Reborn in 2011, 985 missing from two copies

Chapter 496: Ali is desperate and starts a full-scale war (asking for monthly tickets)
Jack Ma feels that he has lost weight recently!

Now that the storm has finally calmed down, I can finally relax for a while.

As a result, a bigger storm came roaring in!

"Damn BC executives, they are so unreliable!"

Jack Ma was so angry that he yelled, "And Xingyi Technology is really hard to deal with!"

For a moment, Jack Ma was filled with regret and completely understood Li Yan's pain.

"If I had known this, I would not have provoked Xingyi Technology!"

"But unfortunately, it's too late!"

Xingyi Technology and Wang Yi are definitely the most difficult opponents to deal with.

Vice President Mo Yi also had a complicated expression and sighed in his heart: "If I had known this would happen, I would not have done it in the first place!"
But such words cannot be said.

"Then how do we deal with this wave of public opinion crisis?" Mo Yi asked, "Should we continue to handle it coldly?"

Jack Ma thought about it and sighed: "It has to be this way."

"If it's crisis PR, it won't make much sense. After all, that jerk executive has sold us out. We have all the internal communication emails, so it's a confirmed fact!"

Alipay head Liu Quanxin was unwilling to accept the result: "We can deny it to the death, and then it will just be empty talk."

Jack Ma shook his head:
"That's not going to work. I'm worried that Xingyi Technology has more than one trick up their sleeve. What if we refuse to admit it and Xingyi Technology turns around and exposes a second overseas media outlet... then we're done for!"

"This..." Liu Quanxin was silent, but had to admit that this was very likely.

Jack Ma sighed: "There is no other way. We can only continue to shrink. I just don't know how many users we will lose in this wave!"

Vice President Mo Yi also frowned: "What's worse is that many Taobao users no longer use Alipay and have started using Changchat Payment!"

At present, the relationship between Xingyi Technology and Alibaba is still maintaining the last bit of decency.

Xingyi Technology’s Meiyu Mall, Xingyi Mall, Ele.me Takeout, and AutoNavi Taxi have all been connected to Alipay.

In exchange, Alibaba's Taobao and Tmall also connected to Changchat Payment for the first time.

There was no way. Taobao did not connect to JD Pay before, so JD directly blocked Alipay payment, and Alibaba permanently lost JD Mall.

In order not to lose the payment entrance of Xingyi Technology's series of platforms, Alibaba had no choice but to compromise and connect to Changliao Payment, so that the two sides can integrate and communicate with each other.

It’s just that Alipay accounted for the majority before, and such integration and interconnection will bring more benefits than disadvantages to Ali.

Last year, even in Xingyi Mall and Mayu Mall, Alipay users accounted for as high as 60%, Changliao Payment users accounted for 20%, and UnionPay accounted for 20%.

On Taobao and Tmall, Alipay users account for 70%, UnionPay payments account for 20%, and Changchat payments account for only 10%!

It can be said that whether it is the Xingyi platform or the Alibaba platform, Alipay is in an absolute leading position, and Changchat Payment is just a younger brother.

The two parties are integrated and interconnected, and Alipay has the most users, so Alibaba naturally has no objection.

But now, with the rapid rise of Changliao Payment and the recent turmoil, the number of Alipay users has plummeted, while the number of Changliao Payment users has surged, and the situation has completely changed!
Currently, the users of Xingyi Mall, Mayu Mall, Ele.me, AutoNavi Taxi, and Changliao Payment account for 70%, UnionPay users account for 20%, and Alipay users only 10%.

Even on Taobao and Tmall platforms, Changchat payment users account for as high as 50%, UnionPay users account for 30%, and Alipay users only 20%.

It can be said that whether it is Xingyi Technology’s platform or Alibaba’s own platform, Alipay has completely collapsed and is no longer the same as before.

Looking at these data, Jack Ma was shocked: "I didn't expect the situation to have deteriorated to this extent. No wonder Alipay has less than 40 million active users, it turns out that they have all been taken away by Changchat!"

Originally, there were hundreds of millions of Alipay users!
But now, there are less than 40 million Alipay users!
On the contrary, Changchat has as many as 2.9 million users!
This is not okay.

