Chapter 99: Advance funding to help Xinghuo build a building?

A new day, June 6th, 9 am.

Wang Chengguang was wearing sportswear and sneakers to stretch his body a little. When he was about to start, Gu Jingjing, wearing sunglasses and a mask, was also riding a bicycle on the side, ready to set off at any time.

Zhong Miaomiao yawned and asked suspiciously, "Brother Guang, do you really run to work? That's more than 20 kilometers."

“This place is more than 20 kilometers away from the game studio and Weibo branch!!”

She arrived at Wang's house last night. After having dinner, she started playing Plants vs. Zombies. She played all night and stayed in the guest room.

Originally, Zhong Miaomiao had just had a long vacation and just needed to wait for the university admission letter. She also wanted to take a nap to catch up on her sleep, but Wu Xiaowei complained about it. Wang Chengguang often ran to and from work recently. It was okay to go to Guomao, as it was only a few hundred meters.

But going to Zhongguancun, the round trip of more than 40 kilometers is equivalent to a full marathon.

Zhong Miaomiao was completely stunned. She didn't want to sleep anymore. She just wanted to follow him for a walk and take a look. Gu Jingjing felt the same way. They were all surprised by Mr. Wang.

No cars are driving here to avoid traffic jams and being unable to catch up.

Wang Chengguang stretched his limbs again and suggested, "If you are curious and want to follow us, it would be better for you two to ride on an electric bike to save effort."

Gu Jingjing smiled and said, "Okay, Brother Wang, I'll go back and change the bike. Miaomiao, you don't have to ride the bike anymore. You're not in a good mental state after staying up late."

Zhong Miaomiao rolled her eyes and said, "I'm only eighteen years old, why should I be afraid of staying up late? I'll just ride my bike and follow you."

After hearing this, Gu Jingjing decided not to change the car...

after an hour.

When they saw Wang Chengguang arrived at the Xinghuo branch office building with a steady breath, Gu Jingjing and Zhong Miaomiao, who had already changed from riding a bicycle to taking a car driven by Yang Tao, got off the car and ran over to look at Wang Chengguang as if he were looking at something rare.

Zhong Miaomiao walked around him twice and sighed, "No wonder Sister Xiaowei complained that you were a big animal. We got tired after riding bicycles for ten kilometers, mainly to keep up with your speed."

"You ran more than 20 kilometers in one breath without even breathing hard? Even if you are 23 years old and young and strong, this is too outrageous..."

"Sister Jingjing, what's the Olympic marathon record?"

Gu Jingjing, who came over to bring Wang Chengguang mineral water, said in a daze, "More than 40 kilometers in two hours? By this calculation, Brother Wang can run more than 20 kilometers an hour, which is not too outrageous."

“Many national athletes can run a half marathon, right?”

Zhong Miaomiao was confused again. "You also said that they are national-level athletes. They have been trained since childhood, right? Brother Guang is just an amateur? A folk amateur?"

The next moment Miaomiao became excited, "Brother Guang, if you practice more like this this year, you might have a chance to participate in the next Olympics in 2012 and win a gold medal!"

"Running a marathon is not as exciting as the 100-meter track and field race, and it doesn't attract as much attention as the world's fastest man competition, but you are a billionaire."

"As a new generation Internet leader, if you can participate in the Olympic marathon and make an appearance, you will definitely shock the whole country!"

"By then, Xinghuo Weibo will definitely be the only one in the market."

Wang Chengguang drank half a bottle of water in one breath and said with a smile, "We'll talk about the future later. Let's go to the Weibo branch first."

Zhong Miaomiao nodded repeatedly. "I was just about to post on Weibo and tell my friends to play Plants vs. Zombies. This game is addictive. I can even stay up all night to finish it. It's amazing."

"I am also a big V with more than 70 followers. Hey, from today on, I will promote the game and Weibo more and make a difference."

Wang Chengguang smiled and praised her a few times, then started walking towards the office building. As they were walking, Gu Jingjing said, "Brother Wang, I heard from Mile that Uncle Mi wanted to discuss business with you, saying that our Spark Media is getting bigger and bigger."

"Do we need to build a Spark Building like Sohu?"

"The Mi family wants to make a comprehensive transformation, abandon the various small companies they previously had, and invest in real estate. After he gets his family business in order, he will be able to raise hundreds of millions of cash flow to invest in auctioning land."

“There is still money to build a new building.”

"If we build the Spark Building near Peking University and Tsinghua University, and move our media company, the future Weibo headquarters, and the gaming department into it, it will be a huge business..."

Wang Chengguang was surprised and said, "Spark Building? It's a good idea. It's promising."

"But if you ask me to raise a few hundred million right now, it will only be financing. If I wait for a year or two, the game's hematopoietic function will explode, and then there will be no such trouble."

