What's wrong with me being a rich man?

Chapter 45: Making the Best Use of Things ( words, monthly ticket requested)

Song Yufeng's bones had to be hardened, but his body was indeed soft.

Things turned out completely differently than I imagined.

I thought it was Guiai.com that was in trouble, but I didn't expect that I was the one who was in trouble.

I thought Yu Xing was the naive one, but I didn't expect that he was the most mature one.

Since he already knew the situation on the day he was drunk, he still sent himself home and even agreed to help his girlfriend find a job. He not only gave her equity, but also gave her extra income from online marketing.

It has been more than half a month since that day, but he just kept silent until...

When Song Yufeng looked back, he saw scheming, depth, sophistication, and this... he was causing himself so much trouble!
After listening to the recording, I agreed to the conditions.

Song Yufeng let go instead.

"Yu Xing, Yu Xing, I really underestimated you, but even if I really stand up, it will be difficult for your company to beat NetEase."

"What kind of company is this? It's only a little over a month at most. You can't win..."

"If it doesn't work out, just sell your company to NetEase!"

After saying a few words, Song Yufeng suddenly found a way to save himself.

If I stand up, I will definitely lose my job and the industry won’t know how to view me.

If you don't stand up, it will be even worse...

But if NetEase could buy Guiai.com, it would not only solve Yu Xing's problem, but also save his career.

"If NetEase is willing to buy, it wouldn't just copy without asking any questions." Yu Xing saw it clearly. "Even if it really wants to buy, how much are they willing to pay now? If they want NetEase to pay, or if they want to sell the company for a good price, they have to give you a hard time."

There was a villain in Song Yufeng's mind who kept shouting "It's over". He shook his head vigorously and suddenly asked: "Yu Xing, if I don't agree, will you really play the recording?"

Yu Xing looked at Song Yufeng strangely and said bluntly: "Mr. Reporter, why are you still so naive? What else? My company can't survive, why should I care about your life or death?"

Song Yufeng said weakly: "You don't really care whether I live or die now."

"Some people die in an inelegant way," Yu Xing said. "Some people die in a spectacular way. As a reporter, you charged me for travel expenses, and then you explained my project to others. And how much of your marketing fee did you keep?"

Song Yufeng swallowed and remained silent, not wanting to leave any more evidence.

Yu Xing did not ask further questions, but just said this and sneered: "To put it bluntly, you think we are easy to bully, you think small companies have no say, and you think college students are incompetent. Even if you come and ask me?"

Song Yufeng sighed: "Who can ask you? Will you agree if I ask you?"

"Yes, I don't agree!" Yu Xing said loudly, "But am I wrong to disagree?"

Song Yufeng was speechless again.

That’s right, Guiai.com and Yu Xing did nothing wrong. What the company did was...well, that’s how it is in the industry.

He felt uncomfortable, and when Yu Xing finally stood up from his seat, he asked, "Can I go home now?"

"Okay, go back and tell Yin Baoyi that we should try to make her shares more valuable." Yu Xing picked up the bag containing the money.

Song Yufeng thought this was sarcasm, and after a few seconds of silence, he said, "I'll ask her to tear up the contract when I get back."

"Why tear it up? If I said 1.5%, it's 1.5%." Yu Xing shook his head and said, "I won't cheat you of this little money. Do you think everyone does things like you intellectuals do?"

Song Yufeng finally hit back: "Yes, you don't act like a cultured person, you are just recording to coerce."

Yu Xing smiled at the reporter whom he had known for almost a month and was not angry.

He also invited: "I'm hungry. We are going to eat. Do you want to come?"

Song Yufeng looked at this deep-minded entrepreneur, and suddenly some inexplicable resentment emerged in his heart. He agreed immediately: "Okay! Eat!"

Yu Xing was a little surprised, but didn't take it seriously.

The sky has completely darkened.

Yu Xing and Lu Haiying had no intention of eating and drinking to excess, so they found a small restaurant and took calls to deal with some other matters.

Only Song Yufeng was thinking about his work and the coercion he suffered. He even hung up the call from his girlfriend and didn't want to answer it.

"Don't look so sad." Yu Xing noticed Song Yufeng's expression and advised, "Your company is here to kill me, and I won't look sad, so why should you?"

"Yes, I'm here as a torch to light you up, so why are you crying?" Song Yufeng sighed, "After I finish this job with you, I won't be able to make it in the future."

