Chapter 519: Giant Prototype

The students of "The Voice of China" have achieved great success on Weibo, and the number of fans of more than one million has stimulated the nerves of everyone in the entertainment industry again and again.

However, Yuzhong Media has no intention of treating Huaxia Weibo as its own back garden, and all the applications of celebrities who apply for real-name authentication Weibo have been approved as quickly as possible.

As more and more well-known celebrities join Weibo and bring in more registered users, Weibo still maintained a terrifying growth rate in the second week, and by the time the second selection of "The Voice of China" was held, the number of registered users on Weibo had exceeded 40 million.

You must know that at this time, the number of netizens in the entire country of China is less than 100 million, and almost half of the netizens have become registered users of Huaxia Weibo.

By this time, although the number of new registered users began to slow down gradually, it did not completely stagnate, and still firmly broke through to the number of 50 million.

When the whole of Huaguo is paying attention to which exciting players will appear in the second "The Voice of China", and when Huaxia Weibo will exceed 50 million registered users, a blockbuster news was announced without warning!

The "Chivalrous Foundation" invested 1.5 billion yuan to fully acquire the shares of Alibaba Group held by Japan's SoftBank and the three American consortiums!

Since Japan's SoftBank and the U.S. consortium are optimistic about Alibaba's development prospects, they will certainly not be willing to sell their shares. However, the investment of the "Chivalrous Consortium" has received the full support of Ma Jun, the helmsman of Ali Group.

When Ma Jun came up with the clause that he could unconditionally redeem all shares within one year at double the price within one year when he signed the contract, Japan's SoftBank and several major American consortia had no choice but to swallow this bitter fruit.

Just a few months ago, Alibaba couldn't find any funds in China that it wanted to invest in, so they didn't mind the terms when they signed the deal.

Now, a few months later, although Alibaba Group has made some progress in the context of Taobao's rapid development, it is still a bottomless pit of money because Taobao implements a free policy.

Unexpectedly, such a "chivalrous consortium" suddenly appeared in Huaguo, willing to throw a lot of money into this bottomless company.

"Chivalrous Foundation", just by looking at the name, you know, this is definitely a pure Chinese organization.

How did this half-way consortium come about?

This question is not only being asked by Japan's SoftBank and the U.S. Foundation, but also within China.

Alibaba Group has announced the conversion of its equity in a high-profile manner, proudly declaring that Alibaba has since become a pure national enterprise and will shoulder the mission of developing e-commerce in China.

However, Ali's announcement did not give any explanation for this mysterious "chivalrous consortium" except that it was a pure Chinese consortium.

However, those who pay close attention to the actions of Ali Group have found a trace of clues on the Internet.

The day after Alibaba's high-profile announcement of the "Chivalrous Consortium" capital injection, the list of its leadership team on Alibaba.com's homepage changed dramatically.

The original board member, Masayoshi Son of Japan's SoftBank, was replaced, which is an extremely normal thing. Ali, on the other hand, did not immediately elect a new director, and the seat was temporarily vacant.

However, above the board of directors, there is a special column: permanent honorary partner!

This column is in the first row of the most sober, and there is only one name in the back: Lu Chong!

The first to notice this change was Jin Diyun, a reporter from Xinlang Finance, who first rubbed his eyes in disbelief when he saw Lu Chong's name.

This Lu Chong, will it be the one he expected?

When he manipulated the mouse to pull down with a trembling hand, the familiar face that appeared on the screen immediately relieved all the doubts in his heart!

It's really Lu Chong!

The Lu Chong who single-handedly founded Huaxia Weibo!

The Lu Chong who was named the father of "The Voice of China"!

Lu Chong, who topped the music sales charts in the United States, China, Europe, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Southeast Asia!

Jin Diyun forced himself to suppress the monstrous waves in his heart, wrote a short message at the fastest speed in his life, and contacted the editor-in-chief of Xinlang Finance for the first time, asking to publish this news on the homepage of the financial section.

Jin Diyun was still conservative, and his editor-in-chief immediately contacted higher management after quickly logging on to Alibaba's website to confirm that the news was true.

In less than five minutes, the homepage of Xinlang.com published a news report co-signed by the editor-in-chief of the financial section and Jin Diyun in the form of headline photo news.

"The Father of Weibo Recasts the Legend, and the Creation Network Map Emerges!"

In the news, through the changes in the list of leaders on Alibaba's homepage, coupled with some Jindiyun's analysis, it is conclusively declared that the mysterious force "Chivalrous Consortium" that injected capital into Alibaba is a fund company led by Lu Chong, which is also under the umbrella of Chuangshi Co., Ltd.!

In less than fifteen minutes, the homepage headlines of several major portals were all replaced with this shocking news.

The process of analyzing each website is different, but the conclusion is the same: Lu Chong has officially joined Alibaba!

Even the meeting between Lu Chong and Ma Jun at the Huaxia Weibo celebration dinner a week ago was unearthed by omnipotent reporters and became one of the ironclad proofs of this inference.

As an emerging online force, Huaxia Weibo still maintains its own style and does not release official information. However, on Weibo, the topic of "Lu Chong's entry into Alibaba" has become the hottest topic in less than ten minutes, attracting more than 5 million users to participate in reading and discussion.

Regarding this sudden eruption of topics, Alibaba and Lu Chong's attitudes are extremely ambiguous.

On Alibaba's side, Ma Jun personally held a press conference, at which Ma Jun praised Lu Chong's contribution to Alibaba's development and localization.

However, Ma Jun denied the rumors that Lu Chong had joined Alibaba, and directly announced that an independent executive director had been elected from within Alibaba to fill the board seat left by Son Masayoshi.

"Ali will always belong to all Ali people, and our esteemed investors are willing to respect the company's traditions, which is also the premise of our cooperation!"

This is Ma Jun's original words, which seems to show that there is no direct relationship between Lu Chong and Ali Group.

But a message posted by Lu Chong on Weibo made everyone messy.

"In the next month, Huaxia Weibo will be connected to Taobao, and all Weibo accounts will have the function of shopping on Taobao. At the same time, the store real-name authentication service for Taobao sellers has been officially launched, and the application conditions will be announced later......"