"Let's put aside the conflict with Tenda. As long as the advertising traffic promotion agreement is still being implemented and there is no conflict of principle, it is not a big problem. Let's mainly communicate and resolve it."

Li Zehua, who had finally extricated himself from the tedious affairs of Hong Kong and packed up his things and returned to the Magic City, did not stop for a moment.

At the company's high-level meeting, he frowned as he looked at the report.

“How long have I been gone?

The frequency of conflicts on the front lines has increased recently. Is it because you lack the ability to control them, or is there another reason?
My goodness, just do a random search and you’ll see that Weibo and Tieba are full of news about group employees proactively provoking others. Don’t you guys read them?

If this continues, what kind of negative impression will the outside world have of the group?
How much does it cost to clean this?

Old Wu, I'll leave this matter to you. Three days. I'll only give you three days. This trend of leading the trend and doing dirty work on the Internet must be reversed.

Especially give a shout out to Baidu. You have invested so much money in advertising, don’t just take the money and not do any work.”

Wu Yibin nodded and complained to several business leaders, "Everyone, please calm down. The public relations maintenance expenses this month have seriously exceeded the budget.

The special advertising fee contributed to Sina alone is as high as 430 million yuan. The online publicity department has added more than 40 people since the end of the third quarter, and they work overtime all day long to clean up your mess."

The experienced Sun Tongyu blew on his glasses and wiped them carefully with a piece of cloth, as if he was not the one being held accountable. Zeng Haiyang next to him followed suit, holding the teacup calmly and taking a sip from time to time.

Only Qin Lang's experience was a little shallow. He looked at this and that, wanting to explain but not having the courage to speak.

Fortunately, Yang Zhichao is in Yanjing, otherwise, with his temper, he would definitely argue with me. It is inevitable that he will be scolded for doing things.

"Who would refuse an opportunity to take advantage of others?"

Xie Bin, who had just returned from the southwest, sat behind Gu Shijie. Seeing that his boss didn't quite understand, he sent him a message on the internal communication software.

"Doing business on the front line is different from doing it in the office. It requires speed, accuracy and ruthlessness. The simpler and more brutal it is, the better the effect. We have strength in numbers, and the boss is willing to spend money to clean up the mess, so the people below are confident.

Like the man in Vancouver, there is no need to worry about suffering lifelong disability. With the house in hand, the rest of your life will be secure.

You don't know that when the news reached the Southwest Region, the people below were rubbing their hands in anticipation as if they had been injected with chicken blood, and they would come up with something to do even if there was nothing else to do.

Those competitors scattered all over the country were already like a pile of loose sand. Seeing this result, how could they dare to fight head-on? They were outnumbered and were afraid before the battle. It would be strange if they could win. "

Gu Shijie understood immediately, "No wonder the conflict is out of control. The harder they fight, the more business they get. The overall performance is rising. It turns out that the root cause is here. Everyone is fearless."

The reason is so simple, there are great advantages in numbers. The salesmen of Qingyun Group take a walk around the market, as if they are inspecting their own territory, and they are very protective of their food.

When encountering salesmen from competitors, they are not afraid at all. Even if they are outnumbered, they will take the initiative to provoke them. Once a conflict occurs, several companies will attack together and defeat the opponent in minutes.

Over time, Qingyun Group's salesmen became more and more arrogant in the market, and malicious order snatching continued unabated.

In particular, many manufacturers have reached cooperation with Fengniao and have logistics express package delivery needs, on the premise that the two group buying companies offer similar conditions.

Pinxixi sales staff bring the Hummingbird business into the discussion, which brings greater overall advantages.

Because manufacturing companies not only do group buying, but also have normal sales networks that require transportation services, they can get more preferential policies by joining Hummingbird, and the annual savings in transportation costs are not a small amount.

Zeng Haiyang had no objection. Anyway, Pinxixi would take out a portion of its excess profits to subsidize Hummingbird to offset the book losses, and there would even be some profit in the final calculation.

In this round of competition, Qingyun Group is feeling comfortable, while its group buying competitors that suffered losses are very unhappy, but they can't do anything about Qingyun Group.

Originally, the grassroots salesmen whose core interests were impacted should have united to fight back, but the Pinxixi promotion department headed by Sun Tongyu took over Gu Shijie's job.

While grabbing orders, they are also responsible for grabbing people.

