Chapter 726: Fire and Smoke

In late autumn, yellow leaves are flying everywhere. Kuaidi is developing rapidly in Tianjin and surrounding cities, while Didi has quickly seized about half of the market share in Jiangcheng and Yuzhou.

Various advertising leaflets are distributed everywhere, and the subsidy confrontation between different regions is full of gunpowder.

In this small-scale market competition, both sides seem to have taken advantage, but it seems that neither side has taken advantage.

However, Chen Chuanxing's reputation in the circle has obviously risen. During October, the head of Softbank China visited Kuaidi Technology's Hangzhou headquarters many times, and Hillhouse Capital also followed.

It can be seen that foreign capital is ready to move in China's taxi market, and they are all optimistic about Kuaidi.

In contrast, Bibi has fallen into a situation where its presence is not strong in the entire taxi alliance.

After all, in the eyes of capital, CEOs in the startup stage do not need to be too calm, but must be decisive.

In other words, daring to think and act is more favored than thinking before and after, because stability is a matter of unifying the market. In the current stage of business war, you can't win the crown without being ruthless.

So capital is more optimistic about Kuaide, or more accurately, Chen Chuanxing, which makes Cheng Wei's "calmness" a derogatory term.

Liu Qing felt a sense of disappointment. She really didn't understand why Cheng Wei was so cautious every time he mentioned Jiang Qin.

Perhaps she was used to the way of doing things in the capital society. In her opinion, all the vigor and decisiveness that Jiang Qin had shown in the past were not to be feared under real money.

And at an investor conference in October, when Liu Qing met Jiang Qin in person and had a few words, this feeling became even stronger.

There are one or two investor conferences every year. Liu Qing attended as usual, but she didn't expect to see Jiang Qin on the scene.

Out of incomprehension of Cheng Wei's cautiousness, Liu Qing took the initiative to greet Jiang Qin.

She wanted to rely on her own contacts to re-evaluate this man who was almost praised as a god by the domestic market.

"Hello, Mr. Jiang, I am Liu Qing, the co-CEO of Kuaidi and Bibi."

Jiang Qin glanced at her: "Oh, I know, I know your father."

Liu Qing smiled slightly: "I haven't been back to China for a long time, but I have heard a lot about Mr. Jiang and I admire him very much."

"Nothing."

Jiang Qin said modestly: "It's just that I have too much free time in college, so I took a part-time job..."

Liu Qing was stunned for a moment, thinking that I thought he was going to be humble, but he was fooled all of a sudden.

However, Jiang Qin's attention was not on him, but he was looking around the venue, his eyes wandering.

"Mr. Jiang is looking for someone? Is there a friend who has an appointment?"

"No, I want to see who is more suitable to attend the Hundred Days Banquet..."

Jiang Qin muttered, his expression suddenly froze, and then turned to look at Liu Qing standing in front of him.

At noon, it started to drizzle. Liu Qing left the investor conference and came to the headquarters of Bibi to meet Cheng Wei.

"I've met Jiang Qin. He's very ordinary."

"No matter where he is, he doesn't show any outstanding qualities in his speech or work."

"I've met many excellent CEOs in the United States. They all have elite temperaments without exception, but I can't feel that from Jiang Qin."

"And he always talks about family matters, either his daughter or his wife. I'm not belittling him. I just want to tell you not to over-mythologize your opponents. The market changes rapidly and there is only one chance."

After listening to Liu Qing's words, Cheng Wei was silent for a long time and began to feel irritable.

It's about to take over the Jinmen market. It is estimated that it will be able to take advantage of the momentum to enter the Kyoto market before the Spring Festival. If Bibi doesn't take action, it will really have no chance.

Seeing him hesitant, Liu Qing decided to give him some space, but when she was leaving, she remembered something and said, "Mr. Cheng, lend me 10,000 yuan."

"Hmm?"

"I like a pair of high heels, but I don't have any money in my card."

Cheng Wei took out his mobile phone and transferred 10,000 yuan to her, but he couldn't help but look a little confused, thinking, who is Liu Qing? She didn't even have 10,000 yuan?

Liu Qing took the money and said goodbye to him without any extra explanation. She didn't expect to have to give gifts when attending the investor conference, and she didn't expect that someone would actually carry a POS machine with them...

It was raining outside the window, and there was a faint sound of thunder penetrating the clouds.

Cheng Wei watched Liu Qing leave, then stood in front of the French window and paced back and forth, thinking about Liu Qing's words.

There is no firm alliance in the real market. Everyone comes together because of the trend of interests, and the same is true for Kuaidi and Bibi.

If Alibaba didn't want to contain group buying, Ma Yun would not have agreed to the two companies' merger. If Uber hadn't been defeated by Didi, Bibi would not have been cheap.

