Chapter 778: Action (Two in One)

On the afternoon of the second day of August, the flight from New York landed at Shanghai International Airport.

After a long flight, Fang Zhuo, who had a nap before landing, was in good spirits and in a good mood, although the jet lag effect today might be a little worse.

He got into the car that Yi Ke came to pick him up at the airport, opened the domestic newspaper he had bought in advance, and started reading while whistling.

He was stunned at the first glance, and felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity. It was talking about domestic housing prices.

Well, the world is experiencing the same cold and heat.

Fang Zhuo only glanced at the title, without reading the content on the front page. He turned to the second page and saw some reports on the world situation. He thought about it for a while, and soon saw a more familiar name in the next page.

——Ma Dian's B2B Alibaba is likely to seek listing next year.

——Penguin's QQ Alumni and Xiaonei.com are competing fiercely.

——Domestic e-commerce is developing rapidly. B2C companies such as Yiguo, Amazon, and Dangdang are all deploying logistics and warehousing. Penguin is making efforts in the C2C track, forming a front-to-back siege with Taobao against eBay.

——The electrical appliance chain market is developing rapidly. The leader Suning plans to acquire Yongle Electric Appliances to continue to consolidate its market position.

Fang Zhuo felt familiar just by seeing these words. This is the atmosphere of old friends.

But when he saw the last report about sports, saw the Stankovic Intercontinental Basketball Champions Cup and Yao Ming's name, he still frowned, and then called the general manager of the team and asked to negotiate at the team level. This kind of small game is enough to train other young players in the country. Why add burden to Yao Ming?

The car stopped and started, and arrived at Hang Lung 23 at four o'clock in the afternoon.

When the boss returned, the new employees responded with curious eyes, and the old employees congratulated the Rockets on defending the title this year.

Fang Zhuo greeted with a smile along the way, and even shook hands with a deputy director who was a die-hard fan of the team to celebrate.

When he sat in the president's office, he hesitated for two seconds and decided to make a pot of good tea. Then he started to deal with the serious matter that he should do after returning - congratulating Qiu Lanhua of the new district for her promotion, and by the way, asking whether there are suitable policies in Shencheng to settle down the image sensor production lines of Bingxin and Sony.

Qiudi Qiu Lanhua, the old leader, has a tortuous experience, but no matter what, he has been ranked in the city this time. According to convention, if he can leave Shencheng smoothly next, he may work in other provinces.

If he can reach this level, Fang Zhuo can no longer call him a "small official".

Qiudi received a congratulatory call from Mr. Fang, but he behaved very calmly.

This time, not only did he get promoted, but Zheng Danrui, who was on good terms with him, also added responsibilities. This will undoubtedly be of great benefit to the subsequent work. However, Mr. Fang is a more slippery guy. He nodded to himself vaguely last time, and then he went abroad directly during this period...

Qiudi seriously suspected that Mr. Fang's going abroad had a deeper meaning.

But even if they have known each other for a long time, he would not ask this question. He just expressed his warm welcome to Bingxin's production line and agreed to set up a team in two days to have a preliminary chat.

At the end, Qiu Di couldn't help asking a question: "Why did Mr. Fang want to leave the good things for us this time? According to your nature, shouldn't you go to Luzhou first?"

"Tsk, it's different after the promotion. You actually use such words to attract investment." Fang Zhuo first teased, then seriously, "I have already looked for it. Luzhou is also very happy, but it is true that the finance has no money. The Bingxin project has made them try their best to get the budget, and then BOE came. Oh, yes, BOE's money also came from my transfer."

He continued: "I thought about it, and I still think I should support the work of the old leader. Of course, it depends on the sincerity of the old leader."

The sensor production line in cooperation with Sony is not very sensitive to the advanced level of process technology. Moreover, because it is a joint venture, it is more convenient to place a large number of Japanese engineers in Shanghai.

Considering various factors, Fang Zhuo is inclined to Shanghai. If Shanghai is not so popular, then he will look for Lin'an. Anyway, it's just a comparison of several hometowns.

Qiu Di was not depressed by Mr. Fang's straightforwardness. He pondered for a moment: "Luzhou is so willing to spend money and give policies. I didn't expect it. It has indeed improved. Speaking of it, when I talked about the cooperation with Bingxin, I should have gone to the leaders a few more times to squeeze in policy benefits."

Fang Zhuo smiled and said, "You are a weak person, and you couldn't squeeze in at that time."

Qiu Di: "..."

He suddenly said, "Oh! You see that I can squeeze in now, right!"

