"It's like a spy drama. Do you have such talent under your command?"

Venture capital is absolutely serious and rigorous in its work.

Even when he went out to eat, Zhang Lei always carried a notebook with him. He took out a pen and quickly took notes while making jokes.

"I say, kid, you won't use this trick on us in the future, right?"

Li Zehua was concentrating on listening to the recorded call, and subconsciously retorted, "What are you thinking? It was really an accident."

I saw that he had written several pages full of notes, which were as neat as flowing water. He was more serious than college students taking notes in class.

He couldn't help but pick up the small black box next to him and said with a smile, "Here is a recording device, we can play it back later."

"You didn't tell me earlier."

Lin Wenhui, a three-good student, was also writing furiously. He put away his pen and said, "Let's listen to the review later. They talked for a long time but didn't get to the point."

Pointing at the recording equipment curiously, he asked, "Who did you learn this from? It's so professional."

"I bought it when we were competing with Fanjisong and other express delivery companies. It's pretty useful."

Li Zehua explained the whole story and spread his hands. "This is what happened. It's pure coincidence."

What a surprise, he didn't even know Chen Yelin, the boss of YeZi Delivery.

If there wasn't someone from the opposite side of the site running over, I guess no one else would have recognized him.

At most, we found out afterwards that someone in the market was asking about Chimei's operating model. This kind of thing is very common. Venture capitalists want to invest and competitors want to enter the market.

There are even people who do social surveys, and they would ask, who can tell who are Ali's people?
It just so happened that Chen Yelin had a general discussion with Ali's people at YeZi Food Delivery's headquarters in the morning.

In the afternoon, I took Ali's newly established Taodiandian preparatory working group to conduct a field investigation in the commercial district market in Shanghai.

The reason why I didn’t go to the school area was that the college students were on vacation and went home, so there wouldn’t be much movement.

Secondly, campus is where the food started, and it would be embarrassing if you were caught on the spot.

Just now, a group of them went into the restaurant to inquire, all under the banner of venture capital, and they arranged people to stand guard at the door, so as to notify them in advance if they saw the yellow-robed war god coming.

However, he was discovered by a former employee who followed him all the way.

As for the internal transportation in the city of Shanghai, a Mercedes-Benz car cannot outrun a small electric scooter, and Ali's men drove directly from Qiantang to kill them.

With such a conspicuous Zhejiang A license plate and parked next to Chen Yelin's Mercedes-Benz, it would be hard not to be noticed.

Zhang Tao is a professional in tracking and reconnaissance. With eight years of career as an armored reconnaissance soldier, he is a well-known figure on the battlefield, not to mention tracking down several unsuspecting competitors.

Following the trail minute by minute, he not only found out the location of the hotel where they were staying, but also found out the composition of the Ali team that came over.

Headed by Dai Qiang, the head of the Ali Tao Diandian preparatory working group and the former Ali Taotao vice president in charge of small businesses.

Taobao small merchants are similar to small takeout restaurant owners. They are considered professional counterparts. Otherwise, what about big companies? This is where their strength lies.

No matter what competitors appear on the market, it can always find professionals within its own system to deal with them as soon as possible.

But they encountered Li Zehua, a man who didn't follow the rules. He arranged special forces to go up in minutes and figured out the situation.

While they were having dinner, I swiped through the door.
Well, electronic products such as notebooks were not moved, but all paper documents were taken as souvenirs, and photos of them were taken for reference.

Zhang Tao went there in a hurry and left in a hurry. He did not do things in a thorough manner and was rash and impetuous, and was not reliable at all.

No, I accidentally left something in the room when I left~
That's it, and you still call it a reconnaissance elite?

Really, I didn’t pay attention!

There are some professional-grade gadgets that you may not be able to find even if you look for them specifically.

Because one is stuck under the bed and can only be found if the bed is completely disassembled.

One was lying in the ventilation duct, and some were under the sofa and under the desk. It was all pure coincidence.

"It's several thousand dollars. Please reimburse me."

"I'm dreaming."

Fortunately, it can be recycled, otherwise Li Zehua would be so heartbroken that he would suffocate!
However, when I heard that this batch of eavesdropping and tracking equipment was prepared for the eastern Guangdong market.

