The Immortal Warrior: From Reverse Engineering to Forging Swords for the Country

Chapter 218 What needs to be exposed is the filter [Please subscribe]

2 million dollars was a big price, but in the end it was rejected by KK Chat, which made Yang Zhiyuan a little frustrated.

He decided to pay Penguin a visit himself.

Because, he heard that the founder of Penguin Company was also Chinese.

He believes that if we talk face to face, there may be a better result.

Even if you can't buy it, you can always invest some money, right?
If you can get a large share of KK Chat shares through investment, it will be possible to slowly get started in the future and achieve the goal of winning step by step.

Now is the time when the Internet bubble in China is at its most intense.

As the largest Internet company, Yahoo has a high market value and abundant cash flow.

Yang Zhiyuan is also ambitious and wants to do something big.

He hopes that he can become a real giant, just like those ancient families that have stood on Huaer Street for two hundred years.

When Tian Hongtao received a call from Yang Zhiyuan, he was discussing matters with Li Yanhong.

He himself has become a wage earner of Angyou Group.

"I rejected his offer of 2 million U.S. dollars, and I also clearly told him that KK Chat is not for sale."

When Yang Zhiyuan visited Penguin Company, he naturally made a phone call first.

"He actually wants to come visit again."

"In fact, we will soon launch a series of paid value-added services that users can purchase voluntarily."

Tian Hongtao said that the funds are very sufficient.

He wanted to see if Penguin was short of funds.

"Yahoo is so popular now because it mainly relies on chat rooms and forums to attract traffic."

Tian Hongtao was still very surprised because he didn't expect Yang Zhiyuan to be a young man.

Yang Zhiyuan came to visit.

"For example, for a series of VIP memberships, users who buy memberships will have a lot of privileges; for another example, we will launch various ornaments and user avatars. As long as you pay for them, you can be different."

Of course, it's really difficult to achieve that goal.

Let alone entering the circle, he couldn't even reach the outside.

"Let's see what he says when he comes over."

"In short, we have already arranged the future development path."

Tian Hongtao smiled and said: "We can earn revenue by distributing traffic."

Yang Zhiyuan asked about the situation in a roundabout way during the conversation.

After answering Yang Zhiyuan's call, Tian Hongtao said to Li Yanhong: "It seems that Yang Zhiyuan of Yahoo still doesn't give up."

He is even several years younger than himself.

The two exchanged some compliments on business.

"After our KK started chatting, their situation is not good now. The number of people chatting in the chat room has dropped significantly."

"After all, it seems like you can't absorb too much advertising."

Most of them are invested by the chaebols of the Angyou Group.

This surprised Yang Zhiyuan: "Then how do you achieve profitability?"

Tian Hongtao even said that KK Chat has not even considered going public in the future.

Li Yanhong said: "Because we seriously threatened the survival of his Yahoo!"

Therefore, he is now determined to get KK Chat into his hands.

Tian Hongtao said politely: "Thank you very much. I am deeply impressed by your Yahoo website. It is very rich in content and is a good place for me to read news."

Tian Hongtao shrugged and said, "There is nothing we can do about it. Competition is so cruel."

When Yahoo was founded, it also attracted a lot of investment.

Yang Zhiyuan himself cannot actually be considered a major shareholder now.

Later, driven by the Angyou Group, Yahoo quickly went public and was highly sought after in the stock market. The stock price continued to rise, which also made the investing Angyou Group make a lot of money.

“I have no doubt that it won’t be too long before we break even and start making a profit.”

Yang Zhiyuan must find an opportunity to break the game.

He is only 30, but he has created a global Internet company, which is commendable!
However, Tian Hongtao then thought about it again. Zhang Zhipeng became a double academician of Hua Guoguo before he was 30 years old, and single-handedly built two Fortune companies.

“You can also make money by developing games.”

Tian Hongtao talked with him, and Li Yanhong kept him company.

It seems quite painful to have traffic but not be able to monetize it.

After all, there was no way he could get into the Angyou Group's circle.

When Yang Zhiyuan saw Tian Hongtao, he talked enthusiastically with him. He said to Tian Hongtao: "Mr. Tian, ​​your KK chat is an amazing software. I also use it. I think it is an instant chat that really understands users." Software, it is much easier to use than ICQ.”

Tian Hongtao did not hide anything, but shared with Yang Zhiyuan the upcoming monetization methods of KK Chat.

The monetization of Internet companies was indeed a problem at the beginning.

Like portals, you can also strive for advertising profits like traditional media.

But some user software doesn't have so many methods.

