Chapter 154: Living in Mr. Wang’s Shadow [Subscribe]

Time flies, and there are only two or three days left until New Year's Day 09.

At Zhongguancun Spark Game Studio, Wang Chengguang was showing two white Swedish youths, about 30 years old, around the clock. He smiled and said, "Our new game is based on Endless Miner, Dwarf Fortress and the like."

"But this is also a joint creation of ours, with all kinds of novel gameplay. This is a fully open survival game, and it will be handed over to you from now on."

The two white men are Marcus Persson and Jens Bergenstein. If you had hired Marcus in 2014 with an annual salary of one million US dollars, he would have been dismissive.

After all, Microsoft spent $25 billion to acquire his studio, and Marcus personally received $17.5 billion.

Now...all we can say is that Marcus has just come up with development intentions and some inspiration, and is still gaining experience and direction from various other games.

During international email exchanges, he had been racking his brains for a long time and was still struggling to plan and design something that had yet to materialize. Wang Chengguang's random idea struck a chord with Marcus.

This happened many times, and Marcus intuitively met the greatest confidant in his life.

Or it's like living in Wang Chengguang's shadow.

Before Marcus became rich with the help of Minecraft, he was not poor. This time he was tricked into coming to the capital of China to make games, which is really like chasing a dream.

Following Wang Chengguang's words, Marcus nodded repeatedly, "Wang, I just admired the scenery of your city during the live broadcast of the Olympic Games. At that time, I really didn't expect to come here to work."

"Don't worry, Bergenstein and I will definitely devote ourselves to game creation and work together to design a great game that will take the world by storm."

"But I never dreamed that I would find out after coming to China that you are the founder of the Chinese version of Twitter? It's so shocking. You know, Twitter in North America has only a few million active users, while your Weibo has 4000 million active users."

“This number is horrifying!”

Wang Chengguang speaks English, and now Marcus and the other two also speak English.

As early as June and July, in order to prepare for the financial crisis, he worked hard on English for a while, but at the end of July, his English level was still average.

But now it's December 12th, and his English is still intermittent. If he remembers to study hard for half an hour or an hour, it's already excellent (29/271).

With this level of English, you can communicate with foreigners without any obstacles.

Another developer, Bergenstein, also said a series of flattering words, but they were both indeed shocked. The whole world knows that the current Xinghuo Weibo is the Chinese version of Twitter.

However, Xinghuo Weibo's various gameplay and design structure have surpassed Twitter in all aspects. For example, Twitter only had the forwarding and sharing functions in 2010, but in China, Xinghuo Weibo had these functions on the day it was publicly tested.

Twitter currently has several million active users, which is quite a lot. It is the largest platform in North America.
It's amazing to compare with Spark. Now Spark's total registered users are catching up to 1.5 million, and there are to million active users, which is more than the total registered users of Twitter.

Even so, Twitter still attracted a huge amount of traffic during the North American election last year.

Wang Chengguang laughed, "I hope you can get used to my social software. The company has arranged accommodation for you. I will also send some people to assist you in the development. I hope you will have a pleasant cooperation."

After Wang Chengguang instructed a vice president of the game studio to receive the two, he turned around and stayed in the Weibo department for a while.

It's already the 29th. In the previous week, with the joint cooperation of Jiahui Global Investment and Lu Tao's father Xu Zhisen, a large number of shares of Hong Kong Island Liang Group were acquired.

The Liang family should not even talk about fighting back...

Liang Zhengxian's second uncle from the Liang family lost two or three hundred million yuan in foreign exchange speculation during the financial crisis, and he also took his personal 6% shares and sold them directly to Xu Zhisen.

That is to say, leaving that person aside, the entire Liang family, including Mr. Liang, holds a total of 25% of the shares, and the time for the Liang family to be sidelined is not far away.

Wang Chengguang just played in Shanghai with a few girls for a few days and then returned.

After a busy afternoon, when he arrived at the parking lot, Wang Manni came out of the car and said with a smile, "Brother Guang, the sisters-in-law must be exhausted again. They haven't gotten up all day. I found a female doctor who studied massage and learned a lot of written theoretical knowledge. I'll practice on you when I get home?"

"Guanyuan, Zhongji, Qugu, Henggu points, etc., are guaranteed to keep you from getting too angry."

Wang Chengguang, “…”

He couldn't complain, so he smiled after getting in the car and said, "So has your real memory improved recently?"

He has been learning cooking for almost 50 days, which is two weeks longer than the Double Twelve period. Wang Manni was in Beijing for two days before he went to Shanghai and did not keep up with the herbal diet.

After she left, we continued the conversation.

Wang Manni smiled awkwardly, "It seems to be useful, but I can't be sure or certain, and I'm not talking nonsense this time. My conscience is really a little bigger than before."

