Author: Zhang Xi
Source: Blue Media Exchange
Liu Ren, known as "China's first IT reporter", has been involved again because of suspected financial fraud. His life is extremely rich, once in the "Chinese Silicon Valley" In The Guancun and the Internet bigwigs talk and laugh, but also for extortion and extortion in prison; he has run websites, published books, worked as an executive and investor, and was also reported for suspected fraud, behind all this, may not be able to escape a sharp word.
Scams are in doubt
Mr. Lu Xun once said that Liu Ren had at least two opportunities in his life to appear in the special issue of the legal column, once because of extortion, and once because of suspected financial fraud.
Recently, there is news that Liu Ren, a well-known IT reporter, is suspected of manipulating the Anhui Cultural Exchange Center, defrauding more than 700 people, and the police crowded the lobby of the Hefei Municipal Public Security Bureau. In the end, what is this Anhui Cultural Exchange Center? The self-introduction of its public account said: It is approved by the Hefei Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Film and Television News and Publications, led by state-owned capital, mainly engaged in art spot electronic disk trading, cultural art investment and financing services. More than a year after its launch, the total market value has exceeded 1 billion yuan, and the total turnover has reached 13 billion yuan.
According to the victim, he met Liu Ren and his disciple Lin Bing through Internet training. Later, Liu Ren led more than 700 trainees into the Anhui Cultural Exchange, and the trainees began to operate after paying 900 yuan of tuition. Suddenly one day, Lin Bing released the "West Wing Peeping Diagram" in the group when the highest position of the stock will exceed 10,000 remarks, when Liu Ren and others were in the group to do guidance, suggesting that all personnel were induced to sell all other positions, concentrate funds to buy this one in the West Wing, and then the highest position of about 5,000 began to 6868 Three days later into 10 consecutive drop stops, resulting in more than 700 million losses. The victims believe that Liu Ren is the bookmaker, and at the same time disclose the teaching process of suspected Liu Ren since 2016.
According to industry analysts, from screenshots and chat records, Liu Ren is suspected of sitting in the village, fraud, prison disaster or can not run away. Many people expressed their incomprehension that Liu Ren and He De could have so many "brain-dead fans", read Liu Ren's books, listened to his lectures, and worshipped him as a god-like figure. Even after Liu Ren's accident, there are still people who publicly express "gratitude to Liu Ren, I was influenced by Liu Ren's works to enter this industry", if he can still reform in the future and make a comeback, I am still willing to trust him.
Why is this former China's first Internet media person so bullish.
Enrich life
During an unintentional small talk, Liu Ren's friend said that he would write on the epitaph in the future: A small intellectual. Liu Ren said that my epitaph should be written: This person has lived a rich life. It can be said that Liu Ren's life has indeed been very rich.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Liu Ren wandered all day on the campus of Anhui University, and like the intellectuals of the time, he was full of ideals and ambitions, literary and romantic, from the French writer Stendhal's "Red and Black" to the classical Chinese literature "Golden Plum Bottle", he read everything, which also laid the foundation for his future writing work.
After graduation, he entered Fuyang Radio as a reporter and taught himself computer science, because he vaguely felt that the computer industry was developing at a high speed. "That's where I should be." He began writing reviews and submitting articles to newspapers in Beijing.
After losing his job at Fuyang Radio, Liu Ren resolutely chose to be a "North Drifter", who said that intellectuals do not eat fireworks in the world, I see that Liu Ren has always only recognized money, the first question he asked when he came to the newspaper was: "I want to work here, how much can I give me in a month?"
Like Yu Lian, the protagonist of "The Red and the Black", who is obsessed with the bustling metropolis, Liu Ren is also a small-town youth who entered Beijing from other provinces, and his blood carries a kind of "upward climbing" driving force. When a writer can only write poetry and write novels, when it is an IT journalist he can get up close and personal with celebrities and celebrities, he loves this life.
In the "China Computer News" and "Computer World" for many years, many Internet bigwigs have become his friends, how good is the circle of friends of the first IT reporter? Taking Liu Ren's wife having a child as an example, when he was discharged from the hospital, he could not find a car, and the result was that Lei Jun drove a car to pick him up, and when He invited Lei Jun to dinner that night, Ding Lei sat on the subway to send DVDs to congratulate him.
When he named his son Liu Shuaizheng, Liu Chuanzhi asked him where the code came from? He said: "Ji Kangzi asked Confucius about politics. Confucius said to him: 'The politician is righteous, the son is righteous, who dares to be right?' You do your own thing first, and everyone will follow you to do things well. Liu Chuanzhi listened and smiled and said, "Liu Ren, how big are you going to do?" ”
It's the first journalist
At the end of the 1990s, it was the golden age of programmers, and a programmer could start a company and achieve his own career and fame by relying on his own source program like "martial arts cheats". When the times create heroes, Liu Ren is the closest one around the heroes.
