What's wrong with me being a rich man?

Chapter 276 The Future (5k)

The feud between Xunlei and Penguin has a long history.

The former tried IM tools, and the latter operated QQ Tornado. The two sides had fought a battle of offense and defense over download protocols, and had also confronted each other in court in Nanshan District.

This kind of grudge made Xunlei's eyes light up when they saw the threat posed by WeChat to Penguin. This time, Yu Xing moved from Beijing to Guangzhou and then to Shenzhen, and IDG, the common shareholder on both sides, also gave a heads-up in advance.

In addition, there have already been cooperation examples with 360, Sogou, UC, and YY, so Zou Shenglong did not hesitate to lend a helping hand.

He didn't have to listen to any market competition at all. He just went through the motions and held a welcoming banquet for Yu Xing and his group.

Yu Xing felt really flattered by this unprecedented enthusiasm.

"Brother, you don't have enough companies in your alliance. Why don't you include Baidu and Alibaba? And Sina, Sohu and NetEase?" Zou Shenglong asked regretfully after three rounds of drinks.

Yu Xing talked about what Fangbian said. Although Penguin has a bad reputation, not all traffic companies are willing to get involved, even if WeChat is willing to sell its equity at a relatively affordable price.

Moreover, from a business perspective, no matter how cost-effective it is, once it goes bankrupt, it will become a piece of waste paper.

"Hey, brother, tell me the truth." Zou Shenglong clinked glasses with his wine. "I speak directly, don't blame me."

Yu Xing smiled and said, "Brother Zou, it's okay. I'm also the type who speaks very directly. Just say whatever you want to say."

Zou Shenglong thought about it and realized that it was true. The young man in front of him was too straightforward.

He put down his glass and said, "I think it's hard for WeChat to beat Penguin. I was... that was four or five years ago. At that time, I also worked in communications, but it was on computers. At that time, I also wanted to find traffic, so I looked for 139 under China Mobile, but in the end it came to nothing."

Zou Shenglong shook his head and said with emotion: "Penguin is too strong in this aspect. This is not a good opponent."

Yu Xing smiled slightly: "We are still in the lead now."

Zou Shenglong nodded and poured wine for Yu Xing himself: "So, the changes in the times are sometimes really hard to understand. In the past nearly ten years, who would have believed that there would be a communication software that could surpass Penguin?"

He cheerfully offered another suggestion: "Brother Yu, when it comes to traffic, China Mobile and China Unicom are the biggest. You should go find them."

"Brother Zou, we have looked for them, but the operators are obviously not interested, and we can't get an appointment with anyone who can take charge." Yu Xing pondered, "Although Fetion has no market trends, it is still a competitor after all, and they have various interests. We will try to meet them later, but we don't expect to cooperate with them."

Zou Shenglong felt quite regretful, but he grinned again: "Brother, it's already very impressive to be able to do this. Even if I can't kill it, I'll at least scare it!"

Yu Xing could sense the sincerity and even urgency in his words, and couldn't help but laugh: "If you really want me to kill it, I probably can't do it, but if you want to scare it, I probably can."

Zou Shenglong's interest immediately grew: "Come on, come on, let me toast you again. I only heard of Bai Xiaosheng a few times before, but recently I know that there is such a person as you!"

The atmosphere at the welcoming banquet hosted by Xunlei was excellent, so everyone drank a lot.

After resting in the afternoon and sobering up, Yu Xing and Li Shanyou discussed the situation and were still surprised by Xunlei's initiative.

"Mr. Zou said that Mr. Yu is also a big shot. We are the third largest instant messaging company in China." Li Shanyou said with a smile, "Although we can't attract traffic by holding up the banner of fighting against Penguin, at least we can get some help."

Yu Xing agreed and said with regret: "Yes, it's still because his foundation is relatively poor and his reputation in the martial arts world is not good enough."

Li Shanyou rolled his eyes and said, "Boss Yu, I first went to Motorola, then to Alcoa, then to Bausch and Lomb, and then joined Sohu and worked diligently until I became a senior vice president. Finally, I founded Ku6.com, which was how I became famous in the industry. But I ended up selling Ku6."

He sighed and said, "Look at you. It's only been two years since you graduated from school in 08, and you're already much more famous than me! And you're still not satisfied! You still want to unite the reputation of the resistance penguin! You're too greedy!"

When Yu Xing heard this, he thought, eh, it does make sense.

He touched the empty cigarette box and asked, "Mr. Li, do you want to learn? I'll teach you."

Li Shanyou asked suspiciously, "Can this be taught? Tell me about it."

Yu Xing said sternly, "It's offensive."

