"A certain Internet giant has harmed innocent companies, and thousands of factories are complaining with tears and blood!"
"No profit, no money lost, when will the chaos of collecting payment on behalf of others end?"
“…Give us back our hard-earned money!”
For Internet news, the title should be as explosive and attractive as possible.
When Li Zehua was still investigating in Jinling, hidden mines exploded in a number of companies including DDS, and the amount of funds involved was far beyond everyone's imagination.
DDS started out with East Guangdong as its base. Logically, there were millions of factories and enterprises in the local area, which were enough for it to survive, but it chose to go to Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai and Anhui to seek a breakthrough.
The superficial reason was to expand national business, but in reality the capital chain could not sustain itself. The company could not beat SF Express in eastern Guangdong, and would soon go bankrupt without new business coming in.
Its essence is a Ponzi scheme, which uses a portion of the initial capital investment to attract customers through low-price competition, and uses the payment collected from the first batch of customers to repay previous debts.
If you keep going through this again and again and fail to find a suitable buyer or go public for financing, it will eventually collapse sooner or later.
Gao Wei saw the situation very clearly from the beginning to the end, so his goal was very clear. He first prepared a way out for himself by using transactions with related companies to transfer part of the funds in advance.
In the end, even if the company goes bankrupt, he has a way to get out. It's a commercial contract dispute, so he can sue it slowly. A limited liability company cannot bear unlimited joint and several liability.
Especially for this kind of borderline behavior, there is no clear red line, and the amount of money involved in each household is not large. If you encounter someone with background and strength, the worst that can happen is that the money is returned privately.
What's left is enough for him to live a life of luxury for the rest of his life.
If you are luckier along the way, maybe venture capitalists will step in and add some additional funds to revitalize the situation?
It's true that this approach has the potential to succeed. There are many similar entrepreneurial approaches that, if you're lucky, can solve all problems by going public.
It’s just like when Chi Mo started, it also relied on losses to enter the market, but the lost money was made up by Li Zehua out of his own pocket.
This is a fundamental difference.
Now, faced with claims from thousands of companies involving funds exceeding 100 million yuan, Gao Wei, who did not escape, is dejected and has basically lost his ability to resist.
He answered readily whatever the other party asked, because the evidence was conclusive and there was no point in denying it.
The only thing he did was keep silent when asked by Liushenmen about the details of related transactions. If asked urgently, he would act crazy and stupid.
I don't know, it's been so long that I can't remember clearly. I was not the specific person in charge. Maybe it was other senior executives of the company who did it in the name of the company.
Anyway, I want to get away with it.
But where is this?
All the people were in, and with the evidence they had obtained in advance and the cooperation of the Six Gates of East Guangdong, they sealed off his company's headquarters immediately, and many accounts that had not been destroyed in time were seized.
Faced with irrefutable evidence, Gao Wei could no longer sit still...
When he did that, the rookie suffered a lot.
The Shanghai branch was operating normally when a group of thugs suddenly broke in and seized all the accounts.
The same-city delivery project of YeZi Food Delivery, which was undergoing centralized training, was urgently interrupted.
Because of the involvement of DDS, nearly 700 employees of Xiaoqingma in Shanghai have obviously crossed the line.
Yes, the previous low-price competition among companies was not illegal, but the salesperson’s concealment of the company’s operating income was a definite violation of the law.
No one reported it, and perhaps everyone in the company turned a blind eye to it. The problem is that the balance in the company's account is not enough to compensate for the company's losses.
Large-scale claims are inevitable.
The rookie who suffered the most could only watch everything happen. The company account was frozen, and the funds he had just invested were restricted, and he could not withdraw a single cent.
Don't complain. It's your fault for not doing thorough research before investing.
Not to mention that after the investment, more than 30 cooperative factories transferred their collection payments to the company's account one after another. You can't deny that you were not aware of this, right?
The normal transportation cost for 5000 kilometers is more than yuan. If an enterprise dares to accept an order for yuan, the logistics cost will be more than this price.
Two yuan per kilometer does not include tolls and the minimum cost of personnel expenses. How do you explain this?
Malicious low-price competition and suspected infringement of the legitimate rights and interests of third-party logistics companies. The contract signed by them is protected by law. How do you explain these? !
