Natasha returned to the office and called Liu Zhichang, Ivano and Kimil for a small meeting.

"Mr. Cao has arranged a new task for us. The new task is about encryption algorithms. At present, the AI ​​project does not require so many people. I plan to select three to four people from each group and let them complete the tasks assigned by Mr. Cao.

Mission, what do you think about this?" Natasha asked.

"No problem, I will pick the right person from the group," Kimmel said.

"There are two suitable people in our team who have experience in encryption algorithms." Ivano replied.

"Junior brother Yan Shoushan in our group has served as the project manager of a certain secret encryption algorithm and has sufficient experience in encryption algorithms. I think it is most appropriate for him to be in charge of this project." Liu Zhichang thought for a while and said.

"Do you have any opinions on Senior Brother Liu's proposal?" Natasha asked.

Thinking that the person must have participated in a project of some secret department, Ivano and Kimil looked at each other and shook their heads. Liu Zhichang, the two of them, had no objections to the proposal.

After four people decided, Yan Shoushan will be in charge of the encryption algorithm project.

...

August 21, 2003.

After Penguin gave up and reduced its investment in social business, relying on its gaming business and Internet cafe business, Penguin's profits once again returned to an upward trend.

MapleStory, which was originally a major agent, was taken down by Penguin due to the butterfly effect.

Now that MapleStory has entered the internal testing stage and will conduct public testing in October, MapleStory will enter China one year earlier than in its previous life.

Chengda's Legend World has been successfully launched with the help of Qilin, but Chengda and Legend's parent company are still at loggerheads.

[Tomorrow's Son] The preliminary audition activities have ended, and the first episode of the program will be recorded on August 25. Fan Xiaopang not only manages the entire Tomorrow's Son, but also personally serves as the selection guest for Tomorrow's Son.

...

On this day, Zheng Xigui flew from Kyoto to Shenzhen City. His goal for coming to Shenzhen City this time was penguins.

"I have admired Mr. Ma for a long time." Zheng Xigui smiled warmly when he saw Brother Ma.

"Hello, Mr. Zheng." Xiao Ma said calmly.

The two shook hands and sat down at the tea table. Brother Ma elegantly brewed tea. During this period of time, Brother Ma improved his health and the white hair on his temples also recovered.

"Mr. Ma, I came here mainly for the cooperation between our two countries. I hope that Penguin can provide eBay with a traffic access entrance." Zheng Xigui said.

"Mr. Zheng, I'm not afraid to tell you that Penguin users don't save even one in ten, so they can't give eBay much traffic," Xiao Ma said.

"Mr. Ma's users are all accumulating, but I don't know how Penguin charges." Zheng Xigui asked.

"Although Penguin's current users are less than 1 in 10, there are still 500,000 online users. It's definitely not appropriate to charge too much. Penguin may lose money if it charges too little. Mr. Zheng, what do you think of 20 million a year?" Xiao Ma

Brother said.

"Mr. Ma, what do you think of eight million a year?" Zheng Xigui said after thinking about it.

Zheng Xigui had already asked the operations department to conduct an evaluation before going out. The price of 8 million was the highest price eBay could offer.

"Mr. Zheng, an ordinary Penguin advertising space costs 6 million for the whole year. Although Penguin is already sunset, Penguin's advertising space is not so cheap. The price I gave you is 20 million, which is already very affordable.

It's a discount, if Mr. Zheng insists on eight million, then I don't think we need to continue talking." Xiao Ma said calmly.

The launch of Kirin Taobao indicates that Kirin Taobao will compete with eBay. Whether it is eBay or Kirin Taobao, Xiao Ma has used these two products.

On the 18th, Brother Ma also bought a Skyworth rear-projection TV for his family on Kylin Taobao.

Whether it is user experience, the entire payment process, or logistics delivery, Kirin Taobao can be said to completely beat eBay.

This feeling is too familiar to Ma Xiao, just like when Qilin Universe defeated Penguin.

More than half of the traffic on the Internet is under the control of Qilin, and every remaining traffic is very precious, so Xiao Ma dared to shout out the price of 20 million.

If eBay does not cherish the remaining traffic, it will lose the capital to compete with Kirin. Unless eBay can provide subsidies regardless of costs, eBay may be able to defeat Kirin Taobao through a price war.

However, this kind of thing is basically impossible in Xiao Ma's opinion. Who knows what strange tricks Qilin will come up with to deal with eBay.

It’s not that Penguin didn’t subsidize it back then, but it ended up being lonely. The money was like throwing it into the water, without even a splash.

"Mr. Ma, look at this, twelve million a year, what do you think of the price?" Zheng Xigui said with a smile.

"Twenty million can't be less than a penny." Xiao Ma said raising two fingers.

Brother Xiao Ma is not as kind as he said when he offered this price. This price is far twice as high as the real value of the interface. Brother Xiao Ma knows that eBay has a demand for traffic, so he offers such a price to take advantage of the situation.

Price comes.

Brother Xiao Ma: I want this price, do you like it or not?

"Mr. Ma, this price is beyond my authority. Let me go back and apply to the headquarters. I will contact you after the headquarters responds." Zheng Xigui said with a dark face.

He had no way to deal with Brother Xiao Ma's attempt to rob him. Zheng Xigui could only leave Penguin's headquarters with a dark face. His next stop was to go to the headquarters of Some Ya Forum in Qiongzhou.

As for the penguins, we can only put them aside for the time being.

...

Zheng Xigui arrived in Qiongzhou around three o'clock in the afternoon.

Xing Ming, the owner of a certain forum, also took this opportunity to rob eBay.

"Our forum has an average daily traffic of 20 million. If eBay wants to build an interface on the forum, it will be no problem. We only need 10 million per year."

Xing Ming only mentioned the average daily traffic of a certain site, but did not mention the number of online users. There were only 30,000 online users of a certain site at the same time. If this number was stated, it would be great to get three million a year.

Zheng Xigui and Xing Ming negotiated the price for an hour, and finally settled the deal at five million.

"What the hell, what a bitch, you're taking advantage of the situation one by one." Zheng Xigui cursed after walking out of Someya's headquarters.

Before Zheng Xigui came to Penguin and Mouya Forum, he went to the headquarters of Moupu Forum. With 100 million registered users, Moupu grabbed 30 million soft sister coins on eBay.

Zheng Xigui sent an email to Meg Whitman at night.
Chapter completed!