Force me to be reborn, right?

Chapter 540 What is waiting for Cheng Zhu in the Demon City?
The voice actor girl was bullied badly for the entire morning.

"No! I will never come to your house again!" she protested.

Cheng Zhu let these words go in one ear and out the other.

I didn't take it seriously at all.

When the two were not fooling around, they also chatted about investing in a blind box store.

"Go home and talk to your family first to see if your parents are willing to support you and how much they are willing to support you," Cheng Zhu said.

"Then can I tell them that you are optimistic about this project?" Lin Lu asked.

"Of course." Cheng Zhu said with a smile: "You are giving me a chance to make me proud!"

"Are you so confident that your blind box store can make a lot of money?"

"of course."

After that, he added: "Besides, Auntie runs a decoration design company, so there will be decoration fees, and there will be many ways to invest in it. You can go home and talk to them yourself."

"I suggest that you and Jiang Wanzhou split 40:60, you 40 and he 60."

"If you don't have enough money, ask me for it." He raised his hand and patted his chest, looking very proud.

Lin Lu looked at him with a smile and asked, "You are not going to lend me money and then use usury to take advantage of an ignorant girl like me. I have seen a lot of news about female college students like this."

"Do I need to lend you money if I can control you?" Cheng Zhu looked down, looking at the control he had last night and just now.

"Go to hell!" Lin Lu was so angry that he hit him.

She felt that Cheng Zhu was a really bad person. He could do bad things in a roundabout way just by saying a few words.

As expected of someone who made her fortune by selling QQ underwear, she’s completely yellow from the inside out!

"By the way, how many days will you be away on business in Magic City this time?" asked the deer.

"At least three days and two nights." Cheng Zhu pondered for a moment.

His main purpose in going to Shanghai this time was to do business, laying the groundwork for the [local life service] after the short video went online.

Putting all these aside, investing in Ele.me is something that will have a very high rate of return in the future. Naturally, he hopes that Ele.me can develop better and better. This is a big deal worth billions.

"You've been on a business trip for so long, okay." Lin Lu stood up and said, "Then you can go out with me for lunch at noon, let's go to a private restaurant."

"Okay, I'll listen to you." Cheng Zhu accepted with a smile.

Then he began to circle around the forest deer, looking it up and down.

"What are you doing?"

The voice actress looked at him with a wary look and a serious tone.

"You always say that you've gained weight by eating with me, but I checked last night and this morning and it seems that you haven't." Cheng Zhu said with a smile.

"No way! If you eat any more you will definitely have a noticeable belly!" Lin Lu retorted.

"Really? Let me see."

"Look at you!"

After playing around for a while, the two went out to eat hand in hand.

After lunch, Cheng Zhu sent Lin Lu to the beauty salon and drove to the company.

As soon as he entered the company, he went to Shen Qingning's office.

"I'm going to Shanghai on a business trip tomorrow. I'm going to be hungry. I'm going to have dinner with Zhang Xuhao and Zhang Tao. Do you want to go?"

Cheng Zhu was not really inviting him sincerely, he was just testing the waters.

The two of them are tied together commercially and are now business partners, but to what extent can this go?

Shen Qingning is in charge of all the work related to Youcha's takeout, which was arranged by Cheng Zhu from the beginning.

Generally speaking, given the current situation of the two, if there is something really important, it is normal for them to go on a business trip together, and this situation will happen.

"On a business trip with you?" Shen Qingning thought to herself, then glanced at Cheng Zhu.

She felt that given their current relationship, it would be quite awkward.

But adhering to the "business as business" agreement, she would go if she had time.

After all, she was the main person in charge of the work related to Ele.me, and she had held video conferences with Ele.me much more times than Cheng Zhu.

"I'm busy these two days. I have a lot of things to do." Shen Qingning shook her head: "I can't leave."

——It’s not that I don’t want to, but I really can’t.

After saying that, the cold girl looked at Cheng Zhu coldly with a slightly resentful look.

