The panicked Sina, NetEase, and Sohu immediately formed a united front and decided to challenge Makino Technology's hegemony and future threats. However, they did not have any advantages that could threaten Makino Technology. The only thing they could do was to criticize Makino Technology's "immoral" competitive methods on their respective portals.
For a time, these three companies were like birds that were startled by the mere twang of a bow. They set off a war of words and pen against Makino Technology on their respective platforms.
Li Mu did not care about this kind of public opinion attack at all. He handed the problem over to the public relations department and asked them to write a light statement and make a push. The content of the push was also very concise and to the point. There were two main points in total: First, some websites vented their anger on Makino Technology because of YY123's position adjustment, and thus launched public opinion attacks and slander against Makino Technology. Their behavior was despicable and dirty, and they were really villains in the Internet field. Second, YY123 was a subsidiary website wholly owned by Makino Technology. Makino Technology had complete autonomy to make changes and adjustments to YY123 in any form. No company or website had the right to interfere. Websites that took advantage of this were purely improper and unreasonable.
After these two points of view were released, the huge water army on Zhao Kang's Douban also followed suit. Not only did they criticize the three major portals on YY and the third Fang Ping platform for having bad intentions, but they also spread this kind of opinion to the three major portals' own positions.
Throughout the whole incident, Makino Technology occupied the commanding heights of public opinion. Moreover, Makino Technology's ability to distribute information and mobilize the water army was much stronger than these portals. Therefore, these portals were quickly defeated. The most interesting thing was that even Li Mu did not expect that the other well-known websites would choose to support Makino Technology in this matter without exception. Each of them attacked the opinions and practices of these major portals, completely isolating them in the online public opinion.
Later, when Li Mu carefully thought about this problem, he quickly figured out the reasons for the other websites' actions. For them, such a big matter was necessary to speak up. The key was how they should speak up and which side they should stand on. If they stood on the side of the major portals, then they would undoubtedly be standing on the opposite side of Makino Technology. However, when he thought about Sina's experience, who else would be willing to offend an industry giant like Makino Technology? They were all in the business of making websites, and the larger websites were all included in YY123's list. All of them received traffic from YY123, and they all relied on YY to spread their websites. Even if Muye Technology were to randomly block their websites, it would still bring them huge losses. Therefore, in this case, they had to stand on Muye Technology's side and speak up.
To objectively evaluate this incident, Makino Technology and the other portals should have their own rights and wrongs. Although some of Makino Technology's actions were legal, in the eyes of the audience, they might not necessarily think that it was very reasonable. On the other hand, although the other portals were facing a crisis, they criticized Mu Ye and Hai for being too extreme and obviously selfish and unfair. If there was no conflict of interest involved, the media would have their own opinions and would not be so unified. However, most of the online media did not pay attention to the objective view of the incident from the beginning. They only cared about interests. Just like some automotive vertical media, every seemingly fair and impartial car model comparison published by the official website almost always involved interests that the readers could not see. In the end, even if no one paid them to say good things about themselves, there would still be people paying them to smear their competitors' cars. In the end, it was not to let the readers clearly distinguish between the good and the bad, but to subtly influence the audience's buying tendency.
It was precisely because of this that Makino Technology received the support of the entire internet. Not only did the few portals that stirred up trouble not win the support of the public, but they were also isolated and collectively spurned by the netizens.
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The fact that someone was secretly investigating him had always been a thorn in Li Mu's heart. Xu Jianjun was not willing to reveal too much, but Li Mu did not know any reliable private detectives, so he never had a chance to get to the bottom of this matter. Li Mu also looked for Xu Jianjun and vaguely told him that as long as he told him the details, he would not mistreat him, and the issue of money could be discussed. However, Xu Jianjun seemed to have a very professional bottom line. He was unwilling to tell Li Mu who was investigating him.
However, Xu Jianjun also revealed a very important point to Li Mu: the person who secretly investigated him only checked all his paper files and information. That was to say, there were only three channels for the other party to infiltrate at present: household registration information, school registration information, and business registration information. In addition, the other party did not investigate his whereabouts, followed him, investigated his address, and investigated the people he contacted in real life.
This made Li Mu slightly relieved, because at least it proved that the other party should only want to understand and grasp his situation, and not do anything harmful to him. Otherwise, the other party would definitely investigate his daily movements, where he went every day, how he went, who he usually contacted, what daily habits he had, and so on.
