Who would still start a business seriously after being reborn?

Chapter 246 Drawing fire from the bottom of the cauldron
"Explain to me, what the hell is going on?" Chen Zhi grabbed a stack of documents and slammed them in the faces of several business managers, angrily shouting, "Useless! All of you are fucking useless!"

Several business managers lowered their heads and dared not say a word.

"We are selling at a 50% discount. Don't you understand what limited purchase means? In the past, when we used food coupons to buy food, did we know to set a purchase limit? You are selling me point cards at a 50% discount?" Chen Zhi kicked the business manager in front to the ground.

"I let you sell it openly!"

"I let you sell it openly!"

Chen Zhi kicked all the business managers to the ground one by one.

These business managers were so aggrieved that they were about to cry.

A business manager said with a sad face, "Mr. Chen, we have limited the number of tickets. Each person can only buy two at most."

"Yes, Mr. Chen, and we haven't offered any discounts yet. We're selling them all at full price. We didn't expect these cards to sell out so quickly. There are 10,000 of them. Isn't that the number of people playing Legend in our internet cafe?"

After hearing what the business managers said, Chen Zhi realized that he had wronged them. He frowned slightly and said, "You guys should get up first."

Several business managers scrambled to their feet, looking timid. One of them said, "Mr. Chen, we've experienced many games entering the paid phase, but we've never seen anything like this. This proves that this game is a hit."

"We should have Shengda send some game cards over as soon as possible and tell them how popular Legend is in Jingzhou City."

"That's right, we don't even need to discount the point cards, we can just sell them at the original price."

Chen Zhi said in a deep voice: "Is Legend really that popular?"

"Shengda has been posting game charging times all the time, and many players are already ready to grab game cards," said a business manager.

At this moment, Wu Lianju, who had just rushed back from the airport, pushed the door open and walked in, exhausted.

He grabbed the water cup on the table and took a sip before saying to Chen Zhi, "Mr. Chen, Shengda Legend is a complete hit. The conversion rate to paying users has reached 120%. This is an unprecedented hit. Do we have enough point card reserves? This is extremely important to us."

Seeing Chen Zhi and several business managers were silent, Wu Lianju's heart skipped a beat and he asked, "Could it be that our point card reserves are insufficient?"

Chen Zhi said, "Shengda only allocated us 10,000 cards, and within an hour of starting the process, they were all sold out. Now many Legend players are protesting at our various branches."

"Suck..." Wu Lianju took a breath.

I’m really worried about what’s going to happen!
Chen Zhi said, "Mr. Wu, could you please talk to Shengda and allocate some more point cards to us? We've already spent nearly 10 million just promoting Legend. Isn't this too much to ask?"

Wu Lianju sighed, "Shengda is out of cards. They rushed to produce 16 cards, and they're all sold out. I called Luo Shenyi from Shengda on the way here, and he said that even the fastest batch of cards would take seven days to ship."

"Seven days? Are you kidding me?" Chen Zhi angrily said, "Other cities don't have similar products, so they can wait for half a month. How could the players in Jingzhou City possibly wait seven days? Within a day, they'll all be playing Momo Legend!"

Wu Lianju said, "Then I'll try again."

"Boss, are we being scalpers?" Du Yusheng asked with some guilt as he rummaged through the pile of Legend Point Cards on the table in the chairman's office of Momo Group.

"Scalpers are the ones who sell at a higher price. We don't increase the price." Cheng Yi laughed and said, "How many tickets did you grab this time?"

Du Yusheng said, "More than 6300 tickets, Boss, your method is too vicious. I heard that the Tianqin Internet Cafe is blocked by legendary players."

"This is called removing the firewood from under the cauldron. Just learn from it." Cheng Yi laughed.

As soon as the legendary point cards of Tianqin Internet Cafe went on sale, Du Yusheng arranged for hundreds of students from Jingzhou Vocational College to go on a big shopping spree at all the major branches of Tianqin Internet Cafe.

Although Tianqin Internet Cafe stipulates that each person can only purchase a maximum of two tickets, the purchase limit is the same as Cheng Yi's previous snack lottery, and there is no binding force at all.

At most, each branch relies on remembering faces to sell point cards, but these hundreds of students are divided into eight districts and counties, with 30 people in each district and county conducting mobile operations. After buying from one Internet cafe, they will immediately go to the next Internet cafe to buy, ensuring that every purchase is made by a new face.

