"Brother Chao, you are right. In terms of mastery of policies and laws, who can compare to you, a top talent from Tsinghua University and a Ph.D. from MIT? Aren't you making things difficult for me?"
With a smile on his face, Ma Feng first complimented the high-spirited Zhang Chaoyang to make him feel more comfortable, and then said tactfully,
"However, whether it is spreading rumors or disclosing privacy... I wonder if you can give me some face. That Gu Kun has had some friendship with me before, why don't you let his gossip news get attention?
He is considered half an insider. I am doing this for your own good. If such a famous big shot gets involved in a privacy lawsuit, the website will not be able to handle it."
Zhang Chaoyang's expression changed slightly, he put down his wine glass and lit a cigar.
Ma Feng observed the words and knew that he was in a hurry, so he quickly came back and patted his cheek gently: "Look at what I said, the country's current industrial policy fully supports the development of the Internet, so that little friction is nothing. I myself
I will be punished with three cups of wine. What I just said was just me asking for a favor and I can’t speak. Don’t take it to heart.”
With that said, Ma Feng drank a lot of Mao Lu Mian's San ZHONG Plenary Session to show his face.
This drinking method did not originally exist. It was fabricated in the popular Hong Kong movie starring Wu Zhenyu in the past two years. In the movie, Wu Zhenyu played a nightclub owner and a big boss in the custom industry. Therefore, many settings in the movie have been used domestically.
I immediately followed my example in the bar streets, nightclubs, discos and so on.
It can also be seen from this that in the mid-1990s, the mainland was obsessed with the lifestyle in Hong Kong movies, and even imitated the drinking style in Hong Kong movies.
Seeing that Ma Feng drank so hard, Zhang Chaoyang was losing face, so he patted him on the shoulder and said, "Old Ma is still a righteous man. Since you stand up for your friend, I will treat you as a favor. I drink
If there’s more, go to the bathroom first and you can play.”
With that said, Zhang Chaoyang left in a carefree manner.
Ma Feng quickly found a seat and sat down again, looking for a few pieces of fruit from the fruit plate to relieve his hangover.
But just after eating two slices of watermelon, his cell phone rang and a text message came in.
Ma Feng didn't take it seriously at first, and planned to calm down and watch it later. But after only five or six seconds, he got a taste of it.
As soon as Zhang Chaoyang went out, his cell phone rang. Could it be...
Ma Feng was very smart. He quickly wiped his hands and took out his mobile phone to look at it where no one was.
Sure enough, it was a text message sent to him by Zhang Chaoyang.
"Don't worry about this matter. Gu Kun's people gave me money and allowed me to spread it. Don't be so kind as to ruin other people's affairs. Just delete it after reading it. If you don't believe it, Gu Kun will come to the capital in a few days.
Several reports, if you have any face, go to him and verify them yourself."
Ma Feng understood immediately.
I was a little superfluous today.
Since Zhang Chaoyang was paid to do things, his employer would certainly not cause trouble for him. But it was a bit self-defeating for me to plead with Zhang Chaoyang in person at a place where friends in the industry gathered.
First of all, Zhang Chaoyang cannot let other outsiders know that his portal is paid by his employer to spread gossip, which will damage the quality of the portal.
Especially at tonight's cocktail party, Mr. Cao and others who just founded New Wolf Network are also there. They are all colleagues. As the boss of the industry, Zhang Chaoyang cannot lose face.
Today's Internet companies are all high-tech companies with the highest technical content. In the eyes of the people, they are all tall and tall entities that are completely incomprehensible. Just throwing out the word "Internet" can make people admire them.
How can such a high-tech company accept money from small business owners who make money from vulgar customs? Even if their wealth is ten times or a hundred times that of yours, they cannot accept this money.
This is not like ten or twenty years later, when everyone thinks that the Internet is just a tool, an infrastructure that should serve specific industries. Now, if we don’t have this awareness, the Internet is just the Internet, and it is not a worldly thing.
Although, when Zhang Chaoyang received the money from Gu Kun, he felt secretly happy. (It was actually given by Qian Youliang, and Gu Kun would not give it to him in person for such shady money)
Zhang Chaoyang's Sohu company has been open for more than half a year, and the website has been online for several months. In fact, the previous revenue was still zero. This is also the norm for Internet companies today. Everyone is prepared to have zero revenue for at least two or three years.
Prepare.
Anyway, even if there is zero revenue, as long as there are clicks and users, the valuation can still be very high. Historically, until the Internet bubble in 1999, in fact, investors did not care about the so-called business model. The future profit direction was to race first.
Enclosure, blind confidence.
Now, Gu Kun is his first real customer, and he also taught Zhang Chaoyang: It turns out that the real money collection model of Internet companies can still be like this!
Gu Kun is the first person to give real money to domestic Internet companies in terms of sales.
Others also give money, but those who give money are venture capital.
"Xiao Gu is very good at this... I guess he just wants to use the Internet media to help him hype up. With the current high-end and mysterious impression of the Internet on the Internet, even if the information on the Internet is only seen by 100,000 people, it is hard to say how popular it will be in the end.
