The name of Yuhang has been recorded in history books since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.
It has been a county-level city in Zhejiang Province since its development in the millennium.
Until 2001, it was abolished as a county-level city and became an economic development zone in Hangzhou, and a high-tech development zone.
A nanny car was driving on the avenue. In the eyes of Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei, this ancient city was not ancient at all. Every distance could see high-rise buildings and technology parks being built, making it seem like a modern city.
"Shall we go to the next restaurant now?" Liu Yifei looked at the scenery outside the car window.
Chu Xuan nodded, and just as he was about to respond clearly, a building suddenly appeared in his eyes, but he swallowed the clear words in his mouth, and then said: "Stop the car."
The driver stopped the car on the side of the road.
Liu Yifei turned her head and came over. The sudden stop made her a little surprised.
She looked at Chu Xuan and saw the building and the name on the building through the window on Chu Xuan's side.
"Ali Baba?" Liu Yifei blinked. Could it be that Chu Xuan parked here because he wanted to go to Ali Baba?
Chu Xuan reached for the car lock and said: "Suddenly I remembered something. I happened to pass by Ali Baba and went to see if Mr. Ma was there."
Liu Yifei opened the car door and got out of the car with him, and after meeting up, they walked together towards the Ali Baba Building.
"What about Alipay?" she asked.
Alipay is a very important part of Chu Xuan's plan.
Seeing Chu Xuan parking in front of the Ali Baba Building campus, she guessed.
Chu Xuan said "hmm" and pulled Liu Yifei into the building.
"This is the real big boss, will he meet you?" Liu Yifei became suspicious.
"I don't know." Chu Xuan shook his head.
The girl at the front desk suddenly saw someone coming and stood up with a standard smile. She was about to say "hello" when she saw it was Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei. She seemed to have made a mistake and was stunned for a few moments.
After it was confirmed that it was these two people, the girl said with excitement: "Chu Xuan? Liu Yifei?"
"Hello." Chu Xuan smiled slightly and said, "Is your Mr. Ma here? If so, can you make a phone call and tell me that Chu Xuan from the Brilliant Era is here to visit."
The girl said "Ah" first, but she didn't expect that Chu Xuan wanted to see Mr. Ma.
He said "Oh" again, returned to his professional state, picked up the landline and said: "Okay, please wait a moment."
At the same time, outside Ali Baba's chairman's office.
The phone rang for a while, and the chief secretary picked up the landline to answer it. After a while, he hung up the phone. He got up and walked to the inner office. After knocking on the door, he heard a "come in" and pushed the door open.
"Mr. Ma, Chu Xuan from the Brilliant Era came to visit." He said.
Mr. Ma, who was flipping through documents, raised his head and looked at his secretary, his eyes lost in thought: "Chu...Xuan?"
Mr. Ma confirmed: "The Chu Xuan who created Weiyu?"
"Yes." The secretary nodded.
After receiving confirmation, Mr. Ma nodded slightly and turned over the documents by himself: "Why did he come to me?"
Saying this, he remembered Chu Xuan's age. He started micro-entertainment at the age of 19. Although he didn't know Chu Xuan's purpose, he still became interested: "Please come up."
At the front desk of the lobby, the girl hung up the phone and said with a sweet smile: "Please wait a moment, Secretary Yang is coming to pick you up."
"Thank you." Chu Xuan nodded slightly, and Liu Yifei turned around and sat on the sofa in the hall to wait.
After a few minutes, Secretary Yang came down. The two parties greeted each other, and Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei followed him into the elevator.
After arriving at the corresponding floor, go straight to the chairman's office.
"Hello, Mr. Ma, I'm sorry to bother you when you suddenly come to visit me," Chu Xuan said.
Mr. Ma came over and shook hands with Chu Xuan: "Don't interrupt, sit down."
He watched Chu Xuan sit down and looked around for a few times, remembering that Chu Xuan started from scratch at a young age and has developed to this point. Although the Internet and the entertainment industry are two different circles, it did not prevent him from sighing at Chu Xuan's talent.
