It was fast forward to mid-May and the weather was starting to get hot.

At the international airport in Shanghai, Liu Yun personally greeted his cousin Liu Yueru, who had just returned from the United States, as well as his entourage Liu Shihua and Yang Zhicheng.

"Boss, fortunately, the agency contract has been officially signed. Liu Yueru had just gotten off the plane, and her expression was still a little tired, she waved the document in her hand and said.

"A few dusty people look hard. Liu Yun said with a smile, "The business car has been parked outside, let's get in the car and talk again." ”

After the group got into the car, Liu Yueru took a deep breath and said, "This time I went abroad to gain a lot of knowledge. ”

Yoyo Network and Blizzard had already initialed an agreement in advance, and this rush to the United States was just a formality. Liu Yun did not leave, but chose to sit in the company, and asked Liu Yueru to rush to the United States with Liu Shihua, the director of the technical department, and Yang Zhicheng, the director of the security department.

Liu Yun leaned on the chair, squinting slightly, and felt a little tired when he arrived at the airport early in the morning. He asked, "You're going to Blizzard's headquarters, tell me what the environment is like over there?" ”

Liu Shihua replied: "This is really a good place, with beautiful scenery and pleasant environment. ”

Blizzard is located in Irvine, a small town in Orange County, California, USA. Factors such as a pleasant climate, excellent school districts, and ideal law and order conditions have become the reasons why many people, especially Asians, choose to live in Irvine. Here, the percentage of Asians is close to 30 percent.

According to the memories of several past negotiators, Blizzard's office building is only three floors, which is not very tall compared to the office buildings with more than 20 floors that abound in Ningjiang City, but their office design is unique, with murals of various games and models of various game characters in the corridors.

More than ten years later, more and more Chinese people went to the United States to study, travel, and even emigrate, and some people once commented that the United States is like a large rural area except for a few large cities, and it is the kind of beautiful and pleasant countryside that has not been exposed to much air pollution, and Blizzard's location is such a beautiful rural village.

"Maybe in this kind of work environment, new inspiration will continue to emerge. Liu Yun looked out the car window, and the rows of high-rise buildings said indifferently.

"By the way, what is the start date of the agent in the contract?" he asked, suddenly remembering this.

"June 9th, as you will. Liu Yueru replied.

Liu Yun nodded in satisfaction. June 9th is also the first day after the end of the college entrance examination, which is definitely a better day. He continued: "The operation team of this game has already begun to be formed, in fact, the time for us to sign the contract has been slow, and the US and European servers have entered the closed beta stage at this time. ”

Speaking of this, he turned his gaze to Liu Shihua and said: "Director Liu, I set an indicator for the operation team of the technical department, and before mid-April next year, this game must be open beta." I plan to officially launch the commercial fee model on June 9th. ”

Liu Shihua understood why the boss chose this day, and said: "There is a lot of preparation for this game, such as the sinicization of the game, dubbing, as well as the construction of the server, the test of the line, and the internal test of the game. ”

Liu Yun replied lightly: "If you want money, you will give you money, and if you want someone to give you people." The public beta time is mid-April, and the official operation is June 8, and this time cannot be changed. ”

Liu Shihua took a deep breath and said, "Understand, I will definitely finish it." At this moment, he felt that the burden on his shoulders was heavy, but only with pressure would he be motivated. When he used to work in Sohu, he thought more than once that he would be alone one day.

"By the way, I took a job. Liu Yun remembered the agreement with Vice President Qin, so he said, "We need to develop an online hotel reservation system in the next three months. ”

Liu Shihua didn't know why the boss took such a job, he wisely chose not to ask the reason, and instead said: "Do I need to be responsible for this?"

Liu Yun nodded and said: "The main R&D personnel are students from the Department of Computer Science of Ningjiang University, and they are like internships, and I will pay the salary." Our company has sent a technician with a little seniority to be responsible for solving technical difficulties, and your job responsibility is to control the general direction of this reservation system. ”

Liu Shihua couldn't help nodding and said, "I understand." ”

After returning to Ningjiang, Liu Yun immediately convened all the employees of the technical department to hold a company meeting, at which he announced that the technical department was officially divided into the R&D group and the operation group, and each of the two groups had a team leader.

Coincidentally, in the second half of last year, the management of the technical department of Jiucheng Company expanded its recruitment and poached Chen Zhe from the talent market, also in order to prepare for a series of jobs after winning the agency of "World of Warcraft". But in the end, because of that sudden incident, the vice president of Blizzard was attacked and injured in Jiucheng. They had to rub shoulders with the agency of World of Warcraft.

Without "World of Warcraft", Chen Zhe had nothing to do in the Nine Cities Company for a while, and he couldn't get involved in the operation of "Miracle MU", so he could only do some odd technical work in the company, which was far from what he expected, so he paid attention to the talent market while going to work. Now it is a sure fact that Yoyo Network has won "World of Warcraft", and Chen Zhe also came to Yoyo Network after going around in the talent market.

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Wednesday, 19 May 2004.

Yoyo Network officially announced a news on the company's official website, hao12 at the top, and the headline on the homepage of Youyou.com: After friendly and frank negotiations between Yoyo Network and Blizzard in the United States, the two companies officially reached an agreement to obtain the exclusive agency rights of "World of Warcraft" in the Chinese mainland in the next five years.

All of a sudden, the major portals reprinted the news, and the fame of Yoyo Network went out of the Internet for the first time and affected the entire society. The major traditional paper media in Ningjiang City also reported the news, and also specifically pointed out that the company's security personnel were the same people who rescued the female college students who were attacked in the park not long ago, and soon the fame of Yoyo Network in Ningjiang City has reached the point of household name.

The bosses of major Internet companies also watched the news with mixed feelings, and their hearts were mixed for a while, they could not make up their minds to make such a huge bet, but this new company that had just been established did so.

What will happen in the next few years? Will the fledgling company fall into the abyss because of this bet or will it soar into the ranks of first-tier companies.

When Liu Yun made the announcement, he shrewdly only released the news of signing a contract for five years, but he hid a supplementary clause that gave priority to renewing the contract for one year.