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The Eagle King was obviously a little skeptical about what Hydson said.

He didn't know whether those tycoons would listen to his request if he gave them a heads up.

After all, it is not so easy to unify the will of the chaebol giants.

People say that chaebols have no motherland.

In order to make money or protect their wealth, they can change their residence at any time.

At present, many wealthy people in Eagle Village are actually quite pessimistic about the future of Eagle Village.

Some of them have quietly emigrated.

This is because Eagle Village’s immigration policy is very harsh. If you want to leave Eagle Village, you must pay a large amount of abandonment tax!

The expatriation tax can be as high as 50% of a person's wealth.

Even this cannot stop the rich from leaving quietly.

In fact, if the rich want to leave quietly, there are still many ways for them to do so.

They can move their wealth away bit by bit through investment.

By the time they were ready to immigrate, they had very few assets left in Eagle Village.

Of course, Eagle Village has an even more ferocious trick: global taxation!

Do you want to abandon your citizenship?

Then investigate how much assets you have worldwide!

Once the information is found, you will be required to pay the expatriation tax based on that amount.

In short, the iron fist of capitalism is indeed much more powerful.

The Eagle King nodded and said, "Okay! Then, let those business leaders issue an initiative!"

"We encourage all companies in Eagle Village not to place advertisements on those Dragon Country Internet software!"

"In addition to corporate advocacy, we also need the advocacy of influential legislators and local chief executives."

"There is only one purpose: to deny them the opportunity to make money!"

"As long as they persevere, I believe they can probably last up to a year at most."

"After all, they have invested a lot in maintaining these software."

“I heard that their Weibo accounts are providing huge subsidies to influential bloggers!”

“Some bloggers can earn tens of thousands of dollars from just one blog post!”

"Then they only have a Weibo platform, I estimate that they have to invest billions every year, right?"

"I think it's not a bad idea to let them help us support a group of high-income earners."

When the Eagle King said this, he seemed a little bit smug.

Hydson sighed and thought to himself, Your Majesty, can you really not see the harm?

The ideological harm is extremely serious!

In the past, no one had ever exposed the injustices in Eagle Village.

But now, looking at Weibo, the Eagle Village is really as scary as hell.

This kind of complaining and emotional release is contagious.

If this emotion cannot be soothed, who knows what the future will be like?

Of course, Hydeson will not discuss this matter with Eagle King for the time being.

There is actually no point in discussing it.

By the way, it was already October 1985.

After half a year of development, the Internet is booming around the world and has become the hottest phenomenon.

The Dragon Nation is helping build the Internet around the world.

A series of submarine optical cables revolve around Longguo, connecting major regions and countries around the world like blood vessels.

The construction of the Internet has greatly promoted global development.

Of course, the country that benefited the most was Longguo.

The Dragon Country's Internet equipment is being exported all over the world.

It's not just Pangu Technology. A large number of Internet equipment and technology companies have also emerged in Dragon Country.

Just supporting the development of the global Internet has made Longguo hundreds of billions of dollars.

Of course, this hundreds of billions of dollars is just a unit of measurement. It does not mean that when Longguo builds the Internet for various countries, all transactions are conducted in US dollars.

In fact, Longguo only accepted US dollars when trading with Yingcun.

When trading with other economies, dragons are much more flexible: they can trade with food, minerals, or energy.

They accept all kinds of vegetables and fruits as long as they can be transported back to the country in good condition.

As I said before, trading is actually a process of exchanging what you have for what you don’t have.

The reason why currency was used later was that the price of goods exchanged was difficult to measure, so there had to be an intermediary object.

This intermediary can make the transaction go on better.

Since the US dollar is still the world currency, we might as well take advantage of it.

Of course, it is just for reference so that both parties can have a more reasonable and acceptable price when doing business.

With the explosive development of Longguo's industrial high-tech products, Longguo's electromechanical, electronics, home appliances, aircraft, automobiles, etc. are all developing rapidly.

Moreover, in addition to satisfying the domestic market, exports to foreign countries are also increasing.

