Rebirth 98, the rise started from ripping off Microsoft

Chapter 778
The news of 263's acquisition quickly spread in the industry.

This news also became the last straw that crushed Lianzhong Games.

The investors behind Lianzhong withdrew their funds and left the market one after another, leaving Baoyueqiao with no money to burn if they wanted to continue burning.

In fact, with his financial resources, he couldn't burn Lu Yiming in the first place. Although the champion's prize money is the same as QQ, in fact, all kinds of rewards are distributed in a reduced version.

For example, QQ sends Tianyin MP3, while Lianzhong sends MP3 of various brands, the price difference is more than five or six times.

What's worse is that QQ has put a lot of effort into the sound effects of the game, so the entertainment is better than Lianzhong, and it is more popular with users.

Now Lianzhong's chess and card games, users come up and hang up to receive login rewards, and leave directly after receiving the rewards, and continue to return to the QQ game hall.

Even burning money can’t stop the loss of users. This is the real reason why investors are determined to run away with buckets.

Soon, the news that the 263 casual game platform has changed hands appeared in the newspapers.

Everyone immediately understood that Lianzhong was over!

And with the end of Lianzhong, other anti-QQ alliances have begun to feel insecure, at least not daring to sign an exclusive agreement with Microsoft blatantly like before, and confront Yixun Technology.

After Chen Yongzheng confirmed the news, he immediately convened a meeting with the company's top management. Luo Chuan, Xiong Minghua and others were all present.

The Lianzhong incident brought a huge shock to everyone.

You know, at this time, Lianzhong has just become the world's largest casual game platform.

Compared with the background, Lianzhong was established in Beijing in 1998. It is the pioneer of online chess and card games in Xiaguo, accounting for about 85% of the game market. At its peak, there were more than 2 million registered users and 1500 monthly active users. Wan, there are servers in Xia Country, America, Island Country, and Bang Country. In their view, such a scale is simply unshakable.

And what about the opponent?

Before Jiang Rongfa established the chess and card mutual entertainment department, the chess and card game team of Junzi Huyu had only 4 development and operation personnel. It is said that the grass-roots team is very reluctant.

Even the game content of chess and cards, Junzi Huyu basically copied Lianzhong's games such as military chess, upgrade, chess, Doudizhu and Stud, without any innovation.

In the conference room, Chen Yongzheng had a solemn expression. He asked Luo Chuan: "Why can Junzi Huyu use the despicable method of 'complete imitation' to attract Lianzhong users? Is it just because Lu Yiming spent a lot of money?"

If it's just burning money, Microsoft is not afraid.I'm afraid that if I go in the wrong direction, if I don't have enough money to get things done, that's a bad thing.

Luo Chuan actually started researching this issue a few days ago, and now he has completed the review of the entire incident.He sighed and said, "It's not a question of funds. Unlike large-scale online games, the rules of chess and card games are fixed, so it can be said that there is no technical threshold, and the players of Lianzhong are highly overlapped with QQ users, so this result is actually doomed. And the series of operations of the richest man in Lu only accelerated the defeat of Lianzhong."

Xiong Minghua also agreed with this point of view, and said: "Boss Luo is right. In fact, Lianzhong was doomed from the very beginning. However, the richest man Lu is still very powerful. If it weren't for his ideas and money-burning tactics, Lianzhong would at least be still in the game." It can last for two or three years and buy us a strategic buffer time, but now..."

Xiong Minghua didn't say the next words. All the people present were smart people. Although Xiong Minghua didn't directly say what he said, everyone already understood what he meant.

From their point of view, this is a dead end. With Lianzhong Games, they still have time to plan, but now that Lianzhong Games is gone, they have to face QQ directly and fight the bayonet.

What made everyone feel even more uncomfortable was that just in the middle of the meeting, Chen Yongzheng's secretary received a call and said to Chen Yongzheng, "It's not good, Bao Yueqiao just announced his resignation from the position of chairman of Lianzhong!"

"what?"

"He is this?"

"Is this the end of Lianzhong?"

