Chapter 336 Ali Loves Me Once

"Is it another call from Guan Linhui? I won't answer it."

Xie Jingxing muted his phone and threw it to Song Anli. After thinking for a while, he added, "Tell him a message in private. Even if SF Express doesn't come in to mess up the situation, I still want to mess up SF Express's situation."

"If Wang Wei wants to fight, just fight me. Don't always complain to me about this little thing!" He emphasized impatiently while sitting in front of the makeup mirror.

The makeup artist standing behind him slowed down her movements and listened with both ears perked up. Although it sounded confusing and incoherent, this kind of top-notch business gossip was enough to brag about at the dinner table to boost her own status.

"Teacher, please hurry up a bit. Ms. Xie has to go to the stage after putting on her makeup."

Song Anli had no choice but to urge them. Today was the first live audition of the variety show "Rocket Girls 101". Prince Wang asked Xie Jingxing to come as a guest mentor for voting.

Since the man has come forward, she naturally has to follow and serve under the name of the person in charge of the variety show's co-producer Xiaoma Pentium.

Song Anli then carefully reminded: "Don't frown, it will affect the effect of your makeup."

"As for Alibaba, even if he offers a huge discount, Xiyou will not take over the shares." Xie Jingxing calmed down and relaxed.

The instigator who caused Guan Linhui to call continuously in the past two days was Alibaba, which announced yesterday that it would restart the internal "Word of Mouth" project and simultaneously launch its own word-of-mouth takeaway + word-of-mouth group buying business.

The action was swift and direct, connecting to the Alipay port and opening the interface to all third-party merchants on the platform. This was a super treatment that Taodiandian had not received when it was first launched the year before last.

It can be said that Alibaba displayed its utmost effort and the mighty momentum that only an Internet giant can display from the very beginning.

But compared with the counterattacks on the table, the means under the table seem particularly boring.

First, it reduced the price of its shares in Meituan by 30%, and secondly, there were rumors that it would join forces with SF Express to acquire a stake in Baidu Takeout.

The most important thing is that Wang Wei really intends to make a move, or that the person in charge of Baidu Takeout is really smart.

A small pie-in-the-sky story used to create differentiation and tell investors - that is, not to regard the food delivery business as the core, but to build a same-city logistics distribution system around the food delivery business.

This is in line with SF Express's long-term strategic planning, and is also the start-up of Yunhe Logistics' same-city express delivery and large-scale cargo moving and transportation businesses, which have already started with the help of crowdsourcing catering business.

So Wang Wei was willing to be dragged out by Baidu and Alibaba to be shown as a monkey for everyone to see. Guan Linhui called him again and again, urging him to acquire Baidu's food delivery business first in order to achieve the best defensive effect.

But in fact, Alibaba and Baidu did this just to encircle Meituan and do everything possible to squeeze its financing space.

Even if we cannot stop investors from investing, we will at least scare them into dropping valuations and lengthening the financing process to the longest possible period.

"Restarting Koubei.com is a reasonable business decision."

After the makeup was done and everyone left the dressing room, Xie Jingxing said bluntly: "But don't sell all the shares at a discount. Keep some on the Meituan board as an eyeliner and jump out to disrupt the situation at any time, and flirt with Baidu."

"It's not that these tricks are useless, they're just too emotional. No one likes a partner who loses control due to emotions, just like a normal person wouldn't sleep in the same bed with a mentally ill person." He stood up, opened his arms and raised his head slightly.

Song Anli carefully helped him straighten the wrinkles on his clothes: "Wang Xing has long wanted to build a mobile payment portal, so the cooperation relationship with Alibaba has always been bad from top to bottom. The technical project teams of the two companies often quarrel over product development."

"The whole thing is emotional. As the person in charge of the word-of-mouth project, he actually said something like 'It's either me or him' in a media interview, and even forwarded the interview report in his circle of friends. What is he doing? He is trying to please the bosses and show his determination. What the grassroots business executives can do is bound to be out of control."

Xie Jing Xing turned around and straightened his back, and continued to analyze: "If they make a rational decision, they can reduce the price and sell the shares to Xiyou to maximize the disruption of our relationship with Tencent, and at the same time, close the shop and leave."

"But the problem is that they are irrational. If they really sell the shares to me, I will almost swallow up Meituan in one day, and the hastily restarted Koubei.com will lose one day of development period."

He sneered and said: "The most important thing is that Alibaba appears to be targeting Meituan, but in fact, doesn't it hate Tencent and me?"

"Even if Mr. Ma has no grievances, there is absolutely no reason for him to stop his subordinates from doing their work emotionally and to please him."

Xie Jingxing could guess with his toes that even though Alibaba now looked like a resentful woman who had been hurt by a scumbag, she was crying and wailing as if she couldn't live anymore and was ready to find a rope to hang herself at any time.

But as long as Xiyou takes over, the equity transaction process will definitely be delayed day by day. Tencent will be completely out of control because of these shares that seem to be within reach.

In order to gain this little bit of shares, Tencent exited the new round of financing of New Dianping, allowing Taihe Xiyou Capital to further deepen its actual control over its shareholding.

Now they have to worry about him suddenly taking over the shares and forcing his way into Meituan. Wang Xing would be provoked and rebel, and the three-month merger agreement would vanish in a blink of an eye.

I can only say that Tencent did not expect Alibaba to be so disrespectful. After all, it is an Internet giant, and it went back on its word without even caring about its reputation...

No one thought it could work this way, including Xie Jingxing, so now the entire market is watching to see if he will play a "love me again" scene with Ali.