When a conflict of interest occurs, they don't forget to give people a business card. If you can't beat them, you can always join. The salary and benefits offered by Pinxixi are also super high in the entire industry.

Even many group buying salesmen under Qiandu have joined the company, not to mention these small companies.

This is the reason why Sun Tongyu and others did not respond, refute or explain.

problem?

The problem is that the business departments benefit greatly from the conflict and are able to exceed the company's assigned targets, so there is no problem as long as they can make money.

On the contrary, they also brought over the people who raised the questions and solved the problems in disguised form.

As for the malicious posts on the Internet that slander the company, it is obvious at a glance that it is the competitors who are leading the trend. This is the job of the public relations and legal departments and it is none of their business.

Li Zehua and Liu Zijie next to him looked at each other, and the latter gave a helpless look. It was normal business competition, so they couldn't tie their own hands, right?

The first item on the agenda of the meeting was a resolution to restrain employees as much as possible and not to initiate malicious provocations, otherwise they would bear the consequences themselves.

It ended so anticlimactically.

Then, Lin Wenhui cleared his throat and summarized the gains from this trip to Hong Kong, emphasizing the contacts with IDG, Goldman Sachs, Sequoia, and Tengda Investment...

"Everyone can express any opinions you have, and speak freely."

As soon as Li Zehua finished speaking, Liu Zijie frowned and said, "Chairman, didn't you always say that we should avoid direct cooperation with American capital as much as possible? How come the second round of financing is basically all American capital?"

"That's a good question."

Seeing everyone looking at him in confusion, Li Zehua explained, “Before going to Hong Kong, I had been thinking about where to go public after Pinduoduo Group Buying was split.

Mr. Lin knows that at the beginning we talked about going to New York, but later due to changes in specific circumstances, we finally chose Hong Kong or Lijiaopo.

Based on this judgment, appropriately choosing capital cooperation with special influence in China or Southeast Asia will be beneficial to the company's future development.

But unfortunately, just like Pinxixi relied on the campus market support that it had laid out in advance through Chime Fengniao, the development of its smartphone business also cannot be separated from American capital support.

Whether it is the key hardware of the mobile phone or the operating software, the core technologies of 3G or 4G are all under the control and influence of American capital.

According to information from early contacts with overseas departments, several companies, including Qualcomm, have implicitly conveyed this view during negotiations.

To put it bluntly, it is the principle of common interests!"

There were many things that Li Zehua did not explain in detail, but he believed that everyone in front of him understood.

For example, in Hong Kong, Goldman Sachs clearly told Qingyun Group that if it wanted to make smartphones, it was okay, no problem, as it was an era of free economic trade and all it needed was money.

But does Qingyun Group want some special protection?
For example, Goldman Sachs and Citigroup can provide assistance with chip export approval, key technology licensing negotiations, and other corresponding conveniences, and even future product exports to the United States.

They can also provide help, especially when it comes to conflicts with Nokia and Motorola on mobile phone manufacturing and communications patents.

It is no exaggeration to say that at this stage, any smartphone that wants to have all the functions will inevitably infringe on the patents of these two companies.

In the previous life, Apple, Samsung, Huawei and Nokia had a patent tug-of-war that lasted for more than ten years until 24 years before Li Zehua was reborn.

Nokia is still relying on communication equipment technology patents to continue charging patent fees to smartphone manufacturers. The reality is so outrageous that the first-mover advantage cannot be simply summarized in one sentence.

Although Li Zehua was reborn, he had never been involved in the manufacturing industry, especially the high-tech industry. The water is too complicated and one can easily fall into a trap if one is not careful.

He understood that 10 years later, the domestic smartphone market began to continue to be hot, including products like Lenovo that were purely assembled by OEM factories and had no technology to speak of.

With tens of millions of units sold every year, there's no reason why he can't do it.

As it turned out, he was really wrong.

After a trip to Hong Kong and experiencing some people and events, he gradually understood why HTC, one of the earliest companies to develop in the Android camp, quickly disappeared.

Just like Samsung Electronics, which later disappeared from the domestic market, the bottom line is that they did not conform to the core interests of the University of Tokyo.

Gradually developed into the world's second largest economy.

We will not tolerate our vital and lifeline industries being controlled by others!

Therefore, lithium batteries are replacing traditional fuel to reduce the demand for external energy; Beidou is replacing GPS. In short, this is a path that an emerging powerful country must take to rise.

