Long Dan returned to Beijing from Caiyun Province, called Guo Feng, made an appointment, and found Guo Feng. Long Dan asked, "Brother, how have you been in the past few years?" How's the website going? Guo Feng said: "After you left, we made a website according to your idea, although there are a few clicks, because everyone has been doing it amateur in recent years, the progress is not very big." Long Dan said apologetically: "I left in a hurry back then, and I didn't build the website with you, and now I feel guilty when I think about it, but I have unspeakable hardships." Long Dan was disheartened and went to tell his master about his cultivation. Of course, what can't be said is not said, such as the matter of opening one's own eyes to the sky, such as the matter of joining the military circle. After listening to Long Dan's story, Guo Feng couldn't close his mouth in amazement, and said: "It turns out that Brother Long still has such an experience, I am really envious." Long Dan said: "Don't be envious, I have practiced a whole body of kung fu, and there is nothing else, after coming back, some things are more clear, and it is easy to do things, and in the past few years, I have also made some money." That's why I came to see my brother, and to do the things that I couldn't do with you before, and it's not in vain that we get to know each other."

Guo Feng immediately told the situation of the poetry and novel network: "The situation of the website is like this: after you left, we divided the division of labor, uploaded a large number of classical poems and novels, the number of clicks is not small, but there is no profit, and the 200,000 yuan you left is about to be spent, if the website is no longer profitable, it will have to close." Long Dan said: "It's not necessary to close the door, even if the website loses millions every year, I can afford it now." It's just not an option. Let's do it this way: how about changing the design of the website and changing the form? Guo Feng asked, "What kind of form?" Long Dan said: "I don't know if you have studied the situation of other novel websites?" ”。 Guo Feng said: "I don't read a lot of other novel websites, and as far as novel websites are concerned, there are several large websites in the country that are really good. They all sign contracts with authors, let readers join VIP members to read, and then charge the author a commission, but the commission is too small, it seems to be only a few points. Will we do the same in the future? ”

Long Dan said: "It's okay to follow and learn, but we can't follow the rigid routine, we have to open up our own way." I want to go this way: to establish an author VIP system on our website, as long as you pay 500 yuan, you are a permanent VIP member author, you can upload your own works. The price is set by the author, the income goes to the author, and we only charge a 5% management fee. Readers are divided into ordinary members and VIP members, ordinary members can read VIP works as long as they pay a fee, but as long as they receive 500 yuan at a time, they are both permanent VIP reader members and VIP author members, and they can also upload works freely, that is, readers and authors can consume and get certain benefits. Guo Feng listened and said, "Then isn't our website without revenue?" Long Dan said: "Don't underestimate the 5% management fee, as long as there are more registered members, but it is not a small amount, besides, the 500 yuan paid by registered VIP members is not a small amount, there are tens of millions of readers in the country, as long as hundreds of thousands of members are registered every year, it is a large number." There is also an invisible income, that is, advertising fees, if our clicks reach a certain amount, advertising fees are also a big income. Then again, we just need to break even, I don't need to make a big profit, I just want clicks. We can use it to do a lot of things, such as endorsing games or something, and you'll find out later."

After Long Dan discussed with Guo Feng, he informed Ge Jiawei to arrange for someone to upgrade the poetry and novel website with "Dan language" according to Long Dan's conception. Of course, the current Long's company is full of talents, and there is no need to use Ge Jiawei to do the program himself. As long as the order is communicated, there are a large number of technicians to do it.

Subsequently, Long Dan purchased a small office building in the suburbs of Beijing as the office base of the Poetry and Novel Network. Let Guo Feng resign from his existing job, operate the website full-time, and recruit more than a dozen employees, both from technical support and customer service, all are available, no longer relying on Ge Jiawei's help, an independent cultural business website was established.

Long Dan renamed the website "24K Literature Network". And made a lot of recommendations, as long as you register as a VIP member, you can also get a physical certificate, which has the words "24K Literature Network VIP Member", you can enjoy the rights and interests of physical publication. After promotion, 100,000 VI members registered in just half a year, and uploaded more than 70,000 original novels, one of which was written by the author of the pen name "I Eat Tomatoes" wrote a novel called "Star Change", which was published on the Wenzaidao literary website. In a short period of time, the number of hits exceeded one million, and the VIP readers reached nearly 800,000.

The story of "Star Change" is like this: a child is born unable to cultivate internal strength. In order to get his father's attention and attention, he resolutely chose to practice the painful and difficult external skills. Spring goes to autumn, time flies, and this child has grown up...... Turned into a young man, and what really changed his fate was a mysterious spar turned into a meteor - Meteor Tears. This meteor tear was integrated into the young man's body in the youth's unconscious, and the young man also transformed like a butterfly from a cocoon...... And with it, everything has changed. And his father finally knew the amazing strength of his son, who had never really poured his heart and soul into it......

The novel written by "I Eat Tomatoes" is not like a general Xiuzhen novel, it is either an adventure, or a plot of encountering a strange treasure in the deep mountains and old forests. This allows the reader to slowly comprehend the truth from it, so that the reader can read chapter by chapter.

After "I Eat Tomatoes" uploaded "Star Change", I communicated with 24K Literature Network to discuss the pricing strategy, but because Guo Feng meant to let the author make his own decision, as for the pricing of VIP readers, the author has the final say. As a result, "I eat tomatoes" set the price of the VIP chapter at 0.05 yuan. This price is really not high, the price of reading an episode is only 0.05 yuan, that is, it is only 34 yuan to read all 680 VIP chapters, compared to going to the store to spend hundreds of yuan to buy a 680-episode tome novel, but it is much cheaper.

In this way, the 800,000 VIP readings made the income of "Star Change" reach 40,000 per episode. The income of 500 episodes of VIP chapters can reach 20 million. Although "I Eat Tomatoes" is a new writer, such a high income has greatly stimulated fellow writers, and it has set off a craze for writing novels across the country.

The success of the novel "I Eat Tomatoes" has also greatly stimulated the passion of poets, due to the large number of registered members, there are many otaku who love poetry, scribbling on the website, and of course, there will be a lot of talented people who write a large number of popular poems. Guo Feng sent people to collect and edit these essences, and published a set of poetry network poetry collections, and continued to publish sequels with the writing of members. It not only satisfies the spiritual needs of the author, but also creates great benefits for the website.

The success of the novel "I Eat Tomatoes" is also the credit of Long Dan's "Dan Language" program. In the past, even if the anti-copy program was set up, as long as the downloader disabled all the scripts in the Internet options on the computer, it could still be copied and downloaded, which led to the prevalence of a large number of pirated websites. Long Dan's technicians used the "Dan language" to redesign the website's program, not only to prevent copying and pasting, but even if you use screenshot software, the screenshot is a mess, unless you take a picture of it with a camera and upload it to your own website. However, it will not work well in that case. Readers can't see pirated copies on other websites, so they have to read them on 24K Literature, which is one of the reasons for the success of the novel "I Eat Tomatoes" "The Stars Change".