Rebirth of the Wild Age

The property manager called the owners who hadn't renovated one by one, and heard that Song Weiyang wanted to buy a house, and the matter was settled soon.

A coal boss flew over from Jin Province and was willing to sell the nearly 1,400-square-meter villa at a unit price of 28,000 yuan. But he put forward two requests, one is to have a meal with Song Weiyang, and the other is to take a photo with Song Weiyang.

Song Weiyang said that eating is fine, but taking a group photo is fine.

The coal boss readily agreed to this, and after the meal, he took the initiative to reduce the unit price of the villa to 25,000 yuan. This old man is in his 40s, he opened his mouth and kept calling "Teacher Song", and said that he was going to Jinniu Business School to study.

A few days later, a beautiful designer named Liu Honglei was invited by Song Weiyangtuo's friend.

Liu Honglei graduated from the Department of Architecture of Tsinghua University more than 10 years ago. She gave up the opportunity of insurance research and went south with her husband to explore the deep city. The design company jointly run by the husband and wife was responsible for the interior design of many high-end office buildings and five-star hotels in the Special Economic Zone, and then they went to Canada and the United States for further studies.

Liu Honglei came back to China this time to win an award. Her design for the Shencheng Dameisha Territory Property Hotel won the award. Song Weiyang called a friend and asked if there were any outstanding interior designers in China, and Liu Honglei, who happened to be back in China, was recommended.

After carefully inspecting the villa, Liu Honglei asked, "What decoration style does Mr. Song and his wife want? Or, do you have any special requirements for the decoration of the villa?"

"You can do whatever you want, I'll give you plenty of room to play." Song Weiyang said.

Lin Zhuoyun thought for a while and said: "It must be comfortable to live in, not too deserted, and not too vulgar."

"I understand," Liu Honglei said. "Under normal circumstances, I do design for large-scale projects. I haven't done private residential design for almost ten years. As for the fees, the unit price must be more expensive. How about 200 yuan per square meter?" ?”

Song Weiyang asked: "Does it include gardens?"

Liu Honglei said, "Sorry, it's just indoors."

"Let's do the exterior design together," Song Weiyang said. "The indoor area of ​​this villa is nearly 1,400 square meters, and the outdoor area is about 1,200 square meters. The price is 500,000 yuan."

Liu Honglei smiled and said, "Boss Song is really generous."

Song Weiyang said: "One thing doesn't bother two masters. You need to make the interior and exterior a whole, and you have that natural feeling."

"Boss Song is in business, do you need me to add Feng Shui elements?" Liu Honglei asked.

Song Weiyang said, "Do you still know Feng Shui?"

"Slightly understand." Liu Honglei said.

Later, at Hongzhou Eadry Royal Garden Hotel in Qiongdao, it was Liu Honglei who was in charge of the interior design, and the Yuehuxuan clubhouse in the hotel implied Fengshui. The entrance of the clubhouse is set on the west side, which is resplendent and resplendent, which is said to symbolize the wealth of the guests; the study area on the north belongs to water, which is quiet and elegant; the kitchen on the south belongs to fire; the leisure area on the east means purple air coming from the east; is the earth element.

This design is hailed as a classic and is quite popular in the industry. Guests also feel that it has a special connotation and atmosphere when they enter the club.

But in his previous life, Song Weiyang was invited to drink tea by his friends, and he only entered the clubhouse once, so he didn't want to go in for the second time.

Song Weiyang likes to read some messy books, including feng shui. In his opinion, the feng shui of this club is full of malice to the guests: although the gate opens to the west, it is located in the middle of the theme building, which is an open door for the club. Suzaku Gate. Huo Kejin made a lot of gold elements at Suzaku Gate, and said that the gold elements represent the wealth of the guests. Is this trying to refine all the wealth of the guests? Leaving aside the issue of the Suzaku Gate, the West has always been the master of killing, and you are still getting so many gold elements at the gate, is it to give the guests a blow?

The layout of the other five elements inside the clubhouse also caused Song Weiyang to complain in various ways. I don't know if Liu Honglei doesn't understand Fengshui, or if she understands Fengshui but deliberately designed it like this, I'm afraid only she knows.

Anyway, for Song Weiyang's newly purchased big villa, Liu Honglei has left the decoration and design to Liu Honglei. For the time being, there are not many designers who are better than her in China and who can hire them.

Lin Zhuoyun was very active in this matter. She and Liu Honglei exchanged email addresses so that they could review each other's design plans at any time. At the same time, she also repeatedly communicated with Liu Honglei about her thoughts on the garden and some indoor arrangements.

Then Song Weiyang flew to Beijing. The "China Beverage Industry Association 10th Anniversary Celebration and China Beverage Festival" originally scheduled to be held in May was postponed to mid-September due to SARS.

Yang Xin is busy with the group adjustment of Xifeng, and Chen Tao is also busy with work. Zheng Xuehong will represent Xifeng to participate in the event. As for Song Weiyang, he was more of a personal representative. Back then, he was the first to stand up and sound the horn of the war of resistance in the beverage industry!

