Chapter 438 Qingcheng breaks off an arm, Tengda gives it a try!
The second uncle, Tang Yi, said that he would take the lead in launching the regulation of Internet taxi-hailing businesses in Lingnan Province to set an example for China, but the actual implementation, no matter what, would have to wait until after the Spring Festival.
First, you can’t just listen to Zhang Shuo’s words, you must also conduct specific investigations and research.
Second, prudent supervision is needed for the new Internet taxi-hailing business. It can be relaxed a little in the early stage. Only when problems begin to be exposed can there be reason to intervene.
So as not to cause unnecessary trouble.
But fortunately, Internet taxi-hailing will continue for many years, and there is no rush at this moment. As long as Lingnan Province has this idea, then from Zhang Shuo's perspective, it is actually a victory.
"By the way, a lot of people have been asking me recently, saying that the recent formation of Qinghe Group by Meiya is to prepare for the spin-off and listing of Qinghe Group?" Tang Yi mentioned another matter.
If Qinghe Group is really going to be listed, it will definitely be a high-quality stock among high-quality stocks. The sensation it will cause on a global scale may not be smaller than when Ali went public last year.
"Qinghe Group has no plans to go public in the short term."
Zhang Shuo smiled and shook his head, "A company goes public either to raise funds or to increase the shareholders' wealth. As a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sprout, Qinghe Group is neither short of money nor short of worth."
Before the short video business is completed, any valuation of Qinghe Group will be absolutely underestimated.
How could it be possible to choose to go public?
"That's true."
Facing Zhang Shuo's Versailles, Tang Yi expressed his approval.
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Monday, January 13th.
According to the plan, the company's annual meeting will be held this Friday. After the annual meeting, the company will enter a semi-vacation state, and will turn a blind eye to those who fish at work.
On the contrary, the number of senior executives reporting to Zhang Shuo suddenly increased.
I rushed to finalize some major matters before the year.
No, as soon as Zhang Shuo saw off Operations Director Liu Xiaohui and Gu Mingzhang, Senior Vice President of the Group and President of Maili Group, he knocked on the door again and came in.
It's like lining up.
"Chairman, let me report on the progress of Maili Group's new product research and development this year."
If 2012 is the year of Maili Group’s rise, and 2013 is the year of Maili Group’s consolidation, then 2014 will be the year of Maili Group’s true explosion.
in New Year.
MaiLi Group will not only release MaiLi x3, MaiLi x3
Max, MaiLi tablet 2.0, will also release the first generation MaiLi notebook and the first generation MaiLi smart watch.
The product line will be further enriched.
Let’s not mention the Maili notebook for now. Although it will be equipped with a graphics card developed by Jing Jiawei, and a hard drive and memory developed by Changchang Storage, in general, Maili Group is still playing the role of a semi-assembly manufacturer.
It can only be regarded as a trial in the notebook computer business.
If you really want to achieve big breakthroughs in the future, you have to rely on Longxin to make key breakthroughs in the CPU, so as not to be stuck by overseas giants.
This life.
Although Longxin has received budding capital injections, whether and when it can break through is, to be honest, still unknown so far.
Therefore, what is most worth looking forward to is the Maili smart watch project planned and promoted by Zhang Shuo.
"The smart watch project has completed industrial design, and suppliers of related spare parts have been determined. Some of the key and core technologies are being stepped up to tackle."
"If everything goes well, the prototype will be ready before the end of the year." Gu Mingzhang reported.
"Not enough." Zhang Shuo shook his head.
If I remember correctly, the original time and space, Pingguo will officially announce the Pingguo watch at the autumn conference in September this year, and then wait until March next year for official release.
In terms of time, it basically collides with the Maili smart watch.
In itself, the MaiLi mobile phone, MaiLi tablet, and even the upcoming MaiLi notebook all have traces of imitating the Pingguo series. If the MaiLi smart watch crashes again...
Don’t make the picture too beautiful!!!
The best way, of course, is to unveil the mystery of the Maili smart watch and sell it first before Pingguo launches the Pingguo smart watch.
In this way, Maili can transform from a pursuer and imitator of Pingguo to an industry leader.
The coffee table was immediately served.
It will definitely be a big help in improving Maili’s brand image and global influence.
"We must announce the existence of Maili smart watches to the public in September, no, preferably in the first half of the year, and then rush to achieve mass sales before the end of the year."
Zhang Shuo gave Gu Mingzhang a new production target, which was equivalent to two or three months in advance.
"good."
Seeing that the big boss was firm, Gu Mingzhang could only bite the bullet and try to put pressure on the R&D, production and other departments to compress the R&D cycle and production cycle as much as possible.
In order to meet the time node for mass release at the end of the year.
………
After seeing Gu Mingzhang off, Zhang Shuo took the initiative to call Lu Qi to the office.
