Chapter 233: The Popular Internet Cafe
As for what Zhang Junfeng said about the fact that the return after holding for a year could not be guaranteed, they did not take it too seriously. Anyway, they just had to follow Zhang Junfeng's instructions when the time came. They would definitely not have any other opinions, and they would definitely not mess around!
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As representatives of KB Bank cashed out large quantities of Hang Seng Index futures contracts in batches in the futures market, well-informed financial institutions and financial media in Hong Kong and abroad were the first to notice this little-known bank from Korea.
But they were all very curious. How could a bank in Goryeo, which had just experienced the financial crisis and even went bankrupt, be able to take out so much money to go long on the Hang Seng Index? You know, even those listed companies and financial institutions in Hong Kong have a lot of funds, but no one dared to go to the futures market to support their own stock market when the stock market was volatile before.
After all, at such a critical moment, even the top tycoons and financial experts dare not guarantee that Hong Kong will be able to survive this disaster safely. If one is not careful, the funds invested in the futures market may be consumed in just a few days, and the money will be lost!
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After the Hong Kong media reported this special news, many financial institutions looked at their counterparts with envy. Others might not be aware of this, but they knew too well how lucrative it would be to bottom-fish and go long on the Hang Seng Index!
According to their conservative estimate, as long as a certain amount of leverage can be added, even a 100% return rate is very likely to be achieved. However, it is unknown how much KB Bank bought in the futures market. The staff at the futures trading market are strictly prohibited from disclosing customers' personal privacy.
However, KB Bank's chairman, Kim Jung-tae, generously praised Hong Kong's outstanding achievements in finance at the Hong Kong Asia Financial Summit that he attended later. He is also very optimistic about Hong Kong's future development and will open a branch in Hong Kong and will start financial business in Hong Kong in the coming year.
After hearing that the chairman of KB Bank had publicly expressed his optimism about Hong Kong's development, many representatives of financial institutions that had official cooperation with Hong Kong began to have a better impression of him, and some even took the initiative to greet him and try to get close to him. This was far beyond Kim Jung-tae's expectations.
However, thinking of the instructions from his big boss Zhang Junfeng, Jin Zhengtai went with the flow. After the financial summit, he also had friendly exchanges with the heads of these local financial institutions in Hong Kong, and made an appointment with them to come and support KB Bank if it opens a branch in Hong Kong in the future.
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In Guangdong, Zhejiang, Shanghai, and other places, as the chain Internet cafes launched by Penguin Company opened one after another, people came to surf the Internet in an endless stream. Even though the Internet access fee is expensive in this era, there are still many young people and college students who come here to surf the Internet.
Because of its beautiful environment and good atmosphere, it has become a good place for many college students to date and study. At the suggestion of several senior executives of the company, Penguin Company took this opportunity to install several games promoted by their company, two games and the communication software Little Penguin on the computers in the Internet cafe.
This also means that users who come to the Internet cafe will inevitably use the little penguin when using the computer. Some users even tried the two games "Wind Kingdom" and "Dark Legend" under the recommendation of their friends, and unknowingly immersed themselves in them, and even forgot the original intention of coming to the Internet cafe to learn.
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This seemingly unrelated operation not only made Penguin earn a lot of cash in a short period of time, but also rapidly increased the number of users of its games and communication software. In just one or two months, more than 300,000 users were added, and the company's revenue continued to grow steadily.
When Ma Huazhuo heard his subordinates report this situation, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief and a long-lost smile appeared on his face.
You know, after getting the permission from the big boss Zhang Junfeng, Ma Huazhuo quickly launched the project of the chain Internet cafes. Even though more than half of the company's funds were consumed, there was still a big gap.
When he got a loan of tens of millions of RMB from the bank with trepidation, he even felt that the pressure on his shoulders was too heavy, sometimes even making it difficult for him to breathe.
In the late 1990s, a loan of tens of millions of yuan was taken out. If there was any mistake or problem, how could a young man like him still have so much money? !
Fortunately, their previous vision and analysis were correct. The popularity of the Internet cafe chain completely dispelled Ma Huazhuo's anxiety and he was full of confidence in the future.
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Ma Huazhuo was also happy to share this good news with Lei Jun, Ding Lei and others on the Internet. After all, he was only in his 20s and was quite interested in showing off in public! However, the smart Lei Jun and Ding Lei soon realized the many benefits that the chain of Internet cafes could bring to them, and they wanted to cooperate with Ma Huazhuo, or even make additional investments to tinker with the chain of Internet cafes.
After all, with a fixed place like an Internet cafe to help them promote and use the office software, search engines, e-mails, etc. produced by their own company, isn't this a good offline fixed-point promotion? Once it really works, then they will be able to see a large-scale increase in registered users in a short period of time like Penguin Company, and this is a special effect that hundreds of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of advertisements cannot achieve!
Ma Huazhuo was well aware of the ideas of these "old friends", but he needed to see not only the ticket, but also the benefits and sincerity in order to "get on board". After all, they were able to successfully launch the Internet cafe chain project under tremendous pressure, and the company still had a lot of bank loans to repay on time!
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
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Finally, under the leadership of Penguin, several early Dragon Internet companies including Penguin, Kingsoft and NetEase quickly signed an "offensive and defensive alliance" agreement in private. While the members of the alliance shared resources and benefited each other, they also guaranteed that when other competitors emerged, they would stand together on the same front to deal with other competitors together.
Naturally, no one objected to such an alliance agreement. Although there are not many Internet companies in Longguo now, according to the development trend in the United States, it is inevitable that more and more Internet companies will emerge in the future.
(End of this chapter)