Chapter 707: Dethronement (Two in One)

"Mr. Fang, what do you think of the competition between Gome and Yiguo and its collapse?"

"Without the competition from Gome, there would be no Double 11 event of Yiguo. Before yesterday, I did not expect Yiguo to be able to do this. As for its collapse, I will try to invite Mr. Huang to you some other day so that he, the party involved, can understand the situation."

"Mr. Fang, do you think that the LCD panel companies in the world today are suspected of monopolistic behavior?"

"Good question, I can't tell you."

"Mr. Fang, I heard that the Royal Bank of Scotland has no obvious breach of contract. What do you think of it being ordered to stop cooperating with Bank of China?"

"I haven't read its contract, and the country's financial security is more important."

Fang Zhuo sat on the podium of the multimedia classroom of Peking University Guanghua School of Management - Professor Li brought up a stool and answered many sensitive questions from students at the moment.

He said 0.8 if he had a point, and if it was inconvenient to say, he would directly say that he couldn't say it, which was also very down-to-earth.

Peking University students are naturally the chosen ones, but the one sitting here is the richest man in the mainland who just had a swordfight with Li Jiacheng. In addition, there are occasional praises from Professor Li Zhimin, so most people have a legendary fan mentality on the stage.

However, legends are legends, fans are fans, and they asked a lot of questions that should be asked directly.

Fang Zhuo was fortunate to have experienced a little bit of sharpening the knife scene, and he was not panicked at all when facing today's questions.

After such a temporary class, he received warm applause from everyone at the end, and he received a lot of resumes, some of which were obviously written in a hurry, and the two A4 papers filled with resumes were still wrinkled.

Fang Zhuo held up his resume and said to Professor Li Zhimin with a smile: "The students are really enthusiastic."

Li Zhimin replied simply: "Mr. Fang, who can not be enthusiastic when facing a billionaire?"

Fang Zhuo laughed and asked: "Professor Li, I see you seem to talk about me a lot here, are you interested in coming to our Yiguo to try?"

Li Zhimin flatly refused: "Mr. Fang, I am just talking nonsense. If I really go into battle, facing people like you, Mr. Fang, I will not perform much better than the venture capital that came to Hang Lung."

Fang Zhuo saw that he was a little curious and wanted to ask about the past, so he smiled slightly and did not respond. He just took out his resume and chatted casually.

He had a good impression of this professor, unlike some college teachers he had met in the past who often felt pretentious.

Yike, Yiguo, and Bingxin are all eager for talents. This trip to Peking University and the scholarships established in Shencheng, Luzhou, and Lin'an are all for expanding long-term influence and hoping to absorb more fresh blood.

At the same time, Yi Ke also invited Liu Quanpeng, an associate professor of the Department of Microelectronics at Tsinghua University, who was invited to Tokyo to discuss CMOS with Sony last time, to form a small team to try to promote their own industry-university-research plan.

In general, Fang Zhuo and Yi Ke have both had successful experiences in cooperation with universities, and are willing to continue to use this experience to do things that benefit both parties.

That night, Lao Xiong had a meal and a meeting at Yiguo, and finally said goodbye and went back.

Before leaving, he invited Mr. Fang to come to his house for dinner when he was free.

Fang Zhuo couldn't bear to refuse, and considering his schedule, he planned to visit Lao Xiong's home before returning to Shanghai.

Yiguo's Double Eleven was initially successful, but warehousing, logistics, and after-sales are still in a very tense working state. They are the real flesh and blood under the surface data.

Another day later, as more media began to report on Yiguo's promotion activities in a wait-and-see, analytical, and approving tone, people such as Ma Huateng and Sun Tongyu, who originally only appeared in the blog comment area, called to congratulate.

There is still one and a half months to the end of 2005. For most of this year, domestic e-commerce has focused on Alibaba's Taobao. Although there was a dispute between Yiguo and Dangdang when it was launched, it was a minor dispute that was quickly stopped. The real industry event was the heavy cooperation between Alibaba and Yahoo.

Taobao has already put pressure on eBay. With Alibaba receiving a billion-dollar investment from Yahoo, it can almost be officially announced that the competition between domestic C2C companies and foreign giants has settled.

However, just before the end of November, Yiguo, which was just launched this year, really showed a surprising bright spot in the promising field of e-commerce. According to this trend, not to mention B2C Dangdang, Amazon, a foreign B2C giant, may also find it difficult to compete with Yiguo.

Taobao overwhelmed eBay in the front, and Yiguo occasionally showed its prowess in the back.