Zhang Lei didn't believe it. "East Guangdong is a bit chaotic, but it's not as exaggerated as you say, right?"

Li Zehua sneered, "That's because you guys fly here and there all the time, and there are special cars to pick you up after you get off the plane. If you go to the bus station or the railway station, you'll see that it's a mixed bag.

In 07, I worked in an electronics factory in Dongguan. I didn’t dare go out on the street after get off work because there were so many thieves. A few months ago, my second aunt had a gold necklace stolen from her, but luckily she was fine.”

At this point, he couldn't help but complain, "It's only been a week since the Guangdong East Branch was here, and three electric vehicles were lost during the negotiation process. How can I not be concerned?"

Lin Wenhui's impression of China was mostly about the skyscrapers in the Magic City of Yanjing and Pengcheng. He was stunned when he heard this. "Is it so exaggerated?"

"No exaggeration at all!"

Li Zehua was quite speechless and threw the finished lunch box into the trash can in a bad mood.

"Otherwise, you would think I have nothing better to do than to buy these devices."

If you don't know the truth, you can't refute what you are saying.

Zhang Lei subconsciously changed the subject, resting his chin on his hand and analyzing, "This trick is quite useful. If you have such a talent under your command, why not send him to Ahri's headquarters and figure out the opponent's plan?"

"If I had this ability, I would use it for you all."

Li Zehua joked with a smile, taking the opportunity to show off a little, "Now you see our team's execution ability.

With just one phone call, all of Ali team's vehicles were equipped with positioning trackers in minutes.

It is quite useful. I will install it on all the electric vehicles in eastern Guangdong. If they are lost, they can be found instantly.

No, I still bought too few. I’ll ask Brother Dong to bring back a few hundred more tomorrow.

After all, he is also a shareholder of Chimo, and we are all family. You can judge for yourself, it is unreasonable to pay him for buying things, right?"

"You stingy guy, Dongzi called me and scolded you."

Zhang Lei said unhappily, "You took a lot of supplier contact information from him, right?
He didn't even bother to keep it to himself and sent someone to contact Dongzi without any hesitation. Now Dongzi knew everything.

Just wait, he will come to attend the media meeting tomorrow afternoon, and he might kill you with a nail clipper on the spot."

"Impossible! He's my half-brother. If I have to kill anyone, I'll kill you first."

Li Zehua snorted coldly and retorted, "You said you would invest in others, but you keep making empty promises. It's been a few months now. Where is the money you invested in JD?"

While saying this, he also uttered a sneering sound, as if Zhang Lei had done something shameful.

Zhang Lei didn't buy it, and decisively pulled Lin Wenhui to the same camp, "Do you understand? This guy is specialized in eavesdropping.

I have always only discussed such confidential information at internal company meetings. Do you think he has installed a bug in my office?"

Lin Wenhui suppressed his laughter and said, "It's possible."

But he turned to Li Zehua and said seriously, "Ah Li has come to your door, how are you going to deal with it?"

"The key to the matter is not Ali, but the courier company!"

Li Zehua never looks at problems in a one-sided way, but always considers the overall situation.

“You just heard that Mr. Dai from Ali Taodiandian has not figured out the key to the matter.

That is to say, if we simply start from the takeout industry and want to crack down on it, it will be nothing but a pipe dream.

YeZi Food Delivery is a relatively traditional telephone food delivery company. It does not even have a food delivery website. Its main model is to provide pre-prepared meals, and it does not have many cooperative stores at all.

Ali approached them out of desperation. No matter how much money he spent, it would be useless. It would take a long time to develop the business with just the takeaway model.

Without sufficient orders to support high salaries for staff, it will not be attractive to grassroots workers. No matter how rich Ali is, it is impossible for him to subsidize hundreds of millions every month.

Because they won't stop and wait after they've eaten. We have 10,000 people now, and in a few months we'll have tens of thousands, and in a year there might be more than 100,000. How many can it poach with its high salaries?"

Zhang Lei agrees, "It's a typical problem of big companies. They can't even copy homework. Chimome and Hummingbird cooperate with each other and have an absolute advantage in numbers.

What is strange is that from the description of Mr. Dai, it seems that Ali has taken another path. They want to recruit franchisees all over the country, learn the model of three links and one delivery, set up the stall first, and share the cost by scale?
But now Yuantong Yunda has begun to switch to direct operation, proving that the franchise system has no core competitiveness!"

