"Boss, we have a serious manpower shortage problem after moving into the new headquarters. There are simply not enough people in various departments. Should a large-scale job fair be put on the agenda?" Gao Meng said.

When Luo Fan heard this, he did feel that the company was a little deserted. Currently, there were less than 600 people in the Xingyuan headquarters, and it was too luxurious to use such a large office building.

Moreover, Xingyuan's subsequent business will also require more people to assist in its development, so a new round of large-scale recruitment will definitely be carried out.

"Let's set it after the year! After the year, we will recruit from the whole society, and the target will be people. It is up to you to decide how many people are needed in each department."

"Boss, the recruitment of other departments can be postponed until the end of the year, but the recruitment of our department cannot be done!" Qin Beibei said quickly as soon as Luo Fan finished speaking.

"Mr. Qin, are you having difficulty with your work?" Luo Fan asked.

"It's not just a matter of difficulty. The boss used to have nine security guards and four cleaning staff at the headquarters. When we moved the headquarters, one of the cleaning staff didn't come with us, and six security guards chose to come to the headquarters with us.

Is it not realistic for 6 people to be responsible for the security of an entire building? There are also cleaning staff. According to the current situation of the company, we need 1 cleaning staff. 3 cleaning staff simply cannot do the job. These are all needed immediately."

"Special measures will be taken for the positions that are in short supply. Even if we can't find the right person now, temporary workers are still available. In short, we will try our best to ensure the operation of the company."

Gao Meng and Qin Beibei nodded in agreement.

"Boss, there is one more thing, I..."

"Ding ding ding ding~" The sudden ringing of the cell phone interrupted Gao Meng's words.

Luo Fan frowned. In his image, Qin Beibei was a very rule-abiding person. Logically speaking, it was impossible for him to forget to mute his phone when meeting him.

And Qin Beibei didn't hang up the call directly but picked up the call.

"Lawyer Jia, how is the matter?"

When Luo Fan and Gao Meng heard Qin Beibei say Lawyer Jia's name, they knew it was Jia Ting on the other end of the phone. Could it be that Qin Beibei was in trouble?

The two of them kept silent in a tacit understanding and waited until Qin Beibei hung up the phone.

"Mr. Qin's phone call just now was..."

When Qin Beibei heard this, she smiled bitterly and said, "Boss, you may not believe it. I stayed in the detention center for 24 hours during the New Year's Day holiday."

"Ah? How could this happen?"

“On the night of the 1st, I originally wanted to fly back to my hometown, but when I went through the security check, a health product I bought was found to contain illegal drug ingredients.

Then I was arrested on the spot by the airport police and spent the first day of 2013 in the detention center.

I called the legal department of our company, and Lawyer Jia immediately arranged for relevant lawyers to come over, and they worked for a whole day before I could be released on bail pending trial."

"Illegal drugs? What illegal drugs are so serious?"

Qin Beibei shook her head: "I don't know either. Lawyer Jia just called me and said that there are a lot of illegal drugs in health products. I may be sentenced. The key to the problem now seems to be whether I purchased these drugs subjectively."

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If it is determined that the purchase is subjective, you may be jailed for 3 to 5 years. If not, you should be fined, warned, and detained for several months.

It just depends..."

"Ding ding ding ding~" Qin Beibei's words were interrupted again. She quickly picked up the phone, and Jia Ting's voice came from the other end of the phone: "Good news, Beibei!"

"What good news?"

"Others who went through the security check were also found to have the same illegal drugs, and they were also the same brand of health products you bought."

"Ah? Sister Jia, do you mean this is not an accident?"

"Well, Shanghai has already started an investigation. If it is found that this brand of health products contains illegal drugs, then you should be safe."

Qin Beibei breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this. This was indeed good news.

Qin Beibei then told Luo Fan and Gao Meng about the progress of the matter.

"Sister Qin, what health products did you buy?" Gao Meng asked.

"A box of pills imported from Italy costs several thousand yuan. I heard they can prevent cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases."

Luo Fan was stunned and then suddenly thought of something that Wang Hui told them when he returned to the dormitory after the Chinese New Year in 2013 in his previous life: "A health care drug produced by Italy was copied by India, and then unscrupulous domestic manufacturers took advantage of it.

India imported this medicine and passed it off as a medicine from Italy.

As a result, India added things that are contraband here to the medicines, and dozens of people during the Chinese New Year were arrested for participating in importing, counterfeiting, and selling."

It seems that Qin Beibei is involved in this matter.

However, when talking about cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, Luo Fan remembered that in his previous life, his father suffered a cerebral hemorrhage because he could not accept being cheated out of 700 yuan, resulting in hemiplegia and unable to stand up anymore.

Luo Fan felt that he needed to take precautions in advance to prevent this from happening again.

Thinking of this, Luo Fan felt that he also needed to buy some health care products for his family to prevent cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, and also asked his father to stop drinking and exercise more.