Although he and Chu Xuan had met once during the strategic press conference for Xinlang's acquisition of Micro Entertainment, they had never had any interactions with each other.
As the saying goes, no matter what happens, go to the Three Treasures Palace, so he also had more expectations for Chu Xuan's purpose of coming.
"Mr. Chu, what's the good thing for coming to see me suddenly?" he asked with a smile.
In front of Mr. Ma, Chu Xuan put away his little thoughts and said bluntly: "Your company's Alipay only serves Taobao and Ali Baba. I wonder if Mr. Ma has any idea of opening external payments?"
Mr. Ma and his secretary were stunned. Chu Xuan directly stated his intention, which caught them off guard. Chu Xuan's blunt topic also made them stunned.
Alipay?...Mr. Ma didn’t expect that Chu Xuan was eyeing this third-party payment software.
This software currently only serves online payments on cross-border websites such as Taobao and Ali Baba, making it easier for users to make payments, thus using a convenient payment method to defeat competitor eBay.
External payments?... He has not considered this issue in depth. The market conditions in various industries are too complicated. This is not an easy decision. What does Chu Xuan want to do?
Mr. Ma laughed and said: "It seems that Mr. Chu wants to enter the Internet industry again?"
Chu Xuan nodded: "I have had this idea recently, but I just need Mr. Ma's help."
Mr. Ma raised his eyebrows. Any ideas? It seems that Chu Xuan is going to make some moves in a certain Internet industry again?
Chu Xuan didn't say anything, and he didn't ask. He just needed his help, and it was about Alipay. He said calmly: "How can I help?"
Chu Xuan said: "If a recharge portal is opened on Weiyu, and tens of millions of Weiyu users use Alipay to pay, would Mr. Ma be willing to see this?"
The secretary's expression changed. Nowadays, there are only a few million users of Alipay. Even if netizens shop on Taobao, many people still use online banking instead of Alipay. The trust issue is critical.
If tens of millions of Weiyu users can become Alipay users and thus be converted into Taobao users, what does this mean?
Perhaps, Ali Baba can directly defeat eBay.
A flash of fire flashed in Mr. Ma's eyes, and he said with a faint smile: "I'm very willing."
"Then I feel confident." Chu Xuan stood up, stretched out his hand and said, "Mr. Ma, when my idea is completed, we will talk again within this year."
Mr. Ma smiled and nodded, stood up and shook hands with Chu Xuan: "Mr. Chu, I'm waiting for you."
Watching Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei leave, he was a little dazed.
Chu Xuan only came for two or three minutes, but he brought him a huge surprise.
He is not a person who is controlled by others. Of course, he cannot be led by Chu Xuan just because of Chu Xuan's words.
It was just what Chu Xuan said that inspired him greatly.
"This Chu Xuan..." Mr. Ma shook his head: "What a talent."
"Mr. Ma." The secretary sent Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei away and rushed back, wondering: "What does Chu Xuan mean?"
Mr. Ma looked at the scenery outside the floor-to-ceiling window and said to himself: "For external payments, we need to develop a universal payment interface for external parties. At the same time, we need to apply for the interface code from UnionPay."
"The business field with the highest demand for online payment in China, apart from online shopping..."
He thought about it and said with a smile: "There are also online games!"
Mr. Ma figured out the link, looked at the secretary and said: "Game companies are currently not qualified to apply for online payment interfaces. In order to facilitate payment, Chu Xuan thought of Alipay. If we cooperate with our Alipay, it will be equivalent to bypassing UnionPay and wiping out
All the tedious links involved have been eliminated.”
He nodded slowly: "Chu Xuan, reach out to the gaming industry. If our Alipay provides him with payment channels and saves users from the trouble of going to physical stores to buy recharge cards, he Chu Xuan can't say he will do something else, that is
I don’t know how he can compete with Penguin, NetBillion, and Shengda. It’s interesting.”
