Chapter 227: Despicable

"Family, I just came out of the gas station. I'm having a meal with my brothers now. We'll take the highway overnight and arrive in Shenyang tomorrow morning. Let 'Dharma' report the location. This time there's money in my wallet, gas in the tank, and battery on my phone. It's up to me to see if I can do it. If you want to see the follow-up, please click the red heart and follow us. Click to follow us so you don't get lost. Lei Zi will take you to the highway!"

At midnight, the streets of Jingyue City were deserted. The barbecue restaurant on the street had only a few customers shouting and drinking. The KTV princesses who had left work early due to poor business walked by with a strong smell of makeup.

Mosquitoes were flying around the incandescent lamp on the barbecue grill. A young man who looked like a high school student carefully checked the video with the help of the light to make sure there was nothing wrong with it. He edited the video with a rough red label and added a title - Lei Zi, the number one internet celebrity in Jingyue, traveled thousands of miles to Shenyang.

"What a foul smell."

He posted a Kuaishou video and inadvertently glanced back at the heavily made-up KTV princess next door.

Before the princesses could start scolding, the dyed-blonde companion sitting next to him threw a Toyota Prado key on the table and said with a grin, "You don't like flirty things? Come on, drink. I've been waiting for you for a long time."

"That's right. Every time you drink, you find an excuse to avoid drinking. If you can't drink, just say so."

Another young man said this while swinging his tattooed arms and looking at the next table with a shifty look.

The princesses suddenly felt disgusted, as if they had slapped the other party but the other party took the opportunity to lick their fingers. They could not help but suppress their anger and pulled up their cool clothes to cover as much skin as possible, pretending that they heard nothing.

Toyota Prado, a young man and some fancy words, the combination of the three doesn't look good at all.

The young man with tattoos was disappointed, turned around and continued: "Leizi, this appointment is over, what should we do next? Are we really going to Shenyang?"

"Fuck off, are you an idiot? How many times have I told you that making money is the most important thing in the era of mobile Internet! Can you use your brain?" Yu Lei scolded with contempt.

The young man with tattoos on his arms was very unconvinced, but he just opened his mouth and didn't dare to say anything back.

Yu Lei is a lucky guy. When Kuaishou first appeared last year and was not yet popular, he would gather some of his friends together every day to pose as social people and shoot videos, gaining a lot of fans.

Before the New Year, Kuaishou gradually became popular, and he somehow shot a video of Xie Jingxing's home. The video has been viewed over a million times on the Kuaishou platform.

Everyone thinks that Xie Jingxing is famous, but this kid says that he can become famous just by positioning himself and showing off his wealth.

Later, relying on his good father, he got a lot of luxury cars, cash and other things to shoot videos, and he really started to have fun.

Now he has 700,000 to 800,000 fans, and his traffic on Kuaishou is higher than that of YY anchor Tianyou. He can easily make a thousand yuan from a single video by getting some followers to stand in a row and shoot a video, shouting slogans and asking so-and-so to follow him.

The young man with tattoos on his arms is one of the brothers standing at attention. He doesn't get paid, but he is provided with three barbecues and beer meals a day, and he can drive a luxury car and proudly give injections to those pretty girls.

This god-like life is better than the one his father lives, so he dares to scold his parents back when they scold him, and he is willing to endure Yu Lei's scolding.

"Hey, Lei Zi, Qiang Zi didn't mean anything else. I just said it out loud. If you don't post a video tomorrow, you will lose followers." The companion with dyed yellow hair tried to make amends.

"What's there to be afraid of? Didn't 'Dharma' release a video response yet? He definitely doesn't dare to tell us his address. Tomorrow, when he gets scared, we'll go to the highway intersection and set up a formation to shoot a video and gain more fans."

Yu Lei blinked his eyes, picked up the beer cup and took a gulp. "The highway sign that I asked you to order can be completed tomorrow. When we shoot the video, we have to put the sign on to make it look more realistic and avoid being exposed."

"Yes, I'll ask Jia Jia to make it custom and have it delivered to my house tomorrow morning." The little yellow-haired boy nodded repeatedly.

Yu Lei frowned unconsciously: "You didn't give her the money, and you secretly took the money I gave you? Don't always do things like giving birth to a child without an asshole. A virgin girl sleeps with you every day and even washes your underwear, and she has to steal money from home to spend on you."

"Oh, Lei Zi, you don't know, all women are cheap. If I don't mistreat her, she will just feel like mistreating her and find others to do it for her." The little yellow-haired boy responded perfunctorily, feeling annoyed. He had said this several times.

Seeing this, the young man with tattoos came to his friend's rescue: "It won't be a problem for long. Isn't Jia Jia going to take the college entrance examination this year? I heard she wants to go to a 2... 2 university in another city?"

"You are illiterate, but you are from a 211 key university."

