Chapter 479: A Thunderclap on Flat Ground

Ren Yuefeng asked in surprise, "Internet cafes?"

Currently, internet cafes haven't fully risen in the country, only a few have opened in Yanjing and Shanghai. The reason why they haven't risen on a large scale is, first of all, the internet access fee is too expensive. Ten-plus yuan per hour for internet access is something ordinary people can't afford.

Another reason is that there are too few computer games to play. Before online games rose, the only computer games that could be played were those few. Naturally, no one would spend so much money to soak in internet cafes every day.

"At least within a few years, for many families, computers are large home appliance products. Only after computer prices drop in at least ten years can they be popularized to every household, and even to towns and villages."

"Within this time, internet cafes will become the only way for many people to come into contact with the internet, and may even become the largest computer procurement and game promotion and consumption market in the country!"

Li Dongling said to Ren Yuefeng, "The revenue brought by internet cafes is actually secondary. If a large-scale chain internet cafe group can be built, it can bring a certain amount of revenue to Tianya Net, fill the losses of the internet business, and additionally, it can become an internet promotion platform for Tianya Company!"

Don't doubt the profitability of internet cafes. It can make people in the country scramble to do it, even in remote villages. If internet cafes didn't make money, it is estimated that no one would do it long ago.

The internet is also very money-burning. With the revenue brought by internet cafes, it can fill a part of Tianya Company's losses.

Additionally, in the early stage of the internet, that is, in the next ten-plus years, internet cafes are also the most important promotion market for internet software and games. If you want to promote any software or games, occupying the tens of millions of computers in internet cafes will naturally get the market. It is simple, rough, direct, and costs little money...

Setting aside single-player games like Red Alert and Meteor Butterfly Sword, when online games like Stone Age, Zhentu, Legend, World of Warcraft, Dungeon & Fighter, CF, and League of Legends rose, they all first snatched the internet cafe market before promoting them to home computers. Which game occupied the internet cafe market, whether it could continue to be popular, I don't know, but making a fortune is no problem at all.

"Internet cafes, besides being able to provide revenue and an internet promotion platform for Tianya Company, the most important thing in establishing internet cafes is purchasing computers."

"The internet cafe market can provide a large number of orders for Dongling Gao Ke's computer business. Occupying this market, Dongling Gao Ke's computer orders don't need to worry in the early stage!"

Li Dongling's meaning is very clear: if there are no orders, then create orders. Even if it is the left hand pouring to the right hand, as long as internet cafes can rise, the huge computer orders brought by internet cafes will solve a considerable part of computer orders for Dongling Gao Ke.

Tens of millions of orders are enough for Dongling Gao Ke's computer production lines to fire at full power. Dongxin Semiconductor's computer chips can also be sold. Only with sales and revenue can there be money to constantly improve technology.

If internet cafes can really be popular in the country, then Ren Yuefeng feels that this move of killing two birds with one stone is indeed useful. "If internet cafes can really be popular in the country, then it is indeed an opportunity, and it can avoid price wars with companies like Lianxiang!"

"Not only domestically!"

"If operated properly, who knows, internet cafes can also be opened in Xiangjiang, the Korean peninsula, Malaysia, Siam, Cochin, and even the old Maozi, America, old Europe, and other places!"

"If the internet cafe alliance formed by Tianya Company can enter these regions, it can also become a promotion platform, and Dongling Gao Ke's computers can also enter these markets with the help of internet cafes."

Don't doubt the popularity of internet cafes. Even in America, the world's largest internet market with a considerable home computer ownership, there are internet cafes.

How to say, internet cafes are equivalent to the difference between self-study in the dormitory and in the library. The atmosphere is very important...

Of course, internet cafes are not unchanging. From only providing computer games to becoming providing VR, AR, and other game equipment, they can also transform into e-sports hotels, providing meals, drinks, coffee, hotel rooms, etc. Making money is not cold.

Of course, if you are black-hearted, you can also use this set to collect franchise fees, and even cultivate some internet cafe and game agents in Cochin, Siam, and other places, and then package them for listing to circle money. It is estimated that cutting a few crops of leeks and circling a huge sum is no problem at all. It just depends on whether you want to play or not.

Like the internet giant VNG in Cochin, it started by opening internet cafes. At the earliest, it acted as an agent for Kingsoft's Swordman, directly occupying 80% of the game market in Cochin, and since then it has soared. Later, it copied—no, pirated—no, it is copying QQ, launching a Cochin version of the Duck social website. The page and functions are exactly the same as QQ, only the icon changed from a penguin to a duck.

Then VNG crossed the river by touching the penguin, launching Zalo, with registered users exceeding 100 million. One must know that the entire Cochin has only 98 million people. One can imagine that this social product is basically popular in Southeast Asia.

From games to social, then to music, input methods, etc., VNG has restored the penguin one-to-one, becoming the largest internet giant in Cochin. In ten years, the valuation exceeded 3 billion US dollars.

Of course, VNG dared to do this so blatantly, of course, it handed over 48% of the shares to the penguin. Otherwise, it would have been hit by an iron fist long ago.

Tianya Company, if it cultivates companies like VNG overseas, it is estimated that leeks can be cut crop after crop.

