Chapter 208 Tencent also wants to improve
Zhou Fenglan walked away with her slender waist twisted, she was wearing a smooth halter dress, and her back looked quite charming.

Song Anli silently retracted her gaze and reminded: "The meeting is ready, let's go now?"

"how is the situation?"

Xie Jingxing calmly wiped off the light red lip marks on his cheek.

Song Anli reported the key points: "Meizu and Qualcomm have almost reached an agreement. They will first pay a patent fee of 3.7 million yuan, and then sign a full set of chip solutions from Qualcomm."

"The Meizu MX4 product will be released next month, and the press conference is tentatively scheduled for June 6."

She opened the car door and protected the roof with one hand: "Boss Bai plans to cooperate with BYD in OEM, so the sales of Meizu MX4 are more important."

"Why do I have to pay so much patent fees?" Xie Jingxing frowned unconsciously.

"Although Meizu has not used Qualcomm chips before, many of its patented technologies are still being used."

Song Anli gave a somewhat helpless explanation: "This patent fee has been accumulated for several years and has never been paid. After Mr. Bai communicated with the president of Qualcomm China, he went back to check and found that the legal department was preparing materials for prosecution."

"...I'm so poor." Xie Jingxing was choked to death.

Huang Zhang is really stingy. It is normal for him to be stingy to his subordinates and investors, but it is really abnormal for him to be a rogue to the partner who can strangle him.

However, the several hundred million patent fees have been delayed for several years without any rush to collect them, which shows how profitable it is to make chips. We should go back and make related industrial layout as soon as possible.

Xie Jingxing made up his mind and continued to ask: "How is the supply chain?"

"The monthly production capacity can reach 45 units at present. The supply chain still needs to be integrated. If we can successfully cooperate with BYD as a foundry, the production of Meizu MX4Pro will see a significant increase."

Song Anli said this as she prepared to close the car door and sit in the passenger seat.

Xie Jingxing suddenly pulled her and asked, "How much stock do you have now?"

"55 units."

Song Anli naturally sat in the back seat and added tacitly: "For the product launch, we need to think of a way to market it."

This year, neither Xiaomi nor Huawei have launched new competing products, and the price of Meizu MX4 has been reduced to 1799 yuan, which means that MX4 currently faces no competitive pressure in the market.

After achieving the first sales volume of 100 million units and clearing out the inventory, the next test is the supply chain capability, and how much can be produced and sold.

Xiaomi's supply chain produces 150 million units per month, while Meizu's monthly production is only 45 units. After enjoying the benefits of leading sales, when Xiaomi releases its new models this year, it can only rely on marketing to make up the difference.

Whether it is to let users wait willingly for the goods, or to pre-sell in advance to extend the delivery time, the overall sales volume of Meizu MX4 on paper must be extended as much as possible.

It is difficult to get a giant company like BYD to open a separate assembly production line, but once cooperation is achieved through this model and the supply chain is fully integrated, it is not a dream to increase the output to more than one million units per month.

Then the Meizu MX4Pro, which is currently under development and uses leading technology and is expected to be launched at the end of the year, can give Xiaomi a head-on blow.

Song Anli has obviously put a lot of thought into the time she has spent at Meizu since completing the acquisition of Xiaoma Pentium. She has a good grasp of every key node and knows what he wants to ask.

Xie Jingxing smiled with satisfaction: "Why don't you host the product launch conference?"

"Li Nan wants you to come forward." Song Anli thought he was joking.

"Overexposure is not a good thing. I only do product launches for flagship phones."

Xie Jing Xing paused for a moment: "When the time comes, you can wear a professional suit, which is in line with the brand tone of young urban white-collar workers."

Last year, the workplace variety show "Shining Offer" exploded in popularity, and this year it was followed up with a second season as expected. Meizu invested tens of millions of yuan to sponsor the program.

As an outstanding senior in the first season of the program, Song Anli has about one million fans on Weibo and is one of the top internet celebrities of this era. It is indeed effective for her to host the press conference.

Xie Jingxing looked serious. Song Anli lowered her head and scanned herself. White shirt, skirt, and high heels. She didn't know when she started to wear the same outfit day after day.

In fact, Zhao Mengche was the most popular participant in the variety show last year. She was more often scolded on hot searches with the label of "green tea bitch".

As the show ended, Xue Haoran became a teacher, Zhao Mengche switched to being a full-time internet celebrity, and Fan Haonan joined the system. Everyone went their separate ways, but she stayed with Xie Jingxing and took off like a rocket in the financial industry.

Her reputation has improved a lot. She usually likes to hear compliments like "strong woman", but today she wants to hear others praise her as a green tea bitch.

"What happened to Pony Gallop?"

Hearing Xie Jingxing's question, Song Anli put away her complicated thoughts and took out another folder: "Zhong Lifang personally led a team to investigate the development of a cinema project in Wuxi. There are no major changes in film and television production compared to the plan at the beginning of the year."

"When will Miao Nan take office?" Xie Jingxing did not comment.

