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

Chapter 616 Li Guoqing: Old Liu is a clumsy, rough, and stupid guy. Anyway, I won't sell goods! We men from Yanjing have our pride!

The next day at noon, a Gulfstream 550 slowly landed at Luzhou Xinqiao Airport.

Those in the know can recognize this as the private jet of Chen Yansen, founder of Senlian Capital, at a glance.

as predicted!

A silver and blue Hongqi L5 immediately approached and stopped in front of the gangway, its Beijing license plate, "Leopard," particularly eye-catching.

"Would you like to come back to Bihu Yunxi with me, or have the driver take you home?"

Chen Yansen looked at Meng Jie and asked.

He took Mengjie to Qiongzhou first, and then to the islands of Southeast Asia, where they spent two days playing.

He was fine, but Meng Jie's legs ached, and she spent the rest of the journey lying on President Chen's back, too lazy to even walk.

Mengjie rubbed her calf, her voice tinged with lingering fear, and said, "I want to go home."

Meanwhile, he secretly complained to himself: "Everyone online says there are no fields that are ruined by plowing, only oxen that are worked to death. But my field needs to be plowed for a few days."

She looked up at the energetic Chen Yansen and couldn't help but spit out a "workhorse".

Chen Yansen didn't insist. He waved and asked the security team to assign a driver and another car to take Mengjie back to her community.

He then got into a Hongqi L5 and drove towards Baohe District.

As soon as May arrived, the weather in Luzhou became noticeably hot.

The car sped by, and the street scene outside the window flashed by. Many young and beautiful girls had changed into miniskirts, revealing their fair and shapely thighs and calves.

When the sunlight shines on it, it glistens with a fine, white sheen.

On the streets and alleys, deliverymen from Kuaipao and Yunsu can be seen braving the scorching sun to shuttle back and forth.

Old Huang's driving skills are superb; whether driving or parking, the people in the car hardly feel any bumps.

Chen Yansen leaned back in his chair, closed his eyes to rest, and pondered the phone call from yesterday.

Aliko Dangert wanted to visit Senlian Science and Technology Park to discuss business cooperation.

This man is a business tycoon in Africa, holding a large portion of Nigeria's cement industry and oil resources. He mainly deals in commodity trading, infrastructure, consumer goods, and energy.

It's like a Nigerian roly-poly toy!

The bigwigs at the top have changed many times, but he has always been the richest man in Africa, with businesses covering multiple sectors including cement, sugar, flour, salt, fertilizer, oil, natural gas, oil refining, and logistics.

His net worth exceeds 200 billion US dollars!
The other party's intention was very clear: they were simply interested in the market prospects of Deep Blue batteries.

Africa’s power system is extremely unstable, and the annual demand for energy storage batteries is at least 10 gigawatt-hours.

If DeepBlue Technology can acquire the entire company, the order amount will be at least 40 billion US dollars.

Nigeria, in particular, is the largest economy in Africa, yet 8000 million people still face a lack of electricity or an unstable power supply.

South Africa has also long been plagued by frequent power rationing measures, prompting ordinary people, industrial and commercial users to turn to "photovoltaic + energy storage" backup power solutions.

In areas where the power grid is unreliable, many households and industrial parks rely heavily on diesel generators.

However, diesel-powered electricity generation is expensive and its price fluctuates greatly.

Moreover, the cost of photovoltaic power generation combined with energy storage is much lower than that of diesel power generation.

According to Chen Yansen, Nigeria launched the Off-Grid Renewable Energy Scheme last year, planning to invest US$500 million to deploy 5 million solar home systems, and energy storage batteries are the most effective guarantee for stable power supply.

After more than a year of development, DeepBlue Battery has already made a name for itself.

Even the battery suppliers for BMW, GM, and Mercedes-Benz are gradually switching to Deep Blue batteries.

It's important to know that the batteries in ordinary A-class and B-class cars can last for five or six years, and compared to the batteries in C-class and D-class luxury cars, they have absolutely no performance advantage.

So how do you highlight the superiority of luxury cars?
As a result, car batteries specifically designed for luxury cars and using deep blue batteries were developed.

In Chen Yansen's view, since Aliko Danget personally made this trip, his intentions must be quite significant.

However, Senlian Capital's development in Africa has reached a bottleneck, and it really needs a strong partner to expand its mobile phone, e-commerce, logistics, food delivery and battery businesses to a wider area.

After all, Alikodangert's status in Nigeria, to put it bluntly, is no different from that of Lü Buwei in the Qin Dynasty back then, having influence in both the military and business worlds.

A short while later, Huang Boxiang drove into Bihu Yunxi and parked the car in front of Villa No. 6.

Chen Yansen used his divine sense to 'look' at her and saw Ye Qiuping sitting at her desk in the bedroom, organizing data for tomorrow's weekly meeting.

She was wearing a silk nightgown, with nothing underneath, so she had probably just taken a shower.

Chen Yansen gave Lao Huang some instructions, then pushed open the car door and walked into the villa.

In the entryway, there was a pair of clean, light gray slippers. He bent down to put them on and walked quietly toward the bedroom. The bedroom door was ajar, and through the crack, he could see Ye Qiuping looking down as she organized documents. Her silk pajamas shimmered softly in the warm light, appearing and disappearing subtly.

Chen Yansen walked straight in. Ye Qiuping looked up at the sound and a smile instantly appeared in her eyes: "Boss, you're back."

