Back to 2003

"What do they think?"

Tang Qinghua asked Zhao Zhuoyan again.

"I hope we can buy shares. There is no requirement for specific shares... If we are willing, we can also acquire it wholly."

Zhao Zhuoyan answered quickly.

Invest in shares?Buy?

Tang Qinghua fell into deep thought. He originally purchased Singularity Chinese Network because he was very optimistic about this industry.But the Qingdao Chinese website was chosen by Shengda, and in that case he had to hand it over, and now the Eagle Literature website has come to his door...

Tang Qinghua: "You can... let them make the decision and come to Xidu to discuss it."

Zhao Zhuoyan: "Their deputy station chief is planning to come to Xidu tomorrow afternoon."

Tang Qinghua: "Then I'll go back to Xidu."

……

It only takes four hours from Jiangcheng to Xidu.

The next morning, Tang Qinghua took Chen Yan and drove straight to Xidu. When he arrived at Sijixuan, the deputy webmaster of Tianying Literature Network had just arrived.

The deputy webmaster’s surname is Wang, Wang Yuke.

Wang Yuke faced Sven, wearing glasses, a white shirt, and black trousers, and looked a little nervous.

"Hello, Station Master Wang——"

Liu Jingjing, Zhao Zhuoyan's new secretary who was in charge of the reception: "This is our Mr. Tang. This time, Mr. Tang will be fully responsible for the affairs of Tianying.com." This was what Zhao Zhuoyan had told him.

"Hello, Mr. Tang——"

Wang Yuke smiled and reached out.

In fact, he secretly hesitated in his heart, could the Asuka sect really have full decision-making power at such a young age?

"Stationmaster Wang, please sit down."

Tang Qinghua shook hands and gestured to him.

The two parties exchanged pleasantries for a while, and when Liu Jingjing poured the tea, Wang Yuke got straight to the point and explained the purpose of his visit today.

"...Although online literature is new, it has great potential in the future. Our Tianying.com is definitely the top website in the industry and is worthy of your investment..." Wang Yuke talked eloquently and promoted Tianying.

"As far as I know, the most powerful literary website now is probably the Singularity Chinese Internet Cafe?"

Tang Qinghua said in a neutral tone.

Feiniao.com has been linked to Singularity.com for a long time. Since these people have found Feiniao, they should know that Feiniao.com is familiar with Singularity.com.

"Yes, the Singularity Chinese website has been developing rapidly before and has the potential to become an industry giant. But after these three or four months of development, our Tianying Literature has also made great progress. Although the traffic clicks are slightly behind them, we are still close to them. After cooperating with Crawler.com, the number of VIP books has surpassed theirs, and the number of high-quality authors is no less than theirs."

"We currently have more than 5 VIP users, with a monthly recharge amount of more than 4000 yuan. The highest income of authors is close to [-] yuan. Recently, we have attracted a large number of authors to join... It can be said that in terms of development trend, we are not at all Weaker than starting point.”

Wang Yuke replied immediately.

Not weaker than the starting point?

Tang Qinghua had some doubts in his heart. Is Tianying so strong?

Then there was a flash in his mind, and he vaguely remembered that there was a passage on the encyclopedia of Singularity Chinese website called "Sky Eagle's Counterattack", which means that during the cooperation between Sky Eagle and Crawling.com, they seized the opportunity to attract a large number of authors and traffic. and users are close to the starting point, and the number of VIP books is slightly higher than the starting point.

Unfortunately, two months before Singularity was acquired by Shengda, relevant departments conducted raids on pornography and violence. Book sites such as Tianying, Crawling, and Huanjian were shut down one after another. A large number of authors had nowhere to go and were forced to move to other places without being shut down. The singularity flows eastward, easily stabilizing the situation, and digesting a large number of foreign authors.

Singularity will be acquired by Shengda in October.

Could it be that the so-called Skyhawk's counterattack is just a recent one?

"It seems that Tianying is in good condition!"

Tang Qinghua smiled noncommittally: "As far as I know, Shengda Group is very interested in Singularity and has recently been negotiating for a shareholding. If my gossip is correct, Shengda will fully acquire Singularity... At that time, with Shengda’s financial resources, it would be difficult for Tianying to compete, right?”

"That's why we approached you."

Wang Yuke smiled awkwardly and could only tell the truth.

Singularity is already extremely powerful and has the potential to outperform other websites. If they get another investment from Shengda and use the advantages of capital to develop, Tianying will soon be forced to a dead end, so they came up with the same idea. The solution - financing.

"Then please tell me, what is Tianying's development plan?"

Tang Qinghua leaned on the chair and smiled calmly.

"This is our three-year plan."

Wang Yuke took out a document from his backpack. Since he was here to discuss financing, he naturally prepared some things.

Tang Qinghua took it and quickly checked ten lines at a glance, quickly browsing through the content.

Although Tianying went to Guangzhou with the management of Singularity, and fell ill after returning, this opportunity attracted a large number of Internet authors, hoping to seize the opportunity to surpass Singularity, but their development plan still has nothing novel, and the core The idea is still to attract top authors and publish and sell simplified books.

But Tsinghua University knew that this was destined to not work.

The online novel has millions of words. After being published as a simplified Chinese book, the sales price is too expensive, so not many people buy it. Several book sites such as Longzhikong have proved this with their personal experience—— The business of publishing in simplified Chinese is destined to be a dead end.

"If that's all, there's nothing to talk about!"

Tang Qinghua shook his head and denied it completely.

"..."

Wang Yuke fell silent for a long time and asked, "May I ask what Mr. Tang means?"

"Such a plan is doomed to have no future."

Tang Qinghua’s attitude was extremely firm: “Dozens of online literature websites on the entire network are all following the Simplified Chinese publishing route. However, the Simplified Chinese publishing route is inherently narrow. Dozens of websites still share the same resources. We don’t know what the future will bring... Tianying If the website still thinks this way, it will be closed within two years."

"Mr. Tang thinks, how should we develop?"

Wang Yuke suddenly calmed down and consulted piously.

"Oh……"

Tang Qinghua looked at him, slightly surprised.

Being able to calm down and listen to the lesson in such a passive situation shows that this person has a very good character.

He thought carefully and did not answer Wang Yuke: "To put it simply, Feiniao.com really doesn't like this kind of development plan. Either Tianying comes up with a feasible plan, or I directly acquire Tianying... Tianying's The future is up to me!"

"..."

Wang Yuke fell silent again.

Originally, their idea was to sell only 20.00% to [-]% of the shares like the previous Feiniao Financing Singularity, but now Feiniao has a big appetite, and it seems that it must either fully acquire it, or it must also hold a controlling stake.

Fully owned, haha...

"Fully-owned acquisition is not impossible."

Wang Yuke was silent for a long time and said, "I wonder what price you are prepared to charge?"

"The highest price is 500 million."

Tang Qinghua didn't hesitate and made an offer directly.

"Mr. Tang, you are not sincere!"

Wang Yuke was full of disappointment when he heard this, and even felt insulted: "The user base of Tianying Literature is second only to Singularity Chinese on the entire network, and the number of VIP books is no less than that of Singularity, even though the overall valuation may be slightly lower than that of Singularity. A little bit, but it’s definitely not that big of a difference, your price is a bit…”