Chapter 565 Horse riding, drinking, killing people, and playing games! (two in one)

The day after NetDragon boss Zhao Yucheng was arrested, old chairman Zhao Qingsheng appeared again in the NetDragon headquarters office.

However, he only made a brief appearance that day to calm people's hearts, and then disappeared again, apparently to attend to his son's affairs.

It's just Zhao Yucheng's problem. There is no room for maneuver at all, let alone recruiting people.

So Zhao Qingsheng returned to NetDragon with a heavy heart and began to examine the current situation and problems of various departments, especially the financial department.

Before the examination, he had a certain expectation in his mind: the situation must be very bad.

——Under the overwhelming pressure of virtual reality games, the entire VR game industry is in a deep recession. It’s no wonder that NetDragon is doing well.

Not to mention that there is only commercial competition between Yunmeng and other VR game companies, but there is also a personal feud between Yunmeng and NetDragon. Whenever there is an opportunity, Yunmeng will definitely target NetDragon.

This situation was also the reason why he had not come back before - because he was unable to save himself.

It is better to continue to focus on the newly opened foreign trade business at hand, which is at least more promising than VR games.

——It was because the gaming industry was developing too fast that he realized that his age was no longer suitable for this industry and he was unwilling to rest on his laurels, so he handed over NetDragon to his son and changed his field to work hard.

However, after sorting out all the difficulties faced by NetDragon with the help of Assistant Zhao Yucheng, heads of departments, and several old subordinates, Zhao Qingsheng was still a little frightened.

The problem is too big!

Even if it shrinks again and again, closes factories, closes redundant R&D centers, and stops most of its game development projects, NetDragon still cannot stop its decline, and its cash flow has almost dried up.

Continuous expenditures, loans about to expire...

All this made Zhao Qingsheng frown.

There seems to be only one way left to avoid a complete rupture of the capital chain - sell all the personal and family assets in hand and fill this bottomless pit.

The current development stage of the new company is when it is short of money, and it is impossible to have the money to fill the hole of NetDragon.

But, should we really do this?

Zhao Qingsheng has deep feelings for NetDragon. After all, he has worked hard with his own hands.

But his reason told him: This is extremely irrational behavior.

This is not a crisis that can be overcome by just making up for the lack of money.

Even if we burn everything and sell off our property to fill the hole, it will most likely only prolong the survival time of NetDragon, and it will still fall short in the end.

He saw no hope of reversing the decline.

Therefore, the more rational choice is actually-

Declared bankrupt.

Instead of considering changing the legal person, you will directly apply for bankruptcy to the court, and the bankruptcy liquidation team will intervene and enter the bankruptcy liquidation process.

Anyway, NetDragon is a limited liability company and does not need to bear unlimited joint and several liability.

Besides, Zhao Yucheng has gone to jail and will stay there for 10 years. There will be no chance of starting a business again.

In this case, it doesn't matter if you suffer some loss of reputation.

Compared with the charge of "endangering national security", this is nothing.

Would a person who has been accused of betraying the country still worry about being accused of being a bastard?

"Besides, bankruptcy is not a bad thing. It is a legal business rule."

In this way, Zhao Qingsheng completed his psychological construction.

So, in this monthly meeting in which almost all NetDragon's middle and senior management were present, Zhao Qingsheng stood in the spacious conference room, pacing slowly while reminiscing about the past.

He recounted the various difficulties and challenges that NetDragon had experienced from its inception to the emergence of Yunmeng, and the achievements and results it had achieved, which evoked the memories of many old employees.

But Zhang Heying in the conference room, although she is also an old man, is not in the mood to look back on the prosperous years of the past at this moment, but can't help but sigh in her heart.

He already had a premonition of what the old chairman was going to say next.

And this premonition came true immediately——

"NetDragon can stand out from the fierce competition and reach the top position in the industry. Everyone has put in a lot of hard work. I must once again thank everyone for their contributions to the company."