"Whatever you want to say, I just know that you can't play for a few days. Jiajia is really pretty. Before she goes out of town, why don't you let her play with me for a few days?"

"Then you can treat me to dinner today, and I'll let her play with you for a week... Don't worry, she will definitely listen to me. I tell you, she is actually a bitch..."

Two idiots, Yu Lei cursed them with disdain in his heart.

Thinking about the internet celebrity 'Dharma' in Shenyang who took the initiative to challenge him to a fight and took the opportunity to hype himself up, he felt more and more impatient.

In the words of Master Jing, the ecological environment of Kuaishou is vulgar and poor, and it is in its early and wild growth period with insufficient supervision. It is full of people who rely on literally eating shit, arguing about fights and doing hard work to gain attention.

Due to the general environment, he had to keep a few people like this around him, and kick them out sooner or later.

But I heard my aunt mention it when she came home last time. Master Jing said that internet celebrities can also open an agency. Otherwise, he could help these two idiots build up their personal accounts and make money, and he would get a share of the profits.

Yu Lei changed his mind and felt that it was meaningless. Old Yu said that if he did well in the college entrance examination this year, even if his score was enough to get into a private third-tier university, he could spend some money to get him into a university in Shanghai. He wouldn't be able to stay in his hometown for long.

When the time comes, he will use the money he earned during this period to buy a place in university, and Lao Yu will probably give him a good face and praise him a few words.

Jia Jia is really something. She is a girl who looks good and is not bad in academics. Why can't she think of hanging out with this bunch of scum? Why don't her parents educate her properly?

Yu Lei burped in frustration, his head dizzy and he made up his mind to try to persuade her tomorrow. If that didn't work, he would spend some money to find two gangsters to block the school gate and scare her.

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Magic City, Panda TV headquarters.

The air pressure in the office was extremely low. Employees all lowered their heads and worked on their work. From time to time, they glanced through the glass partition at a live broadcast operation manager who was being interviewed by the human resources manager in the conference room, and then quietly looked at the office with the sign of the general manager.

"Just pick the key points."

Xie Jingxing pulled down the blinds to block his view, then walked back to his desk and sat down.

Zhang Bo, the operation and maintenance supervisor, came from the Tencent Weishi project team. Xiao Wang followed his advice and went to Shenzhen to recruit this executive. Liu Lidong, the team leader of the server technology group, was a technical expert who had been personally interviewed by Zhang Yiming.

He used his connections to poach the senior talent from ByteDance and get him options.

Xie Jing Xing calmly called out his name, “Old Liu, you go first.”

"Although malicious attacks on servers are organized behavior, they are normal for Internet companies. The failure to respond in a timely manner is my problem. I misjudged the intensity of the attack and it took a week to improve the firewall." Lao Liu simply took the blame.

Xie Jingxing thought for a moment: "Do we need the Internet police to intervene?" "We are already communicating. It is difficult to catch the suspect in this kind of attack."

Old Liu was scratching his head. Giants like BTA endured millions of malicious attacks in a single day, but they didn't catch many suspects.

Xie Jing Xing was speechless and soothed him, "It's not a good idea to have the server crash every day. There will be a technical talent who has worked in the Internet Police Department coming to interview for the technical consultant position this afternoon. Lao Liu, go with the HR."

Old Liu finally realized what Mr. Xie meant for the Internet police to intervene and provide direct technical support.

This is quite rare. Currently, only large companies such as BTA have the ability to poach public technical experts with high salaries, thereby connecting to official network security technical resources that many ordinary private enterprises cannot enjoy.

"We will immediately fire the supervisor who violated the work rules, and we will temporarily ignore the female anchor involved and make another decision later."

Zhang Bo, the operations and maintenance supervisor, reported in silence with great annoyance.

The naked chat between the super-administrator and the female anchor on the platform can be a big or small matter. At the very least, it is internal bribery. At the most serious level, it is not unfair to label the platform as being involved in pornography. He is now a little scared and his legs are weak.

The company and the super-manager have a strongly binding work contract so it is no problem to directly fire the host. However, it is different for the female anchor. If she is a fool and makes a fuss, she will at most have to bear legal risks. Otherwise, the economic losses caused to the company will be immeasurable.

A female anchor who has naked chats with a super moderator through a live broadcast platform is most likely brainless.

So just ignore it first, and then find another excuse to get rid of it later.

Xie Jingxing did not comment and continued to ask: "What happened to the anchor jumping ship and running away?"

"We have counted and found that a total of 13 anchors poached from Douyu, Huya, and YY broke their contract and returned to their original platforms to broadcast live, and it was not because the original platforms offered higher-priced live broadcast contracts."

Zhang Bo exhaled slowly: "They have black material in the hands of the original platform, and they would rather breach the contract than go back."

"Black material? That means before they came, they didn't know that they had black material on the original platform?" Xie Jingxing frowned slightly.

