Who would still start a business seriously after being reborn?

Chapter 442 The World Divided into Four Parts
"They even kicked me out, they deserved to get beaten up." Cheng Yi couldn't help but mutter as he looked at his character who no longer had a guild title.

[That cold-hearted young master, weren't you just spouting nonsense? You actually got kicked out.]

Haha, how pitiful, a stray dog...

On the world channel, people from Wild City and the Embroidered Uniform Guard began to mock him.

However, seeing such a lively scene, Cheng Yi couldn't help but smile.

These chives are so vibrant and thriving!

There's a lot to be done!

Soon, he took out paper and pen and began the next round of settings.

Increase:

Guild War Drum: Increases guild members' defense by 30% for 10 seconds, with a 12-hour cooldown. Price: 1000 gold coins (equivalent to 10 yuan).

Guild Speed: Increases the movement speed of guild members by 100% for 10 seconds, with a 12-hour cooldown. Price: 1000 gold coins (equivalent to 10 yuan).

Guild Token: Grants guild members invincibility for 3 seconds. 24-hour cooldown. Price: 2000 gold coins (equivalent to 20 RMB).

Guild Tiger Talisman: Used by the guild leader to pull all guild members to their side. Requires the consent of all guild members. Price: 5000 gold coins (equivalent to 50 yuan).
Guild Pardon: During a guild war, members will no longer drop equipment upon death. Price: 100 million gold coins (equivalent to 100 yuan).

After setting the content, Cheng Yi quickly sent it to the technical department of Momo Games.

In addition, the world chat tool has been modified to address the issue of casual banter. The first ten world chat messages are free, and each subsequent message costs 100 gold coins (equivalent to 1 yuan).

Add a small loudspeaker function, charging 10 yuan per loudspeaker call.

After setting all these things, Cheng Yi smiled happily.

If a game wants to last, it shouldn't rip off ordinary players; it should only rip off wealthy players.

Just like in Audition Online, two energetic young men can spend tens of thousands of yuan a day using the megaphone to compete for a girl.

It's all details.

In addition, some guild war gameplay will be added, and the ultimate BOSS will be unlocked on the three major maps of the continent.

A terrifying, millennia-old zombie king has appeared in the mine.

A powerful dragon god emerged from the depths of the wormhole.

The Lich King appeared in the Desolate Realm on the fifth level of the Demon Cave.

After finishing these tasks, Cheng Yi logged out of the game.

You ignore me now, but you won't be able to reach me tomorrow. Wait until tomorrow to 'buy' a set of level 14 equipment before entering the game.

After turning off the computer, Cheng Yi lay on the sofa and began working on the reports.

As for Momo Internet Cafes, the implementation of Momo Internet Cafes in 334 districts and counties is nearing completion. The Internet cafe owners in each district and county are very cooperative. However, Cheng Yi believes that this cooperation is at most a wait-and-see attitude. After all, Momo Internet Cafes promised to make these Internet cafe owners earn more than before. If this promise is not fulfilled, these owners will inevitably break their contracts.

In addition, the nationwide Internet Cafe Federation established by Shengda Group resisted fiercely, which significantly hindered the expansion of Momo Internet Cafe in a short period of time.

The internet cafe industry has now formed four major forces: in addition to Momo Internet Cafe, there are Lianjiang Internet Cafe, Shikuang Internet Cafe, and Shengda's National Internet Cafe Federation.

Of these three, Lianjiang Internet Cafe is the strongest. Although its number of computers and internet cafes is far lower than that of Momo Internet Cafe and Shiku Internet Cafe, its profit margin is extremely high, its users are very wealthy, and it even provides services such as massage.

Secondly, there's Shikuang Internet Cafe, under the Shikuang Culture Group. Shikuang Culture follows a path of aggressive expansion, almost identical to Momo Internet Cafe. However, their approach is to license these internet cafes without interfering with their operations. They simply put up a sign for the cafes and primarily focus on renting out their licenses.

A regular internet cafe license costs 70 yuan, but with Shikuang Internet Cafe, it only costs 50 yuan or even less. This method allowed Shikuang Internet Cafe to solve its funding problem in a short period of time.

In less than six months, they had more than 2000 franchised internet cafes.

The licensing fees collected from internet cafes alone amounted to a staggering one billion yuan.

Cheng Yi was not surprised by this speed.

Back in 2003, several companies that had obtained chain internet cafe licenses had considered this approach, but they were worried that the internet cafe industry would affect their main business and that they would be implicated by the internet cafes, so they chose to freeze their chain internet cafe licenses.

After all, their main businesses are worth billions. It's a losing proposition to try and earn 1 billion for the sake of those billions.

