There was a reason why Shen Qian said that it was not worth it.
Jiangbei now had two large supermarket chains. One was Far away, and the other was Ke Long.
Jiangbei's market was so big. Even if Li Dong squeezed out Ke Long, Far away could not completely occupy Jiangbei's retail market.
If Ke Long fell, there would definitely be other large supermarkets rising.
If it was not a local enterprise, then it would be a foreign invasion. It was impossible for Far away to monopolize Jiangbei's retail market now.
Since that was the case, why should they let others benefit? It was not like Ke Long did not cost money.
If they wanted to destroy the other party, Far away had to be prepared for a lose-lose situation. But if they fought fiercely with Ke Long, Far away's strength would be greatly damaged. At that time, if a third party intervened, Far away would suffer a great loss.
Leaving Ke Long behind was actually beneficial to the Faraway Lands.
On one hand, there would be competitors. Far away's employees and management would not slack off.
On the other hand, Ke Long was a very good shield. It was also the first line of defense for foreign supermarkets to invade Jiangbei.
If Huarun and other large conglomerates wanted to enter Jiangbei, they would naturally not look for Far away or compete with Far away.
Not to mention other small and medium-sized enterprises. In the large supermarkets, Ke Long was the soft persimmon.
The soft persimmon had to be pinched. Their first target would definitely be Ke Long.
After listening to Shen Qian's words, Li Dong felt that it was quite reasonable.
In fact, he did not intend to crush Ke Long. He still had 15% of Ke Long's shares. If he crushed Ke Long, he would also suffer a heavy loss.
Thinking of this, Li Dong avoided this topic. When he was about to ask Shen Qian about the mall, the assistant suddenly pushed the door open and said, "General Manager Li, Director Xu from Longhua asked you to call him back. He said he could not reach you."
Li Dong had almost forgotten that his phone was broken. He immediately said, "I understand. You can leave first."
After the assistant left, Li Dong said to Shen Qian, "I'll call Hsu Shengzhe first. Wait here for a while. I still have something to discuss with you."
Nodding her head, Shen Qian teased, "You and Hsu Shengzhe are full of romance recently. You're not even this diligent with your girlfriend, right?"
"Cut the crap. We're talking business."
Li Dong glared at her and picked up the phone on the table to call Hsu Shengzhe.
Picking up the call, Hsu Shengzhe asked Li Dong why he didn't pick up the phone. Knowing that Li Dong's phone was broken, he didn't pester him any further.
Hsu Shengzhe indeed had business to discuss with Li Dong. Yesterday, Li Dong mentioned about the payment in advance. He went back and mentioned it to his father at night.
When Hsu Shengzhe said this, Li Dong quickly said, "What did your dad say?"
"Grandpa said he will consider it, but he wants to talk to you."
"Talk to me? Talk about what? "
"Who knows, but if you have time, come as soon as possible. Maybe after the talk, grandpa will give you the money immediately."
"Okay, when your dad is free, I will ask him out for tea."
After talking about business, Hsu Shengzhe began to talk about personal matters, mainly about yesterday's matter.
Hsu Shengzhe naturally saw the news on the internet. He called Li Dong for another reason. Just like Li Dong, Hsu Shengzhe wanted to ask him if he wanted to cooperate with him to attack Menshen Real Estate.
Li Dong didn't refuse directly. He just said that he didn't have enough energy to buy Times Group and that he would talk about it after the acquisition was completed.
Hsu Shengzhe didn't force him and hung up after mentioning Chen Wanting.
Li Dong was a little helpless. Hsu Shengzhe was really bored. Chen Wanting wasn't his type, so what was the point of talking to him?
However, Chen Wanting was slapped yesterday, and it really had something to do with Li Dong. After all, he invited Chen Wanting to go shopping, and she helped him the whole afternoon. Now that she was slapped in the face, he couldn't just ignore it.
In addition, because of Yao Li, Chen Wanting didn't buy the gift yesterday. It seemed that he really had to prepare a gift to make it up to her.
After Li Dong hung up, Shen Qian asked, "Who is Chen Wanting?"
Li Dong frowned. "Why do you want to meddle in everything?"
Shen Qian snorted. "Who cares about your business? I am just curious. Did you really fight yesterday because of a woman? Is it this Chen Wanting? "
"What the hell!"
Li Dong cursed and then explained. "She is a friend of Hsu Shengzhe. I only met her once."
After that, Li Dong said, "Okay, let's not talk about her first. Let me ask you something. How is PP recently?"
Speaking of business, Shen Qian returned to normal. "It's not good. QQ's emoji package was updated recently, and PP lost a lot of users. At its peak, there were 1.2 million registered users of PP, and the number of people online at the same time was 200,000. But after QQ updated the emoji package, the number of new registered users decreased by more than half. At the same time, the number of online users dropped below 100,000. "
"It dropped below 100,000?"
"Yes."
