Huayu 2021: Isn’t he in the technology field?

Chapter 158 A Trip to JD.com: Adding a Lucky Draw

The next day, in the capital.

The afternoon sun at 1:30 made the asphalt road soft, and the glare from the glass curtain wall of JD.com's headquarters was so bright that people couldn't open their eyes.

As soon as Jiang Qing stepped out of the car, she saw a small white dog-shaped building with the JD.com logo standing in front of the building, which was particularly eye-catching.

Although I ran into a wall with Dudu yesterday, life goes on.

This morning, he took Chen Duo by plane to Beijing. It was time to deliver the logistics and warehousing system that he had promised Liu Qiangdong.

Incidentally, he also had to ask this Mr. Liu for a return gift.

"President Jiang, JD.com's campus is so much bigger than our company's!"

Chen Duo stood on tiptoe to look around, looking very interested.

Jiang Qing dusted off the front of his shirt.

"Is it strange that this is JD.com?"

"Uh...too."

Chen Duo gave an awkward laugh.

Jiang Qing shook her head slightly and walked away first.

He didn't know who Chen Duo's talkativeness came from; he and Yang Wei were practically twins.

As soon as the revolving door in the lobby on the first floor turned halfway, a girl in a beige suit came to greet us.

Her name tag was waving wildly, and when Jiang Qing caught a glimpse of the words "Lin Tian from the President's Office," she was already bowing at a ninety-degree angle.

"Mr. Jiang, you've had a long journey, and Mr. Liu was temporarily held up by a supply chain meeting. He specifically asked me to show you around first, or you can come to the office for some tea if you'd like."

Her smile was polite, her demeanor was graceful, and her tone of voice was pleasant and soothing.

Jiang Qing glanced at Chen Duo beside her, then smiled slightly at Lin Tian.

"Then please show us around."

"Okay, both of you please."

Lin Tian turned to the side and raised her hand in greeting, a faint smile always on her face.

Jiang Qing smiled, nodded, and took a step. Chen Duo followed closely behind him, but in his heart, he was thinking about that look in his eyes just now.

He knew he was being rejected again...

Lin Tian led the two through the security checkpoint in the lobby on the first floor and entered through facial recognition. As they rode the elevator, they were recognized by many people. Some young employees took out their phones to take pictures of Jiang Qing, and a few bolder girls even started waving and greeting her.

"Hello, Mr. Jiang! Welcome to JD.com!"

"President Jiang is so handsome! I'll definitely support his new drama!"

"President Jiang, I'm a huge fan of Dilraba Dilmurat, is there any possibility between you two?"

……

Jiang Qing couldn't help but smile. This guy was obviously an intern who had just started working. He just smiled and nodded in response without replying.

It wasn't that he was putting on airs; he just knew that if he responded to these young people, they would immediately take advantage of him.

"Ding--"

After stepping out of the elevator, Lin Tian finally managed to send the girls away.

"Please forgive me, Mr. Jiang."

Lin Tian bowed slightly to Jiang to express her apology.

"Serious words."

Jiang Qing smiled and waved her hand, not taking it seriously.

Lin Tian led them forward. Just as Chen Duo was about to take a picture with his phone, Jiang Qing stopped him with a look.

The electronic screens on both sides of the glass corridor suddenly refreshed their data, with the red numbers jumping from "238 million" to "241 million", displaying the daily order volume in real time.

Jiang Qing glanced at it and then looked away. As she walked through the connecting corridor, a red warning message, "August Logistics Peak Warning," was scrolling across the giant screen in the atrium.

"This is the aftermath of the big promotion."

Lin Tian explained with a smile that she bumped into a dozen young people running with documents in their arms.

"The technology department just finished upgrading the North China warehouse system, and the purchasing and sales department is already preparing for the autumn promotion."

Before she could finish speaking, three carts loaded with servers suddenly appeared around the corner of the corridor, and a programmer in a plaid shirt shouted into his Bluetooth headset while wiping his sweat.

"Three minutes! The test will restart in three minutes!"

Inside the data cockpit, the transportation network of North China is glowing red on the curved screen.

The dispatcher shouted into the microphone in a hoarse voice.

Has the plan for international warehouses to bypass G4 been approved?

Behind him was an engineer wearing a JD.com JOY T-shirt, who was also holding an unopened lunchbox.

Jiang Qing noticed the progress bar for the "Extreme Weather Prediction Algorithm V2.3" that was flashing on his computer screen.

He secretly made a mental note of it; this money wasn't impossible to earn.

As I passed the customer service department, the incessant ringing of telephones from inside the glass door seemed to surge in like a tide.

The girls in red vests wore headsets, their fingers leaving afterimages as they typed on the keyboards.

"Your refrigerator has arrived at the Haizhou sorting center... Yes, it may be delayed by 36 hours due to the typhoon."

A customer service representative with a ponytail suddenly stood up and waved. Immediately, a technician ran over. The screen in front of her was flashing "Emergency work order for fresh produce order complaint".