Gu Jingjing smiled sweetly, "Mi Lai said that if we are interested, the initial money is not urgent, and the Mi family can advance all the money."

"She is addicted to the game of stealing vegetables and Plants vs. Zombies. She knows the value of these two games very well. It won't be difficult for her to earn as much as a building in a year or two."

"Besides, our company also has several million or even tens of millions of ringtones revenue every month, and many internet celebrities easily earn more than 100,000 yuan for commercial performances."

"Mijia believes in our strength, potential and future."

"If you are interested, you can make another appointment to discuss it with Uncle Mi in detail."

Wang Chengguang couldn't help but sigh, "That's really interesting! We need to have a serious discussion!"

How strong is the Mi family? Yuan Jichu cleaned up all the companies, pooled his assets and invested in real estate. Together with another Taiwanese businessman, he planned to auction a piece of land in Beijing for 1 billion yuan to build a large residential community and engage in real estate.

Just because Lu Tao acted on impulse, the 10 billion yuan to buy the land easily became 11.5 billion yuan.

Then Milixiong and Wanwan businessman chased for funds again and again, but they were cheated to death. The project still failed. If Xu Zhisen had not come and got 12.8 billion yuan to acquire the half-unfinished project.

Milixiong was bankrupted by Lu Tao...the big project was left unfinished.

Mijia is willing to provide initial funding to help Xinghuo build its headquarters building. This is really a good business with great profits. As for whether Xinghuo needs its own headquarters building?

By the 10s, let alone the Sohu Building, the Zhalang Building, the Penguin Beijing Branch Building, the NetEase Building, and so on, which major Internet company does not have an office building several or dozens of stories high?

Before a new round of real estate boom in Beijing, Xinghuo would make a lot of money if it signed this office building business.

After the Olympics, the 2008 financial crisis caused a cold winter in the mainland real estate market, with all kinds of real estate prices falling sharply until the 4 trillion yuan rescue package was introduced.

After entering the elevator, Wang Chengguang affirmed, "Please help me arrange a specific time with Mile to meet Mr. Mi. He is willing to advance the funds. Even if it takes three years to build our new headquarters, it will not be a loss."

The future headquarters building of Zhalang will be shaped like a sanitary napkin. It took three years to build and the investment is over 2013 billion. However, Zhalang started construction in , and Beijing's real estate has been booming for five years.

If you buy land now, the price is at least several times cheaper.

If you start now and target projects like the Sina Building, they would have spent over a billion in five years, but now you can get it done with just one or two hundred million. Even if you buy land in winter, it will be cheaper during the real estate winter.

In the winter of 2008, many real estate developers were selling houses at a discount!
Gu Jingjing nodded, "Then I will pick up Nini this afternoon, and then go to Mile's house to have a good talk with her."

Wang Chengguang was surprised and asked, "So fast?" Gu Jingjing smiled even sweeter, "Yes, I have fans in the airline group that I often fly to in my hometown. I bought the ticket after chatting online for a while."

"Although Quzhou is a small place, there is an airport in the city, so transportation is very convenient."

Zhong Miaomiao suddenly complained, "Sister Jingjing, your cousin is only 19 years old, just like me, she is a freshman in college. As her sister, you must not fool her."

Gu Jingjing smiled at Miaomiao and didn't reply.

She didn't have much contact with Zhong Miaomiao and was not very familiar with her, but when this beautiful singer was with Wang Chengguang, she would show admiration and love for him from time to time. Gu Jingjing was not blind.

She is still trying to win over the elder sister-in-law, and now another slim-waisted beauty pops up and tries to break the rules of martial arts.

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At around nine o'clock in the morning, Wang Chengguang was in the Weibo business department, watching the total number of registered users steadily progressing towards 3600 million, while Plants vs. Zombies, which had been online for only a week, had more than 600 million total registrations.

At its peak, the number of people online at the same time was as high as 80.

This is a semi-stand-alone game!
It can only be said that the fire started by Plants vs. Zombies has brought too much extra bonus to the Xinghuo Weibo headquarters, similar to the bonus that Happy Farm, which was launched before last year's New Year's Eve, brought to Xiaonei.com.

While Wang Chengguang was still sighing, the manager of the Weibo department came over to ask, "Boss Wang, when will Happy Farm be launched on our Weibo Game Center?"

"I heard that the total number of registered users on Xiaonei.com only broke 5 million at the end of May."

Wang Chengguang smiled and said, "Let's wait until Weibo breaks 5000 million. Zhong Miaomiao, the jade-like singing star, can still bring in a large number of people."

This is not just due to Zhong Miaomiao's appeal, but also because summer vacation is about to start, and a large number of students can also play Plants vs. Zombies.

