The Fourth Nine City.

Lei Busi had just received an email from Su Yehao when an employee ran over to report that the big boss had left messages under several posts, asking if they should boost the heat.

Chu Jun, who was already in charge of the Huang鑽 (Huang Zuan, Yellow Diamond) computer business, was still the second shareholder of Yinhai Network Group.

However, after taking financing from Su Yehao several times, his shareholding had decreased compared to before, but in exchange, this batch of shares became more valuable.

Chu Jun happened to be visiting Lei Busi's office when the employee came to report.

Hearing the employee's words, he jokingly scolded with a hint of jealousy:

"Xiao Wu, your education wasn't as good as others back then, but I personally recruited you into the company. Now you turn around and call him the big boss, do you still have me in your eyes? Does that make me number two?"

If Su Yehao were present, he would definitely tell Chu Jun that this term shouldn't be used casually, as it's easily ambiguous.

But right now.

Number two is just number two, the literal meaning.

The employee from the operations department, surnamed Wu, looked at Chu Jun, surprised:

"Oh, President Chu is here too? I didn't see you because President Lei was blocking you. President Su is my big boss now, and President Chu, you're my savior, otherwise I'd probably be back in my hometown working. How could I be where I am today? Consider that I misspoke just now, please don't take it to heart."

Lei Busi said with a smile:

"Stop with the President this and President that, you're making me dizzy. Brother Jun is managing a business worth hundreds of millions, and once the computer business is successful, the turnover will probably be tens of billions. Daring to directly shout out the slogan of only earning five percent, President Su is indeed a genius, letting customers spend clearly and feel that it's worthwhile."

"The prospects are good, but it's still uncertain. The production capacity of many components has been divided up by others, and the price we get is slightly higher. The market competitiveness in the short term may not be as strong as expected. The more volume we move, the easier it is to drive down the price. Moreover, if the price is suppressed too hard, it's easy to provoke public anger. If foreign merchants unite and don't supply us with components, it will be very troublesome."

After Chu Jun finished speaking, he sighed softly, then curiously asked, "What is President Su busy with lately? What does it mean to leave messages on those posts?"

The employee surnamed Wu brought a laptop and immediately showed Chu Jun and Lei Busi the posts where Su Yehao had left messages, explaining:

"We didn't notice it at first. Just now, a user who was replied to by President Su posted another blog... oh, a microblog."

"The number of replies in a short period of time was particularly high, and that's when we discovered that President Su had logged into his account."

"I was thinking that if it didn't get any traction, it would be directly covered by new posts, wouldn't that be embarrassing for him? So I decided to come over and ask, to see if we should guide more users to pay attention, and strive to get on the trending list, so as to attract more attention for President Su. Maybe he'll be happy and everyone can get more bonuses..."

After listening to him.

After looking at the content of Su Yehao's replies, Chu Jun looked up at the young man surnamed Wu, gave a thumbs up and said happily:

"You're a talent, no wonder you went into operations. You've honed your ability to figure out people's thoughts, you'll be able to do well in the civil service exam in the future. But President Su is only a few years old, if you accidentally call him 'old man' to his face, he'll directly tell you to pack up and get out."

Anyway, Su Yehao wasn't present, so everyone was just joking.

Teasing the boss often makes colleague relationships more harmonious, it's a traditional practice in the workplace.

The one surnamed Wu didn't hesitate and shook his head, answering:

"He's such a big boss, when I stand in front of him, I probably can't even say a fluent sentence. My mind is only thinking about how many trucks can be filled with hundreds of billions of US dollars, how could I blurt it out?"

"You're a wimp, but I'm also a little curious about the question of how many trucks it can fill, go calculate it and give me an answer."

Lei Busi said with a smile, touching his chin, and then added:

"Also, think of a way to push the posts up. Anyway, what President Su said is all correct. Get a trending search going, so that the outside world can learn more about our company's products. If it can be reported in newspapers and on TV, then we can save the money for advertising. People don't pay attention to us, but President Su's energy is beyond your imagination."

