Chapter 213 Incompetence is the original sin

The lights come on, and the stars meet the moon.

A royal blue BMW 7 Series was speeding in the fast lane. The car exuded the unique leather smell of a new car. Zhang Xuhao sat in the passenger seat, staring at the road ahead in a daze.

Nothing, if you don't count the two dinner boxes given to them by the customer receptionist girl who wore high heels and looked like a celebrity.

After waiting for a whole day, he couldn't hold back his temper, just like he had done to his subordinates in his office in the past six months. He overturned the lunch box and asked loudly, "Don't you remember that Xie Jingxing was blocking the door of your company and showing off his power?"

A man should have backbone!

The gentle girl felt so ashamed of herself in front of his strong character that she had nothing to say. She could only blink her big watery eyes that were about to cry with fear, slightly opened her red lips and softly uttered two words - security guard.

The BMW 7 Series drove off the highway and returned to the downtown area of ​​Shanghai. The neon lights were shining and the traffic was busy, and the view ahead became vivid.

"You wait for me downstairs."

Zhang Xuhao looked up at the mirror, carefully straightened his messy suit jacket, and buttoned up two buttons.

Kang Jia opened his mouth: "Boss..."

"Don't worry, I know what's going on."

Zhang Xuhao opened the door and got out of the car. He walked into the hotel lobby and was greeted by a waiter. As the elevator door closed, a familiar figure trotted in.

“Just happened to grab a parking spot.”

Kang Jia was breathing heavily, with a sly smile on his fat face.

Arriving at the upper floors of the hotel, the two walked side by side through the deep corridor and arrived at the suite that overlooked half of the Magic City.

"How are you, have you calmed down?"

Xie Jingxing sat in the living room, his back reflected in the panoramic floor-to-ceiling windows, contrasting with the flashy night view of the Magic City.

Zhang Xuhao stood in front of him and said in a deep voice: "Since ancient times, veterans have been used to defend a city and young generals have been used to attack a city. I am more suitable than Zhang Tao to lead the new company after the merger."

"Yes, you are very young and have a bright future ahead of you."

Xie Jingxing was unmoved: "After the merger, the market value of the new company is around 60 billion US dollars. You and your brothers can cash out 6 to 7 million US dollars in cash, which is not a small amount."

Zhang Xuhao lowered his head and said in a trembling voice: "I should have listened to your breakfast cutting platform and delivery business."

"After the merger, Zhang Tao will push for Dianping and Ele.me to maintain their brand independence and establish a business group model." Xie Jingxing made a serious promise.

Zhang Xuhao emphasized: "Ele.me is my child, I can do better than Zhang Tao!"

“You might try to sell Ele.me to Meituan, or remind Meituan that we want to acquire Dianping and ask them to quickly participate in the bidding.”

Xie Jingxing lost his last bit of patience and stood up to signal for the guest to leave.

Zhang Xuhao raised his head with a hysterical look in his eyes: "I don't accept it. To this day, Ele.me has always maintained the number one market share. Why do you think I did something wrong?!"

"It doesn't matter. Your biggest mistake is that you are not good enough, that's all." Xie Jingxing looked at him with pity.

Zhang Xuhao rushed forward in two steps, then suddenly stopped.

Incompetence is the original sin.

He had fired useless employees in the same way before, and if he felt unwilling to do so, then his belief in the law of the jungle, which he was proud of, would become a joke.

An inexplicable smile of relief appeared on Zhang Xuhao's face and his shoulders relaxed. At this moment, he accepted it. If you are not as skilled as others, you will be the winner and loser.

"US$6 million, a certain number of management positions, and hundreds of millions of RMB embezzled by your brothers. This is very generous. I bought your backbone."

Xie Jingxing reached out and patted his shoulder: "Don't rush to refuse, find a villa to party tonight, sleep until you wake up naturally tomorrow and go out to play for a few days. In this season, Australia can turn off the Southern Lights, and Las Vegas has gun activities... Just do something to enjoy life."

"When you've had enough fun, come back and sign your name, and everything will be over." He comforted softly.

Kang Jia silently clenched his fist and swung it hard, but it missed. His body softened and he fell to the ground with a thump. His face was covered with snot and tears as he sobbed, "Xie Jingxing, you are not a human being. You are too cruel, you are too cruel! Isn't it enough that you took away the company..."

Zhang Xuhao gritted his teeth and bent down to help him up, but his arms became numb and he fell to the ground without any strength. The two of them supported each other and struggled several times to get up, but to no avail.

"security guard."

Song Anli turned on the intercom and whispered two words.

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"It's Children's Day, so let's codename the combined project 'Thriving Growth'. You will be in charge of it."

“I would rather acquire Meituan.”

"Give me some time. After all, Wang Xing is struggling harder."

Three days later, on June 6, Ele.me and Dianping held shareholders meetings simultaneously, and both parties passed the merger proposal unanimously.

After sending away the "domestic M&A queen" Su He, Xie Jingxing turned to deal with CITIC Industry Fund and JD.com, two peers who wanted to invest in Ele.me.

