When the Forbes Real Time Rich List was released, the whole world was talking about Li Dong. They were talking about this 24-year-old legend.
At this moment, Li Dong was not as ecstatic as others thought.
Back in the office, Li Dong was talking to Shen Qian.
Speaking into the phone, Li Dong said indifferently, "The richest man in Asia, the richest man in the world, it's all the same.
The reason why I negotiated with the other party in private and even promised to help Forbes open up the Hua Xia market is just to increase my chances of winning.
PP and WeChat versus QQ. In the end, there will inevitably be a choice between the two.
Who should I choose?
Whether it was Distance's product or Tencent's product would also make users feel conflicted.
But I am the richest man in the world, the number one businessman in the world, the number one in terms of wealth. This is the trend, this is the trend!
What's mine is good. That's for sure.
If my things are not good, can I become the richest man in the world?
Will the valuation of my assets be so high?
This is a psychological hint. Maybe it will help us. Maybe we don't need it, but it's better to be prepared.
As for overdrawing my potential … "
Li Dong smiled, "Then continue to maintain the upward trend. The world economy is recovering, and so is Hua Xia's economy. After some time, I might lose my position as the richest man in the world, but it will be a period of stability. When I come back again, there will be a topic. Otherwise, people will not care about it after a long time. "
On the other end of the phone, Shen Qian smiled, "You don't have to explain so much to me. Just do it according to your own ideas. But we should end the call now. According to your temper, you should be showing off now. Go call your boyfriends and text them. Don't worry about me. If you don't show off, others will guess what's wrong with you. "
Li Dong was speechless, "What boyfriends? Don't talk about this."
"Fine, fine, fine. I was wrong. I'll hang up first. I still have something to do."
Li Dong mumbled, "I realized that you don't care about me at all since you got pregnant. If it was in the past, he might have personally come to the company to celebrate me becoming the richest man in the world. Now, I've taken the initiative to call you, but you're impatient. Women are indeed fickle, forgetting the old when they have the young … "
As he muttered, Shen Qian didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "Haven't we already celebrated? Didn't you say yesterday that you're definitely the richest man in the world? I'm already excited about what I should be excited about. What else can I be excited about? "
"Forget it. Don't keep running to the new house. The renovation isn't finished yet. Be careful. Hang up, I'll give those guys a call. "
"…"
After hanging up the phone, Li Dong looked through his contacts and began to call them one by one.
…
When Li Dong made the call, the person who received the call felt relieved.
When Ma Yun received the call, he chatted with Li Dong for a while before hanging up the phone. Then, while eating, he laughed and said to the people at his table, "This guy, I knew he couldn't stay idle. However, his tone could not be considered agitated. It was a little hypocritical. "I can see it now. He's playing tricks with me. "We're doing our own thing. There won't be too many disputes with us in the short term. "Director Cheng …"
Ma Yun glanced at the taciturn Cheng Ping, put down his chopsticks, and said with a straight face, "In as little as three months, or as long as a year, we will definitely have a battle with Far away!
"It's not the first time that Li Dong has tried to poach us. We've suffered many losses in the express delivery industry.
"I know that it's very, very difficult to complete the layout of the express delivery industry in such a short time.
"But no matter how difficult it is, we have to do it!
"As for BAISHI, we're almost able to take the lead now, and BAISHI is discussing the acquisition with Huitong. Once the acquisition is completed, BAISHI and Huitong will have a place in the express delivery industry.
"But this is not enough!
"With the development of e-commerce, today's express delivery industry is in a period of vigorous development.
Far away's express delivery is expanding, Shunfeng is expanding, and Santong is also expanding …
"Before, I pinned my hopes on them, hoping to join forces with them to create the Rookie Alliance, to improve together, and to expand the industry together.
"Unfortunately, their foresight is limited. They actually cooperated with Far away, asking a tiger for its skin!
"With Ali, Ali doesn't do express delivery himself, and they are mutually dependent.
"But with Far away, if they really forced Ali to a dead end, and Ali finally fell, would Far away give them a chance to survive?
"Li Dong said that he would share, but in reality, he wanted nothing more than to enjoy the fruits of victory alone!
"Before this, I always thought that Wang Wei would not be so short-sighted, but I didn't expect that in the end, he would still give up his bright future for the benefits in front of him.
"Including the other express delivery companies, they are now forcing us to increase the price of their express delivery, refusing to accept our merchant business, and dragging down our efficiency …
"All of this has strengthened our determination to do our own express delivery!
"The purpose of establishing Xing Chen Express this time is to perfect our own express delivery system."
The ability to correct errors in time and space has always been this powerful.
In his previous life, after Cheng Ping left Home Delivery, he also established Xing Chen Express in 2009. It was also Ma Yun who invested in it.
However, at that time, it started late, and Ma Yun only invested, and not a lot at that. Also, at that time, Taobao did not have as much pressure as it did now, so Xing Chen Express did not have much development.
