January 20, 12:00 p.m.

"Dream World" officially entered the open beta stage, and the closed beta, which lasted more than two months, was also successfully concluded.

"Dream World" is a 2D turn-based online game independently developed by Century Games, which condenses the efforts of the first-class development team of Century Games and has a variety of unique game systems.

At the same time, Dream World is also a highly entertaining virtual world, where players can also start factories, trade stocks, invent technology, form gangs, subscribe to newspapers, and build homes...... It brings unprecedented fun to players.

And "Dream World" also lived up to Lin Weidong's expectations, and on the first night of the open beta, it reached an excellent result of 250,000 simultaneous online users.

In the face of such excellent results, Lin Weidong is also pleased, because in the past few years, he has always hoped that Century Games Company can launch an online game that is on par with "Glory of Kings".

Although the current results of "Dream World" are not enough to compare with the phenomenal "Glory of Kings", at least it has made a good start.

In Lin Weidong's view, with the current financial resources of Century Games Company and Xu Bo's planning ability, there is a chance to lead "Dream World" to become popular all over the Internet.

Moreover, in addition to offline publicity, Lin Weidong also has Century Chinese Network and Century Blog Network under his name, injecting a steady stream of traffic into "Dream World".

February 22, afternoon.

Lin Weidong was invited by Liu Qiangdong to inspect the Jingdong headquarters in Beijing.

Originally, Lin Weidong thought that with the scale of Jingdong, there should be a hundred people, but when he went to the company, he found that there were only 32 people in the company's headquarters.

To be honest, it is really not easy for such a company to develop and compete with Ma Xiaoyun's Taobao.

Liu Qiangdong saw that Lin Weidong didn't talk much, thinking that he was disappointed in the company, and hurriedly said: "Lin Dong, don't look at the fact that our headquarters is small now, in fact, in other big cities, we still have many brothers. ”

Lin Weidong nodded and asked, "Mr. Liu, what does your company mainly sell now?"

Liu Qiangdong replied: "We are an IT e-commerce network, and we buy electronic products. ”

Lin Weidong then asked, "Haven't you thought about selling other types of goods?"

Liu Qiangdong said calmly: "Of course there is, but the company's current funds are limited, and we are not allowed to get involved in too many industries." ”

Lin Weidong thought for a while and asked, "Why don't you learn from Taobao?" Let more merchants join in and expand Jingdong's team." ”

"Taobao now has everything, everything is sold, if Jingdong only sells electronic products, it will be very bad, and the market share is too small. ”

"As far as I know, the core content of Taobao is to encourage individual stores to open sales, and through its online platform, to achieve the docking of individual businesses and customers. ”

To put it bluntly, in fact, Taobao is equivalent to opening a shopping mall, and then renting out the shops to individual operators. The difference is that because it is a pure virtual world, the cost of opening a physical store is greatly reduced, so that it can attract a considerable number of small individual businesses who want to open a store and operate, but do not have enough capital. ”

Hearing Lin Weidong mention "Taobao", Liu Qiangdong was so angry that he sneered: "Lin Dong, don't mention Taobao to me, what's so great about Taobao, isn't Taobao just a liar platform that sells fakes?"

In addition, the biggest shortcoming of Taobao, or the root of his hidden pain, is also that the cost of opening a store for self-employed people is too low, and there is no direct contact between customers and merchants, which provides a very broad and convenient space for merchants and individuals who sell counterfeit and shoddy products, low-quality and shoddy products. ”

"All kinds of strange goods, all kinds of deception, flooded the whole Taobao, endlessly, not uncommon, the price of the same kind of goods on Taobao can appear several times, or even nearly 10 times the difference, so I often tell my brothers that Taotao is the largest counterfeit market in China!"

After saying that, Liu Qiangdong realized that he was a little too excited, and hurriedly explained to Lin Weidong: "Lin Dong, I'm sorry, I don't have an opinion on you, I just hate Taobao selling fake goods and irresponsible harm to consumers." ”

Lin Weidong smiled: "It's okay, what you said also has some truth, there are indeed a lot of fakes on Taobao." ”

Liu Qiangdong swore and said: "Lin Dong, don't worry, Taobao is Taobao, I can use my personality to assure you that we, Jingdong, will never sell a fake." ”

Regarding Liu Qiangdong's words, Lin Weidong obviously didn't believe it, not that he didn't believe Liu Qiangdong, but he didn't believe in this society, how could there be no fakes.

However, Lin Weidong nodded with a smile: "Mr. Liu, I believe you, you may not believe it, I invested in your Jingdong, in fact, not to make money, but to appreciate your personality." ”

Of course, Liu Qiangdong is not a fool, he believes that Lin Weidong may really appreciate him as a person, but Liu Qiangdong does not believe that Lin Weidong invested 10 million not to make money.

Lin Weidong is not a philanthropist, why should he help himself for no reason?

Obviously, in Liu Qiangdong's view, the business world is mostly a trade-off of interests, whether it is a "friend" or the "brother" he said, it is just a lubricating title, and whoever wants to take it seriously is stupid.

In "The Legend of Deer and Ding", Wei Xiaobao has a wonderful method of mixing officialdom and rivers and lakes, that is, "the sedan chair carries people", what does it mean, it is to give face to each other.

After all, it's not a good thing for you to fight to the death, and everyone comes out to mingle, isn't it all for money? Liu Qiangdong is not so stupid.

"Mr. Liu, in fact, I know very well that you Jingdong want to develop, there is still a long way to go, you told me before, you Jingdong want to engage in their own logistics, to build a large warehouse, Huaguo grade is so big, there is no three or five years, there is no billions of dollars can not be done. ”

After listening to Lin Weidong's words, Liu Qiangdong suddenly had a feeling that he was impressed by Lin Weidong's wisdom for the first time, because he asked Lin Weidong to come to the capital this time, and the purpose was also to talk to him about financing.

In fact, just as Lin Weidong analyzed, Jingdong needs at least 3 times of financing to grow.

Liu Qiangdong couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "Lin Dong, you understand me too well, what you said is also my heart, I didn't expect you to have seen so far, and you are willing to invest in our Jingdong, I really don't know, how to thank you for your selfless help." ”

Without waiting for Lin Weidong to answer, Liu Qiangdong continued: "Lin Dong, in my personal opinion, there are usually two kinds of enterprises burning money, one is to waste money, the money is spent, and nothing is established; ”

"Lin Dong, don't worry, I will never let you down, I can assure you that the money we spend on logistics and warehouse construction in Jingdong will definitely not be wasted, and we will definitely compete for Jingdong and the industry moat. ”

"So Lin Dong, I hope you can understand, if one day, we Jingdong is short of money and accepts financing from other companies, I hope you can understand that I am definitely not doing this to dilute your shares in Jingdong, but to make our Jingdong stronger, and also to make the shares in your hands more valuable!"

Lin Weidong admired Liu Qiangdong's confidence and courage, and nodded: "Mr. Liu, I still say the same thing, I believe in you and am optimistic about you, just let it go, don't think too much." ”