Pioneer of the Rebirth Era

The sweeping popularity of "Legend" can be said to have attracted the attention of many big players who are optimistic about the Internet industry. Although the current Internet industry in mainland China is a desert in the eyes of foreigners, there are already many well-dressed people growing up in this desert.

small tree.

For example, Ding Sanshi's NetEase was established in 1997. However, when NetEase was first established, it was not a game, but a search engine. Yes, it followed the path of Baidu. Last year, it opened a free email service and a free domain name system.

.The "Computer News" launched this year seems a bit like a combination of Xinlang and Baidu.

Before "Legend", there was another Chinese online game that had become a god, and that was Zhonglian. In the domestic online game industry where content is extremely scarce, "Zhonglian" can be said to be the first group of people to take advantage of it, and

I took away a huge piece of tempting cake.

Therefore, there are Zhonglian’s pearls in front, and legendary and popular evidence behind. The big guys who have been involved in the Internet industry have focused their attention on the game even if they are not satisfied with the reaction.

Taking games as a base, establishing a foothold and starting to spread to other Internet industries is Yang Dongxu's first step in preparing to dominate the domestic Internet, and a particularly important step in this is instant messaging.

Yang Dongxu didn’t have the background to do instant messaging right from the beginning. He originally wanted to use Yiting Technology as a springboard to recruit professional programmers from the United States. However, after several contacts, they were unwilling to work in China at all, so he had to do it on his own.

Come and do it.

Although the chat system in the game is different from instant messaging, it is undoubtedly a very good way to train the team. And it is also an indispensable part of the game content.

Therefore, Yang Dongxu planned to complete the in-game communication function of Legend Dantang first, and then start developing instant messaging software based on this.

Because Legend has become very popular, and it is a bundled instant messaging software, there is no need to worry about promotion issues. As soon as it is converted, it will have more than 100,000 highly active users as the basis, and it will take a big step forward and start development.

And these more than 100,000 people are undoubtedly like viruses in computers, spreading instant messaging software from games to people who don't play games, slowly realizing Yang Dongxu's goal of every netizen registering at least one messaging and chat account.

.By that time, Xuri Technology will become the largest Internet company in China.

However, this matter cannot be accomplished overnight, and can be solved slowly. At present, the game "Legend" must be completed first, because it now has Zhonglian as its opponent, although the game form is different.

But now there are only so many Internet users in mainland China who can play games, so if you play Zhonglian, you cannot play Legend. Therefore, the content of Legend must be good, so as to attract more players, and the trend of invisibly competing for players has actually begun.

After arranging the company's affairs, Yang Dongxu and Yu Qipeng, who is now in charge of Minsheng, sat down for dinner in the evening. Compared with the public's perception of the country's four major banks, the existence of private banks similar to Minsheng, although they are also under the banner of the country,

But his status in the public mind has undoubtedly dropped several notches.

Although Minsheng has been very clear about its positioning since its establishment and has made fewer detours than other private banks, its development speed is not very fast. After all, the expansion of infrastructure requires a large amount of funds and is also very time-consuming.

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"Online payment?" Yu Qipeng looked at Yang Dongxu and frowned.

Yu Qipeng has never looked down upon the bank shareholder in front of him, and the youngest shareholder at that. Otherwise, he would not have come to Yang Dongxu with several other shareholders, hoping that he would become a shareholder in Minsheng.

And the subsequent performance of Yang Dongxu did not disappoint their expectations. Not only did he inject a large amount of capital into Minsheng, but he also provided some foreign exchange help, allowing Minsheng to leave other banks far behind from the beginning.

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Therefore, Yu Qipeng must seriously consider the suggestions put forward by Yang Dongxu, but he does not understand the Internet so he has doubts about it.

"It's mainly about game recharge or transaction payment. I recently opened a game company, and the first game I launched, "Legend," is doing pretty well so far, with 200,000 players online.

"Legend" is a paid game, which means a certain fee is charged according to the length of the game, so I want to connect with China Minsheng Bank for the charging recharge window."

"What kind of connection?" Yu Qipeng's eyes suddenly lit up when he heard that there were 200,000 users.

Although the base number of 20 does not sound like much, after all, China has a population of more than one billion and the bank's hundreds of millions of users. 200,000 is a drop in the bucket at most, but 200,000 active users, or even just 10,000 active users, is a very objective sum.

Business.

"I will designate Minsheng Bank as the only official bank for recharge transactions for "Legend" players. If you want to recharge the game, you must apply for a Minsheng Bank bank card."

"Do you have any requirements?" Yu Qipeng asked.

