Chapter 667

"Donated 1.7 billion RMB selflessly?"

"Outrageous~~"

Hangzhou, a young man with the surname Ma, was sitting in the shop, watching the news broadcast.

The incandescent lamp was a bit old, and the light was a bit dim.

Little Ma founded a translation agency in 1992, but business was bleak, and he couldn't pay the rent every month.

Helpless, Little Ma could only run to Yiwu to resell small gifts, and had worked as a medicine and medical equipment salesman to maintain the operation of the translation agency.

"If I could get investment from the other party, how good would that be..."

However, Little Ma felt that the other party probably wouldn't look up to his business.

At this time, he hadn't thought about the internet.

The idea of entering the internet industry came in 1995, when Hangzhou leaders hired Little Ma to go to the United States to pursue highway investment funds from an investment company. Unexpectedly, the other party was a scam company, and later instigated Little Ma to scam the East's money together, but Little Ma didn't agree.

It was during that time in Seattle that Little Ma first came into contact with the internet. A friend showed him a search engine, and when he entered "beer" to search, information about beer from various countries appeared on the page.

This shocked him greatly, and he conceived the idea of doing the internet, then made "East Yellow Pages," specifically for companies to make web pages. Because he was promoting it everywhere, he was called "the liar who promotes Yellow Pages everywhere."

However, at this time, although he hadn't gone to the United States yet, he was still full of confidence in his future self.

Looking at the national news broadcast on TV, he couldn't help but conceive an idea.

"If I have a big investment project in the future... perhaps I can seek financing from him..."

Why do many internet companies in the country have a large portion of shares held by foreign investment banks?

Because at that time, domestic investment institutions didn't know much about this, leading to great difficulties for these internet companies to raise funds, and foreign investment institutions had many resources.

Perhaps the Five-Star Group could rely on this point to replace those foreign capitals and invest in these internet enterprises one step ahead.

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Over in Shenzhen,

"Damn~~"

"Donated so much money?!"

Another Little Ma, who had graduated from the Computer Science major at Shenzhen University for less than a year, was working as a software engineer at Runxun Communication Development Co., Ltd.

Today, he was at the restaurant downstairs in the company and happened to see the news broadcast.

He knew the Five-Star Group too well.

Their boss bought a Five-Star Tiger, calling it an oil tiger every day, feeling heartache for the fuel consumption when driving, but couldn't help but drive it out to show off every day.

It is said that he also organized a car club to travel around.

However, he didn't expect the Five-Star Group to donate so much money in the mainland; it was simply outrageous.

After eating, he went back to the office to work... wait, wrong, it should be to go online.

The month before last, on April 20th, a 64k international dedicated line was opened, and China achieved full-function access to the international internet, becoming the 77th member of the international internet.

And Shenzhen, as a frontier city of reform and opening up, had certain advantages and foresight in infrastructure construction and the introduction of new technologies.

So at the beginning of this month, Shenzhen could already connect to the internet via telephone lines.

And the company where Little Ma worked happened to have the internet.

So he often didn't go home, but went online at the company. He frequented major university forums, communicating and sharing with others...

If everything hadn't changed, he would invest 50,000 yuan in February 1995 to set up the Huiduowang Shenzhen station, named "dataexpress," and get to know Ding Sanshi on Huiduowang. Later, more netizens set up Huiduowang sites, including Boss Qiu and Leizi.

What is Huiduowang (CFIDO)?

It's a BBS network.

This thing was popular between 1994 and 1998, with hundreds of sites nationwide at its peak, and tens of thousands of users. Famous BBS sites include the Imperial Capital's Relaxed Express, Great Wall, Paradise, Shuke, Guangzhou's New Moon, Shenzhen's dataexpress, and Zhuhai's West Point.

CFIDO netizens are considered the earliest netizens in China, and later many CFIDO netizens became internet celebrities in China, such as Little Ma now, and Boss Qiu of Kingsoft who was the station master of Zhuhai West Point. And Lao Rong of the 8848 website was the station master of the Fuzhou station.

At this time,

Little Ma was communicating with BBS netizens about the Five-Star Group.

Informed netizens kept bragging: "This Five-Star Group is very wild, they pried away all the technical backbone of Lenovo..."

"Heard that when they went home for the Spring Festival last year, they said the year-end bonus was 100,000..."

"Lenovo's Boss Eight was so angry he was hospitalized directly..."

"Very generous, donated money to major universities..."

"In short, it's just a rich landlord..."

"A classmate of mine in the Hong Kong and Taiwan Affairs Office said that this Five-Star Group basically doesn't ask for land in the mainland... basically pure donation, so rich..."