After this wave, I got more than 6300 point cards.

Cheng Yi knew too well how rare point cards were when Legend first entered the paid era.

Because Shengda Group misjudged the popularity of Legend, their point card reserves were insufficient.

In the previous life, within less than three days of the Legend starting charging, the point cards in Internet cafes across the country were quickly sold out. Since many players could not buy new point cards, they could only go to major newsstands to purchase Legend's client discs at high prices. The client discs were priced at more than 20 yuan and came with a 60-hour point card. In the first few dozen days after charging, even the client discs were sold out.

Within a month from now, Shengda Legend's point card supply will have huge problems. The production volume simply cannot meet the sales volume, and the gap is huge.

"How are they dealing with it now?" Cheng Yi sorted out the point cards and laughed.

Du Yusheng said, "It seems like they promised discounts on point cards."

"That's useless, hahaha." Cheng Yi laughed heartily and said, "Hurry up and continue to build internet cafes. We must ensure that there is one of our internet cafes next to every Tianqin internet cafe. We must kill him while he is weak! End this battle as soon as possible."

"Okay." Du Yusheng said excitedly, "We only need 37 more internet cafes to fully cover Tianqin internet cafes."

"Yeah." Cheng Yi stood up and said, "It seems we are going to open a new area again."

"This is totally useless." The next morning, Chen Zhi felt his heart sink.

Even though they had promised discounts on future point cards yesterday, those players still resolutely left the Tianqin Internet Cafe cursing.

He originally thought that charging for point cards would give them a boost, but he didn't expect that charging for point cards would make all their efforts go to waste.

All of this is due to Shengda's inadequate support. The inability to provide supporting facilities is the original sin.

At this moment, Chen Zhi felt like he was a dozen years older. He lay in the boss chair with lifeless eyes, looking at the attendance table of various Internet cafe branches entered into the computer, and his heart was chilled.

If he had known that Shengda Group was so incompetent, he should not have promoted this game in Jingzhou City.

I really got on a pirate ship.

Now the average attendance rate of their Tianqin Internet Cafe has dropped directly from 52% to 26%, with only 20% of Stone Age players and 6% of chatting and flirting players left.

Originally, there were 10% of players who were into flirting, but since Momo Internet Cafe launched Momo Chat, another 4% of these players were attracted away.

This made the already poor life of Tianqin Internet Cafe even worse.

"Ding ding ding!" Just when Chen Zhisheng felt hopeless, his cell phone rang.

Chen Zhi picked up the phone with a blank expression. When he saw the number on the caller ID, he immediately jumped. He quickly answered the call and said, "Dad."

"Hurry up and come back." Chen Hongwen's low voice came from the other end of the phone: "The board of directors is very dissatisfied with you now. If you come back now, it's not a loss."

"I didn't lose in the first place. There was a problem on Shengda's side!" Chen Zhi said gritting his teeth.

"Luck is sometimes part of strength. If you are unlucky, you can't blame anyone," said Chen Hongwen.

Chen Zhi clenched his fists tightly and said, "Dad, I can't go back. This Momo Group will definitely be our natural enemy in the future. I must stay here like a nail and restrict the development of the Momo Group. Only in this way can we ensure that our Lianjiang Group's internet cafe business can be successfully promoted nationwide."

Chen Hongwen was silent for a while, then said, "You should come back and tell the board of directors what you said and see if they believe it."

"Dad, they may not believe me, but you must believe me," Chen Zhi said excitedly. "I'm definitely not acting on impulse. I even think the ambitions of the Momo Group far exceed our Lianjiang Group. What they're after is definitely not just a first- or second-tier city in Handong Province or even nationwide."

"What? Are they still planning to fill the entire country with internet cafes?" Chen Hongwen laughed. "Alright, hurry back. You haven't lost much right now. You can ship the computers from Jingzhou City to the Tianqin internet cafes in Yantai City and Lianyun City in Handong Province. They're still very profitable there. Keep the internet cafe operating licenses for now. I heard the price of these licenses is going to increase soon. You might be able to sell them and make up for your losses."

"Dad, please give me a little more time. I want to fight them a few more times." Chen Zhi said humbly, "By the end of next month, if I lose, I will clean up the mess and go back immediately. Please."