Li Shanyou didn't react at first, thinking that what he was going to teach would offend people. Then he thought that these three words seemed to condense some characteristics of Mr. Yu in the past two years...

Since its establishment, Bai Xiaosheng has offended countless people. Even the turmoil and predicament brought about by Today Capital this time is due to the violation of Bai Xiaosheng's rules. The traffic cooperation obtained through negotiations from south to north is also carried out under the banner of offending Penguin.

Li Shanyou couldn't help but think of Zhang Chaoyang's previous admonition to Yu Xing, "offend fewer people", and then thought of his "offend more people" that day, which was quite interesting. He shook his head repeatedly: "I can't learn it, Mr. Yu, you really can't learn it."

He then said: "But even though I can't learn it, I can still give you some supplements."

Yu Xing crushed the cigarette box, threw it accurately into the trash can, and listened attentively.

Li Shanyou pretended to be serious and said, "You offended people, but you still live."

I have offended Today Capital, offended Penguin, offended this and that. Now my action is to try hard to survive after offending people.

The two looked into each other's eyes, laughed, and developed a tacit understanding.

5500+1500+1500+2000+1500，来自360+搜狗+YY+UC+迅雷的合计1.2亿华夏币的流量资源在俞兴等人抵达鹏城之后被逐一敲定，确定能够补充今日资本空缺所带来的资金缺口。

This batch of traffic resources is diverse, including security software, browsers, input methods, voice software, download tools...it can be said to be a patchwork of various things.

But unfortunately, much of the traffic is not a supplement to WeChat promotion, but a continuation of previous cooperation.

A large part of the money that WeChat received from the four institutions was used for promotion. Companies like Sina and Sohu that did not agree to cooperate were also one of the promotion channels that the company had already cooperated with.

After all, there are only a few companies with considerable traffic in the domestic Internet, and WeChat can only focus its promotion efforts on them. The newly added traffic from YY and Sogou was not previously included in the cooperation because their advertising conversion rates were relatively poor, and the previous funds should be spent as much as possible.

Now... it's good to have it.

That night, Yu Xing repeatedly counted and calculated the impact of this "change when in trouble" policy. He felt that the upper limit of the overall traffic pool for WeChat promotion had been broadened, but the subsequent feedback on the daily increase needed further observation.

At eleven o'clock in the middle of the night, he was lying in bed unable to sleep, so he called Xiaoying again. They talked about the two projects they were going to tackle after crossing the mountain, and the next they talked about the visit to various major companies.

The call was not disconnected until the early hours of the morning.

Yu Xing looked at the screen of his mobile phone, flipped through his WeChat friend list, and considered the arrangements for the next day's visit. Although this trip was forced upon him, the effect of himself, the founder of WeChat, personally leading the team seemed to be better than he had imagined.

WeChat is now competing with Weichat in the market, and perhaps its role in external cooperation is more important.

Yu Xing was thinking, and his eyes suddenly fell on the name of Zhai Yifei, the director of the forum he added in Beijing.

Thinking about their brief exchange last time, he sent a message tentatively: "Mr. Zhai's idea on information decentralization is very inspiring. When we have time, we can chat together."

In just five seconds, there was a reply on WeChat.

Zhai Yifei said simply and clearly: "There is time now."

Then came the second message: "WeChat is a very good product. Mr. Yu was able to create such a product in such a short time. People in the industry are very surprised."

Just as Yu Xing was considering how to reply, the other party's third message came.

Zhai Yifei: "Mr. Yu said last time that control was transferred from the editorial office to the server cluster. I have been thinking about this these days. Compared with humans, the 24-hour uninterrupted performance of machines can indeed form a more hidden centralization in the massive amount of information. If machines use algorithms to control information, then the generation of information will be greatly affected by the rules. Most creators will actively or passively cede their creative sovereignty to the algorithm."

Yu Xing didn’t have time to talk about the topic in the previous sentence, so he simply sent a message via voice: “The traffic mechanism of the layered architecture and the super-centralized system under the distributed appearance.”

Zhai Yifei also immediately responded with a voice message: "The system architecture of WeChat is a combination of layered architecture and distributed architecture, right?"

Yu Xing: “Hahaha, yes, I was discovered. I learned these two words from the technical team. When WeChat first started the project, there were big differences in this regard. Later, I had some superficial understanding. Now it is suitable to describe the future of decentralized information that you mentioned.”

The two of them chatted about possible future situations and changes, and before they knew it, it was two in the morning.

Yu Xing only noticed the time when his cell phone reminded him that the battery was low. Seeing that they had already talked a lot, he reluctantly agreed to talk again another day, after all, he had other things to do tomorrow.

However, when I put my phone next to my pillow to charge, a thought flashed through my mind and popped up in WeChat.

