The internal opposition of the chess institute is not without voices, mainly because Tongtian Technology as a new enterprise, the popularity and reputation are not enough, the stability of the Internet company itself is not strong, in case of a little twists and turns or the bankruptcy of the enterprise itself will affect the image of the chess institute, some people suggest that the leadership or find other enterprises to sponsor, especially to find large state-owned enterprises.

If you can find a large state-owned enterprise, the chess institute will already go to get it, why wait for Tongtian Technology?

As far as the department in charge of the Chess Academy is concerned, if it seeks sponsorship from a state-owned enterprise in Shanghai, it is actually equivalent to allocating more administrative funds to the Chess Academy -- the mutual sponsorship of state-owned enterprises and public institutions is not a matter of the left pocket to the right pocket as far as the financial department is concerned?

But it is impossible to let the competent department come forward to endorse and take responsibility for the chess institute, and the leaders are all proficient: he is the leader of the matter well, and the matter is messed up, and the following is wrong, anyway, it is not a loss.

Of course, Shanghai is not the same as other places, the business atmosphere is relatively strong, and the competent authorities have made an opening: the leadership of the chess academy will discuss and decide whether to cooperate according to commercial terms.

So the difficulty of negotiating is not so much about commercialization terms, but about political security.

Tongtian Technology's luck lies in the fact that the leader of the chess academy they met was not a pure administrative official, but a well-known commander Hu in the industry.

As a young and famous national player, Commander Hu is very aware of the decline faced by chess sports: in the 6th and 70s, the masses generally did not have any cultural and entertainment activities, so Go and chess were all fun activities, and in the 80s, the reform and opening up, comics, TV dramas, karaoke, ice skating, and dance halls began to compete for mass entertainment time, and after the birth of video games, the influence of chess sports among young people plummeted.

It is obvious that during the Sino-Japanese Go Tournament in the 80s, every game touched the hearts of a large number of spectators, and by the end of the 90s, the attention of various competitions had plummeted. Because it will become a tree without roots and water without a source.

Wang Huiling and Chang Tianhao have run three chess institutes in order to reach cooperation, and the most touching Commander Hu is what Chang Tianhao said: "It is impossible for young people to give up computers and the Internet to attack chess, but it is possible to computerize and Internet chess sports and let more people participate." It is better not to turn the game of chess into a mountain and a river of high and low levels, and it is better to maintain the characteristics of civilian intellectual activities and be full of the characteristics of the new era. ”

Commander Hu was moved by these words, and made up his mind to cooperate, and at the internal meeting, he overrode public opinion and said very clearly: "Chess competitions must have a broad mass base, and the road of professional athletes is getting narrower and narrower, and we must take the initiative to embrace informatization and commercialization...... I'm inclined to agree to this cooperation! If something goes wrong, I'll be responsible, and I can take the blame and resign!"

Not only did he show his determination internally, but he also agreed to attend the Tongtian Cup and give a speech, and played a few games of chess instruction with the winners online as a chess king.

It was this open-minded style that finally the leadership of the chess academy agreed to cooperate at a collective meeting. Of course, the three chapters of the contract also stipulate that if the sponsorship is overdue, the contract will be automatically invalidated; if Tongtian Technology is punished for negative news, such as tax evasion and illegal operation, the chess institute can unilaterally terminate the contract; if there are changes in national laws and regulations or the superior policy does not allow, the agreement will be automatically terminated, and the relevant sponsorship funds will be settled on the actual cooperation deadline, and the two parties shall not be liable for breach of contract.

Wang Huiling agreed to these requirements one by one.

In order to add to the fun, on the day of the signing, in front of a bunch of news media, Commander Hu also deliberately pulled Chang Tianhao to play two games of coaching chess.

Little Bourgeois Chang has always been very keen on chess, is one of the few young students of the Third Plenum (Go, chess, chess), but the level is very average, in the game is very self-aware to ask the chess king to let the rook, horse, cannon set, Commander Hu did not agree, saying that this is too much, the impact is not good, only let the horse and the cannon each one, as a result Chang Tianhao lost the first game quickly. In the next game, the old chess king let the rook, horse, and cannon set, Chang Tianhao calculated that he won a game, but he knew in his heart that this was the opponent's deliberate release of water, otherwise the old chess king's level would not be a problem to grind a draw.

Chang Tianhao was very happy that Commander Hu was able to personally come forward to play wheel battles with his chess friends to guide chess, and the game fee was given a high price of 10,000 yuan/day.

