As the sun sets, the sky turns red, and the Guanghua Chang'an Building is brightly lit.
Zhang Chaoyang usually leaves early at this point, invites friends to go to nightclubs, picks up girls and dance, relying on hundreds of millions of people, leaving all the dirty work to his deputy and confidant Gu Yongqiang, but these days he is completely unable to do it.
The enemy is currently approaching fiercely, and the coach must sit back and stabilize morale.
"QQ mailbox can make drift bottles, Sohu mailbox can do the same, what do you think?"
"It works, but I'm afraid it's too late."
Gu Yongqiang, with faint dark circles under his eyes, sighed deeply, "As far as I know, the drift bottle project took three or four months from research and development to launch. Even if we have back (copied) hair (
It will take about 2 months to achieve the advantage of "attack". Sohu Mailbox cannot wait, and it will not be worthwhile if we invest manpower, financial resources and energy."
"What do you mean, give up the territory of the mailbox?"
Zhang Chaoyang frowned because Bottle and QQ Mail surpassed New Wolf and Yahoo in one fell swoop and climbed to second place, directly threatening the number one NetArt. Even the internationally oriented Foxmail was stepping on Sohu's shoulders.
Come to No. 5.
Although Sohu Mailbox can be rescued, it is not profitable and is not worth spending money to rescue. It is better to euthanasia.
Gu Yongqiang advised: "Mr. Zhang, we know that NetEase and New Wolf will follow suit. Instead of competing and wasting resources, it is better to quit and let the three of them get together and consume each other."
"Yes, you would be really stupid if you join the war!"
Zhang Chaoyang nodded: "Strategically give up and allocate resources to e-commerce and online games."
Everyone looked at each other, and then all looked at Gu Yongqiang. He stood up and said: "Mr. Zhang, e-commerce doesn't need to put too much energy into it. This is just a cover."
Zhang Chaoyang slapped the table and said angrily: "We surrendered before it even started. We Souhu are not France!"
"Mr. Zhang, in doing business, you have to be able to bend and stretch."
Gu Yongqiang felt aggrieved. If you hadn't offended Lu Fei during the sword discussion at West Lake, why would you have targeted Sohu everywhere?
Penguin has a big competition bag on his left hand, Feigou has another big competition bag on his right hand, "12·25" Christmas Book Day, Sohu Mall is tough at this time, it is not an egg hitting a rock, but a quail egg hitting a mountain.
Everyone was talking about it: there were few war factions and many peace factions.
Zhang Chaoyang paced back and forth. The second most heard was Sohu, and the most heard were Penguin and Feigou. Comparing the two, the pent-up anger finally burst out.
"Zhuo, am I digging his ancestral grave or digging up his house?"
Zhang Chaoyang roared angrily, which greatly exceeded the expectations of Gu Yongqiang and others. He usually acted like a doctor and never cursed or got angry. Now Lu Fei forced him to put down his elegance and suddenly cursed.
After all, today is a time of crisis.
Lost the mailbox, and the portal is lagging behind New Wolf and NetArt. It is looking forward to competing with Penguin, but it has not been able to find a profit point, and spent 30 million US dollars on acquisitions in vain.
The only gain is to find a talented person, Wang Xiaochuan.
But he had to go to graduate school, so he could only provide him with good food and drink for three years, otherwise he would be so passive?
…………
"Xiaochuan, this is Mr. Lu."
Wang Huiwen invited the person Lu Fei wanted to see to the barbecue restaurant and brought him in front of him.
Lu Fei shook hands with Wang Xiaochuan, looked at each other, and saw that he was too reserved to let go. He hesitated and said: "Mr. Lu, Huiwen said that the drift bottle was your idea?"
"Half of it, the other half is due to Zhang Xiaolong and his team. They implemented my ideas well, eliminated loneliness, and established connections."
"That's right, eliminate loneliness!"
Wang Xiaochuan nodded vigorously and showed an honest smile: "The ratio of men to women in our college is imbalanced. Thanks to the drift bottle, my roommate met a girl from the same school and they went on a date on Christmas."
Lu Fei smiled and asked: "What about you, you haven't found your bottle friend?"
Wang Xiaochuan scratched his head, "I never lost or picked it up. I just watched them tinkering and figured out how to operate the drift bottle."
Lu Fei didn't find it strange, after all, this guy could say "Sogou is my wife", he was a straight male cancer programmer.
After a while, the waiter brought out the dishes. The aroma of the dishes was overflowing, the mist was rising, and a smell of human smoke enveloped the three of them.
Wang Xiaochuan didn't move his chopsticks, "Mr. Lu, Huiwen didn't even explain clearly to me what you asked me to do. If you want to recruit me to your company, I won't stay for dinner, I'll leave now."