Song Anli said in a subtle tone: "Jin Yan and the Li sisters still need two months to get along. I have not yet settled the last payment with Jianyin Culture. If there is a need to settle the money, he can resign and come here at any time."

Out of personal gain, Miao Nan decided to sell off the Li sisters and Jianyin Culture and switched to Grapefruit Capital.

She didn't trust this person and deliberately delayed it until now.

"No rush, just take care of the arrangements." Xie Jingxing replied in the same ambiguous tone.

During this period, the early promotion of "The Crossing", a blockbuster directed by John Woo, in which Pony.com participated in the investment, started. He paid some attention to it through public information channels.

The promotional words like various superstars from both sides of the Taiwan Strait and Hong Kong and the Asian version of Titanic were very vague. No matter how he looked at it, he felt that this project would fail. At least he didn't remember having seen this masterpiece.

Zhong Lifang is quite optimistic about this project, and it is reasonable to rely on the opinions of professionals when there are disagreements.

Then the question arises. Grapefruit Capital is the absolute controlling shareholder of Xiaoma Pentium, and there is no one in the company who understands the entertainment and cultural industry.

Does that mean I have to listen to Zhong Lifang whenever I encounter something like this in the future?

So Xie Jingxing wanted to make good use of the situation and let Miao Nan serve as the MD of the entertainment and cultural industry investment team of Xiyou Capital.

Song Anli is now the de facto boss of Xiaoma Pentium, and it is inevitable that she will consider issues from a personal perspective. The role played by Miao Nan will not only check and balance Zhong Lifang, but will also affect her to some extent.

Xie Jingxing didn't intend to explain clearly that when he let Song Anli serve as the director of Xiaoma Pentium, he was prepared for the situation at this moment.

How boring it would be if every flower was trimmed to look exactly the same.

If he can't control it, then as Zhou Fenglan said, he deserves to die on the streets of Manhattan.

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Shenzhen, it was hot and humid in the evening at the end of May.

Zhou Fenglan was having trouble adapting and kept turning the ring on her finger, forcing a polite smile on her face: "Mr. Liu, please stay. I'll just call an online taxi to go to the high-speed rail station."

"The car has been arranged. If you are too polite, you will miss the high-speed train." Liu Chih-ping smiled as bright as spring breeze and personally helped open the car door.

Zhou Fenglan shook hands with him and said, "Thank you for your help. See you later."

"Be careful on the road. When I have time in a few days, I will go to Shanghai and ask Jingxing to get together." Liu Chih-ping shook his arms vigorously.

After watching the car disappear from sight, he raised his wrist to check the time and said, "I'll have dinner with Mr. Ma."

"Mr. Ma has gone to Hong Kong Island for a meeting and will be back tomorrow," the assistant beside him reminded. Liu Chih-ping simply called out, "Is Peng Zhijian home?"

"Uh, General Peng canceled this week's regular meeting. It seems he is going on a business trip to Beijing." The assistant looked embarrassed.

"Call Yang Danning from the Overseas Investment and M&A Group."

Liu Chih-ping calmly called for help again. Xie Jingxing brought back the worst-case scenario from the United States and even suggested "die together".

While Tencent is considering the equity divestiture plan, it also has to think about how to stabilize the situation and deal with it as much as possible. There is no need to think about expanding its mobile payment business to Europe and the United States. It would be great if it could first gain a foothold in Southeast Asia, which is at its doorstep.

And before that, we need to consider what kind of reward to give to Xie Jingxing.

The Americans are rich and powerful and have thrown out two giant sugar-coated bullets, namely, a valuation of 500 billion US dollars and a joint acquisition of an NBA club. What should Tencent do in return? Jointly acquire a CBA club?
Liu Chih-Ping thinks it would be more practical to think of a solution based on the three cooperation projects of Didi, Ele.me and Dianping.com. They should give up some interests to a certain extent, so that the friendship between friends will not fade away.

"Zhou Fenglan... is really a woman who is three years older than her husband and brings him wealth."

Liu Chih-Ping was lost in thought and muttering to himself. In the afternoon, Princess Zhou walked into the Tencent headquarters alone and applied for a visitor registration form at the front desk.

As soon as he received the news, he cancelled the meeting with the Ganchuan Province Business Delegation. As a result, the leader of the delegation not only had no complaints, but also almost recognized Princess Zhou on the spot.

He said earnestly that a few years ago the province applied to the higher authorities to build the province's first subway in the provincial capital, but it had been running in Beijing for half a year but had never received approval.

He felt really guilty towards the people for being in charge of economic work, so he shamelessly visited Zhou Fenglan's home late at night and saw her photo.

He kept a photo for several years. This kind of meticulousness makes him a good leader.

The more Liu Chih-ping thought about it, the more absurd it seemed. Now that this "photo" has been posted on the WhatsApp board of directors, Tencent also wants to make progress!
Old Liu returned to the office and carefully placed a copy of "The Three-Body Problem" with a bookmark on the bookshelf. He picked up the phone and called Xiao Ma Ge to discuss how to make progress.

