

The person in charge of the legendary project team laughed.

"If you want to be powerful, it's not enough to rely on the level alone, you have to be well equipped."

Shi Yuzhu nodded thoughtfully.

"Hey, Mr. Chen, why haven't I heard of this Age of Heroes game?" When passing by an office area, Shi Yuzhu asked curiously as he glanced at the nameplate on it.

Chen Tianqiao didn't care, and explained: "Oh, this is the latest game developed by our company. It hasn't been released yet, so President Shi naturally hasn't heard of it."

"Oh? New game? Can you show me around?"

"That's fine, but this project has just started, and there's nothing really interesting about it."

Chen Tianqiao hesitated for a while, and finally called Tan Qunzhao over. Recently, Tan Qunzhao basically stayed in the Age of Heroes project team, and he also had high hopes for this game.

He had heard of Shi Yuzhu's name, Tan Qunzhao, for a long time. In addition, the other party was engaged in health care products, so Tan Qunzhao was not prepared and took Shi Yuzhu to visit.

Afterwards, Shi Yuzhu was full of praise for this game called Age of Heroes, and said.

"Mr. Tan, you must leave me an activation code during the internal testing of this game."

"Haha, no problem."

Shi Yuzhu's visit was an episode for Chen Tianqiao, and he didn't take it seriously. Seeing that the grand listing date was getting closer, Chen Tianqiao began to fly more and more frequently to and from the United States and the mainland.

Until one day, Tan Qunzhao suddenly received resignation letters from several programmers in Age of Heroes. Tan Qunzhao didn't take it seriously at first, thinking it was caused by too much work pressure recently, so he called them to the office.

However, during the conversation, Tan Qunzhao discovered that they seemed to be determined to leave their jobs, and they even would rather not have their salary for the month and leave themselves.

Although the reason given was that the old man in the family was sick and had to go back to his hometown to take care of it, but is there really such a coincidence?
Seeing that their willingness to leave was so strong, Tan Qunzhao had no choice but to approve it.

However, what Tan Qunzhao didn't expect was that in the next few days, programmers would apply for resignation one after another, and some would just stop coming to work without saying a word.

There were more than 20 people before and after, and Tan Qunzhao figured out something was wrong, so he took the contract and told one of the programmers.

"Your contract period has not yet expired. If the company does not agree with your resignation and you do not perform the contract, we will have to meet in court. If you don't accompany you at that time, you will lose your fortune. I, Tan Qunzhao, wrote the words backwards."

The programmer was taken aback and had no choice but to tell the truth.

Tan Qunzhao never expected that it would be like this.

When Chen Tianqiao heard Tan Qunzhao say that his brain was about to explode, he collapsed on the sofa, and Tang Jun jumped when he got off, and was about to send someone to the hospital.

Chen Tianqiao stopped him: "At this time, I can't let people know that I have a physical problem. This is an old problem of mine. Just take some medicine and it will be fine. Don't make a fuss."

After taking the medicine, Chen Tianqiao breathed a sigh of relief, his face finally turned red, Tang Jun heaved a sigh of relief, and then asked.

"Mr. Chen, has something happened in China?"

Chen Tianqiao waved his hand: "It's nothing. A new game project has been poached. Fortunately, the actual loss is not big."

"That's good."

What a fart!Chen Tianqiao has already scolded Shi Yuzhu in his heart. The Age of Heroes is a very important step he is going to use to boost Shanda's stock. Now Shi Yuzhu has poached half of the project team. These are all Shanda's games The elite, co-authored him for a long time, but finally made a wedding dress for someone else.

Moreover, Shi Yuzhu poached so many people from him because he obviously wanted to make a difference in the game field. Undoubtedly, Shanda had another competitor.

The most disturbing thing for Chen Tianqiao was that he personally recruited this hungry wolf.

"Shi Yuzhu, we've settled this beam!"

Unknowingly, the time came to the end of March, and the public beta of Jianyu Jianghu did not delete files for one month.

During this month, the number of simultaneous online users of Jianyu Jianghu has increased from the initial 92 to 116 million. It can be said to be the leader in the online game market in the mainland.

In just one month, Jianyujianghu brought Shen Lang a revenue of 300 million yuan, and a net profit of 500 million yuan. Within a month, all Shen Lang's previous investment was earned back.

Of course, such a terrifying profit ratio is mainly due to the fact that Jianyu Jianghu is a self-developed game, and Shen Lang does not need to pay profit sharing to Korean companies like Shanda and Ninetowns.

Moreover, since the promotion and point card sales of Jianyujianghu are basically in their own hands, the cost can be said to be the lowest in the industry, and the biggest expense is the bandwidth cost of mobile operators. I have to say that bandwidth costs are really high these days. .

After earning money, Shen Lang naturally wanted to fulfill his promise, and with a wave of his hand, he took several project team leaders of the company to choose a car.

"You all choose one, keep it within 25 yuan, temporarily affiliated with the company, and transfer the ownership to you after three years." Shen Lang said richly.

The reason for buying in the name of the company is that on the one hand, the purchase tax can be reduced or exempted, and on the other hand, it is also to retain them.

Wang Xiaochuan and He Xiaopeng were all very excited. In 25, driving a car worth 2004 yuan was no worse than driving a BMW 5 Series in later generations. At this time, Santana and Jetta were still running all over the streets.

They were all young people, so they were naturally very excited about the first car in their lives. Only when Liang Han stood there awkwardly, did Shen Lang know that he didn't have a driver's license after asking.

Shen Lang smiled and patted him on the shoulder: "It doesn't matter if you don't know how to drive. I bought the car first, anyway, I'm affiliated with the company. If you have time, find a driving school to practice. It's much easier than writing code, and you can get started soon. .”

Only then did Liang Han go to choose a car with a smirk.

Shen Lang saw that Lei Jun didn't move, so he said to him: "You also have a share, choose one, and it can be reimbursed if it doesn't exceed 100 million."

"Forget it, I don't usually need a car." Lei Jun shook his head. He has no pursuit of cars. He had a car in Jinshan before, but he rarely drove it.

Shen Lang thought for a while: "Since you don't like cars, what about a house? Why don't you buy a suite in Shanghai, the 100 million quota, and you have to make up for the excess."

"That's not bad, then I'll be impolite, and I'm about to take my wife over." Lei Jun said with a smile.

"Why are you being polite, I'll ask the accountant to send you the money later." Shen Lang waved his hand, saying that he also went to choose a car.

In the end, Shen Lang chose a Cadillac Escalade, not because he thought it was a good car, but because there were not many SUV models to choose from in 2004, and even fewer were available in China.

What surprised Shen Lang was that Liang Han and the others chose the Passat without exception. After asking, they found out that the price was right, and it landed just under 25.

In addition, Shen Lang also ordered two Honda CRVs to be used as special vehicles for the company. When the time comes, the employees will use them for self-driving tours, and the riding experience of the SUV will be better.

Of course, these cars are only on order, and it takes one month to pick up the car, especially the Cadillac that Shen Lang ordered, after it is selected, it takes two months to wait.

April Fool's Day, April 4st, suddenly the media revealed that Shanda had completed its IPO and was about to be listed on Nasdaq.

Just when many people thought it was an April Fool's Day prank, similar reports appeared one after another on Sina, Sohu, and NetEase.

Only a week later, when Chen Tianqiao appeared in high spirits to ring the bell at Nasdaq, netizens were surprised to find that it was not a prank.

Shanda really went public.

(End of this chapter)