My 1999

He wrapped his strong right arm around Yingying's waist, feeling the beauty's soft skin. Looking at the pretty face in front of him, he lowered his head and kissed her without hesitation.

Jingle Bell….

The crisp ringtone was like thunder, instantly waking up the two people immersed in passion.

An Kaiyue didn't know where she got the strength to push Xu Liang away and stood up, holding her hands in front of her chest, covering her almost naked upper body, and ran towards the room in a panic.

Watching that beautiful figure go away, Xu Liang's eyes showed reluctance.

Put yourself together and take out your phone.

He looked at the caller ID and pressed the answer button.

"Where are you?"

Jiang Xiaoyang's voice came from inside.

"What's wrong?"

"People from Tencent want to meet you."

"They burned all their money?" Xu Liang guessed the reason immediately.

"Have you thought of it?"

"The news about NetEase has been exposed. Tencent is seeking financing and has also approached major portals including Sina, but they were all rejected." Xu Liang said with a smile.

Jiang Xiaoyang responded with approval.

"I guess you have no choice but to come to us now, but Hu Qian said that Tencent is burning millions of Huaxia coins every month, and as the number of users continues to grow, it will burn more and more money. Are you sure you want to continue investing?"

"Vote, why not vote?" Xu Liang said with a smile.

Jiang Xiaoyang couldn't help but said: "Are you sure you can really make Tencent profitable?"

"I never do anything I'm not sure about."

The strong self-confidence made Jiang Xiaoyang hesitate for a while, but couldn't help but ask.

"Aren't you ready to tell me?"

The last time she asked Xu Liang why, he was rejected.

"Haha, it was before. Now that we have worked together for so long, we understand each other. Of course, there is no need to hide it anymore."

Xu Liang organized his words and continued.

“In May this year, Tencent and China Unicom Pengcheng launched a promotional program called ‘Mobile New Life’ to Pengcheng citizens. OICQ customers can register a mobile OICQ number on their China Unicom mobile phones.

You can send messages through the SMS platform and realize real-time information exchange between mobile phones and computers.

On August 15, seven days ago, China Mobile, which was separated from China Telecom, followed Tencent's original cooperation with China Unicom and signed a business trial operation agreement for "Instant Messaging - Mobile OICQ".

The agreement stipulates that the service will now run in Pengcheng for one and a half months, and then officially launched in the entire Guangdong Province Mobile.

Therefore, Tencent is already on the eve of its rise, and this is our last chance to get shares at a low price. "

Jiang Xiaoyang is also a smart person. After thinking about it for a while.

"You mean, Tencent will find its own revenue model with mobile text messages?"

"good."

"Xu Liang, I admit that text messaging is an opportunity, but in the U.S. market where mobile phone applications are more developed, less than 5% of mobile phone users use their mobile phones to send and receive text messages."

Xu Liang smiled and said, “We have different sentiments from those in the United States.

Mobile phone payments in the United States are mostly fixed monthly amounts, ranging from $20 to $100.

And all are free from 7 pm or 9 pm, while most mobile phone text messages need to be paid separately, and the fee for sending a message is as high as 10 cents.

If it were me, I would choose to call directly instead of sending a text message.

But in our country, it's just the opposite. Mobile phone calls are expensive, and text messages that cost a dime each are obviously more cost-effective. "

Jiang Xiaoyang has been in the United States for more than three years and knows the United States very well.

After thinking for a while, she also found that everything was indeed as Xu Liang said.

"Are you sure there is really a market for mobile SMS?"

"Do you want to make a bet? If Tencent makes money through mobile text messaging, you must agree to a condition."

"What are your conditions first?"

"I haven't thought about it yet. Let's talk about it later." Xu Liang said.

"Okay, I promise you. But if I win, you also promise me a condition."

"make a deal."

Jiang Xiaoyang on the other side of the phone smiled and said, "By the way, I've booked the air tickets for you. You should prepare early for your flight at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning."

"Thank you, I'll save that girl Lu Hui a lot of time."

"You should hire a few more secretaries. In the past, Zhou Weiqing helped share the pressure, and Lu Hui was still busy. Now that he is gone, the businesses of New Dream, Hongmeng, and Hanhua are developing rapidly. She can handle it alone. .”

Zhou Weiqing was sent to Wuchang by Xu Liang and was in charge of the New Dream Art Training Center there. So far, he is doing pretty well.

"I've asked An Hanru to be responsible for recruiting people. By the way, how is your second-phase fund raising now?"

"With the support of the performance of Doctoral Glasses and Guangming Glasses, this time it has gone smoothly. It is expected that the fund-raising of 50 million will be completed in more than half a month." Jiang Xiaoyang said.

"Where is the investment direction?"

"We are still considering it, and we have decided on several ranges."

"Tell me."

"What do you think of the upstream production companies of optical chain stores, dental start-ups, and medical beauty start-ups?"

"Good taste." Xu Liang praised.

He didn't know much about eyewear manufacturing companies, but dental chains and medical aesthetic institutions were both popular industries in the future, with huge profits.

Jiang Xiaoyang, who received the compliment, couldn't help but chuckle, feeling happy in his heart.

