Although Lin Weidong simply rejected his suggestion, in Wu Wenhui's heart, he has always been very convinced by Lin Weidong, and he also felt that his decision was right.

However, in order to make Wu Wenhui feel better, Lin Weidong still gave him enough confidence, patted him on the shoulder, and encouraged him: "Wenhui, don't be discouraged, your idea is very good, it's just a pity that we don't have such a creative environment." ”

After receiving Lin Weidong's comfort and encouragement, Wu Wenhui didn't feel so uncomfortable, looked at Lin Weidong gratefully and said, "Lin Dong, thank you, I'll go down first and get busy." ”

Lin Weidong nodded with satisfaction: "Well, go and work hard." ”

In other words, in the entire Century Company, the most trusted by Lin Weidong are Wang Taoxin and Wu Wenhui, in addition to Liu Limin.

However, Wang Taoxin only has an idle position within the company, basically has no right to speak, and does not do much for the company.

Although Wang Taoxin appears more often as a veteran of the company every time he comes to the company, he does not have any real power, and he is still different from Liu Limin and Wu Wenhui.

Of course, Wang Taoxin is not idle, Lin Weidong has more important tasks to Wang Taoxin, and let him be responsible for the promotion and operation of hao123.

And Wang Taoxin also lived up to Lin Weidong's expectations, using game plug-ins and rogue software to bring a steady stream of users to hao123.

On March 22, 2003, hao123's Alexa global ranking has reached 68th, surpassing many well-known professional websites in China, and even approaching portals such as TOM.

On the other hand, since hao123 began to make a profit, there have been many websites engaged in URL services in China.

There are many websites that imitate hao123 in the form of a web page or even directly imitate it on the domain name, after all, hao123 is a static web page and has nothing technical to speak of.

However, Lin Weidong always believes that although there are countless peers, the only opponent with competitive strength may be Cai Wensheng's.

As of March 25, the number of daily views of hao123 has stabilized at around 25 million, and Cai Wensheng's has exceeded 5 million after eight months of operation.

Although there is still a gap of nearly 20 million views between hao123, Lin Weidong knows very well that Internet companies have always had the first, not the second, and he must stabilize the hegemony of hao123.

However, Lin Weidong has always been worried about whether these "rogue software" engaged in by Wang Taoxin will involve illegal crimes.

In the face of Lin Weidong's worries, Wang Taoxin said confidently: "Weidong, it's good for you to put a hundred hearts, now every website is doing this, if we don't do this, we will definitely suffer." ”

Lin Weidong asked worriedly: "If we do this, will nothing really happen?" I don't want to cause you to go to jail. ”

Wang Taoxin swore that "it is impossible to go to jail, this is just a simple rogue software behavior, it has nothing to do with hao123, it is only related to the software installed by users, they want to arrest us, and they can't catch us." ”

After Lin Weidong understood the situation, he also believed the truth of what Wang Taoxin said, and he was reluctant to spend so much money to advertise hao123, so he let Wang Taoxin come.

What's more, "rogue software", as the name suggests, is just a bit of rogue software, which is between a virus and regular software, not a real virus, and does not do any harm to the user's computer.

Moreover, hao123's consistent style is concise and refreshing, no pop-up ads, and no large areas, obstructing the line of sight ads, compared to other navigation sites, there are too many consciences.

In addition, Lin Weidong's requirements for advertisers must not be too big, nor too expensive, in short, not to annoy netizens, which is also a reason why users favor hao123.

Lin Weidong is very confident in the prospect of hao123, as long as the supremacy of hao123 can continue, it will definitely be able to sell at a good price.

Even if there is no company acquisition, Lin Weidong can bring a good income to himself through the website's advertising.

It's just that what Lin Weidong didn't expect was that although he could affect the Internet in China to a certain extent, he failed to change the spread of SARS.

During the SARS outbreak from November 2002 to March 2003, more than 3,000 people were infected and 256 died in China.

