Who would still start a business seriously after being reborn?

Chapter 350 Shengda Group's Strategy

Luo Shengyi insisted, "As I just said, this game equipment trading website is a must. It's a strategic issue for the group. As for the rest, you can figure it out yourselves."

"How do we solve this?" Su Yao couldn't help but say, "I really don't understand. How does this stupid website relate to strategy? All we need to do is quickly expand the market and increase online game traffic. Once we list on NASDAQ, Chairman Chen will definitely be the richest man in China! What's the point of you guys doing this with these internet cafe owners?"

Luo Shengyi frowned and said, "President Su, you are considering things from the perspective of capital operation, while I am considering things from the perspective of market stability. We have different opinions. You should ask Chairman Chen for a specific decision."

"Fine, I'll go find Chairman Chen right now!" Su Yao was furious.

His main task at Shengda Group was to plan and package the company for listing.

If it weren't for these messy and unexpected events, he was confident that he could complete the listing of Shengda Group within two years.

It could even be earlier.

After all, the online rate of Legend is now far ahead of the competition.

Su Yao stormed out of Luo Shengyi's office, leaving Ye Fang alone.

Luo Shengyi glanced at Ye Fang and said, "Minister Ye, tell us about your matter."

Ye Fang pointed at Su Yao's back and said, "My matter and President Su's matter are the same thing. I just think you've taken the wrong path. We shouldn't have too much contact with those internet cafe owners. This will lower our group's credit rating, and our employees aren't good at dealing with these local thugs."

Luo Shengyi waved his hand and said, "You should go talk to Chairman Chen too."

Seeing Luo Shengyi's insistence, Ye Fang didn't bother to say anything more.

Anyway, she's only in charge of human resources, and with Shengda Group's salary levels, she's not worried about not having any applicants.

never mind.

At worst, some will come and some will leave.

Their department can handle it.

Ye Fang smiled at Luo Shengyi, then turned and left the office.

Luo Shengyi sat down in the chair, his face immediately darkening.

Since he took the lead in granting the Legendary license to Momo Group, the company's development has taken off like a rocket.

This completely exploited a gap in their group's development.

During their crucial period of development, Chen Zhi was practically begging them on his knees, but they didn't react at all.

Now that they have basically captured the national market, when they tried to restrain Momo Group, they found that Momo Group had grown into a behemoth.

Luo Shengyi has always felt that this is his responsibility.

If he hadn't fallen for Cheng Yi's trick and hastily granted the joint operation service authorization to Momo Group, Momo Group probably wouldn't have developed so rapidly.

Therefore, since the Momo Group, this wolf, was developed because of him, he should take responsibility for destroying the Momo Group.

At the very least, Momo Group must be kept under control; its uncontrolled and reckless development must not be allowed to continue.

Momo's virtual item trading website can be seen as Momo Group quietly extending its reach into the pockets of the entire country.

If we strike hard and crush the outstretched hand of Momo Group, we can keep Momo Group in line for a very long time.

This was Luo Shengyi's idea, and also Chen Tianqiao's idea.

After all, the authorization granted to Momo Group was a joint effort by Chen Tianqiao and Luo Shenyi.

They initially thought the owner of Momo Internet Cafe was a fool with too much money, but they never expected that the two of them would actually manage to scrape together 500 yuan.

So hateful.

The owner of Momo Internet Cafe must have planned this all along.

But how did he have the foresight to recognize the potential of Legend to become a huge hit?
It's worth noting that this game isn't popular in South Korea or Europe.

The reason it became popular in China, besides its low configuration requirements, is largely due to the huge amount of money that Shengda Group invested in its on-the-ground promotion.

It can be said that they invested all of their revenue from prepaid cards and the 300 million yuan raised in financing into on-the-ground promotion. Their promotional materials and posters can be found in almost every internet cafe across the country.

With such a massive on-the-ground promotion effort, let alone a legendary success, even selling Brain Gold would be enough to make Chairman Chen the richest man in the country.

"No, the game equipment trading website absolutely cannot be shut down." In the chairman's office of Shengda Group, Chen Tianqiao resolutely rejected Su Yao's proposal.

