By the way, StarJourney gaming platform!
A bold idea suddenly popped into Little Ma's head.
It seems this is the only way!
After hesitating for a moment, Little Ma took out his phone and dialed a number.
"Hey, Mr. Lin, are you busy?"
"Oh, Mr. Ma, what a rare guest! What brings you to call me?"
"I saw your Weibo post, and I think it makes a lot of sense. Let's work together to promote the development of domestic games and carry forward the domestic game culture."
"Ahem, Brother Ma, we've known each other for ages. It was you who gave me my first pot of gold, which allowed me to create Star Technology. If you need any help, just let me know. I'm the kind of person who always knows how to be grateful."
Upon hearing this, Brother Ma was deeply moved, realizing that he had been judging a gentleman by his own petty standards.
"President Lin, you are indeed a person of great loyalty and integrity. Then I will be frank with you. The TX game platform that we just launched is facing a small problem. We are short of games to join. Do you think we could allocate some of our resources from the Starry Sky game platform to me?"
"Ah... Mr. Ma, this is really a bit difficult to handle. As you know, game platforms are applied for by the game studios themselves. We can't just have them submit applications to me and then approve them and transfer them to you, can we? If we keep doing that, no one will trust our game platform."
"Hey, Mr. Lin, I know this isn't easy to handle, but there are always some game studios that will accept it. For example, if TX offers a higher subsidy, or TX can directly invest money as an equity stake."
"I see. That's not impossible. After all, some game studios make games just to make a quick buck. They would be very happy if someone bought their games."
"That's right, Mr. Lin, then please do us the trouble. This matter is quite urgent, so could you please ask around for our TX Games platform as soon as possible?"
"Ah, Mr. Ma, there's no problem with that, but I've been so busy lately, I really don't have any time."
"President Lin, your Xingchen Technology is so big, could you ask one of your people to help inquire?"
"Hey, Mr. Ma, the corporate culture of Xingchen Technology is that overtime pay should be given, and more work should be paid more. So if I ask them to do more work, I have to pay them more, which makes me a little reluctant."
This time, Brother Ma finally understood. All that bullshit about being loyal and righteous, about being the most grateful, it's all nonsense. Lin Chen, you're a complete and utter little liar.
But now, he can only accept his fate.
"Mr. Lin, how about I pay their overtime wages for you?"
"Of course!"
"How much overtime pay do you need? I'll arrange for the finance department to transfer it to you."
"Not many, just one Lashou.com!"
When Little Ma heard this answer, a question mark first appeared above his head, and then he realized, "You're taking advantage of my misfortune!"
Lin Chen: Yes.
"Mr. Lin, isn't this overtime pay a bit too much?"
"Well, Mr. Ma, this job is not simple. We have to ask each company one by one. There are so many game companies. They are all high-tech talents. Their salaries are already high. If you ask them to put down their work to do this for you, then it will be more expensive."
Brother Ma was so angry he almost ground his teeth to powder. "Is this just a little more expensive? This is outrageous! You're a profiteer! A profiteer indeed!!!"
However, after carefully weighing the pros and cons, he found that Lashou.com was already in a state of semi-death. If it wanted to continue to develop, it would have to keep burning money. If it didn't burn money, it would go bankrupt sooner or later.
What I lack most right now is money. Developing new games requires money, and the Tencent Games platform requires money.
However, if you sell Lashou.com and set up the TX game platform, you can start making money continuously right away.
Moreover, the most important thing is that building a successful TX game platform is also related to TX's reputation. If no games dare to join the TX game platform, wouldn't that be like protesting too much? I don't need to say more about which company Lin Chen was referring to back then.
If Tencent's reputation collapses, all the mobile games it has developed will be affected. These are Tencent's current sources of revenue, and if problems arise, it will be difficult for them to explain to the board of directors.
Oh well, I guess I'll just consider this a failed investment.
Thinking of this, Brother Ma spoke up.
"Okay, Mr. Lin, I promise you, I'll give you Lashou.com, but I need to see game studios join the TX game platform first."
"No problem, Mr. Ma. You prepare the negotiation team. I will only be responsible for contacting the interested game studios. You can negotiate the final price yourselves."
"OK."
After hanging up the phone, Brother Ma was so angry that he threw his phone away.
When Secretary Xiao Mei heard a noise inside, she quickly pushed the door open and went in.
She picked up Little Ma's phone from the ground and then walked gracefully toward Little Ma.
"Mr. Ma, what's making you so angry? Getting angry is bad for your health."
When Little Ma took the phone, he was surprised to find that the quality of iPhones had improved; it hadn't broken after being dropped.
However, Little Ma's anger was still very strong and had not yet been vented.
And so, the final victim emerged.
An hour later, Secretary Xiao Mei walked out of Brother Ma's office.
Two people near Little Ma's office started chatting as Secretary Xiao Mei came out.
"I remember Secretary Xiaomei was wearing stockings today, so why aren't they on now?"
"Hey, don't you understand yet? Look, Secretary Xiaomei's legs are practically trembling right now."
"Hiss, you mean this can't be..."
"Hey, I didn't say anything. Don't wrong me. If someone hears this, I'll probably get fired."
"Yes, yes, you're right. I didn't see anything, I don't know anything."
Meanwhile, Lin Chen went to Zhang Yiming's office after hanging up the phone.
"Old Zhang, we got Lashou.com!"
"Huh? What is that?"
Lin Chen recounted what had just happened to Zhang Yiming.
Zhang Yiming shook his head in disbelief.
"This is possible? Boss, I have to say, you're really amazing. Only you could come up with such a condition, and the key is that you actually managed to negotiate it."
"Haha, keep it low-key."
"Wait, boss, doesn't that mean the group-buying war is over?"
"Yeah, pretty much. Once we officially take over Lashou.com's market share, our market share will be far ahead of Taobao Group Buying, which is second, and even more than all other group buying websites combined."
"I have to tell Wang Xing this good news. Maybe it will even motivate him to grow a few more hairs."
Wang Xing: Thank you for caring so much about my hair.
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