170: Chapter 171 Managing a Thousand Tasks and Calculating

Entering mid-August,

with the complete formation of the brand-new "tripartite confrontation" situation among domestic capital,

Shen Du also ushered in the busiest "non-stop" period of his two lifetimes.

This young business giant compressed his daily routine almost to the absolute limit of human physical endurance.

Every morning, when the first ray of sunlight in Magic City had just pierced through the clouds, Shen Du was already sitting in front of his massive desk.

Through transoceanic video conferences, he engaged in intense clashes with several top investment banking teams far away in Hong Kong,

methodically preparing for Jiyuan Technology's earth-shattering IPO plan.

By afternoon,

he had to switch identities without pause, personally leading his team to the Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park.

Under the policy support of Municipal Party Committee Secretary Shen Hai, who gave him green lights all the way,

Shen Du had to act like a strict master designer,

personally supervising and planning the Jiyuan Research Headquarters Base that carried the future of technology.

And when night completely fell and the city lights began to glow, Shen Du's battle was still far from over.

He still had to hold the fort at his Shanghai headquarters,

coordinating and reviewing the overall data of Spark Live and the Meituan system's global operations, and approving mountains of strategic documents.

Until late at night.

Standing in front of the giant floor-to-ceiling window on the top floor,

Shen Du would look down at the bustling city with its heavy traffic, occasionally pinch the bridge of his nose in exhaustion, and let out a self-deprecating sigh.

In his past life, he had always been a bloodthirsty shark swimming in the secondary financial market, calling the shots by relying on capital leverage.

Back then, he only needed to stare at the jumping K-line charts on the screen every day, harvesting wealth amid the rise and fall of numbers—simple and brutal.

It was not until this life, when he truly created and operated a massive empire spanning the internet and physical hard-core technology with his own hands,

that he came to a sudden realization.

As it turned out, actually running a physical company well involved a sea of complex trivia and immense pressure.

As a chess player who controlled the absolute top traffic in the three major tracks of Short Videos, social media, and live streaming,

the scope of Shen Du's attention had already expanded far beyond internal company personnel and finances.

He had to maintain an eagle-like sharp gaze at all times, closely tracking the rapidly changing external business dynamics and policy trends.

To be sure,

although the meat-grinder battle in the sinking market had ended hastily with the self-cannibalization of the Beijing Circle,

the basic market of Jiyuan Entertainment and Meituan was as stable as Mount Tai.

But in Shen Du's planning, this was only the beginning.

After stepping down from the money-burning "wartime state," the entire empire needed to immediately implement a tedious "consolidation" mechanism.

Decisively cutting redundant wartime operations and optimizing the profitability models of various regional branches.

At the same time, they had to maintain a high-intensity promotion and distribution rhythm,

gradually settling and refining the low-tier traffic that had been forcefully smashed in by the Billion Yuan Subsidy Plan,

ultimately perfecting Jiyuan Technology's indestructible closed-loop business ecosystem.

In this post-war reconstruction without gunpowder,

the most thorny issue Shen Du faced did not come from the suppression of external giants,

but rather from the dark side that quietly bred in the corners where the sun could not shine after the empire's rapid expansion.

As Jiyuan Technology firmly secured its position as the absolute leader in the domestic Short Video, social media, and live streaming tracks,

the entire platform's daily active data skyrocketed like a rocket.

Under the crazy irrigation of massive traffic and tens of billions in hot money, human greed was magnified infinitely.

In the face of immense wealth temptation, many low-tier small streamers who originally kept to their duties began to lose control of their inner desires.

To grab eyeballs and cash out quickly,

they began to frantically test the platform's bottom line.

From playing 'edge-ball' at first, it gradually evolved into involvement in pornography and gambling,

and even illegal money-laundering operations utilizing live-streaming rooms.

Regarding these industry cancers that were already common and cliché in his past life,

Shen Du knew them inside out, and it could even be said that he absolutely detested them.

Having lived two lives, he knew better than anyone that traffic was a sharp double-edged sword.

Those blood-stained gray traffic that stepped on the legal red lines,

could indeed bring beautiful data and huge tipping commissions to the platform in the short term.

But in the long run,

this was no different from burying a timed nuclear bomb in the foundation of the Jiyuan Empire that could destroy everything.

Once the higher-ups spared time to crack down,

this short-sighted behavior of only caring about immediate interests would surely bring about disaster.

"Jiyuan Technology can make money a bit slower,

but every single cent must be clean!"