“If we ban Changchat Payment, wouldn’t it be possible to instantly win back our users? And bring Alipay’s user base back to 100 million?” Jack Ma couldn’t help but say.

Liu Quanxin's eyes lit up: "That's for sure. If Changchat Payment is banned, merchants and users of Taobao and Tmall will only be able to use Alipay and UnionPay. Those users who gave up Alipay will have to restart Alipay! There will be no problem for Alipay users to return to 100 million. But if this happens, Xingyi Technology will definitely retaliate."

"Counterattack... Xingyi Mall and Mayu Mall also blocked Alipay at the same time?" Jack Ma laughed: "How big are they? Are they one-fifth of Taobao's combined size? It doesn't matter!"

“But what about adding Ele.me and AutoNavi?”

“This…” Jack Ma was silent.

The individual Mayu Mall and Xingyi Mall are far inferior to Alipay.

But if you add Ele.me and AutoNavi, it’s a completely different story.

Gaode Taxi’s annual revenue is 100 billion yuan.

Ele.me’s annual revenue is also several hundred billion.

These two businesses may not have high profits, but their revenues are really scary.

Add to that Xingyi Mall and Mayu Mall, the scale is even higher than Taobao + Tmall.

There are also more related users.

For a moment, Jack Ma was hesitant.

After a long while, Jack Ma said in a deep voice: "Then we have to ban Changchat Payment! Even if we lose all these platforms, we have to ban them!"

"Why?" Vice President Mo Yi was very puzzled. He just felt that Jack Ma had gone crazy and lost his mind.

Jack Ma's eyes flashed with a sharp light: "Even if we don't ban Changliao payment, most of the users of Xingyi platform use Changliao payment, and Alipay payment accounts for only 20%, or even less than 20%."

"It's less than 20% of the market. Even if we lose it, how much loss can we expect?"

Mo Yi suddenly realized: "I see. If we block Changliao Payment, Xingyi Technology will block Alipay in return. We will lose 20% of Xingyi platform's payment share, but we can regain 50% of Taobao and Tmall's market share. Overall, it's more cost-effective! However, Xingyi Technology will directly lose 50% of Taobao and Tmall's market share, and their loss will be greater!"

Jack Ma nodded: "That's right. With this kind of equal ban, Alipay, which is at a disadvantage, will suffer less loss and gain more. But Changchat Pay, which is at an advantage, will suffer heavy losses. Killing 5,000 enemies and losing 2,000 of our own will result in a net profit of 5,000. This wave is not a loss, it is a steady profit!"

"More importantly, the number of Alipay users will decrease after this incident. If we don't ban Changchat Payment, our market share will only continue to shrink."

Alipay head Liu Quanxin was very excited: "Then I will immediately issue a notice to completely ban Changchat payment?"

Jack Ma nodded and said, "Send a notice and require all merchants to complete the payment method conversion within a week. At dawn on March 3, Changliao payment will be completely disconnected. As for the reason, it is a security issue."

"Yes!" Liu Quanxin answered decisively, but Vice President Mo Yi was a little worried:
"Chairman, Alibaba is currently in the spotlight. If we block Changchat Payment right now, I'm afraid it will cause bigger problems and make everyone think that Alibaba is in a hurry. It's better to wait for half a month until the BBC incident has calmed down before we cut off Changchat Payment."

Hearing this, Jack Ma fell into deep thought and felt that there was some truth in it.

However, Liu Quanxin decisively retorted: "No, don't forget that jerk executive exposed us, causing us to be boycotted again, and Alipay was uninstalled in large numbers again."

"There are only 3800 million Alipay users left now. If we wait for half a month to ban Changchat Payment, it is estimated that half of the remaining 3800 million Alipay users will become Changchat Payment users!"

"This..." Mo Yi was speechless for a moment. This was also a big problem.

Jack Ma nodded and said, "Quan Xin is right. Alipay can no longer withstand any impact, let alone fall to 2000 million users. Changchat payment must be banned."

"Yes!" Liu Quanxin was in a good mood and made arrangements quickly.

