You call this entrepreneurship?

Chapter 467

Inside the campus network's headquarters, everyone's eyes were fixed on the clock on the wall, quietly waiting for the launch of Happy Farm.

Qin Shaoyan was personally in charge of the command, accompanied by Vice President Zhang Pingyi, CTO Wang Jun, General Manager of Operations Zhou Yuan and other senior executives.

In addition to the people from the campus network, there were also teams from Facebook and IDG in the United States, all of whom came to observe the launch of Happy Farm.

As time passed, the electronic clock on the wall jumped to ten o'clock in the morning.

Campus network CTO Wang Jun pressed the server start button and the game was officially launched.

In order to promote the "Happy Farm" project, the campus network invested heavily in advertising on the Internet. In addition to the portal website, it also specially bought the 24-hour push of Baidu's homepage.

Before 10 o'clock tomorrow, as long as you open the Baidu page, you can see the "Happy Farm" logo and slogan, "I'm waiting for you at Happy Farm!"

This 24-hour advertisement cost a total of million RMB, and Qin Shaoyan felt that the money was well spent. It is still very cheap to advertise on Baidu now, but in a few years, the price will not be this high anymore.

He remembered that 11 years later, an advertising push on Baidu's homepage would cost tens of millions.

These five million are a considerable amount of advertising revenue for Baidu, which is why it gave Happy Farm a special 24-hour advertising spot.

Under this overwhelming publicity campaign, basically most netizens today can see this advertisement as soon as they go online.

Just click on the ad to jump to the game registration page. For this purpose, Qin Shaoyan also specially asked Zhang Pingyi to create a function to help users register randomly. Users don’t even need to enter their account password, they just need to click the register button to complete the registration.

After completing the novice guidance task, a UI interface will pop up again, giving the user the opportunity to change the random account password to something that is easy to remember.

This function made Zhang Pingyi scratch his head for a while, but he finally figured it out.

The data on the number of registrations displayed on the server's backend is constantly jumping. The data is changing extremely quickly, and is growing rapidly in tens of thousands.

Half an hour later, the number of registered users of Happy Farm exceeded one million.

Three hours later, the number of registered users reached three million.

After seeing this data, people from Facebook and IDG in the United States couldn't sit still and wanted to come over to see whether the data on the server backend was true.

Fred breathed a sigh of relief and laughed, "John, you succeeded, you succeeded again!"

"Just like when you helped Valve create Steam, it was a huge success."

"No, Fred." Qin Shaoyan's expression was still serious. "It's too early for you to be happy now. Users just click in to take a look. Whether you can keep them or not depends on the retention data of the next day."

“If half of the users are still there the next day, the project will be considered a preliminary success.”

"John, you are too pessimistic." Fred didn't care. "I think at least 70% of users will stay."

Qin Shaoyan didn't say anything, still staring at the rapidly rising data in the background.

……

On the second morning of the seven-day National Day holiday, Xiao Xiaomeng was still lying comfortably in her bed at home.

You don’t have to go to class, nor do you have to worry about the teacher calling your name. You can enjoy all kinds of snacks leisurely. When you have nothing to do, you can surf the Internet and post messages with netizens.

Xiao Xiaomeng had a very fulfilling holiday life, life was so wonderful.

She turned over, took out the clock on the bedside table and took a look, and found that it was already past nine o'clock.

Xiao Xiaomeng yawned, feeling a little hungry, and shouted, "Mom, did you leave breakfast for me?"

But she shouted a few times but received no response, so she had no choice but to get up herself, put on her slippers and drag herself to the living room.

After walking around, Xiao Xiaomeng realized that her parents had gone out at some point and she was the only one left at home.

Fortunately, my mother put breakfast on the table before she went out, so Xiao Xiaomeng didn't go hungry.

After filling her stomach, the weak Xiao Xiaomeng was fully revived again. She sat in front of the computer in high spirits, ready to start a new day of surfing the Internet.

As a senior user of the campus network, Xiao Xiaomeng is already the moderator of her school's forum and a well-known "spam queen" on popular squares. She has tens of thousands of fans on the campus network alone.

This was all achieved through her tireless and high-intensity surfing, so signing in and clocking in at the campus network every day became an unshakable habit in her life.

But Xiao Xiaomeng found that the campus network was a little different today than before. The background page of the homepage was replaced with a cartoon character wearing a straw hat.

The cartoon character gave a thumbs up and said, "I'm waiting for you at Happy Farm. I have a mysterious gift for you."

