There were no ifs in life.
Some people were destined to be extraordinary at certain times.
At the very least, Li Dong was at the peak of his life right now, so it was impossible for him to be ordinary just because he said so.
At this time, he was destined to be the center of attention.
If life could be restarted, would Li Dong still choose this path? Li Dong used to think about these things, but now he would not think about it.
Since he had done it and enjoyed it, there was no time for regret.
Moreover, he had not reached the point of regret yet.
He was still young, he still had time.
The only thing he was worried about was whether something unexpected would happen at that time.
As for other things, the current Li Dong would no longer think about those things that had already happened.
…
October 10th.
Saturday.
The weather was not bad that day.
Early in the morning, Li Dong, Ma Yun, and the others gathered in the hotel lobby. Everyone split up to climb the mountain.
Everyone had their own circle, and since there was a circle, there was a hierarchy.
The big shots had their own teams, and the weak had their own teams.
Li Dong's group was destined to be dazzling.
The top giants of the IT industry had gathered together.
In addition to the new IT giants that had risen in recent years, there were also some other people who appeared in this circle.
Zhang Jindong of Suning, Liu Chuanzhi of the Association, Wang Chuanfu of BYD, Li Shufu of Geely, Yuan Yafei of Sanpo Group …
These industrial giants and leaders of private entrepreneurs also appeared one after another.
There were also some new tycoons, such as Shengzhe of Longhua, Hu Xiaorui of East Star, Zhuang Fan of the Zhuang Group …
The younger generation had also appeared in this place.
From the IT Summit to the Huashan Summit, it had almost become a paradise for private entrepreneurs.
This time, it was not that no one from the state-owned enterprises came, but there were very few of them.
The Huashan Summit was known to the outside world as a competition for the position of the overlord of the business world.
Private entrepreneurs could compete, but as a state-owned enterprise, it was not a one-man enterprise. At this time, it was not appropriate for them to participate in these competitions.
Of course, that was what the outside world said, but it was, after all, a rare event in the business world.
Although the heads of many companies were not present, they still sent representatives to attend the meeting.
Among the crowd, there was one person who was a little special.
The head of the Great Shang Group, Niu Gang!
Great Shang was originally a state-owned enterprise, but in recent years, the retail industry had changed. Under all kinds of pressure, Great Shang had no choice but to reform.
Through a series of operations and cooperation with related parties, Niu Gang of Great Shang had gradually gained control of Great Shang in the past two years.
At this time, Great Shang could not be considered a state-owned enterprise. Niu Gang had also changed from a professional manager to the actual controller of Great Shang.
Of course, he did not own too many shares.
However, at this time, he could be treated as a private entrepreneur and not as a pure professional manager.
Among the offline retail groups, Da Shang was undoubtedly one of the giants.
This time, almost all the retail giants had come.
No matter department stores or home appliances, even Huarun Resources and Bailian sent their Vice Presidents to attend the meeting.
Li Dong and Ma Yun, as the representatives of online e-commerce retail, organized by them, offline retail companies were bound to attend the summit.
…
Everyone split up and set off. Li Dong and his group walked at the back.
In front, the hired tour guide explained to the crowd in fear.
Any one of the people in the group behind him would be an extraordinary existence.
Now, they were all gathered together and all of them seemed to be interested in the tour guide's explanation. Being stared at by them, the tour guide was naturally nervous.
He was afraid that he would say something wrong and make one of the big shots unhappy.
In fact, this time, in order to prevent the young people from being able to withstand the pressure, the local government specially made arrangements. This tour guide was not a young man, but an old man who had been in the scenic area for many years.
Normally, the tour guide would have repeated this explanation ten thousand times, if not eight thousand times.
But this time, when he spoke, the tour guide in his early forties was still a little stuttering.
Of course, no one laughed at him, and no one would care if he stuttered or not.
Although everyone seemed to be listening to his explanation, in reality, they were all listening to the whispers of the people around them.
In the crowd, Li Dong was naturally the most eye-catching one.
Even though he was walking at the back, wearing sportswear and looking like a bright young man, those who did not know him would think that he was a passerby.
However, no one present could ignore him.
At this moment, although everyone did not ignore their status and gather around Li Dong to listen to him speak, they were paying attention to what Li Dong was saying.