Soon, all major Taobao and Tmall stores received notifications from Alibaba:

[Due to security issues, Taobao, Tmall, Alibaba and other platforms will suspend all payment methods except Alipay and online banking. Merchants are requested to complete the conversion as soon as possible before March 3. After March 10, other payment methods will be suspended. ]

A stone stirred up a thousand waves.

Many business groups were blown up:

"What do you mean? Suspend other payment methods? Suspend who?"

"UnionPay and Alibaba dare not suspend payment, but will definitely suspend Changchat payment."

"This is a big problem. If Changchat payment is not supported, how can buyers pay?"

"That's right. Now most buyers use Changchat payment. Alibaba is really narrow-minded."

"There is nothing we can do. Seeing Changchat Payment becoming bigger, Alibaba is desperate."

"What should I do?"

"What else can I do? I can only do as I'm told and hope the buyer will switch to Alipay."

"I'm afraid buyers won't want to use Alipay, and now they're boycotting it."

"Yeah, I'm worried about that too."

"How about we expose this matter and use the power of buyers to force Alibaba to cancel the ban on Changchat Payment?"

"That's a good idea, let's give it a try!"

……

Soon, the news that Alibaba was going to ban Changchat Payment spread on the Internet.

It immediately caused an uproar:

"There are nearly 300 million Changchat payment users. Alibaba is going to ban Changchat payment? Is this fake? It must be fake."

"Really? Alibaba has notified all major merchants that starting from March 3, Taobao and Tmall will no longer be able to use Changchat payment."

"They actually banned Changchat Payment. Alibaba is crazy. They are desperate."

"Damn, Alibaba is rubbish. I uninstalled Alipay to boycott Alibaba. But I still have to shop online. What should I do?"

"It's OK. We still have JD.com. JD.com supports Changchat payment!"

"Yes, there is also JD.com, Tencent Paipai, QQ Mall, e-commerce, Suning, Gome..."

"That's right. It's not like we can't shop online without Taobao!"

"The more Ali does this, the more we will resist!"

……

Wang Yi laughed dumbly at these opinions, and then looked at the senior executives:
"The thing we were most worried about finally happened. Ali is desperate after all!"

As early as half a month ago, Wang Yi had predicted that Alibaba might become desperate and ban Changchat Payment.

It’s just that no one expected it to come so quickly and so directly.

Cai Zisong said: "But the good news is that users are on our side. Many netizens said that they would rather choose other e-commerce platforms than give up Changchat Payment!"

Wang Yi waved his hand and said, "Old Cai, you are too optimistic. Users may say so, but how many of them actually do so?"

"This..." Cai Zisong was speechless for a moment.

In 2013, Taobao was still the absolute dominant force.

Although there are many other e-commerce platforms, none of them can compare with Taobao in scale, not even JD.com.

Wang Yi continued: "It doesn't matter. The payment war is inevitable and will come sooner or later. Now that Alibaba has taken the initiative to start the war, we will respond strongly!" "Since Alibaba wants to ban Changchat Payment, then we, Xingyi Technology, will also ban Alipay!"

"Starting from March 3, Xingyi Mall, Mayu Mall, Douyin Mall, AutoNavi Taxi, and Ele.me Food Delivery will all ban Alipay!"

"Second, Changliao will completely ban Taobao links. Taobao links will no longer be allowed to be circulated on Changliao."

"Yes!"

Everyone responded, feeling even happier.

If the first one, banning Alipay, is just a reciprocal response to Alibaba's ban on Changchat Payment.

The second point is to completely ban Taobao links, which means cutting off Taobao’s traffic entrance to Changchat!

As a top social platform with 5 million users, many people are creating chat groups and public accounts to drive traffic to Taobao products and share Taobao links.

When users see a product they like in the chat group, they will click on the link and jump to Taobao to purchase it.

It can be said that Changchat is also a very important traffic entrance for Taobao!

Taobao previously supported Changchat payment, and Wang Yi turned a blind eye to it.

But now, Alibaba is going to ban Changchat Payment, so Wang Yi will no longer show mercy. Not only will he ban Alipay on the entire platform, he will also ban Taobao links, cutting off a major traffic entrance for Taobao!
"Chairman, should we remove the Taobao app from Xingyi mobile phones?" an executive couldn't help but ask.

