Chapter 393 The last expansion of Star Chat(1/2)
"What kind of opaque method?" Luo Fan asked.
"There are so many places where you can operate in the dark. Take white-feathered chickens as an example. There are dozens of processes in between from chicks to feed to breeding base to slaughtering workshop to meat quality inspection. Each process involves countless processes.
A way to cause trouble.
We can't check it at all, and the supervision is not very good. In short, this part of the money is not as easy to make as imagined."
After listening to Brother Dong's words, Luo Fan frowned. His thoughts were indeed a bit simple.
Luo Fan just wants to do something in line with national policies on the road of helping farmers, so that Pinduoduo can register on it.
But it’s just that the fruit and vegetable trade is difficult to make a profit, and shareholders will be dissatisfied, causing Pinduoduo’s stock price to fluctuate.
In addition, meat, eggs, and milk are difficult to handle because of poor supervision and procedures.
Shouldn’t we just stop helping farmers?
Just when Luo Fan was in a dilemma, Brother Dong suddenly said: "Mr. Luo, actually your idea is not completely impossible to realize. We still have a chance."
"what chance?"
"Live streaming! We can directly communicate with the owners of the farms and drive the expansion of Pinduoduorou's egg and milk business through live streaming of the farms.
The farm carries the goods live, which can save a lot of intermediate steps, and the farm itself will find ways to pay attention to quality control.
We only need to do quality inspection and express delivery.
As for our profits, since we are helping farmers, we definitely cannot take more. We only take the operating expenses of the platform, and reduce the related profits to the minimum. We mainly rely on quantity to make money.
If the process goes smoothly, our profits from meat, eggs, milk and various fruits and vegetables will not be too bad, so we can also give an explanation to our shareholders."
After hearing what Brother Dong said, Luo Fan's eyes lit up. This was indeed a good idea.
"Then Mr. Liu, how exactly are we going to operate?" Luo Fan asked.
"The first step is to use Mr. Luo's Douyin and Daily Toutiao to cooperate and play more cards to help farmers. I will send people here to contact some large meat, egg and milk farmers.
We will provide some subsidies to users in the early stage to attract users to buy meat, eggs and milk from us. Users will get real discounts, and merchants will make real money, so our business will be better.
Expand."
"Well, let's do it this way! I'll ask Douyin and Daily Toutiao to cooperate as much as possible," Luo Fan said.
"Mr. Luo, don't worry. At this stage, we only need to publicize some things related to helping farmers. We should wait for me to negotiate with the meat, egg and milk farms for the rest!"
"Well, I understand."
After Luo Fan put down the phone, he asked Su Qing to tell Wang Hui and Zhou Yuqing to ask their two departments to push more videos and articles related to helping farmers recently.
Just like Brother Dong said, this is enough for now, and he will move on to the next step after he completes the breeding farm.
At the same time, at the Imperial Capital Xingyuan Headquarters, the various separated departments have initially adapted to the new working environment, and there must be no problem in the initial operation.
Zhang Shuai also moved Kuwo Music and Kuwo Maps to the headquarters in Imperial Capital.
But now Zhang Shuai is no longer responsible for managing Kuwo Music and Kuwo Maps. He has handed over these two companies to his vice president.
And he took office and was in charge of all affairs at the Imperial Capital Headquarters.
"Mr. Zhang, the operations of various departments are basically stable, and the newly recruited employees have been able to adapt to their jobs. Our second batch of recruitment should almost start." Zhang Shuai's assistant Zhao Ziyang said.
"Let's put the second batch of recruitment aside for now! We should still focus on preparing for the ribbon-cutting ceremony on May 1st," Zhang Shuai said.
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"Relevant matters for the ribbon-cutting ceremony have been arranged. Several leaders from Imperial City, our Mr. Luo, Mr. Li from Baidu, Mr. Lei from Dami, Mr. Liu from JD.com, and other bosses from other companies will all arrive by then.
You only need to go up and speak, and then accompany Mr. Luo and other leaders to cut the ribbon. There is nothing to pay attention to," Zhao Ziyang said.
"I'm still a little worried. Please bring me the specific process and let me take a look at it again."
Zhao Ziyang nodded and handed over a folder.
In fact, Zhang Shuai had read this document several times before, but as he said, he was a little uneasy.
Although the new headquarters of the Imperial Capital will be opened after the Chinese New Year.
But in fact, there was no ribbon-cutting ceremony. The ribbon-cutting ceremony was scheduled for the 51st.
Therefore, in the eyes of the outside world, Xingyuan's new headquarters in the Imperial Capital has not actually been put into use.
When it comes to the official opening of the new headquarters, Zhang Shuai feels that no one can be too cautious.
After confirming the process again, Zhang Shuai asked Zhao Ziyang to bring over his speech.
This speech is not long, only about 500 words. Zhang Shuai has memorized it many times. To be on the safe side, he strengthened his memory again.
Before I knew it, the time came to May 1, 2018.
Yesterday morning, Luo Fan, Gao Meng, and Su Qing arrived in the imperial capital.
Luo Fan, as the boss of Xingyuan, will definitely be present at the ribbon-cutting ceremony of the new headquarters.
