My 1999

The girl at the front desk brought them into the office, and Xu Liang saw 'Dongzi' who was wearing a crisp suit, looked younger than he remembered, and exuded high-spiritedness.

Liu Qiangxi looked at the person striding in, and instinctively stepped forward to greet him. However, when he got closer, he suddenly realized that the man in the middle, with a majestic figure and a wide-brimmed peaked cap, looked so familiar.

"Mr. Liu, hello."

Looking at the right hand stretched out in front of him, Liu Qiangxi suddenly reacted and blurted out.

"Xu Liang?"

Taking off the peaked cap on his head, Xu Liang smiled and said, "It's me."

Liu Qiangxi was excited. He never thought that one day he would be visited by the famous richest man in China!

"Hello Mr. Xu, you are my idol."

Dongzi held his right hand with both excited hands.

"That's my honor." Xu Liang smiled, "Won't you ask me to sit down?"

Liu Qiangxi reacted and politely asked him to sit down on the sofa in the reception area next to him.

"Xiao Zhao, go get my best tea and brew it for Mr. Xu."

Liu Qiangxi ordered.

As Xu Liang became more and more successful, some of his preferences inevitably spread within the industry.

For example: I don’t drink or smoke, but I like to drink tea.

Secretary Zhao, who was equally excited and unbelievable, quickly agreed and ran out to make tea.

When the tea was brought, Xu Liang picked it up and took a sip.

"tasty."

"As long as Mr. Xu likes it." After a slight hesitation, Liu Qiangxi said, "Are you here to acquire JD.com for No. 1 Store?"

Since JD Multimedia launched its online B2C business in 2003, it has focused on 3C electronic products. With its reputation accumulated offline over the years, it has quickly opened up the Beijing market.

At present, JD.com’s online website has 3.8 million registered users and monthly revenue exceeds 15 million.

Although it is far inferior to Yihaodian and Dangdang, it is still a good 3C vertical e-commerce company.

And because of its good reputation, JD.com’s customer stickiness is very high. Many websites with more registered users than JD.com have less revenue than JD.com.

"I'm here for JD.com, but more importantly for you."

Xu Liang smiled.

"I don't quite understand what you mean." Liu Qiangxi said.

“JD.com is indeed developing very well, with high user loyalty and good reputation. After the acquisition of Yihaodian, it can supplement our business proportion in the Beijing area.

But an acquisition worth tens of millions does not require my intervention.

The main reason why I came here this time is because of your talent. "

Xu Liang stretched out his hand to Lu Hui.

The latter understood and quickly took out a stack of documents from his briefcase and handed them over.

"Let's see."

Liu Qiangxi took it curiously.

He originally thought it was information from No. 1 Store or other companies under Hongmeng, but he didn't expect that it had nothing to do with it at all.

This thick information is divided into two parts.

First, Denong Seed Company.

Second, Denong Agricultural Products Supermarket.

The three companies have absolutely no connection with the Internet and IT.

After flipping through it briefly, Liu Qiangxi put down the information.

"Mr. Xu, I don't quite understand what you mean."

"After Yihaodian acquires JD.com, I hope you will take your team to take over the management of Denong Seed Industry and Denong Agricultural Supplies Supermarket."

Looking at Liu Qiangxi with a solemn expression, Xu Liang understood that he was unwilling.

If you put yourself in his shoes, if a stranger with whom you had no previous contact came to ask you to give up the business you had worked so hard to create and take over a completely unfamiliar company, you would be equally unwilling to do so.

"Mr. Liu, do you think JD.com still has a future in the B2C field?"

"certainly."

Liu Qiangxi did not hesitate.

Xu Liang did not immediately refute, but took out a piece of information.

"According to our survey, after the establishment of JD.com's online website, the fastest growth was from 2003 to June 2004. From the second half of 2004 to now, your registered users have only increased by less than 500,000.

The reason is simple. After you have tapped into the customer potential you have accumulated offline over the years, and if you want to win more users, you have to compete with No. 1 Store.

But the national market is different from the capital city. In the capital city you have the foundation laid over the years, but in the national market you are just a newcomer.

Whether it is marketing or branding, or even the product richness and logistics distribution, it is far inferior to No. 1 store.

Coincidentally, both Yihaodian and JD.com are B2C companies that insist on mainly selling genuine products.

Under the same development strategy, a company with a valuation of no more than 100 million Huaxia coins.

How confident are you that you are going to compete with an e-commerce giant that has operations throughout Asia, more than 96 million registered users, monthly revenue exceeding 1.06 billion Chinese dollars, and a valuation exceeding US$3 billion?

Of course, you can use any words to express your confidence.

But investment companies are different.

Even if they will invest in you, the conditions are very harsh and they will not give you a high valuation.

In comparison, Yihaodian can easily obtain financing of hundreds of millions of dollars or more.

With this huge gap, it is impossible for JD.com to develop.

The Internet is a winner-takes-all industry, with leading companies occupying 80% of the market. "

"Mr. Xu, JD.com's users are still growing." Liu Qiangxi emphasized.

