At this time, Kunteng online is only committed to launching the first generation of Chinese search engine, providing free network services such as e-mail, and building a large network virtual community.


    At present, Kunteng online has opened 8 forums, 2 online magazines, 3 characteristic columns and 1 chat room. The Sports Salon is also the column mainly operated by Liang Wenjiang and Ma Xiangdong before they obtained the capital injection of Jinhu. At this time, it has become a station with considerable popularity and visits, and enjoys a high reputation among sports fans, sports media reporters and other people.


    Of course, the daily page views of 80000 people still have some children''s games in the future, but this is February 1997, when the Internet has just started in China.


    Tang Jing and Zhang Ke came into contact with the Internet very early, which is the earliest group of Internet users in China. Usually, she only came into contact with the web pages opened on the computer screen, but she didn''t know what was hidden behind the web page. Liberal arts students always have a natural worship for things at the technical level, Tang Jing thought it would be a miracle for a pretty girl like Wang Cailing to be proficient in professional knowledge such as computer logic code; Zhang Ke also thinks that it''s a miracle that Beiyou girls, who are proficient in computer programming, can still be a bit beautiful, and that some circuitous cousin Liang Wenjiang can get it.


    At noon, I ate lunch boxes in the company''s office. Originally, there were few people on duty. In addition to Ma Xiangdong and two technicians, there were also two website content editors on duty. They all had to work for 12 hours before rotation.


    After lunch, Zhang Ke will not stay in the company. Liang Wenjiang will replace Ma Xiangdong on duty in the company in the afternoon. He and his girlfriend Wang Cailing will no longer visit Xu Xueping''s house.


    Before leaving the public car, Zhang Ke said to Ma Xiangdong and Liang Wenjiang: "I have seen some professional materials. To become a portal transit website, the home page of Kunteng online needs to be greatly strengthened in terms of message timeliness, information volume, real-time dynamic refresh, and the integration of search engine pages and Forum index pages with the home page..."


    Listening to Zhang Ke talk about his vision of Kunteng online, Ma Xiangdong and Liang Wenjiang naturally want to talk to Zhang Ke about the current dilemma.


    "I''m short of money," Ma Xiangdong said, "Kunteng''s server is set up in the United States, and domestic Internet users have been connected to the page for a long time. I think we should at least make our sports salon the largest sports website in China first. The investment in hardware is essential. We calculated that as long as the domestic mirror server is opened, the speed of connecting to the mirror station page can be at least doubled... In addition, content editing and information collection , website maintenance, need to increase manpower... "


    "Short of money?" Zhang Ke stepped into the car with half his feet, turned his head and said, "Jinhu can inject another 20 million yuan into Kunteng online and upgrade the company to a joint stock limited company. In addition, Aida electronics and Xinguang paper will also consider advertising on Kunteng online. You know that at this stage, the income from website advertising is very limited. After spending the 20 million yuan, you have to consider going out to find money..."


    "20 million?" Ma Xiangdong scratched his forehead. "The website architecture has been preliminarily completed and needs continuous improvement. These money can last for almost a year..."


    In 1997, everything connected with the Internet was expensive. Hardware equipment was expensive, servers were expensive to rent, and technicians were expensive... Investing in the Internet was like burning money.


    This is only the operation under the existing website structure. In order to meet Zhang Ke''s requirements and become a portal transit website, it needs further upgrading and personnel expansion, and the cost will increase exponentially.


    Ma Xiangdong was worried that Zhang Ke could not understand and spoke in a weak tone.


    To tell the truth, investors who have not seen the scale of money burning by European and American website operators can hardly understand the cost of large-scale website operation. Even college students who graduated from some professional colleges and universities ten years later even think that as long as they casually invest 1 million in Sina and Sohu in 1996 and 1997, they will make a huge profit of 1.8 billion as soon as NASDAQ is listed.


    Seeing Ma Xiangdong''s guilty appearance, Zhang Ke said with a smile: "the goal of 20 million is to achieve an average of one million page visits per day. I want to achieve this goal. Kunteng online has a small impact in the industry..."


    Only with small influence can we get overseas venture capital or private equity injection, which is only the first step towards large portals.


    For website operators, it is undoubtedly a great honor to have an investor with broad vision, clear mind and clear goals. Listening to Zhang Ke''s words, Ma Xiangdong has a bottom in his heart. He doesn''t need to explain much. He sends Zhang Ke and Tang Jing to get on the bus and leave.


