Reborn: Billionaire in College

After staying in western Sichuan for almost a week, Chen Pingjiang and his companions returned to Dongjiang.

During this period of time, he put aside all his work and stayed with Yan Yan quietly. Before they got married, he didn't spend much time with Yan Yan, so this time he had done his homework.

They get up early every morning to prepare breakfast. After breakfast, they play chess and read books.

In the afternoon, they would stroll around the area or plant vegetables and water flowers.

The simple vegetables were dug directly from the vegetable garden, and the other meats had already been stored in the refrigerator in the cabin.

At night, the two of them would chat while looking at the stars and the moon through the patio inside the house, and they would spend the rest of the time making babies.

Because Chen Pingjiang was also very anxious.

After returning to Dongjiang, Chen Pingjiang spent another two or three days having meals with his parents on both sides before returning to the company and starting work.

During the half month before and after this vacation, too many things were left undealt with.

It was only when Chen Pingjiang sat down that he found out about his marriage. Despite his efforts to keep a low profile, it still caused a lot of noise.

In the mountains, he only had a satellite phone and no internet, so he was not aware that he was on the hot search list on Weibo.

Although no one was able to take pictures on the wedding day, there were still some gossipers who described it vividly online.

This is enough to arouse the endless interest of the spectators.

The identity of the bride is not difficult to guess.

Chen Pingjiang once appeared in public with Yan Yan, when they watched the F1 race in Shanghai.

In addition, Yan Yan is also the CEO of Xiaohongshu.

There are two topics that really interest the crowd.

First, Yan Yan is praised as the woman who saved an angel in her previous life, and she has a good life and good luck.

Second, Wang Cong was dragged out and beaten, and compared with Chen Pingjiang. He is richer and more handsome than you, but he is devoted to you, from school uniforms to wedding dresses, and look at you, Wang Cong, changing girlfriends every day.

Even Chen Pingjiang couldn't help blushing after seeing the second topic.

It is worth mentioning that after a deeper investigation into Yan Yan’s identity and background, it actually pointed to Yan Liming.

However, the relevant comments were quickly blocked by Weibo.

Chen Pingjiang also spent some time these days comforting the other women, and only now does he feel a little relieved.

"Director Chen, the second and third episodes of the first season of The Offer have been aired, and the response online is quite great. Everyone is looking forward to your appearance again, and President Wan has mentioned it more than once." Xu Rui reported, "We have entered the second half of the filming. What do you think?"

Chen Pingjiang groaned: "I'll show up before the end. Remember to notify me when the time comes."

Wan Yuqian has been bothering me about this matter more than once. If I don't agree to her, I don't know how she will frame me in the future.

"The second thing is that Huaxin Foundry has made a breakthrough in multiple exposure technology and obtained a number of patents. The team has begun to accelerate the development of 28nm chips."

Chen Pingjiang raised his eyebrows in surprise: "Oh? So fast?"

After all, they are Zhang Rujing and Liang Mengsong, who are like the stabilizing force. Their technical level is not to be underestimated. Although Chen Pingjiang has opened up the idea, it is not easy to get the patent in such a short time.

The Huaxin wafer factory had officially started production a long time ago. Chen Pingjiang had always strictly followed the original agreement and never interfered. He delegated power to Mr. Zhang and Mr. Meng to handle daily affairs and only expressed his opinion on major strategic issues.

"Let's arrange a time to inspect the factory at the end of the month." After thinking about it, Chen Pingjiang told Xu Rui about the itinerary.

Xu Rui nodded and wrote it down before continuing, "Mr. Lin from Orange Technology sent a letter asking if you would like to attend the smart home developer conference."

"No, just let him make his own arrangements."

The so-called Smart Home Developers Conference is actually to bring together powerful domestic manufacturers, incorporate them all into the Orange ecosystem, and diversify smart home products.

Through Xiaoju's intelligent voice control and unified protocol, voice commands can control refrigerators, air conditioners, curtains, lights and other home appliances.

"Finally, it's about the subsidy war between AutoNavi and Uber. A representative from AutoNavi said that he wants to have an online meeting with you when you come back."

"Notify them to come online in twenty minutes!"

Every time Xu Rui said something, Chen Pingjiang would handle it immediately, at a very fast speed.

Without this arrangement, the accumulated work will never be completed.

There are too many companies under its umbrella. Although many daily affairs are handled by the heads of their respective companies, the general direction and some difficult issues still require Chen Pingjiang to step forward to resolve or give his approval.

Twenty minutes later, when Chen Pingjiang came to the video conference room.

The three giants of AutoNavi have been waiting online for a long time.

On a large screen, the portraits of Cheng Congwu, Cheng Wei and Lu Chuanwei appeared.

After seeing Chen Pingjiang sitting down, everyone on the opposite side shouted in unison: "Boss Chen."

Chen Pingjiang nodded calmly: "I was away for half a month. Tell me, how is Uber doing?"

Cheng Congwu said: "Uber responded very quickly. After their CEO left, they immediately sent a vice president named Liu Zhen to China to take full responsibility for repairing the relationship with the government." Chen Pingjiang wondered: "And his last name is Liu. What's his relationship with the Liu family?"