Li Dong shook his head and sighed. "The gap is too big. There are more than 200 million registered users on QQ. At the same time, the number of online users seems to have exceeded 20 million. With a gap of more than 100 times, there is almost no hope of catching up."
Shen Qian nodded. "There is no hope, but Liu Hong is very active. He has been asking me for funds recently, hoping to invest more in PP. He said he has some ideas and wants to build a social media platform. He hopes that you can allocate some funds for his research. "
"Social media platform? He wants to create a blog? "
Shen Qian shook her head. "I don't think so. I heard that he has been researching Facebook recently. Maybe he wants to develop in this direction."
"Really?" Li Dong was surprised.
At this time, blogs were still in power in China. All the major web portals were trying their best to develop blogs, and very few people would care about Facebook on the other side of the ocean.
There were not many people who really paid attention to Facebook in China. As for Twitter, it had not been launched yet, and no one would pay attention to it.
Naturally, Li Dong was surprised that Liu Hong wanted to research Facebook.
Shen Qian was not too interested in this. She shook her head. "I didn't ask about the details. That guy asked for five million. We are not in this field, and five million is not a small investment. It's not worth it."
Li Dong lightly knocked on the table, thought for a moment, and said, "Get Liu Hong to prepare a research report and his own proposal for me to take a look."
"Why? You really want to support his research? "
"I'll see. If the project is suitable, it's not impossible to invest."
Li Dong wanted to see if Liu Hong's project was the Weibo he imagined. If it was, then Li Dong would support it appropriately. Maybe he would have the first Weibo in China.
If it was not, it was fine. If Liu Hong's proposal was precise enough, and Li Dong gave some pointers, it would be feasible.
However, if Liu Hong came up with something that was neither good nor bad and only knew how to shout slogans, Li Dong naturally would not waste money on him.
Then, Li Dong chatted with Shen Qian for a while, mainly about Sun Tao and the rest.
Sun Tao and the rest had been in Sunan for almost a week, and they had a few short interactions with Times. Both sides were now testing each other.
The higher-ups of Times were not optimistic about Far Away, but because they had been in a tug-of-war with Wumart and a few other companies, Times wanted to bring in a live fish to stir up the stagnant water.
After a few interactions with Far Away, Times was a little interested.
Far Away did not seem to be as weak as they thought. This retail giant in the neighboring province was not stingy.
They were still in the testing phase, and Far Away's bid had reached 2.2 billion. It was even on par with the other big companies.
Times had originally only treated Far Away as a spare tire, but this time, they paid more attention to Far Away. According to Sun Tao, both sides should have a second round of negotiations in the middle of the month. This progress was not slow. In fact, it could be said to be very fast.
…
It was already past nine in the morning when he finished talking with Shen Qian.
Li Dong asked his assistant to buy a phone for him. When he installed the SIM card and turned it on, a series of text messages rang non-stop.
Li Dong picked up the phone and looked at it. Most of them were calls.
There were calls from Hsu Shengzhe, Shen Qian, Qin Yuhan, and even Li Dong saw a call from Yuan Xue.
In addition to these people, Zhang Lanyu also called him. Li Dong knew that she must be looking for him to discuss the acquisition of Cheng Rui.
The rest were Hu Wanlin, Hu Xiaorui, Wang Jie …
Anyway, there were a lot of calls. It should be related to the video yesterday. These people probably saw it on the Internet and called to ask about the situation.
Li Dong was not in a hurry to call them back. He looked at the text messages again.
There were not many messages. Just a few from Qin Yuhan, asking why he did not turn on his phone. The rest were from an unknown number.
The content of the message was also very simple. "Sorry for the trouble today, Chen Wanting."
Li Dong glanced at it and skipped it. He picked up the phone and called Qin Yuhan.
As soon as the phone was connected, Qin Yuhan hurriedly said, "Are you okay? Did you get hurt in the fight again? How old are you? Fighting in middle school and high school is fine. Now you are a successful person. Don't you have a bodyguard? Why did you fight by yourself? You don't even know. I was worried to death. I called you, but no one answered … "
Qin Yuhan spoke for a long time. Li Dong listened all the time. When she finished, he smiled and said, "You still don't trust me? I have suffered a few losses in fighting. I have always been the one taking advantage. You saw the video, right? I beat the crap out of my opponent. You should be worried about others. "
"You are showing off!"
Qin Yuhan laughed and scolded. Then she said, "Li Dong, I am fine here. Why don't you ask Brother Zhou and the others to go back? It has been so long. It is useless to always follow me. Fangfang and the others are laughing at me. "
"What's there to laugh at? They are jealous. Let's wait a little longer. When you come back for the summer vacation, we will talk about it then. "
Qin Yuhan thought about it. It was not far from the summer vacation, so she did not force it. But when she hung up the phone, she specially reminded Li Dong not to fight in the future.
As for the matter of women, Qin Yuhan did not mention a word from beginning to end.
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