Rebirth: My dad is a coal boss

The conditions proposed by Zhang Xiaolong are not conditions at all. Lin Hao originally wanted him to be fully responsible for YY. As for Foxmail, he is the founder, so it is understandable that he is reluctant to give it up. Moreover, Lin Hao originally planned to integrate the email business into YY. It is not bad to spend some money to acquire Foxmail now, so as to save his own research and development.

"Agree to his conditions, but Foxmail is now owned by Broada Company. What should we do if the other party is unwilling to sell it?" Lin Hao looked at Yang Qianer and asked.

"Zhang Xiaolong said that after acquiring Foxmail, Broada Company has not made a profit but has been losing money. It is already looking for a buyer to sell Foxmail. As long as we bid normally, Broada Company will definitely sell it."

"Then let the marketing department evaluate it. How much is Foxmail worth now? Broada is not in a hurry to sell it, so let's lower the price and try to complete the transaction before the end of the year."

"Okay, I will communicate with the marketing department right away." Yang Qianer and Lin Hao walked out after they finished talking.

In Lin Hao's plan, Inspur Technology has three core projects: games, YY, and e-commerce. Now Li Xueling is in charge of games, and Zhang Xiaolong will take over YY. It is estimated that he will arrive soon. Now only e-commerce is left.

Lin Hao's favorite is still Daqiangzi. This day is not far away. In the first half of 2003, a large-scale epidemic will break out - SARS.

Although this epidemic is not as widespread as the COVID-19 epidemic more than a decade later, because it is the first time to encounter such a thing, the whole society does not pay much attention to it, resulting in a particularly fast outbreak of the epidemic and a rapid increase in the number of infected people, especially in large cities, which are basically in a state of shutdown.

Beijing is even more severely affected. Schools are closed, factories are closed, all walks of life are shut down, and home quarantine is carried out. The hospital is full of infected people.

Moreover, this epidemic has appeared in many countries around the world, causing an international panic.

According to the current timeline, there have been many cases in Guangdong Province, but they have not attracted attention. This has led to many people being infected without knowing it, and when it really breaks out, it is directly out of control.

Lin Hao was powerless to solve this situation. First, he was a small figure. Although he made a lot of noise in the United States, it was just a small fight. Second, it was hard to explain this kind of thing. He couldn't say that he was reborn. No one would believe him. The most important thing was that when the epidemic was very serious, he still didn't take it seriously.

All Lin Hao could do was to let the people around him pay attention and make preparations for epidemic prevention in the company.

In his memory, Da Qiangzi's store was severely affected by the epidemic. More than a dozen stores across the country were closed one after another. Finally, they were forced to move online and barely survived.

When that time came, it would be Lin Hao's time to invite Da Qiangzi to join Inspur Technology. Fortunately, he had mentioned joining Inspur Technology to Da Qiangzi before. When he encountered difficulties, he would naturally remember Lin Hao's invitation.

Now he just had to wait for the opportunity to come. If Da Qiangzi still didn't want to join, it didn't matter. Lin Hao would invest in his JD Multimedia instead.

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For the next period of time, Lin Hao basically went back and forth between the company and home every day. Time soon came to January 15, the date of the company's annual meeting.

"Aren't you going to the company with me?" Lin Hao asked Shen Yuxuan, who was blushing as he had just dragged her to do morning exercises.

"I'm going to meet up with Jingyi and the others first, and then we'll go to the annual meeting together in the afternoon." Shen Yuxuan said to Lin Hao. Their school's final exams were over and the school would officially be on holiday tomorrow. After learning that Lin Hao's company was going to hold an annual meeting, they also wanted to attend it. When Shen Yuxuan told Lin Hao about it, Lin Hao agreed directly.

Shen Yuxuan didn't go to the company, so Lin Hao took a car to the company directly. In addition to the annual meeting, there was another important thing today, which was Zhang Xiaolong's first day at Inspur Technology.

Since Yang Qianer had contacted Lin Hao last time, Inspur was very fast and immediately contacted Zhang Xiaolong. They agreed to all his conditions and spent 15 million to acquire Foxmail software from Broadcom.