Xu Jianjun also felt that the person who secretly investigated Li Mu this time should not be too obvious to Li Mu, at least not for the time being. However, to be cautious, he still suggested that Li Mu should assign a few personal bodyguards as soon as possible to protect his personal safety. Although Li Mu's bulletproof Benz G55 was cool and very durable, it was still a passive defense. If he wanted to ensure his personal safety, it was far from enough to rely on a car.
Li Mu thanked him for his suggestion. All along, he had never thought about assigning bodyguards to himself. The main reason was that he had not yet brought his strong assets to the public, so he always felt that he was still very safe. However, now that someone was secretly investigating him, he began to worry a little. It seemed that finding a bodyguard was really a matter that should be put on the agenda, but he really did not know where to find a bodyguard at the moment. In addition, he was really busy recently, so he could only temporarily put it at the back of his mind and think about it after this busy period.
In fact, strictly speaking, Li Mu was not very busy, but there were too many things that distracted him, so he had no time to care about other things.
Sometimes, Li Mu himself wanted to slow down the pace and not put so much pressure on himself. He was fighting on multiple fronts at the same time. Even if there were reliable people and partners on each front, he would not be able to take care of them. However, from another perspective, it was a good time to race for territory. If he took a day off now, he might need a month or even a year to catch up in the future. Therefore, he did not dare to relax now.
Whether it was in his previous life or this life, the domestic Internet had started to develop rapidly this year. If he did not appear, Baidu would have launched its own MP3 search at the end of this year, and its market share would rise rapidly. Tengxun would have more than 100 million users this year, and the launch of QQ games would be invincible. Alibaba's B2B business would become stronger and stronger, and the B2C business would also be ready to launch. This year was a grand super financial year, which was also the beginning of Sina's financial year. NetEase had also started to rise in the gaming industry with Boastful Journey to the West Online …
At this time, if Li Mu slightly relaxed, he might not only lose a little business, but a whole market.
Not only that, since 2002, Beijing's housing prices had also entered the era of rocket boosted. Whether it was residential real estate or commercial real estate, it was a good time to enter the industry. Wanying Real Estate had already gathered enough capital and was ready to start acquiring land along the East Third Ring Road.
As the national GDP continued to increase, the people's pursuit and demand for culture and entertainment continued to increase. Jay Chou's movies were already popular all over the country, and the pinnacle of Hong Kong movies in the next decade, "Infernal Affairs", was not far from being released. Before the explosion of the entertainment industry, stars, works, IP, channels, and cinema chains had to be accumulated enough. If they started now, they could be fully prepared to welcome the arrival of the era of the entertainment industry. They might even be able to push this era forward.
Therefore, after careful screening, Li Mu realized that he could not give up any of the current parts at all. He could only work harder first and think of ways to find more capable people to help him.
Speaking of capable people, that afternoon, Li Mu received a call from Hong Kong. The caller was Lu Xinyi from a Hong Kong weekly newspaper. She told Li Mu over the phone that she had completed the resignation procedures and bought a ticket for tomorrow afternoon. She would arrive in Beijing the next night.
Li Mu was overjoyed. He was very satisfied with this woman, Lu Xinyi. She was confident, had foresight, capable, and capable. She should be able to handle the content of the entertainment section.
Li Mu arranged for someone to book a room in a hotel near the company in advance. The next day, he specially sent someone to pick her up at the airport. Then, he brought Lin Ching-ah and the deputy chief editor of YY Portal, Wang Nan, to have a meal with Lu Xinyi.
After Lu Xinyi joined the company, the business was managed by Wang Nan. However, as the person in charge of the entertainment section, she still had a lot of freedom in the work itself. Wang Nan only set strategic goals and framework for her, and would not interfere with the formation of her team and the implementation of the specific work.
In addition, Li Mu gave Lu Xinyi an annual salary of 300,000 RMB, which was about 30% higher than her salary in Hong Kong. In Beijing, she would be a proper gold-collar worker. However, for the entertainment and fashion industry, this salary was not very high. Nevertheless, Lu Xinyi was very satisfied. She was a mainlander, and after staying in Hong Kong for a long time, she understood Hong Kong better. She was not like other people who were not familiar with Hong Kong, who yearned for it. On the contrary, the vigorous development of China had always attracted her attention. She was very satisfied to be able to join Makino Technology.
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