Not only Microsoft was shocked, but all colleagues who got the news were shocked.

Lianzhong fell so fast that it gave people an unreal feeling.

Obviously survived the cold winter of the Internet, obviously the development is booming, and the future is bright.

In the end, he was punched to death by Lu's richest man twice?

Lianzhong, once dominant, lost most of its power. The founder and chairman were forced to resign under tremendous pressure. The power of the two richest men is too great, right?
For a moment, the weight of the three words Lu Yiming weighed heavily on everyone's hearts again.

Zhonghai, the headquarters of Junzi Interactive Entertainment.

Everyone was opening champagne to celebrate, stepping on Lianzhong's bones, Junzi Huyu has now monopolized almost all of the online chess and card games.

Except for those illegal gambling websites, the entire market can be said to be controlled by the chess and card game room of Junzi Huyu. Every day, just selling happy beans can make a lot of money.

The huge office has now become the venue for the reception. Jiang Rongfa held up the wine glass in his hand and said loudly: "Brothers and sisters, come, let us raise the wine glass in our hands and toast Mr. Lu together!"

Lu Yiming raised his wine glass and said with a smile: "If you can drink, you can drink, if you can't drink, you can drink fruit juice, cola or tea. We don't engage in any wine table culture, everyone is free to do it. Especially you, Mr. Jiang, you are not allowed It is not allowed to force female employees to drink alcohol by taking advantage of their positions, even male employees."

When Jiang Rongfa heard it, he couldn't laugh or cry: "Mr. Lu, even if you lend me two more guts, I won't dare."

A company executive who has a good personal relationship with Jiang Rongfa broke the news mercilessly: "Mr. Lu, maybe you don't know it yet, Mr. Jiang is notoriously strict with his wife."

Everyone laughed, and the huge office became a sea of ​​joy.

Jiang Rongfa became angry from embarrassment, and immediately retorted: "What kind of strict wife control, love for your wife, can you say it is strict wife control? You single dogs know nothing!"

So everyone laughed even more happily.

On the way back, Li Yiwen said with emotion: "It's too easy to win this time. I thought I would fight with Lianzhong for two or three years."

Lu Yiming said very seriously: "Internet companies are not good at this point. They grow up fast, but they die faster. If they slow down a step, they may be doomed."

Different from physical assets, Internet assets themselves are a set of data, which is too single, and it is valuable if someone recognizes it, but it is nothing if no one recognizes it.Unlike physical assets, such as a factory building, even if the company goes bankrupt, the factory building is still an asset and has value. This is an objective fact that does not depend on people's willpower.

Li Yiwen said: "Chess and board games combined with social software, your move is really amazing. However, are you not afraid of being learned by Microsoft and used on MSN? At that time, they will use their own advantages to learn from others. Zhiyi, how can we use it against us?"

Lu Yiming blurted out, "Microsoft can't."

Li Yiwen was extremely surprised: "Can't Microsoft? It is now the most powerful technology company in the world."

Lu Yiming said: "Microsoft doesn't have the genes to make social software. Look at how many years MSN has been developed, but it is still so tepid and half-dead. There is no use in deeply cultivating the white-collar market. Business people are indeed richer and more commercially valuable. , but the biggest feature of social software is social networking. What is social networking compared to? There are so many people! No matter how awesome your value is, can it compare to my [-] million users? How much exposure will I get for just one advertisement? It’s the value, it’s a fart to force it!”

Li Yiwen suddenly realized: "That's why QQ keeps sinking into the market, and even young users such as middle school students and elementary school students are trying to win them in."

Later, Li Yiwen seemed to think of another thing, and said: "Since QQ is so powerful, why do you want to create a MM? Of course, MM appeared to compete with QQ, but QQ lost, and now QQ It already belongs to us, what is the meaning of the existence of MM? And you don’t promote MM now, I think it can be shut down, so as not to waste resources.”

Lu Yiming smiled slightly and said, "Now QQ is enough, MM is for the future."

"The future? What kind of future?"