Master Ye had a clear understanding of his own position. Even though he knew that Chen Yansen was taking Meng Jie out to play, there was not a trace of anything unusual on his face.

She stood up, took the suit jacket Chen Yansen had taken off, patted off the dust, and hung it on the hanger next to her before asking, "I made some fish maw and goji berry soup, it's keeping it warm in the kitchen, would you like me to get you a bowl?"

"Come sit over here," Chen Yansen said, pointing to the large bed next to him without replying.

Ye Qiuping obediently sat down, her two fair and straight thighs crossed, plump and fleshy.

"Let me sleep for a while." Chen Yansen rested his head on her lap, inhaling the milky scent so close to his face, and comfortably half-closed his eyes.

"Boss, I've learned a few new words. I've bought all the clothes. Tonight..." Ye Qiuping spoke softly, her voice gentle and sweet.

After hearing this, Chen Yansen scanned the wardrobe with his divine sense and found two brand-new cosplay outfits: one was Pleasant Goat, and the other was actually Boiling Goat.

at the same time.

Douyin and Kuaishou's e-commerce businesses have reached new heights, with combined daily sales exceeding 10 billion yuan, of which Douyin accounted for 6.7 million yuan and Kuaishou for 3.3 million yuan.

Venture capital firms doubled the valuation of the two short video platforms.

Unfortunately, compared to previous revenue from fashion shows and advertising, the profitability has changed dramatically since the addition of e-commerce.

Live streaming relies on user donations, resulting in unstable revenue with a low ceiling; while advertising revenue is stable, it is limited by brand budgets and grows slowly.

E-commerce is different. Users only need one step from watching a video to placing an order, resulting in a very high conversion rate. Moreover, the more diverse the product categories, the stronger the user stickiness, and the resulting business loop has almost no weaknesses.

The combined daily transaction volume of Pinduoduo, Douyin, and Kuaishou has reached the same level as Ali.

When the news reached Ali's headquarters, Ma Liyun was immediately uneasy. Was he going to hand over the e-commerce empire he had built over more than a decade to Chen Yansen?
What makes this kid so special?!
He tapped the table with a serious expression and said, "We need to accelerate the development of Taobao Live. Once users form a fixed impression, it will be difficult for us to take the initiative in the new market."

Lu Zhaoxi nodded in agreement, saying, "Yes, many businesses are planning live-streaming events now. If we are a step behind, our traffic and users will be snatched up."

We have a pool of potential Taobao Girl livestreamers, so I suggest increasing support and integrating the product pools from Tmall and Taobao to cultivate a top livestreamer first.

Ma Liyun nodded slightly, waved her arms, and said excitedly, "Let's do it this way! Allocate a special fund of 5 million yuan to support Taobao girls in their transformation to live streaming, select 10 with good potential for key training, and allocate traffic and supply chain resources to them."

Additionally, I need the tech department to share the development timeline so I can know the exact progress of each step.

“Yes, Mr. Ma,” Zhang Yong nodded in response.

He sighed inwardly. Although his boss was urging him to hurry up, Taobao Live involved the development of basic functions such as live stream acquisition, encoding, transmission, and playback, as well as deep integration with Taobao's product, transaction, and account systems, and the implementation of functions such as payment, interaction, and bullet comments.

They also have to consider tasks such as stress testing, collecting feedback, fixing bugs, and optimizing the user experience.

In addition, the low penetration rate of 4G networks and how to overcome the challenges of low latency and high concurrency in live streaming are tough problems facing the technology department.

It's difficult to produce a decent finished product in less than three months.

But three months later, the e-commerce transaction volume of Douyin and Kuaishou will probably be heading straight for 20 billion.

At that time, the title of China's top e-commerce company will change hands.

Ma Liyun was extremely anxious and filled with regret.

He had to admit that he underestimated the business model of short videos and that pouring all his resources into "Laiwang" was perhaps the biggest mistake he made in 2013.

Laiwang tried to compete with WeChat in the social networking arena, investing billions of yuan, but ended up with a mess. If it had used that money to develop the short video market, it wouldn't be in such a passive position now.

Just as Ma Liyun was anxious to maintain his market share, a project poster spread across the entire internet.

"On May 8th, join us in JD.com's official live stream for Dong Ge's home appliance promotion event. Orange mobile phones are as low as 99 yuan, and kitchen and bathroom appliances are as low as 30% off."

A photo of Liu Qiang in a suit and leather shoes was placed in the center of the poster.

"Is Dong Ge (Liu Qiangdong) going to do live-streaming sales? Is it true?"

"An orange phone for only 99 yuan? Are you really going to go that far?"

"What are you thinking? It's limited to one piece. Unless you're a god, don't even think about getting one."

"The city is full of tricks, I want to go back to the countryside."

"Brother, the roads in the countryside are slippery, and people's hearts are even more complicated."

"A CEO with a net worth of tens of billions can't just fob us off with 9.9 yuan snacks with free shipping, right? This is something to look forward to!"

Upon hearing the news, netizens were shocked, while other industry peers looked at each other in bewilderment.

Li Guoqing of Dangdang.com looked disgusted, feeling that Liu Qiangdong had disgraced entrepreneurs. He said that a billionaire was selling goods in a live broadcast room, which was no different from a street vendor hawking his wares.
Anyway, he will absolutely not do live-streaming sales!
(End of this chapter)