Furthermore, these internet cafe owners are all bad people, and they fight amongst themselves fiercely. If something like burning the rattan armor soldiers were to happen, they, as the licensors, would be locked up in jail for life.

Most importantly, there was that terrible internet cafe incident that Du Yusheng prevented in this life.

With that egregious incident as a backdrop, no entrepreneur with a sound mind would dare to engage in such rampant licensing and profiteering as Time and Space Internet Cafe.

But since that terrible thing didn't happen in this life, the Time-Space Internet Cafe became bolder than ever before.

In almost every northern province, you can find Time and Space Internet Cafe.

They don't really audit internet cafes; as long as they're willing to pay a 50 yuan licensing fee, they'll issue them a license.

As for the National Internet Cafe Federation, that's just a gimmick.

The members of the National Internet Cafe Federation are all internet cafes that cooperate with Shengda. Although the organization is loosely structured, there are a large number of them. Whether it is a legitimate internet cafe or an illegal internet cafe, they can join the National Internet Cafe Federation and become a member.

The membership fee is also very low, only 1000 yuan per year.

In addition, Shengda's strong background attracted a large number of internet cafes to join.

Since its inception by Shengda before the Lunar New Year, a total of 108941 internet cafes have joined the federation.

The internet cafe industry is currently divided into four parts, making it extremely difficult for any one company to dominate.

"It's no longer realistic to try to move forward quickly." Cheng Yi looked at the distribution map of Time and Space Internet Cafe franchise stores and the distribution map of the National Internet Cafe Federation at the back of the report.

Momo Group now completely dominates Handong Province and several surrounding provinces. Once the internet cafes in 334 districts and counties are built and put into operation, they will have 1276 internet cafes with a capacity of 1,000 computers, 1141 internet cafes with around 200 computers, and 1225 university computer labs.

The total number of computers is 1917500.

This number is enough to support them taking a step into the Momo ecosystem.

Cheng Yi put down the report from Momo Internet Cafe and picked up reports from other companies.

Black Panther Security is in a period of growing pains, and its growth rate has slowed down.

Honor Computer spent the past year recruiting engineers to begin researching network cards specifically for PCs.

"Shengda is really willing to spend a lot of money." Cheng Yi finally picked up the report on Momo Virtual Item Trading Network. In the past few months, Shengda Game Equipment Trading Network has been expanding rapidly with the help of the National Internet Cafe Federation, and has even started a money-burning mode.

Having learned from the previous experience, this time Shengda Game Equipment Trading Network invested 800 million yuan, imitating Momo Group by setting up an agency point in each district and county, and reducing the commission to 10%.

This kind of money-burning strategy has always been very brutal, and there are almost no ways to deal with it except by engaging in a price war with them.

The current battle situation is roughly evenly matched across all fronts.

The campus network and the intranet are roughly equal.

Momo Virtual Item Trading Website and Shengda Game Equipment Trading Website are evenly matched. Honghuang Zhanji and Legend are also evenly matched.

Momo Internet Cafe and the National Internet Cafe Federation are evenly matched.

Meanwhile, the Momo Group and the Shengda Group were also locked in a fierce battle.

Lianzhong Games and QQ Games Hall are locked in a fierce battle.

Xinlang, Souhu, and NetEase are now locked in a battle.

Lin Shengdong's self-operated store has also become entangled with Alibaba.

In a word, it's chaotic.

However, these seemingly chaotic competitions, once sorted out, are still based on a single line.

That means Momo Group has begun to challenge the authority of Shengda Group.

By mid-April, QQ Campus Network had already taken shape. They even achieved their first profit from advertising, and their usage rate in universities surpassed that of Momo Campus Network for the first time, with daily active users of Campus Network reaching 710,000.

Although this number is exaggerated, the daily active users of 71 surpass Momo and Xiaonei.com by a large margin.

"This penguin is really amazing. Whatever Renren comes up with, they can immediately follow suit."

Can plagiarism and original creation be done at the same speed?

"It can't really be called plagiarism."

"Not enough? Isn't this just Penguin Kakashi?"

Inside Donglu University in Donglu Province, several college students were having a heated discussion in their dormitory about the recent conflict between the campus network and the intranet.

The campus network and the school intranet are exactly the same, which means that college students can only choose one of them, since no one has the energy to play on two platforms at the same time.

With the use of Momo points to redeem QQ coins on the campus network, almost every college student has a QQ campus network account.

Using QQ coins to exchange for Momo points, and then using those Momo points to make purchases both on and off campus, has become a daily routine for college students.

When it comes to taking advantage of deals and discounts, college students are always at the forefront.

In just one month, 1000 million college students generated 1.2 million QQ coins, and this user acquisition has even become an industry chain.

