What’s Wrong With Me Being a Rich Man? - Chapter 245

Chapter 245 Public Opinion (5k)

A report from “Computer World” is not uncommon in terms of content, and the cases it lists are all content mentioned by many media in the past.

However, its criticism after integrating the reports is unprecedented!

This leads to short-term logging into the homepages of major portals, occupying popular topics on Weibo, flooding the pages of Baixiaosheng Forum, and Jishi.com, the online media platform of “Computer World”, was once squeezed out of the way. .

“Computer World” is a well-established newspaper founded in 1980 and is also the first industry newspaper in the country. At the same time, due to its era and policy background, it is also the only Sino-foreign joint venture newspaper approved by the competent authorities so far.

In 1991, it first opened a computer market information quotation page, and announced the quotations of major computer products and accessories in major cities every week, which made many people at that time go to the computer city with newspapers and negotiate prices based on the price list.

Shi Yuzhu had no money back then, so he tried to spend half a page of the advertisement on “Computer World” on credit. Zhou Hongyi, a junior high school student, often studied this newspaper when she was learning programming language by herself.

Even in 1995, 24-year-old Ma Huateng published an article titled “BBS and FidoNet” in the newspaper.

At that time, the penguin had not been founded.

Such a newspaper that witnessed the Chinese Internet industry and even influenced many industry celebrities, it ended in this way for the first time, and pointed the finger at the Internet giant company that has been criticized in recent years but has the highest market value. It did not expect it to cause such an uproar!

Public opinion is crazy, no, it can be said to be crazy!

The most direct impact of this is that Penguin’s stock price fell 5.3% during the day, and its market value evaporated by US$1.723 billion, equivalent to 11.54 billion in China Coin!

This situation immediately increased everyone’s heated discussion and participation.

As one of the public opinion platforms, Yu Xing received more than one pressure call, which was considered a side-by-side participation. Liu Wanying, the bear behind the scenes who was also caught off guard when she was also concerned about the situation, saw Penguin’s stock price drop like this, and she endured her support. I couldn’t help but make a quick profit, which was considered a moderate participation.

The newspaper that is truly involved may be to show its attitude, or to notice the influence of the sky, and issued a statement late at night saying that “arguments and objections are unavoidable objective things for Penguin and “Computer World”. Therefore, choose to be loyal to the media mission, choose to face the objective problems of the industry faithfully, choose to break the window and face the disputes directly.”

At the same time, the newspaper is also willing to “listen to opinions from all walks of life humbly, uphold the concept of independent and objective reporting that has been consistent for 30 years, and strive to provide the public with more exciting and valuable content.”

Yu Xing estimated that the pressure of this public opinion influence must also affect the newspaper itself, but it should be able to withstand it.

What’s more interesting is that the people mentioned in this report have spoken out to a greater or lesser extent, some still criticized Penguin, some believe that the report is just integration and has no practical meaning, and some are… curiously looking for identity.

The report mentioned a vice president of a well-known investment institution, describing his style of “seeing his eyes on the road and cursing his mother secretly”.

It’s not that this point is a little noticeable, but that the public opinion is too high this time. If only 100 people participate, no one may try to analyze the details, but there are always 10,000, 100,000, 1 million… Pay attention to scraps.

Liu Jiankai felt that he had been cheated by Yu Xing.

He was completely stunned after seeing the report at the first time!

Others don’t know, but they don’t know who the “Vice President of a well-known investment institution” mentioned in “Computer World” is!

He called Yu Xing with some anxiety the next time: “Damn, Mr. Yu, you…have you seen the report on Penguin? I actually mentioned me, you… This is the interview you introduced to… what to do?”

“What should I do?” Yu Xing asked back, “Didn’t you mention your name? Why are you panic?”

“I didn’t mention it, but I asked not to mention it when I was interviewing, but this description… Damn, our circle is very small, and more than one person has to review the writing of the reporter. Can the draft of this thing be less than me? ? Will it be revealed? “Liu Jiankai is really panicked.

Yu Xing said calmly: “What are you? He just mentioned my name directly, and he even started on the Baixiaosheng Forum. Penguin has already looked for me.”

