Chapter 258: Timing of Action and Encounter with Holland Village
Pan Zhanlong replied: "Mr. Li, if you can invest enough money, it won't be a big problem for me to develop a Chinese search engine similar to Yahoo. But the problem is that there are so few Chinese websites in China, and it seems that our Chinese search engine will not be of much use."
"Also, Mr. Li, if you go back to China to develop a Chinese search function as you said, and provide free e-mail, entertainment, sports, news,
S forum and other functions, a Chinese portal website, the investment of funds and manpower is huge. There are so few Internet users in China now, how can your portal website make a profit?" Old Pan also has a considerable research on the current Internet world, and he is worthy of being a doctor of computer science.
What Pan Zhanlong said did remind Li Xiaofan that the previous major portal websites such as NetEase, Sohu, and Sina.com were all founded in 1998.
The most famous e-commerce websites 8848 and Alibaba were not established until 1999...
In his previous life, the first Chinese search engine NetEase was not established until the summer of 1997 in Guangzhou by Ding Lei. Now this guy is still hanging out in the Cfido
S forum in China.
Like the "Yinghaiwei Space" founded by Zhang Shuxin too early in the second half of this year, it was a flash in the pan in the end.
Indeed, if I get involved in the domestic Internet industry too early now, the timing is a little too early. I will wait for the domestic Internet industry to develop for a period of time.
Li Xiaofan recalled that in his previous life, when the global technology network bubble burst in 2000, mainland China was also affected. Several major websites such as Sina, Sohu, and NetEase were operating poorly, and most Chinese Internet companies were facing the dilemma of bankruptcy. If I had enough capital at that time, I could have taken action to acquire a few good projects.
After the global technology network bubble burst in 2000, in order to survive, many domestic Internet companies began to enter the most profitable online game industry at that time. The first batch of online games in China appeared at that time...
Thinking about it this way, the best way for me at the moment is to make more money first, and accelerating the accumulation of capital is the current priority.
Li Xiaofan said to Pan Zhanlong: "Old Pan, you make sense. If you have time, you can study the Chinese search engine first. Tell me how much budget you need!"
"Okay, then I'll think about it when I'm free..."
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After the brainstorming and brainstorming meeting ended, everyone left work and Li Xiaofan stayed in the office to surf the Internet.
Those engineering men on the Cfido
S forum were still fiercely discussing the great significance of Win95...
While I was wandering around the Internet, Ding Dong, Ding Dong, someone suddenly rang the doorbell.
Li Xiaofan went out and saw a tall and beautiful woman in a professional suit and black stockings outside the door. The person was Lin Muchu, the manager of the investment promotion department of Tengfei Group.
Li Xiaofan asked curiously, "Manager Lin, why are you here?"
"I just passed by and saw that the light in your office was still on, so I came over to ring the doorbell to see if you were there. I didn't expect that you were still in the office. Mr. Li, why haven't you gotten off work yet?"
"I'll surf the Internet for a while and will be back soon."
Lin Muchu then laughed and said, "Mr. Li, your Yifan Company and you have been on our Straits Times and Lianhe Zaobao news for the past few days. You are almost a celebrity in Singapore!"
"Haha, I'm ashamed, sorry to make fun of you!"
"By the way, I remembered that I owed you a meal after we came back from the United States last time. Do you have any plans tonight? If not, I'll treat you to dinner?" Lin Muchu asked.
"Okay, then I'll make you spend money tonight."
"No way, don't be polite, I still owe you a favor! So, can we go to Holland Village tonight? My family lives in the nearby Jimei Garden."
"No problem, it's up to you."
The Singapore Holland Village mentioned by Lin Muchu is near the Singapore Botanic Gardens. It is named after the highly respected architect Hugh Holland who lived here in the early days. As early as the 1930s and 1940s, the British colonial government listed the nearby Pasir Panjang and Alexandra districts as military bases, covering a wide area. As a result, Holland Road, which was on the edge, became the residence of the British army and their families. The construction of Holland Village at that time was to provide leisure and recreational facilities for this foreign community.
The semi-detached houses and terraced houses on both sides of the Holland Village are lined up. It was the British army settlement area during the British colonial period in Singapore in the 1950s, full of exotic flavor.
The current Holland Village and the adjacent Jimei Garden have transformed into a lively dining community, gathering restaurants, bars and other leisure and entertainment venues, which is very lively.
When Lin Muchu drove Li Xiaofan to Holland Village, the lights were already on. Open-air bars, coffee shops and romantic restaurants lit up candlelights, and all kinds of music echoed on the streets, exuding an exotic charm.
Holland Village is now a favorite of Singaporean white-collar workers and foreigners who have immigrated to Singapore.
Lin Muchu took Li Xiaofan out of the car and walked on the streets of Holland Village, and asked: "Mr. Li, do you know what we Singaporeans used to call Holland Village?"
"I really don't know."
Lin Muchu smiled and said, "When we were young, we called this place HueHungAu, which means back garden in Minnan dialect, because it is close to our Singapore Botanic Gardens. When I brought guests here for dinner, many people mistakenly thought that Holland Village was related to the Dutch, and that many Dutch people must have lived here before. Haha, it's not true, because this Holland Road was named after a British architect Hugh Holland, who was responsible for the planning of the Tanglin District at the time..."
Because he grew up in this area, Lin Muchu knows the history of Holland Village very well.
Lin Muchu recommended a very tasteful western restaurant called Chargrillbar to Li Xiaofan.
They first tasted the most famous Italian Parma ham with honeydew melon, traditional prawn cups and beef tartare in the store recommended by Lin Muchu, all of which brought out the deliciousness to the extreme!
The prawn cup uses fresh prawns as the main ingredient and is seasoned with salad, mustard, etc. The extreme Q elasticity and sweetness make it just right to reflect the freshness and sweetness of the prawns. The beef tartare with onions and peppers not only covered the fishy smell of the beef, but also awakened the taste buds and stimulated the appetite with a slight spiciness.
The next delicacy was a very fresh oyster. The extremely fresh ingredients were slightly icy, which seemed to make Li Xiaofan feel as if these oysters were just salvaged from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean and sent to his table. Just sprinkle a little lemon juice, then gently pick it up and put it into your mouth, and the delicious taste will go straight to the brain along the taste buds, starting an ultimate enjoyment!
Paired with a bottle of iced white wine from New Zealand ordered by Lin Muchu, the taste is amazing!
The subsequent appetizer was duck liver. This dish gave Li Xiaofan a very amazing taste experience. He never thought that duck liver could be cooked so tenderly, from cutting to putting it into the mouth, it was like smooth tofu, melting in the mouth, and the taste was infinitely beautiful. Paired with German-style sauerkraut meatballs, he had a very novel taste experience.
Li Xiaofan did not choose steak for the main course. He ordered a Boston lobster. The meat was firm and sweet, and paired with dry white wine, it was extremely delicious.
Finally, he finished with the store's very unique dessert, apple crisp. The sweetness and sourness of this dessert apple crisp was very well controlled. After eating it, I felt extremely happy!
Just as Li Xiaofan was enjoying the last dessert, drinking dry white wine, and chatting with Lin Muchu about the recent Internet news such as Netscape's listing and win95, several beautiful foreign beauties came in at the restaurant door.
The leading beauty shouted to Li Xiaofan: "Afan, you are here too!"