The day after the high-profile release of "Hatsune Audio" by Hatsune Network Technology.

Beijing, Tiger Riding Company.

"Bang!" There was a muffled sound on the ground, and a Qingtian stone paperweight and granite floor tile came into close contact, broke two corners, and tumbled and smashed heavily on the baseboard of the curtain wall. The decorative wooden strip on the baseboard fell with a "snap" and broke in two.

"It's not going to stop! The villain has a will! ”

Zhou Hongyi extinguished the cigarette butt on the mahogany desk, because the action was too casual, there was still a long distance from the ashtray, and the fireworks suddenly burned the wood paint and creaked. Zhou Hongyi didn't notice all this, and continued to look ahead without focus, chattering endlessly:

"How much spare money can Ma Feng give you? How dare you open so many projects at one time like the nouveau riche? Be careful, you can't digest it all at once! There is no life for R&D and no life for promotion! ”

There was no fart in front of Zhou Hongyi, so turning back to the vicious words was purely his own words.

"No, this kid dares to spread the ground like this, and he must not be allowed to go any further. Hou Shengzi, sure enough, still has no experience, and he is not afraid of pulling hatred by opening so many projects at once. If you stop and concentrate on being a security guard first, then only I, Zhou, will be the only one to fight with you. It's good now, the platform is expanding faster, and there are a lot more peers, see how you are surrounded to death. ”

Zhou Hongyi thought like this, and filtered through his mind the opponents that Gu Mojie might provoke.

Everyone is a knowledgeable person. Gu Mojie has continuously launched the software modules of the Chuyin video series in a short period of time, and has formed a snowball effect in a big way, which has pros and cons after all, and both sides see the pros and cons very clearly.

Li, obviously, that is, once Gu Mojie's product line is complicated. Then the mutual promotion effect between each module will become more and more obvious, and Gu Mojie will have greater inertia to take advantage of when promoting his products, and his dependence on external advertising platforms and expenses will also be reduced.

The disadvantages are also obvious. Because the more fields an Internet company is involved in, the more peers and competitors it has. If it is too ugly, it will cause public anger. It's easy to be boycotted by multiple competitors across industries.

Before the first sound video came out, Gu Mojie had already provoked three enemies: Zhou Hongyi, a tiger, who was a security/computer housekeeper, Zhang Chaoyang, who was an input method, and Hou Yantang, who was an Internet Express. It's just that Hou Yantang is addicted to Warcraft, so Zhou Hongyi abolished a pig teammate; Zhang Chaoyang was also unwilling to throw money across the circle to snipe Gu Mojie, so the effect of being beaten by the enemy was not obvious.

After the first sound video was listed, it can be seen at a glance that Gu Mojie's new enemies are two, one is Qianqian Jingting, and the other is Storm Audio. However, 05's Qianqian Jingting and Storm Video are still non-profit existences, purely a group of video and music enthusiasts' self-explanatory products, and belong to independent productions. There is no strong corporate backing. Therefore, these two enemies, if they are provoked, they are not provoked, and they can't add much trouble to Gu Mojie.

Zhou Hongyi wrote and drew on a piece of paper in front of him, crossing out his names one by one. It seems that there are not many new guys he can woo anymore. Those small fish and shrimp will not be of any use if they are combined.

"Li Yanhong, it should be able to pull, right? Gu Mojie and Ma Feng engaged in graphic search, making such a big noise. I heard that two middle layers were dug from Li Yanhong's hands, and Li Yanhong couldn't endure it without saying a word. As long as he still wants to do graphic search in the future, he wants to get it back. There is a possibility that he will be co-opted by me......

Ma Huateng, there should also be a bit of drama. His QQ music has been staring at Qianqian Jing for more than a day or two, and Ma Huateng has always regarded the platformized operation of the entertainment products behind QQ as a taboo. Music, video, game lobby, it's all ......"

After thinking about it again and again, Zhou Hongyi made up his mind to hand over a few potential and combined small fish and shrimp to his public relations staff. And the two bigwigs Li and Ma are there. He was ready to personally lobby and even cross and vertically.

……

Boss Li and Zhou Hongyi are both in the capital, and they will arrive as soon as they stretch their legs, so Zhou Hongyi naturally visited Baidu first.

However, the situation was worse than he had imagined. Boss Li has no interest in joining forces with Zhou Hongyi to block and suppress Gu Mojie.

As soon as the two met. After a few polite words, Boss Li bluntly refused: "Brother Zhou, you have found the wrong person in this matter." We Baidu and the two of you have no grievances, and we can't interfere in this troubled waters, please forgive me for being powerless. ”

Zhou Hongyi didn't expect this result, and persuaded very hard:

"Mr. Li, I don't believe you don't want to do graphic search! Now that Gu Mojie and Ma Feng have teamed up to make such a high-profile, don't you feel that they have refuted your face? Your Baidu is the position of the first person to search in China! If they do this, they are afraid that your goodwill will not be good, and when people talk about the most advanced people in domestic search technology in the future, maybe it will not be your turn. At that time, what can we do just by relying on a large market share? It's not in vain waiting for others to cannibalize it. ”

Li Yanhong remained unmoved.

