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Song Weiyang's courtyard has been completed for three months, and there were originally more than 20 rooms with those small utility rooms and toilets, but only 16 rooms (two courtyards) were directly demolished.

The vacant space after the demolition was turned into a small garden with a rockery. There are rockeries in the area itself, and the two rockeries that were damaged by an earthquake a few decades ago were moved to two parks in the capital. Now it is basically the restoration of the original appearance, the rockeries are all made according to the park, and by the way, a wooden shelf is planted with grapes.

Chen Tao pulled out a few flowers and plants he didn't like, bought a few pots of camellia from the flower and bird market, and was busy transplanting them with a small shovel at this time.

There is also a stone bench and stone table under the grape trellis, but unfortunately the vines have not grown up now, and the smooth ones are all wooden shelves, and sitting on the stone bench to drink tea is less leisurely and fun.

"Your yard can be remodeled," Ma Weidu looked up at the wooden shelves, "but it's still too new, you have to live for a few years before you can do it, and you ruined the house if it was left empty." ”

Song Weiyang said with a smile: "I asked someone to hire a reliable part-time worker to clean the dust twice a week, and help with watering and weeding by the way." ”

Ma Wei sighed with emotion: "Capitalist! You just let that part-time worker live in." ”

The boiling water on the small stove at the door was boiled, and it was whining with steam. Song Weiyang hurriedly ran over, personally brought the kettle, took out a pot of tea and said: "I have a college roommate who took the initiative to apply to support the construction of the western region and became a deputy county magistrate in a poor rural area. There are no specialties over there, and the high mountain tea is not bad, so Xifeng went over to invest in a tea mountain. Don't look at this pot of tea, it has been hidden for 20 years, as if it is the same generation as 82 Lafite. ”

Brother Xiao Ma sat next to him and didn't speak, and then he was surprised: "Tea is also aged cellar?"

Ma Weidu smiled: "I have drunk 70-year-old green tea. ”

"You're awesome!" Song Weiyang was speechless for a moment.

"Isn't tea bad for 70 years?" asked Brother Xiaoma.

Ma Weidu said: "It is the best green tea in the Wanwan area, which was secretly hidden in the cave and left for 70 years before it was dug up. I was lucky enough to visit a friend in the bend, and my friend happened to get a little bit. ”

Song Weiyang asked, "How does 70-year-old green tea taste?"

"It tastes a bit like Pu'er," Ma Weidu said with a smile, "Really, green tea tastes like Pu'er, which completely subverts my perception of green tea." ”

Chen Tao had already transplanted the camellias, and after washing his hands, he came over and said, "I want to taste it when I have the chance." ”

"I've already drunk it. The stock is already scarce, and it can't be stored for a long time after the seal is lifted, and it must be drunk within a period of time," Ma Weidu said and began to talk about the mountain again, "The most thrilling tea I have ever drunk was in Japan, when that friend invited me to drink it with a chicken bowl cup, I thought it was a modern imitation sample, but the more I drank it, the more I felt wrong." Because the chicken bowl cup is so real, I casually inquired about it, and someone bought it from the auction house for 5 million. At that time, I was so frightened that my hands were shaking, for fear that I would be detained in Japan and not be able to leave. ”

Song Weiyang laughed, rich people really like bad tastes.

Chen Tao has been chatting with Ma Wei all the time, but Brother Ma has become a quiet and beautiful man, sitting on the stone bench for a long time and unable to make a fart.

Song Weiyang was afraid of snubbing him, so he took the initiative to ask, "So, you came to the capital specifically to meet female netizens this time?"

Brother Xiao Ma corrected: "It's a girlfriend, we have been chatting for a long time, and we have already confirmed the relationship on the Internet." We met on QQ, and she didn't know that I had opened a company, thinking I was an ordinary programmer. ”

"Online dating is quite fashionable. Song Weiyang said.

"One more thing," Xiao Ma said, "Tencent is running out of money again, and it can last for another two months at most." ”

Song Weiyang said: "I can always make additional investments, and come to me when I run out of money." ”

Brother Pony smiled bitterly: "Even if you don't bother, I'm embarrassed." The company has met and discussed several times, and we agreed that QQ registration should be restricted, otherwise the server will burn too much. According to the current momentum, the number of registered QQ users will reach 100 million in three months at most. ”

"100 million users, the number of Chinese netizens is only 20 million!" Song Weiyang was surprised.

Xiao Ma said: "It is normal for a person to register several QQ numbers, and some people even register twenty or thirty, and these redundant accounts need to consume server resources." ”

Song Weiyang has now invested in NetEase, Sohu, Sogou, Google, and Alibaba, all of which are very famous, but the most money-burning company is Tencent.

This explains why AOL has not added various offline features since its acquisition of ICQ. As the world's first instant messaging software, ICQ has been around for several years, and now it is not possible to keep a friend list after changing computers. Because it requires a huge amount of server resources, the money burned every month makes AOL feel painful.

By the way, the bursting of the Internet bubble caused AOL to directly evaporate $100 billion in market value.

Song Weiyang originally insisted on opening the registration, but now he was also a little scared, nodded and said, "Then limit the registration, and survive this period of time." ”

Brother Xiao Ma said: "Okay, I'll call the company immediately." If the old user does not log in within a month, the QQ number will be directly recovered, and all data will be cleared. New users need to pay to register, two yuan for a QQ number, which can not only get some extra income, but also limit the growth of registered users. ”

Song Weiyang said: "I'll invest another $3 million, right? Is the money enough?"

Brother Xiao Ma said: "If you restrict QQ registration, in fact, it is enough to invest without investment." As long as I don't continue to add servers, I can break even, because the mobile business is growing very fast. ”

"Then I'll invest another $2 million, and increase my stake to 45%. Song Weiyang said.

How many shares should be added after the investment depends on the valuation of the company by investors, Song Weiyang's casual decision seems child's play, but in fact, it is not too outrageous.

Nowadays, in the eyes of domestic and foreign investors, Tencent is the most promising and at the same time the least worthy of investment.

Due to Song Weiyang's arbitrary intervention, QQ has not restricted registration, resulting in Tencent burning more money than in history, and now it has to add at least four servers every month. In another time and space, QQ is limited to only two servers per month, and no one is willing to invest in Tencent.

At that time, Brother Xiao Ma borrowed money from friends everywhere, and said that if he couldn't pay back the money, he would use Tencent shares to repay it, and those friends said directly: "If you can't pay it back, don't pay it back, I don't want Tencent's stocks, it's a bottomless pit, and I don't know how much to burn in." ”

As Tencent shareholders, Yingke and IDG helped to contact financing every day, but they did not negotiate for half a year, and they were all frightened off by Tencent's cash-burning speed.

Now Song Weiyang bought the shares in the hands of Yingke and IDG early, which can be regarded as helping these two companies jump out of the fire pit in advance.

IDG, a venture capital company, is also in a bleak situation, investing in more than 80 Internet companies in China in three years, each with an investment of 500,000 to 1.5 million US dollars, adding up to more than 100 million US dollars. As a result, when the Internet bubble burst, only one of the more than 80 companies returned to its capital, and the other investment targets were all money-losing goods.

In fact, Tencent was the first of China's early Internet companies to break even. While NetEase, Sina, and Sohu are still cheering for the reduction of monthly losses, and when Alibaba is still thinking about how to make a profit, Tencent has already begun to make money - provided that the new increment of registered users is limited, and adding a few servers a month is too scary!

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