Once the offer with a 51% holding of 30 million yuan was proposed, it was approved by the Qidian Chinese Network team. For Qidian's founding team, this offer is no different from a pie falling from the sky.

At the moment when the capital market is not yet mature and the business model has not been fully recognized by the market, Qidian team has been looking for money in the capital market for a long time, but they have returned in vain. But now, not only is the money delivered to the door, but it is much more than what they want.

So, before the person in charge of Qidian had time to return to the Shanghai Stock Exchange, he immediately signed a contract with Makino Technology on behalf of the entire team.

The team before the investment was exempted from due diligence, and the financial audit before the investment was also exempted. After the investment was completed, Li Mu's simply exceeded his imagination. He sent an offer yesterday, signed it today, paid the payment on the day after the signing and immediately began to prepare to launch a reading channel on yy.com.

The reason why he is so casual is that on the one hand, Li Mu is very confident in the ability of this team, and on the other hand, he really doesn’t have much money, just tens of millions. He might as well invest a quick decision, which can leave other entrepreneurial teams with the impression that Muye Technology is generous and easy to pay.

However, giving money at will does not mean that Li Mu has not done a good job. At the current stage, it is meaningless to expect online novels to make money. The low net profit margin in this industry is simply beyond imagination. Just take the current business model and share the subscription with the author 5:5. That is to say, the gross profit margin is 50% of revenue. However, in this 50%, all the company's operating costs, personnel salary, office space, office supplies, financial losses, and corporate taxes may not be left in the end. In addition, the total amount itself is small, so there is no hope for profit space.

However, Li Mu values ​​the future of this industry. Behind the online novels, it represents an excellent content library, strong user viscosity and broad derivative development space. Excellent content can produce natural centripetal force for users and bring huge advantages to the promotion of the platform. Moreover, excellent content can greatly enhance users' loyalty to the platform. At present, although these excellent online literature are just digital texts, in the near future, they can be transformed into powerful high-quality IPs, which can be delivered to film, television, animation, games and other derivative directions, becoming popular products in this field.

In the future, if yy.com wants to enhance user viscosity, it depends entirely on short stories and fragmented information. Blogs are difficult to maintain, but high-quality novels are different. The serialized high-quality novels can produce strong viscosity for users and allow users to log in to the platform to read every day. This advantage is very powerful. In the near future, if yy.com is opened, only a second-level domain name of read.yy.com or book.yy.com can be used to load all the content of Qidian Chinese website and provide it to all yy users to read. This will not only increase the content volume of yy.com, but also enhance the viscosity of yy users, and also promote the rapid development of the entire Internet literature.

Moreover, in the future, the demand for high-quality IPs of Muye Image will continue to increase. Taking the Qidian Chinese Network, a high-quality copyright ammunition database, will be a great supplement to Muye Image. At the same time, Wanying Real Estate has a film and television base project that is about to be launched. These high-quality IPs can also be quickly digested through the film and television base, a super platform of the film and television industry, to form a complete industrial chain.

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Just when Li Mu used the speed of light to get Qidian Chinese, and just as the world media kept reporting on his two major plans, Li Mu, who was in the center of public opinion, got news from Lin Qingya from the United States.

Last time, Li Mu asked Li Ziwei to convey her own demands and asked her to investigate Microsoft's two recent key trends in her own direction, and they have received replies.

First of all, it is about the stay and departure of the former Microsoft MSN project team employees.

Through routine investigations and hiring high-end private detectives, Lin Qingya conducted a very rigorous investigation on Microsoft. After many days of investigation and analysis by private detectives, the following conclusions were drawn.

First, when msn announced the suspension of maintenance, all msn staff were not fired, but instead transferred internally within Microsoft;

This is a bit abnormal. According to Microsoft's previous routine, a business unit was abolished, so many employees were idle but not laid off, which almost never happened. Moreover, internal transfers of so many employees brought great pressure to other departments. Microsoft must have put a lot of effort into digesting and absorbing such a large team.