"Let's stop talking about this for now. I'm going to talk to the CEOs of several companies about raising funds later."

"Okay, you get busy first."

After saying 'goodbye' to each other, Xu Liang hung up the phone.

Listening to the blind tone coming from the mobile phone, Jiang Xiaoyang couldn't help but pouted.

"I don't know what to say nicely. It's such a big piece of wood."

——

He picked up the iced sour plum soup on the table and drank it in one gulp before standing up.

He walked to the flower hall through the back door and glanced at the closed bedroom door.

After smiling lightly, he walked away.

Listening to the footsteps disappearing, An Kaiyue, who had already put on clothes, opened the door and looked at the empty courtyard, feeling a little complicated.

There was a hint of hesitation in anticipation.

Ding dong!

The phone rings.

Picking it up and looking at it, it was a text message from Xu Liang.

"Thank you for your hospitality. I have to go to Pengcheng on a business trip tomorrow. I may have to come back after a while. Then I will come and enjoy the delicious food you made by yourself."

"Are you leaving again?"

An Kaiyue said disappointedly.

After thinking for a while, his long and beautiful fingers began to type on the keyboard.

"When you come back, I'll cook your favorite French steak."

Xu Liang looked at the reply, smiled slightly, and replied with the word "good".

——

Pengcheng Airport.

Xu Liang walked out with Huo Gang and secretary Lu Hui.

"Mr. Xu."

Hu Qian, dressed in a suit, came up to him.

Since Tencent's first round of financing, Yingke, IDG and Hanhua have all sent a non-executive director to oversee Tencent's finance and management. Hanhua's is Hu Qian.

However, after the IDG stake was acquired, it has been withdrawn.

After a brief handshake, the two parties got in the car and drove towards the city center.

"Have the hotel arrangements been made?"

"It's arranged, the presidential suite at the Holiday Inn."

"How far is it from SEG Technology Entrepreneurship Park?"

"About half an hour's drive."

"It's too far. Find a hotel near SEG Technology Park immediately. It doesn't have to be too good, just clean." Xu Liang said.

He didn't want to waste too much time on the road.

"yes."

Changing hotels is easy.

In the afternoon of that day, Xu Liang arrived at Tencent’s current office address, Huaqiang North SEG Technology Park.

An old building that has aged well.

When Xu Liang arrived, Tony Ma, who had received the news, had already led the senior management to greet him downstairs.

When both parties met, they were both surprised by how young the other party was.

The 28-year-old teacher Tony, with eyes as young as a freshly graduated college student, has no clue how domineering an internet giant will be ten years from now.

In comparison, the majestic Zeng Liqing next to him looked more like a boss.

"Mr. Ma, it's an honor to come to Tencent."

Seeing the other person's right hand stretched out in front of him, Tonyma reacted and quickly grasped it.

"Mr. Xu's arrival has also made us shine."

Zhang Zhidong, Xu Chenye and others looked at this man with a friendly smile on his face and found it hard to believe that he was the boss behind Hanhua Capital, Tencent's largest investment institution.

He is really too young, like a college student who has not graduated yet.

Young and rich.

Soon, Xu Liang was classified as a certain second generation in his heart.

This is the subconscious thought of a normal person.

After everyone briefly shook hands and got to know each other, they walked towards the Tencent office area.

Entering the door is a blue and white reception desk common in this era, and turning in is a dense grid office area.

It can be seen that Tencent's funds are very tight, and the aisles in the office area are very narrow, trying to accommodate as many desks as possible.

Xu Liang simply counted and found that Tencent currently has about forty or fifty employees, who are in the primitive entrepreneurial stage.

Come to the conference room that was prepared before.

The size is about twenty square meters.

Mineral water has been placed on the desk in the middle, which is very simple.

The two parties sat down across the table.

This time the negotiation was led by Xu Liang, with Tony Ma, Zeng Liqing and others on the opposite side.

The latter is obviously the main force in this negotiation.

Xu Liang didn't intend to waste time and said directly when he came up.

"Mr. Ma, I have read Tencent's information. I would like to know your financing conditions?"

Zeng Liqing said: "Mr. Xu, our financing conditions are very clear, a pre-money valuation of US$17 million and a financing amount of US$2 million."

Xu Liang smiled softly.

"One Tencent user is not worth a dollar, and we all know how many people are registered repeatedly in your system. After squeezing out the water, I think $8 million is a reasonable number."

"Mr. Xu, 8 million US dollars is too low. When we last raised financing, we had 5 million users and a valuation of 5.5 million US dollars.

There are now 17 million users, and they are still growing at a rate of two million every month. The valuation of US$17 million is not high. Zeng Li Qing said calmly.

Xu Liang continued: "If the Nasdaq crisis had not broken out, there might have been an institution that accepted your $17 million offer, but now Nasdaq, as a global benchmark for Internet investment, not only has no signs of recovery, but is still Keep falling.

In such an era, even the most optimistic investment institutions will not invest heavily in Internet companies that have not yet found their own profit models.

Regarding this, I think you have deeply realized this in the past three months. "

The expressions of the five people changed slightly, if they hadn't been rejected too many times.

However, Zeng Liqing is obviously not someone who gives up so easily.