Chapter 337 Seeing a Card is Like Seeing a Person

Spring Festival, Fuka, fission, give money.

As soon as Alibaba’s WeChat promotion campaign was launched, the penguins felt the approaching chill on their necks!

This time, you don’t have to wait and observe the market response; you can even guess its effect just by looking at the words of this event!
People kept rushing into the conference room on the 39th floor of Penguin Building and then sat down in silence. As more and more people came, the silence became heavier.

President Liu Chih-ping spoke up for Pony and directly asked Lu Shan, the person in charge of WeChat Chat, for his opinion: "Mr. Lu, what do you think?"

Lu Shan's lips moved, his face turned pale, and after a moment he spoke: "I, I should take responsibility. It is my responsibility that WeChat has come to this point. I am willing to resign..."

The originally heavy atmosphere in the conference room suddenly stagnated, and many people looked at Lu Shan in astonishment.

CTO Zhang Zhidong slammed his hands on the table halfway through and said angrily: "WeChat is not dead yet!!"

Lu Shan suddenly came back to his senses, realized that he had said something he shouldn't have, and pursed his lips tightly.

Zhang Zhidong looked at his preferred CTO successor with disappointment. What kind of succession is this?

He has always had a mild temper, but at this moment he looked around at the group executives present and said sternly, "We are not here to discuss responsibility or to share the blame. The opponent has made a good move in this game. Are we going to admit defeat?"

At this point, Zhang Zhidong said sternly: "Whoever thinks that WeChat chat business has nothing to do with you, whoever wants to surrender, get out of here now!!"

The meeting room was silent, but it didn't seem so dead anymore.

"WeChat's move is indeed a good one, and the event itself is very good," said Liu Chih-ping. When talking about the event, he couldn't help but praise it. "Well, the combination of Spring Festival and Fu Card is indeed good. In addition, Alipay is also the number one in the minds of users. This time, we combined these advantages. Moreover, Ali gave us very little time to react, and the Spring Festival is only eight days away."

He said objectively: "Look at it this way, this is a perfect surprise attack on us."

Liu Chih-Ping paused and said, "Yu Xing is indeed a man with great operational capabilities."

Xu Chenye, one of the "Penguin Five", said, "It may not be his work, right?"

"The latest hot topic is what Yu Xing's company is doing. WeChat just happened to change its competitive strategy from the 1st. The traffic that company obtained is probably a collaboration between the two parties." Liu Chih-ping said, "Although it has not been confirmed, it feels like he played a huge role in it."

Liu Shengyi, who is in charge of Penguin's advertising business, was more relaxed than many others. He said, "What a pity! If WeChat had been acquired, it would have been great. With the resources in his hands, Yu Xing could have achieved a lot."

Although Liu Chih-ping, who had personally discussed the acquisition with Yu Xing, had remained calm, he couldn't help but feel annoyed when he heard this.

When Vice President Lu Yanang first went to Shanghai, he heard the price was $1 million...

$1 million is nothing compared to the problems Penguin is facing now!
But how could they be willing to spend $1 million to acquire a newly emerged mobile communication product?

Everyone, everyone inside Penguin felt that $1 million was more than enough to defeat WeChat if used internally.

Later, Weichat developed under the pressure of competition, IDG sought Baidu to take over, and Penguin invited Yu Xing to discuss the strategic transformation of the group in order to show its elegance. That time, it offered a price of 1.2 million US dollars in person...

The same problem is that Micro-Chat has caught up and WeChat is about to fall into an inevitable decline. How could they be willing to offer a higher price than US$1.2 million to acquire WeChat?
Time and again, Alibaba's huge acquisitions have caused Penguin to face strategic difficulties, leading to today's crisis.

The flames of competition are burning on the home front, and a perfect surprise attack can target the core.

But there were clearly many opportunities to avoid this situation before. Let alone $1 million, let alone $2 million, let alone the $6.6 million invested by Alibaba. If it can solve the problems Penguin is facing now, what would $10 billion or $20 billion mean?
Liu Chih-Ping took a deep breath and suppressed his growing annoyance, but his heart still felt like there was a poisonous snake coiling around it.

"Whether it's him or not, we have to deal with Ali's publicity this time." Pony Ma frowned, and the figure who once cried for the penguin emerged in his mind, and he couldn't get rid of it.

