The choice of Okubo is actually Zhou Fangyuan's helpless move.

I have to say that the neon government vigorously supports and promotes the comic industry, although there are great historical factors in it, but until now, neon has become the world's largest comic producer, and neon comics are also loved by people all over the world. In contrast, Huaxia, which was originally not inferior to neon in the comic industry and animation industry, has stagnated in the past two or three decades.

Zhou Fangyuan still remembers that he watched many domestic cartoons when he was a child, whether it is the plot or the picture effect, it is not inferior to neon, or even surpasses. But now, the animation and comic industry in China has shrunk seriously and there is a shortage of talents. And more importantly, Chinese people seem to be very dismissive of anime and comics, adults will treat these as children's playthings, but parents are unwilling to let their children watch more cartoons and other things, as a result, over time, the whole society has a concept of ignoring or even rejecting this type of product.

The situation has only improved slightly in recent years, and in a decade, it will be a different story. Before Zhou Fangyuan's rebirth, the animation industry in China had taken off rapidly again, and the market was expanding year by year.

This is a slow process, and what Zhou Fangyuan has to do is to push this process forward.

It's not impossible to invite people from China, but it's too troublesome, first of all, Zhou Fang is far from knowing where to find such talents, and secondly, the development of animation and comics industry requires a large number of talents. Even if he doesn't care about spending money, but what about time? He has a lot of things, comics and animation are just one of the components of his industry, and he can't put too much time and energy into this, so he can only spend money directly to find people from abroad.

Fortunately, in the neon comics industry, because Zhou Fangyuan has been exposed to a lot of comics since he was a child, he knows the names of many famous artists and cartoonists. As long as people are poached, it is the easiest to raise people with people, and the team is also, directly using the existing team to cultivate a new team, this is the fastest way Zhou Fangyuan can think of.

Of course, there is another way that is very fast, that is, to directly register in the newspaper or recruit online, but this also takes a lot of time, and it is still very troublesome. Zhou Fangyuan is essentially a person who hates trouble, and he knows that time does not wait, and there are still many things he has to do, of course, how to make it convenient.

In the following days, Zhou Fangyuan spent the rest of his time on the company's affairs, except for going to school and occasionally going to the studio to attend classes.

Now the company's main development direction has two, one of which is the development of the payment system, if it is just a simple payment system with the Internet café management system, then just get one, but now Zhou Fangyuan wants to split out, and to set up a special company, get a special software, then you need to do it very seriously. Especially when it comes to money, there can be no loopholes, as long as there is an accident, it may seriously hit the company's credit, and if the accident is serious, it is not impossible to completely destroy his payment system, which is particularly important.

Secondly, it is a matter of standing, which is not difficult, but the difficulty lies in talent. How to attract online writers and how to strengthen the editorial team are all problems.

Regarding this problem, Zhou Fangyuan has a solution.

He first sent the third brother out again, and went all over the world to contact the existing literary forums and literary websites, waving tickets to buy and poach people, and in the online literature world, a wave of "wolves are coming" suddenly appeared, almost all websites are in danger, and no one wants to be the one who is acquired. But after all, not everyone can resist the temptation of money, and if they are willing to be acquired, then they will be directly packed and taken away, and if they are not willing to be acquired, they will wait to be poached.

A group of mature and experienced network editors began to come to Beitong non-stop, and there were many companies, almost a team by team. In just one month, the newly established Yuanfang Online Literature Company has already had a large scale, with an editorial team of more than 50 people, and the management team has also recruited about 30 people, plus the programmers of the website, overnight, this newly established company has more than 100 people, becoming the most powerful company in the current Chinese online literature industry.

And most of the authors of these forums and websites have also come to the new website with the merger and acquisition of the company.

The new website, Zhou Fangyuan straightforwardly called the starting point, the meaning is very clear, on the one hand, it is to pay tribute to the starting point of the previous life, on the other hand, he also thinks that the meaning of this name is very good, he is to be the real starting point of the online literature industry.

With the author, with the team, the rest is the reader.

For this matter, Zhou Fangyuan made a phone call to Brother Xiaoma.

"Hey, Xiaoyuan, why did you remember to call me, a busy man?"

Brother Ma on the other side of the phone is in a good mood, of course he is happy, QQ's registered users have broken through the 5 million registration mark after this period of promotion, on average, almost every Chinese netizen has a QQ number, and the highest number of online users exceeds 300,000. Tengxun has now become the brightest new star in the Chinese Internet industry, where is he unhappy.

"What kind of busy person am I, haven't you congratulated Brother Ma yet, you don't take the initiative to notify me of such a big happy event as the QQ registration has more than 5 million?"

Zhou Fangyuan said with a smile.