Yu Xing sent a message: "Mr. Zhai, the decentralized information model has great potential. Are you willing to leave Baidu and try it? If you are willing to try, I can invest."

Zhai Yifei was obviously not asleep either, and replied: "Mr. Yu, do you have any investment funds? WeChat company doesn't seem to be very accommodating. Well, I feel pretty good at Baidu, and the development of Tieba is also promising. We'll talk again when we have a chance."

Yu Xing was a little regretful: "Boss Zhai, if this kind of project can be done, the prospect is much better than your Tieba in Baidu, and it is also likely to be disruptive. WeChat is now in a critical period of competition, but Baixiaosheng can still do incubation, and I can also help find resources. Last time you said that the homogeneous WeChat may not be able to beat Penguin, but this may not be impossible."

Zhai Yifei's final reply was brief: "Thank you for your kindness, Mr. Yu. We'll talk later."

Yu Xing did not continue to send messages. He flipped through the chat with this person and fell asleep with the mood of taking care of the present first.

Xunlei in Pengcheng gave us an exciting experience, but due to various factors, we cannot have good expectations for the following companies such as Renren and Shanda. We can only say that we will do our best.

When the gap of Today Capital was basically filled, the remaining companies to visit were to consider enhancing the promotion effect of WeChat. However, although Renren.com had no chance to use Renrenchat, it was unwilling to exchange its traffic for the equity of WeChat, and Shanda, perhaps because of some relationship with Tang Jun or its own decline, directly gave a hard nail.

NetEase showed no interest in the next one, and Ctrip simply rejected their offer over the phone...

The names on the list became fewer and fewer, and when I visited Youku, I was finally given a warm welcome.

Youku’s benefits are almost catching up with Xunlei!
This is because Tudou.com, which was delisted, is its most direct competitor!
There is no company in the world that would be happier to see Tudou fail than Youku!

Yu Xing simply mentioned his intention, and Youku quickly compared it to the company it already cooperated with and was willing to provide three months of traffic resources.

Li Shanyou could only sigh at this situation: "Boss Yu, offending people also has its benefits..."

The enemy of my enemy is my friend. This is also evident in commercial competition. Not to mention the current Youku, the wave of traffic that WeChat owes to 360 is precisely for this reason.

Yu Xing did not comment and arranged to split up the forces: "Youku's performance this time is still within our expectations. Mr. Li, you go to 58.com and I will go to Lin'an to find Alibaba. Let's split up now."

Li Shanyou has a friend at 58, and he went to Lin'an to find out about Alibaba's current situation.

"These two are tough guys. I hope we can at least get good news." Li Shanyou said sincerely.

After such a long journey across the country, WeChat's journey to seek traffic cooperation is coming to an end.

However, before the two of them could act separately, the latest news from their opponents made them frown.

On the last day of November, Penguin's updated version of WeChat officially launched the voice message function, which also means that after cleaning up internal problems and increasing its promotion efforts, it has adopted its best follow-up tactics.

What you have, I can have too.

As soon as the new version of WeChat chat was launched, Yu Xing's Weibo post immediately became lively, with many comments @Penguin not daring to make a promise last time, Lu Shan, showing obvious sarcasm.

The predicted penalty previously issued by the founder of WeChat has officially come into effect.

There were also many people who questioned Yu Xing during that public opinion, and now they joined the mockery of Penguin by saying "I'm sorry, Mr. Yu."

Affected by this, the daily increase in WeChat users saw a small peak, with the daily increase reaching nearly 50 users.

"Mr. Yu, the penguin is still doing this." Li Shanyou barely concealed his worry, "If it starts once, it will happen again. It won't stop."

Having already been cursed, it is natural that the opponent must be defeated completely.

Yu Xing seemed quite calm: "It's an expected competitive method. As long as it's effective for Penguin, it's fine. If I went to Penguin's seminar, they might even apologize to me."

Li Shanyou didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

"That's it. I'll go to Lin'an. I didn't make an appointment with Ma Dian, but it would be nice to meet Cai Chongxin." Yu Xing turned his attention back to the matter.

Joseph Tsai is one of Alibaba's Eighteen Arhats and is known as the man behind Ma Dian. He currently serves as the group's CFO, a position of considerable weight.

Yu Xing also attaches great importance to meeting this person, and if possible, hopes to have a friendly contact first as a prelude.

However, Yu Xing doesn’t feel anything about micro-chat following the WeChat function, but others are different.

Just when he arrived in Lin'an, a message from Zhai Yifei on Baidu Tieba came to him.

Zhai Yifei: "Mr. Yu, the audio version has also been released on WeChat."

Yu Xing: “Yes.”

