Chapter 1640 I Am the Lord

There are no ifs in life.

Some people, in a certain period of time, are destined to be extraordinary.

At the very least, Li Dong at this time, at the peak moment of his life, couldn't just say he was ordinary.

At this time, he is destined to attract people's attention.

If life could start over again, would Li Dong choose this path? Li Dong used to think about this, but now he doesn't think about it.

Now that you have done it and enjoyed it, there is no time to regret it.

What's more, he didn't regret it now.

He's still young, and he still has time.

The only thing he was worried about was whether some accidents would happen at that point in time.

As for other things, today's Li Dong no longer thinks about what happened.

...

October 10th.

Saturday.

It's a beautiful day, and the weather is fine.

Early in the morning, Li Dong and Ma Yun gathered in the lobby of the hotel, and everyone climbed the mountain in separate teams.

Everyone has their own circles, and since there are circles, there are levels.

The big players have their teams, and the weak have their teams.

Li Dong and his group are destined to be dazzling.

The first-line giants in the IT industry have gathered together.

In addition to the newly emerging IT giants in these years, there are also some other people who are also appearing in this circle at this moment.

Su Lin Zhang Jindong, Lenovo Liu Chuanzhi, BYD Wang Chuanfu, Geely Li Shufu, Sanpower Group Yuan Yafei...

These industrial giants and leaders of private entrepreneurs also showed up one after another.

There are also some new tycoons, Longhua Xu Shengzhe, Dongxing Hu Xiaorui, Zhuangshi Zhuangfan...

these younger generations,

also appear here.

From the beginning of the IT summit to the present, the Huashan summit has almost become a paradise for private entrepreneurs.

This time, it's not that there are no people from state-owned enterprises, but very few people are here.

The outside world claims that Huashan Lunjian is a meeting for hegemony, and the competition is for the hegemony of the business world.

Private entrepreneurs can compete. As a state-owned enterprise, it is not a one-person enterprise. At this time, it is not appropriate to participate in these competitions.

Of course, the outside world said so, but after all, it was a rare event in the business world.

Although many heads of enterprises did not show up, they all sent representatives to attend.

Among the crowd, there was one person who was quite special.

Niu Gang, the head of the Dashang Group!

Dashang was originally a state-owned enterprise, but in the past few years, the retail industry has been changing, and under various pressures, Dashang had to restructure.

With the retreat of the country and the advancement of the people, Niu Gang of Dashang has gradually controlled the actual ownership of Dashang through a series of operations and cooperation with related parties in the past two years.

At this time, Dashang was not considered a state-owned enterprise, and Niu Gang also changed from a professional manager to the actual controller of Dashang.

Of course, the shares he holds are not too many.

But at this time, he can be regarded as a private entrepreneur, not just a professional manager.

Among today's offline retail groups, Dashang is also one of the undoubted giants.

This time, almost all the retail giants are here.

Whether it's department stores or home appliances, even Huarun and Bailian, although the chairman didn't come, they sent their vice presidents to attend the meeting.

Li Dong and Ma Yun, as representatives of online e-commerce retail, must attend the summit they organized, and offline retail companies must attend.

...

Everyone set off in groups, and Li Dong and his group walked behind.

In front, the hired tour guide explained to everyone with some trepidation.

The group of people in the back, if you just pull one out, they are all amazing existences.

Now they are all gathered together, and they all look interested in listening to the tour guide's explanation. Being stared at by them, the tour guide is naturally very nervous.

I'm afraid that if I say something wrong, some big boss will be dissatisfied.

In fact, this time, in order to prevent the young people from being able to bear the pressure, the local government made special arrangements. The tour guide is not a young man, but an old man who has been in the scenic spot for many years.

Ordinarily, this kind of explanation, the tour guide has repeated it not only 10,000 times, but also 8,000 times.

But this time, when it comes to speaking, the tour guide in his early forties is still stuttering.

Of course, no one laughed at him, and no one cared whether he stuttered or not.

Although everyone seemed to be listening to his explanation, in fact, they were all listening to all directions, listening to the whispers of the surrounding people.

Among the crowd, Li Dong was naturally the most dazzling one.

