The opening of China Entertainment Group gave Jay Chou a head-on confrontation

Chapter 532 Two Bullies Serve Me Alone

As the founder of Foxmail, Zhang Xiaolong thought that after Chenghao acquired Broad Group, he would start to split the company structure like many investors who had entered Internet companies in the past, especially the Foxmail team he created.

But what was unexpected was that after Cheng Hao took over, not only did he not "voluntarily resign" or "voluntarily transfer", but he was valued as the head of the company's business group, with more say than when his former employer was in charge, and he even had the right to directly contact Zhou Yi and Cheng Hao, the two leaders of Guiyi.

Considering that his little tricks were nothing to a tycoon like Zhou Yi who made huge sums of dollars every month, when encountering problems, Zhang Xiaolong's first choice was to contact the general manager Cheng Hao.

"Okay, I see."

After listening to Zhang Xiaolong's explanation of the whole story, Cheng Hao hung up the phone, leaned back in his chair and fell into deep thought.

Driven by the strong appeal of "Gray Avatar" and the name "Zhouyi", the QQ team, which celebrated its third anniversary some time ago, successfully resolved the crisis. The sudden influx of a large number of users and even the number of paying users willing to pay for various additional features directly allowed the already precarious QQ to once again leave its competitors far behind.

While Pony Ma was so happy at the board meeting, he naturally began to prepare to use the traffic from ambassador Zhou Yi to continue to conquer the market for QQ. Then, they ran into a new opponent head-on -

Microsoft.

To be precise, it is Microsoft China that has already begun researching the domestic instant messaging market.

The key point is that this is not just a general survey, even the MSN China team has been established. The continuous recruitment is obviously to do a big job, which is undoubtedly a huge pressure for QQ, which has just been reborn.

That's Microsoft, a global leader, and MSN has already achieved great success abroad.

In order to cope with the pressure, Pony Ma naturally wanted to integrate all the resources available on the market to continue to increase selling points for QQ, and the email business naturally came into his sight.

Foxmail, owned by Guiyi, was thus placed on his desk.

As one of the few Foxmail companies in China that can maintain a certain market share under the pressure of giants such as NetEase and Sina, Foxmail has received new capital injection after being acquired by Guiyi, and the speed of updates and iterations has been guaranteed to the maximum extent.

Tencent wants to acquire it.

Then their family was in a state of confusion——

The reason is simple: Gui Yi is too rich.

To be precise, Zhou Yi is too rich.

Last year, Tencent's year-end profit was 1.44 million RMB, and according to Tencent's channel news, Zhou Yi's annual income last year was a guaranteed 1.5 million after tax, and his income was in US dollars...

This year, this English album is aiming for global sales of more than 2 million copies. Taking into account the income from various copyright channels, the additional income from album sales, the additional Apple Store income and subsidy sharing, this year's after-tax sales will most likely exceed million US dollars.

This is just in terms of music, and does not include his appreciation in the investment market.

This is not even a shitty acquisition of Foxmail. Zhou Yi can grit his teeth and set up a plan to take the lead in acquiring Tencent.

In this situation, Xiao Ma Ge had no choice but to change his idea of ​​making a rough offer and directly acquire the company. He had to talk to Gui Yi first, or at least stabilize Zhou Yi behind Gui Yi.

They are afraid of Microsoft.

"Microsoft has made so much money from Zhou Yi's PPT template that it is almost grinning from ear to ear. PPT is now truly popular all over the world. Many of Zhou Yi's opening practices are directly used as textbooks, allowing PPT to be accepted and used by more people.

"They now have a good cooperation foundation with Zhouyi. No one can guarantee that Microsoft will not look for Zhouyi to cooperate again after entering the Chinese market in the future..."

Pony Ma asked himself, if he were from Microsoft, he would definitely have looked for Zhou Yi during the promotion phase.

Because it involved an international giant, Cheng Hao, who was undecided, called Zhou Yi after a night.

"Microsoft?"

Zhou Yi, who was preparing to produce his new album "Gui Zang", picked up the MV material list handed to him by his assistant, confirmed it, and suddenly paused: "You mean Microsoft?"

"Yes." "That's fine. You can talk to Tencent slowly later. You can use Microsoft to lower the price and gain more benefits. It won't be a problem to drag it out for a year."

Zhou Yi has absolutely no intention of considering cooperating with Microsoft.

It's not that he was unwilling, but the Microsoft China team that was formed not long after was too weak. The MSN market hadn't even been developed yet, but they were already too arrogant and opened champagne bottles, thinking that they were the global overlord and were destined to be invincible. They were obsessed with internal struggles for power and profit and couldn't extricate themselves.

QQ regarded MSN as its most powerful opponent since its birth and prepared many backup plans to deal with possible attacks, but it did not expect that the Microsoft China team was so vulnerable.

The final result was that this battle not only completely established QQ's dominant position in China, but also gave rise to Pony Ma's ever-expanding ambitions. The prototype of the future Internet bully was born.

Said Cao Cao, Cao Cao.

Shortly after Zhou Yi finished chatting with Cheng Hao, Qian Jiang knocked on the door of the recording studio, pushed the door open, and excitedly told Zhou Yi that Microsoft wanted to "renew its relationship" with him in China.

"Microsoft came with sincerity this time. The image ambassador contract they offered you is very lucrative. They must have tasted the sweetness of their last cooperation with you."

"Talk slowly, push slowly, send an ambiguous signal, but don't agree. I have no intention of cooperating with Microsoft China."

Before Qian Jiang could be happy for long, Zhou Yi's answer brought his good mood to an abrupt end -

"what?"

Qian Jiang almost thought he had heard it wrong.

That's Microsoft!
Even if Chenglong received the invitation, he would have taken it very seriously. Why are you still dismissing it?

Didn’t we have a pleasant cooperation when we were in the United States before?

"I'll leave the matter of arguing with Microsoft to you, Old Qian. I have an appointment today, so I'll leave first."

Raising the list handed to him by his assistant, Zhou Yi patted his agent on the shoulder with a smile, and walked out of the recording studio under his puzzled and puzzled gaze.

Twenty-seven minutes later, in a teahouse box in the imperial capital.

Jiang Wen, who was invited by Zhou Yi to have tea here, glanced at the folder next to the man opposite him and said, "You said you have something to ask me about the MV?"

"Hey, it's not a big deal. I'm just a detail-obsessed person, so I like to focus on the details."

Zhou Yi took a sip of tea, put down the porcelain cup, and chuckled, "You know me. I don't want to start work if the details are not perfect."

"Come on, tell me, let me hear what can stump a great talent like you." Jiang Wen, who didn't take it seriously, raised his hand to adjust his cuffs and took the folder.

When I opened it, it was all... information about trucks?

"This is?"

“There is a song in my new album called “Sorrow of Ending the War”, and the MV is about opposing US aggression, but I don’t really understand the brand and tone of trucks there, but the MV needs them to show the transportation of supplies.

"I was wondering if you could come and give me some advice on how to modify these props. I know you have done a lot of detailed research on war scenes. You're a movie producer, so you must know a lot of props, right?"

Finally, Zhou Yi added righteously: "Oh, yes, there is one more thing. In this MV, the cars may need to hit people, so after the modification, these cars need to ensure the effect of hitting people, but they cannot actually kill people."

"Hey, you asked the right person."

Upon hearing this, Jiang Wen immediately became excited and began to express his own insights: "If you want to hit someone, if you want to ensure the effect, then I definitely recommend a near-real collision. You know, I always pay attention to real shooting when filming.

"So, you have to have someone modify the front of the car like this, so that when it hits, it can..."

(End of this chapter)