Reinventing the Millennium

Fang Zhuo was completely relieved when he received a call from Beijing.

Even if we look at the "front" from the "back", Dahuang always thinks that this level is not hard enough, but speculation is still speculation, and the truth will be known only when the stone falls to the ground.

The other party's covert posture shows weakness. At the very least, he doesn't have that much confidence when facing himself.

Therefore, Tesco can continue to increase its investment and improve the gift to Mr. Dahuang.

The regulation of market behavior in the administrative field, the tightening of corporate finance at the financial level, and industry rivals launching a counterattack against Gome. If according to history, Mr. Dahuang still has a moment to come out this time, what he will receive will be a set of combination punches. .

This is the overall move that Fang Zhuo is considering to fight against Mr. Dahuang.

Regardless of his industry status or the importance he attached to himself, Mr. Dahuang drove his suppliers to "fight the lion against the rabbit with all his strength."

Well, out of respect, it's also an effort to mobilize the resources we can.

Of course, putting aside a little personal touch, Fang Zhuo also regards this channel war as a key point in the growth of Tesco.

Amazon’s Bezos likes to talk about the “flywheel effect” based on Amazon.

——The improvement of user experience brings traffic growth, which in turn attracts more suppliers, which leads to lower prices, richer products and convenience conditions, and finally drives the further improvement of user experience.

——This set of flywheels takes a lot of resources and time to turn from stationary to rotating, but once it starts rotating, it will not stop.

Fang Zhuo believes that this channel competition of Tesco is a flywheel that needs to be turned hard.

As long as we devote all our resources to getting it up and running, we can take advantage of the development of domestic e-commerce and move onto a fast track.

Gome is not the target of Tesco. Alibaba, which just announced this month that it has received a US$1 billion investment from Yahoo, is the expected opponent in the e-commerce field.

This year, Alibaba, which has continued to raise funds, has already beaten eBay to the point of being unable to fight back. Now it has reached a cooperation with Yahoo. This move was also called by Fang Zhuo at the company meeting, "Alibaba has obtained the last bullet to kill eBay."

Under this situation, Fang Zhuo hopes that the "Yigou Double Eleven" prepared by gathering various resources can open up a new situation.

On August 6, Tesco held two consecutive days of meetings focusing on business activities with temporary partners Suning, Wuxing and Yongle.

When it was time to get off work, Fang Zhuo received the news that Gome's Hong Kong stocks had been suspended, and that it had issued a belated clarification announcement, admitting that the chairman was assisting in the investigation, but that its own business had not been affected.

Before he could chat with Su Wei about the status of his competitors based on the news, a call came in from the head of Alibaba.

"Mr. Ma, congratulations." Fang Zhuo was a little surprised by this contact, "The day is not far when eBay will leave the country in disgrace."

"It's not that time yet, but we should use our remaining strength to chase the poor." Ma Ren, who had received a large amount of financing, was quite proud and mentioned the purpose of the call, "I talked to Pony a few days ago, and he mentioned What do you think, Mr. Fang, of sharing our domestic e-commerce experience?"

Today, Alibaba and Taobao are the No. 1 e-commerce companies in China, and Ma Chen is happy to have the opportunity to communicate with everyone.

Fang Zhuo smiled and said: "Boss Ma wants to give us lessons. Of course I am happy to do it. It can be anywhere. Well, you can choose a place where you have never held a meeting before. It can be a change of mood."

Ma Ren suggested: "How about Yiwu?"

Fang Zhuo said in surprise: "Is Mr. Ma going to get something useful? No problem. December at the end of the year is a summary of the development of the industry this year."

There are indeed many things worth talking about in this year’s e-commerce track, including Penguin’s C2C entry, book competition between Dangdang and Tesco, Taobao’s reversal, Alibaba’s cooperation with Yahoo, and Tesco’s scheduled Double Eleven...

When Ma Chen heard this time, he immediately thought of what he had heard and asked directly: "I heard that Mr. Fang's e-commerce store is going to hold a large-scale promotion. This is really an organic combination of the Internet and offline retail."

Fang Zhuo deservedly accepted the praise and suggested by the way: "Taobao can also be done. We will do it for the second half of the year and you do the first half. I have chosen the date for you, June 18th, 6 and 8, Taobao 618. "

Ma Ren was quite moved.

Fang Zhuo added: "Taobao is overpowering eBay this year. It's so powerful. How much is the expected transaction volume this year?"

This is not a number to hide.

Because Taobao has been announcing that its transaction volume has repeatedly broken new highs, while eBay announced tit-for-tat at first, and then gradually became silent.