"So what? I know Ahri has no ambitions to be a search engine. Even if they have a search data-related business, it's just to serve e-commerce. I know Ma Feng too well, he is not a person who rushes up when he looks at what is popular and makes money. He wants to do one thing, digging a pit three or five years in advance, but it is impossible to make a temporary decision.

Brother Zhou, Zhang Chaoyang, who cooperates with you, has always been very enthusiastic about searching, and he can be regarded as a senior in the industry. You need a search engine company to help you block Gu Mojie, isn't it just to find Zhang Chaoyang? ”

Zhou Hongyi immediately had nothing to say, and he suddenly found that his attempt to unite with Li Yanhong was really a bit idealistic.

Although Ma Feng and Robin Li are comparable in terms of strength, the circles operated by these two people are different, and there is no direct conflict and competition.

05 years of the domestic Internet market, is still in the era of technology monopoly rather than capital monopoly, as long as the specific circle of business is different, even if the scale of funds is large, no one will cross the circle as an enemy.

In contrast, although Sohu's Zhang Chaoyang's capital scale is weaker than Ma Feng's, Zhang Chaoyang and Baidu have had a competitive relationship for many years because of their overlapping businesses. Sogou Encyclopedia and Sogou Engine, although they can't pose a threat to Baidu, they are enough to make Baidu disgusting. Now that Zhang Chaoyang has been pulled into Zhou Hongyi's united front, it is obviously a little inappropriate to pull Baidu in.

Zhou Hongyi pondered for a long time, but he still refused to give up, and decided to give it a last shot: "This ...... Mr. Li, there are no eternal friends, no eternal enemies, only eternal interests. I'm sure you don't deny that, right? I also know the competition between you and Mr. Zhang. I don't expect you to cooperate with him for a long time, but in this matter, for the sake of my face, let's cooperate for a short time, only for Gu Mojie. After Gu Mojie falls, what should you do with Mr. Zhang, I will never say much! ”

Li Yanhong looked at Zhou Hongyi with a look like an idiot, and finally glanced at Zhou Hongyi: "If I cooperate with you, Gu Mojie will cooperate with Zhang Chaoyang in graphic search." Do you think Zhang Chaoyang will refuse? Can the competition in the field of Sogou input method hinder Zhang Chaoyang's pursuit of cutting-edge technology in his core business? ”

Zhou Hongyi's heart is gone.

Grass! Gu Mojie has already been in contact with you, why did you say it earlier!

knew that Gu Mojie had already threatened Li Yanhong with the condition of cooperating with Li Yanhong's opponent in the graphic search, so Zhou Hongyi didn't need to run away and suffer humiliation.

……

Zhou Hongyi held back his sullenness for two days, and flew straight south to Shenzhen City non-stop to see Ma Huateng.

His trip to Baidu was not in vain after all. It's just that Zhou Hongyi has a lot of blood.

Although Li Yanhong refused to listen to Zhou Hongyi's persuasion and completely banned Gu Mojie, after all, he still agreed, and under the condition that it was not easy to be detected, he comprehensively lowered the search result ranking of Chuyin Network series products on Baidu, and improved the search ranking of Tiger Riding Company's products.

At the same time, some negative news about Tiger Riding products has been shielded through Baidu's technical means.

For this result, Zhou Hongyi paid the price of 20 million a year, and he also worked hard.

Because, Baidu is going to go public this year, and the net profit in the first three quarters is very important. Zhou Hongyi chose to send net profits to Baidu, and an additional net profit of more than 5 million, this temptation, Boss Li finally failed to refuse. That's why under the premise of not showing the trapping, not knowing what to do with Gu Mojie, and not pushing Gu Mojie to Zhang Chaoyang, he secretly helped Zhou Hongyi to a limited extent.

The specific means of sending net profits is that Zhou Hongyi asked the Tiger Company to continue to rank some search results at a high unit price on Baidu. Some of the links used for the transfer of benefits were marked to more than a dozen dollars a click, which was a record in 05.

Zhou Hongyi didn't know if the PR money was worth it, but he could only go all the way to the dark.

After a lot of hard work, Zhou Hongyi finally saw Ma Huateng. Ma Huateng's first sentence made Zhou Hongyi feel the deep malice of fate.

"Gu Mojie is my enemy? Yes, he is already my enemy. But I have too many enemies, and I can't afford to invest too many resources in one enemy. So, if it's good, show it. If it's not beneficial, we'll not be accompanied. I'm not interested in playing tricks with you. ”

Ma Huateng's words are a real truth. Mahua vine itself is also the god of cottages, and there are many enemies. If Ma Huateng has to open a film with Gu Mojie just for Gu Mojie to get involved in the player and game hall, then there are too many battlefields for Ma Huateng to open a film.

Zhou Hongyi said a lot of things, and finally Ma Huateng got impatient and threw out the latest dry goods.

"Brother Zhou, are you too busy in the past two days to care about the industry dynamics? I advise you to calm down, take a vacation, rest and rest, and pay attention to the news - yesterday Hatsune Network proposed a new plan, which was reported by the major portal technology editions, and I am very interested in participating. So, I won't play with you. ”

"What? What did Gu Mojie take out again? Zhou Hongyi was dizzy for a while, and just wanted to find a place to check the news on the Internet as soon as possible, "It must have happened when I was on the plane in the morning!" (To be continued.) )