As the heroes confided in him, he recorded the inner thoughts of these people in writing.
He admired Sima Qian, liked to read the "Records of History" that "changed through ancient and modern times, and became the words of a family", and tried to imitate the "Records of History" to record "those things in Zhongguancun". Over time, his "Zhongguancun Trilogy", "Knowledge Hero", "Zhongguancun Problem" and "Enterprise Method" were written in this way, and were read by young people as the "entrepreneurship bible", and his "Zhongguancun Trilogy" existed like chicken blood, which not only influenced a new generation of journalists, but also a large number of young people who were inspired by it and were eager to make contributions.
Liu Ren's skill lies in the fact that every time he sees a person and every thing happens, he can always discover something new. At the same time, he likes to secretly observe everything: the party starts at what bar at what time, the handkerchief is pulled out of which pocket, the voice of the speech is choked up several times, he uses details, so the article is clear and vivid. If not to mention that he is the originator of Internet journalists, 20 years have passed, and now the self-media is still using this method to write one after another 100,000+.
In 2000, Liu Ren founded DoNews, China's first blogging community, and the limelight was immeasurable. Five years later, Baidu went public on the NASDAQ. In DoNews' office, Liu Ren stared at the computer screen, watching Baidu's stock price soar from the issue price of $27 to $150, and the air was full of the smell of wealth, Liu Ren thought to himself, I must have a listed company.
Then, Liu Ren, who shouted that he would not raise funds and not list, sold DoNews to the Thousand Oaks Group, and he asked for 1/3 of the cash, and the other 2/3 was used to invest in Thousand Oaks, because he was not satisfied with complete cash-out, but to pursue the doubling of wealth.
The temptation of wealth was too great for Liu Ren to resist.
DoNews did not go public immediately, the "hot can" held by Liu Ren became colder and colder, and Liu Ren's interest began to shift, he was fascinated by finance, stock speculation, investment, and financial management, which may also explain liu Ren's ability to suspect manipulation of Anhui Cultural Exchange Center transactions.
And Zhou Hongyi fell in love and killed each other
This suspected financial fraud is not Liu Ren's first offense, interestingly, he was suspected of extorting Qihoo 360, was reported by Zhou Hongyi, and served three years in prison.
The Rashomon incident of Zhou Hang, the founder of Yito, and LeTV, which was making a lot of noise a few days ago, took us to review a small story in "Aesop's Fables" called "The Farmer and the Snake". Liu Ren and Zhou Hongyi may be the earliest version of "The Farmer and the Snake" in the Internet industry.
In 2001, Zhou Hongyi had not yet founded 360, and his 3721 company and CNNIC (China Internet Network Information Center) had a fight, and many people once thought that Zhou Hongyi had a high probability of failure. Liu Ren published several articles to attack CNNIC, each of which was to the point, thanks to Liu Ren's help, Zhou Hongyi was not killed by CNNIC, but helped him establish a tall image.
The two immediately became friends of Mo Rebellion, as we all know, Zhou Hongyi loves to play audio, in order to witness the "precious friendship" of the two, he also gave Liu Ren a set of expensive combination audio, and also invested a large amount of advertising money for Liu Ren's magazine, Liu Ren also shared with him how to spread and promote on the Internet, for a long time, the two were so good that wearing a pair of pants were fat.
Unfortunately, the good times did not last long, and Qihoo 360 began a "war of words" with Rising when it entered the field of disinfection in 2008. Meanwhile, DoNews saw a flood of negative articles and comments about 360 and Zhou Hongyi overnight, and anonymous tourists were screaming incessantly.
Qihoo 360 immediately negotiated with DoNews after discovering the negative article, hoping that the other party would delete the false article. However, Liu Ren and others disagreed and offered "public relations fees", and on the evening of October 12, a dramatic scene was staged at a tea house in Haidian, Beijing: When Liu Ren and others received 80,000 yuan in cash from Qihoo's relevant personnel, the police who had been waiting for a long time rushed in.
The general trend of the world will be united for a long time, and it will be divided for a long time. Zhou Hongyi is a well-known "Zhou Cannon", Liu Ren is not the lord of loss, the two people have very strong personalities, coupled with conflicts of interest, it is difficult not to fall out.
Liu Ren once said that hungry journalists have two paths, one is to go to the enterprise and live on public relations drafts; the other is to become the chief writer.
For him, he was by no means one of the hungry, he was glued.