On November 26th, Far away officially signed an acquisition agreement with Ali.
Taobao, Tmall, Rookie Logistics, Xingchen Express … and other related businesses were all sold.
Both parties held a press conference in Lin 'an.
Li Dong and Ma Yun did not attend.
Cai Chongxin represented Ali Group at the press conference. At the press conference, Cai Chongxin did not refute the media's theory of Ali's decline.
With the sale of the online shopping related businesses, Ali's strength was indeed weakened.
Despite receiving 4.5 billion US dollars, more than 30 billion yuan of capital flow, it still made the outside world doubt Ali's strength.
However, at the press conference, Cai Chongxin still briefly mentioned a few words about Ali's future direction.
Abandoning the online shopping business and changing from C-type customers to B-type customers.
The so-called C-type customers generally referred to individual users, while B-type customers were corporate users.
In fact, the foundation of Ali's rise was these B-type customers. It was just that in the past two years, Taobao developed rapidly, and Ali invested more in Taobao, focusing more on C-type customers.
Now that Taobao was sold, it was reasonable for Ali to return to its roots.
At this moment, Ali software had tens of millions of small and medium-sized enterprise users around the world, providing online software services for these enterprises.
In addition, Ali acquired Wanwang, mainly to provide complete application services for enterprise users.
Finally, Cai Chongxin also announced that the focus of Ali's B2B website business would focus on the retail supply chain.
In other words, after Ali sold Taobao, it no longer focused on individual businesses, and its core was to control the retail core supply chain.
Abandoning Taobao did not mean that Ali gave up the retail business.
In fact, Ali was an online retail group through and through. When Taobao existed, Ali aimed to build a one-stop retail service, which was not much different from Jingdong's ten-section sugarcane theory.
Whether it was Ali, Jingdong, or Far away, the main purpose was to buy more sugarcane and master more retail service links.
Now that Taobao was sold, Ali gave up the vertical sales channel, but focused on the core supply chain.
For retail companies, the supply chain was the most important.
Big manufacturers and brands were in the minority.
Retail groups were mostly in contact with small and medium-sized suppliers. Whether it was offline or online, branded products were the minority.
What the public used and bought more were the products provided by small and medium-sized enterprises.
Ali was now providing internet services to small and medium-sized enterprises, focusing on investing in B2B platforms. Their goal was to control the core of these small and medium-sized enterprises.
Focus tens of millions of small and medium-sized enterprises on Ali, control the major retail groups from the source.
Once Ali's business grew, it would be able to balance out these platforms Far away.
Of course, Far away was currently Hua Xia's number one online shopping platform. Even if Ali controlled the supply chain, it would have a limited effect on Far away.
According to Ma Yun's previous prediction, if Taobao and Tmall could expand and control the core supply chain, Ali would be invincible.
Unfortunately, Li Dong did not give him the chance and time to do so.
Just when Ma Yun had this thought, he quickly defeated Taobao, forcing Ma Yun to give up on this idea.
…
On the highway from Lin 'an to Pingchuan.
Li Dong sighed. "Actually, I used to think that Taobao and Alipay were the source of Ali's strength.
It was only these few years, watching Ma Yun's plan, that I realized that it was all an illusion.
Fortunately, we defeated Taobao in advance. Otherwise, we would be in big trouble in the future.
Since 1999, Ali has been roping in small and medium-sized enterprises. It has been ten years now, and the interests of many small and medium-sized enterprises in Hua Xia are tied to Ali.
Listening to thunder in silence, Ali did it quietly, but in fact, it has penetrated into all aspects of retail.
If it drags on, Taobao and Tmall will expand, and the terminal supply chain will be controlled by Ali. Then, I'm afraid that our platforms will really be controlled by Ali. "
In his previous life, Ma Yun said that Ali was trying to cultivate more Jingdong, but Li Dong scoffed.
In fact, many people thought that Old Ma was bragging.
In this life, Ma Yun actually said the same thing, but the target was Far away.
If Li Dong did not see it clearly in the past and was attracted by Taobao and Alipay, then after Taobao was sold, Ali focused on developing Ali Software, the Wanwan, and B2B, Li Dong saw it clearly.
These major businesses were to better control the small and medium-sized enterprises in Ali's hands.
If a company uses Ali's software, website, domain name, and online trading channels, everything is Ali's. Even if this company thinks that they can ignore Ali, they are in fact controlled by Ali.
Of course, Ali had not reached this stage yet, but as time passes, it will happen sooner or later.
When a company becomes dependent on Ali, it means that they cannot leave the other party, and they will be subtly influenced by Ali to become Ali's subsidiary.
With the control of the supply chain, how can Jingdong and other platforms compete with Ali?