Apple has the entire United States behind it. We can't defeat it for now, so we have to endure it.

Samsung, especially the middlemen behind HTC, are nothing. Are they worthy of asking Dongda to come forward to explain? The higher-ups are happy to see Qingyun Group's plan to make mobile phones. After all, this is Li Zehua's position.

But it is precisely this that exposes the entire Qingyun directly to capital. Oh no, in addition to the selected assembly factory Lian Xiang, there is another fat sheep who jumped in on his own initiative?
In the field of high-tech, Western capital's stance towards the University of Tokyo is surprisingly consistent, that is, blockade and restriction.

Since it is possible to support a company on the computer side, Lenovo has completely abandoned its self-developed technology and is reaping profits continuously through technology patent licensing.

The same is true on mobile phones.

Just copy the entire disk!
The emergence of Qingyun did not surprise them, but rather it was quite a pleasant surprise, because this company had a lot of interesting things, but most importantly, it did not have any technical accumulation.

As long as the early stage is well controlled, the harvest can still be carried out smoothly in the later stage.

They have been doing so throughout history, until the emergence of the Petal Factory and the launch of the domestically produced and independently developed smartphone technology, when they hastily abandoned their useless compradors.

By choosing to support two other companies that seemed to be very capable, the global smartphone market landscape was formed and no surprises occurred in the next decade.

In fact, Li Zehua should thank American capital. If it weren't for their continued suppression of the semiconductor business of Ford, the competitors he would face now would be even stronger.

Every one of these companies, such as Toshiba and Sony, has not been defeated by economic competition.

In the 98 Southeast Asian economic crisis, it was the Koreans who suffered the most.

Others only lost the fruits of more than a decade of economic development, but they lost the entire country's economic dominance and financial control.

This is why the so-called Korean and Taiwanese semiconductors have risen sharply in the past twenty years. To put it bluntly, these two companies are more conducive to capital control and are not like chickens in a basin that jump up and resist from time to time.

Now, it is the turn of Li Zehua and the entire Qingyun Group to make a choice.

As a dog?

nonexistent.

However, it is not so easy to continue to keep a low profile, secretly support Zhongxin and JD.com, and contact Huaban to carry out independent research and development.

Because the capital has clearly conveyed its intention to invest in Panda, Honor, Pinxixi, and even Hummingbird.

Once you acquire shares in the future, the directors will keep a close eye on you and the company’s secrets will no longer be hidden.

Either they are completely tied up in interests and accept the repeated reaping of Western capital through technology patents.

This path is relatively easier to take because there is no burden of technological research and development, no risk of being blocked by sanctions, and the Western market is always open to the Qingyun Group.

The bulk of the income is supplied on time by introducing technology and other means. Relying on the increasingly perfect domestic industrial chain and lowering costs, the last few drops of oil can always be squeezed out.

Once the situation changes in the future, they will rush to run away and continue to enjoy life overseas before liquidation, such as the founders of these American venture capital firms that want to invest.

Before Li Zehua was reborn, almost all of them ran away.

But he also had to save his dignity, and his kneecaps were a bit stiff, so he couldn't kneel down. He also wanted to eat while standing. What should he do?
There is only one way, to pretend to be nice and dance with the wolf!

There are still six years before they turn against each other. During these six years, the worst that can happen is that I can just play along with them.

Anyway, the Pinxixi group buying platform plans to go to the United States to make money. It will use this piece of fat to hook American capital first. It will be easy if they have common interests.

The coordination of interests between China and Qiandu also depends on the help of these American capitals, as long as we can successfully get through the initial difficult start-up stage.

His plans and layout will also unfold bit by bit. Roewe's path is the easiest to take because their products are all mid- and low-end, so there is not much pressure to fully localize them.

As for the future of Panda and Honor, if they have half the hope in hardware, they can only go to Pengcheng to seek help from Huaban, as the latter is self-contained in the field of communications.

4g has a certain degree of autonomy, 5g is almost on par with the West, and let’s not talk about the 6g layout, which is still a metaphysical issue.

Especially after 08, Squid has brought several giants in the Western communications field to the brink of death, thus clearing the way for the development of Petal Factory in disguise.

The software doesn’t matter. The previous generations of Roewe products must have been equipped with Android, but the research and development of a domestic operating system based on this with completely independent intellectual property rights will never stop.

