Rebirth of the Internet Overlord

*Forgot to thank Xiaobai and Lingdang for their reward? I’ve been confused and a little out of sorts lately.

{Time: February 27, 2004}

{Location: Flower Planting-Magic City}

"The district has already set a time. On May 4, the district chief will lead a team to inspect our Emperor Penguins. Therefore, you will not be able to arrange work for yourself at that time and will have to stay at home."

Listening to Yang Jian's voice on the phone, Ning Zimo counted the days and agreed.

"Okay, I'll be back in Magic City, Qiantang, and Jiangcheng at the end of April, and I'll welcome the district leaders to my door at that time."

"Hehehe, don't go out in May. The district mayor has been here. I'm afraid there will be bigger leaders from the city."

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"How to say?"

"Just to mention it in a vague way, you just need to make some preparations. The leadership team of the special zone may want to come and see you, a mountain man of your own sect."

Ever since Ning Zimo said in front of the Emperor Penguin family that selling Skype was a failure, no one in the company has ever mentioned the word "richest man", and then "mountain man" didn't know where the word came from. Anyway, "boss"

There are many names such as "Big Boss" and "Dean", so naturally we are not afraid of one more "mountain man".

At least Ning Zimo didn't feel anything special when he heard it.

"Emmmm, okay, it's only May, and the second half of the year will be even busier. After they come, we will decide on the location of the company."

"Well, that's right."

After returning from the United States, Yang Jian chatted with Ning Zimo for a long time about the development of the Emperor Penguin Company. Although the high-tech industrial park was released, where to implement it has become a big problem. The bonded zone is only three acres per acre.

The land is divided, and there are also traffic problems. Ning Zimo has felt the pressure of traffic every time he passes there these days. And the special zone is already facing a shortage of land in many areas of the city.

"I have been thinking about it for the past two days and I think it would be good to go to Sha Tau Kok. My comprehensive consideration is this, because there may be many companies and people under our Emperor Penguin brand in the future, and we must be our own group.

. Instead of waiting for others to provide us with supporting facilities, it is better to buy vacant land and ask others to develop it.”

"There is no open space in the special zone."

"You should think about this first. After all, you are the only one who has experience in the comprehensive management of large enterprises."

"this……"

"Hey, it's up to you. I'll get off the car when I get there and I'll be at the negotiating table soon!"

Ning Zimo hung up the phone as he spoke, regardless of Yang Jian's reaction. In short, let's leave this matter to be considered later. This matter is too big.

…

At 14:00 in the afternoon on February 27, heads of various departments of Haofang Online Company gathered in a conference room in the JD District of Modu City. Together with Li Lijun, the founder of Haofang, they looked at the person opposite with curiosity

The young richest man in the Internet who led the team, Zhonghua, murmured in his mind the young man's main purpose, and after stripping CGA out of the Haofang Battle Platform, he invested as much as 15 million US dollars in CGA.

Yes, after just digesting the Qidian acquisition, Ning Zimo sat down at the Haofang headquarters without stopping for a few days and talked to them about the acquisition plan that they thought was strange.

Why is this young man's entry point so different from Shengda, who has already had preliminary negotiations?

He actually values ​​​​the cga website so much?

Rather than the Haofang battle platform?

Everyone at the negotiation table has different thoughts, especially Yang Chen, the marketing director of Haofang who only joined the Haofang platform from ccsk in 2003 and is responsible for cga content, and Guo Zhuo, the operation and maintenance director of Haofang. Since the ccsk period, these two

People are friends who fight side by side.

In 2002, Guo Zhuo's frugal efforts to build a forum program helped ccsk gain a foothold in the competition with cschina and become an influential leader in professional e-sports online media in the early 21st century.

That is to say, starting from the era of ccsk, more and more full-time or part-time reporters have established local reporter stations. Then a large number of e-sports talents entered the e-sports circle through the reporter stations. This interlocking influence,

To a certain extent, it also affects the development of flower farming e-sports.

But in the environment where the future development direction was unclear at that time, ccsk had experienced a change. ddw and general manager Lao Meng were in Yizhou, and Yang Chen, the head of external relations, and the person in charge of technology were both in Shanghai.

Guo Zhuo and Guo Zhuo had some differences about future development. So, the two people from Yizhou went to Peiping, and the two people from Magic City came to Haofang.

It was Yang Chen and Guo Zhuo who single-handedly established the professional portal cga to help the Haofang platform complete promotion, event organization, business negotiation and other tasks.

