Chapter 329 Everyone is an idiot
The talks were organized by the Industry and Commerce Bureau and involved a total of seven relevant departments. The scale was large but the specifications were standard. The tone was obviously serious and impartial. The three new and hungry companies listened carefully to the instructions.

No matter you are a young billionaire with a net worth of tens of billions, or an experienced entrepreneur with long experience in the business field, according to the rules and regulations, anyone standing up here is qualified to guide your work in person.

In the conference room arranged as a round-table meeting, Baidu separated New DAE and Meituan in the middle, or was sandwiched in the middle.

There is only one topic today, which is to rectify malicious competition behaviors and immediately end high-intensity money-burning subsidies. Just like what happened in Wuxi two months ago, the three companies of Xinda E humbly accepted guidance throughout the process.

But will the guidance be implemented as before?

"Baidu is determined to regulate healthy market competition!"

Zeng Liang, general manager of Baidu Nuomi, has a mature face and a bald forehead, and looks simple and honest: "On behalf of Baidu, I would like to assure all comrades and friendly businesses here that Baidu Nuomi will reasonably adjust the upper limit of platform subsidies, implement the corporate spirit of serving the society, effectively improve user experience, and support the business environment of small and micro businesses."

"..."

These words made everyone present look sideways. Today's main leader was slightly stunned and looked down at his watch. He had not drunk much water from morning till now to avoid going to the toilet. He bought bananas worth 200 yuan out of his own pocket for his colleagues to replenish their energy.

I was fully prepared for a long war of attrition, but it’s only been two hours and it’s over as soon as I finished my speech?

"Hey, Xinda E and Meituan, let's talk about what you think."

After a few whispers from his colleagues, the leader understood the whole story and coughed lightly. Then he didn't even bother to say a word of courtesy to Zeng Liang.

I was almost fooled by this guy with thick eyebrows and big eyes. I thought he was a kind person because his name contained the word "Liang". It turned out that he had no money left.

Zeng Liang's old face turned red as he was blatantly ignored. He glanced at Gong Zhenbing, the head of the takeaway business department who was sitting next to him pretending to be a quail. He looked at him so hard that his anus tightened and his eyes were blank, not knowing what was going on.

In fact, when receiving the notice of interview from relevant departments, Mr. Li personally ordered to reduce the marketing expenses of the two business units, namely burning money for subsidy funds.

But originally only a few top executives knew about this matter. As a result, Gong Zhenbing applied to make the food delivery business independent, and Mr. Li had to stay up late at night to deal with emails.

He couldn't control his big mouth and made a perverted statement on the microphone, "If you can't beat it, don't do it", and copied it to all senior executives. The public relations director was so angry that he called him and scolded him for half an hour and ordered him to withdraw the email.

But the influence of public opinion cannot be withdrawn. Now people all over the country know that Baidu's local life services are likely to be unsustainable. Only Gong Zhenbing, a troublemaker, would dream of becoming independent.

Any executive with a bit of common sense in the company knew that even if the Nuomi Division could have held on, it would no longer be able to do so after this email appeared.

At the very least, the brand partners on the platform are all in a state of panic, ready to pack up and run away at any time.

"Everyone is communicating very actively, but I see that Mr. Xie and Mr. Wang haven't spoken yet. Can you guys say a few words?"

Zeng Liang was daydreaming for two hours. He was considering whether to eat less carbohydrates to maintain his figure, and was startled when he heard these words.

It's great that you have money to burn, but you still have to sit here with me and get scolded. What a big shot you are.

"Mr. Wang, come first?"

"Thank you, Mr.

"Don't be polite, both of you. You both have the chance to speak. Since Mr. Xie spoke first, then Mr. Xie should speak first." The leader acted as the referee.

Xie Jingxing sat up straight, and Song Anli calmly pointed at the prepared manuscript on the table, carefully reminding him not to be impulsive.

"Openness, freedom, collaboration and sharing are the great spirits of the Internet...Adhering to the concept of win-win cooperation, mutual benefit, win-win and coexistence is the mission of Chinese Internet companies..."

He read half a page of the manuscript eloquently, paused for a moment, picked up a bottle of mineral water to moisten his throat, and was about to continue speaking when Song Anli poked his arm to signal him that it was okay.

The leader couldn't help but smile, feeling relieved and excited. This was exactly the battle he had expected.

He suppressed his comment for the moment and calmly turned his head to look at Wang Xing: "Mr. Wang, please say a few words."

"Okay, then I'll say a few words... As the old saying goes, if white jade is not damaged, it will be useless. my country's mobile Internet industry has a huge demographic dividend, and we need to polish this white jade in some way... Of course, in this process, open development, cooperative development, and win-win development..."

The difference was immediately apparent, and the leader nodded slightly. It was obvious that Baidu's manuscript was written by a junior ghostwriter, and Xie Jingxing's manuscript was not much better either, but it was in line with his venture capitalist persona.

Wang Xing's manuscript is much more advanced and has some substance.

