As a mage, I just want to pursue the truth

Chapter 279 Cyber ​​Pengcheng 4 (asking for monthly ticket!)
Since the new product launched by Tencent this time is named after the city, after Ren Yu finished his speech, the responsible officials of Pengcheng Municipal Government also spoke.

Of course, the content of the speech is nothing more than Pengcheng's courage to be the first and the specific changes that have not been seen in a century, and Pengcheng hopes to achieve breakthroughs in the Internet industry through this.

Both Tencent and Pengcheng have high hopes for Huanyu-Pengcheng.

It's not just because of its potential income, but more because it is their exploration of the future form of the Internet.

They have integrated their exploration of future virtual universe applications into Huanyu-Pengcheng.

Compared with getting a ticket to the next generation of the Internet revolution, revenue from land sales has become less important.

Because although the theoretical maximum residential land is 500 million square meters, it is unlikely that all of it can be sold.

Even if houses in Pengcheng are discounted by 10%, the price is still unaffordable for most Chinese families.

After all, it is virtual real estate. No matter how much it is hyped up, most people will not agree with it.

The majority of users are willing to spend a few dozen yuan to buy QQ shows or decorate QQ spaces, but it is not realistic to ask them to spend tens or even millions to buy virtual real estate.

This requires guiding the change of user concepts.

Tencent's internal assessment is that as long as the transaction price of virtual real estate continues to rise and public opinion builds momentum, it will take about five to ten years to reshape group cognition.

If someone told you ten years ago that BTC was worth 10,000 USD per coin, you would definitely think that person was bragging.

But after BTC fell from 69000 USD, many people thought that BTC worth USD would be worth buying.

This is a reshaping of your cognition. All cryptocurrency players have had their cognition of the value of cryptocurrency reshaped during several rounds of bull and bear markets.

The bull-bear market transitions in the cryptocurrency market are much faster than those in the A-share market. Before the A-share market has completed one bull-bear cycle, the cryptocurrency market may have already completed three or four cycles.

The essence of BTC has not changed, but people’s perception has changed.

Similarly, Tencent has planned a comprehensive strategy internally to reshape perception in the future.

This is a new way of playing in the information age, a cognitive and information war by enterprises against individuals.

Moutai is a good example of a consumer product. Of course, Moutai is a case in the past, and the way of playing modern consumer products is different.

For example, in the milk tea industry that has been booming in recent years, milk tea that costs more than 20 yuan has become a new normal.

Tencent will only do a better job than the above-mentioned consumer product companies, and at the same time be more subtle and silent.

And you cannot blame him for this kind of business manipulation from a moral and legal perspective.

“Can we do it? We are ready to communicate with Hangzhou. This is a track with great potential and we need to follow up.

Tell Zhang Yong and Cai to prepare to hold a board meeting to discuss this matter.

Also, why didn’t we pay attention to such a big move by Tencent?

This requires consideration of accountability, as the commercial sensitivity is too low.”

This is a conversation that took place in Hangzhou.

Although Mr. Ma has left the Ali board of directors and Zhang Yong has taken over as chairman, Mr. Ma is still Ali’s No. 1 employee and partner.

In Ali’s leadership system, partners have the power to nominate board members.

Members of the board of directors are nominated by the partners, not based on shareholding.

Therefore, Mr. Ma still maintains strong control over Ahri.

Not only Ali is thinking about whether he can do it, companies like Dami, Qiandu, and Zhuchang are also thinking about whether they should learn from Tencent.

The apparent benefits alone are astonishing enough.

MiHoYo, a new giant in the gaming industry with a huge amount of funds, is thinking about creating a two-dimensional world, and it is not necessary to move real cities into the virtual world.

They find the virtual world even more attractive.

Art has always been miHoYo's strong point, and the two-dimensional realistic style has also been verified by the market.

In the early days, China's Internet industry borrowed the business model from American Internet companies.

Just like Qiandu benchmarks against Yahoo, Tencent benchmarks against ICQ, and Ali benchmarks against Amazon.

Even when there was the most hot money in the Internet, a group of entrepreneurs were watching the American Internet industry to see if there were any business models worth learning from.

From giants to small and medium-sized Internet companies, there are countless similar cases.

Therefore, it is a common phenomenon in China's Internet industry that if you do something and it works well, other companies will copy it.

"Geely is really amazing. Although there is a lot of criticism in the public opinion, I think their product this time will have a high probability of success again."

After the press conference that afternoon, there was a dinner hosted by Tencent. After returning to the hotel after the dinner, Li Shuyao sighed.

At the dinner, Li Shuyao sat at the same table with the founders of some small and medium-sized Internet companies, as well as the vice president of Tencent.

Li Miaomiao was at another table, with Xiao Ma Ge and other big guys of higher rank.

Li Miaomiao is Zheng Li's representative outside.

“I could never have imagined that virtual real estate would be tied to real cities before Tencent’s press conference.

I thought it was a life sims type game.

But Huanyu-Pengcheng can also be considered a life-simulating application.”

