Chapter 3040: Borrowing

Many people know that Feng Yiping pursues win-win in the business world, but that is aimed at his company's partners.

As for his company, sorry, he usually likes to play alone and doesn't want outsiders to interfere.

Not to mention in China, no one has the ability to force him to invest in his company. Even in the United States, after a series of premeditated operations, he successfully blocked those people who coveted and coveted his various businesses.

With the United States as a model and the cover of American companies, he did not encounter any trouble in this regard when conducting related business in Europe.

The same was true when he started his business in India.

India is a country that is backward in development in related aspects, mainly because the relevant people are backward in related concepts. Overall, it seems that in many aspects, it is very open, and Feng Yiping does not have the pressure to partner with others.

Until he started the e-commerce project, he actually took the initiative to find the Tata Group and Ambani's Reliance Group, which had been on good terms before.

Although he had cooperated with the Tata Group before when he established a special effects company in Mumbai, that was not his key project, and the reason why he did that was mainly because he hoped to get more opportunities to practice as soon as possible through Tata's influence on Bollywood.

E-commerce is one of his core projects, and India is also a market he values ​​very much. He actually brought in two partners at once, which puzzled Lao Ma, who is very familiar with him.

But after he learned about some of the situation in India from the employees stationed in India, he soon understood why Feng Yiping was so abnormal.

If it is said that because of the characteristics of India, there are as many as dozens of main common languages ​​in India that are different from pronunciation to writing to grammar, and artificially increase the probability of illiteracy among the lower-class people in India, so that the actual common language in India is not their legal official language Hindi, but has to choose English, that is, the problem of different writings, which is better solved.

For example, Facebook has launched as many as 15 versions in India, of course, for 15 major languages-this leads to the version launched in India alone, which is close to the whole of Europe.

This of course leads to a series of increases in R&D and operational costs, but fortunately, as long as you are willing to invest, such difficulties can be overcome by yourself.

However, in important aspects related to e-commerce, some problems are difficult to solve in this way.

Everyone knows that talking about e-commerce without express delivery is a real hooligan.

In India, the most difficult problem for an outsider to develop e-commerce is the logistics problem, including express delivery.

Because of the growing prosperity of e-commerce, issues related to logistics costs in our country have attracted the attention of many parties. Many people realize that the inefficiency and high cost of the logistics system have an adverse impact on economic development and the price of some price-sensitive materials, such as vegetables and fruits that are closely related to people's lives.

But in India, like other aspects, their understanding and research in this area are also quite backward, so in this regard, they are still very primitive and very distinctive.

This feature is that if you look at it from the logistics aspect, then India, which claims to be the world's largest sovereign country, really does not look like a unified country.

Each state in India today, which is equivalent to our province, has very great privileges in many aspects such as legislation. If we make an analogy, the states in India are very similar to the feudal states in our history.

The one that has a special impact on the development of enterprises is taxation.

If you deliver goods from one state in India to another, you must pay taxes.

This makes it very difficult to do logistics in India. Sometimes, before the goods are shipped, the special commissioners of the states along the way will actively collect taxes from you.

Therefore, many freight companies in India are not the companies that we are familiar with that deliver goods to you, but they are specifically designed to help you deal with various tax offices in the states along the way, so that you can pay less taxes and clear customs more efficiently...

For outsiders like Feng Yiping, if they want to develop e-commerce in India as soon as possible, how to deal with logistics issues is a big problem.

eBay and Amazon, which developed e-commerce in India earlier, underestimated the impact of this aspect, which led to the fact that their business has been tepid until now, and the losses are very considerable.

Feng Yiping has no ambition to help India rebuild a backbone logistics network in India, nor does he have the ability to push the officials of all levels at various levels related to logistics in various states, especially at the grassroots level of each state. Therefore, he has to rely on local snakes such as Tata and Reliance Group, which have been developing in India for many years and have long extended their tentacles to all aspects of India and have connections everywhere.

Otherwise, how can his e-commerce company develop as soon as possible?

That is as unrealistic as some Indian elites who always vow to catch up with us in all aspects.

Pay money to open the way?

Not to mention the cost, the possible legal risks have made him give up this idea.

"It's not just because of this reason," Feng Yiping looked at the confident and satisfied Indian elites in the banquet hall who were recruited by him to various companies, and rubbed his head with a headache.

Perhaps it is because of the numerous and diverse gods in Indian culture that these people have so many sustenance and reasons for self-clarification, so they can be so confident and calm at any time, but Feng Yiping only has headaches.

"The reason why we rely on them mainly lies in other more important aspects,"

Although he hasn't said which aspect, Lao Ma has already given the answer, "Yes, as a foreign-funded company, creating an environment suitable for the company's development is the top priority."

"Yes," Feng Yiping was thinking about this. "India lags too far behind in terms of legislation, especially legislation related to the Internet. At the beginning, this was an opportunity. There was no supervision."

"However, when local companies enter the same field and relevant laws are gradually being improved, effective communication with relevant government agencies will be the top priority,"

Given India's history and current situation, it is a very sensitive country. If you are ambitious and aggressive at the same time because you are a world-renowned multinational company, the result will definitely not be good.

It is very common to suffer various punishments from various committees, and judges in courts at all levels in various states in India certainly do not all have a good view of the overall situation. It cannot be ruled out that a few or most of them will issue various punishments. ban.

If one thing is not good, it may be like what Google did in our country.

Therefore, for Feng Yiping, how to handle the relationship between the company and the government maturely and efficiently is particularly important in India.

"That's why you made them feel that you valued them in every aspect, including letting Indians take charge of the Indian business." Only then did Lao Ma truly understand the meaning of Feng Yiping's previous words, "It's not easy for you either,"

Of course, it must be better for Indians to communicate with their government.

Feng Yiping now understands why so many well-known high-tech companies have Indian executives, or they are directly at the helm. Although those people have the corresponding abilities, it cannot be ruled out that among those companies Therefore, this arrangement is not suspected of pleasing the important market of India.

"No, brother," Feng Yiping shook his head, "You can't have such an idea. It's not to make them feel that we value them, but that we should value them."

"You have to keep in mind that this is a market where policy comes first, sales comes second, and products come last,"

"Therefore, we pay more attention to communication with relevant institutions than in other places, and strengthen communication with relevant industry associations."

Lao Ma said with a smile, "Fortunately, it's not my turn to worry about these problems now,"

He also concluded, "When dealing with this issue, both Tata and Reliance Group can undoubtedly give us a lot of help,"

That's natural. These two companies have been operating in India for so many years and have remained standing. The relationship is not generally hard. With their help, even if it is just an introduction, it will be much easier, not to mention getting twice the result with half the effort. That is for sure.

"It's up to you from now on," Feng Yiping patted Lao Ma on the shoulder. "From now on, you will be one of the main leaders of the 'Next Billion' project."

Lao Ma's face was solemn but also a little excited, "So hasty?"

Feng Yiping finished his glass of wine and said, "I am the big boss!"

Of course what is said is what is said.

"I'll leave this to you. I'll retreat first."

"I said, please take it easy, tomorrow's event is very important," Lao Ma warned in a somewhat unserious manner.

Feng Yiping gave him a vague middle finger...