Yahoo will not be able to use the monetization service that KK Chat is about to launch.

Yang Zhiyuan chatted with Tian Hongtao for a long time.

In the end, he determined one thing: KK Chat cannot be penetrated by needles or water can be poured in. He has no way to obtain this company through various operations.

Of course, Yang Zhiyuan wanted to work harder in the end, and he proposed in-depth cooperation with Tian Hongtao.

What he wants to do most is to cross-shareholding. We are all Chinese and have started businesses in the United States. We should take care of each other, help each other and form an alliance.

Only in this way can we have greater ability to resist risks.

Yang Zhiyuan also said that the main reason why Chinese forces are relatively weak in the country is because they are not united and fight among themselves.

"If we can form a group like Ang You and everyone acts in unison, we will have great potential in the future."

Tian Hongtao smiled and agreed that everyone could form an alliance and act together.

Cross-shareholdings, etc., if negotiated well, are not impossible.

Yang Zhiyuan took the opportunity to propose a share swap: Yahoo is now the most powerful Internet company in the country, and its market value is also very high, one or two hundred times the valuation of KK Chat.

But Yang Zhiyuan said that he would not let his brothers suffer, and he was willing to exchange shares 1 for 10.

In other words: He is willing to give Penguin 2% of the shares in exchange for 20% of Penguin's shares.

On the surface, this replacement method is absolutely worth it.

Yahoo's current market value is indeed more than 100 times the valuation of KK Chat.

Tian Hongtao naturally refused without hesitation.

Tian Hongtao told Yang Zhiyuan that KK chat is now in a period of rapid growth.

It won't be long before anyone from the country of Mili who surfs the Internet will definitely have their own KK number.

Therefore, even if Yahoo exchanges 1 for 10, Penguin will definitely lose money.

What's more, in Tian Hongtao's view, Yahoo has no future?

Even if it is a share exchange, it can only be symbolic.

It's a bit wrong to still want to use this trick to plot against people.

In the end, Yang Zhiyuan negotiated nothing and could only leave sadly.

By the end of November 1998, KK Chat had more than 11 million registered users.

Basically, everyone in the country who has access to the Internet uses KK to chat.

At any time of the day, tens of millions of people are online at the same time.

KK Chat has officially become a phenomenal chat software.

While developing rapidly, KK Chat has also launched three levels of membership and launched a series of membership privileges.

In addition, they have also launched various user avatars, pendant accessories, virtual clothes, etc.

KK users can choose to have sex for free, and it doesn’t matter if they don’t spend a penny.

However, if you spend money, you can highlight yourself and make your virtual image more beautiful.

In less than a month, KK Chat has developed as many as 300 million members.

Junior membership is $1 per month, intermediate membership is $2 per month, and senior membership is $5 per month.

Different membership levels will have different privileges.

As a result, by the end of November, KK Chat had collected more than 11 million U.S. dollars just by developing members.

Then, the avatar accessories, clothes, etc. were also sold for more than 400 million U.S. dollars.

The total amount reached 1 million U.S. dollars.

Don't underestimate this amount of revenue. Yahoo is so big now, and its monthly revenue is only tens of millions.

Therefore, by the end of November 199, KK had already established a firm foothold in the country.

Almost at the same time that the Chinese market was captured, under the command of Zhang Zhipeng, Penguin Chat offices and branches were set up in major countries around the world.

There are examples from China.

KK Chat has become a world-class popular chat tool.

It started to become popular around the world.

In almost all countries with Internet access in the world, people have begun to choose to use KK to chat.

By mid-December 1998, KK Chat had more than 12 billion users worldwide.

Moreover, the most incredible thing is that while it is developing rapidly, it also quickly achieves profitability and balance of payments.

This is a remarkable achievement.

On December 1998, 12, Tian Hongtao came back from the United States to report on his work.

In order to welcome his arrival, Zhang Zhipeng flew from Dalian to Shenzhen.

After seeing Tian Hongtao, Zhang Zhipeng gave him a big hug and said with a smile: "Brother Tian, ​​you have made a great contribution this time!"

"KK Chat is developing really well! Now it has become a popular chat software all over the world."

Tian Hongtao waved his hand and said, "I didn't show any subjective initiative!"

"Actually, you are doing things exactly as you envisioned."

"It's your vision and plan that's done well."

"Actually, I think anyone can do it if they go there."

"Hmm! One more thing. I think the people in Mollie Country are really a bit stubborn."

Zhang Zhipeng raised his eyebrows: "How do you say this?"

