Revisiting Future Path

072 The unveiling of a new history

This time, Baidu had nothing to do with it. Chunqiu Software had a chance to pass, and 3721 was caught in a tax evasion.

Wei Dongsheng clearly understood: The local tax bureau's raid was the beginning of the war, not the end of the war.

The scale of the battle escalated as expected.

On October 21, 2003, Yahoo announced the acquisition of HeungKong 3721 Network Software Technology Co., Ltd. for US$120 million in cash, and the fact that it subordinated to Yanjing 3721 Technology Co., Ltd.

3721 faced repeated defeats in the Spring and Autumn Security Butler, and the prospects were very bleak, causing Zhou Hongyi, the head of 3721, to be restless all day long. Zhou Hongyi found out that Baidu was also in contact with Yahoo, and Yahoo also intends to acquire Baidu for US$150 million. At the moment, he could not judge whether this information was true or not, and immediately made a decision. Zhou Hongyi did not dare to hesitate to delay any more time, and quickly resolved the negotiation differences with a sharp slashing attitude, and decisively sold 3721 to Yahoo for 120 million US dollars.

Chunqiu Network found more detailed information, that 120 million US dollars was not a one-time payment to 3721 original shareholders. Yahoo and 3721 agreed that Zhou Hongyi will be the general manager of Yahoo Huaguo in the future, and US$120 million will be paid to 3721 in three installments. Yahoo will pay 50% of the acquisition amount first, and the rest will be paid separately according to Zhou Hongyi’s profit during the period when Yahoo Huaguo led Yahoo. According to the acquisition agreement, in the first year, Zhou Hongyi must lead Yahoo China to create a net profit of 10 million U.S. dollars, and Yahoo will continue to pay 25%. In the second year, Yahoo China’s goal is to complete a net profit of 25 million U.S. dollars. After that, 3721 Shareholders can get the remaining 25%.

Zhou Hongyi sold 3721 to Yahoo, hoping to introduce Yahoo's technical reserves and political and economic resources, smooth out 3721's natural shortcomings, and continue to fight with Baidu and Chunqiu Software. 3721 has turned into Yahoo. Baidu has many international venture capital behind it, all of which are international capital forces. Only Chunqiu Network and Chunqiu Software, currently held by Wei Dongsheng, Jing Minqiang, and Huo Yongshan, are pure domestic capital.

However, there is a saying that the strong dragon does not crush the snake. As long as they can effectively use Jing Minqiang’s political and economic resources and the looming Gong family, the Spring and Autumn series of companies may not be able to fight against the layers of network of venture capitalists, but they can guarantee that they will not be in China, at least within the influence of the Gong family. Will encounter difficulties from non-market factors.

In the future war, Wei Dongsheng decided to take the defensive politically and work for fairness and justice; to take an offensive in the economic market and work to completely defeat 3721, Baidu and HC Search in the search field.

Unfortunately, the situation is not optimistic.

Summarize the results of the Spring and Autumn Series from August to October.

Thanks to the excellent effects of anti-rogue software, Spring and Autumn Security Manager ushered in a peak of downloads, and its market share has soared to 30%.

The twelfth China Internet Development Statistics Report shows that as of July 21, 2003, the total number of Internet users in China was 68 million and the number of Internet computers was 25.72 million. Compared with the eleventh statistical report on January 16, 2003, the total number of Internet users increased by 8.9 million, and the total number of Internet-connected computers increased by 4.89 million units. This is evident in the development speed of the Internet industry in China. Among these new netizens who are new to the Internet, seven or eighty of them have chosen the easy-to-use and well-known Spring and Autumn Security Butler. And because new netizens are not sensitive to computer software installation and uninstallation, they feel good after using it once, and at least it will not affect the smooth operation of the computer, so they leave Spring and Autumn Security Manager on the computer.

The spread of Spring and Autumn Security Browser is relatively slow.

From the perspective of Wei Dongsheng, IE is extremely bad, and the differences between versions can be regarded as different browsers.

When Wei Dongsheng stepped on the Internet in his previous life, IE6's weak security, poor performance, and sad Web standards were so bad that everyone was too lazy to complain. But in 2003, after IE6, especially IE6_SP1 became the exclusive browser of Windows_XP, it was still a trend of belief among ordinary netizens, and they generally felt that IE6 was very cool.

For example, the small optimization of Spring and Autumn Security Browser.

Due to the legal dispute between Microsoft and SUN on intellectual property rights, Windows_XP does not bundle a Java emulator. Users without basic computer knowledge, Tu Xinchao bought a Windows_XP system computer, and when running IE6, they were shocked to find that the Java website could not be rendered and Java games could not be played normally. Chunqiu Safe Browser has noticed this shortcoming and integrated a solution, so that users of Chunqiu Safe Browser don't have to worry about it.

There are too many similar optimizations in Spring and Autumn Security Browser, making it easier for Xiaobai users to surf the Internet at a low price.

However, the good and the bad are compared.

Novice users don’t understand the badness of IE6, so they don’t know how much effort was wasted to optimize the Spring and Autumn Security Browser. It is a natural phenomenon that they feel that the Spring and Autumn Security Browser is good. Another group of novice users did not understand the badness of IE6, but instead felt that the badness of IE6 was supposed to be such a normal phenomenon, and was frightened by Microsoft's prestigious name and decided to use it for nothing. In all these cases, the promotion of Spring and Autumn Security Browser basically relies on the recommendation of Spring and Autumn Security Manager channels, and the effect is very limited.