Ma Chen bluntly stated his internal assessment of this year’s full year: “7 billion to 8 billion.”

Fang Zhuo also had a prediction in mind, but when he heard this number, he couldn't help but exclaimed: "Awesome!"

Last year in 2004, Taobao's transaction volume was close to 1 billion, and this year it is making great progress to reach 78 billion.

This number is half of Gome's revenue. Of course, the two cannot be compared simply, but it is quite astonishing.

Moreover, this kind of rapid progress will continue.

Perhaps, it can surpass Gome next year.

Fang Zhuo subconsciously compared it with the opponents he was familiar with recently, and once again praised: "Taobao's growth is so great, and we can look forward to the future."

Ma Ren laughed: "It was burned with money. If it doesn't grow, we won't be able to survive."

"Then let's talk about the joy of burning money in December." Fang Zhuo said with a smile.

Ma Ren was startled and said: "Each person has a theme. Mr. Fang will talk about this when the time comes."

Fang Zhuo smiled.

The two chatted for a few more words and ended the call.

Fang Zhuo thought for a moment and sighed to Su Wei in the office: "Tesco has a long way to go. If Double Eleven goes well this year, Taobao will be one step ahead of us next year."

According to the current growth trend, the GMV of transaction volume in 2006 will be at least twice that of this year.

The vitality of the C2C market will become more and more prosperous with the development of economy, infrastructure, Internet and other factors.

In comparison, B2C does need more money-burning happiness.

Tesco's current opponents are Gome, which squeezes suppliers, and Suning, which has a short-term cooperation. The biggest advantage it can provide to consumers is transparent product prices without middlemen, which is also the most sensitive factor for everyone.

But in the face of e-commerce competitors, or in other words, in the face of typical representatives of C2C, it is necessary to provide consumers with a good shopping experience in a product value chain through a complete closed loop of self-operated procurement, warehousing, logistics, distribution, and after-sales.

He was supposed to get off work on time today, but because of Ma Min's call, Fang Zhuo couldn't help but hold a small meeting with a few senior executives who had not left to discuss imaginary opponents of the Internet.

If Tesco wants to compete with Taobao, it must fully optimize all aspects, and warehousing and logistics under the heavy-asset model are the top priority.

Fang Zhuo will inspect Tesco's domestic warehousing construction this month, and he can't wait now.

The meeting lasted until half past eight.

Fang Zhuo and Su Wei, the couple who worked overtime, returned hungry, and the others probably had to make do and sort out the company's progress in various directions at home.

However, before arriving home, Fang Zhuo received another call from Wu Zheng.

"Mr. Fang, I will return to the capital tomorrow. Do you have time at noon?" Wu Zheng had been waiting to see the situation since he arrived in Shanghai and got the news from Mr. Huang and Boss Xu.

Today, with Gome's trading suspension and Shencheng media releasing an interview with President Xi Jinping about corporate compliance, he is finally returning to the capital.

What is the nature of Mr. Fang’s interview?

This is the ending!

The one-stop chain of Gome cutting off supply, Mr. Fang’s words, fashion business mediation, mediation failure, Mr. Huang’s incident, market counterattack, and public opinion ending is very clear.

Wu Zheng saw this matter clearly from the perspective of a bystander. Seeing that there seemed to be no room for change, he planned to return to Beijing.

However, after thinking about it, a righteous person like him still felt that he could talk to Mr. Fang. Mr. Fang and Mr. Huang were fighting, so Boss Xu was quite innocent. People in the circle and in the news began to talk about Gome, Tesco, and Mr. Huang. Mr. Fang, but Boss Xu didn’t even make a splash.

Wu Zheng believed that the relationship between Boss Xu and himself was at least worthy of an explanation.

"Mr. Wu will go back tomorrow? Tomorrow noon... Tomorrow noon the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce will have an event, I'm afraid I won't have time." Fang Zhuo said, "I just came out of the company and haven't eaten yet, so Mr. Wu came out to have supper together."

Wu Zheng was a little surprised and agreed.

Fang Zhuo decided on the location and turned to the restaurant.

"What on earth is Mr. Wu here for? I thought he had already left." Su Wei asked.

"Maybe it's a matter of human touch." Fang Zhuo replied.

Today, especially since Bingxin has submitted the development plan for the second production line, he has lost patience with the Rhubarb incident and does not want to be affected by this anymore.

Everyone is very busy, so that’s about it.

Wu Zheng still went to the banquet alone. When he saw Mr. Su and Mr. Fang from Tesco together for the second time, he vaguely understood the relationship between the two.

He just wanted to talk about something, while Fang Zhuo and Su Wei really came to eat.

It’s supper time and have a great time.

