Chapter 335: Silent Change

"Chen Youtian, don't run away, you bastard!"

"Brothers, he's here, come and fight!"

"Beat Chen Youtian! This bastard made us wait in vain. We have goods to ship but cannot get them out, and we have money to earn but cannot get it!"

The Pinduoduo brothers were really ruthless, and Chen Youtian, who almost escaped, was really miserable.

"These bastards really hit me!"

Covering his cheek, Chen Youtian wanted to cry but had no tears. When had the employees of their Qingyun Group been chased and beaten?

Oh, if we get beaten up by brothers from other subsidiaries of the group, then there’s nothing we can do.

Even when I called to complain, no one responded.

When the provincial manager of the Gan Province business department of the Yunyun Gang heard that he was beaten, he stood up and immediately gathered tens of thousands of brothers across the province to avenge him.

When he heard that it was the Pin Xixi brothers who did it, his attitude immediately changed, "Well, they hit you, they must have their reasons.

Don't just keep complaining, look for the reasons in yourself. That's it. I'm busy with the summary meeting. Don't come to me if you have anything to say."

"Manager, that's not what you said when I reported my excellent results yesterday. Hey, hey, hey~"

Chen Youtian wanted to cry but had no tears. He could only find a place where no one was around to cry alone. In the end, it was the head office that intervened to stop him from being chased and beaten...

He didn't even think about it. Given the current state of the Yunyun Gang, with less than 200 people in a province when they were united, were they looking for death to go against Pinxixi, which is also a sister company?

There are at least 8000 full-time employees in Jiangxi Province, and tens of thousands of part-time employees. How can we fight?
Besides, this matter is hard to say.

Chen Youtian reported this week's results, and the entire senior management of Yunyun Gang was alarmed.

This is great news! From December 12.24 to January 1, in just ten days, Yunyunbang Gannan Business Department added more than 3 registered large trucks and more than 1400 small and medium-sized trucks to the company.

The commission income from freight alone contributes several million.

At the same time, the Fengniao same-city delivery business in southern Jiangxi also developed rapidly.

Looking across the country, only a few prefecture-level cities with large-scale agriculture, forestry and animal husbandry can match this achievement.

January is the craziest month for Pinxixi. Whether it is e-commerce, group buying platform, or the newly launched Pinxixi international platform, they are all gaining momentum rapidly.

With the successful launch of Honor Electronics' new p9 series and Panda Electronics' z10 (meaning the end of the series), internal procurement volume has increased sharply, and it is hard to say how much the sales will exceed billion.

The first major plan for the first round of high-value financing in the first week is to enrich people's tables, covering everything from fruits, vegetables to meat.

Pinxixi has mobilized almost all the resources of the Qingyun system, including its cooperative partners. Why not buy some New Year's goods to reward its employees before the Chinese New Year?
For example, the bosses of BOE, one of the six major home appliance companies that were holding a meeting in Pengcheng at the time, could not escape Li Zehua's publicity bombardment. Li Dongsheng was so amused that he chose to order 6 Gannan navel oranges.

As well as 12 Apple and other strange products, they are distributed to employees as New Year's goods and rewards before the New Year. Tongda and Fengniao provide full delivery services.

The Tongda Group and JD.com did not escape Li Zehua's clutches. Even hundreds of thousands of small and medium-sized companies that cooperated with the Qingyun system had salesmen come to their doors to sell their products, all for the sake of the cooperation.

Order more or less.

Don't underestimate this kind of personal favor-based orders. Small amounts can add up to a lot, especially when you are dealing with a boss who has the final say and has money. This is extra profit that you earned (or saved) through the Qingyun system in the past year.

Just take out a little to show your respect and support. A small company with a dozen people can purchase a dozen pieces, and a large company with tens of thousands of people can purchase tens of thousands of pieces. It's not expensive, only a few hundred to a few million yuan.

The key is that the products promoted by the Qingyun Group are also well-known in the market, and the prices offered are quite favorable, which is more than 1/3 cheaper than when employees buy them from the market, so it is not embarrassing to use them to distribute New Year goods.

Including all online shopping companies on the Pinxixi group buying platform, e-commerce companies, restaurants cooperating with Chizuome, community stores and fruit stores cooperating with agricultural service companies.

With a full-scale promotion, the fruit orders sold every day reached millions of pieces, tens of millions to hundreds of millions of kilograms.

There are new orders all the time, and the payments are super timely, with almost no order returns.

Entering these orders kept the logistics staff of Qingyun Group very busy, because Sun Tongyu issued a strict order that offline orders must be displayed on the online website.

Other companies would rather spend their own money to fake orders to create the illusion that their website has booming sales. It makes no sense for Pinxixi to hide so many new orders, let alone convince investors.