Computer Intelligent Life summarized the statistics of hundreds of thousands of websites. As of October 13, 2003, the market share of Spring and Autumn Security Browser was only 4.64%.

Chunqiu look at search engines more difficult to promote than Chunqiu safe browser.

This is because the vast majority of netizens in 2003 did not understand what a search engine was, nor did they understand the usefulness of a search engine, and had not yet established the overall impression of a search engine in their minds. In fact, it's more than netizens! As a venture capital, IDG could not understand the prospects of 3721. Investors such as Wang Gongquan and Guo Yihong desperately contributed to Yahoo’s acquisition of 3721 to cash out this investment; as a member of the search engine market, HC Search racked their brains with Sina, Sohu, Netease, TOM and other portal sites have reached an agreement, thinking that with the support of portal sites, HC Search is the No. 1 Chinese search engine with 80% market share.

Under this background, there are very few users who are accustomed to portal sites who continue to miss portal sites, those who are accustomed to Baidu continue to miss Baidu, and are willing to try out search engines. Even with Spring and Autumn Security Browser's search box bundled marketing, as of October 13, 2003, Chunqiu Look at the search engine market share was only 3.84%.

What is the concept of 3.84%?

In the coming December 2016, China’s domestic search engine PC market share: Google’s market share is 4.82%, Sogou’s search market share is 4.27%, and Bing’s market share is 3.1%. In the Spring and Autumn Period, the market share of search engines is between Bing and Sogou Search. Its impression of Internet users in this world is higher than Bing and lower than Sogou Search.

Of course, the problems of Chunqiu Safe Browser and Chunqiu Look at the search engine are slow development, rather than permanent stagnation. As time stretches, as the credibility of Chunqiu Security Manager becomes more and more stable, Chunqiu browser will surely attract more users, and Chunqiu will see the market share of search engines slowly increase.

Chunqiu Security Manager and Chunqiu Security Browser are both free software. Because Wei Dongsheng is cautious about advertising cooperation, these two projects and Chunqiu have a look, and they are currently at a loss. Chunqiu Security Manager's security protection for Chinese netizens, Chunqiu Safe Browser and Chunqiu Qiaoqiu search engine promotion, almost all rely on the operating income of "Ten Kingdoms Spring and Autumn".

"The Spring and Autumn of the Ten Kingdoms" is the basis for the existence of the Spring and Autumn series of companies.

"Ten Kingdoms Spring and Autumn" is a veritable cash cow.

In order to ensure the victory of the rogue software lawsuit, and to ensure the fighting confidence of domestic and foreign aid in the camp, Wei Dongsheng could only take advantage of "The Spring and Autumn of the Ten Kingdoms" to further assist. After the local tax bureau's raid, Chunqiu Network immediately released September's operating data to show the outside world the abundant capital reserves of the Chunqiu series of companies: "The daily sales of "Ten Kingdoms Spring and Autumn" increased from 1.718 million yuan on August 31 to September 30 The total sales in August was 58.6 million yuan."

It broke 30 million grades in July, 40 million grades in August, 5,000 grades in September, and 60 million grades are almost at your fingertips.

"The Spring and Autumn of the Ten Kingdoms" expected to continue its miracle.

When the time came to October, few people questioned the profitability of "Ten Kingdoms" anymore, but monthly sales of 58.6 million yuan still deeply shocked the entire online gaming circle. More importantly, Shanda Network acknowledged the impact of "Legend 3" on "Legend of Hot Blood" and lowered the operating income of "Legend of Hot Blood" in the third quarter. "Hot Blood Legend" is subtracted here, and "Ten Kingdoms Spring and Autumn" is added here. Both rise and fall, making "Ten Kingdoms" the most profitable online game in China's online game market.

This is the first place.

First place in the country.

After the madness in 2002, "Legend of Hot Blood" was finally cut off by "The Spring and Autumn of the Ten Kingdoms".

This is the end of a piece of history and the opening of a new piece of history.

Since ancient times, the runner-up is easy to forget, and the champion is often remembered. Just like looking back on the history of online games in China, you can’t get around "Legend" anyway, and so is the Spring and Autumn of the Ten Kingdoms. It has also become an important turning point in the history of online games in China.

Legendary players are angry and dissatisfied with this result, or proudly say that if the legend is not divided into three, how can there be the beginning of "Ten Kingdoms"; or verbally attack "Ten Kingdoms", contemptuously: what kind of garbage game is this? . However, at this time, the player group of "Ten Kingdoms" has been stable and growing. They began to spontaneously maintain the honor of "Ten Kingdoms" and started fierce battle with legendary players in major forums.

During the tearing-up period, in order to make up for the unkindness of "Ten Kingdoms" to real free players, some "Ten Kingdoms" players raised the dispute to the level of ethnic culture, thinking that the victory of "Ten Kingdoms" over "Legend of Blood" was ethnic The game's victory over Korean games; legendary players and some time-paying players ridiculed: "If domestic games must be this way to win, I would rather domestic games never make their heads. Wait for domestic games to make a fine product like "Legend of Warmth". , Let’s talk about the victory of national games. As for now, I would rather have the grass of Korean games than the seedlings of domestic games."

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