Wu Zheng picked the topic and maintained a good chat atmosphere.

When he saw that the two of them were eating about the same amount, he still mentioned Boss Xu, who he had a good relationship with.

"Mr. Fang, to be honest, although I came to Shanghai on an entrustment," Wu Zheng said, "But Mr. Huang and I are not familiar with each other."

Fang Zhuo took a sip of juice and said nothing. It was endless.

Wu Zheng saw Mr. Fang's face, but the strength in his heart supported him and continued: "It's Xu Zhongmin, the boss of Chaohaowei in Beijing, who heard that Mr. Fang and I worked together at Sina. He and I have a good relationship."

Fang Zhuo had never heard of this person, but he roughly knew what was going on when he heard the name of the store, but he still didn't say anything.

"I promised him to come over, and he was very happy and planned to come over to visit Mr. Fang later." Wu Zheng added.

After Fang Zhuo put down his chopsticks, he finally responded: "He was happy too early."

Wu Zheng couldn't continue what he was thinking, and the energy in his heart could only support him so far. After all, Mr. Fang's words were simple, direct, and clear.

Seeing that Mr. Wu had no intention of nagging, Fang Zhuo raised his glass happily and said: "Mr. Wu, that's it. If Boss Xu wants to visit, just let him come by himself. I won't run away here. I will accept whoever comes to Hang Lung 23." welcome."

Wu Zheng thought to himself, you will never run away, but maybe the boss has to be able to come. The meaning of this sentence is even more rude.

He also raised his glass and drank the last glass of juice on this trip to Shanghai.

Wu Zheng felt that Mr. Fang would not give up and he had done his best, so Boss Xu would just accept fate.

Late night snack time becomes enjoyable again.

Fang Zhuo believes that everyone will become amiable if they no longer dwell on the past.

On the way back, Su Wei gave a small reminder: "I remember you asked me to tell you to pay attention to being kind to others. Mr. Wu seems to have unfinished business. Who is that Boss Xu?"

"I don't know him, I haven't heard of him, and I'm not interested." Fang Zhuo said this, but he also reflected, "Weiwei, you are right, I seem to be a little impatient. Mr. Wu is my friend. You can't do this next time." .”

Su Wei nodded and remained cautiously optimistic.

As expected, an influential thing is not so easily erased by the mind without a sound.

The next day at the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce, Fang Zhuo attended as vice president and talked about his legal team that cooperated with a New York law firm and was willing to provide some help to companies with foreign trade business.

This is a good thing.

This is certainly a good thing.

However, when Fang Zhuo spoke about foreign cases, a fresh member of the chamber of commerce raised his hand to ask a question.

"Mr. Fang, do you think Gome has violated regulations?"

Fang Zhuo was originally smiling, but when he heard this question, he immediately stopped smiling, pointed at the meeting topic on the screen, and said four words to the person sitting next to Yao Ji Poker Yao Wenchen: "Let's discuss the matter."

This man was still a little unconvinced.

Fang Zhuo glanced at him lightly.

He was frightened, and then Yao Wenchen, who was feeling embarrassed, touched him with his foot, so he took advantage of the situation and stopped making any sound.

The meeting had a slight interruption and resumed smoothly.

Vice President Fang's move by the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce was out of goodwill, and many members expressed their gratitude at the end. However, aside from the useful but boring meeting content, the small episodes were even more interesting to talk about.

People at that time praised him and said, Mr. Zhu is not bullied by me, but Mr. Fang has a fierce streak.

The conversation lasted only half a minute, but the conversation could last for an hour.

Liu Suyi also attended the meeting, and was called over by Mr. Fang to ask about the results.

He responded to everyone's comments quite tactfully.

Even with Fang Zhuo's broad mind, he couldn't help but feel depressed after hearing the comments about himself from the beginning of the incident to the present. He updated his blog that night.

——There are people in the world who slander me, bully me, insult me, laugh at me, belittle me, despise me, hate me, or lie to me. How should I deal with it?

——Just tolerate him, let him, let him go, avoid him, be patient with him, respect him, ignore him, and wait for a few more years to see him.

Fang Zhuo quoted a famous saying and wrote: This is the most beneficial way of dealing with people.

However, in addition to attracting many supportive comments, the richest man's blog also had dazzling words that made Fang Zhuo sigh. After all, it was no longer about seeking comfort and self-comfort.

Su Wei witnessed his emotional change. When Mr. Fang left the room, she couldn't help but read the comments on the blog.

Someone commented: The more something is lacking, the more it becomes apparent.

Su Wei couldn't help but laugh. Mr. Fang, who was kind to others, was eventually hurt without mercy.