In the procurement and sales office area, Jiang Qing stopped in her tracks, captivated by the densely packed meeting schedule on the whiteboard.

9:00-美的冰洗秋季备货、10:30-三只松鼠年货节提案、14:00-华北农产品滞销应急会……

The ink on the sticky notes was still wet, and the central air conditioning made them rustle. Brand representatives in suits moved between the glass conference rooms with their laptops in hand, while a purchasing manager wearing glasses popped a throat lozenge into his mouth while talking on the phone.

"Mr. Wang, our kiwifruit really can't wait for a second sorting!"

Tsk... Busy enough.

When Chen Duo entered the logistics monitoring center, he was so shocked by the real-time images displayed on the walls that he gasped for breath.

Thirty split screens simultaneously played different scenes.

The automated sorting line at the Tianjin warehouse is handling massive amounts of parcels; workers at the Shengjing transfer center are passing boxes through knee-deep water; and a courier in a Guangzhou community is checking fresh produce orders with his back soaked through…

Suddenly, an alarm blared, and the map of Shandong Province flashed red. The dispatcher grabbed a walkie-talkie.

"The backup route to Weihaiwei has been activated! Let Lu K94357 go directly by ferry!"

Going to work is like fighting a battle.

As Jiang Qing passed through the staff rest area, she noticed a peculiar arrangement on the bench.

A young man in a JD Logistics uniform was fast asleep with his laptop as a pillow, while a middle-aged man in a purchasing and sales department suit sat next to him, applying mentholatum to his temples.

Among the crowd queuing in front of the vending machine, a young woman turned her employee ID card upside down to use as a fan, and the file bag in her hand was printed with "Beijing Heart-to-Heart Agricultural Assistance August Unsold List".

As they approached the elevator, Chen Duo suddenly grabbed Jiang Qing's sleeve and gestured with his head.

"President Jiang, what do you think?"

Outside the floor-to-ceiling windows, about twenty employees wearing red vests were queuing around the water bar, with steam rising from the stainless steel buckets.

"This is a heatstroke prevention and cooling station."

Lin Yue jogged over and pressed the elevator button.

“Mung bean soup is served promptly at 2 p.m. every day, and the security guard would secretly bring his thermos to fill it up.”

The elevator doors reflected Jiang Qing's slightly upturned lips.

From small things, one can see the bigger picture; Mr. Liu is indeed quite good.

He recalled how in his previous life this person suddenly launched a food delivery war, directly targeting a certain food delivery platform, and even personally delivered food to the platform, becoming one with the grassroots delivery riders, calling them "brother" repeatedly, causing the food delivery platform to retreat step by step.

As netizens jokingly put it, "Liu Qiangdong went to the grassroots level and mingled with the delivery riders, just like Wang Xing did!"

You taste, you taste carefully.

The fact that JD.com, a company with revenue exceeding one trillion yuan, has a net profit of only 40 billion yuan reveals a lot.

Some even joked about the look in Liu Qiangdong's eyes when he was drinking and talking with the delivery riders, saying, "You can't see any desire to make money in his eyes; he wants to go down in history."

After all, they even produced a proclamation denouncing the rebels.

The three of them stepped into the elevator. Chen Duo was about to make a joke about what had just happened when he was interrupted by a "ding".

As the metal doors slid open to both sides, Liu Qiangdong and seven or eight senior executives emerged from the conference room.

"President Jiang!" Liu Qiangdong waved past the finance director who was giving a report and strode over.

"Sorry, it's been a long wait."

Jiang Qing reached out and accepted the other person's warm handshake.

"I understand, I just learned something new myself."

"Who can make General Jiang humble? Come on, let's go to my office."

Liu Qiangdong smiled and put his arm around his shoulder as they turned around.

"You mentioned last time that logistics scheduling route optimization algorithm could reduce fuel consumption in our North China region by fifteen percentage points? I've been eagerly waiting for that every day!"

"Don't worry, Mr. Liu, it will be more than enough."

Jiang Qing smiled and raised her chin.

"Alright! I couldn't make it to Lou Wai Lou last time, so I absolutely have to treat President Jiang to a proper meal today. Quanjude or Li Family Cuisine?"

Liu Qiangdong patted him on the shoulder, his face beaming with smiles.

Just as Chen Duo was about to follow, Lin Tian gently tugged at his sleeve.

"Shall we go to the tea break area first?"

She magically produced a food storage container from behind her back.

"Pinggu peaches just arrived this morning."

Chen Duo was taken aback for a moment, then realized what he meant and readily agreed.

At the end of the corridor, Liu Qiangdong pushed open the door to his office.

Sunlight streamed through the floor-to-ceiling windows, illuminating the rosewood tea tray and casting a warm glow on the purple clay teapot.

Jiang Qing's gaze was drawn to the desk, where three monitors were flashing side by side, with the middle one playing a promotional video about the collaboration between Wuwen Technology and JD Logistics on a loop.

"How about it?"

Liu Qiangdong tapped the screen triumphantly.

"If we use this as an opening for next week's press conference, it's guaranteed to make the headlines in the financial section."