Tian Hongtao said: "They obviously have a lot of smart people, but the application software they made feels like crap to me, and it's not easy to use at all."

"I originally thought that it would be difficult to start our penguin chat after it passed, because they are the country with the most developed Internet!"

“There are quite a lot of competing software.”

"But who would have thought that compared to our software, their similar software is simply unreadable. Who knows why they can't think more about users when designing and writing software."

Zhang Zhipeng said with a smile: "The main thing is that he is too arrogant."

"So, I have always said in the past that we think of them as too perfect and too powerful."

"As long as that filter is broken, many people in our country will lose their charm and no longer fear Lizikata."

Huateng, who had been smiling and saying nothing, was also very emotional at the moment.

Huateng was also a little timid when Zhang Zhipeng asked Penguin to develop in North America.

At that time, he also thought that going to Ami to develop would be just trying to do the same thing.
Who would have thought that in just a few months, Penguin Chat would soon take over the world.

Huateng was also very emotional at this time.

Only then did he realize that the country of China was really becoming stronger now. In the past, I was just confused by Hollywood movies. I felt that Ami was simply a powerful and invincible god.

Huateng said: "Boss, you still have the foresight."

"My idea is, since we have the largest traffic entrance, should we use this traffic entrance to do more business?"

“For example, if you want to have influence on public opinion, you need to involve the news media.”

"Should we also start making a portal or something?"

Zhang Zhipeng shook his head and said: "In principle, the portal needs to be built."

"However, building a portal consumes too many resources and requires a large number of professionals to create content."

“Also, it’s slower to do.”

"We still have to socialize next."

"Social media!"

When Zhang Zhipeng said the word social media, Huateng and Tian Hongtao were stunned.

"Oh? What is self-media?" Tian Hongtao was a little confused.

The concept of self-media is actually not mature yet.

It was not until the new millennium that personal blogs matured and self-media officially became popular.

In the previous life, around 2003, a self-media platform called BlogNet appeared in China.

Later, in 2005, Sina launched a personal blog channel.

Individuals can publish articles, information, etc. online.

This is a more advanced place than the forum.

After blogging came the era of Twitter, and then the domestic counterpart was a meager boom.

In the 4G era, video websites have exploded, and everyone can post videos and become a video blogger.

It has also led to the explosive development of self-media.

Compared with the traditional media era, the self-media era has one characteristic: decentralization and deauthorization.

Everyone can become a self-media.

If self-media bloggers have novel and original views, they will attract the attention of a large number of fans.

Some bloggers can have millions, tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of followers.

This is more powerful than many media.

With the rise of personal media, traditional media can no longer monopolize the channels for speaking out.

Instead, small circles centered around individual bloggers were formed.

The influence of the media has been weakened and deprived of by self-media platforms.

It is precisely because of this advanced understanding that Zhang Zhipeng feels that we must vigorously develop self-media platforms.

It is necessary to form a global self-media platform that belongs entirely to China.

In this way, the voice of China can be spread to the whole world.

In that case, it would be very difficult for a certain country to use its advantage in controlling public opinion to confuse right and wrong.

Zhang Zhipeng explained the self-media to Tian Hongtao and Huateng in detail.

After finishing his speech, Zhang Zhipeng said: "In the future era, information is destined to be more developed and explosive than now."

"Whoever controls a powerful self-media platform can control public opinion."

"We now have an opportunity to reverse the lizard's hegemony of public opinion."

"I think we should hold onto it!"

Ma Huateng was very excited when he heard it. He said: "Boss, the idea you just talked about is really great."

"I think we should act immediately and implement it domestically first."

"Then we will use the KK chat tool we have to help it become a world-class self-media platform."

Zhang Zhipeng nodded and said, "Yes! Your idea is very good!"

"Then let's take action."

“First build the self-media platform Weibo.”

"Let everyone have a voice."

"In this way we can form real public opinion supervision."

Zhang Zhipeng held a small meeting with Tian Hongtao, Ma Huateng and others to discuss how to establish this Weibo self-media.

In fact, Weibo’s technical architecture is not too difficult.

However, in order to realize the rapid update and push of information and strive to quickly present real-time hot spots, it requires the support of a powerful backend system with high availability, high concurrent access, low latency and other characteristics.

At the same time, in order to cope with the rapid growth of application scale, the underlying algorithms of business functions must be optimized to make the architecture modular, service-oriented and component-oriented.

This also requires the coordinated and careful work of a large number of programmers to achieve this.

Zhang Zhipeng conducted an in-depth discussion on these principles with the technical backbone.

