Chapter 33: The Original Sin of Greed - Part II
Gu Cheng is an untangled temper, and after watching the news, he was shocked for half an hour, and then fell asleep again. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
When I woke up, it was about 7 o'clock in the morning.
Pan Jieying is sleeping deeply.
Gu Cheng knew that his cousin was asleep until dawn, so he didn't call her.
He tiptoed into the bathroom by himself, closed the door, took a shower, changed his clothes, and went downstairs to eat.
After eating, he remembered something, so he called Chen Shoufu.
"Brother Cheng, what's the matter?"
Chen Shoufu is a person who runs for three, and he actually calls Gu Cheng "Brother Cheng", which is strange enough. It may be that the technical nerd is not good at dealing with people, and he was shocked by Gu Cheng's "domineering spirit".
Gu Cheng didn't talk nonsense: "Did you get up in the morning to watch the news?"
Chen Shoufu: "No. ”
"Give you twenty minutes to read the bullet points from the Wall Street Journal and CNN, and I'll call you again at 9 o'clock. ”
"Good. Chen Shoufu hung up the phone, and An An went to watch the news.
20 minutes later, he took the initiative to call Gu Cheng back. Listening to Chen Shoufu's tone, he was also very shocked by the total collapse of the Internet bubble.
Gu Cheng didn't have time to talk nonsense, so he asked straightforwardly: "Can you find out, is the 'gray pigeon' made by Zhou Hongyi?"
Chen Shoufu found that Gu Cheng thought of being with him, and immediately replied: "I guess so, after watching the news just now, I inquired about a few people in the circle - Alan who wrote 'Binghe' was recruited by Zhou Hongyi a while ago. ”
Gu Cheng sighed: "In this way, Zhou Hongyi dared to take Zhang Long's job cheaply, relying on the 'gray pigeon' to quickly reduce the cost of the spread of the botnet." ”
Chen Shoufu affirmed Gu Cheng's statement.
Gu Cheng proposed: "Let's take some time tomorrow morning and make an appointment to go to Silver Fox Company to have a look." ”
Chen Shoufu had no objection: "Okay, you have the final say." But isn't it a bit unauthentic to just come to the door to embarrass people......"
Gu Cheng knew that the other party had misunderstood: "Who said that I was going to embarrass Zhang Long, I just went to his company to have a look, it doesn't matter if I don't see me." The point is that I want to know if this old thing Zhou Hongyi has lifted a stone to shoot himself in the foot. ”
Gu Cheng hung up the phone and contacted his last customer who had not paid the balance yet.
No one answered.
It was not until noon that it was opened.
The boss of the other party said: The bubble has collapsed, the investor does not want to enter the market, he is about to go bankrupt, and he really can't get it.
If Gu Cheng wants to force him, he will be killed.
Gu Cheng was helpless, so he could only be the 400,000 in vain.
Business, there is a profit and a loss. If you don't have time to go ashore before the tide goes down, you will naturally have to pay the price.
And from this point of view, many peers must have also confiscated a large amount of money back.
Pan Jieying slept until before lunch before getting up, and cleaned up to accompany Gu Cheng out for lunch.
At the dinner table, Gu Cheng told his cousin the "bad news" that the last customer had not received the final payment, and the sister and brother also rolled the account by the way.
In the past four months, I have earned 3.1 million from Huang Yi, 1.1 million from Jinshan Lei Jun, and 800,000 from Zhou Hongyi. The other four are all four or five hundred thousand - with a cumulative gross profit of 6.4 million.
But Zhang Long's side invested 200,000 yuan to test the water and 100,000 news fees in the early stage, but it didn't work out in the end. In the end, the customer did not receive the balance payment of 400,000 yuan. The cumulative loss is 700,000, and the net profit is 570. In addition, you originally had a principal of 600,000 yuan, 200,000 yuan to buy a house, and odd and miscellaneous car expenses. At present, all the cash flow on hand is more than 6 million. ”
The business of data fraud, if you do this, it will be the end.
The doomsday carnival before the bursting of the Internet bubble has come to an end.
The 6 million is the "reserve fat" that Gu Cheng needs to spend the next three years of the "hibernation period".
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On the afternoon of the 24th, the sisters and brothers transferred all the money to a safe account, exchanged all the foreign exchange that should be exchanged, and booked a ticket to Seoul at noon the next day. Pan Jieying's passport and visa were also completed during this time.
Early the next morning, Gu Cheng took Pan Jieying to the Silver Fox Company to have a look.
To be honest, Gu Cheng still wanted to see Zhang Long's jokes.
After all, if Zhang Long had chosen to accept Gu Cheng's offer and started to operate it immediately, it would have been entirely possible to sell the company ashore before the Internet bubble collapsed.
In the end, it was not that Zhou Hongyi's offer was cheaper, but it dragged on for more than a month, and it was a big loss because of a small loss.
However, Gu Cheng was not cruel enough to have to mock him in person.
Maybe it was because he was in an urgent mood, Gu Cheng was a little early when he arrived in Zhongguancun.
In the sun at the end of August, Pan Jieying, who was holding a parasol, couldn't help but complain: "I said you were in a hurry, it's only a quarter past 8 o'clock, which Internet company works so early." ”
Gu Cheng smiled: "It's me who is not good, let's have something to drink in the café downstairs first." ”
With that, he walked into the entrepreneurial café with his cousin and ordered iced coffee to cool off.