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[I have something urgent to do so I will go back to Shanghai first. You can rest in Shenzhen for one night. I have arranged for someone to pick you up and take you back to Northeast China tomorrow. ]

At the high-speed railway station, Zhou Fenglan looked at the message on his mobile phone, and his already anxious mood suddenly became a little emotional for no reason.

He angrily threw the high-speed rail ticket to Zhuhai into the trash can, picked up his phone and bought Zhang Fei a plane ticket to Beijing.

He clearly agreed to accompany her back to Northeast China, but as soon as we landed in China, he couldn't wait to leave her.

Zhou Fenglan wiped her tears as she walked out of the high-speed rail station. Her cell phone rang and she hung up. It didn't ring again after she hung up twice. She became even angrier and turned off the phone directly.

"What's wrong?"

On the other side, Xie Jingxing, who had hurried back to the Magic City after a meeting in Zhuhai, put down his phone in confusion and asked, "Have you made arrangements?"

"You need to apply for a flight route first, arriving in Shenzhen early this morning."

Song Anli was helpless. They had even transferred Yunshan Group's large business jet from the Northeast. What else did she want?

Xie Jingxing shook his head: "Forget it, has Su He gone there?"

"He's on the way. It's a bit congested during the evening rush hour, so he should arrive with us." Song Anli was prepared.

Xie Jingxing restrained his expression, straightened his clothes, strode out of the airport, took a bus back to the city, and headed to the Ele.me headquarters.

Zhang Xuhao has burned through the $1 million raised in the previous round and is preparing to launch the E round of financing to introduce more investors and funds to compete with Meituan while diluting the number of shares held by existing shareholders.

In short, he was still determined to play the same trick he used in the previous round of financing, trying to kick Grapefruit Capital out.

This time, there has been great progress, with the big state-owned enterprise CITIC Industry Fund leading the investment, and JD.com, which is about to be listed in the United States, following suit.

The overall investment framework was basically finalized, and many early investors including Taihe Capital were not notified until the last minute.

"Eleme is getting better and better. Being picked up by a state-owned brand means it has a bright future."

When Xie Jingxing arrived at the Ele.me headquarters, Zhu Xiaohu, who was pretending to be smoking under the office building, came up to him and talked to him to prove his innocence - Zhang Xuhao's trouble had nothing to do with him.

No investor likes to be guarded by the founder like a thief. The fact that he appeared here first proves that he also has emotions.

"Go in and talk."

Xie Jingxing dealt with it nonchalantly, nodded to Su He who was jogging towards him, and their eye contact spoke volumes.

It is true that Zhu Xiaohu had some emotions about the secret being kept secret, but it is also true that he had a tacit understanding to dilute the shareholdings of Taihe and Tencent.

"Thank you, sir!"

"Mr. Xie, you are here."

"Thank you, Mr.

Xie Jingxing walked through the office corridor first, followed by Song Anli and Su He. All the employees who passed by stopped and stepped aside to say hello.

Zhu Xiaohu watched coldly and his spirit suddenly tensed up. Power is never just generated through laws and rules. People always instinctively look for powerful individuals among the crowd to rely on.

Ask yourself, if the board members of Ele.me were lost in the jungle at this moment, would they choose to nominate Xie Jingxing as the leader?

If Zhang Xuhao doesn't understand this, it will be difficult to say who is the real protagonist in today's meeting.

"Mr. Xie, long time no see. Didn't you go to New York to attend the listing bell ringing ceremony?"

Chang Bin, vice president of JD.com Group and head of the strategic investment department, stood up to greet him with a look of surprise.

JD.com will ring the bell at Nasdaq the day after tomorrow. He specifically asked Mr. Liu's assistant and was told that Xie Jingxing had been invited to attend.

Zhang Xuhao clenched his cheeks and the muscles on his fat face trembled. He chose the critical moment of getting off work today to notify Taihe Capital just to avoid a direct collision.

Excluding the possibility that the guy in front of him would show up, there must be a spy inside the company's upper echelons!

"What's your name for this one?"

Xie Jingxing went straight to the point and looked at the middle-aged greasy-haired man next to Zhang Xuhao.

"CITIC Industrial Fund, Internet Group 1 Investment Manager Lu Quan." The middle-aged man with a greasy hair spoke with a Hong Kong accent.

"Chang Bin, we have dealt with each other before on the JD Yunhe Logistics Project; Mr. Lu, it's okay if this is our first meeting. We will have plenty of time to make friends later."

Xie Jingxing spread out the folder on the table and supported the edge of the table with both hands: "Let's talk about business first."

"We have entered 700 cities, with an average daily order volume of over 200 million and a market share of 62%."

He looked up at Zhang Xuhao and said in a relaxed tone: "Congratulations, Mr. Zhang. Today, Ele.me can be called a startup unicorn."

"However, a valuation of $12 billion is unfair to the 8000 employees who work on the front line day and night."

(End of this chapter)