Even if he was walking behind, wearing sportswear, and looking sunny and young, those who didn't know him would think he was a passer-by.

But those present, no one could ignore him.

At this moment, although everyone did not gather around Li Dong regardless of their status to listen to him, they were all distracted and listened to what Li Dong was saying.

...

Although, we agreed not to talk about work during the day, but to talk about scenery.

But there was a lot of talk, and at the beginning, there was a bit of gunpowder among the crowd.

Big merchants occupy the Northeast, Niu Gang used to be a professional manager, rarely participated in gatherings, and was not very familiar with everyone.

But since he came this time, Niu Gang didn't plan to keep a low profile.

At this time, it was Niu Gang who argued with Li Dong and the others.

At first, everyone talked happily, but after Niu Gang uttered a few words, the atmosphere suddenly changed.

"E-commerce has developed rapidly in recent years. With the development of the times, e-commerce has supplemented the retail industry and enriched the entire industrial chain. This cannot be denied.

But we must also admit that e-commerce, especially the online shopping market, has a lot of problems!

Here, I must say a few words.

Online shopping, especially C2C, has a lot of counterfeiting, infringement, non-tax sales and other problems!

The government should introduce policies to collect taxes on third-party merchants, instead of not only not collecting taxes, but also subsidizing them!

The cost of electronic shopping malls is lower than that of physical retail. At this time, no tax is paid and subsidies are returned. After that, who will open physical stores?

This is to drive physical retail to a dead end!

Some platforms have annual sales of hundreds of billions, how much tax is paid?

How many people actually file taxes?

In addition, it is difficult to protect rights online, and various problems are prominent. Some brand owners complain frequently, and various fake and shoddy products flood the entire market.

Shopping in physical stores is, after all, guaranteed.

But online, how high is the guarantee?

Now that the government is constantly promoting the development of e-commerce and ignoring us companies, this is putting the cart before the horse!

If this continues, we will go bankrupt, how will hundreds of millions of employees deal with each other, are they all going to open online stores?

Our companies pay tens of billions of taxes to the government every year, but in the end they all use it to subsidize e-commerce!

This is drawing our blood to replenish e-commerce..."

What Niu Gang said was very excited, even a little angry.

Although Zhang Jindong on the side felt that it was a bit extreme, and Su Lin was also an e-commerce business, but at this time, Niu Gang opened the topic, and Zhang Jindong also said in a deep voice: "C2C platforms do need to strengthen management. As for the tax issue, this point also needs to be paid attention to." .

Some of the government's policies now appear to be somewhat biased.

Physical stores have their existence value.

But now, as rents rise and labor costs increase, the days of our companies are getting more and more difficult.

I say this not for our personal profit, but for the whole industry!

Lao Ma and I are still cooperating now, but we have some things to say.

Although I don’t agree with all of what Mr. Niu said, I still agree with most of it..."

Several people were talking, and Ma Yun was not to be outdone, and said: "The merchants on the C2C platform are now mainly young people who have no background, no funds, and hard work to start a business.

Online shopping mall, the profit is not as high as you imagined, and the payment is no less than any entrepreneur.

For these young people with no background and no funds, this kind of entrepreneurship is even more difficult.

At this time, e-commerce has just started to pick up, and taxing them is taxing the hope and future of young people.

Recently, some remarks have been a little too radical.

Some people are saying that an online store owner with annual sales of more than 100,000 yuan is not as valuable as the value created by migrant workers...

I don't mean to look down on any industry, anyone.

But why do you say that starting an online business is not doing business properly?

Isn't starting a business online?

You only think about the impact of the platform on you, but you have considered that the e-commerce platform is now also supporting an industry, supporting countless people and enterprises.

Once taxes are imposed on the fledgling e-commerce, do these people still have the passion to start a business?

I've been saying that it's not that we don't pay taxes, but that we have to wait until the industry is fully on the right track and people see hope for the entire industry.

At that time, we should do what we should do.

Now is not the time.

As for the so-called impact in your mouth, I haven't seen much impact yet.

Isn't it right for the government to subsidize and promote emerging industries?

Back then, when the hypermarket model emerged, wasn’t the government subsidizing and promoting it?

Why is it used as an excuse to attack when you go to the electronic mall..."

