"Chairman, this is a list of managers recently recommended by headhunters, venture capital firms, and local companies.

Among them, more than 130 people have gone through interviews and re-examinations. If the background check and physical examination are successful, there will be no problems.

These people will be assigned to various departments at the headquarters and branches after obtaining your consent."

After seeing off Fang Guohui, who was full of excitement, and just sitting down, Gu Shijie came over with two newly appointed deputy directors from the Human Resources Department to meet him.

After a brief introduction, Liang Shaoping, the new deputy director of human resources of DIZHEM, handed over the information.

Each one comes with the person's photo and background information, which is very complete and clear at a glance.

Li Zehua reached out and shook hands with the three of them, then casually flipped through some of them to show his respect:

“Sit down, Director Liang Shaoping, Director Zhu Fuming, welcome to join the Chime family.

Time is short and the task is heavy. To make a long story short, the Human Resources Department must be prepared to fight tough battles at any time. I don’t know your abilities at the moment.

But I believe time will tell. We have both got the personnel recruitment and training plans, and the team has also been arranged.

Now that we have the stage, please give full play to your talents. I would like to reveal a piece of news here: there is another e-commerce company under the name of Pinxixi.

The recruitment scale there will be larger, the challenges will be greater, and the resources invested by the group will also be biased. Currently, the registered paid-in capital alone is as high as 200 million yuan.

In the next month or so, I want to see the results of Chizumo's recruitment and training. Whoever performs better will get promoted. Isn't that fair?"

"Thank you for the opportunity, Chairman. I will do my best to complete all the tasks assigned by the company."

Liang Shaoping was quicker to seize the opportunity to show his loyalty, and Zhu Fuming was not willing to lag behind.

"Very good. I hope that in a month, I can wish one of you a successful promotion."

After encouraging them, Li Zehua smiled and sent the two away. This level of appointment and dismissal would not take up more of his time for the time being.

Turning to Gu Shijie, he said:
“My trip to eastern Guangdong this time was not just to investigate the takeaway market, but more to seek cooperation opportunities in the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain.

Time waits for no one, and Pinxixi’s preparations are still too slow. If things continue like this, whether it can reach 500 stores by the start of the school year and whether it can sign contracts with partner companies is still a problem.”

The data obtained from JD.com is certainly crucial, but things still need to be discussed step by step.

Although every manufacturing company has a large amount of inventory backlog of products, how to cooperate is a big problem.

Should you pay a deposit to sign an exclusive underwriting agreement, or pay the full amount at a discount to earn a huge difference?
Is it a long-term customized production cooperation, or a clearance sale of leftover goods?
Is it a proportional commission, or do manufacturers participate and cooperate throughout the process, and even promote the product in rural areas together?

When a product is sold, is it a one-time sale, or does it require corresponding after-sales service?
What are each company’s products, market positioning, and net production costs? Are there any economic disputes such as contract breach and withholding?
Whether the brands of large items provide follow-up support, etc., are difficult problems that need to be solved.

For small manufacturers, they can certainly rush in and take on everything, because they are anxious to sell off their inventory and cash in to save their lives.

With the attitude of giving it a try, they basically agree on the price once they negotiate. Not to mention the cost price, even the clearance price will make them have to accept it.

Who caused a global financial crisis to completely change the economic operating model?
It’s not that ordinary people don’t have money, but they would rather keep it in the bank than spend it.

China is even more different from Europe and the United States. Ordinary people who have not been baptized by capital at this time generally have resistance to the theory of advance overdraft consumption.

The vast majority of people in rural areas have had little contact with computers and the Internet in their lives, let alone online banking and online shopping, two unfamiliar terms.

Pinxixi still has a long way to go, but compared to the battles among thousands of groups in the previous life, Li Zehua’s biggest advantage is his foresight.

This ensures that he gets the fattest meat first.

With the venture capital funds in place, and based on the campus market of Chimei Fengniao, there will be no problem in surviving the most severe phase of the bubble.