Take out more money to invest in Pinxixi. Those group buying companies don’t mind making some commissions, so why should the company employees be lazy?
The top is executing the overall strategy, and the salesmen at the bottom are running around, working frantically for the profits that are about to come.

Only the middle-level managers are worried. For example, the provincial regions of Yunyunbang are very worried because their core interests conflict with Pinxixi.

No plan can be perfect, such as the national sales week of key fruits and vegetables, meat, electronic consumer products, cosmetics, New Year gifts and other core products promoted by Pinduoduo this time.

It is obvious that they did not take the local transportation level into consideration. They only sent a letter requesting Tongda, SF Express, JD.com, Fengniao and Yunyunbang to allocate transportation support in a timely manner.

Of course it doesn't matter under normal circumstances, but these few companies can affect tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of transport vehicles, and they can concentrate the transportation in minutes. Not to mention hundreds of thousands of tons of oranges, even if there are ten times more, they will be cleared out for you.

But when is it now?
On the eve of the New Year, the national transportation capacity is the most strained!

It doesn't matter whether it's consumer electronics, cosmetics, or New Year gifts, they are all concentrated in and around big cities, with plenty of transport vehicles ready to be used at any time.

The only thing is the traffic conditions in the areas where raw materials for fruits, vegetables and meat are supplied. Any normal person can easily guess that economically developed areas would plant fruit trees and raise cattle and sheep on a large scale.
It is difficult to transport the goods to the county because they are in the deep mountains. How can we use this as a center to ship them to the whole country? Where will the vehicles come from?
At a time when the national transportation capacity was the most strained, it was impossible to allocate transportation capacity from other places. Finally, at an internal meeting, Sun Tongyu slammed the table at Zeng Haiyang.

The latter reluctantly agreed to let Hummingbird coordinate and spend a high price to transfer a batch of vehicles from the surrounding area to provide reinforcements. At the same time, it spread the word in the market and continued to attract social vehicles to go there spontaneously with high prices.

Zeng Haiyang had no choice. For this reason alone, Hummingbird lost at least 1000 million in potential profits, and also had to bear several million in additional expenses for the high-priced deployment of vehicles.

Who would be happy if this happened to them?
Although they are in the same group, the shareholders of Hummingbird are mainly JD.com, Tongda Group, and Magic Investment, and the capital behind them is not the same as that behind Pinxixi.

As the vice chairman and president of Hummingbird, Zeng Haiyang is of course responsible for the interests of Hummingbird.

Especially since he has recently also served as a director of Yunyunbang, these two companies have conflicts of interest with Pinxixi's overall strategy, so he must stick to his bottom line in this position.

If Sun Tongyu had not agreed to invest an additional 3000 million to purchase services, and if Li Zehua had not called from Pengcheng to persuade the shareholders to accept it, he would never have agreed.

Even if they finally agreed, there was no authorization to sacrifice the interests of Hummingbird and Yunyunbang to unconditionally help Pinxixi develop.

Previously, we arranged for relatively idle employees of Hummingbird to return home 20 days in advance and work part-time at Pinxixi. The results showed that there were both advantages and disadvantages.

Pinxixi is doing well, as its available manpower has skyrocketed by tens of thousands, including employees from Chimei, crowdsourcing companies, and Tongda, all of whom have gone to work part-time, and the company has also recruited tens of thousands of temporary staff from all over the country to help.

As for Hummingbird, the number of complaints surged, and Mr. Zeng was scolded at the shareholders' meeting, and Li Zehua was also scolded a lot.

Because the volume of same-city delivery business ushered in a new round of surge before the Chinese New Year, employees of companies that rushed to reimburse before the New Year sent invoices, and the two companies that signed and renewed contracts before the New Year sent various documents, etc.

For a moment, the hummingbird, which had lost almost half of its staff, almost collapsed.

They had no choice but to urgently recruit college students from the university town who had not yet returned home, promising to send them home for free during the New Year, and also recruited people who were urgently transferred from Chizume.

They have just barely managed to cope with it. Now Zeng Haiyang wishes they could run a hundred orders every day, otherwise the piled up orders will be snatched away by rookies.
How much trouble does this alone cause to hummingbirds?
The number of full-time/part-time employees who needed to be sent home suddenly increased by several thousand. The average ticket price would be over a million even if it was one or two hundred yuan, not to mention the additional scheduling and backend docking. It was really troublesome.

With this attitude from the top, the Hummingbird and Yunyunbang staff who are responsible for the execution will naturally not be too happy. They just have to do their job impartially.

You guys on Pinduoduo want to eat and get rich, but we are raised by stepmothers?

Everything is done according to the rules. If you want to receive goods from Fengniao or Yunyunbang, you must first register and review the vehicle qualifications, driver's license, driver's physical and mental health, family situation, etc.

