At this time point in mid-October 2016, the concept of virtual currency, which was born during the world financial crisis in 2008, was officially born in 2009.
Today, it has only just experienced seven or eight years of gestation, and looking at the world, it is still in a gray area, with most countries adopting an ambiguous attitude of wait-and-see.
Including China, they have not strangled them to death, and have not officially issued strict prohibitions. As the saying goes, anything can be done without prohibition by law.
Under such circumstances, there is even a Chinese virtual currency market, and settlement is still done in domestic currency. It can be said that we are currently in the blue ocean stage of virtual currency speculation, and future expectations are unprecedentedly large.
Especially when Zhou Dongsheng checked it casually and saw that the virtual currency was at a low level, he couldn't help but be shocked. In order to confirm again that the information on the network was not lagging behind.
Zhou Dongsheng also specifically asked Lu Sifang to compare the differences in domestic and overseas markets through investment channels, further confirm this fact, and then report back to him personally.
After receiving Lu Sifang's detailed report on the virtual currency market, Zhou Dongsheng opened it and took a rough look at it, putting aside the professional terms that he didn't understand at all.
Zhou Dongsheng highlighted a simple approach and only looked at data he could understand, including the market value change curve since the birth of the virtual currency market.
From this, it is not difficult to see that no matter how much gorgeous rhetoric is piled up, the boss will only focus on the key points (funny).
It has to be said that looking at the market changes since the birth of virtual currency, it was worthless from the beginning. Just a dollar is enough to easily buy the bottom and hoard dozens of them in your hands.
In less than two or three years, the virtual currency market began to rise all the way. At its peak, it even approached the $1,000 mark, an increase of nearly 10,000 times!
Such a jaw-dropping curve is obviously absolutely impossible to appear in the foreign exchange market or stock market futures where every cent is fought for.
What kind of undercurrent is surging behind it? Zhou Dongsheng obviously doesn't know, but just from this magnificent curve, it is not difficult to get a glimpse of the true face of the market.
After that, when the leeks matured, they naturally ushered in the first wave of harvest. In just a few months, the market value of the virtual currency market approached thousands of dollars from one virtual currency, and was cut in half again.
From the peak of 85 US dollars, it dropped all the way to 457 US dollars, and then fluctuated all the way, with another wave of gains between high and low, and then it plummeted, and the next year it fell again to the 200 US dollars range.
Although the time span is as long as one year, this familiar curve change plays out a script of different paths leading to the same goal, which perfectly explains a sentence.
What does "the world as black as crows" mean?
Don't ask, the question is just a technical adjustment. Since then, the virtual currency market has once again entered a long-term shock stage, and it has not returned to this stage to this day.
At this stage, as of the time Zhou Dongsheng checked, the market value of virtual currencies in overseas markets had barely returned to the US$98 range.
Although most of the energy has been restored, it has still not returned to its peak in three or four years. This shows how deep the water is. If there are retail investors, they may have been tortured to the point of mental weakness.
However, for Zhou Dongsheng, a dwarf standing on the shoulders of future giants, his eyes lit up and he salivated when he saw this price.
After all, Rao knows only a little about the virtual currency market, and Zhou Dongsheng also knows about the changes in this market through hearsay, as well as the final madness...
Zhou Dongsheng vaguely remembered that at the craziest time, it seemed to have reached a peak of 60,000 U.S. dollars, which was nearly 400,000 U.S. dollars in domestic currency...
And the virtual currency currently in the range of 98 US dollars is at an "unprecedented" historical low, at least in Zhou Dongsheng's eyes.
Rounding off, it contains hundreds of times of growth potential, and the prospects are extremely broad, even if it is the national wine in the stock market, it is slightly inferior.
However, from Zhou Dongsheng's point of view, Guojiu is equivalent to a "financial management fund", a tangible and stable investment. After all, the unique Maotai-flavor technology in the world is enough to make it invincible.
As for virtual currencies that are poorly understood and have extremely high speculative components, they are completely radical projects with high risks and high returns.
A man is not rich without windfall, and a horse is not fat without night grass. After all, Zhou Dongsheng has tasted the sweetness of this aspect. As the saying goes, the difference between the two is quite different.
If we regard it as a gamble, it is nothing more than two choices, to gamble or not to gamble?