It not only meets the needs of third world countries, but is also gradually entering the so-called developed economies.

Under the advocacy of the Dragon Country, countries have abandoned the US dollar and used more exchangeable commodities to conduct exchange transactions.

This is obviously bad news for the Eagle.

The US dollar has become the world's hard currency since World War II.

It was the world currency until the 1970s and 1980s.

Even the camp of Giant Bear and his friends actually use a large amount of US dollars.

For a long time, the giant bear actually hoped to turn its own currency into a global currency.

However, it cannot guarantee the stability of its currency value, and the ruble is very volatile.

Since the establishment of the giant bear, the ruble has basically become unsustainable after 10 to 20 years, and has had to reissue new currency to reshuffle debts.

If you do this, then after being fooled once, you won’t be able to fool countries around the world a second time.

The reason why the giant bear's currency is unstable is because it has huge expenses.

It maintains the largest army and provides more benefits to the people.

If the expenditure is high, then in the process of issuing one's own currency, one often has to secretly print more and spend more.

If you print more and more, but there are not so many supplies on the market, the price of the currency will definitely skyrocket!

Even if you claim that your money is denominated on the gold standard and that your money can be stably exchanged for gold, no one will take the risk.

The giant bear failed to establish its own monetary credibility, and it could not provide enough goods to the world, so it ultimately failed to make the ruble an international currency.

The eagle's sharpness almost disappeared after the collapse of the gold standard in the early 1970s.

The reason why it stabilized later was purely because it cleverly tied its knife and spicy food to commodities such as oil.

You have to be sharp with your knife when you buy those bulk commodities.

Just like that, Dao La was not abandoned in the end.

From this point of view, the contribution of Watergate Eagle King is quite great.

He made full use of the situation in the late 70s, tied the desert camel to his chariot, and finally reversed the unfavorable factors and stabilized and recovered.

Being able to stabilize the US dollar is of great help to the Eagle in quickly catching its breath.

After all, our own currency is an international currency that can be printed and used to buy anything. This is so powerful.

Being able to serve as an international currency stably means that seigniorage can be levied on the whole world!
Then we can leverage the power of the whole world to compete with the giant bear.

Why did the giant bear end up at a disadvantage?

In addition to being too rigid and inflexible, the gap in currency is really too big. But now, the US dollar is facing a terrible resistance.

Its use in international trade is declining rapidly.

This is definitely not a good thing...

What makes the eagle even more panic is that its former friends, the desert countries, are now behaving very ambiguously.

The princes of the desert no longer stood unanimously on the side of the eagle.

Instead, they began to get closer to the giant bear and the giant dragon, and their interactions became more frequent and tacit.

This is an even more dangerous signal for the eagle.

One day in early October 1985, Ma Yilong, the president of Pangu Technology who was stationed in North America to be in charge of QQ, officially announced the launch of QQ Game Hall and QQ value-added services.

QQ Game Hall mainly includes some chess and card games.

Of course, the chess and card games here are all popular in North America, not in Dragon Country.

The most important ones are Texas Hold'em, Omaha Poker, Bridge, Chess, etc.

Of course, there are also some popular games in Longguo in the game hall, such as various mahjong games, upgrade games, pig games, etc.

These games all have gameplay tutorials, and you only need to watch them once and have the system demonstrated once, and basically, there won’t be any problems.

There are also billiard games in the game hall, including snooker, eight-ball, nine-ball, etc.

Playing billiards is also very popular in Eagle Village and has a large player base.

There are hundreds of mini games in this game hall.

When players enter a game, they can team up with each other to play.

Winning or losing depends mainly on game beans.

Game beans are given away by the system at the beginning. However, if you want to continue playing after losing, you have to buy game beans with money.

These game beans are a tool for software vendors to make money.

In order to allow players to purchase game beans online, it is also necessary to establish banking relationships.

Only after signing a cooperation agreement with the bank can the bank card information be connected.

This also requires a process.

