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 underwent sudden changes, and the competition for the market became increasingly intense.
On January 26, the 23rd day of the lunar year in northern China, WoWotuan announced that it had successfully raised funds of 150 million yuan and began to expand into the north.
On the other hand, Dianping received 200 million yuan in financing from Tencent. While competing with Lashou.com for territory in Kyoto, another group of people in the team quickly penetrated the market and began to seize market share in second- and third-tier cities.
Xihan Heqing's business has once again enjoyed a spring in the second- and third-tier markets, and is continuing to expand with the help of Dianping.com.
In fact, after New Year's Day, at the suggestion of Jiang Qin, there has not been much movement in group buying, and many branches are busy with the upgrade of the business district closed loop 3.0.
In the country's four first-tier cities and forty-two second- and third-tier cities, the total number of members quickly exceeded one million.
After the customers brought by group buying are converted into members of the circle, their daily consumption is also locked in this circle and is constantly developed.
At the same time, Xianhui Xiansheng also upgraded its services, providing free door-to-door delivery services to residential areas near business districts, which has raised the stickiness of members to an unparalleled level.
During this stage, Xihanheqing and Pintuan are still two non-intersecting straight lines. In fact, half of the brands have never joined Pintuan.
Most of these brands are third, fourth, or fifth-round partners with a small number of branches and a relatively weak foundation.
Jiang Qin did not allow them to join the group buying platform, but arranged for them to join the rival website first, in order to better take advantage of the trend.
"Boss, the brands that withdrew from the strategic cooperation plan before have been calling us recently, saying they want to participate in the sixth round."
"Just say you were too busy before the New Year and we can discuss the research 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 buying team."
"Okay, I'll call later and express my most heartfelt thanks to my Eight Heavenly Kings."
After finishing the phone call with Wei Lanlan, Jiang Qin stretched himself, looked at the night outside the window, and raised the corners of his mouth slightly.
He's rich, resourceful, and damn handsome, so 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 very far away, probably from the kitchen, but it sounded very loud.
A big boss hiding in the dark, who can make things happen with a wave of his hand, secretly controls the direction of a market worth nearly billions, but still cannot escape the fate of having to buy soy sauce for his mother.
Jiang Qin sighed, then took his coat and walked out of the room, quickly went 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 man selling things is an old man who likes to smoke dry tobacco. According to seniority, Jiang Qin should call him Third Uncle.
The third uncle puffed on his cigarette, making the small supermarket look like a fairyland with fog and mist.
"Uncle, how much is the soy sauce?"
"Forget it, don't give it to me. It's just fourteen dollars and fifty cents from my neighbors. It's not worth much."
Jiang Qin's mouth twitched, and he thought to himself that it had to be my third uncle. He said not to give it, but still told the exact price.
He took out his wallet, pulled out a ten-dollar bill and a five-dollar bill and handed them over: "Uncle, this is a small business, and you usually have to smoke and drink. How can I not give you money? The more neighbors you are, the more they should support your business."
The third uncle took the money cheerfully and said, "You are such a nice person."
"I'm also good-looking."
The third uncle didn't respond. He reached out and took a lychee-flavored lollipop from the shelf and handed it over: "Don't give me the change for 50 cents. This is for you. Your wife likes this the most. She comes here to buy it every day."
"?"
Jiang Qin was stunned for a moment, thinking to himself, no wonder my trash can is full of candy wrappers. When he was eating her little mouth, he thought it was so sweet. This silly little rich woman looks well-behaved, but it turns out she has a lot of evil thoughts in her mind.
But she is really familiar with this community. Some time ago, the two of them went there for a walk and met Aunt Caifeng who lives in Building 5. She even invited Feng Nanshu to her house to eat candied triangles.
And 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 even asked who the uncle next to her was...
Jiang Qin put the lollipop in his pocket: "Uncle, who told you she is my wife?"
"She...she won't let me say it. You'd better not ask. The Third Master is not the kind of person who spreads gossip."
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 rich woman was next to her, helping her.
Jiang Qin took out the lollipop from his arms and handed it to his mother. When his mother wasn't paying attention, he pinched her little mouth into an O shape, then turned and left.
The little rich woman looked at him stupidly. She didn't know why, but she felt that her brother was a little happy tonight.
