Chapter 349: Epoch-Making (Two in One)
The two Forbes rich people in Shanghai didn't know that the other party was interviewed by the media at a similar time.
But soon, everyone, including themselves, saw the interesting contrast.
About the Internet.
One side was enthusiastically praising.
The other side was coldly belittling.
Fang Zhuo's original words were "The Internet industry has ushered in development and will surely create more wealth. Although I am the only IT industry in this Forbes list, it is like the first ray of dawn shining in. Of course, there will be a bright future."
Xu Mingchang's original words were "The wealth effect of the Internet can be understood by just looking at the list. Do you know that there is only one person in a hundred? What's there to talk about? Don't make friends! It's too early!"
About the process of one's own success.
Fang Zhuo's original words were, "I have said a lot before when I was at CCTV. Success itself requires some luck. This luck may be industry changes, policy changes, or simply the tide of the times. I think it would be too arrogant to attribute all success to one's own efforts, but without hard work, luck will not be caught when it comes."
Xu Mingchang's original words were, "To succeed, you have to work hard from morning till night. I believe in one sentence, hard work leads to wealth. When I was selling wontons on the street, I was the hardest-working person on the street. If you want to succeed, you have to work hard, harder than others."
Sharing some interesting stories.
Fang Zhuo talked about Yike's competition with Apple overseas, several business negotiations he had experienced, his observations of his competitor Steve Jobs, and his insights on the development of the overseas Internet industry. He believed that there were many places in China that could be used for reference.
Xu Mingchang talked enthusiastically about attending a cocktail party with wealthy people in Hong Kong and how he made two listed companies in Hong Kong famous there.
Two wealthy people active in Shanghai, two wealthy people who are at the top of the Forbes list, suddenly had a very contrasting media interview, which made many people feel very interesting.
What successful people say is often very convincing.
But the two successful people said something conflicting, so who should we listen to?
Which bowl of chicken soup should we drink?
Just as countries are pursuing the digital indicator of GDP, the public now has a positive emotion of yearning for wealth, and everyone is willing to see what successful people are like.
But Xu Mingchang was very angry.
As a native of Shanghai, he thought he was outstanding in his ability to grasp the city's general impression of the rich, but...
A younger, more energetic, more confident and calm wealthy president appeared in the media, and he seemed to have won more praise.
Since Yu was born, why was Liang born?
Xu Mingchang felt the complicated emotions in his heart, but he became even angrier because of it. He didn't think he was worse than others.
From a small vendor selling rou to a rich man who dominates Shanghai and Hong Kong today, his efforts, hard work, and blood and tears are not less. Why does someone just come out and want to suppress him?
The interview time of Dragon TV and Xinmin Evening News is different, but because of the process, the exposure time is very close, which has aroused a lot of discussion.
As a portal website that focuses on clicks and browsing, Sina.com simply gave a support rate vote for these two interviews.
Obviously, the more humble and sincere Sina president received higher support.
Of course, this may also be related to the fact that it was Sina.com that did this, maybe the data was changed.
Xu Mingchang was very unhappy when he learned about this situation, and thought that Fang Zhuo was shamefully using the public opinion function of Sina, a portal website.
On March 3, he finally found an opportunity to show his displeasure openly.
This day was the election meeting of the Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce. Xu Mingchang, as the vice president, also attended. He met Fang Zhuo himself, who was one of the candidates for the vote.
The General Chamber of Commerce is a relatively broad organization. The title of vice president is more of an honor and does not have many substantive rights, but it still has to go through the organizational process to vote.
Xu Mingchang did not greet Fang Zhuo as if he had not seen him. He chose to refute when he was asked "Do you have any different opinions" according to the procedure.
"President Ding, you just asked if I have any opinions. I do."
"As for the election of the vice president, I remember that the procedure of our chamber of commerce is to join the association for one year, right?"
Xu Mingchang nakedly showed his yin and yang: "The president Fang who ranked ninth on the Forbes rich list seems to have joined the association only last month? How come he will become the vice president in the blink of an eye?"
He laughed and said, "No way? Is money everything?"
Everyone in the conference room was stunned. A few people heard the rumor that Xu Mingchang and Fang Zhuo had a bad relationship, but most people had read the recent interview reports and regarded it as a fun thing.
