1999, as the last year of the late 20th century, left a bad impression on the world, and was turbulent everywhere. After two years of financial storm, the overall economic growth rate of Asian countries has slowed down greatly. It was not until the middle of the year that it showed a momentum of recovery from the bottom. Not many people have talked about the once-popular Asian economic miracle. Now this round of financial storm has swept across Eastern Europe and South America, and from Russia to Brazil, emerging economies have continued to follow the footsteps of Southeast Asian countries.

As the world leader, the economy of several developed countries has not had a good life. Japan failed to survive the Asian financial storm. Its layout of Southeast Asian industries has been greatly hit, and Japan's local economy has also suffered heavy losses and continued to sink. Although Europe issued the euro at the beginning of the year, it thought it could challenge the Americans' financial hegemony, but unexpectedly, the Yugoslavia civil war that had been fighting for several years had a major escalation. It could not be settled and had to turn to the Americans. In the Kosovo War in March, it left the impression that the whole world was following the lead, making the whole world see clearly that the so-called EU is just a paper tiger without teeth. Now the only one who can command the world as a superpower is the only one in the world.

At this time, only the North American mainland sang and laughed. Due to the collapse and division of the old rival, the Soviets ten years ago, Europeans were unable to support A Dou, Asian rising stars were defeated back to their prototypes, and the Latin American economy was even more turbulent. Looking around the world, only the United States was in a unique place. The domestic economy grew rapidly and the middle class wealth increased greatly. Apart from a few stubborn "rogue countries", no one who was unaware of the eyes dared to challenge the authority of the United States. The new online economy led by the United States attracted hot money from the world. The first time in the history of the United States' fiscal policy after the war, the United States achieved great results of equal income and expenditure, and a slight surplus. No wonder the ruling US President Clinton was impeached for a sex scandal and admitted to lying to Congress, but he failed to let him step down.

This is not only due to the luck of the Americans. For the current situation, Americans have made great arrangements in recent years. First, they suppressed emerging economies in the economic crisis through the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. None of them survived, and only China, a relatively closed economy, survived. The euro, which wanted to challenge the US dollar, encountered a bombing from Kosovo as soon as it was listed. It is said that Europe had $700 billion in hot money at that time, and was about to bet on the rise of the euro to the US dollar. As a result, the bomb fired, $500 billion was immediately withdrawn to the United States, and the remaining $200 billion also ran to Hong Kong and other places for refuge.

Of course, the Americans did not want to let go of the remaining 200 billion US dollars. They had prepared several "misunderstood" bombs for the Chinese Embassy, ​​which could not only teach this disobedient power a lesson, but also scare back the escaped 200 billion US dollars. Unexpectedly, the situation suddenly changed. Although the bombing was successful, they were defeated by the Chinese people's empty city plan and also compensated their own strategic weapon B-2. The news of Su Ri'an was blocked, but internationally, they all know that the Americans suffered a huge loss, so the 200 billion US dollars naturally failed to get back.

The ensuing outbreak of the Terminator virus and the "WikiLeaks" triggered a hacker war also challenged the international financial system and the prestige of the US government, and finally made investors understand that the United States is not a security paradise. It is very dangerous to put eggs in one basket. As a result, 200 billion US dollars were not recovered and more than 200 billion US dollars fled, which made the rising US online stocks calm for a while. Finally, the big guys on Wall Street were all-in-one and fooled a group of experts and scholars to continue boasting about the benefits of the new online economy. In the second half of the year, the Nasdaq stock market, which was represented, resumed the hot scene.

With the east wind of Nasdaq, many dazzling star companies have appeared in the stock market, among which two Internet stocks from Hong Kong and the Mainland performed particularly well. Among them, the black hole software company, known as the "first software stock in China", was lifted after more than half a year of lifting the ban. The senior executives of the company, led by major shareholder Zhang Shengli, sold a lot of their shares. Not only did they not cause market panic, but they were also a symbol of the "Chinese concept stock" on Nasdaq.

However, the glory of "black hole software" is still overshadowed by the dazzling light of "Star Move Network". As the number one Chinese portal website, Xingdong Network's achievements are even more eye-catching. The Spark search engine, which was launched this year, defeated many competitors and became one of the search engines with the highest click-through rates on the Internet this year. Both Yahoo and American online websites in the United States have expressed the intention to use Spark search on their own websites.

