In early 2001, after a year of commercial use, the ADSL network had been successfully rolled out across the country, bidding farewell to the slow speed and instability of dial-up Internet access, and the steep decline in monthly Internet access fees, leading to an explosive growth in the number of Internet users and the number of Internet cafes.

Yin Chan Venture Capital invested heavily in V Company and became the largest shareholder, and then let Huantu Network obtain the domestic agency rights of CS.

After the release of CS1.3, it has Internet functions and is no longer limited to LAN.

Lin Baiyao transferred Lei Guangming and several technical experts from Huantu Network, worked overtime with V Agency, and produced version 1.5 in March.

Then instead of going on the TT game platform, it was packaged into a client, named CSOL, and launched nationwide using a point card system. There is no need to register a TT account and you can log in directly.

At that time, CS had just emerged, and all the Internet cafes were playing pirated version 1.0. However, pirated versions could only be played on the LAN at most, and there were only a few people in the Internet cafe who were calling back and forth every day. Now that OL has launched, it is the more fun and classic Fengshen version 1.5.

version, immediately set off a huge craze for FPS.

At the same time, Yinchan Venture Capital acquired Bangzi's Yumeide Company and included "Legend". It also handed over the domestic agency rights to Huantu Network and launched the test shortly after the launch of CS.

Due to the success of the TT Internet cafe management system and TT payment system, Huantu Network has good cooperative relations with almost all large Internet cafes across the country, and the promotion of the two games is almost effortless.

During that time, promotional posters could be seen in Internet cafes in major, medium and small cities, and the number of people online quickly exceeded one million within a month, which became a miracle in the history of gaming.

However, TT's registered users have passed the 200 million threshold, with an average of 10 million online users. Due to the large traffic and extremely hard backend, they were able to sign an exclusive agency split agreement with Monternet, which was just launched, instead of the previous life.

All Internet companies here can sign contracts with Monternet.

Then through the mobile phone to send text messages, ringtone downloads, weather forecasts, text message pictures, text message answering and other value-added services, the mobile phone and PC side TT are connected, and initially there is a subtle feeling of interconnection, so regardless of the game income, it was finally realized in March

A profit of 20 million was achieved, which made the colleagues in the TT project team heave a big sigh of relief.

I have golden eggs, but my boss always spends money to support them, and I see the proud faces of my colleagues in the game project team next door earning an Audi every day. It is really frustrating.

However, due to the exclusive agreement, Sina, NetEase and Sohu, whose stock prices were in dire straits, were no longer able to turn around.

Due to the popularity of CS and Legend, Huantu has accumulated rich operational experience, so in November, it launched the self-developed Chinese style game "Westward Journey".

At this point, the three money-attracting beasts... oh no, the troika are running neck and neck. No one can shake Huantu Network's position as the industry's leading hegemon.

For these matters, Lin Baiyao only formulates strategies and does not need to do it himself. With a phone call, countless people will take action and act according to his will.

But Lin Baiyao was not idle either. He secretly traveled abroad at the beginning of the year, found Cynthia, and acquired a new energy technology company called HOKU to avoid risks through a complex equity structure and a leather company, as well as using a foreigner as the legal person of the company.

The reason for this is that at the end of last year, Chen Yuseng's Saili Green Energy Holdings Company and Fu Jinglong's Jingneng Group jointly established Lineng Technology Company and successfully went public through a backdoor listing. They entered the new energy field with a high profile and focused on the development of the photovoltaic industry.

HOKU holds many photovoltaic technology patents in the industry and is the best bait.

Soon, the news that HOKU's parent company was not doing well and wanted to transform and sell HOKU cleverly reached Fu Jinglong's ears.

After Fu Jinglong reported it to Chen Yuseng, he organized a group to visit HOKU. Not surprisingly, they were unable to resist the attractive prospect HOKU painted. Lineng Technology achieved absolute control at a price of US$120 million.

By the end of the year, various hidden problems in HOKU were exposed. Considering the initial investment, there was no way back the profit, so another US$100 million was invested in trying to save it. However, patent disputes, data falsification, chaotic management, coupled with the Chinese and foreign parties,

There is a cultural barrier between the two parties, mutual distrust, and other small shareholders are struggling so much that it cannot be saved by throwing money at them.

Let Lineng Technology sink deeper and deeper into the quagmire of HOKU, while Lin Baiyao leisurely negotiated with Sina, NetEase, and Sohu.

