Zhou Hongyi got up from the ground in embarrassment, patted the dust on his body, but his face was very thick, as if nothing happened before, he smiled and chatted with Lu Yiming about his "big deal", only to

Seeing him speaking to Lu Yiming in an excited tone: "Mr. Lu, I have a project worth one billion and I want to have a good talk with you."

As if afraid that Lu Yiming would not believe him, Zhou Hongyi quickly introduced her resume.

It has to be said that Zhou Hongyi is such a bad person that he has sores on his head and pus on his feet. He even became the number one public enemy in the Xiaguo Internet industry for a time, but he does have some talents, and there are quite a lot of them.

Zhou Hongyi and Zhang Xiaolong both have master's degrees.

It's just that in terms of life encounters, Zhou Hongyi's path is much smoother than Zhang Xiaolong's. Their life templates are completely different.

In 1995, after graduating from graduate school, Zhou Hongyi immediately joined Founder Group, which has a strong academic background in China. It only took him two years to become a programmer, project director, department manager, etc.

In the end, he even climbed all the way to the position of general manager of the group business unit, and was even appointed as deputy director of the R&D center.

Suddenly, life can be said to be infinitely beautiful.

Compared to many ordinary people, his start is completely like Tianhu.

However, Zhou Hongyi is obviously a very ambitious person. He is not willing to be inferior to others, and he does not want to work for others all his life.

Therefore, after Founder Group almost climbed to the top he could reach, Zhou Hongyi, like Zhang Xiaolong, decisively chose to resign.

But unlike Zhang Xiaolong who resigned and went to work for his boss, Zhou Hongyi decided to become his own boss.

In October 1998, that is, last month, Zhou Hongyi launched a banner on the Internet to "let Xia people surf the Internet in their own mother tongue." Having just celebrated his 28th birthday, he took out

With his life savings, he founded 3721 Technology Co., Ltd.

It has to be said that Zhou Hongyi has a very good vision, and she has indeed grasped the pain points of the times.

In the current Xia Kingdom, the Internet is still a new thing. Because it was introduced from abroad, many Internet usage habits and even text labels are quite unfriendly to the people of Xia Kingdom.

Zhou Hongyi's entrepreneurial project is related to this, and wants to solve the pain point of surfing the Internet for ordinary people in Xia State in one fell swoop.

Although Lu Yiming disdains this guy's character and deeply hates his set of 360 family buckets, looking at it from another perspective, as long as he is not Zhou Hongyi's software customer, this guy is still worth working with.

Lu Yiming looked at Zhou Hongyi's face that needed a beating, laughed and said, "Okay, let's find a place to talk. How about you treat me to lunch?"

Although her body ached, Zhou Hongyi gritted her teeth and said, thinking of her big project worth hundreds of millions, "It's an honor for me to invite Mr. Lu to dinner."

Lu Yiming found a relatively expensive restaurant nearby and asked for a private room.

Several people sat down, and a waiter in a black suit came in with an exquisite menu and asked politely: "Excuse me..."

Lu Yiming waved his hand and said: "Bring up the ten most expensive dishes in your store, and ask for the most expensive bottle of wine. This gentleman will pay for it."

"Okay, please wait."

The waiter turned and left, and Zhou Hongyi's heart was racing.

For the sake of a project worth one billion, I endured it!

I can’t bear to wear my shoes without wearing a wolf!

After placing the order, Lu Yiming smiled slightly and looked at Zhou Hongyi calmly: "Mr. Zhou, shall we continue talking now?"

Seeing that Lu Yiming was finally willing to get down to business, Zhou Hongyi's face improved a little and she quickly said: "Let's continue talking. I just recently completed a 3721 project here, which is a Chinese website. Mr. Lu is not my fault.

Ha, this move is definitely the first of its kind to provide Chinese Internet services. From now on, netizens in Xia State can directly search for the URL they want by logging into our website and entering Chinese keywords. This change can be called revolutionary.

, the market prospect is extremely broad.”

Although these words sounded grandiose, Zhou Hongyi did not brag. At this moment, he did still have some dreams in his heart, and he also thought that he had seen the future development trend of Xiaguo's Internet.

After listening to Zhou Hongyi's endless "bragging", Lu Yiming nodded slightly at his words, showing some recognition: "It is really inconvenient to surf the Internet now, especially for netizens in Xia State. If you want to open any webpage, you have to first

It’s very troublesome to remember the other party’s English website address. It’s okay for professionals, but for most ordinary people, the threshold for using this way of surfing the Internet is too high, not stupid enough, and not convenient enough.”

There is no doubt that from the perspective of reborn Lu Yiming, Zhou Hongyi's idea is groundbreaking, and the product idea is also very successful.

In fact, in the original history, Zhou Hongyi did become famous a few years later by relying on the "Chinese keyword search" technology, and began to reach the peak of his career.

The website real-name service provided by the project he worked on covered more than 90% of Xiaguo's Internet users at that time, with more than 80 million users using it every day, and had more than 600,000 corporate customers, occupying the largest domestic market share.

With a market share of 40% in the paid search market, it is the absolute leader.

By 2001, 3721 Company was the first among the Xiaguo Internet companies to announce profits and weathered the Internet's cold winter.

So much so that three years later, Yahoo, which was still an Internet giant at the time, was willing to invest US$120 million to purchase Xiangjiang 3721 Company, making Zhou Hongyi rich overnight.

