Chapter 2116 Why Do We Need Dogs when We Have Cats?

If you want to say what goes best with Jiangnan, it is still the misty rain.

This late summer and early autumn in Jiangnan is just like this, always shrouded in fine and dense rain.

But the rain looks like smoke and fog, like a dream, making you feel that there is no need to hold an umbrella. When you put away the umbrella, the rain and fog will not wet your clothes for a while, but will only hang misty water drops on your eyelashes, and the world seems to become blurred.

Close your eyes, and between breathing, the lotus fragrance of West Lake and the sweet-scented osmanthus flowers all over the city will penetrate from your mouth and nose to your heart.

When he opened his eyes again, the figure in the distance became clear. Old Ma shook off the people around him and walked to Feng Yiping, slowing down his pace again, "Are you feeling nostalgic again?"

"The sweet-scented osmanthus rain is wetting my clothes, and the wind of the sycamore trees is rustling all night long," Feng Yiping said as he looked around, "At this time, isn't it best to hold an oil-paper umbrella and stroll in an alley, looking forward to a girl with the color and fragrance of lilac?"

"So, at this time, it's a pity to see a man like me?" Old Ma smiled.

"There really is no girl like lilac, but, Qiuxiang, is it okay?" Old Ma took Feng Yiping's hand and walked into the building, "We have plenty of time to enjoy the scenery, so let's go in first, okay?"

He waited downstairs, but all he got was an empty car and Wu Qian, who looked helpless, saying that Feng Yiping wanted to stroll in the drizzle, so he had no choice but to take people out to greet him.

In his opinion, such behavior was not like Feng, the richest man, but rather like a heartless and immature child.

Feng Yiping waved to the people who were holding umbrellas and looking surprised, and took an umbrella from Owen. There was no other way. It was not good to let everyone get wet in the rain, right?

For him, the Jiangnan in the misty rain was the most Jiangnan, but for those who work and live here, such a sunny and rainy day would only bring inconvenience to their work and life.

Wu Qian was already standing downstairs with a towel. She was really helpless about her boss's frequent convulsions. Do you know how difficult it is to arrange your schedule? And he often makes trouble like this?

However, as a woman, she really couldn't complain about a man like Feng Yiping, who was entangled in many things every day and earned at least 100,000 yuan every minute, and still had a bit of romanticism in his character.

"Thank you," Feng Yiping nodded to her and followed Lao Ma to the office.

Along the way, you can still see a lot of slogans, which are preparations for the meeting starting tomorrow.

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“This is the time for them to arrive tomorrow. Let’s split up and see which ones you will pick up and which ones I will pick up,” Lao Ma handed him a list of guests with dense numbers on it.

He handed him another cup of tea, “This tea has a story. It is said that one year, there was an osmanthus flower that fell in love with green tea, so there was this, osmanthus tea,”

“Haha,” Feng Yiping took a sip immediately, “It’s better than Longjing, I like it,”

Lao Ma was too lazy to comment on the layman’s words, “Although we are a family, I still have to thank you. Without your efforts, this year’s West Lake Sword Contest would not be so lively,”

“This should be the most worthy of the name since it was held several times,”

It is indeed as he said. The previous West Lake Sword Contests looked more like a self-entertainment of a group of people who were engaged in the Internet and were not the most powerful ones. It is indeed somewhat inconsistent with the name of the West Lake Sword Contest, which anyone who has read Jin Yong’s novels would find grand.

But thanks to Feng Yiping's efforts, the guest lineup for this year's West Lake Forum is truly star-studded.

The main reason is that the participation of some heavyweight foreign guests has made domestic entrepreneurs unprecedentedly enthusiastic about participating.

"Hey, do you know who you should thank more?" Feng Yiping said.

"Who?"

"Schmidt,"

"Him?" Lao Ma was puzzled.

He and Schmidt had never even met, and they were not familiar with each other at all, so why would he take the initiative to help?

"Many of the American bigwigs who came this time were invited by him," Feng Yiping said, "The reason is, you know, at the beginning of last month, he did so many things behind my back, and this is part of his apology,"

"So that's it, Google is really worthy of being Google, if it doesn't move, it's fine, but once it moves, it really leaves people no room to fight back," Lao Ma was still quite emotional when he mentioned the incident at the beginning of last month.

At this time, Wolf Factory was a well-known company in China, because it mainly conducted business for companies and had no strong competitors in the past. It was so easy to make money that even Ma envied it.

But I didn't expect that it would be easily punished by Google when it went public.

In particular, it was not enough for Google to launch an offensive in the United States, but it was able to make the domestic authorities seem to cooperate with the action. This is really capable.

Besides, the propaganda offensive organized by Google in the United States was not simple.

Those guys on Wall Street can be said to have friends all over the world, and the media industry is naturally even more so. Google was able to hide it from them and organize so many well-known media to almost go against them on August 5. This matter was not easy to implement.

You know, the biggest losses of Wolf Factory's failure to go public are actually those underwriters, and the main underwriters of Wolf Factory are Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse First Boston.

These two are real Wall Street bosses.

"It was just a coincidence," Feng Yiping said.

If he hadn't encountered such a thing on the Internet, Wolf Factory might not have been so embarrassed.

To be honest, the actions of domestic regulatory agencies are the main reason why American investors have lost confidence in Wolf Factory.

Feng Yiping circled the list a few times and handed it to Lao Ma, "These are the people I have met at least once before. You can assign the others as you like."

Lao Ma took a look and said, "I have only talked to them at most. So let's do this. Let's let Mr. Feng take charge of the ones with sufficient scale, and leave the relatively second-tier ones to me. In short, we must make sure they feel our sincerity."

"If it were me, I would also feel honored to be picked up by Mr. Feng, the richest man, in person. But, are you sure you don't have other arrangements tomorrow?"

"No, I've pushed them all. Tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, I will focus on this meeting," Feng Yiping said.

"A son is indeed a son. If you care so much about my forum, you can definitely make it a forum with international influence."

"Am I not caring enough? I have invited so many guests this time," Feng Yiping laughed, "Besides, isn't e-commerce your son?"

"Yes, yes," Lao Ma felt that there seemed to be something wrong with Feng Yiping's words. Is he his son, and is he also Feng Yiping's son? Well, let's not think too deeply.

"These products with high per-customer prices should indeed be the focus of our e-commerce efforts,"

The guests they just discussed receiving were not the guests attending the West Lake Sword Forum, but the heads of domestic home appliance manufacturers who were invited to visit and exchange at the e-commerce headquarters.

With the idea that holding one conference is also holding two, Feng Yiping decided to meet with the bigwigs in the domestic home appliance industry before the West Lake Sword Forum to discuss how to increase the sales of home appliances through the mall.

If even large items like home appliances can be purchased online, it is conceivable that other products can be purchased online even more easily.

This is the significance of home appliance sales to e-commerce. Not only can it create considerable sales due to its relatively high unit price, but it also has a huge driving effect.

At the same time, it will also be very helpful in shaping the reputation of the e-commerce group.

"Yiping, I know that you are not very enthusiastic about things like this, so tell me honestly, do you have other considerations for taking such great pains to organize such a meeting this time?"

"Is it to target the two largest offline companies, Gome and Suning?" asked Lao Ma.

"I really don't mean to target them. I just hope that everyone can buy guaranteed home appliances at a more cost-effective price conveniently and quickly," said Feng Yiping.

He did this to consolidate the foundation of the e-commerce group in this area. Of course, it would be a lie to say that he didn't target anyone, but it was really not the two offline home appliance sales giants.

He targeted the friendly business that often quarreled with Lao Ma later.