Chapter 372 King and Queen

Wang Xing has resigned and left, leaving the future business strategy of the new Meituan-Daigu undecided.

Xie Jingxing was able to skip the social event and go home for dinner. His four-month-old daughter needed to be fed twice during the day, so Yu Tong's work intensity was not high and he was at home most of the time, using the study in the annex building as his office.

"Go back to page 5 of the PPT. This pilot experiment only involved one group, right? Please tell us about the results."

A meeting was going on in the study room. Xie Jingxing walked in, holding a bouquet of flowers in his left hand and a box of desserts in his right hand. He pushed open the half-open door.

The male student who was reporting on the experiment was concentrating on explaining the PPT, while the female student next to him, who was wearing a slightly delicate makeup, was looking around cleverly.

"I'm busy." Yu Tong said in a low voice.

Xie Jingxing came closer and kissed her cheek: "Just do your thing."

"Annoying."

Yu Tong pushed him away, smoothed the hair beside his ears, and nodded his chin towards the sofa next to him.

Xie Jingxing readily followed suit and sat over to listen quietly. Outside the alley at the doorstep of his home was a commercial street with all kinds of small shops. It was perfect for buying something every time and bringing it home for a little romance.

It's just that the price is a bit abnormal. He is rich but not stupid. A bouquet of flowers for 800 yuan is really not city-like.

It can only be said that Yu Tong now likes the vivid details of life more and more. Perhaps this is the only thing that can accompany him through the long years.

After the male student finished his report, it was the female student's turn. She explained fluently and smoothly, and seemed to be in control of the situation. However, when asked questions involving specific experimental data, she stuttered. The style of her PPT was obviously similar to that of the male student.

Xie Jingxing was not as good as Xiyou's campus recruiting undergraduate intern. He felt like he was in prison while auditing the class. He couldn't help but quietly get up and go to the collection room behind the study to kill time.

This annex building was renovated and converted into a reception room and study area, and he moved the antique artworks from the manor in Sheshan here, but the space occupying half a floor was still a bit empty.

On one side are his collections of porcelain, jade, calligraphy and paintings, and on the other side are Yu Tong's European and American medieval classical objects and contemporary artworks, all of which are his favorites that he has no intention of selling.

Most of the pieces may be sold in Singapore after they have had enough fun. Taihe’s art advisory team is responsible for taking care of them, making it easier to circulate them overseas.

"Honey, can you come here for a moment?"

Xie Jingxing fiddled with the collection for a while, then returned to the study room when he heard someone calling him: "What's wrong?"

"This is a gift from my students to you on Teacher's Day the day after tomorrow."

Yu Tong pointed to the coffee table, which contained a plastic box covered with several layers of plastic bags. Two turtles as big as footballs were crawling around inside it, and next to it was a wine jar covered with a red cloth.

Xie Jing Xing was confused: "Why are you giving me a gift? Where are they?"

"After the meeting, they left. They both agreed that our family of three will have one."

Yu Tong held up a small box in his hand and showed off: "This is the sachet my daughter and I made by ourselves. It's thoughtful, isn't it?"

"Your student is from Jiangxi?"

Xie Jingxing patted the plastic box, scaring the two turtles so much that they shrank back. The hometown of turtle breeding is in Jiangxi.

Yu Tong happily introduced: "You guessed it right, my students raised it at home, and even gave me a recipe for braised soft-shelled turtle, which is their local specialty."

"That wine is also homemade rice wine. It's really made with great care. I owe it to my wife."

Xie Jing Xing hugged her and kissed her. His two hands seemed to have installed GPS and automatically climbed up the mountain: "But this turtle with rice wine...why does it feel like you're the one who's going to enjoy it in the end?"

"Then don't you enjoy it, huh~" Yu Tong straightened his shoulders in a sweet voice.

Xie Jingxing leaned close to her ear and said, "Without these two turtles, I can still annihilate the enemy!"

"Brother, stop bragging."

Yu Tong burst out laughing. "The Chinese Paladin III" was a drama they watched together in college. He remembered the lines very clearly and was moved to tears many times.

Xie Jingxing immediately felt that he was being questioned, so he carried his giggling wife to the sofa, and took advantage of the setting sun to be shameless.

The two turtles swam in the water, and it was confirmed with my own eyes that it was really possible without them. The one who was bragging was Yu Tong.

From the time the wedding was over till now, Xie Jingxing had been so busy that he had to travel all over the country for several months. She had obviously been out of the game for a long time, so she surrendered and begged for mercy in no time.

However, from the fiery sunset to the rising of the sun at night, as the battle line lengthened, it entered a state of attrition war.

The battle situation gradually changed from offense to defense. The score was tied in the first half. In the second half, Yu Tong was radiant and gentle as she helped her husband take a bath. Xie Jingxing was running out of ammunition.

The couple had been together for a long time and finally decided to wash up and go back to the main building for dinner.

"One of my two students is too down-to-earth, and the other is too clever."

Yu Tong finished feeding her daughter, and just as she picked up the bowl and chopsticks, she thought of her disciple and frowned in embarrassment.

