Rebirth of the big era of online games

Chapter 435

Although at least half of the routines Xia Hao mentioned were taught by Fang Jie himself, but no matter what, he still exerted a lot of subjective initiative.

And when he learned about these routines, Xia Hao also made a small suggestion to Fang Jie: In order to speed up the efficiency of data collection, Fang Zhou International doesn't need to do everything in person, and can spend a little money to directly purchase some existing saved data. If an Internet company with a large amount of user data cannot be acquired, then find a way to acquire a share. If there is no chance to even acquire a share, then "learn" from the other party and set up a similar subsidiary.

And Fang Jie's reply was: What do you think I set up an unlimited partnership for?As long as your Ark Internet has made certain achievements and let everyone see the sweetness, you don’t need to say anything about it. Those shareholders of international giants will actively participate in various acquisitions and mergers to help you get all the data!
At this time, Xia Hao suddenly realized that the boss had actually planned everything, and also got a glimpse of some real thoughts of the other party, and maintained a tacit understanding with the other party.

But some people don't have such a tacit understanding, such as Li Yu, CEO of Ark Academy, who is new to the job.

Originally, Li Yu was not a member of the list of more than 200 people, but after a year, he found that the leader had shifted his focus of work to foreign countries. He resolutely jumped from Boiling Group to Fangzhou International, wanting to continue to follow Fight the country by the leader's side.

But when he first arrived, he found that Fangzhou International and Boiling Group completely adhered to two business philosophies. While various unlimited operations and money-making routines subverted his three views, he also had a deep understanding of what he was doing now. There are great doubts about the meaning, but the key is that the leader still ignores it, and even encourages everyone to do so.

So he found Xia Hao privately, hoping to get some sutras from Fa Xiao, who knew the leader best, and answer his questions.

For Li Yu's arrival, Xia Hao felt quite refreshed, because there used to be a chain of contempt in the Boiling Group, and a non-academic related party like him has always been at the lowest end of the chain of contempt, and most people would just face it. He is polite, but in private, he doesn't think highly of a grassroots senior like him.

Knowing the purpose of the other party's visit, Xia Hao was in a good mood, patted his chest and said: "Hahaha, just ask me to learn from you. No one knows the boss better than me. If you don't understand anything, just ask!"

Li Yu had a lot of puzzles in his heart, but he didn't know where to ask. After pondering for a long time, he only asked the most direct question: "Ark Academy basically copied the set of Boiling Academy, but in The effect abroad is not very good, especially the group of Ark Studios, who have set up a lot of pirated websites, which has a great impact on our business, why doesn’t the boss care about them?”

Don't look at Xia Hao, who seems to have nothing to do with people all day long, but he is actually a very shrewd person. After thinking about it for a while, he asked, "Did you mention this to the boss?"

"mentioned."

"Oh? What did he say?"

"He said..." Li Yu hesitated for a few seconds, and looked at Xia Hao dumbfounded: "He said he asked me to ask you..."

"Hahahahaha..."

Xia Hao couldn't help but patted his thigh and laughed, and then pointed at the other party and laughed and cursed: "You bastard, if the boss hadn't asked you to come to me, you wouldn't have shamed yourself to come to my house, would you?"

Li Yu was speechless, acquiescing to this fact.

He really didn't think highly of Xia Hao, and now, in his opinion, it was a very embarrassing thing to come to learn Buddhist scriptures.

After Xia Hao laughed, he became thoughtful instead. After a while, he raised his eyes and asked, "What do you think the readers who read online articles are to us?"

Li Yu thought for a while, then said, "User? God? Parents?"

"No," Xia Hao's mouth curled up, "For us, they are commodities."

Li Yu was taken aback for a moment, and then said angrily: "That's for you! Your Ark Internet sells user data, but it's different here!"

Xia Hao said: "What's the difference? Let me ask you: Even with a whole set of anti-theft mechanism and game community model, is Boiling Academy currently losing money or making money?"

Li Yu said reluctantly: "It's a loss...but not much."