For this reason, Haofang has not only become the battle platform for wcg online events, but also signed a strategic cooperation agreement with ccdv5. It has also invited the top team in the hearts of CS players - the Swedish SK team to participate in the exhibition match.

At that time, the e-sports game industry was undergoing a transformation. With the gradual decline of StarCraft, CS and World of Warcraft were rising. The joining of Yang Chen and Guo Zhuo, who were both professional CS online media players, made Haofang even more powerful.

But within Haofang, cga is a semi-accessory, which is where Yang Chen and Guo Zhuo struggle.

Although the two people and the team behind them operate cga as a brand, they are indeed inseparable from Haofang in name.

Modu Haofang Technology is a high-tech private enterprise founded in 1998. Its main business is software development, system integration, network system application and other fields. Its annual output value is stable at about 400 million yuan.

This is a company that was able to obtain the Magic City Telecommunications Transformation Project from 1998 to 2001.

Moreover, Haofang Platform was the only company that could quickly deploy servers in the telecommunications computer room of Quanzhonghua in 2003. Even the QQ battle platform could not do this (including Tengxun's hesitation on copyright issues). You must know that at that time, the QQ chess and card platform was

At that time, Lianzhong was killed in an instant, so the series of actions of Haofang Company cannot be simply summarized in the four words "profound background".

After the Asian financial crisis in 2001, in order to diversify Haofang's products, Haofang's founder Li Lijun acquired the "Game Modutan" platform in the second half of 2002 and established Modu Haofang Online Information Technology Co., Ltd.

At that time, there were two developers of the platform, one was Xu Xin who was responsible for the server side, and the other was Zeng Fangfei who was responsible for the client side. The Haofang platform project was started by two of them.

The arrival of Yang Chen and Guo Zhuo really made Haofang even more powerful, the number of users increased dramatically to 60 million, and the number of people online also hit 1 million!

Therefore, whether it is Haofang to CGA or CGA to Haofang, the development of the two has an inseparable and close relationship.

For example, Haofang signed a strategic cooperation agreement with CCTV ccdv5 to help ccdv5 "E-Sports World" provide some content and talent support.

At that time, cga's editor-in-chief k4, tournament director Fei Ying, etc. and the program host Duan Xuan and the editor and director at the time had a lot of communication in each program.

On the other hand, the rapid deployment of the Haofang platform in the telecommunications equipment room of Zhonghua was just in time for the happy era of Zhonghua Internet content providers. During that period around 2002, network operators were extremely short of content.

Just like when Great Wall Broadband first came up, it was very fast to lay out the network. However, after it was laid out, it was found that there was no content on the network. Users still had to jump to other networks to watch websites and play games, and the construction of cga was very helpful.

Haofang has made up for these points.

15 million U.S. dollars. If CGA is really sold to this young man, Haofang, which has not yet found a profit model, will receive 120 million U.S. dollars. This amount of money is enough for Haofang to develop well for a while at this time.

To sell or not to sell?

Li Lijun did not look at the people around him, and could only let this thought swirl in his heart.

At this time, Huang Chunyu, the veteran of Haofang who was responsible for the laying of telecommunications channels next to Li Lijun, suddenly asked, "Mr. Ning, I would like to ask, why do you want to acquire cga?"

Huang Chunyu's sudden question made Ning Zimo look at him more.

But with just one glance, Ning Zimo said casually, "Isn't Glass Slag under my banner? In the second half of this year, Glass Slag will be launched globally with the wegame game platform."

Everyone knows about glass shards. In addition to people in the gaming industry, many people also laugh at the fact that the richest man is a kid who bought a gaming company just to play games. Everyone occasionally takes it as a joke.

But wegame, what is that thing? Why is it related to glass slag again?

Everyone's faces were full of doubts, and they didn't understand what Ning Zimo meant at all.

Seeing the confusion of everyone on the other side, Ning Zimo explained generously: "Wegame is a game distribution platform, and it has signed an online game distribution agreement with Glass Slag. In the second half of the year, Glass Slag will launch all games through Wegame.

Chinese version.

The reason why I want to acquire cga is because we believe that the value of cga is very suitable for wegame. Because in addition to publishing, wegame also carries the intercontinental battle.net server function of all stand-alone games."

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There seemed to be some indescribable crackling sounds in the air.

After hearing Ning Zimo's introduction, everyone in Haofang turned their attention to Li Lijun. Not only could they see Li Lijun's face turn red, many of them themselves couldn't bear the news.