Fang Zhuo gave a friend-like laugh. Bingxin's project cooperation is indeed discussed with leaders of higher levels than Lao Qiu every time he goes to a place.

"Mr. Fang, since there is such a production line, you don't have to go out to flirt with others. You must wait until we talk it out in Shanghai. Whether it's me or Leader Zheng, we will work hard." Qiu Di gave an attitude.

Fang Zhuo expressed his loyalty for the next period of time.

After a pleasant phone call, a report on Yike's recent domestic situation was also presented on the table.

The music player market has been completely corrupted. This is not an environmental problem that can be solved by a single company. Currently, Yike only has two most influential companies in China, not to mention the independently operated subsidiary Yiguo. One is the Warcraft game forum in cooperation with Sina, and the other is Yike Investment.

Compared with Yiguo's booming e-commerce, Yike is indeed a bit miserable in China.

During this period, whenever the media mentioned the richest man in the mainland, the label of Yike was gradually fading, and the labels of "e-commerce" and "Yiguo" became more and more prominent. Everyone generally believed that Yike's heavy investment in promoting the development of Yiguo was indeed a good move.

As for the mobile phone project announced by Yike... compared with the popular Nokia, Sony Ericsson and many copycat phones in the domestic market, there was really not much discussion and expectation.

Fang Zhuo could roughly feel this situation from the reports and news, but he didn't take it as an offense. Yike, Yiguo, Bingxin, Yike, all are fine, they are all companies that are worthy of their pride, oh yes, and Sina, they are all proud, what is there to distinguish.

Until the end of get off work, the president's office was quite quiet.

Fang Zhuo took a quick look at the various reports, and also saw the more detailed data competition from the campus network and QQ alumni.

Since the campus network has the support of the giants, it has entered the fast lane of development after a little running-in. It didn't take too much time to go from 800,000 users to 2 million and 5 million users. College students have a kind of group-style spontaneous publicity.

However, QQ Alumni, which relies on Penguin, has not fallen behind too much. Although it uses the convenient login of QQ number, it does not rashly import too much traffic. Instead, it follows the actions of Xiaonei.com and Facebook in a meticulous manner and develops the college student group in the same in-depth manner.

When Xiaonei.com announced that its user base exceeded 5 million, QQ Alumni also steadily announced that its own user base exceeded 3 million.

Although the number of users of QQ Alumni seems to be quite different from that of Xiaonei.com, it is very confident and stable, giving people the feeling that it is particularly at ease.

In addition to making Wang Xing, Wang Gaofei and other senior executives of Xiaonei.com feel quite pressured, other similar competing companies... died.

5Q.com, which cooperated with Penguin, was quietly acquired by the former. Fudan's "Baoyu", Renmin University's "eDorm", Sun Yat-sen University's "Yiyou", Beihang's "looface", Stanford returnee doctor's startup "Class Break Exercise"... and other various campus SNS social networking sites all failed and disappeared within two months.

First, it is capital. For example, the cost of acquiring users for Xiaonei.com is 1 yuan per user. The website has not tried to make commercial profits. The more users it has, the greater the loss. The grassroots team cannot afford this capital cost at all.

Second, it is confidence. When Yike and Sina strongly supported Xiaonei.com and Penguin built QQ Alumni, as the reputation and user base of these two brands continued to grow, the morale of several companies collapsed first, and they all felt that they could not compete with the giants at all.

Under such circumstances, Xiaonei.com and QQ Alumni were the only two companies left in the campus SNS track.

Unlike the brief reports on the media pages, Fang Zhuo's report was much more detailed, which made him more interested.

After get off work, he and Su Wei, who had a short separation, discussed this matter with great interest.

"I read in Wang Xing's report that they have been observing the movements of Penguin and found that the development of QQ Alumni has also been hesitant and vacillating."

"On June 15, QQ Alumni quietly relaxed the login conditions for QQ numbers and no longer required additional authentication, but the next day, this action was closed again."

"QQ Alumni is trying to be patient and use the real-name system along the development path of Facebook and Xiaonei.com. They even resisted not using the huge traffic pool around them. This is quite surprising to me."

Fang Zhuo mainly thinks this is interesting.

Su Wei said lazily: "Maybe I'm afraid of learning something wrong, but I think if QQ Alumni still can't catch up with Xiaonei.com in the future, it will definitely import huge traffic. After all, facts have proved that its efforts cannot offset the first-mover advantage of Xiaonei.com."

Fang Zhuo smiled slightly, thinking about singing the high-profile of acquaintance social networking at the right time.

After returning to China, Wang Yan and others from Sina have been quietly preparing for Weibo. One is to try to connect with blog resources as much as possible, and the other is to attract celebrity resources from multiple parties, including but not limited to Yike Music and Sohu Entertainment.