Only those who have passed the review are allowed to accept orders. Those who do things without permission will be blocked and will not cooperate or send orders to you in the future. We will just record the vehicle frame number and driver serial number and say goodbye to you.

The drivers are also scared. These two things are very powerful now, and they have a lot of orders. It is said that as long as they register, there will be no shortage of goods from the beginning of the year to the end of the year, and the most important thing is that the commission is low.

Unlike ordinary freight stations, which often charge a 30% commission (sometimes you don’t need to pay commission when taking orders yourself, but you must pay for the goods provided by the freight station).

The most important thing is that there are double orders back and forth. The agricultural and sideline products purchased by Pinduoxi are shipped to big cities, and the consumer goods ordered by Pinduoxi before the New Year are shipped back. And it's not just one or two trucks, the supply of goods that the cooperating drivers can run around for is so attractive. The benefits of cooperating with Yunyunbang are simply too many.

I won’t give examples one by one here, but in short, everyone is cooperating for the sake of profit. The few who only care about immediate interests won’t be able to play for long.

Now it was the turn of Pinxixi employees to complain wildly, watching so many orders pile up at the place of production and unable to be shipped out. One navel orange weighed ten kilograms, and the purchase price ranged from 15 to 30 yuan, depending on the quality.

Including the delivery fee, it is only between 30 and 60 yuan, but the sales cost is at least 45 to 400 yuan. If you sell one item, there are also online sales, promotion, scheduling, clerical staff, etc.

You can get a bonus of 6-80 yuan (sales price and commission depend on the quality of the goods). With millions of pieces of goods shipped every day, how many people’s meals are delayed? Do you know?
How anxious are the Pinxixi employees who were drawn from all over the province to help?
On the first day, they were still actively coordinating transportation capacity and were happy to see vehicles attracted from all over the place by high prices. However, they were disgusted by the cumbersome procedures of Yunyunbang and Hummingbird.

The next day, less than one-fifth of the vehicles had drivers who successfully registered and started taking orders. When asked, the employees of Yunyunbang confidently said that these were expedited applications.

Under normal circumstances, the review period is at least ten days to half a month. Is the company's slogan of providing the best and most preferential services in the industry just an exaggeration?

How can we do without strict review of drivers and vehicles?
If we let a group of elderly and frail drivers drive cars with obvious hidden dangers and even uninsured vehicles out there, who will be responsible if something goes wrong?

Pinxixi employees couldn't stand it. They only saw their efforts being treated as a joke and watched the parking lot full of empty cars and next to them were mountains of products that could not be transported.

They are angry!

The conflict broke out.

At the beginning, it was just verbal abuse, scolding and confrontation, but later it gradually evolved into small-scale conflicts between Pinxixi employees and Yunyunbang and Fengniao employees.

In southern Jiangxi, Pinduoduo employees openly excluded the Yunyunbang and even engaged in a fight.

Both parties are right. Pinxixi employees need to eat and goods need to be shipped. They can't just wait for the slow review and sit back and watch the idle capacity show, right?
As for the Yunyunbang, they also have to eat. The unbalanced development of transportation capacity is not their fault. Of course, they can only collect commissions after registering the additional social vehicle resources obtained through the company's channels.

If they don’t make money, they will starve?

Fortunately, the company's top management was not blind. After dealing with the most troublemakers and temporarily setting up a fast track for personnel and vehicle inspections, most of the conflicts were eased...

Old man Zhou and his family also breathed a sigh of relief. After five years, they finally saw their money return for the first time.

It was just tens of thousands of kilograms of navel oranges. It took two days to hire people to pick them all from the trees. After a simple quality classification and sweetness test, they began to be packaged in five-kilogram and ten-kilogram packages.

This time, he was not stingy and hired more than a dozen laborers from the village to select, pack, seal boxes, and label the goods every day, and then load them onto trucks to be sent to all parts of the country.

By the way, the first concentrated and large-scale application of QR codes took place here. More than 1500 million QR codes were used in southern Jiangxi at one time, making the shareholders of the FaMao Group collectively delighted.

The Tongda Group, SF Express and the Post Office are also fully cooperating, and many express parcels are sent out at preferential prices according to pre-negotiated contracts.

In short, everyone benefits, including the consumers who ultimately pay for it, who also enjoy more favorable prices and very considerate services.

In Jiangxi Province, the local government in southern Jiangxi gave honors to the government for free, and even during the 7 o'clock slot, there were a series of reports on Pinxixi's assistance to farmers.

Not everyone is eligible to enjoy the three-minute follow-up camera shot. The assistance to key areas carried out simultaneously in Shaanxi, Gansu, Heilongjiang, Shandong, Jiangxi, Fujian, Hainan and other places has been recognized by the top level.