What can rookie executives do?
It's impossible to explain it clearly. If it were in Qiantang, they could just say hello and suppress it.
There are two units that can be investigated, one is Shanghai and the other is Shenzhen. Which one will listen to Qiantang's greeting?
Cold!
Liao Fan, the new general manager of Ali's local lifestyle business unit, has moved out of his original office and has been suspended indefinitely. What awaits him will be a lengthy internal investigation and subsequent accountability.
This fall was too heavy.
Incidentally, the entire group was disgraced. Rumors were flying around about its old rivals, Tenda, Baidu, and the three major portals, and that a certain group's internet trolls were trying their best to stir up trouble on propaganda platforms such as Tieba and Tianya.
Ah Li, this time it's like when it rains it pours. When the wall falls, everyone pushes it. Those who have grudges are taking revenge, and those who have no grudges are just eating melon seeds and watching the fun.
As the situation continued to ferment, Li Zehua also rushed back to the Magic City in an emergency.
He handed over the important task of contacting Jinling Panda Ericsson Electronics to Xie Bin and Liang Xiaolong, and hurried back to the Magic City, of course not for Ali's matter.
Or it has nothing to do with the current Ahri...
Sun Tongyu, who was kicked out in 08, has been holding his breath ever since. He is not trying to prove how great he is.
Instead, his ideas were completely forgotten after his departure, and this blow was even greater than his bleak personal future.
Later, his original intention of investing in Pinxixi was to prove that his philosophy was correct.
The first few years.
Pinxixi has been doing very well in penetrating the rural market, especially in building channels to help and benefit farmers, relying on the vast rural market.
Pinxixi has created a brand new track.
Unfortunately, in any business, once you taste the sweetness of pure capital operation, it will be difficult to do things honestly and down to earth.
It is an inevitable trend for Pinduoduo to replace Taotao, and it is also possible that the two tones (Tik Tok and Transsion) will replace Pinduoduo in the future.
Because capital operation itself has no moat, capital is profit-seeking and will go wherever there is profit.
Sun Tongyu didn't understand this point, so he didn't quite understand why Taotao didn't take a path that was destined not to fail?
No matter how difficult the early days are, will it be more difficult than 03-05?
At that time, relying on the 5,000 strong army, Taobao achieved annual sales of 5 billion, defeating eBay, Tenda, and all seemingly powerful competitors.
Dominate the entire e-commerce field!
But the ensuing internal debate on the road ahead had an intriguing end result. There was almost no room for struggle and he was directly kicked out.
During the year at home, he kept reflecting on why this situation happened.
“Why should I continue to work hard when I can just sit back and collect rent and make money?
Isn’t the ultimate goal of Internet companies to make a profit from the difference in rental prices for second-hand landlords? "
Li Zehua has a very thorough understanding of this. "Looking around the world, apart from Ali in the early stage, which company still has thousands of field promotion teams?
Even Amazon in the United States, which has been incurring continuous losses in building its own warehousing and logistics centers, has not been able to create such a large sales team.
Oh, I forgot to mention that Pinxixi currently has 50,000 people, and will soon have 100,000 people, and maybe 1 million people in the future.”
The place where the two people met was at Sun Tongyu's home, the home in Shanghai, not the one in Qiantang.
Sun Tongyu finally couldn't resist the temptation and started a business?
Is there any e-commerce circle that attracts him?
Even a child knows that they should get up where they fell. You can't just keep crawling forward in front of everyone, right?
“How to make a profit?”
Sun Tongyu looked at the man in front of him who was even more radical than him, and couldn't tell whether he was happy or sad.
It's really sad that an outsider supports him more than his former family members.
“Ecological industrial chain!”
Li Zehua listed them all, "Hummingbird is responsible for solving logistics problems and reducing transportation costs!
The Chichuimai restaurant chain plan is responsible for consuming agricultural resources in vast rural areas. Farmers will have consumption capacity only when they have money.
Pinxixi serves as a link to establish a sales platform connecting rural areas and cities, allowing industrial products to go in and agricultural products to come out.
In the future, this set of ideas will go beyond the borders of China and spread to the world. Along with the rise of China, this set of ideas will be promoted to the whole world.
