Back to 80: My literary life.

Chapter 880: Phantom Sword or Starting Point
Fang Minghua stayed in Changsha for another day, politely declined Ou Youquan's invitation to visit tourist attractions, and bought a plane ticket to Shanghai the next afternoon.

Before leaving, of course, he did not forget to call Song Tangtang in Xijing and told her that he still had to go to Shencheng.

Song Tangtang replied on the phone: "Hongjun also told me about what happened in Shencheng. I heard that Dai Jiali and Chen Wanning had a big fight over this. You have to handle this matter well, so as to avoid disunity between the top two leaders, which will pose a hidden danger to the future development of Shengshi online literature."

"Okay, I understand." Fang Minghua replied.

Fang Minghua took a flight at 5pm and arrived at Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport at 7pm. When he walked out of the station with his travel bag, he saw a fat man in the terminal hall looking at him with a smile.

It's Zhao Hongjun.

"Oh, Chairman Zhao came to pick me up in person?" Fang Minghua joked.

"Look at what you said. We are close buddies. This time you come to Shanghai, work is secondary. The main thing is to have fun with us buddies!"

Zhao Hongjun now no longer has the ambition he had in the early days of his business, and basically just keeps running his own stall.

But it's okay. The general strategic direction of the group is controlled by Fang Minghua, and the specific implementation is done by each branch. As the chairman, he basically engages in various social activities. In fashionable terms, it is called "maintaining good relations between enterprises and the government." And this is what he is good at.

If he is really a hardworking chairman, he will inevitably conflict with Fang Minghua, the "shadow" helmsman of the group, over the general direction of the group's development, which will damage the harmony between the two close friends.

Both of them are very satisfied with the current relationship.

Fang Minghua was sent to the Shanghai Jinmao Grand Hyatt Hotel where she was staying. She lived on the 66th floor. Standing in the room and looking outside, she could see the entire night view of Shanghai.

"I'll order some dishes for your room. You can have a good rest after eating. A driver will come to pick you up to the group headquarters tomorrow morning. You can deal with the matters of Shengshi Online Literature first. After that, I'll take you fishing!" said Zhao Hongjun.

Fang Minghua was a little surprised: "Aren't you going to the company tomorrow morning?"

"No, I'm not going. I've already made an appointment to talk to Director Zhang from the Municipal Cultural Bureau. I'll go to Chongming Island with Director Zhang in the afternoon, and we'll have dinner when we come back in the evening. I'll ask you to join us then?" Zhao Hongjun said.

"No, don't go by yourself. I hate socializing the most now." Fang Minghua refused immediately.

"Okay, go ahead and do your thing. Call me if you need anything."

After Zhao Hongjun helped Fang Minghua order the dishes, he left the room. More than ten minutes later, the waiter brought the meal. Fang Minghua was eating while turning on the TV. At this moment, there was a knock on the door.

He thought it was Zhao Hongjun who had returned, so he went to open the door. Unexpectedly, there was a woman in a T-shirt and casual pants standing at the door. It was Dai Jiali.

"Teacher Fang, I heard from Director Zhao that you have arrived in Shencheng, so I came to visit you. I hope I didn't disturb you?" Dai Jiali said.

"No, come and sit down. Have you eaten? Let's eat together?" Fang Minghua greeted warmly.

"I've already eaten, take your time." Dai Jiali said and sat on the sofa next to her.

The two chatted for a while, and Fang Minghua asked: "Jia Li, you came here tonight, is there something going on?"

"Yes, it's about the acquisition. I want to report my thoughts to you in advance."

"Okay, go ahead." Fang Minghua said, and turned off the TV again.

Dai Jiali first briefly introduced the basic situation of Shumeng and Qidian Chinese Network. Fang Minghua was a little surprised to hear that several senior executives of Shumeng were still part-time workers: "Aren't they full-time?" "No, Shumeng was formed in May of the previous year by merging the literary book sites founded by online literature enthusiasts such as Shuqing Xiaozhu, Shitou Book City, Xiaoshuting, and Ningfeng Tianxia. And now the company is also managed by these few senior executives who are responsible for the specific operation of the website. They all have their own jobs, and the actual investor and controller behind the website is Kong Yi."

"Kong Yi was once one of the senior executives of Kingsoft Software, whose general manager was Lei Jun. In 2001, Kong Yi reached the ceiling of his career at Kingsoft and wanted to move on. So he found the founder of Xiaoshuting, "Xiaoshutingzhu", and said that they wanted to start an online literature website together. Later, he brought in Shuqing Xiaozhu, Shitou Book City and other websites to establish Shumeng."

Dai Jiali continued, "But Kong Yi's mind was not completely on Book Alliance. At the end of last year, his old colleague Xing Shanhu from Kingsoft and Chen Lin from Great Wall Software Company founded an online game company called "Happy Times", with Kong Yi as the planning director."

"To be honest, Kong Yi's focus is not on Book Alliance but on Happy Times. Setting up an online literature website is just a personal hobby. So this is also the main reason why he is willing to sell Book Alliance."

Fang Minghua nodded and asked, "How much does the Book Alliance want?"

"2000 million." Dai Jiali replied.

"Where's the starting point?"

"1000"

"The asking price is half the difference?" Fang Minghua asked back.

"Yes, it is undeniable that Shumeng has developed faster than Qidian, especially Xiao Qian's "The Journey to the West" and Shuxia Yehu's "Soushen Ji" are serialized on the website, which brings huge traffic to the website. Now Shumeng and Long's Sky are known as the two major online fantasy novel websites, especially Shumeng, which ranked in the top 2000 in the Alexa global ranking at the end of last year."

"Then why did you choose Qidian? You should know that our group is not short of money. You will not choose to acquire Qidian just to save 1000 million for the company, right?" Fang Minghua asked deliberately.

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"Of course not, it's because I am attracted by Qidian's entrepreneurial team!" Dai Jiali said in a firm tone.

"Just two years ago (2001), Bao Jianfeng and others founded the Fantasy Literature Association on Xilu BBS, which was the predecessor of Qidian Chinese Network. The founders were Bao Jianfeng (Lin Tingfeng), Cang Jian Jiangnan (Shang Xuesong), Heart of Darkness (Wu Wenhui), Yizhe (Hou Qingchen), Left Hand of Darkness (Luo Li), and Ant No. 5 (Zheng Hongbo).

Six people?
Why do I remember that there were five founders of Qidian?

Fang Minghua was stunned, but said nothing and waited for Dai Jiali to continue.

"On May 5, the Fantasy Literature Association changed its name to the Original Literature Association and prepared to establish a literature website named Qidian Chinese Network. These six people are different from the leadership of Book Alliance and are all full-time.

Among them is Bao Jianfeng: a famous online novel writer, author of the fantasy novel: "Legend of Magic Knight Heroes", and also the general manager of the website.

Cang Jian Jiangnan: Qidian.com platform architecture designer, responsible for website content design.

Heart of Darkness: Bachelor of Computer Software Engineering from Yenching University, worked as a programmer at Founder Technology Group Co., Ltd., and later founded Qidian Chinese Network, where he was responsible for website programming and backend maintenance.

Dark Left Hand: Because I worked in the downstream industry of works in a publishing house, and later I was mainly responsible for "IP development".

The author is also an online writer, and his works include "Dragonlance Chronicles". He and Zheng Hongbo are now responsible for the writer and editor business.

"Look at these six people, they have clear division of labor and each has their own responsibilities, so I conclude that Qidian's development will definitely surpass them!"

"More importantly, I heard that Qidian is planning to implement a VIP charging system."

Dai Jiali said finally.

(End of this chapter)