Who would still start a business seriously after being reborn?

Chapter 295 Real-time SMS
As the vehicle enters Donghu District, what comes into view are rows of brand new two-story villas.

Every household in Donghu District sells pirated CDs. Even if they want to pay taxes, no department dares to collect them. This has led to a folk song circulating in Donghu District: Every household has an annual income of 10,000 yuan, and the district mayor still wears pants that show his buttocks.

For example, Zhou Yan is one of the seven major pirated CD production companies in Donghu District.

There are many Momo Internet cafes in Donghu District, a total of 37, almost covering every corner of Donghu District.

At around 9 o'clock in the morning, three GL8 commercial vehicles slowly stopped in front of Momo Internet Cafe No. 023 in Donghu District.

Three GL8s parked on one side immediately attracted a lot of young people pointing and talking.

"Put on masks." Cheng Yi handed the masks to Lin Qingyin and Jiang Yuxi.

Jiang Yuxi asked curiously, "We're not celebrities, why do we need to wear masks?"

"If you don't want to wear it, stay in the car." Cheng Yi glared at Jiang Yuxi.

"I'll just wear it." Jiang Yuxi quickly put on the mask.

The car door opened and twelve bodyguards quickly got out and helped Cheng Yi open the door.

The moment he got out of the car, Cheng Yi felt quite emotional.

It would be even more perfect if Dan Junhao's "Bewitching Plan" were played at this time.

"Who is this guy? He actually goes out with bodyguards."

"I don't know, maybe he's someone's son."

“What a show-off.”

"I guess he's offended too many people and is afraid of being beaten."

"Looking at his arrogant look, I want to beat him up. Does he think he's a star?"

Seeing Cheng Yi walking into the Internet cafe with two girls, many young people looked unfriendly.

Lin Qingyin asked fearfully, "Cheng Yi, what are we doing here?"

"Go online." Cheng Yi brought Lin Qingyin and Jiang Yuxi to the VIP area that had been reserved in advance and turned on three computers.

"Lin Qingyin, what's your Momo chat account number? Let's add each other as friends." As soon as they sat down, Jiang Yuxi shouted, "After adding each other as friends, I'll teach you how to play games. I'm very good at Age of Empires. Do you know how to play Age of Empires?"

"I know a little." Lin Qingyin nodded slightly.

Soon, Jiang Yuxi and Lin Qingyin were online in Age of Empires.

Cheng Yi sat in front of the computer and first observed the posters posted in the Internet cafe. The positions of the posters for this guild competition were very clear, and it was obvious that a lot of effort had been put into them.

He came here this time just to see the promotion effect in person.

After playing for more than ten minutes, Cheng Yi got up and went to the general area and strolled around the Internet cafe.

70% of the customers in the Internet cafe were playing Momo Legend, and most of the topics they talked about were related to the guild's competition.

"Xingzi, has your guild qualified yet?" In the corner of the Internet cafe, a fat man asked a man with glasses.

"Not yet. We're probably going to lose tonight's game." The man with glasses said, "What about you guys?"

"Our guild is hopeless. Over thirty people from our rival guild bought Momo PHS cards. They've collected tons of solar water in the district, 150 bundles per person. That's ridiculous," the fat man muttered. "This Momo PHS gift card is outrageous."

"Actually, this gift card is secondary." The man with glasses said as he took out a Momo pager from his pocket.

"Fuck, you bought one too?" the fat man exclaimed.

The man with glasses smiled and said, "Our guild already has over 20 of them. Let me show you a great feature."

The man with glasses placed the Momo Xiaolingtong in front of the fat man in a show-off manner, opened the function bar, and then selected the M-Zone option.

I opened M-Zone and saw incoming voice calls and text messages.

The man with glasses turned on the incoming text message and edited a text message.

[@015 District@ Check the world's top ten warriors list]

Soon, with a ding sound, the man with glasses received a text message.

He opened the text message, and inside was the list of the top ten warriors in Momo Legend District 15.

"What kind of function is this? It's amazing, right?" the fat man asked in surprise.

The man with glasses smiled and said, "This is the built-in text message query function of M-Zone. Just edit the text message and you can check the real-time status of the game. Let me show you an even more amazing function."

The man with glasses quickly edited a text message: [@015 District @Query the zombie king's refresh time]

Soon, another text message was sent to the man with glasses' phone.

[Zombie King will refresh in 34 minutes and 18 seconds! ]

"!!!" The fat man's eyes widened. He muttered, "Fuck, this is too outrageous! What other functions does it have?"

The man with glasses smiled and said, "Let me show you an even more powerful function."

[@015 District@Query Warrior Equipment on Sale]

Soon, a text message came.

This time the text message was very long.

List of Warrior Equipment for Sale in District 15, February 2002, 2.

[Shura, attack power 0-22, 570 yuan]

[Ling Feng, attack power...]

At the end of the text message, there was a Momo-guaranteed telephone ordering hotline.