"Hey, there are gifts." Xiao Xiaomeng clicked on it without hesitation, and then a page popped up and jumped to the game interface of "Happy Farm".

The background detected that Xiao Xiaomeng was a campus network user, automatically skipped the registration process, and went directly to the interface for selecting a character image and obtaining a game ID.

Xiao Xiaomeng followed the novice guide with some curiosity, carefully clicking on the buttons step by step.

Xiao Xiaomeng liked the novel mode and cartoon style of this web game very much, and she became addicted to it unknowingly.

The first piece of farmland was reclaimed, the first planting was done, the first watering was done, the first fertilization was done, the first cabbage was harvested...

Every operation gave Xiao Xiaomeng a small sense of accomplishment, so she couldn't wait to start the second sowing and prepare to harvest the second cabbage.

Before the cabbage was fully mature, Xiao Xiaomeng noticed the other plots of land that had not yet been cultivated, so she quickly clicked to cultivate the second and third plots.

But at this time the game popped up a prompt.

"Your level is insufficient. Please upgrade before you open up new fields."

“Invite friends to join you to open up an extra field, and you can also get fertilizers, seeds and other props.”

After seeing the game prompts, Xiao Xiaomeng decisively stood up and rushed to the telephone next to him, picked up the receiver and dialed.

After the call was connected, Xiao Xiaomeng said directly: "Aya, come online quickly, I have invited you to join the game."

Aya was a little confused, "Game? What game?"

"There's a fun game online on campus, it's about growing vegetables, I can't explain it in a few words." Xiao Xiaomeng said quickly, "Hurry up and accept the invitation, I want to get the reward."

After hanging up the phone, Xiao Xiaomeng sat back in front of the computer and continued growing vegetables.

Ten minutes later, the system promoted "Aya" to be your friend, and then sent her a reward email.

The reward included not only ten bags of fertilizer, but also some seeds.

Xiao Xiaomeng was satisfied with the reward and continued to devote himself to the vegetable growing business.

With the continuous harvest of vegetables, Xiao Xiaomeng's farm level is constantly improving, and soon he obtained new seeds, including radishes, greens, potatoes, eggplants, and cucumbers.

The growth time of seeds is different, some only need ten minutes, and some need half an hour. If you can't wait, you can use fertilizer to reduce the growth time of seeds and harvest them earlier.

Soon Xiao Xiaomeng used up the fertilizer given by the system, and boredly counted the countdown on the vegetables, waiting for another harvest.

While she was in a daze, Xiao Xiaomeng noticed a system prompt that allowed her to visit her friend's farm, so she clicked on "Aya's" farm.

Then she saw the ripe cabbages in the field. There was a sign on the cabbages saying, "You can steal her vegetables."

Xiao Xiaomeng clicked curiously, "You got cabbage X1, cabbage X1, cabbage X1..."

"Wow... You can actually steal other people's vegetables!" Xiao Xiaomeng's eyes lit up, so she began to add friends frantically, and then visited each farm one by one. Soon, the warehouse of Xiao Xiaomeng's farm was filled with stolen vegetables.

Looking at the bountiful harvest, Xiao Xiaomeng screamed, "It's so cool!"

“You can make money much faster by stealing vegetables than by growing them.”

Xiao Xiaomeng seemed to have opened the door to a new world. She quickly went to the campus forum and posted a message.

"Happy Farm, add friends. If you come, please reply!"

After posting, Xiao Xiaomeng marked the post as featured, highlighted, and pinned it to the top, all in one go.

As a well-known celebrity on the campus network, Xiao Xiaomeng has a strong appeal, and soon dozens of people added her as a friend.

Seeing so many potential automatic vegetable gardens, she was so happy that she couldn't stop smiling. She visited all of them and had a great time taking advantage of them.

Soon, Xiao Xiaomeng's joy turned into sorrow.

She took a walk around someone else's farm and when she was about to come back to harvest the cabbages, she found that her cabbages had been stolen.

"How ridiculous! How ridiculous!" Xiao Xiaomeng slammed the table in anger, "I came back a little late and someone attacked me!"

She angrily opened the system records and discovered that the person who stole the vegetables was Aya.

Xiao Xiaomeng decisively picked up the phone and went straight to Aya to question her, "You little heartless person, you actually stole my food!"

"I'm usually so nice to you, I even saved my coupons for you, and you actually stole my food!"

Aya was a little confused by Xiao Xiaomeng's accusation and said weakly: "You stole my vegetables before."

