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Chapter 216 Cao Sheng's way of investing

The next morning.

When Cao Sheng logged into his mailbox again, he received an email from Bao Jianfeng. In the email, Bao Jianfeng said that they all agreed to create a novel website, and he would give him a detailed plan for review in the near future, hoping that he would be satisfied.

Make me satisfied?

Cao Sheng smiled and was not in a hurry.

He was just a little curious: would Qidian Chinese Network, which was launched two years earlier, still have this name?
Also, are the companions that Baojianfeng found this time the same people from the original time and space?

Although he was curious, he did not ask any further questions.

Just wait for the other party's plan.

If the plan seems to make sense to him, he would be fine with investing some money in it.

If the plan is a mess and is too different from the starting point of the original time and space, he will definitely not invest money.

So, a week later.

He received the planning proposal from Bao Jianfeng.

In the planning proposal, they clearly stated that the novel website they were going to create would imitate the web design of Under the Banyan Tree. The name of the website had not been decided, but several names were provided for Cao Sheng to choose from.

They are: Fantasy Literature Network, Cultivation Literature Network, Huizhou Reading Network, Zhongyuan Yidianhui Novel Network... and so on.

There is no such thing as Qidian Chinese website.

When Cao Sheng saw "Zhongyuan Yidianhui Novel Network", he couldn't help laughing.

However, this name was rejected by him at the first opportunity.

He didn't want the outside world to know at a glance that this novel website was invested by him, Cao.

He felt that as a novelist, if this novel website bore too much of his stamp, it would be difficult to grow.

Perhaps, in the early days of the website, he could rely on his personal fame to quickly let many authors and readers know about it.

But it does not do much good for the long-term development of the website.

Because deep down, authors with higher aspirations will instinctively resist publishing their works on the website he founded.

As fellow writers, can those authors with high aspirations and strong abilities willingly become writers under him?
Just like in the original time and space, if San Shao, or Fanqie, or Shen Ji, opened a novel website under their pen names, how many talented authors in the industry would go to their websites to write books?

Cao Sheng put himself in the writer's shoes and felt that he was reluctant to publish his works on another writer's website, so he did not want to make his relationship with this novel website public.

Even if it is discovered by colleagues in the future, by then everyone will have been developing on this website for many years and have developed feelings for the website. In addition, Cao Sheng does not usually interfere with this website, so it should be easier for everyone to accept it.

What surprised him a little was that the signature on the plan was not Bao Jianfeng, nor was it the name of any other founder that he remembered.

But it was a very unfamiliar name - Hu Jinyi.

Who is this?
Is this another partner found by Baojianfeng?
Among the founders of the original starting point of time and space, how many of them did Baojianfeng find this time?

Cao Sheng thought about it, and when replying to the other party's email, he asked the question in his heart: "How many people are there in your group this time? Can you introduce them to me?"

That afternoon.

He saw Bao Jianfeng's reply email.

Five people were introduced in this email.

They are: Li Bin, Hu Jinyi, Zhang Yonglong, Jia Hui and Qiao Lei.

There is not a single one of them who is the founder of the starting point of the original time and space.

Among them, Li Bin and Qiao Lei are technical talents who graduated with computer majors; Hu Jinyi is the deputy general manager of the human resources department of a company and studied human resources in college; Zhang Yonglong is a senior editor of a traditional magazine; Jia Hui is in logistics and is also a well-known online writer.

Such a combination?
Do you want to invest in them?
If it were only for these five people, Cao Sheng would have no interest in investing.

But Bao Jianfeng was one of the founders of the original Qidian Chinese website and served as the webmaster of Qidian for many years. He was a key figure.

So, after thinking for a moment, Cao Sheng felt that he could make an appropriate investment.

Just give it a try.

At most you will just lose some money, but if you really succeed, the rewards will be amazing.

But he still had the same idea as before: not to hold too many shares.

If he, who doesn't care about anything, holds the majority of the shares, these people will have no motivation to strive for success. When the website becomes popular in the future, these people will inevitably want to kick him out and start a new business.

He was very clear that he was only good at writing novels and had no experience in managing companies or websites. If he managed the website himself, he might not be able to make it work.

If you ask professionals to manage the website, it is inevitable that someone will cut off the funds for the website and take the author to start a new business.

So the question is, how to ensure that these people can fully develop the website and not have the idea of ​​starting a new business?