"Boss, let's continue! I just wanted to report to you on the progress of our company's map software."

Luo Fan nodded and signaled Gao Meng to continue.

In fact, Luo Fan didn't want to make his own map software at the beginning. He wanted to get some shares and voting rights of Baidu Maps.

Looking at the entire market, there are currently only two good quality map software on the market, one is Baidu Maps, and the other is Amap. Penguin’s Soso map software is still far behind these two, and its accuracy is always insufficient.

, except for QQ users to send location information, few people use it.

Baidu is behind Baidu Maps, and AutoNavi is a listed company that has not yet been invested by Alibaba.

But now that the development of the Internet industry has caused great changes like Luo Fan's little butterfly, it is hard to say whether Alibaba will acquire God Luo Fan in advance.

Xingyuan wanted to make a map mainly to prepare for the shared bicycles later and the map on Xingchat.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! There is a big taboo in the Internet industry, that is, core software cannot rely on others.

However, for Xingyuan, the map business is not a core business, but a part of Xingyuan's ecological chain, so Luo Fan initially thought of borrowing Baidu Maps for development.

I have no intention of starting to make my own map like Meituan.

But the cooperation with Baidu was not achieved, and Luo Fan had no choice but to do it himself.

"Boss, we have tried to contact some Baidu Maps employees before, including two senior executives.

But then we both just reached a cooperative relationship, and I felt that poaching people at this time was a little unreasonable, so I gave up.

If Baidu doesn't work, we can only start with AutoNavi, but AutoNavi has been listed, and their technical staff have more or less stocks in their hands. I have contacted a few, and the asking price is scary. I want to poach enough people. We

It is estimated that there will be a considerable price to pay.

Until a few days ago, Mr. Cao suddenly told me that currently only Baidu and Amap can be used to view maps in China, but this was not the case in the past. In addition to these two companies, there is also Google Maps available.

Google completely withdrew from us last year. Except for the translation business, all other businesses were basically cut off, and the map business was also one of them.

At that time, a large number of map producers either changed careers or went to other Internet companies. If we can find this group of people, our map business will expand very quickly."

"Google Maps?" Luo Fan was a little surprised. If Gao Meng hadn't said it, he wouldn't have known that Google had a map.

This is not to blame Luo Fan. When Luo Fan officially worked in his previous life, Google had completely withdrawn from the Chinese market, and he had no contact with this company's related business at all.

In fact, when China's Internet map business was in its early stages of development, the best player in maps was not Baidu or AutoNavi, but Google from overseas.

Baidu Maps has been operating since 2005. During that time, Baidu began to rise in an all-round way, and its scale soon exceeded that of most traditional portals in China.

But facing giants like Google, Baidu is the younger brother. However, because it entered the domestic market late, Google’s search market share has always been lower than Baidu.

In order to overtake Baidu and regain the market, Google began to comprehensively build its own ecological chain.

Including maps, hot lists, navigation, pinyin, forums, music and other services, among which maps are the core business.

"Boss, according to my research, although Google Maps started later than Baidu, it has completely crushed Baidu at the same time in all aspects.

During the snowstorm in 2008, Google Maps had already been able to update road conditions and weather in real time.

With the help of this function, Google became an important basis for data acquisition by relief organizations and disaster-stricken people at that time.

It also occupies a large part of the domestic market, once surpassing Baidu.

Then Google followed up and launched Google 3D Maps, which directly made Baidu Maps invisible.

But you know that the boss is sensitive to things like maps.

Subsequently, due to various reasons, Google withdrew from the Chinese market, and its major business departments moved to Hong Kong.

But even if Google leaves, it is impossible to take away all relevant talents. Many people do not have them and will not follow Google to Hong Kong.

Many of those who remained were absorbed by their peers. For example, the current CTO of Baidu Maps was one of the top executives of Google Maps.

But with so many talents, there are always fish that slip through the net. These people have been working hard on Google Maps for so many years, and they are all elites in this industry.

If we can find them, it will be very, very helpful to our map industry, at least we won’t need to work hard to build the basic framework in the early stage.”

After listening to Gao Meng's words, Luo Fan's eyes lit up, which made him think of using the senior management and technical personnel of 56.com to quickly build the framework of connotation jokes.

And according to Gao Meng, before Google withdrew from China, the best map software recognized in China was Google Maps.

This may be related to Google's investment and technology, but the group of people doing basic work must also be elites.

With Xingyuan's resources, it is not difficult to recruit people, even from Baidu Gaode.

However, it is difficult to recruit a team that can get started directly and work well together, because in 2013, maps were originally a niche business and not many people were engaged in it.

If we can find the former talents of Google Maps, it will indeed be a shortcut for Xingyuan.

Thinking of this, Luo Fan said: "Mr. Gao, your idea is very good, you can try it."
To be continued...