Foreign countries have the agriculture, fishery, animal husbandry, forestry resources we want, as well as energy minerals and countless human resources.
But there are few countries in the world that have a complete industrial system, and many of them need massive and cheap industrial products.
That's no problem. Through the Pinxixi platform, we can sell all legal goods.
As long as it is needed domestically, we will buy it all. Only a two-way trade can lead to long-term business.
money?
What do we need money for?
What is the use of money?
I'm not interested in money at all!
I just want to say that as long as we do this, money is just paper to you and me, so much that you will want to vomit when you see it.
It seems that no one is interested in the leaves that can be found everywhere. These things that are readily available are only suitable for expressing feelings when groaning for no reason. "
Sun Tongyu was a little scared, but he didn't look like a madman.
Maybe he is too crazy, too crazy, so he behaves like a normal person?
“It’s hard to do this.”
"If you persevere, you will succeed. How do you know it won't work if you don't try?"
Li Zehua opened his arms and said, "Although the foot basin chicken is an enemy, they have a set of skills that are worth learning.
That is to go abroad, make new attempts in different fields facing the world, and continue to penetrate with economic means.
For example, in Brasilia today, you can imagine that more than one-third of the land is occupied by farms and forestry farms.
Is it directly or indirectly controlled by Jiaobenji Capital?
More than half of the soybeans, corn, wheat, barley, rice and fruits exported to my country every year are controlled by them.
Not to mention the domestic part!
My ambition is huge, big enough to accommodate everything about you, to go into the market, to every village and town, is that okay?
Is it possible for us to establish direct cooperation with every farmer anytime and anywhere?
Can we package this up and sell it to the world? "
In his previous life, when he was chatting with his friends in Shanghai, he discovered a strange phenomenon: many people envied Europe and the United States, and many of them also envied the chicken in a basin.
However, as a Korean in the same developed circle in East Asia, few people envied him, and he was curious about this situation at the time.
Later, I gradually came to understand that Foot Basin Chicken does not put all its eggs in one basket, but has diversified its investment strategy and has been investing overseas for the past thirty years.
The ambition is great, but persistence is the key, and it has gradually come into play today. The Koreans are more like nouveau riche, without any foundation, so it's a wonder that people would envy them.
Sun Tongyu really wanted to nod. If he didn’t mean that, why bother to meet and talk?
In the past few months, he also started a business with others, but he just couldn't muster up interest.
However, e-commerce is definitely the one with the highest capital requirements among all entrepreneurial tracks in the Internet field.
Especially since he is the former general manager of Taotao, the market leader, he is destined not to get any investment when starting a business in the e-commerce field.
Investors are not stupid. Investing in him means losing all their money and offending the biggest giant in the industry. Money should not be wasted like this.
He thought he was destined to never get involved in e-commerce again in his life, but things just happened to be like that.
The first collision between Hummingbird and Cainiao made him know the Qingyun Group for the first time.
At that time, I was still thinking, a startup company recruiting six or seven thousand people to engage in same-city takeout express delivery, isn't this just sending it to Ali to recruit?
Taotao has never been a copy of Amazon and eBay. It is Taotao, an Internet company that started out lightly and intended to make easy money.
Jack Ma has stated in public countless times that Ali will never learn from Amazon and accumulate a bunch of heavy asset burdens to hinder the development of the company.
Yes, you read that right. Warehousing and logistics centers that improve e-commerce experience and enhance services were initially seen as a burden on business development.
What kind of company is Ali?
How can I humble myself and create value bit by bit with my own hands like an old farmer in the country?
If JD.com had not emerged, Ali would not have thought of integrating express delivery resources even ten years later.
However, Hummingbird had already made arrangements in advance, and once the US$2 million financing was released, it instantly attracted Ali's attention.
Perhaps, this is also a new track?
Whatever others have, you must have too. No matter whether it is useful or not, just do it first. The investment won’t be too big anyway.
It was through this investment signing that Sun Tongyu got to know Qingyun again.
But he soon found something wrong. Temasek's reaction was obviously excessive. Anyone with a discerning eye could see that exposing the equity transfer of the payment system would not be of much benefit to Temasek.
