What's wrong with me being a rich man?

Chapter 591 Guidance
Li Song wanted to seek guidance from Lingang, so he sent a WeChat message before arriving but received no response.

However, he was an acquaintance here and knew that President Yu was busy with work, so he sent a WeChat message to his secretary. When he arrived, he saw that the secretary was already waiting for him.

Li Song felt somewhat comforted. Judging from the attitude of Zhang Yangxu, the secretary to General Manager Yu, the other party still respected him.

Upon recognizing the familiar license plate, Zhang Yangxu smiled, stepped forward to open the car door, and greeted the driver. He then peeked inside and asked, puzzled, "Mr. Li, isn't Mr. Xu here?"

"Huh? No, it's just me." Li Song was taken aback. "It's just me."

Zhang Yangxu nodded: "The boss is in a meeting with overseas suppliers and may be late. I'm not sure if he'll have time at noon."

With a broken heart, Li Song said in a nearly resigned manner, "Then I'll just wander around and mooch a meal at your cafeteria."

Zhang Yangxu sensed a slight death in President Li and suspected that he might be under pressure from President Xu at home. He didn't ask any further questions but simply invited him to the reception room for tea.

Around noon, Li Song, who had already toured half of the silicon carbon group, thought that President Yu was going to have lunch with the suppliers. Unexpectedly, he suddenly received a message from the other party asking him to come to the office.

"What's the wind? What's the matter?" Yu Xing didn't waste any words when they met.

Li Song sensed that President Yu wasn't in a very good mood, and when their eyes met, Li Song felt a little uneasy.

He coughed and said, "Mr. Yu, did I disturb you? It's alright, it's just that business has been going poorly lately, and I wanted to hear your thoughts."

“It’s not a big deal. I can’t have lunch anyway. I met with German company Webak this morning, but the talks didn’t go well.” Yu Xing explained the situation. “The top-of-the-line model from Kyushu uses Webak’s air suspension. Our proportion of top-of-the-line models is quite high. Webak didn’t pay much attention to us before, but this time they want to sign a long-term cooperation agreement, but they’re not willing to offer more terms.”

After saying this, he pondered for a few seconds before shaking his head slightly: "Let's not talk about this anymore. Let's have some tea. Business is bound to be tough. Perfect timing, let's watch 360's short video project launch together."

Li Song exclaimed in surprise, "360 is starting to make short videos too?"

Yu Xing nodded, turned the computer screen around, and together with Li Song, they watched the press conference held by 360 for its "Kuai Video" platform.

360 put in a lot of effort, because its own short videos focus on a one-minute differentiated competition, and Zhou Hongyi's speech at this press conference simply took only one minute.

According to Zhou Hongyi, this was reduced from the original one hour to one minute.

360 is attempting to redefine short videos, calling those under 15 seconds "small videos," those between 3 and 10 minutes "short videos," those over 20 minutes "complete films and TV series" and "variety shows," and defining its own 1-3 minute videos as "ultra-short videos."

Investing 100 billion yuan to build a short video ecosystem, announcing the establishment of the Fast Fund plan, and launching the "1-Minute Series" program...

Yu Xing quickly skimmed through the introduction of a new competitor's product and gave it a rating: "Not bad."

Li Song had been pondering this since he started watching, and upon seeing this, he asked, "President Yu, isn't 360 competing with your silicon carbon business? Why are you selling your universal key to them? President Zhou is going all in on short videos!"

“Everyone likes to talk about the ‘all in’ slogan, mainly because it’s hard for this thing to truly differentiate itself.” Yu Xing started downloading the new short video app on his phone. “360 needs traffic, we need money, and we believe that Douyin would be more effective in getting money than in getting traffic, so this deal came about.”

After a short while, he briefly played around with "Quick Video," which didn't have many unique features in terms of format.

Yu Xing suddenly remembered what Li Song had said earlier, looked up and smiled, "Mr. Li, what business is going wrong for you?"

