Gu Kun was very willing to spend money to show off the news of "declaring the complete annihilation of the Diba people".

The scale of his generosity really amazed those acquaintances who had already known his spending ability before.

As the New Year of 2006 passed, a new series of wealth-showing operations began. Within two months of March and April, Gu Kun spent money like water, which greatly improved the overall city image of Lanfang.

Just because March and April are the off-peak seasons for tourists from China, the domestic response has been slower.

It wasn't until the May Day Golden Week came again that everyone's eyes lit up again.

…

One day at the end of April, on a flight from Beijing to the Lanfang Islands, the first class cabin was filled with passengers in suits and leather shoes, who looked like they were business-style passengers.

Yu Houde also rarely wore a thin windbreaker and tie, which was completely different from the image he should have had as an Internet entrepreneur in the past - Internet people have become accustomed to polo shirts and jeans in recent years.

His trip to Lanfang this time was not purely for traveling and relaxing, but more because he hoped to have the opportunity to meet Gu Kun and talk about his own career.

Yu Houde It was exactly three and a half years ago that when Gu Kun wanted to kill the Internet travel platform that invented the Internet zero-fee group, low-price shopping group and other models, Mr. Yang's Jiancheng Travel Network was released as a bait.

The founder of "Donkeyu.com" who used the opponent's money and then killed it with heavy hands, and then threw it away directly after using it.

Three and a half years have passed, and Mr. Yang, who brought down the Chinese people, has disappeared into the garbage heap of history and been crushed into powder by the rolling wheels of historical progress. The Internet winter was almost from the end of 2004 to the beginning of 2005.

It's completely over.

Gu Kun gave preferential treatment to those who were abandoned after using them. Therefore, although Yu Houde's "Lvtu.com" was wiped out, it was liquidated and disbanded normally at that time, and the capital invested by Yu Houde was recovered.

And he made several times the profit——

The situation is roughly similar to Ma Feng's 1996 operation of China Yellow Pages, and then failed to sell the equity and get out. After sorting it out, he can use the recovered money to build Ali Baba again.

The same is true for Yu Houde. After getting back hundreds of millions of yuan, he calmed down for nearly three years, studied and observed there, and occasionally went to other Internet companies to gain experience and help. Then in 2005, after seeing the recovery of the industry, he returned to

Started a business.

The direction of starting a business is still an Internet travel company. Since the original signboard is dead and smelly, let's change it from "Lvtu.com" to "Niutu.com".

Because he had several million yuan of his own capital on hand at the beginning, Yu Houde no longer needed angel round venture capital when he started his second business. He could survive by investing only 5 million of his own capital.

This is necessary for the company's initial development period of more than one year, so as to avoid being exchanged for a considerable proportion of the shares with a small amount of money when the company's initial valuation is still relatively low.

And because Yu Houde is quick to calculate, other potential peers were frightened by Gu Kun's ruthless extermination during the depression period in the past few years, and they did not dare to re-enter the market in early 2005. Most competitors were delayed until the end of 2005.

, and even came back in early 2006. In addition, the oldest "Biancheng Travel Network" established in 1999 has been destroyed by Gu Kun, so Yu Houde was able to easily occupy the position when he set off for the second time on this track.

The first position.

Under Gu Kun's high-pressure stick, he was ready to be a good person this time. He would no longer engage in low-fee or zero-fee tours, nor would he engage in swiping orders to increase traffic. Instead, he would embrace Gu Kun's thigh and focus on those projects that require real money from consumers.

, a dignified boutique tour.

Even if other travel agencies take away the share of Niutu.com in the foreign travel market because they offer cheap shopping tours on Japanese tours, Korean tours, and Singapore-Malaysia-Thailand tours, Yu Houde doesn't care anymore, because he knows that as long as any Internet company

If a travel company engages in the despicable business of low-cost shopping tours, then that Internet company will definitely be excluded from the market of "Chinese traveling to Lanzhou".

With Gu Kun's stubbornness, he would not allow that kind of slut company to get involved in the Lanfang market, and would definitely do everything possible to kill everyone to show off their authority.

The purpose of Yu Houde's trip to Lanfang this time was to further investigate the current situation of Lanfang's tourism market, make some planned adjustments, and then show it to Mr. Gu, and maybe there would be a chance to get some A-round investment from Mr. Gu.

I believe that Ma Feng and Ma Ye helped to mediate and coordinate three years ago because of his kindness. This time I have reformed and slowly developed, and I will not do the bad things of blacklisting and lowering my standard. Master Gu should be optimistic about me.

While he was thinking so wildly, Yu Houde didn't even notice that a guest sat down next to him. Yu Houde took a look and intuitively told him that this person also had the temperament of an Internet practitioner, and he seemed to be in the circle.

It's only right that we met him once at some cocktail party or on a forum.

In line with the idea of ​​​​multiple friends, multiple paths, he nodded to the other party in a friendly manner, and even took the initiative to strike up a few words, hoping to exchange business cards.

Unexpectedly, after chatting for a few words, the other party recognized him first, and there was no need to exchange business cards.

"This is not the Donkey Trail, oh no, are you Mr. Yu from the Niu Trail? It's a pleasure to meet you, and I meet you here again."

Yu Houde was a little confused: "Sorry, I..."

