I can become stronger by paying salaries. I have one billion employees!

Chapter 350 You can call me Brother Sen, I don't mind? Handsome Dong comes to beg for peace!
In the virtual city, in front of office building number nine at Zhuxianzhuang Science and Technology Park.

A completely black Maybach slowly came to a stop. With a 'click', the hinges made a slight sound, and the door opened, revealing a man in his thirties.

A white shirt, a dark red tie, a royal blue suit, gleaming leather shoes, and a tuft of white hair on his forehead.

He was followed by an assistant and a bodyguard.

The remaining two vehicles contained staff members accompanying Jing Dong, who were in charge of business negotiations.

Upon seeing this, the Pinbei employee leaning against the window couldn't help but peek outside.

Although Pinduoduo has surpassed JD.com in terms of daily active users and daily sales, Liu Qiangdong is a well-established figure in the e-commerce industry. When he visited the company, many people were curious and looked at JD.com's founder from afar.

Chen Yansen stood still and did not move.

This was the first time he had met with Liu Qiangdong alone since the falling out between Pinduoduo and JD.com during the 418 Home Appliance Festival.

Compared to last time, this time, after securing $11 billion in funding from OTPP and Saudi Kingdom Capital, the handsome young man's smile was noticeably brighter.

With money in my pocket, I have nothing to worry about!
Even for Liu Qiangdong, whose net worth is in the billions, it's the same!
Liu Qiangdong smiled warmly, but when he noticed that Chen Yansen didn't move an inch, he couldn't help but curse inwardly: This kid really holds a grudge.

Chen Yansen, known for his vengeful nature, has a name that's always wrong, but a nickname that's never wrong.

"President Chen, it seems that Xucheng is truly a land of outstanding people and resources, capable of nurturing two internet technology companies with assets exceeding 100 billion yuan, Orange Technology and Pinbei Mall."

Liu Qiangdong stepped forward and greeted him with a smile.

"It was just a bit of luck; they caught the wave of the development of smartphones and e-commerce."

Chen Yansen said modestly.

"I also wish I had the same good luck as Mr. Chen. Ten years of hard work can't compare to your one year of success."

Liu Qiangdong was subtly flattering him.

He hadn't forgotten the purpose of his trip: first, to restore the cooperative relationship with Senlian Capital and allow Orange Technology to re-enter JD.com; second, to form an offensive and defensive alliance with Pinduoduo to jointly compete for the e-commerce market share held by Ali; and third, to sign annual advertising contracts with Toutiao, Lingxi Browser, and Orange App Store.

Even Ali the Fox has to pay for traffic, and JD.com is no exception.

Currently, Toutiao has accumulated over 1.2 million registered users and 4000 million daily active users; Lingxi Browser has accumulated 6400 million downloads and 2900 million daily active users; and Orange App Store covers a user base of over 4000 million.

Therefore, Senlian Capital has become a significant traffic owner in the internet industry.

This is another reason why handsome Dong was willing to bow down to Chen Yansen!
"Mr. Liu, would you like to have some tea in the office first, or visit the Pinbei building first?"

Chen Yansen smiled but didn't respond. Instead, he changed the subject and asked a question.

"Go ahead and fight! I want to see who President Chen relied on to defeat Dong," Liu Qiangdong joked, half-jokingly.

"this way please."

Chen Yansen led Liu Qiangdong straight into Building No. 6, where Pinbei was located.

As soon as you enter, you can see the customer service center and administration department on the first floor.

On the white wall to the left, there is a huge LED screen that displays Pinduoduo's sales data in real time.

"At 9:47, the sales volume for the day reached 290 million yuan."

Liu Qiangdong raised his head and took a deep look. Based on his experience, he judged that Pinduoduo's daily transaction volume would not be less than 10 billion.

In other words, Pinduoduo's daily sales are twice that of JD.com.

After the Double Eleven promotion ended, JD.com's daily sales increased from 4 million to 5 million, but Pinduoduo's sales seemed to have increased even more.

