Back to 80: My Literary Life

Fang Minghua stayed in Changsha for another day, declined Ou's invitation to visit tourist attractions, and bought a plane ticket to fly to Shanghai the next afternoon.

Before leaving, of course, I didn't forget to call Song Tangtang in Xijing and tell me that I had to go to Shanghai.

Song Tangtang replied on the phone: "The Red Army also told me about Shencheng's matter on the phone. I heard that Dai Jiali and Chen Wanning had a fierce quarrel over this. You have to handle this matter well to avoid letting them The lack of unity among the first and second leaders will lay hidden dangers for the future development of online literature.”

"Okay, I understand." Fang Minghua replied.

Fang Minghua took a five o'clock flight and landed at Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport at seven o'clock in the evening. When he left the station carrying his travel bag, he saw a fat man in the terminal looking at him with a smile.

It's Zhao Hongjun.

"Ouch. Chairman Zhao came to pick him up in person?" Fang Minghua joked.

"Look what you said, we are close buddies. When you come to Shanghai this time, work is secondary. The main thing is for us buddies to have fun!"

Now Zhao Hongjun no longer has the ambitions he had when he started his business, and basically just sticks to his own business.

However, Fang Minghua controls the general direction of the group's strategy, and the specific implementation is done by each branch. As the chairman, he basically engages in various social interactions. In fashionable words, he "must improve the relationship between enterprises and the government." This is what he is good at.

If he is really a hard-working chairman, he will inevitably conflict with Fang Minghua, the "shadow" helmsman of the group, in terms of the general direction of the group's development, which will in turn hurt the harmony between the buddies.

Both of them are very satisfied with this relationship now.

We sent Fang Minghua to the Jinmao Grand Hyatt Hotel in Shanghai where he was staying. He stayed on the 66th floor. Standing in the room and looking outside, he had an unobstructed view of the entire night view of Shanghai.

"I'll order some dishes for you and deliver them to your room. After you finish eating, have a good rest. A driver will pick you up tomorrow morning and take you to the group headquarters. You deal with Shengshi Online Literature first. After that, I'll take you fishing!" Zhao Hongjun said.

Fang Minghua was slightly surprised when he heard this: "You won't go to the company tomorrow morning?"

"I'm not going. I've made an appointment to chat with Director Zhang from the Municipal Cultural Bureau. I'm going to Chongming Island with Director Zhang in the afternoon and have another meal when I come back in the evening. I want you to join us then?" Zhao Hongjun said.

"No, don't go alone. I hate socializing the most right now." Fang Minghua refused immediately.

"Okay, you're busy with your business, call me if you need anything."

Zhao Hongjun helped Fang Minghua order the food and then left the room. The waiter brought the food more than ten minutes later. Fang Minghua turned on the TV while eating, when there was a sudden knock on the door.

He thought it was Zhao Hongjun who had left and returned, so he went to open the door. Unexpectedly, there was a woman wearing a T-shirt and slacks standing at the door, it was Dai Jiali.

"Teacher Fang, I heard from Director Zhao that you have arrived in Shencheng and came to visit you. Didn't I disturb you?" Dai Jiali said.

"No, come on, sit down. Have you eaten? Let's eat together?" Fang Minghua greeted warmly.

"I've already eaten, you eat slowly." After Dai Jiali said that, he sat on the sofa next to him.

The two chatted for a while, and then Fang Minghua asked: "Jiali, are you okay with coming over tonight?"

"Yes, it's about the acquisition. I want to report my thoughts to you in advance."

"Okay, you go ahead." After Fang Minghua finished speaking, he turned off the TV.

Dai Jiali first gave a brief introduction to the basic situation of Shumeng and Qidian Chinese Network. Fang Minghua was slightly surprised when he heard that several senior executives of Shumeng were still working part-time: "Aren't they full-time?"

"No, Shumeng was formed in May of the previous year by the merger of literary book sites founded by Shuqing Xiaozhu, Stone Bookstore, Xiaoshuting, and Ningfengtianxia online literature enthusiasts, and the company is now owned by these few people. The senior management is responsible for the specific operation of the website, and they all have their own jobs. The actual investor and controller behind the website is Kong Yi.”

"Kong Yi was once one of the executives of Kingsoft Software, and the general manager was Lei Jun. The year before last, in 2001, Kong Yi reached the ceiling of his career at Kingsoft, and he "wanted to move", so he found a small company. The founder of Shuting, "Little Shutingzhu", said that we would build an online writing website together, and later he joined Shuqing Xiaozhu, Stone Bookstore and other websites to establish Shumeng."

Dai Jiali continued: "But Kong Yi's mind was not entirely on the book alliance. At the end of last year, his old colleague Xing Shanhu from Kingsoft and Chen Lin from Great Wall Software Company founded an online game company called "Happy Era" , Kong Yi serves as planning director.

"To be honest, Kong Yi's focus is not on Book Alliance but on Happy Era. Building an online literature website is just a personal hobby. So this is the main reason why he is willing to sell Book Alliance."

Fang Minghua nodded after hearing this: "How much does the book alliance cost?"

"20 million." Dai Jiali replied.

"Where's the starting point?"

"10 million"

"The asking price is half the difference?" Fang Minghua asked.

"Yes, it is undeniable that Shumeng has developed faster than its starting point, especially Xiao Qian's "The Misty Journey" and "Sou Shen Ji" by Wild Fox Under the Tree were serialized on the website, which brought huge traffic to the website. Now Shumeng and Dragon Sky is known as the two major online fantasy novel websites, especially Shumeng, which entered the top 2,000 in Alexa’s global ranking at the end of last year.”

"Then why did you choose Qidian? You know our group is not short of money. You won't choose to acquire Qidian to save the company 10 million, right?" Fang Minghua deliberately asked back.

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"Of course not, it's because I like the entrepreneurial team of Qidian!" Dai Jiali said firmly.

"Just two years ago (2001), Bao Jianfeng and others founded the Xuanhuan Literature Association on Xilu BBS, which is the predecessor of Qidian Chinese Network. The founders are Bao Jianfeng (Lin Tingfeng), Cangjian Jiangnan (Shang Xuesong), Dark Heart (Wu Wenhui), Yizhe (Hou Qingchen), Dark Left Hand (Luo Li), Ant No. 5 (Zheng Hongbo).

Six people?

How come I remember that there are five founders of Qidian?

Fang Minghua was stunned, but didn't say anything, waiting for Dai Jiali to continue.

"On May 15 last year, the Xuanhuan Literature Association was renamed the Original Literature Association, and prepared to establish a literary website named Qidian Chinese Network. These six people are different from the leadership of Book Alliance. They are all full-time.

Among them, Bao Jianfeng: a famous online novel writer, author of the fantasy novel "The Legend of Magic Knight Heroes", and also the general manager of the website.

Cang Jianjiangnan: the platform architecture designer of Qidian.com, responsible for the website content design.

Dark Heart: Bachelor of Computer Software Engineering from Yenching University, worked as a programmer at Founder Technology Group Co., Ltd., and later resigned to found Qidian Chinese Network, responsible for website programming and backend maintenance.

Dark Left Hand: Because he worked in the downstream industry of works in a publishing house, he was later mainly responsible for "IP development".

Yizhe: also an online writer, his works include "Dragonlance Chronicles", and he and Zheng Hongbo are now responsible for writers and editors.

"You see that these six people have clear division of labor and each has their own responsibilities, so I conclude that Qidian's development will definitely surpass them!"

"More importantly, I heard that Qidian is preparing to implement a VIP charging system."

Dai Jiali said at last.