Su Qing is Luo Fan's secretary, so she will definitely accompany him on such occasions.
Luo Fan didn't know why Gao Meng came over, but he didn't ask too much. Gao Meng was not a child anymore, and 51 was during the holiday. There was no need to report to Luo Fan what Gao Meng wanted to do during the holiday.
After Luo Fan arrived in the imperial capital, the first thing he did was to meet with the leaders and various bosses who participated in the ribbon-cutting ceremony.
Everyone had lunch together, and Luo Fan expressed his gratitude to these people for coming to attend the ribbon-cutting of the Xingyuan Imperial Capital Headquarters.
In the afternoon, everyone came to the Xingyuan Imperial Capital Headquarters to conduct a rehearsal for the ribbon-cutting ceremony.
After the rehearsal, the leaders left directly, and the bosses of other companies came to the conference room with Luo Fan.
What Luo Fan didn't expect was that there were a lot more bosses coming to the ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Xingyuan Imperial Capital headquarters this time, many of them came uninvited, and many of them were new faces.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Thanks to Mr. Lei from Da Mi, who has been introducing Luo Fan, there was no trouble.
Luo Fan learned from Mr. Lei that most of these bosses were from the Chip Alliance, and they came here to reciprocate and support Xingyuan.
There are also several people who want to join the chip alliance, including subsidiaries under Alibaba and Penguin.
Alibaba and Penguin knew that it would be difficult for them to join the chip alliance as Internet companies, so these two companies were related to the chip industry. Alibaba and Penguin invested in acquiring them, hoping to join the chip alliance.
Those who came here were guests, so Luo Fan was polite to the bosses of the two subsidiaries.
However, Luo Fan chose to avoid all their questions.
After dealing with these bosses, Luo Fan asked Su Qing to call Mr. Li from Baidu, Mr. Liu from JD.com, and Mr. Lei from Dami to his office.
"Mr. Luo, your office in the imperial capital is much more elegant than the one in Shanghai." Brother Dong said with a smile as soon as he entered.
"The reserved area here gradually became larger, so the president's office is much larger than the one in Shanghai."
"So that's it. By the way, Mr. Luo, did you call us here for something?" Brother Dong asked.
"Well, there is something to discuss."
While talking, several bosses took their seats under Su Qing's leadership, and Su Qing showed off her tea skills again.
Su Qing's tea-making skills are getting better and better, and her movements alone are much more beautiful than before, not to mention other things.
After several bosses had tea, Luo Fan said straight to the point: "Everyone, I have something to ask you for help with."
"What's the matter, Mr. Luo, just tell me!"
"After that, I plan to expand the Star Chat market again. If nothing happens after this time, there will be no room for Penguin W to survive.
In this case, Star Chat will inevitably have to face Penguin's QQ. Star Chat and QQ can be regarded as products in two tracks, but in the end they reach the same goal by different paths, and both can be attributed to social software.
Therefore, Star Chat and QQ are bound to have a head-on collision, and I hope you can stand on the same front as me."
"Of course there is no problem with this." Mr. Lei stated immediately. He has 44 shares in Star Chat, so he will definitely stand on Star Chat's side.
Brother Dong hesitated for a moment, then nodded and changed his hair style.
Now JD.com, Dami, Xingyuan, and Baidu are too closely tied together, and the four companies have even launched Pinduoduo together. It can be said that one is prospering and the other is losing. At this time, the only choice is to support Xingyuan.
In the end, Mr. Li was the only one who did not express his position. After a moment of silence, he said: "Mr. Luo, I'm afraid it's not just QQ that Xingchao has to deal with this time, right?"
"That's right, it's not just QQ." Luo Fan nodded and said, "Once StarChat squeezes w out of the social network with strangers, and StarChat becomes the only one, it will inevitably further accelerate the expansion of StarChat's offline payments. Ali will not be able to do that."
Sitting back and doing nothing.”
"So Luo always wants to gather the strength of the four of us to fight against Ali and Penguin, right?" Mr. Li asked.
"Although I don't think Ali and Penguin will completely join forces, the two sides will definitely stand on the same front. The Xingyuan family cannot cope with the two families attacking together, so I need your help."
After hearing this, Mr. Li thought for a long time and said, "Okay! Mr. Luo, I am willing to take a gamble with you!"
The four of us are now too tied up, and no one can break away from this alliance. Since you, Mr. Luo, have made big moves, we can only risk our lives to accompany you, but Mr. Luo, please don’t forget us afterwards!"
"That's right, Mr. Luo, you must give us some benefit." Brother Dong said.
Luo Fan had already thought about this, and he also thought about letting Mr. Li and Brother Dong work for free.
Mr. Lei has shares in Star Chat, so he should contribute. Mr. Li and Brother Dong don’t have shares in Star Chat, so they definitely can’t use prostitution for nothing.
"Mr. Li, Mr. Liu, don't worry, I will give you a big gift after this time, and I guarantee that you will be satisfied." Luo Fan said with a smile.
"Okay! With your words, Mr. Luo, I feel relieved." Brother Dong said with a smile.
"I'm also looking forward to your big gift, Mr. Luo." Mr. Li followed.
To be continued...