The richest person in Chinese entertainment

Chapter 318 Don’t you want to do this anymore?

Zhang Chen had just arrived in the United States on the "Sissi" when several major events happened in China.

The first is an incident involving a company in Zhongguancun that was related to him.

Zhang Chen did not expect that this time the action would be so fast. He had just flown in the sky for more than ten hours, and the result came out as soon as he landed. He had to prove how much attention he was receiving in the country.

He doesn't even need to guess, the country should be in an uproar right now.

Some time ago, Li Yanhong's Baidu and Zhang Chen's Chenguang Group were fighting back and forth on the Internet, with Feng Kuazi cursing and Liu Yifei openly boycotting. As a result, when netizens reacted, Baidu was directly investigated?

Could it be that it was Liu Yifei's remarks on the Internet, the support of many celebrities, and the united support of netizens that led to the attention of the upper echelons?
Many people think so.

This has also greatly elevated Liu Yifei's status in the hearts of many netizens, and netizens tend to regard her as a controversial messenger who "speaks for the people."

This was something Zhang Chen had not expected.

At the same time, many people on the Internet speculated what the situation was this time.

"Is this true? We just protested online and the next day we got the result. Is the efficiency so high nowadays?"

"Sure enough, it is useful for us netizens to unite."

"I think Liu Yifei played a key role in this. Otherwise, it would be impossible for her to post a status update and then get the result the next day."

"Don't be stupid upstairs, someone is obviously behind this."

“Who has the energy to bring down a large enterprise with so many departments in such a short time?”

"I tend to think that the relevant departments have already started investigating Baidu a long time ago, and this time they are just following the trend. After all, Baidu has done a lot of bad things recently, and it is expected that it will be punished."

"Now that Baidu is no longer available, what should we do when we go online?"

"Didn't Zhang Chen say that Chenguang Technology has developed a browser that comes with a built-in Google search engine? Why don't we just download Firefox?"

"Zhang Chen's Chenguang Group has always been reliable. Let's go download the Firefox browser!"

Comments on Weibo ranged from discussing why Baidu was punished so quickly to comments about Firefox appearing in netizens' discussions.

This is also due to the efforts of Zhang Chen’s people.

The largest search engine in the country has been temporarily suppressed. If Zhang Chen doesn't take advantage of the opportunity to occupy the market, all the phone calls he made would be in vain.

Water army is always one of the simplest and most effective ways to promote a product.

However, someone will help him promote Firefox and Google (China).

He is currently on the phone teasing someone.

"It should be midnight where you are now. Why are you calling me in such a hurry?"

"Brother Chen, please save me. I am almost annoyed to death by the media."

"You are so popular now, it is normal for the media to chase you and report on you, right?"

"This time is different. If it was just me, it would be fine, but now even my girlfriend is being harassed."

"Hmm? Who is it, Jolin Tsai?"

Zhang Chen was interested. What gossips and scandals did Asian superstar Xiao Zhou have?

"Brother Chen, that's from the old almanac."

"Who is that?"

Zhang Chen thought about it and felt that this guy had quite a rich love history, but it seemed that his future superstar wife was not yet an adult?
"Patzen."

"The host?"

"Correct!"

Zhang Chen remembered that this was the rare girlfriend that Xiao Zhou showed his affection to in public, right?
The others seem to be underground relationships.

It was precisely because the relationship with this person was too high-profile that the media in Taiwan kept harassing the two of them, trying to get more news.

It was for this reason that the lives of the two people became extremely difficult.

Afterwards, some media spread rumors that Patty Hou was the mistress who interfered in the relationship between Jay Chou and Jolin Tsai, and also dug up the fact that Hou's mother was also the mistress, which led to Jay's mother not being optimistic about their relationship.

"Xiao Zhou, listen to me and keep a low profile."

Zhang Chen had no impression of the future superstar's wife. He just knew that she and Xiao Zhou got married suddenly.

This person and Jolin Tsai have had the longest relationship with Xiao Zhou.