After Li Shuyao finished speaking, Li Miaomiao was also very emotional: "Do you know how much share Huanyu-Pengcheng will give to Pengcheng?"

Tencent will definitely release this information to divert the public pressure focused on them, but it will not be released at the press conference.

Instead, the news is leaked by senior executives or through the grapevine. After the news is released, securities industry reporters ask questions and the secretary of the board of directors answers to verify the authenticity of the matter.

Li Shuyao asked curiously, "How much? Thirty percent?" "Fifty percent. If a virtual property is sold for one million, five hundred thousand will be given to Pengcheng City."

Li Shuyao: "The situation has been opened up instantly. No wonder the Pengcheng Municipal Government personally supports them.

What about Futureverse? I remember that it was said before that Futureverse would collect taxes on transactions on Futureverse.

Similar to the Apple tax, will Huanyu-Pengcheng collect this tax?

I don’t think Tencent would be willing to do that.”

"Science and Technology will collect taxes in the future, and this tax is charged for virtual goods or services. Tencent positions Huanyu-Pengcheng as virtual real estate.

That means it is an actual commodity, which is something we cannot charge for.

Just like the store that JD.com has built in VR to sell goods to consumers, we cannot charge JD.com for every transaction. It’s the same principle.”

Li Miaomiao continued: “For NFTs like those sold by Tencent, we consider them to be virtual services, so we will collect science and technology innovation tax.

But virtual real estate is indeed difficult to define.

Tencent is already willing to give up 50% of its profits to Pengcheng, which is definitely due to the consideration that virtual real estate does not have to pay science and technology innovation tax.

Their logic makes sense because virtual real estate is recognized by the Pengcheng Municipal Government, and every virtual real estate transaction will be registered with the Housing Authority.

If we want to collect a science and technology innovation tax, do we still have the power to collect taxes on subsequent second-hand housing transactions between users?"

Li Shuyao lay motionless on the sofa in the luxury suite, "Geely is so bold.

In fact, it would be enough for them to give Pengcheng 30% of the benefits, or even 10%, and Pengcheng would be willing.

But they are willing to give 50%.

We gave a lot at the beginning, and Pengcheng will provide the highest degree of cooperation in many aspects.

The initiative in the future is also in the hands of Tencent, whether it is the connection between virtual real estate and real institutions, or the subsequent move-in of public schools and public hospitals.

Now it’s just private schools and hospitals, but Tencent is so smart, once Pengcheng City experiences the benefits, public institutions will definitely move in one after another.”

“Other Internet companies will certainly follow suit. Let’s wait and see how cities across the country are moved to VR.”

Li Miaomiao smiled and said, “Not all companies have this capability.

Not all virtual cities created by companies will have enough buyers.

Moreover, if other companies want to follow suit, it will take a long time just to talk to local governments and then to the copyright owners of urban buildings.

In addition to subsequent development, the most important thing for applications like this is the exquisiteness of the graphics.

Not to mention that Tencent has also given a lot of extra value to Virtual Pengcheng.

It’s easy to imitate, but it’s very difficult to actually do it.”

“Believe me, most companies don’t think about how to do this well and build a virtual city, but how to use this gimmick to hype themselves up.

Increase the market value of your secondary market.

Or how to use this gimmick to find investors to continue investing money.

For example, an Internet company obtains authorization from a third-tier city in China, and then can use this as a gimmick to attract investment.

This is the same reason why investors were willing to invest in shared bikes when they had licenses. "Li Shuyao has been in the financial circle for a long time and knows the common ways of playing in this industry.

Angel investment sounds risky, but in fact, as long as you are not the last one to take over, you can make money.

OFO grew rapidly, reaching a valuation of over 10 billion US dollars in two years. However, it soon fell into decline due to difficulties in cash flow and a chaotic business model.

But as long as you are not an investor in the last round, you will make money.

Therefore, Li Shuyao has a hunch that virtual real estate will be in chaos and a large amount of hot money will flow into this industry.

Of course, the most important thing is to look at the sales of the first round of virtual real estate released by Tencent.

In today's real estate downturn, it remains a question how many people will buy into virtual real estate.

Li Miaomiao: "I don't know about other companies, but we won't develop similar applications anyway."

Li Shuyao: "You are not short of money. With brain-computer connection technology in hand, you have already controlled the foundation technology of the future world.

You don't need to be there in person.

And I think it’s too late to develop a virtual city now.

I believe you can also obtain authorization from Gusu City. Even if you are willing to move your headquarters to Shenhai, Shenhai City is willing to grant you authorization.

But once you have made a good product, it is completely unknown how much profit you can make.

If it is forced out, it will seriously affect the corporate image.

For Tencent, the impact on its corporate image is not a big deal.”

Li Miaomiao added: “Actually it’s not that important to us.

After all, our main business is for enterprises.

We won’t do this, mainly because we are not an Internet company.

There aren’t that many programmers.”

“In addition, Tencent’s creation of the world-Pengcheng is not just about moving Pengcheng into VR.

They hope that Huanyu-Pengcheng will become a surreal existence.”

(End of this chapter)