At the beginning of July, Zhou Fangyuan finished the final exam in the second half of the second semester of high school and ended his sophomore career with quite good results.

A lot has happened throughout the sophomore year of high school, and this year can be called a year of change. It is not only the turn of the century, but also the year of the real rise of the Zhou family.

This year, the number of Jinbolo's franchise stores has grown from dozens to nearly 200, not only the surrounding provinces are Zhou's franchise stores, but even the distant Guangzhou City has a franchise store.

It's just that it is also a city where several major international chains have entered, and the development of Jinbolo's franchise stores in Guangzhou is very average. Besides, the people of Guangshi can eat, love to eat, and eat everything, their table is too rich, the appearance of Jin Polo is not obvious at all, compared with other franchise stores, the benefits are really average.

Meat factories and farms continue to develop, after entering the new century, people's consumption concept has begun to change, no longer blindly pursue quantity, but began to pursue quantity, meat food company production of safe meat products, in Beitong has a good market, and has also begun to develop to other provinces and cities, but the pace is very slow.

The farm is not so powerful and develops at a faster rate, because compared to meat, the consumption of vegetables is undoubtedly huge. In addition to the output of the farm itself, Beitong alone is already a little stretched, and it is obviously not capable of developing outward. And to be honest, the shelf life of vegetables is limited after all, so the best way for the farm to develop externally is to contract a new farm locally. However, this work is not easy, the development strategies of local municipal governments are also different, some municipal governments are reluctant to let the Zhou family contract land to start a farm, and the Zhou family has recently felt that the funds are a little tight, so this work can only be put down temporarily.

The food safety incident of Jinbolo has indeed had an impact on the benefits of Jinbolo, especially in Beitong, which cannot be said to be small. Although the municipal party committee and government made efforts at the same time to bring the lawbreakers to justice in the shortest possible time, and all the people involved in the case were also punished by law, it has to be said that the turnover of Jin Polo has decreased a lot.

If you roughly calculate, it is about 20% lower.

The reasons for this are very complicated, and the main reason is the last incident, which made many customers suspicious of Kim Polo.

Of course, this is not the whole reason, there is also a part, that is, there are other Western-style fast food restaurants in Beitong.

It's just to follow the trend, seeing that Kim Polo is making money, what Jin Triumph, Kim Caesar, Kim Paul, etc. all came out like dog pee. And it's all gold, the meaning is already obvious, it's completely the heat of the gold polo. They had expected this for a long time, but they didn't have a better way to solve it. Even if you know that the other party is rubbing your own popularity, even if you sue these people in a lawsuit, so what?

Today Jin Kaixuan is closed, tomorrow Yin Kaixuan will open, the day after tomorrow Yin Kaiser also appeared, the market of the catering industry is too big, it is not a store and two stores can monopolize it. Although these new fast food restaurants, whether in terms of scale, category, or quality of food, can not be compared with Kimpolo and Kentucky Chicken, the emergence of these small restaurants still diverts a large part of customers.

If it weren't for the fact that Kim Polo's membership system had gained a foothold and had a large number of people, their business might have continued to decline.

At present, the development of the remote network is relatively good, the installation of the Internet café management system has reached 2,000 sets, and basically all provinces and cities have the figure of the Internet café management system, covering more than 200,000 computers. The company's profitability has reached the level of millions every month, and more companies want to do business with the remote network, but unfortunately the remote network refuses all.

Too many advertisements can easily make customers bored and rebellious.

You're telling me to watch ads? Okay, I just don't watch them.

Over time, not only will the advertising effect get worse and worse, but the reputation of the Internet café management system will also be greatly reduced. Anyway, the company's funds are currently very sufficient, and it is better to do less to kill chickens and eggs.

The starting point is also developing steadily, and after the initial boom, the readership has gradually become fixed, basically maintaining the level of millions of users. And most of these users are young people, but those who are a little older may have improved their tastes, and most of them don't want to watch the Internet.

This is also normal, the Internet is fast food literature, and it is the pursuit of refreshing. The depth of connotation is secondary, and the most important thing is to make people cool first. This starting point is very good, and the editors-in-chief from other literary websites are of good quality, they know what readers like to read, and they select good books for recommendation. Therefore, what appears on the homepage of the website is basically a good work, at least which can mobilize the reader's emotions.

In addition, there are many anti-piracy methods at the starting point, and there are not many people who can successfully pirate, and in the case that direct copy-pasting and screenshots are not possible, the efficiency of piracy is greatly reduced by purely hand-to-hand fighting. Of course, this is not to say that there are no pirated copies, just that the number of pirated copies is not as large as in the previous life. And these pirate websites Zhou Fangyuan has let people record them all and track the whole process, now let them be happy pirated to earn popularity and advertising money, when the time comes, the big fat pig is fattened, and there is meat to eat after slaughtering it.