"The customer service center is up ahead, mostly serving users, with fewer serving merchants. About 20% of the staff are part-time college students from the School of Virtual Education, which is a way of giving back to their alma mater. Of course, it can't compare to Mr. Liu's customer service center."

Chen Yansen introduced it slowly and deliberately.

"What about the second floor?" Liu Qiangdong asked casually.

"Merchant Operations Department and Major Account Recruitment Department".

Chen Yansen didn't hide anything and told the truth.

Liu Qiangdong followed Chen Yansen up the stairs from the first floor to the eleventh floor office, where Huang Zheng had just finished his morning meeting and came over.

After entering the office, Huang Zheng busied himself boiling water and making tea.

Liu Qiangdong sat in front of the coffee table, recalling Pinbei's organizational structure and number of employees.

A rough calculation shows that there are only about 3000 people.

JD.com has 2.6 employees, including 2 deliverymen.

Thinking of this, Liu Qiangdong's face darkened. With over 6000 people and ten years of purchasing and sales experience, Dongguan was actually no match for these 3000 people.

Our efficiency is less than a quarter of the other party's!

In fact, if Chen Yansen hadn't wanted to acquire more humanitarian resources, given Pinbei's personnel structure, execution capabilities, and work efficiency, only 2000 people would have been needed to perfectly control Pinbei's daily operations.

"President Liu, please!"

Chen Yansen handed a cup of hot tea to Liu Qiangdong.

“Mr. Chen, you used to call me Brother Dong. I think it’s better to change that way of addressing me when we’re talking behind closed doors, so it will be easier to communicate.”

Liu Qiangdong asked tentatively.

“But my other friends all call me Brother Sen,” Chen Yansen said, taking a small sip of his tea and squinting his eyes.

“Okay, I’ll call you Brother Sen, and you can call me Brother Dong. Neither of us will lose out.”

Liu Qiangdong was slightly taken aback, then chuckled dryly.

"How much did JD.com sell during this Double Eleven promotion?" Chen Yansen asked casually. "30.7 billion," Liu Qiangdong replied with a slight smile.

After saying that, he lowered his head and drank his tea guiltily.

Chen Yansen immediately understood. Although Liangzai Dong's expression seemed fine, his subtle movements were too numerous, clearly indicating that he was lying.

This number is inflated, and it might be quite large!

However, he can also understand that JD.com is facing enormous financing pressure. Last year it was competing with Dangdang, this year it is competing with Suning and Gome, and it also has to compete with Ali. In addition, with its asset-heavy operating model, just one super-large intelligent warehousing center can cost seven or eight hundred million yuan.

To put it bluntly, it burns even more money than Kuaidi and Didi Chuxing!
Dong could only embellish his battle reports to mislead overseas investors.

The method was crude, but the effect was remarkable.

The OTPP invested $4 million, and then Middle Eastern investors rushed to invest their money.

We can't refuse to accept it!
"Taobao Takeout is now online and is currently undergoing gray-scale testing," Liu Qiangdong said abruptly, putting down his teacup.

"Does Dong want to do food delivery?" Chen Yansen asked Liu Qiangdong, emphasizing each word.

"I have no interest in the food delivery industry. JD.com's vision is to become the Amazon of China," Liu Qiangdong confidently assured.

More than a decade later, Amazon also invested in Grubhub and added its food delivery service to the benefits of its Prime members.

Chen Yansen asked this question simply to see how handsome Dong would break his promise: "How about we make a bet? If Dong ever enters the food delivery industry, I won't object, but Dong will have to shave his head."

Upon hearing this, Liu Qiangdong's expression turned strange. He suddenly remembered Ma Liyun's bald head photo and asked, "Could it be that Old Ma shaved his head because he really lost a bet with you?"

"That's not it," Chen Yansen denied outright.

"Okay, I'll take the bet, but this bet has to have a time limit, right? If it's fifty years, I don't think I'll live to be ninety."

Liu Qiangdong readily agreed.

"Fifteen years, I guess," Chen Yansen replied without hesitation.

