"Huh, Danrou, why are you using QQ?" Leng Zhiruo suddenly asked loudly.
"Ah!" Wang Danrou exclaimed, then rushed forward, stammering, "Miss Leng, it's not like that... No, I mean, it's all my fault. I've always used QQ at school, and I got used to it. I forgot to switch when I came to the company. It's all my fault, you must forgive me!"
"Sigh!" Leng Zhiruo sighed, "Fine, you've been following me, and I know your character, so I'll forgive you. But don't forget, this isn't school anymore. You've entered society, you're a formal employee of our company, and more importantly, you're my secretary. If people find out you're still using QQ in our company, what a joke that would be, do you understand?"
"Yes, it's my fault. I'll never use QQ again!" Wang Danrou quickly said.
"Well, quickly uninstall QQ from your computer. I'll send someone to check your computer later. If they find that you haven't uninstalled QQ, then you'll have to leave!"
"But speaking of which, there must be many people in your situation, you're not the only one. So, how about this, you go notify the administrative department. Tomorrow, I'll hold a company-wide cleanup event. Everyone's computer will be checked. Anyone found with QQ will have their salary deducted for one month."
"However, they will be given one day to clean it up themselves, otherwise, I will punish them without prior instruction."
"Also, go and notify the technical department to set up a monitoring system to monitor all networks inside and outside the company. If any network is found to be connected to QQ, then don't blame me for being impolite!" Leng Zhiruo said fiercely, then walked away clutching her stomach.
"Yes." Wang Danrou breathed a long sigh of relief. Fortunately, Leng Zhiruo didn't look at her QQ chat logs. Otherwise, if she saw the information passed between her and Tengda's technical department via QQ, it would be troublesome.
The reason Wang Danrou had QQ on her computer was naturally to conveniently receive the information sent by her brother-in-law. Of course, QQ didn't have file transfer functionality at this time, so the QQ technician would directly copy the text from the document and then send it to Wang Danrou via QQ.
Since Wang Danrou needed to re-edit it anyway, the text version of the information was sufficient.
Wang Danrou first quickly deleted QQ and all local QQ files to avoid leaving any traces.
Of course, if a professional person were to investigate, as long as the hard drive was intact, they could definitely recover a lot of information. The only way would probably be to replace the hard drive.
However, Wang Danrou did not dare to do anything so conspicuous, and Leng Zhiruo would certainly not be so cruel. She just wanted to scare Wang Danrou into being more careful and not leaking company intelligence so readily.
After completing all this, Wang Danrou called her brother-in-law, Little Pony, to explain the situation she was in.
"It's all my fault. I wasn't thorough enough. I really shouldn't have asked you to use QQ to contact us!" Little Pony said with great self-reproach.
"It's okay, brother-in-law. I was careless and forgot to turn off the computer before going to bed. But brother-in-law, can you download QQ and create a QQ number?" Wang Danrou asked.
"What! You want me to create a QQ number!" Little Pony exclaimed.
"Brother-in-law, there's no other way. Since I can't use QQ anymore, I can only use QQ to contact you. Otherwise, many things cannot be explained clearly over the phone!" Wang Danrou said.
"I understand..." Little Pony also knew that Wang Danrou's request was reasonable. In the end, he could only grit his teeth, nod in agreement, and reluctantly created a QQ number for himself.
QQ registered users +1.
However, these were minor matters for Little Pony. The truly important matter was the acquisition of Lianzhong.
Last night, after receiving the intelligence from his sister-in-law, Little Pony urgently convened a meeting with relevant personnel and sent people with connections to Lianzhong to inquire about the news. Lianzhong did not hide anything and directly told Little Pony's people that people from Jiangnan were indeed contacting their chairman, Bao Yueqiao, about acquiring Lianzhong.
"Please tell President Bao that our QQ is also very interested in acquiring Lianzhong Game. We can offer a more reasonable and advantageous price. Please do not sign with the people from Jiangnan and give us three days!"
Bao Yueqiao, having received this news, readily agreed. His goal was to get a good price for the acquisition of an enterprise. If two companies competed, he, Bao Yueqiao, could make a fortune.
Meanwhile, a QQ meeting was being held, with only one topic of discussion: how much money Tengda could offer to acquire Lianzhong Game.