And Zhou Fangyuan and his uncle's "Ethereal" has now reached more than one billion hits, and as the most popular divine book at the starting point, it can provide more than 100,000 manuscript fees to my uncle every month. Obediently, this is terrible, what about hundreds of thousands of manuscript fees, my uncle can't earn so much money in a year. So he has now quit his job at the magazine and has become a full-time writer.

And in a previous phone call, my brother-in-law also told Zhou Fangyuan that after writing this book, he was going to write a book by himself. He has all the outlines done, and it's still Xianxiawen. However, Zhou Fangyuan still hopes that his uncle will be the editor-in-chief of the starting point for him, after all, he is his own relative, and the writing is also guaranteed, so there should be no problems.

However, when my uncle learned that he couldn't write after becoming the editor-in-chief, he happily refused. Even if Zhou Fangyuan offered to give him an annual salary of hundreds of thousands, he was unwilling, according to his own words, that is, he likes to write, if he is not allowed to write, it is better to kill him, no matter how much money he has, it is not easy to make it.

Well, this is really people have their own ambitions, Zhou Fangyuan said he understood.

Since my uncle is unwilling to be the editor-in-chief, the editor-in-chief can only be selected from the editors-in-chief of the current channels. According to their different performance levels, to decide who is qualified to be the editor-in-chief in the end, the specific algorithm company has its own set of formulas, and this matter will have to wait for the company to be established for a year.

In addition, regarding the book "Ethereal", some publishers contacted the starting point network and wanted to release a physical book, Zhou Fangyuan agreed, as long as it can play a role in promoting the station, he can accept any form. There are also people who find the starting point network, saying that they want to buy film and television copyrights, but this Zhou Fangyuan refused. Happy fun, IP linkage is his big plan for the future, how can he sell the copyright now?

It's different from the booming station.,The comic website has been tepid.,It's still because of the existence of the comic version of "Ethereal".,Okubo's painting level is really good.,The lines are also full of artistic conception after a slight modification.,But maybe the people are too repulsive to the "child" attribute of comics and anime.,So except for some junior high school students and high school students.,It's college.,Not many people read comics.。

Regarding this situation, Zhou Fangyuan thought about it and felt that it was better to introduce a batch of island country comics, and the other two of the three major island country comics he would also introduce sooner or later, because those two comics were too famous, and it was better to be cheap than others in the future.

In addition to this, the work of the game development team is also going well, and now the game development team has two tasks.

The first and most important task is naturally the development of the online game "Journey to the West". The game has been built, the program development has come to an end, and all we have to do now is to keep modifying the artwork and find some unsuitable places to modify. It is expected that internal testing will be carried out by the end of the year, and it will be officially launched by the middle of next year at the latest.

Another group, the same group from Treasure Island, is now working on a game called Plants vs. Zombies. Of course, this is also Zhou Fangyuan's handiwork, such an explosive game, it is intolerable not to hold it in his own hands. And to be honest, with today's game engines and computer hardware levels, it is not difficult to drive a small game like Plants vs. Zombies, and it is not a technical problem at all to reproduce it, but creativity. And creativity ...... Is Zhou Fang far away?

In addition to this, the gaming company has a team that maintains Blizzard.net. Blizzard Battle.net has moved to China, and it has not yet been officially launched, and it is still in internal testing. After all the bugs are solved, the day when Battle.net is officially launched is the day when all other battle platforms obediently spit out money, and Zhou Fangyuan is looking forward to this day.

There are also payment software companies, Xiao Ma Ge's Teng Xun Company, and Big Ma Ge's Ali Company, all of which are making steady progress, and if they continue to develop like this, the future prospects of these companies are unlimited.

The day of going to the capital for training is set for the end of July, and before the end of July arrives, Zhou Fangyuan still has a big thing to do, that is, to go to Hong Kong Island.

went to Hong Kong Island, on the one hand, to accept Xiao Li's invitation, the other party is said to have bought a yacht, the happy on the phone, one by one, asked Zhou Fangyuan to go over and celebrate with him, and at the same time to introduce some people to Zhou Fangyuan. For this kind of invitation, of course, Zhou Fangyuan will not and cannot refuse.

And the second purpose is the real purpose, that is, after months of difficult negotiations, Blizzard has contacted several world-famous game companies, and then after some preparations, on July 15, the first World E-sports Championship will officially open!