"Why are you looking at me like this?"

"Don't you think you've assigned me too much work?" Ning Ning asked coldly.

"Really?" Cheng Zhu scratched his head, walked over to her, leaned his butt directly on her desk, and asked, "Really?"

"I need an assistant." Shen Qingning directly stated his needs.

"Okay, give him a higher salary and find someone with strong abilities." Cheng Zhu nodded and agreed.

He is now like a half-handed boss, so such a demand must be met.

But before leaving Ningning's office, he suddenly stopped, turned around and said to her: "Female."

"What woman?" Shen Qingning was confused.

"The assistant is looking for a female one." Cheng Zhu said in a deep voice.

After saying that, he walked out of his office under Shen Qingning's gaze.

Ningning looked at Cheng Zhu's leaving back, pursed her lips slightly, and after a few seconds of silence, she continued to work.

Cheng Zhu was not in a hurry to go to the Magic City, because he wanted to leave Zhang Tao alone for a few days.

During these few days, Zhang Tao was indeed very conflicted and irritable every day.

[Comment] There is no consensus on the current internal opinions. Some are in favor of war, while others are in favor of peace.

He himself actually now also tends to merge.

Therefore, the co-founders and senior executives, represented by Long Wei, all tried their best to persuade Zhang Tao to merge as soon as possible.

As one of the co-founders of Dianping, Long Wei is very familiar with Wang Xin and Bao Fan.

Even before Wang Xin founded [MiTuan] and entered the group buying track, he made a special call to Long Wei.

"Do you know that there is a company called Groupon in the United States? Do you do group buying?"

Long Wei’s answer was: “No.”

At that time, Dianping was spending a lot of money on its mobile business and had no intention of doing group buying. It was still doing its old business steadily.

Until later, Groupon became popular overseas and its valuation skyrocketed, making the domestic group buying market completely crazy!

[Comment] With its inherent advantages, it is really hard not to want to get involved.

This made Long Wei's original promise to Wang Xin come to naught.

Of course, this is nothing, after all, he is just a co-founder. [Comment] In the final analysis, Zhang Tao is still the boss.

However, recalling the [Thousand Regiments War] in recent years, Long Wei felt very bad.

Dianping was founded in Shanghai in 03.

It was established earlier than Yelp abroad.

In the early years, many people compared Dianping.com and Yelp.

But in fact, Dianping wants to learn more from Zagat in its business model and take the printing route.

Later I found that copying this model didn't work.

With the popularization of mobile phones, it began to develop in the direction of mobile phones.

In 05, Dianping basically gave up on offline users and focused on online users.

This enabled Dianping to obtain investment from RedStone Capital in 08.

By the end of 08, Dianping, which had found the right path, had already started to make profits.

At that time, the company was full of enthusiasm and everyone was very motivated.

Until the clarion call of the “Thousands of Group Buying War”, one of the eight major battles on the Internet, was sounded, Dianping was deeply involved in it, fighting with nearly 6000 group buying companies, and directly ended its profitability!
At the beginning, everyone must be of one mind and have great ambitions!

Everyone thinks that the domestic group buying market will definitely explode. If we can really hold on to the end, we will take off directly and become a new Internet giant!

However, the good times did not last long.

Not only has the capital market burned so much money, the prospects of the domestic group buying market have also become less and less optimistic.

This directly led to the arrival of the "capital winter".

——Winter is coming!
This is something that no one will admit to the outside world.

However, a consensus has already been reached internally!

This is also why Long Wei has been communicating frequently with Wang Xin and Bao Fan in private recently.

He feels the merger is a win-win situation.

He believes this is an economic law.

"Either we both lose, or we win together." "We have no other choice!"

Therefore, Long Wei felt that no matter how he looked at it, he could only choose the latter.

"It is unrealistic to still dream of dominating the group buying market and becoming an Internet giant!"

At this moment, Long Wei came to Zhang Tao's office again to carry out his lobbying.