Wait until other group buying companies have fired their last bullet for the urban market.

In order to grab advertising resources, when prices were frantically raised, his two advance arrangements could have played a full role.

Qiandu will definitely face huge claims. It is impossible for there to be no punishment for breach of contract. It has Yanjing behind it and Shanghai behind it. Who is afraid of whom?

As for Tenda, in recent years, at least before WeChat and TikTok became popular, it was difficult to fall out with it, especially because the other party's traffic was crucial to all the companies under Qingyun.

A certain amount of compromise is necessary.

He was chatting with Gu Shijie when Lin Wenhui suddenly called him: "Mr. Li, there is a result for the QR code you asked us to check."

Li Zehua stood up suddenly and said, "Tell me in detail."

As Lin Wenhui told out the information he had investigated bit by bit, he became so excited that he almost exploded.

Because currently no company in the world owns the patent for QR codes.

In other words, he doesn't have to spend a penny to get a weapon that will affect billions of people in the future.

He had no idea who owned the patent for scanning QR codes in his previous life, just like one would never ask who was feeding the pigs when eating meat.

But that didn't stop him from planning to make some big move with the QR code.

There is no basic patent, but what about secondary application patents?
Scanning and taking a look with a smartphone, barcode scanner or other device is absolutely protected by law.

His past life experience told him that he had to calm down now. “Thank you, Mr. Lin. This thing is very helpful for the real-time transmission of data for express parcels.

Please arrange for someone to send the specific documents as soon as possible. I just finished the board meeting and have a lot of things to do."

After hanging up the phone, he said to the stunned Gu Shijie seriously: "Keep this matter in your heart and don't tell anyone."

Then he continued, “Go greet my venture capitalists and business partners this afternoon. If anyone asks you about it, just tell them that Mr. Yang Zhichao has a happy family event today.

No, you can't just make up excuses. Let me think about it. Sit down for a while."

After thinking carefully for a moment, he picked up the phone and dialed: "Director Fang Zhonghua, please answer the phone.

Hello, is this Fang Zhonghua? I'm Li Zehua. Please arrange for someone to come here immediately. I'll be waiting for you in the office."

The latter was at the Hummingbird headquarters next door, discussing various legal matters related to cooperation. He was stunned when he heard this: "Is it urgent?"

"Come over here first."

After hanging up the phone, he called Qiming International Law Firm, with which he had just recently cooperated, whose main business was similar to that of Yanjing Kaiyue.

They are all leaders in the domestic intellectual property field.

"Good morning, Mr. Li. Director Yang Minghui is in a meeting."

"Go in right now and give him the phone."

There was no politeness at all, and the direct commanding tone scared the other party. Soon, Yang Minghui's voice came from the other end of the phone.

"Mr. Li, I'm Yang Minghui, please go ahead."

There is no dragging his feet. To reach his position, he naturally knows the temper of rich people and believes that the customer who pays is God.

Li Zehua said simply and clearly: "Director Yang, please bring someone you trust with you, and we want all the domestic and foreign intellectual property rights involved.

It is very urgent and very important. This will affect the foundation of our future cooperation. I am waiting for you at the company. Come over right away. "

Yang Minghui was stunned, but before he could continue asking, the other party hung up.

After thinking for a moment, he returned to the conference room and gestured to the senior partner who was talking big to stop.

He turned to the senior assistant and said, "Please invite all the partners who are at home."

Everyone was confused and looked at him in confusion...

"Boss Zhang, I'm Li Zehua. I have an emergency here and need to report the problem to the higher-ups through the Magic Investment channel."

In the office, Gu Shijie was completely numb and he didn't even know what was happening.

All I know is that the boss, who is usually calm and composed, seemed like a different person after answering the phone.

In just a few minutes, he had already made several calls.

Confused, he subconsciously stood up and stood at the door, blocking others from coming to report their work.

"What happened?"

Zhang Baige was very calm and even had the leisure to joke: "I heard that you had a sea fishing party this afternoon. Why can't an old man like me join in?"