After Wang Yongyu returned to Yanjing from Pingyang, how he negotiated with Lianxiang is unknown, but Shenzhou Storage's offensive here did not decrease. Under the temptation of the SD storage card project, IBM, Toshiba, Philips, and PNY also continuously pressured Lianxiang.

News unfavorable to Lianxiang continuously came from overseas. In the Southeast Asian region, Lianxiang's machines were either banned or sued in Xiangjiang, Siam, Cochin, Malaysia, and other places, and the overseas market almost completely collapsed.

Because Lianxiang was listed in Xiangjiang, the Xiangjiang court had jurisdiction over Lianxiang Acer. Although the heaviest result of the lawsuit in Xiangjiang hadn't come out yet, judging from the news explored by various media in Xiangjiang, it was very unfavorable to Lianxiang's Xiangjiang company. The probability of Lianxiang's Xiangjiang company being judged to lose was quite large.

Affected by public opinion, Lianxiang's Xiangjiang company's stock price had almost reached the level of a penny stock, and the trading volume was very sluggish. There were only sellers and no buyers, almost reaching the point of liquidation and delisting...

Domestically, Lianxiang's days were also very uncomfortable. The Pingyang court opened a trial once, and the result was naturally no surprise. It supported all the demands of Shenzhou Storage, only missing a judgment.

It was unclear how it was in other places, but in the Hanxi computer market, Lianxiang's brand and reputation had completely rotted. It couldn't sell at all here and had been snatched by local computer brands like Founder and Great Wall.

But even in markets outside Hanxi Province, Lianxiang's days were not easy. The data counted by the media showed that since the lawsuit started, Lianxiang's sales began to plummet.

The new products that should have been released long ago were also continuously delayed. Later, it was reported that due to the shortage of key components, Lianxiang's production capacity for the new quarter was lowered by at least 20%!

The entire Lianxiang gave the outside world the feeling of being shaky, and even had a few feelings of being on the verge of collapse. Even if Liu Zong was still tough when facing the media, the downward trend was something everyone could feel.

"Liu Zong, Director Wang called again, asking us to give an answer!"

Guo Wei walked into Liu Zong's office with light steps. Liu Zong was holding a towel on his forehead. The changes during this period of time also tossed him quite a bit.

However, Liu Zong didn't dare to be hospitalized for recuperation at this time. At this critical moment, news had already spread that there were voices of dissatisfaction with him from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. If he entered the hospital at this time, it was hard to say whether he could keep the president position. Having worked hard to reach the present, he absolutely didn't dare to hand over the power to others.

"That Li guy, bullying people too much!"

Throwing the towel on his forehead to the ground, Liu Zong said angrily, "Publicly apologize in the newspaper, what face do I have left to face the world? Seventy million in compensation, how many brothers have to work overtime day and night to earn it, only to be snatched away by someone like this? I am not reconciled!"

Looking at Liu Zong, who was heartbroken, Guo Wei stood on the side and didn't dare to speak, although he didn't know what this tens of millions had to do with the technicians in the laboratory and those people on the production line. Even if they didn't compensate, could it be distributed to these people?

"Then... should we reject Director Wang?" Guo Wei asked carefully.

"No!"

"A lifetime of anger has led to today, and there is no one in the four seas to face the setting sun," Liu Zong sighed. "Oh, heaven, why are you so thin to me? Who can know my painstaking efforts?!"

"As long as the green hills remain, don't worry about firewood. I, old Liu, have remembered today's matter. One day, I will return it to Dongling Gao Ke a hundredfold!"

After saying this sharply, Liu Zong said to Guo Wei, "Go and tell Director Wang that Lianxiang has agreed to these conditions. Let Dongling Gao Ke withdraw the lawsuit!"

"Additionally, go and arrange to meet the mainland presidents of Intel, Sharp, and Samsung. I want to see them personally!"

"Lianxiang just released an announcement, announcing that it has officially issued an apology statement to Hanxi Shenzhou Storage Company, admitting to infringing on several U-disk patents of Shenzhou Storage."

"And announced the cancellation of the U-disk business and personnel, and will no longer be involved in the storage business from now on. Additionally, it will make corresponding compensation to Shenzhou Storage."

"This also marks the official end of the first patent lawsuit in the country. The director of the Patent Office declared that this is a landmark event in our country's patent industry..."

Reporter Meng Liang of the central media financial channel, who was organizing and editing the interview video of Li Dongling, suddenly saw the report of the comprehensive channel of the same central media.

The report on the TV station made Meng Liang and a group of financial channel team members stunned. Lianxiang actually admitted defeat, and it was clean and neat, publicly apologizing and compensating, and no longer involved in the storage business, which was equivalent to accepting all the conditions of Shenzhou Storage!

"Quick, the interview video of Li Dongling must be organized today. The station will play it tonight!"

The supervisor of the central media financial channel ran in and shouted to Meng Liang, clearly having just received the news.

And at this moment, various media in the country also began to reprint the report of the central media. Companies in the domestic technology industry were in an uproar, and they all saw this explosive news.

The leader of domestic computers actually lost, and lost so miserably, which gave them a new understanding of Dongling Gao Ke's strength! ===== CHAPTER 480 =====