After he finished speaking.

Chu Jun looked at Lei Busi with a strange expression, saying:

"I have to interject, the last sentence, 'energy is beyond your imagination', seems suitable as an advertising slogan for promoting computers, such as 'The power of Huang鑽 (Huang Zuan, Yellow Diamond) computers is beyond your imagination'... very good, quickly get me a pen, I want to write it down, and go back and think about it."

Lei Busi: "..."

More than two hours later.

Su Yehao finally felt a little sleepy. He was still fast asleep in the mansion in Atherton, Silicon Valley, completely unaware that he had inexplicably landed on the trending search list of Yinhai Weibo in the mainland.

Yinhai only gave it a little push, and it naturally gained popularity.

After all, among young people in the mainland, especially among young netizens, Su Yehao's reputation was already considerable.

This commentary on choosing a major in university, employment prospects, and buying first- and second-tier city houses did attract a wave of people's attention. However, the highlight that made netizens pay more attention was the sentence "search my name on tot."

It's only July of 1999.

The price of internet access is still very expensive. Since March 1st of this year, the internet fee has been reduced from more than ten yuan per hour to four yuan per hour. For those who spend more than sixty hours online per month, the excess part is calculated at eight yuan per hour.

As soon as this regulation came out, it directly led to hundreds of thousands more netizens in the mainland in just four months.

It's a pity that the spring of internet cafes hasn't arrived yet. It's impossible to only access the internet for sixty hours each month. Moreover, the cost is four yuan, plus electricity, rent, and machine expenses, the internet fee would probably have to be charged ten or eight yuan to ensure profit, so it's better to continue providing stand-alone games without internet access.

Therefore, there are not many hotspots on the internet in the mainland today, and even fewer people play with memes.

As a small group of netizens suddenly discovered that someone dared to point fingers at Su Yehao, this super-rich from Hong Kong, and told him "don't talk nonsense if you don't understand," it inexplicably hit the funny bone of countless netizens.

For a time, major forums began to frantically repost it.

A few hours later.

The discussion on the internet became more intense, and a group of public intellectuals also began to evaluate how high the income of software and hardware programmers in Silicon Valley was, and how broad the employment prospects were.

In the end, they didn't forget to step on it as usual, saying that compared with the United States, it was already far behind, and many universities didn't even offer computer science departments.

As for Su Yehao's remarks about persuading people to buy houses, it also caused a lot of discussion.

Some people believe that existences like the Su family and the Li family are in contact with levels that are too much higher than ordinary people, and they should have foreseen something in advance, so they have all gone to the north to acquire land for development.

This also seems to confirm that the mainland's real estate market is indeed very promising.

Correspondingly, there are also many people who are sarcastic, thinking they understand everything, saying that Su Yehao is only trying to promote buying houses.

There were also a group of people leaving messages below saying "wise man" and "you see through everything" and so on.

The term "keyboard warrior" hasn't been born yet, but keyboard warriors already existed.

Strictly speaking, this is the first time that Yinhai Weibo has received so much attention since its establishment and trial operation.

Lei Busi's mind is quite flexible. Seeing this, he decisively seized the opportunity and took the initiative to contact familiar media, wanting to take advantage of the freshly released heat to promote Yinhai Weibo.

Su Yehao rarely accepts interviews on weekdays.

Faced with such a big news story delivered to their door, the reporters who received Lei Busi's call all happily agreed to mention the four words "Yinhai Weibo" more often at that time, and by the way, remember the fact that Su Yehao would leave messages on this website.

On the evening of the same day in mainland time.

After several hours of fermentation, the popularity of this matter was even higher. Many TV stations, evening newspapers, and radio stations had already begun to conduct more professional analysis and discussions around Su Yehao's messages.

Su Yehao, who was still unaware that he was being watched and gossiped about, had just woken up.

After getting up and tidying up, he went directly to the airport to welcome Yin Liuli...