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The next day, Zhou Buqi borrowed a spacious Rolls-Royce from the Shi family's father-in-law and went to Hangzhou with his secretary Sun Wanran.

The local government in Hangzhou has established a group construction system and has recruited seven projects including Alibaba Taobao City, Hundsun Electronics, and Synnex International. It strives to use these core projects as the basis to turn the remote "design and creative industrial park" into developed.

There is a very important reason behind this, which is loans.

In order to cope with the financial tsunami, the country launched a 4 trillion plan. This kind of massive release will be disastrous once all the funds flow to the people's livelihood market, and prices will increase significantly.

The economy is already in a downward trend, the unemployment rate is still high, and prices are still high, which will cause problems. The domestic strategy is mainly to promote large-scale infrastructure construction and promote the flow of funds into infrastructure projects. In other words, commercial banks should relax restrictions, actively provide corporate loans, and encourage them to engage in real estate and infrastructure construction.

This is a big risk.

Under the economic crisis, the operational risks of enterprises are extremely high. Once there is a problem in the business operation, the debt may explode, the money will not be paid, and the company will go bankrupt.

Policies must encourage enterprises to develop bravely, create more jobs, protect people's livelihood and stability, and restore market confidence. But most people really don't have the guts. They would rather be rich and contented than take the risk of bankruptcy to attack the rich and powerful.

Wealth and wealth are found in danger.

Boss Ma obviously has a keen business vision and started to acquire land like crazy this year. On the one hand, it follows the policy and carries out infrastructure projects through various office bases across the country. On the other hand, it is also profitable.

With the current economic crisis, land prices are very low!

Moreover, local governments are frantically looking for investment, offering various preferential policies and promising various favorable conditions, as well as low-interest or even interest-free loan support.

As long as the company comes over and the brand comes over, it basically doesn’t cost a penny. Loans, land acquisition, loans, and getting projects started through loans.

This greatly solves the worries of many companies.

In an economic crisis, cash must be king.

Companies like Ziweixing and Alibaba have sufficient funds on their books and cannot move them around. Now that the problem can be solved through low-interest loans, you can build office buildings for branches in various places without spending a penny. Why not?

All major companies are taking action. Haier, BYD, ZTE, Youngor, Wal-Mart and other companies are all enclosing land across the country. Alibaba is the same. It has launched more than 7 real estate projects this year, including Pengcheng's southern headquarters, Pengcheng's international operations center, Pengcheng's software center, Yangcheng's South China headquarters, Yucheng's western base, Jinling's e-commerce center, and Taobao City in Hangzhou headquarters.

Zhou Buqi didn't want to do this.

He feels that Ziweixing is now very powerful and has abundant cash flow, so there is no need to take advantage of the country. If there is a valuable opportunity for low-interest loans, it is better to give it to other companies.

Ziweixing is a technology company, not a real estate company. This kind of large-scale land enclosure is a bit ugly.

But some time ago, a leader gave him some guidance, saying that enterprises must shoulder social responsibilities, not be lazy, and actively participate in the construction of the motherland.

Under the economic crisis, there is great downward pressure on the national economy. We hope that Ziweixing can set an example, respond to the call to participate, invest more, build more, and inject confidence and vitality into the market.

There was no other way, Zhou Buqi had no choice but to participate.

There are also some who can’t laugh or cry.

This means that the country cannot send money out even if it wants to, so it has no choice but to do it on its own.

If you go to build branch buildings across the country, you can directly get financial subsidies and low-interest loans from banks. You can start construction without spending a penny. This will provide local employment and stimulate the development of the upstream and downstream industrial chains.

What if the branch building is built in a few years, but the company's strategy changes and the building is no longer needed?

It's simple, sell!

By that time, the real estate market had already boomed with great vigor, and the value of real estate had doubled. Not only can you easily repay the loan after selling it, but you can also make a lot of money.

Zhou Buqi is very confident in the country's economic development. Taking advantage of this information gap, he can easily make a lot of money with nothing, even billions, just like the big real estate developers in Hong Kong Island. Same.

But as a private enterprise, especially a technology company, Ziweixing had better not do this. Or honestly position real estate as supporting facilities for enterprise development.

This time I went to Hangzhou to talk to Lao Ma about this matter.

It would be best to join forces.

If Ziweixing and Alibaba branches are built together, their influence will be greater and the supporting facilities will be better.

The launch of the Taobao City project is of great significance to Alibaba. Many leaders and well-known businessmen were invited to support the project, as well as many Hong Kong businessmen, who are the second-generation heads of several wealthy families.

In addition to communication, we should also appreciate the strength of Lao Ma's connections.

It turned out that this was an investment conference.

He called on everyone to join Alibaba in acquiring land for infrastructure construction across the country, and vowed that the mainland’s economy would not collapse. The short-term decline in housing prices is not sustainable, and future economic development will definitely be prosperous. Everyone should still take advantage of the current opportunities and bravely take out loans for investment. You will definitely make money!

But many businessmen are very cautious, saying they are running a small business and dare not take risks. Once the investment is lost and the loan cannot be repaid, it will be a disaster.

It would be fine if Zhou Buqi didn't have the foresight, but he had an information advantage and was very sensitive to this situation. Some people, when wealth hits their heads, they can’t see it.