"How can it be called stealing when it's between good friends?" Xiao Xiaomeng blushed and kept explaining, "I was just worried that your warehouse wouldn't be able to hold it all."

What follows are words like, "This is how the system rules." and "What's wrong with asking good friends to order food for you?"

Although she cried and complained to Aya for a few words, she still couldn't stop Xiao Xiaomeng from stealing vegetables. After searching all her friends, she extended her claws to her parents.

Soon, Xiao Xiaomeng pulled both her parents into the game.

This was a decision that Xiao Xiaomeng regretted greatly, because her parents soon became addicted to it.

However, there was only one computer and three people had to use it, so Xiao Xiaomeng, as the instigator, took on the task of collecting the vegetables on time. Not only did she have to collect them for herself, but she also had to help her parents.

She even had to get up at two o'clock in the morning to harvest vegetables.

Xiao Xiaomeng had her own classmates to steal from, and her parents extended their claws to their colleagues at work and relatives and friends.

"Happy Farm" spread at an astonishing speed. By the end of the holiday, the number of registered users had reached 10 million, and there were 6 million active online users every day.

The word "stealing vegetables" has become the most frequently used word on the entire Chinese Internet, and people everywhere are discussing how to steal vegetables.

"Farm Day" became a huge hit.

This achievement not only made Facebook and IDG of the United States ecstatic, but also stunned Xiong Xiaoge.

Xiong Xiaoge couldn't imagine why a web game could have such great magic?
"Boss Qin," Xiong Xiaoge said sincerely, "I used to say that you were a boaster. My opinion is a bit biased. You are indeed a very capable person."

"You can achieve this with just a simple web game. I, Xiong Xiaoge, admire you."

"Boss Xiong, you know me well." Faced with the huge achievements, Qin Shaoyan seemed particularly calm and indifferent. "I usually don't give PPTs casually, but if I give them, I will do it."

"Otherwise, there will always be people who make fun of me, saying that I like to make big promises and always come up with money-sucking projects."

"That's really a compliment to me. If I really wanted to defraud money, the money you invested wouldn't even be enough to fill my teeth."

Xiong Xiaoge just smiled at Qin Shaoyan's strange talk and changed the subject directly, "Now that there are so many users, when do you plan to import them into the Weibo project?"

"Wait a little longer, it's too early now." Qin Shaoyan said after a pause, "We need to wait at least half a month, preferably a month."

"There's no need to rush the Weibo issue. Happy Farm is still in its early stages and is far from reaching the peak of registered users."

"I will have to accumulate at least 20 to 30 million users before launching Weibo."

Xiong Xiaoge realized that he was too impatient and said quickly, "Then let's do as you wish, Mr. Qin."

"Happy Farm is so successful this time that the market value of Campus Network will soon exceed 10 billion US dollars. I would like to congratulate Mr. Qin in advance. You will soon become the youngest richest man in China."

"China's richest man?" Qin Shaoyan was somewhat stunned. "How is this possible? How can I, Qin Shaoyan, be worthy of this title? I dare not overstep my bounds to be the richest man."

Xiong Xiaoge smiled without saying anything. You can't just give up the title of the richest man. Someone will naturally give it to you when the time comes.

"Once Weibo goes online, the market value of Campus Network should soon surpass NetEase." Xiong Xiaoge said with a smile, "Based on the value of the stocks you hold, your net worth will surpass Ding Lei."

“No, no, no.” Qin Shaoyan waved his hands quickly, “I don’t have many shares left. The title of the richest man is too inappropriate. My shares have long been transferred to Lao Bi Deng Company.”

When Xiong Xiaoge heard this, the corner of his mouth twitched.

The popularity of "Happy Farm" not only shocked people on the campus network, but also stunned other Internet peers.

What the hell has 10 million users? Is this thing really that fun?
"This thing is really fun." Ren Yuxin said to Ma Huateng seriously, "Now at least half of the employees in the company are playing the stealing vegetables game. I even found that many people are stealing vegetables while at work."

Ma Huateng was stunned when he heard this, "Is this game so magical?"

"Mr. Ma, I don't know what magic it has, but the game already has 10 million users." Ren Yuxin said sincerely, "I think this thing is an opportunity for us at Penguin."

"It is a social game that fits perfectly with our QQ space."

"So, Mr. Ma, you can't hesitate any longer. Come up with a decision quickly. I'll go discuss cooperation with the campus network."

"No." Ma Huateng frowned, "Let me think about it."

(End of this chapter)