College students are asking relatives and friends in their hometowns to help them register new accounts, and then frantically earn QQ coins.

Although QQ coins don't have much purchasing power, Momo points have a strong purchasing power. Even several shops around the Momo computer lab offer discounts using Momo points.

Momo points are definitely a form of hard currency.

"Let me see how much you've earned. Holy crap, 384 points? How did you do that?" A boy leaned over to his roommate's computer, glanced at it, and exclaimed, "Godfather, can I have 50? I want to go to the computer lab and play some games."

"Get lost!" The roommate pushed the boy's large face aside and said, "This is a gift I prepared for my girlfriend."

"Tch, what a womanizer who neglects his friends." Several people in the dorm gave this guy the middle finger.

This speed has made Tencent Group somewhat nervous.

Although there is no cost to issue QQ coins, they are the main source of revenue for their group. Every QQ coin they issue will become a weapon to fight back.

Inside the meeting room, Ma Huateng sat at the U-shaped table and said to the eight key company employees in front of him, "Tell me your thoughts, do you think we should stop issuing QQ coins?"

“I think we can stop issuing more; we’ve already captured 57% of the market,” an executive said.

“I don’t recommend stopping the issuance. At the very least, we should wait until we get a valuation before stopping it,” another executive said. “If we stop the issuance now, it could very likely cause a large number of users to migrate back to Xiaonei.com, which would not only undo all our previous efforts but also cause our valuation to fail.”

“I agree with Lao Jia. We absolutely cannot stop now. We need to secure Shengda’s first round of financing first.”

"Correct."

The others responded in unison.

Once they secure the first round of funding from Shengda Group, they can easily stabilize the QQ coin market; at worst, they can simply buy it back at a high price.

“Okay, since most people think we should continue issuing it, then let’s continue issuing it.” Ma Huateng nodded, looked at a senior executive on his right, and said, “Chen Dan, go to Momo Group in the next few days and talk to Mr. Cheng Yi. Ask him if he is willing to sell Xiaonei.com.”

"Talking about an acquisition?" The executive was somewhat surprised and said, "Isn't it a bit premature to talk about an acquisition now?"

Ma Huateng laughed and said, "Let's give them a heads-up first, and also show them our confidence."

“I understand.” The executive quickly grasped Ma Huateng’s meaning.

Psychological warfare.

Xiaonei.com is, after all, a company run by a group of college students, and Momo Group holds a very small stake in Xiaonei.com. This means that Xiaonei.com needs to be responsible for its own profits and losses. They have seen Xiaonei.com's financial report, and the revenue is not very ideal. During the Spring Festival holiday, Xiaonei.com's financial report even showed negative growth.

Now that they've stirred things up like this, everyone on the school's intranet is bound to be filled with anxiety.

They are all mature entrepreneurs, and at the very least, they are much better than those immature and naive college students.

His purpose in going there was twofold: first, to sound out what was going on, and second, to investigate the true nature of Renren.com.

Chen Dan smiled and said, "I'll book a plane ticket tonight and fly there. I'll personally visit Cheng Yi tomorrow morning."

"Hmm." Ma Huateng smiled and said, "Talk to them nicely, don't get into a conflict with them. I heard that Cheng Yi has a very short temper, so you don't want to get beaten up."

"Don't worry." As the Chief Administrative Officer of Tencent, Chen Dan was quite confident in her administrative abilities.

If they could acquire Xiaonei.com, Tencent would definitely soar to new heights.

They were especially envious of the 1225 computer labs under the school's intranet.

Cases of ants swallowing elephants are commonplace in business warfare.

The most recent example is Motorola's $50 billion satellite company, which was acquired by an airline for a low price of $2500 million last year.

Once an elephant is terminally ill, there is no way to save it except to be eaten by ants.

"Someone from Tencent is here?" The next morning, Cheng Yi, who was in his office on the intranet of Handong University, received news that Chen Dan had come to visit.

In his previous life, Chen Dan was truly a big shot among big shots. Even Cheng Yi's superior never had the chance to see Chen Dan. But now, Chen Dan actually took the initiative to visit him.
This person is also one of the few internet entrepreneurs that Cheng Yi is quite optimistic about.

Chen Dan is different from people like Ma Yun. He is a very pure person. In 2012, he stepped down as vice president of Tencent and has been dedicated to charity ever since.

He has invested over 10 billion yuan but has remained unknown.

Many people do charity work just to put on a show, like Cheng Yi.

But Chen Dan is different. For ten years, he has always been at the forefront of charity. Cheng Yi still remembers Chen Dan's famous quote about success: "Success is a process, not the imagined result, nor the result evaluated by the outside world. If we work and live according to our own ideals, and are happy, fulfilled and grounded in the process, then that is success."

(End of this chapter)