Xia Hao nodded: "Okay, then what do you think is the way out for Boiling Academy to turn losses into profits in the future?"

This was originally Li Yu's old business, and he immediately responded: "Of course it is to create a big IP, to tap the value of IP copyright and its derivatives, such as various animations, film and television dramas..."

Before he could finish speaking, Xia Hao interrupted: "Since this is the case, the important thing in the future is not the number of paying users, but the number of users covered by big IP. The more users, the more important your big IP and its derivatives will be. The higher the value, the more users will enter the cinema or watch animation videos in the future, and the corresponding copyright fees will be more earned!"

"So, you should be happy, and you should be grateful to Ark Studios. They have helped you expand the influence of related IPs around the world, produced more 'commodities', and will allow you to sell more copyrights in the future. money instead of complaining that they stole your resources..."

Ah this...

Li Yu's three views have been subverted again. He has never thought about these issues. He has always felt that he is the one who suffers, the one who has been plagiarized, prostituted, and taken advantage of. Ying's magic weapon?
For a moment, he felt that the whole person was not good, and felt that right and wrong in this world were suddenly turned upside down.

At this time, Xia Hao's voice continued to be heard next to his ears: "So, the boss often says: Suffering is a blessing. It seems that you haven't fully understood this sentence..."

Li Yu nodded silently, expressing his approval of Xia Hao's "criticism", and remained silent for a while, finally raised his head, showed an ugly smile, and gave Xia Hao a thumbs up—convinced!As expected, he was called by the boss to have the potential to be an evil capitalist!
After Xia Hao accepted the compliments from his colleagues with peace of mind, he added: "You have to understand, the boss set up Boiling Academy, and from the very beginning, he focused on creating a big IP, that is... yes, the big universe of IP, So don’t worry too much about small profits.”

"Of course, foreign strategies are different from domestic ones. We don't need to be responsible to foreign readers and authors. We just need to find a way to let the relevant IP affect more users, and then let these users pay for our IP universe."

"I also have a small suggestion: You can translate suitable domestic web articles into multiple languages ​​and promote them, and try your best to make Huaguo's cultural IP a world cultural IP. The manufacturing center of the world must also become the world factory of spiritual and cultural products!"

"Isn't everyone advocating environmental protection now? Your industry is very environmentally friendly. It is a zero-carbon industry. When the time comes, I will award you an environmental protection fighter medal or something..."

Seeing Xia Hao's words getting more and more outrageous, Li Yu teased the other party: "Aren't you an evil capitalist? Now you still care about these major national affairs and environmental protection issues, it doesn't fit your personality..."

After Xia Hao snorted, his face flickered and he said: "Don't forget, besides being an evil capitalist, I was also a cynical youth..."

Hearing this, Li Yu couldn't help being stunned, and stared at the other party for a long time.

After confirming that there was an imperceptible light in the eyes of the other party, Li Yu seemed to have a sliver of understanding in his heart. He couldn't help but relax, and stood up, cupped his fists and smiled: "Understood, I have benefited a lot today, and I will leave!"

Li Yu is lucky, at least he is no longer confused about certain things, but some people, a group of high-level members of the domestic boiling group, are not so lucky. Fang Jie has been indifferent to domestic affairs for more than a year , giving them a feeling of being abandoned.

Especially the Iron Man who is in charge of Boiling Internet. He is a solid old scalper. It is okay for him to keep his head down and do things, but if no one helps him steer and point out the direction, he will panic and feel at a loss.

So after holding back for a year, Iron Man finally couldn't bear it anymore, and regardless of Fang Jie's traveling around the world, he bit the bullet and called his boss.

"God, it's been so long, why are you completely ignoring domestic affairs? You didn't work on the domestic game planning this year. They all said that you have changed, and you are only thinking about making money overseas. Go into the money hole!"

As soon as the call was connected, Iron Man came straight to the point. Fang Jie here was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and smiled, and replied, "Why don't I care about domestic affairs?"

