What the hell is a private enterprise?

Chapter 458 Offline Reality
"Recently, the conflict between the Gaijin Group and Li Ka-shing has become a hot topic..."

On the third day after the meeting between the old and new businessmen, a current affairs program on CCTV began to report on the incident.

Initially, Li Xiaochao tried to cover it up, stating to the media as follows:

"My father suddenly fell ill due to the long journey, so there was no unpleasant incident."

But Tang Wen immediately refuted his claims and went so far as to dig up old grievances about the Hanma Auto showroom being blocked a few months ago on his personal BBS account, further exposing Li Ka-shing's dirty secrets.

Information flow is extremely poor in this era, and it is difficult for information to be directly transmitted from the source to the grassroots.

Traditional print media have toned down their practices considerably after Li Xiaochao put pressure on them, but the internet is different; now, half of the public forums in China are run by people surnamed Tang.

No mandatory registration, phone number binding, verification code, etc. are required. Just enter the website address to enter the BBS homepage and you can immediately interact with "Young Master Tang".

The daily active users of DaWang BBS had already stabilized at over 15 in the first half of the year. After the launch of the 123 search website and chat room in the second half of the year, it also attracted more users through interaction. It is said that after Tang Wen posted on the BBS, countless people logged in through internet cafes and campus networks, reaching a peak of 80 concurrent online users in a single day, which directly overwhelmed Gaijin's servers and caused them to crash.

It wasn't until the BBS urgently introduced a restriction that unregistered users could only post once every 60 seconds that it could barely handle the exaggerated traffic.

As if that wasn't enough, Tang Wen continued to expose Tang Wen's monopolistic behavior, including opposing public housing, buying up properties at rock-bottom prices, hoarding land and establishing his own fiefdom, and using charity as a front for illicit exchanges of benefits.

Later, many Hong Kong IPs also discovered that the King BBS was so lively. As locals, they complained about the malicious speculation of local housing prices, the monopoly of industries by family businesses, etc., allowing many people to come into contact with the facts for the first time and to see a completely new side of the industry.

Most netizens are now from the campus community, and Tang Wen, being of the same age, naturally makes people feel closer to him. After discovering so many truths, people immediately left comments on his posts to show their support.

……

"Keep going, hang in there! There's a good chance that DaWang BBS's daily active users will break one million!"

Tang Wen kept making empty promises to Song Nan, who could only swallow them with a sweat pouring down her face.

A million daily active users sounds impressive, but it puts a nightmare on the servers.

In particular, Tang Wen couldn't wait to add a lot of advanced animation designs, emoticons, and interactive functions to DaWang BBS, which resulted in a much greater demand compared to similar websites.

Tang Wen was very happy about this, as he finally got to enjoy the first wave of new media benefits.

Previously, he could only suffer in silence when faced with public opinion storms, but BBS broke the restrictions and for the first time, his personal voice was effortlessly spread to every corner.

All the dirt he knew was compiled into a book, which was then pinned to the top of the feed and promoted. The number of views on the backend kept increasing with each refresh.

Should we take this opportunity to launch a fan feature?
"Didi"

The chat room icon is flashing:

[Jingjing Grassland: Tang Wen, hurry up and reply to my post! I want to be famous!]

I've read it, but I don't want to reply.

Tang Wen closed the window to continue lurking on the BBS, but suddenly the page turned into a "404" error.

Refresh, this time it was stuck for quite a while... then it redirected to the StoneCube forum?

After trying several more times and confirming that the address was spelled correctly, his face immediately darkened. At this moment, Song Nan also rushed over:
"Boss, those bastards Stone are causing trouble again while we're expanding the servers!"

StoneCube is the second largest forum after DaWang BBS, and it achieved its first million daily active users during this year's World Cup qualifiers.

Later, StoneCube and Huayuan merged to become Sina.

However, the richness and interactivity of DaWang BBS completely overwhelmed them, causing them to be relegated to second place.