Li Yiwen was a little confused.

In his opinion, QQ and MM are too similar, not only the operation logic is similar, even the interface is similar, but MM basically has no users, because the real-name registration of the bound phone number, the threshold is much higher than QQ know where to go.So now everyone is used to using QQ.In terms of function, compared with QQ, MM is now a blank, and there is nothing you want.What kind of file transfer and one-click login do not exist.

Lu Yiming didn't want to say too much now, and immediately said mysteriously: "You will know in a few years, it will definitely surprise you."

Li Yiwen said dissatisfiedly: "Well, you bastard, you even kept it from me."

Li Yiwen thought of his little wife, who hadn't been back for a while, and it felt like three autumns since he didn't see each other every day.He went on to say: "Now that the work is over, can I go back to Baiyun City?"

Lu Yiming shook his head slightly and said, "No, I have to go to the capital."

Li Yiwen asked curiously: "What are you doing in the capital?"

Lu Yiming said: "Didn't I say before that I want to poach Microsoft's corner? Right now is the best time."

Li Yiwen said in surprise: "Fuck, are you serious? I thought you were just joking."

When Xiong Minghua got off work, he received a strange call. He didn't want to answer it at first, but he hung up twice in a row, but the other party still insisted on calling, so he had no choice but to press the answer button: "Hello? Who are you?"

The person on the other end of the phone reported his family name: "I'm Lu Yiming."

Lu Yiming?

Xiong Minghua was taken aback, almost dropped his phone, his impatient expression turned into astonishment: "Mr. Lu, why are you calling me?"

Lu Yiming did not answer Xiong Minghua's question, but said: "I happen to have something to do in the capital recently. I wonder if you are free at noon today? Let's have a light meal together."

Xiong Minghua hesitated for a moment, and said, "The richest man in Lu invites me to dinner. If I refuse, it will be too embarrassing."

Lu Yiming laughed loudly: "Okay, then you come..."

After hanging up the phone, Xiong Minghua hailed a taxi and rushed to the place Lu Yiming mentioned.

Xiong Minghua saw Lu Yiming and Li Yiwen in the hotel box.

We still have to give enough respect to talents, especially Xiong Minghua, a talent who understands both technology and management. The other party held important positions in IBM and Microsoft and has experience in managing large companies.

This kind of talent is exactly what Yixun Technology is in urgent need of.

Therefore, when facing Xiong Minghua, Lu Yiming was very polite: "Mr. Xiong, I have admired your name for a long time, and I have long wanted to go out for dinner with you, but you are a busy person with so many things to do, so it is really difficult to make an appointment. Come, I Let me introduce you, this is Li Yiwen, my chief financial officer."

Li Yiwen took the initiative to get up and shook hands with Xiong Minghua, saying, "Hello, Mr. Xiong."

Lu Yiming pushed the menu in front of Xiong Minghua, and said with a smile: "I'm not very familiar with the capital city, why don't you come to order, Mr. Xiong."

Old people, ghosts.

Xiong Minghua is also a person who has experienced big storms, and he knew at a glance that Lu Yiming's behavior obviously needs others.

"Mr. Lu, you are being polite. Everything is delicious under the feet of the emperor in Beijing. You can just order whatever you want."

Lu Yiming said: "You can't say that. Mr. Xiong, are you interested in coming to Yixun Technology?"

Seeing that Lu Yiming was so straightforward, Xiong Minghua also smiled: "Let me just say, you don't go to the Three Treasures Hall if you have nothing to do. Mr. Lu, you are such a busy person, how come you have time to invite me to dinner. Mr. Lu is so polite, so he wanted to Ask me to jump ship."

Lu Yiming did not hide his intention at all.He said confidently: "We do not speak dark words. I do have such an idea. I know that Microsoft is a big ship compared to Yixun Technology, but as the saying goes, a big ship is a disaster." Turn around. What's more, the ship is too big, and the phenomenon of internal seniority will become more serious, unlike some small ships, there are more opportunities."

