Backtracking to the Age of Literature and Art

Chapter 843
After Yu Dong and his wife visited the class of "Flower and Grass Lover", they set off to return to Jinling.

On the way to Wanwan Airport, Yu Dong received another call from Shi Zhengrong in the car.

Knowing that Yu Dong was leaving, Shi Zhengrong proposed to come to the airport to see them off.

Hearing what Shi Zhengrong said, Yu Dong naturally knew that he had something to say to him, so he waited at the airport for a while.

Yu Dong and the others came to Baodao this time by taking Shenkong's own business jet, also known as a private jet, which is not restricted by flight time and route, which is more convenient.

This business jet in the deep space is used by Yudong relatively less, most of the time is used by Jimmy, that guy runs around every day, if you take a commercial flight, it is a waste of time and not very efficient.

Yu Dong doesn't have high requirements for traffic efficiency, but now he brings a large group of security personnel with him every time he travels. It is naturally much more convenient to take a business jet than a commercial flight.Their business jet can seat thirteen or four people. It is very convenient if several people are on a business trip together.

After waiting in the exclusive terminal for about an hour, Shi Zhengrong rushed over with his assistant.

As soon as the person arrived, Shi Zhengrong smiled and apologized, "Mr. Yu, I was delayed on the road and kept you waiting."

"No, I had to wait for a while." Yu Dong shook hands with Shi Zhengrong, "Let's stop standing, let's sit down and talk. I ordered tea for you, and it will be delivered in a while."

"I'm determined." Shi Zhengrong smiled and sat down, "Mr. Yu, we are all smart people, so I won't play around with you anymore. I still have something to tell you when I come here this time."

Yu Dong nodded with a smile, "If you have anything to say, Mr. Shi, just say it."

What Shi Zhengrong wanted to say should be quite important, otherwise he would go to the airport to talk about it. If it was a trivial matter, they would be able to explain it clearly on the phone. How could there be such a big fight?

"After you left yesterday, I thought about it for a long time. I think e-commerce still has a bright future in China. Although 8848 and eBay are gaining momentum, there is still a lot of room in the market. This space is worth investing a lot of money in. .”

Yu Dongrao looked at Shi Zhengrong with interest, "I heard Mr. Shi's words mean that he is interested in e-commerce? Then you came to me, did you want to hear my opinion, or..."

"I want to cooperate with your deep space company. The two of us will jointly invest, and then your company will take the lead. We will jointly develop an e-commerce website."

"I understand, that is to say, you want us to develop an e-commerce website in Deep Space, and then you invest in it."

Shi Zhengrong smiled and nodded: "That's right, that's what I mean."

Yu Dong looked at Shi Zhengrong with a puzzled expression, "Mr. Shi, I don't quite understand. Why do you believe that our company can develop a better e-commerce website to compete with 8848? Now 8848 has developed A complete integrated information platform for logistics management, business management and customer relationship management, and successfully implemented a remote third-party logistics management system. If it were me, I would probably choose to invest in 8848, and as far as I know, 8848 is still financing now. Do you think we can succeed in China because we successfully invested in Amazon before? If so, why don’t we just move Amazon to China?”

Shi Zhengrong smiled meaningfully, "Mr. Yu knows more about 8848 than I imagined. It seems that my guess is right. Although you didn't do it, you have been observing, or waiting for an opportunity. I don't know you Based on what reason to make a judgment, you did not enter the domestic e-commerce for the first time, but I believe that you must have your own strategic plan. 8848 does seem to have a strong momentum now, but their financing plan is problematic. Wang Juntao They have lost control of the company, and 8848 is likely to become a financial product in the future, and it is difficult for such a company to go in the long run.”

Yu Dong nodded secretly, agreeing with Shi Zhengrong's statement.

8848 has handed over control to the capital. In order to make money and make quick money, these capitals will bring the speculative mentality unique to capital to the company's operations.