In private conversation, anything is fine.

Li Zehua specifically explained that Zhang Baige knew the sensitivity of his identity and expressed understanding.

"It is still necessary to have some proper entertainment. When Director Zhang is free someday, I will personally accompany him to go fishing alone." Li Zehua explained with a smile, "It is a coincidence that we caught a big fish before we went out to sea. I will heat up the oil in a few days and invite Director Zhang to come and taste the delicious food."

Zhang Baige didn't take it seriously and asked casually, "How big is the fish?"

I know what he is talking about business, but compared to the huge size of Magic Investment, he will only be interested if there is a business innovation of the level of "Chimo Hummingbird".

Even if it is the Pinxixi group buying, a plan that remains on paper, it looks good, but there is a question mark as to whether it can be realized.

Just invest, it’s something that comes naturally to you.

Especially today, the day of the Hummingbird board election. What good track can he find in such a short time?

I also mistakenly thought that he was just trying to get good policies from his superiors and didn't think about other aspects at all.

Little did he know that Li Zehua startled him as soon as he opened his mouth: "If a hummingbird is considered tuna, then to succeed in this, it must be a blue whale."

Zhang Baige stood up suddenly, "Are you kidding?"

"Can such a big thing be used as a joke?"

Li Zehua said in a heavy voice: “The results will be out in a few days at most, and Magic Investment can participate as soon as possible.

But I want Director Zhang to help me pass on the message to the higher-ups. I hope to get an accurate response from the relevant departments this month. The higher the level, the better. "

QR code patent authorization actually means little to ordinary people.

Even in the future, if hundreds of billions of people use QR codes every year, it cannot be directly converted into economic benefits.

But fortunately, it cannot target individuals, but can charge patent licensing fees to companies and factories.

Apart from anything else, its unique storage, convenience and stability in reading information make it irreplaceable, especially in the digital economy.

This determines that QR codes will play an unparalleled role in future production and management activities of human society.

Its importance cannot be overstated!
The reason why ordinary people in later generations don’t know much about the commercial charges of QR codes is that no one took this thing seriously at the beginning.

The American company that first discovered the commercial function of QR codes could not find the corresponding business scenarios for a long time and put it on the shelf.

The main problem is that it is troublesome to deposit and even more troublesome to read. In contrast, barcodes, on the contrary, dominate the applications of supermarket checkout and commodity circulation.

The commercial QR code prototype used in later generations was first used by a certain automobile company in Jiaobenji at the end of the last century.

Based on the same theory, promotion is difficult, usage scenarios are limited, and costs remain high.

The only option is to make the patent public and give up licensing fees.

But no one would have thought that in the era of mobile Internet, QR codes could penetrate into every aspect of human society.

From individual merchants to giants with a market value of over 100 billion US dollars, QR codes are indispensable.

After arranging all the connections that could be used, Li Zehua drove Gu Shijie out: "From now on, I will not see anyone."

I was alone in the office, thinking: "I vaguely remember that someone seems to have applied for a patent for this thing, and earned billions of RMB.

But he obviously underestimated the commercial value of QR codes. For example, the number of express parcels in the same period this year was nearly 20 billion.

Anyone can refuse QR codes, but express delivery companies must use QR codes on every express delivery order if they want to further improve their service quality.

SF Express? Is this the opportunity to not cooperate?

My requirements are not high, just hundreds of billions of express parcels every year in the future.

Every mobile payment scenario, all factory-produced goods, advertising and other commercial channels, using it to pay a penny once will be prosperous. "

Take a notebook and keep writing and drawing, and scan and take a look at the built-in apps that have appeared in later generations such as those manufactured by mobile phones.

I wrote down everything I could think of. The more I wrote, the more terrified I became:

"If I eat this thing alone, I'm afraid nine lives won't be enough!

Even if the authorization is charged at one cent per time, and it is only domestic authorization, the payment scenarios will be thousands or even trillions of times a year.

