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Chapter 132 Master Lei: Aren’t you bullying an honest person? (asking for monthly votes)

The two chatted for a while, and then Chen Yansen stood up and said goodbye.

He is a very realistic person. Since Lao Ma has no money, he will find a rich dog owner.

Just as he was about to walk back, Liu Qiangdong pulled him over to drink with him.

Chen Yansen thought about it and did not refuse.

Handsome Dong was obviously very angry about what Lao Ma said before. Whenever he talked about Ali, he started to speak in a sarcastic tone.

Chen Yansen had a pretty good impression of Brother Dong, even though his personal life was a bit messy. But apart from the eldest brother, Chen Yansen was not a good person either.

The two of them seemed to have similar interests. After talking about business, they talked about women. Finally, they smiled at each other and agreed to wait until the conference was over before going to the next one.

"I'll introduce you to Zhang Lei from Hillhouse Capital tonight."

Handsome Dong patted his chest and made the promise.

Chen Yansen nodded, stood up and went to find Gao Weilin and Song Yuncheng. Then the three of them walked to Xiaomi's table together and greeted Master Lei.

"You want to make a mobile phone?" Lei Yijun asked Chen Yansen with a strange look.

The last time Chen Yansen visited Xiaomi's R&D center, Lei Yijun didn't pay much attention. Later, when he found out that headhunters were poaching Xiaomi's engineers, he couldn't sit still.

After some inquiries, I finally found out the entrusted company behind it, and then I saw the familiar name Chen Yansen from the equity relationship network.

It suddenly dawned on me!

It turned out that this kid came to Xiaomi to learn from him under the pretext of visiting.

At that time, Lei Yijun was not on guard because he saw that Chen Yansen was a liberal arts student majoring in journalism and was working in the shopping guide e-commerce industry.

However, what Li Wanqiang said is at most common knowledge in the industry, except that the supply price of some electronic components is slightly sensitive.

However, each company's purchasing volume is different, and the price is also different.

Chen Yansen can find out this information by hiring a purchasing director for the supply chain. It is not a company secret at all.

Although Lei Yijun was a little unhappy, he did not turn against Chen Yansen.

"Well, I guess so. From now on, I will be in the same business as Mr. Lei."

Chen Yansen didn't want to admit it, but seeing the other person's determined eyes, he answered with a smile.

"It seems that competition in the smartphone industry is going to become increasingly fierce."

Lei Yijun laughed heartily, looking unconcerned.

As far as he knows, Apple, Huawei, Samsung, LG, OPPO and others all have plans to release new phones in the second half of the year, so the addition of Chen Yansen is not a big deal.

He is confident that Xiaomi is different from these companies. He plans to give up hardware profits and focus on making profits from software.

Since the day Xiaomi was founded, he has been working on supply chain integration. He even visits some suppliers in person. He doesn't believe that Chen Yansen can figure out the mobile phone industry.

Young man, you don’t know the pain until you fall!
"Mr. Lei, I don't know much about supply chain. Since you're a senior, could you explain it to me?"

Now that the truth had been revealed, Chen Yansen no longer tried to hide it and pulled Lei Yijun aside to ask for advice humbly.

Later, some people said that Lei Jiaozhu’s success was all due to marketing, but Chen Yansen was a businessman and did not believe such nonsense.

Xiaomi's success is clearly based on the ultimate art of supply chain management.

No, buddy, you really dare to ask!

Lei Yijun looked at Lin Bing and then at Li Wanqiang. Is this kid pretending to be stupid? We are competitors, and you come to me for advice on supply chain management?

Leaving a big spectrum!
"In fact, the supply chain resources for core mobile phone components are basically controlled by the industry's leading companies. My approach is to take my team to communicate with suppliers one by one..."

Lei Yijun slowed down, looked at Chen Yansen, and began to talk about his management ideas.

