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Chapter 189 0186 [Fierce Industry Competition]

Before Li Ao could even start arguing with anyone, Sina Blog had already reacted.

Presumably, seeing the high level of popularity they generated by inviting Li Ao through Kaixin.com, they then turned to invite Li Ao's daughter, Li Wen.

Li Wen currently resides in Beijing.

Moreover, she has published four books in mainland China: one is called "I Scold with Li Ao", another is called "Li Wen's Collection of Laughter", and the other two are English tutoring books.

Now, Li Wen is writing books, appearing on TV shows, giving English teaching lectures, and fighting lawsuits all at the same time.

She was simultaneously involved in six lawsuits, all of which involved her suing others, and in some cases, she only managed to get the other party to pay her 1 yuan in damages.

She called herself a "female fighter" and said she had written her will to become a "female martyr." Because she had received death threats, assassins had already targeted her.

She has lived in Beijing for less than three years and has already moved to five different residential complexes. In her current complex, she has only been renting for eight months and has already filed over 100 complaints against the property management company—something she boasted to the reporter.

In her book, she openly discusses her upbringing, even detailing being sexually harassed by her stepfather and posting his photos. She also claims her current neighbors are all nouveau riche, providing a detailed account of their various indecent behaviors…

She insists that she is not doing these things for publicity, but to introduce the excellent moral values ​​of the West to her Chinese friends.

Her mother was abandoned by Li Ao, but she didn't resent her biological father. Instead, she praised Li Ao as a romantic and talented man who had had a dozen or so girlfriends and was sincere with each of them.

This one is just...abstract!
……

dorm room.

Chen Guiliang opened Li Wen's Sina blog, and the lady's first blog post received a huge number of clicks.

Li Wen's blog post simply introduces her home.

She rented a villa in Beijing, with a dedicated room for storing her clothes and shoes. Hundreds of pieces of clothing and over two hundred pairs of shoes, all expensive designer brands.

A series of photos showcasing her house and luxury goods attracted a large number of netizens. Many made sarcastic remarks, but even more people praised her. Supporters and opponents even engaged in heated arguments in the comment section of her blog.

Li Wen's second blog post was a picture of her artificial mountain. She had spent tens of thousands of yuan to build an artificial mountain in her rented villa to decorate her lawn.

Looking at the effusive comments in the comment section, Chen Guiliang muttered to himself: "I hired Li Ao to write online articles, and Sina hired his daughter to write a blog. What kind of monster has been unleashed prematurely? Will Sina Blog turn into a mini-sweet potato?"

"Isn't this woman afraid of stirring up resentment towards the rich among netizens?" Jiang Junlai also sat down next to Chen Guiliang to observe the blog.

Chen Guiliang laughed and said, "A woman who has filed more than 200 complaints against the property management in eight months, do you think she's afraid of being criticized by netizens? She's currently suing six people at the same time, and I guess she'll sue netizens next."

Li Wen not only keeps fighting lawsuits, but she also writes a book about her legal battles called "Li Wen's Reasoning"—which will earn her another round of royalties.

They're making money like crazy.

New roommate Li Heng said, "She's really embarrassing her dad!"

Just then, Senior Brother Min Wenyu, who had moved upstairs, came over with the information of several students from mountainous areas.

“When I went to teach in a rural area during the summer vacation, they were already implementing the ‘two exemptions and one subsidy’ policy,” Min Wenyu said. “Elementary school students were exempted from paying 260 yuan in tuition fees per year, and junior high school students were exempted from paying 450 yuan in tuition fees per year.”

Chen Guiliang said, "That means they basically don't pay any money."

Min Wenyu said, "They do have to pay, along with textbook fees and miscellaneous tuition fees. However, in the entire Yunnan Province, only more than 200 million students have been enrolled this year, and there are still many more impoverished areas waiting for the policy to be implemented."

"Everything has to be done gradually," Chen Guiliang said, expressing his understanding.

Min Wenyu said, “In the place where I went to teach, the children in the mountainous area only pay about 100 yuan a year for books and miscellaneous fees. The problem is that they have many children. Two or three children is considered normal, and some even have four or five. Each child costs more than 100 yuan a year, so it is still a heavy burden when several children are together.”

“We can’t help with that,” Chen Guiliang said.

Min Wenyu said, “These are all diligent and high-achieving students from disadvantaged backgrounds. I selected five in total. Two of them are still in primary school in the mountains, and the other three are in junior high school at the central school in their townships. If you want to sponsor them, just send the money to their homeroom teacher. I have already contacted their homeroom teacher.”

Li Heng asked, "Why not send them to the students' parents?"

“The homeroom teacher wouldn’t misuse this money, but the students’ parents might,” Min Wenyu said.

Chen Guiliang carefully reviewed the information of these impoverished students, and Min Wenyu also suggested the amount of assistance: 80 yuan per year for primary school students to cover textbooks and tuition, and 200 yuan per year for living expenses. 120 yuan per year for junior high school students to cover textbooks and tuition, 100 yuan per year for boarding fees, and 500 yuan per year for living expenses.

Chen Guiliang only needs to sponsor these five high-achieving students from impoverished families with 2720 yuan per year to help them complete their current studies.

“Okay, I’ll transfer the money to their homeroom teacher this weekend,” Chen Guiliang said.

Jiang Junlai said, "You might as well launch a donation drive on Renren or Kaixin, which would help more students."