Hearing what Lu Yiming said, Xiong Minghua's face also looked a little unnatural, because Lu Yiming just poked his sore spot.

His status in Microsoft seems to be prosperous, but in fact he has to be restrained everywhere, and many things cannot be carried out according to his thinking, and he has to balance the interests of all parties.

What's more, in Microsoft, no matter how well he does, he is still an "outsider", and he is about to reach the ceiling of promotion.

Although Microsoft claims to be a large international company, Xiong Minghua, as a native of Xia, naturally cannot sit in a higher position than other people.

But now that the MSN project seems to be half-way cold, Xiong Minghua, as the main person in charge, will definitely be pulled out of the blame.At that time, those people in the company who don't like him will definitely come over and add insult to injury.

Now, from the head office, all kinds of ugly words have reached his ears. Recently, Xiong Minghua has been thinking about how to deal with the situation in front of him.

But the appearance of Lu Yiming gave Xiong Minghua a brand new way of thinking about solving the problem.

Job hopping.

In fact, this was also the reason why Lu Yiming asked him to eat, but he hesitated and agreed.

They are all people in the circle, any small information will be caught, and then analyzed and magnified.Lu Yiming took the initiative to contact at this time, and his intention was already very obvious.

At that time, he was only thinking about what Lu Yiming might do, but now that Lu Yiming hadn't seen him, he directly brought up the topic. To be honest, Xiong Minghua was a little moved.

It's just that he is a cultural person after all, so he shouldn't lose his reservedness, and Xiong Minghua doesn't want to be too proactive, which will lead to self-deprecation.So he said in a joking tone: "President Lu said this, you are the richest man in Asia, how can you be a small boat? If I change jobs, what position can President Lu give me?"

Lu Yiming obviously had already figured out what position Xiong Minghua should be in, and he said without hesitation: "How about the chief technology officer? If Mr. Xiong is willing to come to Yixun Technology, I plan to appoint you to be in charge of improving the company's R&D strategy." Planning and process management capabilities, responsible for managing the company's platform R&D system department, including the basic instant messaging platform, and large-scale online application systems."

Xiong Minghua originally wanted to be reserved, but when Lu Yiming said this, he even omitted his reserve: "Since Mr. Lu thinks highly of me so much, then I can only be disrespectful."

The next morning, Xiong Minghua walked into the company humming a ditty.

When Li Zhengkai saw Xiong Minghua, he immediately leaned over and whispered, "Mr. Xiong, you are here. Someone from the head office came and said that they wanted to conduct in-depth research on the MSN project. In my opinion, it might be for accountability. , pay attention."

Xiong Minghua was already psychologically prepared for this matter, and now he already had a family, so he didn't panic at all, and asked, "Is anyone here? Where are you now?"

Li Zhengkai said: "In the president's office, Mr. Chen and Mr. Luo are entertaining."

"Okay, I'll go right now."

At this time, in the office, a blond woman sat on the sofa, crossed her legs, and said arrogantly: "MSN suffered setbacks in Xia Guo, and you should bear the main responsibility."

Chen Yongzheng was very upset, and said: "If the head office hadn't been dictating and directing from afar, why would we be restrained everywhere like this, would you be slow?"

"Don't make excuses for your failures."

This person's name is Audrey Morley, and he is a senior vice president in the Microsoft system.

At this moment, Xiong Minghua opened the door and walked in.He glanced around, and finally stopped on Audrey Morley, and joked: "Isn't this Ms. Molly? What wind brought you here?"

Seeing Xiong Minghua, the expression on Audrey Morley's face became even more unhappy.The two didn't get along in the company before. Audrey Morley originally came to Xiaguo to take charge of the MSN project, but this "fat job" ended up in Xiong Minghua's hands.

At that time, many people in the company had opinions. After all, they all felt that MSN would undoubtedly win, and whoever came would crush the game.This guy Xiong Minghua got this errand, just like a person participating in the Mathematical Olympiad enters the examination room with the answer.

Isn't this the proper way to send the results?

However, the development of things is beyond everyone's expectations.

(End of this chapter)