Chen Yansen is not afraid of being fooled. With his current abilities, he can easily judge whether someone is lying by observing their emotional fluctuations.

The two chatted until the end of lunch. Chen Yansen felt that he had learned enough, so he stood up and thanked him.

"Mr. Lei, did you really tell him that?" Li Wanqiang asked puzzledly.

"These are all methodologies. One thing, when executed by different people, often has two different outcomes. This kid keeps calling me Brother Lei and Senior. Can I really say anything nonsense?"

Lei Yijun spread his hands, looking helpless.

It’s a pity that “Let the Bullets Fly”, a movie that is worthy of being nominated for World Heritage, has not been released yet, otherwise Jun’er would definitely shout: Isn’t this bullying honest people!

That's right!

Chen Yansen likes to bully honest people. Honesty means being easy to talk to, so he will bully you more.

This is just like the man who can endure hardships. As long as you are willing to endure hardships, there will be endless hardships to endure.

After a short break, the afternoon exchange meeting was announced to begin.

"Mr. Chen, SoftBank's investment managers are very interested in FoxTao, but they want to merge FoxTao into Ali, using a combination of equity and cash as payment..."

Gao Weilin, who was sitting next to him, reported in a low voice.

"I only accept cash payments." Chen Yansen waved his hand and interrupted Lao Gao.

"Then only Tiger Fund remains, but they don't want to fully acquire Fox Tao. They are only willing to buy about 10% of the shares, saying they are more optimistic about your management ability."

Gao Weilin paused and mentioned another venture capital firm.

"I heard that Rakuten lost to Augusta National in the competition for Ebates financing. In terms of development prospects, we are no worse than Ebates, and may even be stronger. Find a suitable opportunity and let Rakuten know."

Chen Yansen thought for a moment and said.

"Sell it to Xiaozi?" Gao Weilin was stunned.

"Lotte has invested a lot of money in the internet over the past two years. Last year, it partnered with Qiandu to establish an e-commerce platform called Lekutian, which shows that it is very interested in the domestic e-commerce market."

Chen Yansen spoke calmly. He knew that, based on FoxTao's development trend, it would reach its peak performance in 2012 and 2013, and then decline sharply in 2014.

Perhaps it was due to the suppression from Ali and Yidong, or perhaps it was due to the increasingly deteriorating industry environment.

He can suppress the development of Mogujie, Meilishuo and What’s Worth Buying, but he can only maintain his advantage for a year or two at most.

An industry like shopping guide, which has no technical barriers, will sooner or later be shattered by the impact.

Chen Yansen didn't want to stick with a product with no future and watch the valuation decrease day by day.

Among the several shopping guide e-commerce companies that went public in the future, the best-performing one, What’s Worth Buying, had a market value of only over 60 billion yuan, which was not as good as his Feiyu Technology. Another one was even worse, with a market value of just over 20 billion yuan.

Therefore, selling Fox Tao is the best option.

If I remember correctly, Rakuten spent US$1 billion to acquire Ebates in 2014. From this transaction, Rakuten suffered a paper loss of US$700 to 800 million.

These foreigners in the Lighthouse Country have ruined our lives.

Chen Yansen’s idea was simple. Ebates’ monthly sales were only 5 million yuan, less than half of FoxTao’s.

Rather than letting the Lighthouse Country cheat Lotte out of 10 billion US dollars two years later, it is better to let him do it.

FoxTao's business model and profit level are much stronger than Ebates. It's not too much to ask for 20 billion or 30 billion US dollars, right?
Of course, in the early stage, Xiaozi has to be willing to take the bait.

"I'll try." Gao Weilin happened to have some connections, so he agreed without hesitation.

During the afternoon meeting, Chen Yansen did not listen carefully and spent the whole time watching movies.

During the dinner, he took Song Yuncheng with him to chat with the bosses in the group buying industry one by one.

These people have placed advertisements on FoxTao quite a lot.

