The emergence of WeChat, to a certain extent, is in conflict with the existence of penguins.

In many functions, the two are actually very similar.

First of all, you can add friends, chat, upload pictures, send links, and even send daily updates.

It's just that one is called space, and the other is called Moments.

Of course, there are many different places.

Once WeChat is listed, it will inevitably affect the existence of penguins to a certain extent.

He and Ma Wenteng are quite happy both in their personal relationship and in the cooperation between the two companies.

If WeChat goes public, it will definitely have an impact on the current situation.

But the impact is also limited.

But doing business is just competition.

However, although there is a conflict between the two, they are not contradictory, because their respective main directions are not exactly the same.

Penguin currently focuses on the client, while WeChat focuses on the mobile terminal.

Even if Tencent had both products in the previous life, there is still a very clear division of labor, which is also well developed and can still coexist.

So now, if Zhang Bin has such a product in advance, he doesn't need to worry about another product, and it will naturally be easier to survive.

Penguin is a tool used to communicate between friends, although WeChat also has such a role, but in Zhang Bin's vision, this is only one of its functions, the existence of WeChat, more, is as a model and pioneer of future intelligent applications.

Zhang Bin is very confident that he can make WeChat a phenomenal app like Penguin, even more influential than Penguin.

Because he can make WeChat get ahead of the penguins in certain technical aspects.

For example, voice recognition systems, such as wallets, such as red envelopes, these are Zhang Bin's killer features to make WeChat gradually become a part of people's daily life, and even Zhang Bin wants to make WeChat a must-have for people.

Time is all possible.

WeChat has the experience of microblogging in the development of other functions, and there is no big problem, except for the voice recognition system, which is a technology that has not yet determined the direction in China.

The birth of the voice system is bound to be a heavy blow to the traditional telephone industry.

After all, you can make a call without phone bills, who will call without having anything to do?

But this is an inevitable development process, and it is not something that you don't want to have.

Therefore, the birth of the speech system has even been called the greatest invention by some people in the scientific community after entering the 21st century.

Of course, the research and development of speech recognition systems began in the fifties of the last century, but the real technology maturity and application came in the twenty-first century.

Although domestic voice technology started late, it has developed very fast.

Among them, iFLYTEK's technology is particularly prominent, and its intelligent voice core technology represents the world's highest level.

In this regard, Zhang Bin asked Dai Zhikang to choose to cooperate with iFLYTEK.

According to Zhang Bin's temper, it is best to buy it directly.

But iFLYTEK is not an ordinary enterprise, this is not something you can buy if you say you can buy it, and its background is not ordinary hard.

Not to mention anything else, the shareholders behind it have China Mobile to know how deep the background is.

And because of the honor of the highest international level made in this technology, many major leaders of the country have visited it, so ordinary people dare not touch it.

Zhang Bin only needs to seek cooperation, and he doesn't want anything else.

At present, domestic intelligent applications are in their infancy, and there are still very few technologies that are actually applied to these technologies.

Therefore, in order to thoroughly popularize the voice system, it is necessary to promote it.

Cooperation should not be a big problem.

After inspecting the WeChat business department, Zhang Bin came to the office and began to look at the construction work of the Yanjing distribution building.

The Yanjing branch building has been contracted to Yanjing Longsheng Construction Company at a price of 230 million.

The building has a total of 23 floors, with a construction area of 30,000 square meters, covering an area of 1,600 square meters, and can accommodate 4,000 people at the same time.

At present, the location of the building has been determined, Zhang Bin looked at the drawings in the office, and discussed it with Dai Zhikang.

The money for the construction of the building was jointly financed by the Weibo Division and the Game Division.

With the current revenue-generating capacity of the two divisions, this money is nothing to them.

Because Zhang Bin is currently spending less and less time in Yanjing, Lu Ziyu's work has become dispensable.

Under Zhang Bin's arrangement, Dai Zhikang transferred Lu Ziyu to the WeChat business department and set up a marketing department.

Although this department does not play a big role at present, Zhang Bin's investment in WeChat will be expanded in the future, and the future WeChat business department will be the epitome of the next Weibo business department.

After coming out of the company, Zhang Bin came to Yanjing Club.

That night, Li Yi came to look for him.

Regarding Zhang Bin's assassination some time ago, Li Yi expressed his concern.

Of course, Zhang Bin said that there was nothing to do, and there was a false alarm.

However, of course, Li Yi knew that it would not be a false alarm, but the real reason was not understood by outsiders.