However, there are some sophistry in the words these two big bosses use over and over again. To sum it up in one sentence, the domestic mobile Internet has a huge population base, and both parties are spending money to quickly expand the market ceiling in the field of local life services.

There is no malicious competition at all. On the contrary, we should thank them for providing jobs and driving economic growth.

"How about this, it's noon now, let's have lunch and take a break."

The leader gestured, and before Zeng Liang, general manager of Baidu Nuomi.com, could get up and run away, the door of the conference room opened and several clerks came in pushing a cart full of lunch boxes.

"It's simple and crude, and it can't compare to your usual dining environment. Please overcome it."

The leader said with a smile, "Give me a portion of braised pork with yogurt. My stomach has not been digesting well these past two days."

"It takes a long time to cook, so eat a little."

Fortunately, the conference room was large enough, and Song Anli left her seat and occupied a corner, taking out a piece of chocolate and a bottle of milk from her commuter bag. Xie Jingxing shook his head indifferently, and ate the fried pork with heavy oil, salt and spice, slowly and completely finishing the lunch box without wasting a single grain of food.

If today's meeting had no specific purpose, why would they specifically ask him and Wang Xing to attend?

"Sorry, I have to deal with something urgent. You guys continue first."

After a twenty-minute break after lunch, the leader left the meeting room apologetically and went to take a nap to recharge his energy.

The work of presiding over the meeting was smoothly handed over to other colleagues present. The conversation continued with the smell of boxed lunches wafting through the room. The air conditioning seemed to be broken. Xie Jingxing was bored and kept pressing his nose.

We endured the whole afternoon like this. In the evening, the former leader reappeared in the meeting room with a warm smile and said, "I'm really sorry that I've been busy for a while. I'll treat everyone to dinner tonight. Let's go to the cafeteria and talk while we eat."

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At 11:30 in the evening, dozens of people from the three Xinda E companies who participated in the meeting finished their dinner and midnight snack under the one-on-one supervision of the staff of the relevant departments.

"There is a hotel next to us that is cooperating with our unit and the environment is pretty good. Of course, it's not mandatory, it's just close, so it's convenient for you to come over tomorrow morning." The leader reminded kindly.

Xie Jingxing stretched and thanked him politely, then led everyone from Xinda Hungry out of the office building.

"Just book a ticket back to Shanghai." He was as calm as when he came in the morning.

Zhang Tao sighed deeply: "It's okay, I have arranged everything at home, I can hold on for three to five days."

"No need." Xie Jingxing disagreed.

Zhang Tao smiled helplessly: "When I return to the company, I can only watch the employees working hard at the grassroots level and I can't help. It's torture anyway. I actively cooperate and try to make a good impression."

"My father has been very fond of reading war history over the years. Last month, when my wife gave birth to a baby, he came to visit his granddaughter and talked to me for a while."

Xie Jingxing looked around at the entourage: "Guess what the first sentence he said to me was?"

"The last one standing shall prevail?" a clever person responded in a flattering way.

Song Anli helped to liven up the atmosphere: "On a protracted war?"

“They are all close to the meaning, but not quite.”

Xie Jing Xing said in a gloomy tone: "My father said exactly what he said - you are the only one who is smart?"

Zhang Tao was stunned. Song Anli blinked her big eyes and looked at Wang Xing who was being surrounded and walking down the stairs not far away. For a moment, the night was extremely quiet, with only the sound of messy leather shoes stepping on the ground.

"In a war of equals, there are no smart people. We are all fools." He walked down the last step, stood firmly on the ground, and looked back.

Wang Xing chuckled, nodded, passed by his subordinates and left in the car.

A fool's brain cannot hold many things, he does not feel fear or torment, and he can even eat a box lunch while squatting in the toilet; a smart person thinks a lot, is always worried about gains and losses, and is flexible and fickle, and it is a humiliation for him to eat a box lunch while sitting in an office in a high-rise building overlooking the city.

So the recognized smart man Robin Li was the first to be eliminated. Now let's see who is dumber among us.

"Leader, isn't it a bad idea for us to do this?"

"What did we do?"

"Uh, um...should the standard of tomorrow's lunch box be raised a level?"

In the brightly lit office, the leader stood by the window with his hands behind his back, watching the two groups disappear from view. He then retracted his gaze and said leisurely, "I ran all over the district to find a lunch box for eight yuan. Can you change it for me just like that?"

The subordinate was speechless, thinking that the lunch box was full of gutter oil. Several colleagues who ate it turned into jet fighters, and even the cleaning lady was dissatisfied.

Why use such a shameless trick? After all, they are well-known entrepreneurs, so if you punish them, you should punish them in a fair and just way.

"If they want to follow my wishes, there is no need to waste time on a talk. Just give them eighty lashes and let them feel the pain. Only then will they know what respect is and what it means to obey orders."

"Yeah, so why don't you just do that?"

"How did you get into our unit?"

"You said at the time that I had sharp eyes and worked hard."

"..."

"Leader, so why not just punish them severely?"

"Meituan and Xindashi have gone bankrupt. Will other platforms do better than them?" The leader was not interested and had more reasons in his mind that he couldn't say.

(End of this chapter)