Chen Hongwen didn't speak for a long while. After a while, he said coldly, "Okay, I'll talk to the board of directors again."

Chen Zhi hung up the phone, looked at it for a while, then quickly called Zhao Wenxia and said, "President Zhao, how's the filing of the complaint against Momo Internet Cafe going? We have to cause some trouble for Momo Internet Cafe, otherwise we really won't have a chance."

Zhao Wenxia's tone was very frustrated. She said, "Mr. Chen, I may have to withdraw from the fight between you and Momo Internet Cafe."

"Quit? Why?" Chen Zhi felt like another bolt from the blue had fallen on his head.

Why is everything going wrong? Shouldn't he go to the temple to pray and burn some incense?

Zhao Wenxia said: "Cheng Yi from Momo Internet Cafe knows Director Li from Handong Provincial Construction Group. Director Li called me yesterday to warn me not to embarrass Cheng Yi again."

"Is the Handong Provincial Construction Group very powerful?" Chen Zhi didn't know much about the construction industry. He asked doubtfully, "Aren't you the president of the Jingzhou Chamber of Commerce?"

Zhao Wenxia smiled bitterly and said, "Our Chamber of Commerce is just a non-profit organization. How can we compare with the Handong Provincial Construction Group? They are responsible for 50% of the province's infrastructure. Many of our vice presidents' units are dependent on them for their livelihoods. If we offend them, our Chamber of Commerce will exist in name only."

"Chen Zhi, you have been fighting with Momo Internet Cafe for so long and haven't gained any advantage. I advise you to give up. There is no need to fight to the death in Jingzhou City. There are hundreds of prefecture-level cities across the country, and you can call the shots wherever you go. Why bother with a Momo Internet Cafe? Since your fight started, the number of Internet cafes in Jingzhou City has increased nearly three times." Zhao Wenxia said.

"Moreover, Momo Internet Cafe is still maintaining a rate of five new ones every day. Judging from their posture, if you don't leave Jingzhou City for a day, they will probably open Momo Internet Cafes in every corner of Jingzhou City. What's the point of this? The more Internet cafes there are, the lower the Internet fee will be. If you fight to the end, won't both of you suffer?"

Chen Zhi said softly, "I only wanted to take over the Jingzhou market before, but now it's different. I just want to take over the Momo Group. Even if I can't take it over, I have to stop their further expansion."

Zhao Wenxia said, "Expansion? Their boss is just a college freshman, where does he even have the ambition to expand? You've simply pushed them into a corner. Before you came, they already opened eight internet cafes and were studying diligently. Now that you've caused such a stir, they're ready to fight you at all costs."

"They're not fighting desperately," Chen Zhi said. "They're trying their best to kick me, the obstacle that's blocking their progress, away."

"Whatever you want to think." Zhao Wenxia's tone became much colder. "I've said everything I need to say. You can take back my shares in your Jingzhou branch. I will no longer be involved in your affairs."

After saying that, Zhao Wenxia hung up the phone.

"It's really raining cats and dogs." After experiencing this series of blows, Chen Zhi discovered that although he had always been irritable, he did not feel angry at all in his heart.

He sat calmly in the boss chair, upright for a long time, two lines of sad tears sliding down his cheeks.

He felt like a lone ranger who was not understood by others.

He clearly saw that his opponent was a wolf in sheep's clothing, but no one believed his judgment, not even his father.

Or maybe they believed it, but for some other purpose, they were too lazy to pay attention to it.

Ultimately, he is too young.

"Click!" At this time, Wu Lianju quickly pushed the door open and walked in.

Chen Zhi quickly lowered his head and wiped away his tears, but Wu Lianju still saw some clues from the tear marks on his cheeks.

Wu Lianju looked at the always proud Chen Zhi in some surprise, and thought to himself: This Momo Internet Cafe is really amazing, it even made our President Chen cry.

Wu Lianju pretended not to notice Chen Zhi had cried and immediately said, "Mr. Chen, I've agreed with NetEase Games. If our funding is in place within a week, they can launch Westward Journey Online for us ahead of schedule. We'll be able to enter the free public beta by the end of this month at the latest. At that time, only our internet cafe will be able to play this game for free."

(End of this chapter)