Arriving in the capital a few days earlier, Song Weiyang walked around several companies he invested in, and then called Ding Ming and Nie Jun to the courtyard for a dinner party.

"Lao Nie has graduated with a master's degree now, what do you plan to do?" Song Weiyang asked, chewing on his elbow.

Nie Jun obviously became a lot more restrained, dressed exactly like ordinary people, and he didn't bring his sword with him. The old man drank some wine and said, "I'll go home in a few days, visit my parents, and then go to the south to become a Taoist priest."

"puff!"

Ding Ming took a sip of beer and said in surprise, "You want to become a monk?"

Nie Jun shook his head and said: "I want to join the righteous sect. Strictly speaking, I am not a monk. I can marry and have children after becoming a Taoist priest. I have already found my master. In a small Taoist temple, I collected my master's thesis there." main information."

"I thought you were going to join Wudang Mountain." Song Weiyang said with a smile.

Nie Jun groaned strangely: "I'm not stupid. Wudang Mountain belongs to the Quanzhen sect. Once you join the sect, you won't be able to find a wife."

Ding Ming had a sudden idea: "Old Nie, after you become a Taoist priest, you can start a blog on Sogou to record your life of monasticism. At that time, I will help you recommend it on the homepage. Many netizens will like to read it and make you an Internet celebrity. Taoist priest."

"Is there any money to be made?" Nie Jun asked.

Ding Mingdao: "When you have written more blog posts and become famous enough, I will help you assemble and publish them."

"That's fine, anyway, I have plenty of free time." Nie Jun smiled.

The three chatted nonsense for a while, Ding Ming suddenly asked Song Weiyang: "Does Lao Song know about Baidu?"

"I know." Song Weiyang said.

Ding Ming took out a Zhonghua, lit it and put it in his mouth, saying, "Baidu has developed rapidly in the past few months, and it has already become a threat to Sogou."

Song Weiyang was surprised: "I often surf the Internet too, why didn't I feel that Baidu is up?"

Ding Ming shook his head and sighed, "I underestimated the enemy. I didn't expect Baidu to come up with a trick. Due to the first-mover advantage of Sogou Search, Baidu couldn't do it in the first two years. At the beginning, it could only provide search technical support for some websites. But now Because of this, Baidu has business relationships with many websites, and now it has pulled in 3721 and other rogue navigation sites for bundled sales.”

"I understand a little bit." Song Weiyang smiled wryly.

In the first few years of the 21st century, the number of Internet users in China was on a roll. The vast majority of these new netizens are novices on the Internet, and the first thing they do when they go online is to open the navigation website. In order to seize the market, those navigation websites often cooperate with computer sellers, computer assemblers, and pirated software vendors, which leads to the following situations: you buy a computer of a miscellaneous brand, or you assemble a computer yourself, or you buy a pirated copy of Windows. After installing the system, a navigation website similar to 3721 will appear on the computer desktop, even if you use anti-virus software to delete it!

Last year, 3721 still cooperated with Sogou, but this year it was suddenly attracted by Baidu. As a result, tens of millions of new netizens, from the first time they went online, have been using Baidu to search naturally, and they don't even know what Sogou search is.

As for why 3721 abandoned Sogou and turned to embrace Baidu, it is actually very simple, just one word: money!

3721 uses the Sogou search engine and needs to pay Sogou technology fees, and they use Baidu engine, Baidu will pay 3721 promotion fees. Choosing Baidu is not only free, but you can also make a fortune. Any fool knows how to choose.

Ding Ming said: "Old Song, I need the support of China Science and Technology, and I hope that the default homepage of China Science and Technology is Sogou!"

"Okay," Song Weiyang said, "but you have to talk about those navigation websites as soon as possible."

Ding Ming said: "I'm working on it. Not only the navigation website, but also those who sell pirated systems, and those who specialize in assembly. I have sent people to contact them. Isn't it just burning money to grab the market? Let's see who has the most money!"

"How much money does Baidu have now?" Song Weiyang asked.

"I'm not sure, but there must be nearly 100 million yuan in funds." Ding Ming couldn't help laughing. "According to reliable sources, Google also intends to invest in Baidu, and it is already under negotiation."

Song Weiyang frowned and said, "I have to ask about this matter."

Google's investment in Baidu was not because of Song Weiyang's butterfly effect. Another space-time Baidu's third round of financing has Google's share.

In recent years, the market size of search engines has grown larger and larger, and has become a popular choice for Internet investment. Those institutions that invested in Baidu originally wanted to invest in Sogou, but Sogou had no financing plan for the time being, so they focused on Baidu, because Li Yanhong is recognized as the top three technical masters in the global search field.

Baidu's first round of financing received more than 1 million US dollars. Investors include not only well-known investment banks such as Goldman Sachs, but also Overture, the leader in the global search engine field.

Yes, you heard it right, the leader is not Google, but Overture!

In another time and space, search bidding ranking was invented by Overture. Now, although Song Weiyang urged Google to take the lead in launching it, Overture quickly followed up this business model, and has always been firmly crushing Google. The reason is that Google is a grassroots rise, while Overture has a deep foundation, and has strategic cooperation with many large websites such as Yahoo, msn, and infospace.