The special subsidies urgently allocated by the agricultural department alone amounted to more than 4 million RMB. This was a special reward for Pinxixi for selling unsaleable products to over 170 million farmers across the country before the New Year.

But the real benefits are more than just this little bit...

"Manager Liao, you must give me a chance to repay you. You saved the lives of my entire family!"

It was lunchtime, and Old Man Zhou was so excited when he saw the last box of navel oranges being loaded onto the courier truck and taken away. He didn't know what to say.

Apart from repeatedly instructing his son and daughter-in-law to kill chickens and fish and celebrate the New Year in advance, he held the passbook in one hand and held Liao Chengming with the other hand, refusing to let him leave.

But the latter really had no time to stay, because with the arrival of the first batch of return vehicles, Pinxixi's monthly sales plan for rural areas officially began.

Countless home appliances, furniture, electronic products, and daily consumer goods fill the temporarily rented warehouses, and personnel temporarily recruited from various friendly companies and local areas need to be arranged and coordinated.

As the manager of a subsidiary in a prefecture-level city, he has to rush back to take charge of the overall situation. Not to mention eating, he even wants to find someone to sleep with him.

If this wasn't a pilot project under his supervision, and Old Man Zhou's image and temperament were not most suitable for advertising needs, he wouldn't appear here.

Old man Zhou is blessed by God. He doesn't even need to be packaged. His simple actions can touch the simplest emotions in the hearts of countless people.

Because he perfectly fits the definition of the image of a father in the traditional Chinese memory, a great image of a taciturn man who silently gives and can hold up the world at critical moments!

After the Pinxixi group buying platform agreed to sign the contract, it directly used the image of him holding a navel orange with a determined look in his eyes.

Paired with a photo of a little girl from Shaanxi showing an apple with hope on her face, but with the background of a drought-scarce desert, it forms a promotional photo that instantly touches people's hearts...

After sending a text message to ask the courier truck to stop at the village entrance for a while and looking for an opportunity, Liao Chengming ran away. He ran very fast, fearing that if he was slow he would be caught and taken back to eat the New Year's Eve dinner early.

When Old Man Zhou found out, he threw down the passbook, which he regarded as his life, without any hesitation and started chasing after him.

The two men staged a chase in the village, and the villagers all held their bowls to watch the excitement, because the one in front was running and shouting, "I don't want to eat anymore. I'm busy with work. Brother Zhou, go back quickly."

The old man Zhou behind him kept chasing after him, "Stay for dinner, I must thank you for your kindness!"

What he said is absolutely true. If the sales continue to be poor this year, their family will basically break up. They cannot blame the daughter-in-law. What mother in the world would like to see her son suffer from poverty and not have enough meat to eat?
Without Pin Xixi coming in to receive the goods, he didn’t dare to imagine what the result would be…

"One, ten, hundred, thousand, ten thousand, my god, why are there more ahead?"

In the room, the daughter-in-law picked up the passbook and was stunned.

Zhou Daan noticed something was wrong, took a closer look, and was also stunned. He leaned in to take a closer look, his voice trembling, "More than 240,000?"

Zhou Xiaoan looked up, his eyes full of astonishment.

"The fruit you grow is of high quality. The purchase price is a little over 4 yuan. For 6 kilograms, more than yuan is normal."

Liao Chengming was speechless after being stopped by villagers and forcibly arrested. "There is still advertising income later, but the company hasn't said how much..."

After a detailed explanation, he was forced to sit at the table. He looked at the table full of delicious food and held the cup tightly.

"I won't drink any more. I still have to go to work in the afternoon. Hundreds of people are waiting for me to go back and arrange their work. I can't afford to delay serious matters."

I'm also worried about how to get back to the city later.

"No, no, Daan, don't drink either."

Old man Zhou, who had lifted the huge stone from his heart, laughed so happily for the first time. He knew that there was no bus service in the village, so he waved his hand and said:

"Are you worried about how to get back? That's easy. Go borrow a tricycle from next door and my son and I will take you back personally. No, our whole family will go."

"No, no, brother, you are tired too, just rest at home in the afternoon."

“That won’t work. I have to take care of your business when I make money. We in the village have already discussed it. We’re going to Pinxixi store together to do some shopping today.

We didn’t have money before and couldn’t afford anything, but now we can buy whatever we need, because we have money now!”

Old man Zhou, who was holding the passbook again, got drunk before he even drank the wine.

"Grandpa, buy a big color TV, remember to buy a big color TV! I want to watch Sun Wukong!"

The five-year-old grandson was holding a big chicken leg and shouting excitedly. He was attracted by Pinxixi’s beautiful promotional brochure.

"Okay, buy them all!" (End of this chapter)