"Brother Chen, I also want to keep a low profile. Now the media is chasing me every day, and I can't keep a low profile even if I want to."

"So how do you want me to help you?"

Zhang Chen can't help with this kind of thing.

Taiwan is one of the few places he cannot reach.

The media there is comparable to that in Hong Kong Island. They don’t care about the life or death of celebrities when it comes to exposing their privacy. As long as their news can get attention, they don’t care whether your life will be affected.

"I don't know either," Jay Chou said with a somewhat helpless tone, "but among the people I can think of, you're the only one who can help me."

"You should bring your family member to the mainland first. At present, our mainland reporters should be..."

Zhang Chen stopped talking halfway.

He suddenly remembered that he himself was also "driven" out of his home by those reporters, and now he can only live with his parents and rely on them.

It seems that he is not much better than Xiao Zhou.

"Brother Chen?" Xiao Zhou didn't hear Zhang Chen's voice on the other end of the phone and couldn't help but ask.

"Where are those candid photos of yours put?"

"I remember that a forum in mainland China opened a [Jay Chou forum] specifically for me. There were a lot of photos of me and Patty on it. They also dug up a lot of Patty's family information."

Speaking of this, Jay Chou was a little angry.

Although people from Taiwan cannot access the forum, the impression that Patty Hou had among her mainland fans hit rock bottom because of the exposure of her privacy and her previous scandal with Jolin Tsai.

Many of Jay Chou’s fans once made Patty Hou a hot topic on Weibo.

However, because Weibo knew that Zhang Chen and Jay Chou had a good relationship, they handled this trending search, which led to Hou Pei-chen being condemned by netizens on both platforms.

However, on Tieba, her personal Tieba is already filled with all kinds of insults against her, which gives Jay Chou a headache.

"Please wait for two days." Zhang Chen hesitated for a moment and did not give a clear answer. "I will help you solve it after I finish dealing with some things in the United States."

The problem comes back to Baidu.

This forum is really a trouble that cannot be gotten rid of.

Although he has suppressed it temporarily now, with so much capital supporting them from behind, they cannot let a company that is about to make them profitable fall down so easily.

Someone will definitely take action to help Baidu get out of this crisis.

There is nothing that can be done about it. Zhang Chen did not expect to defeat Baidu just this time. It is too unrealistic.

Moreover, the most important thing is that he has not yet gained any benefits. After playing with the other party for such a long time, the other party used his privacy to attract traffic and threw dirty water on him. If he simply fined the other party 1000 million yuan and then suspended the business for a few days, it would be too unfair to Zhang Chen's efforts during this period.

However, through his own experience and Jay Chou's experience, Zhang Chen also came up with the idea of controlling a news media himself.

Although Weibo is good, it lacks the most important news platform.

Although there were two portal websites, NetEase and Penguin, Chenguang Entertainment would not have any particularly negative news in general news.

But after all, Zhang Chen only held shares in these two companies but not controlling shares, so they are not his own companies.

If you really want to have enough credibility at some media level, you still need to start your own news media company.

"Boss, this is a summary of the latest news."

While Zhang Chen was still thinking about planning for future development, Xue Yining handed him a prepared document.

This is Xue Yining’s daily routine.

Zhang Chen has too many things to do every day and doesn't have time to collect breaking news from home and around the world one by one.

So many years ago, Zhang Chen asked Xue Yining to recruit a number of meticulous employees in the company to form a secretariat.

Normally, the secretariat helps Zhang Chen collect this information and then gives it to Xue Yining, who then screens and simplifies it before giving it to Zhang Chen.

Zhang Chen thought that today's events would be the same as usual and nothing worthy of special attention, but when he turned to the middle part, he stopped instantly.

"When was this news?"

"News just collected from Wall Street."

"How much of their company's stock is expected to be taken up now?"

"It is estimated that there is about 6% and they are still buying in."

Zhang Chen held his chin and looked at the report.

