After leaving Sky Fragrance Restaurant, Li Dong did not bother about the reporters waiting for him.
In the car, Li Dong was still thinking. Who was the culprit?
To be honest, this seating arrangement was too childish.
Also, it was easy to alert the enemy. This did not feel like a scheme by some big shots.
But since it was not a big shot, why did Jia Wenhao choose to keep the peace?
After thinking for a while, Li Dong still could not understand. He could not be bothered to continue thinking. He will know what was going on when the results were out.
… …
Far Away Building.
When Li Dong alighted from the car, Liu Hong walked over with a heavy expression.
Li Dong saw his expression and thought there was a problem with Weibo. He quickly asked, "Did something happen to Weibo?"
Liu Hong shook his head. Weibo was not online yet, and it was only a trial run. How could there be any problems?
Li Dong was relieved when he heard it was not a problem with Weibo.
He still had high hopes for Weibo. He did not expect it to be profitable as it was more of an influence.
The biggest shortcoming of the Distance Shopping System was that the user base was too small.
Weibo was a killing machine, and Li Dong was prepared to use it to attract a large number of users.
Although the Farm was not bad in the past, it was still a small game. Although the effect was good, the loyalty of the users was not as high as expected.
Once another phenomenal game appeared in the market, the popularity of the Farm would drop.
Weibo was different. This type of social media platform had high user loyalty. Just look at Sina in the future.
As long as the Farm had a foothold in the early stages, even if the same product appeared in the future, there would not be a huge loss of users.
Just as Li Dong was heaving a sigh of relief, Liu Hong said with an ugly expression, "It's a problem with the Merchant Shop."
"Shopping Mall?"
Li Dong asked curiously, "About 7.18?"
"It's related to 7.18, but it is not just about 7.18."
Li Dong was getting impatient. "Just say it!"
Liu Hong still had the time to play riddles with him, but how could Li Dong be in the mood to guess?
Seeing that Li Dong was a little impatient, Liu Hong immediately sobered up and quickly said, "It's the Taobao side!"
"Previously on the 7.18 promotion, Dang Dang and Jingdong were the main forces while Taobao chose to watch from the sidelines. During this period of time, we also let down our guard against the Taobao, but who knew that they didn't rest at all. "
"Just a moment ago, Ali announced that he would be joining forces with Fosun, SF Express, and Three Links and One Reach to form 'Rookie Network Technology Co., Ltd.'. Although Taobao did not participate in the 7.18 promotion, the newly formed Newbie Alliance would provide all-round support to Jingdong and Dang Dang.
The Newbie Alliance itself is not strong. After all, it has just been established. However, SF Express and Three Links and One Da Da support Jingdong in all aspects. We have lost our advantage in logistics.
In addition, Taobao's homepage has ads for a few e-commerce platforms in Jingdong. They can directly connect to several e-commerce platforms, but not ours.
Also, some of the Taobao's merchants have voluntarily participated in the 7.18 promotion.
The scale is constantly increasing. Based on our investigation, there are now more than 100 merchants who have voluntarily participated in the 7.18 promotion.
Although Taobao did not officially announce their participation, looking at the situation, it is obvious that someone is pushing for it from behind … "
When Liu Hong finished speaking, Li Dong was stunned.
Newbie Alliance?
How could it be!
If he remembered correctly, this was a logistics alliance that was established in 2013, mainly to counter Jingdong's self-operating system.
But it was only 2007!
Li Dong's face was gloomy. Liu Hong thought that it was because Taobao was secretly suppressing his anger Far away. He did not know that Li Dong suddenly felt a sense of fear.
Wrong, the butterfly's wings seemed to have started to flap.
There were some changes in the future. Perhaps the changes were not too obvious, but the appearance of newbies was a clear proof.
It was probably the appearance of Far Away Mall that caused Taobao to feel a sense of crisis. Far Away's logistics system had displayed its power during the previous May Day promotion.
Ali must have felt this influence, so it had started to prepare its own logistics system.
Other than this, Taobao had actually joined forces with Jingdong and Dang Dang. This made Li Dong almost vomit blood.
Taobao was the big boss, Far Away was the second. This was the current situation in the e-commerce industry.
At this time, Taobao did not care about others. Their main target was Far Away. It was obvious that they were preparing to ally with the weak to defeat the strong.
