King of Capital

"Da da da da da."

The chicken soup was boiling and condensing into powerful steam, which impacted the casserole and the lid at an increasingly fast pace. He suddenly lifted the lid, and the scalding water mist was released, hitting his face without hesitation.

Yu Tong dipped some of the soup and sipped it to taste it. It tasted great. It was a rare opportunity for him to cook, so it was quite fresh. Moreover, his cooking skills were not rusty at all. He was satisfied!
She tilted her head to look outside. The sky gradually darkened and the red sun shone over the sea. The sunset was magnificent and unreal.

I put on a bathrobe and walked to the balcony in slippers, opened all the floor-to-ceiling windows, and a breeze blew the gauze curtains in time, creating a faint warmth in the vague and hazy texture.

"Let's eat."

Yu Tong wrinkled his delicate nose, sniffed the familiar breath approaching him from behind, and fell into Xie Jingxing's arms without looking back.

The couple quietly watched the sunset, then worked together to set up a mobile dining table on the balcony. They placed the chicken soup in the middle, surrounded by several takeaway dishes that Chen Xi had sent.

"Yu Xingyao is still a decent person. If he is willing, we can assign him a specific job." Xie Jingxing said as he poured two glasses of red wine.

Yu Tong gave him the extra bowl of rice: "Brother Xingyao is used to being idle at home."

"Meizu has accumulated some good middle-level management in the past two years, such as Chen Xinhong in the supply chain business and Liu Jiangfeng in the marketing department. If these people are trained for another two years and make achievements, they will gradually replace the old and incompetent people."

Xie Jing Xing explained with a clear mind: "Didn't you just remind me that I can't be overloaded for a long time, I have to support capable people to take the position."

"Your brother is a family member after all. If you have such an opportunity, you should take it." He made his attitude clear.

Yu Tong thought for a moment and said, "I'll talk to him first. My sister-in-law and nephew may not be willing to move to Zhuhai to live."

"Meizu will go north to select a few first- and second-tier cities to set up offices. There are many vacancies. It depends on his willingness." Xie Jingxing persuaded gently.

First of all, at first glance, Liang Jun and Zhang Zhao at LeTV seem to be able to maintain stability for two or three years. In addition, Song Anli has poached senior executives from Wanda in preparation for a rainy day. The management teams of various business units are well configured on paper, so there is no need to make a big move and power can be delegated slowly.

Meizu has a decent talent pool, and he really wants to use this as a basis to train a second-generation executive team. The brother-in-law has made all the contributions and efforts in the acquisition process, and he should be given a chance even if he just caught a cold from standing guard in the rain.

Secondly, Zhuhai is ultimately subject to geographical limitations. If it wants to increase investment in the research and development of new energy vehicles and mobile phones, it will have to recruit talent from Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou and other places.

Xie Jingxing has already discussed this with Yang Yan, and the basic system architecture of the mobile phone is tentatively named "Light Years".

The overall research and development work will be carried out in a special research institute in Shanghai, code-named "Light Years Away". The software architecture system is light years away, and beyond that is the hardware - mobile phone chip design.

It is obviously easier to achieve the optimal adaptability solution when self-developed chips are equipped with self-developed systems.

In addition, Meizu has two types of terminal products: new energy vehicles and mobile phones, which provide basic conditions for the commercial use of self-developed chips.

A few days ago, Xie Jingxing called Zeng Shixiong, who is in charge of the operation of Xinhai Fund, to Zhuhai for face-to-face consultation. The latter suggested starting with a niche field, such as designing chips for mobile phone cameras and storage modules first and giving them practical feedback to the weak product lines of the sub-brand Meizu.

The focus is to take small steps and make quick progress, and invest patiently to accumulate.

Of course, Lightyear operates as a registered independent corporate entity, which allows it to introduce investment from Xinhai Fund and cooperate with other related chip manufacturers.

The success of the joint research and development of front-facing fingerprint touch unlocking by Meizu and Goodix Technology has brought huge benefits to both parties. The former was a hot seller as the world's first Android front-facing fingerprint unlocking phone; the latter is now a supplier to all mainstream Android phone manufacturers and the company is preparing for an IPO.

The two companies are considering continuing their cooperation to develop the next generation of full-screen mobile phones, facial unlocking solutions and chip designs.

This will be the basic idea for future cooperation with other manufacturers. Regardless of whether it will succeed or not, since the company has formulated a long-term strategic plan, we must move forward in that direction.

Anyway, Xie Jingxing has made up his mind to deal with time. If he succeeds, he will be awesome. If he fails, he will go home in disgrace. As long as he protects Jingxing Group and Yunshan New Ecology, he will never starve.

Finally, he was enjoying the moment of separation, watching his pretty wife drinking the chicken soup she cooked. Even if Dong Zhuo came, he would have to swear to kill Lu Bu, not to mention that she was not Diao Chan.