At an internal executive meeting,

Shen Du, like a cold and ruthless tyrant, slammed his hand heavily on the conference table and issued the strictest death order.

Dealing with these gray-area streamers was actually not difficult on a fundamental technical level,

but the difficulty lay in the fact

that it required Shen Du to spend enormous energy to reconstruct a set of strict rule barriers from the top-level design.

Shen Du did not soften his hand in the slightest and personally took the lead.

He united the company's Legal Department, Technical Security Department, and Content Moderation Department,

swiftly and resolutely launching a 'Clean Web Campaign' that swept through the entire Jiyuan ecosystem.

He not only required the technical department to develop more sensitive models for capturing sensitive words and images,

but also forced the establishment of an all-weather manual inspection iron army of up to several thousand people across all major branches.

"Ban them as soon as they are found!

Freeze all transaction flows of illegal gains!

For serious cases, don't waste words with them. Package the evidence and hand it directly to the judicial organs!"

Shen Du's non-negotiable iron-fisted methods, like a world-destroying thunderstorm, instantly swept across the entire Jiyuan Entertainment platform.

Countless non-compliant streamers who harbored illusions and tried to frantically test the red lines,

in this cold and ruthless systematic purge,

didn't even have time to let out a wail before they were directly banned, never to rise again.

Although this grand purge caused a certain degree of fluctuation in the platform's transaction flow in the short term,

it powerfully declared Jiyuan Technology's untouchable bottom line to the outside world,

effectively purifying a healthy ecosystem capable of long-term peace and stability for this massive commercial empire, akin to scraping poison off the bone.

After sweeping away the internal gray cancers of the platform with thunderous means,

this massive chariot of Jiyuan Technology finally shed all its hidden dangers,

beginning to unleash its terrifying true power under Shen Du's control.

If the outside world's perception of Jiyuan Technology

was still merely stuck at the level of an 'internet unicorn that burned money to generate massive traffic,'

then the massive chess game Shen Du had secretly set up over the past few years

had already transformed this company into an unfathomably terrifying behemoth spanning both software and hardware.

During this crazy expansion of just a few short years,

except for the headquarters building established in Shanghai at the beginning, which did not relocate,

Jiyuan Technology's roots, like a towering tree, had already dug deep into every inch of the country's digital soil.

In core provincial capitals and hub cities across the country,

Shen Du had smashed down more than a dozen ultra-large data branches in one go!

These dozen or so giant branches were like a dozen tireless, massive hearts,

breathing in and out the massive regional concurrent traffic of Jiyuan Entertainment, Meituan Takeout, and Spark Live day and night.

But what would truly make those top-tier capital tycoons shudder with fear once they found out was not how grand these dozen or so data centers were,

rather, it was the underlying core hardware carrying this terrifying traffic inside—the server clusters.

In this era when all domestic internet companies were eagerly purchasing enterprise-level servers at high prices from overseas giants like IBM, Dell, and HP,

in Jiyuan Technology's seemingly endless server rooms, tens of thousands of servers flashing with deep blue lights

were actually almost entirely 'self-produced by the Tianmu Mountain Base'!

Except for a very small number of the most core control chips that still needed to be purchased externally,

the entire server architecture and storage scheduling mechanism were all local fruits of painstaking labor.

Under this almost insane hardware stacking and crazy troop-spawning,

the scale of Jiyuan Technology's server rooms nationwide and their ultimate concurrent carrying capacity

had already quietly surpassed and utterly crushed Tencent, the former number-one domestic social media giant, in secret!

That proud penguin in Pengcheng probably could never have imagined

that without realizing it, even its most proud underlying infrastructure throne had been forcefully snatched away by Shen Du.

What was even more brilliant was that Shen Du played the ultimate utilization of capital to the absolute peak.

To cope with the terrifying peak traffic during holidays or sudden major events,

Jiyuan Technology's server rooms reserved a massive amount of redundant computing power.

On ordinary days when traffic was stable, Shen Du absolutely would not allow these machines to burn electricity for nothing.

With a wave of his hand, he directly rented out these idle, redundant server room computing power and cloud storage spaces

at highly competitive prices, forcibly leasing them to countless domestic small, medium, and micro enterprises, as well as gaming companies.

This not only tore off a huge piece of meat in the cloud services market but also formed a perfect closed-loop business.

Just the massive computing power rental fees collected every month

were already enough to completely offset the terrifying power and broadband costs of the entire Jiyuan Empire, which were originally astronomical figures!