He first made an appointment with Zhang Zhaoyang of Sohu. Zhang Zhaoyang was currently in a precarious situation and had too much time to take care of himself. However, he still retained the pride of a CEO of a listed company and was unwilling to sell Sohu at a low price even if the stock price had dropped to 0.6 US dollars.

"Why, are you still waiting for China Telecom's fixed Monternet?"

This year, Monternet Mobile was a great success. China Telecom was jealous and began to build a fixed Monternet network ambitiously.

However, the results after the trial operation were too poor, so we had to start over and spend huge sums of money to build the Internet Starry Sky again. By the time the Internet Starry Sky was completed, the day lilies were also cold.

At this time, Sohu was so jealous that it was almost drooling when it saw that TT Network, which had come from behind, was benefiting from Monternet but could not get a share of the pie.

So I put all my hopes on Telecom, secretly invested a lot of money, and jointly developed it with Telecom, preparing to imitate TT and sign an exclusive cooperation agreement.

Zhang Zhaoyang smiled and said: "Mr. Lin, now that you have strong troops and strong horses and no need to worry about food and grass, you have to let us find ways to save ourselves, right?"

The words were not speculative, so Lin Baiyao stayed away from the physicist and turned to meet Wang Zhidong from Sina.

Wang Zhidong is now in a precarious situation and wants to grab any life-saving straw. He has ideas about the acquisition of Huantu and agrees to talk about it.

But the board of directors has no such plan, because selling at the current Sina stock price will not only make no money, but investors will also lose everything.

After hearing his proposal, Mr. Duan, who controlled FangSitong, was furious. On the day of the incident, he mercilessly dismissed the CEO through the board of directors and kicked him out of Sina.

In fact, it's just an excuse. As the founder, Wang Zhidong's equity was diluted from 20% to 6%, and he had serious differences with the board of directors. Sooner or later, this would happen.

The acquisition plan of Huantu Network has been blocked by Sohu and Sina. After the news came out, NetEase, one of the three major websites, was eagerly waiting for the arrival of Lin Baiyao.

But what makes Ding Lei feel depressed is that Lin Baiyao seems to have no regard for NetEase at all. Not to mention visiting him, he doesn't even have a phone number.

This made Ding Lei fall into deep self-doubt, until the foreign Jianshi Capital suddenly came and took the ownership of the "Miracle" online game and promised to hand it over to NetEase as its domestic agent.

Ding Lei is more realistic than Zhang Zhaoyang. NetEase has just suffered a financial crisis and been suspended from trading by Nasdaq. The stock price has been trading at US$0.56 for several months. It is lifeless. It has reached the edge of being delisted and has been PUAed by Lin Baiyao.

One, showing great enthusiasm and impatient for the acquisition of Jianshi Capital.

They fell in love with each other and hit it off immediately. On December 7, 2001, NetEase officially changed owners.

Jianshi Capital established a Xuanwu company in China and controlled NetEase through this company. Ding Lei still serves as the president of the company.

Subsequently, NetEase resumed trading and officially announced that it was the agent of "Miracle" and would be launched on the market in the first quarter of 2002. The stock price began to rebound.

Jianshi Capital now holds US$1.2 billion in funds and is hunting for low-end technology companies such as Microsoft, Cisco, Apple, etc. It is also the largest shareholder of Google. It has not failed in its investment so far and has caused a lot of stir in the industry.

people's attention.

However, after Li Shishi's death, few people knew about the relationship between Jianshi Capital and Lin Baiyao.

Through the complex equity design and the cross-shareholdings of multiple companies, it is difficult to find even the public spokesperson Cynthia. As the legal representative, Mo Ran is hidden behind Cynthia and is protected by the two moats in front. Lin

Baiyao naturally hides deeper.

The benefits of doing this are obvious.

For example, in the acquisition of NetEase this time, the initial contact with Sina Sohu was caused by Lin Baiyao's deliberate smoke. Then Jianshi Capital came forward to control NetEase easily.

The first purpose of controlling NetEase is that Lin Baiyao hopes to own a listed company with rice stocks, which will be more convenient for overseas mergers and acquisitions or international fund-raising in the future.

The second is the catfish effect.

If all the benefits are concentrated on Huantu Network, "big company disease" will inevitably occur, resulting in low efficiency, overstaffing, and arrogance and complacency.