Now, Penguin has gathered a large number of excellent programmers here.

Zhang Zhipeng believes that as long as he clicks on it, they should be able to do it by themselves.

After he came to this era, he obviously promoted the faster development of science and technology.

If it weren't for him, the popularization of ADSL network in China would have been delayed by at least 5 years or more.

The boom in Internet entrepreneurship in China will take another two to three years.

In the Internet age, things are changing rapidly, not to mention a few years, but a few months.

Zhang Zhipeng brought China's chips from lagging to leading.

Of course, we cannot lag behind in the development of the Internet.

If we follow the development patterns of previous lives, after the emergence of Internet giants such as Google, Amazon, Twitter, and Facebook, they will become popular all over the world in a short period of time and occupy the world's Internet terminals.

This will then once again strengthen Aramco’s advantage in public opinion.

Therefore, Zhang Zhipeng feels that it is quite urgent now.

Now, with my own efforts, social media has finally gained a little advantage.

However, we still cannot relax.

Zhang Zhipeng handed over the task of developing Weibo to Penguin Company.

Afterwards, he returned to Chang'an with Tian Hongtao.

Along the way, on the plane, the two of them talked a lot.

Tian Hongtao has always said that life in Ami is really boring and boring.

There is almost no decent spare time.

Because the world outside is messy, and under the cover of prosperity, there are many crises.

Zhang Zhipeng just smiled faintly after hearing this. In his previous life, this was actually the time when a certain country was at its peak.

But in this life, because of his own appearance, its decline seems to have been advanced.

Still the same sentence: When a country dominated by plutocratic capital is free from external pressure, they will really let themselves go.

The happiest time for workers in the country was in the 1970s and 1980s.

As for the reason, everyone understands it.

When the biggest competitor falls, capitalists no longer need to vigorously reward workers due to the pressure of survival.

The good days of workers are coming to an end.

"Zhipeng, I really don't want to be that CEO anymore."

"I still think home is the best."

"When can I be transferred back?"

Tian Hongtao couldn't help but vomit.

Zhang Zhipeng said with a smile: "For the time being, you still need to sit there."

"But now our business there is actually on track."

"At this point, you don't need to be there all the time."

"You can even work remotely!"

"What do you think of Li Yanhong?"

Tian Hongtao nodded and said, "He has a very strong working ability."

"I have to admit this."

"However, I think we still can't leave all KK chats to him."

"This company still needs to be handed over to someone more trustworthy."

Zhang Zhipeng said with a smile: "We can let him take charge of specific work."

"But the decision-making should still be made by domestic decision-makers."

"Isn't this enough?!"

"Today, our country is at the most critical moment of realizing its great rejuvenation."

"It's right to be cautious."

The plane landed at the military airport in Chang'an.

Zhang Zhipeng’s sister Zhang Zhiling came to greet her with her children.

Generally speaking, this is the longest separation between Zhang Chiling and Tian Hongtao.

In fact, it only took more than two months.

As soon as Zhang Zhiling saw Tian Hongtao, she said angrily, "Have you not been dazzled by the colorful world of Mili Country?"

"Do you enjoy watching the foreign girl? I thought you were too happy to miss Shu!"

Tian Hongtao chuckled and said, "To be honest, there is nothing about Lao Mo that attracts me."

"The world in Hollywood movies is full of blonde beauties, but in fact, 60 to 70 percent of the people walking on the street are fat people, as fat as a mountain of flesh."

"Besides, it stinks very much. It's so stinky that people can't breathe."

"Honey, you don't know how I survived these days."

Zhang Chiling smiled and said, "You are still wronged."

"Is it possible that you feel that you were sent to the army by Zhipeng?"

"Let me ask you, is Ami's place good? Tell me the truth? Sometimes, I want to go there and have a look."

Tian Hongtao shook his head: "It seems that you don't believe me."

"The digital video recorder I brought contains a lot of videos I took. You can take a look when you get back."

"Mouli Country is really not as good as our own country. You will know after seeing it..."

Zhang Zhipeng thought to himself, it can be seen that the vast majority of Chinese people are indeed confused by the filter packaged by Ami.

Puncturing the filter is a task that must be done quickly.

This makes it even more necessary to seize the time to build a self-media platform.

Zhang Zhipeng repaired in Chang'an for a few days, and then he had to rush to Dalian.

The first electromagnetic catapult aircraft carrier has completed the construction of the hull.

Nowadays, outfitting is in full swing.

Outfitting is very important, not even less important than the construction of the hull.

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