But unexpectedly, Xu Mingchang actually directly objected.
Whether he is the vice president or not actually has no impact on anything, it is a trivial matter, but this is a face-saving thing.
Do these two people have such a big conflict?
The industry span is quite large!
Could it be that Xu Mingchang won the old city renovation project a while ago and caused a wave of waves?
The people present are well-informed. Even so, they don’t know how the two rich people have a grudge, but this does not affect them to consider deeper reasons and infer more complicated reasons.
It is said that the competition for the project in the JA area is very fierce. Companies in the local area, Hong Kong, and Beijing want to win it, but in the end Xu Mingchang is better.
That President Fang Zhuo, he seems to be very close to Liu Suyi of Yonghe Real Estate, who also tried to get a share from JA but failed. Is there something behind this, Mr. Fang?
The relationship suddenly became clear.
Many people were polite and didn't look at Fang Zhuo, but many people watched the excitement with interest.
"This, this..." Ding Huarong, president of the Chamber of Commerce, didn't expect to be criticized for the organization's charter. He didn't even remember that there was such a clause. Today, he was just going through the process. He was silent for a while.
Whether money can do everything or not, even if it is true, it can't be said in public like this.
Fang Zhuo, who was sitting next to Liu Suyi, saw this scene and knew that what Xu Mingchang said was true. He was too lazy to think about how he offended this rich man. He thought of how to answer after a while.
Fang Zhuo first waved his hand at Ding Huarong, president of the Chamber of Commerce, indicating that he didn't need to be embarrassed.
Then, he looked at Xu Mingchang amid the mixed looks of the crowd, and said with a relaxed smile: "Just listen to Old Eleven, he makes sense."
The conference room was silent.
Xu Mingchang was stunned for a moment before he realized this title... No. 11 in the Forbes ranking, Old Eleven...
The veins on his forehead were visible, and he wanted to get up and punch the other party.
But the more he did that, the more it proved that he cared about this idiot list.
Xu Mingchang looked at Fang Zhuo coldly, and the latter gave him a calm look without fear - I mean you, Old Eleven.
Puff.
I don't know who couldn't help laughing, and although he quickly stopped laughing, the atmosphere in the conference room suddenly became fun.
Old Eleven!
Look at the face of Xu Fuhao!
This Mr. Fang is really mean!
Xu Eleven!
The process in the conference room continued. Those present were either the chairman or the CEO, and they were quite well-trained, and continued to move forward with the idea of "not wasting this trip".
Fang Zhuo could not hold the honorary position of vice president because of the organization charter.
But this is not the point.
After the meeting of the Shencheng General Chamber of Commerce, Xu Shiyi's nickname spread quietly, and the disagreement between him and Fang Zhuo quickly became well known in the Shencheng business circle.
"Hey, have you heard of Fang Zhuo, who is known as the new richest man in Shencheng? Let me tell you, he and Xu Mingchang are particularly at odds."
"Old Liu, I want to tell you something, don't tell others, Fang Zhuo and Xu Mingchang had an unpleasant quarrel at a dinner party once, and few people know about this."
"Mr. Mao, did you hear that President Yi Ke and Xu Mingchang messed with each other?"
The grudges between the rich can often be widely spread in the form of gossip.
When Fang Zhuo returned home one day, he was stopped by his mother and was stunned to hear a question.
"Son, you are rich now, but you have to have a bottom line. Were you rude to the rich man's wife at the drinking party?"
Fang Zhuo: "?"
Gossip is fast, but it is not very accurate!
Fang Zhuo promised his mother that he was still a person of five virtues, four beauties and three loves, and angrily denounced the extreme absurdity of the gossip.
As for the feud with Xu Mingchang, although it is still a little unclear how it happened, it has happened...
Fang Zhuo didn't have much time to care about it, and secondly, he knew that he didn't seem to have much time left, so he just watched how the other party ended.
As time entered March, Fang Zhuo had a lot of things to do.
The warehouse of the Medical Group in Mayong was running tightly, and medical protective clothing, masks and other materials printed with the word "Medical" were delivered to Yangcheng on demand.
