Chapter 275 Passenger
Different from the lively and colorful night scenes in China, when the lights of Hong Kong Island come on, both sides of Victoria Harbour are covered with a layer of cool temperament given by the inner transparency.

Xie Jingxing paid the difference to upgrade the hotel accommodation standard. The restaurant's pre-chilled white wine went perfectly with the lobster main course. After filling his stomach and drinking until he was slightly tipsy, he returned to the room and lay in the bathtub with the right temperature to relieve his fatigue from the past few days.

Cui Aliu looked back at the bed that the room service had made for her, and couldn't help but yawn and sigh that this was a business trip. Just as she was thinking about what to eat tomorrow morning, a message flashed across her phone screen - go to bed early, and fly to Beijing tomorrow morning.

She splashed the water in disappointment, causing rose petals mixed with milk to splash onto her beautiful body. She struggled silently for a moment, but finally overcame her fatigue, took a quick shower, put on a pair of trousers and a white shirt, and walked out of the room in disposable slippers.

Fortunately, she didn’t have time to wash her hair. Cui Aliu stroked the hair by her ears thankfully and leaned forward to check the information on the tablet.

"Lv Xueling, who previously worked at Ernst & Young for ten years on US stock IPOs, joined Lear Corporation last year as its Asia Pacific financial director. Overall, she's pretty good, but she's a bit old at 44."

Xie Jingxing slid the screen to look at the next resume: "This, Zhang Tingting, the senior financial director of Starbucks China, has good financing capabilities. She used to be..."

"Why are they all women?" Cui A Liu interrupted with a frown.

Xie Jingxing shrugged: "These two were introduced by Mr. Liu from Didi. If you want a man, there are also some, but you may not be able to find a suitable one in a short time."

Cui A Liu pursed her lips and ignored his humiliation. To be fair, both women could help the company with subsequent financing and listing, and had the corresponding retail and fast-moving consumer goods experience background, especially the latter, who was 100% suitable.

The most important thing is that their situations are similar to Wang Dongyue’s. Their positions in their current employers are neither high nor low. Their career prospects are promising but not so high that Yinshan Budu cannot climb up.

It was rare to find so many people in just three days. Cui A Liu continued to look through the resumes, and it was still a woman.

"Zhang Lei, Vice President of Information Technology at Yum China (KFC), seems to be almost fifty years old. He has worked at Yum for nearly twenty years and it is difficult to poach him. He is just filling in the numbers. If you really want to find someone, please contact a headhunter."

As Xie Jingxing was operating the tablet, he finally saw a man: "Huang Yanlin, a sea turtle who has worked at Microsoft headquarters for more than ten years, is currently the vice president of technology at PPTV. After PPTV was acquired by Suning this year, he was not satisfied with his work. He was marginalized because of his lack of technical skills and personnel struggles. Except for his lack of experience in e-commerce work, he is not bad in other aspects."

"Our entire e-commerce department is empty and needs to be built from scratch."

Cui Aliu has a good feeling for the only male. She really likes hardworking people. After all, Dr. Wang, who works in product development, is such a person.

Xie Jingxing remained noncommittal. Since he had resigned from both the director and management positions, he would be free from official duties and should make fewer suggestions and do more execution.

At present, Yinshanbudu is short of people in several business lines. First of all, Wang Dongyue thinks that the most important back-end supply chain is reliable, but the only problem is whether people are willing to come. With strong strategic partners and the potential prospects of its own emerging industry, and President Cui's operation of throwing out a buyout option, it is still very tempting.

At the front end, there is Gu Zhengwen, a young marketing operator who was poached from Yangyuan Drinks. After working as an assistant to Xie Jingxing for a year, he basically understood the brand operation strategy and naturally took over the position of Chief Marketing Officer.

The supply chain + market store line is confirmed.

The others are the Cost Tea vertical e-commerce project team, and the online self-operated APP market channels of the two sub-brands Yinshan Tea Language and Budu, which belong to the digital platform business line.

Therefore, Cui Aliu has reason to focus on the old hands. For people like Zhang Lei who have worked in traditional multinational companies for their entire lives, regardless of their skills, it is doubtful whether they can handle the market operations of the online + offline Internet model.

For the time being, let’s assume that Wang Dongyue is the vice president of supply chain, Gu Zhengwen is the chief marketing officer, Lao Huangniu is the chief technology officer, and Dr. Wang is the product development director.

This lineup of executives can be said to be very professional. Currently, no one in the entire milk tea industry, whether old or young, can compete with them, except for some low-priced brands launched by chemical research masters.

“Find another vice president for digital platform business and another vice president for sparkling water retail business.”

Xie Jingxing flipped the tablet back to the previous pages: "The entire executive team is fully equipped to be used for the IPO, so the selection of the financial director is very important. Each subsequent round of financing is related to the pace of development."

"If you are able to go public in the future, would you rather do it in China or abroad?" Cui A asked, following the topic.

Xie Jingxing was silent for a moment: "Of course I hope to be listed in China."

"Then let's lean towards Zhang Tingting and talk slowly. We have plenty of time before next summer!" Cui A Liu made the decision quickly.

At the end of December, the TV series "Go Where the Wind Is" premiered on CCTV. Since then, the long-awaited "National Trend" will officially launch its marketing plan, and the first node of the Internet cultural and creative peripherals will be in February next year.

Yinshanbudu cooperated with JD.com and spent a huge amount of money to open the legs of Milan Fashion Week. Its organizers have only seen domestic female celebrities walking the red carpet, and this is the first time they have seen an e-commerce + milk tea brand team up to buy a show venue. It was really a small knife in the butt that opened their eyes.

