Chapter 211: One Month Between Life and Death
February 2, the ninth day of the first lunar month.

Wang Chengguang continued to run around to make dinner appointments and hold talks, finishing a day's work. When he got into the car that came to pick him up, Wang Manni smiled and said from the driver's seat, "Brother Guang, WeChat has 2.8 million users. Although the growth rate has slowed down in the past few days, whether it is Xinghuo WeChat, Weibo, or Xinghuo Pay."

"The proportion of mobile users is increasing. Just as you said, users are getting more and more accustomed to carrying a mobile phone with them and surfing the Internet at any time."

Mobile phones are really much more convenient than laptops, not to mention desktop computers.

Wang Chengguang drank a sip of the spare mineral water in the car and nodded, "This year is the grand opening. The fourth-generation mobile phone launched by Apple's Steve Jobs can be regarded as a god-level mobile phone."

No matter what he thinks, at this stage, the Aipao 4 is far superior to the Meizu M8 and the Spark 1st generation phone which is still under the overall design stage in terms of performance, user experience, and quality.

Otherwise, how could the kidney machine sweep the world? Old Joe also became a god.

The next moment he added, "Go home and take some time to inform the game departments of Xinghuo that they will port one game after another from web games to mobile phones."

The mobile game market began to explode step by step this year.

Wang Manni nodded and took note, then drove home. When the car was about to reach the main entrance of Wang's villa on the North Fourth Ring Road, a figure walked to a brighter street light and waved at them from about ten or twenty meters away.

Wang Manni was surprised and asked, "Brother Guang, it's Jack Ma from Hangzhou. Is he waiting for you?"

Wang Chengguang was stunned for a moment, then woke up from his phone browsing state. After taking a few glances, he smiled and said, "Please stop by the roadside. I'll go down to meet you."

He also knew about Jack's situation. After all, when Pony Ma was frantically poaching Jack's team, he also started poaching the network security team. It was a bit unexpected that Jack went to acquire Ele.me, but it was not too strange.

Putting aside the original trajectory of Alibaba's acquisition of Ele.me, as early as the early stage of Meituan, when it raised funds in 2011, Alibaba injected 5000 million US dollars into Meituan, although at that time the group was engaged in group buying rather than food delivery.

This is enough to show that Jack still has business acumen. As he becomes more and more successful and inflated in the future, he will almost become Judas.

Then he ran away during the expansion.

After getting off the car, Wang Chengguang walked over and said with a smile, "Jack, it's past nine o'clock in the evening, why are you blowing the cold wind here?"

Jack handed over a cigar with both hands, "Mr. Wang, things are different now. If I want to see you, I have to make an appointment normally, but there is no queue."

"I stopped you on the road this time just to ask Mr. Wang, what do you think about ordering food on the Internet? If you think this business has potential, you can consider investing in our Ele.me."

"I feel that under the leadership and support of Mr. Wang, this will be a brand new blue ocean. With the increasing urbanization of society, all kinds of single men and women are gathering in Beijing and provincial capitals. Very poor people cannot eat in restaurants every day."

"But there are single white-collar workers who have a little money and don't want to cook and be polluted by cooking fumes. They are a bit lazy. As long as there are tens of millions of them, we can also launch relevant websites or clients to provide restaurants and food on computers and mobile phones. If the team does a good job, the food delivery market will expand rapidly."

"I feel that this is not much worse than the courier team that Mr. Liu from Renmin University has assembled."

Wang Chengguang took Jack's cigar but didn't smoke it. He waved his hand to let Wang Manni go home first, then smiled and said, "I agree with you. This market is indeed a blue ocean. Besides, there are more than tens of millions of single men and women, right?"

Jack smiled brightly, "Yes, I asked, there are currently 1.9 million single men and women of marriageable age in China, including divorced singles."

He wanted to hype up the Double 11 Singles Shopping Festival last year, but unfortunately he was defeated and his home was robbed, so he lost everything.

Of course, Jack didn't completely fail. First of all, the bank group provided him with 15 billion US dollars. How long did it take to buy back 30% of Alibaba's shares? Less than a year.

Would the banks be happy to see the money go to waste? How many people would be forced to resign if the money went to waste?
Secondly, the Alibaba Group still has some assets that can be sold, and the island country's Masayoshi Abumoto actually recognizes his ability. It's just that when the Alibaba Group was bleeding, it was capital against capital, which triggered a wave of patriotism.

It wasn't Jack's fault.

Moreover, Jack is also very good at fooling people. Masayoshi Son is still optimistic about his resurgence. To put it bluntly, the earliest investor in Alibaba has already made a lot of money, and the big losses of Yahoo can be shared by other Yahoo shareholders.

