Hong Kong Entertainment: The King of Kung Fu

Chapter 748: Jack Ma is so hungry

The man came to Yang Ye and introduced himself. His name was Ma Yun and he was the general manager of a website called "China Yellow Pages".

When Wang Fei took a look at the man, he was just as Yang Ye had said, in stark contrast to the previous Li Yapeng.

That Li Yapeng is tall and handsome, but looks like a fool. This Ma Yun is short and thin, but looks smarter than a monkey.

No wonder Yang Ye was not at all impatient when facing Liya Peng, but was willing to meet Ma Yun.

Wang Fei couldn't help but wonder what would happen if these two people switched their brains.

Yang Ye got straight to the point and said, "I saw your China Yellow Pages and found it interesting, so I wanted to meet you. Can you give me a detailed introduction to your website?"

When Ma Yun heard that Yang Ye wanted to meet him, he was a little confused. He didn't understand how Yang Ye, who was in the entertainment industry, could have anything to do with him.

After listening to Yang Ye's words, he suddenly realized and said, "So Mr. Yang is interested in the Internet?"

Yang Ye shook his head: "It's not as simple as just being interested. I have invested in many Internet companies, so I can be considered a practitioner."

Yang Ye casually mentioned the names of several companies, which shocked Ma Yun.

He had always thought that Yang Ye was a filmmaker, but he didn't expect that he was also an Internet tycoon.

Yang Ye said modestly: "It's just that I have too much money and nowhere to spend it. Let's get started!"

Ma Yun nodded, and the three of them changed their location and came to the restaurant's service counter.

Ma Yun took out his computer, plugged it into the store's telephone line, dialed up the Internet, and began to introduce his "China Yellow Pages" to Yang Ye in detail.

The so-called "Yellow Pages" is an internationally used telephone directory of industrial and commercial enterprises arranged according to the nature of the enterprise and product category.

It mainly publishes the company name, address and telephone number, and is equivalent to the household registration book of industrial and commercial enterprises in a city or region.

It was first created in the United States and is called Yellow Pages because it is printed on yellow paper.

In the early 1990s, there was no concept of portal websites, and people called websites with various information "yellow pages".

Ma Yun founded Haibo Translation Agency in 1992, which gradually became famous in Hangzhou.

In 1995, the Hangzhou government hired Ma Yun and commissioned him to go to the United States to recover highway investment funds from an investment company.

In Seattle, USA, Ma Yun witnessed the wave of the Internet and was very excited. She felt that she had found her life goal.

After returning to China, he founded his own Internet company and developed the China Yellow Pages website.

The website is in black tones and uses some Chinese elements. At the top of the website is a glazed tile roof and the words "China Yellow Pages" written in seal script.

It is an English website mainly targeting overseas netizens.

According to the English introduction, the main purpose of the website is to spread Chinese news and Chinese business information, and to introduce Chinese enterprises, Chinese industry, Chinese trade, Chinese culture...

Through this website, we can see Ma Yun’s passion for martial arts. On the right side there is a “Water Margin” column, which is actually a list of related companies.

The higher the ranking, the more advertising fees you will need.

The layout of each company is different, all are handmade, and there are thousands of companies in total.

Many well-known companies are on the list, such as Little Swan.

In the wild era of the Internet, it was really amazing to be able to attract so many customers.

In the middle of the webpage, there is a five-pointed star made up of 10 earth icons.

Each globe icon corresponds to a sub-column, and a lot of thought went into the design.

At the very bottom of the website is copyright information and contact information.

Among them, the Webmaster (webmaster) link points to an email address jackma@……

That is Ma Yun’s personal email address.

There is also a Chinese culture section on the website, which introduces China's geography, tea culture, Peking Opera, etc., which is of certain positive significance for foreigners to understand China.

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Illustration: China Yellow Pages, 1997.

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Ma Yun introduced: "Our website has very comprehensive information. Many large domestic companies and even government departments have cooperated with us. It is definitely the most formal and influential yellow pages in the country.

Mr. Yang, please look here. In the column introducing Chinese culture, we also introduce Chinese films, especially your films, in a special column..."

The information on China Yellow Pages is diverse and contains all kinds of information, which shows how desperate Ma Yun is to attract business.

Seeing that all his movies were on this website, Yang Ye's eyes widened and he couldn't help asking, "My company is not also your client, right?"

Ma Yun said: "That's right, I met her once when President Xu came to the mainland..."

Yang Ye was really impressed. Ma Yun was really crazy in order to promote his website.