Perhaps to Ma Yun, Jingdong and Dang Dang were not worth mentioning.
His main opponent was Far Away. Therefore, although Taobao did not participate in the big promotion, they still supported the other platforms.
As for why Taobao did not participate, it was probably because they did not want to expand the influence of the 7.18 promotion.
After all, as long as Taobao officially joined in, it would be equivalent to the entire e-commerce industry joining in. That would further expand the influence.
Taobao was the number one in the industry. Even if its influence expanded, it would not be able to compare to the other e-commerce platforms.
Therefore, Taobao chose to attack from the side.
They would support Jingdong and Dang Dang. They would defeat Far Away first.
Although he had thought this through, Li Dong was still very frustrated.
The reason why he was frustrated was because of the changes in the future. Li Dong was worried that there would be more changes in the future.
The reason why he was so invincible was because of his foresight.
If the future changed, and he still thought of foresight as his capital, then he would be in big trouble. If his judgment was wrong, maybe Far Away would fall short of success.
The second was on Taobao's side. Li Dong really wanted to curse.
Old Ma, do you know that you and Jingdong are enemies? Now that you are working together with your enemies to deal with me, can you live up to your conscience?
Thinking was just thinking. Li Dong also knew that he was being unreasonable.
In reality, the current Jingdong really did not have the qualifications to be Taobao's opponent. If they were to talk about opponents, Far Away Mall should be.
Suppressing Far Away and delaying the progress of Far Away's expansion was probably more important to Taobao than the development of other e-commerce platforms.
After letting out a long breath, Li Dong's expression changed. As he walked, he said, "Gather all the managers and managers to wait in the conference room. I'll be there immediately!"
Originally, he did not take the e-commerce war too seriously.
But now, he had to take it seriously. If Far Away was suppressed by Jingdong and a few others, then all his previous lofty aspirations would be in vain.
It was not easy to become the second in the industry, and it was not too far away from Taobao. If it was suppressed at this time, it would definitely be a fatal blow to Far Away Mall.
…
After sending Liu Hong away, Li Dong asked Chen Ke to inform Liu Hongmei to come over.
Not long after he sat down in the office, Liu Hongmei rushed over.
Li Dong went straight to the point. "How much money does the group still have in the account?"
Liu Hongmei did not think much and quickly said, "The group has enough cash flow now. All the land in Dongyu Real Estate has been sold, and the total funds are close to 7 billion. We have paid 1 billion to Sichuan Airlines in the first phase. Also, we just transferred 1 billion to the Jingjin branch a few days ago. Because the Far Away Logistics Park project has just started, other than paying Wanhu Group the 600 million, we have also paid 400 million for the land transfer. Currently, we can still use up to 4 billion, but we have to prepare the remaining 1.5 billion for Sichuan Airlines and 1 billion for the second phase of the Jingjin branch to prevent a temporary cash flow. "
"4 billion."
Li Dong thought for a while and said, "How much money does Faraway Supermarket have left?"
There were more than 200 Faraway Supermarket stores in operation, and the delayed money was not a small amount.
Together with the shopping vouchers, it was actually a very large cash flow.
But although Li Dong was crazy short of money, he rarely used this money.
This was the last insurance. Once this money was used, and the news spread, it was very likely that there would be a run on the bank.
Ever since he used up all his money to buy Baidu shares, and the supplier came to ask for payment, Li Dong did not use the money and the reserve.
In fact, in the industry, it was almost inevitable to use this money. It was just that Li Dong did not use this money because he wanted to have a backup plan.
Hearing Li Dong ask about this, Liu Hongmei was a little worried, but she still said, "The delayed money is about 1.8 billion, the shopping vouchers are about 500 million, and the reserve is still 200 million."
"So it's a total of 2.5 billion, right?"
"It's not that complete, but the difference is not big."
"Together with the remaining 4 billion, we have 6.5 billion cash flow!" Li Dong's eyes flashed.
Liu Hongmei said with a worried face, "General Manager Li, the 2.5 billion in Sichuan Airlines and Jingjin will soon be used, and our expansion in other places. In fact, there is not much money that belongs to us."
"I know, you don't need to remind me."
Li Dong sighed and said, "Okay, you go do your work. I will go to the mall for a meeting."
Although Liu Hongmei wanted to say a few more words, Li Dong already got up and left. In desperation, Liu Hongmei could only sigh and leave.