Cheng Wei continued, "Just as you thought, she has a close relationship with the Liu family. Liu Zhen has been working as a lawyer in Silicon Valley for nearly ten years, mainly as a legal consultant for Internet startups. Uber founder and CEO Travis Kalanick is one of her clients. Her uncle is Liu Zhi."

Chen Pingjiang almost laughed out loud.

Are Uber and the Liu family trapped?
The cousins ​​fell into the same trench.

If that’s the case, then in the original timeline, these cousins ​​were rivals?

They are both rivals and relatives.

Even the later merger of Didi and Uber was inseparable from the contributions of these two people.

It's getting more and more interesting.

There are many business matters that I didn’t understand in my previous life as an ordinary person, but now that I’m deeply involved in them in this life, I’ve discovered that things are very different.

Cheng Congwu continued, "Liu Zhen has been very quick in his actions. He has put in a lot of effort since taking office, and it has been very effective. At least they are under much less pressure from the policy side. It is worth mentioning that they have been very powerful recently. In Chengdu alone, nearly one million orders have been completed in just a few dozen days, which is equivalent to an average of about 3.6 people using Uber carpooling every day. This has made Chengdu surpass New York and become the city with the highest number of Uber orders."

Chen Pingjiang smiled playfully: "It's interesting. Uber and the Liu family are a strong combination. One has connections and the other has money. How are you dealing with it now?"

"There is no good solution at the moment. We can only fight a price war with our competitors in key cities to barely keep going."

Chen Pingjiang nodded and did not blame Cheng Wei.

The other party's single-minded focus on spending money cannot be stopped in a short period of time.

Just wait until Uber runs out of money to burn.

Changing the topic, Chen Pingjiang turned his gaze to Lu Chuanwei.

Lu Chuanwei is now in Singapore, leading Kuaidi's core team and using Singapore as a springboard to radiate the entire Southeast Asia region.

"Mr. Chen, our team has been fully settled and has been working for a few days. We are currently in the stage of recruiting and conducting market research. It will probably take another ten days to complete the preliminary preparations."

Chen Pingjiang instructed: "Don't be in a hurry on your side, take one step at a time and try to make a big move in Uber's backyard and make them run around in a hurry."

Uber may seem powerful and has expanded globally, but it is actually very fragile.

Because in every country and region, we face fierce competition from local companies.

After a long time, you will inevitably be exhausted.

It’s just that those local online car-hailing companies are not that rich and don’t have the money to compete with Uber, but Chen Pingjiang has already arranged people to deliver ammunition.

Chen Pingjiang’s money was not given for free!
All of them have signed a buyback clause.

You said you don’t have money to buy back?

In short, if you can't beat Uber, I will let someone in and force a merger.

Cheng Wei reported: "The current relationship between Uber and AutoNavi can best be described as a prisoner's dilemma. If we continue to subsidize, we cannot make a profit. But if one of us stops subsidizing first, the other will immediately snatch away the users. Of course, our overall strength is still far greater than theirs, but they are indeed expanding rapidly. And we don't have much money..."

Didi and Kuaidi Dache each raised a round of financing before their merger and have survived until today.

The repeated battles with Uber have cost a huge amount of money.

"But..." Cheng Wei said with relief: "Uber has lost more than us, and as its valuation continues to rise, its imagination space is getting smaller and smaller. Under the guidance of the so-called strategic loss concept, the current business volume in China accounts for one-third of their total business volume, and the loss is at least hundreds of millions of dollars. I don't believe they can continue to lose money."

"In addition to our advantage of localized order resources, it is worth mentioning that throughout the past 20 years of domestic Internet history, no foreign company has ever succeeded in this land. Even if the two sisters Liu Qing and Liu Zhen try their best to maneuver, even if they set up a company composed, managed and operated entirely by Chinese employees, Uber still seems to find it difficult to cross the cultural barrier."

Chen Pingjiang nodded, agreeing with Cheng Wei's opinion.

Uber’s defeat in China is not just a possibility, it is certain.

It's just a matter of time.

History will not be rewritten!

There is a question mark as to whether the Uber model - a city-centric management approach - is suitable for the Chinese market.

Will the C2C model completely collapse under the upcoming new policy on private cars?

It is impossible for the online car-hailing market to be unregulated. Once the shoe drops, Uber will inevitably be more hurt than Gaode.

Although the Liu family has a strong relationship, they still have to give some concessions when facing Chen Pingjiang.

Uber itself is well aware of this.

It knows that once the subsidies stop, it will be driven out of the domestic market, so it can only keep burning money, but money doesn't come from the wind.

To some extent, Uber, which initially entered China with a high-end halo, has now gradually moved from novelty to mediocrity.

In the past, Uber drivers were company executives or entrepreneurs, or they might be the second generation of rich people who wanted to kill time, but now most of them are full-time drivers, working hard just for the rewards of completing orders, which is very different from what Uber called "lifestyle" before; Uber, which claimed that it never advertised, has also changed this policy. Uber driver recruitment information can be seen everywhere in the streets and alleys and on every corner of the Internet. (End of this chapter)