For these capitals, whether a company can succeed in the end is secondary. The important thing is that this company can bring them profits. Stirring up a concept and then quickly realizing it is what short-sighted speculators often do. .

As for the original intention and ideal of the founder, it is not even worth a dime to the capital.

Although Shi Zhengrong may not have the business vision to keep pace with the times, he still has a unique way of looking at the problem, so he raised the 8848 problem straight to the point.

He predicts that 8848 will eventually become a plaything of capital, so it is impossible to invest in such a company. On the contrary, he also believes that Deep Space, which has a good financial situation, will definitely be able to go on once it enters a certain business field.

But there is a problem, that is, deep space is not short of money.

8848 has given a model of how much money is needed to build an e-commerce website in China. The initial investment is only a few million or even hundreds of thousands of dollars, and the later investment is only tens of millions of dollars.

This amount of money is not a big investment even for Deep Space, which is spending money everywhere.

Since Deep Space Corporation is not short of money, why does it cooperate with Shi Zhengrong?

Shi Zhengrong is obviously aware of this problem, so before Dong brought it up, he took the initiative to say, "Acer can provide not only funds for deep space, but also other support, such as the new computer we will release soon. Set your portal as the navigation web. When users open a webpage on this computer, the first thing displayed is the Deep Space Web.”

This is a trick played by Lenovo, and it was directly moved by Shi Zhengrong.

But Lenovo is bound to the fm365 website that no one has used before, trying to enter the Internet industry with its own PC, but Acer is bound to the deep space network that Chinese netizens use every day, which has become a thigh-hugging behavior , which are completely different.

Acer's move is not only beneficial to deep space, but also very beneficial to themselves.Just imagine, netizens are used to surfing the Internet first by turning on Dongdong, and then clicking on Deep Space Net.Usually they have to search to enter, but now the new computer directly opens the browser and the first page is the Deep Space Network.

Yu Dong smiled, "It would be a good thing if Acer Computer is willing to bind the Deep Space Network, but this way may not improve the Deep Space Network much. Lenovo's Millennium computer is bound to their fm365, but it does not Prevent netizens from logging into the Deep Space Network."

"We can also help you develop logistics. Acer has warehouses all over the country. These warehouses can help you quickly build your own logistics system. For e-commerce websites, I don't need to say more about the importance of logistics. ?” Shi Zhengrong said.

Hearing the word logistics, Yu Dong raised his eyebrows. Logistics is indeed very important, not only for e-commerce, but also for the whole of China.

Just because of the gradual realization of the importance of the logistics industry, the country has also attached great importance to this area in the past two years.

Last fall, the State Economic and Trade Commission and the World Bank held an international seminar on the development of modern logistics. Some leaders proposed on the spot that modern logistics should be regarded as an important industry and a new growth point of the national economy.

To start logistics, there are three important points. First, a unified management platform. Only a reasonable and efficient platform can make the logistics network operate. Second, a well-developed transportation network and transportation vehicles, without cars and roads, what It's all useless; third, warehouses and bases, with a sufficient number of warehouses, can really give the network to China Unicom.

The deep space platform can be built by yourself, and the vehicles are easy to get. The road depends on the country. Warehouses and bases are items that need to be built by ourselves but are difficult to quickly build, and the risks are relatively high.

If Acer's warehouse is really willing to use it for Shenkong, even if it is used in a transitional manner, it will save Shenkong company a lot of trouble, and Shenkong company can also use Acer's warehouse to gradually optimize its logistics network.

Therefore, Yu Dong was a little moved.

After pondering for a while, Yu Dong said, "Mr. Shi, the proposal of a shared warehouse is very attractive, but it is not an easy task to actually implement it. In addition, there are many things to consider in order to establish a popular e-commerce website. Logistics is just one of them. In addition to logistics, customer needs, network environment, payment methods, etc. need to be considered.”

"Of course I understand this, but deep space can solve these problems, can't it? You have a better grasp of the pulse of Internet development than most people." Shi Zhengrong said with a smile.

