Handong: Sha Li wants political achievements? I'll shut down the entire province.

"Brother Feng! Stop drinking! Something terrible has happened!"

The fat man shoved the tablet hard in front of Lin Feng's face, his voice cracking.

"Ma Tengyun, that e-commerce guy from Hangzhou, has forcibly cut off all e-commerce transactions in our province!"

Lin Feng paused, his hand holding the wine glass, and his eyes instantly turned cold.

He glanced at the error code on the tablet and sneered.

"Cut off port?"

Lin Feng tilted his head back and drank the rest of the strong liquor in one gulp.

"This guy surnamed Ma is tired of living, daring to overturn Master Yan's table."

He grabbed his coat from the back of the chair and strode out.

"Does he think this is still the old days of them exploiting people online? Let's go to the lab and check the data."

At the same time.

The southern city of Hangzhou, thousands of miles away.

Despite the torrential rain, the top-floor conference room of the headquarters building of China's largest internet e-commerce empire was brightly lit.

Ma Tengyun wore his signature black cloth shoes and a loose-fitting Tang suit with a front opening.

He stood with his hands behind his back in front of a giant data monitoring screen that was tens of meters wide.

On the map of Greater China, blue and red trading dots are densely packed, dancing like stars.

Only the area in Handong Province was lifeless.

It was as black as a bottomless abyss, not even a sliver of light could get through.

"Clatter".

Ma Tengyun snapped one of the strings of the precious sandalwood prayer beads he was holding.

A few beads rolled onto the expensive carpet, and no one dared to pick them up.

"It's been a month."

Ma Tengyun turned around, his face so gloomy it could wring water out of it.

"For a whole month! Our e-commerce transaction volume and logistics collection data in Handong Province have all dropped to zero!"

He glanced at the executives on either side of the long table, his gaze sharp as a knife.

"What? The company pays you tens of millions in annual salaries, and you've all become mute?"

"Someone explain to me which stray dog ​​snatched away this juicy piece of meat, Handong!"

The meeting room was eerily quiet.

A dozen or so presidents and vice presidents, who usually wear suits and command thousands of troops, were all hunched over.

They were afraid of offending this godfather of the internet.

Finally, the technical director, Lao Wei, stood up, gritting his teeth.

"Mr. Ma, it's not that our technical department is faking it. It's just... it's just that things are really weird in Handong."

Old Wei wiped the cold sweat from his forehead with his sleeve.

He tapped on his tablet and projected an urgent analysis report onto the big screen.

"Over the past thirty days, more than 90% of the merchants in Handong Province have been forcibly cut into a closed-loop system called 'Yunxiao OS'."

Ma Tengyun frowned deeply and strode to the screen.

"Yunxiao OS? The system developed by the Lingxiao Consortium?"

"Yes, it was Yan Qingfeng who did it."

Old Wei swallowed hard, his voice weak and strained.

"They not only blocked all our external interfaces, but also cut off our logistics ports."

"Now, the people of Handong buy things through a closed-loop transaction within the Yunxiao system."

"Our crawler can't get in; it can't even grab a single byte of data. It's completely useless!"

"presumptuous!"

Ma Tengyun slammed his hand on the conference table, making the coffee cups on it rattle.

The brown coffee splattered on the pristine white tablecloth was a shocking sight.

He has been a powerful figure in the domestic business world for over a decade.

Even the highest-ranking officials in each province would treat him with utmost respect and treat him as an honored guest.

Back in the day, when Sha Ruijin went to Handong, he would personally host a banquet at the guesthouse to welcome him!

Now look what's happened.

Yan Qingfeng, who came out of nowhere, actually dared to openly steal meat from his rice bowl!

"Who does Yan Qingfeng think he is!"

Ma Tengyun tugged at the button on his Tang suit around his neck and laughed.

"A local warlord who rose to power through building real estate, speculating on land, and manipulating political and business relationships—does he really think he's an internet guru?"

The operations director quickly came over and flattered him.