Especially the Roewe series sold to remote rural areas and underdeveloped regions in Asia, Africa and Latin America are destined to be dominated by domestic operating systems.

This is very important and will prepare for the complete switch to domestic operating systems for mid-to-high-end products at some point in the future.

What? You said that software manufacturers won’t follow up, there won’t be enough supporting software apps, and the new system won’t be accepted by consumers?
That completely underestimates the domestic software companies in the era of internal circulation. They are almost being crushed, so why would they care about anything else?
As long as there is a large enough user base, there is no need to worry about no one upgrading the supporting software...

"It's still not comprehensive enough."

Only two directors from Temasek were allowed to participate in this meeting. Even Fang Guohui, the director who was jointly recommended by many capitals, was not notified in order to prevent the news from leaking.

The reasons were ready-made. The topic of the meeting was how to save the company and its image in the public eye, which had nothing to do with Fang Guohui's job as he was responsible for capital operations and contact with financial institutions.

"That's basically the situation. The commercial negotiations on accepting American investment in Pinxixi group buying will be temporarily handled by General Manager Lin Wenhui."

Li Zehua pressed his forehead and said tiredly: "The smartphone business is a top-secret development plan of the group. Just know that there is such a thing, and don't spread it to others.

Guo Xinyi, after the meeting, you will be responsible for destroying all paper records.

In the future, Honor Electronics’ meeting minutes involving sensitive information must also be kept confidential.”

It is impossible to keep it secret completely. As long as Qingyun makes any move, the outside world will be able to detect it. For example, it is impossible for Roewe mobile phones not to be put on the market for sale, right?

But as long as the top management of the group does not discuss it in public, there will not be any big problem. With such huge interests involved, no one can easily make a decision to cut interests.

The key lies in whether he, the helmsman, can withstand pressure from all sides and whether the invested funds can achieve certain technological breakthroughs.

Guo Xinyi nodded silently. He now felt that the burden on his shoulders was too heavy. When things were going well, suddenly something like this happened. Couldn't everyone just do business happily?

Why do we have to mix in so many other plans?

His outlook on Honor's future has changed from being extremely optimistic at the beginning to being cautiously optimistic now.

Others have a similar attitude. Some even think that since smartphones are so difficult to make, they might as well not make them and just wait for other companies to make them and then invest in them.

But Li Zehua has eyes that can see through the future. If you don’t do it now, it will be too late to do it in the future.

If you learn from Tengda to abandon your burdens and go for asset-light operations so that no one can find any evidence to threaten you, you can indeed live a comfortable life.

The key is that he has no foundation to stand on, no core competitive advantage, and no support from the entire Chaozhou Porridge Group behind him.

If you really intend to follow Tengda's path, it will be a question whether the company will be named Li in a few years.

It's not like now, when the entire group affects the direct interests of millions of people, making those who are interested in it afraid to act rashly.

"That's basically the situation. Tomorrow I will go to Yanjing to report the situation to the relevant departments and apply for policy support from the national level."

Li Zehua didn't even attend the bell ringing ceremony for Longfor's listing in Hong Kong. Of course, he came back not just to hold a meeting or coordinate and unify ideas.

All matters including support for the localization of new energy power technology, smartphone business, overseas cooperation of Famao Group and cryptocurrency need to be communicated to the higher-ups.

Mr. Zeng of CATL is eagerly waiting for him to take the money, pack up and leave with his team.

Only the crying child gets the milk. Now that American capital is coming in with great force, he can't bear the pressure, so of course he has to ask the adults in the family to step in and support him.

If he could negotiate a policy similar to new energy subsidies, Internet non-financial institution payment licenses, and a policy that prohibits non-domestic capital from holding shares, then he would have nothing to fear.

Although it is unlikely, after all, the technological advantage lies outside, but how can we know if it works if we don’t try it? With the smartphone consumer market worth hundreds of billions of dollars every year, can capital just give up easily?
“It’s so hard to do anything.”

Liu Zijie shook his head. He originally had a lot of things to report, but now he had to solve them himself.

"Let's understand each other."

Li Zehua smiled bitterly, "There's nothing I can do. I was born to work hard. If I want to stand up straight and be a man, I have to work harder than others.

Cherish every moment you have! "(End of this chapter)