Chapter 460 The Eve of Revenge
Chapter 460:
Eve of Revenge The winter vacation passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, it was almost the Spring Festival.
During this period, the group buying market also changed suddenly, and the gunpowder smell of competing for the market began to become stronger. On
January 26, the 23rd day of the year, the northern New Year, Wowotuan announced that it had successfully raised funds and obtained 150 million yuan, and began to expand to the north.
On the other hand, Dianping obtained 200 million yuan in financing from Tencent. While competing with Lashou.com for the territory of Kyoto, another group of people in the team quickly went down the market and began to plunder the market share of second- and third-tier cities.
Xihanheqing’s business ushered in another spring in the second- and third-tier markets, and continued to spread with the help of Dianping.
In fact, after New Year’s Day, under the instruction of Jiang Qin, there were not many moves in group buying, and many sub-stations were busy with the upgrade of the closed loop 3.0 of the business circle.
The total number of members in the four first-tier cities and 42 second- and third-tier cities in the country exceeded the one million mark in a blink of an eye.
After the traffic brought by group buying was converted into members of the circle, daily consumption was also locked in this circle and continuously developed.
At the same time, Mr. Xianhui also upgraded its services, providing free door-to-door delivery services to residential areas near the business district, which raised the stickiness of members to an unparalleled level.
During this stage, Xihanheqing and Pintuan were still two non-intersecting lines. Even half of the brands had never entered Pintuan.
Most of these brands were partners for three, four or five rounds, with a small number of branches and a relatively weak foundation.
Jiang Qin did not allow them to enter Pintuan, but arranged for them to enter the competitor’s website first, in order to better take advantage of the trend.
”Boss, the brands that withdrew from the strategic cooperation plan have been calling me recently, saying they want to participate in the sixth round.”
”Just say you were too busy before the New Year, and we can discuss it after the New Year.”
”Well, in addition, the funds injected by the Eight Heavenly Kings into Jinsinan have been integrated into the account of the group.”
”Okay, I’ll call later and express my most sincere thanks to my Eight Heavenly Kings.”
After talking to Wei Lanlan on the phone, Jiang Qin stretched his body, looked at the night outside the window, and raised his mouth slightly.
He has money, means, and is damn handsome. No one can stop him.
At this moment, Ms. Yuan Youqin’s voice suddenly sounded outside the door, calling him to go downstairs to buy a bottle of soy sauce. It sounded far away, probably from the kitchen, but it sounded very loud.
A big boss hiding in the dark, turning the clouds and rain with a flip of his hand, secretly leading the direction of a market worth nearly billions, but still can’t escape the fate of buying soy sauce for his mother.
Jiang Qin sighed, then took his coat and went out of the room, quickly came to Ruyi Supermarket downstairs, and bought a bottle of soy sauce.
This Ruyi Supermarket has been open for quite a while, almost when everyone moved here. The seller is an old man who likes to smoke dry tobacco. According to seniority, Jiang Qin has to call him Third Uncle.
Third Uncle puffed on his cigarette, making the small supermarket look like a fairyland.
”Third Uncle, how much is the soy sauce?”
”Forget it, don’t give me any. It’s from my neighbors, only 14.5 yuan, not worth much.”
Jiang Qin’s mouth twitched, thinking that it had to be my Third Uncle. Although he said not to give me any, he still said the exact price.
He took out his wallet, took out a ten-yuan note and a five-yuan note and handed them over: “Uncle, this is a small business. You have to smoke and drink regularly. How can I not give you money? The closer you are to the neighborhood, the more you should support your business.”
Uncle took the money happily: “You are so nice to hear.”
”I am also good-looking.”
Uncle didn’t respond, but reached out and took a lychee-flavored lollipop from the shelf and handed it over: “Don’t change the fifty cents. This is for you. Your wife likes to eat this the most. She comes down to buy it every day.”
”?”
Jiang Qin was stunned for a moment, thinking that it was no wonder that my trash can was full of candy wrappers. When he ate her little mouth, he thought it was so sweet. This silly little rich woman looked well-behaved, but she was full of evil thoughts.
But she was really familiar with this community. Some time ago, the two of them went for a walk and met Aunt Caifeng who lived in Building 5. She even invited Feng Nanshu to her house to eat sugar triangles.
There is also Grandma Wu who lives in the building opposite. Her little granddaughter should be in the first grade. When she saw the little rich woman, she called Nan Shu sister and asked who the uncle next to her was…
Jiang Qin put the lollipop in his pocket: “Third uncle, who told you that she is my wife’s?”
”She…she didn’t let me say it. You’d better not ask. Third uncle is not the one who spreads gossips.”
Jiang Qin chuckled and returned home wrapped in a down jacket. He handed the soy sauce to his mother who was cooking, and found that the little rich woman was with her, helping her. Jiang Qin
took out the lollipop from his arms and handed it over. When his mother was not paying attention, he pinched her little mouth into an O shape, and then turned and left.
The little rich woman looked at him stupidly. For some reason, she felt that her brother was a little happy tonight.
”Jiang Qin, don’t go yet. I forgot one thing. We are out of salt. Please make another trip.”
”Mom, I’m busy with work. Please let the rich girl go.”
”Where can she go? It’s so dark outside, and Nan Shu doesn’t know anyone there.”