Jiang Qing looked at the logistics trucks shuttling back and forth in the scene and suddenly chuckled.

"Mr. Liu, do you still remember when we first met, you said that cold chain logistics was a tough nut to crack?"

"Now you can stew these bones into Buddha Jumps Over the Wall."

Liu Qiangdong took two wine glasses out of the drawer.

"Try this, it's raw liquor from Maotai Town. Oh right, you like tea."

He turned to grab the tea canister, but Jiang Qing grabbed his wrist.

"An exception is made occasionally."

Jiang Qing took the wine glass, and the transparent liquid clung to the glass in a beautiful arc.

"I admire President Liu for daring to let a mere young upstart operate the core system."

Liu Qiangdong's wine glass clinked against his, making a crisp sound.

"Who would dare treat you, President Jiang, like a greenhorn? I'm not as arrogant as Teacher Ma and the others, always trying to bring you under my wing. I only want to cooperate and achieve mutual benefit!"

After saying that, he drank the wine in the glass.

Seeing this, Jiang Qing raised an eyebrow and also drank it down, the spicy sensation exploding in her mouth.

"Tsk... Mr. Liu is so insightful."

He smacked his lips and swirled the wine glass in his hand.

"Shall I show the results to Mr. Liu first?"

"I can't ask for it!"

Jiang Qing placed his laptop on the tea table facing Liu Qiangdong, and he subconsciously leaned forward.

As you look at it, JD Logistics' network appears as countless points of light flowing across the screen.

"Mr. Liu, look here."

Jiang Qing typed on the keyboard, and the map of the Jiaodong Peninsula instantly became three-dimensional, with the temperature monitoring data of the seventeen refrigerated trucks pulsating like blood vessels.

"The system takes into account the ferry schedules at Penglai Port when loading the trucks."

With a flick of his finger, the stranded Liaoning B convoy suddenly split into three breakout routes.

Liu Qiangdong stared intently at the screen, his eyes unblinking.

A weather warning suddenly popped up on the screen: the typhoon's path overlapped with the flow of fresh food orders, and orders for swimming crabs at the Qingdao warehouse were surging at a rate of 200 orders per minute.

"The inventory preparation plan was just adjusted forty seconds ago."

Jiang Qing brought up a warehouse simulation diagram, and the packaging boxes on the virtual shelves automatically reassembled.

"By pre-positioning the inventory from Weihaiwei to the six district and county stations, we saved..."

He pressed the Enter key, and the numbers that appeared made Liu Qiangdong's brow twitch.

"Express delivery fee for 300 kilometers".

The air conditioner vents were buzzing, and Liu Qiangdong's eyes suddenly lit up.

Jiang Qing smiled as she switched pages. The Shangdu transit station, which had been overwhelmed during last year's Double Eleven shopping festival, was transformed into a 3D model, and the mountains of packages were suddenly diverted by the algorithm.

"Dynamic warehousing involves more than just sales data."

He expanded the list of unsold agricultural products in North China.

"Combining the community group buying trend with the popularity of short video e-commerce..."

The red line indicating the inventory of Korla pears on the screen began to fall.

"We can reduce the unsold rate to below 4% within three days."

Liu Qiangdong loosened his tie, feeling that even the air conditioning couldn't quench his heat.

He grabbed a stylus and started scribbling randomly on the satellite map.

"What if there's a highway collapse..."

"A 72-hour early warning mechanism."

Jiang Qing retrieved crustal monitoring data, and five alternative routes emerged from the red alert zone.

Liu Qiangdong looked at his old system, which he had invested heavily in building, now curled up in a gray corner.

He suddenly got up and opened the window, and the hustle and bustle of Zhongguancun Street, along with the heat wave, rushed in.

"Does Mr. Jiang know where the most valuable part of this algorithm lies?"

He pointed to the fuel consumption statistics flashing on the screen, his finger poking at the LCD screen and causing ripples.

"We burned through two billion dollars on fuel last year!"

Jiang Qing chuckled softly and brought up the real-time path optimization report.

"This neural network model can reduce the empty running rate to below 8%."

He swiped through the quarterly comparison chart.

"Given JD.com's current delivery capacity, the savings each year go far beyond just fuel costs..."

When the predicted figure of "47.6 billion yuan per year" appeared, Liu Qiangdong walked a few steps to the computer screen and stared intently at the eye-catching number.

"President Jiang only asked me for 300 million for this system?"

He shouted at the virtual warehouse model as if gold ingots could pop out of the data.

"Is President Jiang engaging in charity work?"

Jiang Qing closed her laptop. Downstairs, the heatstroke prevention and cooling station was playing "Good Days," and the cheerful melody could be faintly heard.

He grinned at Liu Qiangdong.

"Since Mr. Liu feels he's made a profit..."

She took out her phone, turned on the screen, and waved it at him.

"How about adding a lucky charm?"

Liu Qiangdong curiously leaned closer, and his expression turned puzzled as he looked at the smiling, innocent-looking girl on the screen.

Ok? ? ?
(End of this chapter)