There is no need to think about acquiring shares before the merger, as Yunhe Logistics has to make its fortune first, and after the merger, the new company will start financing to leave some room for them.

Chang Bin and Lu Quan were unaware of the merger plan. They thought that they had offended Zhang Xuhao, a powerful figure, by colluding with him and thus lost the investment opportunity. They returned home in a huff and began to spread the untrue rumor that Xie Jingxing was a degenerate in their small circle.

Then the time accelerated suddenly, with the company's structure reorganized, multiple rounds of negotiations on the interests of all parties, and financial audits and fund transfers.

After being busy for more than ten days in a row, Song Anli's original plan to host the Meizu MX4 launch conference was cancelled.

Xie Jingxing only found time to post a few tweets on Weibo, actively engaging in verbal battles with Zhou Hongyi and Lei Jun to drum up popularity. Huang Zhang didn't care much about it, but Li Nan and Bai Yongxiang repeatedly said that the young boss was not helpful.

He was so angry about being blamed that he had no temper at all. Not to mention the situation of Meizu, Lao Xie from Yunshan Group had started to take action against the agricultural company in LN Province. The other party's finance department had a debt bomb of more than 20 billion yuan, which could explode at any time.

Xie Jingxing was worried and wanted to go back to check but he didn't even have the time. On the other side, Liu Qing called him every day and asked how much support he could provide if he took the initiative to fight with Uber and start financing.

In addition, Yu Tong returned to the United States after visiting the scientific research environment of Fudan University to busy himself with graduation. He was in Shanghai but did not find the time to meet him. Not to mention Zhou Fenglan, who lost contact and could not be found.

He mustered up the courage to call Zhou Fenglan's mother to greet her and report the situation. He called three times but no one answered. He immediately felt very angry and didn't take any more actions.

They were busy until mid-June, when Zhang Tao and Zhang Xuhao jointly issued an internal open letter, indirectly announcing to the outside world that Dianping and Ele.me had officially merged.

"'New Big Hungry' and New Crocodile, Xie Jingxing once again becomes the driving force behind the hottest venture capital trend."

"In 16 days, a "new tycoon" was created in the local life field, breaking the record for the fastest merger and acquisition time for domestic start-ups."

"New Dianping - a parent company name that is not taken seriously. Zhang Tao explained that Dianping and Ele.me will maintain brand independence, so the name of the parent company is not important. But we all know that the real parent company of Dianping and Ele.me is called Yunhe Logistics. It is obvious that Yunshan Capital has taken shape in the local life field!" "Zhang Xuhao answered reporters' questions: I admit that I had a quarrel with Mr. Xie during the merger process, but this is like you quarreling with your wife at home and the pots and pans are thrown all over the floor. Can you say your wife is not a good person?"

"Whether Xie Jingxing is a good guy or a bad guy is unclear at the moment, but the organizational structure chart of 'New Big Hungry' circulating on the Internet shows that Zhang Xuhao is absolutely not satisfied with the results of the merger (Appendix to the organizational structure chart of New Big Hungry)."

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As public opinion from the outside world was in an uproar, Xie Jingxing hid in a three-story villa located in the Sinan Mansion in Magic City.

Here, we serve lunch and dinner every day to entertain all stakeholders related to the Ele.me-Dianping merger project, bringing in millions of sales for this private restaurant which is currently in trial operation.

"Change the teapot."

Xie Jingxing's waist was sore from sitting for a long time, and just when he wanted to change his posture and lie down, he put a pillow under his waist at the right time. The pretty waitress was well-trained and left quietly.

He held the laptop in his arms and clicked on the organizational structure chart of "New Big Hungry" that was circulating in the online news.

First of all, Zhang Tao is appointed as CEO and Zhang Xuhao is appointed as chairman. These two points are correct.

The winner has been decided and there is nothing to say. The latter will temporarily serve as the chairman without real power for a few months to calm people's hearts and then leave, so that the old brothers will not be bullied to death by Dianping once the merger occurs.

He himself can also have a decent ending.

Going down a level, the new company reorganized its business group model, with Xu Nuo, the former product manager of Ele.me's Beijing branch, appointed as senior vice president and head of the "Platform Business Group."

It includes Dianping user platform, Ele.me user platform, merchant transaction platform, information and search, product design and other Internet product technology businesses.

In just one year, he rose from the P8 level at Alibaba to the head of the product platform of a unicorn company valued at US$60 billion. His promotion speed is unique among people, even more exaggerated than that of Song Anli.

PS: A genius investor personally dug her out from Alibaba, but I won’t tell you who it was.

Xie Jingxing looked at the bolded notes in the chart and couldn't help but take a big sip of tea and smacked his lips.

Thinking about Xu Nuo's heroic short hair, it is still very attractive, but her becoming the head of the product platform business group is entirely the result of multi-party bargaining.

After all, he submitted a letter of complaint with his real name, and the new company is currently short of talent. If he doesn't promote his own people, does he have to hire outsiders?
She is a little young, but in fact, when compared with others, she is the same age as Kang Jia.