"Yu Xing has sold his WeChat account, but he's still like a poisonous snake hiding in the dark!" Xu Chenye expressed his feelings. So poisonous!
"Will there be enough time?" Zhang Zhidong interrupted everyone's annoyance and regret and asked Lu Shan directly.

Lu Shan knew what Mr. Zhang was asking about, and said hesitantly: "It should only take a few days to develop it overtime, but the software store review also takes time. Android is okay, but Apple needs to be discussed. The stability of the version is also a problem that needs attention. There is also the payment interface. Alibaba is better than us in this regard. Tenpay..."

There are both time issues and technical issues. Alibaba's technology in electronic payment is far ahead of the others.

Now we need to deal with tens of millions of users, and technology is not a small problem.

Zhang Zhidong nodded slightly, turned his head to look at Pony Ma, and said, "Do your best. If you can't come out before the New Year, there is still the Lantern Festival. They can collect blessing cards, and we can also receive dumplings. It's not like we have no solution."

Pony Ma acquiesced. Zhang Zhidong took the lead in taking emergency measures: "Boss Lu, we have to work overtime this year. We can't fall too far behind."

Lu Shan nodded and continued to listen to the deployment from the CTO, but the thoughts in his mind suddenly became a little vague.

Last time, Weilian had made up its mind not to follow WeChat’s move to open up information content. However, after only two weeks, it had to take the initiative to follow suit. But what should it do if it doesn’t follow?

You can't just wait to die, can you?

Compared to the imaginable ridicule from public opinion, staying alive is more important.

Micro-chat faces another moral trough.

Lu Shan, the direct person in charge, could almost recite those taunts by heart.

His eyes suddenly regained focus because of a question.

"Mr. Lu, is there any problem?" Zhang Zhidong stared at Lu Shan.

Lu Shan subconsciously replied in a deep voice: "No problem."

Zhang Zhidong looked away a little dissatisfied, but he was unwilling to say anything more at this time.

Lu Shan licked his dry lips. Just as he took the teacup, he vaguely saw the nightmare in the tea—the corrupt Yu Xing chasing him. "Penguin, can you not follow my example? Mr. Lu, can you? Please, can you?"

He clenched the teacup in pain, feeling regretful about taking over the WeChat chat team.

On the same day when WeChat updated its version, Ji Gang, who had previously gone to Shanghai to discuss financing from Alibaba, immediately called Yu Xing after finding out the situation.

However, Yu Xing's call did not go through.

Ji Gang immediately called Zhong Zhiling, the CEO of Carbon Silicon Data Company.

It worked this time.

"Mr. Zhong, are you free tomorrow? Let's meet and talk about financing." Ji Gang was unusually enthusiastic.

Zhong Zhiling already knew what had happened. He was not sure whether his senior brother was involved, but when he heard the voice from the other side, he immediately confirmed it and responded enthusiastically: "No problem, no problem, Mr. Ji, see you tomorrow. I will be in Lingang all day, you can come anytime."

"Hahaha, Mr. Zhong, okay, okay, I'll come over tomorrow to wish you a happy new year." Ji Gang said with a smile.

Zhong Zhiling gave the same level of enthusiasm.

Ji Gang asked at the end of the call: "Oh, yes, Mr. Zhong, will Mr. Yu be here tomorrow? Oh, I feel like I have to express my admiration for his operation in person."

Zhong Zhiling sensed the other party's completely different attitudes before and after, and suppressed his pride in his heart, and said with a hint of pride in other aspects: "Well, Mr. Yu will be in Lingang tomorrow, but he will not have time to come to our place. The leaders from Beijing are coming to inspect the Lingang tram project."

Ji Gang was surprised and asked, "Which leader in the capital?"

Zhong Zhiling said the name and smiled, "Maybe I'll have time the day after tomorrow to ask."

"Okay, Mr. Zhong, I won't be in the mood to celebrate the New Year if I don't meet Mr. Yu." Ji Gang said exaggeratedly.

Zhong Zhiling smiled appropriately and said, "Haha, President Ji, you must be in the mood to have a good New Year. Seeing a card is like seeing a person."

Ji Gang laughed a few words and ended the call.

Then, he opened WeChat on his phone, shook it a few times and got a lucky card. He stared at the words on it that best fit the Spring Festival.

The card has arrived, the blessing has arrived, and the operation has also arrived. It is true that seeing the card is like seeing the person!

(End of this chapter)

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