"How's it going, how do you feel when you're married?" Zhang Bin looked at Li Yi and asked.

"It's not bad, it's an extra responsibility, but there is a home, and there is a place to return when you are tired", Li Yi said with a smile.

Zhang Bin said: "This is not like what you said."

Li Yi smiled: "People will change, once they may have been young, but now they can't be willful."

Zhang Bin nodded and asked, "Then what are your plans next?" ”

Li Yi thought for a while and said: "The domestic investment environment has changed somewhat since this year, and I am ready to transfer some funds to invest abroad, mainly in the high-end hotel and luxury industry."

Zhang Bin keenly sensed a hint of unusualness and asked, "You decided it yourself?" ”

Li Yi nodded, "Yes, instead of the environment getting worse at that time, it is better to think more about yourself while the power in your hands is still in your hands now."

Zhang Bin asked, "Do you need my help?" ”

"Don't worry, I won't hesitate when I really need your help", Li Yi raised his glass and touched it with Zhang Bin.

Zhang Bin didn't say much, he could sense that Li Yi had a lot of things on his mind.

Being in such a big family, or many people are so helpless.

In fact, Li Yi's position is very embarrassing in the Li family, first of all, as the eldest son of the Li family, it stands to reason that his position should be very stable.

But he was alone, and no one helped him.

In addition, he has not entered the system, but is only in business, for a family like the Li family, the future head of the family must be someone who needs a high status in the system.

In other words, once the other elders of the family take over the Li family in the future, then the economic power will inevitably not be controlled by him, and Li Yi will have nothing at that time.

Li Yi had a premonition of his future situation, so he said such a thing, while his grandfather was still there, while he still had some power in his hands, he would transfer some of the funds, at least after he left the country in the future, he would be able to live a prosperous life.

Zhang Bin felt that although Yu Ling was not as beautiful as Li Yi looked, Yu Ling was lucky, because Yu Ling also had a strong mother who could hold up a protective umbrella for him, but Li Yi could only rely on himself.

Although he has been married to the Ning family, the political marriage is not reliable, and the Ning family will not offend the Li family for Li Yi.

On the nineteenth, Zhang Bin came to the White Horse Company.

At this time, the news that theaters such as Wanda and Dadi Shinkansen will jointly set up a cinema chain is already everywhere, and Zhang Bin understands that they are building momentum.

Zhang Bin met Qiao Zhenliang, and the two talked about this incident.

Qiao Zhenliang has already figured out the opponent's bottom in detail.

This alliance is led by Wanda and China Film Star Mei, and big-name theaters such as Dadi and Shinkansen will join in to establish Huaxia United Cinema Line, aiming to break the strong momentum of the White Horse Alliance, and carve up the market to form a confrontational trend.

Once the Huaxia United Cinema Line is established, it will involve 16 theaters and theater chains, and the number of screens will reach about 3,000, which is not much worse than the White Horse Alliance.

"How did you do that?" Zhang Bin looked at the information of several theaters and asked.

Among these theaters or theaters, Wanda and China Film Xingmei are the most powerful, Wanda's backstage and background are not small, and China Film Xingmei is the largest state-owned film and television company in China, such a background is not comparable to the White Horse Alliance.

The only thing that the White Horse Alliance can fight is scale.

Compared with the soon-to-be-established Huaxia United Cinema Line, the White Horse Alliance is more like a counterattack by civilians, while the Huaxia United Cinema Line is more like a game of aristocrats.

In the early stage, because of the carelessness of the aristocracy, the commoners had the upper hand.

But now that the nobles have begun to be careful, then they may succeed in counterattacking at any time.

"I have already contacted the person in charge of Dadi Cinema, and the other party said that they can join us, but they hope to increase Dadi's screen share to 700 yuan," Qiao Zhenliang said.

When Zhang Bin heard this, he looked over the current number of screens in the earth, all the screens were only five hundred and twenty-three, of which the 3D screens were only fifty-eight, and he hoped that it could be directly increased to seven hundred, which meant that he was directly given 35% of his current profits.

This is typical of robbing while the fire is hot, and you really take yourself seriously.

"How did you answer?" Zhang Bin asked.

"I refused, because this requirement is too high, my bottom line is 600 yuan, and just like that, I still need to continue to explain with other shareholders, after all, these extra screens need to be produced by everyone, and no one wants to give the screens they invested in to others like this", Qiao Zhenliang said.

