Winner Takes It All, Resurrection 2009

Chapter 731: The Horror of the System Exchanges Again
"Mr. Ma, Mr. Wang is waiting for you in the office."

Early in the morning, Ma Jun picked up someone at the airport and went back to the Qingyun Xiangjiang headquarters building with them. As soon as he entered the door, the front desk manager greeted him with a smile.

"Tell President Wang that I'll be upstairs later. By the way, is President Wei here?"

Ma Jun asked the people around him to wait for a moment and said something to his personal assistant. The latter understood and took the American guests up to the special elevator.

After confirming that Wei Kejian was free, he went upstairs and entered Wei Kejian's office.

After hearing his intention, Wei Kejian's face tightened. "Why do we have to use the WeChat payment and Douyin interactive entertainment platforms? If outsiders knew that we were cooperating with the CIA, it would be very troublesome if it got out."

He also said: "Director Liu (Zijie) just asked me to cooperate with you, but he didn't say that it involves legitimate business. Can't I leave the Bitcoin currency platform?"

"Don't be ridiculous. Traditional American capital wants to control public opinion. WeChat, Weixin Payment, and Douyin Interactive Entertainment are all in their planning circle. If they want to develop smoothly overseas, they have to give up certain interests."

Ma Jun explained casually, supporting his desk with both hands, “Sir, he knows.

This is a gift for the new deputy director, Rhett."

Wei Kejian was stunned. "But there's no need to use legitimate business as a bargaining chip. If something goes wrong in the future, it will be difficult to explain clearly."

"Then you, Mr. Yang and Mr. Zhou, explain why the core businesses of the three institutions cannot be smoothly developed in Europe and the United States, especially when micropayments involve such huge interests.

Mr. Lian has high hopes for it, and is ready to see it tear apart the U.S. financial system one day and become the world’s mainstream trading method.”

Ma Jun laughed and said, "You don't want to question what the gentleman said, do you?"

No matter how bold Wei Kejian was, he dared not disobey Li Zehua's decision. He was just dissatisfied with Ma Jun, who was a member of the special system, and who always reached agreements with other groups in secret without going through the Southeast Asia Business Group.

In the end, I, who knew nothing, had to clean up his mess for him, especially now that Mr. Yang is based in Singapore and directly leads the Southeast Asia business group, the assessment has become more stringent.

As the cooperation among the major economic groups in Southeast Asia becomes more harmonious, the Southeast Asia Business Group has in fact become one of the most important departments among all the business groups of the group.

There are many people watching his position, and he has a strong sense of crisis, so he hates things that are out of control.

However, the boss had already agreed, so he was forced to compromise. "Okay, what do you want me to do? But I have to state in advance that anything that is detrimental to the interests of the group must be reviewed and approved by the group's strategic decision-making committee."

"Don't worry, it's just a routine matter, similar to before. Except that the data in Europe and the United States must be monitored by the United States at all times, other regions only need to provide keyword review regularly."

Ma Jun was very satisfied with his response. "It's just that Mr. Wang of TikTok Interactive Entertainment may need your help to do some work. You know he has been in charge of the domestic part before, and he may not be able to accept the sudden intervention of American capital."

"Ask Mr. Wang if he is free and invite him to come to my office."

Wei Kejian did not respond, but dialed an internal phone. After the notification, he carefully considered the pros and cons and did not speak. Ma Jun did not urge him, but took a seat and sat down and waited quietly.

Not long after, Wang Xing pushed the door open and came in. Seeing him, he was visibly stunned for a moment, then greeted him, "Old Wei, what's up?"

The heads of first-level subsidiaries and first-level business groups are at similar levels, but Southeast Asian affairs are rather special. If each subsidiary wants to develop locally, it must obey the group's overall strategic planning.

So in theory, the chairman of each subsidiary company must consult with Wei Kejian before making major decisions for the branch, except for the security department and special systems.

Wei Kejian did not dare to be arrogant and asked Ma Jun to tell the whole story.

