Reinventing the Millennium.

Chapter 545 Replacing ban with selection (two in one)

Fang Zhuo really didn't have a private appointment to go to Qiu Lanhua, but he has already returned to Shencheng, and there are many opportunities to communicate on formal occasions.

On January 1, Shencheng General Chamber of Commerce held a tea party in Pudong, both of them attended.

The year before last, Fang Zhuo was elected as the vice president. This year, the council of the chamber of commerce has notified in advance that he will become the honorary president of the Shencheng General Chamber of Commerce.

To be honest, Fang Zhuo didn't care about these things. Wan Province had a similar honor last year, but it didn't make him happy that Ice Core's risky trial production progressed a step forward.

But, having said that, last month, the media in Shencheng expressed their stance and praised outstanding entrepreneurs, and the promotional units of the General Chamber of Commerce are the same. Now that they are back in Shencheng, it is hard not to support them.

At the tea party, there were a lot of flowers, and they were all good people.

Every face Fang Zhuo saw was smiling, and he also politely exchanged business cards and kept numbers.

"Old leader, I want to ask you something, is there no one from SMIC?"

When Fang Zhuo saw Qiu Lanhua, he didn't exchange pleasantries, but asked a question directly.

"They are in a state of desperation now, how can Mr. Zhang be in the mood? Do you think it's you?" Qiu Lanhua made a small complaint to avenge the petty official on the phone.

"That's right, I heard that there might be a turning point in their lawsuit?" Fang Zhuo asked again.

"Who did you hear that from?" Qiu Lanhua was a little surprised at Mr. Fang's well-informed information. During a meeting in the city this week, he really discussed the situation of SMIC, "There will probably be a reconciliation, and the kind that has to lose money. "

Fang Zhuo nodded slightly. It is basically impossible to win the lawsuit, and it is better to simply lose money.

He couldn't figure out the process and reason why SMIC's turmoil stopped, but from a business perspective, he felt that the serious damage to the vitality of losing money could be alleviated through time and development.

"Are you looking for Mr. Zhang?" Qiu Lanhua asked.

Fang Zhuo hesitated for a moment, then shook his head: "It's nothing, just ask, although Bing Xin is considered a competitor now, but the big front is still the same, and the domestic market is also huge."

Qiu Lanhua was slightly suspicious, but didn't think much about it.

There is less than a month before the Lunar New Year, and there are quite a lot of concluding matters in the district. Today, meeting Mr. Fang is just right to take the lead in a performance project.

Although Fang Zhuo was dissatisfied with Qiu Xiaoguan's previous talkativeness, he didn't really take it to heart, and he was very proud of the old leader.

The tea party of the General Chamber of Commerce was very lively. Even if some business owners with competing relationships met, it was still a Chinese New Year atmosphere--everyone who celebrated the Chinese New Year came here.

When it was over, Fang Zhuo took the stage to speak on behalf of the General Chamber of Commerce, and read a manuscript eloquently, praising the commercial development of Shencheng, and also praised the enlightenment and support of the administrative leaders.

A cliché is a cliché, but the person who speaks in this situation is very important.

Many corporate presidents and bosses who saw a living person for the first time whispered when Mr. Fang was speaking.

"So this is Mr. Fang?"

"I heard that Mr. Fang has great energy! He is the guest of the leaders of Shencheng!"

"Boss Fang is quite young, and he speaks with energy, but he seems to be very sharp in his actions."

Fang Zhuo stepped off the stage amid warm applause with a smile on his face, and the tea party was declared over.

"Mr. Fang, you should have had a lot of things a year ago." Qiu Lanhua said with a smile, "Honors such as outstanding entrepreneurs are indispensable."

Fang Zhuo felt a headache when he heard this sentence, but he couldn't refuse, so he could only sigh.

"How do you spend the New Year? In Shencheng or Luzhou?" Qiu Lanhua asked, "If you're here, come and drink tea when you have time."

"I'm not sure." Fang Zhuo shook his head. "I'm usually very busy. I want to accompany my parents during the Spring Festival this year. They might want to travel abroad. If it's possible, I'll go and relax with me."

Qiu Lanhua nodded, which was what she should have meant.

The two chatted for a few more words, and the old leader also asked about the real estate planning. In the past two years, Shencheng has controlled housing prices, and some companies have had a hard time.

Fang Zhuo didn't express much opinion on this, he only said that there was nothing wrong with Yongke Real Estate.

At 09:30 in the evening, Fang Zhuo was sitting in the car on the return journey considering the risk trial production of Luzhou ice core.

"Mr. Fang, I heard that you have returned to Shencheng? Wishing you an early year."

The caller was Ma Dian, the leader of Alibaba, who was still in fierce battle in the C2C market.

Fang Zhuo was a little surprised, and said with a smile: "It's only been two days since I came back, Mr. Ma, it's too early for you to pay New Year's greetings. Also, just pay your respects with your mouth."

