Chapter 1509: A Proposal for a Major Derailment

This is an excellent plate of hairy crabs.

They have a plump body, a well-proportioned size, golden hair and golden claws. The overall appearance is golden in color, but also filled with dark red. Just by looking at this color, you can tell that they are authentic Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs.

This is also a sad plate of hairy crabs.

For them, they are not afraid of being shattered into pieces, but they are afraid of being shattered into pieces, being subjected to all kinds of metaphors, being disliked in various ways, and not being able to let go.

"When it comes to eating meat, I'd better be self-reliant."

If I want to eat meat, I will do it myself.

"Actually, there's a lot of meat," Feng Yiping said, "It's just a little troublesome to eat, but don't you think that meat that requires a lot of effort to eat tastes the most delicious?"

In fact, there is no need for him to say this. It seems that the richest man has eaten this stuff. After finishing one crab, it seems that there is still one crab left.

"Of course, in terms of the absolute weight of each crab, there isn't much meat, but it doesn't matter. We have a large amount and we will be able to fill it up,"

Seeing that he was ready to call for another set, Ma Shoufang quickly said, "That's enough, that's enough."

"Is that enough? Also, if you don't find this satisfying enough next time, let's eat sea crabs, which have more meat," Feng Yiping said seriously, as if they were really serious about eating crabs.

"Okay, okay," Lao Ma wiped his hands in the chrysanthemum cup, "Come on, let's drink, okay, you just have to say something."

He knew that Feng Yiping didn't drink. The reason why he drank today was not only to accompany him, but also because he was eating crabs.

"Honestly, we were shocked to know that you also wanted to set up your own shopping website, and some people in the team couldn't understand it," Lao Ma decided not to beat around the bush.

He just turned a corner here, but Feng Yiping continued to diverge, making him forget what the issue he wanted to talk about was.

"I actually don't quite understand it. We all know that many companies, such as some large supermarkets, have opened their own online malls as a useful supplement to offline sales. We have a leading position in the country like Youjia Convenience stores and opening our own online mall should be a very predictable thing, what do you think?"

His words made Lao Ma nod, "That's true, but it's just the same." He changed the topic, "The online platform you are preparing is not the online mall built by other supermarkets and trends, right? This is A very ambitious e-commerce platform,”

"Yes, we have such a plan," Feng Yiping also washed his hands, "Lao Ma, do you know why I chose to be a convenience store instead of a large supermarket in the beginning?"

"You thought at that time that the cost of investing in large supermarkets was too high, so you thought of using online websites to make up for the limited variety of convenience stores?" Lao Ma asked tentatively, "What year was that, 1998? ?”

"Yeah, before that, I stayed in Hong Kong for a year and was exposed to a lot of new things. At that time, Amazon and eBay were already developing very well and were widely favored by investors. I think this should be the A new economic model for the future,"

Lao Ma took another sip of wine. It turned out that he, like himself, was optimistic about the potential of the Internet at that time. Fortunately, he didn't think about starting an e-commerce business. Otherwise, he might have had nothing to do with himself.

Feng Yiping did not explain all the reasons. Because of his later experience, he did not consider large supermarkets, especially large supermarkets in big cities, as his main retail direction.

That business is too difficult to do.

Not to mention the huge investment, the competition is still fierce. Domestic and foreign companies are all gathering together to develop. It is not easy to do well, but it is easy to do poorly.

Because the various related investments are too large, if one store loses money, it is not a small amount. It is not like a convenience store. It doesn't matter if there are several losses.

Lao Ma also didn't finish his words.

The main reason is that the timing chosen by Huasheng is a bit subtle. It happens to be when you are ready to enter when you are making a name for yourself. In the eyes of many people on their side, there is a suspicion of following the trend.

Besides, aren't you one of our major shareholders? Why are you involved in this area yourself? It’s so unauthentic.

"I know this must be something you have been planning for a long time," Lao Ma agreed with Feng Yiping's statement.

In addition to the previous one, he agreed twice, which shows that he has no grudges about Jiasheng's launch of an online platform.

"But please understand some of the concerns of my colleagues," Lao Ma said with a smile. "Compared to Jiasheng, our strength is also very average. Besides, Yiping is famous for being successful in whatever you do. As soon as I heard that You have also joined the ranks of e-commerce, so everyone can’t help but be nervous,”

He and his colleagues were really nervous.

Now Alibaba is not so awesome that it can welcome any competition as boldly as it did later.

When they first faced eBay, they were nervous, but now they are very relaxed when facing eBay. They are confident that they can win in the competition with eBay, but against Feng Yiping and Jiasheng, they really have no confidence at all.

Feng Yiping's characteristic is that he takes every step very solidly. If he wants to implement a strategy, it means that he has fully prepared the relevant foundation.

The key is, he has a lot of money!

Now Ali's biggest magic weapon against eBay is the free strategy. When transactions are not very active and the stores on the website have little budget for promotion, for Ali, behind free, there is naturally a lot of burning. money.

Now, when it comes to spending money, how can Alibaba compete with Forex?

So they are not confident enough to compete with Forex for the key factor of the future development of the website - users.

To make matters worse, so many companies of Forex have already gathered a considerable number of users for them.

"I can understand this concern. No one expects a strong competitor to emerge." In front of people who understand, there is no need to say anything like "competition promotes healthy development".

"But you see, the domestic market capacity is large enough, so large that we can all eat meat,"

"And you should also know that our online platform is not a copy of your C2C model, we are B2C,"

"But the user groups we target are highly consistent," Lao Ma pointed out the key to the problem, "Of course, these are not the key issues I want to talk about today,"

The situation is very clear. Forex is going to be on the e-commerce platform. No matter what he says or does, it is impossible to change this fact.

"I came to see you alone this time just to talk about our possible cooperation in the future,"

No matter at which stage of the company's development, when a rival cannot be acquired and the competition is difficult, cooperating with him is undoubtedly an excellent choice.

"Welcome, aren't we still very good partners now? I think the launch of our online platform should not change this,"

"What do you think about our cross-holding?" Lao Ma put forward his proposal.

To be honest, after knowing that Feng Yiping and his team would launch a B2C e-commerce platform, Lao Ma and his team felt that this might really be a better development model for e-commerce in the future.

The reason is simple. Whether shopping in real life or online, everyone definitely wants to buy from those famous merchants because it is relatively more secure.

At present, the C2C they are mainly promoting will definitely have very affordable prices, but the quality of the goods may not be effectively guaranteed.

"Cross-holding?" Feng Yiping was stunned. He really didn't expect Lao Ma to put forward such a bold proposal.

This matter actually didn't follow the original trajectory?

But if it really can be done this way, it would be good. Then there will be no Yahoo next year, and there will be no Softbank next year. There will be no complaints that every time we shop online, we are creating profits for foreign companies such as Yahoo and Softbank, and the money is earned by them.

What Lao Ma is doing now is Taobao, and the online platform he is preparing is equivalent to Tmall in the future. Combining these two, plus his own perfect offline network..., it is naturally perfect, even more perfect than before.

"I think it's okay," Feng Yiping said without any hesitation after coming to his senses.

Is it stupid to hesitate about such a thing?

"Or we can broaden our thinking a little bit. In the future, we can merge. I believe that Lao Ma can run these two companies well, and I will help you, or just like other projects, I will completely let go," Feng Yiping raised his glass.

"Cheers," Lao Ma stood up.