Zhang Bin nodded, stood up and walked to the front of the glass, and said: "You did the right thing, but you can't give six hundred yuan, once you open this head, then others will follow suit, which is not a good thing for the internal stability of the White Horse Alliance."

"But we can't do nothing, can we?" Qiao Zhenliang said.

"Of course not, you can do this", Zhang Bin smiled and said a plan to Qiao Zhenliang.

In fact, it is very simple, the reason why these nobles united was nothing more than that the situation forced them to do so, so that they could compete with the White Horse Alliance and win the remaining market.

But these people are used to the life of aristocrats, and they are united on the surface, but in fact, they don't really convince anyone in their hearts.

They are not like the White Horse Alliance, first of all, Tianyu Cinema occupies the absolute number of screens, no one can shake it, and secondly, everyone's purpose is to seek a place to survive, everyone was weak before, but now they are united, they have become stronger, and their right to speak has become bigger, and everyone cherishes the situation in front of them even more.

Although Huaxia United Cinema has the basis for cooperation, it is destined to be unable to stand the test without the sincerity of cooperation.

As long as Zhang Bin casually spreads some false rumors, someone will naturally fan the flames, and then add more trouble to them.

As long as someone starts to make trouble, then Huaxia United Cinema will be too busy to take care of itself for a while, and there will be no time to separate others.

As long as he is given another two or three months, he can destroy these theaters in minutes.

By the end of this year, after the initial expansion of the White Horse Alliance, veteran cinema chains such as Wanda and China Film Star Mei will not be able to keep up with them at all.

"Did you go with the list I gave you last time?" Zhang Bin asked.

When he left last time, Zhang Bin handed Qiao Zhenliang a list of movies.

Above are the movies that will be released this year.

Zhang Bin screened the top films at the box office and asked Qiao Zhenliang to contact these distribution companies to screen them as exclusively as possible.

For example, "2012" set off a new climax of apocalyptic disaster.

For example, "Transformers 2", a classic movie series, the counterattack of the Autobots.

Another example is the "Harry Potter" series of movies, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince".

Wait, there are several movies of this kind, and Zhang Bin asked Qiao Zhenliang to contact him and strive to take them all.

He'd rather lower the score a little bit to qualify for an exclusive screening.

As long as they monopolize most of the high-quality films at that time, then these aristocratic theater chains will naturally lose their profits, and once they can't get mixed up, someone will always surrender first.

Of course, some films with institutional background may not be able to compete with theaters like Wanda and China Film Xingmei.

For example, "The Great Cause of the Founding of the People's Republic of China", how can these films with strong institutional colors be cheap for outsiders like them.

"I've already sent someone out to negotiate, and so far half of the films have been screened exclusively," Qiao Zhenliang said, "but I've reduced this share to 48%."

At present, most of the theaters' share ratio is 50%, some may reach 55%, and some high-quality films are charged by the White Horse Alliance at 53%.

Now the initiative has been reduced to 48%, which is already a big concession.

Know that this could be millions of benefits.

"There are a few films, even if it is reduced to 40%, we can do it," Zhang Bin demanded.

This is not a question of whether to make money or not, but the height of market competition.

However, as long as the quality of the film is good, it can generally make money, and it still makes a lot of money.

Excluding all kinds of costs, the net profit of the movie box office can reach at least 15% to 20%, so as long as it is not less than 40%, they can make a profit.

After saying this, Zhang Bin inquired about the recent earnings of the White Horse Alliance.

In the first quarter, the Whitehorse League generated 430 million at the box office, which accounted for 75% of the total revenue, of which 15% came from cinema sales, such as drinks and popcorn, such as related dolls, and the remaining 10% mainly from membership cards and some advertising revenue.

As more and more people go to the cinema to watch movies, the proportion of cinema revenue and sales will expand in the future, and the proportion of advertising revenue will narrow.

However, with the advent of the future intelligent era, online ticket purchase will become a common phenomenon, and the price of movie tickets will also plummet.

Although the profit of a single sheet has decreased, it cannot hold up the volume, and the most profitable thing for the theater chain in the future is to sell it.

In the following time, Zhang Bin met with two shareholders and stabilized everyone's nervousness about the establishment of Huaxia United Cinema.

Zhang Bin, as the chairman of the White Horse Alliance, has him, so everyone should naturally rest assured.

So when I learned that Zhang Bin came to preside over this matter in person, the shareholders also seemed much calmer.

The methods of the White Horse Alliance have only just begun.