After spending a few days in Shanghai, I met with Tangfu again. The SFC cinema chain was secured, but the issue of employee resettlement needs to be resolved by Chenfang himself.

For this kind of thing, Shen Fang naturally settled it with money, cutting through the mess quickly. In Shanghai, everyone has a price; with money, anything can be resolved in a short time.

"Brother, something terrible has happened!!!" Shen Fang, still fast asleep, was woken up by Xiao Ma's commotion. Hearing Xiao Ma's somewhat agitated voice, Shen Fang was completely bewildered. Something terrible? Everything's normal at Tencent, what could possibly be wrong?

"What's wrong, Brother Ma? What happened?"

"Um, well, little brother, I'm getting married."

Shen Fang jumped out of bed immediately.

"What the heck??? A wedding??? What's going on???"

"Well, what's up? I told you about my boyfriend at the beginning of the year. He came to see me, and we fell in love at first sight. Then we... well, we got together, and now he's pregnant. I met his parents yesterday, and they were very determined to get married soon. My parents were also very willing, and they set a date right away. I'm letting you know, it'll be in 7 days at the Himalayas Hotel. Qianqian, Linlin, Xiaopang, and your parents all need to be there."

"No, Brother Ma, I'm still a little confused. Let me calm down."

"Um, bro, to be honest, I'm a little confused myself."

"Holy crap!!! That was fast??? A whirlwind marriage???"

"There's nothing we can do about it. Who told me to be such a good shot? My girlfriend comes from a scholarly family. If people found out she was pregnant when she got married, they'd definitely gossip about her."

"Um... alright, I'm going to Hangzhou anyway, so you don't need to call Fatty Ding, we'll go together. But we have to make a big show of it, I'll pay for it, make it as big as you can, the presence is a must!!! As the CEO of Tencent, you have to have the presence you deserve."

"Um, is that really necessary?"

“Brother Ma, this isn’t just your personal wedding. Now that Tencent is listed, a stable marriage will stabilize Tencent’s stock price, and a happy marriage will make shareholders have more faith in Tencent.”

"Does the stock price have anything to do with this?"

"Well, to some extent. In the era of the internet, the chairman of Tencent will naturally be the focus of countless people's attention. Your every word and action, including your marital status, will affect Tencent's stock price. So this wedding should ideally be a wedding of the century, the more grand the better. The more important figures attend, the higher the shareholders' recognition of Tencent will be."

"Okay, then come over sooner so we can discuss it together."

After hanging up the phone, Shen Fang was dumbfounded. Damn, that was fast! Less than five months from meeting to marriage. Wow, Tony!

.........

NetEase headquarters.

"Mr. Shen, thank you very much."

Shen Fang leaned back on the sofa, enjoying the cigarette that Fatty Ding had personally lit for him.

"Old Ding, you're currently number one on the Forbes list. Are you enjoying being the richest person?"

Fatty Ding chuckled and said, "That's all thanks to you, Master Shen. If it weren't for your help, I don't know where I'd be begging for food right now."

"Don't get too cocky now that you've become the richest person in China. There are plenty of wealthy people in the country. You've benefited from the internet boom, but you need to be steady and establish a firm foothold."

"We're giving you World of Warcraft, so you'd better make good use of it. You also need to quickly build up the game platform. NetEase's approach is different from Tencent's. NetEase's main focus is on games. Whether it's single-player games or large-scale online games, you have to make them number one in China, and become the number one original game developer in China."

"Isn't Tencent planning to bet everything on games?" Fatty Ding asked doubtfully.

Shen Fang smiled and said, "We will definitely put pressure on them, but Tencent's most important core business is still instant messaging. With this core business, we can do whatever we want. What is the most important thing in the 21st century? Traffic. Tencent has a user base of over 60 million. If we want that, that is Tencent's core business. Tencent needs to develop in many ways. Although games are also one of the core businesses, they will definitely not follow the same path as you."

"You're targeting paid users, while Tencent is targeting free users. You're focused on cash flow, while Tencent is focused on user traffic."

"One is for wholesale, the other is for sale only."

"A two-way division of the world?"

Shen Fang was speechless: "You really have a big heart. Don't you know that a domestic monopoly is not allowed when the world is divided into two parts?"

Fatty Ding shrugged: "There are always ways to deal with things. There are policies from above and countermeasures from below."

Shen Fang grinned mischievously: "Little Ma said you were a ruthless guy, and it seems we were right about you. A semi-monopoly is fine, but a complete monopoly wouldn't be good either. We still need to give others a way to survive."

"clear."

"I heard you're planning to get a whole private jet?"

Fatty Ding chuckled and said, "What a load of bull."

"What are you bragging about? You're the richest man in the country now. NetEase has finally turned things around. The richest man should act like he's the richest man. A private jet only costs a few dollars. Buy it. I'll buy one too."

Fatty Ding rubbed his hands together: "Isn't this too flashy? Neither Zhang Chaoyang nor Boss Liu did this."

He was indeed quite tempted by the idea of ​​a private jet; after all, it would be tarnishing for him, the richest man, not to make such a boast.

"Why do you care about them? How come your money isn't clean? What are you afraid of? Put on some airs and live a more refined life. I know you're a technician and you like raising pigs. But you can't be too low-key now. You should be high-profile when necessary."

Shen Fang had long seen that Fatty Ding wanted to make a big splash, so he went along with it.

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