"Mr. Zhou Ming, I know that with my identity, I originally had no qualifications to negotiate with you, but I still want to ask, why is this?" Shi Lei asked, his tone full of humiliation and reluctance, as if he felt that Zhou Ming was deliberately targeting him.

Now Zhou Ming is sitting in front of Shi Lei, after the forum association meeting ends.

In fact, after Zhou Ming made the decision to push Chen Ming up, he realized that Shi Lei would definitely come to him on his own initiative, and Zhou Ming was also prepared. Therefore, when Shi Lei took the initiative to come to him after the meeting, Zhou Ming took the initiative to come to him, so Zhou Ming took him to the private room he had already opened.

Perhaps when he started to find Zhou Ming last time, Shi Lei was not fully prepared, but Shi Lei is worthy of being one of the Internet giants. His mentality was adjusted very quickly. He calmed down when he arrived in the private room, and then directly asked Zhou Ming about his doubts and unwillingness.

In fact, Shi Lei wanted to question him angrily, but Shi Lei still didn't dare. After all, his forum is so poor that he can't even afford the server and network fees. Finally, with Zhou Ming, a big shot who is willing to invest, he dare not offend him easily no matter what, and he dare not even say harsh words.

"Why?" Zhou Ming looked at Shi Lei meaningfully, "Before I answered your question, I was curious, when did you regard yourself as the president of the association? After the conversation yesterday?"

this……

Shi Lei was a little hesitant at first, but then he thought that he had already arrived here, so he said barely: "Isn't this obvious? Not only do I understand the architecture of the Internet, I also made a strategic plan for the development of the forum. Chen Ming had nothing, and he learned from me."

Zhou Ming nodded constantly: "Understanding the Internet architecture and being able to make development plans is indeed a very excellent quality, but one thing is that I can hire a special Internet architect and then hire a full-time professional manager to take their team to concentrate on doing this. Wouldn't it be better than what you bother with both sides?"

Shi Lei was stunned at the time. He didn't expect Zhou Ming to say this. He was so surprised that he couldn't stop talking: "Why should I hire more people to do things alone? Isn't it cost more money?"

Zhou Ming smiled and told him: "Then, this is the difference in our philosophy. Webmaster Shi asked you to answer my question again, which is what is the standard for doing something, should you do things first, or should you consider the cost first?"

"Of course, it's done well." Shi Lei answered without thinking. After all, if things are not done well, what's the point of considering the cost?

"It seems that you understand this principle too, Webmaster Shi, don't you?" Zhou Ming asked back.

Shi Lei suddenly realized that he understood what Zhou Ming meant, which was something he completely ignored. He always emphasized how capable he was. Not to mention whether his abilities were top in the industry, even if he was so distracted, he might not be able to perform much. It was not as reliable as a professional team.

"So compared to my own personal abilities, what I value more is the president's leadership ability." Zhou Ming said to Shi Lei earnestly.

Shi Lei nodded and said that he understood. Zhou Ming then encouraged him: "But you don't have to be discouraged, you know technology and make plans. These are the things that you are better than Webmaster Chen. No one can deny it. So if you try again

Let’s learn about the leadership skills of Webmaster Chen?”

Zhou Ming's words made Shi Lei's eyes lit up. He then stood up and bowed to Zhou Mingshen and said, "Thank you very much for your teachings. I apologize to you for my previous attitude. It is my villain's heart to judge a gentleman."

Zhou Ming smiled and waved his hand to tell him that he was not angry: "I understand very much. After all, when I was not rich, I was even more stingy than you in doing things!"

Shi Lei looked at Zhou Ming with a respectful face. He said solemnly: "I have never admired anyone in my life, but from now on, Mr. Zhou Ming, you are the person I admire the most!"

Shi Lei left this sentence and left, making Zhou Ming look confused.

Zhou Ming turned around and asked Su Han: "Why is honesty such an admirable quality these days?"

Su Han covered his mouth and smiled, "I'm afraid Mr. Shi Lei thinks Zhou Ming, you said just now, deliberately enlightened him."

"But I'm telling the truth." Zhou Ming shrugged and said, "After all, I was fired from the factory ten years ago. I had no money on it and felt embarrassed to ask my family for it. At that time, I had to pay credit even when I went to your restaurant in Xiaohan."

"But in Shi Lei's opinion, I'm afraid Zhou Ming, you are the same as Huang Rong and others. They are both wealthy families born with golden spoons in their mouths. It's impossible for them to understand the pain of lack of money." Su Han said, "After all, no one would have thought that Zhou Ming, you can do what you are like in just ten years."

Zhou Ming spread his hands: "Anyway, it's just a saying, is it a fault for me to be so outstanding?"

...

After finishing the chat with Shi Lei, Zhou Ming then picked up his cell phone and dialed Huang Rong's number, told them that he was done here and asked them to come over.