Wang Chengguang laughed and said, "I want to invest? How much shares do you plan to give me? Is the person behind you willing?"

Jack Ma hurriedly explained, "If Mr. Wang buys in, I will give you at least 30%. As for how much of this 30%, we can negotiate."

Is this a question of money or not? This is a big platform. Once the big platform is pushed, Jack will shine for the second time at a high speed.

Wang Chengguang waved his hand, "I won't join, but I'm still optimistic about your second venture. Takeout is a very good idea. If you need to advertise, just cooperate with Xinghuo Weibo Advertising Department. I won't make it difficult for you."

Jack wants to reap the future fruits of Big Lao Wang? That Lao Wang is about to start Meituan.

What do you think of Wang Chengguang's takeaway delivery group?

He just thinks that the use of big data to take advantage of old customers is too shameless and deceptive, and it is so deceptive that it is speechless.

You cannot deny that the emergence of platforms like Meituan has made life more convenient for many people and given many men and women in difficult circumstances who are facing unemployment the opportunity to quickly apply for a job that will allow them to survive. This certainly has positive implications and is not small.

The problem is that big data is shameless, including various "three-no" restaurants openly selling food on the platform, and they are not responsible for food safety at all...

Before Wang Chengguang traveled through time, the most surprising thing about a certain group was the complaint of a friend of his. This friend was actually his childhood friend, who was also nearly 40 years old and had never married. He was still single. That was because his childhood friend's father had started a business, and when they were in high school in the early s, he bought a big house with a yard in the county town, a self-built two-story building.

Later, the house was demolished... and four or five three-bedroom, one-living-room apartments and a storefront facing the street were built.

That childhood friend just wanted to eat, drink and have fun, and look for young ladies whenever he needed. What his parents left him couldn't make him rich, but he was happy as he had enough food and clothing.

He hardly cooks, and at most he knows how to make a pot of instant noodles. He was a loyal user of a certain group before and after the epidemic.

There was a noodle restaurant on the street side of the county town where Wang Chengguang lived before he traveled through time. It was also a small restaurant opened by people from the countryside. Wang Chengguang often ate there. It was just outside the community and the food in that small restaurant was pretty good.

One time, the two of them were drinking at home, and my childhood friend complained that the noodle shop outside your house has become the best-selling noodle shop in the county according to a certain group review. I often order from there, and the taste is indeed good, comparable to the decades-old chain stores in the city. It's just that 18 yuan for a bowl of noodles is a rip-off. Not only are the noodles expensive, but the packaging box is 2 yuan.

Wang Chengguang was shocked at the time and said, "That's not right. I went to a store and a bowl of noodles cost 9 yuan. How can prices in a county be that high?"

Both of them were silent, their drinking energy suddenly waned.

By the 20s, the term "big data killing old customers" was no longer a new term. Countless people had heard of it. No matter what kind of app you downloaded and used for the first time, it not only felt cheap but also had many discounts. Old users were defrauded.

But after that drinking session, Wang Chengguang realized anew the deceptiveness of big data’s targeting of acquaintances. It turned out that it specifically targeted acquaintances!

After that drinking experience, until he traveled through time, that childhood friend complained about him many times on WeChat, and he never ordered takeout from that restaurant again. Although it was not the noodle shop's fault and the noodles were delicious, he was too lazy to run several kilometers to queue for food in real life.

I would rather lose the money than pay the leeks fee to a certain group.

Wang Chengguang was also certain that this was definitely not an isolated case!

He is a childhood friend and doesn't know Lao Wang from Qingda, and he has no grudge against him. He is a single, fat, second-generation rich man in the county, so how could Lao Wang from Qingda target him?

This is the case for users and merchants, and the rider groups are also being exploited. It is said that a certain group can earn tens of thousands of yuan a month by delivering food. I don't know how many people are running for their lives, and how many riders are tricked by various big data algorithms and often run red lights when delivering goods for fear of being late.

Wang Chengguang was too lazy to cooperate with Jack Ma, but the other party was also a big catfish, confronting Tsinghua University's Lao Wang. It would be easier for users to facilitate the platform without a monopoly.

Jack Ma was a little confused. "Mr. Wang, since you are also optimistic about this market, don't you really want to consider it? I still say that, 30% of the shares are up to you in terms of price. Even if Mr. Wang only takes out one yuan, I dare to sell this 30% to you."

The biggest preparation he made before coming here was how to persuade Wang Chengguang to believe that the online food ordering and delivery platform was a big blue ocean...

Unexpectedly, Wang Chengguang agreed as soon as I mentioned it.

But since the other party agreed, why not make money? Is it really because of that Japanese guy Anben Zhengyi? That's the devil... Well, he can only try to persuade him.