Su Yao said anxiously, "My chairman, the decline in our financial data will cause a lot of problems. Going public is the most important thing now. The NASDAQ investors are all growing fat and green. Can you bear not to harvest them?"

Chen Tianqiao slowly shook his head and said, "If Momo Group's virtual item trading website develops, it will have a significant impact on us."

Su Yao said, "Chairman Chen, why don't we just invest in them? Why do we have to raise pigs ourselves if we want to eat pork? If you see Momo Group's trading website, I'll go there in person to discuss it. We can all make money together."

Chen Tianqiao shook his head and said, "I can talk to other groups, but not Momo Group."

"Why?" Su Yao asked, puzzled.

Chen Tianqiao said, "In a few months, we will become mortal enemies with Momo Group. At this critical juncture, there is no need to continue cooperating with them."

Su Yao immediately understood Chen Tianqiao's meaning. He asked in surprise, "Chairman Chen, are you planning to cancel their agency rights?"

Chen Tianqiao snorted coldly: "I can't possibly hand over such a huge market in Handong Province to Momo Group. Besides, they've been causing too much trouble lately and have seriously infringed on our rights."

Su Yao remained silent for a while before saying, "But they give us tens of millions in dividends every month, and we only signed an authorization agreement without investing anything. We've already given them the Handong market, but most of the internet cafes in Handong Province are now in the hands of the Momo Group. Even if we cancel their authorization, how will our Legend enter Handong Province?"

Su Yao's question was very poignant, and it was also the question that troubled Chen Tianqiao the most.

Even if the authorization for Momo Legend is revoked, their Legend still cannot enter the Handong market.

Because Momo Group's internet cafes account for 75% of the total number of internet cafes in Handong Province.

Chen Tianqiao said, "So we have a tough battle to fight. As long as we cancel their authorization, they will lose their most important customer acquisition chip. At this time, Zhonghai Wangyuan Communication's chain of internet cafes will bring our Legend game into Handong Province at the same time, which will ensure that we can reshuffle the internet cafe market in Handong Province."

“Then we’d truly be mortal enemies.” Su Yao frowned. He hesitated for a moment, then said, “Chairman Chen, is it really necessary for things to come to that point?”

"Yes," Chen Tianqiao said with certainty. "Momo Group will expand outwards sooner or later. Every province they expand into, we will lose players from that province, and we cannot afford that kind of loss."

Su Yao asked doubtfully, "Is their Momo Legend really that fun? It can't even beat our official version?"

At this point, Chen Tianqiao got a little angry and snorted, "This is all the Korean side's responsibility. They always make us update in sync with them. If the Korean side just let me do it, what would this Momo Legend be?"

Su Yao sighed, knowing there was no way to resolve the matter.

This means that Shengda's listing plan will have to be postponed.

Once a business war begins, it's a fight to the death; there's absolutely no room for gentleness or refinement, and any means are possible.

How do you produce attractive financial statements during a war between two sides?
You're overthinking it.
Once the two sides start a money-burning war, it would be a blessing if they didn't lose money.

"Their website's defenses are too strong." In the office of the Finance Department of the Student Union of Handong University, Lin Qingyin was hacking into Shengda's official website as instructed by Cheng Yi.

Shengda's current revenue from game cards is over 300 million yuan per month. It already has the most powerful self-owned data center in the country, and its game protection and website protection are considered to be at the pinnacle of China.

Although Cheng Yi already had that American hacker team, those people were only suitable for brute-force attacks; they couldn't do such sophisticated intrusions.

The first thing to do when invading is to do it without anyone noticing. Even if you succeed, you must keep your opponent from knowing what happened.

This requires an extremely meticulous personality and highly skilled experience.

To hone her hacking skills, Lin Qingyin hacked into Tencent's official website more than ten times this month. At first, Tencent's engineers could quickly detect the intrusion and take swift defensive measures. However, as Lin Qingyin's hacking techniques became more and more sophisticated, and she even became one of Tencent's engineers, they gradually lost their ability to detect her.

Until the very end, Lin Qingyin should be able to freely use her engineer identity to access the Tencent official website backend.

She even took on several work orders to fix vulnerabilities under the identity of employee number 00034, and successfully completed the work order tasks.

If she continues her intrusion, she'll definitely be named Penguin's Employee of the Year.

