In Seoul after New Year's Day, the festive atmosphere quickly ended.

After all, this is the national capital of Nanxian, and the pace of life is no less fast than that of the capital and Haishi, and the people here do not have much time to enjoy the festival.

Zhou Fangyuan is one of the few people who has nothing to do, he monitors the latest progress of the game every day, but in fact there is nothing to do. The whole day is full of chaos in the whole day, An Lin, as his personal tour guide, accompanied him to run all day, of course, if this running word is changed to a cannon word, it is completely reasonable.

As for An Lin's thoughts, Zhou Fangyuan probably knows something.

It just looks like he has money and ability, and he wants to take the initiative to come up.

Speaking of which, An Lin's family is also rich, poor and rich raise daughters, and the girl's family has superior conditions since she was a child, she shouldn't worship money too much, after all, her family itself is very rich. But people are different, and no one can tell how she became like this. Anyway, she took the initiative to approach Zhou Fangyuan, Zhou Fangyuan originally refused, but after all, he was more of a man who relied on his lower body to think, so in the end he still failed to stick to the bottom line.

But he doesn't regret it, it's just a woman, it's a big deal to accept her.

But the work on Nanxian's side must not be handed over to her, after all, Park Jong-ho and Choi Woong respect him very, very much, and the atmosphere of respect and humility on Nam-Xian's side is also very strong, if An Lin represents herself at the same time, and has this relationship with herself, when the time comes, if she really does something wrong, Park Jong-ho and Choi Woong are afraid that they will dare to be angry and dare not speak.

So Zhou Fangyuan thought about it and decided to send An Lin to the United States to set up a branch of Yuanfang Games. The atmosphere of superiority and humility in the United States is far less serious than that of Nanxian, and Mike is also a very assertive person, the reason why he can get Mike's approval every time he proposes is not because of his status, but because what he said is right, Mike thinks that there is no need to oppose it after careful consideration, so he agrees with his suggestion every time.

But if Zhou Fangyuan said something wrong, or made any decision that Mike couldn't accept, Mike would inevitably confront him hard, and when the time came, I was afraid that he himself would not show mercy, let alone An Lin.

made a decision in his heart, and Zhou Fangyuan told An Lin his thoughts. When An Lin heard that he was willing to send her to the United States, she was even happier. Compared with Nanxiang, of course, the United States is more advanced and beautiful, at least in An Lin's heart.

So for going to the United States, she was not ready to refuse at all, and happily agreed.

This also made Zhou Fangyuan breathe a sigh of relief.

After a whole week in Nanxian, Cui Xiong finally returned, and he personally settled all the possible effects of the integration of the two companies on the game release. Now that the game is about to be launched, the entire Altos-Virtue company is busy.

For the hairstyle and publicity of the game, Zhou Fangyuan's idea is that the advertising will be fully rolled out, both online and offline, all the websites with considerable users in Nanxian must be advertised, and the TV station should also do advertising, buses, bus stop signs, urban hard advertising, etc., don't be afraid of spending money, reluctant to let the child not be a wolf, unwilling to spend money, how can the game be famous in a short time.

And he also thought of a solution, which is to launch a promotional ad on Blizzard's official website.

Blizzard's games are still very popular in Nanxian, especially StarCraft, and was even called "national drama" by Nanxian for a time, so Blizzard in this era is very famous in Nanxian, and the advertising information suddenly released on Blizzard's official website is guaranteed to cover most of Nanxian's netizens at a very fast speed.

In China, Tencent has begun to help with publicity, domestic advertising, there is no Internet company that can be more fierce than Tencent, it is not a joke to instantly cover tens of millions of netizens, not to mention that the distant game is now in a very high status in China, although the game has not yet been launched, and even the agency agreement has not been signed, but the legendary game icon has appeared on the Battle.net client, and the relevant pages have also been launched.

Finally, on the 10th of January, everything was ready and only the east wind was owed.

Zhou Fangyuan stood at the headquarters of Altos Virtue, looking at the programmers who were busy, and when Park Jong-ho came over to ask him if the game was online, Zhou Fangyuan nodded.

"Let's go online. ”

It has been tested many times, and the game itself is basically no problem.

The promotion has also been done very well in the past few days, and in a few days, the number of visits to the official website of the legend has reached tens of millions of times, which is quite impressive.

It's time to go live.

As soon as he gave the order, the programmer immediately launched the game and opened the download port.

The moment the download port was opened, hundreds of download points were monitored in the background, and after a minute, the number reached 3,000, and half an hour later, the number of downloads had exceeded 50,000. This number made Altos Virtue up and down excited.

This is a good start, because of the size of Nanxian country, the number of netizens naturally cannot be compared with Huaxia, even if they are developing well now, but the Internet is still an emerging industry after all, and the number of netizens is limited after all. Therefore, it is a great success to have such a number of downloads. Now wait to see how many streams will be available after downloading, and how much you will spend when the open beta period ends, to determine if the game will be a success in the end.

But Zhou Fangyuan has the ability to be a prophet, and he knows very well how profitable this game is.

