With a depressed mood, Cai Zhongxin took Zhou Fangyuan all the way to the hotel.

There was nothing to say all night, and early the next morning, Zhou Fangyuan had just had breakfast, and Cai Zhongxin came, and he drove Zhou Fangyuan to Ali's office.

Still in the dilapidated old building, the furnishings of the office have not changed in any way.

It's not that Brother Ma doesn't want to change places, but he really has no money, the millions that Zhou Fangyuan invested before seem like a lot, but for the Internet, which burns money, that amount of money is a drop in the bucket.

It's enough to hold on for a while, but don't even think about what you can do with this money. Fortunately, Arri will also usher in the second round of financing, and after the financing, Brother Da Ma will have money, at least it is no problem to get a decent office location.

When Zhou Fangyuan arrived, Brother Ma was discussing the matter of the website with his employees, and the retail website had been figured out and was now in the intense testing stage. It doesn't matter if it's a website, it's about talking about money, so it's okay to be careful.

Zhou Fangyuan didn't bother Brother Ma, but silently walked behind him and looked at the strings of characters on the computer screen. He couldn't understand any of these things, and there was no need to understand them, so he turned his head to look at the other computers, and finally saw the interface of the website that had been formed on one computer screen.

He walked over and gently patted the employee on the shoulder.

This is a young man in his twenties, of course, older than Zhou Fangyuan, he knows Zhou Fangyuan, so when he turned his head to look, his face immediately showed a look of surprise.

Just as he was about to speak, he saw Zhou Fangyuan raise his index finger on his lips.

The young man nodded knowingly and stopped talking.

Then Zhou Fangyuan leaned down, held the mouse, and clicked a few times on the Internet. He found that the nascent retail website was not much different from the one he remembered, that is, if you only look at the interface, the development of the website has undoubtedly been successful.

Zhou Fangyuan held the mouse and operated for more than ten minutes before Brother Ma finally noticed Zhou Fangyuan.

"Xiaoyuan, you're here. ”

Even if there is a lot of dissatisfaction in his heart, Brother Ma still smiled like a spring breeze.

"Well, Brother Ma, the website is doing a good job, it's even better than I expected. ”

Zhou Fangyuan said with a smile.

"Where, Xiaoyuan, don't praise me, I'm going crazy for this website. ”

Brother Da Ma shook his head and said helplessly.

"Haha, at the beginning of any work, it is the time when there are the most things, and when the website is on the right track, the work will be reduced a lot. Zhou Fangyuan comforted, "By the way, Brother Ma, when is the website going to be launched?"

"Come on, it will be online in a dozen days at most, by the way, how is your payment system? No, I'll make a ...... myself."

He also seems to be aware of the importance of the payment system.

However, he underestimated Zhou Fangyuan's speed.

Originally, the Internet café system had a relatively mature payment system, and now it only needs to be independent and independent, since when Brother Ma was ready to make a retail website, Zhou Fangyuan had already separated the payment system and directly got the branch.

During this time, the payment system has been completed, and although it cannot be said how mature it is, there are no problems at all in using it for online payments. Whether it is the speed of reaction or the safety of funds, Zhou Fangyuan has done his best.

So as soon as Brother Ma spoke, he said with a smile: "It's been done, I have named the payment software Alipay, Brother Ma, when you need it, we can bind it at any time." ”

Zhou Fangyuan finally set the name of the payment software as Alipay, without him, this name is really good, he couldn't think of a more appropriate name after thinking about it for a long time, so he simply used the name of the previous life, this name is easy to understand and catchy, and you can't forget it after reading it once, it is the best choice.

Brother Da Ma smiled when he heard this, but this smile was as reluctant as he could.

"That's a good feeling, since the payment system has matured, then we can bind ...... at any time"

His heart was bleeding when he said this, in fact, it didn't take long for Brother Ma to react after agreeing to Zhou Fangyuan to use his payment system, and he quickly realized the importance of the payment system.

He wanted to refuse Zhou Fangyuan, but he couldn't open his mouth. After all, Zhou Fangyuan is the major shareholder of the company, and he has already promised the other party, but he swore before, but now he refuses, which is really not good-looking.

So he can only hope that Zhou Fangyuan's payment system is not going well, so that he can take advantage of the situation to put this system under his name.

Zhou Fangyuan not only did not go unsmoothly here, on the contrary, it was too smooth, with Sun Fatzi to supervise the work, the developers of the original payment system can make the payment system into an independent system with a little time, in fact, this work is not difficult at all.

The biggest difficulty is the issue of payment security, and the follow-up work of the payment system is nothing more than strengthening on this.

The two chatted for a while, and the investor came. A stick of crooked nuts with one or two Asian faces in it. This group of people was also obviously stunned when they saw Zhou Fangyuan, but they quickly remembered the investors in the first round of investment that Brother Ma said before, and they were surprised, but they also felt that it was normal.