After the two sat down on the sofa, Long Wei put forward his proposal.

"Do you want me to communicate with Wang Xin? We can first see if the overlap rate of users on both sides is high." He said.

Zhang Tao raised his eyes and looked at him when he heard that.

"This data is indeed very important." said Zhang Tao.

"So what do you think is a high overlap rate?"

Zhang Tao frowned and thought for a moment, then replied, "I think more than 25%, or one quarter, is very high."

"If the figure exceeds this, the overall value of the merger will be greatly discounted in the capital market."

He looked at Long Wei and said, "We all know that the biggest benefit of the merger is that it will be very easy to raise large amounts of financing in the future, and we can get unprecedented high financing."

Long Wei nodded in agreement.

Now, whether it is Dianping or MiTuan, even with the support of the two Internet giants Penguin and Alibaba, it is still difficult to raise funds independently.

It is not difficult to raise money, but it is not so easy to get the amount that everyone needs.

"I personally think that the overlap rate will not exceed 25%, and may be lower than we expect now." Long Wei expressed his opinion.

"Oh? How low do you think it can go?"

"Within 20%!" Long Wei replied.

He added: "Mi Tuan mainly takes the route of surrounding cities from the countryside, focusing on third- and fourth-tier cities."

"When we were first established in Shanghai in 02, we focused on providing restaurant rating services in big cities. Later, our group-buying users were concentrated in first- and second-tier cities, so the user overlap with Ele.me was ridiculously high."

“I don’t think there will be too many people who use both Mi Tuan and Are You Hungry?”

In fact, Long Wei's guess was not wrong.

He wanted to use this point to lobby Zhang Tao in depth.

The user overlap between Mituan and Dianping is only around 15%.

This number is actually quite scary!
The number of users of these two platforms now is in the billions.

If the overlap is low, once merged, the user base will reach an incredibly scary number!

Why worry about not being able to unify the world?
This guy has the demeanor of a fucking emperor!

Zhang Tao narrowed his eyes slightly and said, "If it is really lower than 20%, it will probably trigger a new round of enthusiasm in the capital market."

Long Wei analyzed what he said and guessed that he actually favored a merger.

"What are you mainly struggling with right now?" he asked.

We have been together since the beginning of our business and have experienced so many ups and downs together over the past decade.

When two people chat, they will be more direct and there is no need to have so many concerns.

"Would you find it funny if I said that I was mainly struggling with the opinion of a college student?"

Zhang Tao gave a bitter smile, he felt it was shameful to say that!
After all, I am a big shot on the rich list.

As early as 2011, he was named "Internet New Force Figure".

Today, he has gone from being a rising star in the new forces to being selected as “2014 China Internet Person of the Year”!
No matter from the perspective of wealth, achievement, or reputation, he is one of the top successful people in society!
But now he just wanted to hear what Cheng Zhu had to say, otherwise he would feel uneasy.

There is no way, I got it right three times in a row.

Long Wei frowned and looked at his old partner, and asked, "Are you talking about Cheng Zhu?"

"Who else could be a college student?" Zhang Tao shook his head and laughed.

It’s okay for him to be a college student, but he’s not even in his sophomore year!

It is difficult for ordinary graduates from polytechnic universities to get a job opportunity.

But looking at Cheng Zhu, a student at school, he is treated as a guest of honor by Zhang Tao.

Zhang Tao is now looking forward to his arrival in Shanghai as soon as possible so that everyone can sit together to have a meal and chat.

But Cheng Zhu was on the other side. He kept telling Zhang Xuhao, "Don't come to Hangzhou. I'm going to Shanghai on a business trip in a few days."

But he didn't tell me which day it was!

Long Wei frowned deeply and asked, "Is this man really as evil as you say?"

He had a look of disbelief on his face: "If I'm going to be a sophomore after the summer vacation, then I'm only 19 years old this year? I shouldn't even be 20 yet!"