The other party also knew that he didn't remember many people, so he quickly stepped down and said: "Gou Dong's, Liu Dong, is an e-commerce company, similar to Dangdang.com, mainly selling books and 3C electronic products."

Yu Houde shook hands quickly: "Oh, Brother Liu, I remembered. Why, your company is also free and is going to Lanfang for annual vacation."

Liu Dong: "On the one hand, taking a vacation is also to see the world and investigate some industry frontiers related to e-commerce."

Yu Houde asked curiously: "You who are engaged in e-commerce, what is there to investigate? Lanfang is famous for rejecting e-commerce, and they all take the offline high-quality route. In terms of e-commerce, Gu Ye is completely against the historical trend."

On the contrary, it is gaining momentum in China. You said that I am a tourist, so I just go to Lanzhou."

Liu Dong shook his head: "So I just took a look at it. As you know, the most powerful e-commerce company nowadays is Taobao. It is already at its peak, but there are many things that you can't buy on Taobao. We, the latecomers, have to compete head-on."

It’s unwise and there will definitely be no chance. We talk about overtaking in corners and changing lanes every day, but don’t we have to do differentiated analysis and do things that Taobao can’t do?”

After hearing this, Yu Houde felt a little scared in his heart and did not dare to ask again. He was afraid that if he continued to ask, the other party would say something treacherous like "fake Gu Kun luxury goods are sold online", so it would be inconvenient for him to talk to him.

smell.

Yu Houde had already sensed Gu Kun's power, and he didn't want to end up like the traitor Yang.

If you reported some things to Gu Kun after hearing them, it would seem like you were making trouble and framed other entrepreneurs, which would give you a bad reputation in the Internet circle.

After hearing this, don't tell Gu Kun. If Gu Kun finds out in the future that he knew in advance, it will not look good on your face, so it is better to change the subject from the beginning. As far as Gu is concerned, he didn't hear it.

…

After a four-hour flight, the flight landed at Lanfang International Airport from Beijing.

Yu Houde and Liu Dong walked out of the terminal building together, chatting nonsense about one thing or another. All their conversations were completely nutritious.

Because the May Day holiday is approaching, the airport and other tourist facilities in Lanzhou have become congested. Even if the infrastructure here is being expanded crazily every year, it still cannot withstand the increasingly wealthy Chinese guests. The land price has skyrocketed by several percent every year.

influx.

Yu Houde is engaged in tourism and is relatively sensitive to these data. He just made a visual inspection along the way and was quite emotional: "I remember that it has only been more than a year since Runway 2 was put into commercial use, and it is actually full again. A runway according to Heath's

Luo Airport is overloaded, with 300 flights taking off and landing every day, and the two runways totaling 600 flights.

At half and half round trips, even if it is a 150-seat medium-sized aircraft, there are 50,000 tourists arriving through the airport a day, which is not 18 million a year. It is too exaggerated. However, now is the Golden Week, maybe only during the Golden Week there will be

The airport has 50,000 people entering. In normal peak seasons, it is estimated that it is only two-thirds of the Golden Week number, such as summer vacation. In the off-season, one-third of the Golden Week number is good.

But even if you calculate this, the seven to eight million air tourists a year are still indispensable. No wonder Lanfang International Airport has completed the construction of the second runway and started to build the third runway, as well as the terminal building. The airport construction team here is estimated to have been working for ten consecutive years.

I haven’t seen any work stoppages.”

When walking out of the terminal, because there were too many tourists and the pick-up and drop-off traffic was too heavy, the loudspeaker on the radio was always there taking turns shouting in Chinese and Japanese, encouraging everyone to use rail transit, or encouraging passengers who insisted on taking a taxi to allow carpooling to go to the city.

He also said that officials have provided subsidies to provide discounts to passengers who are willing to carpool.

This kind of discount is not a matter of lowering the quality, it is purely to thank tourists for their high quality and willingness to occupy less public resources and reduce congestion.

Liu Dong is not engaged in the tourism industry. He has not been here for several years. After listening to the broadcast, he was a little surprised: "Isn't the land in Lanfang not so tight? It actually built a subway? The sedimentary geology of the island here should be very loose.

Is it easy to repair?"

Yu Houde: "It was completed last year. After many expansions of the airport and port, there are too many people. There is only one line, from the airport to the city, and then north to the port. But the Lanfang land is not

No, so it’s called a subway, but it’s actually an elevated light rail, using viaducts on the ground. The cost of viaducts is at least two-thirds cheaper than a tunnel of the same mileage.”

However, no matter how well the subway is built, decent people like them will not ride on it. Just when I was leaving the airport, I passed by the subway station and took a look at the Lanfang Subway car from a distance. The car looked very luxurious and decent, and it was silent.

The effect seems to be first-rate, and there is no noise when it is turned on.

After passing the airport subway waiting area, they came to the taxi queue, but here, they immediately saw a shocking scene.

"Holy shit! Are all the taxis in Lanfang started from Mercedes-Benz? At worst, they have all been upgraded to Mercedes-Benz? There are also expensive ones that can take a Porsche?" Liu Dong was immediately dumbfounded when he saw it.

Of course he has never ridden in such luxury cars, but seeing these luxury cars become urban public transportation infrastructure, the impact is still very shocking.
Chapter completed!