Zhou Fangyuan stayed in Nanxian for another two days, and saw that the number of downloads of the legend in Nanxian had exceeded 500,000, so he was relieved.

Just when he was about to leave Nanxian and go to the United States, Sun Wenlu came to Nanxian with the staff of the distant game.

"Mr. Zhou, has the game been discussed?"

"Of course," Zhou Fangyuan smiled, "You don't look at who is out of the way, and this game company is all mine, what else can't be discussed?"

"The game company is also your ......" Sun Wenlu was stunned, "Haha, it's an old routine again? ”

"Mr. Sun, you have won the award, come, let me introduce to you, this is Mr. Cui Xiong, the president of Altos-Virtue, this is the director of the development department, Mr. Park Jongho, the vice president of the company, everyone will be at the same time in the future, you have to get along well." ”

Zhou Fangyuan said with a smile.

"Don't worry about Mr. Zhou, I'm here to learn, both of them are my seniors, I have to learn from them." ”

Sun Wenlu was more tactful than before, spoke more exquisitely, and lowered his posture.

But no one will despise him because of this, he is now the vice president of Distant Games, and he is also the director of the development department, and in terms of company management, the third brother is inferior to him, so he is actually the first person in Distant Games now, of course, he still has to listen to Zhou Fangyuan.

But even so, his status in the distant game is also very high, Park Jun-ho and Choi Woong originally didn't know this, but with the introduction of Zhou Fangyuan and the two of them, the two also paid attention to Sun Wenlu.

The specific agency agreement will be negotiated between the two of them.

Zhou Fangyuan got on the plane to the United States the day after Sun Wenlu came to Nanxian, and An Lin accompanied him.

When I arrived in the United States, it was still Mike who came to pick up the airport, and Mike is now about to become a pick-up specialist.

This time to come to the United States, Zhou Fangyuan has two main goals, one is to put An Lin here and establish a branch of the distant network in the United States, the scale of this branch is not large, and the work content is very small, the main thing is to replace Zhou Fangyuan and Mike to carry out the necessary cooperation, and at the same time, when Zhou Fangyuan has needs, replace him to do things here.

Although An Lin is the general manager of the branch, her rights are actually not big, at least Zhou Fangyuan is not ready to give her too much authority, anyway, there is Mike supervising by the side, and there is no need to worry about her coming nonsense.

That's the first purpose, and the second purpose is to meet someone.

This person, how to say it, is very, very powerful, and will be called "the person who left the world behind" in the future, if there are still people who don't know who he is, then simply say a few nouns, such as PayPal, such as Fire Tesla, and then SpaceX...... That's right, speaking of which, I believe everyone already knows who he is.

He is Elon Musk, the man who ushered in the era of privatization of space transportation.

Elon Musk was born in Pretoria, South Africa, in 1941, to an Anglo-Dutch father who worked as an electromechanical engineer in South Africa, and his mother was born in Maple Leaf Country as a model, as well as a writer and nutritionist. By the time he was nine years old, his parents divorced, and at that time Musk lived with his father, also because of his father's influence, which made him fall in love with science and technology. In 81, when Musk was ten years old, he used the pocket money he saved and part of the funds funded by his father to buy his first computer in his life, and sold a lot of programming-related books to start learning programming by himself.

At the age of 12, he developed a computer game, sold it for $500, and earned his first pot of gold.

After graduating from high school at the age of 17, he went to Maple Leaf Country alone and lived in the home of his mother's relative.

At the age of 18, he applied for the citizenship of the Maple Leaf Country and applied to enter Queen's University in the Maple Leaf Country.

At the age of 21, he was transferred to the University of Pennsylvania on a scholarship, and after obtaining a bachelor's degree in economics, he stayed in school for a year to obtain a bachelor's degree in physics.

At the age of 24, he entered Stanford University to study for a master's degree, but on the second day of enrollment, he left school and chose to start his own business.

After leaving school, Musk and his younger brother Kamba Musk started Zip2, a company that develops online content publishing software for news organizations, with random angel investment from a small group in Silicon Valley, when the New York Times and the Chicago Post became clients of the Musk brothers.

Four years later, in '99, Merchant Compaq bought Zip2 for $307 million in cash and $34 million in stock options, and the 28-year-old Musk made a profit of $22 million. Also this year, Musk invested $10 million and founded an online financial services and email payment business company with two partners from Silicon Valley.

Until last year, Musk merged with Confinity, founded by Peter Thiel and Max Lovechen, in order to solve the competition for online quick transfers, and the new company will be renamed PayPal in the near future, that is, in February this year.

By next year at the latest, the company will be wholly acquired by eBay, the world's largest online merchant company, for $1.5 billion, and Musk will also set up SpaceX, a space exploration technology company, and Tesla, a new energy vehicle company...... In short, looking at the history of this person's fortune, it is an inspirational history, completely self-made, and his family has hardly helped him throughout his development except for giving him some guidance when he was very young.

Therefore, it can be seen that this person is indeed a rare bull-level figure in the world, of course, in the era of the Internet, there are too many such bulls. Zhou Fangyuan couldn't count it with his toes, but there wasn't much he could remember, and Musk was one of them.