Hearing this nonsense that was almost open-eyed, Iron Man couldn't get angry, but after all, the other party was a god and a big boss, so he held back and didn't get angry, but took a few breaths heavily into the phone to show that own strong dissatisfaction.

Of course Fang Jie also understood the other party's mood at the moment, so he couldn't help laughing: "Don't be angry, you are a general of our Boiling Group, if you get sick from anger, where can I find someone to replace you?"

Seeing that God was still joking at this time, Iron Man couldn't laugh or cry. He was about to say something when he heard the voice of God on the phone: "Everything has its pros and cons. If there is a mirror in front of you, you When you see yourself in the mirror, you will know what shortcomings you have, what you need to improve, and what you need to be vigilant about..."

"Even if I don't exist in China, 10 or 20 years later, with the efforts of everyone, we will still rise strongly. Reflecting what is happening and what is about to happen, this is much more meaningful than directly intervening in domestic affairs, if you don't understand these words, just ask someone who understands..."

Afterwards, Iron Man didn't ask someone who understands the meaning of these words, because he vaguely understood the meaning of the gods, and even noticed that there was a trace of helplessness in it.

This kind of helplessness was most clearly felt by Li Qing, the person next to her pillow, but she didn't go to the bottom of it, but just quietly accompanied her, trying to dispel the other's negative emotions as much as possible.

Of course, in the eyes of outsiders, this kind of helplessness is pure hypocrisy.

Because after the rapid development in 08-09, Fangzhou International has become a behemoth.

Its main business, Ark World, currently has 8000 million online players, and it will soon exceed [-] million!
Although the current living conditions of Ark World are much better, the city-states have experienced a period of enclosure and melee, and gradually demarcated their own spheres of influence, ushering in a short period of peaceful trade, but small fights are always Continuously.

There are so many players flocking into Ark World. After all, the base is there. Even if the casualty rate of players drops sharply, it still brings huge profits to Fangzhou International. This year, it has earned more than 400 billion just by selling resurrections. The flow of dollars!
Although it seems like a lot, in fact, on average, each player only resurrects once a week in real time, and the average lifespan of players has been greatly increased.

As for the transaction volume of resources in Ark World, or the transaction volume of the entire virtual market, it is at least a trillion-dollar transaction market, and the specific number cannot be counted at all. Even the World Central Bank cannot count this, because many transactions are completed in cash. less than effective monitoring.

Despite earning so much money, according to Fangzhou International's latest financial statement, all of the money has been spent, leaving only some odds and ends on the books.

For this, all the partners and players applauded.

Because all the money has been invested in the many subsidiaries of Fangzhou International to ensure that Fangzhou International will always maintain the proportion of the largest shareholder in the process of continuous financing of these subsidiaries.

And these subsidiaries, the current rate of return, some simply blind the eyes of all shareholders and investors, such as Ark Games, some temporary huge losses but promising prospects, such as Ark Internet, some have small profits and small profits, Such as Ark Business.

The reason why Ark Internet has suffered huge losses is not because Xia Hao is not doing well, nor is it not making money, but because the hardware that needs to be invested in the early stage, the continuous data research and development, and the salaries of technicians are all too expensive.

Not to mention anything else, just the IDC data exchange centers established by Arkworld in various places and the core server arrays that are continuously placed on the seabed consume more than tens of billions of dollars, and these investments will continue for a long time in the future .

Fortunately, the shareholder capital of Ark Internet is extremely optimistic about the big data business, and many of these investments are fixed assets or patent assets, so during the period, they continued to increase financing for blood transfusions. In order to ensure the largest shareholder's The status and the corresponding right to speak are also constantly pouring money into it.

Today, if only Ark Internet is listed and valued, the market value has exceeded [-] billion U.S. dollars, and its size is not even inferior to its father, Fangzhou International. This subsidiary itself is a behemoth!

This is the case of Ark Internet, and almost all of Ark's other subsidiaries are the same. All subsidiaries are burning a lot of money to quickly seize the market and users in their respective fields. It seems a drop in the bucket.