He immediately gave a thumbs up and shouted "Goodgood, Goodgood" to accept the 3 million yuan sponsorship, and promised to organize a top-notch fashion show for the five women's clothing designers from China.

Models will walk around the stage wearing clothes with the Chinese national trend of "Hidden in the Mountains, Not Crossed" elements, and JD.com wants to expand into the clothing business market in addition to digital home appliances. This will be the first time that a Chinese clothing brand will land on the four major fashion weeks.

The second node will be in the CCTV variety show "Chinese Idiom Conference" next summer, when Yinshanbudu actually defeated the liquor seller and won the naming rights.

In addition, the sudden intensification of international relations in the South China Sea next year is an event marketing that ignites social emotions, and national pride is a natural fit with national trend culture.

A marketing budget of 4-5 million yuan will do everything in one go. This is an uncertain future for Xie Jingxing. If successful, he will seek profitability and go public in China. If unsuccessful, he will continue to maintain long-term capital operations until the right opportunity arises to go public in Hong Kong or the US.

But regardless of success or failure, he fulfilled his promise, and Cui Aliu felt a little confused for some reason.

"If Yinshan is successfully listed in a few years, will Taihe withdraw immediately or hold shares for a long time?" She suddenly asked with a smile. Very clumsy, after all, he graduated from Renmin University with a major in finance, Xie Jingxing did not give a positive answer: "I personally think you have the potential to have a market value of 100 billion."

"At first, I just wanted to do something that was not possible. Yinshan Tea Language, finished tea e-commerce, and sparkling water, these are all your ideas." Cui Aliu added.

Xie Jingxing shrugged and just chuckled lightly, tilted his head to look at the night outside the window, then turned his gaze back to look at her.

“It seems to me that venture capital only appears in other people’s stories.”

Cui A Liu didn't get a response, so he stood up and walked out: "Go to bed early."

"I'll take you there." Xie Jingxing accompanied him to the door.

Cui Aliu stood in the corridor and half turned around: "Good night."

"Good night."

Xie Jingxing held onto the door frame with his arm, and reminded carefully: "In fact, venture capitalists are often the villains in other people's stories. You should be mentally prepared for the subsequent rounds of financing."

"What do you mean?" Cui A Liu thought.

Xie Jingxing exhaled: "For example, forcing you to go public, forcing you to be acquired, and jumping ship and running away in advance when the growth does not meet expectations."

"It sounds complicated. Let's talk about it in detail. Our next round of financing is very important." Cui A Liu blinked her bright eyes and raised her hand to point into the room.

Xie Jingxing silently opened the door and backed into the room, his legs moving faster and faster because Cui Aliu's oncoming figure was getting faster and faster.

The wide trouser legs of his casual trousers swung, his calves were lifted and hooked backwards, and the door closed with a slam.

The shirt rolled up to the elbows revealed a section of delicate white forearms. When Xie Jingxing bumped into the coffee table and fell onto the sofa, she tightly embraced his shoulders.

"The rose milk aroma seems to be good too."

Xie Jing Xing put his hands behind his head and looked up at his flying hair, and this was the last thought in his mind.

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The next day, I flew to Beijing early in the morning to meet Lu Xueling and Zhang Tingting.

One is old and wants stability but lacks the motivation to work hard; the other says they will talk about it after the new year, but he really wants to change jobs and wants to get the last annual bonus from his old employer first.

That night, Cui Aliu returned to Chuncheng alone. She left in a carefree and carefree manner without Xie Jingxing seeing her off. Her attitude made it clear that last night was just an accident, satisfying her own beautiful literary and artistic feelings of bidding farewell to a passerby who was neither important nor insignificant in her life journey.

Come to think of it, how could the future founder of a trillion-dollar group be a lover? It would be better to just be a long-term sex partner who is equally matched and satisfied with each other.

"Tsk, as long as she doesn't bring it up at the year-end meeting next month, then you can just take over the directorship. If I take the initiative to go, I lose!"

Late at night, with light snowflakes floating outside and the aroma of cumin-wrapped lamb wafting in the air, Xie Jingxing had just hung up the phone call to Shen Xin when the heavy door curtain was lifted, bringing in gusts of cold white mist, and a fat man and a thin woman walked in side by side.

"Okay, I'm familiar with it. Do you want it spicy?"

Cheng Wei squinted his eyes and sat down, pulling out some tissues to wipe his glasses. This barbecue stall was the base for Didi's senior executives. The idea of ​​starting Didi was formed here a few years ago. It was also the place where Xie Jingxing met up with him during his previous visits to Beijing.

As the three of them exchanged pleasantries, Liu Qing asked with concern, "How are those two people?"

"Both are good. We can discuss this later. Mr. Liu's connections are still worthy of respect." Xie Jingxing raised his beer glass to indicate.

Cheng Wei leaned back and raised his hand to support Liu Qing's shoulder: "This shows our strategic vision. Whoever gets Liu will get the world. This is no joke."

"No problem, Mr. Cheng is tall, Mr. Liu is hard, and I am tall and hard." Xie Jingxing laughed and joked to stir up hatred.

The stock market has been well planned and has made huge profits. The secondary investment projects headed by Yinshanbudu have been gradually sorted out and the future is promising. This is almost the end-of-year summary.

For key projects at the level of Didi and New DAESH, their strategic development has reached the point where they are no longer planned on an annual basis, and every step from now on must be taken with extreme caution.

Since Liu Qing joined Didi, she has achieved remarkable results on the surface, leading billions of dollars in financing, maintaining proper government relations and suppressing Uber. But behind this is the flow of power in the company.

Currently, the three business lines of strategy, finance, and human resources all report to her, so Cheng Wei’s flattering joke is worth considering.

(End of this chapter)