"But the tide is overwhelming and it is beyond human power to fight. We have to admit: NetDragon's era has passed."

"This kind of thing should be familiar to everyone: from the beginning of the game industry to the present, we have heard and seen a lot of similar things. New technologies are constantly emerging, and batches of companies have been established and collapsed..."

"Now it's just...it's our turn."

Zhao Qingsheng looked around, inevitably staying for a few seconds longer on those familiar old faces, and finally sighed and announced:

"I'm sorry, but NetDragon, that's the end of it."

"In a week at most, NetDragon will officially declare bankruptcy. Everyone..."

"Just find another job."

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Zhao Qingsheng left.

In the conference room, everyone did not disperse immediately, but looked at each other in confusion.

Zhang Heying no longer had the desire to continue communicating, so she turned around and left directly, returning to her office.

Before he even arrived at the office, news that the company was about to be bankrupt and disbanded had already spread throughout the company's group chats.

Along the way, he could hear the employees talking about it:

"Really bankrupt?"

"That can still be a lie."

"I guessed it already. Have you decided where to go next?"

"I submitted my resume to Yunmeng, but there was no response. Feihu is not hiring for the time being, but Desert Island is hiring, but the people it recruits are very strange, and I can't go there. I'm so worried!"

"I received the interview notice from Yunmeng! But it may not be optimistic since it is an interview meeting."

"Why don't you find a small studio? Nowadays, small studios that make casual games seem to be more prosperous than many big companies. There are 8 people in the small studio of my classmate, who produce casual computer games like Feng Yunmeng.

2.6 million copies sold!”

"This is not a good time! It's already December, where can I find a reliable position?"

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When the tree falls, the hozens scatter.

Zhang Heying sighed in his heart, but then he couldn't help but laugh at himself: Isn't it the same for me?

He contacted Yu Gu over the weekend, and Yu Gu promised to help him with questions after joining the company on Monday.

He is now nervously waiting for news from Yu Gu.

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But now, Yu Gu can't take into account the requests from his old colleagues for the time being. He is attending his first meeting after joining Yunmeng.

Whether it was a meeting in the virtual world or the content of the meeting, Yu Gu felt very fresh.

The first point is: the number of participants in Yunmeng’s meeting far exceeds that of NetDragon.

This is not to say that Yunmeng has more mid-level and senior-level employees than NetDragon, but that many departments seemed to be dispatched collectively and all attended the meeting.

Thanks to the virtual world, there are such spacious and comfortable conditions that can seat so many people.

In addition, the content of the conference is also very different from that of NetDragon.

Zhao Yucheng is not like Lin You, who happily discusses the activities in a certain game with his employees.

We are not discussing the sales, publicity, and reputation that the event can bring, but the specific details of how the event will be carried out.

As the meeting progressed, Yu Gu soon discovered that Lin You didn't look like a businessman.

——He is different from all the businessmen Yu Gu has met.

He is unique in all aspects.

For example, the [Virtual Xia Jing] project team reported on its progress and mentioned that the team has rapidly expanded to more than 60 people.

And because the internal structure of the building needs to be highly restored to reality, more and more manpower is needed, so we plan to continue recruiting until we reach 100 people.

Lin You agreed without blinking an eye, and didn't even ask if there was a more cost-effective way.

Later, he even said that he would use 5% of the proceeds from [Virtual Xia Jing] to establish a special fund for the maintenance of these public buildings and public spaces in reality.

Yu Gu couldn't figure out why he wanted to build such a large department just to race against time and build a [virtual Xia Jing] without any urgency or necessity.

It was still in this department later, and the person whom Yu Gu didn't know reported: "A store came to me and said it was willing to pay a higher price to buy [virtual Xia Jing online shopping rights]."

"We didn't say anything, so they just took turns raising prices on their own. Now the price is more than six times higher than what we quoted."

"Should we have a competitive auction?"

When he first heard this, Yu Gu thought that Lin You was rushing to build the [Virtual Xia Jing] just to cut off the merchants' leeks.
To be continued...