After hearing this, Wang Xing subconsciously retorted: “I can understand placing the server data of Europe and the United States in the United States, but why should the databases of other regions (except Dongda) also be placed in the United States?

And we are also monitored by the CIA. If this gets out, how will users view us?

Especially now that Edward is still live streaming on the Tik Tok interactive entertainment platform, I can’t guarantee what will happen if users know that their behavior and usage traces will be monitored by American capital.

Besides, does Yanjing know about this? Have they agreed to it?"

"Director Wang, don't get excited. Aren't we discussing this?"

Ma Jun didn’t understand the specific business, but he knew that in this world, whoever has the bigger fist has the final say, “…Edward’s live broadcast was very effective, right?
But guess what? Why was Douyin the only app in the world that dared to take the lead in live streaming? And why was it not banned at all? And why did it achieve the incredible result of 800 million new overseas users in just over a week? "

Wang Xing looked solemn and said nothing.

Wei Kejian smiled and tried to smooth things over, "Mr. Wang came here specifically to commend Douyin Interactive Entertainment for achieving over 1500 million overseas users in recent times. Old Ma, look at what you have done."

"Boss Wei, let's listen to what Boss Ma has to say."

Wang Xing couldn't help but raise his hand to interrupt, and turned to Ma Jun, "I know that most overseas markets must abide by the European and American order, especially the strength of American capital, and will definitely not allow Internet media companies outside of the United States.

In order to gain control over media opinion, didn’t WeChat Technology previously expand to countries such as China, South Korea, and Southeast Asia, and achieve the great result of having over 100 million overseas users?
Why is it that Douyin Interactive Entertainment must send all its server data to the United States for supervision? "

Ma Jun sighed and explained, “You must understand that WeChat Technology, except for the Asian market, is a castrated version when it is promoted in Europe, America, Africa, South America, and Oceania.

In addition to its own text, voice, and file storage and transmission, the news section, hot spots, personal programs, and search functions all rely on Google services to run normally.

Even video calls require third-party applications from American companies, and there are many restrictions. However, the group does not plan to invest too many resources in WeChat technology. After all, its social networking and information and news acquisition capabilities are still the same old things.

Even if there is a core algorithm traffic pool grading review system, it is difficult to establish a sharing information cocoon circle covering hundreds of millions of people in the first place.

Not to mention relying on fragmented time to build the information ecosystem that the group wants to provide. Many users do not have enough sticky time, and many European and American users would rather use email to leave traces.

They are also unwilling to try to move their entire social circle of acquaintances to WeChat technology, which makes it difficult for WeChat technology products to make breakthrough progress.

However, the short video sharing of Douyin Interactive Entertainment is completely different. I believe that through the experience data analysis of nearly 4000 million high-quality customers in China, Mr. Wang has fully understood what an epoch-making media and public opinion tool this is.

The chairman is really amazing. He formulated the most important core link for promotion from the very beginning, which is content. Only more and more high-quality content can attract enough users to retain.

Until you can't live without it forever.

But we can notice its development potential, and foreign capital will not ignore its huge power, especially traditional American capital with which the relationship has always been okay.

After losing control of Microsoft (here referring to its email social function), Google, Facebook and Witt in succession, and losing influence in Silicon Valley.

Traditional American capital such as Hepai is in urgent need of a tool that can influence public opinion on a large scale. They are also trying to create such a hit product, but they are being besieged by Zuipai.

It is difficult to break through the restrictions for the time being, but the right to speak in public opinion is so important, especially this year's disastrous defeat, which has made the peace faction more determined to succeed in this regard no matter what!
It was under such circumstances that Douyin Interactive Entertainment came into the sight of Hepai. As part of the exchange of interests in related fields, the group has agreed to separate the parts involving Europe and the United States.

A new European and American Douyin Interactive Entertainment Group with a 46: split was established, with Zhou Shouyuan as the executive president, and traditional American energy, finance, and manufacturing capital were introduced as external shareholders.

We are responsible for operations, and they are responsible for providing funds, connections and other resources needed for development. Don't underestimate these 40% shares because we have the ultimate veto power.