And the news suddenly came from Beijing, which was separated from Yangcheng by a vast space, and the situation suddenly became serious.
Sina.com issued a warning at the beginning that "it is not a local disease", but it is difficult to play a key role in promoting public opinion.
Fang Zhuo was mentally prepared to make the warehouses in the three places full of supplies.
Two production lines in Shangdu and Kunshan.
Warehouses in Beijing, Kunshan and Mayong.
Use the online platform of Guahao.com as a link with different hospitals in the city.
Guahao.com, which won the title of "the first batch of national Internet innovation industry enterprises", has long been declared dead by many media when the policy changed, but this time it suddenly bloomed with amazing power, which made people look sideways.
Make the most scarce medical supplies not so scarce, make Guahao.com the first platform to summarize information from hospitals in various places, and link up with Sina.com to professionally refute rumors...
Just as the situation in Beijing changed, the Medical Group Guahao.com was busy providing the greatest support it could.
Fang Zhuo was stationed on the 23rd floor of Jinmao, and received many calls every day, some of which were from well-known leaders. He had no time to care about what an inexplicable rich man thought of him.
At the same time, due to the change of circumstances, the iMusic music subscription download function that Yike planned to launch was also postponed.
After careful consideration by Fang Zhuo, this matter was handed over to Director Yu in New York. Anyway, the most important part is to reach a copyright cooperation, which is considered to be a real moat for the product.
That is, when Yike and Apple obtained different copyrights respectively, the music player competitors on the market lost their greatest development potential and could hardly break through the product layout of these two companies.
Music players can still purchase parts from different manufacturers around the world for assembly, and the quality can even be almost the same, but the binding and combination of music copyright, software use, and hardware products is not something that other manufacturers can accomplish.
This does not mention factors such as first-mover advantage, brand building, and publicity strategies.
The time has finally been set, and Yike will hold an iMusic launch conference in New York on March 23.
Because of the confirmation and publicity of this news, Apple’s original press conference on April 20 was suddenly announced to be mentioned on the same day.
The two companies did not engage in the arrogant competition that I must be one day earlier than you. The date of March 23 was set and has not been changed.
Fang Zhuo actually wanted to go live to witness the arrival of a new era in the industry, but he really couldn't leave Shanghai at this juncture, so he could only tell Xiaoyu on the phone to take more photos of the press conference as a souvenir.
"Mr. Fang, do you still have protective clothing in the warehouse in Kunshan? There are more in Lin'an, right? Pudong New Area is your home."
On March 13, District Mayor Qiu Di personally called to urge for medical supplies. He seemed to have forgotten that he was once the deputy chief of Lin'an City and insisted on ensuring the supply of supplies to Pudong New Area.
Of course, it is also a good spirit to love one place...
Fang Zhuo responded on the phone that he had actually reserved supplies for Shencheng, but it was true that with use, the production lines and warehouses were already very tight.
District Chief Qiu was very happy to receive the agreement, and by the way, he notified another piece of news that had not yet been made public.
"There will be something good on the 23rd of this month, something epoch-making."
Fang Zhuo thought to himself that Lao Qiu still cared about him, as expected of his old friend. In this case, everyone should pay attention to the new model of the music industry that Yike has led the times.
"The chip from Jiaotong University is going to hold a press conference. Let's show our faces together at that time. Not only our city, but also the higher-ups are paying attention to it. It's very large and has very high specifications." Qiu Di said happily.
Fang Zhuo: "..."
The completely opposite news seemed to explode in his ears, and Professor Chen came right after polishing the chip.
It's really epoch-making.
A press conference that can single-handedly slow down the development of the domestic semiconductor era.
"Hello, hello? Do you hear that? Hoo, hoo." Judy didn't hear the response and thought the signal was not very good.
"Oh, I heard it, District Chief Qiu, this..." Fang Zhuo wanted to refuse, but then thought about his status as a "victim" and decided to show up, "This is a great thing, I will definitely get it."
Judy was happy from the bottom of her heart: "This is a new atmosphere and a new situation. It's great."
"Really, good." Fang Zhuo agreed lightly.
He ended the call, put down the phone, and considered how to proceed with the next step of cooperation with Professor Chen. He had to try his best to control this matter.