Facing Zhang Xiaolong's slightly puzzled eyes, Lu Yiming smiled slightly and said to him: "I want to cooperate with you on many projects. Let's talk about the software just now. You only have a week at most. Give me one. Stable and reliable software. I can pay you 100,000 in advance, and if you can build it within five days and pass my test, I can give you the remaining 900,000."

The budget Lu Yiming told Lei Peilin was 100,000, but the person in front of him was Zhang Xiaolong, so Lu Yiming decided to directly increase the price tenfold.

Maybe this is the shadow of the famous tree.

More than ten years later, WeChat's influence has become so great that in the era before Lu Yiming was reborn, no one dared to imagine what everyone's life would be like without WeChat.

Of course, everything exists in history. Even if it is as powerful as WeChat, it will be replaced and forgotten one day in the future. But at least for now, it is invincible.

The invincible hero who created this product is none other than Zhang Xiaolong himself. Therefore, in Lu Yiming's eyes, he seems to have his own aura and is naturally different from others.

"Just this software, one million?"

After Zhang Xiaolong learned about Lu Yiming's quotation, he was completely surprised.

Because, in his opinion, the function of this software is too simple, so simple that he can think of all the logical statements clearly when he closes his eyes.

Writing a vote counting software that meets Lu Yiming's requirements is as easy as eating and drinking for him.

Of course, he also knew very well that what Lu Yiming wanted was not a complex software, but a stable and error-free software, and he was pressed for time, so this million was not so easy to get, at least not by anyone. Everyone has the ability to get it.

Comparing the detailed requirements put forward by Lu Yiming, Zhang Xiaolong thought silently for a moment. He found that this software seemed to have only one function, which was to count the votes received by each contestant in real time.

But the difficult part is how to accurately feed the votes into the contestant vote statistics while dealing with thousands of phone calls and mobile phone votes at the same time.

But no matter what, Zhang Xiaolong felt that one million was a sky-high reward and worth his efforts.

Lei Jun was only willing to pay 150,000 yuan to buy Foxmail. In the end, he thought 150,000 yuan was too much and didn't buy it.

By comparison, the Lu Yiming in front of him is at least as generous as seven Lei Juns.

Faced with a "macho man from heaven" like Zhang Xiaolong, Lu Yiming also said sincerely: "Yes, money is not a problem when you cooperate with me. As long as you nod, one hundred thousand will be credited to your account immediately. After the software verification is painful, you will call immediately." money."

This program "Millions of Painters" is very important, not only related to the life and death of Shijinji, but also related to whether the first generation reality show can be reproduced on the screens of Xia Kingdom.

If everything goes well, everything will be prosperous from now on.

If it is full of loopholes, I am afraid it will disappear from now on.

Compared with the consequences of losing everything, one million is nothing at all. As a human being, you must be able to settle accounts, and you must not lose big because of small things.

As the saying goes, it is difficult for a rich man to be a man without money.

No matter how proud Zhang Xiaolong was, he now had to bow his head in front of the cruel reality. The price offered by Lu Yiming was something he couldn't refuse, so his answer was straightforward.

"Okay, I'll do it when I get back."

Lu Yiming felt relieved when he saw Zhang Xiaolong agreed.

After all, I don’t have to take days off to work on the software.

After talking about the vote counting software, Lu Yiming poured Zhang Xiaolong another glass of wine and asked tentatively: "Okay, let's talk about the second cooperation. I heard that Lei Jun from Kingsoft Software recently wanted to buy it.

Your foxmail?"

Speaking of foxmail, Zhang Xiaolong couldn't help but sigh. This incident really made him feel particularly chilled.

He originally thought that Lei Jun's purchase of Foxmail was the beginning of his turnaround, but he didn't expect that this salty fish had just fluttered a few times and was forced to lie down again in the blink of an eye.

In front of Lu Yiming, a bitter smile appeared on Zhang Xiaolong's lips: "Yes, he talked about it, but today he called me and said he gave up."

Lu Yiming laughed and asked, "Then do you know why he gave up?"

Zhang Xiaolong raised his head and looked at Lu Yiming with a confused look on his face: "How can I know what he thinks?"

Lu Yiming showed disdain, obviously having deep resentment towards Lei Jun, and complained directly: "That guy does nothing but play monkey all day long, he knows nothing about the Internet."

"Monkey play?"

Zhang Xiaolong said in confusion: "Isn't Mr. Lei the general manager of Kingsoft Software? How can he not understand the Internet? As for playing monkey... Mr. Lu, are we talking about the same Lei Jun?"

Today's Lei Jun has not yet started his "areyouok" style ghost marketing, so Zhang Xiaolong cannot understand Lu Yiming's ridicule at all.

Lu Yiming didn't bother to explain more, and instead said: "Your software is very good. I tried to use it. Compared with other similar competing products, its functions are quite complete. It costs more than 500,000 yuan."

The number of users is a major highlight. Young man, you have a bright future."

Although it was very funny for Lu Yiming, a teenager, to call thirty-year-old Zhang Xiaolong "young man", Zhang Xiaolong didn't notice it at all.

