Reinventing the Millennium.

Chapter 704 Abolition and Establishment (Two in One)

"Mr. Fang, what do you think of the competition between Gome and Tesco and its collapse?"

"Without Gome's competition, there would be no e-buy's Double Eleven event. Before yesterday, I didn't expect e-buy to be able to do this. As for its collapse, I will try it another day. You can't invite Mr. Huang before you, so he, the person involved, understands the situation."

"Mr. Fang, do you think the LCD panel companies in the world are involved in monopolistic behavior?"

"Good question, I can't tell you."

"Mr. Fang, I heard that the Royal Bank of Scotland has no obvious breach of contract. What do you think of it being ordered to prohibit cooperation with the Bank of China?"

"I haven't read its contract, and the financial security of the country is more important."

Fang Zhuo sat on the podium of the multimedia classroom of Guanghua School of Management, Peking University—Professor Li moved up a stool, and answered many sensitive questions from the students at the moment.

He once said 0.8, and if it is inconvenient to say it, he just said that he couldn't say it, which is very down-to-earth.

The students of Peking University are naturally the proud sons of heaven, but the person sitting here is the richest man in the mainland who has just had a sword fight with Li Jiacheng, and there are occasional lectures from Professor Li Zhimin, most of them have a kind of legendary fans on stage mentality.

However, legends belong to legends, fans belong to fans, and there are many questions that should be asked directly.

Fang Zhuo was fortunate enough to have experienced so many scenes of sharpening his knives, and he didn't panic at all when facing today's questioning situation.

After such a temporary class, after receiving warm applause from everyone at the end, he received a lot of resumes, some of which were obviously written in a hurry, and the two A4 papers filled with resumes were still crumpled.

Holding his resume, Fang Zhuo said to Professor Li Zhimin with a smile: "The students are really enthusiastic."

Li Zhimin replied plainly: "Mr. Fang, who can be non-enthusiastic when facing tens of billionaires?"

Fang Zhuo laughed loudly and asked: "Professor Li, I think you seem to be talking about me a lot here, are you interested in coming to our e-buy for a try?"

Li Zhimin flatly refused: "Mr. Fang, I'm just playing lip service. I'm really in the battle. Facing people like you, Mr. Fang, my performance will not be much better than that of the venture capitalists who went to Hang Lung back then."

Seeing that he was a little curious and wanted to ask about the past, Fang Zhuo smiled and did not answer, but just took out his resume and chatted casually.

His impression of this professor is not bad, unlike some college teachers who have come into contact with in the past, they often hold it.

Yike, Yigou, and Bingxin are all very eager for talents. This trip to Peking University and the scholarships established in Shencheng, Luzhou, and Lin'an earlier are all to expand their long-term influence and hope to attract more fresh blood.

At the same time, Yike also invited Liu Quanpeng, an associate professor of the Department of Microelectronics of Tsinghua University, who was invited to Tokyo to discuss CMOS with Sony last time, and Yike also took him to form a small team to try to promote its own industry-university-research plan.

Generally speaking, both Fang Zhuo and Yi Ke have had successful experience in cooperation with universities, and are willing to continue to use this experience to do things that are beneficial to each other.

That night, Lao Xiong spent a meal and a meeting with Tesco, and finally said goodbye and went back.

Before he left, he invited Fang always to have dinner at home when he was free.

Fang Zhuo couldn't bear to refuse, thinking about his itinerary, he planned to return to Shencheng to visit Lao Xiong's house.

E-buy's Double Eleven has achieved initial success, but warehousing, logistics, and after-sales are still in a very tense working state. They are the real flesh and blood under the surface data.

Another day later, as more media began to report on Tesco's promotional activities in a wait-and-see, dissected, and approving tone, people such as Ma Huateng and Sun Tongyu, who had only appeared in the blog comment area before, called Congratulations.

There is still one and a half months before the end of 2005. This year, most of the domestic e-commerce focused on Ali’s Taobao. The real big event in the industry is the blockbuster cooperation between Ali and Yahoo.

Taobao has already overwhelmed eBay. With Alibaba’s billion-dollar investment from Yahoo, it can almost officially announce that the competition between domestic C2C companies and foreign giants has settled.

However, in November near the end of the year, e-buy, which was just launched this year, really showed a surprising bright color in the field of e-commerce, which has unlimited prospects. According to this trend of development, not to mention B11C Dangdang, foreign B2C It may be difficult for the giant Amazon to compete with Tesco.

In the past, Taobao overwhelmed eBay, and later there was Tesco.