"Uh, well... well, what else could it be?" Li Song stammered and sighed. "It's just that the market is tough, the competition is fierce, and I can't go public. I just want to change direction."

As he said this, he subconsciously avoided Mr. Yu's gaze.

Yu Xing frowned slightly and asked with some regret, "You don't want to do what you did before anymore? You've put so much effort into it, what a pity."

Li Song felt a little strange: "Zhenai.com has reached a bottleneck in its development. There's nothing I can do about it. I'm quite lost right now, so I thought I could get some guidance from you today."

Yu Xing nodded with a half-smile.

He tossed him a cigarette and pondered, "I don't know what you're thinking, just try whatever interests you."

Li Song sighed, "I don't even know what I'm interested in anymore, Mr. Yu. To be honest, I've been cooped up at home for over a week, and I'm really at a loss." Yu Xing laughed, "Then why don't you come work for me and help me sell cars?"

Li Song shook his head: "I don't know anything about cars. With the sales of Carbon Silicon Kyushu so good right now, I would only be a hindrance if I came here."

“Then you could hire people to incubate a mobile game studio; there are quite a few people working on that right now,” Yu Xing said. “We at Carbon Silicon Data can also try to leverage voice projects to find game-related solutions.”

Li Song shook his head again: "I don't play games, this is just an amateur giving advice to an expert."

Yu Xing scoffed, "No, Mr. Li, you studied finance and went into the dating industry. Back then, you never said you were an outsider."

Li Song shrugged: "So, I didn't do a good job in the matchmaking business."

Yu Xing: "..."

He chuckled and said, "You're quite confident now. If that's the case, then you should go into finance. I heard you talking about stocks last time. You could do that."

Li Song lowered his gaze slightly: "Short selling is destructive, and I... I don't want to get involved in that kind of thing."

Yu Xing said in surprise, "I didn't tell you to short sell, I told you to try your hand at stocks."

Li Song: "Uh... I thought you had seen the news about the mountain peak, so you were shorting it."

Yu Xing waved his hand: "That kind of destructive stuff is pointless."

Li Song thought it was quite interesting, but it wouldn't work if it was just interesting and didn't produce any results.

“You’re not good at this or that. I used to tell people who were out of direction to go into cryptocurrency,” Yu Xing said slowly. “But are you not interested in that either? Why don’t you try something related to the short video ecosystem? Set yourself a small goal first, like becoming a million-follower influencer.”

Li Song indeed had no interest in cryptocurrencies, but the short video ecosystem gave him pause for thought.

Now even 360 is starting to make short videos; this content sector might be worth a try.

After thinking for a moment, Li Song said, "How about I do some business and finance content? We can start by analyzing short-selling patterns like those of mountain peaks."

Yu Xing said helplessly, "Why do you always have to pick on Guo Shanfeng?"

“I have done some research in this field.” Li Song’s confidence seemed to have returned. Looking at President Yu’s questioning expression, he shook his head and said, “President Yu, you may not know enough about peaks and short selling, but I have studied it in depth.”

Yu Xing: "Hmm..."

He looked at Li Song, who seemed to be getting increasingly excited: "So you're going to criticize it?"

Li Song laughed and said, "No, President Yu, you don't know the reputation of Guoshan Peak. Most people support it, and I want to cheer for it."

Seeing that President Yu's expression was different, he knew that the other party had never been interested in this kind of thing, so he added: "Of course, my advocacy is also critical."

Yu Xing pulled out the alfalfa information from the document and chuckled to himself, "Nowadays everything is about ecology, I never thought there could be such a thing as Guoshanfeng ecology."

Li Song glanced at President Yu: "President Yu, no matter what, he is the king of short sellers."

Yu Xing sighed slightly: "Guoshanfeng has never claimed to be the king of short selling."

Li Song said with a smile, "It doesn't matter what it says itself, everyone says it is, so it is the king of short sellers."

Yu Xingzhen hoped to capture the expression on the man's face at this moment, so that if they met again in a different capacity in the future, he could make him utter that name again.

(End of this chapter)