What the hell is a private enterprise?

Chapter 170: Build a car?

Goose City.

Dawang BBS completed its relocation and bought a small brick and tile factory in Echeng, and changed its name to "Gaijin Network Technology Company".

The reason was that with the dramatic increase in server traffic, Tang Wen wanted the telecommunications bureau to open a dedicated broadband line. However, the other party was unwilling to set it up in such a remote village. In addition, considering the future, he finally moved to the city.

Gaijin Network Technology's equipment is servers and computers purchased from Giant Company, and even its personnel were poached from Giant.

At the beginning, Tang Wen did not have the energy to maintain the BBS, so he asked Shi Juzhu for help. Later, Juzhu directly packaged a batch and sent it to him, forming a small team of seven or eight people. Their daily work was to maintain the BBS and do optimization.

The leader was called Song Nan, a junior of Shi Juzhu. He used to work in the computer business at Giant Group and was considered a bit of an expert.

He was very happy with Tang Wen's treatment, but he complained from time to time that the atmosphere in Gaijin was too harmonious and not as "progressive" and "driven" as in Giant Group.

"The child who was fooled by PUA..."

"Boss, what are you talking about?"

"Oh, I was just thinking of ideas."

Tang Wen then realized that he had accidentally said what was in his heart, and awkwardly changed the subject:

“The BBS is not very feature-rich now. I want to do two things:

First, I wanted to change the BBS into a forum, allowing users to create their own forums, such as bird forums, fishing forums, campus forums, and game enthusiasts forums, so that each group could gather around a common interest. At the same time, I wanted to find a way to make it easy for users to send pictures.
Second, BBS is not very convenient for communication between netizens. Is it possible to create a website for individual chats, where each person has his or her own account and can add other accounts as friends, send messages, interact, or create group chats where many people can communicate together and make long-term friends?

In fact, Tang Wen only talked about two things: Tieba and QQ.

It is still difficult to achieve this with current technology, but it should not be a problem to make a prototype.

ICQ, the model that QQ imitates, will not be launched until December this year. If Gaijin succeeds, it will be of great significance.

Song Nan: “…”

Today's Internet practitioners still have the ideal of changing the world. Song Nan is keenly aware of the value of these two things, which can bring more color to people's Internet life.

At least for now, there is no website that can realize what Tang Wen mentioned.

Song Nan: "I don't think Tieba is a big technical problem, but it does require large servers. As for chat sites... they need algorithmic support. If we buy our own servers, it would be very expensive."

"How much do you need?"

"At least three million, maybe five million, or even ten million, of investment. This kind of interaction is too server-intensive."

Tang Wen held up five fingers:

"I plan to spend 50 million on these two things."

Song Nan was startled and quickly persuaded:
"Boss, we still don't know how these two websites are going to make money. I haven't figured out how to make money with Dawang BBS yet. I'm operating at a loss every day."

“Within five years, no one will be able to make money with internet products.”

Tang Wen patted him on the shoulder and thought to himself that the first Internet bubble was simply because the enthusiasm was too high. As a result, everyone found that there was no way to cash out. Entrepreneurs and companies relied on stocks and investments to survive, so confidence collapsed.

Moreover, the spirit of the Internet is free sharing. Anyone who violates this creed in the early stages and plans to cash out in a hurry will definitely fail.

Tang Wen of Gaijin Network Technology didn't expect to make any money, and its greatest value now was that it provided him with a channel to chat.

Because of his content creation ability and financial support, Dawang BBS has quietly become one of the top public forums in China, with a daily activeness of at least tens of thousands.

We spend hundreds of millions every year to support them and come up with some future creative ideas. If one of them succeeds, we will make a lot of money.

……

"Boss Tang, I'm kneeling down before you. I beg you for a favor..."

Tang Wenma was so bored that he was strolling in Echeng. When he passed by the Agricultural Bank of China, Vice President Zhang invited him in for a cup of tea. He didn't expect this to happen as soon as the door closed.