Wang Yi thought about it and waved his hand: "It's not necessary for now. The ecosystem of the XOS system needs to develop. We don't need to ruin the future of the XOS system for Alibaba."

Yang Yan also agreed: "Yes, once our Xingyi mobile phone bans a certain software, it will inevitably cause fear among other developers, and it will be difficult for the XOS system ecosystem to expand. The gain will not outweigh the loss."

Everyone nodded.

Wang Yi said with a smile: "Everything has to have a reason. If we don't have a good reputation, we still can't remove it from Taobao. But we can make other arrangements."

As he spoke, Wang Yi looked at Cai Zisong in the video conference: "The payment code function is ready to go online!"

When developing the payment code function, Wang Yi also asked people to develop the payment code function at the same time, but it was not released directly.

Currently, QR code payment is mainly used in supermarkets and restaurants, which scan the user's payment code and charge the fee.

Alibaba developed this function in 2011.

Last year, Changchat Payment was also developed.

As for the payment code, no company has yet developed it, but Xingyi Technology has now done it first.

The biggest difference between the payment code and the receipt code is that the payment code is fixed, while the payment code is constantly refreshed.

Furthermore, their roles are quite different.

Cai Zisong immediately understood what Wang Yi meant: "Chairman, you are going to use the payment code to break the deadlock!"

Wang Yi waved his hand: "Let's see how it works, but it's only a temporary solution, not a permanent one."

“The most important thing is to look at the comprehensive e-commerce next year - Douyin Mall!”

In the following week, Xingyi Technology did not respond and Alibaba did not make any other statements.

Both sides fell into silence.

But everyone knows that this is just the calm before the storm.

However, the boycott of Alibaba and Alipay by the majority of netizens is increasing day by day.

Moral support from many, scant support.

The content exposed by the BBC is already infuriating and has led to public boycott.

Now they are going to ban Changchat payment. This is so desperate that even passers-by can’t stand it.

Users who originally did not want to boycott have begun to boycott Alipay!
Wang Yi was pleased to hear this.

However, Alibaba has not made any statement and has ignored the suggestions from Taobao merchants and users.

Such a proud attitude seems like a posture of giving up everything!
Jack Ma has understood clearly that as long as Changchat Payment is banned, Alipay’s user scale will inevitably increase due to the basic base of Taobao and Tmall, and can return to the billion level!

Users can live without Changchat Payment, but they cannot live without Taobao. This is Alibaba’s confidence.

But the majority of netizens are confident enough to boycott.

In the following days, the number of Alipay users continued to decline, falling to only about 3000 million.

However, the user scale of Changliao Payment is increasing day by day.

As of March 3, the number of users of Changliao Payment has exceeded 10 million!
Wang Yi was very satisfied with this. He could only say that Ali was desperate and gave Changliao Pay another assist.

But unfortunately, the next step is to decide life and death.

On March 3, Taobao suspended Changchat payment as scheduled and banned it completely.

Many netizens who wanted to shop online were unable to conduct normal transactions because their Changchat payment service was blocked.

In response to this, some netizens chose to re-enable the uninstalled Alipay to complete the transaction.

Some netizens chose to fight to the end and gave up the purchase while cursing.

Some users have turned to other e-commerce platforms and used Changliao to pay for their purchases.

The XA century war has begun.

Jian Ziyan approached Wang Yi and said, "Chairman, Alibaba has completely banned our Changchat payment. Should we fight back immediately?"

Wang Yi waved his hand: "No hurry, one day later."

"One day later?" Jian Ziyan was a little confused.

Wang Yi smiled slightly: "One day later, there is a difference between before and after. It can show that we at Xingyi Technology didn't want to do this, but were forced by Alibaba... No matter how badly we treat Alibaba in the end, it was Alibaba who took action first, and it has nothing to do with us."

"Okay!" Jian Ziyan became interested.

