Chapter 1308 Waiting for the Best Opportunity!

Because of the series of operations that veterans don't die, the global reputation of Li Mu and Muye Technology has gradually reached an unprecedented peak. Li Mu is worthy of the title of "World Youth Leader". 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 have rarely made major breakthroughs in business. The recent media news about Muye Technology almost all revolves around Makino Technology established the Veterans Undead Charity Foundation in the United States, but there is no new news about Makino Technology's business itself.

In Li Mu's view, the overall business of Muye Technology is now in a stage of steady development. Although Taobao.com has not made any major moves, the transaction volume of the platform is also hitting new highs. 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, for the general public who are used to seeing Li Mu's rocket-like rise, such a steady, stair-climbing growth does seem a bit boring and boring, so occasionally the media will pop up to shake their wits, thinking that Li Mu and his subordinates The industry has entered a bottleneck period.

Li Mu seldom has the energy to care about these groundless speculations. Recently, he has concentrated his energy on two things. The first one: Baidu has reached a preliminary consensus on the acquisition of Yiting.com, and is currently in the internal evaluation stage. Li Mushi opened his mouth and proposed a 20% share replacement. Baidu obviously had no way to accept it and had to enter the evaluation stage first.

According to the normal historical pace, Baidu’s valuation in the first half of 2003 was at least 500 million US dollars. It is indeed wishful thinking for a music website to occupy 15-20% of its shares, but now Baidu’s actual valuation can reach 200 million. The dollar is about to burn. I didn’t catch the flow of online music, and I missed the Baidu Tieba. Now Baidu itself is a lame boy, and Yiting.com is the dominant player, occupying the entire Chinese online music and download market. With a share of more than 90%, it is difficult to exchange 15-20% of the market value at this time, but Li Mu thinks that the possibility is very high.

In addition to Baidu's acquisition of Yiting.com, the second thing Li Mu paid close attention to was SARS, which had gradually had an impact across the country.

Since the beginning of March, there has indeed been a lot of news about SARS.

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

Fortunately, most of the current rumors have not formed a joint force. Some say that a bird flu broke out in a certain place, some say that a meningitis broke out in a certain place, and some people heard that it was a kind of pneumonia that is highly resistant to drugs. Most of the rumors are only spread locally, and the influence is not very large.

Senior Brother Liu was appointed by Li Mu to actively improve the logistics system and the 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 panic buying of related materials in some cities. The most serious panic buying phenomenon is disinfectant, isatis root, and white vinegar. To a certain extent, when Senior Brother Liu reported the situation to Li Mu several times, he never forgot to ask Li Mu whether Taobao would intervene in areas where material price gouging occurred, but Li Mu did not refuse every time.

There are more than 300 prefecture-level cities in the country, and a few cities and regions have triggered panic buying, which is not enough for Taobao to respond immediately. If Taobao starts to intervene in the prices of materials in a few cities, this unusual move will definitely trigger large-scale riots. Note that by that time, the whole country hadn't entered into a psychological panic, but it was tossed by Taobao,

If you panic immediately, you will do bad things with good intentions.

Recently, the price gouging of materials in Guangdong Province has become more and more serious. It has become so serious that dealers have increased prices to ask manufacturers for goods and transferred goods to other regions. Therefore, rumors have spread around several surrounding provinces.

Some people said that they saw businessmen from Guangdong Province driving a large amount of cash to their provinces and cities to search for disinfectant, isatis root and other supplies, and almost every store was bought and emptied;

Some people say that this is because of the outbreak of an infectious disease with a high mortality rate in Guangdong Province, and the disinfectant can kill the infectious bacteria, and Banlangen can also prevent the human body from being infected by the 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, and if the infectious disease spreads by then, they will be in danger...

As a result, the search-like snap-buying behavior of merchants in Guangdong Province directly made the citizens of surrounding provinces and cities tense to the extreme. Rumors spread faster and faster. Supplies for infectious diseases.

This time, it is the one with the greatest negative impact since the emergence of SARS.