After drinking a large pot of coffee for more than half an hour, Gu Cheng was about to look at his watch and prepare to go upstairs, but there was a noisy commotion outside.
"Oh no! Someone is going to jump off the building! Look!"
Gu Cheng and Pan Jieying glanced at each other, picked up their bags and walked outside the café.
"Sir, you haven't paid yet!" The waiter at the café thought Gu Cheng had evaded the order and pulled his sleeve.
Gu Cheng took out a few hundred pieces and stuffed them into the waiter's hand to get rid of the other party's entanglement.
However, it was such a delay that made him miss that scene.
I heard a loud "bang" behind me, and an object fell from a height, smashing a car parked at the bottom of the office building.
The car's burglar alarm whined, and shards of window glass and flesh and brains sprayed all over the ground.
The waiter at the café was also stupid, and followed Gu Cheng and Pan Jieying out of the door in a daze-because it was early in the morning, and there were only his sister and brother in the café.
Next to the smashed car, there was already a circle of people around, pointing and pointing.
"I heard that the owner of an Internet company paid more than $10 million to buy his company, and he was reluctant to sell it because he thought it was too little. I still want to hold it in my hand and sell it again. ”
"As a result, yesterday the NASDAQ collapsed, falling by more than 1,000 points, and today it is falling by another 1,000 points. It turned out that the buyer who negotiated said no, saying that his company was only worth 3 million at most, and he wouldn't buy any more money. ”
"Alas, greed is not enough to swallow an elephant, more than 10 million US dollars, is not too little? If someone is willing to give me so much, what is there not to sell? Lao Tzu Niang has sold it! 100 million yuan, I can't spend it in a few lifetimes. ”
"That's it, and even if it only drops 3 million, it's good enough to be chic for a lifetime. He even jumped off the building! What a stunned person. ”
"People can't be compared! I have experienced more than 10 million high positions, and I can settle down as soon as I sign it, but eighty percent of it is gone overnight, and I can't stand it, right? ”
"Impulse is the devil, greed is the devil!"
"Okay, okay, the dead are great, let's all disperse. ”
Gu Cheng and Pan Jieying listened to all the words of the onlookers, and also saw the bloody corpse after the crowd dispersed.
Pan Jieying's face was terrifyingly white, her lips were bitten tightly, her legs were weak, and she fell into her brother's arms.
Gu Cheng was caught off guard, so he could only help his cousin back to the café and sit down.
"This industry is so cruel. Brother, don't do this kind of business in the future, okay? Promise my sister, otherwise my sister won't be able to sleep. ”
"I'm different from them, don't worry about it. ”
Gu Cheng said this in his mouth, but in fact, the shock in his heart was no less than that of Pan Jieying.
The world is impermanent, and the vicissitudes of life.
The "history" of the world is too fragile.
Because the people in this circle are the most responsive among all human beings.
Under the guidance of "big data", the industry is a wind and grass and generates new profit vanes, which is enough to make millions of people flock to follow suit.
Therefore, in the Internet world, the magnification factor of the butterfly effect will be frighteningly high -- at least 100 times higher than that of traditional industries.
Any traverser who memorizes "historical knowledge" by rote may be swallowed up by the backlash of the Internet at any time.
For example, a few months ago, Peter Tier, who was used by Gu Cheng as a positive teaching material to persuade Ding Sanshi, if he was a little unlucky, he might not have ended up with Zhang Long today.
Who let Peter Tiel raise enough money on March 8 before the 313 crash?
If it had been a few days away, Peter Thiel might have been such a wreckage.
And maybe 5 years later, when Zuckerberg is looking for venture capital, he won't meet Peter Thiel, an investor. Then Zuckerberg may not be able to break the capital chain and disappear from everyone.
In the age of the internet, there are too many accidents. Between the successful and the countless peer losers, there may only be a little time difference and a little luck.
Among the reborn of this era, only pigs believe that rote memorization can succeed.
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Gu Cheng helped his cousin back to the café, found a box for her to lie down and rest, and ordered a pot of chamomile calming tea to suppress her shock.
Then, Gu Cheng continued to hold back his nausea and went upstairs to find out the news from the employees of Silver Fox Company.
There was already a group of dragons without a leader, and Gu Cheng finally caught a person in charge of finances, stuffed her with thousands of yuan in benefit fees, and then plucked some information from the other party's mouth.
It was indeed Zhou Hongyi and Zhang Long who talked about the low-cost, OPEN-BOM model of the "gray pigeon" botnet data brushing business. Zhou Hongyi has only started for less than half a month, and Zhang Long has not paid the money once, so today's incident happened.
"It seems that Boss Zhou has really accelerated the death of this gray industry. It's a pity that he himself spent the cost in vain and hasn't had time to receive the money yet. Gu Cheng secretly thought in his heart.
I don't know what kind of trajectory Boss Zhou's future will be led to? I invented the gray pigeon in vain, but there is no place for it, with Boss Zhou's temperament, it must be very unhappy.
Could it be that the rogue software boss will become the world's biggest professional thief? That is also a way out for large-scale botnet applications.
Police and bandits, anti-virus and hooligans, the talents required are always the same. After receiving the protection fee and receiving the same number of paragraphs as Corleone, he will naturally become a respected godfather on the white road, and if he is short of a breath, he can only continue to mix with MAFIA.
"I hope that when my brother runs the legend in the future, he won't block Lao Tzu. Otherwise, let's calculate the new account and the old account together. ”