As long as TikTok can gain a foothold in Europe and the United States, it will play an unimaginable and huge role for Dongda Capital and the future of the group, especially at certain critical moments.

The most important thing is that Douyin's future will be smooth sailing because it has the best customer resources on the planet. Its commercial value, advertising revenue, and overall valuation will also rise. This is the most important point. After all, who can resist money?
Don’t just focus on putting the database in America, but also see the tangible benefits it brings to the group.”

Wang Xing couldn't accept it emotionally for a while, but he understood that the other party was right, because the current international situation is that the United States and Europe have the final say, especially on foreign mobile Internet standards.

Including technology, the bulk of investment is in the hands of American capital. Although ZTE has mastered the core technology of 4G distributed information, it will not be able to succeed without the cooperation of European and American companies.

The same is true for Internet companies going overseas. The resources controlled by Zhupai, especially in the fields of media and public opinion, Internet business, and consumer electronics, give them an almost absolute advantage.

If they are really pushed to the limit, they can cut off the adaptation and update of Qingyun software on Apple and Android, and thus eliminate the Qingyun system's Internet software services from the source.

This is not a threat, but a fact.

It is the obstruction of traditional American capital that has prevented its implementation. Otherwise, Qingyun Electronics' overseas sales alone would not be able to support the installation volume of WeChat Technology, Weipay and Douyin Interactive Entertainment.

Seeing that he didn't say anything, Ma Jun gave another example to prove his point, "HTC and Samsung Electronics have recently filed infringement lawsuits against the group, and Wall Street is behind it.

They tried to use the patent stick to prohibit and restrict Qingyun Electronics' further expansion. At the same time, Google was also taking action and preparing to launch an anti-dumping investigation against the group for Honor Electronics' use of the Hongmeng system.

Everyone knows that Hongmeng system is the most important electronic operating system of Dongda in the future. It will not only cover smart phone electronic products, but will also be installed on all electronic products such as computers, laptops, tablets, etc.

When the development was slow before, people could turn a blind eye to it, after all, it would increase the group's sunk costs, but now it is completely different.

Roewe Electronics' third-generation flagship product, all new phones sold in China will be equipped with the Hongmeng system, including Honor and half of its electronic products in the Southeast Asian market will also be equipped with Hongmeng.

If American capital does not block it or the opposition is not loud, Shenzhou Electronics will also fully integrate into the touch version of Hongmeng system.

In a year at most, Hongmeng will grow from the current 200 million-plus test users to over million, and within three to five years, it will be able to break the billion mark (with the majority in the East and Southeast Asia).

Can you imagine how much benefit this would bring to the University of Tokyo?

Will American capital watch helplessly as their core technology companies, such as Microsoft, Apple, Google, and Qualcomm, lose half, no, even more than two-thirds of the global market?

Ma Jun read the words sent by his boss without any fear.

Wang Xing was stunned. No matter how much he resisted in his heart, he had to admit that Ma Jun was right. This was not in line with the core interests of American capital, so he would inevitably step forward to obstruct it.

Qingyun had no choice. The prerequisite for starting a new business was that Tokyo University could withstand the pressure. The problem was that even if Tokyo University tried its best, it would be difficult to withstand the full force of American capital.

Because various core technologies such as domestic lithography machines, high-end chips, graphics and storage memory require at least two to three years to develop, once Qingyun is fully sanctioned, it will inevitably lose the thriving external market and retreat to the domestic market.

As we all know, the gap in hardware can at least be caught up, but once the gap in the software ecosystem becomes huge, it will cost hundreds or thousands of times more to reverse it.

For example, Google's Android system has now become the world's mainstream mobile phone operating system, with tens of thousands of upstream and downstream companies providing optimization for it and millions of software engineers serving it.

Almost half of the world's users (the other half are on Apple iOS and Microsoft) have adapted to and connected to this system for their daily lives and work. It would be difficult to make rash changes, not to mention whether they can get used to it or not.

Even software service providers are not happy about this. Having one more system means that the cost for the company to provide services to users will increase by 1/4, one for Android, one for Microsoft, and one for Apple.

