Reborn: Billionaire in College

Chapter 225 Renrengou Enters the National Market

This year's Spring Festival, Chen Pingjiang had no plans to return to Tongcheng.

It’s good to have such a saying.

“What you can’t go back to is your hometown.”

It’s not that Chen Pingjiang doesn’t want to go back, but now the noise is getting louder and louder when he goes back, and his former childhood playmates gradually have nothing in common with him, and they stay at home like fools all day long.

After Chen Pingjiang told his parents about his idea, they agreed.

The Zhongshan Villa is only half renovated and cannot be moved in until the second half of next year.

After much deliberation, Chen Pingjiang finally decided to take his parents and the Yan family out for a vacation.

The final destination was chosen as Maldives.

This year's New Year came early. After the annual meeting in Dongjiang, the two families, along with Li Fu and another bodyguard, rushed to Shanghai. They will go to the Maldives from here.

After eight hours of flight, we finally arrived in Male, the capital of Maldives.

It is a very small city. The locals have dark skin and they originally came from India.

After staying in Male for one night, we took a seaplane to the island early the next morning.

Except for Chen Pingjiang, everyone else was going abroad for the first time, especially Yan Liming, who needed to apply first and could only go abroad after approval.

This time we went to Cheval Blanc Manor, a 7-star hotel.

After arriving on the island, everyone was shocked by the clear blue water.

“What beautiful water.”

“The beach is also very white.”

Chen Pingjiang booked a total of 5 rooms, one for the two bodyguards, one for each of his two parents, and one for himself and Yan Yan.

When handing the room card to Yan Yan, Chen Pingjiang winked at him.

Yan Yan understood the meaning in Chen Pingjiang's eyes and lowered her head shyly.

It is hard for people who have never been to an island to imagine how boring it is.

At most, there are activities like diving and sailing, and the prices are very expensive, so Chen Pingjiang has no interest in it.

After arriving on the island, most people either eat or sit on a chair and watch the sea every day.

Chen Pingjiang refused that kind of special forces tour. He thought it was hard to celebrate the New Year, he shouldn’t get exhausted.

The temperature in Maldives is around 30 degrees, and the ultraviolet rays are really strong.

The suites Chen Pingjiang booked are the best on the island, with a swimming pool as standard and even a slide.

As soon as she put down her luggage, Yan Yan couldn't wait to call Chen Pingjiang to walk around the island together.

Barefoot, stepping on the white sand, walking slowly around the island.

Chen Pingjiang took his SLR camera and took a few photos of Yan Yan from time to time.

After dinner in the evening, everyone went back to their rooms.

It was completely dark.

Chen Pingjiang sat on a lounge chair on the balcony, looking at the dark night sky, feeling the breeze, his sight reaching far away where a lighthouse flickered.

It's a very pleasant feeling.

"Boom boom boom!"

There was a knock on the door.

After opening the door, Yan Yan, wearing a silk suspender, flashed into Chen Pingjiang's room.

Chen Pingjiang smiled and picked up Yan Yan...

The other end.

As soon as Li Yuhua returned to her room, Yan Liming saw his wife frowning and asked curiously, "Didn't you say you were going to Yanyan's place to chat? Why did you come back in just a few minutes?"

"She went." Li Yuhua said, "But I don't know where the girl ran off to. She's not in the house."

"If he's not in the house, he must have gone to look for Chen Pingjiang. He's probably wandering around the island."

"But when I passed by Xiao Chen's door, it seemed vaguely..."

Yan Liming was stunned when he heard this. After a while, he said, "You went to eavesdrop on the wall?"

"Pooh, pooh, pooh." Li Yuhua quickly shook her head: "How is that possible? I was just passing by."

Yan Liming has now let it go.

"Just go ahead. They are not children anymore. They have been talking for so long. Just leave them alone."

"I'm just worried that they didn't take any safety measures."

Yan Yan woke up on time at six o'clock the next morning. She could still vividly remember the madness of last night, from the unbearable pain at the beginning to the gradual adaptation to it.

A daughter becomes a woman.

It was also last night that Yan Yan finally understood what the handprints on the glass were all about.

Thinking back to the time when I went to the farm house with Chen Pingjiang, I actually asked Chen Pingjiang stupidly. It was so silly and adorable.

Looking at Chen Pingjiang who was sleeping soundly, Yan Yan tiptoed out of the room.

On the way to breakfast in the morning, Li Yuhua kept his eyes on Yan Yan.

The experienced person could tell at a glance that Yan Yan walked awkwardly, so he pulled Yan Yan to whisper something in her ear, and occasionally looked back at Chen Pingjiang who was walking behind him. When they arrived at the restaurant, Chen Pingjiang found that the girl's face was red, and asked curiously, "What's wrong?"

"No, it's okay."

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After staying on the island for almost half a month, Chen Pingjiang got bored, so everyone returned to Dongjiang.

Yan Liming and Chen Guangming never get tired of it. They get together every day to play chess and go fishing. They are as happy as if they were 20 years younger.

Xu Fangjuan, Li Yuhua and Yan Yan also got together, did skin care massage, took photos everywhere, and lived a very comfortable life.