Now, it felt the pressure brought by Far away.
And the other express delivery companies kept pressuring Ali, and Ma Yun finally made up his mind. If he was going to do it, he would do it big this time!
If Li Dong could complete the layout of the national express delivery business in a few years, Ali would not have any problems!
Especially this time, the plan to raise one billion US dollars was very successful. The funds would also gradually arrive next month. Ma Yun decided that he would at least take out more than half of the funds to develop the express delivery business.
More than three billion to build the express delivery channel was definitely a big investment!
As for Li Dong's Far away Logistics, he spent so much money, but it was different.
Far away Logistics did not only do express delivery, but also logistics, supermarket delivery, warehousing, as well as Far away Logistics Park, Far away Airlines …
Therefore, Far away Logistics was not just a simple express delivery company.
Ma Yun did not have as many needs as Li Dong. He only wanted to satisfy Taobao's needs.
As for the warehousing, if he lacked money in the early stage, he could rent it. There was no need to have the same goal of creating a rookie, which was to hoard land.
At that time, because there were many companies involved, including companies like Fosun, hoarding land was also one of the goals, so there was a plan of tens of billions.
Now that the rookie plan was almost bankrupt, Ma Yun did not have the mood to hoard land with those companies. He only needed the express delivery business.
As Ma Yun said this, Cheng Ping said in a low voice, "Chairman, rest assured, I have already prepared a detailed plan. This time, Xingchen Express will be established. We will take over the express delivery system of Baishi and Huitong, plus acquire some small and medium-sized express delivery companies, and quickly complete the integration. Within three months, there will be no problem to build 50 transit stations, 1000 outlets, and build a nationwide express delivery system. "
Ma Yun glanced at him. The old man was teasing him!
50 transit stations, 1000 outlets all over the country?
You have to know that some of the current express delivery giants, the transit stations were calculated in units of hundreds, and the outlets were calculated in units of tens of thousands!
Even Far away, in the first year, more than 1000 outlets were set up alone.
In the second year, nearly 1000 outlets were set up again!
At the same time, Far away also acquired a lot of express delivery companies, and at present, more than 3000 outlets were set up.
Don't forget, Far away express delivery outlets, there was still one place that had not been calculated!
That was their supermarket stores!
These stores were actually also Far away express delivery outlets. Some convenience stores, which were deep in communities and streets, were the most suitable express delivery outlets.
In the past few years, the number of Faraway Supermarket stores had also been increasing day by day. In total, the number of express delivery outlets Far away could probably reach 5000!
However, with 5000 outlets Far away, Li Dong said that it would cover the whole country, but would it really cover the whole country?
What a joke!
According to the national statistics, there were more than 40,000 organizations at the township level in the country.
One outlet in a township, that would be at least more than 40,000.
It was almost impossible to build express delivery outlets covering the whole country with the strength of one company.
Didn't you see that companies like Yunda were constantly joining stores?
They had a lot of outlets, but 90% of them were not built by them, but by franchisees. Even if there were more than 10,000 outlets, these companies did not dare to say that they could cover the whole country.
BAISHI and Huitong, plus Xingchen Express, would also acquire some small and medium-sized express delivery companies. Cheng Ping said that 1000 outlets would be built in three months, and there was almost no development.
Cheng Ping was also a little helpless when he was looked at by Ma Yun, and said softly, "Chairman, the first three months will focus on integrating resources.
It's not a good thing to have too many franchisees.
"I have experienced this deeply, and so does SF. Otherwise, Wang Wei would not have taken over power back then.
"Back then, there were too many franchisees in SF. I think the chairman should have heard of the reputation of the 'Rat Society'.
"Now, since the chairman doesn't want Xingchen Express to become the second rookie and wants to compete with Far away, then the proportion of franchisees can't be too big. Otherwise, it may drag us down.
"In the beginning, it may strengthen our reputation, but in the future, there will definitely be a situation where we can't do anything about it.
"Far away's current combat power is not because of the number of outlets they have, but the key is that their outlets are self-operated.
"It's the same for SF. They don't have many outlets, but they still have a very strong combat power.
"On the other hand, SF has more than 10,000 outlets, but where is their efficiency and combat power?
"If the 1,000 self-operated outlets can be integrated, the combat power that will erupt will not be much weaker than theirs. At least, it can match the efficiency of SF's 3,000 outlets …"
After listening to Cheng Ping's explanation, Ma Yun nodded slightly. He was not someone who could not listen to other people's opinions.
Cheng Ping was once one of the giants in the express delivery industry. Now that he had experienced a rise and fall, what he said should not be false.