There is no way, the train relies entirely on the headband.

Even so many successful businessmen are worried, and ordinary people even more so. This time we have to help Lao Ma, arouse the investment enthusiasm of these people, and create jobs for ordinary people through these businessmen.

Zhou Buqi first stated that Ziweixing would take a piece of land in this high-tech development zone to build the headquarters building of the Hangzhou branch.

Ziweixing has a branch in Hangzhou, which is the Hangcheng branch of the research institute, mainly researching the direction of intelligent voice. However, with Alibaba here, Hangzhou will soon develop into an e-commerce capital. It will be necessary to move the on-campus group buying operation center here in the future. The supporting resources will be better and the talents will be more concentrated.

Not only that, Zhou Buqi also officially stated that in the next six months, Ziweixing will acquire land in 10-12 core cities across the country and build branch offices, technical support centers, research centers, engineering institutes, sales centers and cloud data centers. The total area will exceed 5,000 acres. The five-year investment will not be less than 10 billion yuan.

Naturally, this was unanimously praised by everyone present, and some local officials also expressed their sincere gratitude and welcome to him.

Young Xiao Zhou is very charming!

Sure enough, he is the richest man.

When the country needs it, be unambiguous!

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"You are so good at blowing!"

After socializing, Boss Ma invited Zhou Buqi to have tea, which made him laugh.

Zhou Buqi said: "Who is bragging? I never brag."

"Can you really invest 10 billion?"

"Just a little more."

"Really?" Boss Ma didn't believe it. "With such a huge sum of money, how many buildings do you have to build? You can't have branch offices in various places hire world-class architects to design and create artistic creations, right?"

Zhou Buqu smiled and said: "Alibaba has acquired a lot of land across the country this year. What is your investment budget?"

"2000000000."

"So little? Isn't Taobao City's investment nearly 1.4 billion?"

"That's enough. How much does it cost to build a building?" Boss Ma snorted.

Zhou Buqi nodded, "Ziweixing is about the same. It doesn't cost much to build a building or acquire land. The more investment is in equipment. I'm doing cloud computing. The biggest investment in cloud data centers is servers."

"Buy a server?" Boss Ma frowned slightly, "This does not seem to be part of the low-interest loan policy, which is mainly targeted at the infrastructure field, building bridges, roads and buildings. The home appliance policy is mainly targeted at household appliances and does not include servers. "

Zhou Buqi waved his hand, "Then take out a loan for the land and building, and Ziweixing will pay the rest. If it doesn't work, just build a residential building for employees. The chicken lays the egg, the chicken lays the egg. Are you worried about lack of money in the real estate industry? As long as you have land, there will be no shortage of money!”

Boss Ma said with a smile: "Listening to you, it sounds like making money is easier than robbing a bank."

"Who are you looking down on?" Zhou Buqi curled his lips, "How much money do you need to rob a bank?"

Boss Ma was stunned for a moment, "Yes."

"Your tea is not good. Next time you will switch to black tea instead of green tea." Zhou Buqi's tea tasting level is pretty good now. He is not very satisfied with the tea Lao Ma brought today. "By the way, you are competing with Baidu." how's it going?"

"Well enough."

“Will it have a big impact on Taobao’s traffic?”

"Not big. Taobao's sales this year reached 100 billion, which is about the same as expected." Boss Ma was a little high-spirited. This year is the year Taobao officially set sail. "Next year our goal is 200 billion sales. With or without Baidu, the impact will not be serious." ."

Zhou Buqi said: "Ziweixing's Taobao preferred business has a turnover of 3.5 billion this year."

Boss Ma smiled and said: "You made a lot of commissions, right?"

"Well, about 300 million." Zhou Buqi said frankly, "We also have bidding ads from Weidian, which brings in a lot of revenue."

“How much money do you make from bidding ads?”

"I don't know about that."

Zhou Buqi sneered in his heart.

snort!

The income from bidding advertising cannot be said!

Some bidding advertisements are placed by Taobao on Weidian. There is nothing to hide. However, some advertisements are placed by Taobao merchants on Weidian.

For example, there is an underwear store called "Anjiren Exclusively Supply", which spent more than 4 million yuan on bidding advertising on Weidian this year. In this way, when netizens search for underwear on Weidian, the Taobao store "Exclusively for Anjiren" will appear in the first few search results, which can provide traffic to this store.

This is stealing Taobao’s business.

Taobao also has its own advertising business called Alimama. The normal business logic of Taobao is that stores buy advertisements on Taobao, and then when the products are displayed on the Taobao website, the store with the advertisement is placed higher.

When a Taobao store advertises on Weidian, it is equivalent to transferring the advertising fees originally belonging to Taobao to Weidian. Taobao blocks Baidu for this reason.

Fortunately, now is the early stage of e-commerce development and the golden age of search business.

In comparison, search is still more powerful.

This is why Li Yanhong can confidently defeat Taobao within a few years.

With the cooperation between Ziweixing and Taobao, Ziweixing is now in a strong position. When Taobao takes off in the future, online shopping becomes an indispensable part of people's lives, and the initiative will be in Taobao's hands.

You have to take advantage of the opportunity now.