"Who knows the information about this Five-Star Group? Why are they so rich?"

Many first-generation netizens shared with relish.

Little Ma also shared what he knew: "Didn't you guys notice that this boss is very young? Only 30 years old this year..."

"Wow~~ only 30 years old!"

"Still the richest man in Hong Kong, or the richest man in Asia, with assets exceeding 100 billion HKD!"

"Hiss~~~"

"Still started from scratch..."

"Hiss~~~"

Global warming +1+1+1+1……

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In 1994, the mainland was thriving and prosperous.

And Hong Kong was taking off, with a GDP reaching 727.5 billion HKD.

In the financial field, Hong Kong was already one of the important financial centers in Asia. In terms of trade, Hong Kong's port container throughput continued to rank among the top in the world, with a large amount of goods transshipped and distributed here...

Finance, trade, retail, and tourism were booming, pushing Hong Kong's economic prosperity step by step.

However...

There were still many corners hiding a lot of bitterness.

This night,

Wong Tai Sin Cooked Food Stall, several young people finished eating there, sitting, talking boredly, no theme, no gossip...

Chatting and chatting, only venting resentment remained:

"It's already past nine, why not go home?"

"Go home for what, watch mom and dad argue?"

"Exactly... I sleep on a bunk bed at home, the place where I eat is the bed I sleep on, and I grew up like this until college... can you imagine the pain of living in an environment with many family conflicts for me, every day is like walking in a circle and can't get out..."

"Exactly... my friends and I like to blow water on the playground facilities in the park at about 10 o'clock, but I don't know if someone complained, the police passing by drove us away, saying this park is prioritized for people under 18."

"That's right, now it's difficult to find a common place to hang out with friends on the street, as if there is no place for us in this big city."

"And my room, bunk bed in the room, eating is sitting on the bottom bunk, the washing machine is next to the bed... I'm really fed up with these days!"

"Hey, give me a cigarette..."

"Give you a cigarette, give you shit, do you know how expensive cigarettes are."

"Everything is expensive now~~"

"If you don't give it, don't give it, so fierce..."

"I'm fierce? Are the waiters fierce? It's like I owe them money."

"Exactly, bastards!"

The waiter next to them heard this bunch of idiots not leaving after eating and still cursing him, and was so angry he exploded.

"You bunch of bastards... get out after eating~~ blocking the way!"

"Damn you, can't your service attitude be better?"

"Attitude your ass..."

Then they started arguing fiercely,

Finally, several young people were swept out of the restaurant with a broom.

The young people cursed while walking.

Losing the place to sit, they were suddenly at a loss again.

"How about going home?"

"Don't want to go back, after going back, I have to listen to the washing machine rumbling, want to die! I'd rather live under the overpass."

"Under the overpass, the police will call mom and dad to catch people soon~~~"

"Damn, is there any other place to go?"

"Five-Star Supermarket, the service attitude is good..."

"But it's 10 o'clock now, they're all closed..."

"I really don't want to stay in this city anymore... how about we go to the United States..."

"Go to hell, you don't even have money for cigarettes, what's the use of going to the United States!"

Several people stood on the side of the road, complaining, cursing,

Then...

A passing citizen cursed: "You bunch of bastards, don't block the way!"

The roads in Hong Kong are relatively narrow, and stopping feels like hindering others.

Then both sides had another round of cursing.

Every sentence was full of cursing, very high content of vulgarity.

Finally,

Both sides stopped fighting and left.

Several young people continued to move forward.

Silence.

A young man saw a soda can thrown on the ground and subconsciously kicked it away.

Silence for a long time...

The young man looked at the neon-flashing street and suddenly said: "How about... write a letter to Mr. Guan?"

Another young man sneered: "Crazy! Would the big boss read a letter written by trash like us?"

"Try it and you won't die, if this continues, I really want to die~~~!"

Everyone looked at each other, the streetlights stretched their shadows very long, like a few crumbling straws.

"Forget it, forget it~~"

"Let's find a place to sit..."

A group of people walked another ten meters,

"How about, try it?"

"Try it?"

"Good, let's try it."

"What if Mr. Guan really cares about us?"

"Do you have a pen? I'm going to pour out all the bitterness of these years..."

"Have a hell of a pen..."

"Damn it, do we have to spend money to buy paper and pen?"

"Write my ass!"

"Write!"

Spent 3 days, they wrote a bitterness article, about 10,000 words, and finally, fearing their handwriting was too ugly for Director Director Director Guan Zu Zu to read, they printed it out.