If he gets support from the Spark system, at this stage, the number of mobile 3G users is increasing and is booming. He is confident that with the support of Spark, he can build a food delivery platform that can attract capital within a year.

Wang Chengguang laughed again, "I am now distracted too much. This year, my focus is on mobile phones. If the mobile phone is successful, along with the 3G network trend, Xinghuo Mobile Phone will be a high-tech upstart group in the real economy."

"No need to persuade me, we are on different tracks now, come on, Jack."

After saying that, he waved to Jack and started to go home.

Jack Ma wanted to chase him, but he stopped after taking two steps and waved goodbye. “I wish Mr. Wang to become the chat king on mobile devices.”

A moment later, Wang Chengguang had returned home and the door was closed.

A man quickly got out of a car on the side of the road. After meeting up with Jack Ma, the other party spoke in a slightly stiff Mandarin, "Jack, did the Spark King refuse?"

This is the assistant sent to him by Masayoshi Anben, also a member of Huaxiatong. Jack lit a cigarette and complained, "It is normal to fail in the initial contact. Let's build the platform first and work hard to achieve more results."

"There are more than 3 million mobile G users. We need to gather a new team to build a food delivery website and mobile app. We also need to apply for map information and recruit more professional riders. It's too difficult to find city drivers one by one."

"We must ask AutoNavi to provide us with map guidance as soon as possible..."

AutoNavi launched the Aipao version of navigation last year, and has a long history of collaboration with Audi, Volkswagen and other companies.

He still has to reorganize the field sales team, bring each restaurant into the Internet, and then use the convenient navigation in the smartphone era to hire the large number of young men and women in society who do not have good jobs to run errands.

It started from the school circle and became popular the fastest. The founders of Ele.me were the earliest first-generation riders and deliverymen.

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February 2, the tenth day.

Wang Chengguang worked several rounds of Da Miao Miao early in the morning before he started to cook after washing up. When Gu Jingjing came to wait, he said, "During your working hours today, warm up for the new version of the WeChat function that allows us to bind credit cards and easily withdraw cash."

Gu Jingjing was pleasantly surprised and asked, "Is it settled now?"

Wang Chengguang nodded, "Basically everything has been agreed upon. What remains is the pre-launch and internal testing."

WeChat red envelopes and balance change and other functions were launched as public beta versions for all users. Why was there no internal beta for such a big thing? One reason was to launch a surprise attack so that the big penguin system could not react in time and could not even copy it in time.

Then... WeChat Red Packets were launched on January 1 and then gradually connected to Spark Payment, which lasted until New Year's Eve. It was an internal test with public beta attributes.

Why do you say that? First of all, where did the money come from before the WeChat red envelope and change functions were connected to bank cards? Before they were connected to bank cards, the recharge function was not enabled at the beginning. The first batch of money was issued by Xinghuo, and more than 10 million yuan in bonuses were given to more than 10,000 brave people.

Give a bunch of money to big celebrities like Xu Hongdou and let them show off on the Internet about giving red envelopes to others!

During that time, the money was just numbers!
This is the internal beta test with public beta properties! After experiencing rounds of external hacker attacks, the security team completely withstood the pressure of defense, and only then did they connect to Spark Payment for some people and enable transfer operations.

This so-called full public beta actually started as a small-scale beta test. It was just a trick, and the purpose was to not give Penguin time to copy.

This time it is truly connected to the bank card. Even if the version was developed together with the red envelope and other functions before the Spring Festival, it must be tested within a small range. Now he is not afraid of alerting the enemy, as Penguin has been copying it for a month!
This was a decisive month, as the number of WeChat users soared from over 8000 million to less than 9000 million to more than 2.8 million.

Before the Lantern Festival, we will promptly launch the bank card binding and cash withdrawal functions. This requires coordination with various banks, and ICBC's security team experts will also come to Xinghuo.

ICBC really saw the opportunity to be the most prominent and the easiest to snatch users and depositors among all banks, and their mentality was as passionate as Wang Chengguang's.

Gu Jingjing asked, "So when will the internal test be launched?"

Wang Chengguang nodded, "Ten o'clock in the morning on the 25th. These two days are the time for our security team to connect with the ICBC expert group. The first batch of our company's Internet celebrities are eligible for internal testing, and we will randomly invite netizens."

"After this wave, it won't be difficult for the total number of registered users to exceed 3 million. Fetion will completely become a thing of the past, and all the users they have cultivated since 5 will become the nutrients of WeChat."

Fetion really has no chance at all. All major banks have connected bank cards with WeChat, which was driven by ICBC, which is a major shareholder of WeChat...

Mobile? You, a mobile operator, are trying to steal the bank’s payment business. Don’t make trouble!

(End of this chapter)