"I know. And I also conclude that your users will continue to grow in the next four to five years. Although it is not much, it will indeed increase.

the reason is simple.

The current Internet market is an incremental market. Every year, many new generations of netizens join, and they will gradually become users of JD.com.

But if your product richness, logistics and distribution are far inferior to those of No. 1 Store, over time, users will vote with their feet and leave JD.com to join No. 1 Store.

This is why after entering 2005, JD.com’s user base is still growing, but at a slower and slower rate. "Xu Liang said.

Glancing at the silent Liu Qiangxi, he was ready to add some strong medicine.

"Do you know what kind of person I admire most?"

There was a hint of questioning in Liu Qiangxi's eyes.

"Three standards.

First, he was born into poverty.

Second, there is strong ambition.

Third, there is a wealth of knowledge.

People born in poverty have endured hardships since childhood and generally possess perseverance and ambition to change their predicament.

And if you want to get ahead, you must have enough ability. "

Liu Qiangxi subconsciously put himself into it and found that every one of them fit him very well.

"So far, you are one of the two best people I have found who possess these three qualities."

Liu Qiangxi subconsciously asked: "Who is the other one?"

"Lei Jun, CEO of Kunlun Technology Company, a subsidiary of Hongmeng."

Lei Jun's parents are just ordinary middle school teachers with no power.

Moreover, teachers in small cities were not considered wealthy families at all in the 1970s and 1980s.

Life is not as good as that of ordinary farmers.

Therefore, although Lei Jun's background is stronger than Liu Qiangxi's, his strength is limited.

"In my opinion, both you and Lei Jun have the potential to manage top companies." Xu Liang looked directly into Liu Qiangxi's eyes, "The top companies I'm talking about are the ones with assets of more than 100 billion Chinese coins, or even tens of billions of dollars. A world-class enterprise.”

Liu Qiangxi showed a hint of shock on his face.

The words "world-class enterprise" are too far away from him.

After reacting, he said quickly.

"You're flattering me. I can barely manage JD.com, let alone a 100-billion-dollar conglomerate."

"Of course you are not good enough now, but what I am saying is that you have such potential."

Lu Hui next to her subconsciously examined Liu Qiangxi. Why didn't she see what potential this guy had?

I thought to myself.

"The boss must have deceived him in order to acquire JD.com."

Not only she thinks so, but Liu Qiangxi also thinks so.

"Do you think I'm lying to you?" Xu Liang continued with a smile, "The projects I am personally involved in negotiating now are businesses worth hundreds of millions, or even billions or tens of billions of dollars.

For a JD.com with a valuation of no more than 20 million US dollars, it is not worth my visit in person.

But a top talent who can be at the helm of an industry giant with hundreds of billions of Chinese coins, or even tens of billions of dollars, is worthy of my second look. "

Dongzi is able to build JD.com, and its capabilities, skills, strategic vision, etc. are among the best in the industry.

Although he was successful and drifted, he was tricked.

But even Jack and his horse are drifting, and it’s normal for Big Qiangzi to drift too.

At any rate, Daqiangzi has not forgotten his roots, he has never forgotten the well-diggers, and he is also very good to the lower-level employees.

The Jack Horse has become a 'lucky horse'.

Speaking of this, I have to mention Rebus. After becoming famous, he could bend down and open the door for ordinary people. Although his purpose was not simple, compared to other big guys, Rebus already seemed more sincere.

He really deserves to be rich.

Feeling Xu Liang's sincerity, Liu Qiangxi was also quite excited.

With the other party's current status, it is also something to be proud of for Liu Qiangxi to be able to say this.

"As for the 100-billion-dollar conglomerate, I'm not lying to you.

You must have also seen the news about my acquisition of Delong Group from the newspapers? "

Liu Qiangxi nodded.

In the news, those who opposed the acquisition and those who supported the acquisition were in a quarrel. How could he not know?

“After the acquisition of Delong is successful, I will combine Denong Agricultural Materials Supermarket, Denong Seed Industry, and Sanwei Fertilizer to form a comprehensive agricultural group spanning agricultural materials chain, seed industry and fertilizer production.

I hope you will be the CEO of this group.

This is a ten-year industrial plan.

For now, I hope you can manage Denong Agricultural Supplies Supermarket and Denong Seed Industry. "

Compared with cultivating uncertain talents, people like Liu Qiangxi who have proven themselves in the previous life are more worthy of his investment.

“Currently Denong has more than 600 agricultural supplies supermarkets in 11 cities and more than 60 counties in Qilu Province, 387 of which are self-built stores, selling fertilizers, feeds, seeds, pesticides, agricultural films, agricultural machinery and equipment, etc. Major categories of goods.

In 2004, Denong's total assets were 392 million yuan and its net assets were 230 million yuan.

The main business income was 227 million yuan, the main business profit was about 26.57 million yuan, and the net profit was -39.968 million yuan.

Now Denong has basically completed its layout in the entire Qilu Province, and the next step is to expand across the country.

However, in the early days, Denong was too committed to scale, had very loose internal management, and did not improve its personnel system, so I hope you can solve this problem after taking office. "