Xie Jingxing said without comment, "Make the best use of people. If they are suitable for scientific research, they can do scientific research. If they are suitable for work, they can work. We can always give them a way out."

"That's true, but the founding disciples feel different. I still have expectations for them."

Yu Tong originally only wanted to take in male apprentices who were down-to-earth and suitable for scientific research. The female apprentice was taken in because she was smart and worldly-wise, so he would help her deal with external communications, and leave the rest to her own devices.

The plan was well made, but the feeling was very different when you actually got accepted. It was very unpleasant to see the other party slacking off and going down the path of academic egoism.

Xie Jingxing listened patiently and responded with a few words of comfort from time to time. He did the same to the first class of Jiaotong University Entrepreneurship Camp and Zhang Zetian.

I think the guy with the Fenghua accent who came up with the rule that if anyone from the first four batches of the Whampoa Military Academy was caught, he would personally investigate, probably not entirely out of consideration for personal gain...

His daughter was sitting in a baby chair, grabbing her toys and drooling, enjoying herself. His wife was beside him, sharing everything about her work and life. To Xie Jingxing, these details sounded trivial, but he didn't find them boring. He was in a relaxed mood and was thinking about some strange ideas.

After dinner, Xie Yun was taken by the nanny to lie in the cradle to exercise the development of her brain's vestibular nerves. She had various exercises from morning to night every day, which was more fulfilling than her mother's life.

She is a little worse than her father, who had to think about the jobs of tens of thousands of people while accompanying her mother to the movies.

"Honey, I'm sleepy."

The screen flashed the ending credits and the lights in the movie room dimmed. Yu Tong lay in Xie Jingxing's arms, yawning and rubbing his chest: "You haven't thought about it yet?"

"Because Wang Xing's idea makes sense. At least he understands technology better than me." Xie Jingxing hesitated as he looked at the dimly lit computer screen.

Yu Tong offered a suggestion: "Based on my work experience, theory determines the lower limit of high-tech assurance. What about the specific situation? Is it possible to combine them?"

"No way. Our theoretical debate turns out to be about how to integrate the businesses of New DAE and Meituan." Xie Jingxing showed her the management structure he designed on the computer screen.

Wang Xing said that he took business as the starting point and divided the management structure of the future integrated business of New Daehan-Meituan into the front office and the middle office. The front office separated the most profitable hotel and tourism business into a separate business group, which is responsible for the three business segments of hotel, domestic tourism and overseas tourism, including corresponding sub-brands similar to Maoyan.

There is also a retail business group for food delivery and group purchasing of catering, and an in-store business group that provides in-store catering and ordering systems to platform merchants, as well as mobile payment services that are being prepared.

The four APPs and technology development, human resources, strategic investment and financing departments are all part of the middle and back-end departments, which uniformly allocate resources to support the three front-end business groups.

“It seems like many Internet companies are imitating Alibaba’s front-end and middle-end architecture now?” Yu Tong didn’t quite understand.

Xie Jingxing stroked her round shoulders: "Of course there are benefits to doing this. Power is very centralized and decentralized to grassroots positions. Frontline employees who are directly in contact with business can mobilize a lot of resources."

"The downside is that power is concentrated in the front line of business, the company's vertical management lacks supervision, and the horizontal cross-businesses cannot be coordinated and subordinated?"

With Yu Tong's intelligence, he hit the nail on the head and grasped the key points.

If we say that Ele.me employees were high rollers in Shanghai and Beijing nightclubs before Zhang Xuhao was eliminated last year, then in the past few years since Zhang Yong founded Tmall, Alibaba employees have become the gods of Hangzhou's nightclub industry.

A shop assistant who is responsible for connecting with merchants at the grassroots level says that he should plan a subsidy activity for a certain merchant, but the platform's technical department and advertising department don't even have the power to ask "why".

The question is whether you will cooperate with the work.

The direct consequence of this is that the store waiters embezzle tens of millions of dollars, and when business crosses horizontally, a group of high-level managers need to be temporarily strengthened to coordinate the work.

Often, there is still confusion about coordination. You say that you are responsible for this business, but if I don't cooperate with you, can you still push forward the business you are responsible for?

"So what's your idea?" Yu Tong asked.

“Driven by the flow port.”

Xie Jingxing clicked on the computer to switch to the next mind map: "Let's form a platform division with four platforms, namely Ele.me, Dianping, Meituan, and Meituan Waimai, parallel to the business."

"The business group structure is too simple, including the store business group, supply chain business group and strategic investment department, and the status of the strategic investment department is too high."

Yu Tong pursed his lips and said: "This concentration of power upwards is easy to solidify. The most obvious problem is that there will be fewer senior management positions. The merger of New DAE and Meituan's business will eliminate a large number of people."

"But the advantages are obvious. The platform will not be held hostage by the business. Both parties will cooperate in parallel, and strategic investors will bring vitality to the company through investment."