The development of local e-commerce companies is advancing at a speed that neither the media nor the industry expected.

Similarly, officials at certain levels do not seem to be very good at defining some behaviors in new industries.

On November 11, after attending the cooperation meeting of the Bank of China with Paulson and Zhang Hongli, Fang Zhuo received a difficult report from e-buy. Is it a violation of rules and regulations to sell houses at a discount?

There is a step-by-step publicity for the [-]% off house grabbing on the e-buy website. Its effect on e-buy is greater than imagined, and it spreads widely.

In view of this kind of spread, the relevant departments of Shencheng have studied for several days, and still think that this kind of operation should be stopped.

The leader's phone call was very polite, and he did not forcefully stop it, saying that this e-commerce model is quite trendy, and asked the company to work out a suitable solution.

Then Fang Zhuo received the report.

Fang Zhuo is not ignorant, e-buy's publicity effect is already great, there is no need to be hard-pressed on this kind of thing.

He personally called the leader, expressed his business apologies, and then discussed whether he could let his family complete the winning process before announcing the suspension.

At any rate, it can be regarded as having some fame, and at any rate, it can be considered as having some contacts, the leader acquiesced in vague words.

Accelerate progress, start and finish.

Fang Zhuo asked people to pay special attention to this matter. The superiors will gain face, the consumers will gain respect, and e-buy will also gain the fame they want, and everyone will be satisfied.

On November 11, after nearly three weeks of intensive meetings and discussions, Fang Zhuo, Paulson and Zhang Hongli signed a cooperation memorandum of understanding on behalf of MIGA Fund, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank and Bank of China.

If nothing else, the formal contract signing will be completed in early December.

Because of the public opinion turmoil with Li's family, Fang Zhuo did not miss the press conference like ICBC did. Instead, he sat downright and resolutely beside President Li, in the C position of the media camera.

He made mental preparations and planned to answer reporters' questions about previous public opinion.

It's just that the Bank of China probably did its work earlier, and the reporter's questions were very upright and peaceful.

After the meeting was over, some media came over to ask an irrelevant e-buy question.

"Mr. Fang, E-buy's e-commerce is doing very well, but I heard that Amazon and Dangdang will increase their investment because of the excellent performance of E-buy's Double Eleven this time. What do you think of this?"

Fang Zhuo also heard about it in the past two days.

Probably stimulated by the data of 3 million in 7.12 days, both Amazon and Dangdang have made similar statements, and they will not sit back and watch e-buy dominate the domestic B2C.

"Very good, this is a good thing." Fang Zhuo first commented on Dangdang, as a sign of comfort, "Dangdang is finally willing to work hard. I am proud of Qingzi."

The reporter almost didn't tense up, and quickly bit his tongue with his teeth so as not to lose his composure.

Fang Zhuo continued: "It is a good thing that a hundred flowers bloom in competition. True gold is not afraid of fire. E-buy needs competitors to become better. I am also willing to represent our domestic e-commerce industry in a small way. We welcome Amazon's investment and competition. "

He finally said: "I believe that only companies that know best and are most willing to put consumers first can win this competition. I am looking forward to the performance of Tesco and Amazon."

After Fang Zhuo answered this question, he stopped accepting interviews.

This is the first interview he has given since Double Eleven of e-buy, and it is also the second time in this period of time. The last time he responded to Jiacheng's greetings from "Huaxia Securities Journal" on the phone.

With the excellent performance of e-buy, Mr. Fang's rare positive response soon made it to the media.

It's a pity that Li Guoqing, who took the initiative to log out of the blog, refused the reporter's microphone this time, and it seemed that he was determined to do something that really made Mr. Fang proud.

And Wang Hanhua, the head of Amazon Huaxia, actively accepts media interviews and responds to Mr. Fang.

"Both Joyo and Amazon are willing to conduct healthy competition with their peers, and we are willing to provide consumers with the highest quality products and services."

"This kind of product service will not be limited to price alone. We believe that better quality, after-sales service and consumer experience are what consumers are most willing to see."

Obviously, Wang Hanhua is secretly criticizing e-buy's price-dominant strategy on Double Eleven.

A reporter interviewed Mr. Fang for this, but the latter did not accept the interview.

But soon, it is said that Mr. Fang made a funny comment on Wang Hanhua at the meeting, which was widely circulated in the industry.

— “It’s very un-Amazonian.”

Very un-Amazon?
What does Fang always mean?
Wang Hanhua was previously the vice president of Motorola Asia Pacific, and now he is the president of Joyo.com and the head of Amazon in China. A large part of his work today is the connection between the two websites.