Another Hongmeng appeared.

The key is that the users are still the same users, but the channels for enjoying the services have changed. This not only increases the operating costs of the enterprises, but also causes them to face more troubles. Who would be happy with this?

The upstream and downstream companies involved are also not happy about this, because with one more system, the factory adaptation of the hardware will require an additional built-in program, and once there is a problem with the network, maintenance and after-sales will also require an additional system.

In short, all parties engaged in development and after-sales work in the Internet industry, conservatively estimated to be tens of millions of people, do not want to see a good market encounter problems.

What they would like to see most is one giant company for one product, like Microsoft, which can handle all PC products in the world. In this way, they only need to deal with one set of standards, which saves time, effort and money!

Qingyun wanted to get involved, and in addition to the strong support of Dongda Capital, it also needed to race against time. However, after the American capital reacted, they immediately arranged to target companies including Qualcomm and Google.

They all sent letters to warn Qingyun not to cross the line, otherwise they would use all means, including suspending services, to force Qingyun to give up the dangerous attempt.

At this time, only traditional American capital can help Qingyun overcome the difficulties.

Should they give up some of their core interests and completely control the Internet standards in their own hands, or should they bear the pressure and die tragically in the current situation where they are almost certain to lose?

Without waiting for Qingyun to react, Yan Jing made a decision in advance. The necessary compromise was to survive, and only by being alive could there be a future.

Li Zehua holds the same view, "We can discuss everything, including the core interests of micropayments in Europe and the United States. As long as we can get the core group of Hepai involved, we will win.

Even if they lose their business in Europe and the United States in the end, they can sow irreconcilable rifts within them.

That's why Ma Jun went to the airport to greet them and sent representative Tim to the Hong Kong headquarters for negotiations. Douyin interactive entertainment is of paramount importance. Its convenience and underlying logical architecture are excellent.

As long as it can survive and get strong endorsement in the United States, it will instantly become a phenomenal software product that is popular all over the world. The most important thing is that it does not have to spend much resources with the Paida Group.

The Qingyun Group itself also has an urgent ambition to make it bigger and stronger, so the two sides hit it off and prepared to reach an agreement on in-depth cooperation.

Wang Xing wondered, “But the threat from Zuipai is still there. Can Hepai help the group gain a foothold in Europe and the United States?”

"In theory, both the Democratic and Democratic factions represent the core interests of the United States. In essence, they also want to stand together to suppress the group, but don't forget that this is the second phase of that person.

The Zhu faction no longer intends to continue sharing the supreme glory with the He faction. The interests of the He faction continue to be suppressed. If the He faction continues to lose four years later, then they will have almost no future.

It's a matter of life and death, and the He faction has no choice."

Ma Jun read from the script, borrowing the boss's wisdom, and suddenly pointed to a message on his phone and said, "That's right, Mr. Wei, the boss asked you to complete the negotiation with Mr. Wang.

I will personally talk to Tim again about energy futures cooperation. Mr. Ye from Xiangjiang Guoye Group will also come over to discuss it later."

Wei Kejian glanced at his phone speechlessly. "Why don't you just give me the phone? I always feel like something is missing when I hear you tell me."

Ma Jun shook his head decisively, "That won't work. I can answer your questions if you have any. The boss is probably flying directly to Bangkok, Siam right now, so don't think of disturbing his rest."

Wei Kejian had no choice but to discuss the previous topic with Wang Xing, who sighed heavily, "Boss is right, this is related to the core interests of Wall Street and Silicon Valley.

It is also America’s core technological interest. If we cannot get the help of traditional American capital, it will be difficult for us to get through this stage. No matter how difficult it is, we must make necessary compromises.”

Wei Kejian also has his own ideas: "Internet standards are in the hands of others, and it is normal for them to give up their interests appropriately in exchange for access.

However, energy is not America's traditional advantage project. According to the news from the boss, the attitude of the big customers has softened. Salman set off for London today.

If nothing unexpected happens, both Britain and Gaul will make corresponding statements, which can be used to force American capital to make concessions. "

(End of this chapter)