Reborn: Billionaire in College

Chapter 223 Let the Bullets Fly for a While
Cen Lijian was in a good mood today and walked into the office humming a little tune in the morning.

Although the work is difficult, life must go on!

But soon he stopped laughing.

All kinds of bad news came.

Several regional managers went on strike as if they had made an appointment.

"Boss Cen, I came here to tell you something. After that, I will go back to rest."

What surprised Cen Lijian was that there was such a nice manager who came to remind him.

At this moment, Cen Liqian’s brain was about to explode.

After being blocked by Renrengou yesterday, if these people go on strike again today, Lashou will really have to close its doors.

He would be recalled to BJ headquarters immediately and lose his job.

Hurryingly pulling the manager who was about to leave the office, Cen Lijian asked, "What's going on? Didn't we agree on this yesterday? How come you fell out overnight?"

The manager looked around and saw that there were no people around. He leaned over and whispered, "After the meeting last night, we went to dinner and a group of people started chatting again. Zhang Li became more and more excited. In the end, everyone agreed that if Rao Guangping was still in the company, everyone would quit."

Forcing the palace!

These two words suddenly popped up in Cen Lijian's mind.

A naked attempt to force the emperor to abdicate.

After calming down, Cen Liqian found that he had almost no other choice.

He could only find a reason to depose Rao Guangping.

Otherwise, he will be abolished.

After thinking for a while, Cen Lijian said to the manager, "Call them and ask them to come back to work. I already know about the matter. I will find an excuse and a solution in the next two days."

"Mr. Cen wouldn't lie to us, would he?" the manager said with a smile.

Staring at him, Cen Lijian said, "If I don't do it, can't you still go on strike then?"

Any leader with a bit of temper would really not be able to tolerate such a thing, but there was no other way because LaShou, who had just come to Shanghai to open a station, had no other personnel reserves.

Other areas are also expanding at full speed and simply cannot provide enough manpower.

After returning to his boss' chair and sitting back down, Cen Lijian sighed, "Rao Guangping is indeed a bit annoying. No wonder everyone dislikes him. It's good that he's gone. It will help unity."

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Rao Guangping walked into the HR office with some confusion: "Is there something urgent? Why are you calling me back from outside so urgently?"

The HR officer nodded with a stern face: "Well, you have to sign this."

Rao Guangping picked up the document and just glanced at it, and his mind exploded.

"Notice of dismissal"

"Mr. Rao Guangping: Thank you for your hard work during your tenure!"

"Based on your performance during the probation period, the company believes that you are not qualified for the position of regional manager and has decided to dismiss you. Please complete the resignation procedures today and settle your probation salary at the same time."

Rao Guangping cursed on the spot: "Fuck, where is Cen Lijian? I came to ask him what he meant. He recruited me with such kindness, but now he wants to quit in less than two days?"

The HR still had no expression on his face: "Boss Cen has returned to BJ and has not been in Shanghai for the past few days."

"Okay, okay, okay!" Rao Guangping was so angry that he laughed: "You are deliberately hiding from me, right? You won't leave until I see him."

"I'm sorry, this is the company's final decision. If you refuse to leave, I can only call the police."

"You can let me go, but since you fired me, you should at least compensate me, right?"

The HR sneered, "Manager Rao, you are still in the probation period. If you are fired during the probation period, you don't need to pay any compensation."

Geek!

Rao Guangping knew that he had been fooled.

With a bitter taste in his mouth, Rao Guangping crumpled up the notice in his hand and threw it away casually, then walked out of the building. The sunlight outside was very dazzling.

After a while, the cell phone rang.

He started to curse at me, "Damn it, what's wrong with Rao Guangping? Are you going to kill me after he's done with his work? You asked me to come with you, but now you fired me?"

"Fuck you, are you still human? We came from the same training camp. If you hadn't praised me so much, would I have come to this shabby place to suffer this?"

"Tell me, are you dumb?"

After a long while, Rao Guangping said in a low voice: "I was fired too."

The other party stopped talking this time.

Rao Guangping added: "We were fooled."

"No, you can fire me, but you have to compensate me."

"I just came out of the HR office, and she said there is no compensation for being fired during the probation period."

"Fuck, I'll go to the Labor Bureau and sue them."