He just smiled bitterly, shook his head, and said in a low tone: "What's the use of having a future, I have no money. In the past few days, someone named Zhou Hongyi came to me and suggested that I add ads to Foxmail, but I didn't agree.

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"Why, aren't you very short of money?"

Zhang Xiaolong sighed: "Although I am short of money, I still want to persevere. After all, the essence of the Internet should be sharing and convenience. Whoever is free and simple can win users. Adding ads to Foxmail will destroy Foxmail."

, I am still unwilling to accept it after all, foxmail deserves a better future."

For the first software he independently developed, Zhang Xiaolong had high hopes for Foxmail, so even though he was in poverty, he persisted and did not follow the trend and use Foxmail to make quick money.

There is no doubt that this view is absolutely avant-garde in this era!

Take a look at what other Internet companies are doing?

Yahoo, the overlord among portal websites, has made its homepage look like a third-rate small website. The page is garish and the screen is full of colorful advertisements, which are like dog-skin plasters that want to fly out of the monitor and directly hit the user's face.

There are also various software companies that all rely on user payments to earn income. For example, Kingsoft, the most famous drug tycoon in China, is completely imitating Microsoft's business model.

A dignified Internet company actually relies on "selling CDs" to make money. It's so embarrassing that it would be thrown into my grandma's house.

Lu Yiming had a happy expression on his face and patted Zhang Xiaolong's shoulder hard: "Fortunately, you didn't agree to add ads in Foxmail. The red clothes are not a good thing this week."

It is rare to have a confidant in life. Zhang Xiaolong was moved but also puzzled, and asked: "Mr. Lu, why do you also think that advertising cannot be added to Foxmail?"

Lu Yiming poured a glass of wine for Zhang Xiaolong and then analyzed it for him: "Doing business is the same as being a human being. If you want to achieve a big business, you must first have a big picture. If your foxmail advertises, how many dollars can you make in a month?

Money? What is really valuable is user resources. For Internet companies, everything else is empty. Only the number of users is king."

After a few glasses of water and wine, Lu Yiming became more talkative: "Since you want to occupy a place on the Internet, instead of thinking of ways to expand the number of users, you just want to make a quick buck immediately. Isn't this killing the goose that lays the egg?"

You think, your current software has 500,000 users. When you have 5 million, 50 million or even 500 million users, the entire Internet will have to call you dad. By then, you are still afraid that you will not be able to make money.

Got the money?"

Zhang Xiaolong originally only had a vague view of the future of the Internet, but Lu Yiming's words undoubtedly opened a door to the future world for him. It made him suddenly realize it!

Yes, the essence of the Internet is to connect the whole world. This method of information exchange allows all Internet users to escape the constraints of space in the real world.

A whole new market has emerged as a result.

In the new environment, there will naturally be new business rules. The business ecology of the Internet is bound to be completely different from traditional commercial trade!

There is no doubt that in the virtual field, the user base is everything!

Zhang Xiaolong drank the wine in his glass in one gulp, feeling no longer confused at all. Under Lu Yiming's guidance, he had already seen the future trend clearly.

"Listening to your words is worth ten years of studying! Mr. Lu, I'd like to toast you!"

Zhang Xiaolong admired the "guide" in front of him from the bottom of his heart.

Lu Yiming picked up his glass of wine and talked to Zhang Xiaolong and Peng Leping, grinning from the corner of his mouth to his ears: "With your intelligence, you will be able to figure this out sooner or later. I'm just telling you the correct answer in advance, it's nothing."

Zhang Xiaolong said: "Time is money, time is life. If you hear the truth in the morning, you will die in the evening. Although Mr. Lu only said a few words, they were thought-provoking and enlightening to me. The ancients had a 'one-word master'

Allusion, today, Mr. Lu is also my teacher."

Lu Yiming laughed: "Look at you, educated people speak differently."

Later, Lu Yiming took the opportunity to say: "How is it? Are you still selling your foxmail?"

Zhang Xiaolong opened his heart today, and his whole person was elevated to an unprecedented level. The foxmail he was so proud of suddenly became so ordinary.

He is confident that as long as conditions permit, he can make a software that is more popular among Internet users.

After hearing Lu Yiming's question, Zhang Xiaolong asked: "Is Mr. Lu planning to buy Foxmail?"

Lu Yiming nodded slightly, with a casual expression: "I have such an idea, please make a price."

Zhang Xiaolong shook his head solemnly, gritted his teeth firmly, and said to Lu Yiming: "Mr. Lu, you better make the offer. No matter how much you offer, I will never bargain!"

He obviously wanted to use this method to repay Lu Yiming's kindness of "preaching and receiving karma".

"You really want me to make an offer?"

"yes."

"Don't regret it?"

"No regrets!"

"Okay then, I'll really make an offer."

"Well, even if Mr. Lu says so, I will never counter-offer."

"As a gentleman says, a horse is hard to catch, so ten million is enough."

"Okay...wait, how much is it?"

Zhang Xiaolong thought there was something wrong with his ears.

"Ten million?"

"Mr. Lu, I would like to ask, did you say an extra 'thousand' word, or an extra 'ten thousand' word?"
To be continued...