Fang always thinks that Wang Hanhua and Amazon are not compatible?Do you think that Amazon's strategy in China is different from that of the headquarters?Still think Amazon will still have a lot of changes?

One sentence is quite meaningful.

Many people are wondering about Mr. Fang's real intentions.

However, Fang Zhuo himself neither accepted the media's response nor emphasized Amazon's competitive pressure internally. He just focused on examining the performance of different departments of Tesco in this promotion, which also left the company's executives with no time to be distracted.

On November 11, everything in the capital gradually came to an end. Fang Zhuo planned to wait until the end of the contract with the Bank of China in early December before returning to Shencheng to improve his self-cultivation behind closed doors and be kind to others.

On this day, Ni Runfeng, an old friend of Changhong, flew to the capital.

Compared with the last time I saw him, Ni Runfeng's spirit was more hale and hearty.

"Old Ni, I heard that you are not doing well recently, but your complexion is very ruddy, and it is starting to shine." Fang Zhuo teased Lao Ni's first sentence like this.

Ni Runfeng faced the crisis of being laid off, but he smiled freely: "If you have nothing to worry about, it will be a good time in the world."

The countdown to the end of his tenure at Changhong has entered the countdown. Although Changhong has embarked on the route of liquid crystal technology and gradually shaken off the decline, his arbitrary decision to force the company to disclose plasma patents and semi-forced decision to invest in panel production lines has ushered in liquidation.

For good reason.

You have not experienced the defeat of the plasma route. Although your judgment sounds reasonable, it is not necessarily a defeat, right?

Well, let’s put aside Unbeaten for the time being. The free disclosure of plasma patents has caused losses to the company and dissatisfaction among internal technicians.This is a real fact.

Plus, it's age.

Ni Runfeng had already had psychological expectations. His struggles in several meetings were purely to delay the time as much as possible to pave the way for Zhang Xuebin, who is in charge of Meiling.

Facts have proved that the procrastination has indeed waited for favorable factors. For this Double Eleven, Changhong cleared the inventory of color tube TVs, and Meiling made its own LCD TVs a big success.

Looking at LCD TVs alone, Meiling, which is actively involved in it, is at the same starting line as other first-line TV brands, and even slightly ahead by half a body.

"Old Ni, I can't call you Old Ni in the future, I want to call you Old Ni." Fang Zhuo said with a smile.

Ni Runfeng smiled slightly and said: "There are many people in Changhong who want to be in the top position. Whether Zhang Xuebin can do it this time is not sure."

The packaging of public opinion that lasted more than half a year and the success of LCD TVs only made Zhang Xuebin, an outsider, more valuable, and whether he could take over Ni Runfeng's position was still uncertain.

Fang Zhuo didn't feel so much about this matter. Anyway, Ice Core's production capacity has already been driven by domestic TV companies a lot, and Morningstar Semiconductor's cooperation is getting better and better. Whether Zhang Xuebin can take the position depends on luck.

"Old Ni, tell me, is it suitable for me to go to Sichuan and Shu to show my face again?" He had his own thoughts, and he would not be stingy if he could help.

Ni Runfeng has repeatedly considered various factors. Changhong's stock price has rebounded, which has relieved many interested parties. However, Changhong's overseas channels are still in the hands of Yike, which is a bargaining chip.

However, objectively speaking, being under the control of others would make people feel unhappy, and Mr. Fang's last trip to Sichuan and Sichuan did not leave a good impression.

He said seriously: "No, some things can only be done, not said. If you go to Sichuan and Sichuan to support Zhang Xuebin, I'm afraid there will be a backlash immediately."

Fang Zhuo believed in Ni Runfeng's judgment on his environment: "Well, how about handing over part of the equity of the overseas channel company to Meiling and Zhang Xuebin as the company's director?"

"Let me bring this up and let Zhang Xuebin fight for a part of the company's dominance from you. This will be much more beautiful." Ni Runfeng said.

Fang Zhuo nodded slightly, this was a huge bargaining chip for Zhang Xuebin.

He murmured: "If this is not enough, it would be good for him to be in Meiling, um, Changhong also knows about this, right?"

If Zhang Xuebin cannot succeed Changhong, Bingxin still needs a close partner. Although Changhong is now the major shareholder of Meiling, but it holds less than 30% of the shares, its direction is greatly affected by Luzhou's attitude.

Ni Runfeng was startled at first, then smiled, Mr. Fang, Mr. Fang, you are still so bad.

Fortunately, I am about to get out of the car, so leave the troubles of happiness to Zhang Xuebin.

(End of this chapter)