Fortunately, at the end of last year, Fang Jie made a fortune in the subprime loan market, so in terms of the shareholding ratio of some subsidiaries, Fangzhou International's shares rose instead of falling, stabilizing his basic market.

The capitals who originally coveted Fang Zhou International did not expect Fang Jie to get an extra 600 billion US dollars out of thin air, so they had to give up their ambition to be the "captain" for the time being.

In other words, some capital tycoons expected it, because they originally printed the money to Fang Jie, but there are some things that they can't stop. After all, there is a fire in their own backyard, and the fire must be put out first, and everything else is secondary.

Of course, then again, these capital tycoons are not stupid. They printed so much money to Fang Jie, and they can't let him mess around, especially if he is never allowed to transfer the money to the country to invigorate the economy.

Therefore, the countermeasure they adopted was to continuously provide financing for the Ark subsidiaries they invested in, forcing Fang Jie to spend the "windfall money" he earned in order to maintain Fangzhou International's control over these subsidiaries and the right to speak. Fire it up with them.

Of course, there are some problems to be solved: some subsidiaries don’t need so much money, and don’t need to conduct multiple rounds of financing, at least not for the time being. If they want to burn money with Fangjie, they have to find some reasonable reasons.

This is the so-called under the condition of not tearing the face, everyone has to practice some martial arts, no matter whether you are cheating, cheating, or harboring evil intentions, you must follow the default set of rules of the capital. Otherwise, it would be to challenge and break the rules of the entire capital world, and the final end would be to be destroyed by the capital world.

But when it comes to looking for reasons and playing financial routines, these people are ancestors, and they quickly found a series of reasonable financing reasons.

The current world economic background is that although subprime loans broke out from 06 to 08, and a series of rescue plans were introduced at the end of the year, the financial crisis is a long transmission process, and it is continuously transmitted to downstream industries .

To put it more vividly, this process is like a phalanx where soldiers lined up to be shot. The soldiers in the front row fell down. The soldiers in the middle didn't realize the danger was approaching, and the soldiers in the back row didn't even think it had anything to do with them.

In 09, it was finally the turn of the soldiers in the back row to meet the hail of bullets ahead. Before that, a large number of banks, investment institutions, and financial institutions had fallen down, resulting in a credit crunch. Now it is the turn of industrial companies with broken capital chains to line up shot.

At the beginning of January 09, Nortel Networks, a telecommunications equipment manufacturer in Citigroup, announced to file for bankruptcy protection, and then the capital giant partners of Fangzhou International waved a lot of money and asked for further financing for Ark Mobile and Ark Internet. The funds raised will be used to carve up related assets, technologies, and talents of Nortel Networks...

In February, the Swedish automaker Saab and Citigroup's third largest automaker, Chrysler, filed for bankruptcy protection, so the capital giants of Fangzhou International repeated their tricks and asked for financing for Ark Motors and Ark Travel to acquire the two companies. The production lines and R&D talents of automobile companies...

In March, something even more awesome came—Citigroup General Motors announced that it was filing for bankruptcy protection!

As a result, it goes without saying that Fang Jie has nothing to say about continuing to raise funds and continue to acquire and reorganize. Buick, Chevrolet, and Cadillac are all well-known brands under General Motors. Of course, this kind of bargain hunting should not be missed!
In April, Readers Digest, the family magazine that claims to have the world's largest sales, officially filed for bankruptcy protection in Citigroup, so Ark Entertainment, Ark Media, and Ark Academy, which are backed by many capital tycoons, swarmed up...

In May, the couple Fang Jie and Li Qing completed their honeymoon trip. When they just returned to China, a dumbfounding news came: Simmons, a world-renowned spring mattress brand, filed for bankruptcy protection in Citigroup.

The reason for its bankruptcy is that the financial crisis made mattresses a durable product for old Americans. Before that, old Americans were the most diligent group of people who changed mattresses in the world. As for why they changed so diligently , you savor...