."
Ma Feng sorted out the cause and effect, and with emotion in his heart, he deleted Zhang Chaoyang's scandalous text messages in a very trustworthy manner.
After all, Ma Feng is also someone who knows how to operate a gimmick economy. After thinking about it for a while, he has completely understood Gu Kun's logic.
Today's "Internet" has the impression among people that it is mysterious, high-end, and can see exciting news.
People nowadays will never doubt that the information on the Internet is fake news. Instead, they will think that it is "internal information that print media does not want people to know because it is too high-end and dare not report it."
Ma Feng was thinking about it, but Zhang Chaoyang had already returned from the bathroom, and nothing seemed to have happened.
Ma Feng quickly stopped his thinking expression, put on a flattering smile, and continued to drink and praise.
They played until 12 o'clock in the evening. He excused himself and went back to work on the pretext that he still had something to do.
"This guy, Lao Ma, is just a petty person. Success does not come from hard work, it depends on talent! God will reward you! He became a monk halfway and it was too late to work hard. If I had known this, I should have studied hard and followed up on information technology.
It’s cutting edge.”
Zhang Chaoyang, who was already half-drunk and half-awake, watched Ma Feng, a sloppy guy, leave, and taught life lessons to his younger brothers and colleagues next to him like a successful person.
The words of the successful person certainly attracted the echo of others:
"Yes, yes, Brother Chao is right. In high-tech industries like the Internet, there are still thresholds. There is no such thing as a cat or a dog who majors in liberal arts and expects to succeed through hard work after listening to a few concepts."
"But there are few people in the world who can be as talented as your brother Chao, a top student from Tsinghua University and a Ph.D. from MIT. Lao Ma's company heard that he sold SHEN to China Telecom for 2 million, which can be regarded as a happy ending. I hope he took the money and lived a good life.
Bar."
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Three days later, Gu Kun ended all the entertainment in Hujiang and went to Beijing to give a few reports.
The leaders of the relevant departments of education, culture and sports naturally wanted to meet him. In a short time, Gu Kun made many high-level connections and became familiar with them all.
This is not an exaggeration. In future generations, if you are a native of China, it will be relatively easy for you to win an Olympic gold medal and meet the provincial leaders of your province once or twice.
Of course, it's only once or twice, and the leader might forget about it later. After all, the leader has to meet with a lot of people every day.
With Gu Kun's achievements, he should meet more ministers, even if he is an overseas Chinese.
While Gu Kun was reporting there and making connections, the tidbits about him spread online and in other magazines and media were also further fermented, further increasing his popularity and public admiration.
He has become a national urban legend, and the upper class is talking about his romantic encounters and conquests with high-class ladies in Europe and the United States.
Anyone who questions or doesn't believe will be looked down upon by friends in the industry, who think the questioner is too naive, and then use the links they saw on Sohu as evidence to plausibly rectify Gu Kun's name.
September 15th, Gu Kun’s last day in Beijing,
Since there was no fixed itinerary, Gu Kun completely relaxed after returning to the hotel and was ready to have a good rest.
As soon as he lay down on the bed, a text message came in from Gu Kun's cell phone. He was not in a hurry and picked it up after a while to read it.
Really urgent matters are all done on the phone, and those who send text messages are probably not of a high enough standard.
However, after taking a closer look, Gu Kun took it seriously. It turned out that it was from Ma Feng, and the content was that he wanted to pay him back.
In the text message, Ma Feng told the truth that "China Yellow Pages", which he spent more than a year and a half starting up, had signed an agreement with Huaxia Telecom and was about to sell its equity, and the deal would be completed in the fourth quarter of this year.
The money Gu Kun gave him can be considered as a complete return, so he came to return it.
Gu Kun was quite pleased to see that, at least he had not changed much of this aspect of history, and would be able to spend less time adjusting the butterfly effect in the future.
Ma Feng’s first self-employment is considered successful.
He thought for a while and called Ma Feng back: "You can choose a place and have a drink together."
10 minutes later, Ma Feng rushed to the Hilton Hotel in Beijing where Gu Kun was staying, and ordered a table of dishes. Obviously, before he sent a text message to Gu Kun, he had already come nearby to wait in advance, and his posture was very low.
As soon as Gu Kun arrived and found a seat to sit down, Ma Feng handed over a small suitcase with both hands:
"This is 400,000. I didn't count too much. I just calculated it based on the interest on private loans. I know that your favor cannot be repaid with just a little interest. If you can use it in the future, just ask."
95,96 Bank interest rates are already high, more than ten percent a year, in order to use high RMB interest rates to lock in funds and prevent them from escaping. Gu Kun borrowed 300,000 from Ma Feng to start a business, and it took more than 18 months to fully pay, close to 20 months.
, charging RMB 100,000 in interest can only be regarded as official business.
Obviously, Ma Feng knew that such a high-risk loan could not repay the favor by paying more interest, so he simply opened up and talked openly.
"If you are serious, I know you are trustworthy." Gu Kun didn't waste any words and just handed over the money. He didn't want to play any sensational drama with false feelings.