If Yu Xingyao has the ability, he can be Zhangsun Wuji, and Xie Jingxing won't care about the interference of foreign relatives in politics.

"I've made it through. I have to go back to the company and be back before 2 a.m.." He picked up the cup of water and rinsed his mouth.

Yu Tong responded and got up to go to the cloakroom to get some clothes: "Do you want me to wait for you?"

"Do you want to wait?"

Xie Jingxing had a seductive smile on his face, admiring her from behind as she leaned over and supported the glass display case with both hands to choose a watch. He took two or three steps forward and put his hands into her empty bathrobe.

Yu Tong enjoyed the earmuffs awkwardly for a moment, her pretty face turned red again, her pair of misty eyes suddenly became bright again, and she held down her restless hands.

"Okay, just focus on your work. I won't leave this week." She murmured softly.

Xie Jing Xing straightened his back: "Bad woman."

"I'll wait for you in the evening." Yu Tong smiled proudly.

Xie Jing Xing kissed her cheek: "Three years at most, then we will both send our daughter to kindergarten together every morning."

Yu Tong didn't reply but just smiled and shook his head.

For her man, money is really not important now that his business has reached this stage.

Therefore, it is still worth giving up life and restraining desires to obtain something that is rare and precious. She is willing to wait for it for five years, ten years, or even longer.

"Under cover of the night."

"We vowed that we never be apart."

“Last night under the Paris skies…”

The speakers were playing old jazz music. Yu Tong curled up on the soft sofa, looking at the dark sea and lonely stars in the night sky. He shook the goblet and took a sip of red wine, then nodded slightly.

She lazily placed her arms on her belly, thinking that Chen Xi was a smart person. The decoration of this apartment was indeed quite romantic. It would be a pity to leave it vacant. It should have a hostess.

The continuation of bloodline is the offspring of biological reproduction, and bloodline is the children who have been taught by words and deeds and have the continuation of thoughts.

In this respect, there is no essential difference between Zhou Fenglan's sons and Concubine Pei's sons; even ten more would still belong to the former.

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"Under cover of the night."

"Don't wake up to the cold morning light."

"Baby don't cry for just one night of love..."

The female singer was sitting on a high stool holding a microphone. Her long skirt was split and her round thighs were dazzlingly white under the light. A little jazz love song added a little flirtation. Li Bin was sitting in a corner booth with his hands folded across his chest, looking at her expressionlessly from a distance, trying to guess what color the vaguely visible leggings were.

Black is too tacky, and white is even worse. The more you look at it, the more it feels like you're not wearing anything.

"Buzz."

The phone on the desk vibrated and the screen lit up. The contact note was 'Grapefruit Capital - Zou Jingyi'. He just glanced at it and put it out of his mind, then raised the glass and poured it into his mouth.

Xie Jingxing is a beast, a beast standing at the top of the ecological chain of the current domestic business community.

It invested in both NIO and Li Auto, and pushed Didi into the car manufacturing industry early on. After a dazzling series of operations, it personally brought Meizu into the market.

Li Bin watched the entire press conference last night, and suddenly wondered whether he would treat NIO as a small shrimp to be eaten by him. He couldn't sleep in the early morning and harassed Hu Weiwei but didn't get any information. He then contacted Grapefruit Capital to inquire about the situation.

The head of the company's financial investment institution suddenly became a colleague, and it is reasonable to suspect that he will not be able to fulfill his fair obligations in the future and is suspected of damaging the company's interests.

Furthermore, Xie Jingxing maliciously invested in NIO in order to achieve the purpose of unfair competition.

Grapefruit Capital responded quickly, stating that Meizu is also an invested project of the institution. The institution's founding partner, Mr. Xie Jingxing, only receives an annual salary of 1 yuan as the chairman of Meizu and has no personal interests involved. The institution also has a complete investment decision-making and information disclosure system to ensure that it fulfills its obligations.

Li Bin scorned this unconvincing official diplomatic rhetoric, but when he calmed down and thought carefully today, he realized that the biggest enemy at present is not inside, but outside - traditional fuel vehicles.

The reason why Musk open-sourced Tesla's car system and actively encouraged domestic manufacturers to use it freely is that as an industry leader, he needs to recruit more people to join and expand the overall strength of the camp.

Instead of worrying too much about Xie Jingxing discrediting NIO, it is better to worry about whether new energy vehicles can be born in China. In fact, there are many benefits to having a top-notch guy like him in the front, such as clearing mines at the level of automobile research and development, holding up positions at the level of policy guidance, and raising the upper limit of the industry at the level of capital operation.

Even when new energy vehicles are truly developed in the future, everyone will be under much less pressure to compete with traditional fuel vehicle manufacturers for the market.

Li Bin quickly figured out the logic behind it and ignored the subsequent messages from the Grapefruit Investment Manager. A young girl who had just been hired as a full-time employee for a few months actually had the courage to represent the institution to arrange a meeting with him to explain the situation.

