Chapter 66: The Point of No Return
Looking at the back of Lu Xi's departure, Yao Libin slapped the bar counter hatefully, so frightened that the waiter who was dozing inside trembled, and knocked the empty wine bottle on the ground, attracting the boss to scold him angrily.
Xiao Jing didn't know what the two of them said, but when she saw Yao Libin suddenly getting angry, she hurriedly walked over to support him and asked, "What did you talk about?" β
Yao Libin shook his head, scolded hatefully for a few more sentences before he was relieved, squinted his drunken eyes and hugged Xiao Jing into his arms, and asked, "When do you say OICQ will surpass Weixi?" β
"According to the current momentum, there should be no problem in a month, but I am afraid that they will have targeted measures at tomorrow's media meeting." Xiao Jing was embarrassed to hug him in front of everyone, broke away from Yao Libin's arms, helped him sit back and said, "That guy is annoying to look at, but he can make such a big stall, and it can't be said that he only eats with his face." β
Yao Libin took a sip of the wine glass, spit out the wine and said: "No matter what measures they have, they can't stop us from moving forward, sooner or later, I will tell them to look the other way." β
Thinking of the complaints and dissatisfaction of netizens with OICQ in recent days, Xiao Jing said with a little worry: "I always feel that their media meeting tomorrow will be bad for us, so let's remove the malicious plug-in." β
Yao Libin glanced at the excited subordinate employees beside him, shook his head and said, "No, money can't be spent in vain." β
Yao Libin and Zhou Chinese spent a lot of money to buy malicious code from Shu Jiankun in order for OICQ to surpass Weixin in a short period of time, and after simple modifications, it was integrated into OICQ, and then added some chicken rib functions left by the previous swiftness to launch the latest version.
Yao Libin was stubborn and didn't listen to persuasion, Xiao Jing sighed helplessly, and said, "Then I don't care, just toss as you want." β
Yao Libin was not happy that someone was saying something disappointing, so he said with a calm face: "It's not early, you go back first." β
Xiao Jing stared at Yao Libin, didn't see him pay attention to himself and went to drink with others, and angrily picked up his coat and walked out of the bar.
After the Spring Festival, the weather in Xingang gradually warmed up, but it was still a little cold at night, and it was a breeze that came out to make Xiao Jing sober up a lot, standing on the side of the road and looking back at the bar at night, thinking about Yao Libin's changes in recent years and being cold to himself, he was suddenly a little unsure of where the two of them could go in the future.
Lu Xi went back to the company and got the car, passed by the door of the bar, turned his head and saw Xiao Jing standing alone on the side of the road, pulled over and asked with a smile: "Beauty, abandoned by people?" Do you want me to take you home? β
Xiao Jing wanted to send away the boring guy who took the opportunity to talk, but when she turned around, she saw Lu Xi smiling out of the car window, and said in disgust: "Lu Shao is often like this**? β
"I'm not a young master, and besides, I've always been the object of being **." Lu Xi smiled and stretched out his finger to his watch, "It's hard to get a taxi at this time, since you don't appreciate it, then I'll go back and rest." β
Even though Yao Libin was cold to her, Xiao Jing still wanted to know what news was announced at Luzhu's media conference, so she opened the passenger door and sat in with a slight hesitation, fastened her seat belt, and ordered: "I'll go to Yongzhou Road." β
Lu Xi turned the car around in response and said with a smile: "Remember to reimburse me for the fuel money before getting out of the car." β
Xiao Jing ignored him, thinking about how to open the chatterbox, until the car stopped at the gate of the community, Lu Xi asked her for gas money, and she couldn't help asking: "What major events in Luzhu have recently been announced by holding a media conference?" β
Lu Xi thought that she and Yao Libin had only known each other for a few days, so she didn't care about it, and replied with a smile: "You won't know if you go." β
Xiao Jingmei's eyes rolled slightly, stared at Lu Xi sideways and asked, "Do you want me to make a fool of myself with Libin?" β
"You guessed it." Lu Xi smiled unabashedly, "Don't go, lest both parties be unhappy." β
gave them the invitation card at the bar, and he did have the idea of making Yao Libin make a fool of himself, but he was afraid that Young Master Yao Libin would lose his temper and make a big fuss at the venue, so he didn't want them to appear.
Luzhu invited some domestic software colleagues to participate in the media conference, Xiao Jing believed that Lu Xi was targeting Zhongcheng Technology, seeing that he did not deny it, he said: "You say come and listen, if you want to slap us in the face, we will not force us to come over without skin and face." β
Lu Xi was not afraid to let them know in advance, and said with a smile: "In addition to WeChat, there are also network ants under Luzhu, network ants have been launched overseas, overseas branches have been prepared, and this news will be announced tomorrow, and there will be a series of other cooperations, of course, the trouble caused by OICQ to Weixin will also be solved tomorrow." β
After returning to China before the Spring Festival, because of Yao Libin, Xiao Jing did a specific research on the domestic instant messaging software industry, she knew the close relationship between micro-messaging and network ants, and carefully thought about what Lu Xi said, Xiao Jing suddenly understood his plan, if it is really as he said that network ants enter the international market, then micro-communication is likely to go abroad.
Xiao Jing didn't know if it was because of OICQ's behavior that forced Lu Xi to develop new markets, but instead she thought that AOL acquired ICQ and would definitely focus on developing ICQ.