Commander Hu politely refused: "Xiao Chang, I am going to make a mistake if you do this." People still think that I agree to cooperate for the sake of the game, and it's okay if you want a master to fight, there are many masters in our academy!"

"Commander, this has nothing to do with administrative duties, we are asking the commander to meet with chess fans to play chess, not to invite the dean to play chess! The commander is the banner of the Shanghai chess world, whether you are the dean or not in the future, you will always be the commander in the minds of chess fans. ”

This "commander" cleverly brought the relationship closer, and Commander Hu finally agreed to play chess, and the game fee should be collected or collected, but in order to avoid suspicion, he personally did not take it, and donated all the money to the chess academy for office funds.

Chang Tianhao was afraid that this would cause pressure on other standard-bearers, and gave the example of "Zigong ransom" in the hope that the other party would reconsider, but Commander Hu shook his head with a smile and said that he would solve this problem.

For Chang Tianhao, the 3 million yuan sponsorship is worth it. The Shanghai Chess Academy is one of the top chess academies in China, and its chess team is a national powerhouse, in addition to the banner of Commander Hu, it has also won the national men's team championship 5 times and the women's team championship 3 times.

The Go team has a brilliant record, winning the national Go men's team championship thirteen times, the runner-up seven times, the national women's team championship seven times, and the runner-up four times. The leading figures are also very prominent, Cao Dayuan and his wife, Chang Hao and his wife (not yet married, but the relationship has been confirmed) were all in Shanghai at the time, Shao Weigang Jiuduan was also the main force, and even lived in Japan, Rui Naiwei Jiuduan, known as the first person in women's Go, was also from Shanghai.

The chess team is a little less than that, mainly due to the lack of leaders, but the team has performed remarkably: the men have won the national team championship thirteen times, and the women have won the national team championship ten times.

Now when the media mentions Tongtian Technology, it will no longer use the vision of the reckless team of only a few people in Zhongguancun, and think that it is the leader of the second-tier Internet enterprises. On January 13, the China Business Times announced the top 10 commercial websites in China at that time, namely Sina, 163, Sohu, NetEase, Guozhong.com, People's Daily, Shanghai Hotline, ChinaByte, Capital Online and Yahoo China. Those who are not among the top ten but have influence are classified as second-tier.

According to this standard, Lianzhong and Tongtian are both second-tier, although the number of Lianzhong is more, but they can't stand up to the fact that people are rich and powerful.

Before the news release of the cooperation with the Shanghai Chess Academy, the reputation of the chess platform of Huizhi World could only rank 5-6 in the industry, and as soon as the news of the 3 million strategic cooperation and Tongtian Cup came out, it immediately jumped into the top three - which chess and card website can get 3 million? Even if there are 3 million, who is not spending on equipment and personnel, how can there be such a money-burning method of Huizhi World?

But in Chang Tianhao's eyes, it's only 3 million, and the mung bean is back with a single fierce son.

Indeed, since March, as the weather gradually warms, the peak season of mung bean consumption is gradually coming, the pressure of mung bean oversupply has been alleviated, not only the export situation is optimistic, the export growth rate is significantly higher than the level of the same period in the past, so that the domestic pressure is further reduced, and the market supply situation after getting rid of the Asian financial crisis is more stable.

After a sharp decline of more than 2,000 points, the power of mung bean bears has been fully released, not only the futures price is significantly lower than the spot, but also there is a strong technical rebound requirement from the disk observation, the market bulls are once again focused, and at the same time, the Nanyang Gang was ordered to "not take an example", so there is no "raising and killing" situation this time.

On March 2, after the GN909 and GN911 contracts hit the lowest point of 2496 and 2552 respectively, they suddenly started from March 3 and rose amazingly. It rose by more than 120 points in less than 1 week, which is nearly 9 million profits compared to 7,500 long orders.

Liandou was affected by the United States beans and then fell, the price difference between beans has expanded from more than 200 to more than 400 yuan, mung beans floating profit of more than 8 million, soybean floating profit of more than 2 million, giving Chang Tianhao a lot of room for maneuver - only with money in hand can he not panic.

In the foreseeable future, the profitability of futures positions will further expand, which is necessary to cope with the next phase of Tongtian Technology's expenditure.

After reaching a strategic cooperation with Shanghai Chess Academy, the influence of Tongtian Technology Industry has been further expanded, after all, it is not just a random enterprise that can spend 3 million to sponsor, and the huge influence of the event not only builds momentum for Tongtian Cup, but also ushers in various spillover effects.