"As for the Internet taxi-hailing business, I thought about it. Qingcheng Taxi-hailing still needs to be on the safe side and conduct a new round of review of existing registered drivers to resolutely eliminate those who make false reports, conceal information, or have incomplete information.
Even drivers with falsified information should strengthen the self-supervision function of the platform."
Since the second uncle wants to make some moves, Zhang Shuo must naturally cooperate fully.
"Well, if this happens, Qingcheng's taxi-hailing business will probably come to a standstill or even be paralyzed." Lu Qi was a little confused and didn't understand why the big boss suddenly mentioned this.
At the moment, Didi and Kuaidi are fighting fiercely. Qingcheng Taxi doesn't follow up and provides subsidies. It even takes heavy measures to rectify the driver group. Is it because they think the driver loss is not fast enough?
"Isn't it a little difficult to understand?" Zhang Shuo smiled.
"It's hard to understand."
Lu Qi also told the truth. When he was in his position, he didn't need to act like a fool.
Zhang Shuo doesn't like it either.
"That's what I think. Anyway, with the rise of the subsidy war between Dida and Kuaidi, Qingcheng Taxi's registered drivers are already losing rapidly. No matter how bad it is, it won't be much worse."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "You might as well take this opportunity to make the rules clear and stick to them."
"When the subsidies for Didi and Kuaidi end, registered drivers will return to Qingcheng again, so they won't have to be bad guys again," Zhang Shuo explained with a smile.
Management is also an art.
As the chairman of the Sprout Group, Zhang Shuo can directly issue tasks without explaining some things, such as the time node of the smart watch when he was talking to Gu Mingzhang just now.
Because this is a hard target, it must be completed unconditionally.
There's nothing to explain.
But for some things, such as the current strong restrictions on registered Internet taxi drivers, it is necessary to give an explanation, because this directive is abnormal.
With Zhang Shuo's current prestige, he can certainly order Lu Qi to enforce it.
But there will definitely be complaints and many voices of incomprehension below. If something goes against the will or Zhang Shuo's intentions are misunderstood, the gains will outweigh the losses.
So you must make it clear, even if you just give a valid reason.
"Uh, okay."
Of course Lu Qi also knew very well that the reasons given by the big boss were very high-sounding.
How to see.
They all have the meaning of breaking a jar.
But Lu Qi was not a fool. He was vaguely aware that the big boss might have other considerations behind doing this. Otherwise, there would be no need to talk to him specifically about such a trivial matter.
The specifications are a bit too high.
"Of course, while restraining and supervising registered drivers, Qingcheng Group can also provide a formal employment contract for those who are willing to become full-time online ride-hailing drivers."
"For example, sign a three- to five-year labor contract and pay social security according to the standards of regular employees."
There is actually a precedent for similar practices in Qingcheng.
For example, a takeout delivery person.
Zhang Shuo's meaning is also very simple, that is, to bring emerging professions such as takeout delivery persons, express delivery persons, and online ride-hailing drivers into the formal occupation category.
Truly assume the social responsibilities that enterprises should bear.
Instead of dumping these burdens on outsourcing companies like other capital, or even forcing online ride-hailing drivers to register as self-employed, the platform's strength will be used to reversely squeeze these groups.
That would be too abominable.
"clear!"
Lu Qi caught up with the idea quickly this time. He had worked with Zhang Shuo for a long time, and of course he had some understanding of Zhang Shuo's business philosophy.
I am both admired and honored.
"Also, I have another idea, please give it to the staff." Zhang Shuo rarely talked much.
"Please speak!"
Lu Qi had already taken out his notebook.
"That's right. Although online car-hailing is a reflection of the progress of the Internet, I don't think the taxi industry should be killed and the past achievements of taxis should not be wiped out just because of the emergence of online car-hailing."
"It's not necessarily about who needs to replace whom. Maybe we can also achieve coexistence?"
"For example, Qingcheng Bicycle does not poach taxi companies and find ways to get taxi drivers to install taxi software. Instead, it directly provides software services to taxi companies."
"Do you think this will lead to trouble?" Zhang Shuo asked with a smile.
"Providing software services to taxi companies. Chairman, do you mean to lease Qingcheng Taxi to taxi companies for use as something similar to office software?"
Lu Qi's eyes flashed.
"That's what it means. For example, you can build a taxi version of Qingcheng Taxi, which is called Qingcheng Taxi. The pricing method is still based on the taxi method. Qingcheng Taxi is an operating platform and does not directly calculate the price of each order.
Instead of extracting fees from the taxi company, the overall software service fee will be charged to the taxi company.”
"Of course, it also includes subsequent software operation and maintenance costs."
In other words, Qingcheng Taxi has built an intelligent online calling platform for taxi companies, directly integrating the Internet's map navigation technology and calling technology with the traditional taxi industry.