Broadcom originally offered 20 million RMB, but after some bargaining, and Broadcom was eager to sell Foxmail, it finally closed the deal at 15 million. This price was not bad. On March 16, 2005, Tencent spent 5 million US dollars to acquire Foxmail. Now he can be considered to have picked up a bargain.

After the deal was completed, Zhang Xiaolong also resigned from Broadcom.He was originally in charge of Foxmail at Broadcom, and now that the software is gone, it is normal for him to leave.

When Lin Hao arrived at the company, Zhang Xiaolong had already arrived and was chatting with Li Xueling. Both of them were technical experts, so they naturally chatted with each other. Although they had never met before, they had heard of each other's names.

In this era, the domestic IT industry was still very niche, especially the top technical experts. Li Xueling first helped Fang Xingdong to establish a research laboratory, helped Hu Yanping to do "Internet Weekly", and served as the editor-in-chief of "Programmer" magazine.

Li Xueling is very famous in this industry. If he hadn't been intercepted by Lin Hao, he should have gone to Sohu and served as the editor-in-chief of Sohu IT.

Not to mention Zhang Xiaolong, who sold Foxmail to Broadcom for 12 million yuan in 2000 and served as the company's vice president, achieving financial freedom early.

"Mr. Lin, let me introduce you. This is Zhang Xiaolong, the man you've been thinking about. Mr. Zhang is the boss of the company. Lin Hao, I think you two will definitely get along well." Li Xueling saw Lin Hao coming and took the initiative to introduce them to each other.

"I've been waiting for Mr. Zhang, and he's finally here." Lin Hao enthusiastically stepped forward and shook Zhang Xiaolong's hand. He was really excited. This was the second big shot in his hands. His social empire depended on him.

"I didn't expect Mr. Lin to be so young. If it weren't for Mr. Li's introduction, I wouldn't have believed it." Zhang Xiaolong was surprised to see Lin Hao so young. He had known about Inspur Technology before, but there was little information about Lin Hao. After seeing the real person, he didn't expect him to be so young.

"Haha, the two of you don't have to compliment each other. We'll be family members in the future." Li Xueling saw that the two had a tendency to flatter each other and said.

"Well said, we will all be family members from now on, Mr. Zhang, I will take you to visit the company."

Because of today's annual meeting, there was laughter and joy in the company. Although the annual meeting was held in the afternoon, there was no need to work in the morning. Those who had programs to perform were making final preparations, and those who did not have programs were discussing the annual meeting.

"This is Yang Qianer. Manager Yang is in charge of the company's administrative and human resources departments. You should have known each other, so I won't introduce you to her." Lin Hao took Zhang Xiaolong and Li Xueling out of the reception room, and Yang Qianer came over.

The two of them naturally knew each other. Zhang Xiaolong was poached by Yang Qianer. When Lin Hao didn't come this morning, it was Yang Qianer who received Zhang Xiaolong and helped him with the entry process.

"Of course I know Manager Yang, but she is a strong woman, the most powerful woman I have ever seen in the workplace." Zhang Xiaolong did not hesitate to praise her.

"Thank you for the compliment, Mr. Zhang. I just do my job well." Yang Qianer responded with a smile.

"This is the company's game department. It is now the company's largest department. It is headed by General Manager Li and is also the company's largest revenue project." As the few people walked in the company, Lin Hao introduced it to Zhang Xiaolong.

"I am also playing "Miracle MU". It is indeed the best game on the market. I heard that in just a few months, the number of game players has exceeded 5 million, and the number of online users has exceeded 1 million."

"No need to hear about it. The real data is even better than this." Li Xueling said a little proudly.

"Haha, the YY department you are in charge of, I think it will soon surpass him, but he dare not show off in front of you." Lin Hao said with a smile.

Li Xueling just listened to what Lin Hao said. Instant messaging is not that easy to do. The competition in this industry is too fierce, and there is also a behemoth Penguin. Although YY was created by him, he originally wanted to serve the game, but Lin Hao wanted to separate it and develop it separately, and directly rush into the field of instant messaging.

Zhang Xiaolong is very confident. He is optimistic about the field of instant messaging. As long as Lin Hao fully supports him, he is confident that he can develop well, even if there is a huge mountain of QQ in front of him.