The first is celebrity overflow.

Arima Jiudan took the lead, and others also came to contact, after all, Tongtian is richer and more generous than Lianzhong, and the system is more stable, everyone is willing to come, but considering that it should not be too much too bad, and it can't be too much impact on Ma Jiuduan's field, Chang Tianhao temporarily declined other players, and only promised to see the situation after the trial contract with Mr. Ma, but he welcomes professional players to come to play chess, and it can't be hired all year round, and there is no problem with the daily appearance of the pen activity fee.

The second is image overflow.

Left and right, and finally invited Ying Wuduan to be the contemporary spokesperson under the recommendation of Ma Jiuduan, Ying Wuduan was 26 years old at this time, both good looks and chess power, and many times on TV for live explanations, the identity of serving as a spokesperson and image ambassador is not excluded, and the price code is also appropriate, enough to add luster to the Tongtian Cup, and finally finalized.

After making her public debut and playing a few games of chess in the game room, Huizhi World began to rank first in the industry in terms of chess rankings - no other website has so many professional players, and no other website can match the stability and speed of Huizhi World.

In the minds of chess enthusiasts, Huizhi World is the top, leading and professional online chess and card website in China.

The third is customer overflow.

At the time of publicity, the Tongtian Cup was identified as the first audition chess competition in the Internet era, reflecting many different characteristics:

The first is a wide range of auditions, as long as you register in the world of wisdom can be contested, the whole country has set up a competition area, and after the top 32 in the country are decided, Shanghai will come to the scene to compete, accommodation, participation costs are all borne by the organizers, and the game fee will also be issued.

The second is to carry out stratification, amateur players and professional players sign up separately, because the last to the on-site competition, so there is no possibility of impersonation, as soon as the identity is verified, the professional players will be exposed immediately, impersonation is of little significance;

The third is a higher competition bonus and guidance chess, according to Go, chess divided into two games and 4 groups, the national champion bonus of 200,000 yuan, the runner-up 100,000 yuan. After the top 32 in the country are decided, in addition to their own catch and fight, Tongtian Technology will use the identity of strategic partners to invite the top professional flag-bearers of the Chess Academy to play chess, which is an unavoidable thing for the wild folk masters;

Fourthly, through webcasts and replays, not only will the top 32 points matches introduce a spectator mechanism, but the final stage of the final game will also be broadcast live online, and the final 4 players will be commented on in real time - this is the first of its kind.

Once this is advertised, the effect is really extraordinary.

In the past few days, the number of people who have registered for Huizhi World and Tongtian Cup has skyrocketed, and the craze of swiping silver coins during the public beta has come to an end, but the number of registered downloads has skyrocketed, in just half a month, the number of daily online users has exceeded 1,500, and the cumulative number of registered people has exceeded 100,000, and the results of one and a half months have exceeded the efforts of Lianzhong for more than half a year, and the observer community believes that Huizhi World has room for further growth. By the end of the Tongtian Cup audition on June 30, I am afraid that the number of people online will exceed 5,000.

The reason for optimism is very simple, when Lianzhong reached this point, not only the network speed and program were stuck, but also frequent problems were dropped, and the server was unstable, while Huizhi World, which undertook more functions, continued to soar as if it was nothing, and only after inquiring did I know that Tongtian Technology had opened 6 servers with 30M exclusive bandwidth configuration, which was completely drizzle.

"Tianhao, someone sent a fax today, asking if we are interested in transferring the shares of Huizhi World, the price is negotiable. ”

Chang Tianhao raised his eyebrows: "China Public Network?"

"How do you know?" asked Wang Huiling curiously.

"Mr. Ma told me, he said that China Public Network has been negotiating with Lianzhong and wants to merge them, so they also want to contact us. ”

"What price did they offer Lianzhong?"

"5 million, for 75% equity!"

Wang Huiling nodded: "It's a lot, it's a lot that such a software platform with only input and no output can sell for more than 5 million." ”

"Do you sell it?"

"Of course I don't sell it, I'm stupid! We signed a 3 million contract with the Shanghai Chess Academy, and in order to promote, produce, hold the Babel Cup, hire spokespersons, improve servers and bandwidth, and raise a bunch of programmers, we smashed in more than 2 million before and after, which is worth 5 million, right? I lost money if I sold 5 million!"

Xiaoqin laughed when she heard it next to her, Wang Huiling was quite shrewd in settling accounts.