"It's useless. To be precise, they are dirty, but they haven't violated any rules. Cen Lijian is also avoiding me."

"Then what should we do? I'm getting married next month. How can I tell people that I've lost my job now?" The voice on the other end of the phone sounded a little excited.

"sorry!"

"Is an apology enough? You brought us here, but you're not responsible for us? You didn't support us when something went wrong, and an apology is all it takes?"

Rao Guangping was too lazy to listen any more and hung up the phone directly.

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"Boss Gao, Xiao Zhou from our region who followed Rao Guangping to join Lashou.com, just called me and said he was fooled by Lashou.com. After Lashou.com tricked him into joining, they opened him up again. He asked me if he could come back."

Gao Songbin, who seemed to have anticipated this situation, smiled and asked, "What do you think?"

The regional manager opposite smiled awkwardly: "Can't...right?"

"Of course not. If I let him back, it will set a very bad example, as if telling those employees who are loyal to their posts that there is no price to pay for doing wrong. If everyone thinks this way, how can I lead this team in the future?" Gao Songbin said, "He chose his own path. No one forced him, and no one pointed a gun at his head. We are all adults. If we do something wrong, we still have to bear the price." After hanging up the phone, Gao Songbin keenly realized that this was an excellent publicity opportunity, a freshly-released, bloody and extremely real case.

"Never believe the salary that headhunters or other competitors promise you, which is multiple times of your current salary. This is unreasonable. Are you going to work for a short-term salary of two or three times? What can you do after you get there? Is what you do worth the money? Will the other party recognize your work results?"

"No matter what, look forward and look far ahead, and don't do anything unreliable."

After this incident, Gao Songbin actually thought it was a good thing.

If Renrengou had not had such a group of people poached, perhaps some people inside the company would think that Lashou.com is a good place and Renrengou is not a good one.

But when some people go there, in comparison, they still think Renrengou is better.

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After all this trouble, coupled with the all-out attack from Renrengou, Lashou was unable to expand its business at all.

Lashou.com, which had just completed its second round of financing, was now financially strong.

In order to compete for high-quality merchants and market share, Lashou.com even used a monetary tactic - underwriting.

Underwriting means paying a sum of money to the merchant in advance and asking the merchant to give you the discount list and sell it online. If there is no accurate data analysis and prediction, underwriting is a very risky marketing method. You may pay 100 million yuan to the merchant, but only sell 50 yuan in the end. What should you do with the remaining 50 yuan loss?
In order to get preferential orders from merchants, Lashou did not even specify in the contract how to protect itself if the products could not be sold out. If the above situation occurs, it means that Lashou will have to absorb the loss of 50 yuan by itself. This is simply gambling and stabbing itself in the back.

Cen Liqian had no choice but to do so. If he didn't do so, he would never be able to break into the Shanghai market.

The headquarters was already very dissatisfied with his work progress.

Faced with such a crazy LaShou, Renrengou did not follow up, did not make advance payments, and did not do underwriting.

What Cen Lijian didn't expect was that after the first round of underwriting, he unexpectedly found that the effect was quite good. Of course, this was also related to the fact that their quantity was relatively small.

After successful experience, Lashou.com will promote the underwriting model to other cities.

If you can’t compete in Shanghai, you can take your time.

But the underwriting routine in other cities is simply to kill gods and Buddhas.

This is a tough situation for Meituan and Nuomi.

This has a huge impact on their sales.

It is equivalent to Meituan Nuomi just holding a rifle, while Lashou already has a nuclear warhead.

Under pressure, Meituan and Nuomi also started to engage in underwriting soon after.

In any case, the pressure from Lashou.com has caused low morale at Meituan, and some people are questioning whether they can’t raise money. Their peers are all advertising and poaching people, but you are not doing anything. You don’t advertise even though you got the money. Is the company losing too much money?
On Nuomi's side, Chen Yizhou was not having a good time either.

His overall strategy is to always be second, never the first.

But the problem is that he can’t even see the tail gas of the second largest company now.

Compared to other cities where the group buying war is in full swing, Chen Pingjiang's territory is too peaceful.

It's just a handle net that doesn't make any splash.

The situation in BJ is different. As the capital and a first-tier city, it is also the base camp of various companies and the fight is the most fierce.