Zhang Tao lowered his eyelids slightly, patted his thigh lightly, and said, "It's just very weird, I have never seen such a weird young man!"

Generally speaking, if they are people of the same age or more successful business tycoons, they will generally comment that this person has a sharp eye and insight into the world.

But just because he is too young, has just started his business not long ago, has little experience, and comes from an ordinary family, people can't help but use the word "evil"!

"So when do you plan to meet him?" Long Wei began to get information.

"Then we have to wait until he visits the Magic City!" Zhang Tao smiled bitterly.

He himself had never thought about how the situation would develop into this state inexplicably.

As a merchant, Cheng Zhu should be the one to curry favor with the platform!

It should be me who was so shocked that I adopted him as my adopted son.

How come I have to humbly ask for advice?
——The opposite of Tiangang!

After a few minutes, Zhang Tao's cell phone suddenly rang. It was Zhang Xuhao calling.

On the phone, Zhang Xuhao told him: "Cheng Zhu, are you hungry for the meeting tomorrow? We can have a dinner party in the evening."

"Okay!" Brother Tao was instantly overjoyed and his excitement was visibly evident.

Long Wei looked at Zhang Tao who was leaning sideways while talking on the phone. Seeing his excited look, his eyes darkened slightly.

After leaving Taozi's office, Long Wei turned into a "traitor" and contacted Wang Xin and Bao Fan, telling them: "Cheng Zhu will come to the Magic City tomorrow."

After sending the WeChat message, Long Wei felt a little dazed.

As the co-founder of Dianping, he feels that in this game, people like him can play a crucial role and have the power to influence the course of the game!

But why is Cheng Zhu standing at the center of the vortex when all parties are struggling?

Zhang Tao wanted to meet him and hear his opinion.

Wang Xin was a little afraid of this person. His actions were guessed three times, which made him feel creepy!

Top bosses like Bao Fan were very interested in him and even wanted to play the "treat" card first.

This made Long Wei feel a little uncomfortable.

He even felt that at this stage, his words to Zhang Tao were not as effective as those from Cheng Zhu!
At this moment, the uncomfortable feeling in his heart began to become more and more serious.

On the other side, in Hangzhou, the office building where Youcha is located.

Cheng Zhu had just finished a phone call with Zhang Xuhao more than ten minutes ago, and was now dealing with some things that had to be dealt with in the next few days.

He has to be on a business trip for so many days, and there are some things that Ningning cannot do for him completely for the time being.

It took him more than an hour to finish his work. He sat in his boss chair and stretched.

Cheng Zhu wasn't 100% sure what would await him on this trip to the Magic City.

"I can't help it. I, a reborn butterfly, have actually been going with the flow most of the time."

Whether it is making QQ underwear or internet-famous milk tea, it is actually the same.

Step on the right wind, then take off on the spot and soar straight up!
For example, taking advantage of the fact that people are embarrassed to go to QQ physical stores, they have been engaged in QQ e-commerce and unmanned stores in recent years.

For example, as the purchasing power of young people begins to increase year by year, we can make high-end internet-famous milk tea.

But this time is different.

They all say this is the trend.

This time, he really wants to make it at least turn a corner in front of the overwhelming trend!
At this moment, Cheng Zhu still seems very small in front of the Internet giants.

But he had to reverse the whole situation with his weak power, which was indeed very difficult. That was why he had to lay the groundwork again and again and plant various obstacles in the minds of Zhang Xuhao and Zhang Tao.

Whether he is overestimating his own capabilities and trying to shake a tree with an ant will depend on his upcoming trip to the Magic City.

"It's a bit boring for the reborn to just follow the trajectory of history, isn't it?" Cheng Bi Wang Zhu thought.

There will be too many uncertainties in this trip to the Magic City.

But there is one thing Cheng Zhu can be sure of.

He picked up his phone and sent a WeChat message to Hu Yan.

"I'm coming to the Magic City on a business trip tomorrow, understand?"

(ps: Ask for a monthly pass~)

(End of this chapter)