"Mr. Ma is right. Yan Qingfeng's approach is typical of a country bumpkin."

"He thinks he can build an e-commerce empire by forcing merchants to install his system? He's completely overestimating himself!"

Ma Tengyun snorted coldly and pulled out the chair in the main seat to sit down.

"When it comes to playing online games, Yan Qingfeng is still a generation below him!"

He crossed his legs, his black cloth shoes dangling in mid-air.

A ruthless glint, typical of business tycoons, flashed in his eyes.

"Since he wants to create a closed loop, let's weld the door shut for him!"

Ma Tengyun pointed at the operations director and gave a direct, death order.

"Act immediately! Forcibly cut off all external trading ports of Handong Province on our platform!"

"Mr. Ma, are you sure you've cut them all off?"

The operations director was startled and looked pained.

"There are tens of thousands of large merchants in Handong; this is a huge amount of money flowing in!"

"Kill them! Leave no one alive!"

Ma Tengyun waved his hand, exuding domineering power that left no room for argument.

"I want to show those business owners in Handong who they can sell their goods to without our national platform!"

"Isn't Yan Qingfeng arrogant? I'd like to see if his lousy Cloud System can magically absorb the entire province's production capacity!"

Old Wei listened with great enthusiasm and was eager to try it out.

"Technically speaking, should we organize a hacker group to cripple their servers?"

"What's with the blackening? That's the despicable thing street vagrants do!"

Ma Tengyun curled his lip in disdain.

"To deal with these nouveau riche, we have to use our best technique: a 'dimensional reduction attack'."

He bent his knuckles and tapped the mahogany table twice heavily.

They unleashed their true trump card for the night.

"Notify the finance department to allocate 50 billion yuan in cash flow to me overnight!"

"The technology department mobilized our top algorithm team to establish the Handong Special Operations Room."

Five hundred billion!

The executives in the conference room all gasped in shock.

This is practically throwing real money at the problem and sinking Handong!

"Mr. Ma, how do you plan to transfer this money?" the CFO asked in a trembling voice.

"Subsidy war! Traffic skewing!"

Ma Tengyun stood up, his eyes burning with a frenzied fighting spirit.

"Tomorrow morning, all users located in Handong will enjoy a 50% discount on all items! The group will cover any losses!"

"Buy groceries and get free eggs; buy appliances and we'll even cover the shipping cost!"

"Tell the people of Handong what real internet benefits are!"

He strode to the center of the conference room, spread his arms wide, looking just like a missionary preaching.

"Merchants in Handong can return to open their shops as long as they are willing to leave the Yunxiao system."

"Complete commission waiver for one year, plus millions of traffic boosts!"

That's a really vicious move.

They don't even talk to you about system barriers.

They directly use overwhelming amounts of money and traffic to brutally smash down your moat.

"What do ordinary people value most? A bargain! They value money!"

Ma Tengyun sneered as he adjusted the cuffs of his Tang suit.

"Master Yan? Faced with absolute capital and online traffic, even if he were a living Yama, he'd have to kneel down and sing 'Conquer' obediently!"

The executives immediately stood up as if they had been injected with adrenaline, their faces full of excitement.

"Mr. Ma is brilliant! With 50 billion invested, we'll definitely blow the market gates of Handong to smithereens!"

Ma Tengyun nodded in satisfaction.

He turned and walked towards the floor-to-ceiling windows of the conference room.

The night rain outside was getting heavier and heavier, pattering against the glass.

He looked out the window at his vast internet empire, which belonged to him alone.

A haughty, cold smile curled at the corner of his lips.

He didn't consider Yan Qingfeng a worthy opponent at all, thinking he could easily crush him with his old tricks.

"Yan Qingfeng from Handong is too arrogant."

Ma Tengyun turned his head, looked at the room full of executives, and blurted out some bold words.

"This time, I'm going to teach him a lesson myself, to let him know that in the face of the internet's disruptive power, his traditional capital's moat is less than a piece of paper!"