Ma Dian said: "How is that possible? Tomorrow I will come to Shencheng to greet you face to face, and I will find you, the Shencheng Moutai dealer, to get some wine."

Because Fang Zhuo specially stored a large number of old and new Moutai wines, he got a nickname of "Shencheng Moutai dealer".

Fang Zhuo figured that the other party would go to the Three Treasures Palace for nothing, so he responded, "Welcome, welcome, I really want to hear how Taobao beats eBay."

Lin'an and Shencheng are not far away, people and time are agreed upon, and meeting is only a blink of an eye.

Fang Zhuo hesitated for a while at night, and ordered the tentative executives of e-buy to show up, wanting to see what rules Ma Dian has.

He had a guess in his heart, and felt that the high probability was still for funds.

Sure enough, the next morning, Ma Dian arrived at Hang Lung 23 with the Taobao team, and the greetings from the early years were the opening theme.

"Mr. Fang, our domestic e-commerce market is so vast, and our Taobao is pushing eBay to the ground. Don't you want to get involved?" Ma Dian said with a smile while sitting in Yike's president's office.

During this trip, many elite soldiers came to Taobao, and now Cai Chongxin is accompanying Ma Dian in the president's office.

"Already hit it on the ground? How dare you, I said when I was in Lin'an that eBay and they can't handle domestic companies." Fang Zhuo smiled. Medicine is doing it too."

Cai Chongxin smiled and nodded to Su Wei, the vice president of Yike who handed him tea.

Ma Dian laughed loudly and said, "I know Mr. Fang wanted to keep investing, but he didn't make it!"

Fang Zhuo didn't get angry when his short story was revealed, and he listened to the rest of the story with a smile.

"But Mr. Fang, it's a good thing that you didn't vote. Dangdang wants to learn from Amazon, but it can't learn the essence. Now that Amazon comes in to play, why invest in it?" Ma Dian said, "B2C in China is not easy to do."

Fang Zhuo pondered, exchanged glances with Su Wei, and reached a consensus without saying a word.

Su Wei smiled lightly, and asked tactfully, "Didn't Ali just get Softbank's investment last month?"

As soon as the words came out, they both knew what they meant.

Ali announced last month that he had received another US$8200 million investment led by Softbank. He has a strong army and has been supplemented with food and grass. It seems that he must share life and death with eBay.

However, not long after, Ma Dian personally led the team to Shencheng, saying that it was to pay homage to the early years, but it was not difficult to guess the purpose of the visit, and it was still change.

After being pointed out, Ma Dian didn't panic at all, and said: "Yes, Softbank also believes that we can beat eBay in China, and that Taobao can win this market. This is their successful experience in Japan."

"At the beginning of the year, we raised a sum of 1 million US dollars. At the end of the year, we have to spend the money carefully, but our competition with eBay does not allow us to spend money carefully."

"No, now come to Mr. Fang, the God of Wealth."

Fang Zhuo smiled without saying a word.

There is nothing wrong with these words.

However, the frustration of investing in Dangdang is not a matter of the past few days, and it is not the case that Taobao spends a lot of money recently. Why is it now?
Mr. Fang didn't respond to Ma Dian's frank words.

Seeing this, Cai Chongxin said slowly, "Mr. Fang, I may not believe others who say they are optimistic about e-commerce and the development of domestic companies, but I will definitely believe what Mr. Fang said."

"Yes." Fang Zhuo nodded, believing in the combat effectiveness of domestic Internet companies.

"But no matter how confident we are in killing eBay, things still have to be done, and the funds for competition must be prepared." Cai Zhongxin said slowly, "eBay is a giant, and Amazon is also a giant. This competition process must be difficult."

"I heard that Mr. Fang's interest in e-commerce is not limited to Dangdang.com, and he has been experimenting with medical e-commerce for a long time. Now it is rumored that Mr. Fang is hesitant to do B2C by himself."

"After discussing with Mr. Ma, I felt that our domestic forces can cooperate more, so as not to be found by eBay and Amazon."

Fang Zhuo's eyes moved slightly, and he raised his hand to take a sip of tea.

This makes sense.

Taobao has just raised a sum of money, and the money will not be used for long, and it will inevitably continue to find money.

Yike's major cities have acquired land to engage in warehousing and logistics. This news cannot be concealed, and the other party can easily guess.

B2C, C2C, all 2C.

Instead of seeing another powerful player end, it is better to pull them over and do it together.

This is to replace ban with election.

"Do B2C by yourself?" Fang Zhuo laughed, and said half-truthfully, "We do have this debate internally, well, Mr. Su doesn't quite agree."

Both Ma Dian and Cai Chongxin looked at Su Wei.

Su Wei nodded and said, "The cost of the B2C model is too high. Just now Mr. Ma said that Dangdang.com didn't learn the essence. In fact, we can't blame it too much. After all, the high cost makes people prohibitive."

