Chapter 1308 Waiting for the Best Time!

Because of the series of operations of the veteran's immortality, the global reputation of Li Mu and Muye Technology has gradually reached an unprecedented peak. Li Mu is not worthy of the title of "Young World Leader". He not only tells the world an incomparably inspiring story, but also gives Society has planted a huge seed of good cause.

However, the media recently discovered that, compared with the frequent headlines of Li Mu and Muye Technology’s charitable actions, Li Mu’s companies rarely make major breakthroughs in business. The recent media news about Muye Technology almost all revolve around The Veteran Immortal Charity Foundation established by Muye Technology in the United States, but there is no new news about the business itself of Muye Technology.

In Li Mu's view, Muye Technology's overall business is now in a stage of steady development. Although Taobao has not made any major moves, the platform's transaction volume is also hitting new highs, and its two core pillar enterprises have entered a very high level. Stable growth period, this is a very important stage, a good period to consolidate the business foundation and strengthen the enterprise from the bottom.

However, to the general public who are used to seeing Li Mu's rocket-like rise, such steady and stair-climbing growth does seem a bit boring and uninteresting, so occasionally the media will jump out and shake their heads and think that Li Mu and his affiliates The industry has entered a bottleneck period.

Li Mu rarely has the energy to care about these groundless speculations. He has recently focused his energy on two things. The first is that Baidu has already reached a preliminary consensus on the acquisition of EasyTing.com, which is currently in the internal evaluation stage. Li Mu Shishi proposed a 20% share replacement, but Baidu obviously couldn't accept it and had to enter the evaluation stage first.

If we follow the normal historical pace, Baidu's valuation in the first half of 2003 is at least more than 500 million US dollars. It is indeed delusional for a music website to take 15-20% of its shares, but now Baidu's actual valuation can reach 200 million. Dollars are going to burn high, they didn’t catch the traffic of online music, and they missed Baidu Tieba. Now Baidu itself is a lame boy, and YiTing.com is another dominant player, occupying the entire Chinese online music and download market. More than 90% of the share, this time to take advantage of Baidu, and although it is difficult to change the market value of 15-20%, but Li Mu thinks it is very likely.

In addition to Baidu's acquisition of Yiting.com, the second thing that Li Mu pays close attention to is SARS, which has gradually had an impact nationwide.

Since March, the news of SARS has indeed increased a lot.

This information comes from all over the country, especially in the southeast region. At the beginning of the month, Li Mu learned through Chen Ze's news channel that the first imported case had also been diagnosed in Yanjing, which means that SARS has now arrived in Yanjing. .

Fortunately, most of the rumors and rumors at present have not formed a joint force. Some say that there is an outbreak of bird flu in a certain place, some say that there is an outbreak of meningitis in a certain place, and some people have heard that it is a kind of pneumonia with strong drug resistance. Most of the rumors are only spread locally, and the influence is not very large.

Appointed by Li Mu, Senior Brother Liu is actively improving the logistics system and self-protection of logistics personnel, while also paying attention to the social impact in various places.

From February to the present, there have indeed been small-scale rush purchases of related materials in some cities. Among them, the most serious rush purchases are disinfectant, Banlangen and white vinegar. Some merchants are sitting on the ground and raising prices, which has indeed brought local prices. A certain influence, when Brother Liu reported the situation to Li Mu several times, he did not forget to ask Li Mu whether Taobao wanted to intervene in areas where the price gouging of materials occurred, but Li Mu refused every time.

There are more than 300 prefecture-level cities across the country, and several cities and regions have triggered panic buying, but it is not enough for Taobao to respond immediately. If Taobao starts to interfere in the prices of materials in a few cities, this unusual move will definitely lead to large-scale purchases. Note that by that time,

The whole country had not yet entered into a psychological panic, but after being tossed by Taobao, it immediately panicked.

Recently, the situation of material drive-up in Guangdong Province has become more and more serious. It has become so serious that dealers have increased their prices to ask for goods from manufacturers and transfer goods to other regions. Therefore, rumors spread around several surrounding provinces all at once.

Some people said that they saw businessmen in Guangdong Province drive a large amount of cash to their own province and city to search for supplies such as disinfectant and Banlangen, and almost every store was bought and emptied;

Some people say that this is because an infectious disease with a high mortality rate broke out in Guangdong Province, and the disinfectant can kill this infectious bacteria, and Banlangen can also prevent the human body from being infected by this bacteria;

Some people say, hurry up and find a way to buy some disinfectant and Banlangen to keep at home, otherwise people in Guangdong Province will buy them all. If the infectious disease spreads, then you will be in danger...

