"Since that's the case, discuss it carefully. If it truly works out, then build a major factory."
After hearing The Top Leader of Xiaohe Town state his position, Lin Feng directly arranged for him to negotiate with Qu Qiongying, without personally taking part.
After all, he knew his own situation best. If he personally went up to negotiate with The Top Leader of Xiaohe Town, he would only end up losing even more.
"Good. Then on behalf of Xiaohe Town's 130,000 residents, I thank you, Boss Lin."
Although he knew Qu Qiongying was not an easy person to negotiate with and that Xiaohe Town would have to give up a great deal next, as long as Lin Feng left the factory in Xiaohe Town, it would be a tremendous victory for the town—and for him as well. After all, his path to promotion would be secure.
Over the next few hours, Lin Feng, Qu Qiongying, and The Top Leader of Xiaohe Town toured the stretches of barren and open land suitable for factory construction.
Afterward, just as The Top Leader of Xiaohe Town warmly invited them to dinner, a phone call interrupted their pleasantries. A delighted expression appeared on Lin Feng's face.
After two days of remote video meetings, Bilibili's shareholders, large and small, had finally decided to agree to a bet agreement with Lin Feng.
Of course, drafting the specific terms of the agreement was an extremely complicated matter. Both sides would need to haggle for several days before they could produce a relatively complete bet agreement without loopholes.
But now that they had agreed in principle, all that remained was for the lawyers to inspect and patch each other's contractual loopholes. The back-and-forth between their lawyers would not affect the finalization of the partnership.
Lin Feng had plenty to keep him busy next. He needed to come up with a profitability and development plan for Bilibili, as well as a recommendation algorithm.
As for Bilibili's profitability plan, as an old user who had frequented Bilibili in his previous life, he could simply copy the successful examples from that life.
However, rather than copying them outright, Lin Feng made a few minor improvements to the profitability and development plan based on his past-life experience. If Bilibili truly implemented those changes—
Those improvements alone would be enough to support the entire platform. This would also serve as a safeguard to ensure he secured 30% of the shares.
In addition, Lin Feng needed to develop a recommendation algorithm. It did not need to be exceptionally good, but it absolutely had to make users exclaim, "Holy shit!" and win their approval.
Only then could he use the system to upgrade the recommendation algorithm, then use the stronger algorithm to push suitable videos to users, improve retention rates, and make Bilibili's user base grow larger and stronger.
As for the specific development direction, Lin Feng had already decided to copy Douyin's recommendation algorithm from his previous life. Although Douyin's algorithm was somewhat ruthless, ruthlessness was precisely what kept the blood flowing.
Without stories of overnight success, how could they inspire more people to become uploaders?
And without more uploaders, how could they produce more high-quality videos to attract the attention of more users?
With his decision made, Lin Feng became busy, while the lawyers on both sides also began their exhausting haggling.
Meanwhile, countless netizens waited for the edited promotional film and development documentary for the Coin-style Electromagnetic Rifle.
Although many videos of domestic Coin-style Electromagnetic Rifle live tests had already appeared online, those videos were ultimately too one-sided.
People wanted even more to know the story behind Lin Feng's development of the Coin-style Electromagnetic Rifle and understand its construction principles.
As for Qu Qiongying, she was busy recruiting people, assembling the company's team, and establishing the new factory. She worked from morning until night every day, and it was said that even at home, she thought about work.
It seemed Lin Feng's mother had made the right decision by offering 1% of the shares. Even if they had paid to hire a professional manager, that person would not have worked so hard for the rise of Xingtu Technology.
Three days later, Hangzhou.
Lin Feng and Qu Qiongying flew directly from Zhancheng to Hangzhou, a city long praised with the saying, "Above there is heaven; below there are Suzhou and Hangzhou."
Hangzhou was also a city with a highly developed internet industry, and many internet companies had originated there.
"Welcome, Mr. Lin Feng."
A somewhat overweight man smiled and extended his hand. He was He Rui, the man who had led Bilibili in Lin Feng's previous life and who was currently a senior executive at another company.
"Hello, Mr. He Rui."
Lin Feng smiled as well, reaching out to shake his hand.
Next, Lin Feng shook hands with the several other shareholders and employees present, large and small. Then came the final inspection of the bet agreement.
Naturally, no loopholes were found in that final inspection. Even if the agreement had contained any loopholes, they had been patched over the past three days through negotiations between the professional lawyers hired by both sides.
Thus, Lin Feng and Xu Yi signed their names and stamped the agreement with their company seals.
From that point on, Lin Feng officially became Bilibili's nominal major shareholder. If nothing unexpected happened, he would receive 30% of the shares and the accumulated dividend income from the next two years, becoming Bilibili's true major shareholder.
"Now that the bet agreement has been signed, let's first take a look at my profitability and development plan."
As Lin Feng spoke, Qu Qiongying handed out several multi-page documents to everyone present, and they began reading them carefully.
Although Bilibili had achieved such impressive results, it actually had only four official employees in total, Xu Yi included. It had more shareholders than employees.
"So there really is a plan involving advertising revenue?"
When Xu Yi saw advertising revenue listed among the various profitability plans, he immediately frowned.
But remembering Lin Feng's promise not to flood the platform with advertisements, he could only force himself to keep reading before saying anything else.
Soon, Xu Yi saw that there would only be a single homepage advertisement, and that the sample image even clearly labeled it as "Advertisement." His opposition eased considerably.
On the other side, He Rui frowned deeply as he read through the profitability and development plan.
"President Lin, I can understand launching livestreaming services and reforming the platform to expand support for the technology, film, meme, and dance sections. I strongly support that.
"But why do we also need to launch a free novel business and a short-video app? Those two businesses have nothing to do with us, do they? Can they really make money?"
Hearing He Rui's surprised and confused question and seeing his doubtful gaze, Lin Feng shook his head slightly before smiling.
"Why launch a free novel business and a short-video app? Let's begin with the free novel business.
"First of all, Bilibili is a website for young people. At present, Bilibili's fans are young people who enjoy anime.
"They do not merely want to watch anime and anime-related videos. They also have a demand for reading novels.
"After all, the worlds of anime can be so frustrating. Who wouldn't fantasize about transmigrating into an anime and changing everything?
"In that regard, Bilibili is extremely suited to operating light novels such as anime fanfiction.
"After all, Bilibili is naturally a gathering place for people who love anime. It could be said that apart from AcFun, no other website is more suited than us to operating anime fanfiction light novels.
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