Although Yang Dongxu is a shareholder of Minsheng Bank, it is his responsibility to help the bank expand its business. But judging from Yang Dongxu's attitude at this time, he undoubtedly wants to treat this matter as a business. It is a matter between the two companies, not just a business.

Shareholders of China Minsheng Bank expand business.

"Transaction fee reduction." Yang Dongxu said directly without mincing words.

Yang Dongxu didn't want to complain about the fact that collecting transaction fees is one of the main revenue methods of domestic banks. But he felt that he should change something. It is obviously difficult to start from the reality. Let alone he is just a shareholder of Minsheng, even if he

It’s not even the governor of the central bank who wants to touch this big piece of cake.

"How much reduction?" Providing certain discounts to some customers is one of the main attractions for banks to expand their business, so Yu Qipeng was not too surprised by Yang Dongxu's request.

"Of course it's best not to charge any fees." Yang Dongxu said with a smile.

Yu Qipeng rolled his eyes, obviously you are dreaming.

"Seriously, I hope Minsheng doesn't charge any handling fees in this transaction."

“What good is the people’s livelihood?”

"People who charge money to play online games must have a certain financial foundation. As for online payment, although I plan to make a software, everyone still feels that online things are unreal.

So gamers will use this software to bind Minsheng Bank cards to recharge money to play games, but they will not put money in the software. So..."

Although Yang Dongxu did not continue talking, Yu Qipeng already understood that "Legend" can bring tens of thousands of high-quality users to Minsheng Bank, and the price Minsheng has to pay is that the handling fees during the online recharge process are free.

From this perspective, Minsheng seems to be at a disadvantage because they also charge interest to users. This means that although these people are high-quality users, they enjoy the same treatment as other users while enjoying free game recharge.

"100,000 users a year?" Seeing Yu Qipeng's hesitation, Yang Dongxu continued.

"Huh?" Yu Qipeng raised his eyebrows.

"This year "Legend" will bring at least 100,000 bank users to people's livelihood." Yang Dongxu said very confidently.

Although Legend is a paid game, and everyone has to recharge, not everyone will apply for a Minsheng bank card. For example, the main part of Legend players at present are Internet cafe players, and the way they recharge is to find a network administrator.

But considering the current popularity of Legend, 100,000 people apply for Minsheng Bank cards a year just to play this game. It sounds unrealistic, but this number is only much higher than Yang Dongxu's estimate.

"The number of players of "Legend" is likely to exceed one million next year." Yang Dongxu said again.

Yu Qipeng frowned and thought seriously, providing services to Yang Dongxu but not charging a handling fee, no matter how you looked at it, it would be a loss for people's livelihood.

But looking at it from another perspective, Minsheng is still profitable. For example, even if there are one million players, not all of them have bank cards, but everyone will definitely know about Minsheng Bank.

In other words, we know that Minsheng is a bank. Yes, people across the country basically only recognize the four major banks. The popularity of private banks is very low, and many people even don’t know what Minsheng does.

Promote the popularity of Minsheng Bank through gamers, and there is no need to pay advertising fees. From this aspect, Minsheng is undoubtedly making money.

"I need to seriously consider this matter, and maybe hold a shareholders' meeting." Yu Qipeng's face became cautious when he realized that this might be an opportunity for people's livelihood to reach a higher level again.

"Okay, but to avoid suspicion I will not attend the shareholders' meeting." Yang Dongxu said with a smile.

In fact, he was a little vague in some aspects of this negotiation and did not explain it clearly, because it was related to the big cake of online payment. Although he was a shareholder of Minsheng, at most he only allowed Minsheng to get on this express train earlier than other banks.

, but it is absolutely impossible to give away the big cake of online payment.

Therefore, giving Minsheng an early opportunity is the greatest goodwill given by him as a shareholder. If Minsheng disagrees and misses it, then he cannot be blamed.

When Yang Dongxu and Yu Qipeng were talking about the legendary payment method tied to people's livelihood, a group of shareholders at Zhonglian World's corporate headquarters frowned.

In the later generations, Zhonglian World Knowledge was a niche game company, and was eventually acquired by other companies. But now Zhonglian World is definitely the leader of Internet games, even if it is just a game hall type online game. A bit

Like the non-mainstream in the online gaming industry.

"Old Bao, what do you think of this "Legend"?" Jianyang squinted his eyes and puffed out smoke.

Jianyang actually has a bit of a headache recently because the negotiations with China Telecom have not been settled. Currently, China Telecom mainly charges broadband fees through time charging.

Yes, Internet access and telecommunications are charged by the hour now. Even if you use a private computer at home, you still need to pay an hourly Internet fee just like going to an Internet cafe. Of course, there are monthly packages, but they are also very expensive.