The popularity of "I'm Not the God of Medicine" was completely expected by Luo Fan.

This movie had very good results in his previous life. As long as it could pass the review, Luo Fan was not worried about its performance.

Not to mention, in this life, "I'm Not the God of Medicine" is directly linked to Shuidichou's charity.

Xingyuan’s promise is that all profits from Yaoshen will be donated to Shuidichi. As a result, many users feel that if they want to watch a movie, it is better to go to Yaoshen and do a charity.

Therefore, Luo Fan no longer pays too much attention to the achievements of Medicine God.

With the two films Charlotte and Yao Shen behind the scenes, Xingyuan's entertainment business development is on the right track.

Both Xiaopo Station and Neihan Duanzi have received traffic dividends. With these two movies in hand, Xiao Po Station has also begun to purchase some foreign film copyrights to fill its internal film and television resources.

Neihan Duanzi, on the other hand, edits clips from these classic film and television works, and with the help of daily headlines and Star Chat, the number of users of Neihan Duanzi has successfully exceeded 100 million.

Seeing the thriving scene of Neihan Duanzi, Luo Fan felt that it was time to put the revision of Neihan Duanzi on the agenda.

Neihan Duanzi was the predecessor of Douyin in his previous life, and it is naturally the same in this life. Luo Fan is operating Neihan Duanzi completely according to the Douyin model.

However, current mobile phones and networks have not met the conditions for Douyin to become popular, so Luo Fan did not do anything before.

But now the 4G network has begun to be initially popularized. The 4G network has achieved full coverage in Shanghai, and it is almost the same in most provincial capital cities across the country.

Next are the following cities. According to the previous progress, more than 60% of cities will have 4G network coverage by the end of this year. In the fall of 2015, more than 80% of cities and towns across the country will have 4G network coverage.

The only areas that have not been able to complete 4G network coverage are some rural areas.

Douyin in its previous life appeared in September 2016. At that time, the 4G network basically covered the whole country and the traffic charges began to drop in price.

But at that time, Kuaishou’s short videos were already popular.

In fact, Kuaishou has existed for a long time. Kuaishou was originally called "GIF Kuaishou" and was born in March 2011.

Initially, this software was a mobile application used to create and share GIF images.

At the end of 2012, Kuaishou transformed from a pure tool application into a short video community, a platform for users to record and share their production and life.

Later, with the popularity of smartphones and the decline in mobile traffic costs, coupled with the addition of Neihan Duanzi, Kuaishou attracted a wave of users of Neihan Duanzi. After 2015, Kuaishou ushered in the east wind and took off directly.

Since Douyin was launched, it has been competing with Kuaishou for the market, and the fight has been a lively one.

In this life, Luo Fan does not want Neihan Duanzi to compete with Kuaishou, so Luo Fan plans to complete the revision of Neihan Duanzi in 2015 and launch Neihan Duanzi as Douyin.

At the same time in the Imperial Capital, Mr. Li from Baidu received a call from Mr. Penguin Ma.

As one of the Big Three, the two companies have many contacts, but there are very few conversations between the bosses.

So when Mr. Li received Mr. Ma's call, he was very surprised.

"Mr. Ma, why did you, a busy man like you, think of calling me?" Mr. Li asked with a smile.

"I have some business matters that I want to talk to you about." Mr. Ma said straight to the point.

Mr. Li did not expect Mr. Ma to be so direct. The smile on his face faded slightly and he said, "If Mr. Ma has anything to do, you might as well just say it."

"Actually, it's not a big deal. Mr. Li, your taxi-hailing software has been doing very well recently. I wonder if you have any plans to raise funds?"

"Mr. Ma, are you kidding?"

"I was serious."

Mr. Li was silent after hearing this. He really didn't expect the Jockey Club to come directly to him to discuss the world of financing.

Now Baidu and Xingyuan are in their honeymoon period. Baidu Takeout, which they jointly create, will soon capture more than half of the country's market.

After the food delivery market stabilizes, Baidu will start to go all out to promote taxi-hailing software.

Baidu has already tasted the benefits of cooperating with Xingyuan, so everyone from Mr. Li to Baidu’s ordinary employees have already acquiesced that taxi-hailing software will be like food delivery software, and will be jointly promoted by Baidu and Xingyuan.

Now Penguin's sudden call left Mr. Li speechless.

Because Penguin is Xingyuan's competitor in a sense. Based on Baidu's current position, there is no doubt that Penguin is also Baidu's opponent.

"Mr. Li, I know that the cooperation between Baidu and Xingyuan is very pleasant, but there is one thing that you should know very well, Mr. Li, there are no permanent friends and no eternal enemies. The Xingyuan between Baidu and Luo Fan is just a cooperative relationship.

It is not a company, so you can completely abandon Xingyuan and cooperate with us.

The traffic in our hands is larger than that of Xingyuan, and we can provide the conditions that Xingyuan can provide. It is very easy for the two of us to cooperate to win the taxi-hailing software market."