The development of local e-commerce companies is advancing at a speed that the media and the industry could not have expected.

Similarly, officials at certain levels seem to have difficulty defining some behaviors of the new industry.

On November 16, after attending the cooperation meeting of Bank of China with Paulson and Zhang Hongli, Fang Zhuo received a difficult report from Yiguo. The relevant departments in Shanghai called the company and discussed whether the online discount sale of houses was beyond the rules.

Yiguo’s 30% discount on houses has been promoted step by step. It has a greater impact on Yiguo than expected and has spread widely.

In view of this spreadability, the relevant departments in Shanghai studied it for several days and still believed that this operation should be stopped.

The call from the leader was very polite and did not force a stop. He said that this e-commerce model is quite trendy and asked the company to work out a suitable plan.

Then Fang Zhuo received the report.

Fang Zhuo was not ignorant. The publicity effect of Yiguo was already great. There was no need to insist on such a thing.

He personally called the leader to express his business apologies, and then discussed whether he could let his company complete the winning process before announcing the suspension, which could be considered a complete conclusion.

At least it was a name, and at least it had some connections. The leader acquiesced vaguely.

Speed ​​up the progress and have a complete conclusion.

Fang Zhuo asked someone to keep an eye on this matter. The superiors got face, the consumers got the inside, and Yiguo also got the desired reputation. Everyone would be satisfied.

On November 18, after nearly three weeks of intensive meetings and discussions, Fang Zhuo, Paulson, and Zhang Hongli signed a memorandum of understanding on cooperation with Bank of China on behalf of MIGA Fund, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, and Bank of China.

If nothing unexpected happens, the formal contract signing will be completed in early December.

Because of the controversy with the Li family, Fang Zhuo did not miss the press conference like he did at ICBC. Instead, he sat next to President Li openly and firmly, in the center of the media camera.

He prepared himself mentally and planned to answer reporters' questions about the previous public opinion.

However, the Bank of China probably did some work in advance, and the reporters' questions were all very neutral and peaceful.

After the meeting, a media came over and asked an irrelevant question about Yigoo.

"Mr. Fang, Yigoo's e-commerce is doing very well, but I heard that because of Yigoo's outstanding performance on Double Eleven, Amazon and Dangdang will increase their investment. What do you think of this?"

Fang Zhuo also heard about it these two days.

Probably stimulated by the data of 712 million in 3 days, Amazon and Dangdang have similar statements, and will not sit idly by and watch Yigoo dominate the domestic B2C.

"Very good, this is a good thing." Fang Zhuo first commented on Dangdang, pretending to be very happy, "Dangdang is finally willing to work hard, I am proud of Qingzi."

The reporter almost couldn't hold it in, and bit his tongue to keep from losing his composure.

Fang Zhuo continued: "It is a good thing to let a hundred flowers bloom in competition. True gold is not afraid of fire. Yiguo needs opponents to become better. I am also willing to represent our domestic e-commerce industry a little bit, and welcome Amazon's investment and competition."

He finally said: "I believe that only the companies that understand and are most willing to put consumers first can win this competition. I am looking forward to the performance of Yiguo and Amazon."

Fang Zhuo stopped accepting interviews after answering this question.

This is the first interview he has accepted since Yiguo's Double Eleven, and the second time in this period of time. The last time was on the phone through the "Huaxia Securities News" to respond to Jiacheng's greetings.

With Yiguo's excellent performance, Mr. Fang's rare positive response soon appeared in the media.

Unfortunately, Li Guoqing, who took the initiative to cancel his blog, refused the reporter's microphone this time. It seems that he is determined to do a career that will really make Mr. Fang proud.

Wang Hanhua, the head of Amazon in China, actively accepted media interviews and responded to Fang.

"Joyous and Amazon are happy to compete with peers in a healthy way. We are willing to provide consumers with the best products and services."

"This kind of product service will not be limited to price alone. We believe that better quality, after-sales service and consumer experience are what consumers are most happy to see."

Obviously, Wang Hanhua was secretly accusing Yigoo of its price-dominant strategy on Double Eleven.

Some reporters interviewed Fang again for this, but the latter did not accept the interview.

But soon, it was said that Fang's joke about Wang Hanhua at the meeting was widely circulated in the industry.

—— "This is very un-Amazon."

Very un-Amazon?

What does Fang mean?

Wang Hanhua was previously the vice president of Motorola Asia Pacific, and is now the president of Joyo.com and the person in charge of Amazon in China. A large part of his work now is the docking of the two websites.

