The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 956 Aliens

Looking at Victoria Harbour outside the window, Liu Tao stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, smoking a cigarette, which was rare for him.

Some information emerged from the depths of my memory and became clear in the past few days.

There was even a night when I dreamed about the 'Double Eleven' carnival.

The 'Double Eleven' in my dream is the annual e-commerce carnival, where consumers go shopping crazily, online outlets are busy preparing stocks, one after another people shop, express delivery points are piled with express deliveries, and couriers are busy delivering goods to customers' homes.

At that time, e-commerce had profoundly changed people's lives, and online shopping had even become a lifestyle that many people were accustomed to. Basically, everyone could pick up express delivery at the courier collection point or self-pickup cabinet downstairs at the end of get off work every day.

Of course, there are also express deliveries to the door, and there are always express deliveries at the door.

There is no dispute that e-commerce is an important driving force of the world economy. It provides consumers and merchants with convenient, efficient and diverse shopping and transaction methods. Consumers can enjoy the fun of shopping without leaving home through e-commerce. At the same time, e-commerce sellers have also broken the limitations of time and space and expanded their sales networks across the country and even the world.

The development of e-commerce is extremely rapid. From buying things to take-out, community online shopping and so on, it covers all aspects of society and extends to all walks of life. There is nothing that cannot be done, only things that cannot be imagined.

In the era of short videos, live streaming of sales has made countless people want to become internet celebrities.

Compared with traditional shopping methods, e-commerce sellers can achieve online transactions with C-end consumers by relying only on e-commerce platforms and cargo warehouses, because they have abandoned unnecessary storefronts and labor costs during operations. Because they have a natural advantage in cost, many high-quality and low-priced online shopping products have also brought an impact on offline physical retail that cannot be ignored.

The development of e-commerce has always been accompanied by various controversies, one of the most important of which is the strong impact on offline physical stores.

E-commerce is good, but while it improves sales efficiency, it cannot absorb as many jobs as offline retail. The more popular e-commerce becomes, the more jobs the traditional offline retail industry loses.

In order to protect employment, many countries have even cracked down on e-commerce, and e-commerce has even been completely stopped in some countries and regions.

E-commerce has its drawbacks, but should it not be developed just because of these drawbacks?
That's obviously not right!
Everything has its pros and cons. Everything has two sides. We cannot discard something just because it has disadvantages. Instead, we need to seek benefits and avoid harm, develop the benefits as much as possible, and avoid or reduce the harm as much as possible.

Survival of the fittest is the consistent law of the market economy. The so-called abolition of e-commerce will lead to the prosperity of physical stores and create hundreds of millions of jobs is just a beautiful imagination.

While e-commerce has brought challenges to the real economy, it has also brought a lot of convenience to many consumers. The upgrading of consumption and the development of the market economy cannot be reversed, just as human society cannot regress from industrial civilization to the agricultural era.

The foundation has been laid and the stage has been set. Now the e-commerce field needs a leader to lead its rapid development.

Liu Tao had thought about going to Liu Ziyu and Chen Nianzhen's company to develop this area, but it was obvious that they were not cut out for it and did not have the talent.

And now, the leader that Liu Tao and others have represented has finally appeared.

In just a few days, Liu Tao had received Ma Yun's detailed information. It was almost exactly the same as Liu Tao's impression, without much deviation.

Ma Yun's grandfather was a village head during the Anti-Japanese War. After liberation, he was classified as one of the "five black categories" and was named "Ma Yun" in the hope that Ma Yun would be well-behaved and sensible and avoid trouble in the future.

Ma Yun's father was transferred to the Zhejiang Federation of Literary and Art Circles in 1981 and was in charge of the daily work of the Zhejiang Quyi Artists Association. In 1985, he was elected as a director of the third council of the Huaxia Quyi Association. Later, he served as the second deputy secretary-general, the third vice chairman and secretary-general, and the third committee member of the Zhejiang Federation of Literary and Art Circles. He has served as chairman of the Zhejiang Quyi Artists Association since 1994.

Ma Yun's mother was a Suzhou tanci actor and had a regular position.

Ma Yun's parents are both handsome and pretty, but Ma Yun has successfully avoided all the advantages of her parents' appearance. She looks like an alien and has been criticized since childhood.

The information even records that Ma Yun bought a pocket radio when she was 12 years old, and even the fights and thefts she had in elementary school were recorded clearly.

"What a troublemaker!" Liu Tao couldn't help but smile when he saw that Ma Yun had been forced to transfer to Hangzhou No. 8 Middle School because of too many demerits for fighting. "What a serious academic bias!"

Looking at the data showing Ma Yun's midterm and final exam scores, as well as her midterm and college entrance exam scores, Liu Tao was speechless.

Ma Yun took the junior high school entrance exam and it took her two years to get into an extremely ordinary high school. The reason was that her math was so bad that she could only score 31 points in math in the junior high school entrance exam.

This is true for the middle school entrance examination, and even more so for the college entrance examination.

Ma Yun failed the college entrance examination for the first time in 1982 because she only got 1 point in mathematics. Sometimes it is so outrageous that even if you choose A or B for all the math fill-in-the-blank questions, you can normally get around 10 points.

After failing the college entrance examination, Ma Yun and his cousin applied for a waiter position at a hotel. His cousin was hired, but Ma Yun was rejected because she was thin, short, and ugly. In the end, Ma Yun rode a tricycle to deliver books to magazines and became a porter.

In the second year of the college entrance examination, Ma Yun failed again, and still only scored 19 points in mathematics. In the third college entrance examination, she scored 89 points in mathematics, although the total score was 5 points short of the undergraduate line. Because the enrollment quota of the English major was not full, some students with excellent English skills were given the opportunity to be promoted to undergraduate studies, and Ma Yun was promoted to the foreign language undergraduate major by Hangzhou Normal University.

After entering university, Ma Yun became a good student with excellent character and academic performance. With her excellent English, she ranked among the top five in the Foreign Languages ​​Department. She was elected president of the Student Union and also served as president of the Hangzhou Student Union for two terms.

After graduating from university in 1988, he was assigned to Hangzhou Institute of Electronic Industry as a lecturer in English and international trade. Later, Ma Yun made him an outstanding young teacher in Hangzhou. Ma Yun initiated the first English corner by the West Lake and began to become famous in the translation industry in Hangzhou.

In 1992, as many people asked Ma Yun to do translation, Ma Yun established Haibo Translation Agency and hired retired teachers to do translation, which was considered his first pot of gold.

In 1994, Ma Yun came into contact with the Internet. Her home was connected to the Internet. Through the computer, Ma Yun came into contact with the Internet world and began to look for opportunities to start a business. Ma Yun decided to go into business and resigned from Hangzhou Institute of Electronic Industry to start his own business.

Hangzhou Haibo Computer Service Co., Ltd. was established in this way. At the time of its establishment, there were only three employees, namely Ma Yun, Ma Yun’s wife, and a man named He Yibing, a top student from Beihang University, who was persuaded by Ma Yun to start a business together during a chat online.

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