    Watching the large displacement black Audi with the license plate of the Department of the State Council disappear, Ma Xiangdong joked and asked Liang Wenjiang: "are you sure your uncle is not the illegitimate son of a vice president or vice premier?"


    "I want to," said Liang Wenjiang, who could never see through his four-year-old cousin. He didn''t believe what he had done. "But someone should believe it."


    Wang Cailing stuck out her tongue, hugged Liang Wenjiang''s arm, smiled and said, "I haven''t seen a real person. It''s really hard to believe."


    Liang Wenjiang told his girlfriend about some things about Jinhu before. These things are really hard to believe. Even in the face of the fact that Kunteng online received a 5 million capital injection from Jinhu in mid-1996, Wang Cailing doesn''t believe that such a large enterprise will be made up by a teenager under the age of 20.


    Although there is a bill gates in the United States, and it is also common for young rich people in Silicon Valley in the United States. For students of Tsinghua University and Beiyou, Silicon Valley is the holy land they yearn for. Naturally, they are not unfamiliar with these things, but many people firmly believe that there is no soil for Bill Gates to grow in China.


    Ma Xiangdong breathed a sigh and said, "didn''t Lao Duan join the Ministry of electronic industry? Their department is collecting data, ranking among the top 100 electronic enterprises in 1997, and Aida electronics may be about thirteen or four... An electronic enterprise that has only been established for two years..." in their sigh tone, there are more expectations for the future. In the eyes of these people, I firmly believe that the next decade is the era of the Internet.


    When passing by Dongdan Park, Tang Jing saw boys in tight clothes and sequins coming in and out, pulled Zhang Ke''s sleeve and said, "those boys seem to be very fashionable..."


    The driver driving for Xu Xueping listened and smiled twice in front of him.


    Zhang Ke didn''t realize anything at first. Listening to the driver''s smile, he glanced aside and saw that those boys who were still wearing tights in cold weather and two boys who were wearing thick coats and bright colors were walking towards Dongdan park. He remembered that Dongdan Park was their gathering place.


    At this time, the Internet is not flowing. Most of these people come to Dongdan park to "fish". These boys with bright clothes, dazzling eyes and strange customs at the corners of their eyes and eyebrows will be surprised and puzzled by outsiders, but insiders can recognize that they are a group of special professionals at a glance.


    Zhang Ke said softly, "it seems that some people say that this is the place where the story of Wang Xiaobo''s novel East Palace and West Palace takes place..."


    "Ah?" Tang Jing has read Wang Xiaobo''s novel, but she doesn''t know much about the story background of the novel. She looks at the drifting Dongdan park close to the window.


    When Zhang Ke first read Wang Xiaobo''s novels, he felt the intersection of novelty, laughter and absurdity. Reading them again was just sad. Thinking so, he couldn''t help looking back.


    Tang Jing said: "Wang Xiaobo is probably the same person with great wisdom as Milan Kundera..."


    "Maybe," Zhang Ke said softly. Seeing the driver looking this way through the rear-view mirror, he may have read Wang Xiaobo''s novels or essays. Maybe Zhang Ke smiled. Wang Xiaobo''s influence in China is not weaker than Milan Kundera. He said that they are all people with great wisdom and should be an appropriate evaluation.


    "If only I could see you," said Tang Jing longingly. "Does Wang Xiaobo live in Beijing, too?"


    "I don''t know, maybe, I''m not a literary youth." in two or three years, the word literary youth will become a derogatory word. Whoever is called by others will be anxious with others. Zhang Ke''s mouth shows a faint smile.


    Zhang Ke remembered that Wang Xiaobo had not died suddenly at this time. When did Wang Xiaobo die suddenly? Zhang Ke couldn''t remember the exact time, but he had the impression that Ying died early in the spring of 1997 because of a heart attack. At the peak of his creation, Zhang Ke believes that Wang Xiaobo''s death is the biggest loss in the history of modern Chinese literature, leaving future generations with endless regret and remembrance.


    Knowing that Wang Xiaobo would die suddenly in a month or two, Zhang Ke still chose to stand idly by. I wonder if Tang Jing would complain about her cruelty and coldness after she knew - if she told her the truth?


    Wang Xiaobo''s death should be due to exhaustion, not only in life and writing, but also because of all kinds of freedom and unhappiness he experienced. How can he not feel that kind of freedom and unhappiness?


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