The college entrance examination two days ago, including the preparations before the college entrance examination, many things cannot be brought into the campus at all.

Everything will be easy once the college entrance examination is over!

Zhong Miaomiao made an effort, Gu Jingjing once again asked Wang Manni to post on Weibo, and Lin Xia, Wu Di and other big internet celebrities also helped promote it...

This is a game, and there is no way to borrow power from Olympic superstars, so as not to bring negative impact to them. After all, every year there are not a group of experts who pop up and call for games to ruin a certain generation? Olympic superstars are really not suitable to promote this.

But this game is very valuable and still has plenty of lethality.

As the two were exchanging opinions, a secretary-like girl came over quickly, holding a cell phone in her hand. "Mr. Wang, the CEO of MSN's China branch called and wanted to discuss the operation of Plants vs. Zombies in Europe and the United States."

"If you are interested, boss, they are willing to pay a large sum of money to buy out the agency."

Wang Chengguang thought for a few seconds, "Have they given a quote?"

Whether it's Happy Farm or Plants vs. Zombies, as long as they are popular on the Chinese Internet, it is impossible for the outside world to not see them. The sudden appearance of MSN is reasonable.

Plants vs. Zombies itself is more suitable for the game structure and world view of Western players.

The secretary was so excited that her tongue was a little knotted. "They are willing to pay 500 million US dollars for the agency for five years. This is the first offer."

Wang Chengguang, “…”

He thought for a few seconds and waved his hand, "I'll give them 5000 million US dollars for this five-year agency."

The secretary's eyes widened, including the manager of the Weibo department. To be honest, 500 million US dollars is already a huge agency intention. After all, the buyouts of games by Big Penguin, Campus Network, etc. in the past were often tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands.

The opening split is also very common: 82 and 73.

500 million US dollars was not a small amount of money in the summer of 2008. Wang Chengguang offered 5000 million US dollars, which is ten times the price? ?

Wang Chengguang didn't explain much, just looked at the secretary, who smiled quickly, nodded, and ran out to do his work.

He didn't need much explanation, as he could see that MSN came out so quickly and offered a relatively generous agency fee just for the sake of activity.

Within a week after its launch, Xinghuo Weibo gained seven to eight million new users, and the peak number of people online simultaneously was close to 80. I don't know how many people would stay up all night playing the game once they got started, and even slack off at work.

What is activity? What are active users?
Reflected in the stock market, that is a skyrocketing market value!
MSN has a terrifyingly large market share outside of China. All it needs to do is embed Plants vs. Zombies and web games into MSN, and then publicize the resulting activity in financial statements or other reports.

The stimulus to the overall market value cannot be compared with ten million or tens of millions. It may stimulate the stock market to increase by hundreds of millions or even billions of US dollars.

Not to mention the stock market, the charges for various props in game stores are also not a small amount of money.

As for why Wang Chengguang was willing to pay 5000 million to MSN for five years of agency, it was because 2008 million US dollars in 5000 and 5000 million US dollars ten years later were completely different in nature.

If he gets the money now, he can buy land in Beijing and leave it there. In five or ten years, the land will increase seven or eight times.

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At five o'clock in the afternoon, when Wang Chengguang left the office building and was about to go home, Yang Tao had already driven with Zhong Miaomiao and was also planning to return.

Yang Tao’s one-bedroom apartment is still under renovation, but everything is easy with a car, and her mother’s house is not far from Hopson International.

Gu Jingjing naturally went to pick up Wang Manni, and she probably has already picked her up.

Seeing Wang Chengguang start to move around downstairs, Zhong Miaomiao was dumbfounded, "Brother Guang, you really run a marathon to and from work."

"Aren't you afraid of getting tired?"

Wang Chengguang smiled and shook his head, "Life lies in exercise. You should simply relax for a few days and practice the song as soon as possible. Although the world is so big, I still meet you. It is an ordinary pop love song."

"This can also add a masterpiece to your collection."

Zhong Miaomiao laughed, "I will definitely practice as soon as possible. I just had a holiday. By the way, I put a lot of effort into promoting the game today. Is there any effect?"

On this day, both Xinghuo Weibo and the game had hundreds of thousands of new users. The college entrance examination was over, and many of the new users were just graduates and entering adulthood.

Wang Chengguang smiled and praised Miaomiao a few words, then started to go home.

As he ran forward, Zhong Miaomiao blinked and complained to Yang Tao in the driver's seat, "Sister Taozi, I suspect that Sister Xiaowei is often sleepy and weak, but Brother Guang's physical fitness is too monstrous."

"What do you think??"

Yang Tao was numb, "It shouldn't be that serious, right?"

If you really run a full marathon every day, you will eventually ruin yourself.

(End of this chapter)