It is also a shareholder of Ali International.
Before he left, the company had plans to buy back Yahoo's shares and had contacted Temasek, which also expressed goodwill.
The problem could only be caused by Qingyun Group. The turmoil only intensified after Hummingbird rejected Cainiao's acquisition.
Until today, even more explosive news broke out.
It is hard to say that Qingyun was not the one behind this. If he could see it, Ahri could naturally see it too.
So Li Zehua chose to meet in person. Since they had already fallen out, who cared?
Cainiao is in a mess, and Taotao is unable to compete with Pinxixi personally. When it comes to home appliances going to the countryside, the "countryside" in the countryside is the key.
In order to win the hearts of the people, Taotao gave each person a computer and taught those who couldn't even read big characters how to surf the Internet and shop online.
Can't do it?
Are you angry?
Then expand Ahri's Iron Army tenfold, and engage in close combat with Pin Xixi, with the bayonets drawing blood.
Not willing yet?
Then we can only watch Pinxixi act recklessly in the low-end market of e-commerce!
The salesperson does one-on-one work, collects cash, sells goods, and then comes back and openly places orders on the website, risking his life to snatch customers?
This group of so-called customers are actually Pinxixi's salesmen. If they dare to betray the company, the company has plenty of ways to deal with them.
Qingyun is now a self-contained system. Unless it suffers a policy blow at the strategic level, no one can help it!
Not to mention just Ahri, even if the bats were tied together at this time, they would not be afraid.
Sun Tongyu was completely convinced. He was also annoyed by this kind of business logic.
Pinxixi is more of a sales company than an e-commerce company.
But as Li Zehua's imagination continued, his expression slowly changed, "You mean.
A new device that can replace the computer, can be carried and access the Internet anytime and anywhere, that's it?"
As he spoke, he pulled out a smartphone from a drawer. "The product itself and the data costs are too high. I'm afraid we won't be able to achieve the kind of scene you described in a short period of time."
"So in the short term, Pinxixi is in an absolutely safe track with almost no competition."
Li Zehua stared into his eyes and said, "One or two years is enough for us to complete all the layout. The connection of the ecological industrial chain will greatly reduce our costs.
As you know best, the biggest threat Taotao poses to us is its powerful sales team!
As long as you are willing to come, everything will be fine. Isn’t Pinxixi’s sinking strategy the ideal you have always dreamed of?"
Sun Tongyu was very hesitant. He had already seen how Pinxixi had successfully broken through. "But..."
"There is no need to hesitate. No matter how much the compensation under the non-compete agreement is, I will pay it all.
If you are reluctant to give up your original shares in Taotao, you might as well take a longer-term view. Pinxixi has arranged 15% options.
I guarantee that the value of the shares you get will far exceed the profits you make on Taotao.
This can be written into the contract. As long as you are willing to come, the position of executive director and president of Pinxixi will be yours."
Li Zehua's promise was full of sincerity because Sun Tongyu was worth that much.
The mere fact of sharing the same ideals and goals can enable him to extricate himself from the tedious daily and management affairs.
Well worth it.
What's more, his arrival can also disintegrate the Ali Iron Army from within. Never underestimate the prestige of a general manager who has been in a high position since Taotao was established.
His existence is a banner. In the past year, those frustrated backbone members of the Iron Army have been squeezed out and left their jobs.
It's hard to say that he won't be back in his team again.
What Pinxixi lacks most now is a team that can fight tough battles. In another year, Sun Tongyu may not have a suitable position for him.
He also understood this.
He was hesitating.
This was a good thing for Li Zehua. Hesitation meant that his heart was moved. He stopped talking and just waited quietly.
The air suddenly became quiet and time seemed to have come to a standstill.
I don't know how long it took, but he finally raised his head slowly, his eyes firmer than ever before.
"Wish us happy cooperation!"
"Of course! As the new helmsman of Pinxixi, you can transform and improve it according to your own ideas!
But please remember, it is my child. We can use any means to help it go down the market and take root in the countryside, but we cannot change its name!"
"Of course, the lessons learned from the past are enough for me to make changes."
"Then thank you Taotao, I finally did a good thing, haha!" (End of this chapter)