dkrc Chapter 186 Family Genealogy
Chapter 186 Family Genealogy
Li Feng naturally had no time to pay attention to Han Geng's regrets and struggles at Lehua Entertainment.
In this era where traffic changes like an assembly line, an old discarded child whose value has been squeezed dry is not worthy of occupying even a second of this capitalist tyrant's energy.
At this moment, Li Feng, along with Zhang Xinyu and the core technology team of Huaxin Technology, was conducting the most rigorous inspection in the cleanroom of Xuzhou New City Economic Development Zone.
"Mr. Li, the 20nm memory production line and Exynos processor underlying architecture license that we bought from Samsung in South Korea have been fully handed over."
The technical director of Huaxin pointed to the massive imported equipment in the workshop, his voice brimming with excitement, "After our team's reverse engineering and reconstruction over this period, all the core parameters have been confirmed to be correct! As long as we pass the final yield test, we can not only meet the self-developed chip requirements of Xiaomi phones, but also carve out a niche in the domestic storage market!"
Wearing an anti-static cap, Li Feng's cold gaze swept over the operating machines.
"This is no laughing matter. I fought my way out of the Koreans with billions in debt!"
Although Haofeng Network's net profit reached 7 billion last year, a large portion of it was used to pay the interest on this huge leverage.
However, the most difficult pioneering period has passed.
This year's financial statements will see an unprecedented surge!
"Boss, don't worry, the financial pressure this year will definitely be much less."
Zhang Xinyu, who was following behind, leaned closer and whispered, "Old Chen just sent me the first quarter report! League of Legends is a smash hit!"
"Especially the 'S2 Champion Team TPA Commemorative Skin' released last month, it was absolutely a brilliant design! Domestic players' enthusiasm for spending on this skin, which carries the aura of the world champions, has reached unprecedented levels!"
"It's only been less than two months this year, and the revenue from in-app purchases of skins in League of Legends has already multiplied several times! Old Chen conservatively estimates that the global revenue of League of Legends alone this year will reach [600 million US dollars]!"
Six hundred million US dollars! That's nearly four billion RMB!
Compared to last year, it has more than doubled!
"If we add the stable output of overseas casual mobile games, as well as the revenue from iQiyi, Weibo, and film and television copyrights..."
Zhang Xinyu reported a number that is worthy of being recorded in the history of the Chinese Internet:
"Boss, it's almost a certainty that Haofeng Group's net profit for the whole year will exceed 10 billion RMB!"
"A member of the 10 billion club! Looking across the country, besides the BAT trio, Haofeng is truly the fourth largest internet giant!"
Listening to the secretary's excited description, the Huaxin executives around him were also filled with enthusiasm.
With such a behemoth worth hundreds of billions backing them up, they have more confidence than ever before in developing semiconductors!
However, Li Feng did not show much excitement as he faced the milestone of about to cross the 10 billion yuan profit threshold.
"Only six hundred million US dollars."
Li Feng remained calm. "This is just the beginning. The market share of internet cafes is still climbing. It won't be until a few years later, when the esports ecosystem is complete and broadcasting rights and sponsors are fully involved, that's when it will be on the right track."
He clearly remembers that at its peak in 2017, League of Legends' annual revenue reached a staggering $2.1 billion!
We're still far from being a true traffic empire.
……
After confirming that there were no flaws in the technology chain transferred from South Korea, Li Feng felt relieved.
If you count the days, the Lunar New Year is just a few days away.
As per the practice of the previous two years, Li Feng, as an officially appointed star entrepreneur, naturally received a VIP front-row round table invitation from the CCTV Spring Festival Gala directing team.
He had planned to take his parents to Beijing to see the excitement, just like every year, and to show his face to the people of the whole country.
However, when he told his parents about this arrangement, he was met with a firm rejection from the elderly couple!
"Why watch the Spring Festival Gala? Nothing on TV is as good-looking as my grandson!"
On the other end of the phone, Zhang Xiulan's tone was full of impatience, "Your dad and I have already bought our plane tickets! We're going to Hong Kong for Chinese New Year this year! We'll have a proper family reunion dinner with Yifei and Maozhen! Go join your own party at that gala, don't keep us from seeing our grandson!"
"That's right! My grandson is only six months old now, just the time when he's learning to recognize people. How can his grandparents miss his first Spring Festival?" Old Li chimed in, then hung up the phone.
Hearing the busy tone on the phone, Li Feng shook his head helplessly.
Well, ever since Li Maozhen, the "crown prince," came into the picture, he, as the son, has fallen out of favor in his parents' eyes.
Since his parents weren't going, Li Feng naturally didn't want to sit in the background for four hours at the Spring Festival Gala.
He turned down an invitation from CCTV and drove with Zhang Xinyu from Nanjing back to their hometown of Xiapi, Xuzhou.
……
The 28th day of the twelfth lunar month, Lijia Village.