The fat man murmured, "No, I have to get a Momo PHS too."

The man with glasses smiled and said, "If you sell your wand and gold coins, you should be able to exchange them for a Momo PHS."

"I'll go to Momo Guarantee Network now." The fat man immediately opened the webpage.

Cheng Yi stood behind and watched, and had a rough idea in his mind.

Cheng Yi directly handed over the technical support of Momo Xiaolingtong to the technical team of Momo Internet Cafe. Now Momo Internet Cafe, as the largest subsidiary of Momo Group, has also recruited some full-time programmers from the society.

They are mainly responsible for the maintenance of Momo Internet Cafe's membership system, merchant points system and China Mobile's M-Zone operations.

The security of Momo Xiaolingtong's server is handled by Yu Sen and his team, and there is no need for other teams to intervene. The operation and maintenance of this dynamic zone is a meticulous job. Although there are not too high requirements on the technical level, the work is very trivial.

All incoming voice calls from China Mobile's M-Zone have been transferred to the network administrators of 1000 Internet cafes. Now there are 1000 network administrators in 2700 Internet cafes, ensuring that the hotline is answered 24 hours a day.

Moreover, these network administrators can earn 3 cents for every minute they answer the phone, so they are very active in answering the calls.

Compared with voice calls, SMS calls in M-Zone are more complicated. First, you need to build an SMS subscription server. The SMS subscription server needs to establish a connection with the game server. After the server receives the SMS call, it will capture the data in the game server in real time, and then quickly feedback it via SMS.

This requires interaction between the technical staff of Momo Internet Cafe and the technical staff of Momo Games.

Although this SMS subscription crawling technology is not very profound, it is very tedious and involves many aspects. Now, the SMS subscription function of M-Zone is still remarkable.

Cheng Yi observed in the Internet cafe for more than an hour and made sure that there was no problem with the entire promotion chain. Just as he was about to return to the VIP area, Zhao Gang called.

When Cheng Yi saw Zhao Gang’s call, he knew that a big job was coming.

In the past few days, Zhao Gang has been following the progress of Starcom Group's Spring Festival Gala sponsorship. Since February 2, Starcom Group has been negotiating with the provincial TV station on the sponsorship of the Spring Festival Gala. Due to many issues such as sponsorship price and advertising placement, the two sides have been stuck in a negotiation deadlock.

In addition to Starcom Group and the provincial TV station, Cheng Yi has also been looking forward to the day when their negotiations will be successful.

As soon as the call was connected, Zhao Gang said, "Brother Cheng, I just got the news that Starcom Group has officially signed the naming rights for the Handong Provincial TV Station's Spring Festival Gala. I guess their people haven't left the provincial TV station yet."

"They finally came to an agreement." Cheng Yi said unhappily, "If they couldn't come to an agreement again, I couldn't wait any longer."

Zhao Gang asked in confusion, "Why do you have to wait for them to negotiate the naming rights for the Spring Festival Gala?"

Cheng Yi said with a smile: "Because the Spring Festival Gala title sponsorship is too expensive, we can't afford it. Let them eat the meat and we just drink the soup. Now that they have agreed, let's hurry up and take action. I'll go to Donghu Audio and Video to pick up the advertising disc first."

Although Zhao Gang didn't understand what Cheng Yi meant, he knew that Cheng Yi was not the kind of person who would suffer a loss willingly, so he didn't worry too much and said quickly, "Okay, Editor-in-Chief Li has contacted Director Fang of the provincial TV station for us. I'll wait for you at the door of the TV station, you can just go over there."

"Okay." Cheng Yi responded and hung up the phone.

Back in the VIP area, Jiang Yuxi had been beaten into autism by Lin Qingyin.

Her mediocre imperial technology was no match for Lin Qingyin.

As soon as she saw Cheng Yi coming back, Jiang Yuxi immediately said, "Cheng Yi, how long are we going to stay here?"

"Let's go now. I'll take you to the TV station to play later." Cheng Yi said with a smile.

"TV station?" Jiang Yuxi's eyes lit up, and Lin Qingyin's eyes were full of anticipation.

For most ordinary people, TV stations are very mysterious places.

After they returned to the car, Cheng Yi first asked the driver to go to the Donghu Audio and Video Factory.

Upon learning that Cheng Yi was coming, Zhou Yan had been waiting at the door for a long time.

As soon as Cheng Yi got out of the car, Zhou Yan quickly came up to him and said with a smile, "Mr. Cheng, welcome, welcome."

Cheng Yi smiled and said, "Is it not delaying your work?"

"No matter how big the job is, it's not as important as hosting Mr. Cheng." Zhou Yan laughed and said, "Mr. Cheng, I'll be your host tonight. I'll provide you with one-stop service, guaranteed..."

Before Zhou Yan finished speaking, Lin Qingyin and Jiang Yuxi also got out of the car one after another.