Even in the vertical sales platform industry, their performance is not worse than Ali, but in fact, the gap is huge.
In the future, Ali's market value is ten times that of Jingdong, and from the sales platform alone, Jingdong is not worse than Taobao and Tmall.
Moreover, Jingdong has its own logistics and warehouse system, which is stronger than Taobao.
Where did the difference come from when Ali's market value is ten times the other party's?
Not counting Alipay, Ali is listed, and Ant Finance is still independent and has not merged into Ali's system.
If Jingdong's market value is the same as Taobao and Tmall, then the gap between the remaining nine Jingdong's is the businesses that Ali is doing now.
Of course, there is also the cloud computing business in the future.
Therefore, Ma Yun's words about nurturing more e-commerce platforms are not bragging.
Hearing Li Dong's words, Tan Haiying, who was sitting beside him, said, "General Manager Li, actually, we can also …"
Li Dong waved his hand and smiled. "Don't bite off more than you can chew, not to mention that we don't have the time and energy to do it.
Furthermore, we are different from other platforms.
Ali wants to control the supply chain source, and it will affect other platforms greatly, but it won't affect us much.
He separated the B2B business, and Far Away has actually integrated the B2B business into the current online shopping platform.
Moreover, what we are doing is integrating the offline and online systems. Ali is only doing a single online supply chain control now, and the impact on us is minimal.
They want to do it because there is no other way.
As for us, we haven't even finished our own path, and now we have to take another path. There is not much meaning.
Let Old Ma do it, he has the experience and energy.
Ali has been preparing for this since 1999, and we can't compare to him.
But it doesn't matter, we will fatten him up first, and then we will cut his meat bit by bit.
When he becomes strong, Far Away will only become stronger. As the biggest farm owner in Hua Xia's retail industry, Ali is just a big fat pig that we are raising.
When we want to cut our meat, we will cut some.
Of course, I am talking about me. Whether you have the ability to cut your meat in the future depends on your own ability.
If Ali makes it big, then Ali will become another big farm owner.
We are strong in the frontline, and he is strong in the terminal. It is hard to say who is strong and who is weak.
At that time, he will probably covet the frontline platform, and we will think of ways to expand into the terminal market.
All in all, don't think that Ali's sale of Taobao this time is completely useless.
Taobao is very important, but in reality, it is not that important. Do you understand? "
Tan Haiying nodded. She understood these principles.
In fact, the only thing she did not understand was, since Li Dong knew, and also felt that Ali was Far Away's future opponent, why did he not kill him now?
The current Ali should be at his weakest in years.
Even if there was support, with Far Away's strength, it would not be a problem if he really forced his way in.
Li Dong did not explain, and he was too lazy to explain.
There were many reasons. One was that it was not worth it, and the other was that Li Dong did not want to kill them all.
Over the years, Li Dong had used a lot of other people's things.
Even if no one knew, it did not mean that he did not know.
If he used these people's things and then killed them all, Li Dong would be embarrassed.
In fact, it was not only Old Ma, Ma Huateng, Li Dong did not intend to kill them all. At that time, he told Ma Huateng to let him be in charge of Tencent, merge Far Away's business, and Far Away would only be a controlling shareholder and not participate in the operation. Those were all sincere words.
It was a pity that Brother Ma was not willing, so there was the annexation later.
Even so, Ma Huateng took a lot of money to run Happy Gathering Times, and Li Dong did not continue to suppress them.
If he really wanted to suppress them, Far Away could easily be squeezed out of Happy Gathering at this time.
Now that the biggest conflict with Ali had been resolved, Li Dong had completed his own layout, and naturally, he would not go after them just because there might be obstacles in the future.
On the contrary, he was very willing to see these giants rise again, which was more interesting.
…
When Li Dong returned to Pingchuan, the storm of Ali's sale of Taobao had not passed.
However, soon, no one paid attention to Ali and Far Away.
The sale of Taobao had become an established fact, and there was no point in discussing what had already happened.
At this time, a bigger piece of news happened in the business world!
On November 26th, Qianhai Life Insurance spent 7 billion RMB to buy 500 million shares of Vanke in the secondary market, completing the first acquisition of Vanke!
As the largest real estate group in Hua Xia, Vanke's influence and reputation were much greater than Ali.
In 2009, if it were not for Li Dong's repeated targeting of Ali, Ali's reputation and strength would not be that great.
But Vanke was different. Vanke was a real estate giant, and it had been the number one for many years.
Vanke's acquisition of Vanke's shares instantly attracted the attention of many people.
Although the other party only owned 5% of Vanke's shares, the largest shareholder of Vanke, Huarun, only owned 15%.