Finally, they ran directly to the Five-Star Group headquarters in Central Plaza and gave it to the front desk.

Under the "???" gaze of the front desk waiter, they fled in a panic.

"Don't you guys think we're very stupid doing this?"

"Stupid is stupid, we are young people anyway."

"What if Mr. Guan reads it? Right..."

Unfortunately, they were disappointed.

Waited and waited, waited for 10 days, the Five-Star Group had no feedback at all.

The silly, middle-school-syndrome young people finally had their hearts die.

"I said it, a big boss, how could he read the messy things we wrote..."

"What a bad idea, stupid..."

"Damn you~~"

Cursing and resentment always filled their lives.

It was dissatisfaction with life, despair for the future, and the depression of finding no way out...

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What they didn't know was...

Director Director Director Guan Zu Zu was sitting on a plane, arriving at San Francisco Airport.

Exactly: The despicable and shameless thief of the country, enters his loyal San Francisco!

As soon as he got off the plane,

The air of the United States blew in his face.

Director Director Director Guan Zu Zu took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and enjoyed it:

"That's right, it's this taste of freedom, it's truly sweet..."

Sniff sniff sniff~~~~~

Tian Yangsheng beside him: "…………"

Always felt Brother Zu was neurotic.

This air, where is it sweet?

Director Director Director Guan Zu Zu looked at Tian Yangsheng and shook his head: Hey, you guys don't understand at all, the goodness of American freedom.

In Hong Kong, I am a great, glorious, and correct Mr. Guan, Brother Zu.

And in the United States,

I can... hehehe~~~ Free America, shooting every day!

Gong Wei beside him chuckled.

Soon,

The three of them walked out of the airport.

As soon as they walked out of the airport gate,

Suddenly, a huge, noisy roar of anger rushed towards them.

Only to see at the airport entrance, a black crowd holding placards, densely gathered at the airport entrance.

There were African-Americans, Latinos, Asians, Arabs...

"Stop racial discrimination!"

"Treat everyone equally!"

And other words were particularly eye-catching in the wind.

It turned out that last month, an African-American traveler family, a family of three, encountered unfair treatment during airport security.

The white security personnel conducted a long separate inspection on him for no reason, even rummaging through all his luggage, making the items a mess.

During this process, the security personnel also said some discriminatory words from time to time, mocking his dress and identity.

Soon, this matter was broadcast by the media in the Democratic Party camp.

What is the situation in San Francisco now?

With the behind-the-scenes promotion of the Umbrella Corporation, the minority rights movement has developed rapidly, with great momentum and vigor.

The news fermented rapidly, and under the guidance of the "Minority Rights Committee," it aroused strong indignation among the broad minority groups.

They accused the airport of such behavior as typical racial discrimination, demanding a reasonable explanation and apology from the airport.

However, the airport's attitude was indifferent at first, only simply issuing a painless statement, without any substantive measures.

The arrogance of the old white.

This undoubtedly added fuel to the fire, completely angering those sensitive African-Americans and Latinos, while Chinese-Americans have always been relatively moderate and lukewarm, but also joined the protest ranks under the promotion of the Umbrella Corporation.

To want power, one must fight!

Moderation dies fast!

Today is their 5th day of protesting at the airport.

The airport's reaction was very cold.

This made the mood at the scene very restless, like a volcano waiting to be detonated.

Suddenly~~~

Some radical protesters in the crowd began to pick up stones from the ground and smash them towards the glass curtain wall of the airport.

With a "clatter," the sound of shattering glass rang out piercingly.

This was as if it were a signal,

Immediately after, more stones flew towards the airport building like raindrops, and the scene fell into chaos.

With a shout, some protesters broke through the cordon outside the airport and rushed towards the inside of the airport frantically.

The airport security personnel tried to block them, but facing the angry crowd, their power seemed insignificant.

The protesters rushed into the airport lobby, overturned the service desk, tore down the hanging billboards, and the entire airport instantly became a mess.

Screams, roars, and the sound of breaking objects intertwined, as if the end of the world had arrived.

Director Director Director Guan Zu Zu looked at this chaotic scene, a meaningful smile appearing on his face.

And Tian Yangsheng, who came to the United States for the first time, was completely shocked by the scene before him.

Director Director Director Guan Zu Zu laughed,

"Ah Sheng~~"

"Welcome to the free United States!"

Tian Yangsheng was greatly shocked!

Holy crap, this is America?

6!

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PS: Book friends said they wanted to see the US, so I came back to the US again, this time integrating Hollywood movie elements...

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