He quickly supported the other party to prevent the vice president from kneeling down:

"You get up first! How much have you been greedy for!"

"No, no, no!" Vice President Zhang quickly explained:

"Here's the thing, bro. You have 1.2 billion to transfer back to Goose City. Why don't you deposit it in our branch? I promise to get you the most favorable terms. You'll be our VIP!"

"What a fart!"

Tang Wen held his forehead with his hand. The transaction with the navy could not avoid the towns and cities. At least Lu Jun and Yang Tai knew the general idea.

Tang Wen did not plan to exchange the huge amount of funds given by the navy for silver coins, but to use it to build a gold layout, that is, to spend it.

Then Vice President Zhang got the information from Lu Jun and happened to meet Tang Wen, and he was shocked.

Attracting tens of billions of funds, this is not just money, it is a ladder for progress!

Once this is done, the secondary character above the head can be removed.

He was not vague and directly offered a 12% annual deposit interest, making more than million yuan in a year without any effort, not to mention a large number of preferential treatments for other businesses. He was full of sincerity.

However... Tang Wen chose to refuse.

What time is it now? Monetary inflation is like a derailed train. From now until after 00, the central bank's benchmark deposit rate will be 7% or 8%. In reality, the general bank interest rate will exceed 10%. At the most outrageous time, it will exceed 15%.

Price inflation is beyond imagination. Anyone who saves money at this time will suffer heavy losses.

The term "ten thousand yuan household" is depreciating at the speed of light. House prices and commodity prices are soaring, and the increase is definitely much higher than the deposit interest rate.

Not only does Tang Wen not plan to save money, he should also spend all the money he has as soon as possible, or even take out a large loan, the more the better.

However, there is a way to spend money. Tang Wen did not see many opportunities in Echeng, so he came up with the idea of ​​investing in the Internet and chip electronics in the midst of his busy schedule.

However, the manipulation of various foreign equity and debt rights was too complicated, and he could only mobilize a maximum of US$1.5 million in funds, so he could not find a suitable target for a while.

Inflation is no secret. Tang Wen directly told Vice President Zhang the reason why he did not want to deposit money. The latter was disappointed but also understood a little.

Of course, he also knows that in the current hot economic market, no sensible wealthy person would choose to earn interest.

Vice President Zhang wanted to keep this money not just for himself. The Agricultural Bank of China and the city had a cooperation agreement to jointly support the development of local industries. With so much money, he could do anything with it.

As for Goose City... unless it's real estate, there's really nothing worth investing heavily in.

After all, with Shenzhen, a super blood-sucking vortex, Shenzhen will have more talents and opportunities that Goose City has.

He thought hard for a long time, and suddenly said:
"Is Gaijin selling car engines? And transmissions?"

"Yes."

"Since you can produce both of these things, if you add a shell, wouldn't that make it a car factory?"

Tang Wen was stunned. It seemed... that was almost the case.

Although car shells are also a high-end technology, the domestic level at that time was just so-so, and the output was extremely low. As long as the car was produced, it could be sold, and people would buy it no matter how poor the quality was.

And with more than one billion in funds, it is indeed qualified to enter the automotive market.

The automobile industry is truly labor-intensive, and although shipyards are also labor-intensive, to be honest, they do not bring much benefit to the local area other than taxes.

But if we build a car factory from scratch, it will probably directly boost the economy of the entire Goose City.

Tang Wen: "Then Gaijin needs to acquire a state-owned automobile company to obtain the qualification to manufacture cars."

Vice President Zhang clapped his hands and said, "This is easy. Just buy a subsidiary that's about to go bankrupt. It won't cost much."

"Wait, I haven't agreed yet. I need to think about it."

"It's okay, take your time to think about it."

As Vice President Zhang spoke, he had already started to think about which brand he could "borrow" qualifications from.

More than one billion is not enough to build a car factory in Goose City. Tang Wen needs at least another 10 billion in loans, and it must be able to bring in huge cash flow in the long term.

(End of this chapter)