Seeing Lin Qingyin and Jiang Yuxi, Zhou Yan's voice stopped abruptly. He was not sure about the relationship between Cheng Yi and the two girls, so he didn't dare to continue.

Cheng Yi smiled and said, "Mr. Zhou, please don't bother me. I just came to pick up the advertising sample and the burned CD. How many copies have you burned now?"

"Three hundred and seventy thousand copies." Zhou Yan replied immediately.

"Let me take 100,000 copies first. Is the advertising sample ready?" Cheng Yi asked with a smile.

"Everything is done, Mr. Cheng. Let's go to the office to have some tea first. I'll arrange for someone to bring it over." Zhou Yan said quickly.

"I won't drink the tea. If you don't mind, can you take me around your workshop?" Cheng Yi made a request.

"Of course." Zhou Yan laughed and said, "It would be my honor. Please!"

Although Zhou Yan's CD factory is not big, it has a lot of equipment.

In the workshop, nearly 300 Epson CD burners are working non-stop. One Epson CD burner can burn six CDs per hour, which means that Zhou Yan's factory produces 1800 CDs per hour.

However, the profit from these pirated CDs is too small, only 24 or cents per disc. Even if Zhou Yan's factory runs hours a day, the monthly profit is only a few hundred thousand.

This is probably the reason why Zhou Yan wants to switch to the record industry.

Generally speaking, the producers of celebrity records are large audio-visual companies. Small workshops like Zhou Yan's are not qualified to process records.

Zhou Yan had just taken Cheng Yi on a tour of the factory when his secretary came running over, handed him four CDs, and said, "Boss, these are advertising CDs, divided into four commonly used formats."

Zhou Yan handed the CD to Cheng Yi respectfully and said with a smile, "Boss Cheng, there's a computer here. Please take a look at the results first."

"Okay." Cheng Yi followed Zhou Yan to the computer room at the entrance of the workshop and put the CD into the computer's optical drive.

Soon, Jay Chou’s outdoor advertisement for Momo Xiaolingtong appeared.

He was singing "My Territory" and dancing coolly to street dance. As he suddenly did a handstand on one hand, a row of advertising slogans burst out.

[Momo Xiaolingtong, my territory is mine! ]

Zhou Yan upgraded the disc to high definition, and the video clarity has reached the standard of a TV station.

"Not bad." Cheng Yi took out the CD and said, "Send a car to help me deliver the 100,000 CDs to the provincial TV station."

"Okay, I'll follow the car myself." Zhou Yan nodded quickly.

Cheng Yi didn't bother to be polite with Zhou Yan. He put away the CD and rushed to Handong Provincial TV Station.

The Spring Festival is just four days away, and we must follow the popularity of the Handong Province Spring Festival Gala on the first day of the Lunar New Year.

Now the exclusive naming rights of Handong Province Spring Festival Gala have been won by Starcom Group.

Handong Provincial TV Station is located in the center of Zhushan District and is considered a landmark building in Handong Province.

At this time, Zhao Gang, wearing a brand new, neat suit, was standing by the TV station's gate. When he saw Cheng Yi and the other two get out of the car, Zhao Gang immediately ran over. Seeing Lin Qingyin and Jiang Yuxi, Zhao Gang was slightly surprised and asked, "Who are these two?"

"This is Lin Qingyin. You may not have seen her, but you must have heard of her." Cheng Yi said with a smile: "This is Jiang Yuxi, my childhood friend."

Just as Zhao Gang was about to say a few polite words, the automatic door of the provincial TV station slowly opened.

A Mercedes-Benz slowly drove out.

Zhao Gang moved aside, but he didn't expect that the Mercedes-Benz would drive straight up to him and stop.

The rear window of the Mercedes-Benz slowly rolled down, revealing Wu Tao's smiling face.

He looked at Cheng Yi, with a hint of teasing in his tone, and said, "Mr. Cheng? What a coincidence?"

"It's indeed a coincidence." Cheng Yi said with a smile.

Wu Tao stared at Cheng Yi and said slowly, "I heard from Director Fang that you are planning to buy the first advertisement after the Spring Festival Gala?"

"Yes." Cheng Yi nodded.

Wu Tao chuckled and said, "The Spring Festival Gala ended in the early morning. What's the point of buying the first advertisement after the Spring Festival Gala? Is it because your group's cash flow is insufficient?"

"Oh, Mr. Wu saw through me." Cheng Yi sighed.

Wu Tao smiled and said, "Boss Cheng, go back and tell your chairman a message for me. Tell him that the telecommunications industry is different from the internet cafe industry. Tell your chairman to stop immediately and not lose everything he has. It's not easy for you internet cafe owners to save up a few dollars a piece."

"No problem, I will definitely pass this on to our Chairman Du." Cheng Yi smiled.

Wu Tao said with a smile that hinted at something, "Also, tell your chairman that taking big steps like this could easily lead to trouble. In recent years, many business leaders have ended up in jail because of taking big steps."

(End of this chapter)