He actually took advantage of Xu Feng's visit to the mainland for a meeting and found a way to meet her, and even got 100,000 yuan from her.

I think Xu Feng would be happy to put Yang Ye's movie in this yellow pages, and he doesn't care about the 100,000 yuan.

Xu Feng didn't even tell Yang Ye about this, probably just did it casually.

There are two people in charge of Ma Yun's "China Yellow Pages", one is Ma Yun who is responsible for business, and the other He Yibing who is responsible for production.

Ma Yun sells his business entirely through his mouth. He basically carries a bag and goes to various companies and government departments to sell his business door-to-door. Many people think he is a liar.

In fact, his website is completely useless. It is basically a waste of money to visit his website. It is not wrong to say that he is a liar.

However, in order to keep up with the trend of the Internet, many government departments and enterprises are willing to spend a little money to occupy a place in his "China Yellow Pages".

Government departments pursue political achievements, while enterprises pursue face.

Because the name "China Yellow Pages" sounds very high-end. If you spend a little money and leave a page on it, you can brag that you are achieving modernization and informatization...

In short, Ma Yun hit the vital points of some departments and enterprises and satisfied their vanity, which enabled him to make millions in profit in less than two years after starting his business.

In the 1990s, this was a lot of money.

Yang Ye asked: "What do you think about the future development of the Internet?"

Ma Yun thought for a moment and said, "In the 1980s, our country's computer industry developed rapidly and began to catch up with the world's first-class level. However, the development of the Internet was slower until the 1990s, when the country started the Three Gold Project..."

The so-called "Three Golden Projects" are the Golden Bridge Project, Golden Card Project and Golden Gate Project, which were planned since 1992. Their goal is to build China's "information superhighway".

The so-called "Golden Bridge Project" is to build a bridge between science and technology and the economy, promote the transformation of scientific and technological achievements into the economy, and then use the economy to feed back the development of science and technology.

The "Golden Customs Project" aims to promote the electronicization of customs declaration business, replacing traditional customs declaration methods to save time and costs in document transmission.

As for the "Golden Card Project", it is a card-based application system project that aims to develop electronic currency and focuses on the application of electronic currency.

After the “Three Golden Projects” achieved success, the country launched the Golden Intelligence Project, Golden Enterprise Project, Golden Tax Project, Golden Communications Project, Golden Agriculture Project, Golden Map Project and Golden Health Project.

These national planned projects have effectively promoted China's modernization.

Ma Yun was not at all nervous sitting opposite Yang Ye. He spoke eloquently and spit everywhere.

Wang Fei didn't understand this and was stunned. He thought, Brother Ye is right, this guy is really a good talker.

Seeing that Ma Yun was thirsty, she kindly poured him a cup of tea.

Ma Yun was flattered and thanked him repeatedly. After taking a sip of tea with a happy look on her face, she continued to brag.

Yang Ye looked like laughing.

Ma Yun is a die-hard fan of Wang Fei. He used to be a crazy fan of Faye Wong.

At the Double Eleven Party in 2015, Ma Yun invited Wang Fei to go on stage. Wang Fei went. Then this guy proposed to sing a song with Wang Fei, but Wang Fei refused.

On Double Eleven in 2016, Ma Yun offered a sky-high price of 1.6 million yuan and asked Wang Fei to sing a song with her, but Wang Fei still refused.

In December 2016, Wang Fei held a "Fantasy Concert" in Shanghai, and the tickets were sold at sky-high prices.

A single ticket costs tens of thousands of yuan, and the better the seat, the more expensive it is. The first seat in the first row in the inner field costs one million yuan.

Sicong posted on Weibo that only idiots would go to listen, but it turned out that Ma Yun was sitting in seat number one that night.

Later, Dou Jingtong performed at the Hangzhou Yunqi Music Festival. Jack Ma stood in the rain and listened to Faye Wong's daughter sing.

With this persistence and crazy spending, Ma Yun finally succeeded in chasing her idol.

In 2017, Ma Yun starred in a micro-film "Kung Fu Yoga", in which she used her money skills to defeat a number of kung fu superstars including Jet Li, Zhen Zidan, and Wu Jing.

He also collaborated with Wang Fei to sing the movie's theme song "Feng Qingyang".

Later, they sang a song "If the Clouds Knew" to each other in KTV.

The incident of Ma Yun chasing after Faye Wong may seem like an entertainment news, but it actually shows his spirit of never giving up until he achieves his goal.