Although he was not ashamed of Zhou Hongyi's character, Lu Yiming had no grudge against Qian. How could Lu Yiming refuse such a money-making project that came to his door?

"Your idea is great. I, Lu Yiming, voted for this project!"

Zhou Hongyi was overjoyed. He thought that he should be able to get money from Lu Yiming, his enemy, but he didn't expect it to be so easy!

In just one meal—no, the business was concluded before the meal even started?

Zhou Hongyi gave a thumbs up with a flattering expression on her face: "Mr. Lu, you are so discerning! No wonder you have become a boss at a young age. You are really a role model for our generation."

This time, when I meet a Kaizi who is so easy to take the bait, no matter what, I have to fight to the death!

Zhou Hongyi rubbed her palms and asked eagerly: "Mr. Lu, how much money do you plan to invest in this project?"

Lu Yiming stretched out his hand and said, "Five million, I'll buy you 372130% of the shares."

"Five million?"

Zhou Hongyi was a little dumbfounded.

He just said one billion!

This shrinkage is too serious.

"No, Mr. Lu, don't you see the potential of this project? Let me tell you, if this project is completed, it will not be a problem to earn hundreds of millions in revenue in a year. Besides, you don't care about Zhang Xiaolong's broken mailbox.

If you pay 10 million, why do I only have 5 million?"

Zhou Hongyi was really anxious and spoke out her thoughts without thinking through her brain.

Lu Yiming suddenly understood, and then said with a smile: "You may have misunderstood. Anyway, his foxmail has been built and put on the market, and has achieved good results, with half a million users. Yours

What about this three-seven-twenty-one? I’m not even talking about the results, so where is the finished product of yours?”

Zhou Hongyi was immediately speechless. If he could produce a product, why would he waste words with Lu Yiming?

But five million is too little, far less than Zhou Hongyi’s psychological expectations.

"Okay, Mr. Lu, I'll go back and think about it first. Let's talk about cooperation later."

Obviously, Zhou Hongyi was not willing to give in. He thought that although the money in his hand was less, it was still barely enough. When the actual object was made, he would come over to negotiate with Lu Yiming and he would definitely be able to sell it at a good price.

Zhou Hongyi stood up, and Lu Yiming said with a smile: "I've ordered all these dishes, why don't I leave without eating? This meal is your treat."

Zhou Hongyi wanted to throw up his sleeves and leave, but he just looked at the menu and it was a four-digit meal. It would be a shame not to eat it, so he let out a heavy grunt to express his dissatisfaction, and then sat down.

Lu Yiming said jokingly: "How about it? Do you really not want these five million?"

Seeing the look in Lu Yiming's eyes, Zhou Hongyi felt very unhappy and said frankly: "Mr. Lu, to be honest, the money you gave me is too little and I can't accept it."

In fact, in this era, it is not uncommon to get five million angel investments in China. Many entrepreneurs may not even have half a million when they start a business.

But I am afraid of comparison in everything!

Zhang Xiaolong could get 10 million from Lu Yiming, but Lu Yiming only gave him 5 million. How can you make Zhou Hongyi willing?

If you were an ordinary person, you might be intimidated by Zhou Hongyi.

But not Lu Yiming. He was originally a coder, and he knew all about the software technology related to the Internet. He sighed and said to Zhou Hongyi: "Old Zhou, five million is actually a lot.

And for the thing you are talking about, do you think I can give Zhang Xiaolong one-tenth of the money, just 500,000, to do it? Do you think he can do it? What are the technical aspects of the thing you are talking about?

Is it difficult?”

When Zhou Hongyi heard this, he didn't understand that the young man in front of him was not easy to fool. He immediately became anxious: "Mr. Lu, you can't be so shameless! It was obviously me who thought of it first, and you are obviously trying to plagiarize me.

Creative!”

It didn't matter if others said this. When these words came out of Zhou Hongyi's mouth, Lu Yiming just felt like laughing: "Oh, you can't say that. Have you applied for a patent for the idea you came up with? It's illegal for me to do this.

Is it done?"

Lu Yiming is clearly shameless, what can Zhou Hongyi do?

He could only feel sulky in his heart now. He didn't expect that he had been despicable all his life, but now he met someone who was even more shameless than him. There was simply no way to describe that feeling in words.

"How about it? I'll invest you five million and get 30% of the shares, or I'll spend half a million to get someone to make a replica. It's your choice."

Zhou Hongyi has always felt that there is no limit to what he can do as a person, but he never expected that the young man named Lu Yiming in front of him not only has no limit, but also has no bottom line at all.

After a while, Zhou Hongyi sighed and surrendered to Lu Yiming like a heir: "Okay, Mr. Lu, you win, I accept your suggestion."

Lu Yiming laughed heartily: "That's right. Just look at it, if you take at least five million from me, you can produce results faster. Will it be easy to make money by then? Life is short, you have to get rich early.

.”

Seeing Lu Yiming smiling so heartlessly, Zhou Hongyi's heart was bleeding.

He had always felt that he was the only one who plotted against others, but he never expected that he would fall into the hands of a high school student today.

It's so shameful! It's so shameful!

Zhou Hongyi secretly swore in her heart that when she becomes prosperous in the future, she will definitely get back to where she is today!
To be continued...