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

Chapter 244: Fighting Boom, Fighting Boom [Requesting Full Order and Data]

Page was skeptical of Brin's words.

Because, if we follow Brin's suggestion, we will probably encounter an even more brutal blow.

After all, this is on someone else's territory.

After all, there are indeed problems with your search engine in various aspects!

After all, Google is not as good as Baidu!
If you choose to fight back, you will often only be beaten even more brutally!
Paige sighed and voiced her thoughts.

Brin had a blank look on his face.

"So what do you think we should do?"

“Public opinion is just the heat of a period of time,” Page said.

"The public often pays no more than a week's attention to an event."

"We just need to not make any response, don't speak out, say nothing, and quietly wait for this wave of public opinion to pass."

"Of course, we really need to speed up and improve our product quality and search experience. This is the main reason for our success in the next competition."

Brin and Page argued fiercely for a long time, and finally they reached a consensus: play dead!
Lie down and let the ridicule take place.

Qiu Bojun has been closely following the progress of this public opinion war.

Google was ridiculed to pieces in the midst of the public outcry.

But, there was no response at all.

Endured it all silently.

Qiu Bojun thought: Could it be that he is planning some big move?

He accelerated the intelligence gathering on Google's China team.

Soon, Qiu Bojun knew the opponent's "dead dog strategy".

Qiu Bojun thought that this might be their best choice.

It seems that during this wave of public opinion storm, Google's popularity in China has indeed greatly increased.

Every Internet user knows Google by now.

And the use of Google search also appears to be increasing.

However, according to monitoring data, most users of Google search engine only try it out briefly and stay on their web pages for a very short time.

So we can infer that many people may try it out of curiosity.

It is estimated that after a period of time, when the public opinion storm has passed, the number of Google China users will decline significantly.

This is Qiu Bojun's guess.

As it turned out, he guessed right.

After ten days or so, the criticism against Google gradually subsided and the traffic was not as large.

After that, the number of Google users in China began to decline rapidly.

After just seven or eight days, its market share in China was reduced to just over 14 percent.

Ordinary Chinese netizens also have a negative opinion of Google, complaining that it can't find what you want, and sometimes you don't even know what it finds.

Of course, there are also some people who defend Google and even tout it as the best search engine in the world.

Most of these people are foreign worshippers. They were initially influenced by Amei’s propaganda and PUA, and regarded it as their spiritual motherland, gradually becoming reverse nationalists.

However, there are actually fewer and fewer people like this now.

After all, the vast majority of ordinary people can feel that the motherland is becoming more and more powerful. In addition, those who have been abroad have publicized the true situation of Amei on Weibo, which has made all Chinese people demystified by the United States. The filter of Amei is shattered!

This is quite scary.

When Ami has a beautiful filter, any of its brands will be sought after.

But what happens when the filter is broken? It's like the emperor's new clothes being exposed.

The original upward gaze will gradually become a level gaze, and finally a downward gaze.

Then Amei’s various products would naturally lose their halo.

In 94, when Hollywood movies entered China, every one of them caused a sensation and achieved high box office.

Six years passed, and by the beginning of 6, not many people liked Hollywood blockbusters anymore.

Similarly, when McDonald's and KFC, which were originally considered fashionable, entered China in the early 90s, it was fashionable for Chinese people to have a meal there.

But now, they are just ordinary fast food restaurants.

The same is true for Google.

If its search engine is really good, then it will be accepted by the Chinese.

But it is obviously still quite far behind Baidu Search, so why is it so popular among Chinese people?

In fact, Qiu Bojun attached great importance to Google's entry into China at the beginning.

He felt it could become a formidable competitor.

However, when they really started to fight, he found that his opponent was really weak...

Facing such a rookie, you feel like you are facing a formidable enemy and are very nervous?
It's really ridiculous.

……

While Google and Qiandu were fighting, Lei Jun was already running the C2C e-commerce platform Taobao.

Because we are building an e-commerce platform, it is actually quite quick to set up.

The key is to recruit a group of merchants from all over the country to settle in.

The first batch of merchants enjoy many benefits: help in setting up online stores and no commission for one year.

Taobao is conducting extensive mobilization and recruitment across the country under the banner of Huaxing Group's e-commerce platform.

Huaxing’s appeal is still considerable.

Many small-brand clothing, footwear and hat manufacturers, small department store manufacturers, and book publishers have set up their own online stores.

In just over a month, Taobao was established.

The main reason is that under Zhang Zhipeng’s previous layout, the core framework of the e-commerce website has already been developed, and they have been waiting for this day.

Therefore, the construction of Taobao took almost no time.

What remains is the cloze test for online store players.

It took more than a month to complete the online payment system, and Alipay was born!

In May 2000, Taobao officially began to promote itself nationwide.

No offline advertising platforms were used for this promotion.

Because, although you can create an overwhelming momentum on offline advertising platforms, it actually doesn't have much effect.