Of course, what is even more dumbfounding is that Ark Motors, which has been off the market many times, waved the banknotes again and started to buy, buy, buy, and buy. The reason behind this acquisition was given by the capital behind it: since Simmons can make mattresses so high-quality and cheap , it is certainly not a problem to make car seat cushions and pillows, we need it!

Well, as long as you guys can come up with such a weird reason, it must have taken a lot of brain cells, so we have no objection.

And on June 6st, the day before Fang Jie's 1th birthday, CIT Group, the largest SME commercial lender in Citigroup with a century-old history, formally filed for bankruptcy protection, and then, as no surprise, Ark Credit appeared...

Seeing that these capital giants made it clear that they wanted to drag themselves into the water and consume the 600 billion US dollars, and even bought a lot of junk from Citigroup, Fang Jie decided to turn passive into active.

So in July, Fangzhou International suddenly announced that it would establish another large-scale industrial subsidiary: Ark Electric.

At the same time, it was also announced that Ark Electric will acquire Thomson Media Group, which has just filed for bankruptcy protection. The company is known as "the originator of color TV" and has always been a French electrical giant. In the future, Ark Electric will integrate and rely on the asset business of Thomson Media Group , to create a new generation of Internet intelligent digital appliances!
Look, internet smart digital appliances!

This concept sounds much higher than you guys buying Simmons, so no one will object, right?

Of course, no one objected to this. Seeing that Fang Jie made the move himself, and the purchase was of a French group company, a group of shrewd capital tycoons finally calmed down.

They knew that this was Fang Jie's warning, to tell them to stop. After all, the money didn't come from a strong wind... Well, even if it did come from a strong wind, you can't drag me to buy your rubbish all the time, can you?
In fact, in terms of facts, the companies acquired by these subsidiaries of Fangzhou International over the past year or so are really not rubbish.

Let’s not mention General Motors. Simmons is a brand that no one in China doesn’t know. It has even become synonymous with mattresses in China.

From a global perspective, in 09, not only Fangzhou International was aggressively acquiring companies that filed for bankruptcy, but other international giants were also acquiring aggressively. For example, Volkswagen acquired Porsche, Panasonic acquired Sanyo, and HP acquired 3COM... Etc., etc.

This year is a year of recapitalization, or to put it bluntly, it is a year of bottom-selling capital after the financial crisis.

Although a group of giant capitals in Fangzhou International have ulterior motives, they will not do such things as killing the enemy by one thousand and self-defeating eight hundred. These investments are of great return value, and the assets acquired are also high-quality assets, and the unlimited partnership has also helped them evade some anti-monopoly measures in various countries, which can be said to serve multiple purposes.

To use an old tune, this is a conspiracy, a compliance method allowed by the rules.

You, Fang Jieming, know that we are dragging you into the water to consume your 600 billion funds, and you have to go into the water, or you have no reason to oppose these acquisitions. If this matter is discussed at the shareholders meeting, it will definitely win an overwhelming vote of approval. , so your objection is useless.

But Yang Conspiracy about this matter...

In Fang Jie's eyes, that's all for this group of people, because they still have a bigger conspiracy on their heads, and they are not afraid of making big waves.

Besides, the acquisition of these companies did not cause any loss to oneself. Not only did it have no loss, but it accelerated the overall development of Fangzhou International, promoted the progress of the entire chessboard, or to put it bluntly, accelerated the time of demise.

Of course, it is still too early to talk about demise. The current Fangzhou International should be described as thriving, with a large amount of capital investment, the introduction of a large number of talents, the accumulation of a large amount of data, and the integration of a large number of high-quality assets. Inside, various checks and balances have been formed. It can be said that Fangzhou International is already invincible, and it is even difficult to die.

What's even more invincible is that its most profitable subsidiary, Ark Games, officially launched the latest 09A masterpiece version of Arkworld in August 8: "Ark: Age of Voyage", which made the concept of Ark Project once again become the global focus... …

(End of this chapter)