Weibo focuses on stranger social networking, which is different from QQ alumni and campus network.

Fang Zhuo is very curious about how Penguin will react after seeing Weibo. Will it continue to develop QQ alumni or follow and make micro-innovations?

Such a choice moment often shows the fun of the business logic behind it.

If you can add backstabbing, it will be more interesting.

Fang Zhuo pondered for a while, and felt that a short separation is better than a new marriage, and Xiao Su is more charming.

No words all night.

Fang Zhuo was not very busy the second day after returning to China. The jet lag yesterday was not well adjusted. Today, he just exchanged Liang Mengsong's technical route with Mr. Qiu of Bingxin at a leisurely pace, and discussed the negotiation with the leaders of Shanghai tomorrow.

Both of them felt that Shanghai had the precedent of SMIC, and Bingxin was not a novice in cooperating with the government, so everyone should try to discuss this matter as efficiently as possible.

When it was time to get off work that day, Fang Zhuo had a long phone call with his parents who had returned to his hometown, and in the evening he went to see Zhou Xin, Yu Lanyu, and Zhou Keke, a family of three.

Except for the fact that Xiao Keke wet Fang Zhuo's pants and caught him off guard, this dinner was very pleasant.

On the second night after returning to China, Xiao Su was very touching after a short separation from work.

Another night of silence.

On the third day after returning to China, the cooperation negotiations with the leaders of Shanghai went very smoothly.

Fang Zhuo talked about the significance of this production line in cooperation with Sony. On the one hand, it can bring the possibility of technology introduction, and on the other hand, it really has a pioneering role in the domestic CMOS field.

Before he went to Tokyo for inspection, it was very difficult to find two experts in this field in China. To be honest, there were too many technical fields that needed to be caught up. The more contact he got, the more he felt that there was a long way to go. But every time he made a breakthrough, it made people feel more confident. happy.

In this negotiation, my brother Zheng Danrui was present, and my old leader Qiu Di was present, but the tone of communication with each other was relatively formal.

That is to say, at the reception in the evening, Fang Zhuo smiled and toasted the two of them with two more glasses of wine. It was considered that the deep friendship was all in the wine, and there was no need to say more.

The fourth day of work continued to discuss cooperation on the implementation of the project. Because it involved Japanese engineers, government investment, and bank loans, everything needed to be clarified, but generally there was a good consensus within the framework.

In the evening of this day, the government and business parties still planned to have dinner together.

However, just when Fang Zhuo walked out of the conference room, secretary Liu Zonghong hurriedly stepped forward and whispered a surprising news.

——Lehman Brothers, a well-known American investment bank, released a short-selling report on the listed company Yike.

Lehman Brothers? Short Yike?

Fang Zhuo was at a loss when he heard the news.

Which Lehman Brothers?

Is it the Lehman Brothers that went bankrupt during the financial crisis?

Lehman, if I don’t destroy your property properly, what are you doing here, brother?

Could it be because of the little friction with Lehman head Fuld at the New York Economic Institute charity dinner?

But... that friction is too small!

Is this what Fuld is like?

Fang Zhuo's confusion turned into laughter and laughter.

It’s okay for others to short Yike, this Lehman, this Lehman…

President Yike stopped and remained silent.

Secretary Liu Zonghong felt heavy in his heart, but he also guessed the boss's mood. After a few seconds, he continued with the second news: "Mr. Fang, Yike's stock price fell by 3% in response. Mr. Yu just called me." Come here, but I didn’t pick up because you were in the conference room. Do you want to go back?”

Fang Zhuo waved his hand and said thoughtfully: "No hurry, where is Lehman's report?"

Liu Zonghong replied: "It has just been sent to the mailbox. It has not been analyzed yet. The notebook is in the bag. Mr. Fang, at this time..."

At this time, we are negotiating cooperation with the leaders of Shencheng, and it seems that it is not appropriate for the bad news to be known.

"Well, Lehman, ha, cough..." Fang Zhuo laughed unconsciously and continued, "It's okay. I'll take a brief look when I get in the car. Leader Zheng and Leader Qiu are familiar with each other. Besides, I don't want to hide this. I can’t hide it, it just so happens that if I cry about poverty again, I can get us some more discounts.”

Liu Zonghong felt relieved when he saw his boss's relaxed attitude, but he was still a little heavy.

This is none other than the famous Lehman Brothers who wants to short Yike!

It is one of the five major investment banks on Wall Street!

The other party's move seemed to be menacing!

I really can’t help but worry about this!