Lin Wenhui was confused. "So all the plans we made are useless?"

"You ask me, I'll ask who goes."

Li Zehua was even more puzzled. I took off my pants and you showed me this?

Try to speculate from the perspective of capital, "Did Yahoo put a lot of pressure on Ali, forcing Ali to do this?"

"It's a pity that Wu Yibin is in the hospital, otherwise it would be great to have him go to Ali to find out more."

Lin Wenhui absolutely didn’t dare to go. What if he was beaten to death?
Even Wu Yibin, who had a long-standing relationship with the company, couldn't withstand having cups thrown at him by angry employees. As the culprit who caused the breakup between Ali and Yahoo, he would probably be hung up and beaten if he went there.

The three of them wondered in the room.

Little did they know that Dai Qiang was even more depressed.

Taodiandian was established in a very hasty manner, so quickly that there wasn’t even an internal mobilization meeting, and it began operations quietly.

Don't think that there are no smart people among Ahri who can't see the chemical reaction produced by the combination of Chimo and Hummingbird.

It is precisely because there are too many smart people who look at issues in the long term that Taodiandian was arranged to be launched first to compete head-on with Chimei.

As for Cainiao Station, it first started a PPT business, recruited investors nationwide, and quickly realized profits through Ali's traffic and size advantages, engaging in capital operations.

When it comes to making quick money, Ahri has really figured it out.

There is nothing else to say. According to Cai Zhongxin's original words, Ali is an Internet high-tech company. It is impossible for it to learn from Hummingbird and recruit tens of thousands of employees to do business all over the world.

Capital needs to be high-end and make easy money from platform traffic.

In fact, it was forced by Yahoo, or by capital.

On the day of the emergency board meeting, Temasek China President Wu Yibin overturned the table on the spot, although he was later hit on the head by a cup thrown at him.

But even greater evil consequences fell heavily on Ahri's head!
A Yahoo representative stated on the spot that he would never accept the fait accompli of the payment system transfer and strongly demanded that the board of directors explain and correct the mistake.

No amount of persuasion was of any use, and they ended up parting on bad terms.

Mr. Ma also had a heated argument with Yahoo Chairman Jerry Yang during his communication.

No one could ignore that a company that occupies more than 50% of the domestic payment market was secretly transferred in such a ridiculous way.

"Ahri is a shameful thief!"

In a rage, Jerry Yang issued an order to Ali in front of all Yahoo shareholders and directors, requiring it to regain control of the payment system within a specified period of time.

It's not a request, it's not a negotiation, it's an ultimatum.

Someone must be held responsible for Yahoo's 7% stock price drop in one day!

After discussion between Mr. Ma and Cai Chongxin, it was decided that Cai Chongxin would go to Jiaopenji first to seek support from the major shareholder Sun Zhengyi.

Then they went to the United States together, explained the situation to Jerry Yang in person, and obtained his understanding.

During this period, everything else must give way to this matter unconditionally.

Before leaving, Cai Zhongxin also advised Mr. Ma from the perspective of capital, if the trip is not smooth, there will be problems in the communication with Yahoo.

Even if things develop in the worst direction, there is no need to worry too much, because Ahri is no longer the Ahri who was in danger of being overthrown at any time.

At that time, Taotao's half-year revenue was nearly 70 billion yuan, and its annual revenue was expected to be billion yuan, which had occupied % of the market share of China's online shopping platforms.

Even if Yahoo eventually gives up cooperation due to the payment system, Ali can find a suitable buyer.

But the one thing that cannot change is Ali’s high-tech Internet attributes!
This is a prerequisite for Ali to obtain support from the capital market!
Teacher Ma understood it immediately!

Why did Sun Tongyu suddenly resign from Taotao when he was doing a good job as the general manager?

Why has the 5,000-strong Ahri Iron Army made no major commercial contribution since then?

On the contrary, after they leave their jobs, they can create new miracles in all walks of life?
In the final analysis, Ali's strategic positioning for the future is to make easy money by leveraging platform traffic, and there is no room for this group of people to display their talents.

If Ali lowers his stance at this time, Taodiandian and Cainiao Network can join forces and attack together.