At the same time, the functions of Xingdong website are also constantly expanding. The web page not only integrates news, search engines, blogs and other information, but also provides download functions such as music, videos, games and other download functions in the website. Starting from QQ instant communication, it has now developed to use QQ to exchange identities and photos among netizens to exchange additional dating functions such as president Ma Huateng. In the words of President Ma Huateng, it is necessary to create an online ecological social community. These hot spots not only bring click rates, but also the rich resources that advertisers are willing to pay for this. While many Nasdaq-listed websites are still looking for their own profit points, Xingdong Network has already started to make profits.

In addition, in September, Xingdong Network launched a third-party payment platform "Starbao" to address the payment problems encountered by online store downloads and the c2c-mode e-commerce website that cooperated with Xinghai Trading, which was first launched, and issued a virtual currency "Starcoin" for these online commercial activities. As a result, it was highly sought after by netizens in just over a month and became one of several payment forms of communication in the Internet world.

The principle of star coins is very simple, which is to exchange various real currencies at a certain rate, or pay virtual services on the Internet to exchange for certain reward currency. For example, you can get star coins rewards in a certain game provided by StarDong Network, upload and share your own songs and videos, etc. to get paid, or exchange virtual items with a large number of friends in real time communication. In short, in the huge online community gradually built by StarDong Network, star coins can allow you to enjoy various services unimpededly.

Many people who are interested quickly discovered the benefits of this virtual currency. The way of making money by using star coins to exchange for actual currency emerged like mushrooms after a rain. Xingdong Network placed star coins under the banner of not disrupting normal financial order, under the management of its third-party payment platform "Starbao". The star coins obtained by players can only be handed over to Xingbao Company to exchange real currency at a fixed exchange rate. At the same time, Xingbao is in response to the incompleteness and insecurity of credit cards and online transactions in many countries, and netizens are also welcome to use the Starbao platform to conduct e-commerce transactions in case of chaos such as sellers collecting money but not shipping goods and buyers receive goods but not paying goods.

This network settlement model derived from Q coins and Alipay in previous lives quickly made the scale of Xingdong Network break through its original main positions East Asia and North America, and occupied the markets of many underdeveloped third-world network countries in the world. For the United States, the origin of the network, everyone has a good credit record and various credit cards, and online payment and virtual currencies are not very important. But for underdeveloped countries like China, if you want to carry out e-commerce activities, third-party payment platforms and virtual currencies are indispensable transaction basis. Not long after these two businesses were launched, Xingdong Network's click ranking rate in countries around the world has soared. Even in the US market with the most developed network, portals such as American Online and Yahoo feel the threat of Xingdong Network.

With Starfire, Starcoin and Starbao, these new heavyweight applications are in hand. Although they don’t make much profit, in the eyes of Nasdaq stock critics, Stardong Network is already the largest potential stock after Amazon and Yibei. Under their speculation, Stardong Network’s stock price doubled in less than half a year, becoming the most popular stock in the Nasdaq stock market. Yang Xing, the young boss who created this miracle behind it, has once again become the focus of American media pursuit.

But what is disappointing is that Yang Xing chose to retreat behind the scenes again. The Public Relations Department of Zhongxing Group received hundreds of calls from domestic and foreign requests to interview Yang Xing every day. However, the latest news about him was that he showed up with his family at the military parade for the 50th anniversary of the founding of China in October this year. Later, except for some economic discussion programs at the Yahuangtai in Hong Kong, there was no news about him at all in the outside world during the rest of the time. Even the staff at the Hong Kong headquarters were difficult to see this big boss who was not seen at the head and the tail, and it was even more difficult for others to know his recent situation.

It was the end of the year in a blink of an eye. 1999 was the turn of the century, and it was also a century rotation that only existed in a thousand years, so it was named Millennium. For China, this year was the day for Macau to return, and the last colony in China was taken back, marking the end of the century-old national humiliation. Many smart merchants have long realized the importance of the Millennium Night in 1999 after these historical significances were superimposed, and they have already put on promotional signs early, preparing to turn the whole December into a grand carnival.

At this time, at the top of Taiping Mountain in Hong Kong, the Star Chasing Garden, which had spent more than $100 million to be completely renovated, was brightly lit and decorated, and the outside was even more vigilant because Yang Xing had lived here for a while. Tan Meichang, a socialite in the former Hong Kong upper class, did not reappear as many people imagined. After she handed over her modeling company to Xingmei Model Company, she hid in the Star Chasing Garden to preside over the entire reconstruction project. Although there were rumors that her relationship with Yang Xing was special, she did not show up for more than a year, so people believed that she had truly washed away all her hair and left the world. As the criticisms of her "eating inside and out" became increasingly rare, the century-old Zheng family mansion was renamed "Meteor Garden" and was rebuilt beyond recognition, and not many people cared about it.
Chapter completed!