After all, there is no shortage of speculators in this world, and some people have some money in their hands, so they naturally like to invest all over the world. If you lose, you will lose some of your money, and if you win, the gain will be too great.

These people are investors, so they understand Zhou Fangyuan's appearance and say that they are completely acceptable.

After everyone met, it was a new round of consultations, and here in Brother Ma, Zhou Fangyuan behaved more low-key, and he didn't say anything during the whole process, just listened quietly. Brother Ma's English is good, and there is no big problem in talking to foreigners. Zhou Fangyuan's English is very ordinary, so Cai Zhongxin must translate for him.

He nodded as he listened, and did not express any opinion during the whole process, only when the investment amount and the diluted share amount were finally determined, he suddenly knocked lightly on the table.

The room became quiet all of a sudden, and everyone looked towards Zhou Fangyuan.

"Everyone, you are willing to invest in Ali, as one of the shareholders of Ali, I am naturally happy, after all, everyone hopes that the shares in their hands can appreciate, but your quota, to be honest, I am not very satisfied. ”

"Zhou, what do you think, you can say it. ”

A representative of Goldman Sachs said.

As the lead investment company, he was the last to speak, and he was the main leader in the previous negotiations.

"Okay," Zhou Fangyuan nodded, and then he looked at the few people in front of him, "You can invest in Ali, which means that you are optimistic about Ali's model and the Huaxia market, which I am very pleased with." However, I think that although you are optimistic about the market of Ali and Huaxia, the strength is a little too small. $5 million to buy 40% of the shares is a bit too much. You know, we have the largest population in the world, and although the country is still very poor, our development is not slow......"

The next thing is the cliché, in short, it is to give investors confidence and increase their own value by the way.

But in addition, Zhou Fangyuan has other weights.

"I don't know if you've heard of the software Tencent QQ?"

A bunch of crooked nuts looked at each other, and finally a crooked nut with short brown hair nodded, "I've heard of this software, it seems to be an imitator of OICQ." ”

"Needless to say, there is no question of who imitates whom for this kind of thing, after all, there are only a few models of software, and he OICQ is not the founder of instant messaging, so let's not talk about this issue for the time being, let me talk about my thoughts.

Retail website is a very new thing, the current network of known e-commerce websites, has not been engaged in which website is engaged in retail, you are optimistic about this model, but there will be this model to worry, but I want to say that there is no point in worrying.

Huaxia's huge market is enough to ensure that the number of users of this website will not be too small. At the same time, Tencent's value-added business can also be put on this website for sale, so as to attract Tencent's users to take the initiative to enter this website for shopping.

With 5 million registered users and nearly 300,000 concurrent users, can you imagine what that number is? And it's still expanding, and even if we can only pour a third of those users into retail sites, that's going to be a huge group. So I said that your confidence in the prospects of the site is a little too low, and the valuation of us is too low, so I hope you can increase your valuation, and in my opinion, if you stick to 5 million, we can give you a maximum of 25 percent of the shares. ”

Zhou Fangyuan said.

After all, he had told Brother Da Ma before that I would not interfere in the company's affairs, in fact, he shouldn't even ask too much about financing. Zhou Fangyuan's investment in Ali naturally stems from the hope that Ali will get better and better, and that the shares in his hands will become more and more valuable.

At this point, Brother Da Ma's thoughts are the same, so for Zhou Fangyuan's sudden interjection, although Brother Da Ma was unhappy, he still nodded, "That's right, Dong Zhou's idea is also my idea, everyone, please think about it." ”

A few crooked nuts immediately exchanged heads and talked to each other, during which someone went out to make a few phone calls.

Eventually, half an hour later, the stake agreement was reached.

These investment institutions, led by Goldman Sachs, are willing to increase the investment amount to 7 million, but the shares are still 40%, which cannot be changed.

As a result, Arri's valuation is $17.5 million, slightly higher than Tencent. But if it is diluted by 40%, Zhou Fangyuan actually loses quite a lot, he previously had 43% of Ali's shares, so once diluted, his shares are only 25.8%, according to the company's valuation, his shares are worth 4.51 million US dollars, which is equivalent to more than 37 million soft sister coins, but it is not as valuable as his shares in Tengxun.

But there is no way to do it, after all, Big Ma is stronger than Little Ma, and they may be equal in the future, but at this stage, Big Ma is even more unwilling to interfere than Little Ma. Zhou Fangyuan's previous interjection had already made him very dissatisfied, and Zhou Fangyuan also accepted it when he saw it, and he didn't want to really stiffen the relationship with Brother Da Ma, so he finally agreed to this number.

So far, the second round of financing of Tencent Xun and Ali has been completed, Zhou Fangyuan investment has spent a total of more than 700 less than 8 million, less than a year, the two shares have risen to more than 70 million close to 80 million, the overall increase of ten times, he still made a lot of money after all.

And after knowing Zhou Fangyuan's shares in the two companies, Cai Zhongxin looked at Zhou Fangyuan again, and his eyes were like looking at a monster.