Then Li Zehua could only try his best to ignite the internal fire of Ali and delay its expansion.

Then they took advantage of the group-buying market and the increase in express parcels they brought to barely hold on. During this period they were inevitably suppressed by Ahri temporarily.

The latter has advantages in terms of funds, technology, capital, connections, etc. Qingyun's foundation is unstable, and it is not shameful to be suppressed and beaten.

Besides, Li Zehua is not without a backup plan. Winning or losing at the moment is nothing. The one who laughs last is the real hero.

He just needs to wait for JD.com and Pinxixi to grow up completely, and then take advantage of the early layout in the mobile Internet era to overtake them.

This is destined to be a protracted war!

But Ali cannot do this. Even if there is no dispute with Yahoo and everything is harmonious, Ali's internal corporate culture and the capital behind the scenes will not allow this to happen.

The most easy-to-understand example is economic globalization!
Industrial transfer, deindustrialization!
It says it all.

Capital is profit-seeking. While people are still working hard and creating wealth with their own hands, capital has already figured out a perfect business logic of regularly fleecing them.

Rather than working hard in the physical business and accumulating wealth bit by bit, you don’t know when you will die in a crisis in some economic cycle.

It is better to quickly reap wealth through financial means, and then go a step further and control the distribution of wealth.

It was in this context that Ali completed its internal corporate reforms. Sure enough, with the support of capital, Ali's businesses made rapid progress.

How comfortable it is to make money while lying down after enjoying the dividends of capital?
Now turn around and get back to work with your feet on the ground?

Have you learned from Fengniao that it often recruits tens of thousands of people in a city and provides five insurances and one fund for the outstanding ones?
Just kidding!
If they want to expand into the national market like this, they will have to hire millions of employees, right?
Is this still considered an Internet company?

So what are the advantages of capital?
Investors see that a company that pays the payroll of millions of people can vote with their feet and run away in a matter of minutes, yet they still offer a high premium. Go to hell with that.

Outsourcing and franchising is the direction in which Ali is destined to develop.

Li Zehua didn't understand this point for the time being, but Lin Wenhui and Zhang Lei did, but they didn't say anything.

They are waiting, waiting for the day when Li Zehua becomes one of them.

Who would mind having too much money?

One day, he will realize for himself how wonderful outsourcing is. It gets rid of the heavy burden of employees. Even if one person is reduced, the company will earn tens of thousands of dollars more in profit.

Why do express delivery and food delivery companies have low market capitalizations in later generations, and they continue to impose fines on outsourced employees?
The reasons are here. They are an indispensable part of the enterprise development process, but also a burden that hinders the enterprise's profitability.

The upper echelons of Lijiaopo noticed this, but they wanted the special influence behind it more rather than purely economic purposes.

Li Zehua was not clear about this for the time being. When he heard Lin Wenhui talking about Wu Yibin jokingly.

He continued, "Your Mr. Wu, didn't he have any old connections in Ali? Let him find out what's going on.

Why would this employee in Dai Qiang's group complain about the decision-making of Ali's top management? What exactly are they going to do?"

At this time, Chen Yelin, who was delivering the meal to Ye Zi, had already left.

Dai Qiang continued to hold a meeting with Ali employees in the hotel's executive room, during which one employee couldn't help but complain.

"Boss Dai, why don't you learn from the company's existing successful examples and insist on separating food delivery and express delivery?"

Dai Qiang looked at him coldly, "I've already said that this is the decision made by the top management of the group, and we must obey it unconditionally!
Or do you think you are very smart and understand business competition better than Mr. Ma and Mr. Tsai?

Just eat it. That petty-minded person, guarding a few big cities and thinking that he can sit back and relax, is actually short-sighted and only sees the world from a narrow perspective!

I heard that their boss didn't even finish high school, no wonder he knows nothing about running a business.

As soon as our Cainiao Network was released, people from all over the country came to consult about how to cooperate. It won’t be long before we can leave the so-called Hummingbird far behind.

We are professionals in the Internet industry. What’s the point of recruiting so many people?

If having more people is an advantage, why do we need technological innovation? Wouldn’t it be better for everyone to build a factory and recruit people together? "

He was in the meeting giving instructions, but he didn't know that every word he said was heard by the people downstairs... (End of this chapter)