After listening to Mr. Ma’s words, Mr. Li pondered for a moment and asked: “What are your conditions?”

"Only wx payment can be used on Baidu taxis, and the wx payment channel must be added to Baidu Takeout."

Hearing this, Mr. Li understood. He smiled and said, "Mr. Ma, your conditions are very troublesome! I need to think about it."

Hearing what Mr. Li said, Mr. Ma fell silent.

When talking to company bosses like them, if they don’t directly agree, they basically refuse.

After a moment of silence, Mr. Ma said: "Okay! I will send it tomorrow. I hope we can have the opportunity to cooperate."

"I hope so too." After speaking, Mr. Li hung up the phone.

At Penguin Headquarters, Mr. Ma sighed after putting down the phone.

"Mr. Ma, Baidu rejected your proposal, right?" Alibaba's Mr. Cai asked with a smile.

Mr. Ma nodded.

"Now you should understand that Baidu, Xingyuan, Dami, and JD.com have formed an alliance of interests. We alone cannot compete with this alliance. We at Alibaba already understood this on 6.18 some time ago, so both of us

Now the only way left is cooperation."

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Can we really cooperate?" Mr. Ma looked at Mr. Cai and asked.

"Of course you can. Didn't you just say that, Mr. Ma? There are no permanent enemies or permanent friends, only permanent interests."

"Okay! Let's try it!"

.......

At the same time, at the theater headquarters, Luo Fan's cell phone ringtone suddenly rang. Luo Fan turned on his cell phone and found that it was Baidu President Li calling.

"Hey, Mr. Li, what's the matter?" Luo Fan asked with a smile after answering the phone.

The person on the phone, Mr. Li, said straight to the point: "Mr. Luo, Mr. Ma from Penguin just called me and said that Penguin wanted to invest in Baidu Taxi."

Luo Fan's expression immediately became serious when he heard this: "Mr. Li, are you kidding?"

"Do you think I would joke about this kind of thing?" Mr. Li asked.

Luo Fan was silent for a moment and asked: "Then what did you do?"

"I didn't refuse directly, I just said I needed to think about it. Mr. Ma said he would call me again tomorrow," Mr. Li said.

"You said you've considered it, but he also said he's going to call you tomorrow?"

"Yeah! I didn't expect that he should understand what I mean."

"I guess the next decision Penguin makes should be very important to him," Luo Fan said.

"This is the only possibility."

"By the way, what conditions did Penguin give?" Luo Fan asked, changing the topic.

"It can be considered a comprehensive strategic cooperation! It's similar to Xingyuan and Baidu joining forces to promote Baidu takeout."

"Hey! There is such a big deal!" Luo Fan said with some surprise.

"That's right! To be honest, I'm a little excited." Mr. Li said with a smile.

"What about the conditions at Penguin's side?"

"Only wx payment can be used on Baidu taxis, and the wx payment channel must be added to Baidu Takeout."

"Sure enough, it's for payment!" Luo Fan frowned. It is absolutely impossible for Mr. Ma to make a phone call in person, just an ordinary investment with only financial returns.

Mr. Ma is obviously interested in the online ride-hailing market and its role in payment.

Baidu taxi-hailing has developed very smoothly, and some policy difficulties have been basically solved. At the same time, it has received some moderate traffic publicity from Xingyuan, plus Luo Fan, a reborn person, has correct judgment on the direction of development.

In today's online ride-hailing market, although Baidu Taxi cannot be said to be the dominant player, its business scope has covered the Imperial Capital and two provinces near the Imperial Capital, covering more than ten cities in total.

Such good results naturally attracted the attention of some venture capital investors. However, these venture capital investors wanted to invest, but were denied by Mr. Li.

Many people think that Li always looks down on venture capital investors who only have money.

But real insiders have known for a long time that Baidu Taxi Hailing must be promoted by Xingyuan and Penguin, just like Baidu Takeout, and others cannot get involved.

"Mr. Luo, what do you think Penguin will do after this?"

“I don’t know about this. If I had to guess, under the premise that Baidu Taxi will not accept Penguin’s investment, Penguin should invest in another taxi software.

So I think we need to pay attention to the remaining online ride-hailing industries and which one will become Penguin’s new target.”

After pondering for a moment, Mr. Li said: "This is also an idea. To be honest, although Baidu has arranged Baidu Taxi, most of Baidu's energy is currently focused on Baidu Takeout.

At present, we basically adopt a free-range attitude towards the development of online car-hailing, and let online car-hailing develop slowly on its own first.

But others are not fools. The market demand for online ride-hailing is so huge that even a blind person can see it. Especially after the listing of Uber in the United States, its market value has begun to reach the level of tens of billions of dollars.

Moreover, online ride-hailing also affects payment. Meituan Waimai, which is supported by Penguin, has been overtaken by Baidu Waimai. Penguin will definitely find other ways to expand payment."

"Mr. Li, which online ride-hailing platform do you think you will invest in?" Luo Fan asked.
To be continued...