Huang Rong and the others did not leave the Peace Hotel. In fact, they knew about Zhou Ming's meeting with Shi Lei, so they were all waiting at the Peace Hotel, waiting for Zhou Ming and Shi Lei's result. Now that they received a call from Zhou Ming, they hurried to Zhou Ming's private room, opened the door and came in to see Zhou Ming. They didn't say anything polite, and asked Zhou Ming directly what was going on.

Seeing that they were so anxious, Zhou Ming asked meaningfully: "Why? Are you so afraid that I will collapse in the chat?"

Huang Rong and the others' faces became awkward because they really had this worry. Zhou Ming was young and energetic, and even the old wealthy families were not worthy of the face, let alone the unknown Shi Lei. Although driving Shi Lei may not have much impact on the establishment of the forum association, it is a pity to take the initiative to drive away such a talent.

Zhou Ming stopped keeping them in a silence: "Don't worry, Shi Lei and I were having a good chat. If there were no other accidents, he would stay in the association as the vice president."

Huang Rong and the others were all relieved. This was what they were most worried about at this time.

Although they had no objection to let Chen Ming be the president, it did not mean that they didn't care about Shi Lei's situation. Especially after learning that Shi Lei was so proud, they were even more worried that Shi Lei would be angry because of this matter.

"The rest depends on Chen Ming's side." Shen Baishi was a little worried, "Zhou Ming, you said that Chen Ming was so humiliated by Shi Lei before. Now that he has become the president, will he go to trouble Shi Lei first? If the relationship is broken again, it will be difficult to end."

Zhou Ming was relatively relaxed about this question: "No

There is no possibility of this, but if Chen Ming only has such a small amount of stomach, he will not be the president."

Later, the facts also proved that Zhou Ming's vision was that after Chen Ming was elected by the president, he took the initiative to invite Shi Lei as vice president at the webmasters' own dinner, hoping that everyone would work together to develop the forum better.

According to Zhou Ming once chatting with Shi Lei in private, Shi Lei told Zhou Ming that he was willing to be the vice president this time.

Because Shi Lei knew that as long as he was recommended by Zhou Ming and Chen Ming became the president of the association, it was a matter of time before he could mock himself, but Chen Ming took the initiative to ease his relationship with him and took the initiative to mention the matter of making him the vice president. From this, Shi Lei knew that he did have a lot of leadership skills to learn.

After the relationship between Chen Ming and Shi Lei eased, the subsequent things were very step by step. The Forum Association was officially established in Binhai, and Tianhai Net Light and other the most popular forums in the country were joined. Chen Ming, the webmaster of Tianhai Forum, was elected as the first president, and Shi Lei, the webmaster of the Net Light, was the vice president.

On the day the association was established, an investment company jointly established by Zhou Ming and Huang Rong and other Binhai wealthy families also arrived and signed investment agreements with all forums on the spot.

The agreements of investment companies for these forums are basically the same. They invest proportionally based on the valuations of these forums. In principle, they do not interfere with the development of the forums, nor will they provide too much resources to help a certain forum. In general, it is a posture of dipping the rain and dew, and trying to keep a bowl of water as flat as possible.

"So what if we have competition between the forums?" Shi Lei asked a very critical question.

The eyes of others were also suddenly focused. Obviously, this is also a question they are all very concerned about. After all, peers are enemies. After the forum has been injected, they will inevitably develop, and they will inevitably encounter competition between each other. If it is different bosses investing, it is easy to say, but now they are all bosses, so...?

Zhou Ming’s answer to this is very simple: “I repeat, in principle, we do not interfere with the normal development of the forum, and of course, it includes the competition between you!”

Zhou Ming then said: "Of course I don't know the forum and I don't know what kind of competition your competition will be, but one thing is certain, the forum association must have not been dissolved at that time."

Chen Ming and Shi Lei and the others now understand that generally small competition can be solved under the framework of the association, but if it is a big competition... it is not realistic at least for a short period of time.

As all the forum webmasters accepted the investment, Zhou Ming finally breathed a sigh of relief and finally got the forum. At least there will be no headaches in the future. If someone like Chen Jin deliberately posted on the forum, or exposed himself for no reason. At that time, he could almost block the entire network with one phone call.

"When Tieba Weibo and online self-media come up again in the future, and you can penetrate and control yourself, and you can make yourself disappear online and continue to make a fortune happily." Zhou Ming thought to himself, of course that will happen at least ten years later.

When Zhou Ming finally got the forum on Binhai, he suddenly received a call from Linyang.

Even the city director Liu Hua personally called: "Comrade Zhou Ming, there is a foreigner in Nanhui Industrial Park... today he caught a foreigner and he said he was looking for you."
Chapter completed!