Song Yuncheng had worked with many group buying channel managers, but this was the first time she met these bosses.

We talked about the output of activities in April and May, and also about the group buying business schedule for the second half of the year.

Several bosses who had just received financing made offers that were not inferior to others.

The boss of WoWo Tuan casually threw out the figure of '4000 million', shocking the others, who secretly cursed that the bastard was crazy.

Having just received a US$2 million investment from CITIC Capital and Tianyou Capital, he dared to squander it like this.

Chen Yansen smiled and praised: "Mr. Wang has good vision."

He turned around and cursed, "Stupid!" He then told Gao Weilin, "If you run into entrepreneurs like this in the future, stay as far away from them as possible."

"Okay, boss." Gao Weilin responded quickly.

He just thought that the mainland boss was too generous, willing to pay a sky-high price of 4000 million for two online sales activities.

As soon as the cooperation discussion was over, Liu Qiangdong came over and took him to meet Zhang Lei of Hillhouse Capital. They got in the car and drove straight to the largest private club nearby.

Gao Weilin followed consciously, and Chen Yansen asked Song Yuncheng to go back to the hotel first.

The following occasion is not suitable for her.

Just as he expected, as soon as he entered the box, he saw two girls in gauze ancient costumes dancing barefoot on the small stage.

She has a graceful figure and looks professional at first glance.

In addition to Zhang Lei and Liu Qiangdong from Hillhouse Capital, there was also the general manager of Blue Moon's online business in the box.

The four of them didn't drink, but got together to talk about cooperation.

The distributors under Blue Moon have cooperated with FoxTao twice. The second time, they were discovered by the brand and triggered the price control rules, and were warned.

The dealer had no choice but to pay compensation to FoxTao, and the brand group was temporarily offline, affecting the user experience.

Chen Yansen found it troublesome, so he asked the investment promotion agency to only connect with brands such as Tide, Ariel and Liby, and kicked Blue Moon out of the cooperation list.

As a result, after a few months, these three companies held brand groups on Fox Tao last week and went on Juhuasuan the next week, which destroyed Blue Moon's online sales.

So, thanks to the relationship between Handsome Dong and Zhang Lei, Blue Moon took the initiative to approach them, wanting to discuss a special cooperation, and the first thing they said was a 1000 million event scale.

Chen Yansen smiled and clinked glasses with the other party, drinking tea instead of wine.

He is not the kind of person who would give up making money just to get angry. Besides, the friction between him and Blue Moon is not even a minor one.

Liu Qiangdong did the same. He directly proposed an investment of 3000 million yuan, intending to deliver impressive results on June 618th so that he could report to investors.

After all, Dongfang's model is asset-heavy. The couriers alone cost tens of thousands of yuan, and they also have to pay five insurances and one fund. Profits are nowhere in sight, and they can only use sales revenue to satisfy investors.

Chen Yansen naturally agreed to all of them and promised with a smile that he would tilt traffic resources towards Yidong.

Liu Qiangdong nodded with satisfaction, thinking that this little brother from Hui'an was very considerate and loyal.

Ignoring Zhang Lei's objection, they opened a bottle of Moutai and started drinking again.

As for directing more traffic to Dongdong, it was naturally just drunken talk before drinking and should not be taken seriously.

Chen Yansen will do as much work as the handsome man Dong pays him.

He knew very well that once Liu Qiangdong made his company big, he would definitely turn around and stab him in the back.

After three rounds of drinks, everyone dispersed.

Chen Yansen and Gao Weilin were taken back to the hotel by Liu Qiangdong's driver.

Then, they both returned to their rooms.

Gao Weilin first called an old classmate who worked at Lotte Investment. After the conversation, he wanted to find Chen Yansen to report the situation, but after knocking on the door for a long time, no one responded.

He stood in the hotel corridor, looked at Song Yuncheng's room, thought for a moment, and finally turned around and went back to his room.

(End of this chapter)