Xie Jingxing insisted on his own opinion. In his design, he classified offline in-store businesses such as hotel tourism, in-store catering, merchant services, etc. into the "in-store business group".

In this way, this is the most profitable business department of the new Meituan-Daigu. The advantageous businesses are more concentrated. At the same time, the internal management of the business group is relatively flat, and the coordination and cooperation of various businesses are more efficient.

The 'Supply Chain Business Group' is the business department that loses the most money, including food procurement and supply, logistics warehousing, merchant customer management and so on. Let's lose money for ten years before we talk about other things!
The two business groups, one profitable and the other loss-making, plus the platform business unit and the strategic investment business unit, form the traffic and monetization ends of the new Meituan.

It is clear and particularly worth mentioning the strategic investment division. This department seems like a forcibly elevated pendant, but in fact it already controls cross-border enterprises such as Weying Times and Maoyan.

Although it has no actual control, Weying and Maoyan's online ticketing business has a market share of over 65%. It can be said that the new "The Big Hunger" cannot kill the distribution of a movie, but it can make the movie sell better.

Such external investment companies that have no actual control but have great influence all require the strategic investment department to carefully craft them. Xie Jingxing is looking forward to using Tencent's strategic investment as a benchmark.

"So if that's the case, what's your concern?" Yu Tong was confused.

Xie Jingxing couldn't help but sigh: "Human resources management and technology, just like you said, this integration of business adjustment framework will be very drastic, even more so than when I took over Yunhe Logistics."

At that time, Old Xie played the bad guy and came out to kill his old friend. He led his absolutely trusted East Palace team to move in, violently locked up all management rights, and took advantage of the New Year holiday to carry out a cleanup.

Subsequently, the group dispatched a large number of personnel to take over the positions, and it took a full six months to recover.

From the perspective of personnel management alone, Internet companies are ultimately not as good as industrial companies. If Yunhe fires a middle-level employee with an annual salary of 500,000 yuan, the employees can organize dozens of people to resist.

Xinda E fired a middle-level employee with an annual salary of 500,000 yuan. The network administrator turned off the computer to express his gratitude, and the security guard helped to pack up the employee's personal belongings.

You can take the keyboard you bought at your own expense and leave. By the way, the damaged company keyboard will be deducted from your salary this month...

But it is the keyboards where the lines of code typed by programmers need to be integrated, and the user data between the various platform businesses need to be connected.

These things cannot be influenced by how iron-blooded and resolute Xie Jingxing is. It's like he can pull out a group of death row prisoners to play football. If he doesn't kill Ronaldo, the death row prisoners will be collectively executed by cannon fire. The ending will definitely be Ronaldo's death.

But if the requirement is changed to that the death row prisoners play in the World Cup, even if Ronaldo is tackled to death, the death row prisoners will still not play in the World Cup and will be executed by cannon.

Technology needs to respect objective laws to a certain extent, just as Xie Jingxing respects his wife's research on life science and medical fund editing, and also respects bald programmers' use of C/P/J.

"I think you respect technology too much." Yu Tong suddenly said with a blink.

Xie Jingxing was stunned: "What do you mean?"

"Think about it from another perspective. What losses will be caused if the integration according to your design fails?" Yu Tong asked.

Xie Jingxing was speechless for a moment. The platform crashed due to a bug, a large number of high-quality employees were lost, the company was in turmoil and its market share was sluggish. All these were losses.

Yu Tong stretched out his delicate hands with body temperature and rubbed his cheeks: "Do these losses only occur in specific circumstances of failed integration, or can they occur in business operations?"

"The latter." Xie Jingxing vaguely had an idea.

Yu Tong rubbed his face hard into a pig's head: "That proves that there is no absolute correlation between this and technology, just like my experimental failure does not necessarily lead to all previous experimental data being invalidated."

"Makes sense!"

The logic from another profession instantly broke the inertia of thinking, and Xie Jingxing grinned and nodded vaguely.

Yu Tong took back his hands and hugged his waist tightly: "Then the logic is to return to your home turf, where you are good at, make the best use of people, let Zhang Tao and Wang Xing execute your will, and then consider how to make up for the losses if they occur."

"It will take half a year for us to stabilize our position internally and withstand the external blow from Koubei.com and the final fight from Baidu Nuomi... Ctrip is not easy to deal with either. I don't know what the situation is with their merger and acquisition." Xie Jingxing raised his eyebrows helplessly.

Yu Tong tilted her head and put her ear close to his heart: "My husband has the world in his heart!"

"My wife is extremely wise. Did you hear what I am saying?"

Xie Jingxing put down his computer and sent the mind map he designed to Zhang Tao with a tap of his fingertips, and stroked his wife's soft long hair in his arms from the bottom of his heart.

The king has his profession and the queen has her career. She is not just a vassal of the king!

"I heard you say something else."

"Uh-huh, what else did I say?"

"You said you wanted to drink milk."

Yu Tong raised her pretty face with misty eyes and drew out her tone, lowering her voice to the lowest level, secretly weak but carrying an extremely strong and passionate love.

(End of this chapter)