As a result, the search-and-buy behavior of businessmen in Guangdong Province directly made the citizens of the surrounding provinces and cities nervous to the extreme. The rumors spread faster and faster. supplies of infectious diseases.

This time, since the emergence of SARS, it has had the greatest negative impact.

When Brother Liu reported the situation he had determined to Li Mu, he did not forget to remind him: "At least more than 30 million urban populations have been affected, and panic buying has broken out in Guangdong Province and several surrounding provinces. This kind of panic buying is spreading very fast. I heard that in some places, a bottle of white vinegar for 2 yuan sells for 30 to 50 yuan, a bottle of disinfectant for 3 yuan sells for 70 to 80 yuan, and a pack of five yuan for Banlangen sells for 70 to 80 yuan. If we don't intervene, this kind of panic buying will soon spread across the country..."

Li Mu's brows furrowed.

According to Brother Liu, the situation is indeed a little critical now.

Rumors are spreading everywhere, people are psychologically fearful, profiteers are sitting on the ground to raise prices, and supplies are in short supply, and they have covered many provinces and cities in the southeast at once. According to this scale, Taobao really needs to intervene strongly. At present, Taobao has SARS-related material reserves. Huge, as long as you open the warehouse door yourself, let alone the material problems in several southeastern provinces and cities, even if there are material problems in most of China, Taobao can still hold it down. But Li Mu always felt that the time had not yet come.

Li Mu said to Senior Brother Liu, "Senior Brother, the time really hasn't come yet."

Senior Brother Liu asked him, "Then can you tell me what kind of timing are you waiting for? I want to be mentally prepared."

Li Mu said: "Judging from the various news we have received so far, the impact of this infectious disease is indeed getting more and more serious, but so far, the state has not made arrangements at the national strategic level. If we Hasty intervention at the material level may instead accelerate the spread and dissemination of news, and the speed of critical remarks is faster than all mobilization measures and material mobilization.

Senior Brother Liu sighed and said, "To tell the truth, local officials in China have the habit of reporting good news but not bad news. Folk rumors magnify the facts, and local reports narrow the facts. If local reports to ministries and commissions or even the central government are optimistic, then I am afraid that the national strategic level instructions of the country you are talking about will be much later!"

Li Mu nodded, as someone who had come here, how could he not know this.

The concealment that existed in the early stage of SARS also had a great impact on Huaxia's international reputation.

Li Mu is also reluctant to conceal the situation from happening again and successfully concealed it until April or even May. He now hopes to help the country start the national-level epidemic prevention war in March, but, after all, he is just a businessman and wants to do it. In this regard, we must not use brute force, but seize the opportunity and use a thousand jins of skill.

With a flash of light, Li Mu blurted out, "That's right! Senior brother, is there any news from the WHO?"

WHO is the abbreviation of the World Health Organization. Although Li Mu could not remember the role of the WHO when the SARS outbreak occurred in his previous life, he vaguely felt that after such a big thing, the WHO should have reminded it after paying attention to the epidemic.

Brother Liu said: "I have followed the WHO side, and there is no movement yet."

Li Mu smacked his lips and said to Brother Liu: "So, brother, we can't rashly cause panic in the whole country, and secondly, we can't sit back and watch the epidemic and material problems develop and remain indifferent. As soon as we got the news about SARS, we immediately started nationwide operations!"

Senior Brother Liu nodded and asked Li Mu, "What if the WHO releases information, but local officials are still concealing the information?"

Li Mu waved his hand and said resolutely: "At that time, we will ignore them. If the WHO issues a warning, it will prove that the seriousness of the epidemic must be taken seriously! If local officials report good news instead of bad news, and deliberately interfere with national audiovisual, If it affects the country’s judgment, then we must shoulder this social responsibility. At that time, I will send WHO’s warnings about the epidemic to the people of the whole country through YY, and then set up news groups and news topics on YY. If there are local officials who dare to hide the news of cases and suspected cases collected from all over the country, or even around the world, then we will be responsible for reporting the truth to ensure that the country will not be interfered with by individuals with ulterior motives!"

Seeing Li Mu being so determined, Brother Liu immediately got excited, slapped his thigh, and said, "Then I'll be ready immediately, once the WHO speaks out and YY speaks out in China, Taobao will immediately cooperate and push the materials we have prepared online. Let the people of the whole country buy related materials at a fair price, and stabilize the price of materials and the panic of the people!"

Li Mu nodded and said: "To do this well, Taobao.com and Muye Technology must be linked together, so let's pull out the core members of the two teams in the afternoon to hold a meeting and deploy this strategy!"

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