"Mr. Ma, where did the attack come from? Let's discuss the facts!

Also, you said it’s not time yet, but in the first three quarters, the transaction volume of the online shopping market has reached 500 billion!

At this time, isn't it enough for people to pay attention to online shopping, which has only been around for a few years and has reached this scale?

It is also true that physical stores have been hit!

Tax payment is a matter of course, and the industry can appropriately relax the standards in the early stage.

But now the online shopping market is no longer in the initial stage, at this time, it is still being treated differently, wouldn't it be chilling..."

"..."

Several people debated fiercely about whether C2C individual merchants should collect taxes or not.

At this time, Li Dong didn't speak.

For the tax collection of C2C merchants, Wanjia.com is not as large-scale as Dibao, and Ma Yun's charge is enough.

Besides, he does both online and offline, and he is not good at judging.

But soon, the flames of war involved Li Dong.

After talking about C2C for a while, almost everyone pointed their fingers at Li Dong.

Ma Yun probably felt that it was not worthwhile for him to come forward to refute, and then said: "You don't have to always look at C2C, after all, C2C is created by young people with no background and no money to start a business.

You say C2C taxation, what about B2C platforms?

On the B2C platform, the enterprise is paying taxes.

Strictly speaking, Ali's B2C has a tax payment ratio similar to that of physical retail.

But Yuanfang Mall, the tax payment ratio is less than 2%, which is far less than the 3.5% or more of physical retail..."

Today, for these large retail companies, the average annual tax is about 3.5%.

These include various reductions, tax rebates, tax avoidance and other policy measures.

However, the electronic mall enjoys more policies, and the actual tax payment ratio is less than 2%, which refers to self-operated business.

Tmall's self-operated business is actually not Ali's, but the manufacturer's self-operated business.

But self-employment in the distance really belongs to the distance.

The less tax here on Yuanfang means that Yuanfang Mall is more competitive and more profitable, which also leads to a greater impact on other entity enterprises after Yuanfang Mall grows bigger.

As soon as these words came out, everyone really quickly pointed their finger at Li Dong.

Li Dong looked at everyone filled with righteous indignation, and said helplessly: "Didn't the old horse say that?

Young people need to be given a chance.

C2C entrepreneurs are young people, have you forgotten that entrepreneurs far away are also young people, they need to be cared for, and the future of young people cannot be stifled..."

As soon as these words came out, everyone turned black.

Li Dong just made a joke, and then said seriously: "As the current largest B2C platform, and the largest company in the offline retail system.

I am listening to everyone's arguments and thinking about them.

From my point of view, what I said would be more fair.

After all, Yuanfang, as the leader of the two fronts..."

Ma Yun coughed lightly and said, "I'll talk about these boastful words later, you can just say what you think."

Li Dong retorted: "Why are you boasting? The fact is so, is there room for debate?"

Ma Yun was speechless, there was indeed no room for debate.

Li Dong saw that he rarely refuted, so he continued: "Let me first talk about Boss Niu's shock theory.

You said that the rise of e-commerce has had an impact on offline stores. This is a fact. If Lao Ma said no, that is nonsense.

And as time progresses, this impact will become bigger and bigger. This is also a fact and cannot be denied.

But this is not simply a tax issue! "

Li Dong shook his head and said, "You can't look at the problem too biased.

The development of e-commerce and the prosperity of the online shopping market are the development of the times and the inevitability of the replacement of old and new.

If an industry is impacted, it means that this industry is not satisfactory and cannot meet the greater needs of consumers.

With economic development, technological breakthroughs.

It is an inevitability of social development that new industries and new fields will show their prominence and have an impact on old industries and old things, or even eliminate them.

It cannot be said that because of being impacted, we will discard the basics and take the last, and not develop this thing.

If you don't develop, others are developing; if you don't make progress, others are making progress.

In the end, we will only fall further and further behind, and if we fall behind, we will be beaten!

At this time, what we have to do is not to set up some obstacles against the opponent.

Today you say that e-commerce is blocking your way, and you are suppressing it. Tomorrow you will also start e-commerce yourself. At that time, will you also set up obstacles for yourself?

How can brick-and-mortar retail continue to develop and remain competitive.