"I might be wrong, it's an illusion, but when I was taking a shower with Sister Jingjing..."

Wang Chengguang took a deep breath and said, "Don't talk nonsense. It's almost 2009. Get ready to cry."

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A new day, October 12.

Wang Chengguang returned to his home at Hopson International after his morning exercise. He had just taken a shower when he saw Wang Manni smiling and taking out a cell phone and saying, "Brother Guang, ICBC Vice President Xu called to ask if you are free this morning. He wants to talk to you about something."

Why is it that Nini is still holding her cell phone so early in the morning? It’s simply because she has to do an extra round of warm-up before going out for morning exercises.

Wang Chengguang smiled and nodded, "Okay, I'll call him."

ICBC Vice President Xu? This is to support him with 20 billion Hong Kong dollars of ammunition, so that he can successfully short sell and buy at the bottom during the financial crisis.

The other party probably asked him out this time for the 4 trillion yuan plan...

When the 4 trillion yuan allocation was first released, many people didn't know how to spend the money or where to spend it.

I made an appointment with President Xu on the phone, and he started to cook and eat skillfully. Today is the 30th, and at this stage, the various groups of Xinghuo have begun to take turns in shifts and take turns to rest over the New Year's Day holiday.

Those who stay in the company during the holidays will receive double pay.

When Wang Chengguang arrived at Guomao Media at 9:30, the entire office was obviously much emptier. This was not only because of the shifts, but less than half of the people were at work.

Moreover, the headquarters of Guomao Media has expanded again to an office area of ​​more than 2000 square meters. There is no other way. With so many employees before, the space seemed a lot more crowded, and 2000 square meters was still not enough.

Spark Media has the nature of a super online store, and its business is just computer assembly. Even though it has already established contact with various computer manufacturers at this stage, it will reduce the profit margin of some brand computers to Mr. Li of Hailong Building.

This still absorbs too many salesmen and technicians at the headquarters.

He sat in the office and simply handled official business. Before ten o'clock, President Xu had arrived. After Wang Chengguang led the big man into the office and exchanged pleasantries for a while and Gu Jingjing helped to make tea, President Xu smiled and said, "Mr. Wang, I wonder if your company has any new investment plans? If so, ICBC can continue to provide ammunition support." Wang Chengguang smiled and said, "The financial storm is terrifying, but under the ravages of the storm, many normal groups that are well-run have also plummeted. This is a good opportunity to invest."

"I don't know how much I can borrow this time. I can only invest in Hong Kong dollars for now."

At this point, he took another sip of tea and added, "President Xu, I have already pledged 30% of my Spark Weibo to your bank. I'm afraid I can't pledge Weibo shares again this time."

That's true, it's not good to mortgage too much.

President Xu was happy. "That's right. How about this? Mr. Wang bought more than 2% of Alibaba B14B shares at the bottom of the market. If you mortgage them, we can lend you 30 billion Hong Kong dollars."

Wang Chengguang didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "It's a pleasure to work with you. Besides, this 14% plus is the sum of the shares held by Jingjing, Xiaowei and me."

This really is the bank giving him money to spend.

When he bought stocks at the bottom, Alibaba B2B still had a market value of more than 160 billion Hong Kong dollars. This 14% increase is not even enough for 25 billion Hong Kong dollars. What's more crucial is that on January 1, Alibaba was still more than 30 Hong Kong dollars per share.

As for President Xu knowing that he controls Alibaba B2B? That's not surprising.

You must never underestimate the power of a few major banks. The other party is probably well aware of their 14% stake in South African Newspapers and their attempt to outflank the Big Penguin.

To put it bluntly, they are all in the same industry. Wang Chengguang was buying the bottom of South African newspapers, and the other party was buying the bottom of Standard Bank of South Africa. All this money also flowed out from ICBC.

After verbally agreeing, President Xu raised his teacup and said, "Thank you, President Wang, and I wish us continued happy cooperation. Tsk, the first loan of 10 billion was 20% from Xinghuo, and the second loan of 10 billion was 10% from Xinghuo."

"Now, if you use Spark as collateral, 10% can at least lend out billion."

"I have also witnessed the miracle of Starfire with my own eyes."

The first loan was a 20% mortgage for Xinghuo. That was before the Olympics. Xinghuo Weibo had only to million registered users, and its dominance in the short microblog field was very stable. However, the explosion of Xinghuo games at that time was still in a stage-by-stage upward trend.

The big plate is expanding step by step.

Wang Chengguang smiled brightly, "Thank you ICBC for your support, especially in 09 when my company planned to launch Spark Payment, which is also under the Media Group and runs parallel to Spark Weibo. Your support is really indispensable."

President Xu laughed, "We are old partners. I feel at ease working with you, Mr. Wang. Just based on your previous confrontation with Ali Zhifubao, if you are short of money in the future, you can always use Spark Payment to get a loan. I can basically push for the green light all the way."

