Winter goes to spring, and then it comes and goes.

In the blink of an eye, it is already October of the new millennium.

The past year has been an unusual year for Xiao Fei. In May 2000, the second episode of the "Twilight" series, "New Moon", was published in the United States, and there was no doubt that there was a reading frenzy again.

Also in May 2000, the Chinese version of "Twilight" was launched by Hanmo Company in China, and it was also highly sought after, with a first printing of two million copies, which was sold out in less than three months.

The 20th Century Fox film based on "Twilight" is also being filmed at the construction site in a hurry, and it is expected to be completed in mid-June, and the summer file will be released in the United States.

Under Xiao Fei's planning and control, Feixun Technology Company is also making steady progress.

At the end of 99, Xiao Fei hired KPMG to change the registered place for himself, and quietly changed the registered place of Feixun Technology to the British Virgin Islands, and the company changed its appearance to a wholly foreign-owned company.

Alibaba and Qiandu Technology have also made the same changes.

Through the promotion of QQ members, Q coins, QQ shows and other businesses, through the integration of network advertising alliances, and through the layout of a variety of large-scale online games in Feixun Game Center, Feixun Technology has achieved steady and rapid profit growth.

In particular, in 99 years, the agency of the classic online game "Legend" in the previous life was won, so that Feixun occupied the development opportunity of the domestic online game market in one fell swoop, and at the beginning of 2000, Feixun relied on the popularity of the legend in China, and its performance increased significantly.

In 1999, Feixun Technology created a performance of 1.2 billion yuan, firmly occupying the position of domestic network giant.

This performance also shocked the world.

To know. 1999 was just the first year that China's Internet entered the era of rapid development!

The U.S. securities community valued Feixun as if it was listed. Its market capitalization should be around $15 billion.

Many large foreign companies are very enthusiastic and try to inject funds into Feixun. Become a shareholder of this dark horse in the online industry, and then push it to go public and reap the benefits.

But Feixun rejected all requests for domestic and foreign investment, claiming that it was not short of funds.

In the last year of the end of the century, the performance of Hanmo Company was also soaring. In 99 years, Hanmo has generated sales of 960 million yuan, which is superior to all domestic publishing industry peers, and its profit has reached an astonishing 400 million yuan.

Alibaba's B2B website is also making money.

Through the advertising promotion of the 98 World Cup, it became a hit in the whole country, and almost all domestic enterprises have become Ali's partners.

Ali also spared no expense in promoting and publicizing abroad. Attract foreign merchants to use Alibaba's B2B platform.

More and more domestic merchants have obtained overseas orders through Alibaba's B2B website and sold their products overseas. This is undoubtedly like a shot in the arm, which has stimulated many domestic entrepreneurs.

They spared no expense to carry out marketing promotion on Alibaba's B2B website.

This has also led to a significant increase in Alibaba's advertising revenue.

In the whole year of 99, Ali through the operation of B2B websites, through intermediary commissions, service fees and advertising fees, its income has reached more than 160 million.

Although it is still losing money, it basically does not use the two shareholders Xiao Fei and Ren Gangyi to transfuse blood for Ali, and Ali can maintain its basic operation and development through its own revenue.

Early 2000. Alibaba's B2C website Taobao was established, and it was widely publicized that anyone could open an online store on it to sell things for free, and the era of online shopping had come, so you could stay at home. It can meet the needs of quality of life!

Suddenly, there was a craze for opening an online store and becoming a boss across the country, and many netizens built their own online stores. Sell miscellaneous bits and pieces.

Online shopping is starting to become a fashion.

Everything is being played out according to the original script.

In October 2000, the Fifth Contradictory Literature Award, which had entered the selection process, went through nearly two years of intense and marathon work. Finally, we have come to the final step: the selection of the final winning entries.

I have to say that the efficiency of this award is really not high.

The Nobel Prize for Literature is awarded once a year. It's still facing writers and works from all over the world, and it's not so slow!

The eighteen elderly members of the Swedish Academy have spent almost all their energy, following the steps that have been carried out for decades, step by step, from the beginning of the year to the beginning of October every year, the results of the Nobel Prize in Literature will be announced on time.

What about the Mao Award?

It took two years to evaluate the award.

It's really too much dragging.

However, on the other hand, it can also be seen that the selection of the Mao Award once every four years is quite cautious, lest there be any loopholes.

Although it was long overdue.

But, it's always coming.

At the beginning of October 2000, all the judges of the Mao Award met in the Writers' Association to start the final selection work.

The selection is based on a jury voting mechanism.

Each judge can nominate four works. After the 21 judges voted, they concentrated on the votes, and the four works with the most votes were the winning works of the Mao Dun Literature Award.

On the morning of October 11th.

In the conference room of the National Writers Association, witnessed by nearly 100 media reporters, the award activities officially began.

Because of his age and poor health, Ba Lao was still absent from the final evaluation of the Mao Award. Still, he had his ballot brought to the scene.

Zhang Kai presided over the vote.

He first reviewed the representative masterpieces and writers' deeds that emerged during the 5th Mao Award evaluation cycle.

He has listed dozens of excellent works, and he has commented on them one by one.

And when he talked about the works of outstanding writers that emerged in 94 and 98, Zhang Kai focused on Xiao Fei and A Lai.

Secretary Zhang said that Xiao Fei has grown from a boy from a poor family in the countryside to a famous writer with world influence today, which has fully proved his genius and excellence, and now, Xiao Fei is one of the most important representative writers in this country, he is not only a household name in China with many fans, but he also has great influence and appeal for all important writers in the world.

Xiao Fei is already a legend in the country's literary circles!

In the end, Zhang Kai unfolded the Mao Award ballot brought by the Ba Lao Tuo people, and he read out Ba Lao's choice publicly.

In Ba Lao's choice, Xiao Fei's "Life and Death Fatigue" ranked first.

However, none of the judges and reporters at the scene were surprised.

After Secretary Zhang finished speaking, he announced the start of voting.

Because of the long time of deliberation, the judges had already made their own choices, so the voting was quickly completed.

All the votes were concentrated in the three deputy directors.

The staff began to record tickets live.

It only took half an hour, and the results were summarized, and the four award-winning works of the 5th Mao Award were written on the whiteboard, and the first place was Xiao Fei's "Life and Death Fatigue"! (To be continued.) )