Counterflow 92: Ditching the School Flower at the Start and Building a Trillion Empire

In his previous life, Lin Yifeng was tricked by his first love into going abroad, missing the period of rapid development in his homeland.

He finally managed to amass a fortune of hundreds of...

Chapter 351 There's an Internet abroad

Just by looking at their reactions, Lin Yifeng could tell that these two people probably knew the inside story.

In the middle of the second half of the year, Subor launched an advertisement called "Subor Clapping Song" during prime time on CCTV. The cheerful style, coupled with lyrics praising the eating ability, directly sparked a super wave of popularity for Subor in China.

Especially in 1993, Subor developed their first generation of Subor learning machine and successfully captured the market by leveraging CCTV's advertising.

In the first half of 1993, Subor was just an unknown small company.

Their advertising campaign on CCTV can be seen as a desperate gamble.

Clearly, they succeeded, but Xiaobawang has not yet attracted the attention of any domestic companies. In their eyes, Xiaobawang is just an ordinary company that researches electronic components.

As for the advertising, only a very few people within CCTV knew about it before the advertisement was released.

However, it's mostly used to mock or ridicule.

In CCTV's eyes, it's just a foolish company that's spending a lot of money trying to advertise a learning machine.

Who would pay for this?

Not to mention them, even Wei Yuxian was puzzled when she heard the commotion inside CCTV.

But what puzzles her even more now is how Lin Yifeng, someone who has absolutely no connection with CCTV, could know such inside information.

"I know, a learning machine."

"This thing could actually be worth fifty million?"

Seeing Wei Yuxian's skeptical attitude, Lin Yifeng smiled and asked again.

Are you sure this is just a learning machine?

This question left both Wei Yuxian and Uncle Wolf completely bewildered.

They knew about this, but they still didn't quite know what the Little Tyrant actually looked like or what it was used for.

After all, back then only Subor dared to sell game consoles under the guise of educational machines.

In reality, this thing is just a Famicom that can insert cartridges, and most importantly, it's the second-generation Little Tyrant.

With Jackie Chan as its spokesperson, Subor truly began to reap the rewards of the domestic market with its second-generation product, at which point Subor had already become a top giant in the domestic market.

There is still one year left before Little Tyrant truly completes its transformation.

If she can seize this opportunity, all her money will start to be converted into cash, enough for Wei Yuxian to recoup all the money she invested in Lin Yifeng.

Lin Yifeng was also very envious of this matter.

If it weren't for the university town and the milk tea factory tying up his money and preventing him from freeing up more, if Lin Yifeng had 50 million, he would definitely have invested it all in Xiaobawang.

Putting everything else aside, just based on the sales volume of Subor, Lin Yifeng's investment of 50 million yuan could easily turn into 500 million yuan in five years.

However, Lin Yifeng doesn't have that much money on hand right now, so he has to give the project to Wei Yuxian for the time being.

Wei Yuxian frowned and whispered something to Uncle Wolf beside her.

Then she looked at Lin Yifeng in front of her and asked softly.

Even if these things are true.

"Fifty million is still a bit too much."

Faced with this situation, Lin Yifeng unleashed his final trump card.

There's something overseas called Internet.

Wei Yuxian could no longer sit still.

She even began to have doubts about Lin Yifeng.

Whether it's the first milk tea shop in Makino City, or the VCD player and Little Tyrant that Lin Yifeng just mentioned, these are all things that can be obtained in the surrounding areas of China.

The most difficult thing is probably VCDs, because these need to be imported.

However, when Lin Yifeng mentioned the Internet, Wei Yuxian truly couldn't calm down.

This isn't something you can find in China or its surrounding areas; it's something you find across the ocean in the United States.

More importantly, this thing is absolutely encrypted, and people in China have very little knowledge about it. In fact, the country is still preparing how to access this network from the United States.

The first attempt in 1992 failed, which meant that China had not yet officially connected with the international network.

In 1993, China made its second attempt to advance domestic network infrastructure construction. Currently, only major government departments are still conducting trial operations, but it has not yet been officially connected to the international network.

The third phase is being planned domestically. If this is successful, the Internet will gradually become widespread within the domestic government system before being opened to the general public.

If Wei Yuxian could believe that Lin Yifeng had unique insight in the first two points, then she could only conclude that Lin Yifeng was a prodigy in the third.

He always sees things differently from others, and his focus is always on the longer-term future.

"Let me think about it."

Wei Yuxian, still munching on her milk tea, fell into deep thought.

Wolf Uncle's gaze toward Lin Yifeng also held a hint of hostility.

There is no other reason.

Lin Yifeng knew far too much, some of which were things that shouldn't even be known to someone of his level.

Before meeting Lam Yat-fung, Wolfman would most likely have assumed that Lam Yat-fung had some backers who were constantly leaking secrets to him.

However, upon seeing Lin Yifeng build Mixue Ice Cream and gradually establish his business empire in Zhongzhou Province, Wolf Uncle hopes that Lin Yifeng is truly visionary rather than taking some crooked path.

Lin Yifeng took a deep breath and waited quietly for Wei Yuxian's response.

The three paths he gave Wei Yuxian can be said to have gathered everything Wei Yuxian could use to make money before the millennium.

In 1993, VCD players and Subor (小霸王) were popular in China. If Wei Yuxian had entered the industry then, these two games would have become wildly popular in 1994, and she would have been able to immediately start reaping the market.

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