There isn't much content here, just some updates about Sina's US stocks.

Since this company is a Chinese Internet enterprise listed on the U.S. stock market, people in Zhang Chen's secretariat pay special attention to companies like Sina.

This time they felt that the stock had abnormal fluctuations, so they reported it to Xue Yining immediately.

Zhang Chen closed his eyes and began to recall several major changes at Sina, one of which seemed to be Shanda’s acquisition?

The timing seems to be right too.

Sina's main businesses are online advertising and wireless value-added services. If Sina's business is complementary to Shanda's, the two will be able to stand higher among Internet companies.

"Go and inform the people at Morning Glory Holdings to immediately buy Sina's shares on NASDAQ."

Zhang Chen suddenly opened his eyes and gave an order to Xue Yining.

Weibo has been developed for so many years, but he has forgotten that this platform was originally born based on Sina.

If Weibo lacks Internet advertising and Sina's team of journalists scattered across the country, then Weibo will ultimately be missing a major weapon.

Although Shanda has already started to acquire Sina, Zhang Chen entered the market a little late.

But he also knew that the stocks he could buy in the secondary market were limited after all, and the most important thing now was to bring Sina to his side before Shanda did.

Buy the stocks first, and worry about the rest later.

After Xue Yining went to work according to Zhang Chen's instructions, their convoy also arrived at Zhang Chen's Beverly Hills in Los Angeles.

He also did not rent out his mansion like other wealthy people to reduce expenses.

Compared with rent, Zhang Chen cares more about the privacy of his home.

It would be a lot of fun if some bad people installed some hidden cameras in his house.

As usual, Zhang Chen would meet some of his singer friends in the United States here, and then spend a few days relaxing on vacation before going back to attend the Grammy Awards.

But since he announced at the Grammy Awards last year that he would no longer judge the awards, he came here at the usual time this year and it was difficult for him to adapt to the state of not having to prepare for the Grammy Awards.

However, he quickly adjusted himself after taking a comfortable bath.

Without being harassed by some person who could only look at but not eat, Zhang Chen enjoyed the bath very comfortably.

The next step is to adjust to the time difference.

Zhang Chen was just about to fall asleep when he was woken up by a phone call from Xue Yining.

"Boss, Sergey wants to see you."

Zhang Chen looked up at the time. It was already ten o'clock in the evening. Don't these Wall Street elites know how to sleep?

As for the other party's intention of coming here, Zhang Chen could guess it.

"It's late at night, ask him to come again tomorrow!" Zhang Chen ordered unhappily into the phone.

Isn’t it just about Baidu?
It doesn't matter whether you arrive early or late, there is no need to sacrifice time to adjust to the jet lag.

"Boss, he said he wanted to talk to you about YouTube."

Zhang Chen, who was about to hang up the phone, frowned after hearing Xue Yining's words.

According to his memory, Google should have noticed this personal video website next year, but now this startup company has been noticed by Sergey, who came to him in the middle of the night to discuss it.
It's unreasonable. Very unreasonable.

There was something strange. There must be something he didn't know.

"You let him in."

Finally, Zhang Chen decided to meet him and see what the other party was up to.

But before that, he had to make a phone call.

So after hanging up the phone, he made another call while getting dressed: "William, have you had any contact with Hill Gai and the others recently?"

"Boss?" William's voice was very noisy. They must be having a party. "Please wait a moment."

A few minutes later, William's voice sounded again from the other end of the phone.

At this time, Zhang Chen had also put on his clothes and sat on the chair in the room.

"Boss, what did you just say?"

"I asked you if you had any contact with Sergey recently." Zhang Chen repeated patiently, "Also, who did you talk to about the YouTube incident?"

"Recently." William's voice was a little lisp, but his expression was clear, "I attended a party with the two of them. As for YouTube..."

William paused noticeably: "I didn't say anything."

Zhang Chen held the phone in silence for half a minute.

"boss?"

"William, don't you want to do this anymore?"

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