When Senior Brother Liu reported the situation he had confirmed to Li Mu, he did not forget to remind him: "Now at least more than 30 million urban populations are affected, and panic buying has broken out in Guangdong Province and several surrounding provinces one after another, and this This rush to buy is spreading very fast. I heard that in some places, a bottle of two yuan white vinegar sells for thirty or fifty yuan, a three yuan bottle of disinfectant sells for seventy or eighty yuan, and a pack of five yuan banlangen sells for 30 to 50 yuan. More than 100, the supply is still in short supply, if we don't intervene, this panic buying wave will soon spread across the country..."

Li Mu frowned tightly.

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

Rumors are spreading everywhere, people are psychologically fearful, profiteers are setting prices on the ground, and supplies are in short supply, and they have covered many provinces and cities in the southeast at once. Judging from this scale, it is indeed necessary for Taobao to intervene forcefully. Currently, Taobao’s reserves of SARS-related materials Huge, as long as you open the warehouse door yourself, not to mention the material problems in the southeastern provinces and cities, even if there are material problems in most of China, Taobao can suppress them. But Li Mu always secretly felt that the time had not yet come.

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

Brother Liu asked him: "Then can you tell me what kind of opportunity you are waiting for? I should also be mentally prepared."

Li Mu said: "Judging from the various news we have received so far, the impact of this infectious disease is indeed becoming more and more serious, but so far, the state has not made a national strategic arrangement instruction. If we Rushing to intervene at the material level may, on the contrary, speed up the spread and dissemination of news, and the speed of dissemination of critical speech is faster than all mobilization measures and material mobilization.

Brother Liu sighed and said, "To be honest, local officials in China have the habit of reporting good news but not bad news. Rumors magnify the facts, and local reports magnify the facts. The national strategic level instruction of the country you mentioned will probably be much later!"

Li Mu nodded, as someone who has experienced this, how could he not know this.

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

Li Mu is also unwilling to conceal the situation from happening again, and successfully conceals it until April or even May. Now he also hopes to help the country start a national-level epidemic prevention war in March, but he is only a businessman after all, and he wants to do it. For this point, you must not use brute force, but seize the opportunity and use the ingenuity of four or two.

Li Mu had a flash of inspiration, and blurted out: "That's right! Brother, is there any news from HO?"

HO is the abbreviation of the World Health Organization. Although Li Mu couldn't remember exactly what role HO played during the SARS outbreak in his previous life, he vaguely felt that for such a big event, HO should have reminded him after paying attention to the epidemic.

Senior Brother Liu said, "I've paid attention to HO, but there is no movement yet."

Li Mu smacked his lips and said to Senior Brother Liu: "How about this, senior brother, firstly, we can't rashly cause panic across the country, and secondly, we can't just sit back and watch the epidemic and material problems develop and remain indifferent. Let's just formulate an intermediate strategy of taking a step back. Once we get the news about SARS, we will immediately start operations across the country!"

Brother Liu nodded, and asked Li Mu: "What if the HO releases the news, but the local officials are still hiding the news?"

Li Mu waved his hand and said resolutely: "At that time, we will ignore them. If HO issues a warning, it proves that the seriousness of the epidemic must be taken seriously! If it affects the country's judgment, then we must shoulder this social responsibility. At that time, I will push HO's warning about the epidemic to the people of the whole country through YY, and then set up a news group and news topic on YY.com, and broadcast 24 hours a day. If some local officials dare to conceal the news of cases and suspected cases collected from all over the country, or even around the world, then we are responsible for reporting the truth and ensuring that the country will not be interfered with by certain people with ulterior motives!"

Brother Liu saw that Li Mu was so determined, he immediately got excited, slapped his thigh, and said: "Then I will make preparations immediately. Once HO makes a sound and YY makes a sound in China, Taobao will immediately cooperate and push the materials we prepared online. Let the people of the whole country buy related materials at a fair price, 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 work together. How about this, I will pull out the core members of the two teams for a meeting in the afternoon to implement this strategy!"