"Boss, the previous investment of 50 million US dollars was used for servers, and about 30 million US dollars have been spent. We still have 20 million US dollars in cash reserves, which is about 160 million RMB!" said the head of the finance department.
"Very good. I think we can use up to 150 million for the acquisition of Lianzhong. What do you all think?" Little Pony asked.
"That's too much!" To his surprise, someone immediately objected.
"Exactly. We only have 160 million in total funds, and now we're going to use 150 million to acquire Lianzhong. Isn't this pushing us into a desperate financial situation again?"
"Yes, Lianzhong's current user base is far inferior to ours. Its registered user data of 40 million is highly inflated, otherwise, it wouldn't have only 200,000 concurrent online users. The former can be faked, but the latter cannot be faked at all. Based on my experience, Lianzhong's registered user base is at most around 4 million, with the remaining 90% being inflated!" Zeng Qing said.
"I think so too. In fact, Bao Yueqiao and I are classmates. We knew each other when we were studying in college. He has always been someone who likes to boast. Back then, he went to great lengths to get votes to join the student union."
"Later, he wanted to run for student union president, but his prestige was far inferior to another classmate. Since we were in the computer science department, all voting was done by computer. So, he secretly changed some student ballot information, turning it into his own votes, thus getting himself elected!"
"So, to make the data look good, Bao Yueqiao is capable of anything!" Zhang Zhidong said.
"Zhidong is right. The price of over 50 million for Lianzhong is a waste. We shouldn't spend so much money to acquire it!" Li Dan also said.
Seeing so many people opposing the acquisition of Lianzhong Game, Little Pony felt a bit choked. He cast a cold glance at the executives present and then calmly said, "Everyone, you have been working at Tengda for so long. Have you ever thought about how Tengda plans to make a profit?"
"This..." Everyone fell silent. This question had always been a problem for Tengda. Tengda's executives thought about this question almost every day, and the conclusion they reached was simple: to make games, utilize Tengda's massive user base to operate online games, and thus achieve profitability through online games.
Countless plans related to Tengda's games had been made, so everyone knew very well what the answer to Little Pony's question was.
"That's right. I believe everyone knows that the only issue is games. For Tengda to turn a monthly maintenance cost of several million yuan into a profit, the only way is to make games and then make money through games."
"Therefore, establishing our own game center platform for Tengda is the best choice. We have always planned it this way, but unfortunately, QQ has already taken the lead in achieving this."
"I don't suspect there's a spy for this. Huang He is a very intelligent person, so he can naturally think about what the only way to make a profit from instant messaging software is. His speed is just much faster than I imagined!"
"Fellow colleagues, we have fallen behind. We are no longer the leader in this industry, but have been left far behind by QQ."
"But the problem now is, if we want to build our own QQ game center, it will take at least three months or more to develop the program. In this time, QQ will likely grow rapidly again. So, we cannot wait this long. The only way forward is to acquire an existing game platform."
"Therefore, acquiring Lianzhong Game is our only option. The relevant data and intelligence of Lianzhong Game have been sent to you, and you have all seen it. This is already a very mature and complete operating, and even profitable platform. If we take it over and inject the real tens of millions of traffic and users from our QQ into the Lianzhong platform, imagine the tremendous energy we can unleash!"
"Currently, Lianzhong Game's monthly membership fees are around 1 million yuan. If our traffic is poured in, this 1 million will become 3 million, 5 million, or even 10 million monthly revenue in the future. At that time, what is 150 million yuan spent on acquiring Lianzhong?"
"My opinion is very clear. This 150 million can be used if necessary, even all 160 million. It's worth it even if we borrow more from Mr. Sun and spend over 200 million!"
"This is my attitude and opinion. What do you all think?" Little Pony's gaze swept across the room. The executives were all deep in thought, and no one spoke until Zhang Zhidong was the first to break the silence and say, "I'll follow the boss!"
"Me too!"
"If it can really make money, then it's worth spending any amount of money!"
Thus, under Little Pony's impassioned speech, the executives present finally reached a consensus and decided to support Little Pony's decision to wholeheartedly acquire Lianzhong Game.
{Two more chapters tonight}