It can also be regarded as an application method of the Internet.
In this way, there is no need to revolutionize the taxi industry, allowing the two to coexist.
It is also more conducive to supervision.
Zhang Shuo's idea is equivalent to a compromise of the second uncle's previous idea.
"This can indeed be a direction to try."
Lu Qi's eyes also lit up, "In this way, after coming down, I will meet with Pei Weiping and the others to contact the taxi companies in Binhai City and Yangcheng first to test the attitude of the taxi companies."
"Then I'll leave this matter to you."
Zhang Shuo is only responsible for proposing ideas, and there is no need for him to worry about the specific implementation.
I think it's very optimistic.
If I remember correctly, in the original time and space, due to the emergence of online ride-hailing, taxi driver protests occurred in many places. If we could coexist peacefully, wouldn't everyone be happy?
………
Lu Qi's execution ability is very strong and his movements are fast.
The next day, Qingcheng Taxi issued an announcement that it would conduct a comprehensive and thorough investigation of all its registered online ride-hailing drivers to strengthen the platform's management of online ride-hailing drivers and perform platform supervision responsibilities.
Two more days later.
Qingcheng Taxi-hailing issued another announcement, announcing that it had signed a technical service agreement with a taxi company in Yangcheng to provide the company with Internet taxi-hailing platform services.
Neither news is big.
Although ride-hailing has become a new hot word on the Internet with the popularity of Dida and Kuaidi, most people's focus is still on how to extract capital.
Or just watch the show and see who will win in the end with ticking and quick ticking.
In contrast, Qingcheng Taxi, which has not participated in subsidies, has been on the fringe of attention, and the two new regulations introduced are not directly related to consumers.
Naturally it won't attract attention.
At most, it triggered a small-scale discussion among the online ride-hailing driver community.
"Qingcheng is really awesome. It's a shame if we don't give our drivers subsidies. Now we have to strengthen the review of drivers. Who gave Qingcheng this confidence? Get away, get away..."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "To be honest, Qingcheng is indeed a bit overconfident this time."
"You really don't take us online ride-hailing drivers seriously. If you do this, let's see who is still registered with Qingcheng."
"Not necessarily? I didn't see it. Qingcheng Taxi also announced another news, saying that if you are willing to become a full-time online taxi driver, you can get a formal employment contract in Qingcheng and pay social security."
"Listen to Qingcheng, this is no match for Didi, Kuai Di, they want to use a contract to kidnap us. There may be some trap set in the contract, and whoever signs it will be fooled!!!"
"I'm not worried about contract traps or anything like that. After all, it's a budding brand, so it shouldn't be able to do such a thing. The key is, Qingcheng Bicycle doesn't even have orders, so what's the point of just paying social security?"
"Absolutely, the guy upstairs is on to something. Now, let's go and run. Wouldn't it be nice to easily earn ten thousand or twenty thousand a month? Who would care about that little bit of social security?"
"That's right, don't you just want freedom when you run an online ride-hailing service? You can run if you want, take a rest if you don't want to run, and you can get paid for each order. Who cares about whether there is a contract or not?"
"I agree, I just want to run around after get off work and make extra money easily. It's not too fun!!!"
The subsidy war between Didi and Kuaidi has not only allowed users to enjoy free prostitution, but it has also been the happiest time for online ride-hailing drivers.
That’s really making money.
It is rumored that some Niubi ride-hailing drivers earn over RMB 1,000 per day, and there is even a myth that the monthly income exceeds RMB 50,000.
It's just that myths are just myths after all.
Once the subsidy war ends, the happy days of online ride-hailing drivers will be gone forever. Basically, they just earn a hard-earned money. How they used to make money from the platform has been sucked back by the platform again.
When it comes to harvesting wool, can an individual harvest more money than capital?
The result of complaints from online ride-hailing drivers is that the number of registered drivers on Qingcheng Taxi has dropped at a rate visible to the naked eye after the announcement.
This brings joy to the two companies, Dida and Kuaidi, and they got a ready advantage for nothing.
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Tenda Building.
"Hey, Qing Cheng makes mistakes sometimes, and he actually came up with such a stupid trick." Lu Jian was rarely happy when he got the news, and his previous depression was swept away.
"It's a bit hard to understand."
Not to mention Lu Jian, even the second master didn't understand what kind of medicine was sold in Qingcheng Gourd this time.
"In my opinion, Qingcheng should strategically abandon the online ride-hailing business this time. You see, Qingcheng has begun to cooperate with taxi companies and wants to play the role of a software service provider."
Lu Jian is still very optimistic.
"We and Kuaidi Bicycle have such strong subsidies. Both online ride-hailing drivers and consumers are all going to the two companies. Although Qingcheng Bicycle was early, it is now empty."