Zhang Bo was speechless and shook his head: "Some were filmed having sex with the original platform staff, and some had sex with fans through the platform. This kind of thing is too common. They have a weak legal awareness and usually don't take it seriously."

"It's really despicable."

Xie Jingxing didn't react much. This was what he had told the students of the entrepreneurship camp yesterday: a brutal and bloody competition.

Industries such as online ride-hailing and food delivery involve a battle between professional teams and regular forces, ranging from billions of dollars in financing to hundreds of people fighting on the streets. No matter how it is played, it is a big fight and blood is involved.

This is not the case with online live streaming, which has a market value of up to tens of billions and is aimed at the most basic spiritual needs of the general public. It is normal for it to be mindless and despicable.

Just make sure that it’s not other competitors who want to start a money-burning competition. It’s just a few anchors, not a big deal.

Xie Jingxing skipped this item lightly and continued to ask: "What about compliance review?"

"It's mainly concentrated on female anchors. Slightly exposing their bodies to attract viewers has formed a culture of "civilized viewing of football" on various platforms. Compared with Douyu and YY, ours are the least explicit."

Zhang Bo was a little frustrated and helpless: "But taking Douyu, which started the latest, as an example, they also had a lot of experience in live broadcast review before they were separated from Station A."

"For example, it's OK for female anchors on their platform to show their cleavage, but it's vulgar and illegal for our female anchors to show their cleavage. After consulting with the staff of the relevant regulatory department, I found out that it's related to the color and style of the clothes the anchors wear. It's not OK to show your cleavage in short sleeves, but it's OK to show it in suspenders."

He added with a broken face: "For example, our bullet comment sensitive word library, sometimes there are more than ten words in a long bullet comment, and it takes a long time to try each word to find out which one is a sensitive word."

Xie Jingxing was helpless. This was the audit risk challenge that all entertainment and even online social platforms had to face.

Either the platform itself bites the bullet and hits the review line, gradually accumulating a mature and sound self-inspection and self-review risk control mechanism; or like Zhanqi Live, backed by its state-owned media parent company, it is to some extent one of the setters of the review line.

Another way is to outsource the platform audit and risk control to a third party, such as a professional network information audit and risk control contractor led by Xinhuanet.

The same article, if posted online by an ordinary person, will be rejected immediately by 404, but if posted by them, it will pass the review in compliance with regulations.

In fact, this route will gradually become mainstream in a few years. Tencent's official accounts, online literature sites, ByteDance's Toutiao and other platforms all have third-party review contractors to varying degrees.

Xinhuanet's financial report was boosted by this business, and its previously lukewarm stock price rose significantly.

Ultimately, the entertainment industry, which has no clear rules and standards for regulation and review, requires understanding, and Panda TV is just starting out and lacks experience.

"How about this, when Mr. Wang comes back from the capital, I'll talk to him."

Xie Jingxing didn't have any good solution. No matter how much he acted as a nanny as an investor, he couldn't possibly take on the role of founder for Xiao Wang.

At most, I can ask Xiaoma Pentium to introduce me to some senior veterans in the entertainment industry. In this case, it seems better to go to Beijing as soon as possible.

In order to calm the troops and eliminate the chaos in the work over the past few days, Xie Jingxing sent Zhang Bo and Liu Lidong away and called Song Anli into the office.

"Book a flight to Beijing."

“There is a risk of public opinion emerging online.”

The two blurted out at the same time. Xie Jingxing was stunned for a moment, then he perked up and nodded.

Song Anli quickly took a few steps forward and showed the title of the article displayed on her mobile phone screen.

[Young entrepreneurial leader Xie Jingxing's background in organized crime, his transformation from a physical evil force to a cyber criminal gang, uncovering the bloody 20 years of Yunshan Group.]

Xie Jingxing laughed in silence, he never thought that he would be labeled as "involved in organized crime", which made those comrades on the hidden front who had investigated his ancestors over and over again feel embarrassed.

"Not only that, there is also Mr. Wang. At the beginning of the year, Tianya published a post that seemed to indicate that his uncle was wanted abroad for suspected murder of his wife. Mr. Wang never responded, but today that post suddenly became a hot topic." Song Anli said in a low and solemn tone.

Xie Jing Xing instantly stopped smiling, snatched the phone and checked the title of the article word by word: "Internet mafia, what exactly does the article say?"

"...Yu Lei, the son of Yu Congxin, vice president of Yunhe Logistics, had an offline fight with other internet celebrities on Kuaishou. When you were home for the Yunshan Annual Meeting, he visited your home and filmed a short video with you in it. The article speculates that Yu Lei's involvement in organized crime was backed by Yunshan Group and you."

Song Anli separated Yunshan Group and Xie Jingxing into two parts, so this article was obviously not directed at Yunshan.

(End of this chapter)