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At this time, Quantum Online was only committed to launching the first generation of Chinese search engines, providing free network services such as e-mail, and committed to building a large-scale online virtual community. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

At present, Quantum Online has opened 8 forums, 2 online magazines, 3 special columns, and 1 chat room, among which the sports salon is also the main column operated by Liang Wenjiang and Ma Xiangdong before they received Kumho's capital injection.

Of course, the 80,000 daily page views are still a bit child's play when you look at it ten years later, but this is February 97, when the Internet was still in its infancy in China.

Tang Jing followed Zhang Ke to contact the Internet very early, and she is also the earliest group of netizens in China, usually only contact the web pages opened on the computer screen, but I don't know what is hidden behind this web page, liberal arts students, there is always a natural worship of things at the technical level, and a beautiful girl like Wang Cailing is proficient in professional knowledge such as computer logic code in Tang Jing's opinion. Zhang Ke even thinks that the girl of Beijing Post is proficient in computer programming, and she can still have a little look, and she can soak her cousin Liang Wenjiang with some roundabouts, which is a miracle.

At noon, I ate a boxed lunch in the company's office, and there were few people on duty, except for Ma Xiangdong and two technicians, and two website content editors on duty, all of whom had to be rotated after a 12-hour shift.

After lunch, Zhang Ke will not stay in the company, Liang Wenjiang will replace Ma Xiangdong on duty in the company in the afternoon, and he and his girlfriend Wang Cailing will no longer go to Xu Xueping's house as guests.

Before Zhang Ke left the public to get on the bus, he said to Ma Xiangdong and Liang Wenjiang: "I have seen some professional materials, the homepage of Quantum Online needs to be greatly strengthened in terms of the timeliness of messages, the amount of information, real-time dynamic refresh, and the integration of search engine pages and forum index pages with the homepage......

Listening to Zhang Ke talk about his long-term expectations for Quantum Online, Ma Xiangdong and Liang Wenjiang naturally wanted to talk to Zhang Ke about the current predicament.

"Lack of money," Ma Xiangdong said, "Quantum's server is set up in the United States, and domestic netizens have been connecting to the page for a long time, so I think we must at least make our sports salon the largest sports website in China, and the investment in hardware is essential...... In addition, content editing, information collection, and website maintenance all need to increase manpower......"

"Lack of money?" Zhang Ke stepped into the car with half a foot, turned his head, and said, "Kumho can inject another 20 million yuan into Quantum Online to upgrade the company to a joint stock limited company, in addition, Aida Electronics and Shin Kong Paper will also consider advertising on Quantum Online." You also know that at this stage, the income from website advertising is very limited, and after spending 20 million, you have to think about going out and finding money yourself......"

"Twenty million?" Ma Xiangdong scratched his head, "The website architecture is preliminarily completed, and it still needs to be continuously improved, and the money can last for almost a year......"

In '97, everything that was connected to the Internet was expensive, hardware equipment was expensive, server rentals were expensive, and technicians were paid ...... Investing in the Internet is no different from burning money.

This is only the operation under the existing website architecture, in order to meet Zhang Ke's requirements to make a portal transit website, but also to further upgrade and expand personnel, the cost will increase geometrically.

Ma Xiangdong was worried that Zhang Ke would not be able to understand, and his tone of voice was very weak.

To be honest, it is difficult for investors who have not seen the scale of money burned by European and American website operators to understand the cost of operating a large website; Even college students who graduated from some professional colleges and universities ten years later even thought that as long as they invested 100,000 yuan in Sina and Sohu in 96 or 97 years, they would make a huge profit of 1.8 billion yuan as soon as the NASDAQ was listed.

Zhang Ke saw Ma Xiangdong's weak appearance, and said with a smile: "The goal of 20 million is to reach an average of one million page views per day, and I want to achieve this goal, Quantum Online has a small influence in the industry......

It is only possible to obtain overseas venture capital or private equity injection if there is a small impact, and that is only the first step towards large portals.

For website operators, it is undoubtedly a very fortunate thing to have a far-sighted, clear-minded, and goal-oriented investor, listening to Zhang Ke say this, Ma Xiangdong has a bottom in his heart, and he doesn't need to explain anything, send Zhang Ke and Tang Jing to get in the car and leave.