Chen Pingjiang was so bored that he dragged Li Fu and another bodyguard to play Landlord every day.

When transiting in Shanghai, Chen Pingjiang did not go back with the main group, but went to Renrengou's Shanghai headquarters alone.

City managers and regional managers from all over the country were summoned to Shanghai, where Chen Pingjiang was going to hold a mobilization meeting.

In the past two months, people have been speculating on the next move of Chen Pingjiang and Renrengou, but no one has guessed correctly.

Just when everyone thought that Renrengou had raised 50 million US dollars and was about to make a big move, Renrengou was hiding in various cities, watching the fight from afar.

There have been constant voices of pessimism, but no one at Renrengou has responded positively.

"I really don't know what Renrengou is thinking. They have such a large sum of money in their hands. If they don't spend it, why would they raise funds?"

"Other companies are fighting vigorously, but Renrengou has not made any moves at all. I don't know what they are up to."

"No matter what medicine you sell, it's too late for everyone to buy it now. Once the market is completely taken up by others, the cost of expanding it again will be even greater than before."

In the meeting room, Chen Pingjiang glanced around and nodded with satisfaction.

"I know that many of you are wondering what I am up to, and some are even questioning me like the outside world, which is normal."

"You have all had a good rest in the past few months. You will have a hard time in 2009. Our mission for 09 is to expand to cities across the country through direct sales. We suggest setting up branch offices."

"Contact as many merchants as possible and establish a brand image in the minds of consumers. If other group-buying websites block you, let them block you and don't fight with them too much. Of course, it would be the best if anyone can break through the cracks, but opening a site is the top priority."

Chen Pingjiang has only one goal for Renrengou in 2009.

Covering the whole country.

Without spending money, he will definitely not be able to compete with Lashou, Wowo, Meituan and the like, but it doesn’t matter, he is just preparing for the coming cold winter of the group buying capital market.

Once those group buying websites are no longer able to compete, that will be the time for Renrengou to come to the fore.

"We don't invest in advertising, not because we don't have the money, but because it doesn't work. There may be ads for four or five group-buying websites in an elevator, and even consumers wouldn't know which one to choose."

This is the perfect time to enter the market.

If you arrive too early, you will be attacked from both sides; if you arrive too late, you will miss the opportunity.

After fighting for several months last year, group buying companies also entered a strategic stalemate phase. After artillery fire and ammunition had plowed through the ground, the offensive was no longer as fierce as at the beginning.

When the fight is at its fiercest, if yours is 30% off, I'll give you 20% off. If yours is 20% off, I'll offer free meals.

It has to be said that consumers are the happiest.

Every time companies scramble to grab market share, they can get a lot for free, but when everything settles, consumers will become leeks again.

This is a very large-scale personnel transfer.

In accordance with Chen Pingjiang's requirements, the teams in Shenzhen and Guangzhou must radiate the entire Greater Bay Area and the neighboring Fujian Province.

The Shanghai team was also torn apart and began to move towards Haidong and Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

In the first round, Chen Pingjiang selected fifteen cities, and the local sales team had to roll out the cities within the specified time.

Other group buying websites that noticed Renrengou’s actions suddenly became a little panicked.

I didn’t expect that Renrengou would make a big move just after the Chinese New Year.

Renrengou also poaches people, but unlike Lashou Wowo, it only poaches good talents and does not poach the entire team at once, which would cause management difficulties.

And no matter whether you were a city manager or a regional manager in your previous company, it is all useless. You will all be thrown into the Renren Tiejun training camp for retraining.

Chen Pingjiang would rather negotiate on salary and benefits than something that is unmanageable. This is a matter of principle.

It was at this time that the disadvantages of the rapid expansion of Lashou.com and WoWotuan began to emerge.

WoWotuan Hanyang Station has launched a product, which allows consumers to pay 200 yuan on WoWotuan to enjoy a 1200 yuan driving school voucher, and then pay another 2600 yuan at the driving school to enjoy the driving school services.

窝窝团统计的数据显示，此次活动总共报名人数689人，付了200元没交2600元的占300多人，剩余的支付2800元的占240人左右。

However, not long after, some consumers discovered that the merchant had run away with the donations.

Now those consumers who paid the money have collectively complained.

The WoWo group was in a state of panic for a while.

Several other group buying websites were also cheated.

WoWotuan has initiated advance compensation. In addition to the 200 yuan they collected, the 2600 yuan paid by consumers to the illegal driving school has also been compensated.

They admitted that there were loopholes in the initial qualification review and they were fooled by a fake official seal.

Lashou.com also encountered a similar situation. A business hotel that originally cost 288 yuan per night turned out to be only 98 yuan offline.

These two incidents are not isolated cases, but rather seem to have ignited the fuse.

At one time, industrial and commercial departments across the country issued a total of 57 notices of rectification to various registered group buying websites, and filed 78 cases for investigation and punishment.

A survey report on the protection of consumer rights in online group buying jointly released by consumer associations in multiple cities shows that more than 60% of group buying consumers have had their rights infringed. Online group buying has exposed a variety of problems that infringe on consumers' legitimate rights, with the top three problems being exaggerated publicity, reduced group buying services, and difficulty in returning goods (or money).

(End of this chapter)