“What do you say when the Penguin is looking for you?” Liu Jiankai vaguely guessed the answer and said helplessly, “I’m not afraid of you, you are just that kind of virtue. I still have to stay in the circle…”

Yu Xing replied calmly, “No need to say anything.”

He continued, “Don’t be anxious, don’t worry about it. If you really know, let’s talk about it.”

Liu Jiankai calmed down and sighed, “The Penguin family has a great career. You are… hey, you can really withstand the pressure!”

Although this characteristic has been verified many times, I can’t help but mention it every time I’m verified. From working emperors, listed companies to investing in BOSSs and industry giants, I really have great experience in this area!

“Don’t be nervous. Judging from the public opinion situation this time, you are considered history… you won’t leave your name.” Yu Xing paused, “It’s important to participate.”

Liu Jiankai didn’t want to participate more seriously, so he said helplessly: “It’s all your fault! You are free to introduce me to the interview, why are you doing…”

Yu Xing raised his voice and asked, “My introduction is my introduction, you can refuse the interview!”

Liu Jiankai: “…”

Yu Xing didn’t want to talk too much: “Okay, you are the vice president of a well-known investment institution. Be more energetic, don’t lose your share!”

Liu Jiankai ended the call speechlessly.

Yu Xing is actually quite busy. In addition to Bai Xiaosheng who needs to work overtime today, there is also work on the fourth floor. WeChat company was supposed to be put into the market internal testing this month as expected, but the technical director and deputy director reached an agreement and further debugging is needed. and solve the problem, so there will be delays.

The main problem is that when WeChat is conducting stress tests for large-scale users online at the same time, the message queue service has seen a surge in delays, and the message delivery time has soared from an average of 200ms to more than 5 seconds. Some requests are even discarded due to timeouts.

This involves the actual experience of WeChat. Although it can be launched into the market first, Yu Xing hesitated and respected the unified opinions of the two technical leaders.

However, he was busy receiving another call from Liu Jiankai.

“Vice President Liu, what’s wrong?” Yu Xingren patted his colleague on the shoulder on the fourth floor, signaling himself to answer the phone first.

Liu Jiankai’s voice was a little furious: “There is someone from Bai Xiaosheng who said my name anonymously, please withdraw it quickly!”

Yu Xing was surprised: “Someone really took out a small shrimp like you?”

Public opinion is so booming that the details of the report are actually no longer important. No matter what the president or vice president said, it is worthwhile.

Of course, the parties involved may not feel that way.

“Nonsense! Hurry up!” Liu Jiankai urged.

Suddenly, a strange silence fell into the phone.

Silence itself is attitude, it is the answer.

Liu Jiankai suddenly realized who was opposite, and a premonition arose in his heart, and quickly advised: “Mr. Yu, don’t do it, such a small thing will not have any impact on Bai Xiaosheng at all. Now everyone is paying attention to penguins and others. You Now this is a mistaken injury to a friend!”

Yu Xing’s voice became unsalt and unpredictable: “Who is a friend?”

“You…” Liu Jiankai was shocked and angry. At this moment, it was only when things came to an end that he suddenly understood what President Xu felt when he encountered something. When he thought about it, President Xu was not petty at all, and he could even be said to be very arrogant.

He controlled his emotions and took a breath, but he still felt annoyed that he could not hide his anger: “Yu Xing, I’m a sucker, I don’t know you anymore!”

Yu Xing said “yes” and was still calm: “Don’t you know each other now?”

Liu Jiankai was a little out of control and called him from a distance through the phone: “Yu Xing!”

Yu Xing replied steadily: “Hey, here you are.”

Liu Jiankai: “…”

Yu Xing waited for a while, and saw that there was no following, so he came up with an idea: “There is anonymous revelation, and you also have anonymous revelation. This kind of irrelevant thing, not many people should care about it except yourself. I won’t delete that content. , don’t delete your content, just do it, the water will be muddy.”

Liu Jiankai didn’t expect that Yu Xing really gave him something seemingly feasible.

He hesitated, “Is this OK?”

“Is that OK? Anyway, the kind you want is not OK.” Yu Xing replied.

Liu Jiankai was a little discouraged. At this time, he realized that the thin friendship he had established with Yu Xing recently was not as good as the influence of Mr. Xu, Penguin and other groups who had tried to exert pressure. Even they could not do it, and now they were helpless.

