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Boss Ma has come to Beijing.

It is said that we need to communicate with the authorities, coordinate some official and private relations, and organize the Internet Conference. The location is not far from Alibaba. It is his home court. Although it is nominally founded by the authorities, in fact many of them are his personal will. Those foreign Internet companies are not allowed to develop in the country. They do not accept official arrangements. , the reason why you can come to China to participate is actually Boss Ma’s face.

However, he alone could not pull off this grand event, at least not pretty enough.

It would be great if Boss Zhou could also be brought in!

Boss Ma has been in constant contact with Zhou Buqi during this period. One of the important reasons for coming to Beijing this time is to convince Zhou Buqi to go further and make more efforts for the establishment of this Wuzhen Internet Conference. .

Because he was afraid that he could not be persuaded, he went to Lao Zhang first.

Lao Zhang loves to play and be lively.

Zhou Buqi also has a close relationship.

Let him come forward!

Sure enough, Zhang Chaoyang liked this lively scene very much, so he organized a bureau that night and invited several Internet entrepreneurs in Beijing to sing together in the KTV. Five or six big men gathered in the KTV, and there was not even a girl to accompany them.

Absolute green pure K.

Among these people, Lao Ma and Lao Zhang are the best singers and the ones who like to show off the most. They are the two Mai Ba in KTV. Either Lao Zhang sang or Lao Ma sang, and everyone else was sitting there drinking and chatting.

"For such a big thing, you have to take the lead!"

After singing a song, Lao Zhang ran to Zhou Buqi and extended an invitation.

Zhou Buqi said matter-of-factly: "It has no real meaning."

Lao Zhang opened his eyes wide, "How could it be? This is an opportunity to show off your muscles to the world! In the current Internet industry, aren't there just two countries playing, one is the United States, and the other is China. In the past few years, "Compared with the United States, there is really a big gap. The situation is different now. If you look at the new businesses in the mobile Internet, we are more creative and dynamic than the United States."

Zhou Buqi disapproved, "Why are you showing off your muscles? What age is this? In modern civilization, you have to be well-dressed. Primitive people, when civilization was backward, had to go bare-chested and show off their muscles."

Lao Zhang said angrily: "Without Liangliang, how do you know whether your belly is muscle or fat?"

Zhou Buqi laughed.

Boss Ma also came over at this time and said solemnly: "It makes sense, it's just to show off your muscles. If you don't show them off, people will think you are fat, and they will think you are soft and easy to bully!"

"Huh?" Zhou Buqi raised his eyebrows, a little frightened, "What do you mean by this? Who are you trying to show off your muscles with?"

Boss Ma said: "The Internet is at the forefront of domestic industrial innovation. What is innovation? Innovation is breaking the old order and establishing a new order. Innovation is breaking the rules of the past and creating a new set of things!"

Zhou Buqi didn't dare to take up the topic and chose to remain silent.

Boss Ma continued: "Now that Alibaba is listed, the next step is to launch Ant Financial's listing. I know that WeChat is also providing Internet financial services, and WeChat Pay is also doing quite well, and its scale is not much smaller than Alipay. But. , you don’t even understand what’s going on with Alipay!”

Zhou Buqi said: "You can do whatever you want, I have nothing to do with Alipay."

Boss Ma asked strangely: "How come it doesn't matter? When Alipay and Alibaba split, there was an agreement. If Alipay goes public, a large amount of money will be compensated to Yahoo. This has nothing to do with you? Alipay has been successful in China, okay? Copy the relevant model to PayPal and promote it to the world. PayPal is not your company?”

At the beginning, he secretly split Alipay from Alibaba, which seriously damaged the rights and interests of shareholders.

It was Zhou Buqi who came forward to coordinate.

Contacted SoftBank and Yahoo and asked them to reach an agreement with Alibaba. Alipay has been split off, which is a fait accompli. We can only wait for Alipay to be listed in the future and use a large amount of money to compensate the two major shareholders, SoftBank and Yahoo.

Yahoo is now a subsidiary of Ziweixing International, and it is now connected with Zhou Buqi.

Zhou Buqi hesitated for a moment and said with a smile: "By the way, I was a guest at Zuckerberg's house a few days ago, and he is also very distressed now!"

Boss Ma said angrily: "Don't change the subject!"

Zhou Buqi said: "Don't you just want me to invite some world-class Internet entrepreneurs to attend your Internet summit, not including Zuckerberg?"

Boss Ma's eyes lit up, "Forget it, it would be great if he could come!"

"He's in trouble now!"

"Were you suppressed?"

"Me?" Zhou Buqi shook his head, "The competition between me and him is market competition. In the market, it is open, fair, and fair. If I punch you, you can kick me. There is nothing to worry about." Even if he is defeated, his skills are still inferior to others.”

Boss Ma was slightly startled, "Not a market?"

