Rebirth of the Wild Age

Capital.

Song Weiyang’s courtyard has been completed for three months. There were more than 20 rooms in total with those small utility rooms and toilets, but it was demolished to only 16 rooms (two in the courtyard).

The space vacated after the house was demolished was turned into a small garden with a rockery. There is a rockery here. The two rockery damaged by the earthquake several decades ago were moved to two parks in the capital. Now it is basically restored to its original appearance. The rockeries are all built according to the park, and by the way, a wooden stand is used to plant grapes.

Chen Tao plucked out some flowers and plants she didn't like, and bought some pots of camellia from the flower and bird market. At this time, she was busy transplanting them with a small shovel.

There are stone stools and tables under the grape trellis, but unfortunately now the vines have not grown up, and the bare wooden shelves are all there, so there is less leisurely taste when sitting on the stone stools and drinking tea.

"Your yard can be remodeled," Ma Wei looked up at the wooden shelf, "but it's still too new. You have to live in it for a few years. You will ruin the house if you keep it empty."

Song Weiyang smiled and said, "I have hired a reliable part-time worker to clean up the dust twice a week, and help water the flowers and weeds by the way."

Ma Wei said with emotion: "Capitalist! You just let the part-time worker live in."

The boiling water on the small stove at the door was boiled, and it was groaning with steam. Song Weiyang hurried over, picked up the kettle, and took out a can of tea and said, "I have a college roommate who applied for support for the construction of the western region, and served as the deputy county magistrate in a remote area. There are no special products there, just high mountains. The tea is not bad. Xifeng invested in a tea mountain in the past. Regardless of the ordinary tea, it has been hidden for 20 years. It seems to be in the same generation as Lafite in 1982."

Brother Xiao Ma sat next to him and didn't say anything. At this time, he was surprised and said, "The tea is also in the old cellar?"

Ma Wei smiled and said, "I have drunk green tea from the cellar for 70 years."

"You are awesome!" Song Weiyang was speechless.

"Isn't tea going bad after 70 years?" Xiao Ma asked.

Ma Weidu said: "That is the best green tea in Wanwan. It was hidden in a cave and it took 70 years to dig it out. I was lucky. At that time, I went to visit a friend in Wanwan and my friend just got a little bit of it."

Song Weiyang asked: "How does the 70-year-old green tea taste?"

"It tastes a bit like Pu'er," Ma Wei laughed. "Really, green tea tastes like Pu'er, which completely subverts my understanding of green tea."

Chen Tao had already transplanted the camellia, and after washing her hands, she came over and said, "I want to taste it when I have a chance."

"I have finished drinking it a long time ago. The stock is scarce. After the seal is released, it cannot be stored for a long time. You must drink it within a period of time." Ma Wei said as he began to talk about the mountains again, "The most thrilling tea I ever drank was in Japan. At that time, that friend used a chicken tank cup to buy me a drink. I thought it was a modern imitation sample, but the more I drink it, the more it feels wrong. Because the chicken tank cup is so real, I just inquire about it. It was bought from the auction house for 5 million. Yes. I was so scared that I was shaking my hands for fear that I would break and be detained in Japan and couldn't go away."

Song Weiyang laughed loudly. As expected, rich people like bad taste.

Chen Tao kept chatting with Ma Wei, but Xiao Ma turned into a quiet and beautiful man, sitting on the stone bench for a long time and couldn't make a fart.

Song Weiyang was afraid of leaving him in the cold, and proactively asked, "So, this time you came to Beijing specifically to meet female netizens?"

Xiao Ma corrected it: "It's a girlfriend. We talked for a long time and we have confirmed the relationship online. We met on QQ. She didn't even know that I started a company, thinking I was an ordinary programmer. "

"Online dating is very fashionable," Song Weiyang said.

"One more thing," Xiao Ma said, "Tencent is almost out of money again, and it can last two more months at most."

Song Weiyang said: "I can always make additional investments, and come to me when I have no money."

Brother Xiao Ma smiled bitterly: "Even if you are not annoying, I am embarrassed myself. The company has discussed several times and we agreed that QQ registration should be restricted, otherwise the server will burn too much money. According to the current momentum, up to three Within a month, the number of registered QQ users will reach 100 million."

"100 million users? The number of Chinese netizens is only 20 million!" Song Weiyang said in surprise.

Xiao Ma said: "It is normal for a person to register several QQ accounts. Some people even register 20 or 30. These redundant accounts require server resources."

Song Weiyang has now invested in Netease, Sohu, Sogou, Google, and Alibaba. These companies have great reputations, but Tencent is the company that burns the most money.

This can explain why AOL has not added various offline functions after acquiring ICQ. As the world's first instant messaging software, ICQ has been out for several years, and now it can't keep the friends list after changing computers. Because that requires massive server resources, the money burned every month makes AOL feel painful.

By the way, the bursting of the Internet bubble caused AOL to evaporate the market value of 100 billion US dollars.

Song Weiyang originally insisted on opening the registration, but now he was a little scared. He nodded and said, "Then restrict registration. Let me talk about it after this period of time."

Xiao Ma said: "Well, I will call the company immediately. If the old user does not log in within a month, the QQ number will be directly recovered and all data will be cleared. New users need to pay for registration, two yuan for a QQ number, It can not only get some extra income, but also limit the growth of registered users."

Song Weiyang said: "I will invest another 3 million US dollars? Is the money enough?"

Xiao Ma said: "If you restrict QQ registration, you don't need to invest in it. As long as I don't continue to increase the server, I can achieve a breakeven, because now the network mobile communication business is growing very fast."

"Then I will invest another US$2 million, and the shares will increase to 45% for me~www.readwn.com~Song Weiyang said.

How much more shares should be increased after the investment depends on the investor's valuation of the company. Song Weiyang makes such a casual decision which seems like a trifling matter, but in fact it is not too outrageous.

Nowadays, in the eyes of domestic and foreign investors, Tencent has the most potential for development, and it is also the least worthy of investment.

Due to Song Weiyang's arbitrary intervention, QQ has never restricted registration, causing Tencent to burn more money than in history. Now it has to add at least four servers every month. In another time and space, QQ was restricted from registering to only two servers per month, and no one wanted to invest in Tencent.

At that time, Xiao Ma went to find friends to borrow money and said that he would use Tencent stocks to repay the money. Those friends said directly: "If you can't afford it, don't pay it back. I don't want Tencent stocks. That's a bottomless pit. I don’t know how much to burn in."

As Tencent shareholders, Yingke and IDG helped to contact the financing every day. After contacting them for half a year, they did not reach a conclusion. They were all scared off by Tencent's speed of burning money.

Now Song Weiyang has bought the shares in Yingke and IDG early, which can be regarded as helping these two companies jump out of the fire pit in advance.

IDG, a venture capital company, is also in a bleak situation. It has invested in more than 80 Internet companies in China in three years, each with an investment ranging from 500,000 to 1.5 million U.S. dollars, which has long exceeded 100 million U.S. dollars. As a result, when the Internet bubble burst, only one of more than 80 companies paid back their capital, and all other investment targets were losing money.

In fact, Tencent was the first to achieve breakeven among China's early Internet companies. While Netease, Sina, and Sohu are still cheering for the reduction in monthly losses, while Alibaba is still thinking about how to make money, Tencent has already begun to make money-provided that the number of new registered users is limited , Adding a few servers a month is too scary!