…
Even though they had agreed not to talk about work during the day and talk about the scenery, there were too many people.
However, the more people there were, the more mouths there were. From the very beginning, the atmosphere was filled with the smell of gunpowder.
Shang Dynasty was located in the northeast. Niu Gang was considered a professional manager before and rarely participated in people's gatherings, so he was not too familiar with everyone.
But since he was here this time, Niu Gang did not plan to keep a low profile.
At this moment, the person who was arguing with Li Dong and the others was Niu Gang.
At the start, everyone was chatting happily, but after Niu Gang said a few words, the atmosphere suddenly changed.
"E-commerce has been developing very quickly in the past few years. With the development of the times, E-commerce has supplemented the retail industry and enriched the entire industry chain. This is undeniable.
But we also have to admit that E-commerce, especially the online shopping market, has a lot of problems!
At this point, I have to say a few words.
Online shopping, especially C2C, has a lot of problems such as counterfeiting, copyright infringement, and non-tax sales!
The government should come up with a policy to collect taxes from third-party merchants. Not only do they not collect taxes, but they also give subsidies!
E-commerce's cost was originally lower than physical retail. At this time, not paying taxes and giving subsidies, then who would open physical stores in the future?
This was forcing physical retail to a dead end!
Some platforms have annual sales of hundreds of billions. How much tax do they pay?
How many people actually do tax returns?
Also, it is difficult to protect rights online. All kinds of problems are prominent. Some brands frequently complain, and all kinds of fake and shoddy products flood the entire market.
At the end of the day, shopping in physical stores was guaranteed.
But how high is the guarantee if it is online?
Now that the government is constantly promoting the development of E-commerce and ignoring us companies, this is putting the cart before the horse!
If this continues, we will close down. How will the millions of employees survive? Will they all open online stores?
We companies pay tens of billions of taxes to the government every year, but in the end, it is used to subsidize E-commerce!
This is drawing our blood to replenish E-commerce … "
Niu Gang was very agitated, and even a little angry.
Zhang Jindong, who was by the side, felt that it was a little too extreme. Moreover, Suning was also in E-commerce. But at this time, Niu Gang started the topic. Zhang Jindong also said in a deep voice, "C2C platforms do need to strengthen management. As for the tax issue, this also needs to be taken seriously.
Some of the government's policies now seem to be a little biased.
Physical stores have their own value.
And now, with the increase in rent and labor costs, the days of us companies are getting harder and harder.
I'm saying all this not for our personal interests, but for the entire industry!
I'm still working with Old Ma, but there are some things that I have to say.
Although I don't agree with everything that Boss Niu said, I still agree with most of it … "
As the few of them spoke, Ma Yun was not to be outdone. He said, "The merchants of C2C platforms now have no background, no funds, and are mainly young people who are working hard to start their own businesses.
Online shopping, the profits are not as high as you think, and the effort is no less than any entrepreneur.
For these young people without background and funds, this kind of entrepreneurship is even more difficult.
At this time, E-commerce has just started to take off. To tax them is to tax the hope and future of young people.
Recently, some of the comments have been a little too extreme.
Some people are saying that the value created by the owners of online stores with annual sales of more than a hundred thousand is not as great as the value created by the migrant workers …
I don't mean to look down on any industry or anyone.
But on what basis do you say that online entrepreneurship is not doing proper work?
Online entrepreneurship is not entrepreneurship?
You only think about the impact of the platform on you, but have you considered that the e-commerce platform is also supporting an industry, supporting countless people and businesses?
Once the new e-commerce is taxed, will these people still have the passion to start their own businesses?
I've always said that it's not that we don't want to pay taxes, but we have to wait until this industry is completely on the right track and the entire industry gives people hope.
When that time comes, we will do what we have to do.
Now is not the time.
As for the so-called impact that you are talking about, I haven't seen much impact for the time being.
Isn't it right for the government to subsidize and promote the new industry?
Back then, when the hypermarket model was rising, didn't the government also subsidize and promote it?
Why is it that when it comes to e-commerce, it will be used as an excuse to attack … "
"General Manager Ma, where did the attack come from? Let's talk about it as it is!
