Chapter 2263: The 3Q War

Family is undoubtedly the best harbor for a person. No matter how tired one is, being with family always brings the best rest.

Just like Zhao Fusheng.

No matter how exhausted he was, as long as he was with his parents, wife, and children, he would quickly recover his strength.

After staying on the island for half a month, Zhao Fusheng soon returned to normal.

During this time, the girl Fan Beibei was overjoyed to see him, pestering Zhao Fusheng to play wildly with her for several days.

Zhao Fusheng knew that although the girl had made new friends abroad, she was still very attached to him, so he indulged her and played with her for several days.

It wasn't until Li Yuan couldn't stand it anymore that they stopped.

And that guy Tan Kaixuan also decisively took measures to completely extricate himself from the quagmire of Italy.

After that, he told Zhao Fusheng that for the time being, unless Zhao Fusheng brought him in to invest in some domestic projects, he didn't plan to invest abroad.

In his own words, he was simply not cut out for investing in various projects; he should be fighting in the financial markets.

Zhao Fusheng was quite speechless at this, wanting to refute Tan Kaixuan but finding his own reasons too feeble.

Because Tan Kaixuan's track record was truly formidable.

If at the very beginning, Zhao Fusheng had used his foresight to help Tan Kaixuan gain a slight advantage in overseas financial markets, allowing him to seize the initiative,

then now, Tan Kaixuan was no longer the same person who needed Zhao Fusheng's help to make money.

Now, Tan Kaixuan, leading his hedge fund in the financial markets, was simply invincible.

In short, this guy had truly grown up.

Everyone has their own path to walk.

Zhao Fusheng knew this well.

In the end, he didn't stop Tan Kaixuan, only telling him never to put all his eggs in one basket.

At first, Tan Kaixuan didn't understand what Zhao Fusheng meant, but after thinking it over, he came to understand.

Zhao Fusheng was worried that he was too deeply involved in the financial market.

After all, finance is different from other industries. Today you might be a billionaire, but tomorrow morning when you wake up, you could become a penniless pauper.

Of course, it's also possible that today you're just a millionaire, and tomorrow morning your wealth could multiply dozens of times.

This is finance.

Brutal and full of risk.

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Holidays, after all, cannot last forever.

For Zhao Fusheng, although he wanted to rest and spend more time with his family, there were some things that ultimately only he could return to China to handle.

Such as the flow of company funds, and the raging 3Q War at home.

Speaking of this, Zhao Fusheng hadn't expected the matter to blow up so big.

It started when 360 announced free antivirus software, wiping out Kingsoft and Rising, and then its user base exploded, making it the internet company with the second-largest number of users in the country. That panicked the Penguin Company, which feared that 360 would overturn its market position.

Penguin Inc. used QQ to create QQ PC Manager and its own security guard, which basically copied 360's, but it hadn't succeeded yet. After all, it had just entered the security market, and the user experience was poor; people didn't really trust Penguin's products.

So 360 began to counter. First, it launched a privacy protector, accusing Penguin of stealing user privacy. This put Penguin in a bind. To better promote its own products, Penguin bundled its security guard with its chat software, forcibly installing it on users' computers. This was clearly using its user base advantage to wipe out 360.

This move was very ruthless, because antivirus software is often mutually exclusive; two antivirus programs can hardly coexist. Thus, 360 was pushed to the brink of life and death.

At this time, Old Zhou created a QQ Protector, which was also ruthless. It could block Penguin's pop-up ads and disable some of Penguin's features, leaving Penguin with only chat functionality.

Why was this ruthless? First, users liked it because after blocking Penguin's stuff, many of Penguin's features wouldn't start, making users' computers faster. Users were happy, but Penguin was very unhappy, because most of Penguin's revenue came from pop-up ads and value-added services.

Now the QQ Protector shut them down. Since this was very beneficial to users, it was welcomed by the majority. Within three days, it was downloaded tens of millions of times. If it continued for a month, it would likely be used by hundreds of millions of users.

Zhao Fusheng learned of this news only after returning to the country.

Of course, the person who summoned him was none other than Ma Huateng.

"I want to bankrupt that Zhou guy!"

Ma Huateng sat in front of Zhao Fusheng, grinding his teeth.

For him, it had been a long time since he had suffered such a huge defeat.

In fact, even Zhao Fusheng hadn't expected that Boss Zhou could make Little Ma Ge so angry.

You see, Ma Huateng had always given people the impression of being particularly refined, as if he wouldn't bat an eye even if Mount Tai collapsed.

But now, he was actually gnashing his teeth and saying he wanted to bankrupt Zhou Hongwei, which showed how angry he was.

"Heh, anger harms the body."

Zhao Fusheng smiled, picked up the teacup in front of him, took a sip, and said to Ma Huateng, "I never expected you to be this angry."

"Tens of millions of downloads in three days."

Ma Huateng smiled bitterly and said to Zhao Fusheng, "You should know what users mean to the internet. If we continue to suffer losses like this, how much pain will we endure?"

He said this to Zhao Fusheng for a reason.

After all, Zhao Fusheng was one of the shareholders of Tencent Technology.

Moreover, from a long time ago, Boss Ma felt that Zhao Fusheng had more confidence in the internet than anyone else; otherwise, he wouldn't have specifically sought him out for investment back then.

"I understand."

Zhao Fusheng nodded.

He naturally understood what Ma Huateng meant.

In fact, as Ma Huateng said, if they let 360 continue like this, Penguin would likely be wiped out completely.

"Tell me, what suggestions do you have?"

Ma Huateng looked at Zhao Fusheng and asked slowly.

For some reason, he felt that he could get the answer he wanted from Zhao Fusheng to solve this problem.

Zhao Fusheng laughed. He really hadn't expected that this guy had invited him over hoping he would give him advice.

Wasn't this too amazing?

Little Ma Ge!

Asking him for advice?

Thinking of this, Zhao Fusheng suddenly felt a great sense of achievement, even more than when he had made tens of billions.