Intrusion, simply put, is obtaining the password of a sub-administrator account through technical means, and then using that sub-administrator account to perform a series of operations.

“That’s for sure. Shengda makes a fortune every day. Even the slightest mistake could lead to losses in the tens or even hundreds of millions,” Cheng Yi said with a smile. “They will definitely increase their investment in security measures.”

After Lin Qingyin had been hacking for about twenty minutes, her computer screen immediately turned red.

She sighed and said dejectedly, "I've been found out again."

“Countless hackers try to infiltrate Shengda’s official website every day, and that’s the biggest challenge,” Cheng Yi said. “No matter how careful you are, if someone else is also infiltrating at the same time, you will be discovered as well. Don’t rush, be patient.”

"Okay." Lin Qingyin composed herself and her hands flew across the page once more.

She rewrote a series of instructions and started scanning for vulnerabilities on Shengda's official website again.

Among Shengda's databases, the game database has the best defense, covering almost 70% of the industry's top programmers. However, the defense of Shengda's official website is slightly insufficient compared to the game database.

The official website of Shengda is connected to the game registration server, and its defenses are not strong enough to be successfully breached in a short time. Therefore, this time Lin Qingyin turned her attention to the Legend Forum.

The Legend Forum has a large number of players and a high load, making its defense the weakest link in Shengda's official website.

The vulnerability scanner scanned repeatedly, and after nearly half an hour, a very small vulnerability finally emerged.

Lin Qingyin put down her bottle of nutritional drink and immediately opened the vulnerability assessment tool she had written.

"The security risk of this vulnerability is minor." Lin Qingyin was slightly disappointed when she saw the assessment tool's rating.

However, she did not give up completely. She started using a web proxy tool to intercept the network requests involved in the vulnerability and began to dig deeper into the vulnerability.

There aren't many hackers who manage to infiltrate the Legend Forum. After all, even if they succeed, they can at most log into the administrator's account and password, delete posts, and post advertisements, which has absolutely no value in terms of intrusion.

But Cheng Yi's purpose for invading was different; he simply wanted to install malware.

It can be hung anywhere, the more inconspicuous the better.

At that moment, he was writing malicious plugins on the computer opposite Lin Qingyin.

In terms of professional skills, Cheng Yi is no match for Lin Qingyin. After all, he is just a programmer with over 20 years of experience but no talent. If he doesn't reach management level by the age of 35, he will basically be laid off by a big company.

Why were they optimized out? It's because their programming skills are no longer up to par with those of younger people.

Programming technology doesn't belong to the category of martial arts that become stronger with practice. Strictly speaking, it's like a man's sexual ability. It depends on talent from the very first time. If you're exceptionally talented, you can be aroused on the first try. If you don't have the talent, no amount of practice will help.

This thing doesn't get stronger with age or with more practice; on the contrary, it goes downhill.

Even so, when it comes to writing malicious plugins, Cheng Yi considers himself second to none.

He can embed malicious plugins into the system and write them into system files, making them impossible for anyone to delete or find.

For the past two weeks, he has been writing this seemingly benevolent but malicious plugin.

He hid the plugin as a forum Discuz plugin; whether it's the outer kernel or the inner kernel, it's a perfectly normal forum plugin.

He had tried this plugin on many forums, and it worked very well; none of the forum's technical staff had noticed it.

He tested and modified the malicious plugin time and time again, bringing it to near perfection. After all, Shengda Legend Forum was different from ordinary BBS. In order to reduce the risk of being detected by Shengda Legend's technical staff, he had to strive for excellence.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, Lin Qingyin's excited voice rang out from the other end: "Cheng Yi, I did it! I captured a junior moderator's account password."

"Does he have permission to upload plugins?" Cheng Yi asked.

Lin Qingyin tested it first and said, "I only have permission to upload plugins to the computer section."

The PC section? This is the least popular section on the Legend Forum. It's mostly filled with PC configuration information and such. The number of new posts each day is less than a hundred. Compared to the game section, which gets dozens of posts every minute, the PC section is practically non-existent.

Cheng Yi smiled and said, "Alright, even a mosquito bite is still meat, let's use this computer section!"

(End of this chapter)