Over the past few years, it was probably only in these two months that she had lived a little more comfortably. Ever since Dong Yu Real Estate sold a large number of plots of land and the funds flowed back, there was money in Distance's accounts. She had almost forgotten about Li Dong's character.
In the past, as long as there was money on its books, Li Dong would immediately spend it.
This time, she thought that Li Dong could take it easy. Who knew that he would suddenly summon her to ask about the money.
Not only did he ask about the money, but he also asked about the money and the reserve. Liu Hongmei suddenly felt a sense of familiarity.
This feeling often happened in the past two years. Every time after Li Dong asked, Far Away's money was almost emptied.
It felt like walking on a tightrope. Now that Li Dong actually came again, Liu Hongmei had an urge to cry.
Whether Liu Hongmei cried or not, Li Dong was too lazy to care for the time being.
When he knew that Far Away still had a large amount of money on its books, Li Dong suddenly felt relieved. With money in hand, there was no need to panic.
With such a large amount of cash flow, even if Taobao wanted to deal with him, so what?
Maybe he could take this opportunity to make a comeback in one fell swoop.
Moreover, Li Dong's previously hesitant expansion plan had been completely decided. It must be carried out!
The emergence of rookie logistics gave Li Dong a sense of urgency.
There were subtle changes in the future. In fact, this change might have begun a long time ago, but Li Dong didn't care too much.
Until this time, Li Dong woke up.
Suddenly, there was the emergence of Faraway Group, a group with assets of more than 10 billion. How could there be no change at all?
Not to mention, in fact, he should have realized it at the beginning of the year.
At that time, when he had just reached a cooperation with Suning, Huarun Group announced the acquisition of Home World in advance. In fact, changes had already occurred at that time.
Not to mention Huarun Group, Suning fully entered Beijing and Tianjin. Was this not a change?
Jingdong started the e-commerce war in advance. Was this not an unexpected thing?
Today, the capital financing quota increased, and other e-commerce platforms have accelerated. Was this not an impact?
There were many subtle changes, but Li Dong had ignored them in the past.
It was the same in Jiangbei. The real estate industry was in such turmoil. The situation was completely different from his previous life. These were all very obvious changes.
Li Dong was in the game. He was blinded by a leaf and actually ignored these.
It was not until this time when Ali established rookie logistics in advance that Li Dong finally woke up.
His footsteps could not be any slower. While the overall situation had not changed, he should take action in advance.
If he did it step by step, once there was a change in the future, he would lose the advantage of foresight. Could he still fight against those big bosses?
It was not that Li Dong belittled himself. In the past few years, he had been controlling Far Away. It was impossible to say that he had not improved at all.
Leading tens of billions of companies down was not as easy as outsiders thought.
But even so, the time was still too short. At this time, Li Dong did not feel that he was better than those big bosses in the business world without any help.
Under the same conditions, he was still slightly weaker.
He was weaker, and the newly established Faraway Group was also slightly weaker. In summary, Li Dong could only rely on the advantage of foresight to maintain balance.
Therefore, for him and Far Away, the advantage of foresight must not be lost.
After understanding this, Li Dong naturally made a decision.
Speeding up the progress was one thing, and the other was to try not to affect the changes in other industries. Far Away's degree of impact was not too big.
There were only minor changes in the retail industry, the Internet, and the real estate industry. For the time being, it would not affect the overall future.
However, when Distance Group continued to expand and got involved in more industries, there would be more things that would change. Perhaps the changes would also be huge.
Thinking about this along the way, Li Dong arrived at the mall a few minutes later.
In the conference room, it was already full of people.
The mall had gradually expanded in the past two years, and the number of employees had also doubled. The mall that used to have only a few dozen employees now had more than a dozen supervisors.
Seeing that Li Dong had arrived, Shen Qian nodded to him.
The others got up and greeted him. Li Dong gestured for everyone to sit down.
When the conference room was quiet, Li Dong said, "You all know about Taobao, right?"
Everyone nodded. They were the first ones to know about this.
As a target that they had been trying to catch up with, Taobao made a slight change. Far Away quickly received detailed information.
Li Dong saw this and said, "Since you all know, then I won't talk about it anymore. The reason I've gathered everyone for this meeting is to discuss our next countermeasures. "
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