Yu Xing smiled and said, "Why? You guys in the media industry are too innocent and too righteous, so you can't get by?"

Song Yufeng remained silent. After the dishes were served, he suddenly said angrily, "Why are you pretending to be innocent? You even gave me travel expenses!"

"Then what can I do? Brother Feng, you always stand on your own side, on your company's side. You think that's how the industry is, so there's nothing wrong with what your company does. You think travel expenses are unspoken rules, so you can collect them." Yu Xing didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "So it's our bad luck. We have to pay more money and we have to keep silent after being innovated?"

He tapped the plate with his chopsticks: "Brother Feng, what do you want me to do now?"

Yu Xing fell into reminiscence and shook his head sadly: "When I heard what you said after you got drunk, wasn't I shocked and angry? Wasn't I worried and scared? But I couldn't do anything. I could only try my best to protect myself and my company."

These words are sincere and heartfelt.

But Song Yufeng just looked at the man, powerlessly trying to find the truth: "Did you induce a confession at that time?"

Yu Xing rolled his eyes. "Don't think too much. Now that things have come to this, let's just do what needs to be done. Whether we make the company bigger or sell it in the end, the 1.5% promised to Yin Baoyi will be given to her. As for your marketing fee, I'm too lazy to pursue it. It's considered a sum of money."

Song Yufeng stopped talking and just focused on eating and drinking. He even felt like drinking some wine.

However, when he thought of the consequences of his last drunken streak, he began to hate alcohol again.

As dinner was drawing to a close, Song Yufeng weighed the pros and cons and realized that he had only one way to go. He put down his chopsticks and asked, "Yu Xing, how do you want me to write? I'm good at writing."

Yu Xing's eyes lit up and he exclaimed: "Brother Feng, you finally understand what should be done. You can write an attack and counterattack against NetEase from our perspective. Well, you should also add the simple indignation of us college students, that kind of..."

Song Yufeng pondered: "It's either black or white?"

"Yes, yes, yes." Yu Xing nodded and said, "You have to explain the reason first, and then exaggerate the feeling of us grassroots fighting against giants." Song Yufeng pondered and nodded slowly, probably understanding Party A's needs.

Yu Xing added: "Wait until our manifesto is published, and then you can come out and prove the truth of what we say. After all, you are the person being interviewed and a NetEase employee, so you can quickly help us ferment the matter. Well, it's not that we publish it in the morning and you come out in the afternoon, you can come out on the second or third day."

"I understand. Let's let things ferment. I'll help after there's some movement." Song Yufeng understood the position of his torch.

Yu Xing found that this person was particularly wise after changing his mind.

After a moment, Song Yufeng gave his own idea: "What do you think? I should make a scene in the company before I stand up. I will reprimand Ying Jiadong in front of my colleagues and reprimand him for his behavior and the behavior of his team."

Yu Xing looked at him in surprise. Could it move by itself?

Song Yufeng sensed the meaning in this look, and finally said with some confidence: "My bones are harder than you think!"

Yu Xing said happily: "Yes, yes, that's the feeling, Brother Feng, keep it up."

"Don't call me brother, I'll call you brother." Song Yufeng said in a complicated tone, "Brother Xing, will you really destroy that recording?"

"Of course it's true. I, Yu Xing, will stick to my words!" Yu Xing said seriously. "Besides, after you did this, you won't be able to continue working at NetEase. How can this recording threaten you?"

Song Yufeng said cautiously: "I'm afraid that the recording you haven't released may insult my character."

Yu Xing thought for a moment and said, "I'll give you a USB drive later. You can take it home and listen to it. There's nothing else to do."

Only then did Song Yufeng feel relieved.

"Brother Feng, I don't want you to do anything, and I have no problem with you." Yu Xing expressed his attitude at this time, "I just want to develop the company. Well, you go back today and think about it. You have to write down my true indignation."

He motioned for his second-in-command to go and settle the bill.

Song Yufeng was still very serious about his work and asked Party A: "For example?"

"For example, even if NetEase innovates together, he can completely change the exchange items. He doesn't need roses at all. He can exchange them for diamond rings, gold, or many other things with love elements, or even cash." Yu Xing frowned and said, "This model is the essence. As long as the final exchange value far exceeds the order price, it will work."

He spread his hands and said, "But he hasn't changed at all, not even his name. How arrogant."

