I'm in the county town, and you say I'm a big shot?

Chapter 642 641 We can't just keep focusing on the flow of a few bundles of cabbage and a few kilograms of fruit at the vegetable market and make those petty profits, can we?

Ma Yun shook her head.

At this moment, Shen Nanpeng interjected: "I think I've heard something about it. It seems to be related to finance, a platform based on blockchain technology, which has recently become popular in the United States."

“Mr. Shen is right.” Fang Qingye then gave Ma Yun a brief introduction to the R3 CEV and his Notary platform.

"The underlying logic of the SCP payment system developed by Zhiyun Technology is very similar to that of Notary, although the latter is more widely used and has greater ambitions. What I'm thinking is, since foreign countries can do this, we can too. We can't just keep focusing on the traffic of a few bundles of cabbages and a few kilograms of fruit in the market and making those petty profits, can we?"

Fang Qingye concluded.

Ma Yun drank her tea in silence.

Shen Nanpeng didn't interrupt, looking at Fang Qingye thoughtfully.

This guy is being a bit too direct, isn't he?
Fang Qingye didn't care and leisurely drank her tea.

After a moment, Ma Yun suddenly put down her teacup, smiled broadly, and said, "You're right. Technology is the ultimate weapon to influence the world. Alibaba has also been preparing to develop some cutting-edge technologies in the past two years. As for the distributed ledger system you've developed, when we establish an alliance in the future, my MYbank will be the first to join!"

"Thank you."

"Mr. Ma, your MYbank is probably not the first; Mr. Fang's own Jinghai Bank is the first," said Shen Nanpeng, half-jokingly and half-seriously.

"Hehe. That's true."

Shen Nanpeng is right. Jinghai Bank has long formed a strategic alliance with Zhiyun Technology, and they have cooperated deeply on the bank's SCP payment system, Jinghai Bank's online banking, and the platform of Baofutong payment license. However, the latter two businesses have been transferred to the newly established Hengrong Digital Technology Company.

After drinking tea for a while, Ma Yun had some official business to attend to, so Fang Qingye and Shen Nanpeng took a stroll in the courtyard of Taiji Zen Garden.

The light rain had stopped by then. Strolling along the blue brick path, looking at the sky washed clean by the rain, Shen Nanpeng asked, "Mr. Fang, were there any hidden meanings in what you just said?"

"What?"

"We can't just keep focusing on the traffic of a few bundles of cabbage and a few kilograms of fruit in the vegetable market and make those petty profits. In the past two years, Alibaba and Tencent have been competing fiercely, but most of their businesses are actually centered around people's livelihood, which is what you mean by petty profits."

"President Shen, please don't overinterpret this. I'm talking about myself." Fang Qingye smiled slightly. "For example, Ele.me. Of course, if you insist on implying Alibaba and Tencent, that's fine too."

“Hehe. You.” Shen Nanpeng shook his head and suddenly sighed, “Alibaba and Tencent, the two Mas have absolute authority in their respective companies, but after all, the shares of the two companies are very dispersed, with various investment institutions, both domestic and foreign. When the company chooses a strategic direction, he has to consider the thoughts of these investors.”

“I understand. That’s why some of my core companies, like Tomorrow Cube and Zhiyun Technology, will never raise funds. I’ll just use my own money to experiment, however I want. If I can make a name for myself, that’s great; if not, it doesn’t matter,” Fang Qingye said.

"I've heard that there's a research team in your Tomorrow Cube that's researching technologies related to artificial intelligence?" Shen Nanpeng asked.

Although Tomorrow Cube's Model 2 is a classified part of the company, it's not military research after all, and secrets don't stay hidden forever. It's not surprising that a keen investor like Shen Nanpeng found out about it.

Fang Qingye neither confirmed nor denied it, but simply emphasized: "Anyway, I'm not raising funds."

"Hehe, your Tomorrow Cube does quantitative trading, and your Hong Kong branch does securities investment, making several billion a year, of course you don't need financing." Fang Qingye smiled without saying a word.

“Mr. Ma will probably be busy for a while, let’s go for a walk in the park.” The two walked towards the door.

While Fang Qingye was having tea and chatting happily with Ma Yun and Shen Nanpeng in Hangzhou, in the CEO's office of Hengrong Digital Technology Company on the 29th floor of the Shanghai Financial Building, two senior executives of the company looked worried.

"President Lu, to put it bluntly, although Hengrong Digital Technology is a newly established company, it is actually an abandoned child of Tuofang Technology!"

The speaker is Yuan Chi, the current COO of Hengrong Digital Technology. He was originally the head of the comprehensive operations department of Zhiyun Technology. After the two companies separated, he was assigned to Hengrong Digital Technology. Although his position and salary improved, he was not happy.

Is it enjoyable?
Now, the top executives of Zhiyun Technology have huge amounts of cash in hand, and they are full of ambition, frantically poaching talents from various companies.

It's said that someone even tried to poach an algorithm engineer from Tomorrow Cube, only to be scolded on the spot by Tomorrow Cube's hot-tempered CTO, Wei Xinghua.

People won't come to Hengrong Digital Technology; these are all the leftovers from Zhiyun Technology!

Originally, Zhiyun Technology had more than 110 people, of whom more than 70 remained. Only 40 people were assigned to Hengrong Digital Technology, and these were mostly employees who had not participated in the original SCP payment system development and were now engaged in the development and maintenance of other bank software.

Of course, it wasn't that few; some key personnel were left at Zhiyun Technology by Xin Tiejun and his team! When the division was discussed, the big boss said that Zhiyun Technology would be given priority in personnel allocation.

After listening to Yuan Chi's complaints, Lu Hui did not agree with him, but said, "Didn't the boss also say that Hengrong Digital Technology can recruit as needed? For now, you are in charge of human resources, so you need to get on the good side of this!"

Currently, Hengrong Digital Technology only has two senior management personnel: Lu Hui is the CEO and also serves as the CTO, and the other is COO Yuan Chi. As for the CFO in charge of finance, according to convention, Tuofang Technology will send someone to take on this role.

“The problem is that our business volume is limited, so we can’t hire many people,” Yuan Chi complained. “And unlike Zhiyun Technology, we need to focus on undergraduates and supplement with master’s students to reduce human capital.”

Lu Hui bit her lip and remained silent.

In fact, she understood very well that although Hengrong Digital Technology had developed a lot of banking software, it mainly focused on maintenance and promotion, and lacked core R&D projects like Zhiyun Technology!

Tomorrow Cube's quantitative trading, the secret department developing AI large-scale models, and Zhiyun Technology's distributed ledger system are all key breakthrough projects for Tomorrow Cube Technology and the darlings of the big boss, so of course they will spare no effort in investing in them.

Hengrong Digital Technology also needs to have its own core technology projects!

Lu Hui thought to herself.

But she also knew that she had to do her job well first and do a good job with the part of the business assigned to Hengrong Digital Technology, otherwise her existence as CEO would be meaningless.

She didn't want to tell Yuan Chi these things for the time being.

"Alright, stop complaining and get to work. I have to work overtime tonight; the software system at Baopay needs to be upgraded."

Lu Hui said.

(End of this chapter)