As Li Feng's iconic Rolls-Royce Phantom drove into the village, the entire village erupted in cheers!
Today, Lijia Village is no longer the poor, remote place where people toiled in the fields.
Thanks to Haofeng's extensive industrial layout in Xuzhou, villagers became factory workers, asphalt roads were built in the village, and even Wanda Plaza and a top-tier hospital were built in the new urban area a few kilometers away.
Every household built a small villa, and the whole village, young and old, depended on this Liu Bang of Xuzhou for their livelihood.
As soon as Li Feng got out of the car, he was immediately surrounded by enthusiastic villagers.
He didn't put on airs like a big boss; he just waved his hand dismissively.
The bodyguard behind him immediately opened the trunk and took out stacks of brand-new hundred-yuan bills.
Happy Chinese New Year! May everyone share in the joy!
Li Feng smiled and asked Zhang Xinyu to be in charge of distributing the red envelopes.
Everyone in the village who sees this gets a share—a thick red envelope.
Moreover, Li Feng had already booked the best team in the city well in advance.
In the newly built cultural square in the village, a grand opera was performed for three days and three nights, and a continuous banquet was set up from one end of the village to the other. Moutai and Zhonghua cigarettes were offered in abundance, and the grandeur was taken to the extreme!
On the morning of Lunar New Year's Eve.
According to the traditional customs of northern Jiangsu, all the villagers, young and old, gathered at the Li Clan Ancestral Hall for a grand ancestral worship ceremony.
Although Li Feng is young, his prestige in Li Family Village has long surpassed that of his elders, so he was naturally chosen to be at the forefront and lead the way in offering incense and prayers.
Accompanied by deafening firecrackers and wisps of incense smoke.
The ancestral worship ceremony had just ended when the old village chief, leaning on his cane and supported by several elders of the clan, solemnly walked up to Li Feng.
"Xiao Feng."
The old village chief's eyes reddened slightly as he tightly grasped Li Feng's hand, his voice trembling as he said, "Without you, our Li Family Village wouldn't be as blessed as it is today! Now every household in the village has enough to eat and wear, and children can go to school and the elderly can see a doctor. You have done an immeasurable service to our Li family!"
"Village chief, you're too kind. This is what I should do," Li Feng replied gently.
"No! This is a momentous event that will bring glory to our ancestors!"
The old village chief turned to the elders behind him and announced loudly, "Today, on New Year's Eve, we old men in the village have discussed this matter!"
"We'll give you Li Feng a separate page in the family tree!"
A separate family tree?!
Upon hearing this, the surrounding villagers cheered, but Li Feng was taken aback.
In traditional clan thinking, this is an extremely high honor. Only clan members who have made truly groundbreaking contributions are qualified to have a separate, prominent chapter in the clan genealogy.
"Furthermore, taking advantage of this opportunity to revise our family genealogy, we specifically asked historical experts from the city and province to investigate the origins of our Xiapi Li clan!"
The old village chief excitedly pulled a newly revised family genealogy book from his pocket, pointed to the first page, and said in a trembling voice:
"Xiao Feng! Our ancestors included kings, nobles, and generals!"
"Experts checked local chronicles and county records, and found that our Li family lineage, tracing back all the way, actually originated from the descendants of Li Maozhen, the King of Qi during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period!"
"Our ancestor was Li Congyan, the son of Li Maozhen, who was enfeoffed as the Prince of Qi and the Duke of Liu during the Later Tang Dynasty!"
boom!
Upon hearing the name "Li Maozhen".
Li Feng, who had been calm and composed all along, froze on the spot!
Prince Qi, Li Maozhen?! The Sixth Commander, Li Congyan?!
A storm raged in Li Feng's mind!
He recalled the time six months ago when he was naming the eldest son Liu Yifei had given birth to.
In order to suppress the foundation of this vast business empire, he had a flash of inspiration and borrowed the name of the powerful and ruthless King Qi who dared to challenge the emperor in history, and named his son "Li Maozhen"!
At the time, his father complained that he insisted on using the character "Mao" in the generational naming system.
Who would have thought!
Today, after checking the family genealogy, I discovered that my family is actually a direct descendant of the powerful and ruthless Prince Qi, Li Maozhen!
As if an unseen hand had traversed thousands of years of history, closing the loop of this fated connection!
"It turns out... he really is a descendant of Li Maozhen..."
Looking at the thick family genealogy, Li Feng, who had never believed in ghosts or gods, couldn't help but feel a sense of awe for the creation of heaven and earth.
"It seems I really didn't make a mistake in naming that kid."
"The Li family's genes for dominating the world have been passed down."
Just as Li Feng was filled with emotion, a cold wind blew across the threshold of the ancestral hall.
The new year marks the beginning of Haofeng Group's journey towards a billion-dollar goal, a journey that feels like a destiny unfolding on this eve of the Lunar New Year.