No matter how many people in the outside world know how powerful and fierce the Spark is.

ICBC definitely won’t lose money this time.

Of course, people like Vice President Xu are of official rank and are collateral for the entire institution, so they would not be jealous. However, Wang Chengguang's business is getting bigger and bigger, and he can represent and influence more and more people.

These are all resources, even the right to speak!
The signing date was set, and the other party also needed to prepare Hong Kong dollars...

After Wang Chengguang sent President Xu away, on the way back to the company, Gu Jingjing asked curiously, "I should have asked Sister Xiaowei to come along so that we could sign the contract directly."

"But what do you want to invest in this time? Real estate?"

Wang Chengguang shook his head, "I won't invest in real estate this time. The fact that real estate stocks took over the power of the Liang Group was an accident. Otherwise, I would have bought land directly with the billions of dollars and made a lot of money at the bottom."

"Let's wait until the New Year's Day market is closed and then reopen it."

In addition to giving the other party a favor and easily getting a loan, another reason was that there were too many bargains to be made during this period of time.

Taking the mainland as an example, people have money but don’t know how to spend it. Whether it is buying land, hoarding big villas or building residential communities, there is great room for appreciation in the future.

Even if you use the money to buy Moutai stocks, if you hoard them from now until the 20s, the value can increase by to times!
What Wang Chengguang wants is still Hong Kong dollars, which means that you get money when others give it to you. Everywhere you look, there are opportunities to make money. He plans to invest in a wave of Apple stocks, that is, the North American Apple, the kidney machine series that will sweep the world in the future.

The glory of kidney machines had not yet begun, and Steve Jobs had not yet been deified. It would be a few years later.

He had been recalling the stock price of Apple Group in his mind, but his mind was actually a mess. In the information he recalled before traveling through time, there were many different opinions and the prices varied greatly. Some of them were as cheap as ten dollars a share for Apple in 08.

Some are 20 US dollars per share, or 40 or 50 US dollars per share, or 70 or 80 US dollars per share.

The difference is huge!
But there is no doubt that one thing is true: after the financial crisis in 2008, Apple's market value plummeted.

Falling along with the global market.

From the time the storm began to the time the iPhone 2009GS was launched into the market in June 6 and before its global release, Apple's entire market value fluctuated between US$3 billion and US$400 billion.

Taking an arbitrary middle value of US$500 billion, Apple Group’s market value in January 2022 will be US$1 trillion.

That’s a 60-fold difference in value!

He is now borrowing 30 billion Hong Kong dollars from ICBC, which will be equal to 2022 billion Hong Kong dollars in 1800. In that year, even if Big Penguin has a market value of more than 3 trillion Hong Kong dollars, it can buy more than 5% of the shares and become one of the major shareholders, with a shareholding close to that of Pony Ma.

No matter how much Apple is worth per share now, you will definitely make money if you buy it.

Of course, if you say that hoarding until 2022 is too long, then you can wait until June 09 when the 6G3 is released. Apple's market value will double, and it will not be difficult to turn 3 billion into 30 billion.

你要是等到2010年6月，一代神机挨炮4发布，等到2011的挨炮4S出世，这30亿港币变90亿，120亿港币都不难。

It has increased several times in just two or three years.

Steve Jobs is not far from becoming a god. These 30 billion Hong Kong dollars are only 3.8 million US dollars, which is not enough to buy 1% of Apple’s shares... He doesn’t have to care about the US stock disclosure rules.

When Wang Chengguang opened his mouth to say something to Gu Jingjing, he suddenly slapped his thigh and said with emotion, "It seems like you haven't made money for a long time?"

Gu Jingjing laughed, "You helped me build the charity statue. This kind of thing is not worth a small amount of money."

Since the nationwide anti-trafficking campaign began after the Olympics, Gu Jingjing has not taken on any other commercial performances except for her routine participation in the Hanfu craze before National Day.

The short selling and profit in the storm was the result of the four of them pooling together more than 100 million yuan, which was also remitted by Wang Chengguang into the money for the sniper acquisition of the Liang Group. Afterwards, each of them acquired land in Beijing or Shanghai, or office assets, etc. according to the proportion.

Wang Chengguang thought for a moment, "I have to promote a new generation of Weibo queen besides you, and it can't be one of our own. Sooner or later, our relationship will be exposed, and it will have a big impact on you."

Even if he took over 30 billion Hong Kong dollars, he couldn't buy 1% of Apple. If he really wanted to make some pocket money, he might as well buy Moutai. A to times increase is not a small amount.

Gu Jingjing smiled sweetly and a little bit sickly, "What's the big deal? I have a house and money. At worst, I can rent it out to collect rent, and then I can go back to my hometown to take care of your baby."

(End of this chapter)