Also, you said that it's not the time yet, but in the first three quarters, the online shopping market's transaction volume has reached 500 billion!
At this time, the online shopping that has only been popular for a few years has reached this scale. Is it still not enough for people to pay attention to it?
And it's also a fact that physical stores have been attacked!
It's only right and proper to pay taxes. In the early stages of the industry, the standards can be appropriately relaxed.
But now, the online shopping market is no longer in its early stages. At this time, if we still discriminate, wouldn't it be disappointing … "
"…"
The few of them were arguing fiercely about the issue of whether or not to collect taxes from individual C2C merchants.
At this time, Li Dong did not say a word.
Regarding the issue of collecting taxes from C2C merchants, Wan Jia Wang was not as large as Taobao. It was enough for Ma Yun to take the lead.
Moreover, he was doing it online and offline, so it was not easy to judge.
But soon, the flames of war involved Li Dong.
After talking about C2C for a while, almost everyone immediately pointed their fingers at Li Dong.
Ma Yun probably felt that it was not worth it for him to refute alone, so he immediately said, "You don't have to always look at C2C. After all, C2C is created by young people with no background and no funds to start a business. You said that C2C taxes, but what about B2C platforms? On B2C platforms, enterprises are paying taxes. Strictly speaking, Ali's B2C tax rate is actually about the same as physical retail. But Far Away Mall's tax rate is less than 2%, which is far less than physical retail's 3.5% and above … "
Nowadays, for these large retail enterprises, the average annual tax rate is about 3.5% and above.
This includes various policies and measures such as tax reduction, refund, tax avoidance, etc.
As for electronic shopping malls, they enjoyed more policies. In fact, the tax rate is less than 2%, and this refers to self-operated businesses.
Tmall's self-operation is actually not Ali's, but the factory's.
But Far Away's self-operation, that really belongs to Far Away.
Far Away's tax rate is low, which means that Far Away Mall is more competitive, and the profits are more impressive. This also led to a greater impact on other physical enterprises after Far Away Mall expanded.
As soon as this was said, everyone quickly pointed their fingers at Li Dong.
Li Dong looked at everyone's righteous indignation, and said helplessly, "Didn't Old Ma say? We have to give young people a chance. The entrepreneurs of C2C are young people. Don't you forget that the entrepreneurs of Far Away are also young people, and need to be protected. We can't kill the future of young people … "
As soon as this was said, everyone's face turned black.
Li Dong was just joking, and then he said seriously, "As the largest B2C platform and the largest offline retail company, we are currently the largest company in the B2C platform and offline retail system. I've been listening to everyone's argument, and I've been thinking about it. From my point of view, what I say will be more fair. After all, Far Away is the leader of two frontlines … "
Ma Yun coughed lightly and said, "Leave these boasting words for later. Just say your opinion."
Li Dong retorted, "How is it boasting? This is the truth, is there any room for debate? "
Ma Yun was speechless, there was indeed no room for debate.
Li Dong saw that he rarely did not refute, and then continued, "I'll talk about CEO Niu's impact theory first. You said that the rise of e-commerce has had an impact on offline stores, this is a fact, and Old Ma said no, that is nonsense. And as time passes, this impact will become greater and greater, this is also a fact, undeniable. But this is not just a simple tax issue! "
Li Dong shook his head and said, "You can't be too biased when looking at the problem.
The development of e-commerce, the prosperity of the online shopping market, this is the development of the times, the inevitability of the replacement of the old with the new.
If an industry is impacted, it means that this industry is not satisfactory, and cannot meet the greater needs of consumers.
With the development of the economy, technological breakthroughs.
The emergence of new industries, new fields, and the impact of old industries, old things, or even elimination, is also an inevitability of social development.
We can't say that because of the impact, we give up on the essentials and not develop this thing.
If you don't develop, others are developing. If you don't improve, others are improving.
In the end, we will only fall further and further behind, and falling behind means being beaten up!
At this time, what we need to do is not to target our opponents, but to set up some obstacles.
Today, you say that e-commerce is blocking your way, and you are suppressing it. Tomorrow, you will also be doing e-commerce, then when that time comes, will you also set up obstacles for yourself?
How can physical retail continue to develop and continue to maintain competitiveness?