"Haha, there are a lot of water-injected Chen Feng in 5 million, it's not countable, but it's you, your Internet café management system has also exceeded 1500 sets, tsk, you can make more money than me now, an Internet café management system, at least a few million a year can earn you, right? ”

Brother Xiao Ma said half-truthfully, QQ's gold absorption speed is not slower than the Internet café management system. After all, with a registered scale of 5 million, the actual number of users is also millions, not much, even if only one-tenth of the people are willing to spend money, it will cost ten yuan a month, and it will have to be millions of dollars in revenue in a year.

Of course, it is true that Brother Xiao Ma said that he is not as good as Zhou Fangyuan to make money, after all, Zhou Fangyuan's stall is big, and he may not be able to see anything now, but as time goes by, these industries continue to make efforts, and Brother Xiaoma's Tengxun may not be able to compare. And Zhou Fangyuan still has a lot of shares in Tencent, no matter how much Brother Ma makes, doesn't he have to give Zhou Fangyuan money.

"Okay, what's the matter with the phone call, don't say you're just for small talk, I've seen your recent moves, poached a team from Wangyi, are you going to make a game, right? ”

Brother Xiao Ma said with emotion.

In his opinion, Zhou Fangyuan is simply a ghost, his ideas are wild, he claims to be a talent, but he can't guess Zhou Fangyuan's thoughts at all.

"Hehe, it's just a joke. ”

Zhou Fangyuan said modestly, and then he cleared his throat, "Brother Ma, there is indeed something that needs your help, and you also said it, I bought some literary websites and forums, I think this online literature has a head, so I made a website myself." Now that the website has been completed, I want to discuss with you about promotion, what kind of charter is your side, and tell me about it. ”

"Promotion, diversion or advertising?"

Brother Xiao Ma was stunned for a moment, and then asked.

"Advertising, diversion is too troublesome, and I don't bother to calculate the traffic, so I go directly to the form of advertising. ”

Zhou Fangyuan said.

"Advertising, if it is according to the way of advertising, we held a meeting before to determine the sales method of advertising, there are charges by time, there are also charges by the number of times, and there are direct monthly and annual subscriptions, you see where you ......"

"The annual subscription is simple and enjoyable. ”

"Okay, with an annual subscription of 5 million, we can guarantee that your ads will be published regularly four times a day, 365 days a year, a total of more than 1,400 times, according to our current number of resident users, a total of more than 400 million times a year. ”

Little Brother Ma quickly gave an answer.

Four times a day, the frequency is a little higher, but this problem is not big, today's netizens have not gone through the stage of advertising bombardment in later generations, and the recognition and acceptance of advertising are still relatively high, even if it is four times a day, it will not be too boring. 5 million to buy 400 million promotions, each time more than a penny, this price is okay, it is an acceptable price for both parties.

"Okay, then it's decided, I will ask the vice president of my company to sign a contract with you as soon as possible, and I will transfer money to you after the contract is signed. ”

Although they are all Zhou Fangyuan's industry, but the brothers still have to settle accounts, anyway, it is just the left hand to the right hand, and Zhou Fangyuan is not distressed at all from the finger seam to the outward point.

After discussing the cooperation, Zhou Fangyuan was ready to hang up the phone.

Brother Ma suddenly seemed to remember something, and suddenly called Zhou Fangyuan on the other side of the phone.

"By the way, Xiaoyuan, I almost forgot just now, I still have something to tell you. ”

"What's the matter, Brother Ma, you say. ”

"That's the case, a friend of mine told me a few days ago that the youngest son of the richest man Li on Hong Kong Island seems to be very interested in our Tengxun, and he intends to buy shares, and the same is true for IDG in the United States, they are ready to jointly invest in the shares and buy 40% of our shares at a price of 2.2 million US dollars, I think this price is good, you see what you have time, come here, let's talk face to face. ”

Brother Pony said.

Zhou Fangyuan's heart moved, and finally, just like the trajectory of the previous life, Li Shoufu's youngest son and IDG both took a fancy to Tengxun and were ready to buy shares.

$2.2 million is not a small number, equivalent to soft sister coins, according to today's exchange rate, it is equivalent to more than 18 million soft sister coins, and the company's valuation is 45 million. Zhou Fangyuan now has 47% of Tengxun's shares in his hands, and there are still more than 30 left after dilution, which is equivalent to about 15 million. He spent three million on shares, which has increased fivefold in just a few months, and this transaction is really done.

But today's Tencent is no longer what it used to be. At the end of the previous life of Tengxun at the end of 99, the number of users was just over one million, and now it has exceeded five million, and the monthly profit is more than one million, so this money wants so many shares, Zhou Fangyuan can only say that the other party really thinks too much.

He thought about it on the phone, then said what he thought.