He thought about it and could only agree with such a suggestion and acted quickly.

Yu Xing dealt with the vice president of a well-known investment institution and continued to listen to WeChat’s work on the Android application market. This area was still smooth overall, because everyone is indeed short of revenue and business establishment. Now some people are willing to pay for it. Welcome cooperation.

However, in less than two hours, Liu Jiankai called again.

Yu Xing frowned this time and expressed his attitude in the first sentence: “So what’s wrong?”

Liu Jiankai was also helpless, but this time it was not his own: “Penguin came to say hello to us.”

Yu Xing: “…”

Liu Jiankai explained: “Today’s Capital is Bai Xiaosheng’s investor. It was the person over there who asked Mr. Xu to speak. Mr. Xu was too lazy to find you, so she arranged the work for me.” Yu Xing said “Yeah”. :”knew.”

Liu Jiankai asked, “Then why should I go back?”

Yu Xing replied, “Just say I’m cursing you secretly.”

Liu Jiankai wanted to speak, but he heard the busy voice of the phone being hung up.

He put down his phone in disappointment, thought carefully, and then informed the Penguin of this usual response with as gentle words as possible. Bai Xiaosheng didn’t buy it, Bai Xiaosheng didn’t buy it from the beginning…

In the end, the people on the Penguin did not show any other attitude.

Liu Jiankai thought that Penguin must be very busy now, and should be discussing how to deal with this overwhelming public opinion.

As expected, the Penguin only gave a statement slightly slow in the early morning, condemning the vicious words and poor illustrations of “Computer World”, believing that it brutally hurts the feelings of Penguin users and reserves the right to pursue legal responsibility.

Even in the early morning, Bai Xiaosheng’s forum was still lively and quickly pushed up the latest news.

Yu Xing was also not sleeping. He looked carefully at the statement from Penguin and gave his own opinions in the comment section of the post: “A very empty statement, which basically did not respond to any questions, is a very negative public relations action.”

Many users saw Dr. Yu appear and asked about the relevant situation, and some people asked whether Bai Xiaosheng was also under pressure from the giants.

No mistakes, one song, one content, one in 6, one book, one bar, one reading!

Yu Xing did not answer any questions, but only gave a smiley expression.

However, perhaps because of the remarks being noticed, or perhaps because of the feedback from the previous unsatisfactory communication, a Penguin employee soon posted anonymously, claiming that he had received an urgent notice and could not register an account with Bai Xiaosheng.

In other words, Penguin was probably angry with Bai Xiaosheng’s performance or Yu Xing’s remarks quoted in the report, and informally unilaterally banned Bai Xiaosheng.

Yu Xing was going to sleep, but after seeing this situation, he expressed his attitude: “Bai Xiaosheng will firmly protect user information, there is no doubt about this. In addition, although it is not clear whether this is true, if this does occur. In this case, I can only say that the report of “Computer World” is no wonder that it triggered such a big public opinion.”

In any case, Bai Xiaosheng, who has an anonymous mechanism, will protect user information. Penguin cannot read the backend data of Bai Xiaosheng, so it will definitely not be able to effectively restrain employee behavior.

This… was more obvious after Yu Xing went to bed.

At three o’clock in the morning, the latest news about Penguin appeared on the forum page, which had gradually returned to peace.

According to anonymous employees, Penguin President’s Office held an emergency meeting chaired by BOSS Ma Huateng. A copy was placed in front of each participant, which was the report of “Computer World”.

However, no one spoke in the first or twenty minutes before the meeting, and finally Ma Huateng spoke.

— “How can they curse?”

This description is vivid and vivid, as if it was seen with your own eyes.

Many users have sent similar questions: “Damn, who are you?”

When Yu Xing got up the next day and saw this revelation, he couldn’t help but look at the information in the other party’s backstage. He was an employee of Penguin Public Relations Department…

Uh, I can only say that PR is work and eating melons is life.

According to the public opinion observation the next day, the statement from Penguin obviously did not receive any resonance or sympathy, and as if he was also shocked by the latest revelations, Penguin’s intranet directly banned discussions on related situations.

At the same time, Bai Xiaosheng has some more news of informal bans.