Jiang Qin chuckled, thinking that she doesn’t know anyone there either. She knows more people than I do, and now the whole neighborhood probably knows that she is my wife!
Rumors are more ferocious than tigers. If this continues, how can our friendship remain pure?
Jiang Qin put on his coat and ran downstairs to buy a bag of salt for three dollars and fifty cents. The third uncle was like an NPC in a game. He gave him a lollipop and said don’t look for it anymore, your wife loves it.
”The third uncle really has found my weak spot…”
Jiang Qin ran back upstairs and just put the salt down when the phone in his pocket vibrated.
He took it out and saw that the caller ID was Tan Qing. There were three missed calls before this one, all from her. It was probably because her down jacket was too thick and she didn’t hear it because she was holding it in her pocket.
Jiang Qin put the phone to his ear, picked up a peanut and fed it to the rich woman, then turned and left the kitchen.
”Boss, Lashou.com has issued an announcement, saying that it has reached a deep cooperation agreement with Alibaba and raised 300 million yuan.”
”Deep cooperation agreement? How deep?”
”I don’t know, but we may be the only soft persimmon in the Shanghai market.”
”Has Lashou.com made any moves?”
”Today they acquired five third-tier group buying websites, including the team. The current number of employees has exceeded 5,000.”
”With money and people, it seems that Lashou is going to do something big this time. There can’t be any problems in the Shanghai market. Let’s also release our financing news.” “Okay,
boss!”
After hanging up the phone, Jiang Qin couldn’t help but pursed his lips, thinking that Lashou.com has been holding back for the past two months. Now that it has received the largest financing, it is probably going crazy.
And the fact is just as he said. On the night when the funds of Lashou.com were in place, the Kyoto headquarters held a city manager conference without stopping. The heads of all over the world rushed to the meeting overnight and led the team to attend the meeting.
It’s the end of the year and they can’t wait any longer. They decided to take revenge and complain!
At the meeting, the boss of Lashou.com specifically mentioned three names for Wu Bo.
Dianping, the biggest rival of Lashou.com, not only wants to get involved in Kyoto but also wants to get involved in the Shenzhen market. Lashou’s plan in the later stage is to snipe it comprehensively.
Another one is Nuomi. Nuomi.com has been the enemy of Lashou.com since its establishment.
It may not be the biggest rival, but it is definitely the most stable rival, because from the first round to the third round, although the performance of this website is not impressive, it has never lost every time. Such opponents are the most terrible. The
last one is group buying.
This is what Wu Bo mentioned casually when he mentioned the failure of Nuomi.com and the Shanghai market some time ago.
Nuomi raised 150 million yuan, Dianping raised 300 million yuan, and what about group buying? For a website that grew up by taking shortcuts, his tactics are indeed scary, but in the battle of group buying, only money can’t break it, so Pintuan is not to be feared.
Wu Bo named Yang Xueyu, and immediately cleared the Shanghai market, forced Nuomi away, and took care of all the websites that fished in troubled waters like Pintuan.
He even mispronounced the name of Pintuan three times, pronouncing “tuan” as “tu”, and his contempt was not concealed.
But everyone knows that there is nothing wrong with the boss’s arrogance. Small websites like Pintuan will definitely not get funds in the third round, because these are all peak battles, and no one will be willing to bet on websites in the second echelon.
Investment is a question of trust or not.
Just like a marathon, no one will trust a cripple to be the champion.
Even if he uses all his tricks, it will only be useful during the idle period when everyone has no funds. Now? Sorry, that trick is useless.
The night after the city manager conference, Yang Xueyu stared at the ceiling and couldn’t fall asleep for a long time, and Robin was the same.
During the two-month idle period, all capital was observing and all websites were negotiating. They were really bullied too many times.
The entry of group buying oppressed them, the New Year’s Day promotion of group buying oppressed them, and after Nuomi got the funds, it took them as soft persimmons and oppressed them.
Now, they have money, and the excitement on the eve of revenge makes them unable to sleep at all.
So, the two of them made an appointment and went out for a drink.
”When I was working in the Shanghai market, I had no money, and every step was difficult, but this time you have finally seen the light. If you defeat Nuomi, you will be promoted and rich soon.”
Robin opened a bottle of wine and handed it to Yang Xueyu.
Yang Xueyu took the bottle and poured a glass: “I plan to pull out the nail of group buying first.”
”Why?”
”The boss thinks that group buying without money is nothing, but… it has always been a shadow in my heart, and I must ensure that it will not have any possibility again.”
Robin thought for a while and said: “If you can defeat group buying within half a month and take over his deeply cooperating merchants, maybe you can deal a fatal blow to Nuomi at the lowest cost.”
Yang Xueyu nodded: “The funds this time are sufficient, half a month is enough.”
”Jiang Qin… is a genius. If he is in charge of the Shanghai market, Nuomi will not have any foothold at all now. Therefore, if you can absorb him in, don’t let him go. Nuomi must be keeping an eye on him and will probably offer him a sky-high price.”
”I understand. Once the fire of group buying is extinguished, I will propose an acquisition proposal. Jiang Qin must not fall into the hands of other websites. His threat is too great.”
Robin nodded, and suddenly asked a question: “How much do you think Jiang Qin is worth?”
Yang Xueyu held the wine glass and pondered for a long time: “I think he is worth 300 million.”
(End of this chapter)