If you look at things in this way, things will naturally become much simpler. It is so rare and valuable, and you can earn money and create some opportunities for yourself to earn foreign exchange...
The answer is naturally self-evident. Even if Zhou Dongsheng is now worth a lot of money, he will not give up such a good opportunity.
Especially since the leeks are harvested from overseas markets, there is naturally no psychological burden.
And don't mention it, Zhou Dongsheng also has unique advantages in this aspect, which is reflected in foreign exchange.
Although most of Zhou Dongsheng's current stalls are located in China, this also makes Zhou Dongsheng's assets almost mainly domestic.
This includes the cash flow of Dongsheng Group. Although the investment market is keen to use U.S. dollars as units, the money spent is still real domestic currency.
However, don’t forget that as the cash cow of Dongsheng Group, the audience for the game “PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds” is not just the domestic market.
There is also a huge overseas market!
And being backed by the big tree of Stim, the world's largest game publishing platform, has undoubtedly caused the game "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" to set off a chicken-eating craze around the world.
Although due to Zhou Dongsheng's "wishful thinking", the game changed from a buyout system to a free-to-play, in-app purchase-based mechanism, thus losing a considerable amount of cash.
If we calculate based on the current popularity of "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" on the Stim platform, with millions of new players added every week, and the total number of players exceeding 10 million...
Even by a rough calculation, it was already a huge sum of nearly 7.8 billion U.S. dollars. However, the far-sighted Zhou Dongsheng chose to resolutely give up this "petty profit" and instead use the free game strategy to open up the audience.
In this way, we can lay the foundation for e-sports in advance.
In this way, the income brought in in a short period of time may not be as good as the buyout system, but it is enough to make it truly a long-term cash cow that can continuously bring in generous income.
The Internet law that free is the most expensive has already been verified by Tenda.
But even so, "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds", an unprecedentedly successful battle royale game, has set off a phenomenal chicken-eating craze around the world, which has still brought considerable returns.
The current book revenue from overseas markets alone has already exceeded hundreds of millions of dollars, and this is only the overseas revenue from the game "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds", and it only accounts for a part of the company's revenue.
Among them, the Chinese market, as the first market, is the main market that contributes the majority of revenue. After all, it is developed by Tenda and other game manufacturers.
The Chinese market naturally fits the free-to-play strategy, and is more willing to pay for in-game props, not to mention that it is such a phenomenal game that is “the light of domestic games”.
Therefore, the financial statements of "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" are unprecedentedly gorgeous. It is conservatively estimated that the annual revenue from the domestic market alone is expected to exceed 2 billion!
Such gorgeous revenue data has not only made it a favorite in the Chinese game market, but has also become a trend vane. I don’t know how many game companies have started to follow the trend and produce battle royale games.
I just want a piece of the pie!
It is natural that "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds", which has the first-mover advantage, can create such considerable profits.
And with the support of such a gorgeous report, there is no doubt that PUBG Corporation is the subsidiary with the highest market value under Dongsheng Group.
If it weren't for the blood supply of such a cash cow, Zhou Dongsheng would have been unable to continue to build such a large stall. After all, every round of financing was spent on real money.
It is worth mentioning that in order to facilitate the management of the overseas market of "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds", an overseas branch has been established for management with the help of Zhuchang's familiarity.
At the same time, this part of the overseas income is still on the company's books and has not been remitted to the country immediately. Zhou Dongsheng originally thought it was just for emergencies.
After all, it is a sum of foreign exchange, and now it comes in handy. It also saves me the effort of exchanging foreign exchange, and it can be done more quietly...
So for Zhou Dongsheng, everything is ready, all he needs is the east wind.
Thinking of this, Zhou Dongsheng no longer hesitated and contacted Lu Sifang again. Matters related to investment would naturally be left to the head of the group's investment department.
At present, Dongsheng Investment's investment scope is basically limited to domestic investment, and its involvement in overseas investment is almost zero. It is just a short video investment project of Wenxue Network, which can barely be regarded as "overseas investment."
After all, although Wenxue Network is a domestic company, its initial main business was the European and American markets, so it is not outrageous to say it is an overseas investment, ahem.
Also, "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" is a cash cow. In a sense, Zhou Dongsheng worked hard to transplant it from overseas markets to China.