"Still can't take it lightly."
The second master will never take it easy for any opponent, especially such a powerful opponent as Mo Ya. "Will Qing Cheng try to build the plank road openly and secretly plot against Chen Cang again?"
“By cooperating with taxi companies, we directly monopolize all taxi drivers.”
"Boss, you are worrying too much."
Lu Jian explained: "Taxi drivers now face two choices, either to be exploited by the taxi company, or to cooperate with us and enjoy additional orders and subsidies."
"Which side do you think the taxi driver will take?"
Without waiting for the second master's answer, Lu Jian continued: "As long as the orders from our side keep coming, at worst, the taxi driver will leave the taxi company and work alone."
"Maybe I'll make more than before."
"What's more, taxi drivers are not our main target, part-time online ride-hailing drivers are. Compared with the limited group of taxi drivers, the huge number of part-time drivers is the real big target."
Although it is said that whether it is Dida, Kuaidi, or other online ride-hailing companies, they initially focused on taxi drivers, which seemed to be the hot spot for all parties to compete for.
But in fact, taxi drivers are more like a group of qualified "tool people".
The real purpose of online ride-hailing companies is to use the inherent image and golden brand of "taxi" to establish first-line contact with users and cultivate the habit of using software to hail taxis.
At the same time, it attracts all online ride-hailing drivers to join.
Once the "education" of users is completed, the taxi driver actually becomes dispensable.
This is why.
Protests by taxi drivers will subsequently erupt because, from the perspective of taxi drivers, although the emergence of online ride-hailing has brought them temporary benefits, in the long run, it has robbed them of their jobs.
Can you not protest?
From this we can also see how dirty these capital and methods are.
It's really like throwing it away like worn out shoes.
"That's good."
After listening to Lu Jian's explanation, the second master felt a little relieved and said with a smile: "Since Qingcheng Bicycle took the initiative to make mistakes, then we can let go and fully support the competition between Didi and Kuaidi."
"Exactly."
This was what Lu Jian thought of, and his confidence immediately doubled.
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Friday, January 17th.
The headquarters of Germination Group will hold its annual meeting tonight.
Before the annual meeting started, rotating president Lu Qi made a brief report to Zhang Shuo on the progress in recent days: "Chairman, the situation is not optimistic."
Of course not optimistic.
In just three or four days, the number of registered drivers on Qingcheng Taxi has dropped by half.
He was almost cut in half.
The remaining half does not mean that they accept Qingcheng Taxi. Most of them are "scumbags" who have registered on various platforms such as Tick Tak, Kuaidi, Qingcheng Taxi, etc.
As a result, Qingcheng Taxi's orders plummeted, which was almost a death sentence.
Wang Xin, the CEO of Qingcheng Group, was so anxious that he almost got angry. He even talked back to his immediate boss, Lu Qi, on the phone. He couldn't hold back his anger.
It was obvious that he did not understand Lu Qi's instructions and was even dissatisfied.
Not only Wang Xin, but other shareholders of Qingcheng Group also directly or indirectly expressed their concerns about this matter to Lu Qi, the chairman of Qingcheng Group.
If it hadn't been for the good reputation it had before Germination, the board of directors would have fallen out long ago.
Even so.
In recent days, Lu Qi has also been under tremendous pressure.
"Keep your cool."
Compared to Lu Qi's anxiety, Zhang Shuo was very calm, "This situation was already anticipated before we made the decision. It's not a big deal."
"As I said before, subsidies will eventually come to an end."
"Once the subsidies for Tik Tak and Kuaidi are over, even if it cannot return to the previous market structure, Qingcheng's reputation and fixed user base will help orders gradually pick up."
At this time, it is time to test the strategic determination of decision-makers.
Don't be overwhelmed by temporary setbacks.
"Okay, calm down!"
Of course Lu Qi understood the truth, but he couldn't stand the people below him who kept making noises. It felt like sitting in the crater of a volcano. Over time, something might happen again.
But with this kind of pressure, Lu Qi couldn't complain to Zhang Shuo, the big boss.
Although he is taking the blame for the big boss, sitting in this position, he should take the blame.
As for how to appease Wang Xin, including the members of the board of directors of Qingcheng Group, and even the management of Qingcheng Taxi, that is Lu Qi's responsibility as the chairman of Qingcheng Group.
If you can't even handle this little turmoil, you don't deserve to be in this position.
"Chairman, the cooperation with taxi companies you proposed before is progressing very smoothly. Now we have negotiated with two taxi companies, and many more are under negotiation."
Lu Qi not only did not complain, but also reported good news.
This is his brilliance.
"very good."
Zhang Shuo was also very pleased and said with a smile: "This once again confirms our previous guesses and proves that this road has a chance to go through. Then we will continue to work hard and strive to win Huaxia before Tick and Kuai Di react."