The current ranking in the US search field is: overture first, Google second, Yahoo third, and msn fourth.

The first, third, and fourth search engines actually have a strategic partnership. The search ads they receive are all interoperable, and they share the profits of commercial ads, which is tantamount to joining forces to encircle and suppress Google—the same is true in another time and space.

Google's sudden emergence is not only due to its good search technology, but also thanks to Yahoo, a small investment expert.

Historically, Overture ranked first in 2003, and its advertising revenue was 2.5 times that of Google. There is a popular saying in American business circles: If a company is established, there are two things to do. First, register the company. Second, register overture.

Then Yahoo suddenly acquired Overture, and by 2005 it was completely annexed by Yahoo, and the two major search engines have since walked into the grave together.

The current situation is that Overture, the largest search engine in the United States, wants to enter the Chinese market, but does not have so much energy for the time being, so it invested in Baidu together with Goldman Sachs and other institutions. This move aroused the interest of dfj (one of the three major venture capitalists in the United States), and joined forces with other investment institutions to invest 10 million US dollars in Baidu. Moreover, dfj intends to continue to invest, and is now pulling eight companies including Google to participate in Baidu's third round of financing negotiations.

In the eyes of these investors, the United States can accommodate more than 10 large-scale search websites at the same time, so it is impossible for Sogou to monopolize the Chinese market. Baidu has unparalleled investment value, because Li Yanhong's search technology is too strong!

Faced with a more difficult entrepreneurial situation, Li Yanhong is more urgent than another time and space. If it is not affected by SARS, Baidu's third round of financing may have been completed.

After sending Ding Ming and Nie Jun away, Song Weiyang called Larry Page directly, Xingshi asked, "You want to invest in Baidu?"

"Yeah," Larry Page said.

"Baidu is robbing Sogou's market share, and Sogou is my company!" Song Weiyang said angrily.

Larry Page laughed and said, "Yahoo just invested in Overture, which is just an ordinary business investment. Song, a monopoly will only create a monopoly, and the government will not allow this to happen."

"There is no "Anti-Monopoly Law" in China!" Song Weiyang said.

"Uh...Okay." Larry Page was speechless for a moment.

Song Weiyang said: "Immediately withdraw from the financing negotiations with Baidu. This is not a request, but an order!"

"Although your tone makes me very unhappy, I still accept it. After all, you are a seed investor of Google and a leader in the Internet industry," Larry Page joked, and then said, "Song, I I must remind you that it doesn’t matter whether Google participates or not, because the head of dfj’s Asia is already crazy. That guy knows nothing about the Internet, but he is influenced by overture and has an unprecedented interest in Baidu. He firmly believes in search engines The industry will flourish. Even if Baidu can’t beat Sogou, as long as it can win 30% of the Chinese market share, it can get a hundred times the return on investment. Without Google, dfj will also bring in other people. I guess the replacement is likely to be Yahoo."

"Why Yahoo?" Song Weiyang asked.

Larry Page said: "Because Yahoo is rich. Once the Internet winter is over, Yahoo will make investments and acquisitions everywhere. To be honest, I am very headache now. Overture is the first in the search field in the United States, and Yahoo is third. Now there are two Just merged into one family, and flirted with the fourth-ranked msn, do you know how much pressure I have?"

Song Weiyang said: "How did I hear that Microsoft and Google are planning a cooperation plan?"

"Has this matter spread to China?" Larry Page laughed. "Microsoft is in a vicious competition with Yahoo. Yahoo just acquired Overture, the largest search engine, so Microsoft wants to acquire Google, which ranks second. I Of course, I am happy to negotiate with Microsoft, and it is best to break their alliance."

The fourth-ranked msn is a website owned by Microsoft. Before that, msn had a strategic cooperation with Overture, but now the latter has been acquired by Yahoo. This instantly made Microsoft feel very embarrassed, so it came to seek cooperation with Google. Larry Page is of course willing to cooperate with msn, but Microsoft lion opened his mouth and wanted to buy Google directly.

Historically, Larry Page has been stalling for time, quietly launching acquisition negotiations with Microsoft, but secretly planning for Google's IPO listing, and suddenly broke out of the predicament of being suppressed by the three companies.

"Song, I wanted to tell you some time ago," Larry Page said, "I'm going to take Google public. Now Google is very rich, but it is very short of money."

Song Weiyang smiled and said, "I agree to go public."

"You may need to reduce your shareholding, you know what I mean?" Larry Page said.

"Understood, this is more conducive to the development of Google. After all, I am a Chinese, and I own too much equity in Google," Song Weiyang said, "You tell those Wall Street flies that I am very happy to sell Google shares, but I must We have to wait for Google to go public, and the price may be relatively high. My stocks all have voting rights."

Larry Page said, "OK, I'll pass on your thoughts."

"Then I wish Google a smooth listing," Song Weiyang said.

Larry Page laughed and said: "We will all be billionaires by then. Although we are now, who would think that we have more money?"