This person also serves as senior vice president and head of the "Takeaway Delivery Business Group". He works alongside Zhang Xuhao and is in charge of takeaway, delivery and other businesses with the old employees of Ele.me.

From then on, the platform and distribution were completely separated, and the good days when a small customer service representative could easily embezzle hundreds of millions of yuan were gone forever.

The original Dianping team took over multiple business groups including in-store catering, hotel tourism, advertising marketing, customer service, basic technology engineering, etc.

The most outstanding among them is Zheng Zhihao, the former president of Dianping.com, who is concurrently responsible for the two business groups of in-store catering and advertising marketing, and focuses on the talent shortage and the more work, the more pay.

In addition, Xie Jingxing and Tencent teamed up to seize the two middle and back-end departments of finance and human resources. Liu Lin and her team jumped out of Tencent and became the head of the human resources and service guarantee business group.

Liu Qiming jumped out from Yunhe Logistics and served as a board director, corporate strategy consultant, and chief financial officer.

He had to live with Liu Lin and handle a series of tedious affairs including government public relations and internal legal inspections in a short period of time. The most important thing was to recruit externally as soon as possible and organize a professional management team.

Young people like Kang Jia and Xu Nuo who came to power at the right time are always inexperienced, and they are bound to suffer losses when facing old hands like Wang Xing and Wang Huiwen head-on.

"Where's your boss? Ask her to come over."

After Xie Jingxing finished reading the chart, he sat up and gave an order.

The waitress standing in the corner turned and left. A few minutes later, Song Anli came in wearing an apron, her little face rosy.

"Have you become addicted to going into the kitchen and circling the stove every day these days? Why don't you just take a long vacation and spend your days running your restaurant?" Xie Jingxing scolded him.

Song Anli was stunned for a moment, and her eyes unconsciously glanced at the waiter beside her.

"What does Zhang Tao do for a living? The company's organizational structure was leaked today after the merger yesterday."

Xie Jing Xing kept cursing with a straight face: "At least we are slow in action and haven't integrated the food supply chain business yet. Otherwise, I would have to personally go and beat Wang Xing's head so that he wouldn't think of doing the food supply chain business."

"The organizational structure list you mentioned should be written in the open letter to all employees." Song Anli explained aggrievedly, clenching her hands.

Xie Jingxing's momentum stagnated. He was so busy that he didn't have time to remember to read the open letter. He didn't even remember to remind himself of such a small matter, and he still dared to say that he was addicted to making soup.

"Um..." He coughed lightly.

The waiter nodded his head smartly: "Xiao Dong."

"Yes, Xiaodong, go tell the kitchen to add stewed pork ribs with beans to the dinner menu."

He thought for a moment and added, "Many of Yunhe's executives are from the Northeast, and they like to eat oily and salty food."

"Okay, I'll go right away."

The waiter looked at Song Anli quietly, thinking that his boss lady was still very popular. He walked out of the box, closed the door and waited for two seconds to make sure it was closed tightly and no sound could be heard from outside.

He patted his chest and breathed a sigh of relief. Mr. Xie usually looked very down-to-earth and gentle like a jade-like noble gentleman, but when he scolded people, the oppressive feeling he had was more frightening than that of the big leaders in the school.

I went back to the dormitory and talked to my classmates about it at night, but then I thought about the confidentiality agreement I had signed and decided to forget it.

She is a graduate student at the School of Economics of Fudan University. She is also a goddess with both intelligence and beauty who is admired by several local rich kids in Shanghai. She works part-time as a waitress here not just to make a little money.

This private restaurant named "Yangzhi" has a profound background.

The five private rooms of the restaurant can accommodate five guests at noon and evening, and the daily turnover can exceed 30 yuan.

Countless bigwigs from the business community came, and another partner of the restaurant, Pei Fei, took a special leave from the crew and brought many celebrities to check in.

Mr. Xie scolded her for not doing her job properly and being too playful. It was in his private box at the time. He scolded her for several hours, and the big star walked out burping.

According to the cleaning lady, Concubine Pei was very thrifty with food, and her plate was spotlessly clean without even a speck of oil.

Afterwards, Mr. Song smashed and threw away the entire set of tableware that was the same style as those of European royal families and cost more than 200,000 yuan, leaving the cleaning lady no chance to secretly take it home and sell it for money.

After Xiao Dong delivered the message to the kitchen, he looked at the cleaning lady who was still nagging the chef about the tableware, and all kinds of indescribable images flashed through his mind.

There are so many tricks, it should be very exciting...

She thought to herself that she went to the front office and called the manager to a corner to ask for an hour off, then quickly ran to a nearby luxury clothing store and bought a full set of formal clothes according to Xie Jingxing's clothing size, maxing out her 50,000 credit card.

She gritted her teeth and called her roommate again, finding a random excuse to borrow 10,000 yuan. Adding the balance in her Alipay account, she went to a light luxury women's clothing store next door and bought a long skirt according to Ms. Song's size.

(End of this chapter)