Chapter 5: The Fisherman

As soon as these words came out, the conference room suddenly fell silent, and all eyes looked at Kong Decheng. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

Quite simply, he is an investor in the website, and he is the only real 'rich man' in the top management of the website, with a net worth of millions. The remaining shareholders are nothing more than lovers of online literature, if there is no Kong Decheng to invest in Huanjian, they may be working in a company now, one or two thousand yuan a month.

Therefore, Kong Decheng is the real person of Huanjian, he disagrees, he doesn't pay, and Huanjian can't give the author a financial reward.

"Impossible!"

Kong Decheng shook his head without hesitation, "Rizhao, you also know how many writers there are on the website." Except for a very small number of these writers who can publish in the traditional Chinese market, the rest of them are not able to bring direct profits to the website at all, and even if the traditional market is a piece of the pie, the cake is very small, and most of them are controlled by Longkong. If a writer is given a financial reward, even if one person gives a hundred dollars a month, it is a staggering expense! ”

Kong Decheng's words are not unreasonable, Huanjian writers are four-digit, don't say that one person has one hundred a month, that is, ten yuan a month, and hundreds of thousands a year.

Since the creation of Huanjian, the initial investment, plus the annual operation and maintenance costs, is less than 400,000 yuan in total, and now it is necessary to take out hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to send money to readers. It's incredible in the entire web novel world, Huanjian won't do it, the starting point won't do it, no website will do it.

"The audience for online novels is small, and the future prospects are also limited. Those of us, unlike Alibaba and Baidu, can get tens of millions of dollars in financing at every turn, and we don't have the strength to throw money into it. Kong Decheng said.

Richao and Brother Ting glanced at each other and shook their heads helplessly. Kong is always a standard investor, and the purpose of investing in Huanjian is to make Huanjian's traffic reach a standard in a short period of time, and then sell it at a high price to make a profit, rather than wanting to make the online novel industry bigger, so once it exceeds his expectations, Kong will stop injecting capital.

And Rizhao and Brother Ting, as well as several other high-level executives of Huanjian, got together because of their love for the online novel industry. Especially Rizhao, who is in charge of managing the website, has great confidence in the future of this industry.

But the problem is that they can't convince Mr. Kong.

In all fairness, investing hundreds of thousands of rewards for authors a year, they don't have a bottom in their hearts, if they can't find an acquirer in a few years, and the website has no new way to make money, Huanjian will go bankrupt completely.

"......What if" Rizhao hesitated for a long time, but still asked tentatively: "What if you charge the reader?" ”

As soon as these words came out, the whole house was in an uproar.

In 2002, not to mention online novels, the vast majority of online public services were free. Yahoo Mail and several well-known websites in China have tried to charge a fee, but the result has been a failure.

There is a consensus in the online industry that there are only two types of people who can survive on fees. The first is Alibaba, which provides a lot of professional business information; The second is online games.

As for the cost of online novels, don't even think about it!

Kong Youde's attitude was even more resolute: "Absolutely impossible!" Charging readers is self-defeating martial arts and shaking the foundation of Huanjian! There is piracy everywhere on the Internet, and as soon as the fee is charged, readers will run to other websites to read books, so what's the use of leaving this group of writers? Besides, the readers of online novels are all little kids, what money do they have?! ”

"Then Mr. Kong, you can't be indifferent, right?" Brother Ting said.

"Of course not." Kong Decheng said: "You are engaged in technology, and you are attacking them!" What is the most important thing about a website? User experience! If the server at the starting point is unstable and paralyzed in three days, how can it compete with us! ”

"The other side must also have technical personnel, and if they do the attack, in the end, they will lose both." Brother Ting said.

"We have an innate advantage! Our readership base is more than ten times that of the starting point, even if everyone also loses readers, we can afford it, but the starting point can't afford it. As long as the starting point is broken, the reader will still gradually return to Huanjian. ”

……

Yu Zhe naturally didn't know in such detail, but just told Zhao Zejun that Huanjian wanted to treat the starting point as a real opponent, and didn't take him seriously at all.

After getting the news, Zhao Zejun was very glad that he didn't go to military training.

Half a month is not a long time, but when the two tigers are fighting, every day left to himself is extraordinarily precious.

Immediately found Song Yun and put forward three requirements for the project team.

First, be quick! Complete all modules and various tests of the website as soon as possible!

Second, be good! Whether it's website experience or server performance, it must be able to stand the test.

Of course, he won't know the content of the meeting of Huanjian's senior management, but in the struggle between Internet companies, technical means will always come first, Zhao Zejun doesn't want to waste his efforts to do a good job on the website and bring in a group of people, but as a result, the website was hacked as soon as it was launched.

Fast and good, these two are naturally contradictory, and there is only one way to solve this contradiction.

Zhao Zejun took out another 100,000 yuan.

100,000 yuan in cash is piled up directly in the laboratory, which is visually stunning for ordinary college students.

Song Yun and the project team were dumbfounded.

When Zhao Zejun took out 100,000 yuan from his bag, stacked after stacked, and put it neatly in front of the project team, the entire project team was silent, and everyone's mouth showed a half-open state.

How rich is this Boss Zhao, Senior Brother Zhao? I didn't blink my eyelids, so I threw 50,000 yuan, and 100,000 yuan when I threw it...... It's just to develop a website, and he has already paid 150,000 yuan twice before and after, is he going to the scale of a domestic portal?

Of course, the money was not taken for nothing, not only to motivate and recruit new people, Zhao Zejun even took into account the problems of the first batch of editors.

These people in the development team, after the website was launched, were the first batch of maintenance personnel and part-time editors of the website. In the early days of the site, there is no need to edit it

Too professional, they only need to carry out simple operations in the background, but the main energy is to maintain the website, and at the same time answer the questions of authors and readers on the use of the website, teach authors and readers, how to use the website, how to use the various functions specially developed for them.

"My request is that by the 9th and 20th at the latest, the website must be online! If, within half a year, there is no inability to log in to the site for more than three hours, there is also a bonus for each person. ”