Many employees of the company saw Lin Hao and others, and all of them were guessing Zhang Xiaolong's identity. After all, Yang Qianer, Li Xueling, and Lin Hao, the three company bosses, were all present. It was rare for one person to introduce the company.

"Although the YY department has just been established, it is small but complete. YY has been developed and will be released in a few days. Mr. Zhang, please take a look at our performance?"

"I have wanted to take a look for a long time. Since Mr. Lin said so, there must be some differences." There are many instant messaging software on the market now, but they are basically the same, and there are few differentiated things.

Li Xueling quickly logged into YY while operating the computer. The previous ones were all good, basically the same as QQ.But when he saw Li Xueling open the chat box and send a laughing expression, he was a little uneasy. The expression was very vivid, and he was sure that this expression was not available on any software.

Li Xueling sent more than a dozen expressions in a row, each of which was very vivid. The following voice function surprised Zhang Xiaolong even more. As a technology geek, he knew how difficult this technology was. He didn't expect that it was conquered by Inspur Technology, and the voice was still so clear. The most important thing was that multiple people could talk at the same time.

This made him a little bit unbelievable. It was fine to be able to talk, but it could actually be able to talk to multiple people at the same time. With this killer, he couldn't believe how much response YY would cause after it was released.

"In addition to voice, we are developing group functions and room functions. Once the development is successful, it will not be difficult to defeat QQ." Lin Hao said to Zhang Xiaolong very confidently.

At this moment, Zhang Xiaolong was shocked. He didn't expect that Inspur's R&D capabilities would be so strong. You know, QQ now has hundreds of millions of users, but none of these functions are available.

He was already imagining what expression Pony Ma of Penguin would have when YY was released.

After taking Zhang Xiaolong to visit the company, when Zhang Xiaolong saw the Taobao e-commerce department, he really understood Lin Hao's ambition, which was to take over the domestic Internet.

Inspur Technology has taken over all the games, communications, and e-commerce. Games are now the first in the industry, but the other two are not easy to do. The competition is extremely fierce. Without sufficient capital, it is difficult to survive.

But once all are successful, Inspur Technology will be the giant of the domestic Internet. Thinking of this, Zhang Xiaolong began to get excited. Only challenging things can be done with passion.

The morning passed as Lin Hao took Zhang Xiaolong to visit the company and told him about the company.

"Today afternoon, the company's annual meeting is also a welcoming banquet. This is a high standard." Lin Hao said with a smile.

"Not only that, to welcome you, General Manager Lin will go on stage to perform a show in person." Li Xueling also said.

"General Manager Lin, you have taken great pains for General Manager Zhang's arrival." Yang Qianer said with a smile.

"Is it true? Why don't I believe it?" Seeing that all three people said so, Zhang Xiaolong was a little skeptical.

"Of course it's true. The annual meeting was supposed to be held a long time ago, but it was postponed to today for you." Yang Qianer saw that Zhang Xiaolong didn't believe it and said seriously.

"Then I would like to thank Mr. Lin first, but Mr. Lin, what show are you going to perform?" Zhang Xiaolong asked with interest.

"This is kept secret for the time being. We will know in the afternoon." Lin Hao said mysteriously. So far, no one in the company knows what Lin Hao is going to perform.

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In the afternoon, the annual meeting of Inspur Technology was held at the Beijing Hotel. The location was absolutely reserved by Lin Hao. He directly booked an entire floor. More than 1,000 employees of the company all took buses to go there. More than 20 buses appeared on the streets of Beijing, attracting many people to stop. It is rare to see so many buses at once. I only saw the words of Inspur Technology on the body of the bus.

Many people don't know what company Inspur Technology is, but the Internet companies and technology companies in Beijing have exploded. The news that Inspur Technology is going to hold an annual meeting has been out for half a month.

It is said that the annual meeting is extremely luxurious, with unimaginable prizes, including mobile phones, laptops, digital cameras and other electronic products, and this is just the most basic. Countless red envelopes and bonuses will be distributed on site, and the special prize is said to be a car.

How can this not make employees of other companies in Beijing jealous, especially Baidu, Sohu and other companies that are also Internet companies.