The reason why the game lobby was not launched until early October is mainly to get all these things ready.

If you can't get through, you won't be able to make a profit.

In order to open up banking services and realize online payment, Ma Yilong made great efforts and mobilized a lot of connections.

In fact, the competition in the banking industry in Yingcun is also quite fierce.

After all, the chaebols all know that the banking industry is the fastest way to make money, and everyone wants to open a bank.

But not everyone can do well in the banking industry.

At the beginning, Ma Yilong hoped to cooperate with big banks such as Morgan.

However, the banks were arrogant and ignored it.

This is mainly because the Eagle King has already made it known, and the Eagle King and politicians are calling for not to cooperate with companies such as QQ.

The top banks feel that they must obey the interests of Eagle Village.

Therefore, we must spontaneously ban companies such as QQ and Weibo.

Ma Yilong naturally knew this.

The other party will definitely play tricks. Wang Haoran specifically told this to Ma Yilong and other expatriate executives.

It is certain that the other side is playing tricks, but it is also certain that they cannot form a truly united front.

Because the chaebols need to place bets on multiple parties.

They can't put all their eggs in one basket.

There are many chaebols who will prepare a fallback and retreat route for themselves.

This is also why when the chaebols donate to the Eagle King candidates, they share the benefits equally and give a little to each candidate.

This is a good start.

No matter which side goes up, they will not suffer any loss.

The big and small tycoons in Eagle Village now naturally know that the world is changing dramatically. No one knows what will happen to Eagle Village in the future.

In this case, do you want to completely offend a superstar?

Every chaebol will weigh this matter.

Ma Yilong didn't argue too much with the other party.

He immediately started discussing cooperation with medium and large banks.

Today, QQ has a very large user base.

Almost all Internet users have QQ.

If you have a large number of users, you will basically have the foundation for making money.

Everyone knows this.

The bankers in Yingcun naturally understood this.

Especially after Ma Yilong told the other party about his ideas and plans for making money, several banks immediately agreed to cooperate.

After they agree to cooperate, they can introduce the bank's business into QQ's payment system.

This payment system can be established.

After it is built, users only need to bind their bank card information to the payment system, and then they can purchase game beans with credit cards.

In addition to the game hall, QQ's value-added services include QQ membership services and QQ Show services.

Of course, these services are all based on the principle of willing users. If you want to show your uniqueness, you must spend money to buy QQ shows, jewelry, and other costumes.

When you spend money, you become different and stand out from others, thereby attracting the opposite sex and improving your right to choose a mate.

How wonderful this is!

This is what is called doing great things with little money.

Before launching these services, Ma Yilong had already communicated with Wang Haoran.

Wang Haoran highly agrees with Ma Yilong's work.

Ma Yilong has strong executive ability and his own subjective initiative, and he is very good at management. Moreover, he is good at building relationships and is also good at business operations.

This is what an excellent professional manager is.

"Comrade Haoran, I have to say that our QQ users have a very strong stickiness. Basically, once they use our software, they will never leave it again."

“Because almost everyone’s connections are on QQ.”

"Therefore, I think our software can definitely make a lot of money! With games and value-added services, we can also quickly achieve profitability!"

Ma Yilong said to Wang Haoran.

Wang Haoran smiled and said, "Your guess must be correct!"

"Now, under the leadership of the Eagle King, the companies in Eagle Village are still choosing to confront us. They really won't put ads on our website now! Haha!"

"But I firmly believe that their persistence will not last too long!"

"I believe that soon some companies will be unable to resist and succumb to us."

Ma Yilong said: "I have also communicated with many business owners here."

“They are all very optimistic about the effectiveness of our advertising!”

"After all, our QQ now has 150 million users in Yingcun!"

"But now I have a worry..."

Wang Haoran smiled and asked, "What are you worried about?"

Ma Yilong said: "Eagles are very rogue!"

"They also don't have any moral principles or true spirit of contract."

"I'm worried! One day in the future they will suddenly announce that they will nationalize our software..." (End of this chapter)