In this grassroots era where there are no rules whatsoever, hacking into a rival's website isn't really that outrageous.

"Can we fight our way back?"

"Yes! At most half an hour, then we'll retaliate!"

Less than fifteen minutes later, DaWang BBS returned to normal.

Tang Wen didn't take it seriously at first, but then he started to frown when the attacks started every few minutes, sometimes even three times in less than an hour.

Although there isn't much strict regulation at the moment, generally speaking, people in the same industry wouldn't harbor such deep hatred for each other, right?

However, he was in a good mood now and even thought the other party was quite capable, so he directly called Hu Li:
“That StoneCube technology is pretty good. Let’s talk about whether we can buy it and turn it into Gaijin’s branch in Beijing.” “Uh… I’m afraid that’s difficult. StoneCube’s ‘Cube’ is actually Hong Kong Cube Investment Company.”

"..."

Tang Wen understood.

Hang up the phone and connect to Zhao Hande:

"Old Zhao, are you going to do anything about cybercrime? If not, I'm going to send in the vocational school's admissions office."

Zhao Hande: "??"

……

"The Internet is not a lawless zone."

"StoneCube executives, investors, and several employees have been detained and are under investigation for allegedly instigating and maliciously attacking other websites."

Tang Wen, founder of Gaijin Network, suggests establishing an internet information security department.

"DaWang BBS crashed multiple times in one day, but has now been restored to normal."

The attack on Gadkin Network is suspected of being orchestrated by someone else.

Faced with online provocations, Tang Wen chose to take action offline, while also pushing for early legislation and regulation of cybersecurity.

Four hours after the call, the police in Beijing caught them red-handed, and almost all of them were arrested.

After this incident, StoneCube website was temporarily shut down, while DaWang BBS bucked the trend and saw a surge in activity, officially surpassing one million daily active users at midnight that day.

Before going to sleep, Tang Wen spoke on the phone with Hughes in the United States.

"I don't want profits, I just want to see rivers of blood flowing."

"You'll get your wish. We've made a lot of noise by pretending to be the main force before. We can dump it on Friday."

However, for better results, Geigin can also make some minor, insignificant movements.

"What kind of subtle actions?"

“A little bit of hearsay is enough, as long as it’s bad for the real estate industry, such as Gionee joining the real estate industry and competing with Cheung Kong Holdings, or something like that.”

"I understand."

The next morning, just as Tang Wen was about to contact Feng Qianjun, someone suddenly wanted to visit him.

It's Lin Jiayao, the son of the head of the Lin family in Zhuawa. I've met him before at the warship launching ceremony, so we know each other.

The other party started with some small talk before getting to the point:

“Mr. Tang, my father said that it is better to resolve conflicts than to create them. We are all Chinese businessmen, and we should unite with each other. Li Ka-shing also admires outstanding young people like you and is willing to exchange 3% of his Cheung Kong Holdings shares for Feiyue Motors on a one-to-one basis to support each other.”

In terms of value, Cheung Kong Holdings is far superior to Flying Leap Motors. Even if the stock price plummets a year later, it will still be significantly more valuable. An equal exchange would certainly be a very sincere offer.

"Not enough, only three points?"

Lin Jiayao thought to himself that his appetite was a bit too big, but he still smiled and said:
"This is already quite a lot, and in the future..."

Tang Wen interrupted him: "Thirty million US dollars to buy 30 points, that's fair."

"..."

Lin Jiayao was dumbfounded. Li Ka-shing had only managed to control 35% of the body using various methods. Was he going to directly possess it?

He didn't dare linger any longer, dealt with the situation briefly, and left.

Tang Wen's decision to get rid of Lin Jiayao wasn't entirely due to dislike; rather, he sensed a new development:

The Kosomoyets did indeed encounter a big fish, but it was a little different from what we had imagined.

(End of this chapter)