Zhou Buqi said: "Recently, haven't the U.S. military been exposed to some news about abusing prisoners of war in Iraq and Afghanistan? There are also videos and so on. Facebook has uploaded a lot of them. The authorities have put pressure on Zuckerberg, hoping that he will restrict dissemination of this content.”

"Interfering with freedom of speech!"

Boss Ma finally understood what was going on. This kind of thing is indeed a forbidden zone in the United States. Especially for many idealistic Silicon Valley people, it is simply a spiritual blow.

Zhou Buqi said: "Ziweixing International has also received a notice from the White House."

Boss Ma asked: "Official notice?"

"No, it was just a private phone call, and it was a personal relationship." Zhou Buqi has been developing in the United States for a long time, and he feels that many things are actually similar in China and the United States. "This kind of thing must not be an official notice. If the White House dares to issue a formal notice, the president will have to step down."

As a platform for information dissemination, Ziweixing International and Facebook have received relevant notices, so Google must have received it as well.

This is illegal and non-compliant.

But as a business, can you really fight against the highest power for such a small matter?

The fact is that everyone has carried out effective control.

It is impossible to completely ban related content, but it has been downgraded. Unless users deliberately search for related content, the platform's recommendation mechanism will not recommend related content to users. For example, if you put a label of "terrorist" or "violent", once it has such a label, the content will not be able to obtain any traffic share, and will no longer enter the recommendation pool to obtain recommended allocation.

Google's failure in the domestic market was actually a failure in the competition in the market. In the past life, it could not beat Baidu, and in this life, it could not beat the combination of Baidu and Weidian. But they did not admit defeat, and the reason they adopted was that they were unwilling to go along with the authorities, unwilling to delete or ban some inappropriate content, and gave themselves a high-sounding reputation.

Back in the US market, the discretion is indeed much greater.

But there will also be many private requests from unofficial channels of the White House.

Cooperation should still be cooperated.

Boss Ma was very curious, "Then what should we do?"

"What can we do?" Zhou Buqi asked back, "Just accept it! Haven't you seen that the popularity of news about the abuse of prisoners of war has decreased recently? Google, Microsoft, Twitter, Facebook, Yahoo, etc. have all downgraded the relevant content."

Boss Ma said, "Is it necessary?"

Zhou Buqi snorted, "If you don't cooperate, you will die. Since ancient times, people have never fought against officials. Let alone Silicon Valley giants with a market value of hundreds of billions of dollars, even if Hollywood makes a movie, you have to cooperate. If you don't cooperate, it will be a big problem."

"How can you cooperate with the movie? Is there a censorship agency?"

"There is no censorship agency, but you should at least do a good job of self-censorship, right? Just like making war movies and action movies, you need to use so many planes and cannons, and sometimes there will be F16 fighters and nuclear-powered aircraft carriers. If you If you shoot well, the Pentagon will provide special funds to support you to use these military equipment for free. The shots of the plane taking off from the aircraft carrier will cost millions of dollars. Which film company can afford it? If you discredit the military, you can still shoot and publicly screen it, but they will never give you money to sponsor the filming again. "

"Is the White House's notice the same this time?"

"Almost." Zhou Buqi nodded, "Now the technology giants are evading taxes around the world and keeping their money in offshore companies. If you want to use these tax evasion money legally, there must be a new bill. Who dares to go against the White House? If I go against it, not only will the White House be unhappy, but my peers in the entire technology industry will regard me as an enemy."

If American companies want to bring the money they earn in other countries back to the United States, they have to pay a heavy transit tax of up to 35%.

This is too much, no one is willing to pay.

So technology companies are evading taxes and putting the money they earn in foreign countries in tax havens.

Even Ziweixing International has more than $7 billion of its $26 billion cash reserves in its account in offshore companies in Cayman. Apple has even more, more than $80 billion, and is heading for $100 billion or $200 billion.

However, putting money in offshore companies has no value.

It must be repatriated.

How to repatriate?

The tech giants are all fat sheep waiting to be slaughtered, and the White House is always watching them. If you don't please the White House and actively cooperate, and don't introduce new bills to cancel or reduce high taxes, these money will not be able to repatriate, and will not create real benefits for shareholders.

Businessmen should still focus on profits.

At least they should not disappoint the shareholders who have subscribed to the stocks.

"Is that so..."

Boss Ma pondered.

He understood what Zhou Buqi meant.

Even if you do business in the United States, you have to be cautious and actively cooperate with the authorities. If Alipay wants to develop in China, you should keep a low profile and operate for a long time! Don't f*cking think that Alibaba is invincible after going public and you can show off your muscles at will.

Zhou Buqi said: "If you want me to help you with this conference, I can. I can invite Bill Gates, Zuckerberg, Larry Page and others. But I think that if they really come, it may not be a good thing. If you really have muscles, find some pretty girls and take off your clothes for them to see!"