She has no idea about business etiquette and has the same problem as her boss - she is overconfident, which makes people feel disgusted even if it doesn't bite them.

"Mr. Li, I'm sorry, I was delayed for a while by the meeting after work."

The door of the tavern was opened from the outside, causing the wind chimes beside the door to ring. Yan Wenhua walked quickly into the familiar place, sat down and ordered a glass of wine.

Li Bin forced a smile with a dull look on his face: "It's just talk."

"It's my treat today!" Yan Wenhua readily agreed.

Li Bin was not polite and let him call the waiter to order another bottle of good wine and a grilled sausage platter snack.

The new energy vehicles developed by Didi are specifically positioned to support online ride-hailing. It will take a long time for them to launch models to enter the retail market in the future. They do not form a competitive relationship with NIO. The two parties have frequently exchanged experiences in car manufacturing since this year.

The two of them can't be called close friends, just drinking buddies who can occasionally get together when they have nothing to do.

"Did you watch the press conference last night?" Yan Wenhua played with the wine glass, manually turning the ice cubes to rub against the wall of the glass to dilute the wine.

Li Bin asked lazily: "What press conference?"

"You're tired." Yan Wenhua said frankly.

Li Bin cheered himself up and took a sip of wine: "You asked even though you knew it. I think it's pretty impressive. You are more courageous than before."

"It's a good thing for everyone that he personally took the bus. The entire industry has just ignited a few flames, and it's best to stick together and keep warm."

Yan Wenhua had the same idea. At least in the short term, there wouldn't be much competition. He said to himself, "I'm glad you didn't worry too much. I watched the press conference last night and thought to myself, don't think Jingxing is coming for you."

"You came all this time today to comfort me? Thank you for your trouble."

"Of course, after all, we are friends!"

Yan Wenhua raised his glass to make a joke, Li Bin clinked his glass with his, and they both smiled knowingly.

Didi was unaware of Xie Jingxing's plan to build cars. The smart car strategy that the two companies mentioned when they jointly invested in NIO was just empty talk. They have become estranged from each other and have fallen out, to the point where they need to clarify the matter to their common third-party partners.

So what on earth did Xie Jingxing want to do that made Yan Wenhua ask him to sever ties with her in person the next day?
"How have you been lately?" Li Bin took the initiative to continue the conversation with a confused mind.

"Well, I'm busy. WeChat is going to launch a built-in application function, which is equivalent to providing traffic entry for third-party apps."

Yan Wenhua exhaled the alcohol: "They told us through internal testing that the traffic is very impressive, and asked us to develop the corresponding application version according to the requirements and put it on the shelves as the first batch."

"This is a good thing." Li Bin didn't understand.

Yan Wenhua laughed bitterly and complained: "Have you ever met Zhang Xiaolong, the person in charge of WeChat? Jingxing has to communicate with him calmly. We can't handle him at all, and Tencent has been very aggressive towards us this year..."

"What do you mean?" Li Bin said in support of the actor.

"Put your weapons in the warehouse and put your horses in the mountains. After the war, we can live in peace."

Yan Wenhua sighed helplessly, and added thoughtfully: "Have you paid attention to word-of-mouth takeaway?"

"Alibaba's local life project?" Li Bin thought thoughtfully.

Yan Wenhua gave the answer in a leisurely tone: "When New Dangshun acquired Meituan last year, Alibaba clamored that the first half of the local life industry was over and that it would personally enter the second half to make a stunning performance."

Li Bin was speechless. Maybe Teacher Ma really wanted to fight Xie Jingxing to the death, but the facts proved that it was all nonsense.

Last winter, one of them had just completed a merger and needed to recuperate, and the other had just started and needed time to develop, so they tacitly hung up the white flag and lived in peace.

During the uproar over Ctrip's stupid acquisition of Qunar.com at the beginning of this year, New Dangseo began to integrate its business internally, and externally, the friction with Alibaba's reputation escalated.

Li Bin felt very bad as an outsider. In March, Ali Koubei gave out a lot of red envelope subsidies in the Beijing area, but New DAEWAY was indifferent and seemed dead.

In April, he went on a business trip to Shanghai. Alibaba's reputation was burning money and New DAE continued to play dead. In May, he went on a business trip to a county-level city in Yunnan. The local Meituan dealers joined hands with Ele.me dealers to fight against the local food delivery platform. Alibaba's reputation did not cover this area.

When I returned to Beijing in June, Ali's reputation had achieved temporary success and the intensity of red envelope subsidies was reduced. Xinda Ele.me jumped out of its coffin with a sit-up, Ele.me organized various red envelope activities, and Meituan's food delivery riders took to the streets to do sales.

In Li Bin's opinion, there is no plot of the first and second half of the war at all. Xinda E is already able to generate revenue from the third and fourth tier markets, while every penny burned by word of mouth is like inserting an extracorporeal blood transfusion tube.

Alibaba lost its resolve one second, and its reputation died the next. (End of this chapter)