In just one month, the increase in the readership has led to an influx of authors, so that Century Chinese Network Chinese Network has 70% of the author resources and reader resources in the industry, and other websites have almost no room for growth.

Early VIP websites such as Readwrite.com and Mingyang have also declined, and the authors have almost been lost.

After a month of stopping, Tianying Literature was resurrected in the name of Tianyi, and formed a three-station alliance with climbers and adventurers, and the quality of VIP works has been greatly improved.

But the time difference of more than a month has made Skyhawk lose too many things, the author and readers have lost a lot, and even the three-station alliance with the original amount of money is struggling and is in a half-dead state.

Cuiwei has too many large scales in the original work, and after sweeping the harmony on the Internet, it is also very damaged, and there are almost no VIP books left.

Other emerging websites such as Fresh and Iron Blood are difficult to make a big difference due to their own low traffic.

Under the continuous drainage of Shanda and hao123, Century Chinese Network has firmly occupied the hegemony of literary websites, far behind the second-ranked Phantom Sword Book Alliance.

The cooperation between Shanda and Century Chinese Network has also brought a large number of gamers to Shanda's games to a large extent.

The relationship between Shanda and Century Chinese Network is not just that Century Chinese Network unilaterally relies on Shanda, the two are complementary to each other, because gamers and fantasy readers almost coincide.

However, Cheng Tianqiao, who had quickly accumulated a lot of wealth, was very excited, which also made him fall into deep distress.

Afternoon, November 5th.

Cheng Tianqiao made an appointment with Lin Weidong to go to Sheshan to climb the mountain and relax.

Standing on the top of this mountain, which is only more than 100 meters above sea level, Cheng Tianqiao looked into the distance, but his heart was extremely melancholy.

After resting on the top of the mountain for a while, Cheng Tianqiao asked Lin Weidong with a smile: "Weidong, under your leadership, Century Chinese Network has firmly sat in the first place in the online literature circle, what are your plans next? Do you want to rest for a while?"

Lin Weidong thought for a while and said bluntly: "Mr. Cheng, the development of literary websites is still in its infancy, and it's too early to say anything." ”

After listening to Lin Weidong's words, Cheng Tianqiao was a little impressed by Lin Weidong, he originally thought that after Lin Weidong made a little achievement, he would be a little complacent about the money, but he found that Lin Weidong always kept a clear head and was not complacent.

Cheng Tianqiao asked with interest: "So do you think that Century Chinese Network will encounter new challenges?"

Lin Weidong nodded and said: "That's for sure, we have 1.2 billion people in China, the Internet has just started a few years, and the total number of Internet users in China has just exceeded 50 million, and it will definitely continue to grow." ”

"When the number of users of Century Chinese Network exceeds 100 million, or hundreds of millions, maybe I can barely rest." ”

Cheng Tianqiao then asked: "Then what do you think Century Chinese Network needs to go to be considered a real success?"

Lin Weidong pondered for a while, and said seriously: "At least it must be listed." ”

After listening to Lin Weidong's words, Cheng Tianqiao said angrily and funny: "Weidong, it's not me who strikes you, do you really think that Century Chinese Network will be able to go public one day?"

Lin Weidong smiled and shook his head: "Actually, I'm not sure, but this is indeed my true thoughts." ”

Without waiting for Cheng Tianqiao to answer, Lin Weidong then asked: "Mr. Cheng, what about you? Is your dream to promote your grand online game to the world?"

Cheng Tianqiao smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Of course not, online games can't carry my dreams at all." ”

"If I had a choice, I would rather not do online games. ”

The reason why Cheng Tianqiao told Lin Weidong like this was not hypocrisy, but because, in this era of talking about online games, what made him famous and rich also made him infamous.

Some players went to Shanda's Shanghai headquarters to self-immolate (attempted) because of the loss of game props, some people died of a heart attack while playing games, and some children exchanged their lunch money for game cards.

Parents, the People's Daily, and social defenders condemned Cheng Tianqiao and his grand as "culprits" and labeled them "electronic duck slice sellers."

However, even so, Lin Weidong admires Cheng Tianqiao's vision.

Thankfully, after the success of the legend, he immediately started the e-sales model, which was very rare in the video game industry at the time.

Later, Cheng Tianqiao set a new game rule, the game is charged by time, the player arrives at the Internet café, and the payment is realized by the point card and the online sales system.

With these, when the dot-com bubble burst, Shanda was still making money, and at the same time, it was recognized by more people and won the investment of VC.

Looking back now, Chen Tianqiao is also full of emotion: "I took the risk of others for ten years in a year, because our industry is something unprecedented, which is in conflict with traditional Chinese culture, and the pressure can be imagined." “

"I pay 100 million yuan in national profits and taxes every year, and if this is in the steel industry or the automobile industry, it will definitely be promoted as a model for large enterprises, but I have to be careful to close the flag and put the curtain down. ”

At the moment Chinese when the vast majority of online book stations were facing marginalization, the Fantasy Sword Book League resolutely raised the banner of anti-Century Chinese and shouted a false slogan: "In order to let authors and readers continue to have the right to choose, protect the public interests of the immature online fantasy literature market!"

In order to counter the financial advantages of Shanda and Century Chinese, it actively turned to other capitals to seek cooperation and established strategic cooperative relations with large companies such as NetEase and Sohu.

In mid-November 2002, the Phantom Sword Book League "established a preliminary cooperative relationship with Sohu, opened a special area for Phantom Sword works on the well-known portal Sohu, organized an exclusive interview with the author in the "Absolute Scene" column, jointly held the "Jiucheng Cup" National Game Literature Competition, and jointly held two mobile phone auctions with eBay.

In order to improve the Alexa ranking of Phantom Sword, Phantom Sword provides a download link to the Alexa toolbar on the homepage.

In order to break the blockade of popular works on Century Chinese, Phantom Sword strengthened cooperation with Talkpin and Xianwang in e-books, and launched the "Proposal for Building an Original Online Environment" to communicate with BBS that released OCR and reached an agreement.

On the other hand, through the way of buying out at a high price, the author is attracted to sign a contract.

Compared with the rapid development of the Phantom Sword Book Alliance, the development speed of Century Chinese Network is somewhat unsatisfactory.

As the company expands, the affairs become more formalized and the speed of dealing with problems becomes slower.