Vanke's shares were too scattered, and Old Wang and the CEO's shares were too low. Both of them owned less than 1%. At this time, there was suddenly an additional shareholder who owned 5% of Vanke's shares, and it might have a series of effects.
On the 26th, Qianhai Life Insurance raised its shares for the first time. Although many people were looking at it, they were still calm.
Even Vanke did not have much reaction.
But on the morning of the 27th, Qianhai Life Insurance's Ju Shenghua bought a large number of Vanke's shares, and on the 27th, Ju Shenghua raised its shares for the second time. Everyone suddenly felt that this was not a simple investment!
With 10% of the shares, Ju Shenghua was the second largest shareholder of Vanke, second only to Huarun.
Vanke owned a large number of shares in the secondary market.
Compared to other companies, many companies had less than 30% of their total shares in the secondary market, but Vanke had more than 50% of its shares in the secondary market!
Therefore, it was not difficult for Qianhai and Ju Shenghua to continue to buy Vanke's shares in the secondary market. The key was whether they had enough funds.
Just when Qianhai and Ju Shenghua were buying Vanke's shares, the trading volume of Vanke's shares in the secondary market far exceeded the number of shares held by these two companies!
At this time, many people could see that there were still people buying Vanke's shares in large numbers.
Suddenly, the eyes of the business world were on Vanke.
…
The outside world was speculating, but Li Dong was clear about it.
This time, there were many people participating in the battle for Vanke. Other than the Precious Energy Group, Hsu Shengzhe was also trying to fish in troubled waters.
Not only Hsu Shengzhe, but Huarun was also increasing its shares by a small amount.
And there must be others participating!
Hsu Shengzhe did not look for Li Dong again, but it might be because he needed money. Hsu Shengzhe had transferred Longhua's Zhongbai shares to Far Away.
Now, Far Away had obtained Longhua's Zhongbai shares and had obtained absolute control over Zhongbai.
Hsu Shengzhe did not look for him, and Li Dong did not get involved either. He let Li Dong do whatever he wanted.
The outside world was concerned about Vanke, but Li Dong was not too concerned about it. If it was in the past, Li Dong might have some thoughts about it. But now, he did not care much.
Other than that, Far Away's other people were also busy these few days.
In order to ensure that Far Away could successfully get listed, the most basic equity structure must be sorted out first.
Far Away's plan was very simple. Far Away had a lot of cash, and the only thing they could do was to continuously acquire the shares of the merged companies, obtain absolute control, and eliminate the small and medium shareholders.
When the company was about to get listed, the role of the small and medium shareholders would stop there.
Before the company's IPO, it was almost inevitable to get rid of the small shareholders.
Moreover, absolute control or full acquisition would also be beneficial to the subsequent integration of resources.
Far Away's other people might not have done this at another time. It was fine to just hold the shares, but it was not necessary to fully acquire them.
However, Far Away had a lot of funds in their hands now. The sooner they got listed, the faster the return of funds would be. Completing the integration of resources and getting listed as a whole would be more beneficial to Far Away.
Since that was the case, full acquisition had become the most commonly used method for Far Away.
On the afternoon of the 27th, when Li Dong arrived at the company.
At that moment, Far Away had almost completed the acquisition of the shares of the Alliance of Commerce and Industry, referring to the scattered small and medium shareholders.
Far Away would choose to suspend the listing of the Alliance of Commerce and Industry, complete the delisting plan, and carry out restructuring.
As for Great Shang, through the secondary market and over-the-counter trading, their shareholding ratio had increased to 32%.
Once they acquired the shares of Bincheng State Shang, Far Away would hold 40% of Great Shang's shares, and their position as the number one shareholder would become more and more stable.
The remaining shares of Gao Xin held by Run Tai had also entered the final stage of negotiation. Ou Shang had not said anything, and he might have chosen to give up …
In the conference room, Chen Lang reported the latest progress one by one.
Li Dong did not listen carefully.
After listening for a while, Li Dong suddenly said, "If we complete the integration and acquisition of the various companies and integrate the resources, how much revenue did Far Away make in the first three quarters?"
In the middle of the year, Far Away's revenue for the two quarters had reached 268 billion.
C2C had also created 30 billion in transactions. Of course, this was not included in the revenue.
As for now, Far Away's acquisition of various companies had not been completed, nor had they merged. For example, Great Shang, the Alliance of Commerce and Industry, and Wumart were still independent companies.
However, these companies would soon be included in Far Away's retail business. At this time, Li Dong did not know how much revenue Far Away had.
However, Li Dong knew that if these companies merged Far Away, it was very likely that they could really achieve the trillion-yuan revenue target this year.
When Li Dong asked the question, everyone looked at Liu Hongmei.
Nowadays, Distance Holdings was changing day by day. Even these executives couldn't provide any concrete figures.
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