"Jiang Qin, don't leave yet. I forgot one thing. We are out of salt. Please make another trip."
"Mom, I'm busy with work, you can let the little rich woman go."
"Where can she go? It's so dark outside, and Nan Shu doesn't know the place well."
Jiang Qin chuckled and thought to himself, she's still unfamiliar with the place, she knows more people than me, and now the whole community probably knows that she's my wife! Rumors are really 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 uncle was like an NPC in a game. He gave him a lollipop and said, "Don't change the money. Your wife loves it."
"Uncle San really has a hold on my weakness..."
Jiang Qin ran back upstairs and just put the salt down when the phone in his pocket vibrated.
I took it out and saw that the caller ID was from Tan Qing. There were three missed calls before this one, all from her. I guess my down jacket was too thick and I didn't hear it because I put it in my 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 in financing."
"A deep cooperation agreement? How deep?"
"I don't know, but we may be the only weak target in the Shanghai market."
"Is there any action on Lashou.com?"
"Today they acquired five third-tier group-buying websites, including their teams. The number of employees currently on the job has exceeded 5,000."
"With money and connections, it looks like LaShou is going to do something big this time. We can't let the Shanghai market have any problems. 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 had been frustrated for the past two months, and now that it had received the largest round of financing, it would probably go crazy.
And the fact was just as he said. On the evening when the funds of Lashou.com were in place, the Kyoto headquarters immediately held a city manager conference. Managers from all over the country rushed to the conference overnight and led their teams to attend the conference.
It was the end of the year and they couldn'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, currently Lashou.com's biggest rival, is eyeing Kyoto and also wants to get involved in the Shenzhen market. Lashou's future plan is to target it from all sides.
Another is Nuomi. Nuomi.com has been the arch-rival of Lashou.com since its establishment.
It may not be the biggest opponent, but it is definitely the most stable opponent. From the first round to the third round, although the performance of this website was not outstanding, it never lost. Such an opponent is the most terrifying.
The last one is group formation.
This was mentioned casually by Wu Bo when he was referring to the recent failure of Nuomi.com and the Shanghai market.
Nuomi raised 150 million yuan, Dianping raised 300 million yuan, and what about Pintuan? As a website that grew up by taking shortcuts, its methods are indeed scary, but in the competition of group buying, the only thing that can’t be broken is money, so Pintuan is not to be feared.
Wu Bo called on Yang Xueyu by name, and immediately cleared the Shanghai market, forcing Nuomi away, and at the same time took care of all the websites like Pintuan that were trying to take advantage of the situation.
He even mispronounced the name of the group three times, reading "tuan" as "tu", and his contempt was not concealed at all.
But everyone knows that there is nothing wrong with the boss's arrogance. Small websites like group buying will definitely not get funds in the third round, because these are the peak battles, and no one will be willing to bet on second-tier websites.
Investing is all about trust.
It's like a marathon, no one would believe that a cripple can be the champion.
Even if he used all his tricks, it would only be useful during the idle period when no one had any funds. Now? Sorry, that trick is useless.
On the night after the city managers' conference, Yang Xueyu stared at the ceiling for a long time, unable to fall asleep, and Robin did the same.
During the two-month idle period, all capitals were 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 treated them as soft persimmons and also oppressed them.
Now that they have money, 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.
"At that time, 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 at the end of the tunnel. If you can take down 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 get rid of the group buying problem first."
"Why?"
"The boss thinks that group buying without money is nothing, but... it is always a shadow in my heart, and I must ensure that it will not have any possibility again."
Robin thought for a while and then said, "If you can defeat Pintuan within half a month and take over those merchants that he has deep cooperation with, maybe you can deal a fatal blow to Nuomi at the lowest cost."
Yang Xueyu nodded: "The funds this time are sufficient, enough for half a month."
"Jiang Qin... is a genius. If he was in charge of the Shanghai market, Nuomi would not have any place to stand. So, if you can recruit him, don't let him go. Nuomi is definitely keeping an eye on him and will probably offer him a sky-high price."
"I understand. Once the group buying craze is extinguished, I will propose a takeover. Jiang Qin must not fall into the hands of other websites. He is too threatening."
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 while: "I think he is worth 300 million."
(End of this chapter)
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
