Reborn in 1991, helping dad become the richest man

Chapter 286 In the Internet Age, Should We Start with a Portal Website?

When the people of the whole country actually didn't notice it yet.

Just like that, it came quietly in the form of a small amount of information reported in a newspaper.

So, Tang Yichen had to make a decision.

Do it yourself or invest.

In the end, Tang Yichen didn't think about it for too long. After Tang Xionghua came back from get off work another day, Tang Yichen pulled him aside and said.

"Dad, the Internet age is here!"

"Huh?" Tang Xionghua was surprised.

Tang Xionghua now knows what the Internet is.

In fact, he had seen them all.

He went to Eagle Empire last year.

Long before this, when Tang Yichen talked to him about the future, he always mentioned the word "Internet". How could he not take it seriously?

However, at that time, there was no Internet in China.

By 1995, although there were Internet service providers in China, this thing was just beginning to become available but not popular.

There are only a handful of people in the country who can access the Internet.

Including Tang Xionghua and Tang Yichen, even if they have a computer at home, they can only use it as a game console to play single-player games.

In the past one or two years, the Internet was completely a decoration.

Even now, it is still the same.

Because domestic Internet service providers have not yet opened a large network in Chuzhou.

People who have never been abroad actually don’t even know the concept of the Internet in this era.

Perhaps only those who have been abroad or larger companies can access these things.

For example, some companies have people like Hangzhou Ma come to brag about and popularize their products.

But even so, people like Hangzhou Ma will now be regarded as scammers.

But, that was before.

Now, the first year of the Internet has arrived.

Starting this year, the Internet will develop rapidly.

Tang Yichen told Tang Xionghua what he knew about the Internet situation this year.

For a moment, Tang Xionghua was silent.

After a while, Tang Xionghua looked at Tang Yichen and asked, "So what are you going to do?"

Tang Yichen said without hesitation: "We can do it ourselves.

Of course, now is not the time.

Later, when the domestic Internet is opened, we will copy the complex foreign Yahoo and make it our portal website!

Yes, Tang Yichen could only say sorry to Lao Zhang.

Moreover, it may not just be Lao Zhang who has to say sorry, Lao Wang also has to say sorry.

Forums are the most popular things in this era. If there is only a portal but no website, it is not a portal at all.

As for why not invest.

In fact, Tang Yichen wanted to say that he also wanted to invest.

But investing also requires connections.

Lao Wang, Lao Ding, and even Lao Zhang.

Is there any connection between this era and Wanhua?

Not at all, completely off the same level.

Although Tang Yichen knew them, he could also rely on the current power of the Tang family to find them.

What reason can I use to go to them?

What if we find them?

Are you saying that I am optimistic about the development of their Internet companies?

That's nonsense. They don't have any fame now.

You are God! You know them.

Instead of looking for them at this time, they can find the funds themselves. It is indeed possible to look for them for investment after they have grown up.

But then you will just miss the opportunity to rise, and you will have to invest a huge amount of money to become a shareholder.

The key is that this can only be one of the shareholders.

So, instead of just watching, why not do it yourself? They have vision, doesn't Tang Yichen have it?

Tang Yichen knows the prospects and development model of the Internet better than anyone else.

So, doing it yourself is the best.

It saves trouble and can truly create a website that belongs entirely to your own country, rather than a website that is nominally a flower-growing website and how much money you can make from the flower-growing website.

But in reality, most of this money went into the pockets of foreigners.

Because the start-up capital of these founders is all from investments, and they have to be given shares.

Do they have money themselves?

Only Lao Ding had a starting capital of more than one million yuan by selling software and domain names. Others, such as Lao Ding and Lao Zhang, started their businesses directly with foreign investment.

But the Tang family makes it themselves.

Which requires financing.

That's nonsense. With the current Internet, you don't need to spend too much money.

Hundreds of millions of dollars invested are enough in the early stages.

In this case, does Tang Yichen need to ask others for money?

As for the future, Lao Tang’s family can easily provide all the money spent on Internet marketing and advertising.

It can be said that if the Tang family is now involved in the Internet industry, they can definitely build one or even multiple companies that they have 100% absolute control over.

You can make money yourself, why should you just watch foreigners make it?

There is an old saying that good things should be kept within the family.

The Internet is more than just a bounty of money; it's a huge, unimaginable cake.

It's impossible for Tang Yichen to finish it all by himself, but it's no problem for him to go in and take a big bite alone.

Immediately, Tang Yichen talked to Tang Xionghua in detail about the portal website, and asked Tang Xionghua to set aside 10 million.

Be prepared to recruit people from universities as soon as the domestic network is opened.

Let’s work on the portal website first.

Then, while promoting, you can also set up a forum and maintain and operate it yourself.

This was Tang Yichen's first step into the Internet in the first year of the Internet.

On February 5, 1997, Yinghaiwei officially announced that it would launch the first batch of eight nationwide networks within three months.

Among them, what surprised Tang Yichen was that Chuzhou was actually among these eight cities.

In his previous life, he didn't remember these details, but he knew that Chuzhou was definitely not among the first batch to be opened.

In fact, Tang Yichen had already talked with Tang Xionghua. When the whole country started to open the Internet, he would use his influence to find the company that acted as an agent for private ISP and ICP and ask them to come to Chuzhou to open it as well.

But I didn't expect that without going through so much trouble, they actually took the initiative to give me a spot.

This was an accident.

But if you think about it carefully, this is not surprising.

Although Chuzhou is not as good as other places like Shencheng Magic City, but Chuzhou now has Wanhua!

This is a multinational enterprise and an absolute benchmark for China's private enterprises. It is home to the richest man in China and even the richest man in Asia.

It's not surprising that he came to open it.

However, he only announced that it would be available within three months and did not specify the date when it would be opened.

So there is no solution to this situation for the time being.

So, at this moment, Tang Yichen didn't have the energy to care about this and just waited patiently.

The New Year is coming soon, and he is going back to his hometown with Tang Xionghua.

After the New Year, if Chuzhou has not been opened yet, you can ask Tang Xionghua to use his connections to contact this company and urge them to do so.

At the same time, it was at that time that we could start to step into the Internet industry.

"Are you sure you want to go to school after the New Year?"

The 4th, the 28th day of the lunar year, the day before the Lunar New Year.

Because there is no thirty in December this year.

So tomorrow is New Year’s Day.

This morning, Tang Xionghua finally finished the work for all his companies in the past year. He and Tang Yichen got on a Hongqi and drove back to Jianghan.

In the Hongqi, only Tang Yichen and his son were sitting in the back seat, and a partition was raised between the back seat and the front seat to isolate the sound and light.

So the father and son chatted casually and relaxedly in the back.

Of course, no matter how relaxed and casual they are, the father and son will not talk about anything out of the scope in the car.