Just like in the previous life, the sudden "SARS" epidemic made the whole country panic.

March 28, morning.

Chen Liling was making breakfast in the kitchen, while Lin Weidong was still sleeping in bed.

At this moment, the mobile phone rang at the bedside suddenly.

Lin Weidong rubbed his eyes, picked up his mobile phone and looked at it, it was a call from Ma Xiaoyun, and his mind instantly cleared up.

Ma Xiaoyun on the other end of the phone asked straight to the point: "Weidong, how is the epidemic situation in Shanghai now?"

Lin Weidong was stunned for a moment before he came back to his senses and said: "It's not a big problem, I still go to work normally every day, what's wrong, Mr. Ma, what's wrong?"

Ma Xiaoyun wanted to cry and said without tears: "Damn, Lao Tzu has been quarantined and locked up for two days!"

At this time, Ma Xiaoyun was locked up at home, with a big lock hanging at the door, and was closely guarded by three personnel from the community, the epidemic prevention station, and the public security to prevent him from escaping from the house.

This is not because Ma Xiaoyun committed anything, but because an employee of Alibaba was infected with SARS, which caused more than 500 people in the company to be quarantined at home.

Although Yangcheng has been designated as an epidemic area, the Canton Fair is still held as usual, and Alibaba also sent staff to participate.

On March 26, a female colleague surnamed Song, who had attended the Canton Fair a few days earlier, was hospitalized with a high fever and was officially announced as a confirmed case on March 27 – she was one of the four SARS patients in Hangzhou.

Since the colleague returned from Yangcheng and went back to work for a few days normally, according to the regulations, the whole Alibaba company needs to be quarantined.

On the afternoon of March 27, Ma Xiaoyun got the news of the diagnosis, like a bolt from the blue.

You must know that at this time, Alibaba is in a period of rapid development, and employees are working overtime in the company every day, and they are too busy.

Almost all of the conditions point to a catastrophic outcome for Alibaba: missing the peak of business development is a disaster, because employees have problems and business processes are forced to be interrupted, and it is also a disaster to have a large number of employee complaints and cause people to be discouraged, including their leader, Ma Xiaoyun.

Ma Xiaoyun, like all employees, was locked up in their homes and was not allowed to leave the house for 12 days.

Three meals a day are sent by the government, and twice a day, epidemic prevention personnel wearing "space suits" go to their homes to spray and disinfect.

After Lin Weidong understood, he also expressed sympathy for the plight of Ma Xiaoyun and Alibaba, and said to him earnestly: "Mr. Ma, the more dangerous this moment, the more you can't panic!"

"You have to believe in our country, believe in the party, believe in our medical staff, and everything will be fine!"

Although Lin Weidong's words made Ma Xiaoyun feel a lot better, his psychological pressure is still very great, after all, how to prevent and control the epidemic and prevent employees from participating in the Canton Fair, the highest responsibility is him, and after the incident, he faced overwhelming accusations.

Feeling guilty, Ma Xiaoyun wrote an open letter to the company, saying: "My heart has been very heavy in the past two days! Since I learned about my diagnosis yesterday, I have always wanted to express my deep apologies to all of them! If there is anything today that can exchange the health of our unfortunate colleagues, and if we can do anything today to ensure the health of our colleagues and the elderly brothers and sisters of Hangcheng, I am willing to give everything!"

However, things have happened, no matter how guilty it is, the only thing Ma Xiaoyun can do is to face and solve it.

And the encounter between Ma Xiaoyun and Alibaba also gave Lin Weidong a wake-up call.

In order to prevent the same thing from happening within Century Company, Lin Weidong held an emergency meeting to arrange for employees to work in isolation from home until the epidemic ended.

In Lin Weidong's view, the safety of human life always comes first, and as long as everyone can be safe and sound, the development of Century Chinese Network will definitely not be affected.