Rebirth of the Wild Age

the capital.

Song Weiyang's courtyard house has been completed for three months. It originally had more than 20 rooms including those small utility rooms and toilets, but it was directly demolished to only 16 rooms (two into the courtyard).

The place vacated after the demolition was turned into a small garden with rockery. There are rockeries here. Due to the earthquake decades ago, the two damaged rockeries were moved to two parks in the capital. Now it basically belongs to the restoration of the original appearance. The rockery is made according to the park, and by the way, a wooden frame is planted to plant grapes.

Chen Tao pulled out a few flowers and plants he didn't like, bought a few pots of camellias from the flower and bird market, and was busy transplanting them with a small shovel.

There are stone benches and tables under the grape trellises. Unfortunately, the vines have not grown up now, and the bare wooden shelves are all bare. Sitting on the stone benches and drinking tea is less leisurely.

"Your yard can be remodeled," Ma Wei looked up at the wooden frame, "but it's still too new, you need to live in it for a few years, and you've ruined the house if you keep it empty."

Song Weiyang said with a smile: "I asked someone to hire a reliable part-time worker to come to clean the dust twice a week, and help water the flowers and weeds by the way."

Ma Wei said with emotion: "Capitalist! You might as well let that part-time worker live in."

The boiling water on the small stove at the door was boiled, and it was whimpered by the steam. Song Weiyang ran over quickly, brought the kettle over by himself, took out a can of tea and said, "I have a college roommate who volunteered to apply for support for the construction of the western region, and worked as a deputy county magistrate in a remote area. The tea is not bad, and Xifeng invested in a tea mountain in the past. Although this pot of tea is ordinary, it has been hidden for 20 years, and it seems to be of the same generation as Lafite in 1982."

Brother Xiao Ma sat next to him and didn't speak for a long time, and then he was surprised: "The tea leaves are also stored in the cellar for a long time?"

Ma Wei smiled and said, "I have drunk green tea that has been cellared for 70 years."

"You are amazing!" Song Weiyang was speechless.

"Is the tea not going bad after 70 years?" Brother Ma asked.

Ma Wei said: "That's the best green tea in the Wanwan area. It was hidden in a cave for 70 years before being dug out. I was lucky. I went to visit a friend in Wanwan, and my friend happened to get some."

Song Weiyang asked: "How does the 70-year-old green tea taste?"

"It tastes a bit like Pu'er," Ma Wei laughed, "Really, green tea tastes like Pu'er, which completely overturned my perception of green tea."

Chen Tao had already transplanted the camellias. After washing her hands, she came over and said, "I want to try it if I have the chance."

"I've already finished drinking it. The stock is scarce, and it cannot be stored for a long time after the seal is released. It must be finished within a period of time." Ma Wei said and began to talk about the mountain. "The most thrilling tea I have ever drank was in Japan. , At that time, that friend invited me to drink with a chicken bowl cup. I thought it was a modern imitation sample, but the more I drank it, the more I felt something wrong. Because the chicken bowl cup is too real. I casually asked, it was bought from an auction house for 5 million Yes. At that time, I was so frightened that my hands shook, I was afraid that if I broke it, I would be imprisoned in Japan and I would not be able to leave.”

Song Weiyang laughed out loud, rich people really like bad things.

Chen Tao has been chatting with Ma Wei all the time, but Xiao Ma has turned into a quiet and handsome man, sitting on the stone bench for a long time without farting.

Song Weiyang was afraid that he would be left out in the cold, so he took the initiative to ask: "So, you came to the capital this time to meet female netizens?"

Brother Xiao Ma corrected: "It's a girlfriend. We have chatted for a long time and we have established a relationship online. We met on QQ. She didn't know that I started a company and thought I was an ordinary programmer. "

"Online dating, it's very fashionable." Song Weiyang said.

"One more thing," Brother Ma said, "Tencent is running out of money again, and it can last for another two months at most."

Song Weiyang said: "I can keep investing more, and come to me when I have no money."

Brother Xiao Ma smiled wryly: "Even if you don't bother me, I'm ashamed. The company has discussed several times in meetings, and we all agree that qq registration should be restricted, otherwise the server will burn too much money. According to the current momentum, at most three Within a month, the number of registered QQ users will reach 100 million."

"100 million users? There are only 20 million Chinese netizens!" Song Weiyang said in surprise.

Brother Xiao Ma said: "It is normal for a person to register several QQ accounts, and some people even register 20 or 30 accounts. These redundant accounts will consume server resources."

Song Weiyang has now invested in NetEase, Sohu, Sogou, Google, and Alibaba. These companies are all well-known, but the company that burns the most money is none other than Tencent.

This can explain why AOL has not added various offline functions after acquiring icq. As the world's first instant messaging software, icq has been around for several years, and now it cannot keep the friend list after changing computers. Because it requires a huge amount of server resources, the money burned every month makes America Online feel a pain.

By the way, the bursting of the dot-com bubble wiped out US$100 billion in market value from AOL.

Song Weiyang originally insisted on opening the registration, but now he was a little scared by the fire, nodded and said: "Then restrict the registration, let's wait for a while."

Brother Xiao Ma said: "Okay, I will call the company immediately. If the old user does not log in within a month, the qq number will be taken back immediately, and all data will be cleared. New users need to pay to register, two yuan per qq number, It can not only get some extra income, but also limit the growth of registered users."

Song Weiyang said: "Shall I invest another 3 million dollars? Is the money enough?"

Brother Xiao Ma said: "If QQ registration is restricted, in fact, no investment is enough. As long as I don't continue to increase the number of servers, I can completely achieve breakeven, because the network mobile communication business is growing very fast now."

"Then I will invest another 2 million US dollars, and the shares will increase to 45% for me." Song Weiyang said.

How many shares should be increased after the investment depends entirely on the investor's valuation of the company. Song Weiyang's casual decision seems like a joke, but in fact it is not too outrageous in the real round.

Nowadays, in the eyes of domestic and foreign investors, Tencent is the one with the most development potential, but also the least worthy of investment.

Due to Song Weiyang's arbitrary intervention, QQ has never restricted registration, causing Tencent to burn more money than in the past, and now it needs to add at least four servers every month. In another time and space, qq is limited to only adding two servers per month, and no one is willing to invest in Tencent.

At that time, Xiao Ma went around looking for friends to borrow money, and said that if he could not repay the money, he would use Tencent stocks to repay it. Those friends said directly: "If you can't repay the money, don't pay it back. I don't want Tencent stocks. It's a bottomless pit. I don't know how much it will burn."

Yingke and idg, as shareholders of Tencent, helped contact financing every day, but they failed to negotiate after half a year of contact, and they were all frightened by Tencent's burning speed.

Now Song Weiyang has bought the shares in Yingke and idg early, helping these two companies to jump out of the fire pit in advance.

idg, a venture capital firm, is also in a difficult situation. It has invested in more than 80 Internet companies in China in three years, each with an investment ranging from US$500,000 to US$1.5 million. As a result, when the Internet bubble burst, only one of the more than 80 companies returned their capital, and all other investment targets were money-losing products.

In fact, Tencent was the first of China's early Internet companies to break even. When Netease, Sina, and Sohu were still cheering for the reduction of monthly losses, and when Alibaba was still thinking hard about how to make a profit, Tencent had already started the road to making money. The premise is to limit the new increase of registered users. Adding a few servers a month is too scary!