"Ali's previous agreement to sell shares to Tencent may have been to fan the flames and let me see Tencent's ugly face stabbing me in the back. If my son still thinks so simplistically when he goes to elementary school, I will definitely spank him."

After finishing his clothes, Xie Jingxing finally said, "Wait, maintaining the current stalemate is beneficial to us."

Wait until the stock market explodes and the deadlock is broken. Any action now that causes the situation to get out of control again will be more trouble than gain, he concluded secretly in his heart. Today is the last day of May. No matter what the outcome of this war is, it will eventually surface by the end of next month at the latest.

Song Anli thought he wanted to hold out and wait for the completely crazy Ali to make an even more crazy move, and commented incomprehensibly: "Compared with Tencent, Ali is a little too domineering. If you don't want to suffer a little loss, you will suffer a big loss."

Alibaba said that the merger between Didi and Kuaidi was a mistake, and they did not want to make the same mistake a second time and sit on the same board of directors with Tencent again.

In fact, Didi and Kuaidi took advantage of the merger. The latter was no match for the former at that time, and the offline mobile payment port in the online car-hailing field was about to be completely lost.

Such a merger and acquisition is a loss for Tencent and a gain for Alibaba. You are in me and I am in you, and in disguise, you own the payment port for the entire online car-hailing market share.

The simplest example is that Zhang Xiaolong, who has obsessive-compulsive disorder, used to kill Kuaidi on WeChat. Now why is he suppressing Didi, in which his own group holds shares?

Excessive marketing will result in a ban for a while at most, and redirection will be prohibited for a while, but after a few days they will have to turn a blind eye and release it.

As for the local life service sector, New DAE has not demonstrated the ability to easily defeat Meituan, and Wang Xing is not a good person and is thinking about building his own mobile payment portal.

So at the highest strategic level, Alibaba, the market share leader in the mobile payment field, is naturally in a defensive position. No matter how much market share any challenger takes, they will take less.

They will suffer losses if they are acquired like what happened in the ride-hailing sector.

This is the core essence of their unwillingness to accept the merger between New Dangdai and Meituan. Their initial decision-making logic was very rational, but they were stabbed in the back by Wang Xing and evolved into their current behavior.

Song Anli, who had been influenced by Xie Jingxing for the past two years, felt that she was inexperienced and could only analyze to this level at most. As for what factors affected Alibaba's business decision-making logic, which was like losing control easily without brakes, she couldn't figure it out.

But what is certain is that this will easily lead to serious illness and sudden death.

"Maybe Mr. Ma?"

Xie Jingxing still remembers the conversation with Mr. Ma at the previous Internet Conference in Wuzhen. Perhaps Alibaba should be like a car that is speeding and unstoppable without brakes.

If there were brakes, Alibaba would stop, and it would not be Alibaba anymore.

"Wow."

Xie Jingxing pushed open the dressing room door, and a noisy sound came over him. Figures kept jogging through the corridor, and various behind-the-scenes staff were shouting and making gestures.

Hundreds of young girls with good figures and good looks had cheap, pungent cosmetics smeared on them by makeup artists. Then they walked into the simple curtains like an assembly line to change into their performance costumes. Then they were driven to the waiting area like ducks by any random behind-the-scenes staff.

They will pursue their dreams here and become the dreams in the eyes of fans.

This is Changsha, the film and television variety show production base of co-producer Mango TV. They want to use this variety show to practice and hone the production team.

Song Anli looked at the messy scene in front of her and turned the question about the top business figures on her lips into her own business: "The feedback from the early preheating publicity is very good. There is a high probability that this project will be a hit."

"It looks like a makeshift team, but that's fine. Don't waste too much energy on this kind of project. How to standardize the production capacity of this assembly line is a question that the person in charge of the variety show business should think about."

Xie Jingxing reminded as he walked out: "Making good financial expectations for Xiaoma Pentium and starting the listing process as soon as possible is what Zhong Lifang should think about."

"And you should think about how to connect the upstream Pei Fei personal studio artist management and IP incubation business with the downstream Panda TV and Weying Times distribution business."

He considered and said, "After I finish my work on Xinda'e in the second half of the year, I will probably have some free time. You should think about what to do first."

"We have decided to restart the listing process in August, and we will strive to go public by the end of next year or early 17. By then, the film, television and variety show production base of Xiaoma Pentium should also be completed, and it will not be so troublesome."

Assistant Song’s skills in drawing cakes have also improved.

Xie Jing couldn't help but smile with relief, and dodged a staff member who was running through the corridor without thinking: "It's going to take a while for the base to be completed, are you short of money?"

"There is a shortage of funds. Money is needed everywhere to expand theaters and invest in film and television dramas. If you don't manage a household, you don't know how expensive firewood and rice are. There will never be enough funds." Song Anli sighed tiredly.

Xie Jingxing glanced at her and asked, "How are Jin Yan and the two sisters from the Li family?"

"Everything has calmed down. We will renew a number of long-term contracts with screenwriters and directors early next year, and then we will send them out of the company and take some shares."

Song Anli's delicate face was full of weakness and pity, but the words she spoke were light and without any ripples.

Xie Jingxing nodded. She had grown noticeably in the past six months since he let her out. He had managed the Little Pony in perfect order. In total, he hadn't given her a single proper gift this year.

"Go talk to Alibaba and introduce some investment. They should be willing to lead the investment." He rarely showed some sympathy.

Song Anli's eyes suddenly lit up. If the variety show wasn't live and was about to start, she would have wanted to find a bathroom.

(End of this chapter)