Xiao Jing wanted to make sure of the correctness of her thoughts, and asked with a smile: "Do you want to use the Internet ants to go abroad and push out Weixin to avoid the edge of OICQ for the time being?" That's what you call a solution? β
Lu Xi didn't expect Xiao Jing to enter the international market from the Internet ant, so he saw his next small step plan, stared at her a few times, and said, "Waste your youth with Yao Libin, you come to Luzhu to help me." β
Xiao Jing suddenly felt very funny, and snorted, "Do you think I will promise you?" β
Lu Xi understood her expression, laughed twice, and said, "The good cabbage is arched to the pig, how long have you been together?" β
"No wonder Libin said that you hate it, your speech is really ugly, and if you arch, you will be called an arch?" Xiao Jingmei snorted slightly and said, "We were neighbors when we were young, how long did you say we were together?" β
Yao Libin's grandfather is the former vice governor of Donghai Province, and the two families have lived in neighborhoods, thinking that Xiao Jing is not from an ordinary family, Lu Xi laughed twice and said: "It turned out to be a childhood sweetheart, then when I didn't say anything, okay, it's not too early, you should go back, it's best to persuade him to give up the malicious plug-in as soon as possible." β
"You haven't answered my question yet." Xiao Jing didn't get out of the car, leaned over and stared at Lu Xi.
Seeing that Xiao Jing didn't move, Lu Xi sighed helplessly and said: "I have a good relationship with Sister Xiuqing, no matter how Yao Libin slanders me, I don't want him to learn from others to burn a lot of money and lose all the money that Sister Xiuqing has worked so hard to muster." Instant messaging software is not shampoo, nor soap, not a lot of money to promote can be effective, of course, the promotion can not be less, but the most important thing is technical support, if you want to win users, you must have enough technical ability to meet the needs of users, and at the same time continue to innovate while following the trend, you and I are considered peers, you should OICQ compared with WeChat, right? β
Xiao Jing nodded noncommittally, and Lu Xi continued: "You have been neighbors with the Yao family, you should know that Yao Libin and his father Yao Zhong gave all the family property to Sister Xiuqing before he died, just let Sister Xiuqing not treat Yao Libin badly, right?" β
Xiao Jing didn't want Lu Xi to get involved in the Yao family's family affairs, and said, "I don't want to hear this." β
Lu Xi didn't care if she liked it or not, and then said: "Yao Libin and his mother went to the company again and again to make trouble in order to divide the family property, Sister Xiuqing gave them 100 million in order to maintain family affection, Yao Libin and his mother took the money, took out the agreement that they would never get along, and signed it in front of Sister Xiuqing. β
Xiao Jing only came back from abroad before the Spring Festival, she didn't know about these things, and she didn't know if what Lu Xi said was true or not, but if it was true, it was really chilling, and she replied in a low voice: "I don't know." β
Lu Xi sighed lightly and said: "No one's money is blown by the wind, Sister Xiuqing sold all the hospitals left by her husband in order to make up this 100 million, they are ruthless and don't get along, Sister Xiuqing doesn't mention it, in fact, she has been paying attention to him all the time, hoping that he can succeed." Luzhu has developed to this day, Sister Xiuqing's support cannot be denied, she is kind to me, I just don't want Yao Libin to lose all the money and make Sister Xiuqing sad. I'm not telling you bad things about Yao Libin, I just want you to persuade him, it's only been two months since he got the money, and he spent more than half of it when he was hot-headed, not to mention that he spent 4.5 million US dollars to buy OICQ, which no one even wanted hundreds of thousands of yuan a few months ago, just say that in this industry, if you want to make a profit, users are a foundation, and promotion must be done, but it is far from enough, and it is the most fundamental thing to retain users. β
Xiao Jing was slightly stunned, and Lu Xi continued: "Don't say I'm alarmist, OICQ follows in the footsteps of the Panda Optimizer Master, and will make a good software into rogue software, which will be spurned sooner or later, if you really like Yao Libin, persuade him to stop as soon as possible and invest more in technology, this market has a big future, and Weixin can't do it, why bother with this time?" β
Xiao Jing knew that Yao Libin had violated the rules of normal competition in this way, but she also knew that it would be difficult to persuade him to change his mind.
Seeing Xiao Jing's response, Lu Xi continued: "I can tell you now that the most important thing in tomorrow's media conference is that Luzhu will unite several anti-virus software vendors in China to establish an anti-rogue software alliance to jointly resist rogue software such as Panda Optimizer and OICQ, and Luzhu will acquire 60% of Super Rabbit shares and establish a new company to develop a security guard with rogue software killing and Trojan horse killing functions." β
Yao Libin bought malicious plug-ins at a high price, after OICQ launched a new version, with the momentum of vigorous publicity and promotion, the number of users soared by more than 200,000 within three days, and Luzhu did not take any action except for releasing solutions and condemnation, Yao Libin is doing a short period of time to become a leader in the field of instant messaging in China, and then follow the dream of ICQ to sell to investors at a sky-high price. At this time, listening to Lu Xi say the main purpose of tomorrow's media conference, Xiao Jing only felt that Yao Libin was too naΓ―ve, Luzhu did not have a coping strategy, but wanted to slap Zhongcheng to death, if Yao Libin did not give up the malicious plug-in, this would really be a point of no return.