Does Fang think that Wang Hanhua and Amazon are incompatible? Does he think that Amazon's strategy in China is different from that of the headquarters? Or does he think that Amazon will still have major changes?

This one-sentence evaluation is quite meaningful.

Many people are wondering about Mr. Fang's real intention.

However, Fang Zhuo himself neither accepted the media's response nor emphasized the competitive pressure from Amazon internally. He just focused on examining the performance of different departments of Yiguo in this promotion, which also made the company's executives have no time to be distracted.

On November 20, the affairs in Beijing gradually came to an end. Fang Zhuo planned to return to Shanghai to improve his self-cultivation and be kind to others after the contract with Bank of China was signed in early December.

On this day, Changhong's old friend Ni Runfeng flew to Beijing.

Compared with the last time I saw him, Ni Runfeng's spirit was even more vigorous.

"Old Ni, I heard that you are not in good condition recently, but your face is very rosy and it is starting to shine." Fang Zhuo's first sentence when he saw Old Ni was like this teasing.

Ni Runfeng is facing the crisis of being laid off, but he smiled and said calmly: "If there is nothing to worry about, it is a good time in the world."

The countdown to the end of his tenure at Changhong has begun. Although Changhong has embarked on the route of LCD technology and gradually got rid of the decline, his arbitrary decision to force the company to disclose plasma patents and semi-forced investment in panel production lines has ushered in liquidation.

The reasons are sufficient.

Everyone has not experienced the collapse of the plasma route. Although your judgment sounds reasonable, it is not necessarily a failure, right?

Okay, let's put aside the failure or not for now. The free disclosure of plasma patents has caused losses to the company and made internal technicians very dissatisfied. This is a real fact.

Plus, I'm getting older.

Ni Runfeng had already had psychological expectations. His struggles in several meetings were purely to delay as much time as possible and pave the way for Zhang Xuebin to take charge of Meiling.

Facts have proved that the delay has indeed brought favorable factors. As far as this Double Eleven is concerned, Changhong Qingcai Tube TV inventory and Meiling made its own LCD TV a great success.

Looking at LCD TVs alone, Meiling, which has actively participated in them, is completely on the same starting line as other first-tier TV brands, and is even slightly ahead by half a body.

"Lao Ni, I can't call you Lao Ni from now on, I have to call you Lao Ni." Fang Zhuo said with a smile.

Ni Runfeng smiled slightly and said: "There are many people in Changhong who want to rise to the top. It is not certain whether Zhang Xuebin can do it this time."

The public opinion packaging that lasted for more than half a year and the brilliance of LCD TVs only made Zhang Xuebin, an outsider, more valuable. Whether he can take over Ni Runfeng's position is still uncertain.

Fang Zhuo is not so concerned about gains and losses in this matter. Anyway, the production capacity of ice core has been greatly boosted by domestic TV companies. The cooperation with Morningstar Semiconductor is getting better and better. Whether Zhang Xuebin can take the position depends on luck.

"Old Ni, tell me, am I suitable to show up in Sichuan again?" He kept his thoughts to himself, and he was not stingy if he could help.

Ni Runfeng has repeatedly considered various factors. Changhong's stock price has rebounded, which has relieved many interested parties. However, Changhong's overseas channels are still in the hands of Yike, which is a bargaining chip.

However, objectively speaking, being controlled by others makes people feel unhappy. Mr. Fang's last trip to Sichuan and Sichuan did not leave a good impression.

He said seriously: "No, some things can only be done but not said. If you go to Sichuan and Sichuan to support Zhang Xuebin, I'm afraid there will be a backlash immediately."

Fang Zhuo believed Ni Runfeng's judgment of his situation: "Well, how about handing over part of the equity of the overseas channel company to Meiling and letting Zhang Xuebin serve as the director of the company?"

"I'm here to raise this matter and let Zhang Xuebin compete for part of the company's leadership from you. This will be much more beautiful." Ni Runfeng said.

Fang Zhuo nodded slightly, which was a huge bargaining chip for Zhang Xuebin.

He pondered: "If this doesn't work, it would be good if he is in Meiling. Well, does Changhong know this too?"

If Zhang Xuebin cannot take over Changhong, Bingxin will still need a close partner. Although Changhong is now Meiling's major shareholder, it only holds less than 30% of the shares. Its direction is greatly affected by Luzhou's attitude.

Ni Runfeng was startled at first, and then smiled, Mr. Fang, Mr. Fang, you are still so bad.

Fortunately, he was about to get off the bus, leaving the worries of happiness to Zhang Xuebin.