At this point, we must break through this obstacle from ourselves.

For physical retail, at this time, we should focus on improving management levels, reducing management costs, improving supply chain channels, introducing new technologies to reduce various losses, and improving service standards... These are the main ones!

In fact, there is no need to continue arguing about the issue of tax payment.

E-commerce tax payment, which should be, is also necessary.

But at this time, it's really not appropriate.

Mr. Niu said that the online shopping market broke through the 500 billion mark in three quarters, which is a fact.

But 500 billion, compared to the entire Chinese social consumer goods market, the share is low and invisible.

At this time, it is a lie to say how big and prosperous e-commerce is.

Moreover, the main performance is concentrated on us and Taobao, and we occupy more than 80% of the market share.

Paying taxes, our big platforms can’t die.

However, some small and medium-sized platforms that do not make much profit in the first place will almost die once they are taxed equally.

Without the filling of these platforms, this market will decline sooner or later.

Killing a new industry will not be invisible to the government, so the government is actually considering whether to levy taxes now.

As far as I'm concerned, it's not quite right now.

Three to five years later, when online shopping occupies more than 30% of the market share in the social consumer goods market.

At that time, Lao Ma said that he would not pay taxes, so I had to suggest to the government that it was time to collect taxes. "

Li Dong played a stick on each side, with an attitude of a fair man.

But everyone listened carefully and realized carefully. What this guy said, in fact, in one sentence, he has already transcended this field.

Now, he is standing at a higher angle, acting as an arbiter for everyone.

But the truth is, this guy is actually the biggest beneficiary!

When he said this, it seemed that this was someone else's business and had nothing to do with him.

Someone was about to refute a few words, when Li Dong said again: "The daytime is still mainly for leisure and entertainment, don't pay too much attention to these things.

In the evening, let's talk in detail.

In addition, this time it is not simply a matter of discussing the retail business.

We need to open our eyes a little…”

While he was talking, Ma Yun's phone rang.

Not only Ma Yun, but many people's phones rang.

Climbing today, very few people bring assistants, and the staff follow behind, still some distance away from here.

At this time, it's nothing serious, and the phone can't reach these people.

When Ma Yun and the others heard the phone ringing almost at the same time, their expressions changed slightly.

Li Dong, on the other hand, looked around with a gesture of admiring the scenery.

Soon, these people all answered the phone.

On the way to answer the phone, many people were surprised and couldn't help but look towards Li Dong.

"Yuanfang announced that it will raise 300 billion yuan from the outside world for the development of the retail group!"

"300 billion..."

This number is frequently mentioned in various phone calls.

If it is only tens of billions, although everyone will think about it, they will never think too much.

After all, Yuanfang has a large system and tens of billions of funds for development, which is also necessary.

It can raise 300 billion yuan at a time, and few people have heard the news beforehand. It is almost sudden to start financing. What does Yuanfang want to do?

Ma Yun was holding the phone, his expression fluctuating.

Others only care about 300 billion, but Ma Yun is not only concerned about this, but also the Double Eleven that started to promote almost at the same time!

Yuanfang's external publicity, an unprecedented feedback day!

Unprecedented big promotion!

An unprecedented shopping festival...

In short, when they went up the mountain, the whole of China, the print media, the Internet media, the traditional media...

Almost all are promoting this new shopping festival!

The momentum is so huge that not only online, but also offline stores in distant places are starting to promote simultaneously.

In an instant, at least hundreds of millions of people saw these propagandas.

Just from such a huge publicity and promotion, you can feel that this is not a small hand!

Li Dong, what does this guy want to do!

Ma Yun took a deep look at Li Dong. When the outside world was paying attention to Huashan Lunjian today, he suddenly started a big move.

Just to grab attention?

Ma Yun was not stupid, he thought of many things in an instant.

Also, Yuanfang Retail raised 300 billion yuan, what does Li Dong want to do?

At this moment, how can everyone still think about traveling in the mountains and rivers.

Huashan Lunjian, maybe Li Dong didn't pay attention to it from the beginning to the end, he paid more attention to actual interests.

Or, Li Dong wanted to regard this summit as a critical point, a critical point to establish his position as an invincible overlord!