After Zhang Siyuan finished saying this, Li Hongyan's face became ugly. Li Hongyan didn't expect that his unconfident words would make Zhang Siyuan criticize himself so much.

This made Li Hongyan, who was in front of several employees, a little unable to get off the stage, but Li Hongyan quickly adjusted his mentality. humbly said to Zhang Siyuan: "Don't worry, Mr. Zhang, I will definitely live up to your trust and develop Baidu into what I said." ”

"Well, that's what an entrepreneur should look like. Alright, it's been a busy afternoon, let's eat. Zhang Siyuan heard Li Hongyan's words and said with a smile.

For Zhang Siyuan, the current Li Hongyan still has value. When Times Technology did not have any research and development progress on search engine technology, Baidu was the only channel for Zhang Siyuan to intervene in the search engine market. When Times Technology can develop its own search engine, it will be the time when Zhang Siyuan abandons Baidu to make his own search engine.

After eating at the Yanjing Hotel, Zhang Siyuan asked several employees of Baidu to take Li Hongyan, who had drunk too much, away. At dinner, under Zhang Siyuan's conscious persuasion, Li Hongyan was soon poured too much. Li Hongyan, who drank too much, kept pulling Zhang Siyuan to talk about his ideals, but Zhang Siyuan echoed Li Hongyan in a low voice, and after drinking a meal, the relationship between Li Hongyan and Zhang Siyuan heated up extremely.

After separating, Zhang Siyuan went back to the hotel directly. The next morning, I came to Sohu according to the normal time, and there were only a few days left before Li Han's engagement day, and Zhang Siyuan had to return to Shanghai for a few more days.

After Zhang Siyuan sat in the office for a while, he had some thoughts in his heart, so he walked to Zeng Fuhu's office.

When Zhang Siyuan entered Zeng Fuhu's office, Zeng Fuhu was working on some documents. After hearing the movement and looking up to see that it was Zhang Siyuan, Zeng Fuhu asked with some surprise: "Mr. Zhang, is there something wrong?"

Zhang Siyuan replied with a smile: "Mr. Zeng should have seen yesterday's news, right? I wonder if Mr. Zeng has any specific thoughts on search engines?"

After so many things, Zhang Siyuan has habitually discussed some things he is interested in with Zeng Fuhu. Zhang Siyuan feels that many times Zeng Fuhu's insights will give him a lot of inspiration and insight. In addition, Zeng Fuhu is not the kind of technical nerd like Xu Zelei who only knows how to bury his head in technology, Zhang Siyuan is even more willing to chat with Zeng Fuhu.

After hearing Zhang Siyuan's question, Zeng Fuhu replied without thinking: "The search engine market is a relatively potential market, but there is no company in China that has particularly in-depth research. Patents for search engine technology are also in the hands of a limited number of people, which is the biggest constraint on others from reaching in. Baidu, a company that is very good from the prospect, but whether it can develop or not is not certain. ”

"How do you say that?" Zhang Siyuan asked with a smile.

Zhang Siyuan was very satisfied with Zeng Fuhu's opinions. However, Zeng Fuhu is not optimistic about Baidu's future, Zhang Siyuan is extremely interested. Because he wants to support Baidu's development to a certain extent, it is necessary to know the obstacles to Baidu's development from others.

Zeng Fuhu glanced at Zhang Siyuan, and then said: "If Baidu is now controlled by Mr. Zhang, then I still have great expectations for Baidu to really develop." But if Mr. Zhang just wants to make a fortune relying on Baidu, then it is difficult to say what Baidu's future will look like. ”

"If Baidu belongs to Mr. Zhang, then Mr. Zhang will definitely do his best to support the development of Baidu. With the support of Li Hongyan's patented technology and the huge users of Times Technology QQ, Baidu is not a monopoly in China, but at least it is no problem to occupy half of the domestic search engine market. However, if Mr. Zhang just wants to wait for a breakthrough in the research and development progress of Times Technology to enter this field because Times Technology does not have the technology of search engines for the time being, then it is really difficult to say how much chance Baidu will have at that time. ”

"After all, Times Technology is now the largest instant messaging software operator in China, and QQ's performance is the best in the world. As long as there are no problems with Times Technology itself, then Tencent is simply not an opponent of Times Technology. It can be said that Times Technology dominates the domestic instant messaging software market and goes abroad. At that time, with the backing of QQ's huge users, it will be difficult for Times Technology to fail no matter what kind of field it steps into the Internet industry. ”

After hearing Zeng Fuhu's analysis, Zhang Siyuan nodded with satisfaction. The reasons analyzed by Zeng Fuhu coincide with reality. However, at present, Zhang Siyuan's biggest headache in search engine technology is the problem of patents.

However, it is still early to deal with the patent problem, and Zhang Siyuan does not want to expose his purpose too early, otherwise it will be very troublesome for those search engine providers to take precautions in advance. After the search engine of Times Technology was made, Zhang Siyuan was ready to solve the patent problem.

