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Chapter 316 Baidu's response, something went wrong

"Boss, Baidu's public relations department just called me."

Zhang Chen just got into the car with Liu Yifei when Feng Kuazi called. While he was fastening Liu Yifei's seat belt, he asked the person on the other end of the phone, "What conditions did they offer?"

"They wanted to pay me to delete my Weibo post."

"Oh?" Zhang Chen also got in the car and raised his eyebrows: "Baidu is very rich, didn't you take the opportunity to make some money?"

"How dare I?" Although Zhang Chen couldn't see Feng Kuzi's face, he could tell from his voice that it was full of flattery. "I refused directly, but he threatened me that if I didn't withdraw my Weibo account, no one in the country would be able to search for my movies."

Hearing this, Zhang Chen sat up straight: "Did you really say that?"

"Yes!" Feng Kuazi suddenly laughed, "I even recorded it."

Zhang Chen was silent. He couldn't understand how the public relations of such a large company could be so unprofessional?

However, after looking through my memory, I found that Baidu’s public relations is also notoriously poor.

For example, their vice president, Jing.

Thinking about it this way, it was expected that the other party would directly threaten Feng Kuazi over the phone.

"Well, I've suffered before because of recordings and videos, so I was on guard when he called me. I didn't expect that I would actually catch him."

Perhaps Feng Kuazi didn't hear Zhang Chen's response, and fearing that his boss would overthink it, he hurriedly explained.

It was a bit embarrassing to say this, because the culprit for the loss he suffered last time was his current boss Zhang Chen.

"Oh?" Zhang Chen narrowed his eyes and smiled, "Director Feng has a plan?"

"I listen to the boss."

"I can't control what you want to do."

"I understand, boss!"

"Ah."

After hanging up the phone, Zhang Chen looked out the window and saw that the car was almost reaching its destination.

Things have slowly begun to develop in the direction he expected, but he doesn't know how many people will stand up to stop him later.

A company that is launching an attack on the US stock market, the capital behind it is waiting to make a fortune after Baidu goes public. How could it just watch Baidu get into trouble at this critical juncture?

"Let's go and meet that poor man."

2 Month 8 Day Afternoon

The first day of the Lunar New Year was originally a day for Chinese people to visit relatives and friends.

At times like these, little big happens.

However, the two Weibo posts by Bai Zeming and Feng Kuzi triggered a series of discussions among netizens.

Nowadays, people don’t even eat. Even when they are offering sacrifices to their ancestors, they go straight back to their computers, waiting for further developments.

The facts did not disappoint netizens.

Just after 12 o'clock, Feng Kuzi updated a status.

@冯小钢: Arrogant people never know how to apologize. They only use their monopoly in the market to prevent Chinese people from searching for my movies? Who are you, Baidu, to dare to deprive us of our right to know?
According to your Baidu logic, no one can say anything bad about you online from now on? ——【Audio link】

Feng Kuazi's words were very serious.

If Baidu is proven to be manipulating public opinion, it will be in trouble.

This time, not only netizens can't sit still, but even the relevant departments have begun to take action.

It was not until the evening that Li Yanhong held a press conference directly in her own company.

At the press conference, he directly denied the authenticity of Feng Xiaogang's recording, saying that the recording was forged and that the person who threatened Feng Xiaogang was definitely not an employee of Baidu.

When someone asked about Bai Zeming's affairs, Li Yanhong avoided the question and kept emphasizing that Baidu is an open platform and netizens can find everything they need on their search engine.

When the reporter asked whether "paid ranking" existed, Li Yanhong said that it was a way of making profits that all search engines in the world were doing. This meant that it was not just Baidu that was doing this, and it could not be targeted at just their company.

He also said that there must be foreign forces behind this to discredit Chinese local companies.

He pushed Zhang Chen to the front of the stage in both open and covert ways, and poured a basin of dirty water on him.

Zhang Chen watched the entire press conference at home.

"This Li Yanhong is really shameless. It's clearly his fault. What right does he have to blame you?!"

Liu Yifei was really angry and started cursing Li Yanhong on TV.

But it was just a few simple words going back and forth, nothing threatening at all.

"Let him talk, it's just empty talk."

Zhang Chen took a bite of dumplings, which is a must-have food during the Chinese New Year in the north.

He has lived in the capital for so many years that he has become more or less accustomed to this eating habit.

The dumplings in the north are different from the frozen dumplings we used to eat in the south. The dumplings are made by a family together. The taste is secondary. The atmosphere when making the dumplings and who makes the dumplings for you are the unique status of this small dumpling.

For example, the plate in front of Zhang Chen is filled with something that looks like meatballs, which was made by someone.

"But Bai Zeming and Li Sisi are so pitiful."

Liu Yifei thought of Bai Zeming, whom she was going to meet this afternoon, and her mood became heavy.

The two people who had promised to stay together until old age are now separated by the Yin and Yang.

Looking at Bai Zeming, who had a face full of stubble and was staring blankly at the photo frame, Liu Yifei felt very uncomfortable.

After she put herself in their shoes, she could personally experience the heart-wrenching pain.

Thinking of this, Liu Yifei secretly glanced at Zhang Chen, then quickly shook her head, driving away the possibility that had just popped up in her mind.

After thinking that the culprit of all this was Baidu, Liu Yifei felt extremely disgusted with this company.

After a long silence, she secretly took her laptop from the side.

"What are you doing on the computer so late at night?"

Zhang Chen glanced at the girl opposite him and didn't understand why she turned on the computer while eating.

"What do you care about me?" Liu Yifei snorted, "Can't I just take a look at the comments from netizens online?"

Although she was reading the comments, Liu Yifei did not stop working.

"Remember to use a smurf account when you like or comment, so I don't have to ask someone to delete it for you later."

"I know, I know, it's so verbose."

Liu Yifei waved her hand, said something perfunctorily, and continued typing on the keyboard.

Zhang Chen said nothing more upon seeing this. He shrugged and continued to focus on the TV.

Ten minutes later, Liu Yifei closed the computer with satisfaction: "Done!"

"You went to curse people on your trumpet?"

"Emmm" Liu Yifei's eyes were a little evasive, "Yes, yes."

Just as Zhang Chen was about to ask more questions, his personal phone rang.

He glanced at the number and looked at the little girl speechlessly: "Anyway, if Du Zhining doesn't call about you, I'll take your last name."

"Hey?"

"Boss, something happened!"

　I can only write 6000 words today, and the rest will have to wait until tomorrow.
　　
　
(End of this chapter)