The people affected are still only those who like to surf the Internet.

If that’s the case, why not just promote it all over the Internet?
Taobao chose the pop-up ads on the Weibo platform and Penguin QQ to promote traffic access.

Its promotional theme is: Online general store, at least one-third cheaper than physical store or even more! Shopping is guaranteed!

As for online shopping, Ami has actually been around for a long time.

For example, Amazon is now doing very well in Aramco.

However, it only sells books.

Now, Taobao wants to be an online general store.

After the promotion began, Chinese netizens flocked to the Taobao platform.

In fact, they were just curious at the beginning and wanted to see what e-commerce was like.

Many people went in to take a look at the goods in the online store and were shocked by the prices.

Because the products here are indeed very affordable, much cheaper than offline.

Moreover, if you spend a certain amount of money, you can enjoy free shipping to your home in big cities.

On the day Taobao went online, many people began trying to buy things on it.

And they received their purchased items very quickly.

Moreover, after checking, they found that the goods they bought on Taobao were of quite good quality.

It can be said to be of high quality and low price.

Therefore, under the command of marketing guru Lei Jun, numerous short essays about online shopping experiences began to appear widely on platforms such as Qiandu Tieba and Weibo.

Online shopping has been packaged into a fashion.

The number of users shopping on e-commerce platforms has begun to increase rapidly.

Within half a month of Taobao's launch, the number of people shopping online had exceeded 1 million.

This is a huge number of consumers.

The first batch of Taobao shop owners all became rich.

Lei Jun is promoting various cases of people making money through online stores.

This has further stimulated more and more people to set up their own online stores on Taobao.

Of course, the number of consumers shopping online is also increasing rapidly.

……

As mentioned earlier, Amazon has been preparing to enter the Chinese market and establish their Amazon China branch.

Its boss Bezos attaches great importance to entering China.

Because he knows that China is actually now the world's largest consumer market.

If Amazon can capture this market, it will make a lot of money. However, Amazon is a direct-operated B2C, so if it wants to do well, it must build a lot of supporting facilities.

Amazon originally planned to go online in China in July 2000.

Unexpectedly, Taobao was launched in China in early May.

Moreover, after Taobao went online, it set off a huge online shopping craze in China and was loved by many netizens.

Bezos immediately realized that something was wrong.

His original plan was that Amazon would quickly capture the vast majority of the e-commerce sales market share after going online in China.

Although his Amazon still mainly sells books, it has gradually begun to shift towards department stores.

But now, his Amazon China site has not even been launched yet, but it has been preempted by China's e-commerce platform.

This is not a good thing!
Bezos studied Taobao carefully.

As a result, he discovered that the website made by the other party was truly light asset.

All sellers are individuals.

Sellers target buyers on the Internet.

Taobao just provides a platform.

Moreover, the Taobao website is easy to use and the pages are much better looking than those on Amazon.

In the online store suite, products can be displayed in an all-round manner, and logistics and payment can all be easily handled.

This approach is obviously more sophisticated than Amazon's.

I thought I was opening up a market without competition.

Now things are different. Just before my website was about to go online, a huge competitor suddenly appeared.

It would be strange if Bezos was in a good mood.

Bezos carefully studied what happened to Yahoo and Google in China, and he was hesitant to do anything.

Because, the first two put in so much effort, but in the end they failed to gain any benefits in the Chinese market.

Can I be an exception?

Bezos felt that he had no confidence that he could gain an advantage in the competition with Taobao.

The current situation is: If Amazon wants to compete with Taobao in China, it must engage in a price war with the other party, and also compete in service and other aspects.

And this requires a lot of cost.

Bezos wants to defeat Taobao in a price war through massive subsidies.

However, in that case, let alone making a profit, it is estimated that tens of billions of funds will be subsidized every year in the Chinese market.

Amazon simply can’t afford that.

To this end, Bezos also visited the two founders of Google.

He obtained important information from his communication with the two people: Ami's status in the minds of the Chinese people has seriously declined, and it is no longer admired and liked by the majority of the Chinese people.

The collapse of Amei's halo has led to a serious decline in Amei's corporate popularity.

If you fail to provide consumers with high-quality products and services, you will be left out.

After talking with Brin and Page, Bezos thought about it for more than two days. He finally gritted his teeth and decided to cut his losses in time.

While the business hasn't opened yet and the investment is still relatively small, you might as well just withdraw.

In fact, Amazon has already invested more than $10 billion in China.

This number is not small.

After all, Amazon at this moment is not yet the giant it was in the 21s.

Its investments in China are basically made by investors.

If the app is discontinued in China, it will be a huge blow to both investors and Amazon.

However, after evaluating the tens of billions of dollars needed to continue investing in competing with Taobao and the fact that it still could not ensure a certain market share in the Chinese market, even Amazon's investors felt that it might be better to exit at this time.

Just like that, Amazon China site was announced to be liquidated before it even went online, and it finally chose to withdraw.