After a brief exchange of two sentences, Zhai Yifei sent a voice message after a long time: "Mr. Yu, do you think the decentralized information model is really expected to subvert companies like Penguin?"

Yu Xing was excited when he received the message. After thinking for two seconds, he replied: "Boss Zhai, I wonder if you will be happier if I say this. Not only can it subvert Penguin, it may also subvert your current employer."

Zhai Yifei replied almost immediately: "Mr. Yu, do you and Bai Xiaosheng really have the money to invest in incubation?"

Yu Xing confirmed: "If you can show how to do it, even if I don't have money, I will be able to find money outside."

Zhai Yifei: "Then I'll try."

Yu Xing put down his phone, wondering whether this rather perceptive director of Tieba could really make a decentralized information model work, nor did he know where Zhang Yiming, the founder of ByteDance, was now.

When I arrived at Alibaba and met Joseph Tsai, the agreed time was only half an hour.

Yu Xing did most of the talking, and Alibaba's CFO only raised a few irrelevant questions.

Finally, Cai Chongxin gave a clear answer: "Mr. Yu, the competition between WeChat and Penguin is impressive, but our strategic scope does not cover this area. I hope your WeChat can have better development."

Yu Xing asked: "According to this trend, Alibaba will sooner or later come into direct conflict with Penguin. Now that it is blocked at the door of mobile instant messaging, shouldn't Alibaba immediately lend a helping hand?"

Cai Chongxin said slowly: "Mr. Yu, I think Alibaba needs to do its own thing and then see what happens."

Yu Xing asked somewhat disappointedly: "Does Mr. Ma think so too? Does Mr. Ma know about the competition between WeChat and Weichat?"

Cai Chongxin understood what Yu Xing meant, smiled, and said affirmatively: "Of course he knows, and of course he thinks so."

Yu Xing was certainly not satisfied with these two, but he also knew that this trip was in vain.

He could only say with some regret: "I hope Mr. Ma and Alibaba will change their minds because of reality."

Cai Chongxin smiled slightly and stood up to see the guest off.

After Yu Xing left Alibaba, he still felt regretful when thinking about the information he gained from the meeting. If he could really attract the traffic of this giant, he might try more possibilities.

However, Ma Dian is still abroad and is said to be still dealing with Yahoo's equity matters.

The turmoil caused by Alipay's equity has not completely subsided. At least, Yahoo's stake in Alibaba has not yet been dealt with in a way that satisfies both parties.

Yu Xing strolled along the shore of West Lake, gazing at the early winter scenery and pondering over the competition expectations of WeChat.

Near noon, he suddenly received a WeChat message from Liu Jiankai.

"Mr. Yu, I'm following up on WeChat." Liu Jiankai hadn't chatted for a long time, and the first thing he started with was the latest developments in the competition on WeChat.

"Yes, former vice president of Today Capital, you are so well-informed." Yu Xing replied.

Liu Jiankai's voice sounded quite helpless: "Boss Yu, it's not good to expose someone's scars."

Yu Xing smiled and said, "Yes, I usually create scars."

Liu Jiankai: “…”

After a moment, he mentioned what happened when he resigned last month: "Mr. Yu, to be honest, I dreamed about you before. I dreamed that I was dragged by a friend to work on a subsidy fraud project, and then it was exposed by your Bai Xiaosheng. I rushed to your office and confronted you. In the end, you apologized to me, but I slammed the door and left."

If the dream is not right, is it wrong to talk about the dream?
Yu Xing laughed dumbly: "Boss Liu, do you have a new employer? Red Falcon is short of people, are you coming?"

Liu Jiankai declined: "No, they are all investors, so why should I quit my job? Is there any other way?"

Yu Xing thought for a while and asked, "Bi Sheng's LeTao.com is developing well now. He has potential there. Do you want to go?"

Liu Jiankai still refused: "I want to go to e-commerce, why not JD.com? No, is there any other option?"

Yu Xing sat on the chair, pondered for a few seconds, and then asked: "I met a director of Baidu this time. He wants to do a project on a new information acquisition model. The prospects are very good. Do you want to come?"

Liu Jiankai looked at the words on the screen and refused again: "No, no, it sounds unreliable."

Yu Xing was helpless: "If I don't go here or there, what else can I do?"

Liu Jiankai said with a smile: "Mr. Yu, you are a strange person, I am sure you can help me think of something more."

Yu Xing thought about it and suddenly came up with a direction. He cleared his throat and asked, "Decentralization was a focus of my conversation with the Baidu guy. Speaking of decentralization, Mr. Liu, have you heard of blockchain?"

Liu Jiankai replied after a long while: "What is that?"

Yu Xing stared at the surface of West Lake for a while and replied, "Probably in the future."

(End of this chapter)