Mr. Ma didn’t know that what Chu Xuan was going to do was a web game, and there was no need to compete with Penguin and the others.
The difference in information caused the big boss to make errors in judgment.
"Didn't he say that we can talk about it after his idea is completed? We will decide based on the situation at that time," the secretary said.
Mr. Ma nodded: "His matter has nothing to do with us. It depends on the situation. But the external payment he said must be considered, which is related to the future development of Alipay."
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Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei walked out of Ali Baba Building and walked outside the park.
"Will Mr. Ma really wait for us to cooperate?" Liu Yifei held Chu Xuan's arm and frowned.
This is Ali Baba's boss, the top capital in the country. Will he really follow Chu Xuan's words and wait for Chu Xuan's affairs to be completed before cooperating? Thinking about it, it feels a bit taken for granted.
Chu Xuan shook his head: "How is it possible? He is Ma Yun. How could he be influenced by others? What I said was just to remind him to quickly open Alipay's external payment business. Then our web game platform will be launched."
Come out and use it."
Liu Yifei nodded, understanding Chu Xuan's intention.
"Then will he open the external payment service?" she asked.
"Yes." Chu Xuan nodded.
"So sure?" Liu Yifei blinked.
Chu Xuan said: "If Ali Baba wants to grow, Alipay's external expansion is an inevitable trend."
Liu Yifei nodded and asked no more questions.
The young couple returned to the nanny car and took advantage of the remaining afternoon to visit several web game companies in Hangzhou on the list they had made.
It's just that these companies don't meet Chu Xuan's psychological expectations, and they all lag behind in terms of their ability to develop games and the company's development potential.
Of course, he may make a mistake in judgment.
But as an investor, he can only think according to the ideas brought by his own knowledge.
After he and Liu Yifei agreed, it was enough for three web game companies to join their plan.
After finding a Legang Technology company in Hangzhou that met expectations, there were only two places left.
There is still some time before the recording of the variety show, and they still have time. Companies in Shenghai, Xiamen and Beijing have not visited yet, so they are not in a hurry.
"How's it going? Is it going well?"
In a private room of a restaurant in Wuzhen, Liu Xiaoli was waiting for two children. Seeing that the two children were busy with work, she couldn't help but smile when she remembered that these two children were still negotiating business with the bosses of various companies at a young age. The demonstration of their abilities made her smile.
"Good luck." Liu Yifei smiled. After sitting down, she saw the table full of delicacies, picked up her chopsticks and started eating: "I'm starving to death."
The private room was filled with heating. Chu Xuan took off his coat and hung it on the back of the chair. After sitting down, he picked up his chopsticks to pick up the food and said, "Go to Shenghai tomorrow morning."
Liu Xiaoli nodded, took a sip of the chicken soup in the bowl, and said: "This is not far from Shenghai, drive there."
Liu Yifei said while eating: "I have to go to Tangren first."
"Tang Ren?" Liu Xiaoli was surprised.
Chu Xuan picked up the red wine glass, and the three members of the family touched it from afar and took a sip of the red wine.
"The news about our visit to West Lake spread, and Mr. Cai of Tang Ren also knew that we were in Hangzhou, so he invited us to go to Tang Ren, mainly because of issues related to "Sword and Sword 3"." Chu Xuan explained.
Liu Xiaoli nodded to express her understanding. As early as the casting selection for "Zhu Xian", Tang Ren's Mr. Cai used "Sword and Sword 3" to exchange resources. She knew this.
Some time ago, I heard Wang Jinhua say that "Sword and Sword 3" has already been launched, and investment will be made after the script is coordinated.
It is estimated that Mr. Cai happened to know that Chu Xuan was in Hangzhou and wanted to invite Chu Xuan to Tang Ren for preliminary discussions.
"Okay, I will arrange the hotel in Shenghai later." Liu Xiaoli said.
