Back to 2003

The server was under too much pressure and could crash at any time, so Tianying acted particularly fast this time.

But what the webmaster couldn't understand was that both Yiwang and Jinshan, when they learned that Tianying was coming to negotiate again, instead of raising the purchase price, they showed a lack of interest. Jiucheng even directly rejected the proposal.

"Is there any mistake? Can you explain the situation clearly?"

The webmaster became a little anxious and roared at several people: "Our current data is obviously much better than before, and many websites have been shut down, leaving only us and Singularity. Why haven't they seen the situation clearly?"

"Master!"

A negotiator replied in a low voice: "The old city responded that the profits of the online book site are too small. Even if they publish ten sets of best-selling books a year, the annual profits will not be much. They are not in the mood to do it... and they have to risk it." Risk of being shut down at any time.”

"Why are they so short-sighted!"

When the webmaster heard this, he was at a loss.

The people from Old City are right. The online book site has huge traffic, but there are too few profit and monetization channels. It's like Singularity's traffic far exceeded that of Feiniao, but there was almost no profit, while Feiniao's daily clicks were only a few million. There are millions of net profits every month.

Coupled with this self-examination incident, many investors have discovered that the literary website is not a good project. Not only is it difficult to realize the investment, but it may also be shut down at any time. They spent millions to buy the website, only to be banned by the relevant departments the next day. Shut down, what a waste!

"Try again, try again..."

The webmaster took a deep breath and looked very helpless: "You go to Penguin, go to investors... Anyway, try your best."

"Okay, let's try it."

Everyone nodded, gritted their teeth and tried again.

Different from the crazy profits made by bookstores in later generations, most of the major bookstores before 08 were based on hobbies, and almost no one actually made money. Therefore, even if the traffic was huge, few investors were interested...until the VIP system gradually After it was perfected, novels began to be adapted into games and film and television dramas, and major capital began to pay attention to it.

……

"Lao Kong, have you thought about that?"

Dragging his exhausted body after get off work, the stationmaster was stopped by his wife as soon as he entered the house.

The Tianying stationmaster's surname is Kong. He is less than thirty years old and has a son who is just six years old this year.

"what's up?"

Stationmaster Kong changed his shoes, turned around and asked.

"Buying a house... my son will go to elementary school soon. Didn't I tell you last time? I want to buy a house in Xincheng District, so that my son can go to the best experimental elementary school in the district. It's also convenient for me to pick him up and drop him off in the morning and evening. ." His wife stared.

"The houses in the new district cost 30 to [-] yuan."

Stationmaster Kong paused and hesitated: "I don't have that much money at the moment."

"Didn't you say last time that we would have money when your website is successfully funded? Is there another problem with financing? That crappy website of yours, all our belongings were invested in it, and we invested millions, and now we can't even ask for it No one wants it anymore?"

The wife became anxious after hearing this and asked loudly.

"Keep your voice down! There's a little problem with the financing."

Stationmaster Kong quickly grabbed his wife and kept comforting her.

"What's the little problem? I've told you a long time ago that your website can't make any money, and no one will buy it if you sell it, so you insist on doing it... But now, you've built all the property, and your son can't even go to school. There is no place to go…”

As the wife talked, she was about to cry.

"Don't worry, it's not what you think!"

Stationmaster Kong held his wife in his arms and patted her shoulder to comfort her: "It's not that no one bought it, it's just that the price they offered was much lower than I expected, so I never agreed... I expected to sell it. It has to be sold for more than 1500 million, but no one has offered 800 million until now."

"800 million? 800 million! This is still a small amount!"

When the wife heard this, she was instantly shocked: "Lao Kong, don't be crazy. Can you sell as much as you want? If you can, sell it as soon as possible. Don't be too greedy... 800 million is already a lot. We can buy several houses." , there are still a few million left, you can use it to open another website."

"Open another website?"

Stationmaster Kong, who was originally troubled, was instantly enlightened.

Tianying Literature was founded by him with his own hands. At that time, his total wealth was only 80 million yuan. Now it seems that in less than three years, 80 million yuan has become 800 million yuan. The value has increased nearly ten times. It can be said to be a huge profit!

His wife is right. Now that he is short of money, he can sell Tianying first and use part of the money to build another website. With his many years of experience and sufficient funds on hand, it is entirely possible for him to make a comeback!

"Yes, sell it if you have to!"

After figuring this out, Station Manager Kong suddenly became enlightened.

Everyone has different points of attention. He thinks that Tianying.com is worth 1500 million, but others may not think so; he has the ability to create another website, but others may not have this ability.

Why bother hanging on!

……

“What’s the status of the website now?”

At work the next day, Station Manager Kong found Wang Yuke.

"It is running normally for the time being, but the delay is serious, and as the flow of people increases, it may collapse at any time."

Wang Yuke answered honestly.

"Okay, you contact Feiniao now and try to see if you can get it for 1000 million... If not, I'll buy it for 800 million."

Stationmaster Kong said cheerfully.

"Ah... OK, I'll contact you right away."

Wang Yuke hesitated slightly, then nodded.

He immediately called Tang Qinghua, and after careful discussions, the price was finally determined at 880 million.

880 million, including Tianying's company shares, domain names, authors, copyrights of current books, etc., but not including Tianying's old servers, offices, etc. Tianying's current editors who are willing to continue working can re-sign the contract. If you are unwilling to continue working, you need to complete the handover within fifteen working days.

After the contract was roughly negotiated, Feiniao immediately sent an eight-person team, led by Zhao Zhuoyan, to Tianying to sign the contract and begin taking over the work.

Tang Qinghua also flew there.

He doesn't need to be busy receiving work, but just watch quietly!

"Hello, stationmaster Kong——"

Tang Qinghua greeted Stationmaster Kong.

"you know me?"

Stationmaster Kong looked at him curiously.

“It’s better to see than hear once!”

Tang Qinghua smiled and stretched out his hand: "My surname is Tang, Tang Qinghua, supervisor of Feiniao.com... We really want to hire Webmaster Kong to continue to be the Webmaster of Tianying Literature, but the work location needs to be moved to Xidu... As for the salary issue , it’s completely possible to negotiate, I wonder if Station Master Kong is willing to condescend?”

"..."

Stationmaster Kong was silent for a long time, and finally shook his head: "I'm sorry, my wife, children, and children are all here, so it's inconvenient to go to Xidu... Please take good care of me!"

With several million in start-up capital, he was ready to build another website...of course, not a web-based website.

"That's a pity!"

Tang Qinghua couldn't help but sigh.

This webmaster Kong later served as the webmaster of many large websites, and he is also well-known in the online editing world. If he joins, it will definitely be a good thing for Tianying.