The sales team faces the frontline fire and goes to merchants to discuss advertising. As soon as they enter the elevator, they see advertisements for other group buying websites. How can they fight this battle?
The most exaggerated thing is that at the elevator entrance of Meituan BJ’s office, advertisements from several group buying websites are played in turn.

It's so disgusting to see competitors' ads at work and when I go to negotiate a deal.

It’s not that Meituan is short of money. They have just raised their first round of financing. It’s just that Wang Xing is more calm, unlike Wu Bo of Lashou who is hot-headed.

They would rather hide the 500 million US dollars than spend it.

It all comes down to Wang Xing seeing what Renrengou is doing.

In his heart, Chen Pingjiang is a very important person.

As the market leader and the richest person, Renrengou doesn't have much money to spend, so why are they in such a hurry?

And what about Chen Pingjiang?
We are receiving Shen Nanpeng who is making another trip.

Shen Nanpeng had to come. He saw that Chen Pingjiang took 50 million US dollars and did not move for a long time, and the other companies were going crazy.

"If Renrengou doesn't take action, other cities will be taken over, and then they can copy Renrengou's advantages in Shanghai. If you want to enter new cities, you will face powerful competitors."

Chen Pingjiang laughed: "The emperor is not anxious, but the eunuch is."

"Tell me what your plans are. After all, we at Sequoia still have partners."

"I have 5000 million US dollars in my account. Everyone knows I have money. The group buying war has just begun. How much money is enough according to the way they spend it? The trend of exaggeration is very popular now. If you raise 100 million US dollars, you dare to say you have raised 500 million. The bubble is getting bigger and bigger."

"I asked a commercial company to investigate. Guess what? In just a few months, there are already 2,000 group buying websites of all sizes in the country, and the number is still increasing."

"What's interesting is that, due to the limitations of the network and payment environments, the market size has not increased much, but the marketing expenses have increased tenfold, the investment has increased tenfold, the staff size has increased tenfold, and the cost has increased tenfold. The bubble is getting bigger and bigger, and it will burst sooner or later."

"Let me tell you something interesting. The team I spent more than half a year preparing carefully now only has 1500 people in total. But do you know how many people there are at Lashou Wowo?" Chen Pingjiang gestured: "Three thousand people. They have only been here for a few months? And they have expanded to this extent."

"When all investors realize that group buying is like a bottomless pit and that there is a bubble, and no one dares to invest in group buying, the cold winter will come. At that time, the underlying weakness will be exposed, and if financing is not available, the brakes will be applied and employees will be laid off. Layoffs will cause panic and make people lose their motivation to work. When everyone is out of money, that's when I'll take action."

Chen Pingjiang said it easily, but Shen Nanpeng was stunned. At first, he disagreed with Chen Pingjiang's statement, but the more he thought about it, the more he believed it was true.

He is the capital!

Investors will desperately demand growth in internship data, which is like fattening without a foundation.

This person is Chen Pingjiang.

If it were someone else's company, Shen Nanpeng would still put crazy pressure on them.

"Of course, I am not completely unmoved. After the new year, I will open branches in various cities, prepare personnel channels, and wait for the arrival of the capital winter."

Chen Pingjiang added another sentence.

"As long as you are sure, I... I just came to listen to your opinion." Shen Nanpeng did not dare to urge him this time. "According to what you said, Lashou and Wowo will eventually lose, and it is Meituan, whose data is not good now, that will take over?"

Chen Pingjiang nodded: "Lashou and Wowo did not focus on managing customers. They hoped to use capital to first occupy the market and then cultivate it. Unfortunately, those who think this way usually fail to cultivate it in the end. In the final analysis, these two companies did not understand the essence of group buying. They just chased the hot spots and hoped to become a listed company. As for Meituan, let's give them a try and see if there is any possibility of acquisition."

After seeing off Shen Nanpeng, Chen Pingjiang thought about it and sent an internal letter to Renrengou.

He needs to tell management at all levels his goals and ideas, so that they can have consistent ideas and unified opinions, which can also stabilize the morale of the troops.

Because in comparison, WoWo, Lashou and Nuomi have been quite popular recently, with various discounts emerging one after another, even suppressing the momentum of Renrengou.

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