He came to the United States this time, but also hoped to meet him, and if he could, he hoped to receive a part of PayPal's shares.

Of course, he is not sure whether he can buy the shares he wants, after all, Musk is an extremely assertive and thoughtful person, and Zhou Fangyuan is really not sure whether he can impress him.

But it doesn't matter if he fails, this time he purely wants to invest, and he is happy if he succeeds in investment, and he doesn't have to worry about investment failure.

In addition to the above two purposes, he also has a purpose that is not a purpose, that is, to squabble some domain names.

Of course, most people preemptively register domain names, and the main purpose is to make a windfall in the future. However, Zhou Fangyuan's idea is not so simple, he preemptively registered domain names, just to be able to get these domain names in his hands more securely, and when the time is right in the future, he will directly start the relevant companies in person, as for the founders of the previous life, Zhou Fangyuan can only say sorry to them.

It took him about two or three days to do these jobs, and at the same time, Mike also helped him contact Musk.

In the United States, Zhou Fangyuan is not famous, even if a "Plants vs. Zombies" sold tens of millions, now in the United States game industry, this small game has become a game that many game companies compete to study. But as the developer of the game, Zhou Fangyuan is still unknown.

On the contrary, it is Mike, because of Blizzard, Mike is very famous in the United States, basically he calls to contact, as long as it is in the Internet circle, no one will refuse.

So on the fourth day of coming to the United States, Zhou Fangyuan met Musk at Blizzard's headquarters.

Musk was still a little surprised when he saw Zhou Fangyuan, he originally thought that Mike was going to talk to him about things, but Mike turned around and left after sending Zhou Fangyuan in, and he realized that it was not Mike who wanted to see him, but the young man in front of him.

"Hello, let me introduce myself, my name is Zhou Fangyuan, I am from Huaxia, I am currently the owner of Huaxia Yuanfang Network Company, and I am also the second largest shareholder of Blizzard Games. ”

The last sentence is more useful than anything else, as soon as he said that he was the second largest shareholder of Blizzard, Musk's eyes suddenly lit up.

"Hello, do you know me?"

Musk shook Zhou Fangyuan's hand and asked suspiciously.

"Of course," Zhou Fangyuan smiled, and then he briefly said what he knew about Musk's development process, and the interest on Musk's face was even stronger, "I didn't expect you to know me quite well, so what is your purpose in looking for me?"

"It is indeed for a purpose, I came to you mainly in the hope of being able to invest in your payment company. ”

Zhou Fangyuan leaned back in his chair and said with a smile.

The expression on Musk's face was even more interesting, "Investment? Do you really know what my company does? I see your age, it should be less than twenty years old, if you are taking your family's money out to spend, then I advise you not to invest casually, invest indiscriminately, sometimes it will make you lose all your money." ”

Musk persuaded.

"Then what if I say that all the things I got today are all made by myself?"

Zhou Fangyuan asked rhetorically.

Musk was more interested, "If, I mean, if all of your achievements today are all made by yourself, then I think we might be able to talk about it." ”

"Well, in that case, then you should be patient and listen to me tell you about my history. ”

Zhou Fangyuan knew that if he wanted to impress Musk, he had to come up with results that would convince the other party, but fortunately, the prophetic ability was really powerful, and his current achievements were beyond the reach of many people in several lifetimes.

As his introduction gradually deepened, from how to get the first place after all, to how to rely on Internet cafes to earn enough money to open stores, to how to rely on fast food restaurants to make enough money to buy shares, and then to how to establish one company after another, Zhou Fangyuan did not explain in too much detail, he just briefly described the establishment time of these companies, as well as their respective functions and roles.

When Musk knew that Zhou Fangyuan already had a payment company, his eyes were as bright as light bulbs, and when he knew that this payment company was the largest upward payment company in China, and at the same time, tens of millions of soft girl coins had been precipitated, his expression was even more eager as if he was going to pounce on Zhou Fangyuan and kiss Zhou Fangyuan fiercely.

Zhou Fangyuan was frightened by his expression, paused, calmed down a little, and then continued.

and then to the game companies, comic companies, media companies, etc...... Until the glass factory he bought at the end of last year, and the mobile phone software company he was about to set up, Musk, who was initially unimpressed, has begun to nod his head non-stop.

"I see, you're not joking with me, and if what you're saying is true, then my current success is nothing compared to you. ”

"Needless to say, everyone's opportunities are different, and I'm just picking up a few bargains. ”

Zhou Fangyuan said modestly, "So now, can we talk about investment?"

"No, I can't. ”

However, Musk's words surprised Zhou Fangyuan.

"After all, this involves money exchanges, and the government of the United States will not ignore it, especially if you are still from Huaxia, but the payment company can't, I have other ideas, if you want, why don't you consider it?"

Musk was like seeing Jinshan, he was a little excited to apply, and looked at Zhou Fangyuan with some expectation, waiting for his answer.

Zhou Fangyuan's heart moved, calculating the time, and looking at Musk's current state, he had roughly guessed what Musk wanted to say.