Looking at the large-displacement black Audi with the license plate of the State Council department, Ma Xiangdong jokingly asked Liang Wenjiang: "Are you sure that your brother-in-law is not the illegitimate son of a vice president or vice premier of a certain country?" ”

"I want to too," Liang Wenjiang has never been able to see through this cousin who is four years younger, and he didn't believe what he did, "But someone has to believe it." ”

Wang Cailing stuck out her tongue, hugged Liang Wenjiang's arm, and said with a smile: "I haven't seen a real person, it's really hard to believe." ”

Liang Wenjiang told his girlfriend some Kumho things before, these things are indeed hard to believe, even in the face of the fact that Quantum Online received 5 million capital injection from Kumho in 96 years, Wang Cailing did not believe that such a big company would be made by a teenager under the age of 20.

Although there is a Bill Gates in the United States, and it is also common for teenagers to be rich in Silicon Valley in the United States, for the students of Tsinghua University and Beijing University of Posts and Communications, Silicon Valley is the holy land they yearn for, and they are naturally no strangers to these things, but many people firmly believe that there is a lack of soil for Bill Gates to grow up in China.

Ma Xiangdong exhaled and said, "Didn't Lao Duan enter the Ministry of Electronics Industry?" Their department is collecting data and ranking among the top 100 electronic companies in 97 years, and Aida Electronics may be around 13 or 4...... An electronics company that has only been established for two years......" has more expectations for the future, and in the eyes of these people, they firmly believe that the next ten years will be the era of the Internet.

When passing by Dongdan Park, Tang Jing saw a boy wearing tight clothes and sequins coming and going, pulled Zhang Ke's sleeve and said, "Those boys seem to be dressed quite fashionably......

The driver who drove Xu Xueping chuckled twice in front of him.

Zhang Ke didn't realize anything at first, listening to the driver's smile, he glanced sideways, and saw that those two boys who were still wearing tights on a cold day, and a bright color even if they were wearing thick coats, were walking into Dongdan Park, but he remembered that Dongdan Park was their gathering place.

At this time, the network has not flowed, most of these people come to Dongdan Park to "fish", these boys with bright clothes, piercing eyes, and strange eyebrows at the corners of their eyes, outsiders will feel surprised and puzzled, but insiders can identify them at a glance They are a group of special professionals.

Zhang Ke said softly: "It seems that some people say that this is the place where the story of Wang Xiaobo's novel "East Palace and West Palace" takes place......

"Huh?" Tang Jing has read Wang Xiaobo's novel, but she doesn't know much about the background of the novel, and she leans against the car window and looks at the Dongdan Park that is getting farther away.

Wang Xiaobo's novel, when Zhang Ke first read it, he had a sense of novelty, laughter, absurdity and other mixed feelings, and when he read it again, it was just sad, thinking so, he couldn't help but look back.

Tang Jing said: "Wang Xiaobo is probably a person with great wisdom like Milan Kundera......"

"Perhaps." Zhang Ke said softly. Seeing that the driver looked at this side through the rearview mirror, maybe he had also read Wang Xiaobo's novels or essays, Zhang Ke smiled, Wang Xiaobo's influence in China, Zhang Ke thought that it was not weaker than Milan Kundera, saying that they are all people with great wisdom, which should be an appropriate evaluation.

"It would be nice to see each other," Tang Jing said yearningly, "Wang Xiaobo also lives in Beijing, right?" ”

"I don't know, maybe, I'm not a literary youth." In another two or three years, the term literary youth will become a derogatory term, and whoever is given this title by others will be anxious with others, and the corners of Zhang Ke's mouth showed a faint smile.

Zhang Ke then remembered that Wang Xiaobo had not died suddenly at this time. When did Wang Xiaobo die suddenly? Zhang Ke can't remember the specific time, but he has the impression that he died suddenly of a heart attack in the spring of 97. At the peak of his creation, Zhang Ke believes that Wang Xiaobo's death is the greatest loss in the history of modern Chinese literature, leaving endless regret and nostalgia for future generations.

Knowing that Wang Xiaobo would die suddenly in a month or two, Zhang Ke still chose to stand by and watch, wondering if Tang Jing would complain about his cruelty and cold-bloodedness at this time after Tang Jing knew - if he told her the truth of everything?

Wang Xiaobo's death should have been due to exhaustion, because of life, writing, and even more so because of the various unfreedoms and unhappiness he experienced. How could he not experience that kind of unfreedom and unhappiness?