For a long time, Jiang Yuerong has always thought that he was the expert in Xingzhou who understands information highways best. This time, the negotiation with Wangshan Computer was based on his expert identity and argued that Xu Jingyi and Yi Ruoshui did not take any advantage. However, no one expected that he finally found out that Yi Ruoshui was really making a fuss. He even helped Yi Ruoshui endorse the city. The Data Branch even set up the Xingzhou Information Port platform to connect with Xingtian under the pressure of the bureau.

If Jiang Yuerong hadn't tried to win the Xingzhou Information Port platform, he would have taken away the Xingzhou Information Port platform, but Yi Ruoshui's move to Xingzhou Information Port would have become a bit hot potato.

I knew that Yi Ruoshui was only going to take out such an unreliable business as a free email address and had a strategic contract with him. Jiang Yuerong must have disagreed with it and even went to the city to file a lawsuit. But now, it is already done.

When they think of Jiang Yuerong, they feel more and more psychologically unbalanced. Now Starry Internet has stockpiled at least hundreds of the best top-level domain names, but they are unwilling to transfer to Xingzhou Information Port except 188. And they have many businesses that are ready to put aside the "Xingzhou Information Port" established by the Data Branch. Now the only business they agree that Xingzhou Information Port is a free email business that will definitely lose money.

It’s fine to have a free email address, but the data branch has to invest in computer room hosting for free, bandwidth and servers. Jiang Yuerong felt that Yi Ruoshui and Xu Jingyi behind him had no sincerity: "Manager Yi, is it interesting to play this technique? The benefits are all the Starry Sky Internet, but all the investment and losses are borne by Xingzhou Information Port."

Yi Ruoshui immediately said: "Whoever says that the benefits are all taken up by Starry Sky Internet. I have put my best business in Xingzhou Information Port! The email business is the most promising project with Starry Sky Internet at present. If it runs smoothly, it will be dividends within a few months. Don't worry, as long as you work with our Starry Sky Internet sincerely, you will never suffer any losses."

Xu Jingyi next to him fully supports Yi Ruoshui's point of view: "Manager Yi's opinion is my opinion. Director Jiang, you'd better calm down and let's listen to Manager Yi's ideas together!"

Jiang Yuerong said very seriously: "Mr. Xu, Manager Yi, you know you want to be a hottail in China, but the time is not ripe at all. What can you do if you have 300,000 email users!"

Yi Ruoshui had to admit that Jiang Yuerong said that he was the person who understood information highways best in Xingzhou. It was so pleasant to negotiate with real insiders. Maybe he couldn't tell others where the profit model of the free email was, but Jiang Yuerong's sentence "China's hottail" explained Yi Ruoshui's general plan clearly.

Now hottail is the most popular free email in the world, and its valuation is so high that ordinary Chinese people cannot imagine. However, Yi Ruoshui also knows that the model of hard copying and coping hottails will not work in China: "Jiang Bureau, do you know how much does a hottail email system cost now?"

Before Jiang Yuerong could speak, he had already asked and answered himself: "I have contacted Hotail, and they offer a price of 5 million..."

Jiang Yuerong already understood: "Is RMB?"

Yi Ruoshui made a sharp remedy: "Dollar, 5 million yuan, do you want to buy a hottail email system? Jiangju, please take a look at the current valuation of hottail."

Jiang Yuerong has already understood. She has been thinking about this question these days, but after Yi Ruoshui said this, she finally understood: "Are you not going to make money from users?"

Now everyone knows that the prospects of China's Internet are bright, and there will definitely be earth-shaking explosions within a few years.

There were only about 10,000 Internet users in China at the end of 1995, and the number of Internet users increased tenfold by the end of 1996 and became about 100,000. Although the base is very small, the growth momentum can be described as violent. Now, half a year has passed, although there is no detailed statistics, the news Jiang Yuerong received from the internal meeting has increased by two or three times, or nearly 200,000, and there are nearly 300,000 Internet users nationwide.

Although the 300,000 Internet users are still too small in terms of base, so far, there are only a slightly influential commercial website like China Bit and a lot of personal websites, Jiang Yuerong can get the front-line data when working in the data branch. It is clear that the number of Internet users is not only not declining, but is accelerating its growth.

The only problem is how to enter and when to enter. The current Chinese Internet is not only a problem with a small user base, but also a fatal problem of extremely slow Internet speed and extremely expensive Internet fees. In addition, there are many policy risks. Although the Xingzhou Municipal Government took the initiative to come forward to help Starry Internet bear a large part of the policy risks, the policy risks still exist, so many players who entered the market first had millions or even tens of millions of cash but didn't know where to enter.

In all aspects, free email is definitely a good choice, and hottail is a model that has been proven to be very successful abroad. The only problem is the timing issue that Yi Ruoshui and Xu Jingyi repeatedly talked about.

Jiang Yuerong originally thought that the current user base was too small and could wait a few more months before starting the free email, but Yi Ruoshui gave another idea. Xingzhou Information Port can make money in another way. Although the email is not profitable, selling the email system can make money. Many people have fantasies about becoming a "hotel of China". Moreover, these people are rich and wealthy, even if they do not have a monopoly background in state-owned enterprises, they have a foreign investment background. They have at least several million or even tens of millions of cash in their hands. They can definitely afford the Star Internet mailbox system.

As for user acceptance issues, Jiang Yuerong believes that there is no problem. Although there is an extremely strong competitor like Hotail, it is very difficult to connect the hottail server abroad with the current Internet speed in China. Moreover, Hotail only has an English version. Chinese users have to work hard to figure out how to use Hotail. As long as it is open, thousands of users will definitely come to register.

Now Jiang Yuerong’s problem has become another bigger suspicion: “Do you Starry Sky Internet have a commercial email system of hotial?”

Jiang Yuerong thought it was very difficult. Although she felt that Starry Internet is a leading Internet company in China, hotai is now one of the largest commercial websites in the world. It has tens of millions of email users and is even dozens of times more than the Internet users in China. Her technical level is completely different from Starry Internet.

However, Yi Ruoshui gave a very satisfactory reply to Jiang Yuerong: "Hotel is based on free and open source qial. The email system we developed specifically for Xingzhou Information Port will only be more powerful than hotel."
Chapter completed!