Standing on the side of this group of college student entrepreneurs, Song Yufeng couldn't help but nodded, thinking that they were indeed quite arrogant.

"Do they think they can defeat us with just a big brand?" Yu Xing sneered and said proudly, "They never thought that we are tough."

Song Yufeng: “…”

He really couldn't be proud.

"That's it, Brother Feng. After you finish writing the manuscript, send me a copy. Then we can discuss a suitable time. You can help contact online marketing resources, and then you can make a scene in the company and finally reveal the truth." Yu Xing stood up and gave his final instructions.

Song Yufeng listened to the word "you" all the time and felt that he had never been so important.

The three of them stood at the door of the small restaurant.

Song Yufeng was reluctant to say goodbye and didn't want to go back to face the difficult future.

"Brother Feng, wish us good luck." Yu Xing stretched out his right hand.

Song Yufeng's heart was in turmoil that night. He stretched out his right hand helplessly: "Yu Xing, don't call me Brother Feng, just call me by my name, I will feel more comfortable."

Yu Xing shook the man's right hand up and down and said with a smile: "OK, call me Mr. Yu."

Song Yufeng looked at the young entrepreneur in front of him, thinking about his methods, scheming and sophistication, and said sincerely: "Mr. Yu, goodbye."

Yu Xing let go of his hand and watched the reporter leave his sight.

"Recording is really useful." Lu Haiying next to her said.

"It's very uncomfortable to be socially dead, but the nature of this matter is different. If it wasn't for NetEase reporting it in the first place, even if NetEase Marriage and Love did the same business, I'm afraid people wouldn't think there was much wrong with it." Yu Xing looked at the second-in-command, "In that case, it was better for you to contact them in the first place."

Lv Haiying said modestly: "No, it should be said that it was good for Zhiling to go in."

It was Zhong Zhiling who was captured accidentally, and then Yu Xing and Lu Haiying tried to use the media to attract the school's attention. This "attempt" actually attracted NetEase reporter Song Yufeng.

This is how the two sides are able to cooperate today.

All I can say is that when the golden wind and jade dew meet, it is fate.

Lv Haiying followed Brother Xing back and asked, "Can this be promoted on the Internet?"

"Penguin might be interested. It doesn't have a very good reputation in this area. Normally, it should be willing to drag people into it." Yu Xing said casually, "I asked Sister Ying to help me find a way to contact Penguin's resources. I will prepare some more travel expenses and let Song Yufeng accept the interview with Penguin."

Lu Haiying felt that this was a way to make the best use of everything.

She walked for a while and asked, "Will NetEase consider acquiring us to restore public opinion?"

"It's difficult. We still have to find a breakthrough in the three companies of Jiayuan.com, but the company is not so easy to sell." Yu Xing said casually, "Most of the money in our account belongs to employees, and we users need to pay back more or less. Those companies can only buy a brand. If it were you, how much would you be willing to pay for such a brand?"

Only at this moment did Lu Haiying seriously stand on the buyer's side, and it seemed that she really couldn't offer too high a price.

"Fortunately, the three companies are competitors, so we still have room for mediation." Yu Xing stopped and said, "NetEase can help us carry the sedan chair. The traffic brought by the public opinion period in August is very important. If we cannot cash out at a high level in September and October, we will easily face various problems, big and small."

Guiai.com was a company that was forced to grow. The reason why it was able to achieve such a large revenue scale was because it shared money at all costs. Whether it was rules and regulations or compliance management, more problems would easily arise over time.

Lv Haiying said, "NetEase is really important."

Yu Xing smiled and said, "Do you know how I felt when I heard the news of NetEase's entry? It was like returning home and opening the door to find Tang Seng sitting in the pot himself!"

Lu Haiying felt that her senior’s metaphor was very vivid. She recalled what she had seen and heard today, and carefully studied and absorbed the operational experience from her senior’s words and deeds.

Let my colleagues take care of Jinling for now, as what happened in Shencheng is more critical.

However, Lu Haiying didn't have to wait too long. As a professional journalist, Song Yufeng was very capable at work. He sent the denunciation the next day. I don't know if it was because he put himself in the story, but the content was full of righteous indignation and the writing was tearful and quite contagious.

But the title is a bit difficult.

Finally, after discussion between Yu Xing and Song Yufeng, the first article published on the campus network was named: NetEase is innovating, Penguin is not coming out, who can compete?
(End of this chapter)