The solution he came up with was: not to hold the majority of the shares and let these people be the real bosses.

Similarly, as long as these people are the bosses of the website, does Cao Sheng still need to worry about them becoming disloyal and starting their own business?

Even if two or three of them had different minds, it is impossible for all of them to have different minds.

In this way, he doesn't have to worry about the website being run well and then all the management suddenly leaving.

When replying to Bao Jianfeng's email, Cao Sheng suddenly had an idea: Maybe, in this time and space, there is no need for an industry leader like Qidian Chinese Network to appear. If there are several websites with similar strengths, and I am a shareholder of these websites, then even if I am not the majority shareholder of any of them, I will still be the biggest winner.

As soon as this thought came to his mind, his heart began to beat fast.

……

That afternoon.

Bao Jianfeng received a reply from Cao Sheng.

The content is as follows:

"Hello! I have read your plan, it's pretty good. You want to set up a company in Shanghai, right? Let me tell you! Where do you want to open your company in Shanghai? Please determine the approximate location in the near future and the size of the office building you need. I will buy one for you to use, and the rent of the office building will be regarded as my investment in your website.

As for the other funds needed by the company, I hope you can raise them yourselves. For the part that is insufficient, I can invest a little more appropriately. But I hope the funds you raise should not be too little. This is the main condition for me to invest in your website!
If you don’t dare to invest real money, I won’t dare to invest either. I hope you can understand.

——A little bit of gray in the Central Plains. "

After reading this email, Bao Jianfeng's expression was quite complicated for a moment.

He didn't know whether he should be happy or disappointed.
Zhongyuan Yidianhui is indeed rich and powerful!

They actually want to come to Shanghai to buy office space for them to use.

But it is not provided free of charge.

Instead, the rent of the office building is used as investment in the shares.

Do we need them to contribute the rest of the start-up capital?

This allows them all to become shareholders of the website, which seems to be a good thing, but also seems to be a bad thing, because it means that if the website fails, all of them will lose money.

The pressure suddenly increased to an unimaginable degree.

He had previously thought that Zhongyuan Yidianhui was willing to invest the full amount!
After he took a screenshot of the email and forwarded it to his friends, they set up a chat room that night.

Speak freely in the chat room.

Some said that they didn’t have much money and couldn’t raise much; some said that Zhongyuan Yidianhui was too cunning and would force them to run the website desperately; others said that this was a good opportunity and not everyone had such an opportunity to invest in a novel website together with Zhongyuan Yidianhui.

After a long discussion, they finally reached a consensus: raise money! Even if it means selling everything we have, we must raise money to invest in opening this website.

Facts have proved that the partners Baojianfeng found are all courageous.

This made Bao Jianfeng very pleased.

He had expected at least half to back out.

I didn’t expect that no one quit.

He felt that this had a lot to do with the grayness in the Central Plains.

Zhongyuan Yidianhui has become very famous in the online literature circle in the past two years. Although there is a risk of investment failure, everyone sees more hope of success when investing in a novel website with Zhongyuan Yidianhui.

……

The next morning.

When Cao Sheng logged into his mailbox again, he saw a new email from Bao Jianfeng.

The other party said in the email: "We agree to all your conditions. How many shares do you want to own? How many shares can you give us? Also, how much money do you need us to raise?"

In view of the current prices and the approximate financial resources of the other party, Cao Sheng replied: "You guys should at least pool together 30 yuan! I only own % of the shares at most. If the rent of my office building is not enough for this share, you can tell me how much additional funds you need after you have calculated it."

Anyway, he has money to buy a house recently.

I was originally planning to buy it in Shanghai.

You can also buy an office building.

For him, even if this novel website doesn't make much money in the future, or even loses money, he can still invest in it with the rent from the office building, so he won't lose much.

When the housing prices go up, he will definitely make money.

Therefore, he had no psychological pressure for this investment.

For Bao Jianfeng and others, it was a real surprise that Zhongyuan Yidianhui only planned to occupy no more than 30% of the shares.

Because it means that they can share the remaining 70% of the shares.

With their combined shares, they are enough to take over the website.

"Zhongyuan Yidianhui is so impressive! He is indeed a veteran in the industry!"

"Yes! This is truly a noble act!"

“It’s great to invest with him!”

"Stop talking! I'll go raise the money now!"

Several people in the chat room became more and more excited as they talked.

(End of this chapter)