"Then I'll wait for Brother Sen to shave his head, haha." Liu Qiangdong laughed loudly.

Immediately afterwards, Liu Qiangdong asked, "Aren't you worried at all about Ali entering the food delivery industry?"

Chen Yansen sneered inwardly. Liu Qiangdong was afraid that he would get too close to Ma Liyun. He had reminded him twice in just five minutes.

"Kuaipao is not afraid of competition. Whether it's Meituan, Baidu, or Ali, there is no shortage of competitors on this road. Taobao doesn't even have its own traffic entry point, so what can it use to compete with Kuaipao?"

Chen Yansen picked up the teapot, refilled Liu Qiangdong's cup with tea, and then said in a nonchalant tone,

Liu Qiangdong's expression froze, feeling that these words were somewhat hurtful, because Liu Qiangdong also lacked a traffic entry point.

Penguins are willing to give it, but the price is too high.

Ma Wenteng went even further than those portals and video websites that sell traffic, insisting on shoving QQ Group Buying, Paipai.com, and Yixun.com into his hands.

It's worth a whopping 15 billion US dollars!
What does Dong want with all this garbage?
Unless absolutely necessary, Liangzai Dong would not accept Ma Wenteng's equity swap proposal.

Liu Qiangdong looked at Chen Yansen with a hint of envy in his eyes. He had heard that WeChat and QQ's primary traffic entry points had always been provided free of charge to Pinduoduo, Kuaidi Dache, and Kuaipao.

Furthermore, even the contract was signed after Ma Wenteng chased after Chen Yansen.

The worst thing is comparison!
Ma Wenteng's attitude towards him and Chen Yansen was completely different!
"That's not necessarily true. In any case, Taobao's 600 million users can't be faked. Ma Liyun is too domineering. He's giving up a perfectly good e-commerce business and insists on competing with Kuaipao for business."

Liu Qiangdong curled his lip and continued to fan the flames.

"How about we talk about business first?" Chen Yansen suggested.

He knew Ma Liyun's underlying logic for doing food delivery. In terms of threat, Taobao Food Delivery was no match for Qiandu or Meituan. The former only wanted to use the high-frequency consumption characteristics of food delivery to increase user stickiness and improve retention rate for Taobao; the latter came with the intention of killing Kuaishou.

To put it bluntly, Taobao Takeaway made a lot of noise but delivered little.

Once Ma Liyun discovers that the input and output in the food delivery industry are disproportionate, and may even affect the e-commerce business, the other party will reduce Taobao Waimai's internal resources without Chen Yansen having to intervene.

Moreover, based on his understanding of Ali, Taobao Takeout was definitely something Ma Liyun insisted on despite all opposition. The people in charge of Yaomao Mall and Taobao might hate Taobao Takeout even more than Kuaipao.

Taobao Takeaway obtained the core entry point on the homepage without achieving anything within the group.

It's important to understand that internet companies like Ali and Tencent have a strong factional culture and intense internal competition.

Otherwise, Ma Wenteng wouldn't have set up a separate business unit when he was promoting the WeChat project.

In fact, the WeChat project team and Tencent's headquarters are not even in the same city.

"I would like to invite Orange Technology to join JD.com," Liu Qiangdong nodded and said seriously.

He didn't say the word 'again,' clearly indicating he didn't want to bring up the past.

Orange Technology's digital products currently cover mobile phones, tablets, computers, power banks, smart speakers, mobile phone accessories, etc., with monthly online sales exceeding 100 billion yuan.

Pinduoduo comes with its own traffic!

Without Orange Technology's products, JD.com would naturally lose some traffic.

Chen Yansen raised his eyelids slightly and looked at Liu Qiangdong with a half-smile.

He was the one who wanted to collaborate last year, and he was also the one who wanted to terminate the collaboration.

What does he take Orange Technology for?

Come when you call and go when you wave?

"What benefit would that bring to Orange Technology?" Chen Yansen asked in a deep voice, his smile fading.

(End of this chapter)