Chen Guiliang shook his head and said, "The website I run will not initiate educational assistance projects on its own initiative, but it will not prevent users from doing so either. The website will at most give some traffic to user-initiated projects, but it will resolutely not be involved in any specific donations. This kind of thing is too troublesome. Sponsoring these five students is also an anonymous personal donation, so please do not publicize it everywhere."

"Don't worry, I won't say anything."

"What's wrong with saying this?" "Exactly, donating money to impoverished students is a good thing."

"I don't want to go through too much trouble, just showing my appreciation is enough."

"..."

Min Wenyu said, "I plan to go to Guizhou Province to teach during this winter vacation, and I will select a few more people for your sponsorship then."

Jiang Junlai said, "That's my hometown, I'll go with you!"

……

The next day, Chen Guiliang reluctantly went to his advanced mathematics class.

Starting this year, it's a compulsory course, and Chen Guiliang feels it's really tough for him. However, it doesn't affect most Yuanpei Class students, as they've already been taking it since their freshman year.

It was almost noon when Chen Guiliang finally rushed to the company.

He passed by Li Fan's workstation, glanced at the computer, and said, "Scouting the enemy's situation?"

Li Fan pointed at the screen: "Li Wen has posted on her blog again, one post a day. At this rate, she'll probably surpass Xu Jinglei in popularity."

"What is she showing off today?" Chen Guiliang asked.

Li Fan said, "Today, I didn't flaunt my wealth. Instead, I complained about my neighbor spitting everywhere, mocked him as a nouveau riche, and said that he lived in a villa but had no manners. Then I went on to talk about the current state of national quality. I said that China's development speed is too fast, but the overall quality of the people is not keeping up. In less than half a day, the article has received more than 10,000 views."

Chen Guiliang remarked, "This woman really knows how to attract attention."

Sina Blog has unearthed a treasure!
"How are the data from other blog websites?" Chen Guiliang asked.

Li Fan opened a spreadsheet file: "Most of the smaller blog websites are experiencing dismal data. BlogChina, which used to have the largest user base, has lost a large number of high-quality bloggers since Sina Blog was launched. As for the well-known bloggers who remain on BlogChina, I have been tracking their new articles' cumulative clicks on the first and third days, and they have been consistently declining. So far, the overall click volume has dropped by about 20%."

This is only the first month since Sina Blog was launched!

It's estimated that within six months, Sina Blog will be able to kill over 90% of similar websites.

Li Fan clicked on BlogChina, which had been renamed "BlogChina.com": "BlogChina has been forced by Sina to accelerate its transformation. It just acquired 'China Yellow Pages' and is probably going to take a business route. They are also launching the 'Fashion Blog Enters Campus' campaign."

Good guy.

Facing the aggressive expansion of Sina Blog, BlogChina didn't stand idly by or confront it head-on. Instead, it launched a new offensive, aiming to compete with Xiaonei.com, Zhanzuo.com, Ruolin.com, and Tianji.com. It simultaneously expanded into both campus and business sectors.

In fact, it's much more than that. BlogChina is developing a search engine, and in another month it will be competing with Baidu for business. Next year, it will also launch an email service to compete with NetEase.

They launched a bunch of new businesses, then ran into a cash shortage, and after three years of struggling, they declared bankruptcy.

Chen Guiliang called Guo Feng to his office alone: ​​"Accelerate the improvement and development of Weibo's functions."

The various functions of Weibo are currently very rudimentary and frequently buggy. This is due to the short development time.

Kaixin.com was able to launch so quickly because most of its functions were copied from Renren.com, so it didn't require much complex secondary development.

Guo Feng said, "I always felt that Weibo's positioning was strange, like it was parasitic on Kaixin001."

"In the future, I will separate Weibo from Kaixin.com and create a separate, simpler HaiNei.com specifically for posting short articles of a few dozen words," Chen Guiliang said.

"Wouldn't that mean Renren, Kaixin, and HaiNei (Weibo) all exist at the same time? That would burn through millions every month!" Guo Feng exclaimed in surprise.

Chen Guiliang said, "We'll take it one step at a time, not immediately. I'll find a way to make these websites break even as soon as possible. If that doesn't work, we'll spin them off into subsidiaries. Leveraging their large user base, we can attract venture capital to invest in the subsidiaries!"

In the smartphone era, Renren and Kaixin were doomed to fail sooner or later because making a profit was simply too difficult—in another timeline, they never actually turned a profit. They didn't even last a year, relying entirely on fundraising to burn through cash!
For Chen Guiliang, the real purpose of these two websites was to help ByteDance raise funds and go public. They also spurred the creation of Weibo, and perhaps even WeChat.

Having accomplished these missions, Chen Guiliang plans to find an opportunity to spin them off and sell them!
It all depends on which unlucky person is willing to take the fall.

National Day is just around the corner.

That same day, Li Ao posted a second article on Kaixin.com, warmly congratulating the 56th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China and recounting how poor China used to be. He also reiterated his abandonment of liberalism.

His daughter, Li Wen, also posted a blog on Sina, complaining that Beijing's transportation system is problematic and cannot meet the travel needs during holidays.

Both articles received a high number of clicks and were compared by people, each surprisingly having a large number of supporters.

The first National College League of "Three Kingdoms Kill" was also officially launched during the National Day holiday.

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