Lu Fei said: "If it is true, would you like to come?"
"I still want to go to graduate school."
Wang Xiaochuan said firmly: "Besides, everything is on a first-come, first-served basis. I am still working part-time for Sohu. I don't do anything and I still get paid. I can't be ungrateful. I will go to Sohu after I graduate."
Lu Fei said: "What a coincidence, I'm not here to poach you, I'm also asking you to do a part-time job."
"Part-time job?" Wang Xiaochuan said, "No, no, no, you are at war with Sohu. Should we say that we are rivals?"
Lu Fei showed a playful smile, "You haven't officially joined the job yet. You, Huiwen, are going to school to write code part-time for the company. Are you still considering whether the two companies will compete?"
"It's different. I'm going to join the job sooner or later. President Zhang knows that I'm working for you. Why am I searching for a job?"
Wang Xiaochuan looked like "I am temporarily reorganizing my body and my heart is officially reorganized", and he refused in a hurry.
Wang Huiwen chuckled and said, "You are wrong. We do not regard Sohu as an opponent at all. He is not our opponent."
"How can you say that!" Wang Xiaochuan stood up and left in shame, which hurt his self-esteem.
"What Huiwen said didn't mean what you thought."
Lu Fei pressed his shoulder and comforted him: "Sohu regards us as our opponent, but we may not regard him as our opponent. The real opponent Feigou.com wants to deal with is someone else."
"Yes, that's what I mean." Wang Huiwen hurriedly explained: "There is no way we can compete with Sohu."
Wang Xiaochuan immediately realized that just like boxing, there are heavyweights and lightweights. Sohu, Penguin, and Feigou are not in the same weight class at all. For a moment, he was speechless.
He was silent for a while and asked: "Then who is your opponent?"
"Bertelsmann." Lu Fei said.
Wang Xiaochuan was shocked and speechless, "Mr. Lu, is it really Bertelsmann? Is that a Fortune 500 company in the world?!"
Lu Fei rubbed his waist, "If you don't believe it, you can buy the latest issue of "Reader" and "Sanlian"."
Wang Xiaochuan's heart was pounding and his blood was slowly boiling. "Can we win?"
"Winning doesn't happen overnight, but at least it can suffer a big loss."
"You will suffer a loss, right?" Wang Xiaochuan shook his head, with a look of disbelief on his face, "You are online, Bertelsmann is offline."
Lu Fei blinked his right eye: "How about we make a bet?"
"What bet?"
“Can Feigou.com make Bertelsmann suffer?”
"If I lose my bet and want to join your company, I won't bet." Wang Xiaochuan's heart was racing, but his mind was calm.
Lu Fei waved his hand, "If you lose, you just need to do a part-time job for me."
"What do you want me to do?" Wang Xiaochuan asked in surprise.
"search."
Lu Fei turned his head and didn't see Wang Xiaochuan's astonished look. He raised his hand and ordered a bunch of skewers and side dishes: "Boss, pack these!"
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Yanyuan, Zizi Hotel.
"He finally agreed?"
Xu Lei crossed his legs and gnawed on the chicken wings, leaving a mouth full of oil.
"Of course, who is not a passionate young man?"
Lu Fei looked around. Several tables were in a mess. The well-fed and drunk employees were very motivated and were waiting in front of the computer. They were destined to stay up all night tonight.
"You fancy him so much?" Xu Lei asked curiously.
"It's easy to conduct a search, but it's difficult to do it well. If you find the right person, half the battle will be won."
"What if you lose?" Xu Lei joked. "Our opponent this time is Bertelsmann."
"lose?"
Lu Fei shrugged, full of confidence, "We have been planning this plan for a month."
The wall clock on the wall ticks.
Time passed by minute by second, the hotel was cleaned by the cleaning staff, and the operations checked the products on the shelves. The three giants, Lu Fei, Xu Lei, and Liu Edong, were sitting on the left, middle and right as they were during the "One Dollar Flash Sale" event.
Twenty minutes before midnight, the number of visits slowly condensed from small streams into lakes, and came continuously.
In the first ten minutes, the water level rose sharply, and in the next five minutes, it turned into a scourge.
When the date and time are displayed at [December 25, 00:00], it is like opening a floodgate to release a flood. Users spurt out like a huge wave, rushing into Feigou.com, and the number of people online at the same time is fixed at 83,000.
Xu Lei's eyes widened, "What the hell? Can genuine books sell so crazy?"
"The world has been suffering from Bertelsmann for a long time!"
Lu Fei crossed his arms and saw the limited edition high-quality books on the screen. Dozens of copies were sold every minute, and sales were rising steadily.