To give the simplest example, the KPI assessment indicator alone will have a great negative impact. A team of 150 people, carrying 100 million US dollars of labor costs and 1 billion US dollars of performance. It was no problem to complete it. Suddenly, it was required to accept at least 30 employees diverted from other departments, and they were all high salaries, increasing labor costs by at least 20 million US dollars a year, which has a great impact on the department. Moreover, the joining of 30 new employees, especially those who were originally responsible for other fields, will increase the digestive pressure of the department, and will slow down the pace of the entire team.

Microsoft is willing to pay such a price and keep these people forever, which proves that Microsoft's social heart has never died.

Second, some old employees in the msn system chose to resign because they could not adapt to the new position, but this group of people did return to Microsoft recently as Li Mu guessed, which further proved Li Mu's guess that if Microsoft had not wanted to play social cards again, it would not have been difficult to summon these resigned employees back;

Third and most direct proof that private detectives conducted close monitoring and investigation on these old MSN business units and found that their working hours have increased significantly in the recent past.

Among the many private investigations on Microsoft employees, the most representative one is an engineer named Angru. Since the days when private detectives began to investigate him, he worked at 8:30 in the morning and got off at 10:00 in the evening. This happened to be a weekend. He also worked overtime in the company on Saturday, and also worked from morning to night.

To prove that the person's work trajectory has changed, private detectives investigated his credit card consumption record.

Americans rarely bring cash when they go out. Credit cards and cash checks are the main means of payment, and the most commonly used one is credit cards. A person's credit card consumption records are enough to draw a portrait of his entire behavior.

Just a month ago, for several months, Angru's credit card consumption records showed that he rarely worked overtime. For example, after 6 pm on weekdays, he spent credit card almost every day, and the consumption scenarios were gas stations, cafes, supermarkets, bars, and cinemas. This proves that a month ago, this person basically did not work overtime.

Moreover, if he counts his consumption every weekend in the past few months, he will find that he often flies from Seattle to San Francisco on Friday nights on weekends, and then flies back from San Francisco on Sunday nights. Private detectives continue to investigate and find that Angru's wife and children are both settled in San Francisco, so he will go back to San Francisco to accompany his wife and children every weekend.

But, since more than a month ago, Angelo has not flown past San Francisco again, why? Because he works overtime at Microsoft headquarters every Saturday.

Interestingly, private detectives also found that in order to obtain all the clue chains, they checked Angru's wife in reverse to see if she would come to Seattle to accompany Angru every week. It turned out that in the past month, Angru's wife had only been to Seattle once, and her credit card had opened a room five times in a local high-end hotel in San Francisco. Each time they went there to have a tryst with her, it turned out to be her fitness coach.

In short, the evidence link at the personnel level is already very obvious. According to Li Mu's nuclear weapons logic, they are all Microsoft's uranium mine reserves. Now, they have all been mined by Microsoft, which proves that Microsoft is indeed going to make a fuss about nuclear issues;

Secondly, it is a recent action survey on Microsoft's data processing center, computer room, and bandwidth, and the results have also made very clear discoveries.

An offshore company actually controlled by Microsoft has invested $200 million in Chicago to build three large data processing centers, and three data processing centers in Texas are under construction. At the same time, the company has signed agreements with several companies that provide data processing services, locking in a large amount of computer rooms and bandwidth redundancy.

Microsoft is different from Makino Technology. The core product of Makino Technology is to link users from all over the world, through text, voice, video, and music and hobbies. In this case, Makino Technology has a huge demand for data processing capabilities. In contrast, after Microsoft stopped msn, most of its products are tool software. Users of these software do not need to be interconnected, but only need to connect with the headquarters to ensure updates and daily information interactions. Therefore, their demand for data processing capabilities is several levels worse than Makino Technology.

Makino Technology is like a super factory with the largest output of electrolytic aluminum. It consumes so much power that it has to invest in building multiple power plants around the world to reduce costs and ensure power supply. However, Microsoft is like a beef production base with the largest output of the world. The demand for electricity is far less terrifying than electrolytic aluminum. However, such a company with the main business of cattle raising has built multiple power plants, and there must be an ulterior motive in it.

This is the second basis for Li Mu to judge Microsoft's actions. He has confirmed that Microsoft is mining uranium mines and has confirmed that Microsoft has invested a huge amount of electricity. Even if he has not seen thousands of centrifuges hidden in the dark, he can still be sure that what Microsoft wants to do is nuclear weapons!
Chapter completed!