Reborn with Consumption System

The opportunity to speak freely and gesture wildly, only once.

Then, in contemplation, Han Lie suddenly realized the deepest meaning of the issue—

Is there a possibility...

Zhang Yiming also wants to use this opportunity to probe my personality, to see if I’m the type of investor with a particularly strong desire for control?

Goodness, it’s so damn possible!

Therefore, in addressing this issue, speaking shallowly is not an option.

Too shallow, and people would mock, Byte would look down on Mr. Han’s dignity.

Speaking too specifically is even worse.

As an investor, with so many ideas and practical desires, might you suddenly feel the founding team’s level is mediocre, and then usurp power, taking charge personally?

If a strong desire for control is exposed, you’re one hundred percent out of the game.

So, the question almost has only one solution—

With sufficient height, summarize and extract the essence of the problem, but don’t provide any specific solutions, touching just enough to fully respect the rights of the founding team!

Difficult... It’s really damn difficult!

Han Lie shouted in his heart that it’s hard, but in fact, his whole being was ignited.

How can big tasks not be difficult?

I just love these high-level challenges!

Han Lie, greatly invigorated, pulled out a cigarette and gestured to them: "Smoke a cigarette, you don’t mind, right?"

"Give me one!"

The old smoker, Zhang Lidong, joined the fun with a laugh, dispelling the slightly solemn atmosphere a bit.

Soon after, Liu Minghao also came over to get a cigarette, went around asking, and helped light them, giving Han Lie time to think.

Panzi watched calmly, as steady as Maitreya.

He positioned himself as the final ballast stone, if the result wasn’t satisfactory, he would use his method for a final attempt.

Once all the smokers had lit their cigarettes, Han Lie finally organized his language and calmly spoke.

"I’m somewhat familiar with the failure of Fanfou. Let me say something you may not like to hear, Yiming—it’s good that it was shut down! That product indeed became somewhat chaotic in its later stages."

Everyone was stunned.

My goodness, you really can’t rest until you say something shocking, can you?!

However, the person who should be most upset, Zhang Yiming, didn’t mind at all.

He is broad-minded, which Han Lie was confident about.

Zhang Yiming nodded and said: "Your criticism is reasonable, so I have no grudge against the regulatory department, but this matter ultimately left me with some shadows.

If Toutiao only does news aggregation, there is naturally no worry about repeating the same mistake.

But when we started the creator program in January, and will cooperate extensively with self-media in the future... can you understand what I’m worried about?"

"Of course."

Han Lie nodded emphatically, then launched into an extremely coherent and incisive discourse, raining down on everyone.

"In our country, any open-comment news media platform must face ’destruction’ from netizens.

And not only did Toutiao open comments, it even granted self-media independent creation rights, and with its unique recommendation mechanism, presents content to a large number of people holding the same views.

Therefore, the enthusiasm for commenting by Toutiao users will significantly increase.

On one hand, this will help enhance user stickiness, boost daily active data, drive user loyalty, forming explosive growth that’s hard to compete against.

On the other hand, the enthusiasm of users and the company’s encouragement mechanism will in turn cause self-media to head towards the ’eye-catching’ direction without looking back.

This will create enormous opinion risk.

And what’s most dangerous?

We must clearly recognize that ’keyboard politics’ itself is the nature of netizens, and the fundamental ideological conflict leads this nature to be consistently guided by organized, planned, and purposeful parties...

Once all sorts of smears run rampant, is there a possibility for Toutiao to follow Fanfou’s footsteps?

I think there is."

Shock!

The living room instantly fell silent.

The first part was Han Lie’s analysis of the Toutiao model, precise and profound.

The latter part sharply explained what the "destructiveness" of netizens is, directly digging to the ancestral grave.

Are today’s young people this strange?!

Zhang Lidong and others didn’t understand, but were greatly shocked.

However, this is just a beginning.

Brother Lie is about to make a big move, could it be so simple?!

"I have no ideas about Toutiao’s operation and self-regulation, but I do have a strong desire to express on the topic of the intensifying ideological conflict, so allow me to speak, and everyone kindly listen.

What is ideological conflict?

Everyone can understand, no need to elaborate.

Why does such intense ideological conflict happen?

Actually, the root of this problem lies in our financial field.

Let me draw a conclusion first—ideological conflict stems from a certain country’s extreme pressure on us.

Extreme means this pressure comes from multiple fields and is very deep.

The so-called pressure of public opinion is just a part of it.

To conduct specific analysis, one must start from the big picture.

Everyone knows that a certain country is the world’s financial hegemon, consistently harvesting global wealth using financial means.

Before 2007, it was the honeymoon period between our two countries, massive international capital was investing in our country, earning high development dividends, while our generated foreign exchange was large enough to purchase their national debt, stabilizing their financial market.

From the perspective of financial capital, back and forth, stripping us of two layers.

From a trade perspective, our provision of cheap industrial products helped them maintain a long-term low CPI domestically, enabling them to print money and issue debt on a large scale without causing inflation.