When facing a common enemy, the stronger the enemy is, the closer this temporary alliance will be, but as the enemy weakens, the alliance loses its meaning.

He knew it was time to act.

So not long after the investor conference ended, Bibi officially entered the Jinling market and aimed at Shanghai.

Bibi couldn't wait any longer. Didi obviously had no better way to deal with it except taking the opportunity to sink into the market. In the final battle of kings, only Kuaidi and Bibi participated.

And people in the circle were also talking about Bibi's big move.

But they were not talking about Bibi or Kuaidi, but Didi.

At the beginning, the taxi market was controlled by Uber, and it was Didi who turned the tide and dragged the market into its own rhythm and collapsed Uber.

As a result, half a year later, Kuaidi and Bibi teamed up to eat the fruit that should have belonged to Didi. This is really disappointing.

But if you think about it carefully, if all the websites had united to solve the group fight first and then decide the outcome, maybe the group fight would be gone now.

Along the way, Jiang Qin has shown his sharpness and made countless enemies. It is not surprising that he will encounter this situation.

The market is everyone's market. If there is a company that is invincible and invincible, then it will inevitably become the target of everyone's siege. This is reasonable, right, otherwise others will eat whatever they want.

But what happened immediately afterwards caused an uproar in the entire Internet business community.

The trial operation of Alipay's Yu'ebao has officially ended and it has begun to fully open to the outside world. As a financial product, the interest rate of Yu'ebao is much higher than that of bank deposits, and the number of users has increased significantly in a short period of time.

At this time, I don’t know who was the first to shout out, “Deposit big money in Alipay, small money in Cloud QuickPass” is getting louder and louder in the market.

And then, another piece of news came out, which made the whole situation become anxious.

Alibaba plans to fully acquire Hungry Bu and is currently negotiating.

In external interviews, Alibaba said that ecological construction in the field of life services will be the key development direction in the next stage.

At this moment, almost everyone realized that Ali was really going to strike first.

Be hungry, Koubei, Fliggy, Taopiaopiao, since the payment war, Alipay is no longer a simple payment tool, it is an aggregated version of group shopping.

And now, with the full launch of Yu’e Bao, Alibaba seems to be targeting the core business of group buying.

As for Dianping, a subsidiary of Tencent, it seems that it is also eyeing the market in the hands of group grouping, and WeChat Pay is also now fully entering the college student market, settling in canteens of college students across the country.

"Holy crap, are you so cruel?"

"Over the years of teamwork, we have indeed become too strong..."

"Who says it's not the case? Since 2009, Alibaba and Tencent have spent a lot of money in the O2O field, but in the end, the mature market has been taken away by group shopping. It feels like you spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on it. I married a daughter-in-law as a bride price, but someone else slept with me on the wedding day!”

"If you can force a big company to do this, you can still leave your mark in history by joining a group."

"Jiang Qin is only twenty-five years old. Everyone, Jiang Qin is only twenty-five years old. I am still running insurance at the age of twenty-five!"

"But Alibaba and Tengxun suddenly started to maintain a tacit understanding. Even if the gods come, they can't stop them, right?"

"Damn it, this kind of hellish game, you can brag even if you lose!"

In fact, neither Alibaba nor Tencent, nor its subsidiaries, have ever said anything about group buying.

Kuai Kuai entered Tianjin, Bibi entered Jinling, Yu'e Bao was fully opened, and Alibaba formulated a plan to acquire Xinglebu. There was almost an entire autumn between these events.

In the eyes of ordinary people, big manufacturers are just taking action again, but they don't think about the connection.

In fact, most people are not clear about the relationship between software such as Bibi, Elebu, Fliggy, Taopiaopiao, and Dianping, and Alibaba and Tencent.

So this does not belong to any form of cooperation, it is just a coincidence that everyone intends to enter the core field of team building.

Perhaps it will not be until many years later, when this battle is completely over, and when some self-media bloggers who like to analyze business development begin to delve into the details, that they will understand that this is a sniper attack on group fights.

Only then can we use simple language and words to show everyone the danger at that time as much as possible.

At this moment, the person who feels the wind and waves the most is actually Pintuan, who is in the center of the eye of the storm.

Since the autumn, almost all the actions of major factories have come due to the group-building process. Such actions inevitably make the group-building employees worried.

For example, if Hungry doesn’t accept Alibaba’s acquisition, Tuan Tuan’s food delivery business group will pay close attention to this matter.

Another example is Taopiaopiao's movie ticket subsidies, which also made the performance ticket purchasing business department under the group-to-store business group start to be alert.

There was no flames of war or gunpowder smoke, but for the group, the atmosphere of war had begun to slowly dissipate.