The next day, March 3, Xingyi Technology issued a statement:
[Unfortunately, due to some force majeure factors, Mayu Mall, Xingyi Mall, Douyin Mall, Ele.me Takeaway, and AutoNavi Taxi will suspend Alipay payment. Thank you for your support. 】

This statement once again caused an uproar.

However, netizens’ attitude towards Alibaba is completely different:
"I understand. Alibaba has banned Changchat Pay, and Xingyi Technology has banned Alipay. It's only natural."

"Block it, it's rubbish Alipay, not many people use it anyway."

"Support Xingyi Technology and Mr. Wang. It was Alibaba that was the first to break the rules of martial ethics, and Changchat Payment is just tit-for-tat."

Looking at these opinions, Jack Ma snorted coldly: "Wang Yi is a guy who can deceive people. But he is also courageous. He directly banned Alipay on all platforms!"

"But it doesn't matter. We have the advantage."

Liu Quanxin smiled and nodded: "Chairman, since the ban on Changchat Payment, the number of Alipay users has increased from 3000 million to 4000 million yesterday!"

“It’s still increasing.”

"I can only say that the growth rate is terrifying."

"Very good, our plan was successful. As for Xingyi Technology's counterattack, haha, it's not worth mentioning."

However, as soon as he finished speaking, Vice President Mo Yi rushed in:

"Chairman, we are in big trouble. Xingyi Technology has banned us!"

Jack Ma nodded: "I know, isn't it Xingyi Technology that blocked Alipay? That's all they can do, it's no big deal."

"It's not that Alipay is blocked. It's that Xingyi Technology's Changchat has completely blocked Taobao links! We have lost a large traffic entrance all of a sudden."

"What?" Jack Ma was a little panicked.

These days, without live streaming to sell goods, the biggest traffic entrance is free chatting.

Many businesses have set up some chat groups to acquire customers.

Some people even set up special chat groups to attract users to join and send out various "discount links" every day.

Although the prices are similar to usual, they can bring a lot of traffic to Taobao if they promote it well.

But now it has been banned all of a sudden, and Taobao has suffered heavy losses.

"This guy Wang Yi is really not a simple person. Not only did he block Alipay, he also blocked Taobao links and Tmall links. Really good! So cruel!" Jack Ma's eyes were cold.

Mo Yi nodded: "Without the entrance to Changchao, we have suffered a great loss. We must find a new replacement."

"A new alternative..." Jack Ma's eyes lit up: "We can use Sina Weibo. Without the traffic from the chat group, we can take over Sina Weibo and use the Weibo showcase as a new traffic entrance!"

Mo Yi agreed: "This is a good way out. Using Weibo showcases to replace Changliao's promotional resources. However, the negotiations on controlling Weibo were not very smooth."

"What happened?" Jack Ma couldn't help but ask.

"Chairman, we want 51% of Sina Weibo's market share and offer a high price of 120 billion. They still don't want to."

"The price tag of 120 billion yuan values ​​Sina Weibo at over 240 billion yuan, which is completely beyond expectations. What else is there for him to be unwilling about?" Jack Ma said coldly.

"Mr. Cao thinks it's too little, he wants 150 billion!"

Jack Ma's mouth twitched: "..."

"The price tag of 120 billion is already high enough, but we need another 150 billion!"

"Greedy, so greedy!"

Mo Yi was also helpless: "But there is no other way. We need Sina Weibo! Especially after this incident, we were banned from Changliao. We need Sina Weibo even more."

Jack Ma sighed. Although he didn't want to admit it, he had to admit that it was the fact.

"Okay, let's talk to Sina and see if we can lower the price a little bit, like 130 billion!"

"Okay, I'll contact you right away."

Soon, Cao Wei, chairman of Sina, received a call from Mo Yi: "Mr. Cao, we at Alibaba are very optimistic about the cooperation with Sina Weibo. We can offer up to 130 billion, or 51% of the shares!"

"130 billion?" Cao Wei smiled coldly.

If it were before, I would have accepted 130 billion.

But now that Alibaba has been banned from Changchat, it has no choice but to take over Sina Weibo.

Then it’s not just about 130 billion, it has to be 150 billion!
The opportunity to attack the rich cannot be missed!
(End of this chapter)