Battle.net!

This is almost the foundation of the Haofang battle platform.

Haofang was originally a stand-alone game battle platform. Its rise in the golden age of e-sports was due to the functions of the Haofang platform. It was also an important factor in the rise of Haofang after being bound to CGA.

Haofang's battle platform simplifies users' networking operations and can automatically handle many complex network situations. Haofang has the capital and conditions to quickly deploy servers across China's north and south, leaving many competitors behind. At the same time, the cga website has greater strength to dispatch a news reporting team

, to report domestic and foreign news and bring players closer to the news.

The bundled development of the free Haofang platform and the CGA website have mutually promoted the gathering of e-sports enthusiasts.

For this series of reasons, the client of the Haofang platform appeared on the desktops of Internet cafes across China almost overnight.

(-"-anger)

Li Lijun finally suppressed his desire to kill the young man across from him. The purpose of this guy named Ning Zimo to buy cga alone was obvious. Everyone knew that he owned a company called Coldplay Technology, and Coolplay Technology owned

The [Cool Play Platform] has always occupied Internet cafes, which are the most popular places. Therefore, if Wegame wants to promote it better than Haofang, relying on the [Cool Play Platform] is the fastest way.

If he is allowed to buy cga again, then the large amount of popularity gathered on cga will be directly connected to his wegame platform, which is even more powerful.

But after all, Li Lijun is a senior who has been fighting for many years, and he feels that the behavior of the young people opposite him is too immature in the business field.

He laid out his purpose on the table, how could he possibly give him a chance?

Do you think you’re just bullying me and I’m going to sell it to you?

Then I'll have some fun with you first!

Li Lijun's thoughts changed, but he sneered, "Mr. Ning, I'm afraid you are oversimplifying these things. As Haofang is so big, we are still subject to some restrictions on copyright issues. I don't know how your emerging platform can solve copyright and

What about domestic distribution issues?”

Li Lijun could see clearly that Wegame only relied on the acquisition of glass slag.

What can there be in glass slag? Isn't it the "Warcraft" series, "Star" series and "Darkness" series?

Apart from that, what about CS? What about other non-glass slag games?

Li Lijun was sure that his question would make some waves in the hearts of the young people across from him, but the young people across from him looked calm.

"Oh, thanks for the reminder, Mr. Li. However, Mr. Li's worries are a bit unnecessary."

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Did I remind you out of kindness?

Seeing Ning Zimo's harmless expression, Li Lijun felt so angry.

The young man opposite kept his expression and said, "Mr. Li, I did two things before coming here."

???

Are you going to report to me?

"I have submitted a letter of intent to acquire Ogilvy Electronics, and the legal representatives from AllBright Law Firm are conducting preliminary negotiations with Ogilvy on our behalf."

After Ning Zimo finished speaking the first piece of news, he saw the people opposite who had different expressions on their faces changed to expressions of astonishment.

The same is true for Haofang. Before Mr. Ning arrived, representatives from AllBright Law Firm also came to have a meal. It seems that Mr. Ning's approach is so fair?

You know, Ogilvy Electronics turned out to be a big tree in front of them. After all, most of the games on Haofang are owned by Glass Slag.

Ning Zimo could understand their feelings. After all, Ogilvy Electronics was once a big tree lying in front of them.

Although it can be solved, it will take a lot of trouble to get past it.

However, the problems in their eyes are nothing in front of them.

After all, he has all the glass shards in his hands.

Besides, there are other preparations.

"Second, at the end of January this year, I completed the acquisition of the game department of Vivendi's headquarters. This acquisition included Glass Slag and Northern Glass Slag. The important thing is that through this opportunity, wegame and Snow Mountain Car are related

It is very easy, so wegame has obtained the cs authorization. The most important thing is that our team in Europe has signed licensing agreements with EA, Ubisoft and other companies. Including the "Invincible Heroes" series, "cs" series

For battle games, we have already obtained the global network license."

"What!!!"

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The expressions of the people on the other side were a bit nice, but Ning Zimo was not here to make a briefing.

"By the way, in this case, we can become enemies or comrades in the future."

???

"How about I pay an extra 25 million US dollars and Mr. Li sell me the Haofang platform as well?"

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“Is my Haofang platform worth only 25 million?”

Li Lijun was so angry that he almost jumped up in anger.

After going around in such a big circle, he finally understood.

The purpose of this young man coming here is to package and acquire the Haofang platform!