Coupled with the great help of the pig factory, the fetus was not stillborn due to the acclimatization. This was a difficult situation.
However, when it comes to harvesting wool, you cannot just harvest one sheep. Although Zhou Dongsheng knows a lot about the opportunities in the domestic market, he is already overwhelmed at the moment.
It is also time to take this opportunity to open up overseas investment projects. If not, you can earn some money, but you can also reserve some foreign exchange. This will make it more convenient to buy in overseas markets in the future, right?
Although Zhou Dongsheng didn't think of anything else to pick up in the overseas market other than virtual coins for a while, even if it was just one, it would be enough to make a lot of money.
As early as after submitting the report on the virtual currency market to Zhou Dongsheng, Lu Sifang had already begun to be mentally prepared, and even did not forget to do his homework.
In his opinion, Zhou Dongsheng, an investment genius, has never been aimless. Every time he makes a move, he always makes a perfect shot, which is why he has created the current miraculous record of Dongsheng Investment.
If we say that thanks to the game "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds", PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Company has become the group's subsidiary with the highest market value.
Then Dongsheng Investment, as the main body of the group, can use real results to explain why it can become the parent company.
In addition to the fact that Zhou Dongsheng is 100% controlled, the immeasurable value of resource sharing brought about by its many investment projects is one of the most important reasons.
As the top general in charge of investment business under Zhou Dongsheng, Lu Sifang almost witnessed this entire incredible process, watching helplessly how Zhou Dongsheng turned decay into magic.
It’s probably not an exaggeration to describe my boss as a “Golden Touch”. After all, every project is still in an unspectacular stage before he gets involved...
This is true whether it is Pinxixi or bike sharing. Soon after Zhou Dongsheng raised funds, he began the process of accumulation and success, and even became a blockbuster!
After doing it again and again, Lu Sifang admired him from the bottom of his heart and was completely convinced of his boss's investment talent.
Therefore, after receiving Zhou Dongsheng's instructions, Lu Sifang naturally thought, could his boss be optimistic about the prospects of virtual currencies?
So, does this mean that the virtual currency market is also likely to see a wave of steady growth?
After all, the virtual currency market has been recuperating for several years since the market crashed. According to the objective laws of the market, it seems that it is time to explode...
Of course, these rational analyzes are secondary. In Lu Sifang's view, the only person who can really play a decisive factor is Zhou Dongsheng.
If the boss is optimistic about the prospects of virtual currency... maybe he can also get some benefit from it! Lu Sifang couldn't help but feel jealous in his heart.
After all, the huge virtual currency market is extremely maneuverable.
Of course, Zhou Dongsheng didn't know about this, but he just gave instructions to Lu Sifang.
"Now that the group has just been established, as the main business of the group, the investment department cannot stand still. It is time to try to open up overseas investment business. I think virtual currency is a good opportunity..."
"It just so happens that the overseas revenue of "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" has a considerable amount of US dollars that can be used as starting capital. I plan to invest 10 million US dollars first. You are responsible for forming an overseas investment team and responsible for observing the virtual currency market..."
"First, accumulate funds at a low level as quietly as possible at the current position. Take as many chips as you have. Complete the position first, and then wait and see, take a look at the market changes, and report to me at any time."
In a few words, Zhou Dongsheng explained his motives in an understatement. He was just making a tentative overseas investment. The attempt to make a base of tens of millions of dollars was now within Zhou Dongsheng's ability to bear.
"Okay, Chairman! I'll do it right now!"
Lu Sifang's little thoughts couldn't help but be shaken. Zhou Dongsheng naturally had the capital to try, but... should he follow?
Lu Sifang was a little hesitant about this, but aside from this petty thought, he did not forget that he still had something serious to report.
"By the way, Chairman, Xiyin can't wait any longer. The founder is very sincere and is planning to fly to Shanghai to meet and discuss with you in person. His attitude is very urgent..."
"Look..."
Zhou Dongsheng slapped his head. He was so busy that he forgot about such a company that he had never heard of. It happened to be a company that mainly engaged in overseas business.
Isn't this just in line with my overseas strategic policy? Quan should just use it as a cushion.
"Since the other party is so sincere, I have to meet him no matter what." Zhou Dongsheng said cheerfully.
Perhaps Zhou Dongsheng would never have dreamed that he would have picked up a treasure by accident.