After reacting to all kinds of situations, the penguin was confused and annoyed, and vaguely seemed quite panicked.

Attacks from all directions have given penguins several labels, such as “public enemy”, “greed”, “arrogance”, etc…. The penguins’ past performance has also been taken out and re-examined.

For example, when he accepted the dialogue between the annual industry meeting in 2009, Ren Yuxin, the president of Penguin’s game, received a question from the host, “How to compete with Penguin”. At that time, his answer was extremely harsh under today’s public opinion.

Ren Yuxin’s response was that only by cooperating with Penguin, they could build the market together.

Those who also attended the meeting smiled bitterly when they heard such a proud answer.

Fragmented information that can arouse discussion among netizens is spreading rapidly, but Penguin’s stock price has risen a little oversold, showing the stability of its basic market.

Yu Xing observed the public opinion and did not make any statements. He was just worried about the progress of WeChat company’s debugging and optimization. He felt that it was a good opportunity now. Penguin’s attention must be on this matter. A small seedling appeared in the instant messaging market. It won’t attract attention.

He kept quiet like this, and Zhou Hongyi, who is now threatened by penguins, took the opportunity to speak frequently on Weibo, and her purpose was self-evident, trying to use such public opinion to persuade the penguins to get out of their arousal.

On June 29, the third day after the public opinion appeared, Yu Xing received a call from the Computer World newspaper and noticed the pressure the other party might be under.

“Mr. Yu, do you think our report on Bai Xiaosheng is appropriate?”

Yu Xing knew what was going on when he heard this.

His answer was very direct and simple: “Your newspaper’s account has no problem withdrawing the article. It is free to send it, and withdrawing it is also free, but there will still be other users reposting it on the forum, and their actions are also free.”

There was a sigh at the other end of the phone and no further down.

That afternoon, Liu Jiankai’s mood became bad. He thought that his little shrimp had already passed, but he didn’t expect… The previous post that named him actually posted the interview draft, and his name appeared on it. .

This kind of thing is embarrassing.

What’s even more embarrassing is that Liu Jiankai also received a text message from the Penguin executive she had contacted before, with a sentence on it: “Mr. Liu, if you have any opinions, you can raise them in person, why bother to make those tricks behind your back.”

He was unable to justify.

Then there was an inquiry from the boss Xu Xin.

“Is it the interview you accepted?” Xu Xin was surprised, “Why didn’t you say that?”

Liu Jiankai didn’t know what he could say, so he could only smile bitterly.

The investment circle is not big, and this time I have been hurt by a large wave of public opinion.

He adjusted his mood and sent a WeChat message without calling Yu Xing: “Mr. Yu, I really have no shame to see people in the future.”

Yu Xing asked about the situation a little and learned the whole story.

Then, he replied to Vice President Liu: “If you can’t make it through today’s capital, then come to my side. In addition, the newspaper is under greater pressure, and Penguin’s offensive against 360 has not slowed down, even you There are obviously people staring at the information about the small shrimps, and I seem to smell the danger.”

After three days of public opinion, the information on the Internet has changed rapidly and has slowed down. Penguin seems to be trying to make some calculations. Bai Xiaosheng was asked again and again before, which is still very dazzling.

Liu Jiankai seized the opportunity and replied: “It’s dangerous or not, Mr. Yu, it’s time.”

Yu Xing didn’t say it was wrong, it was the intention of someone to mess with you, and you would be able to mess with others.

On June 30, not particularly late, Bai Xiaosheng received a call from the competent department.

Yu Xing did not go, so he directly asked Chairman Song Yufeng to deal with this situation.

As a result, according to Song Yufeng’s feedback, the attitude of this brief exchange was very bad, and he himself was also subjected to a fierce attack.

——”You, as the chairman, are neither sensible nor care about things. What are you doing?”

The above clearly knows who the person in charge of Bai Xiaosheng is, and is not satisfied with Song Yufeng’s response, so he asks to come over and explain the situation the next day.

Yu Xing inevitably needs to come forward this time.

However, when he was on the road, a message from technical director Ge Zhijie made him smile.

On the first day of July, the iOS version of WeChat passed the review of the Apple Store and can be launched at any time.

The seeds of WeChat company finally sprouted.

(End of this chapter)