Therefore, NetEase is used as gravel to serve as the opponent of Huantu Network.

Huantu is self-developed and NetEase is the main agent. For example, World of Warcraft in 2004 can be handed over to NetEase as an agent. Only when there is pressure can you be motivated. This will force Huantu to work hard and not relax.

As a single family, death is not far away. You chase each other and fly together.

Designed to bring NetEase under its control, Lin Baiyao's business empire has basically completed its layout.

Jianshi Capital invests in and acquires major emerging Internet companies, technology companies, energy companies, etc. abroad, and through Xuanwu Company, it provides cover or makes up for the damage at any time for the Ning'an Group.

Yin Chan Venture Capital is in China to support those companies that will emerge in the future that Lin Baiyao is unwilling to personally manage.

Ning'an Group's four main businesses:

The annual shipment volume of mobile phones is 11 million units, surpassing Nokia and Motorola, becoming the first in the country. It has built a full industry chain from screens, chips, batteries, integrated circuits, and body materials, and has the qualifications to talk to foreign-funded enterprises.

Real estate took off from Suhuai and gradually established a brand effect in large and medium-sized cities. It has entered the first echelon in the country and is gradually catching up.

The game is even more prosperous, there are no enemies, and it cooperates with V agency to form a global CS competitive event to cultivate the e-sports spirit and e-sports soil.

In terms of e-commerce, Xingsheng Online Bookstore, which has successfully transformed into C2C, plans to launch an improved TT payment system later next year, which will further widen the distance from other e-commerce companies. The stock price has bucked the trend and has risen to 36 yuan, with a market value of as much as

More than 8 billion.

These four major businesses are like a black hole swallowing money. The amount of money earned every day is a dream that ordinary people would not dare to dream of in several lifetimes.

This excites the employees of Ning'an Group and makes all opponents despair!

Of course, Hu Run announced the ranking of the domestic richest people in 2001, and Ye Xi was elected as the richest man as the president of Ning'an Group.

From the bottom of hell to the pinnacle of life shrouded in halo, Ye Xi followed Lin Baiyao and completed the journey to success in just four years.

March 2002.

Lin Baiyao quietly came to Shangdu to meet Zhao Tieqiao.

"How's the battle going?"

Zhao Tieqiao said: "In May, July, September and November, the total holdings of the main soybean contracts have exceeded 1 million, of which the July contract is the top priority, reaching more than 335,000... According to Binshi Exchange

According to the regulations, the margin will be increased to 11% for more than 300,000 pieces. In other words, both long and short parties will have to invest more than 600 million just to pay the margin..."

Lin Baiyao sneered: "The deposit doesn't matter, doesn't Chen Yuseng rely on his having more money? Then let's compare!"

Since February last year, the mung bean futures of Shangdu Exchange have finally come to an end, and funds have flowed to Bincheng Exchange in Liaodong.

The main trading category in Bincheng is soybeans. In 2001 alone, the trading volume of soybean futures was 1.9 trillion, accounting for 64% of all futures exchanges in the country.

It was also at this time that Zhao Tieqiao followed Lin Baiyao's arrangements, led the recovered Yuezimen and Yangnan Gang to fight for soybean futures, and attracted Chen Yuseng to follow suit and become his opponent.

Needless to say, there is no need to mention the hatred between the two sides. The last time the Mung Bean Futures was fought, both sides suffered losses. After more than two years of recuperation, they fought again, and the feelings of life and death were unanimous.

Therefore, they fought many times last year. Zhao Tieqiao was a short seller and Chen Yuseng was a long seller. Under the crazy attack of the short sellers, the soybean futures price of the May 2001 contract was driven from 2335 yuan to 1780 yuan.

When Chen Yuseng was retreating steadily, the National Council passed the "Regulations on the Safety Management of Agricultural Genetically Modified Organisms (Draft)". Taking advantage of the policy, bulls began to spend more than 3 billion to regain lost ground. Within two months, each major contract had 300

to an increase of 500 yuan.

But the joy did not last long. August came and Zhao Tieqiao received Lin Baiyao's ammunition replenishment and launched a full-scale attack. Chen Yuseng held high the banner of genetically modified, but he was still unable to save the day.

By November, the nine-month war ended with Chen Yuseng's defeat.
To be continued...