This point, we have to break through this obstacle ourselves.
For physical retail, at this time, we should focus on improving management standards, reducing management costs, improving supply chain channels, introducing new technology, reducing various losses, improving service standards … These are the main priorities!
There is actually no need to continue debating the issue of tax payment.
It was only right and necessary for e-commerce businesses to pay taxes.
But at this time, it is indeed not suitable.
Boss Niu said that the online shopping market has exceeded the 500 billion mark for three quarters, that is a fact.
But 500 billion, relative to the entire Hua Xia consumer goods market, the share is not visible.
At this time, it is a lie to say how big and prosperous e-commerce is.
Moreover, the main performance is concentrated on us and Taobao, we occupy more than 80% of the market share.
If we pay taxes, our big platforms will not die.
But some small and medium-sized platforms that do not make much profit to begin with, once the same tax is levied, they will almost certainly die.
Without these platforms to fill the gap, this market will decline sooner or later.
Killing a new industry, this is not something the government can't see, so the problem of whether to tax the current tax or not, the government is actually also considering.
As far as I am concerned, it is still not suitable at the moment.
In three to five years, when online shopping occupies more than 30% of the market share of the consumer goods market.
At that time, if Old Ma says that he does not want to pay taxes, then I will have to suggest to the government that it is time to levy taxes. "
Li Dong hit both sides with a stick, as if he is a neutral person.
However, when everyone listened carefully and thought about it carefully, what this guy said was actually just one sentence, he has already transcended this field.
Now, he is standing at a higher point of view and acting as an arbitrator for everyone.
But the truth is, this guy is actually the one who has the greatest benefit!
After he said that, it was as if this was all other people's business and had nothing to do with him.
Someone was about to refute a few words when they heard Li Dong say again, "Today, let's focus on leisure and entertainment. Don't worry too much about these things. When night comes, we will slowly talk in detail. Also, this time, it is not just about discussing the retail business. We have to broaden our horizons … "
As he said that, Ma Yun's phone rang.
Not only Ma Yun, but many people's phones rang.
Today, very few people brought their assistants to the mountain. The staff were all following behind, and there was still some distance from here.
At this time, if there was nothing major, the phone would not reach these people.
When Ma Yun and the others heard the phone ring at almost the same time, their expressions changed slightly for a while.
As for Li Dong, he looked around as if he was enjoying the scenery.
Soon, these people all picked up the phone.
While answering the phone, many people looked surprised and could not help but look in Li Dong's direction.
"Far away announces a financing of 300 billion to be used for the development of the retail group!"
"300 billion …"
This number was frequently mentioned in the phone calls of the various families.
If it was only in the tens of billions, although everyone would think about it, they would not think too much.
After all, Far away's system was very big. Tens of billions of funds for development was also necessary.
But this financing of 300 billion, and not many people had received news of it in advance, almost abruptly. What was Far away trying to do?
Ma Yun's expression kept changing as he held the phone.
Others only cared about 300 billion, but Ma Yun not only cared about this, but also almost at the same time, the overwhelming promotion of the Double Eleven!
Far away's publicity to the public, an unprecedented day of giving back!
It was an unprecedented promotion!
An unprecedented shopping festival …
In short, just as they went up the mountain, all of Hua Xia, print media, online media, traditional media …
Almost all of them were promoting this new shopping festival!
The momentum was so great that it wasn't just online, but offline as well. All the shops in the distance were also doing the same thing.
In an instant, at least a hundred million people saw this promotion.
Just from such a huge publicity campaign, one could feel that this was not a small effort!
What was Li Dong trying to do!
Ma Yun took a deep look at Li Dong. While the outside world was paying attention to the Sword Meet on Hua Mountain, he suddenly began to make a big move.
Just to attract attention?
Ma Yun was not stupid. He thought of many things in an instant.
Also, Far away's retail financing of 300 billion, what was Li Dong trying to do?
At this moment, no one was in the mood to go sightseeing.
Maybe Li Dong did not care about the Sword Meet on Hua Mountain from beginning to end, he was more concerned about practical benefits.
Or maybe Li Dong wanted to use this summit as a critical point, a critical point to establish his position as an invincible overlord!
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