Seeing that Zeng Fuhu was still looking at him, Zhang Siyuan said with a smile: "Mr. Zeng, if I didn't know you, I really think you are a roundworm in my stomach." But I have a question for you, making a search engine is not a problem, the key is how to solve the patent aspect?"

"Buy it, as long as you are willing to spend enough money, you will definitely be able to take it. After all, it's useless to hold this thing in your hand all the time. You always have to license to make money, and the best thing is to buy the patent directly, but I think it's a bit difficult. In fact, I hope that Mr. Zhang can acquire Baidu, so that there is no need to worry about patents or anything. Zeng Fuhu shrugged.

That's what can be done on patents. Someone else researches something first and applies for a patent, and you suffer a lot if you research it later. This is also the reason why every high-tech company rushes to register a patent every time they develop a technology.

However, Zeng Fuhu did not stop talking, but looked at Zhang Siyuan and continued: "But according to my estimate, Mr. Zhang should not have been able to acquire Baidu, otherwise he would not have come to discuss this issue with me." In fact, in many ways, I always feel that Mr. Zhang, you are thinking a little too much. With the backing of QQ, you don't need to worry so much about many things, just start doing it. When a problem is encountered, the people below will naturally find a way to solve it. You just need to control the general direction, you are now the chairman of a company with a market value of more than 10 billion, and there is no need to do everything yourself. ”

After hearing Zeng Fuhu say this, Zhang Siyuan smiled bitterly: "Mr. Zeng, do you think I want to take care of so many things? You have been with me for so long, do you think I am the kind of person who wants to check everything? It's not that there is no one who can share the pressure, if there is, I would still be chatting here now, and I would have taken my girlfriend out for a trip a long time ago." Come to think of it, I haven't seen my girlfriend for more than half a month. ”

Zeng Fuhu also laughed when he heard this, he knew that Zhang Siyuan was a person who liked to be a shopkeeper. It can be seen from the fact that he has basically not been in charge of affairs since he became the owner of Sohu, but because Sohu is about to be merged into Times Technology, Zeng Fuhu has also made a detailed analysis of the internal composition of Times Technology. There is indeed no one who can share Zhang Siyuan's pressure within Times Technology, and Zhang Siyuan can only do a lot of things by himself.

In Zeng Fuhu's view, several presidents of Times Technology are like fictitious. Xu Zelei, the head of the technical department, only knows R&D all day long, and never cares about the company's affairs. Gao Changjiang, the nominal No. 2 person, has less power in the company than he imagined, and he can't get involved in many things in the company at all. Zhang Junkui, the president, is only responsible for his own one-third of an acre, as for Guo Hongyan, who few people have noticed, there is no need to mention it, and there is no sense of existence.

According to Zeng Fuhu's analysis, what Times Technology lacks most at present is a person who can twist all departments of Times Technology into a rope when Zhang Siyuan is not there. Dai Wanglong used to be one, but I don't know why Dai Wanglong left Times Technology and disappeared from the public eye.

Then now the company is unable to have a person who can replace Zhang Siyuan, which also makes Times Technology an embarrassing situation. If Zhang Siyuan is not there, he will go his own way, and the presidents of the major presidents will not accept anyone, and Zeng Fuhu doesn't know if Zhang Siyuan himself is aware of this problem. However, it has not yet been merged into Times Technology, and Zeng Fuhu feels that it is not easy for him to talk about it now.

Otherwise, it would be bad if Siyuan misunderstood that he wanted to be the one who could replace Zhang Siyuan. Although Zeng Fuhu knew that it was unlikely that Zhang Siyuan would misunderstand, he was not afraid of 10,000 just in case.

After laughing, Zhang Siyuan continued: "I don't know if Mr. Zeng has any suggestions for future science and technology?"

"This ......" I didn't expect Zhang Siyuan to ask this question, Zeng Fuhu hesitated a little.

Zhang Siyuan also saw Zeng Fuhu's hesitation, and waved his hand: "Mr. Zeng, just say it directly, if you have anything to say, just say it, and I'll listen to it." ”

Zeng Fuhu heard Zhang Siyuan say this, and said thoughtfully: "I think it's enough, the development speed of science and technology in the times is enough, but because the development speed is too fast, there will definitely be all kinds of drawbacks internally." I believe that if Mr. Zhang pays attention to observation, he should be able to observe. It's not good for me to say too much about these things as an outsider, and if Mr. Zhang still wants to hear after Sohu merges into Times Technology, I can tell Mr. Zhang about it. ”

Seeing that Zeng Fuhu really didn't want to say more, Zhang Siyuan didn't force Zeng Fuhu, but said: "Okay, it's not a few months anyway." In the past three months, you have always arranged Sohu's affairs, and after the Times Technology, there are still many things waiting for you to do. ”