When Ma Yun first came into contact with the Internet and decided to start a business, his goal was very clear: to engage in "e-commerce."

According to established history, China Yellow Pages would be incorporated into Hangzhou Telecom, and Ma Yun would bring his team to Beijing.

A series of national websites have been developed, including the official website of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, the Online China Commodity Trading Market, the Online China Technology Export Fair, China Merchants Bank, the Online Canton Fair and China Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation.

After doing all these things, he returned to Hangzhou and founded Alibaba.

In 1995, many people didn’t even know the Internet existed.

Even if they knew about it, they would just laugh it off or treat it as a topic of conversation after dinner, and would not think about it from a business perspective.

But when Ma Yun went to the United States, he immediately realized that this thing had great potential. This was his natural business sense.

Coupled with his determination to achieve his goal, he had already succeeded from that moment on.

Although the "China Yellow Pages" created by Ma Yun was simple, his goal was very clear: he wanted to become a huge intermediary platform.

It enables upstream and downstream companies to conduct a series of business activities such as information exchange, business negotiations, product transactions, etc. through his website.

This is the prototype of "Alibaba".

It's just that he has just started out and his strength is limited, so he can only do some cheating and deceiving people and trick them into advertising on his website.

Although advertising on his website was useless, he was keenly aware that many people were vain and concerned about their reputation.

Relying on his eloquence, he made millions in two years.

After drinking two pots of tea, Ma Yun finally finished bragging.

Yang Ye said calmly: "You are using the B2B model. Although it can be done, it can only reach a scale of tens of billions at most, and the prospects are not very great.

With China's development speed, I think the B2C and C2C models will have greater prospects, perhaps... they can reach a trillion-dollar scale!"

When Yang Ye said this, Wang Fei was confused, but Ma Yun opened her mouth in surprise.

Wang Fei couldn't help but ask: "What do these B2B, B2C, and C2C mean?"

Yang Ye glanced at Ma Yun, who immediately explained, "B2B is the abbreviation for Business to Business.

It refers to an e-commerce model in which enterprises exchange and transmit data information and conduct transaction activities through the Internet.

My Chinese webpage is like this, but it is not perfect yet.

B2C stands for Business to Consumer, an e-commerce model that connects businesses to consumers.

C2C stands for Customer to Customer, consumer to consumer..."

Ma Yun continued to talk and explained it in detail. Wang Fei roughly understood some of it and said "oh".

Ma Yun was very happy to see that the goddess understood.

Wang Fei turned to Yang Ye and said, "You are amazing. I have never heard of these things before."

Yang Ye tilted his head towards Wang Fei. Wang Fei felt a little embarrassed in front of Ma Yun, but he still kissed Yang Ye on the face with a red face.

Ma Yun’s eyes almost popped out when she saw her goddess kissing someone else.

Yang Ye was secretly happy, thinking: "I'm so greedy for you, Jack Ma!"

Ma Yun collected his thoughts in an instant. What Yang Ye had just said had given him such a huge shock.

Yang Ye said that the B2B model could reach a scale of tens of billions, which was an astronomical figure, but he looked down on it.

They also say that B2C and C2C can reach a trillion-dollar scale. That is a trillion-dollar scale. A mere woman is nothing.

He immediately told Yang Ye about his views on several e-commerce models.

Yang Ye hugged Wang Fei and said to Ma Yun, "I have been following the development of the Internet since its inception.

That's why I made movies like The Matrix.

Over the years, I have invested in many European and American Internet companies by casting a wide net, and have made some losses and some profits.

In the United States, Amazon, founded in 1994, is a B2C model, and Ebay, founded in 1995, is a C2C model. I have invested in both of them.

In recent years, both companies have developed well and my investment has begun to show results.

I am a filmmaker and my main job is in the entertainment industry.

I have been working in this industry for more than 20 years, and it is basically my lifelong career.

Although I am interested in the Internet, I cannot change my career, so I focus on investment.

In China, the development of the Internet has been a little slow, but it is not too late.

I think that with China's rapid economic development, prosperous manufacturing industry, and a population of more than one billion.

E-commerce has great potential. When I say it can reach a trillion-dollar scale, I am not bragging, but I believe it can be achieved.

After reading your China Yellow Pages, I think you are a very forward-looking person.

So, I want to cooperate with you. I will invest and you will operate. Are you interested?"

Ma Yun was overjoyed and rubbed his hands, saying, "Of course I'm interested!"

(End of this chapter)