"Mr. Ma, Mr. Cai, you may not know that there are not only B2C suggestions within Yike, but also discussions on whether to join the C2C competition."

"Because of cost, market, and Dangdang and Amazon's comprehensive considerations, I think Yike should be treated with caution, but pharmaceutical e-commerce companies that already have a medical foundation can try to expand their scale."

"Needless to say about the relationship between Yike and Yike, we are now acquiring land as a joint venture subsidiary of the two companies, and will speed up the layout of pharmaceutical e-commerce at the right time."

Su Wei's words were sincere.

The expression on Fang Zhuo's face didn't fluctuate.

Both Ma Dian and Cai Chongxin have dubious beliefs. Regarding the trends and decisions of Yike, there are indeed rumors that they want to engage in B2C, but there are also rumors that they want to develop pharmaceutical e-commerce.

They tend to judge the former, but how to do it and what scale it is, it is difficult to guess.

Amazon's development momentum abroad is very strong, and it should not be underestimated just in the comparison of e-commerce types.

The prospect of the domestic e-commerce market is very good, but the current stock is not large. When discussing the search for the next financing, Alibaba internally feels that they can try the richest man in the mainland.

Although this guy's behavior style is a little... not good, but he has a very good relationship with several famous venture capital, whether it is his own funds or raising funds, it can be a big help.

After several discussions, Ma Dian accepted the suggestion, so with this hypothetical strategy of turning enemies into friends.

But now Su Wei, the vice president of Yike, seems to show that the strategic thinking within Yike has not yet been unified.

Ma Dian believes that the current e-commerce market is a nurturing market that requires capital competition. Funding is one aspect, and cultivating consumption behavior is also another aspect. If Amazon-style B2C competes on a large scale when Taobao’s foothold is not stable, it will indeed divide part of the market. .

But if Taobao can beat eBay, its own development will be flat. At that time, there will be B2C, and the situation will be different.

"Pharmaceutical e-commerce is not easy." Ma Dian observed the expressions of Yike's president and vice president, and said with a smile, "Mr. Fang, in our current e-commerce market, I would rather you be in B2C than pharmaceutical verticals." You won’t be fascinated by Mr. Su’s beauty.”

Fang Zhuo laughed out loud.

Su Wei also laughed, but said unconvinced between words: "Mr. Ma, you are one-sided."

Ma Dian looked like he was willing to hear more about it.

"Your B2B Ali is to make money, and C2C Taobao is to make money. No matter how you make money, isn't it all money?" Su Wei prefaced this first, and then said, "The money made by medical e-commerce is to make money. We rely on the land of medical e-commerce to appreciate The money you earn is also earned, but it may not be who makes more money."

Shocked, Ma Dian exchanged a glance with Cai Chongxin.

This, this...

It's an unexpected angle.

But after thinking about it, Yongke Real Estate, a subsidiary of Yike Group, is known as the "Tiger of East China". They really don't necessarily plan to rely on medical e-commerce to earn money from e-commerce.

"What Mr. Su said is really reasonable." Ma Dian admitted this, and looked at Mr. Fang, the speaker, "Mr. Fang, are you sure about what you say? Really, if you want to do e-commerce, why don't we go together?" .”

"Pharmaceutical e-commerce can also be united. We also have a small amount of demand for medicine on Taobao. We can cooperate with medical science and set aside a special section."

"If the pharmaceutical vertical category wants to grow bigger, it must rely on the expansion of the entire e-commerce market, and cooperation will benefit both."

Hearing this, Fang Zhuo finally expressed his opinion and said: "I am optimistic about the development of Taobao, and I also think that everyone has room for cooperation. For financial investment, Mr. Ma, you have just raised money. I believe it is not so urgent, mainly because I need continuous investment to make ice cores.”

"But as you said just now, medical science can solve the medical demand on Taobao, and Taobao can split part of the traffic to catalyze medical e-commerce. profit."

Fang Zhuo said with a smile at this point: "Oh, Mr. Ma, we haven't discussed [-] in Yike yet, and we are busy with the annual meeting. I was caught off guard by your visit."

"Today, let's have a drink first, and slowly talk about cooperation. I just want to hear about your competition with eBay. Two days ago, I also wanted to see who has the strongest market share."

Su Wei proved it aloud: "Yes, Mr. Fang checked the data on the Internet and didn't see the data, so he almost called Mr. Ma to ask."

"The share data of the entire market is not yet known, but I think Taobao has basically caught up with eBay." Ma Dian said confidently.

"This data is worth three glasses of wine." Fang Zhuo got up and smiled at Yanyan.

Ma Dian said with a smile: "This time I will drink in Shencheng, next time I hope to let Mr. Fang come to drink."

Fang Zhuo's eyes met Su Wei's, nodded and said, "Definitely, definitely, next time."

(End of this chapter)