Thinking of this, Ma Yun said, "No matter what, before the end of the year, we have to complete the task of setting up at least 2,000 outlets! "There are close to 3,000 county-level agencies in the country. Other than some remote areas and some local express delivery companies that are currently cooperating with us, we need at least 2,000 outlets to be able to undertake our business. "At least such a large scale will allow us to have the ability to complete the operation independently when the other express delivery companies are pressuring us!"
"2,000 outlets …"
Cheng Ping hesitated for a moment, then nodded. "Okay, I'll go back and assign the task!"
Since he had joined Ali, he also hoped that Ali's side could be competitive.
Although this task was difficult, Cheng Ping had been in the industry for so many years and had a good understanding of the situation in various places. As long as there was enough money, although setting up 2,000 outlets was difficult, it was not an impossible task.
Seeing that Cheng Ping agreed, Ma Yun smiled. "I knew that CEO Cheng wouldn't let me down. After completing the task of setting up the express delivery outlets in 2009, it won't be so easy for Li Dong to make a fuss over this! "
The others smiled but didn't say anything.
Would they really make it in time?
They had only started to set up their own express delivery system now. They did not know if Li Dong would give them enough time.
Seeing this, Ma Yun did not explain. That fellow Li Dong might be targeting someone this time. In any case, it seemed unlikely that he would directly target Taobao.
The Wan Jia Web also needed time to develop.
It was hard to say if he would give him time to develop. Who could be sure that Li Dong would definitely win?
…
The topic of the world's richest man was still being hyped up.
However, the ones who really had nothing to do and talked about this every day were the onlookers.
The big shots all had their own things to do. Anyway, they were not the richest man, so who had the time to talk about this every day?
On April 13th, news came from the Tianhong Fund that Yu 'e Bao's online plan had been approved!
As for the Tencent and Ali families, Yi Fangda, who was working with Tencent, had also been approved. Only Ali's side had not received the approval yet.
When Li Dong received this news, he did not call Ma Yun. Instead, he called Ma Huateng and said, "If Ali can't go online in May, then both of us will go online! However, we have to help Ma Yun during the publicity. Bring him along! "
When Ma Huateng heard this, he immediately smiled and said, "Alright, since we agreed to do it together, then we naturally have to bring him along for the publicity. It doesn't matter if he goes online later. We'll go online first and show him the effect. Maybe it'll be better, don't you think? "
Regardless of whether Ali could go online or not, Li Dong and Ma Huateng had a tacit understanding to bring him along for the publicity so that everyone could resist the pressure together.
However, it did not matter if Ali could make it in time. Anyway, it was only a matter of time. Even if it was delayed a little, it would be the same. After all, the three families were the promoters, so they could not run away from the reputation.
As for whether Ali would go online later, it was none of their business. It was Ali's own problem, so who could he blame?
The pressure and risk were the same, but for some things, a day earlier could lead to a completely different outcome. Now, the two of them could not wait for Ali to go online ten days or half a month later.
After a few simple words, Ma Huateng suddenly said, "Your WeChat users have exceeded a million, right?"
Li Dong chuckled and said, "You're talking about WeChat, right? After you mentioned it previously, I went back and asked about it. There is such a product. However, it's just a casual work of a designer. Now that there are a million users, it's not bad, but it's not worth mentioning. I've used it myself, and there are more points to complain about. I'll continue to improve it in the future. Speaking of which, you keep asking about this. Do you have any ideas? Tell me, let's communicate. There's no need to hide such a small problem. I often share my ideas and views with you, and I don't charge you any money, right? "
Ma Huateng said calmly, "There's no need to say it. A technician from Tencent has also casually developed a software. It will be released on the 15th. You can just download it and try it out then."
"That's a coincidence. Don't tell me you're copying our product? Be careful, or else I'll continue to sue you."
"Sorry, I really don't have that. If you want to cause trouble, go ahead. Moreover, the truth is as you said. Your WeChat has many points to complain about, so I don't think there's a need to copy it. "
Li Dong laughed and said, "Is that so? Then let's wait and see. I forgot to ask, what's the name of your product? Don't forget it when the time comes. "
"WeChat."
Ma Huateng said casually, but he did not expect Li Dong to have a look of disgust. He immediately complained, "What the hell is this name? It's just copying me, and it doesn't even look like it. Who came up with this name? It's really bad. The guy who came up with this name should be dragged out and beaten to death …"
"Beep beep beep …"
The phone was busy, and Ma Huateng was too lazy to care about this guy.
Do you think Li Dong's name is good?
Moreover, this name was given by Ma Huateng himself. Li Dong was deliberately scolding him while pointing at the mulberry tree.
The phone was hung up, but Li Dong was not annoyed.
Li Dong tapped his fingers on his thigh and murmured, "This speed is really not slow. The product is released in 15 days. It's faster than I expected."
Tencent's strength could be seen from this.
Even if it was just copying a software in 15 days, this speed was not slow.
Moreover, with Tencent's style, they definitely would not give Li Dong a chance to find fault. They should have made a lot of improvements.
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