After Zhang Zhipeng saw this news, he found it quite interesting.

Isn't Amei's company too timid?
It hasn't even been launched yet, and it's already escaped?
They don't even have the courage to try?

It's really kind of funny.

Of course, this also proves one thing from the side: Ame is no longer the confident country it used to be.

After entering the new millennium, Zhang Zhipeng began to devote himself to the research of strategic bombers.

Strategic bombers can be said to be a very important part of the nuclear triad.

Currently, there are only two countries in the world that have strategic bombers.

One is Amei.

One is Da Mao.

As the name suggests, strategic bombers are long-range bombers used to perform strategic missions.

It can be used as a carrier of nuclear weapons, capable of long-distance raids and penetrations, and carrying out tactical bombing missions.

A great country is unqualified if it does not have war bombs.

Two of the five big gangsters, John Bull and Gallic Rooster, lost their strategic bombers after entering the new millennium.

The ones who made the most of the war bombardment were Amei and Maozi.

Both have developed many types of strategic bombers.

Among them, the most classic strategic bomber of Ame is B2.

Its combat radius can reach nearly 9 kilometers with aerial refueling.

Its maximum take-off weight can reach 170 tons and its payload can reach 23 tons.

The Russian Tu-160 is even more powerful. Even without aerial refueling, its maximum flight distance can reach over 1.2 kilometers, its combat radius is 6 kilometers, its maximum take-off weight can reach over 270 tons, and its bomb load can reach 40 tons.

China's H-6 bomber now has many modifications, and its performance is gradually improving.

However, although there has been some improvement, it is still far behind Amei and Maozi.

The maximum flight range of the H-7 is only about 10 kilometers now, and its bomb load is less than tons.

The speed is not fast enough, the fastest is only over 1 kilometers per hour, and it can't even achieve supersonic penetration.

The ceiling is only 1.3 meters.

The flight distance is short, the penetration speed is slow, and the ammunition load is small. Under such circumstances, it is obviously impossible to let it take on a greater responsibility.

The Chinese Air Force had long expressed the hope of developing a new generation of fighter-bombers.

They hope that the new strategic bomber will have a combat radius of at least 6 kilometers, a maximum flight distance of more than 1.3 kilometers, a maximum take-off weight of at least 170 tons, and a bomb load of no less than 20 tons.

They hope that the new fighter-bomber's maximum penetration flight speed will reach about Mach 2, and its ceiling will reach at least 1.5 meters.

They also required the bomber to have stealth effects.

These requirements are quite high.

Although scientific research institutions have been working on researching a new generation of fighter bombers, the progress has been very small.

The Air Force was ecstatic after the Y-20 was developed and successfully tested. They believed that they could develop a new generation of domestically-produced strategic bomber based on the Y-20.

The Air Force specifically asked Zhang Zhipeng to be responsible for the research of the new generation of fighter bombers.

Zhang Zhipeng naturally accepted the order with pleasure.

As for the nuclear strike trinity, China currently still has two shortcomings: one is air strike, and the other is submarine strike.

If we don’t have strategic bombers, it will be difficult to carry out global strikes.

If a new generation of strategic nuclear submarines is not developed, it will not be possible to lurk in the ocean silently and deliver a fatal blow to the enemy at a critical moment.

War bombardment is the most important part of a great power's strength!
After the Spring Festival of the new millennium, Zhang Zhipeng immediately formed his own research team.

The members of this team are mainly academicians and professors from the School of Aeronautics of Northwestern Polytechnical University.

Of course, engineers and researchers from Xi'an Aircraft Industry Corporation also joined in.

For the project of the new generation strategic bomber, Zhang Zhipeng decided to take advantage of the situation and let Xi'an Aircraft Industrial Corporation to build it.

For this, Lin Yongning, the head of Xi'an Aircraft Industry Corporation, was very grateful.

After the Spring Festival, after Zhang Zhipeng formed a scientific research team, he first held a meeting.

The main topic discussed at the meeting was whether this new generation of strategic bombers could be based on the Y-20.

The reason for having such a discussion is that there are a group of people in China who always think that there is no problem in modifying the strategic bomber based on the Y-20 prototype.

But actually?
After all, the Y-20 is just a transport aircraft and it does not have the capabilities to become a strategic bomber.

Although its maximum take-off weight is 110 tons, this tonnage is still not large enough to meet longer flight distances.

Its maximum speed is only over 900 kilometers per hour, but when a strategic bomber requires high-speed penetration, it must have a speed of at least Mach 1.8 to meet the requirements.

From this perspective, its engine is actually not enough.

In addition, as a strategic bomber, it must use the most advanced radars.

In order to achieve maximum stealth effect, the design of the fuselage also needs to be redesigned.

At the end of the discussion, the project team members reached a consensus: the Y-20 is simply not qualified to be a blueprint for a strategic bomber.

The new generation of fighter bombers must be built from scratch.

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