At this time, the waiter brought over two cups of tea, "Several, please take your time."

Shi Zhengrong picked up the teacup, and before he drank it, he continued, "Don't rush to reject me, why don't you go back and think about it, and give me the answer after a while. To be honest, I didn't pay much attention to e-commerce. It’s just that since you merged with BenQ Dentsu, I started to study you seriously. This research gave me some ideas about e-commerce. If I can’t reach a cooperation with you, I will look for other suitable partners, just don’t care How to put it, the money in my hand must be invested.”

Yu Dong also picked up his teacup and took a sip, "Okay, I understand, I'll go back and think about it, and talk to Jimmy, and then I'll tell you the result."

"Okay." Shi Zhengrong nodded with a smile.

In other words, besides talking about cooperation with Yu Dong, Zheng Rong is also testing Yu Dong. He wants to know what kind of relationship Yu Dong has with Jimmy.

Yesterday's conversation did not test out anything, but today is obviously different.

Facing such an important decision, Yu Dong only mentioned Jimmy at the last moment.

This shows that Yu Dong has great power in the company, and even such things may have decision-making power.

Even if Yu Dong is not a major shareholder, the shares will not be much less than Jimmy.

In the following time, the two sides did not talk about e-commerce anymore, but simply talked about other things.

Shi Zhengrong also paid attention to the fact that Yu Dong went to the signing event yesterday, laughed and gossiped, saying that he did not expect Yu Dong to know the triangle iron.

After drinking a cup of tea, Shi Zhengrong took the initiative to get up and leave.

……

That night, Yu Dong called Jimmy about it.

After listening to it, Jimmy was quite concerned.

"He didn't say how much money he would invest in us? They have a lot of money on hand now."

"It's not a lot. They just took several hundred million dollars from us. As for the investment amount, he didn't say, and I didn't ask. After all, everything is gone now, so there is no need to talk so deeply." Yu Dong said.

"Then what do you think, do you have an impulsive idea to enter the domestic e-commerce in advance?" Jimmy asked.

"I have some ideas, but even if it is in advance, it can't be too long in advance. If Shi Zhengrong is really sincere to cooperate with us, give us more money, and let us use the warehouse, then we can indeed push forward the time to enter e-commerce One and a half years, and it can start after the end of next year.”

"The two of us have similar ideas. One and a half years is a reasonable time. Even if we tell Shi Zhengrong now that we want to cooperate, the preparatory work will take a long time. Let's do this, after "The Martian" is released, we will Go talk to him about it."

"Wait for "The Martian" to be released? Do you want to tell Shi Zhengrong that there is no shortage of money in deep space, and you need to bring more money if you want to invest?"

"Haha, those who know me, Dong Ye. Our financial situation is still a bit tight recently, but it will be different after August. At that time, we will receive a huge amount of money for books. Rowling and yours Books sold very well. In addition, as soon as the box office of "The Martian" came out at that time, others naturally knew that we were going to make a lot of money."

"..." Yu Dong couldn't help curling his lips: "Then have you ever thought that if the box office performance of "The Martian" fails to meet expectations, it will actually be detrimental to our negotiations."

"I'm a little confident. The box office of "The Martian" can't be bad. Besides, the box office of "The Martian" is good, which is just icing on the cake and has no decisive impact on our negotiations. I'm not looking at Acer's money. It’s Acer’s warehouse, and within a month or two, we can also check the distribution of Acer’s warehouse.”

"Don't worry, I've asked the margin to arrange the investigation of the warehouse. But it's not easy, it should take a while."

"There's no rush, as long as we figure out a rough idea, it's good for us to judge. Of course, another thing can be done first."

"whats the matter?"

"Of course it's the matter of their computer binding to the Deep Space Network. You can talk to them first. Shi Zhengrong wants to use this matter as a bargaining chip for them to negotiate later, so let's just separate this matter from the e-commerce website. One size fits all. Acer needs our deep space, and we also need their icing on the cake to knock Lenovo down."

(End of this chapter)