Add to that the various commodity circulation links, and tens of billions of patent licensing is considered polite. It is only 09, and it will take another two or three years before domestic smart phones are widely promoted.

However, having this thing with you may help speed up the promotion of the mobile smart era in the face of real economic benefits.

No, we have to think of a safer way!"

A vague plan formed in his mind, and he couldn't help but pick up the phone again: "Director Yang, where are you?"

Yang Minghui was just about to leave, and he was really curious when he heard this: "Director Li, we'll be there soon!
But could you please reveal some information in advance so that we can be mentally prepared?"

"Then hurry up."

Li Zehua did not explain, but finally said: "Please bring a set of Go when you come over."

Yang Minghui was stunned. "Go?"

What does it mean?
He dropped all his important work and called over all the elites in the law firm. Not only did he not know what the matter was, but he also bought a set of Go and gave it to them?
Are we going to play Go as a group later?
Unfortunately, no one explained it to him.

Fang Zhonghua arrived very quickly, as he was in the building next door. However, he was unable to enter the office immediately because Gu Shijie and several security guards were blocking the door.

No matter how he explained, it was useless. No one could enter until Li Zehua opened his mouth.

This strange scene immediately attracted a lot of people's attention.

"What are you arguing about? Director Fang, you've come at the right time. Please help me draft a confidentiality agreement. Leave the amount blank for now. I'm waiting for it."

Hearing the noise outside, Li Zehua opened the door and took a look, "Wait for me next door when you're done."

Then he quickly said to Gu Shijie, "Just let them guard it. If anyone else comes, please go to the lounge and wait for me."

After saying that, without giving anyone a chance to speak, he closed the door and returned to his desk.

"It's difficult. I can see a mountain of gold in front of me but I don't dare to take it easily."

I can only blame myself for not knowing much about the QR code commercial market in my previous life. I only knew that there was such a thing and there seemed to be some company that issued the codes.

They specialize in QR code patent licensing, but they seem to have obtained the patent after 2011.

Don’t ask him how he knew it. The main thing is that in 18 or 19, Tenda was sued for allegedly infringing on a certain company’s patent.

At the same time, there was a popular rumor on the Internet that a certain company, Jiaobenji, had owned the QR code patent in 1994 and was about to charge patent fees to users around the world.

He paid attention to it at the time and had a rough understanding of it, knowing that such a thing existed, but there was one thing he remembered very clearly.

It is said that global patents such as the real commercial scanning function are in the hands of Chinese companies, which have earned billions of patent revenues from this.

This is enough to prove that this thing can be applied for registration.

He doesn't understand the technology, but he has money and knows the general principle of this so-called patent.

Similarly, he knows the scope of future application scenarios of QR codes, which is equivalent to drawing a circle in archery. It is difficult not to get full marks.

“Since one person can’t handle it, then we should attract enough powerful companies to share the responsibility.

Express delivery has the most application scenarios, including the food delivery and logistics industry, Internet technology companies, and Shanghai local areas. Banks certainly cannot be let go.

At worst, we can bring in the three major insurances of social security, medical care, and pension. No one should refuse this business that is sure to make a profit, right?

It doesn’t matter how much shares you own. What matters is that you can ask for money in a natural way and strangle your competitors at critical moments.

It can also be used as a stepping stone when negotiating business cooperation with certain companies, which is really profitable.

As for the overseas part, it is impossible for Europe and the United States to accept early diversion. This thing is a bottleneck.

Since we can attract most of the capable players in China to play together, then we can also do it with foreign players, such as Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, Temasek, and Softbank.

Google, Microsoft, Amazon, etc., as long as they agree, they can give us shares and we can play together.”

The most urgent task is to investigate all the details of the QR code, and then organize a team to carry out research according to his general ideas.

No matter what the future holds, even if the QR code patent rots in your hands, you must first register all the applications you can make.

Wouldn't it be nice to be a patent troll and exploit others?

(End of this chapter)